Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

not like those who waste,” would suffice to show the wickedness of
isrâf. An âyat-i-kerîma in the Isrâ Sûra purports: “Do not commit
tebdhîr! Those who commit tebdhîr are the devil’s siblings.” The
devil’s siblings are devils, too. There cannot be a name worse than
the name ‘devil’. There cannot be a stronger condemnation of
isrâf. As Allâhu ta’âlâ says not to give anything to people who
waste their property, He calls them the worst of names. An âyat-ikerîma
in the Nisâ Sûra purports: “Do not give your property to
dissolute, base people! As He condemns Pharaoh He declares, as
is purported in the Qur’ân al-kerîm: “He was one of those who
committed isrâf.” He condemns the people of Sodom and
Gomorrah as follows: “Rather, you are people who commit isrâf!”
In a hadîth-i-sherîf quoted in the two basic books of hadîth
whose authenticity is known by everybody, [i.e. in the hadîth
books Bukhârî and Muslim,] our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ states: “Do not waste your property!” In a hadîth-i-sherîf
that Imâm Tirmizî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, (209 [824 A.D.],
town of Tirmuz (Termez), to the south of Bukhâra and on the
south bank of Amu Daryâ (Oxus river) – 279 [892], Bogh,) quotes
on the authority of Abû Berza ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’, our Prophet
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ states: “On the Day of Judgment, no
one will survive the accounting unless they answer four questions:
How they spent their life. How they practised their knowledge.
Where they earned their property from, and where they spent it.
Where they tired and exhausted their body.”
One of the indicators of the fact that isrâf is something bad is
interest’s (fâiz) being harâm. It is a grave sin to give and/or take
fâiz. The purpose of this interdiction is to protect people’s
property against loss. To show the offensive valuation that the
Islamic religion ataches to fâiz, it has been deemed useful to write
a few examples from the Turkish commentary to the booklet Bey’
wa Shirâ (Buying and Selling), rendered by Hamza Efendi
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’:
“There are ten things that cause a person to die without îmân:
1– Not to learn the commandments and prohibitions of Allâhu
ta’âlâ; 2– Not to align one’s îmân with the tenets of îmân taught in
the Madhhab of Ahl as-sunnat; 3– To be fond of worldly property,
position, and fame; 4– To be cruel to human beings, to animals,
and to oneself; 5– Not to be thankful to Allâhu ta’âlâ and to people
who cause one to attain blessings; 6– Not to fear lest one should
become an unbeliever; 7– Not to perform the five daily prayers of
namâz within their prescribed times; 8– To give and/or to take fâiz.
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