Documents of the Right Word

Becoming junub (canonical uncleanness) means letting others
know about things one has to keep to oneself. And ghusl (washing
in order to become canonically clean) means to promise again.
Zakât [1]
means cleaning one’s nafs by learning religious
knowledge. Ka’ba means the Prophet; the door of Ka’ba means
Alî; the hill of Safâ means Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’; the hill of
Merva means Alî, the seven tawâfs (circumambulations) means
loving the seven imâms. Jannat (Paradise) means escaping the
trouble of worships, and Jahannam (Hell) means the torture and
agony of avoiding the harâm.” A few of their other illogical and
irreligious absurdities are their statements, such as, “Allah is
neither existent nor nonexistent, neither learned nor ignorant,
neither powerful nor incapable.”
Hasan bin Muhammad Sabbâh, a schoolfellow of Nizâm-ulmulk
and the (well-known) poet ’Umar Hayyâm, founded the
Ismâiliyya State in Rey city in 473 [A.D. 1081], declared himself
the time’s imâm (religious leader), and coerced the Sunnite
Muslims into his sect. He and, after his death in 518, his successors
until the termination of his State in 654 [A.D. 1255], perpetrated a
great deal of persecution and cruelty in order to establish their
beliefs and revolutions. The earnest and truthful scholars of Ahl
as-sunna rotted in dungeons and were martyred. According to
these eccentric people, there has to be an imâm in every age. They
prohibit ignorant people from reading books and learned people
from reading old books. This is intended to cover their wickedness,
to conceal the fact that they are in the wrong way. They are fond
of the ancient Greek philosophy. They mock religious teachings.
[Another name of this group is Qarâmita. For a man named
Hamdân Qurmut, from a village called Vâsit in the neighborhood
of Baghdâd, founded the Qarâmita State in 278 [A.D. 891],
subjected the Sunnite Muslims to very harsh torments and forced
them to join the Ismâîliyya group. This group settled in Nejd. Abû
Tâhir, who became their leader in 317 [A.D. 929], invaded Mekka
and slaughtered thousands of hadjis. He ransacked the treasury
department and (most) homes. His men hoisted off the (sacred
stone called) Hajer-i-eswed from its original place and carried it to
Hejr city, their capital in the vicinity of Basra. This blessed stone
[1] Certain amount of property which people who are rich according to
Islam have to give yearly to people whom Islam accepts as poor. Zakât
is one of the five commandments of Islam. There is detailed
information about zakât in the first chapter of the fifth fascicle of
Endless Bliss.
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