1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

Habashî and Usâma whom the Prophet loved very much were
black. But such disbelievers as Abû Lahab and Abû Jahl,
whose evil and baseness are known by everybody, were white.
Allahu ta’âlâ evaulates a man not with regard to his colour, but
with respect to the strength of his îmân and taqwâ.
However, the enemies of Islâm, the Jews, introduced blacks
as if they are of a low class and horrible. They used them as
slaves. They wanted to wipe out the love existing among
Muslims and to break off their relation of brotherhood. On the
other hand, by calling black pets such as cats and dogs ‘Arab’
and by referring to the blacks in their pictures, cartoons,
magazines and newspapers as Arabs, they tried to
misrepresent the Arabs to our youth as badly as they could in
order to alienate Muslim children from our Prophet (sall-Allahu
’alaihi wa sallam). Today, people living in Arabia, Mecca-i
mukarrama, and Medina-i munawwara are the descendants of
the foreigners who came in the course of centuries from Africa,
Asia, and other places and settled there. Those foreigners were
black and were lovers of Allah and Rasûlullah. Eyyüb Sabri
Paşa, ‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’, one of Sultan Abdulhamîd Khan II’s
‘rahmatullâhi aleyh’ admirals, writes in his five-volumed Turkish
book Mir’ât-ul-harâmayn that in the entire city of Mecca there
are only two Arab homes left. And today, there aren’t any. After
our Prophet’s death, all of his companions and then his
descendants moved out of Arabia for jihâd, that is, in order to
spread Islâm all over the world. They spread far into Asia,
Africa, Cyprus, Istanbul and, in brief, everywhere. In order to
introduce Allah’s religion to His human creatures, they fought
and they sacrificed their lives. These vast lands are full of those
blessed martyrs. They sent their sons to the faculties of
Baghdad University, which was at that time the greatest
universtiy in the word –and it can be seen in its existing artifacts
today that they had experimented and discovered many new
things in physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography and
mathematics– in order that they might learn knowledge. When
Hulâghu, the famous tyrant, and the disbeliever Genghis
[Whose real name is Timuchin] Khan’s grandson persecuted
and killed more than eight hundred thousand Muslims, including
women and children, and burned and destroyed Baghdad in
656 (1258 A.C.), only those who hid in wells and those who
escaped to Anatolia were able to remain alive. Thus, the
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