1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

eternally without changing. Briefly, ‘to change’ means to
become something else. When the Creator changes He
becomes something else. His creativeness gets deranged. As
explained in the third letter of the third volume of the book
Mektûbât by Imâm-i Rabbânî, it is necessary that the Creator
will never change and that He will always remain the same.
Reasoning from what we have explained, the various classes of
beings could not be eternal, and the unchanging Creator must
be eternal, He must exist everlastingly. Therefore, there is a
Creator who never changes and who is eternal. The name of
this never changing creator is Allah. Allâhu ta’âlâ sent prophets
to men in order to make Himself known. A reasonable,
understanding person who reads about the life, the superior
qualities of Hadrat Muhammad, who is His last and highest
prophet, will at once realize that Allahu ta’âlâ exists and that
Hadrat Muhammad is His Prophet. He will eagerly become a
Muslim.
It is called having îmân and being a Muslim to believe that
Allahu ta’âlâ exists, is one, and that Muhammad (’alaihi’ssalâm)
is His Prophet and the most superior among His
Prophets, and his every word is true and beneficial. The person
who believes these facts is called a Mu’min and Muslim. The
words of Muhammad (’alaihi’s-salâm) are called Hadîth-i
sharîf. The person who does not believe any of those things
clearly reported in the Qur’ân al-karîm and hadîth-i sharîfs is
called a Kâfir. Those disbelievers who believe a history book
written in ancient times by men as the words of Allâhu ta’âlâ are
called Ahl-i kitâb, that is, disbelievers with a book. Jews and
Christians are disbelievers with a book. Those who prostrate in
front of a statue or grave of a man who is known by them as
great and believe that he is able to do everything are called
Mushriks or idolaters. Brahmins, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians
are of this group. Those who believe in none of the religions are
called Atheist and Dahrî. Communists and Freemasons and
those who have fallen into their traps because they are ignorant
of religion are of this group.
The knowledge which Muslims have to learn is called Ulûmi
islâmiyya. Islâmic knowledge consists of two parts. The first is
religious knowledge. This is also called Ulûm-i naqliyya. This
is the knowledge derived from four sources called Adilla-i
shar’iyya, and are of two sections. The branches tafsîr, kalâm,
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