Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

interpreting the hadîth-i-sherîfs on one’s own. One should be
carelul about one’s behaviour lest one should arouse fitna. It will
not be permissible for a person who is quite sure that he will be
killed to perform jihâd. It is permissible for a person to perform
‘hisbat’ in keeping with its conditions even if he knows that he will
be killed (while doing so); and if he is killed he will become a
martyr. However, if he knows that a fitna will arise it will not be
permissible for him to perform it. An example of this case is to
perform amr-i-ma’rûf for the grace of Allah by admonishing cruel
State authorities.”]
The blessed author ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ of the book
entitled Behjet-ul-fatâwâ states: A person who ensnares and
enslaves free children and thereafter sells them as slaves will be
punished with a severe beating and sent to prison. If he has made
it a habit, the judge will sentence him to death.
If a person beats another person and then the latter in his turn
beats the former, both of them will be punished with ta’zîr by the
judge. The ta’zîr will be started with the former. It is permissible to
respond in kind to wrongs that do not incur a punishment of hadd.
Forgiving the wrong, however, will yield plenty of thawâb.
The judge is accredited to inflict imprisonment and tying and
beating altogether at the same time.
A person who unjustly hurts Muslims with his speech or hands
will be punished with ta’zîr. A person who swears at his own son
or at a disbeliever, or who commits (the offence termed) qazf
against them, will be punished with ta’zîr. A burglar who is caught
before leaving the house with things he has stolen and gathered
together will be punished with ta’zîr. A person who neglects his
daily prayers of nemâz because of laziness will be punished with
ta’zîr, which in this case consists of beating until the limbs flogged
bleed. If a person becomes a murtadd, (i.e. abandons Islam,) he
will be forced to return to Islam by way of flogging with thirty-nine
stripes (maximum) or imprisonment. A person will not be
punished with ta’zîr for calling a person ‘fâsiq’, if the latter is
notorious with ‘fisq’, or if his fisq is known by the judge of the
court of law. Nor will a person who says, “fâsiq,” about another
person be punished with ta’zîr if he proves the latter’s fisq by
giving (known) examples. For instance, he will have to prove by
producing two witnesses that the latter has kissed a woman nâmahram
to him, in which case the latter will be punished with
ta’zîr.
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