5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Bahâeddîn-i Bukhârî!” [1] It is written in detail in the book Attawassul-u
bin-Nabî wa bi-s-sâlihîn,” and in Mawlânâ
Hamdullah Sahâranpûrî’s book Al-basâir li-munkirit-tawassuli
bi-ahl-il-maqâbir that it is permissible to visit the graves of
sâlih (pious) Muslims and to pray through them. These two
books were reproduced in Arabic by Işık Kitâbevi in Istanbul in
1395 [1975].
19 – A LETTER OF CONDOLENCE
BY RASÛLULLAH (sallallâhu ’alaihi wasallam)
This letter was dictated by Allâhu ta’âlâ’s Prophet,
Muhammad (’alaihissalâm) for Mu’âz bin Jabal ‘radiy-Allâhu
ta’âlâ ’anh’.
May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless you with salvation!
I offer up my hamd to Him. He, alone, can do good or harm
to anybody. Unless He wills, no one can do good or harm to
anyone.
May Allâhu ta’âlâ give you plenty of thawâb. May He bless
you with patience! May He grace you with gratitude for His
blessings!
We must know for certain that our own existence, our
property and wealth, our women and children are samples of
Allah’s innumerous blessings, sweet and useful gifts. He has
not given us these blessings for eternal retention, but has
entrusted them to us so that we may use them until He takes
them back. We utilize them for a certain duration of time. When
the time comes He will withdraw all of them. Allâhu ta’âlâ has
commanded us to thank Him when He pleases us by being
generous and to be patient when we feel sorrow when the time
comes for Him to take back His gifts. That son of yours was one
Tasawwuf, a mujtahid in the Islamic branches of knowledge termed
Fiqh and Hadîth. Through a patternal chain of ancestry, he was related
to the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ both
through hadrat Hasan ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ and through Huseyn ‘radiy-
Allâhu ’anh’, the two blessed grandsons of the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-
Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’. His blessed mother, Fâtima binti Abû
Abdullah, was again one of the granddaughters of hadrat Huseyn
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, Rasûlullah’s younger grandson.
[1] Bahâeddîn Muhammad bin Muhammad Bukhârî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
’aleyh’ (718 [1318] - 791 [1389], Qasr-i-Ârifân, Bukhâra) was a great
Walî and a great scholar in Tasawwuf
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