3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

prophet, angels would come to him, help him, and they,
too, would warn us and threaten us with Hell. Or he would
be sent treasures of money, or he would have orchards,
farms, and would eat whatever he liked...’ ” Such words are
said by those who disbelieve the Hereafter, Paradise and Hell,
and who are short-sighted. Does a person who knows that the
blessings in Paradise and torments in Hell are endless ever
mind a few days’ disasters and hardships in the world? Thinking
that these problems will cause endless happiness, he meets
them as blessings. He takes no heed of what the ignorant say.
Anxiety, calamities, disasters are the unerring witnesses of love.
What difference does it make if idiots do not understand this.
The best to do is not to talk to such ignoramuses [not to listen to
their radios, not to see their motion pictures, newspapers and
books].
Answer 6: Hardships are the Beloved’s lasso. [It is a lasso
thrown by the Beloved One to pull the lover to Himself]. It is like
a whip protecting the lovers from looking at things other than
the Beloved One. It makes the lovers return to the Beloved
One. Then, anxiety and disasters should be sent upon the
lovers. Disasters protect the lovers against the sin of being fond
of things other than the Beloved One. Others are not worthy of
this blessing. They pull the lovers to the Beloved One by force.
They pull those whom they like through anxiety and disasters.
And those whom they dislike they let free like vagabonds.
Among them, he who is worthy of endless bliss will come round
to the right course by himself, will strive hard, thus attaining
favour and blessing. Let him who will not do so think of what is
going to happen to him!
As it is seen, disasters will come abundantly upon the
selected ones. Not so many of them will come upon those who
strive and struggle. It is for this reason that our Prophet, leader
of the selected, loved and honoured best by the liked and loved,
stated, “No other prophet suffered as much as I have.”
Then, anxiety and disasters are such a skilled guide that they
will unerringly make the lover attain to the Beloved One. They
protect him from being blemished by looking at things other
than the Beloved One. It is surprising that, if the lovers have
treasures, millions, they will give away all of them to buy anxiety
and disasters. And he who knows nothing of divine love will
spend millions to rid the anxiety and disasters.
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