Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss First Fascicle

Islam, they will no longer have to pay jizya. The symptom of
iman’s existence in a heart is its not loving disbelievers. [Not loving
occurs by the heart. We should live in harmony with disbelievers
or any others; we should not cause harm to anybody.] [1]
[Temporary co-operation with disbelievers can be formed only
politically and when necessity requires it. Yet this shouldn’t go as
far as to be integrated with them, and it should end when the
necessity is over.
Question: “We should not have suizan (distrust or have a bad
opinion) of anybody; we should not look at their words and actions
exposing their disbelief, but those indicating their iman. Iman
exists in the heart. Allahu Taala knows if there is iman in a heart.
No one else knows it. One who says ‘disbeliever’ about a person
with iman in their heart becomes a disbeliever themself. We
should regard everybody as a Muslim and love anybody who does
not openly speak ill of Islam,” is said. Is this point of view correct?
Answer: It is wrong to say we shouldn’t distrust anybody. Its
correct form is “We shouldn’t distrust a Muslim.” In other words,
when a person who says that they are a Muslim and does not
express a word or does not do an action rendering them a
disbeliever, says or does something which may mean belief as well
as disbelief, we should understand it as belief, and we should not
say that they have gone out of Islam. But when a person strives to
demolish Islam and to make youth become disbelievers, or if they
say “good” about one of the haram, tries to make it popular so that
everybody will commit it, or if they say that one of Allahu Taala’s
commandments is retrogressive and harmful, they are called a
disbeliever. Even if they say that they are a Muslim, performs salat
and goes on a hajj (pilgrimage), they are still called a zindiq
(unbelievers pretending to be Muslims). It would be stupidity to
regard such hypocritical people, who deceive Muslims, as
Muslims.]
Allahu Taala says in the twenty-eighth ayat of Tawba Sura of
the Quran al-Karim, “Najas,” and in the ninety-fifth ayat of Tawba
Sura, “rijs,” that is, “foul,” about disbelievers. Then, disbelief
should be foul and base in the eyes of Muslims. The meaning of the
fourteenth ayat of Rad Sura and the fiftieth ayat of Mumin Sura
purports: “The prayers of these enemies are without a result.
[1] Please see the first chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss for
terms such as ‘dhimmî’, ‘harbî’, ‘zakât’, ‘jizya’, and the like.
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