Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

committed only one crime. Yet, it is the gravest crime. The penalty
for the crime is very great, very bitter, and endless. There cannot
be such a penalty in the world. This endless penalty will be given
to them in the next world, in Hell.]
You say that ignoramuses, idiots make fun [of people who
perform namâz, who fast and obey Islam. They call them
retrogressive, you say.] You say that they say, “Why does Allah
send disasters, misfortunes upon His beloved ones? Why doesn’t
He send them goodness and blessings. [We are not obeying His
commands. Why doesn’t He punish us! Aha! We are comfortable,
we are amusing and enjoying ourselves and making merry as we
like, getting the world’s delicacies through tricks and lies. You are
wasting time performing namâz and fasting, keeping away from
worldly pleasures and living in straits! In addition to these
difficulties, your Allah is sending disasters, calamities upon you. If
Islam were a way of happiness, you would live more comfortably,
better and more happily than we do.”] Thus, with such despicable
waffles, they deny these beloved slaves of Allâhu ta’âlâ.
Disbelievers did say so to the Best of Mankind, too. It is
purported in the seventh âyat of Furqân Sûra: “The disbelievers
said, ‘What kind of prophet is this? He eats, drinks, and goes about
in the streets as we do. Were he a prophet, angels would come to
him, help him, and they, too, would warn us and threaten us with
Hell. Or he would be sent treasures of money, or he would have
orchards, farms, and would eat whatever he liked...’ ” Such words
are said by those who deny the Hereafter, Paradise and Hell, and
who are short-sighted. Will a person who knows that the blessings
in Paradise and torments in Hell are endless ever mind a few days’
disasters and hardships in the world? Thinking that these problems
will cause endless happiness, he meets them as blessings. He takes
no heed of what the ignorant say. Anxiety, calamities, disasters are
the unerring witnesses of love. What difference does it make if
idiots do not understand this. The best to do is not to talk with such
ignoramuses [not to listen to their radios, not to see their motion
pictures, newspapers and books].
Answer 6: Hardships are the Beloved’s lasso. [It is a lasso
thrown by the Beloved One to pull the lover to Himself.] It is like
a whip protecting the lovers from looking at things other than the
Beloved One. It makes the lovers return to the Beloved One.
Then, anxiety and disasters should be sent upon the lovers.
Disasters protect the lovers against the sin of being fond of things
other than the Beloved One. Others are not worthy of this
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