1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

experimentation and the intellect. That is, the building of Islâm
has been erected upon these two principles. All other worships,
blessings, and forms of obedience are the branches and twigs
of this tree of îmân. Allahu ta’âlâ in many places of Qur’ân alkerîm,
scolds and disgraces disbelievers because they didn’t
use their minds; they didn’t think by observing the earth, the
skies and themselves, and thus attain îmân. The book
Ma’rifatnâme writes, “Sayyed Sharîf Jurjânî, a great Islâmic
scholar, says that the knowledge of astronomy helps a wise
and reasonable person to realize the existence of Allahu ta’âlâ.
Imâm-ı Ghazâlî says that he who does not know astronomy and
anatomy cannot realize Allah’s existence.”
Yes, the righteous religion of Hadrat Îsâ (Jesus) was
changed insidiously in a short time by his enemies. A Jew
named Paul claimed that he believed ’Îsâ, and it appeared as if
he was spreading the religion of ’Îsâ ‘alaihissalâm’. However,
he annihilated the Injîl, which descended from heaven. Later
four people appeared, and they put in writing what they had
heard from the twelve apostles. Thus four books in the name of
the Bible were compiled, but the lies of Paul were included in
them. In addition, although an apostle named Barnabas
correctly recorded what he had heard and seen from hadrat
’Îsâ, this Bible by Barnabas was also destroyed. In the course
of time, the number of Injils increased and made-up and
different Bibles were read at various places. Constantine the
Great, formerly a pagan, accepted Christianity, and after
enlarging and improving the city, he gave it the name
Constantinople (now known as Istanbul). In the year 325 A.D.
he convened three hundred and nineteen priests in Nicea,
ordered all the Bibles to be united and a new Bible to be written,
having many articles of paganism from his former religion
inserted into it. Accepting Christmas Day as the beginning of
the year, he established a new Christian religion. It was
declared in the Injîl (the real Bible) of Hadrat ’Îsâ and in the
Bible written by Barnabas that Allah is one. Yet, because they
did not have the original Injîl, the idea of the Trinity put forward
by Plato, whom they esteemed as a philosopher, was included
in these four defiled books. Constantine had this idea of Trinity
put into the new Bible together with many fabled writings. A
priest named Arius said that this new Bible was wrong, that
Allah is one, that Hadrat ’Îsâ was not His son but His born
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