Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

country. Thanks be to Allâhu ta’âlâ, He prevented them, thus
protecting the blessed names of great people such as ’Abû Bakr as-
Siddîq and ’Alî bin Abî Tâlib ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhumâ’ and Sayyid
Ahmad Rifâ’î and Sayyid Sherîf Ahmad Bedevî and Abu-l-Hasan
bin ’Alî bin ’Abdullah Shâdilî and Sayyid ’Abd-ul-Qâdir Geylânî
and Mawlânâ Jelâl-ad-dîn Rûmî and Muhammad Behâ-ad-dîn
Bukhârî and Hâdji Bayrâm Walî and Ziyâ-ad-din Khâlid Baghdâdî
from being playthings in the hands and tongues of those
ignoramuses, who were qâti’i tarîq-i-ilâhî, (i.e. people who
barricaded the paths leading to the grace of Allâhu ta’âlâ.) As of
today, we do not know whether a Murshîd-i-kâmil or an ’Ârif-imukammil
exists in our country or elsewhere the worldover. Yes.
There always is a Qutb-i-medâr. There is one now, too. And there
was one also in the time of Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’. Those people are also called Qutb-ul-aqtâb. Yet seclusion
is essential for those people. No one knows who they are. In fact,
sometimes they themselves are unaware of their own status. As for
the Qutb-i-irshâd; he is the Qayyûm-i-’âlam. It is through him that
all other people receive rushd (guidance to the right path) and
îmân. He protects Islam. The Islamic religion is never left
unattended. Enemies of religion cannot attack undeterred to
change and defile the religion. Imâm Rabbânî ‘qaddas-Allâhu
sirrah-ul’azîz’ states in the fifteenth ma’rifat in his book Ma’ârif-iladunniyya:
The Qutb-i-abdâl, [i.e. Qutb-i-medâr,] serves as a
medium for the fayz (or faydh) that are sent and through which all
beings in the universe come into existence and stay in existence,
whereas the Qutb-i-irshâd is the means through whom fayz are
sent for the enlightenment and guidance of all beings. It is by way
of the fayz emanating through the Qutb-i-ebdâl that all beings are
created, sustenances (rizq) are sent, disasters and catastrophes are
eliminated, invalids are cured, and bodies are given health. The
fayz coming through the Qutb-i-irshâd, on the other hand, are sent
so that people should have îmân, attain guidance (hidâyat), and
make tawba for their sins. The Qutb-i-ebdâl has to exist in all times
and ages, always. No time can exist without him. For, it is through
him that the entire existence attains order. When the existent one
dies, another one is appointed for his place. Yet the Qutb-i-irshâd
does not necessarily exist always. There are such long times
throughout which the entire universe is totally devoid of îmân and
hidâya (guidance). Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ was
the Qutb-i-irshâd of his time. And the time’s Qutb-i-ebdâl was
’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ sirrah-ul’azîz’. Through the Qutb-ul-
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