Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle
The Turkish original of the book Se’âdet-i Ebediyye consists of three parts, all of which add up to more than a thousand pages. We have translated the entire book into English and have published six individual fascicles. Se’âdet-i Ebediyye is a book prepared according to the Hanafî Madhhab. There is not a bit of knowledge or word which does not confirm the creed of the Ahl-i Sunnat and Jamâ’at in this book. This is the first fascicle. We invoke Allâhu ta’âlâ to help us deliver it to our dear readers. There are two hundred and forty (240) chapters in Se’âdet-i Ebediyye, and it consists of three parts. Forty-one of the ninety-eight chapters in the first part, thirty-four of the seventy-two chapters in the second part and thirty-three of the seventy chapters in the third part are translations of the letters in the Persian original of Maktûbât (The Letters) by Hadrat Imâm-i Rabbânî ‘rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih’ . A few of them are translations of letters by Hadrat Muhammad Ma’sûm ‘rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih’. The remaining chapters are taken from many valuable books. Maktûbât by Hadrat Imam-î Rabbânî consists of three volumes (I, II, III) and they contain five hundred and thirty six letters. All of them were published in two volumes in Pakistan in 1392 [1972 A.D.], and it was printed by offset in 1397 [1977 A.D.] in Istanbul. Maktûbât by Hadrat Muhammad Ma’sûm, his son, is also of three volumes (IV, V, VI). The volume number and the number of each letter translated is given below. The additions in brackets are explanations made by the translator, (i.e. Hadrat Hüseyn Hilmi Işık 'quddisa sirruh'.). Subjects relating to belief of ahl as-Sunnat are quoted from famous Ahl as-Sunnat scholars' books.
The Turkish original of the book Se’âdet-i Ebediyye consists of three parts, all of which add up to more than a thousand pages. We have translated the entire book into English and have published six individual fascicles. Se’âdet-i Ebediyye is a book prepared according to the Hanafî Madhhab. There is not a bit of knowledge or word which does not confirm the creed of the Ahl-i Sunnat and Jamâ’at in this book. This is the first fascicle. We invoke Allâhu ta’âlâ to help us deliver it to our dear readers.
There are two hundred and forty (240) chapters in Se’âdet-i Ebediyye, and it consists of three parts. Forty-one of the ninety-eight chapters in the first part, thirty-four of the seventy-two chapters in the second part and thirty-three of the seventy chapters in the third part are translations of the letters in the Persian original of Maktûbât (The Letters) by Hadrat Imâm-i Rabbânî ‘rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih’ . A few of them are translations of letters by Hadrat Muhammad Ma’sûm ‘rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih’. The remaining chapters are taken from many valuable books. Maktûbât by Hadrat Imam-î Rabbânî consists of three volumes (I, II, III) and they contain five hundred and thirty six letters. All of them were published in two volumes in Pakistan in 1392 [1972 A.D.], and it was printed by offset in 1397 [1977 A.D.] in Istanbul. Maktûbât by Hadrat Muhammad Ma’sûm, his son, is also of three volumes (IV, V, VI). The volume number and the number of each letter translated is given below. The additions in brackets are explanations made by the translator, (i.e. Hadrat Hüseyn Hilmi Işık 'quddisa sirruh'.).
Subjects relating to belief of ahl as-Sunnat are quoted from famous Ahl as-Sunnat scholars' books.
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37 – FIRST VOLUME, 99th LETTER<br />
This letter, written as an answer to Molla Hasan Kishmîrî,<br />
explains how not to forget Allâhu ta’âlâ for a moment and that He<br />
will not be forgotten even while one is asleep, or when one is<br />
unconscious:<br />
We have been honoured with reading your valuable letter.<br />
Some of the great ones of this way informed us that they were<br />
aware of Allâhu ta’âlâ every moment, and that they remembered<br />
Him every moment, and even as they were asleep. You ask how<br />
this is so. Respectable Sir! For explaining this, it is necessary to<br />
write a few things first; I will write briefly. Read carefully!<br />
Man’s soul used to be incapable of making progress before uniting<br />
with this body. It was fastened, imprisoned in its private grade. But,<br />
after descending into this body, it was given the ability and strength<br />
to get promoted. This quality made it superior to and more honoured<br />
than an angel. Through His mercy and blessing, Allâhu ta’âlâ united<br />
the soul with this insensible, unmoving, good-for-nothing, dark body.<br />
Allâhu ta’âlâ, who united the light of the soul with a dark body and<br />
who has kept the soul, which is unsubstantial and without time and<br />
place, with the body, which is made of matter, is so great. All<br />
greatness, all superiorities are peculiar to Him only. No defect can<br />
exist in Him. The meaning of this word should be comprehended<br />
well. Because the soul and the body are polar opposites, Allâhu ta’âlâ<br />
made the soul fall in love with the body so that they might stay<br />
together. This love caused them to remain at the same place together.<br />
The Qur’ân al-kerîm informs us with this fact by declaring: “We<br />
created man’s soul in a beautiful shape, and then later demoted it to<br />
the lowest grade,” in Sûrat-u-Wa-t-tîn. The soul’s demotion to this<br />
grade and its falling in love is an act of promotion in the guise of<br />
demotion. Thus, because of its interest in and its love for the nafs, the<br />
soul threw itself down into the world of the nafs and became a<br />
follower, a slave of the nafs. In fact, it got beside itself, it forgot about<br />
itself. It took the shape of the nafs-i ammâra; it became, as it were, the<br />
nafs-i ammâra. Because the soul is finer than everything [because it is<br />
lighter than hydrogen, which is the lightest form of matter, and even<br />
lighter than an electron], because it is not even matter, it takes the<br />
state, shape and colour of whatever it unites with. Because it forgot<br />
about itself, it forgot its knowledge of Allâhu ta’âlâ, which it had had<br />
formerly when it had been in its own world, in its own grade. It<br />
became ignorant and unaware. Like the nafs, it darkened with the<br />
darkness of ignorance. Since Allâhu ta’âlâ is very merciful, He sent<br />
Prophets ‘’alaihi-s-salâtu wa-t-teslîmât’, and through these great<br />
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