1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

Though a few thousand communist statesmen who are fond
of worldly pleasures, heedless, oppressive, attack others
property and chastity, tyrannize over millions of people and
prevent them from learning Islam, such people who have never
heard of Islâm will not enter the Hell. Since they are not
Muslims, they will not go to Paradise, either. They will cease to
exist after the Day of Judgement, as will the case be with
animals. A sound person, after learning science, biology and
astronomy, should study the religions and should select the
Islâmic religion, which corresponds with logic and science.
Someone who fails in this should still immediately become a
Muslim as a result of fearing and trembling from the danger of
being eternally burned in hell, which is believed everywhere on
the earth. If he still disbelieves, then he does not follow logic.
In short, the source and even the best of pleasures here and
in the Hereafter is to attain the love and the consent of Allâhu
ta’âlâ. Being close to Allâhu ta’âlâ means to attain His love.
One’s spiritual closeness to Allahu ta’âlâ means to attain His
love. He who has attained this happiness is called Walî or Ârif.
It is necessary to carry out the fards to become a Walî. The
fards entail having faith compatible with the faith communicated
by the Ahl as-Sunna savants, abstaining from the harâms,
performing the worships that are fard to do, and having love for
the Muslims who are sâlih (one who is on the right path). It will
not be useful, that is, there will be no rewards (thawâbs) for the
worships performed without ikhlâs (sincerity). Ikhlâs means to
act only for the sake of Allâhu ta’âlâ, that is, in such a way that
you will forget everything. Ikhlâs is obtained automatically by
having love for nothing but Allâhu ta’âlâ. The case of having
love only for Him in one’s heart is called tasfiya (purification in
the heart), itminân (ease of heart), or Fanâ-fillâh. The twentyeighth
âyat of Sûra Ra’d declares that it is possible for the heart
to have itminân (ease of heart) only by dhikr (remembering
Allâhu ta’âlâ) and by pondering over His greatness and
blessings. Performing dhikr is done by repeating the name of
Allahu ta’âlâ or by seeing someone who is a Walî. If you cannot
find a Walî, you can make râbita to a Walî whom you have
heard of before. It is communicated through a hadîth-i sharîf,
“When they are seen, Allâhu ta’âlâ will be remembered.” In
other words, seeing a Walî is dhikr of Allâhu ta’âlâ. This is one
of the hadîth-i sharîfs communicated by Irshâd-ut-tâlibîn, Ibni
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