Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

from the books and statements of some ancient Prophet who had
lived there. Brahmanism and Buddhism, like Christianity, are
corrupted and changed forms of correct religions taught by
ancient Prophets ‘’alaihimussalâm’. Mazhâr-i Jân-i Jânân ‘quddisa
sirruh’ states in his fourteenth letter: “Allâhu ta’âlâ, when He
created man, sent a book named Bîd and Vidâ to India through
an angel named Birmîhâ [or Brahma]. The book consisted of four
sections. Scholars of that time derived six Madhhabs out of that
book, and divided people into four groups, called Jûqs. They all
believed that Allâhu ta’âlâ is one, that He created man, in the
Rising Day, in Heaven and Hell and in Tasawwuf. Years later,
other Prophets were sent. We do not have information about
those Prophets in our books. In process of time, people subverted
their religion. In memory of their Prophets, souls of Awliyâ and
angels, they made sculptures, icons. To benefit from them, they
prostrated themselves (made sajda) before those idols. [Yet they
are not polytheists. They are Ahl-i-kitâb, i.e. disbelievers with a
heavenly book.] The idolaters in Saudî Arabia [and Christians]
are unlike them. They believe in idols as creators. They make
sajda before idols and call them their God. [This makes them
polytheists.] On the other hand, Brahmins’ doing so is intended to
show their respect and gratitude. Thus, corrupt Brahmins who
lived before Muhammad ‘’alaihi-s-salâm’ cannot be called kafîrs.
But, today everybody living in any place on earth has to believe in
Muhammad ‘’alaihi-s-salâm’ and become a Muslim. Today,
anybody who is not a Muslim is called a kâfir.” [Sikhs, in India,
are disbelievers adherent to a sect founded by a Hindu named
Baba Nanek (d. 400 [A.D. 1539]) by mixing Islam and
Brahminism with each other. Sayyid Sherîf-i Jurjânî says in the
third chapter of the final part of Sharh-i mawâqif: “A person who
denies the fact that Muhammad ‘’alaihissalâm’ is the Prophet of
Allah becomes a kâfir (disbeliever). Of such people, Jews,
Christians, Brahmins and Buddhists believe in other Prophets
‘salawâtullâhi ta’âlâ wa teslîmâtuhu ’alaihim ajma’în’. They read
the heavenly books that were revealed to those Prophets and
which were interpolated in process of time. Hence these
disbelievers are to be called Ahl-i-kitâb. People who do not
believe other Prophets, either, are polytheists, even if they believe
the existence of a creator. As for the Dahriyya (materialists); they
do not believe in Allâhu ta’âlâ, either. They say that everything
comes into existence through natural forces, and that there is no
creator, and that things change themselves in process of dahr
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