Allahu ta'ala, having mercy on the whole of mankind, creates useful things and sends them these things in the world. And in the Hereafter He will choose some of those believers who are to go to Hell, forgive them, and make them attain to Paradise. He, alone, creates all living beings, keeps all beings in existence, and protects them all against fear and horror. Trusting ourselves to the honorable Name of such a Being, Allah, we begin writing this book. If any person thanked and praised any other person in any manner, for anything, at any place, at any time, all this thanks and praisal would have been done to Allahu ta'ala by rights. For He, alone, is the creator, the educator, the discipliner of all beings, and the actuator and sender of all types of goodness whatsoever. He, alone, is the owner of power and energy. May all types of benedictions be pronounced over MUHAMMAD 'alaihis- salam', who is His Prophet and most beloved born servant, the most virtuous and most valuable of the whole creation, and over all of his Al (household) and Ashab (Companions), who were his helpers and beloved ones 'alaihimus-salawatu wattaslimat.'!

Serving humanity has always been considered as the most noble obligation, and most people claim to be exclusively doing this service. There are very many people who cover the struggles they have been carrying on for their own sensuous desires, pleasures and financial advantages under the mask of this service. Serving humanity means causing human beings to attain comfort and peace in this world and in the Hereafter. And the only way to success in doing this is the guide to happiness, i.e. Islam, which has been conferred by Allahu ta'ala, most compassionate and most kind, the Creator and educator of human beings. Then, serving humanity is possible by serving Islam; serving Islam means serving humanity. Enemies of humanity have striven to annihilate Islam. Their most effective aggression has been deceiving Muslims, thus destroying them from within. They have provoked segregation among them, made them hostile against one another, and led them into the talons of irreligious people.

Rasulullah 'sall-allahu alaihi wasallam' made statements warning Muslims against these catastrophes awaiting them. He said, for one, "My Umma will be divided into seventy- three groups. Of these groups, only those who follow me and my Ashab shall escape Hell." Fortunately, most of the seventy-two groups who are to go to Hell are extinct today. Hundreds of millions of Muslims on the earth now are only in the three remaining groups, i.e. Sunnis, Shiis, and Wahhabis. If these three groups of Muslims today do not take measures of conciliation and cooperation with one another, if they prefer to abuse one another, the enemies of Islam will gain grounds to defile Islam, to divide Muslims into yet other groups, and to mislead young people out of Islam by using all sorts of lies and slanders. As history shows, nations negligent in their faith have incurred Allah's scourge and fallen into cruel paws. We see today that most of them are still being trodden under the enemy boots called Communists and are being brutally employed for obtaining their food, like beasts, by an immoral, irreligious and cruel minority. Rescuing humanity from this desperate situation depends merely on serving Islam and rescuing Islam. Today, any person living in Europe or America, where human rights are observed, will attain peace and comfort to the extent that he or she follows Islam's principles, whether consciously or by chance. In order to convince our readers of this fact and to motivate them towards seeing their own peril, we have considered it appropriate to warn them against Communism by appending to our book a brief sampler of the lacerating afflictions suffered by nations who fell into Communists' traps. This book explains how the Hurufis, who infiltrated the Shii communities, attacked the Sunnis, how the Iranian King Nadir Shah organized a debate between the Sunni and the Shii scholars, which ended in the bilateral recognition that the Shii (Shiah) way had been mixed with Hurufi elements and that on the other hand the Sunnis were in the right way, and how it was decided, and the decision was sanctioned by Nadir Shah that Iran would be Sunni as before. Upon reading this book of ours, our Iranian brothers will agree with the decision taken by the Shiite scholars, become Sunni Muslims, and attain happiness. Thanks be to Allahu ta'ala, next to none of the recent Iranian learners has abandoned the Sunni way. We observe with gratitude, for instance, that the Persian book Kimya-i-Saadat, written by Imam-i-Ghazali, a Sunni scholar, was reprinted in a most splendid form in Tehran in 1964, and the younger generation in Iran are being informed about the statements made by hundreds of Sunni scholars, thus being impressed by their superior merits. The very day Shiites free themselves from the Hurufis deceit, realize the way shown by their own scholars, and cooperate with the Sunnis in spreading Islam over the world, the Wahhabis will join them, Muslims will be in unity, they will certainly resume their past grandeur and superiority, they will once again shed a light on humanity and guide others to civilization, and thus the whole world will attain happiness. Then all people will know that serving Islam means serving humanity.

Christian year (April 1995)
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