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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put forth as their causes. These ideas are not certain. Also, different<br />
people may interpret a single event differently.<br />
A hypothesis is a general idea which is suggested as a possible<br />
explanation of various known events that share the same starting<br />
point. A theory is a hypothesis that is determined to be seemingly<br />
the most appropriate explanation of certain events among various<br />
hypotheses after a process whereby a number of events and thence<br />
new events are arrived at, and those new events are studied on the<br />
basis of experience. Perfection of a theory is assessed by how few<br />
hypotheses it relies on and at the same time how many events it<br />
can explain. Haldene’s idea is a hypothesis after all, and is very far<br />
from being a theory. If people do not remain in that grade and<br />
acquire correct knowledge about how the first living creatures<br />
were created, it will be useful for Islam, not harmful. All living<br />
beings as well as lifeless ones were nonexistent and were created<br />
later. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares: “Research how I created everything<br />
and see the order, the delicacy in My work! Thus believe in Me<br />
and in the fact that My Power and Knowledge are infinite!” Yes,<br />
the enemies of religion not only say that the first living things came<br />
into existence by themselves, but they also proclaim that the solar<br />
system, stars, and various physical, chemical and biological events<br />
all came into existence by themselves. Ahl-as Sunnat savants gave<br />
them the necessary answers in thousands of their books, thus<br />
silencing them all. They proved with evidence that they are wrong.<br />
Our religion declares that Hadrat Âdam was created from sticky<br />
mud. It does not explain in what manner other animals and plants<br />
were created. How can Haldene’s hypothesis harm the religion<br />
then? Allâhu ta’âlâ, alone, moves, makes, and creates everything,<br />
and it makes no difference who says so, Haldene or Darwin or Ibni<br />
Sînâ (Avicenna) being no exception. All forms of energy are<br />
manifestations of His Power.<br />
What undermines the îmân is to hold the belief that events<br />
happened by themselves and to say that animals evolved from one<br />
another, initially from one-celled organisms to higher structures<br />
and finally to man; science does not prove it true, nor do scientists<br />
say so.<br />
A passage from the book Tahâfut-ul-Falâsifa by Imâm-i<br />
Ghazâlî has been translated from Arabic into Turkish and has<br />
been written in the forty-fifth page of the book Ma’rifatnâma. It is<br />
stated in Ma’rifatnâma: “Scientists’ words are of three types. Their<br />
words of the first type explain the facts which scientific<br />
experiments have discovered. Though these words of theirs agree<br />
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