1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

Where one of them exists, the other cannot stay and goes
away. These two opposite things cannot stay in the same place
together. To esteem one of them means to insult, to blame the
other. Allahu ta’âlâ commands Hadrat Muhammad, His beloved
Prophet (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam), who has the attribute
khulk-i azîm and who is very merciful, to perform jihâd, to wage
war against disbelievers and to treat them severely. This means
to say that it is khulk-i azîm to behave severely towards
disbelievers. The dignity and honour of Islâm is in insulting
disbelief and disbelievers. He who glorifies and respects
disbelievers insults and dishonors the Muslims. [Declaring in
the Qur’ân, in the one hundred and forty-ninth âyat of Sûrat-u
Âl-i ’Imrân that those who esteem and follow disbelievers are
wrong and will repent, Allahu ta’âlâ says, “O those who
believe my beloved Prophet! If you, believing the words of
disbelievers, deviate from the way of my Messenger, and if
you, taken in by the lurid and mendacious statements of
those who pretend to be Muslims, let your faith and îmân
be stolen, you will be at a loss in this and the next world.”]
Allahu ta’âlâ declares that disbelievers are His and His
Prophet’s (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) enemies. To love the
enemies of Allahu ta’âlâ and to cooperate with them draws one
towards being hostile against Allahu ta’âlâ and His Prophet. A
person thinks of himself as a Muslim, expresses the word
tawhîd, and says, “I believe,” and performs namâz and every
kind of worship, but, on the other hand, cooperates with
disbelievers. Yet he does not know that these loathsome
actions of his will extirpate his being a Muslim and his îmân.
[Disbelievers are people who dislike the Islâmic religion of
the Messenger of Allah and who say that it dosen’t correspond
with our age, the age and science, and renegades who publicly
and basely make fun of Muslims and Islâm. Because remaining
outside Islâm befits their pleasures, lusts and inner secret
desires, they call it “retrogression” to be a Muslim. They call
disbelief and irreligiousness “modernism, civilization and
enlightenment.” Murtads (renegades) are people who were
born from Muslim parents and yet who know nothing of Islâm.
These people haven’t read or understood any books by any
Islâmic scholar, dislike Islâm and, being seized by the presentday
current, say that Islam prevents progress, only in order to
obtain a favour, some sympathy or something worldly.
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