Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

His uncle ’Abbâs and his son ’Abdullah shared his fair
complexion. Also, our Prophet’s descendants until the end of the
world will be beautiful and sympathetic. For example, the Amîr of
Jordan, the late ’Abdullah, who had been to Istanbul, was such a
person. The virtuous Ahmad Makkî Efendî, the late mufti of
Kadiköy, was a sayyid (a descendant of the Prophet), and like his
ancestors, he was white with black eye-brows, big black eyes, very
sympathetic and affable. Rasûlullah’s Ashâb were sympathetic
and beautiful, too. Hadrat ’Uthmân was white with blond hair.
Dihya-i Kelebî, the ambassador whom Rasûlullah used to send to
Heraclius, the Emperor of Byzantium, was very handsome, and as
he went around on the streets of Istanbul, the Byzantine girls used
to rush out into the streets in order to see his face. Hadrat Jabrâil
(Gabriel) usually came in the guise of Hadrat Dihya ‘radiy-Allâhu
’anh’.
The natives of Egypt, Damascus, Africa, Sicily and Spain aren’t
Arabs. But since the Arabs came to these places after having
migrated from the Arabian Peninsula in order to spread Islam all
over the world, there are Arabs in these lands, too. Likewise, they
exist in Anatolia, India and other countries. But, today, none of
the citizens of these countries can be called Arabs.
The Arabic language, the one and only language of knowledge
and civilization in the Middle Ages and which is, in fact, the most
advanced and sophisticated language among the seven hundred
and seventy languages being spoken in the world today with its
richness in grammar, eloquence and literature, entered and settled
in every country along with the Islamic civilization. In those times,
the French and other European people who went to Arabic
universities and Muslim schools in Spain for educational purposes
took with them many Arabic words, especially technical terms
used in knowledge and science, to their countries and mixed them
with their own languages. Today, in Western languages, Arabic
words are still in use.
In “The Gospel in Many Tongues,” published by The British
and Foreign Bible Society in London, in 1947, there are a few lines
written as examples of each of the seven hundred and seventy
languages.
The people of Egypt have a light-brown complexion. The
people of Ethiopia (Habashistân, al-Habashatu) are black and are
called Habashî. The people of Zanzibar (Zanjîbar) are called
Zanjî (negro), and they also are black. It is an act of worship to
love and respect our Prophet’s relatives, the Arabs. Every Muslim
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