THE BELIEF of AHL AS-SUNNA

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The belief of Ahl as-sunna is what you need first,

Of the seventy-three, choose this way, the rest'll lead to Hell.

Muslims are all sunni: and their leader is Nu'man.

Paradise is promised to their followers in iman.

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First make thine belief firm; then hold fast to Shari'at!

Obey Islam's five commandments; do avoid its harams!

If you commit a sin, make tawba, forthwith!

Whoever violates Shari'at will one day regret it.

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Don't ever believe the atheist, else you 'll end up in misery!

Mind sweet words, or they 'll entice you into catastrophe!

Hypocrites are on the increase; angels in guise, snakes in essence.

To entrap you, they'll be your friends, so true in appearance.

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Anyone may claim he is right, and others wrong,

Islam is he criterion whereby to judge who is right!

Person who disobeys Islam is an aberrant one;

He who knows history well, will confirm this word.

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Why will a person feeling unwell run to see a doctor?

For no one wants to die, life is more sweet than anything else.

Who on earth could claim he wouldn't like to live forever?

Death does not mean nonexistence: believe in life in the grave!

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Paradise is everlasting, and so is Hell; Qur'an states so,

Beware of everlasting affliction, were it only a suspicion,

Yet some people deny this; a bat will shun light, and a crow

Enjoys rubbish heaps. It is the philomel that will solicit the rose.

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No doubt, a lascivious profligate could not like Islam,

These two would never come together; good and bad are opposites!

Muslims are observant of the right, and kind to people;

Infidels, like serpents, enjoy hurting others.

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Alas, Ya Rabbi, alas! Such a difficult time we live in:

Religious knowledge's sunken into oblivion, very few perform namaz.

Masons insidiously gnaw at Islam from all directions;

Communists inflict torment; death, dungeon on Muslims.

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Today's eccentricities the Messenger foretold;

Said: "My follower shall be so lonesome one day;

Every home shall be loud with music, adhan heard no more;

No 'alim anywhere, the ignorant shall come to the fore!

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Believers shall be miserable, disbelievers a Solomon each,

Every man a servant of his wife, woman commanding in the home;

Tall buildings shall be built, like a dog's teeth:

Travelling shall be so fast, distance no longer a matter.

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The intellect shall find many things, yet mankind sound asleep.

Birghiwi [80]* wrote in his book, as many hadiths foretold:

Signs of the world's end shall appear, one after another;

The most famous of these signs; many a person shall be drunk.

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People quite unaware of Islam shall be called 'Ulama.

The cruel shall be honored, to ward off this harm.

Shamelessness on the increase, cuckolds wondering,

The basest of mankind in Moscow, issuing orders.

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Everyone an 'alim to himself, Muslim shall be called 'rough."

Few shall tell the truth, liars talking all the time.

A person shall be praised much, though having no eeman in his heart:

Men, like women, shall wear silk clothes shamelessly.

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Wealth, adultery shall be arts, boys used for girls:

Women shall be tightly dressed, legs, bosoms in the open.

Fitna shall prevail all over, manslaughter for nothing.

Bid'at shall be widespread, no one to obey the sunnats.

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People lacking moral sense, like Dajjal, shall invent thousands of lies,

Should a person tell the truth, they shall assail from all directions.

Men shall be unaware of Islam, and women shall be eccentric:

Emr-i-ma'ruf shall be forgotten, charlatans advertising sins.

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Islam shall be criticized, harams shall be committed everywhere,

Being a Muslim shall be in words only, melodies enjoyed in the name of Qur'an.

The Believer shall be called reactionary, the renegade shall be backed:

All these shall certainly happen before the crack of doom.

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Dajjal, the grand prognostication, shall appear in Khorasan;

Then Isa shall descend from heaven, to a mosque in Damascus.

A hadith says, "Of my daughter Fatima's descendants, a youth

Named Mehdi shall appear, and his father shall be named Abdullah.

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He shall strengthen Islam; iman shall spread all over the world,

Then this hero and Isa 'alaihis-salam' shall cooperate

And kill Dajjal, filling the whole world with justice and safety,

Later, Ye'juj and Me'juj[81]* shall appear from behind the wall.

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Millions shall be their number, and they shall bloodbath everywhere.

Later Dabb-at-ul-ard shall appear from below Safa in Mekka:

A beast big as a mountain, it shall know good from bad.

The next portent is: the sun shall rise in the west.

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Seeing this, disbelievers shall be Believers altogether,

Yet it shall do no good now coming round to the right course.

Another portent shall be a smoke appearing in Aden[82]*,

Also, several colored Abyssinians shall demolish Ka'ba.

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The earth shall contain no copy of Qur'an the great blessing.

Muslims shall all die, and the wrongdoers shall survive.

He shall do all sorts of atrocity, the monster called mankind:

Yet a fire from Hidjaz shall catch all unawares.

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As they wander, eccentric, unbridled, doom shall suddenly crack,

And many other things shall happen, yet impossible to express."

What a shame; some people have been made idols;

Ilahi! If Thou dost not help, we shall all ruin utterly.

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All we do in this fashion of apostasy is, sinning, wrongdoing.

People have deviated, everyone has to care for his self!

Depravity around me has covered me with oblivion all over;

Life has gone by fast, wake up, o my heart, wake up!

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You' ve always worked for this world, and lost your next world;

Pursuing only your physical needs, you' ve ruined your heart.

You' ve never followed mind or reason, the nafs your commander;

You' ve spent a youth in oblivion, always chasing worldly ambitions.

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You would never take advice, aberrant as if intoxicated;

So deeply absorbed in worldly pleasures; now it is time to moan.

Deceived by perfidious people, you' ve fancied the world'd go on forever,

Efforts' ve come to naught, your opulence, riches are no good!

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He who follows Islamic superiors, I' ve realized, will be happy;

What a shame, I' ve let a whole life fly away, nowI feel doleful,

How I wish I'd obeyed Qur'an, now I'd be an eternal sultan,

A man may own the whole world, yet can not stay here forever.

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Where is Darius[83]* or Alexander[84]*; where are the Romans and the Greek?

Where is Nimrod or Pharaoh; where is Qarun[85]* and where is Haman[86]*?

Where is Dzengiz[87]* and where is Hitler[88]*? What did they leave to mention?

Edison[89]* or Marconi[90]* or Pasteur[91]* shall not find kindness in the hereafter!

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Do not think people useful to the world have reached perfection!

Theriac is sometimes made from a snake, and medicine from poison!

Do not judge by the appearance, iman is man's perfection!

Person with iman will not belazy; "Work", commands the Subhan[92]*.

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Lazy and regressive people are censured by Nebiyy-i-Zishan[93]*;

He said in a hadith, "He who works is beloved to Rab!"

The soul, too, needs care; it is the beast that only feeds the body!

The health of this body is transient like running water!

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Yes, the body is useful, for it is the one that carries the soul;

All the limbs deserve care; so a Muslim should act accordingly!

Did Nebiyyullah ever sit idly? Think well and be considerate!

All the Sahaba were experts in peace and lions in wartime.

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I knew all these, yet I followed the nafs, now I am trembling,

I did not avoid sins; would this be the way of showing gratitude?

Hilmi, do not give up hope, Rahman[94]* is the name of your Rab!

Ilahi, help us; enemies are all around us!

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Books, newspapers, films, radios have all become friends;

If they told the truth, they would be a testimony each.

Why should sources of knowledge and science be so disappointing?

New physics and modern chemistry always testify to Thine Being!

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Every mote says, "Allah is," from atom to the heavens!

Yet no one sees them, the hearts no more have common sense.

Certainly, the world'll be dungeon for those who deny Haqq![95]*

What do you think is the source of these crises in Europe, America, and Asia?

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For they do not see Haqq; they are all so befuddled;

Materially improved they are, yet quite unaware of humanity!

Could you expect peace and comfort from communism and freemasonry?

Absolutely will not attain happiness, person who turns away from Islam!

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Radio of Moscow made aggressions against Islam daily this

Ramazan. Extremely sordid, so unmaly were the calumnies it heaped.

Even though disbelief survives, the cruel shall perish;

"I shall give respite to the cruel, yet this is no negligence," said Yezdan[96]*.

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Let Muslims not worry, Deyyan[97]* shall protect Qur'an!

It is an historical repetition; Prophets came in times of unbelief;

Whenever the world was in darkness, rose a brilliant sun;

And now the sun of hidayat[98]* shall rise in Anatolia!

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Habibullah[99]* made possible attaining this hidayat!

What does Habib mean? Think and you'll see how great he was.

Ya Rab! He is such a Prophet that his slaves become sultans!

Once a heart's been filled with his love, it'll give light to lights.

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Why isn't that sun seen? The whole world has become blind;

Endless blessing, greatest honor is loving him, no doubt;

For his love I would sacrifice my whole property, my life!

One who has not tasted sugar will not know how sweet it tastes.

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So sinful I am, and so shamed; yet my heart glitters with love;

For his love I shed so many tears; the soil of Erzincan is the witness!

This love stopped wrongdoing; then I began moaning and groaning,

The last breath is not known; yet this is a portent of happiness!

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The blessing is loving him, this I have now realized!

May he be closest to Habib, he who presented this love to us!

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1960 A.D. 1380 H. Erzincan

FOOTNOTES

[80] Muhammad Birghiwi passed away in 981 [A.D. 1573].

[81] Gog and Magog.

[82] A coastal town in Yaman.

[83] Darius (the Great), the ninth and the last king of Ancient Persia.

[84] Alexander (the Great), king of Macedonia from 336 to 323 B.C.

[85] Qarun, a relation and an ummat (follower) of Musa 'alaihis-salam'. Later he came in possession of a great fortune, which spoiled him so badly that he turned away from Musa 'alaihis-salam'. He and all his riches were sunken into the earth. Also called Croesus.

[86] Pharaoh's vizier. He dissuaded Pharaoh from becoming a believer. He was the chief instigator in the martyrdom of Hadrat Asiya, Pharaoh's wife, who was a believeress in the religion of Musa 'alaihis-salam'.

[87] Dzengiz Khan, the Mongolian emperor, the most cruel one; an enemy of Islam, He massacred millions of Muslims. He put to the sword those Muslims who took refuge in mosques.

[88] Hitler, (Adolf), chancellor of Nazi Germany. He committed suicide in 1945.

[89] Edison, (Thomas Alva), U.S. inventor (d. 1350 (A.D. 1931)].

[90] Marconi, (Guglielmo), Italian electrical engineer (1291-1355 (A.D. 1874-1937)].

[91] Pasteur, (Louis), French chemist and bacteriologist (1237-1312 (A.D. 1822-95)].

[92] Allahu ta'ala.

[93] Our Prophet 'sall-allahu alaihi wasallam'.

[94] Compassionate, merciful.

[95] The Right Way, also a name of Allahu ta'ala.

[96] Allahu ta'ala.

[97] Allahu ta'ala.

[98] Guidance to the right way.

[99] The beloved one of Allahu ta'ala; our Prophet.