1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

When a man reads or hears them, his heart becomes attached
to them without his awareness of it. When this person reads
Qur’ân al-kerîm or listens to it being read or makes dhikr, his
heart loves Allâhu ta’âlâ. To release the heart from the
bondage, from the oppression of the nafs, it is necessary to
oppress the nafs and strengthen the heart. This is possible only
by obeying Rasûlullah. If a person who has released his heart
from the paws of his nafs by following Muhammad ‘alaihissalâm’
observes a Walî, he will realize that he is a beloved born
servant of Allah and a (spritual) heir to the Messenger of Allah.
Since he loves Allah very much, he will also love very much
whomever Allah loves. But loving is not easy. There have been
many people who were mistaken by thinking of what their nafs
loved to be real beauties which the rûh loved and they have
ended up in disasters.
He who does his best to attain the love of Allâhu ta’âlâ is
called a Sâlih. He who has already attained this love is called
an Ârif or Walî. He who is a means for others to attain the love
of Allâhu ta’âlâ is called a Murshid. These three people are
called Sâdiq. It is declared in the hundred and twentieth âyat of
the Sûrat-ut-Tawba in the Qur’ân: “O Believers! Always, at all
times be in company of Sâdiqs!” This âyat-i karîma
commands doing the râbita. It is declared in a hadîth: “All the
blessings and nûr which Allahu ta’âlâ has poured into my
heart, I poured them into Abû Bakr’s heart.” Because Abû
Bekr ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ was ahead of all others in taqwâ
and worshipping and because he realized better than anyone
else did how great Rasûlullah was so that he himself was a
mere nothing when compared with the Messenger of Allah, and
because he won Rasûlullah’s love more than anyone else did,
more fayds came to him than did to anyone else and he
received all the fayds coming. As it is understood from these
and the like, our religion asks us to keep company with the
Awliyâ, and to learn Rasûlullah’s path from them.
Ashâb-i kirâm (the companions of the Prophet) and Tâbiîn-i
izâm (those who conversed with the Ashâb-i kiram) are called
Salaf-i sâlihîn. The Ahl-as-Sunna savants of the Salaf-i sâlihîn
who lived until the end of the four hundredth year of the Hegira
are called Halaf-i sâdiqîn. Halaf-i sâdiqîn always followed the
Salaf-i sâlihîn in the knowledge of faith, deeds and heart; they
never deviated from the way of the Salaf-i sâlihîn. It appeared
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