Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

from Hell-fire because there is no flaw in their belief. If among the
members of this one group there are people who committed evil
deeds and if these evil deeds of theirs have not been forgiven
through tawba or shafâ’at, it is possible that these, too, will burn
in Hell as much as they deserve on account of their sins. All of
those who are in the seventy-two groups will go to Hell. But none
of them will remain in Hell eternally. Not all of those who are in
this one group will go to Hell. Of them, only those who have
committed evil deeds will go to Hell. The seventy-two reported
groups of bid’at, which will go to Hell, should not all be called
“disbelievers”, because they are Ahl-i qibla. However, of these
people, the ones who deny those Islamic tenets that are definitely
to be believed, as well as those who deny those rules of Islam
which every Muslim has heard and knows, become disbelievers.
The savants of the Ahl as-sunnat declare: “If a Muslim’s
statement signifies a hundred meanings ninety-nine of which
causing disbelief and one showing that he is a Muslim, it is
necessary to take this one meaning, thus absolving him from the
state of disbelief.” Allâhu ta’âlâ knows the truth of everything.
His Word is the most reliable word.
It was informed that the poor ones of this Ummat would go to
Paradise half a day before the rich ones. This half day is equal to
five hundred worldly years. For, one day expressed by Allâhu
ta’âlâ is as long as a thousand worldly years. It is declared clearly
in Hajj Sûra that this is so. Allâhu ta’âlâ, alone, knows why it is
that long. For, the next world does not have nights, days, months,
or years, which exist in the world. The poor people having the
privilege of going to Paradise earlier are those poor people who
obey Islam and who are patient. To obey Islam means to do what
Islam commands and to avoid what it prohibits. And there are
grades, degrees in poverty. The highest of grades is obtained in
the rank of Fanâ. A faqîr who is in this grade knows everything
other than Allâhu ta’âlâ as poor, needy. [There is not a creature
who does not need Allâhu ta’âlâ, that is, who is not poor before
Him.] That lucky person forgets all creatures. He remembers
none of them. A person who has attained all grades of poverty is
superior to one who has attained a few. It is for this reason that
the state of a person who has reached the grade of Fanâ and who
is poor, needy outwardly is better, more valuable than that of a
person who has reached the grade of Fanâ but who is not poor
outwardly.
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