Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

pox, this nuisance is seen on good ones as well as on bad ones.
There are very few women who can escape this nuisance and who
do not do any of the signs of disbelief. It is shirk to respect the
festival days of Hindus [and the Christmas nights and Easter days
of Christians] and to imitate their customs on those days. It causes
disbelief. On festival days of disbelievers the ignorant ones of
Muslims, especially the women, do as disbelievers do, think of
those days to be Muslims’ festivals and send presents to one
another like disbelievers on those days; they ornament their
furniture and meal tables like disbelievers. They distinguish those
nights from other nights. All these are shirk, disbelief. Allâhu
ta’âlâ declares in the Yûsuf Sûra: “Most of those who say that
they have believed the existence and the oneness of Allâhu ta’âlâ
and that He is the Creator of everything and that they have
become Muslims, have become polytheists by worshipping and
obeying others and by many other acts and utterances.” [Please
see the beginning of the seventeenth chapter of the fifth fascicle
of Endless Bliss.]
They make sacrificial vows to shaikhs, to tombs. Then they
take [the animals they have vowed] to the graves and kill them
near the graves. Books of Fiqh count this to be shirk. Some people
even go further and say that such sacrifices become the sacrifices
of genies. Our religion forbids this and counts it as shirk. There
are various ways of vowing. What is the use of vowing to sacrifice
an animal, killing it and then saying that it has become the
sacrifice of genies, thus becoming like those who worship genies?
[See the fifth chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss, and the
Arabic book Hayât-ul-Haywân by ’Abdullah Demîrî!]
The case is the same with their fasting for shaikhs. Concocting
some names, they make their niyyat (intention) on them; at the
times of iftâr, they make it a condition to have a special meal and
fix a definite day [for each fast]. They think that their problems
are solved owing to such fasts. This is shirk in worships, and means
to worship someone else for the solution of one’s problems. We
must realize how loathsome this situation is. A hadîth-i qudsî
purports: “Fasting is performed for Me. I shall give its reward,”
which means: “One fasts only for Me. None can be My partner in
fasting.” It is not permissible to attribute a partner to Allâhu
ta’âlâ in any worship, yet He has declared this only about fasting
in order to emphasize the fact that we should be extra careful not
to commit shirk in this. Some women deceitfully say that they fast
for Allâhu ta’âlâ and present the thawâb for fasting to their
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