Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

valuable. The hundreds of Âdams that had come before were all
archetypes of Hadrat Âdam. [It can be compared with the rays of
the sun coming before the actual sunrise. Its rays, attributes,
gradually become visible.].
Muhyiddîn’i ’Arabî’s ‘quddisa sirruh’ grandfather, who had
died forty thousand years before, had been the existence in the
’Âlam-i mithâl of one of the lâtîfas, attributes, of his grandfather,
(who in turn had lived) in the ’Âlam-i shahâdat (long after his
archetype in the ’Âlam-i-mithâl). He was visiting the Kâ’ba-i
mu’azzama in the ’Âlam-i mithâl, for the Kâ’ba-i mu’azzama has a
copy, an archetype in the ’Âlam-i mithâl, as everything does. I, the
faqîr, [i.e. Imâm Rabbânî ‘quddisa sirruh’,] think and search very
deeply, but I cannot see more than one Âdam in the ’ÂlAm-i
shahâdat. I can see nothing but the images in the ’Âlam-i mithâl.
The person who said that he had lived forty thousand years before
and that he was one of Muhyiddîn-i ’Arabî’s grandfathers was
indicating that the Âdams existing before Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’
were the images (archetypes) of Âdam’s ‘’alaihis-salâm’ lâtîfas and
attributes. They are not beings other than Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’
himself. For another Âdam’s ‘’alaihis-salâm’ son cannot be the
grandfather of this son of Âdam ‘’alaihis-salâm’.
Upon hearing of this event and the like, people with sick hearts
and little knowledge suppose that it is metempsychosis. So, they
say that beings were eternal in the past, that they were not created
later, and they reject the fact that they will be annihilated again
and the end of the world will come. Some irreligious people, who
count themselves as shaikhs and murshids, believe in
metempsychosis. They say that when a soul leaves its body before
reaching perfection it transmigrates into another body. They
believe that souls will not pass through another body any further
after reaching perfection, that they reach perfection through
transmigration, and they fable many stories about
metempsychosis. However, it is an act of disbelief to believe in
metempsychosis, which means that a dead man’s soul passes into
another child and comes to life again. He who says that there is
metempsychosis will have denied the Islamic religion. In other
words, he will cease to be a Muslim. They never understand; if
souls reach perfection through metempsychosis, who is Hell for,
and who will be tormented? To believe it means to deny Hell; nay,
it means to reject the rising after death. For, according to their
belief the soul will no more need its body, which has already been
a means for its maturing. Why should it be resurrected together
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