Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

Anbiyâ (History of Prophets): “If one of Rasûlullah’s grandfathers
had had two sons or if a tribe had been divided into two branches,
the descendants of the Last Prophet would be on the better side.
In each century, the person who was his grandfather was evident
by the nûr on his forehead. Ismâil ‘’alaihis-salâm’ also had the nûr
on his forehead. It shone like planet Venus. This nûr, an
inheritance from his father, passed from him on to his descendants,
thus reaching Me’add and Nizâr.
‘Nizâr’ means ‘a little.’ He was named Nizâr due to the
following event: When he was born, his father Me’add, being
pleased to see the nûr on his son’s forehead, gave a feast and said
that the feast was only a little thing for such a son, thus causing his
name to remain as Nizâr. This nûr was the nûr of Hadrat
Muhammad. Passing from son to son since Hadrat Âdam, it came
to its owner, Khâtem-ul-anbiyâ, i.e. Hadrat Muhammad.
So, among the sons of Hadrat Âdam, there was a distinguished
race carrying Hadrat Muhammad’s nûr; in each century, the face
of a person of this race was very beautiful and very bright. By this
nûr he was conspicuous among his brothers, and the tribe he
belonged to was more exalted and more honourable than other
tribes.”
6 – It is declared in the two hundred and nineteenth âyat of
Sûrat-ush-Shu’arâ of the Qur’ân al-kerîm: “You, that is, your nûr
has reached you after having always been transferred from one
prostrating person to another.” Explaining this âyat, the Ahl-i
sunnat savants ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim ajma’în’ have inferred
that “All his fathers and mothers were Believers and were sinless.”
As is explained in the booklet Sahâba, ‘the blessed’, there are also
some people who suppose that the great Ahl-i sunnat savants are
Shiites and who say that these are the words of Shiites.
The great ones of the Ahl-i-sunnat ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim
ajma’în’ say that his father and his mother Âmina were in the
religion of Hadrat Ibrâhîm. That is, they were Believers. Allâhu
ta’âlâ enlivened these two and had them hear the word ‘Shahâdat’
from our Prophet and express it, not for the purpose of making
them Believers, but in order that they might be honoured with
being in his Ummat. The âyat, “Do not ask a blessing on your
relative,” was intended for Abû Tâlib. It was not intended for his
parents. It is written in the translations of Imâm-i A’zâm’s book
entitled Fiqh-i Akbar, of which there are many copies in the world,
that they (his parents) died without belief. Yet it is written in
Imâm-i A’zam’s manuscript that they died with îmân. Later, it was
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