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

hundred and seventeenth sinful act: “A person who perpetrates
cruelty to people shall be tormented for it on the Rising Day.” So
is the case with perpetrating cruelty to non-Muslims. In a hadîth-isherîf
in the three hundred and fiftieth sinful act: “There are three
people whose invocations shall definitely be accepted: The
wronged person, the guest, and parents.” And in another one: “A
wronged person’s invocation shall not be refused even if he is a
disbeliever.” In a hadîth-i-sherîf in the four hundred and second
sinful act: “A person who kills his friend is not from our
community, even if his friend is a disbeliever.” In a hadîth-i-sherîf
in the four hundred and ninth sinful act: “Of all sins, rising against
one’s government is the one whose torment shall be given most
rapidly.” This is the end of our translation from Zewâjir. O
Muslim! If you wish to attain the grace of Allâhu ta’âlâ and your
acts of worship to be accepted, inscribe the hadîth-i-sherîfs quoted
above in your heart! Do not attack anyone’s property, life, or
chastity. Muslims and non-Muslims alike! Do not hurt anyone!
Pay people their rights! It is one of the rights of quls for a man to
pay ‘mahr’ [1] to the woman he has divorced. If he does not pay it,
he will deserve vehement punishment both in the world and in the
Hereafter. The most important one of the rights of quls, (i.e. rights
of human beings and other creatures,) which therefore incurs the
severest torment (when violated), is to cease teaching Islam to
one’s kinsfolk, especially if they are under one’s care and
protection. If a person prevents them and other people from
learning Islam and from practising their acts of worship by way of
persecution and deceit, it will be concluded that that person is an
unbeliever, an enemy of Islam. An example of this irreligious
attitude is to attempt to pollute the teachings of Ahl as-Sunnat and
thereby to defile the Islamic religion, a strategy pursued by holders
of bid’at and by people without a certain Madhhab by making
subversive statements and writing seditious articles. Do not stand
against the government or against laws. Pay your taxes. That it is a
sinful behaviour to revolt against the government, be it a cruel and
or fasiq one, is written in the book entitled Berîqa, (which was
written by Muhammad bin Mustafâ Hâdimî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
’alaih’, d. 1176 [1762 A.D.], Hâdim, Konya, Turkey.) Even if you
are in the dâr-ul-harb, i.e. in one of the countries of disbelievers,
do not violate their laws and mandates! Do not arouse fitna! Do
[1] Please scan the twelfth chapter of the fifth fascicle, and also the
fifteenth chapter of the sixth fascicle, of Endless Bliss.
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