Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

more precise than the knowledge which is received from the grade
of Wilâyat. I explained this statement of mine more profoundly
and more detailedly in letter 260 —which I wrote to Muhammad
Sâdiq, my dear son, who has a superior intellect and knowledge,
and who has realized the facts and attained blessings and fayd from
Allâhu ta’âlâ. [Murshîd-i kâmils, being exalted savants in the grade
of ijtihâd have both knowledge and ma’rifat. Namely they are Zul-
Janâhayn.]
ÎMÂN: Means the heart’s confirming, admitting and believing
the facts which the books of the Ahl as-sunnat savants
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim ajma’în’ stated to be of Islam, that is,
which have to be believed. They said that what the heart believes
also has to be expressed with the tongue. [Yet this expressing is not
the îmân itself, but it is the statement of the îmân existing in the
heart. He who does not express îmân while there is not a hindrance
becomes a disbeliver. Scholars said: “In case a person is threatened
with death or with mutilation or forced with bitter persecution, he
may excusably hide his îmân; he who does not express his îmân or
who expresses the opposite in such a case does not become a
disbeliver.” We have derived this supplement from the book Milal-
Nihâl.]
The symptom of îmân’s existence in the heart is to abstain from
disbelief and from wearing the zunnâr around the waist, and from
other signs of disbelief. To abstain from disbelief means to dislike
the enemies of Allâhu ta’âlâ and to deem them as enemies. When
disbelievers are powerful and attain ascendancy, so that they may
inflict punishment, they must be disliked with the heart, and when
there is no such fear it is necessary to be against them both by heart
and by all kinds of means. In the Qur’ân, Allâhu ta’âlâ commands
His beloved Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ to fight against
disbelievers and munâfiqs and to gain ascendancy over them by
working to this end. For, unless one bears hostility against the
enemies of Allâhu ta’âlâ and His Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’, one will not have loved Him and His Messenger, nor will
one have the right to say that one loves them. If a person says that
he has îmân but does not avoid disbelief, he has believed both
Islam and disbelief, thus having two religions; such people are
called murtadd (renegade); they must be looked upon as munâfiqs.
Îmân’s existence in the heart certainly necessitates avoiding
disbelief. The lowest grade of this avoidance is with the heart. And
its highest grade is that which is done both with the heart and with
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