Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

people have tasted and observed. Who would believe me if I stated
one of them? Who would admit it? And yet, if I withhold them and
conceal them I will have condoned a situation where right is being
mixed with wrong and impermissible statements are being made
about Allâhu ta’âlâ. Then, willy-nilly, I will have to restate the
facts in a manner worthy to the greatness of Allâhu ta’âlâ. I will
reject the unsuitable ones. They may believe me or not. It is not
something that I think about or worry about. A person who has
doubts about his own knowledge and kashfs will fear others’
denial. When the truth is as obvious as the sun, when the kashfs are
as luminous as the full moon, and when one has been rescued from
reflections and fancies and made to surmount the samples and
patterns, will there ever be doubts about what is known? My
master [Muhammad Bâqî] ‘quddisa sirruh’ stated: “The symptom
to show that the hâls (spiritual states) being experienced are
correct is a yaqîn and an absolute belief in them.” Moreover, as a
kindness and favour from Allâhu ta’âlâ, this faqîr, [i.e. Imâm
Rabbânî ‘qaddas-Allâhu ta’âlâ sirrah-ul’azîz’,] has been informed
with each and every one of the hâls stated by those great superiors.
The ma’rifats shown (to this faqîr) include ‘tawhîd’, ‘ittihâd’,
‘ihâta’, and ‘sereyân’. The inner nature of whatsoever had been
shown and imparted to those great people were revealed, and the
subtleties of their knowledge and ma’rifats were made to rise to
the surface. I stayed at that grade for guite a long time, so that I
attained more or less of all those ma’rifats. Could there be any
doubts or uncertainties left, then? Eventually, it has become clear
as a kind favour from Allâhu ta’âlâ that all the images they had
been observing and perceiving are gimmicks and appearances of
images, reflections, and fancies. What they had been experiencing
is no more than a pursuit of samples and fancies. What should be
looked for is beyond those things, and what should be desired is
past them. Realizing this fact has made me, willy-nilly, turn away
from all those ma’rifats and focus my tawajjuh on the Dhât-i-ilâhî,
Who is bîchûn. I have been keeping away from everything that has
an amount and which can be qualified. Were I not in that state,
could I say things disagreeable with (the statements made by)
those great people? Nor would I say something to contradict those
superior people if the difference (between us) did not concern the
Person and Attributes of Allâhu ta’âlâ and if it were not intended
for the taqdîs and tenzîh of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Nay, I could not even
open my mouth. For, I am like a beggar gleaning the remnants of
the blessings bestowed on them. I am a servant doing the cleaning
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