Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

torment of the next world; it is of the same kind. The forty-sixth âyat
of Sûra-t-ul Mu’mîn, “In mornings and evenings they will be
tormented with fire,” of the Qur’ân-i kerîm, reports the torment in
the grave. Likewise, the blessings in the grave are both like worldly
comforts and like those in the Hereafter.
A good person, a fortunate person is one whose faults, sins, being
forgiven through grace and mercy, are not cast in his teeth. If a
person’s sins are cast in his teeth, and if, being pitied for this reason,
he is made to suffer only worldly torment and thus becomes purified
of his sins, he, too, is quite fortunate. Also a person who, not being
purified with this only, suffers the grave’s squeezing and tormenting
for the rest of his sins, and who is taken without any sins to the place
where people will gather on the Day of Judgment, is very lucky. If
instead of this he is punished in the next world, it is still mercy and
justice. But, on that day those with sins, those who are in an
embarrassing position, those with dark faces will be in a very difficult
position. But of those people, the ones who are Muslims will still be
pitied, and will attain mercy at last, being freed from the eternal
torment of Hell; and this is a very great blessing, too. O our Allah! Do
not extinguish the light of îmân which Thou hast bestowed upon us.
Cover our defects! Thou canst do everything!
[The fifth principle of îmân is to believe in the next world.]
Doomsday certainly exists. That day the heavens, the stars, the
earth which we live on, mountains, seas, animals, plants, metals
and, in short everything, matter and energy will be annihilated. The
skies will break into pieces, the stars will disperse, the earth and
mountains will turn into dust and will be blown about. This
annihilation will take place with the first signal of the Sûr. With its
second blowing everything will be re-created, people will rise from
their graves, and will assemble at the place of Mahsher.
Philosophers [and those who claim to be positive scientists], that is,
who strive to solve everything with their minds, say that the
heavens and stars will not be annihilated. [By saying that science
does not accept that they will be annihilated and that everything
will go on existing as it is, they slander the knowledge of science,
which is based on observation, research and experimentation. The
intellects of some of them do not function at all, but they call
themselves Muslims. They obey most of the rules of Islam. What is
even more consternating is that some Muslims who believe their
statements and books think of them as Muslims and even as Islamic
savants, religious superiors. They become angry with anyone who
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