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khafî, and akhfâ. Even the great savants such as Imâm-i Ghazâlî were unable to differentiate them from one another and called all of them “the soul.” Very few savants, such as Imâm-i Rabbânî, were able to recognize them one by one.] The soul, that is, the lâtifas, used to know Allahu ta’âlâ before it united with this body. It used to have a little inclination, knowledge and love towards Allahu ta’âlâ. It had been given the strength and potential to become exalted and promoted. But it could not improve before uniting with this body; to improve it had to unite with the body. For this reason, first the soul was given an affection towards this body. Then, it was allowed to go towards the body. It threw itself upon the body. Being very fine and very expansive, it sank and penetrated all parts of the body. It became unrecognizable, unknown in the body. It forgot about itself. It came to think of itself as the body. It lost itself in the body. Thus, most people consider themselves only as bodies. Being unaware of the existence of the soul, they disbelieve it. Allahu ta’âlâ, being very merciful, sent messages to men, that is, to souls, through prophets (’alaihimussalawâtu wattaslîmât). He invited them to Himself. He prohibited them from being dependent upon this dark body. He who was predestined to be good in eternity obeys Allahu ta’âlâ’s commandments and puts an end to his dependence upon the body. He bids farewell to it and goes back up to his former heights. His love towards his asl (origin), which he used to feel before uniting with the body, increases gradually. His love towards a transient being decreases. When he thoroughly forgets about this dark and obscure darling of his, that is, when there is no love left, he will have attained the Fanâ of the body. Thus he will have passed beyond one of the two basic steps on the way of tasawwuf. From then on, if Allahu ta’âlâ favours and blesses him, he will make progress and henceforth will begin to forget about himself, too. As this oblivion increases, he will forget himself thoroughly. No longer will he know of any being besides Allahu ta’âlâ. Thus, he will also attain the Fanâ of the soul. He will thus pass beyond the second step. The soul’s coming to this world is intended to attain this second fanâ. It could not attain this without coming to this world. If the lâtifa of the heart, which is called “Haqîqat-i Jâmîa,” [see fn. (40) of article 31] passes beyond these two steps together with the soul, it will attain its own fanâ together with the - 120 -
soul. If the nafs accompanies the heart in this way, it will be purified too. That is, it will attain its own fanâ. But, when the nafs reaches the heart’s grade, if it remains there instead of getting exalted and passing beyond these two steps, it will not attain oblivion. It will not become mutma’inna. A person who has attained the fanâ of the soul may not attain the heart’s fanâ. The soul is like a father to the heart. And the nafs is like a mother to the heart. If the heart has an inclination towards the soul, who stands for its father, and turns away from the nafs who stands for its mother, and if this inclination increases and draws the heart towards its father, it will reach its grade. That is, it will pass beyond these two steps. When the heart and the soul attain fanâ, the nafs does not necessarily attain fanâ. If the nafs has an affection, an inclination towards her son, and if this inclination increases and makes her reach near her son, who has reached his father’s grade, she will be like them. The case is the same with attaining fanâ for the lâtifas of sir, khafî, and akhfâ. The memories and thoughts being rubbed out and removed from the heart signify the fact that it has forgotten the things other than Allahu ta’âlâ. Not to be able to remember anything means that knowledge and everything else is gone. In fanâ, knowledge has to be wiped out. 39 – SECOND VOLUME, 58th LETTER This letter, written as a response to Muhammad Taqiy, gives information about âlam-i mithâl and states that metempsychosis is not true and that human souls do not transmigrate; it also explains what kumûn and burûz mean. Praise be to Allahu ta’âlâ, who is the creator and owner of all classes of beings, and salâms to Hadrat Muhammad, who is the highest of His Prophets, and to all his absolutely pure relatives and Ashâb! We were honoured with reading your precious letter, a work of your good thoughts and beautiful moral character. May Allahu ta’âlâ protect you against all faults and defects! You ask about Shaykh Muhyiddîn-i Arabî’s ‘quddisa sirruh’ quoting a hadîth in his book Futuhât-i Makkiyya. Our Prophet (sall Allahu ’alaihi wa sallam) says in this hadîth, “Allahu ta’âlâ created a hundred thousand Âdams.” Muhyiddîn-i Arabî ‘rahmatullahi aleyh’ writes a few things which he has seen in âlam-i mithâl and says, “As I was - 121 -
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Waqf Ikhlâs Publications No: 1 Se
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41 - First Volume, 96th Letter.....
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the Basmala that descended to Hadra
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eing deceived by the enemies of my
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developing more intellectual and mo
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to Muslims and to great men of Isl
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eligion” and the Qur’ân “law
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fame, in short, who try to gain wor
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fiqh books in the Hanafî Madhhab,
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to make progress, to improve. All t
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and abstain from the harâms. Every
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Today, the religion which Allahu ta
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to know the Islâmic rules which ar
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abstain from the harâm and makrûh
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Abidîn’s book at the end of the
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printing office of the newspaper Iq
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Where one of them exists, the other
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emphatically commands every kind of
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ooks and speeches. Knowing nothing
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certain manufacturer; on the other
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e true? Even if being under eternal
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the beautiful morals of Islam and s
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and the next. This world and the ne
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torment themselves with their own e
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act compatibly with the orders of t
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17 - Allahu ta’âlâ has gathered
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Kitâbevi in the Turkish and Englis
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The basis of the Islâmic religion
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progress, for attaining Allah’s l
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on pieces of paper, and in newspape
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for their own pleasures, from disbe
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ehaviours, words and writings by gi
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the jizya. We must protect the live
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neither by groups of Believers nor
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from their acquiring and Allah’s
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Muhammad (alaihissalâm). Hadrat Kh
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‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi w
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Ramadân and, for those who qualify
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asûluh’ and to believe its meani
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Tahajjud means to forgo one’s sle
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Not to do the commandments of Allah
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attachments are eradicated, real î
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ears which hear, the eyes which see
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what is declared in it. All as-Sab
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classification of hadîths. The dif
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that the person who performs miracl
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The priest - He is a god because he
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moustache.] Rasûlullah (sall-Allah
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streets of Istanbul, the Byzantine
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descendants of our master, the Prop
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didn’t recite poems. Rasûl-i akr
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unbearable, a group of the Prophet
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nine wives. And that lasted a few y
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enough to believe, and they did bel
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keep silent. He used to speak very
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alaihi wa sallam’ who then told h
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the best of homes, the best of fami
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Ahwal-u atfâl-il-muslimîn that it
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our Prophet used to call an Arabian
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elieve them.” It is a statement c
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increases, its pressure increases,
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eternally without changing. Briefly
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vehement. But it is seventy times a
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The originals of the letters exist
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elongs to us, you shouldn’t have
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will know him. He who does not know
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Muslim requires you to have the fai
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see them look at you. They cannot u
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attach our heart to the heart of Ra
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knowledge of the things to be belie
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he does becomes dhikr. See the last
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Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alai
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