Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

eligion, whether mind can comprehend them or not. May Allâhu
ta’âlâ profusely reward them for their efforts! They never
contradicted any of these teachings only because mind would not
comprehend them. Thus, they immediately believed in torment in
the grave, the fact that two angels named Munkar and Nakir will
ask questions in the grave, the existence of the Bridge of Sirât and
the scales of the Judgment Day. They did not say that these were
impossible because mind could not comprehend them. For, these
superior people adapted themselves to the Qur’ân al-kerîm and to
hadîth-i-sherîfs. They made their minds dependent upon these two
basic sources. They explained what they could understand. And
what they could not understand, they believed exactly as it was.
About what they could not understand, they said they could not
understand it because their minds could not grasp it. They did not
do as philosophers did. Philosophers believed things that are
within mind’s grasp and denied those which their minds could not
comprehend. They did not know that the sending of Prophets
‘’alaihimussalawâtu wa-t-teslîmât’ was because mind could not
comprehend most of the things liked by Allâhu ta’âlâ. Mind is a
document but not a perfect one. It has become a complete
document with the sending of Prophets ‘’alaihimussalawâtu wa-tteslîmât’.
[In other words, mind has learned everything only
because those superior people were sent.] Allâhu ta’âlâ declares in
the fifteenth âyat of Isrâ Sûra: “We do not torment unless we have
sent Prophets.”
Returning to the subject under discussion, we say that though
seeing something opposite us requires being in the same direction,
seeing something which is not near us does not require it.
Something far away is not in one direction with respect to our
position, nor is it seen at one side. Something which is not in one
direction before being seen is not in any direction while it is being
seen, either. Seeing something that cannot be understood happens
in a manner which cannot be understood. A material being cannot
understand someone beyond matter. An Arabic line in English:
The Sultan’s numerous presents can be carried only with His vehicles.
It is wrong, unreasonable to liken seeing the one that cannot be
understood to seeing things which we understand. Allâhu ta’âlâ
alone makes man attain the right way.
I am a Muslim, the throne that I worship day and night is One.
Not for a minute have I ceased from Unity; Allah is One!
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