Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

He claimed to be a prophet. He was a magian. He said that
everybody’s property and wife were for the common advantage.
Although Qubâd, the Iranian Shâh, believed him, his son,
Nûshirvân, killed him and also his eighty thousand men. These
facts are written in the dictionary Burhân-i qâti’. Ahmed Cevded
Pasha ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, in a book of his which consists
of fifteen pages, writes that communism will spread over Europe
and Asia and that the Muslims will escape this nuisance.
39— ANSWERING THE SLANDERS OF AN
ENEMY OF ISLAM
Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated:
“Every child comes to the world with a pure soul so as to become
a Muslim. Later their parents make them irreligious.” This
implies that it is necessary to teach Islam to children. Their pure
souls are suitable for Islam. A child who has not learned Islam
will misunderstand Islam by believing the lies and slanders of the
enemies of Islam. It will think that it is retrogression or evil. If a
person who is ignorant of Islam and has never received any
religious instruction or understood Islam falls into the traps of the
enemies of Islam, he will learn something quite different,
altogether foreign in the name of Islam. He will fall victim to the
poisonous inoculations and shamelessly fabled writings directed
to him. He will not find peace in the world. And he will be caught
in the endless calamities and tortures in the next world.
Every Muslim, nay, every person, must know how low, how
base the slanders, which are fabled by the enemies of Islam in
order to deceive young people, are. And in order not to drift into
calamity by believing these lies, we should understand the
sublimity of Islam, see that it supports knowledge, science, morals
and health, and that it advises work, progress, cooperation, and
mutual love. A wise, vigilant and cultured person who has
understood Islam correctly and well, will not believe the lies of
the enemies of Islam. Seeing that they are religiously ignorant,
unlearned, deceived and wretched people, he will pity them. He
will wish that they recover from that disastrous state and come
round to the right course.
We have come across a pamphlet of several pages scribbled
shamelessly by such a deceived ignoramus of the religion in order
to spread the poisonous slanders he had been taught, to imbue
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