Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

the Ghaws-u-a’zam and one of the greatest guides of the Sôfiyya-i
’aliyya, begins to write as follows on the eighty-fourth page of the
Egypt-1322 edition, which coincides with the hundred and
fourteenth page of the Istanbul-1303 edition of its Turkish
translation, of his book entitled Ghunyat-ut-tâlibîn, which he
wrote in order to teach the Islamic religion to his disciples and to
all other young people and to correct their beliefs:
“According to the Ahl as-sunnat, Hadrat Muhammad’s
Ummat is higher than the ummats of other Prophets. And the
highest ones of this Ummat are the Sahâba, who had îmân in him,
who were honoured with seeing his blessed face, and all of whom
obeyed him and sacrificed their property and lives for his sake. It
was their first duty to do his commands, and they were his
assistants in everything he did. And the highest ones of the
Sahâba were those heroes who paid their homage to Rasûlullah
‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ and promised him that they were
ready to die for his sake at Hudaybiyya. There were fourteen
hundred of them. The highest ones among them are those who
were in the holy war of Badr, whose number was, like the soldiers
of Tâlût, [1]
three hundred and thirteen. [Also, there are three
hundred and thirteen letters in the first volume of Hadrat Imâmi-Rabbânî’s
Maktûbât.] The highest among them are the earliest
forty people to embrace Islam, and the fortieth one is Hadrat
’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’. Thirty-four of them are men and six
are women. The highest among them are the ’Ashara-i
mubashshara, that is, the ten people who were given the glad
tidings that they would go to Paradise. They are Abû Bakr,
’Umar, ’Uthmân, ’Alî, Talha, Zubayr bin ’Awwâm,
’Abdurrahmân bin ’Awf, Sa’d ibni Abî Waqqâs, Sa’îd bin Zayd,
Abu ’Ubayda bin Jarrâh. Their highest ones are the Khulafâ-i
râshidîn, that is, the four Khalîfas, and the highest among them is
[1] The following information about Tâlût (Saul in Biblical sources), the
first king of Israel has been borrowed from the eleven hundred and
eighty-second page of the biographies section of the Turkish book
entitled Seâdet-i ebediyye, an extremely valuable book written by
Hüseyn Hilmi bin Sa’îd Işık ‘quddisa sirruh’, a profound Islamic
scholar and a Walî: He had been appointed by the Prophet Ishmôîl
‘’alaihis-salâm’. He fought wars against Palestinians and Amalekites
and routed them. Dâwûd (David) ‘’alaihis-salâm’, eighteen years old
during those wars, was one of the soldiers in his army, and killed
Goliath (Jâlût), the Philistine giant and a valient and powerful
warrior.
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