Every bid’at holder has inferred wrong meanings from âyats oftheQur’ân al-kerîm and hadîth-i-sherîfs with covered meanings. Our Prophet ‘’alaihis-salâm’ stated:“He who gives a false meaning to the Qur’ân according to his own mind, thought and knowledge, and who writes made up interpretations [those contradictory to the explanations which the great men of religion have prepared after learning them from our Prophet and from his Ashâb], is a kâfir.” Please read the fiftieth disaster incurred by one’s speech, discoursed on in Berîqa.We shouldn’t buy or read the false books of interpretations published to make money by those who know nothing of salât and îmân; we shouldn’t believe their sequinned advertisements.
The valuable and right teachings derived from the Qur’ân al-kerîm and hadîth-i-sherîfs is only what the [Ahl-i Sunnat] savants understood and explained. Every renegade, every deviant, every man of bid’at, and every ignorant person supposes and claims that the way he follows is compatible with the Qur’ân alkerîm and hadîth-i-sherîfs. For this reason, not every meaning derived from the Qur’ân and hadîths should be accepted and esteemed.
It is impossible to escape torment in the Hereafter for those who deviate as much as a hair’s breadth from the creed and îmân communicated by the Ahl-i sunnat scholars, the great and pious people. Both the human mind and the entire Qur’an alkerîm and all the hadîth-i-sherîfs and the great religious men’s perceptions through the heart agree on this fact. There cannot be a mistake in this. Words and books of those who deviate as much as a hair’s breadth from what these great people communicated in their books are poisons. Those who use the religion as a means in order to earn worldly possessions and who, after introducing themselves as men of religion, write whatever occurs to their minds, are thieves of faith. They steal the beliefs of those who read their books and magazines. Those who believe them think of themselves as Muslims and perform namâz. However, because their îmân has been stolen and lost, none of their prayers, worships or good deeds are accepted, nor will they be of any value in the next world.
Concerning those who sell their religion for the world, Allâhu ta’âlâ revealed the sixteenth âyat of Sûrat-ul-Baqara: “The ignorant idiots gave away their religion in order to get the pleasures and enjoyments of the world. Selling out their next world, they received the world and what their lusts desired. Abandoning the way to salvation, they ran after perdition. They earned nothing in this act of buying and selling of theirs. They didn’t know the way of trading or earning. They lost a great deal.”
Source: Endless Bliss (Se’âdet-i Ebediyye) by Hüseyn Hilmi Işık, Nineteenth Edition, Hakikat Kitabevi, 20014
