[36] Reward; act, behaviour, belief, or thought for which Allâhu ta’âlâ promises reward in the Hereafter; the reward that will be given.
[37] Hadîja-t-ul-kubrâ, Rasûlullah’s first blessed wife. Our Prophet did not marry another woman as long as she lived. She was forty years old when she married the Messenger of Allah, who was twenty-five then. She passed away in Mekka, in the blessed month of Ramadân, three years before the Hijrat (the Prophet’s migration to Medîna). It was one year after her passing away that Allâhu ta’âlâ commanded His beloved Messenger to “marry (hadrat) Âisha.”
[38] O my Allah!
[39] The word expressing that Allâhu ta’âlâ exists and is one: Lâ ilâha il-l-Allah.
[40] Woman slave captured in a Holy War. Muslims treat their slaves and jâriyas as they treat their brothers and sisters.
[41] Wara’ means to abstain from acts, behaviors, words, food, drinks, and all things that are dubious, that is, anything about which one cannot be sure whether it is forbidden or permitted.
[42] Taqwâ means to abstain from all sorts of forbidden acts, behaviours, thoughts, words. (Ibni Âbidîn)
[43] The word ‘Bi-s-m-illâh-ir-rahmân-ir-rahîm,’ which means, briefly, ‘In the name of Allah, (who is very) merciful, compassionate.’ Every Muslim should utter this word before doing anything unless it is something sinful.
[44] See the first part, Documents of The Right Word.
[45] Please see the book Confessions of a British Spy.
[46] Terms of this sort are explained in various places of the book.
[47] Any sort of dirt which must be cleaned from one’s clothes before performing namâz. Please see the sixth chapter of the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
[48] Islam’s definite commandments are called farz. When a commandment is incumbent on every individual Muslim, it is termed farz-i-ayn. There are those types of commandments, however, which lapse from other Muslims when it is carried out by one Muslim or by a group of Muslims. They are termed farz-i-kifâya.
[49] Jesus.
[50] Intellect admits a liar’s displaying mu’jizas and says, “Since Allâhu ta’âlâ is Almighty, He can do this, too.” This conclusion, which is not compatible with divine law, or even the rare occurrence of events suitable with this conclusion, does not harm our knowledge of events that are compatible with the divine law of Allâhu ta’âlâ. For example, killing or revivifying by the ad-Dajjâl, the liar who will come towards Doomsday, does not change our knowledge about his being a liar. The fact that Nimrod’s fire did not burn Ibrâhîm (’alaihi ’s-salâm) does not change Allâhu ta’âlâ’s law that gives a burning capacity to fire. However, the occurrence of events contradicting information acquired by the intellect through proofs gives harm to this information.