1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

this ummat. He who holds me superior to them is a slanderer.
As slanderers are to be thrashed, I will thrash him.”
We should know that the battles amongst the Ashâb-i kirâm
‘alaihim-ur-ridwân’ were for good reasons. Those differences
among them were not for the desires of the nafs or for the
passion of obtaining a post, a chair, an office, or to become a
leader, for all these are the evils of the nafs-i ammâra. But their
nafses had become quite pure through the company, or by the
presence of the Best of Mankind (Rasûlullah). Only, in the
battles that took place during the caliphate of Hadrat Amîr ’Alî,
he (’Alî) was right. Those who disagreed with him were wrong.
But, because it was a mistake of ijtihâd [see fn. 17 in article 26],
it can by no means be criticized, let alone saying that they were
fâsiq (sinful)! All of them were just. The judgements given by
any of them were acceptable. With respect to correctness and
dependability, there was no difference between the judgements
given by those who followed the Amîr and the ones which were
given by those who disagreed with him. The battles between
them did not cause them to lose their being trustworthy. Then, it
is necessary to love all of them; to love them is to love our
Sayyed, the Prophet. He declared in a hadîth: “He who loves
them loves them because he loves me.” We should utterly
abstain from disliking them, especially from feeling hostility
towards one of them because having enmity towards them
means having enmity towards our Prophet. He said in a hadîth,
“He who is their enemy is so because he is my enemy.” To
revere, to respect those great people would be to revere and to
respect the Best of Mankind. To belittle them would mean to
belittle him. For respecting the company of the Best of Mankind
and the words of the Best of Mankind, it is necessary to respect
and esteem all of the Ashâb-i kirâm. Hadrat Abû Bakr-i Shiblî
‘quddisa sirruh’, one of the great ones of the Awliyâ, says, “A
person who does not respect or esteem the Ashâb-i kirâm
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în’ has not believed in
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’.”
A’MÂL-I SHAR’IYYA (The acts pertaining to the Sharî’at):
After correcting our belief, it is necessary to do the things which
the Sharî’at commands. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’
declared: “The building of Islâm has been constructed upon
five pillars. The first of them is to say, “Ash-hadu an lâ
ilâha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa
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