1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

The great ones of the Ahl-i-sunnat ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
alaihim ajma’în’ say that his father and his mother, Âmina, were
in the religion of Hadrat Ibrâhîm. That is, they were Believers.
Allahu ta’âlâ enlivened these two and had them hear the word
‘Shahâdat’ from our Prophet and express it, not for giving them
îmân, but in order that they might be honoured with being in his
Ummat [See article 46 for the word ‘Shahâdat’.] The âyat, “Do
not ask a blessing on your relative,” was intended for Abû Tâlib.
It was not intended for his parents. It is written in the
translations of Imâm-i A’zâm’s book Fiqh-i Akbar, of which
there are many copies in the world, that they (his parents) died
without belief. Yet it is written in Imâm-i A’zam’s manuscript that
they died with îmân. Later, it was discovered that his enemies
made this mistake on purpose by erasing the word ‘mâ’ [1] .
The manuscript of Fiqh-i Akbar by Imâm-i A’zam Abû
Hanîfa, along with a part of the Qur’ân al-kerîm, which was
written by the blessed hands of Hadrat ’Uthmân, the Amîr-ulmu’minîn,
and which was coloured with his blood of martyrdom,
and a number of valuable books were taken to Samarkand in
656 A.H. when Hulâghu burned Baghdâd and massacred more
than eight hundred thousand Muslims. When Sammarkand was
captured by the Russians in 1284 A.H. [A.D. 1868], these books
were transferred to Petersburg and kept there very carefully.
This fact is communicated by Shamsaddin Sâmi Beg, the
author of Qâmûs-ul-a’lâm, while explaining the entry
‘Sammarkand.’ The book was taken to the city of Ufa in 1335
[1917 A.D.], and then from there to the mosque of Khwâja
Ubaidullah-i Ahrâr in the city of Tashkand in 1341 [1923 A.D.].
Some pages of the copies of the Qur’ân written by the
blessed hands of the Khalîfas ’Umar-ul-Fârûq, ’Uthmân-i
Zinnûrayn and Alî-yul-Murtadâ ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhum’ exist
in the Museum of Islâmic Works, which is next to the
Süleymâniye Mosque in Istanbul. Those who wish may see
them.
The enemies of religion laid their hands on the books of
great men of the religion, as they had at one time defiled the
[1] In Arabic, the words ‘mâ’ and ‘lâ’ make the meaning of the verb
negative. ‘Mâtû’ means ‘they died.’ ‘Mâ-mâtû’ means ‘they didn’t die.’
When ‘mâ’ in front of the sentence ‘They didn’t die as disbelievers’ is
erased, it becomes ‘They died as disbelievers.’
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