1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

making a tawaf around the Kâba, there were some persons by
my side. I did not know them at all. While performing tawaf they
recited two Arabic couplets. The meaning of the couplet was:
As you do now, we for years
All visited this residence.
Upon hearing the couplet, it occurred to me that those
persons might be from âlam-i mithâl. While thinking so, one of
them looked at me and said, ‘I am one of your grandfathers.’ I
said, “How long has it been since you died?’ ‘More than forty
thousand years,’ he answered. Being astonished at these
words of his, I said, ‘Historians say that not even seven
thousand years have passed since Âdam, the first father of
human beings’. He said, ‘Which Âdam ‘alaihis-salâm’ are you
talking about? I am one of the sons of Âdam, who lived at a
time long before than seven thousand years ago’. When
hearing this, I remembered the hadîth-i-sherîf mentioned
above.”
[Warning: Ancient astronomers said that the age of the
globe, that is, the duration of time from its creation until its end,
was equal to the number of planets around the sun in terms of
thousands, that is, the earth was seven thousand years old; for
they thought that the number of planets was seven. The seven
thousand years that is written in many history books and that
has been transferred into some religious books originates from
this. Some of them said that the earth’s age was equal to the
number of constellations, twelve thousand years, and some
others said it equalled three hundred and sixty (360, the
number of meridians) thousand years; these three numbers are
no more than suppositions and theories.
Hadrat Idris (a prophet) said, “We did not know the world’s
age though we were prophets.”
The earth’s age is written as (360000x360000), that is, a
hundred and twenty-nine billion and six hundred million years,
in the book entitled Mukhtasar, which Abd-ul-wahhâb-i
Sha’ranî (Quddisa sirruh) has outlined from Tazkira by Abû
Abdullah-i Qurtûbî, an Andalusian (old Muslim Spain) savant.
Today’s scientists estimate that the age of the earth is not
less than four billion and five hundred million years, through a
method called “radioactivity dating.” For example, by finding out
the ratios of lead and uranium minerals existing in the ore of
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