Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

prohibitions [harâms] in everything they do. If a person treats the
performance of a commandment or the avoidance of a prohibition
with contempt, he will lose his îmân, and become an unbeliever.
A person who dies as an unbeliever will be subjected to torment
in grave. In the Hereafter he will go to Hell and burn there
eternally. It will be impossible for him to attain forgiveness or to
go out of Hell. It is very easy to become an unbeliever. There is
every likelihood that anything a person does or says may cause
him to become an unbeliever. Equally easy is to be saved from
unbelief. Without it being conditional on a person’s knowing the
reason for his having become an unbeliever he will definitely be
forgiven and be safe against going to Hell if he makes istighfâr
only once daily, e.g. if he says, “Estaghfirullah,” which means,
“Yâ Rabbî! If, knowingly or unknowingly, I have said or done
something that causes unbelief, I repent for it; so please do forgive
me.” You should make sure that you will make tawba and
istighfâr daily so that you be safe against burning eternally in Hell.
No other act of worship can be more important than making this
tawba. When making tawba for sins wherein others’ rights are
involved, you will also have to return those rights to the wronged
people; and when making tawba for omitted prayers of farz
namâz, it is essential that you make qadâ of those prayers that are
farz. Please read the latter part of the twenty-third chapter of the
fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss!
Man is human, ever prone to making mistakes, in threes and fives.
Trips and falls down as he promenades on smooth and flat prairie drives.
2 — THIRD VOLUME, 38th LETTER
This letter, written to Mulla Ibrâhim, explains the hadîth which
informs that this Ummat will part into seventy-three groups:
It is declared in a hadîth that this Ummat will part into
seventy-three groups, seventy-two of whom will go to Hell. This
hadîth informs that the seventy-two groups will be tormented in
the fire of Hell. It does not inform that they will stay in torment
eternally. Remaining in the torment of Hell-fire eternally is for
those who do not have îmân. That is, it is for disbelievers. The
seventy-two groups, on account of a flaw in their belief, will go to
Hell and will burn as much as they deserve on account of the
blemish in their belief. One group, the seventy-third, will be saved
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