Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

fact, such people are so treated today. We should believe that owing
to their îmân these people will be taken out of Hell. But there is no
pardon or forgiveness for those who do not have îmân, [for those
who do not like the words and habits of Muhammad ‘’alaihissalâm’,
even if it is only a single word or act of behaviour of his that they
dislike;] in return for their disbelief they will remain in Hell’s
torment eternally. [Please read the four hundred and eighty-first
page of the fifth volume of Ibni ’Âbidîn. If enemies of religion try
to deceive Muslims by concealing the fact that disbelievers’ customs
and rites are disbelief and saying that they are Muslims’ customs
and Muslims’ holy days, young and pure Muslims should not
believe them. They should learn the facts by asking real Muslims
they trust, or their relatives who perform their five daily prayers of
namâz, or their fathers’ friends who know Islam. All over the world
today ignorance is not a valid excuse, neither for not knowing îmân
and kufr nor for not performing the acts of worship correctly. Any
person who is deceived because of not knowing Islam will not
escape Hell. Today Allâhu ta’âlâ has made His religion known all
over the world, and it has become very easy to learn îmân, halâls,
harâms [1] and the fards. It is fard to learn these as well as necessary.]
In short, if a person who attends disbelievers’ festivals has a
mote of îmân, [that is, if he has believed the meaning of the
kalima-i-tawhîd concisely, and if he has not done or said anything
that would remove his îmân,] he will not remain in Hell eternally,
though he will enter Hell for torment. As for those Believers who
have grave sins; Allâhu ta’âlâ will forgive those sins if He wills.
Or He will torment them in Hell until they are purified of their
sins, if He wills. According to the understanding of this faqîr
‘qaddasallâhu ta’âlâ sirrahul’azîz’, Hell fire, whether endless or
temporary, is for disbelief and for the symptoms and contagions
of disbelief. The grave sins committed by those Believers who
shun disbelief will be forgiven either through Allâhu ta’âlâ’s
Compassion for the sake of their îmân or by their repenting or
being blessed with shafâ’at. [1] People who are not forgiven by such
means will be purified through worldly problems and cares or
through the throes which they will suffer while dying. If they are
not purified with these either, some of them will attain
forgiveness by suffering torment in their graves. And others will
be forgiven through the torment and suffering in the grave in
[1] Please see the first five chapters of the sixth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
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