Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

letter was written in the Arabic language:
May hamd be to Allâhu ta’âlâ, the Rabb of all beings, and salât
and salâm be to His Messenger, Muhammad ‘’alaihis-salâm’, and
to all his âl (family, descendants) and As-hâb (Companions)! The
heart is a neighbour of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Nothing else is as close as the
heart to Allâhu ta’âlâ. Nobody’s heart should be hurt, Believers
and disobedient people alike. For, a disobedient neighbour has to
be equally protected. Avoid, and avoid hurting a heart, and avoid
it very much! After kufr (unbelief, disbelief, denial), which is the
most hurtful ones of the offenses perpetrated against Allâhu ta’âlâ,
no other sin is as grave as hurting a heart. For, of all the things that
attain to Allâhu ta’âlâ, the heart is the closest. All people are the
slaves of Allâhu ta’âlâ. If a person’s slave is beaten and hurt, the
slave’s master also will become hurt. We should meditate over the
honour and the greatness of the master, who is the single owner of
everything. His creatures can use only what He allows them to and
to an extent He has dictated. To exercise (authority) with His
permission does not mean to hurt others. He has commanded that
a virgin caught in the act of fornication be flogged with a hundred
stripes. One extra stripe would mean to hurt her by doing an
injustice to her.
The heart is the highest and the most honourable of all
creatures. As man is the most valuable of creatures because he has
accumulated in himself all the beings in the ’âlam-i-kebîr, i.e. all
beings outside of man; likewise, the heart is very valuable because
it is the elementary and compact collection of all the things
existent in man, who is called the ’âlam-i-saghîr. It is a treasure of
such a large variety of valuables that it is closer than anything else
to Allâhu ta’âlâ. Some of the components of man’s nature are from
the ’âlam-i-khalq, and others are from the ’âlam-i-emr. [’Âlam-ikhalq
means creatures that are material and measurable. The
’âlam-i-emr are things that are not material and which cannot be
measured.] The heart is is a berzakh, an isthmus connecting the
two ’âlams (worlds). As a person makes progress in a path of
Tasawwuf, first the latîfas inherent in his nature go up and attain
to their essences in the ’âlam-i-kebîr. For instance, that person first
attains to the essence of the water existent in him, thereafter to the
essence of the air, thereafter to the essence of the heat (, and so
fourth); then he attains to the essences of his latîfas in the ’âlam-iemr,
thereafter to a part of a Name that is his rabb, [i.e. his
educator and trainer,] thereafter to the entirety of that Name of
Allâhu ta’âlâ, and thereafter to the high grades determined by
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