1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

attachments are eradicated, real îmân will not fall to one’s lot. It
will not be easy to carry out the commandments and the
prohibitions of the Sharî’at.
A couplet:
Make dhikr, dhikr as long as you are alive
Your heart gets purified, into dhikr as you dive.
[Dhikr means to remember Allahu ta’âlâ. And this may well
be done through the heart. When a person makes dhikr, his
heart becomes purified. That is, love of the world leaves his
heart and love of Allah takes its place. It is not dhikr for many
persons to assemble together and to shout “Hay” or “Hûy!” or to
dance and whirl. Many things have been made up under the
name of tarîqat for a hundred years [see articles 35 and 40].
The way of the great men of religion, of the murshids of
tasawwuf, of the Ashâb-i kirâm has been forgotten. The
ignorant, and even the sinners have become shaikhs and have
committed sins under the names of dhikr and worship.
Especially recently, there has not been a dervish convent left in
which the harâm and the Shî’ism have not asserted
themselves. Today, there are almost no real savants of
tasawwuf either in Istanbul, in Anatolia, or in Egypt, Iraq, Iran,
Syria, Hidjaz or Pakistan, that is, in any of the Islâmic countries.
False and counterfeit murshids, those members of a tarîqat
exploiting Muslims, however are numerous.
We should read the old, real books of great men of religion
and correct our worships, dhikr and thoughts in accordance
with them. We should not believe the thieves of property and
religion, who work behind the curtain of valuable names, such
as, men of tarîqat, shaikhs, murîds; but we should avoid them.]
We should eat food not for pleasure or flavour, but for
getting strong enough to do Allah’s commands. If in the
beginning you cannot intend so, force yourself to intend so at
each meal. Entreat Allahu ta’âlâ so that you can develop a real
intention! We should wear new and clean clothes, and, when
dressing, we should intend to adorn ourselves for worship, for
namâz. Allahu ta’âlâ declares in the Qur’ân: “When
performing each namâz, wear your adorned, clean, and
favorite clothes!” We should not wear our clothes for
ostentation in front of others; this is a sin. [Ibni Âbidin, while
explaining the makrûhs in fasting, says that it is mubâh to dress
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