Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

Prophethood and the knowledge in these grades. They acquire
their knowledge from there. But men of Tasawwuf look at
Prophets’ grades in Wilâyat and at the ma’rifats that are there.
The knowledge derived from the grade of Prophethood is
certainly more precise than the knowledge which is received from
the grade of Wilâyat. I explained this statement of mine more
profoundly and more detailedly in letter 260 —which I wrote to
Muhammad Sâdiq, my dear son, who has a superior intellect and
knowledge, and who has realized the facts and attained blessings
and fayd from Allâhu ta’âlâ. [Murshîd-i kâmils, being exalted
savants in the grade of ijtihâd have both knowledge and ma’rifat.
Namely they are Zul-Janâhayn.]
ÎMÂN: Means the heart’s confirming, admitting and believing
the facts which the books of the Ahl as-sunnat savants
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim ajma’în’ stated to be of Islam, that is,
which have to be believed. They said that what the heart believes
also has to be expressed with the tongue. [Yet this expressing is
not the îmân itself, but it is the statement of the îmân existing in
the heart. He who does not express îmân while there is not a
hindrance becomes a disbeliver. Scholars said: “In case a person is
threatened with death or with mutilation or forced with bitter
persecution, he may excusably hide his îmân; he who does not
express his îmân or who expresses the opposite in such a case
does not become a disbeliver.” We have derived this supplement
from the book Milal-Nihâl.]
The symptom of îmân’s existence in the heart is to abstain from
disbelief and from wearing the zunnâr around the waist, and from
other signs of disbelief. To abstain from disbelief means to dislike
the enemies of Allâhu ta’âlâ and to deem them as enemies. When
disbelievers are powerful and attain ascendancy, so that they may
inflict punishment, they must be disliked with the heart, and when
there is no such fear it is necessary to be against them both by
heart and by all kinds of means. In the Qur’ân, Allâhu ta’âlâ
commands His beloved Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ to
fight against disbelievers and munâfiqs and to gain ascendancy
over them by working to this end. For, unless one bears hostility
against the enemies of Allâhu ta’âlâ and His Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’, one will not have loved Him and His
Messenger, nor will one have the right to say that one loves them.
If a person says that he has îmân but does not avoid disbelief, he
has believed both Islam and disbelief, thus having two religions;
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