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The meaning of the non-mu’min Muslim and the non-Muslim mu’min is this: In the early period of the Freedom1, I saw irreligious individuals who infiltrated the members of the Party of Union and Progress2. They acknowledged that Islam and the Sharî’ah of Ahmad (asm) contain profoundly beneficial and valuable sublime principles for the social life of mankind and particularly for the politics of the Ottoman; thereby, they were supporters of the Sharî’ah of Ahmad (asm) with all their strength. At that point, they were Muslims; that is, they were supporters of haqq and had iltizâm for haqq, yet they were not mu’mins. It means that they deserved to be categorised as non-mu’min Muslims. But now, even though he supports the Western methods and principles and the currents of bid’ah that destroy Sharî’ah under the name of civilisation, he carries îmân in Allah, in the âkhirah and the Prophet and considers himself a mu’min. Since he does not truly support and have iltizâm for the laws of the Sharî’ah of Ahmad (asm) that are haqq and haqiqah, he becomes a non-Muslim mu’min. As Islam without îmân cannot be the means of salvation, neither can îmân withstand without Islam knowingly. It can be said that it cannot provide salvation.