Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

on the Day of Rising He will re-gather these elements in a
moment, will make men’s bodies, and will give these bodies the
souls that existed. A person’s dying means the soul’s leaving the
body. The soul does not die. On the Day of Rising, together with
everything else, the souls will be annihilated and then they will be
recreated. Today, an intelligent person who can realize Allah’s
power well through the branches of science, such as physics,
chemistry, physiology and astronomy, can also realize easily as a
scientific fact that Hadrat Âdam and all men and animals will be
brought out of the soil on the Day of Rising. A century ago,
Muslims believed this without any understanding. But today, we
see it as a simple scientific fact and believe it without needing
further proof. [1]
Allâhu ta’âlâ created Paradise and Hell and declared that He
would fill both of them with people. For this reason, since Hadrat
Âdam, who was the first man, the earth has always had on itself
Believers and disbelievers, who have quarreled with each other.
The irreligious have worshipped the things which they have
invented, but the Believers have adapted themselves to the
Prophets and Books revealed by Allâhu ta’âlâ. Contrary to what
some historians suppose and what is seen in some motion pictures
prepared by enemies of Islam, our ancient predecessors were not
uncouth, wild and naked people lacking knowledge and science.
Yes, among the ancient peoples there were those who lived
ignorantly and simply, as they do today in the deserts of Asia and
Africa. Even in the forests of America savage people live like
those of the Bronze Age. But neither all of today’s people nor all
of the earlier people can be said to be savages only for this reason.
Hadrat Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’ and those who followed him lived in
cities. They knew how to read and write. They had such crafts as
blacksmithing, making threads, weaving clothes, farming and
making bread. Hadrat Âdam, whose age and stature could not be
known exactly, lived for a thousand years and became a Prophet
when he was five hundred years old according to a report. Allâhu
ta’âlâ sent him ten books. Hadrat Jabrâil ‘’alaihis-salâm’ came to
him twelve times. In these books, the things to be believed,
dictionaries in different languages, to perform salât once a day,
[morning salât, as is written in the book entitled Ibni ’Âbidîn,] to
make a ghusl, to fast, not to eat lesh, blood, pork; many branches
of crafts, knowledge of medicine, medicinal substances,
[1] Please see the book entitled the Rising and the Hereafter.
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