1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

information. Thus teachings will not contradict each other. It will
not be harâm to touch disbelievers and their possessions. One
day, while explaining this, I recited part of the fifth âyat of Sûratul-Mâida:
“It is halâl [permitted] for you to eat what the men
with holy books, that is, Jews and Christians, cook and
slaughter”; and you said that it was wheat, chick-pea and lentil
which was permitted. Today, if one of the Muslims under these
conditions likes this word of yours, I cannot say anything
against it. But, to be reasonable, the right word is obvious.
Then, pitying Muslims, we should not look upon disbelievers as
foul, nor should we deem dirty the Muslims who have relations
and trade with disbelievers. We should not abstain from the
food and drinks of such Muslims by assuming that they have
become dirty; we should not deviate into the way of abstaining
or parting from Muslims. This state is not a precaution. It is a
precaution to get rid of this state. Let me not cause your head to
ache any longer. My salâms be upon you.
A couplet:
Saying little, I paid attention not to break your heart
A lot to tell you but I feared breaking the heart.
35 – ANSWER TO A UNIVERSITY STUDENT
The following is the simplified translation of a letter
written as an answer to a university student by
’Abdulhakîm-i Arwâsî (quddisa sirruh) while he was the
senior professor of tasawwuf at the Madrasat almutahassisîn
(the Faculty of Theology), which was located
in the garden of the Sultân Selîm Mosque in Istanbul during
the declining years of the Ottoman Empire.
Go out of the area of the omnipotence of Allâhu ta’âlâ with
all your strength, if you can! But you cannot. Outside of this
area is nonexistence. And the realm of nonexistence is also
under His omnipotence!
On an occasion, somebody asked [the great Walî]
Ibrâhim ibn Ad’ham (quddisa sirruh) for advice. He said:
“If you accept six things, nothing you do will harm you.
These six things are:
“1) When you mean to commit a sin, do not eat the food
He gives! Does it befit you to eat His food and to disobey
Him?
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