Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

intending for other things. The Ghâzîs’ (fighters for Islam)
receiving a salary from the Baytulmâl (treasury of an Islamic
State) does not detract from the jihâd or the thawâb for jihâd. [All
other acts of worship also are acceptable on condition that they
be done for Allah’s grace and you intend so.] Evil purposes will
defile the worship. One should check one’s intention, take the
salary and go out for the jihâd, and then expect the thawâb of
ghâzî and shehîd (martyr). I admire and envy you for the state
you are in. You have been honoured with your heart’s being with
Allâhu ta’âlâ and all your limbs’ performing namâz in jamâ’at and
also performing jihâd against the enemies of Islam and against
disbelievers [and spreading Allah’s religion among disbelievers].
He who comes back from ghazâ alive becomes a ghâzi, a mujâhid.
He who becomes a martyr attains many thawâbs, many blessings.
I should repeat, however, that these are only after one has
purified one’s intention. If pure intention will not come to your
heart, compel yourself to intend so and invoke Allâhu ta’âlâ
earnestly so that such an intention will be inspired into your
heart!
O our Allah! Increase Thine nûr, Thine blessings which Thou
hast bestowed on us. Cover our sins, our faults! We have so many
faults, sins. Yet Thou art capable of everything. Thou canst do
everything!
When a person is killed by disbelievers in a war or subjected
to torture and thereby killed by ruthless people in peacetime, his
attaining martyrdom as he dies is conditional upon his being a
Muslim and his heart’s having îmân as he dies.
[AN IMPORTANT NOTE: Since ’Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’ up
until today, always and everywhere, the wicked people have been
assailing good ones. Allâhu ta’âlâ creates everything through
causes. And He punishes the wicked people by means of good
ones. Alongside the wicked people the good people also are being
afflicted with the harrowing events. All these people, as well as all
those Muslims who die in warfare and the ones who die in
accidents, are martyrs. In the Hereafter, plenty of blessings will be
showered on the good and innocent Muslims who have suffered
from worldly afflictions. That attaining the blessings of the
Hereafter requires possessing îmân in the world is written in
religious books, which are available the whole world over. A
person who reads these books and denies them is called a
‘disbeliever’. A person who has not heard of Islam is not called a
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