3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

and do their utmost to follow those great people. A messenger’s
duty is to say what he knows. Seeing the slackness in your
writing, I feared much that you might fall for your illusions and
fall into the calamity of abandoning the good luck of following
the great, that you might be seized by the current of your own
kashfs. We trust ourselves to Allâhu ta’âlâ against the evils of
our nafs and the corruptness of our deeds. The Devil is our arch
enemy. You should be on the alert so that it will not make you
deviate from the right way! It is not even a year that we have not
seen each other, and yet what happened to your strictness in
following Rasûlullah’s Sunnat, [that is, the way shown by the
savants of the Ahl as-sunnat] and to your works showing that
the only way to salvation is to cling to the way of those great
people? How soon they were forgotten! You have been rolling
behind your illusions. I understand that we will probably meet at
a rather late date. You should regulate your daily life in such a
way that the hope of saving yourself will not perish! O our Allah!
Pity us! Bless us with good deeds! We send our salâm to those
who are on the right way.
7 — THIRD VOLUME, 57th LETTER
This letter, written to Mawlânâ Hamîd Ahmadî, informs
that the âlam was created from nothing, and refutes the
thing which the Greek philosophers called active mind:
Thanks be to Allâhu ta’âlâ who, is the creator of âlams, and
salât and salâm be on the highest of Prophets! Allâhu ta’âlâ
exists by Himself. Allah’s existence is from Himself. As He
exists now, so He always existed in the past. And He will
always exist in future. It is impossible that He be nonexistent
before or after His existence. He should exist always.
Nonexistence cannot approach Him. Everything other than
Allâhu ta’âlâ is called âlam. All the âlam, matter’s physical
states, [that is, solid substances, liquids and gases, atoms,
molecules and energies], heavens, minds, selves [cells, all the
living], elements and compounds came into existence by His
creation. While being nonexistent, they came to being later.
Only He exists eternally. All besides Him were nonexistent.
They came to being afterwards. After a while they will cease to
exist again. He created the earth in two days. Then He created
heavens, the stars in two days, too. That is, He created them
from nothing. The ninth âyat of Hâ-mîm Sajda Sûra purports:
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