Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

mosquito which will bite it. How can it ever protect others against
harms? Disbelievers, hearing that these doings of theirs are bad
and realizing their faults, say that their idols and statues will
intercede for them with Allâhu ta’âlâ, that they will make them
approach Him, that for this reason they are worshipping them.
They are so stupid. How do they know that those inanimate objects
will intercede for them? Whence do they understand that Allâhu
ta’âlâ will accept the intercession of these idols, which have been
made His partners and which are His enemies? Their case is like
that of those idiots who help those who revolt against the
government and then say that when they are in trouble these
rebels will intercede for them, will ask a favour for them so that
they will attain the government’s help. They are so stupid that they
both respect the rebels and say that the government will forgive
them through their intercession. On the contrary, they should have
helped the government and suppressed the rebels. In this case only
would they approach the government, walk in the right way and
attain safety and comfort. Idiots, dressing a piece of stone with
their own hands, worship it for years. They expect its help on the
Day of Rising. Then, it is obvious that disbelievers’ religions are
false. [It is written in the forty-first page of Mesmû’ât [1]
when
idolatry first appeared.]
Of Muslims, those who have deviated from the right way are
called holders of bid’at. The right way is the way of Hadrat
Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ and his four Khalîfas. It
is written in the book Ghunya by ’Abd-ul-Qâdir Geilanî: “The
origins of the seventy-two sects of bid’at are nine groups, which are
called Khârijî, Râfidî, Mu’tazila, Murji’a, Mushabbiha,
Juhaymiyya, Dirâriyya, Najjâriyya and Kilâybiyya. None of them
existed during the time of our Prophet and the Chihâr Yâr-i guzîn
(the four Khalîfas). Their appearing and deviating into different
ways happened many years after the deaths of the Sahâba, the
Tâbi’în and the Fuqahâ-i sab’a.”
[Fuqahâ-i sab’a means the seven great savants. It is written in
the thirty-fourth page of the first volume of the translation of
Tejrîd-i-sarîh, which is an abridged edition of Bukhârî: “These
[1] Mesmû’ât-i-Mawlânâ Qâdî Muhammad Zâhid, written by Mîr ’Abdul-Awwal.
It contains the Fârisî statements made by the great scholar
and Walî ’Ubaydullah Ahrâr ‘quddise sirruh’. It was reproduced by
Hakîkat Kitâbevi in Istanbul in 1414 [1993 A.D.].
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