Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

Library of Süleymâniye. Hakîkat Kitâbevi has reproduced this
book and appended it to the book Minha-t-ul-wahbiyya fî radd-ilwahhâbiyya.
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For protection against the harms of genies and devils and for
recovering from epilepsy and for protection against magic spell,
the ‘âyat al-hirz’, which is provided in the final section of the book
entitled Teshîl-ul-manâfî’, should be read for seven days running,
should be read for seven days running, and it should be written on
a piece of paper and carried.
There is valuable information about how to protect yourself
against incantation, evil eye and genies in the book Kitâburrahma
fit-tibb-i wal-hikma by Jalâl-addîn-i Suyûti ‘rahmatullâhi alaih’.
He says in the hundred and fiftieth chapter: “For ridding the
harmful doubts caused by Shaytân, say every day the prayer: ‘Yâ
Allah-ur-raqîb-ul-hafîz-ur-rahîm. Yâ Allah-ul-hayy-ul-halîm-ul-
’azîm-ur-raûf-ûl-kerîm. Yâ Allah-ul-hayy-ul-qayyûm-ulqâimu
’alâ kulli nafsin bimâ kasabat, hul baynî wa bayna aduwwî!’ ” He
says at the end of the hundred and seventy-fourth chapter:
“Genies will not come to a person who carries the gum called
asafoetida with him. If an epileptic person smells it he (or she)
will recover.” The gum asafoetida is a dark, bad smelling resin,
and it has been used as an antispasmodic, that is, as a sedative of
the nerves, in powder, pills or liquid forms, to remove tension
from the muscles and nerves, in Europe. It is written in Hayât-ulhaywân
and Qâmûs that genies do not enter a house that contains
citron.
Imâm-i-Rabbânî ‘rahmatullâhi alaih’ and his disciples set out
for a long journey. On their way they stopped at an inn to spend
the night. He told his disciples that a catastrophe was going to
befall the inn during the night and advised them to recite the
following prayer: “Bismillâh-il-ledhî lâ-yadhurru ma’asmihi
shey’un fi-l-Erd-i wa-lâ fi-s-samâ’ wa Huwa-s-samî’ul-’alîm.” That
night a great fire broke out, burning everything including the
lodgers’ belongings. Yet the lodgers who had said the prayer
suffered no harm. This prayer is written in the books ’Umdat-ul-
[1] Written by Dâwûd bin Suleymân ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ (1222
[1807 A.D.], Baghdâd – 1299 [1881], the same place). Its English
versian occupies the twenty-fourth chapter of the book entitled
Advice for the Muslim, one of the publications of Hakîkat Kitâbevi,
in Istanbul, Turkey.
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