Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

countries and visit other places. They are not called hadjis.
Muslims’ acts of worship and disbelievers’ irreligious acts are
different things.
If people living in the Hil enter Mekka without the ihrâm it
becomes wâjib for them to make hajj or ’umra.
The chapter entitled “The Two Most Beloved Darlings of
Muslims” in the Turkish book Ashâb-i Kiram [1] , gives detailed
information indicating that after making the hajj it is necessary to
go to Medina-i-munawwara and visit the Prophet’s blessed grave.
The Hujra-i-sa’âda (the Prophet’s blessed grave), being close to
the east corner of the qibla wall of Masjîd-i-sherîf, is on the left
side of a person who stands towards the qibla in the mihrâb. And
the Minbar is on his right. The area between the Hujra-i-sa’âda
and the minbar is called Rawda-i-mutahhera. The Hujra-i-sa’âda is
enclosed by two walls, one within the other. There is a hole in the
middle of the ceiling of the inner wall. The outer wall reaching the
ceiling of Masjîd, its green dome can be seen from afar. The outer
walls and the high grating outside are screened with curtains called
Sitâra. No one can go inside the walls, for they have no doors. On
the 384th page of the book Mir’ât-i-Medîna it is written that when
Masjîd-i-sa’âdat was first constructed, its width was 60 dhrâ’ [25
meters], and its length was 70 dhrâ’ [29 meters]. Two months
before the Battle of Bedr, i.e. in the month of Rajab of the second
year, after the heavenly order to shift the qibla direction towards
the Kâ’ba was revealed, its door was moved from the south wall to
the north wall, and the masjîd’s length and width were extended to
a hundred dhrâ’ [42 meters] each. This door is named Bâb-uttavassul.
During the restoration period of Velid bin Abdulmalik
and the Abbasî Caliph Mehdî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaihim ajma’în’ in
165 [781], the masjîd’s length became 126 meters and its width 76
metres. Wahhâbîs extended it in 1375 [1955] and its length became
128 metres and its width 91 metres. They substituted Wahhâbî
names for the historic names within the Masjid-i Nabî.
The Masjîd-i-Nabî now has five doors. Two of them are on the
west wall; the one near the qibla is called Bâbussalâm, and the one
near the north corner is called Bâburrahma. The east wall has no
[1] This Turkish book, written by the profound Islamic scholar and
beloved Walî, Huseyn Hilmi bin Sa’îd Işık ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’
(1329 [1911], Istanbul – 1422 [2001], Istanbul,) was translated into
English with the title Sahâba ‘The Blessed’ in Çanakkale and printed
in Istanbul in 1998.
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