Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Sixth Fascicle

lust, anger, greed, and jealously. With mankind, this jihâd will
never come to an end. The nafs’s attaining itmî’nân will not put an
end to this jihâd. Nor will this jihâd come to an end when the heart
attains the grade of Wilâyat. This jihâd in man supplies various
benefits. It is thereby that the human body becomes cleansed and
high grades in the Hereafter are attained. In worldly life the body
is dependent on the heart. In the Hereafter the roles become
exchanged, and the heart becomes dependent on the body. When
man dies there starts his life in the Hereafter, and this jihâd comes
to an end.
When the nafs attains itmî’nân as a kindness and favour of
Allâhu ta’âlâ, it will become honoured with obedience to Islam,
attain Islâm-i-haqîqî and the haqîqat (true, inner essence) of îmân.
Every act done thereafter will be (done in) the haqîqat of Islam.
When namâz is performed, it will be the haqîqat of namâz
performed. When a fasting is observed, it will be the haqîqat of
fasting observed. When hajj is performed it will be the haqîqat of
hajj performed. This rule applies to obedience to all the other rules
of Islam. As is seen, haqîqat through the first way is a passage
between the sûrat of Islam and the haqîqat of Islam. Unless one is
honoured with Wilâyat-i-khâssa, one will not be free from Islâm-imejâzî
(metaphorical Islam) and attain Islâm-i-haqîqî (true, real
Islam). [Islâm-i-mejâzî is to adapt oneself to the sûrat
(appearance) of Islam, and Islâm-i-haqîqî is to become a real
Muslim.] If a Muslim, as a gift from Allâhu ta’âlâ, attains the
haqîqat (truth, true inner essence) of Islam and becomes honoured
with Islâm-i-haqîqî, he may attain the grade called kamâlât-i-
Nubuwwa by adapting himself fully to Prophets and becoming an
inheritor of those Great People. He may plentifully avail himself
of the blessings of that high grade. As the sûrat (outer appearance)
of Islam is a blessed tree yielding the fuits of the kamâlât-i-
Wilâyat, likewise the kamâlât of Nubuwwa are the fruits of the
haqîqat of Islam which is like a blessed tree. The kamâlât of
Wilâyat are the fruits yielded by the sûrat of Islam, whereas the
kamâlât of Nubuwwa are the fruits yielded by the haqîqat of that
sûrat. Hence, whereas the kamâlât of Wilâyat are the sûrats of the
kamâlât of Prophethood (Nubuwwat), the kamâlât of
Prophethood are the haqîqat of those sûrats.
It should be understood well that it is on account of the nafs
that the sûrat of Islam differs from the haqîqat of Islam. The nafsi-ammâra
of a person who has attained the sûrat of Islam retains
its excessive behaviour and denial. When Islam’s haqîqat is
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