1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

attach our heart to the heart of Rasûlullah, and thereby receive
his strong nûr, instead of attaching our heart to the hearts of
past Walîs by reading their words and thus knowing them?
Besides, isn’t it a principle of îmân to be attached to him, that is,
to believe and love him?
Answer: No doubt it is better to follow Rasûlullâh directly
(sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ alaihi wa sallam), and after his passing, to
follow his holy soul. This is even necessary and wâjib. In the
81st letter of the book (Makâtîb-i sharîfa), it states: “Thinking of
a Walî as an eyeglass, we should look at Rasûlullah and Allahu
ta’âlâ through this eyeglass.” To find a Walî or his books, to
know him, to do râbita with him is actually for the purpose of
becoming attached to the sacred soul of Rasûlullah (sallallahu
ta’âlâ alayhi wa sallam). By merely reading or hearing about
him, it is difficult for one to dream of the figure, the
physiognomy, of someone whom he has never seen before.
Not the desired one, but someone else may be seen in this
case. That is why râbita is not practiced with Rasûlullah. It
would be kufr (infidelity) to believe someone else to be
Rasûlullah. This danger does not occur when practicing râbita
with the Awliyâ. One who performs râbita with a murshid-i kâmil
will have with the heart looked into his blessed heart. Therein,
he will see the holy heart of Rasûlullah. Thus, he will have
performed râbita with Rasûlullah. This is the only way the
ignorant, the heedless, like us, do râbita with Rasûlullah.
Through this kind of râbita, after receiving fayd (spiritual power)
from Rasûlullah, it will be possible and easy to perform râbita
directly with him, and to get fayd from the graves of Awliya and
from their souls. One who performs râbita with Rasûlullah and
receives fayd from him loves him very much. Imâm-i Gazâlî
(rahmatullahi alaih), at the end of his book (Ayyuhal Walad),
says, “Every Muslim is in need of an education from a murshid.
A murshid, by training him, saves him from bad habits. He
supplants good habits in the place of bad ones. Education is
similar to a farmer’s efforts to make the plantation on his land
strong and improved by cleaning away harmful weeds. Allahu
ta’âlâ sent prophets (alaihimussalâm) to show his creatures the
correct path. He created murshids to represent the prophets
after their death. The signs of a murshid is as follows... .” The
Arabic original of this book and its Turkish and French
translations are published by Hakîkat Kitâbevi (bookstore).
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