Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

Îmân-i-maqbûl is the îmân of Believers.
Îmân-i-mawqûf is the flawed îmân of holders of bid’at.
Îmân-i-merdûd is the mendacious îmân which munâfiqs
pretend to have.
Îmân-i-taqlîdî is the îmân of people who have heard it from
their parents and not learned it from religious teachers. Such
people’s îmân is precarious.
Îmân-i-istidlâlî is the îmân of a person who knows Mawlâ-imute’âlî
by inferring His existence from evidence. That person’s
îmân is staunch.
İmân-i-haqîqî. A person with this îmân would not deny their
Rabb (Allâhu ta’âlâ) even if all the other creatures agreed on the
denial of their Rabb, and there would never be an iota of doubt or
hesitation in that person’s heart. As we have stated earlier in the
text, this kind of îmân is the noblest of all.
Îmân bears a three-fold import:
First, it saves one’s neck from the sword.
Second, it saves one’s property from (taxes called) jizya and
kharâj. [1]
Third, it saves one’s body from everlasting Hell fire.
“Amantu billâhi ...,” is also called Sifât-i-îmân or mu’minun bih
or dhât-i-îmân or ’asl-i-îmân, on account of its grandeur and
honour. (It is the expression of the credal tenets of Islam and reads
on as follows: “... wa Melâikatihi, wa Kutubihi, wa Rusulihi, wa-l-
Yawm-i-âkhiri, wa bi-l-Qadari, Khayrihi wa sharrihi min-Allâhi
ta’âlâ, wa-l-ba’s-u-ba’d-al-mawt, Haqqun esh-hadu anlâ ilâha il-l-
Allah wa esh-hadu anna Muhammadan ’abduhu wa Rasûluhu.”)
Also, there are two medârs for îmân, i.e. points of time whereat
it becomes compulsory (for one) to have îmân: Age of discretion
and age of puberty.
Also, there are two reasons for îmân: Creation of all beings and
revelation of the Qur’ân al-kerîm.
Also, there are two kinds of evidence: Delîl-i-’aqlî (mental
[1] Please scan the eleventh and the twentieth chapters of the first
fascicle, the thirty-third chapter of the second fascicle, the twenty-first
chapter of the fourth fascicle, the first and the twelfth chapters of the
fifth fascicle, and the first chapter of the sixth fascicle, of Endless
Bliss, for jizya and kharâj.
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