Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

Shi’îs call themselves Ja’ferî today.
As is seen, a person of Lâ ilâ-ha il-lal-lah or a person of the
qibla means a person who believes all religious facts that are
known through tawâtur (consensus) and is a person who is a
Muslim. Such a person does not become a kâfir because of his
aberrant belief.
It is written in the hundred and fifty-fourth page of Hadîqa:“It
is not necessary to believe a hadîth-i sherîf communicated by one
person, but if its meaning has been communicated through
tawâtur (consensus), it is necessary to believe the ijmâ’.”
It is written in the sixty-ninth page of the translation of the
book Milel-Nihal: “Al-imâm al-a’zam Abû Hanîfa and al-imâmush-Shâfi’î
said that a person of the qibla cannot be called a kâfir.
This statement means that the person of qibla does not become a
kâfir by committing sins. Savants of the seventy-two groups and
their followers are Ahl-ul-qibla. Since they erred in the
interpretation of the unclear documents in which ijtihâd is
permissible, they cannot be called disbelievers. Yet, because
ijtihâd is not permissible in those religious learnings that are
indispensable and which have been communicated through
tawâtur (consensus), he who disbelieves such learnings becomes a
kâfir according to the consensus (of savants). For, he who
disbelieves them has disbelieved Rasûlullah. Îmân means to
believe those commonly known learnings which Rasûlullah
brought from Allâhu ta’âlâ. It is kufr to disbelieve even one of
these learnings. Every word, every action signifying disbelief,
even if it is done in a jocular manner or unwillingly, is kufr. If it is
done under duress or inadvertently, it is not kufr.”
It is written in the preface of the first part of Ibni Âbidîn that
philosophy is a Greek word. Formerly its meaning used to be to
tell one’s thoughts which one accepts as facts, to make them
believable through falsely-adorned and exciting words. They are
words which are right outwardly; but most of them are wrong.
Personal thoughts that are not based upon experimentation or
calculation are called philosophy. An example of them is to say
that beings were not created from nothing, or that this is the way
it has come and so will it go, or that it is retrogression to believe in
things to be believed or in those that are halâl or harâm. It is
written in Ihyâ-ul-’ulûm: “Ancient Greek philosophy is not a
principal branch of knowledge. There were many mathematicians,
—especially those who studied geometry and logic,— biologists
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