1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

Prophet’s way all over the world. Today, there is not a city, a
village or a person left in the free world that has not heard about
the Islam communicated by our Prophet. Upon hearing about
Islam, if someone sincerely wants to learn it correctly, Allâhu
ta’âlâ promises that He will grant him true knowledge. Today,
there are catalogues giving the names of the books on Islâm
that fill the world’s libraries. For example, there are about fifteen
thousand names of books and some ten thousand names of
authors in the book Kashf-uz-Zunûn by Kâtib Çelebi. This
book, in two volumes, is in Arabic. Ismâ’îl Pasha from Baghdad
wrote two supplementary volumes to this book. Nearly ten
thousand names of books and authors exist in these
supplementaries. Kashf-uz-Zunûn was first printed in 1250
[1835 A.D.] in Leipzig; the upper portions of its pages were
written in Arabic, while the lower portions were in Latin. Before
that, it was translated into French in 1112 [1700 A.D.] At exactly
the same time it was printed in Egypt, too. Lastly, together with
its two supplementaries, it was printed in Arabic in Istanbul
between 1360-1366 (1941-1947). The books are in the order of
the Arabic alphabet. Four of them were sold at the libraries of
the Ministry of Education in Turkey. The two-volumed Arabic
book Asmâ-ul-muallifîn by Ismâ’îl Pasha was printed in
Istanbul in 1370 and 1374 (1951 and 1955). In these two
volumes, the authors of the books in Kashf-uz-Zunûn and its
supplementaries are written in the order of the Arabic alphabet
and under each name are the books written by the owner of the
name. Today, another very useful and valuable book listing only
the Arabic Islamic books existing all over the world and their
authors and in which library they can be found and at which call
number they exist in each country is Carl Brockelmann’s
German book Geschichte der Arabischen Literatur, which
was printed in Leiden in 1362 (1943). The book Miftâh-ussa’âdah
by Tashköprüzâde Ahmad Efendî (rahmat-Allâhi ta’âlâ
’alaih), the author of the book Shaqâyiq-i Nu’mâniyya, which
gives the biographies of the scholars educated in the Otttoman
Empire, defines and explains nearly five hundred branches of
knowledge and gives information about the books written in
every branch of knowledge and their writers. His son,
Kemâladdîn Muhammad, translated this book from Arabic to
Turkish. It lists the Islâmic savants and their works, and he gave
it the name Mawdû’ât-ul-’ulûm. This book was printed at the
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