Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

declares: “Make the tawba secretly for a sin which has been
committed secretly! Make the tawba publicly for a sin which has
been committed publicly! Make sure that those who know of your
sin hear your repentance!”
Then, it is useless to say, “Maybe he repented, gave up
apostasy,” about those dead people who were hostile against Islam
and who persecuted Muslims when they were alive. Their cruel
limbs must do favours, their tongues must pray, and they must say
their last requests in such a manner as to gratify the oppressed.
Those apostates who have not done so will not be thought of as
good people.]
What people living there are quite unaware of — and you are
perhaps no exception — is the fact that you are in possession of
a great fortune, a blessing which Allâhu ta’âlâ has exclusively
conferred on you. I mean that the sultan of the time is a Sunnite
Muslim in the Hanafî Madhhab, dating back to his seventh
grandfather. It is a fact that in our time, which is close to the end
of the world and away from the time of Rasûlullah, some students
of knowledge have approached the statesmen and the Sultan for
some years, and tried to gain their favour so that they could
satisfy their own ambitions and ugly desires which originated
from the dirt in their hearts, so they caused some doubts to
appear in this true religion, and some idiots to slip away from the
right way, but it is happiness to see that this famed sultan listens
to you and follows your advice. Explain the words haqq and
Islam to him, directly or implicatively, with their meanings
compatible with the belief of the Ahl as-sunna wa jamâ’at. In the
presence of the Sultan, as far as possible, propagate the words of
the devotees, the scholars of the right way, so much so that,
always try to find the opportunity to teach the knowledge about
Madhhab and religion. So, the truth of Islam will be brought to
light. In addition, the ugliness and evilness of heresy, falsehood,
atheism and disbelief will be realized. It is naturally clear that
disbelief is null and void. A man with reason will never like it.
Without hesitation, it must be made known that disbelief is
invalid. Their false gods which they worship must be intolerantly
refused and banished. No doubt, and no hesitation, the real God
is only the Creator of the heavens. Have those things which
disbelievers worship and praise as creators created a mosquito?
They cannot create anything even if they all come together. None
of the things which they worship can defend itself against a
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