1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

any moment fall into an abyss or whirlpool. As a matter of fact,
philosophers and materialists, who attempt to explain facts
through their imagination, have gone wrong in most of the
things that were beyond their logic. They were bringing many
facts into view, whereas, in fact, they were preventing people
from attaining endless bliss. Reasonable ones among them
have always been able to understand and communicate this
pathetic situation. There are many examples. An article by
Professor F.Arnold, a famous German chemist, states in his
book Tecribî Kimya (Experimental Chemistry), which was
published in Istanbul in Turkish: “The reason why
improvements in science and knowledge have been at a
standstill for almost fifteen hundred years is due to a fault in
Aristotelianism.”
In Islam there are many things reason cannot comprehend,
but there is nothing contrary to reason. If knowledge of the next
world, things which Allahu ta’âlâ likes or dislikes, and forms of
worshipping Him were within the mind’s ability to understand,
and if they could be ascertained through reason, there would be
no need for sending thousands of Prophets. People would be
able to see and find happiness in this and the next worlds by
themselves, and, in this case, Allahu ta’âlâ would have sent
Prophets in vain and unnecessarily (never!). It is because
reason cannot find or solve the knowledge pertaining to the
next world that Allahu ta’âlâ sent a Prophet to every part of the
world in each century, and lastly, He sent Hadrat Muhammad
as a Prophet for the whole world until the end of the world. All
Prophets, instead of meddling in worldly affairs that are
ascertained through reason, only commanded and encouraged
their people to work in order to find them and get use from
them, and they explained how each worldly affair can draw
people to everlasting happiness or perdition. They also
explained clearly the things which Allahu ta’âlâ liked and
disliked. Then, let us be reasonable: An ignorant person who
does not know of today’s technical information and
experiments, which expose to view the subtleties of Allah’s
infinite power, who, let alone reading and understanding the
books of Islamic superiors, has not even heard of their names –
a fact that can be inferred from his words– and who is an
enemy of Islam working under the mask of a philosopher,
behind the veil of a newspaper writer; how can an idea put
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