This article has been copied from:
WAQF IKHLAS
Publisher' Note
Permission to reprint and distribute is granted only if the text is not modified in any way, shape or form to alter the intended meaning.(abridged)
Ihlas Holding A. S.
Cagaloglu-ISTANBUL
Tel: (90212) 513 99 00ETHICS OF ISLAM
Ali Bin Amrullah
&
Muhammad Hadimi
PREFACE
Bismi'llahi 'r-rahmani 'r-rahim
Let's start the book by mentioning the name of Allah!
Name of Allah is the best refuge,
His blessings, can never be measured nor calculated,
He is the Lord who mercies much and loves to forgive!
Ali Bin Amrullah
&
Muhammad Hadimi
PREFACE
Bismi'llahi 'r-rahmani 'r-rahim
Let's start the book by mentioning the name of Allah!
Name of Allah is the best refuge,
His blessings, can never be measured nor calculated,
He is the Lord who mercies much and loves to forgive!
they need. He also teaches them how to use these blessings to attain happiness of this and the
next worlds. Imam ar-Rabbani, may Allahu ta’ala be pleased with him, in his 259th letter
informs us that those disbelievers who never heard of Islam will not be punished in the hell.
They will be annihilated along with the animals after their Judgement. People who hear about
Islam and ponder about it, and then accept it will be blessed with heaven. He gave a lifelong
time-span for pondering. He forgives those who become believers after diving into disbelief and
deviation by being deceived through their own souls, evil friends, harmful books, and foreign
radio stations. He saves them from the infinite disasters. He does not show the path of salvation
to tyrants, wicked and depraved persons. He lets them stay in the denial quicksand that they have
fallen into and which they like and desire. In the next world, He will forgive whom He wishes
among the believers who supposed to go to hell and will send them to heaven after they are
punished in the hell for their sins. He is the only One who, creates all living beings, keeps them
in existence at every moment, and protects them against fear and horror.
If anyone thanks and praises anyone else anytime and at any place for any reason, these thanks
and praises are all due to Allahu ta’ala. Because He is the only One who creates and sends all
kinds of blessings and goodness. If He would not remind, create, and give strength, no one could
ever do any goodness or harm to anyone else. Only His desires come into existence. No one can
do anything against His desire.
May our prayers and greetings be unto His beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him,
who is the most beautiful and highest of all human beings in all respects and be unto all of his
progeny, relatives, and companions, may Allahu ta’ala be well pleased with them, who spread
good morals and knowledge.
Muslims are required to learn "Islamic Knowledge." It is divided into two branches, "Religious
knowledge" and "Scientific knowledge." The scientific knowledge is called "Wisdom"
(Hikmat). Our Prophet, peace be upon him, said, "Wisdom is the lost property of a Muslim.
He should pick it up wherever he may find it." This hadith commands us to learn scientific
knowledge. Essence of "Religious knowledge" is twenty subjects. Eight of them are the main
knowledge, and the other twelve is the supplementary knowledge. One of the main knowledge is
the "Knowledge of Ethics."
[A Muslim who has good morals and advanced in the scientific knowledge of his time is called a
civil or a progressive Muslim. Alternately, a person who is advanced in scientific knowledge and
established basic industries but has poor morals is called tyrant, retrogressive, bandit or dictator.
Those who are lagging behind the scientific knowledge and arts and have poor morals are called
savages or vulgar people. Civilization means building cities and serving human beings. They can
accomplish this through scientific knowledge, arts, and beautiful morals. In short, when the
scientific knowledge and arts are accompanied with beautiful morals, it is called civilization. A
civilized person uses scientific knowledge and arts for serving humanity. Alternately, tyrants use
them for torturing. We can see that a true Muslim is a progressive person. Unbelievers are
retrogressive, and miserable persons. It is apparent that civilization means constructing buildings
and developing cities. This is only possible through science and technology. Advancement in
technology is due to addition of new ideas to the ideas of the previous generations. People’s
living in peace and comfort is only possible through ethics of Islam.]
Learning Islamic knowledge as much as necessary is an obligatory duty (Fard) for every
Muslim. Islamic scholars have written many books on this subject. The following books on the
subject of ethics are well known: Akhlaq an-Nasiri by Nasiruddin-i Muhammad Tusi, Akhlaq al-
Jalali by Jalaluddin-i Muhammad Dawani and Akhlaq al-Muhsini by Husayn Vaiz-i Kashifi from
Hirat. We translated the first chapter of this book from the book Barika written by Muhammad
Hadimi, may Allahu ta’ala be pleased with him. In the first chapter of this book we will deal with
unacceptable poor morals rejected by Islam and their prescribed cures. Poor morals are due to
maladies of the spiritual heart. They cause infinite death and destruction of the spiritual heart
(Qalb) and the spirit (Ruh). In the second chapter of this book, we will describe the meaning of
ethics (Akhlaq) and its varieties by taking from the beginning chapters of the book Akhlaq al-
Alai written in Turkish by Ali bin Amrullah, may Allahu ta’ala be pleased with him, who passed
away in 979 Hijri, 1572 A.D. at Edirne/Turkey.
The uncorrupt youngsters who read this book will understand and appreciate that their ancestors
were healthy persons with good morals. They were also industrious, civilized, and progressive
persons. By learning the truth about their ancestors they will not be tricked by the lies and
slanders of their enemies.
The name of the author of the book Akhlaq an-Nasiri was Muhammad bin Fahraddin Nasiruddin
al-Tusi. He was born in Hijri 597 at the city of Tus (Mashhad) and passed away in Hijri 672
[1273 A.D.] at Baghdad. He belonged to Shi'ite section of the Muslims. He was one of the
persons who was instrumental of Hulagu's destruction of Baghdad and mass killings, e.g.,
hundreds of thousands of Muslims. He became the prime minister of Hulagu. He founded a new
library that included 400,000 books and a planetarium and an Academy. He wrote many books.
Muhammad Jalaluddin-i Dawani, may Allahu ta’ala be pleased with him, was born in 829 Hijri
and passed away 908 Hijri [1503 A.D.] at Shiraz. He is one of the most profound among the
Islamic scholars. He wrote many books. His book Akhlaq al-Alai is in Persian. Its eighth printing
was accomplished in 1304 Hijri, 1882 A.D. at India. It has been translated into English.
Husayn bin Ali Vaiz-i Kashifi, may Allahu ta’ala be pleased with him, was a preacher in the city
of Hirat. He passed away in Hijri 910, 1505 A.D. at Hirat.
Oh virtuous youngsters! Oh noble and dear children of those martyrs who spent their lives for
learning and spreading beautiful moral teachings of Islam as well as sacrificed their lives for
spreading the religion of Allah to all human beings! Do learn well the whole and correct Islamic
religion and its beautiful ethics brought and dedicated to you for safekeeping by our honorable
ancestors. Protect this holy safekeeping (Amanat) with all your might and power against the
attacks of our enemies, i.e., those who attack our lives, properties, religion, and ethics and who
are getting ready to take over our beautiful country! Strive hard by spreading this correct religion
everywhere to save all human beings from infinite disasters. Let it be known that our religion
orders us to have beautiful morals, mutual love for each other, respect for the elders and
compassion for the youngsters, as well as, doing goodness to everyone irrespective of their
religion or irreligion. Pay everyone's due rights and wages! Do not violate laws of the land and
do not oppose orders of the government! Pay your taxes on their due times! Never forget that
Allahu ta’ala is the helper of the righteous people! Let us love and help each other so that Allahu
ta’ala would also help us.
Islamic scholars say: "Allahu ta’ala created three things in humans: Intellect (Aql), spiritual heart
(Qalb), and soul (Nafs). We can see none of them. We can understand their existence by
observing their effects or the things done by them or by the information related to us by our
religion. Intellect and soul are located at our brain and the spiritual heart is found over the
biological heart that is in the left side of our chest. They are not made of matter and do not
occupy space. Their existence in these places is similar to the existence of the electric in a light
bulb or the magnetic field’s existence in an induction bobbin. Intellect tries to understand Islamic
knowledge. It understands Islamic knowledge and its good and useful as well as evil and harmful
variations or portions. The good and evil are discriminated in accordance with the divine law.
The Intellect, which recognizes the divine law (Shari’at) and wants to obey it, is called
"correctly thinking intellect," (Aql al-salim). The people who have little intelligence and always
make mistakes are called stupids or fools. The people who have no intelligence are called crazy.
Correctly thinking intellect relates good things taught by the divine law to the spiritual heart. The
spiritual heart decides to do these good things. It uses the action nerves, which come out of the
brain and go to the organs, to give orders to the organs so that they carry out these good things.
Assimilation of the desire of doing good or evil things into the spiritual heart is called ethics
(Akhlaq). The soul is excessively fond of worldly pleasures. It does not think whether these are
good, evil, useful or harmful. Its desires are not compatible with the divine law. Doing things
that are forbidden by the divine law strengthens the soul. It would try to convince the spiritual
heart to carry out the worst things. It deceives the spiritual heart by showing the evil and harmful
things as good things. It strives to attain its pleasures by convincing the spiritual heart to carry
out its desires. Strengthening spiritual heart and weakening the soul is necessary so that the soul
will not be able to deceive the spiritual heart and that the spiritual heart will not become a evil
natured one. Strengthening of the spiritual heart is similar to the strengthening of the intellect.
The intellect is strengthened by studying and learning the knowledge of Islam. The heart is
strengthened (cleansed) by carrying out the commandments ordered by divine law. Carrying out
the commandments ordered by divine law requires sincerity (Ikhlas). Sincerity means carrying
out the deeds because they are ordered by Allahu ta’ala and not expecting any other benefits by
doing them. Having sincerity in the heart can only be accomplished by the spiritual heart’s
mentioning the name of Allahu ta’ala often (making Dhikr of Allah through the Qalb).
Accomplishing "Dhikr of Qalb" can only be possible by learning from a perfect Sufi master
(Murshid al-Kamil-the Perfect Guide). It further requires emptying the spiritual heart from all
worldly thoughts formed in the brain due to the sensory information coming from the organs. If
no worldly thought left in the spiritual heart, it starts to do "Dhikr of Allah" automatically. It is
similar to emptying the water from a battle. When one empties the water, the air automatically
enters the battle. Protecting the spiritual heart from worldly thoughts could be accomplished
through the spiritual heart’s benefiting (getting "Fayd" (Nur (light, spiritual luminance)) from the
spiritual heart of the perfect Sufi master. The spiritual luminance (Fayd) flows from one spiritual
heart to another by way of love. Death of the perfect spiritual guide or his being in a distance
country does not stop the flow of spiritual luminance (Fayd). The perfect spiritual guide
(Murshid al-kamil) is an "Ahl as-sunnat" scholar (Alim) who knows Islamic knowledge in depth
and does all of his actions sincerely (with Ikhlas) according to this knowledge. Obeying to the
divine law and getting spiritual luminance (Fayd) from the perfect guide (Murshid al-kamil)
strengthens the spiritual heart and conversely weakens the soul. Thus, the soul (Nafs) does not
want the spiritual heart’s obeying the divine law (Shari’at) or conversing (Sohbat) with the
perfect spiritual guide (Murshid al-kamil) or reading the books written by the perfect spiritual
guide. It wants spiritual heart to be irreligious and non-believer. Therefore, those who do not
follow their intellect and instead follow their soul (Nafs) become irreligious. The soul (Nafs)
does not die but when it is weakened, it cannot deceive the spiritual heart any longer.
1997 A.D. 1375 Hijri Shamsi 1418 Hijri Kameri
WAQF IKHLAS
