1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

streets of Istanbul, the Byzantine girls used to rush out into the
streets in order to see his face. Hadrat Jabrâil (Gabriel) usually
came in the disguise of Hadrat Dihya (radî-Allâhu ’anh).
The natives of Egypt, Damascus, Africa, Sicily and Spain
aren’t Arabs. But since the Arabs came to these places after
having migrated from the Arabian Peninsula in order to spread
Islâm all over the world, there are Arabs in these lands, too.
Likewise, they exist in Anatolia, India and other countries. But,
today, none of the citizens of these countries can be called
Arabs.
The Arabic language, the one and only language of
knowledge and civilization in the Middle Ages and which is, in
fact, the most advanced and sophisticated language among the
seven hundred and seventy languages used in the world today
with its richness in grammar, eloquence and literature, had
entered and settled in every countries along with the Islâmic
civilization. In those times, the French and other European
people who had gone to Arabic universities and Muslim schools
in Spain for specialization had taken with them many Arabic
words, especially technical terms used in knowledge and
science, to their countries and mixed them with their own
languages. Today, in Western languages, Arabic words are still
in use.
In “The Gospel in Many Tongues,” published by The British
and Foreign Bible Society in London, in 1947, there are a few
lines written as examples of each of the seven hundred and
seventy languages.
The people of Egypt have a light-brown complexion. The
people of Ethiopia (Habashistân, Al-habashatu) are black and
are called habashî. The people of Zanzibar (Zanjîbar) are
called Zanjî (negro), and they are also black. It is an act of
worship to love and respect our Prophet’s relatives, the Arabs.
Every Muslim loves them. Everybody who came to Asia Minor
as guests, introduced themselves as Arabs to us in order to
receive respect and kindness, and the credulous Anatolian
Muslims believed and loved them. This was because the black
and the white weren’t looked upon differently in terms of this
love. For a Muslim, a black Muslim is better, dearer, and more
lovable than a white disbeliever. To be black does not diminish
the value of îmân (faith) for any person. Some of Rasûlullah’s
Ashâb were black even though they were Arabs. Hadrat Bilâl-i
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