Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

Lying is a fault. A faulty person cannot be a Prophet.
[Îmân means to believe all the facts that are stated clearly in the
Nass, i.e. in the Qur’ân al-kerîm and in the hadîths that are known
through ijmâ’ and believed indispensably. Here, Ijma’ means the
consensus of the Sahâba. If something has not been stated with
consensus by the Sahâba, the consensus of the Tâbi’ûn becomes
ijmâ’ for that thing. If it has not been explained unanimously by the
Tâbi’ûn, either, the consensus of the Taba-i tâbi’ûn becomes ijmâ’
for it. For, the savants and mujtahids of those three centuries are
praised in a hadîth-i sherîf. They are called the Salaf-i sâlihîn. It is
written in the chapter dealing with becoming a Qâdî in Ibni
’Âbidîn that the Sahâba and the Tâbi’ûn and the Taba-i tâbi’ûn are
called the Salaf-i sâlihîn. It is stated unanimously by the succeeding
scholars that hundreds of thousands of hadîths in Bukhârî and
Muslîm and in the other four of the six books called the Kutub-i
sitta are sahîh. (See Kinds of Hadîth-i sherîfs in the sixth chapter.)
To be known commonly means to be widespread information that
has been heard by the majority of Muslims in every century. Not
knowing it is not excusable.
It is written on the hundred and eleventh page of Hadîqa: “It
is not permissible to do ijtihâd in those religious fields that have
been stated through ijmâ’ and which are indispensably believed
and practised. For, those who deny any of them will become a
non-Muslim (kâfir). People who believe them are called Mu’mins
or Muslims. They become the Ummat of Muhammad
‘’alaihissalâm’. The Ummat of Muhammad ‘’alaihissalâm’ parted
into seventy-three groups. It is permissible to do ijtihâd in those
fields that are to be believed and practised and yet which have not
been stated clearly in the Qur’ân al-kerîm or in hadîth-i sherîfs, as
well as in those clear ones whose meanings have not been
understood through ijmâ’ and indispensably. [1]
Of them, to do
wrong ijtihâd in those matters that are to be believed is a grave
sin, though it is not kufr. Seventy-two of the seventy-three groups
of Muslims have thus gone wrong, dissented from the right way,
and have become holders of bid’at. They will go to Hell as a
punishment for their faulty credo. But since they are Muslims,
they will not remain in Hell eternally, and will be taken out after
some torment. The group with correct îmân who do not do wrong
[1] By indispensable, (darûrî is the word used in the original text), we
mean, ‘a tenet of belief or practice which is so widely known that it is
believed and practised commonly by Muslims.’
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