3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

alive. Therefore, those dead people who have not been
interred, being in the life of barzah, feel the pain and torment
but cannot move or react. So it is understood that the Mukhbir-i
sâdîq ‘sallallâhu alaihi wa sallam’, who always tells the truth,
has told the truth.
Let us add this to eradicate the doubts: The rank of
prophethood is beyond and above mind and thought. Many
things which mind cannot grasp or understand are understood
at the rank of prophethood. If everything could be
comprehended through mind, prophets would not have been
sent ‘sallawâtullâhi ta’âlâ wa taslîmâtuhu subhânahu ’alaihim
ajma’în’. Torments in the next world would not have been
communicated by sending prophets. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in
the fifteenth âyat of Isrâ Sûra: “We shall not torment before
sending the Prophet and letting know.” Mind can
comprehend many things. But not everything. And its
comprehension is not perfect, without defects. It understands
many things after prophets’ communication. Prophets’ coming
has prevented men from making up excuses or pretexts. It is
purported in the hundred and sixty-fourth âyat of Nisâ Sûra: “I
sent prophets in order to threaten and to give the glad
tidings. Thus, men have been prevented from putting forth
pretexts towards Allâhu ta’âlâ.” Mind errs so often even in
worldly affairs. There is noone who does not know this fact. It
could not be right to attempt to weigh the teachings of the
Sharî’at with such a gauge as mind. To study the teachings of
the Sharî’at with mind to see if they are suitable with mind
means to trust mind like trusting something unerring and to
disbelieve the rank of prophethood. May Allâhu ta’âlâ protect us
all from doing this corrupt deed! First, it is necessary to believe
the Prophet and to confirm that he is Allah’s Prophet. Thus,
everything he has communicated will have been admitted to be
true. One will have been blessed with the lot of getting rid of
suspicions and doubts. Islam’s basis is belief in the Prophet. It
is mind’s admitting the fact that the Prophet has been sent by
Allah and he always says the truth. When mind accepts this
basic information it has accepted also all of what the Prophet
communicated. Unless mind accepted the fact that the Prophet
had been sent by Allah and that he reported what Allah had
declared, it would be impracticable to make it believe Islam’s
teachings one by one.
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