1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

If a person dreams of Rahmatan-lil-âlamîn ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi
wa sallam’, this person certainly has seen him, for the Devil
cannot disguise himself as him.
Sarwar-i âlam ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ is now alive in a
life we do not understand. His blessed body never rots. An
angel stays in his tomb and informs him of the prayers which
his Ummat (Muslims) say for him. Between his pulpit and his
blessed tomb is a place called Rawda-i-mutahhara. This place
is one of the gardens of Paradise.
It is one of the greatest and most valuable of worships to
visit his blessed shrine. He said, “My shafâ’at is certain for
him who visits my shrine.”
Sarwar-i âlam ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ had three
blessed sons and four blessed daughters, eleven blessed
wives, twelve uncles and six paternal aunts.
[In order to deceive youngsters, immoral and indecent
people, the enemies of religion say that the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu
alaihi wa sallam’ was fond of women and girls, and they
insolently slander him by saying and writing very loathsome
things which become their abominable souls, but of which we
would be ashamed to write in this book of ours. Rasûlullah ‘sall-
Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ first got married when he was twentyfive
years old; he married Hadrat Khadîja. She was forty years
old and a widow. But she had much property, beauty, wisdom,
knowledge, honour, nobility, chastity and decency. They lived
together for twenty-five years, and she passed away three
years before the Hegira in the month of Ramadân in Mecca.
When she was alive, Rasûlullah (sall-Allahu ’alaihi wa sallam)
never married another.
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’, secondly, married
Hadrat Âisha ‘radiy-Allâhu anha’, Hadrat Abû Bakr’s daughter,
when he was fifty-five years old. He took her under his nikâh
[religious betrothal in Islâm] one year after Hadrat Hadîja’s
death, with the command of Allahu ta’âlâ, and lived with her for
eight years, until he died.
He married all the others after marrying Hadrat Âisha ‘radiy-
Allâhu anhunna’ and did so either for religious or political
reasons or out of mercy or as a blessing. All these women were
widows. Most of them were old. For example, when the Meccan
disbelievers’ persecution and harm to the Muslims had become
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