Advice for the Muslim

of seeing our Sultân’s blessed face?” and the Pasha said, “Yes,
you may attain that honour if you go to the mosque where the
Sultân performs the Friday prayer.” He sent me to the Friday
procession. The procession ceremony was at the Beylerbeyi
Mosque. I stood aside waiting to see the blessed face of the Sultân,
who stopped his rearing horse when his truth-seeing blessed eyes
caught the sight of this humble servant who loved him. He sent
the Sar-’Askar Pasha (Commander-in-Chief) to me. Sar-’Askar
Pasha came to me and said, “ ’Ishqî Effendi! Our Sultân sends his
salâms to you! His Great Person ordered that a salary of three
hundred kurushes be paid to you. He said you should not worry
about your wife and children and that you should visit and see
everyplace in Istanbul.”
“ ‘I understood that this imperial edict of our Sultân ’Abd al-
Majîd Khân (rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ) was one of his many kashfs
and karâms I had often heard of. I was relieved from worring
about my family. A few months later I returned to al-Madinat almunawwara,
and found my family in comfort and contentment. I
learned that it was because Hadrat Sultân ’Abd al-Majîd Khân
(rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ) had sent three thousand kurushes to my
family on my behalf. His Great Person made us all happy by
sending an additional seven thousand kurushes after my arrival.
Like all Muslims we prayed for the Exalted Sultân in gratitude
after every salât. On every occasion, I recited my eulogy in praise
of him in order to attain the honour of expressing Hadrat ’Abd-al-
Mâjid Khân’s gifts and karâmats.’
“The tekke where ’Ishqî Effendi went was the Mawlâwî-khâna
tekke at Beşiktaş, Istanbul. Later, it was moved to the tekke on the
Behâriyya Street, Ayyûb. In those days the shaikh of the tekke was
’Abd al-Qâdir Dede.
“ ’Ishqî Effendi must have been a great person, for, whatever
he wished for by the Hujrat as-Sa’âda was accepted. While he was
in Medina, Tawfiq Beg (rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ), an official at the
Board of Admiralty, suffered a sore in his eyes. He visited the
Hujrat as-Sa’âda and prayed for his eyes’ recovery or for being
able to go to Istanbul. ’Ishqî Effendi came to him just after he
returned to where he stayed and silently recited a prayer and
breathed on him and soon the ache stopped.
“A man from Istanbul stayed in Medina for seven years,
where he read the book Dalâ’il al-khairât at the place called the
Rawdat al-Mutahhara every day. Whenever he started reading the
Dalâ’il he would notice by him an old man neatly dressed, sweet-
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