1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

through ithe mind, experimentation and calculation. These fields
of knowledge help us to understand and better carry out
religious knowledge. They are necessary for this reason. They
change, increase and improve in the course of time. For this
reason, it has been said, “Takmîl-i sınâ’ât is fulfilled by talâhuk-ı
afkâr,” which means that “improvement in arts, science and
technology is realized by adding to one another’s ideas and
experiments.”
The knowledge which is acquired through tradition, that is,
religious knowledge, is very exalted. It is beyond and above the
mind, the power of human brains. It can never be changed by
any person at any time, and this is the meaning of the
statement, “There can be no reform in the religion.” Islâm has
not prohibited or limited the knowledge which is acquired
through the mind; yet it has commanded us to learn it together
with religious knowledge and to utilize its results compatibly
with the Sharî’at. It has also commanded us to make it useful
for people and not to use it as a medium for cruelty, torture and
disasters. Muslims made and used many scientific productions.
The compass was invented in 687 [1288 A.D.]. The rifle with a
trigger was invented in 1282 [1866 A.D.]. The cannon was
invented in 762 and used by Sultan Muhammed, the conqueror.
Islâm prohibits the teaching and learning of immorality, false
history and lies against Islâm, which enemies of Islâm, enemies
of morality, put forward as education and give the name
“lessons” or “duties”. Islâm wants useful and good things to be
learned and abstinence from bad and harmful propaganda.
Islâm is a religion which encourages every branch of
knowledge, every branch of science and every sort of
experimentation. Muslims like science and believe in the
experiments of the men of science. But, they cannot be
deceived by the slanders and lies of false scientists, who
introduce themselves as scientists.]
Disbelievers destroy and annihilate Muslims when they are
able. Or, they mislead Muslims onto a path which they have
made up.
As a matter of fact, it is written on the hundred and second
page of the minutes of a meeting held by Masons in 1900, “It is
not enough to overcome the pious and their temples. Our
ultimate purpose is to annihilate religions.”
Publicly and shamelessly they reveal their hostility in their
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