Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

disasters’ and hardships’ befalling the beloved shows that their sins
are being forgiven to a large extent. It does not indicate that their
sins are many. Showering disasters on His beloved ones, He
forgives their sins and purifies them. Thereby, He protects them
from the disasters of the next world. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi
wa sallam’ was about to die and was suffering immense pains, and
Hadrat Fâtima ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhâ’, who loved and pitied her
father very much and about whom the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi
wa sallam’ had said: “Fâtima is a part from me,” was writhing, too.
Upon seeing his daughter in this state, he stated to console her:
“This is the only trouble which your daddy will ever suffer. He will
no longer see anything unpleasant!”
It is such a great blessing that the very bitter torments in Hell
are eliminated with a few days’ trouble and that causes are sent in
the world to clear away sins. He postpones the accounting of
others’ sins until the next world. Then, He should place many
calamities and disasters upon the beloved ones in the world.
Others are not worthy of this blessing. For, they commit sins but
do not entreat Him or hang their heads in shame or trust
themselves to Him. They commit sins without feeling shame,
deliberately and intentionally. In fact, they sin insistently. In fact,
making fun of Allah’s âyats, they go unbelievably too far. Penalty
varies depending on the gravity of the crime. If the crime is small
and the guilty one hangs his head in shame and entreats, the crime
may be forgiven through worldly hardships. But if the crime is big
and heavy and the guilty one is stubborn and apathetic, his penalty
in the next world should be endless and extremely bitter. The
thirty-third [33] âyat of Nahl Sûra purports: “Allâhu ta’âlâ does
not treat them unjustly. They have done injustice to themselves
and deserved heavy penalties.”
[Sin means not to do Allah’s commandments and not to avoid
His prohibitions. Commandments and prohibitions are for
Muslims, for those who have îmân. He has not honoured those
who have no îmân, disbelievers, with commanding them or making
them worship. Like animals, they do what they wish, and it is not
considered as a sin. They are not tormented in the world for not
worshipping, for sinning; they get every kind of blessing; they
obtain what they wish and work for. Only, the cruel ones, those
who torment creatures have their nemesis in the world.
Disbelievers have been commanded one thing only, they have
been asked to do one thing only. This one thing is having îmân,
embracing Islam. Disobeying this one command, disbelievers have
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