1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

see them look at you. They cannot understand you. They
do not see your superiority.” Sultan Mahmûd Khân (rahmat-
Allâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih) liked these answers very much. His respect
and love for religious savants increased.
No matter what one’s rank or post, it must be understood
that he who attacks Islam is ignorant in religion; he knows
nothing about the Islâmic religion.
A fortunate person who reads and understands the book
Se’âdet-i Ebediyye both will learn religious knowledge and will
get to know Imam-i Rabbânî; thus, his heart becoming inclined,
he will become attached to him. Receiving the nûr which he
(Imâm-i Rabbânî) radiates over the world, he will, unknown to
himself, begin to approach perfection. As an unripe watermelon
ripens and sweetens under the rays of the sun, so will he
mature, thus becoming a perfect person. He will note the
changes in his views of the world and life. He will begin to
experience some hâls, zawks and sweet dreams. He will begin
to dream of Imam-i Rabbânî and of the other Awliyâ, of the
Ashâb-i kirâm and of Rasûlullah, to see their faces when awake
and even to talk with them. His nafs being freed from
unawareness, he will begin to experience the taste of salât and
to take pleasure from worshipping. He will now hate sins, things
that are harâm and bad habits. He will form good habits. He will
do favours for everybody. He will be useful for society, for
people. He will attain, and will also make others attain, eternal
felicity. As Hadrat Sayyed Sharîf Jurjânî, one of the great
savants of the Hanafî madhhab, writes at the end of Sharh-i
mawâqif and at the beginning of Hâshiyatu Sharh-ul-matâlî’
and in Berîqa, p.270, the figures of the Awliyâ show themselves
to their murîds even after their death and give them fayd. To
see them and receive fayd is not easy; it is necessary to hold
the belief of Ahl as-sunnat by learning it from books, to obey the
Sharî’at, and to like and to respect the Awliyâ. It is written in the
book Maraj-ul-bahrayn, “All great men of tasawwuf were of the
Ahl-i sunnat. None of the performers of bid’at reached the
Ma’rifat of Allahu ta’âlâ. The nûr of Wilâyat did not enter their
hearts. The darkness of the bid’at, concerning either worship or
belief, prevented the nûr of Wilâyat from entering their hearts. If
the dirt of bid’at is not removed from the heart, and if the heart
is not ornamented with the Ahl-i sunnat belief, the rays of the
sun of haqîqat will not enter the heart. Such a heart will not be
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