Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

entitled al-Hadîqa writes: “To take another’s property without his
permission or by force is called ghasb (extortion). As it is harâm
to practise ghasb, so is it to use property extorted. Also, it is
harâm to take and use another’s property without his permission
even if the property has not been defected or damaged and
returned. It is not permissible to use property or money which has
been lent to one as a vedî’a [1]
or which another person has
extorted, in trade or elsewhere, and to make a profit from it.
What he earns from it becomes harâm. He will have to give it as
alms to the poor. It is harâm to take and hide someone’s property
or money even if it is done as a joke, for the owner will be sorry if
it is done. It is harâm to torture someone.” In Fatâwâ-i Fawziyya,
it is said that, if a father, without necessity, takes and uses the
money belonging to his small children for himself, the children
may ask him to indemnify it when they grow up. If the father is in
need, then using the money becomes jâ’iz (permissible).
41— ISLAM AND SCIENCE
The most important reason why Prophets and heavenly books
were sent and the first command that is absolutely necessary to be
declared is to declare that the Creator of the heavens and earth
exists, that He is one, that He has superior attributes such as
knowledge and others, and that His power and greatness are
infinite. Because most people believe the things which they see
and hear as they see and hear them and cannot understand their
inner natures and delicate particulars, Allâhu ta’âlâ, in His Books,
described the moon, the sun and the stars, which are the
symptoms of His existence and greatness, the biggest and the
most obvious creatures, which amaze people very much and
which seem precise in every respect, so that every sort of people
could understand them. By not explaining their calculations, laws
and inner natures, He did not force the ignorant majority to busy
themselves with the things which they could not understand, and
He encouraged the intelligent, wise and distinguished among
mankind in every century to understand them by studying them.
Man’s discoveries have been changing in process of time;
discoveries that were thought of as correct and dependable at one
time have been understood to be wrong afterwards. Because the
[1] Please see the final part of the ninth chapter of the sixth fascicle of
Endless Bliss for ‘vedî’a’.
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