3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

much. He is weeping, too.” Upon this, he had the blacksmith
brought to him. Asking him and then learning what was wrong,
he apologized and begged, “Forgive me, please, and do accept
these thousand silver coins as my gift upon you. Whenever you
desire anything, whatsoever, just come to me!” The blacksmith
said, “I have forgiven you and will accept your present. But I
cannot come to you to ask for my wish.” When asked why, he
said, “Would it become me as a born slave to present my
wishes to someone else, abandoning my Owner, Who has
several times overturned the throne of such a sultan as you for
the sake of such a poor person as me? Upon the prayers which
I sent after my namâz, He rescued me from many problems. He
enabled me to attain many a desire. How could I ever trust
myself to someone else? My Allah opened the door of the
treasure of Infinite Mercy. He set His endless table of gifts in
front of everybody. How could I go to someone else despite
these? Who on earth asked from Him and wasn’t given? Who
on earth came to Him and then went back empty-handed? If
you don’t know how to ask, you will not obtain. If you do not
enter His presence in due manner, you will not get His
compassion.” A poem:
If anyone puts his head on worship’s threshold for one
night,
The Darling’s favour will for certain open up for him a
thousand ways.
When Râbia-i Adwiyya, one of the great Awliyâ, heard
somebody praying, “O my Allah! Open for me the gate to Thine
mercy!” she said to him, “O you ignoramus! Has the gate to
Allah’s Mercy been closed up to now so that you want it to be
opened?” [1]
O our Allah! Thou, alone, rescues everyone from hardships.
Do not leave us in disasters, neither in this world nor in the one
to come! Thou, alone, sends everything to the needy! Send us
those things which are useful in this world and in the next! Make
us need none [but Thee] in this world and the next! Âmîn.
Translation from Riyâd-un-nasikhîn ends here.
It is written at the beginning of the chapter about namâz in
[1] Although the gate through which Allah’s mercy originally emanates
is always open, the heart which is the gate for it to enter, is not
open in everybody. We must pray for the opening of this gate.
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