Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

Muslim cities from selling bread and food. In the blessed month of
Ramadân, they had been eating and drinking wildly before the
Muslims at public places. The Muslims could not say anything. It is
a shame that we had fallen down into such a weak and wretched
situation although the state and government officials were on our
side. When esteemed by the authorities, Islam had shone and the
highest savants, the superiors of Sôfiyya ‘qaddas-Allâhu ta’âlâ
srrah-ul’azîz’ had been loved and respected by everybody. With
the authority given by the State, they had struggled for the
spreading of Islam. As I have heard, when Timur (Tamerlane)
‘’alaihirrahma’, the prosperous and victorious amîr, was passing a
Bukhârâ street, he saw a number of men shaking off the dust from
a number of carpets. He wondered whose they were. Upon finding
out that the carpets belonged to Khwâja Naqshiband Bahâeddîn-i
Bukhârî’s ‘quddisa sirruh’ residence, he approached the place and,
replete with love and respect for Islam, stood under the dust of the
carpets, rubbed the dusts of the residence on his face and eyes as
if putting on the perfume of musk and amber, and wanted to get
honoured with the fayd and barakat of people who were on the
way of Allah. He is hoped to have died with îmân owing to his love
and respect for people who were close to Allâhu ta’âlâ. As we have
heard, when the news of Timur’s death was heard, one of the
Awliyâ of the time ‘quddisa sirruh’ said: “Timur has died and
taken away îmân with him.”
While reciting the khutba on Fridays, the khatîbs mention the
sultans’ names after descending down to the lowest step. Its reason
is that the sultans want to show the fact that they are lower than
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ and his four Khalîfas.
They have it recited in this manner because they deem it
unbecoming to have their names mentioned together with the
names of those great people.
Sajda (prostration) means to put the forehead on the ground,
which indicates inferiority, self-humiliation. It is the final grade of
humbleness and reverence. For this reason, prostration is done
only to Allâhu ta’âlâ. It is not permissible to prostrate oneself
before anybody other than He. One day, while our Prophet ‘sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ was going somewhere, a villager came up
to him and said that he would have îmân in him if he would exhibit
a mu’jiza. The Sarwar-i ’âlam ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ said,
“Go to the yonder tree and tell it that Allah’s Messenger calls it.”
When the villager did so the tree left its place and came before
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’. No sooner had the
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