Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

39 – SECOND VOLUME, 58th LETTER
This letter, written as a response to Muhammad Taqiy, gives
information about the ’Âlam-i mithâl and states that
metempsychosis is not true and that human souls do not
transmigrate; it also explains what kumûn and burûz mean:
Praise be to Allâhu ta’âlâ, who is the Creator and the Owner of
all classes of beings, and salâms to Hadrat Muhammad, who is the
highest of His Prophets, and to all his absolutely pure relatives and
Ashâb! We have been honoured with reading your valuable letter,
a work of your good thoughts and beautiful moral character. May
Allâhu ta’âlâ protect you against all faults and defects! You ask
about Shaikh Muhyiddîn-i Arabî’s ‘quddisa sirruh’ quoting a
hadîth in his book Futuhât-i Makkiyya. Our Prophet ‘sall Allâhu
’alaihi wa sallam’ says in this hadîth: “Allâhu ta’âlâ created a
hundred thousand Âdams.” Muhyiddîn-i ’Arabî ‘rahmatullâhi
’alaih’ writes a few things which he has seen in the ’Âlam-i mithâl
and says: “As I was making a tawaf around the Kâ’ba, there were
some people by my side. I did not know them at all. While
performing tawaf they recited two Arabic couplets. The meaning
of one of the couplets was:
As you do now, we for years
All visited this residence.
“Upon hearing the couplet, it occurred to me that those people
might be from the ’Âlam-i mithâl. As I was thinking so, one of
them looked at me and said, ‘I am one of your grandfathers.’ I said,
“How long has it been since you died?’ ‘More than forty thousand
years,’ he replied. Being astonished at these words of his, I said,
‘Historians say that not even seven thousand years have passed
since Âdam, the first father of human beings’. He said, ‘Which
Âdam ‘alaihis-salâm’ are you talking about? I am one of the sons
of Âdam, who lived at a time very much earlier than seven
thousand years ago’. When hearing this, I remembered the hadîthi-sherîf
mentioned above.”
[An important note: Ancient astronomers said that the age of
the globe, i.e., the duration of time from its creation until its end,
was equal to the number of planets around the sun in terms of
thousands, that is, the earth was seven thousand years old; for they
thought that the number of planets was seven. The seven thousand
years that is written in many history books and that has been
transferred into some religious books originates from this. Some of
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