Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

stupidity. Disbelievers trust themselves to Allâhu ta’âlâ in
everything they do. They supplicate to Him for the elimination of
disasters. But these base people do not do so. Two evils exist in
these unfortunate people in a greater degree than in any other
group of heresy and idiocy. First, they do not believe the messages
sent by Allâhu ta’âlâ; they show an obstinate and hostile attitude
towards Prophets’ ‘’alaihimussalawâtu wa-t-teslîmât’
communications. Second, they advance profane theories. Putting
forward groundless, untenable proofs and documents, they
attempt to prove their null and heretical ideas. In their attempts to
prove their heretical thoughts, they make so many mistakes that
no other ignoble individuals have done a thing so wrongly and
unsoundly. They say that everything done on earth is done by the
changing motions and states of the heavens and stars, which move
and turn ceaselessly. They cannot see the One Who created the
heavens, Who designed the stars, and Who makes them move and
regulates their motions. They suppose that He does not meddle
with anything; they are so stolid, so base! And those who consider
them to be wise and who believe their words are even baser. They
even go so far as to say that, “geometry is a mentally contrived and
arranged science, which is good neither for worldly prosperity nor
for eternal salvation. What use will humanity get from saying and
proving that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is equal to
two right angles?” [Unless scientific knowledge, modern machines,
electronic apparatuses and other new discoveries are made and
used by believing people whose hearts have been purified and
whose morals have been beautified by obeying Allâhu ta’âlâ’s
Prophet, they will render no great advantage; they will not provide
for human rights, ease and peace; they will not be used for
eliminating wars and destitution. Instead, they will be a means for
cruelty and torment.]
[Imâm-i Ghazâlî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ classified the irreligious
people, who think of themselves as intelligent and unerring men of
knowledge, in three groups. The first group are the Dahriyyûn and
the materialists, who existed centuries before Greek philosophers.
Some idiots who pass for scientists today are in this group.
Denying the existence of Allâhu ta’âlâ, they say that beings came
into existence by themselves and events will go on likewise, that
they do not have a creator, that the living multiply from one
another and this will go on everlastingly. [May Allâhu ta’âlâ
protect us against such heresy!] The second group are the
naturalists, who, seeing the stupefying order and delicacies in
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