Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

“My Mercy has covered everything.” He says: “After disbelievers
stay in Hell for three thousand years, Hell will become cool and
comfortable for disbelievers, exactly as the fire was salvation for
Ibrahim ‘’alaihissalâm’ in the world. Allâhu ta’âlâ may go back on
His promise concerning torment.” By saying, “None of the ’ârifs
said that disbelievers will remain in Hell eternally,” he diverges
from the right way here, too. He did not realize that the âyat, “My
Mercy includes everything,” indicates that in the world there is
mercy both upon Muslims and upon disbelievers. In the next world
there will not be even a mote of mercy upon disbelievers. Allâhu
ta’âlâ intimates this fact in the Qur’ân al-kerîm, and after declaring:
“My Mercy covers everything,” He also declares: “My Mercy is
upon those who, fearing Me, forbear the forbidden, pay their zakât,
and believe My Qur’ân.” Muhyiddîn-i Arabî ‘quddisa sirruh’ reads
the beginning of the âyat and omits the latter part. Allâhu ta’âlâ
declares in the fifty-sixth âyat of Sûrat-ul-A’râf: “My Mercy is upon
those with îmân and goodness.” The forty-seventh âyat of Sûra
Ibrâhîm: “Do not think Allâhu ta’âlâ may go back on His promise
which He has given to Prophets,” does not imply that He may go
back on that which He has given to others. Perhaps His declaring
only that He will not go back on His promise which He has given
to Prophets, is meant to promise that His Prophets will be more
powerful than disbelievers and will overcome them; thus He has
promised both Prophets and their enemies, disbelievers. Then, this
âyat declares that He will never go back on His word, neither with
Prophets nor with disbelievers; thus this âyat, which he quotes in
order to prove his thesis, exposes the fact that he is wrong. We
should also remember that His going back on His word which He
has given to His enemies, like His going back on the word given to
His beloved ones, would be mendacity, an attribute which would be
quite offensive to ascribe to Allâhu ta’âlâ. For, it would be very
repulsive to say that for some uses Allâhu ta’âlâ said that He would
torment disbelievers eternally though He knew He would not
torment them. And the ’ârifs’ saying that disbelievers will not
remain in Hell is one of the statements which Muhyiddîn-i ’Arabî
‘qaddasallâhu ta’âlâ sirrahul ’azîz’ makes through kashf, that is, by
sensing through heart. There are often errors in things that come to
the heart. Such kashfs of the great religious superiors, which
contradict what they write by following our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’ and the Sahâba ‘ridwânullâhi ’alaihim ajma’în’,
are without any value or importance. [Also, Ibni Taymiyya denies
the fact that disbelievers will remain eternally in Hell.]
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