Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

prays for them. But he who does not perform namâz trespasses on
this right of Believers. Then, performing namâz is not egoism, but
it is benefaction. And it is cruelty not to perform namâz.]
This being which is called Adam is not only hands, feet, and a head;
When we say Adam, we mean a soul, not only eyes and eyebrows.
The body is a skin and flesh, and the soul is their headmaster,
Which guards the secret of Haqq’s power, without it the corpse will decompose.
Adam has to be like pellucid water, always refining himself;
He should avoid what is harâm, and his nafs has to avoid roving crowds.
Adam is the safekeeper, and the possessor of knowledge and science;
In the view of Haqq, Adam is not even one of poppy seed grumbs.
A person called Adam will work without rest for months and years;
The soul feeds on sheer knowledge, not on consumable broad and robes.
A person who knows his inner nature, and who brightens his soul,
Will be a man conscious of Haqq’s statements, far from drunkards and winos.
Animals as well possess bodies, with senses even stronger.
A wolf, with its keen eyes, will see the decoy, not who makes the decoys.
28 — SECOND VOLUME, 96th LETTER
This letter, written to Khwâja ’Abd-ul-Hasan Bahâdir
Bedahshî, explains how our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’
asked for paper towards his death:
Hamd be to Allâhu ta’âlâ. Salâm to the slaves whom He has
chosen! Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ asked for
paper on his deathbed. “Fetch me paper! I will write a book for
you lest you go wrong after me,” he ordered. Hadrat ’Umar ‘radiy-
Allâhu ’anh’, together with a few other Sahabîs, said, “The book of
Allâhu ta’âlâ will suffice for us! Let us ask him if he is talking in his
sleep.” However, every word Resûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ uttered was an expression of wahy. As a matter of fact, the
third âyat of Wannajmi Sûra purports: “He does not talk
nonsense. He always states the wahy.” It causes disbelief to refuse
the wahy. [1] As a matter of fact, the forty-fourth âyat of Mâida Sûra
[1] Please see the first chapter and the fourth sub-chapter of the thirtyfifth
chapter and the eighth sub-chapter of the sixtieth chapter of the
current book for ‘wahy’.
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