1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

suckled him for two years. He stayed in the village of Banî Sa’d
bin Bakr for two years; then, when he was four years old, he
was brought to the city of Mecca. When he began to walk, he
used to watch children play; he wouldn’t join the playing. When
he was six years old, his mother Âmina passed away, and
when he was eight, his grandfather Abdul-muttalib passed
away. When he was twenty-five years old, he married Hadrat
Hadîjah ‘radiy-Allâhu anhâ’. When he was forty years old, in the
month of Ramadân on a Monday, as he was in a cave on a
mountain that was called Jabal-i-hirâ and Jabal-i-nûr and
which was an hour’s walk north of the city, the angel appeared
to him and he was informed that he was the Prophet for all
human beings and genies. First, Hadrat Jabrâil came. Then, for
three years Hadrat Isrâfil kept coming to teach him. Yet, Isrâfil
didn’t bring the Qur’ân al-kerîm. Then, Hadrat Jabrâil began to
come and conveyed all of the Qur’ân al-kerîm in twenty years.
Jabrâil ‘alaihis-salâm’ came to him twenty-four thousand times.
[However, he had descended to Hadrat Âdam twelve times, to
Hadrat Nûh (Noah) fifty times, to Hadrat Ibrâhim forty times, to
Hadrat Mûsâ (Moses) four hundred times, and to Hadrat Îsâ ten
times.] He didn’t manifest his prophethood for three years, and
then, with the command of Allahu ta’âlâ, he declared it.
When he was fifty-two years old, on the twenty-seventh
night of the month of Rajab, in Mecca, Hadrat Jabrâil
descended and took him from Masjid-i-Harâm to Masjid-i-Aqsa
in Jerusalem and thence to heavens. In this Mi’râj, he saw
Allahu ta’âlâ. On this night, the five times of namâz (ritual
prayers) during the day became fard. Please read the last page
on the fifth chapter of the second part (of the Turkish version).
When he was fifty-three years old, he migrated to Medina
with a divine command. He left his house early in the morning,
on Thursday, the twenty-seventh of the month of Safar. He
came to Abu Bakr Siddîq’s house in the afternoon. After a short
time, he and Abu Bakr left the latter’s house together. They
went to a cave on Mount Sawr, five and a half kilometres southeast
of Mecca. The way to this mount, which is 759 metres
(about 2530 ft.) above sea level, was very rough. His blessed
feet bled. They stayed in the cave for three nights and left it on
Monday night. After a week’s travel, they arrived at Kubâ village
near Medina on Monday, the eighth of Rabî’ul-awwal, which
coincided with the twentieth of September. It is written in the
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