Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

seven great savants of the blessed city of Medina were Sa’îd ibni
Musayyab, Qâsim bin Muhammad bin Abî Bakr-inis-Siddîq,
Urwatabni-Zubayr, Khârijatabni-Zaid, Abû Salama-tabni-
’Abdurrahmân bin Awf, ’Ubaydullah ibni ’Utba and Abû Ayyûb
Suleimân.”]
Our Prophet declared: “After me, there will be many
differences among Muslims. Those who will live in those times
should hold fast to my way and to the way of the Khulafâ-i
râshidîn! They should avoid the things that will appear and will be
all the fashion afterwards? For, renovation, reform in Islam means
to deviate from the right way. Changes that will be made in Islam
after me are irreligious.”
This hadîth shows that all the things invented in Islam after our
Prophet and the Khulefâ-i Râshidîn are worthless. They are not
reliable. Let us thank Allâhu ta’âlâ very much because He has
included us in the group of Ahl as-sunnat wa-l-jamâ’at, who will be
saved from Hell. He has not let us join one of the seventy-two
groups of bid’at, who will go to Hell. He has so graciously
protected us from falling for their corrupt beliefs. [Nor has He let
us join those who, by saying, ‘You created, we ask for a religion
from you,’ extol some people up to the rank of Allah.] Nor has He
made us one of those who say that man creates his own work and
action. He has not made us one of those who deny the fact that
Believers will see Allâhu ta’âlâ in Paradise, either. In fact, this
seeing is the greatest of all the blessings of this world and the next.
And He has not included us with those two groups who hurt the
Sahâba of the Best of Mankind ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ by
speaking ill of them. They think of these great men of religion as
evil. They think that they were hostile against one another, that
they concealed their hostility and grudge and handled each other
hypocritically. However, Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in the Qur’ân that
the Sahâba always love one another. These two groups deny the
Qur’ân. They say that there was hostility and hatred among them.
May Allâhu ta’âlâ give them reason and show them the right way!
Thank Him, again, He has not included us among those who say
that Allâhu ta’âlâ is a substance, an object, and who consider Him
to be with time and place, thus comparing the Creator to His
creatures, [nor among those apostates, idiots, who sell their faith
and tread on the sacred property of their ancestors to obtain
money, post, rank, comfort, and to enjoy themselves.]
It should be known well that presidents, those who preside over
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