Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

purports: “People who disobey what Allâhu ta’âlâ has sent are
disbelievers.” Furthermore, to think that the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’ may talk in his sleep or such nonsense
undermines the belief in him and the trust in his religion, a case
which is also disbelief, being a zindîq. How should we reconcile
these important facts?
May Allâhu ta’âlâ increase your understanding. May He bless
you with the lot of walking along the right way! If people who
strive to denigrate the three Khalîfas and the other Sahabîs by
bringing forward such doubts become reasonable and realize the
honour and value of the sohbat of the Best of Mankind and if they
know that the Sahâba ‘’alaihimurridwân’ had gotten rid of the
desires of their nafs completely and had been purified from such
bad habits as grudge and enmity by benefiting from this sohbat;
that they were all great men of Islam and Islam’s eye-apples; that
they strove with their utmost to strengthen Islam and to help the
Best of Mankind, that they sacrificed all their property to
promulgate Islam; that they left and sacrificed their clans and
tribes, their children and wives, their homes and homelands, their
waterways, fields, trees and rivers, for their excessive love of
Rasûlullah ‘’alaihissalâm’, that they loved Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’ more than their own lives; that they were
honoured with witnessing the wahy and seeing the angel; that they
saw miracles and wonders; that they realized by seeing what
should be believed without seeing; that what is knowledge for
others was experience for them; and that they are praised and
lauded by Allâhu ta’âlâ in the Qur’ân, they will realize that these
doubts are sheer lies, and they will pay no heed to them. They will
not even consider it necessary to find out the unsound places in
these lies or to eliminate the wrong points in them. All the Sahâba
have this superiority. How could we ever describe the superiority
of the Khulafâ-i râshidîn, the four Khalîfas, who are the most
superior among them? Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ is such
an ’Umar that Allâhu ta’âlâ declared to His Messenger about him:
“O my Prophet! Allah and those Believers who follow you will
suffice for you!” in the sixty-fourth âyat of Anfâl Sûra. Hadrat
’Abdullah Ibni ’Abbâs informs that the âyat was revealed upon
Hadrat ’Umar’s conversion to Islam. Such slanders fabricated
about the Sahâba are based on no truth. They are contrary to the
obvious, known facts. They are refuted by the Qur’ân and by
hadîths. However, lest the question should go unanswered and in
order to expound the unsound places in the doubtful words, I have
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