Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

another Muslim is a graver sin than music. [It is written in the
book entitled Bahjat-ul-fatâwâ that backbiting a zimmî is also
harâm.] These actions must be avoided. Also, it is harâm to make
fun of a Muslim and hurt his heart, and it must be avoided.
We must not believe in ill omen or that it has any effect. While
giving an explanation to the thirty-seventh âyat of Sûrat at-Tawba
in the Qur’ân al-kerîm, the book entitled Rûh-ul-bayân says:
“After Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ honored the
earth with his blessed presence there were no longer inauspicious
days ahead of Muslims.” We must not admit that a disease will
certainly be caught by a healthy man. It will be caught if Allâhu
ta’âlâ decrees and will not be caught if He does not wish it to be
caught. Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated: “Islam
does not include ill omen or (the thought) that a disease will
certainly infect a healthy man.” [Nevertheless, it is wâjib to keep
away from dangerous things and doubtful places. We must take
precautions not to catch a disease.] We must not believe
fortunetellers or soothsayers. We must not ask them about
unknown things. We must not think they know about the
unknown. [It is written at the beginning of the book Sharh-i
’aqâid: “Man’s knowing something is by means of his sense
organs, by way of dependable information, or mentally. There are
five sense organs. There are two kinds of dependable information:
tawâtur and prophetical information. Tawâtur is a report
unanimously given by all the dependable people of every century.
There are two kinds of mental understanding. Knowing
something spontaneously without thinking is called bedîhî
(intuitive, self-evident). If it is known by thinking it is called
istidlâlî (inferred). That everything is bigger than (any one of) its
(component) parts is bedîhî. Information which is acquired by
calculation is istidlâlî. Information which is acquired by the sense
organs and mind together is tejrubî (experimental).” As is
understood from all these, things that are not communicated by
Islam, by calculations or by expriments are called ghayb
(unknown). No one but Allâhu ta’âlâ and people informed by
Him know the ghayb.]
We must not practise sorcery or have someone else practise it.
It is harâm, the worst harâm, and it is closest to disbelief. We must
be extra careful not to do the tiniest action which is close to
sorcery. A hadîth-i-sherîf states: “A Muslim cannot practise
sorcery. His sorcery will take effect not before his îmân —may
Allâhu ta’âlâ protect us— is gone.” Sorcery and îmân are sort of
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