The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 220
220 وَلَا تَقْفُ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ 30. Essence of Islam-IV and reminding themselves of the verse: 131 إِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ إِثْمُ " they should have expressed their sympathy for the. Sultan through sincere supplication for him. The only purpose of my announcement was that the Turks should adopt the ways of purity and righteousness, for nothing is so effective in holding back heavenly decree and torment as piety, repentance and righteous conduct. But the foolish well-wishers of the Sultan started reviling me, and some of them said: 'Is the. Sultan guilty of all sins and is Europe so holy and pure that no prophecy is made in respect of its chastisement?' They do not understand that for the punishment of disbelievers because of their disobedience and idol-worship and deification of human beings, God Almighty has appointed another world which will be encountered after death. It is not the practice of God Almighty to subject to chastisement in this very world people who do not believe in Him, except in cases when they transgress all limits in their sinfulness and are accounted tyrants and cruel and mischief-makers in the estimation of God, as the mischievous people of Noahas, Lotas, and Pharaoh brought punishment upon themselves by their prolonged misconduct. But God does not leave the 130 And follow not that of which thou hast no knowledge. -Banī. Isrā'il, 17:37 [Publisher] 131. Suspicion in some cases is a sin. -Al-Ḥujurāt, 49:13 [Publisher]