Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

grade of love cannot get rid of seeing other attachments. But there
are no attachments, no other respects in this grade. We have said
in some of our letters that above the grade of ridâ there is a way
along which only the last Prophet ‘’alaihi wa ’alaihim wa ’alâ âli
kullinissalâtu wassalâm’ can make progress, and that no one else
can go further than there. Allâhu subhânahu, alone, knows the
truth, the real essence of everything.
It should be known very well that something’s coming
loathsome to the nafs, to the body, does not mean that the heart
dislikes it. Its being seemingly bitter does not prevent it from being
sweet in actual fact. For, they have let the figure and appearance
of an ’ârif who has reached perfection remain like others. They
have not taken the human attributes away from him. Thus, they
have concealed his maturity from others’ eyes. They have made
the world a place for examinations. He who is on the right way and
he who has deviated are mixed with each other and are alike. A
mature ’ârif’s soul and essence in comparison with his figure and
appearance is like a person’s relation to the clothes he wears. What
is man’s clothes worth when compared with his own value? So is
the value of his appearance when compared with his essence. The
ignorant look at an ’ârif’s appearance as they look at a mountain.
They think that it is like their own appearances and figures which
are without an essence or an inner value. They, therefore, deny
and disbelieve such great men. Thus, they are deprived of
benefiting from them. May Allâhu ta’âlâ give salvation to those
who walk along the right way and who hold fast to the footsteps of
Muhammad Mustafâ ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’! Âmîn.
[The letter above gives a full answer to the Wahhâbîs. It is
written at many places of the Wahhabite book entitled Fat-h-ulmajîd,
e.g. in the five hundred and third page: “It is permissible to
ask for benedictions from the Prophet, and even from anyone
alive. Also, one may pronounce one’s benedictions over a dead
person and ask for a blessing on him. But it has been prohibited to
ask for benedictions from the dead. Allâhu ta’âlâ declares, ‘It is
shirk (polytheism) to ask from someone who cannot hear or
answer.’ The dead and those who are far away do not hear or
answer. None of the Sahâba or of the savants went to the Prophet’s
grave and asked for anything.”
I have written in detail in the thirty-fourth chapter of the
second fascicle of Endless Bliss that these words are wrong and
slanderous. Also, I have proved it with examples and documents in
my book Advice For the Muslim. All the Sahâba were higher than
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