Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

deemed it suitable to write a few prefaces with the help of Allâhu
ta’âlâ. Read carefully! A few prefaces are necessary to remove the
doubt entirely. Each of the prefaces could serve as an answer.
First Preface: Not every thought or every word of our
Prophet’s conveyed wahy. The âyat, “He does not talk nonsense,”
in Wannajmi Sûra is about the Qur’ân. The books of Tafsîr say so,
too. If his each word had conveyed the wahy, Allâhu ta’âlâ would
not have informed that some of his words were wrong. Nor would
He have declared that He had forgiven them. Allâhu ta’âlâ
declares to His beloved Prophet in the forty-third âyat of Tawba
Sûra: “Allâhu ta’âlâ has forgiven you for your fault of giving
permission to them.”
Second Preface: In words through ijtihâd and in mental
decisions, it was permissible to object to Sarwar ‘’alaihi wa ’alâ
âlaihissalawât wa-t-teslîmât’ and to disagree with him. The
second âyat of Hashr Sûra purports: “O you owners of wisdom,
take object lessons from others!” [It is written in Beydhâwî’s
book of Tafsîr, Anwâr-ut-tenzîl, [1] that it is inferred from this âyat
that qiyâs is permissible and necessary.] It is commanded in the
hundred and fifty-ninth âyat of Âl-i ’Imrân Sûra: “In your work
consult your Sahâba!” In a consultation, opinions and pieces of
advice are exchaged, ideas and arguments are refused or
countered. As a matter of fact, in the holy war of Badr there were
two different opinions: to kill the slaves captured or to set them
free in return for money. Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ was of
the opinion that they should be killed. The Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’ suggested to set them free. The wahy that was
revealed concurred with Hadrat ’Umar’s ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’
proposition. It was declared that it was a guilt to take money. Our
Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “If torment had
come upon us, none of us would have been saved, except ’Umar
and Sa’d bin Mu’âz.” For, Sa’d ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ also had
been of the opinion that the slaves should be killed.
[The holy war of Badr took place in the month of Ramadân in
[1] Qâdî Beydhâwî’s name was ’Abdullah bin ’Umar ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
’alaih’ (d. 685 [1286 A.D.], Tabrîz, Iran). This valuable book of his
was annotated by Shaikhzâda Muhammad bin Mustafâ ‘rahmatullâhi
ta’âlâ ’alaih’ (d. 951 [1544 A.D.]), and the annotation was printed by
the Matba’a-i-’Uthmâniyya in 1306 [1888 A.D.], and reproduced by
Hakîkat Kitâbevi in Istanbul; available from Hakîkat Kitâbevi, Fâtih,
Istanbul.
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