Hakikat Kitabevi Publications No: 3 Se’âdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss THIRD FASCICLE Hüseyn Hilmi Iş›k SixteenthEdition Ha kî kat Ki tâ be vi Da rüş şe fe ka Cad. 53/AP.K.: 35 34083Fa tih-IS TAN BUL/TURKEY Tel: 90.212.523 4556–532 5843 Fax: 90.212.523 3693 http://www.hakikatkitabevi.com e-mail: [email protected] MARCH-2014 NOTE This book is a translation of Se’âdet-i Ebediyye, which was originally written in Turkish. The Turkish original of the book Se’âdet-i Ebediyye consists of three parts, all of which add up to well over twelve hundred pages. We have translated the entire book into English and published our translations in sixindividual fascicles. Se’âdet-i Ebediyye is a book prepared according to the Hanafî Madhhab. There is not a single bit of knowledge or a word which contradicts the creed of Ahl-i Sunnat wa’l Jamâ’at in this book. This is the third fascicle. 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A person with wisdom, knowledge and conscience will understand and side withthe right one of these choices and will help to spread it for salvation of all humanity. There is no better way and more valuable thing to serve humanity than doing so. TYPESET AND PRINTED IN TURKEY BY: ‹h lâs Ga ze te ci lik A.Ş. Merkez Mah. 29 Ekim Cad. İhlâs Plaza No: 11 A/41 34197 Yenibosna-İSTANBUL Tel: 90.212.454 3000 – 2– ENDLESS BLISS CONTENTS OF THE THIRD FASCICLE Chapter Letter Page No. No. Essence of matter No. Preface................................................................................6 1 2-67 Belief of Ahl as-sunnat, harâms. Tawba. Mahdî..........9 2 3-38 This Ummat will part into seventy-three groups.......34 3 3-101 It is not permissible to confine the meanings inthe Qur’ân al-kerîm within philosophers’ views...............36 4 2-19 It is necessary to hold fast to the Sunnat and to avoidbid’ats....................................................................37 5 2-89 In the world we must do what is good for the Hereafter...................................................................39 6 3-31 The ’âlam-i-arwâh, the ’âlam-i-mithâl, the ’âlam-i-ajsad,life in the grave................................40 7 3-57 The ’âlams and everything were created from nothing. Greek philosophers...............................43 8 2-60 We must cease fromunnecessary, useless actions.....46 9 3-36 Answers to those who deny torment in the grave.......................................................47 10 4-14 How to hold fast to Islam; importance of namâz...........................................................................50 11 1-303 The meanings of the words in the adhân....................56 12 Importance of namâz. Those who do not perform namâz................................................................58 13 1-312 Raising the finger during the sitting posture innamâz.............................................................65 14 2-20 Namâz is the highest worship.......................................76 15 2-87 What do sunnat and bid’at mean? The ta’dîl-i-arkânin namâz...........................................77 16 2-69 We must perform the namâz correctly. Consuming (food, etc. that are) halâl. Who is called a martyr?................................................79 17 2-9 Allâhu ta’âlâ cannot be comprehended through mind or imagination. We must have îmân in the ghayb................................................................................85 – 3– 18 3-47 Explaining the secret information about praying......88 19 3-13 Encouraging one to obey the owner of Islam and to love one’s master from whom one has learnedone’s faith..........................................................90 20 3-54 We must observe Islamthroughout our worldly occupations........................................................91 21 2-59 We must know that sorrows and troubles come from Allâhu ta’âlâ..........................................................92 22 2-7 We must be patient with troubles caused by men.....92 23 2-29 Sorrows and troubles must be deemed as blessings...93 24 2-32 When our outward deeds are disorderly, our heart becomes disorderly, too......................................94 25 2-75 Troubles and disasters are atonements for sins.........95 26 3-27 Giving up our own wishes, we must follow the wishes of our Owner......................................................96 27 2-53 Pride and arrogance are dangerous heart-sicknesses...98 28 2-96 Rasûlullah’s asking for paper while dying. Superiority of the Sahâba............................................101 29 5-36 The Sahâba loved one another very much. Slanders of the Shi’îs....................................................115 30 2-99 Superiority of the Sahâba. Why many troubles are sent upon the beloved..................................................121 31 Detailed information about genies. Souls of the Awliyâ............................................................................134 32 Presence of souls. Attributes of Allâhu ta’âlâ..........151 33 2-28 Souls show themselves in men’s figures. What metempsychosis is........................................................154 34 1-261 Informing about the value of namâz.........................156 35 Tawakkul.......................................................................160 36 Lawh-il-Mahfûz and Umm-ul-Kitâb..........................199 37 Irâda-i juz’iyya..............................................................204 38 An elderly Muslim’s advice to his daughter and hisprayer.......................................................................207 39 What is a true Muslim like?........................................226 40 Booklet: “Qadâ and Qadar” by Abussu’ûd Bey.....228 41 2-33 Everything the beloved one does will be liked. Hamdis superior to shukr...........................................231 42 2-38 Men of Allah do not have a mote of worldly love intheir hearts........................................................235 43 2-62 Man is created so as to be civilized. In order to becivilized and to live he needs other men. In this needdoes his superiority lie...........................235 – 4– 44 2-25 Every action in obedience to Rasûlullah is dhikr....237 45 Mu’jiza, karâmat, firâsat, sihr.....................................238 46 3-86 Reason why khâriqas and karâmats are few............239 47 2-92 Being a Walî does not require showing wonders andmiracles...................................................241 48 2-8 The îmân-i ghaybî of the distinguished, of the ignorant, and of men of tasawwuf, who are betweenthese two groups...........................................248 49 2-13 The states of savants of zâhir, of men of tasawwuf, and of the distinguished, who have reached perfection in knowledge..............................................250 50 3-62 Man’s origin is ’adam (non-existence); there is no goodness in ’adam........................................................251 51 3-98 Reason why beautiful appearances look sweet........252 52 2-34 Allâhu ta’âlâ is not like anything, nor can He be comprehended with mind............................................253 53 3-44 Answer to those who disbelieve the fact that Allâhuta’âlâ will be seen in Paradise........................254 54 3-39 The knowledge of ’Ilm-ul-yaqîn of the men of tasawwuf and of philosophers.....................................267 55 3-50 The inference of ’Ulamâ-i-Râsikhîn and of other savants of the dîn..........................................................268 56 2-59 Everything that occurs to mind and imagination orthat is understood through kashf and shuhûd is acreature...................................................................269 57 Translation of the 61st letter from the book Maktûbât by Hadrat Abdullah-i Dahlawî................270 58 Translation of the 85th letter from the book Maktûbât by Hadrat Abdullah-i-Dahlawî................272 59 3-41 Conditions on which Rasûlullah made women to promise. Shirk, sacrificing an animal for a man, theft,fornication, abortion, slander, using amulets...283 60 Sacred nights.................................................................299 61 Translation of the eighty-eighth letter from the book entitled Maktûbât (Makâtib-i-sherîfa) by Hadrat ’Abdullah-i-Dahlawî.................................310 62 Salutations and Greetings (Among Muslims)..........316 63 The âyat-i-kerîma which reads as “Subhâna Rabbika...”..................................................325 – 5– PREFACE Saying the Basmala, I begin writing the third fascicle of Endless Bliss. For, it will be easy to finish the good deeds startedwith the Basmala. Such deeds will be useful. I offer my infinite hamd and gratitude to the Supreme Being, Allah, Who has honoured us by creating us as human beings among His millions of various living and lifeless creatures, and Who has made us valuable by giving us the belief that Hadrat Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, His most beloved one, the highest of mankind, is Allah’s Prophet. To be honoured with being human means to have a human figure. For, no other creature has this beautiful figure. Every child that is normal is beautiful. ’Aql(wisdom)is the great blessing that protectsthis beauty against contamination later and which makes this beauty valuable. People who have attained the blessing of wisdom are honourable, valuable and happy people. Wisdom is the power distinguishing good from bad, and useful from harmful. Each person has a different amount of this power. A person who has much wisdom is called wise. Wisdom should not be confused with intellect. An intelligent person makes tools. In order to obtain his needs and lustful desires or to take vengeance, he searches for ways and means, and finds them, too. He even conceives new ones resembling them. He uses them. He does not think whether they will be useful or harmful. He cannot see beyond his nose. It is wisdom that reasons and sees these. Intellect, to an extent, exists in some animals, too. Very few people have precise, unerring wisdom. Intellect observes the activities in nature, finds out the relations, the laws among them, and establishes mathematical formulas. But it is wisdom that applies them usefully. Intellect explores bombs, laser beams, unimaginably fearful poisons, but it is wisdom that will apply them properlyand usefully. Intellect explores many things in power, motion and energy, realizes that every motion is made by some power, observes such powers and sees the order in the activities of nature, but still does not think of the existence of a source of power that makes the innumerously various motions and activities, which could not be – 6– solved by the intellect or even comprehended by wisdom. The intellect sees and observes men’s and animals’ voluntary and involuntary actions, yet still it does not reason the existence of a Supreme Owner of Power and Will that makes the regular, voluntary, infinite movements which it sees on earth, in seas and in the universe. It even denies this fact. A wise person realizes and believes in the existence of such a maker. And a person with a little wisdom surmises in the least. Upon learning the lives and words of Prophets, his surmise becomes positive knowledge and îmân. A wise man who has learned science and studied history realizes well that right, good, usefulness and endless bliss are only in the commandments and prohibitions, that is, in the religions, declared by Allâhu ta’âlâ. Today we see various religions on the earth. Some of them have been declared by Allâhu ta’âlâ. But others have mostly been concocted by the cruel, by egoists and hypocrites in imitation of the heavenly religions. They are not religions, they are irreligious cults. As is shown by the history of religions, most of the heavenly religions have been forgotten, changed and defiled in process of time. Another fact shown clearly by the history of religions is that there is only one heavenly religion left unchanged, undefiled on the earth today. This unchanged true religion is the Islamic religion, Islam, brought from Allah by Hadrat Muhammad ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’, the finalProphet. For thirteen hundred years, the enemies of Islam, dictators and ignorant, evil people who sold themselves to the former have striven to change the Islamic religionalso and to demolish it from within and have done a lot of harm to Muslims, yet their lies and slanders have not caught on and have been forgotten. For, Allâhu ta’âlâ has promised that He would protect the Islamic religionuntil the end of the world. Recently, the Shî’îs, Wahhabîs, followers of Maudoodî, Qâdiyânîs, novices of Sayyid Qutb have been racing to defile the Islamic religion, but the promise given by Allâhu ta’âlâ will work, and all these heretical mischief-makers will be routed and destroyed. Allâhu ta’âlâ will protect until the end of the world those real Muslims who are called Ahl as-Sunnat wa-l-Jamâ’at or, in short, Sunnî. To attain the honour of the true religion of Islam, it is necessary for a wise man to read and understand the books of the Ahl as-sunnat savants. After attaining this honour, it is necessary for him also to live compatibly with what he has learned. And – 7– living compatibly with Islam, in its turn, is again possible through wisdom. Following Islam in every action requires consulting wisdom. Working and struggling in the world is like traveling in a dark night. Also, struggling to attain comfort and ease in the world and endless blessings in the Hereafter, that is, obeying Islam, is like a true path that must be followed in the dark. Going along this true path at night without deviating into harmful ways requires having a light, a lantern. Man’s wisdom is like this lantern. He who has little wisdom, that is, an idiot, though he might have attained the honour of being a Muslim, will go wrong in following Islam, thus driftinginto perdition. Being caught by the traps of ignorant and stupid enemies of Islam and lâmadhhabî heretical men of religion, he will destroy his life in this world and in the Hereafter. Hamd and gratitude be to Allâhu ta’âlâ, Who has blessed me with the lot of publishing the third fascicle of Endless Bliss, which is one of the books I have prepared so that those who have been gifted with the honour of being human will be valuable and in order to provide them with attaining comfort and ease in the world and endless blessings after death! It being an important task and worship for those who have had the value of being Muslims to do favours and services to every creature, I have attempted to do this work. I send my prayers to Allâhu ta’âlâ so that He will bless my service and my readers. Mîlâdî Hijrî Shamsî Hijrî Qamarî 2001 1380 1422 – 8– ENDLESS BLISS THIRD FASCICLE 1 — SECOND VOLUME, 67th LETTER This letter, written to Khân-i Khânân-i jihân, explains the belief of the Ahl as-sunnat, the five essentials of Islam and tawba for one’s sins: I begin my letter with the Basmala. [That is, I begin writing this letter in the blessed name of Allâhu ta’âlâ, Who pities all human beings by creating and sending them useful things in the world; Who forgives, as a favour in the Hereafter, those Believers who have deserved Hell; and Who creates all creatures, keeps them in existence every moment and protects them against fear and horror.] Salâms be to those good people whom He has selected and loved! [It is written in the sixth page of the first volume of Ibni ’Âbidîn: “It is wâjib to say Bismillâh or Allâhu akbar when killing an animal (by cutting its throat), when shooting an arrow at a game, when sending a trained hound for the animal to be hunted. It is acceptable as well to say the Basmala completely. There are Islamic scholars who say that it is wâjib to say the Basmala before reciting the Fâtiha at each rak’at. Yet, more correctly, it is sunnat. It is sunnat to say the Basmala when beginning to perform an ablution, to eat, to drink and to do any useful work. It is either permissible or mustahab to say the Basmala between the Fâtiha and the sûra (which is to be recited after the Fâtiha while performing namâz). It is mubâh to say it when beginning to walk, when sitting down or standing up.[1] “It is makrûh to say the Basmala when opening one’s private parts, when entering a place where there is najâsat, when reciting Barâa Sûra immediately after the sûra previous to it, when [1] Details pertaining to namâz are available in the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss. – 9– beginning to smoke a cigarette or to eat something with a strong smell, such as onions or garlic, [and when beginning to shave. The fact that the cigarette is compared to things with a strong smell, such as onions and garlic, shows that tobacco is, like these things, tab’an makrûh, not shar’an makrûh.] It is harâm to say the Basmala when beginning to commit a harâm. In fact, it has been said that he who says the Basmala knowingly when beginning something which is certainly harâm, becomes a disbeliever. It is harâm for a (person who is in the state of) junub to recite the Qur’ân with the intention of reciting the Qur’ân. “It is wâjib to say hamd in namâz, and it is sunnat to say it in a khutba or before each du’â (prayer) or after eating and drinking. It is mubâh to say it whenever you remember it. It is makrûh to say it at dirty places, and it is harâm to say it after eating or drinking something which is harâm; it may even cause disbelief.”] We have received your valuable letter, which you so kindly sent to us. Hamd and gratitude be to Allâhu ta’âlâ, because at such a time as this when doubts have been on the increase, you fortunate people, though you need nothing and though there is no occasion, have been taking notice of these faqîrs and thinking of us, who have been left, forgotten in the nook, thus showing that you have belief in this way, which befits your pure ancestry. It is such a great blessing that your various occupations and relations do not prevent you from this great fortune, nor do the confusing things you have to do hinder this love of yours. You should fulfil the thanks for this great blessing, and you should be hopeful, since it is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf: “In the Hereafter everybody will be with the person whom he loves in the world!” O you valuable and fortunate man! Among the seventy-three groups, only (those people who are in) the Madhhab of Ahl as- sunnat wa-l-Jamâ’at will be saved from Hell. Each Muslim has to learn the belief of Ahl as-sunnat and correct his îmân accordingly. The majority of the Muslims who have spread over the world for centuries have been in the Ahl as-sunnat Madhhab. Millions of books written by hundreds of thousands of Ahl as-sunnat savants have spread and promulgated Islam all over the world. He who wants to be saved from Hell has to find these correct books and correct his îmân by reading them. It is a heart-killing poison to set the heart on those evil, corrupt creeds and beliefs disagreeing with the belief written in the books of the Ahl as-sunnat savants. It takes one to endless death, to eternal torment. If there is slackness – 10–