3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

ights of your neighbours. You should be charitable to the poor,
to those who want to borrow money. You should not spend your
property, your money on anything prohibited by the Sharî’at, nor
should you waste it on anything permitted. [You should abstain
from interest (money charged or paid for the use of money),
from any kind of games of chance whether gambling or not. You
should not spend your money on games, on harâms, on
musical instruments, on adorning yourself, on ostentation, on
boasting, or on stocking property.] When these are well cared
for, your property will be protected against harm, and what is
worldly will be for the Hereafter. And maybe they will no longer
be called worldly.
Know that namâz is the pillar of the dîn. A person who
performs namâz has put his dîn right. The dîn of a person who
does not perform namâz will be demolished. You should
perform your prayers of namâz at their mustahab times, suitably
with their conditions and adabs. These are explained in books
of fiqh. You should perform the prayers of namâz in jamâ’at, try
to say the first takbîr together with the imâm, and find a place in
the first line. [It is not permissible, if one has come to the
mosque rather late, to annoy the assembly by breaking one’s
way through the lines in order to go up to the first line.] In case
you have not observed one of these, you should mourn. When
a mature Muslim begins to perform namâz, he sort of goes out
of the world. For, very little of the blessing of approaching
Allâhu ta’âlâ is attainable in the world. It is, if any, an
approaching to the zil, to the shade, to the vision. But the
Hereafter is the place for being close to the essence. So, in
namâz one goes to the Hereafter and enjoys one’s share from
the great felicity there. Those who have been thirsty burning
with the fire of separation can cool and assuage themselves
only with the life-giving water from the fountain of namâz. Only
under the tent-flaps of the bride of namâz can those who are
paralysed in the sahara of the greatness of the Supreme Being
perceive the astounding smell of approaching the beloved one.
The Messenger of Allâhu ta’âlâ said, “When a Believer begins
to perform namâz the gates of Paradise will open for him.
The curtains between his Allah and him will go up. The
hûru’în of Paradise will meet him. This state will go on until
the namâz is over.”
Until you find one of the great leaders of this way, utilize
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