Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs to have existed in past religions and
which have not been stated to have been changed.” Our savants
of Fiqh found and determined all such rules which we have to
practise. It is not permissible for us to practise any worship of the
Ahl-i kitâb (People of the Book), except those that have been
permitted by the savants of Fiqh. For, most of the acts of worship
that Jews and Christians practise now have been concocted
afterwards by them. It will be kufr or harâm or makrûh for us to
practise them. We must learn what is right and what is wrong
from books of Fiqh! On the other hand, Hadrat Imâm-i Shâfi’î
‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ ’alaih’ said that none of the rules of the
previous religions can be documents for us.]
It is written as follows in the hundred and fifteenth and two
hundred and second pages of the commentary to the book
entitled Birgivî Vasiyyetnâmesi: “It will be kufr (disbelief) to
wrap round the waist a rope girdle that is called zunnar and which
is worn by priests; to worship the cross, that is, two lines
intersecting each other at a right angle, and to worship icons; to
show reverence to the cross and icons; to insult any book which
teaches Islam; to make fun of any Islamic scholar; to utter or write
a word which causes disbelief; to insult what we have been
ordered to show reverence to, and to show reverence to what we
have been ordered to despise. If a person does any of them their
îmân (faith) will leave them and they will be a disbeliever.
However, committing a grave sin will not cause one to become a
disbeliever; one never becomes a disbeliever on condition that
one should admit that what one has committed is an evil deed;
one should repent for and be sorry about it; and one should be
ashamed before Allâhu ta’âlâ. If a person with a true belief
commits a grave sin which is not a sign of disbelief he/she will not
become a disbeliever. If such people repent for the sin and invoke
Allâhu ta’âlâ for forgiveness, they will be forgiven. In case they
die without tawba, He will forgive them if He wishes. Yet, if He
(Allâhu ta’âlâ) wishes, the sinners will be tortured as much as
they deserve for their sins, then they will be put into Paradise. But
a holder of bid’at and a disbeliever dying without îmân will never
be forgiven in the Hereafter; they will certainly be burned in Hell.
A disbeliever will never be taken out of Hell, but the holder of
bid’at will.”]
Our Master, the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’,
informed that a person without îmân will burn eternally in the fire
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