Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

and facilitate one’s accounting on the Day of Judgment. It also
causes one’s promotion in the next world. The more one suffers in
the world the more comfortable will he be in the next world. For
this reason, too, did the Prophets ‘’alaihim-us-salawât-u-wa-tteslîmât’
subject themselves to riyâdât and mujâhadât. All these
sum up to mean that though it is not necessary in the way of ijtibâ
to suffer riyâdats or to enjoy the mubâhs as much as necessary,
these are still good and useful. Considering their numerous
benefits, we might as well say that they are necessary, and
indispensable. Yâ Rabbî! Please treat us with compassion! Bless us
with the lot of proper and useful deeds! Salâm to those who are on
the right way!
47 — SECOND VOLUME, 92nd LETTER
This letter, written to Sayyid Mîr Muhammad Nu’mân ‘quddisa
sirruh’, states that to be a Walî means to be close to Allâhu ta’âlâ
and that being a Walî does not require having khâriqas and
karâmats:
May our hamd be to Allâhu ta’âlâ! Our salâms be to those
people beloved to Him! I have been praying for the good health of
my most beloved brother, Sayyid Mîr Muhammad Nu’mân.
Attaining the Wilâyat [being a Walî] does not require occurrence
of khâriqas and karâmats. As it is not necessary for Islamic
scholars to exhibit khâriqas (wonders), likewise it is unnecessary
for the Awliyâ to make a show of khâriqas. For, Wilâyat means
qurb-i ilâhî [being close to Allâhu ta’âlâ], and Allâhu ta’âlâ
bestows this qurb [closeness] upon His Awliyâ after Fanâ [that is,
after forgetting everything other than Allâhu ta’âlâ]. He may bless
a person with this closeness and yet may not inform him with
unknown things in this world. Someone else may be both given this
and informed of the unknown. And a third person may be given
none of this closeness but may be informed of the unknown. The
third one is a man of istidrâj. His nafs being polished, he is being
informed of unknown things, thus being made to fall into the pit of
heresy. The state of such people is declared in the eighteenth âyat
of the Mujâdala Sûra: “They think they are doing something good.
You should know that they are consummate liars. Shaytân has
deceived them and led them astray. He has made them forget
Allâhu ta’âlâ to such an extent that they neither mention nor
remember Allâhu ta’âlâ. They have become the soldiers, the
servants of Shaytân. You should know that these people who are
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