Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

ight way and that you were performing al-amru bi-l-ma’rûf wa-nnahyi
’ani-l-munkar. Allâhu ta’âlâ knows what your purposes and
intentions are. But ikhlâs will be seen in a person’s deeds. Your
deeds have torn off the cover hiding your words. Following the
example of people who have been enslaved by their nafs and
whose words are unreliable, you have not only defamed people
living in your time but also stigmatized your own dead ancestors as
disbelievers. In addition to attacking the successors of the Salaf assâlihîn,
you have slandered the Sahâba, especially the greatest
ones. Can’t you imagine in what a situation you will be when those
great people sue you for their rights on the Day of Rising? On the
minbar of Jâmi’ al-jabal in Sâlihiyya city you said that Hadrat
’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ had made some misstatements
and incurred disasters. What were these disasters? Which of these
disasters did the Salaf as-sâlihîn tell you about? You say that
Hadrat ’Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’ had more than three
hundred errors. Supposing that had been the case with Hadrat
’Alî, could you have made a single correct statement, then? Now I
am beginning to act against you. I shall try to protect the Muslims
against your villainy for you have overflowed the measure. Your
torture has provoked all the living and the dead. Believers will
have to evoid your evil.”
Tâ-jad-dîn us-Subkî states that Ibni Taymiyya disagrees with
the Salaf as-sâlihîn in the following matters:
1— He says: “Talâq (divorce as prescribed by Islam) [1] is not
binding. But it becomes necessary to pay kaffârat (equal to that
which is paid) for an oath.” None of the Islamic savants that came
before him said that kaffârat must be paid.
2— He says: “Talâq given to a hâid (menstruating) woman is
not binding.”
3— He says: “It is not necessary to make qadâ for a salât
omitted deliberately.”
4— He says: “It is mubâh (permissible) for a hâid woman to
make tawâf of Ka’ba. [If she does so] she will not have to pay
kaffârat.”
5— He says: “One talâq given in the name of three talâqs is
still one talâq.” However, before saying so, he kept saying for
many years that the ijmâ’al-Muslimîn was not so.
[1] Please see the fifteenth chapter of the sixth fascicle of Endless Bliss
for ‘talâq’.
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