Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

[jadhba] are done at the same time. The seyr-i-âfâqî is
accomplished during the seyr-i-enfusî. The Tezkîya also is realized
within the tasfiya. The jadhba produces the sulûk, too. The âfâq
takes place within the enfus. However, purification of the latîfas
takes place before the jadhba, and the tasfiya is prior to the
tezkiya. It is the enfus, not the âfâq, which is under consideration
in this path. Therefore, attainment is realized fast in this path. In
fact, I can say that this path will certainly guide to attainment.
There is no likelihood that it will not. We should beg Allâhu ta’âlâ
for orientation and chance.
I have said that this path will definitely make you attain. For,
this path begins with the jadhba, which in turn will definitely make
you attain. What causes the sâlik to fail by the wayside is either the
stages of sulûk or the dry jadhbas without sulûk. Neither of these
two hindrances exists in this pah. For, the sulûk is dependent on
the jadhba. It takes place simultaneously with the jadhba and
within the jadhba. Here, neither pure sulûk nor dry jadhba exists.
Therefore, the sâlik is not waylaid in this path. This path is an
avenue reserved for Prophets ‘’alaihim-us-salawât-u-wa-tteslîmât’.
Those great people attained kamâl (perfection) through
that avenue in a variety of manners in keeping with the high grades
they occupied. With one giant stride they traversed the âfâq and
the enfus, taking their next stride beyond the âfâq and the enfus.
They left the sulûk and the jadhba behind. For, the end of the
sulûk is by the end of the seyr-i-âfâqî, and the end of the jadhba is
by the end of the seyr-i-enfusî. When the seyr-i-âfâqî and enfusî
are completed, the sulûk and the jadhba are completed, too.
Thereafter, there is no longer any sulûk or any jadhba left. People
of sulûk and jadhba can not understand this statement of ours. For,
in their view there is no way leading upwards from the âfâq and the
enfus; an eternal life would be too short to complete a seyr-i-enfusî
carried on continuously. One of those great people state, as is
expressed in the following Persian couplet, translated into English:
Did a person walk throughout his life-span,
Trek in himself would be too long to span.
So great are the people who showed me this path; it was owing
to them that I opened my eyes; and it is owing to them that I have
been able to say these words. From them did I learn the alphabet
of Tasawwuf. Under their tawajjuh did I attain the grade of
Mawlawiyya. All my knowledge, if I ever have any, consists in a
few drops from their oceans of knowledge. The ma’rifat I have, if
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