Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

prepared for them is very bitter,” in the sûras of A’râf and Nûn,
shows this fact clearly.
NOTE: Remaining eternally in Hell is the retribution for
disbelief. Now the following question may arise: Our savants say
that if a person, though having îmân, practises the rites and
customs of disbelievers, he will lose his îmân and become a
murtadd. [For, such behavior means not to avoid disbelief]. Most
of today’s Muslims have caught this nuisance. According to that
statement of our savants, most of those people who are said to be
Muslims today are going to suffer eternal torment in Hell. On the
other hand, our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ stated:
“He who has a mote of îmân in his heart will not remain in Hell
eternally; he will be taken out.” What would you say about this?
Answer: We would say that if a person denies, doubts about or
disapproves even one of the Islamic tenets that are to be believed,
his îmân goes away; he becomes a kâfir. He will be burned
eternally in Hell. If a person expresses the word tawhîd, believes
its meaning, says that hadrat Muhammad is Allah’s Prophet and
that whatever he has said is true, and believes that those who
disagree with the Prophet are wrong and evil, and takes his last
breath in this faith and goes to the other world with this îmân; but
if he practises the customs, rites and ceremonies peculiar to
disbelievers, and on the days and nights which disbelievers hold
sacred does as they do, he will go to Hell. But, having a mote of
îmân in his heart, —that is, since he believes briefly as we have
explained—, he will not remain eternally in Hell. [To believe
briefly means, when hearing about one of the religious facts that
have to be believed, to believe it without doubt.] One day this faqîr
—Imâm-i-Rabbânî— visited a sick acquaintance. He was about to
die. I paid tawajjuh towards his heart. His heart had darkened. I
did my best to clear away the filth; it was of no avail. Meditating
deeply for a long while, I came to realize that that blackness was
the contagion and symptom of disbelief, and that they were caused
by his relationships and friendly ways with disbelievers and
disbelief. Try hard as I would, that filth could not be celared away.
It was then realized that that evil would be cleared away only with
the fire of Hell, the punishment for disbelief. Yet, since a tiny light
of îmân was seen in his heart, owing to this he will be taken out of
Hell. Having seen the sick person in that manner, I went deep into
meditating whether I should perform the namâz of janâza for him.
After searching my heart for a long time, I realized that it would be
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