Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

careful not to be deceived and not to let our sacred îmân be seized
by reading the poisonous propaganda of irreligiousness veiled in
sequinned words written by enemy pens! Let me also inform you
that hadîh-i-sherîfs and explanations of Islamic scholars
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim ajma’în’ strongly prohibit the
interference of men of religion in matters of politics. Ahl-as
sunnat scholars observed this prohibition very carefully. Muslims
don’t exploit Islam as a tool for politics. Therefore, I have never
entered politics. I haven’t defended any type of political state in
any of my writings. It has reached my ears that there have been
people who, disliking this behavior of mine, try to prevent people
from reading and learning my books by calling them corrupt, and
who then are bewildered and unable to answer when they are
questioned about what parts of the books are corrupt. I make a
dua (pray) for those who slander me so that they may wake up
from their stupor and attain true guidance.
With the encouragement of those who read my book Se’âdet-i
Ebediyye, which consisted of sixty pages and thirty chapters, I
prepared the second volume in three hundred pages, and I had it
printed in 1957. These two volumes aroused so much interest and
attraction among the innocent youngsters towards Islam that I
experienced a shower of questions. To answer these various
questions by translating from current books and by adding seventy
new chapters to the original thirty chapters of the first volume, the
second edition was formed and printed in four hundred pages.
Later by the blessing of Allâhu ta’âlâ, and with exhausting labour,
the accomplishment of the third volume was granted by Allah, and
it was printed in 1379 [1960 A.D.].
Though I was not authorized, only as a reward for my
admiration of the dumbfounding superiority of Islamic scholars,
for the love and respect which I had had towards them, and as a
reward for the prayers which I had sent with the utmost suffering
in my heart so that these innocent people, these noble youngsters
might escape the traps set by religion brokers and attain worldly
happiness and the happiness pertaining to the next world, these
three books, which were formed with the guidance of Allâhu
ta’âlâ, were put together and printed as a single book in 1963. This
book was named Tâm ilm-i hâl. As new questions were asked, new
additions were made in every new edition of my book. In this book
there is no knowledge, no idea which belongs to this faqîr, myself.
Besides translating and gathering, nothing else fell to my lot. I am
so grateful to see that those who read this book enjoy it and benefit
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