Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

eached. And the ones who know only know the way that leads to
that grade. Those who have reached have reached, attained
completely, and have become united. As is expressed in the
following Arabic line, one of those superiors states:
The slave’s attaining his Creator is like sugar’s being mixed with milk.
The first thing to be done is to be a slave and to be freed from
other things by being a slave to Him.
56 — SECOND VOLUME, 59th LETTER
This letter, written to Khwâja Muhammad ’Abdullah
‘sallamahullâhi ta’âlâ’, his murshid’s son, informs that everything
occurring to mind or imagination and everything understood
through kashf and shuhûd are creatures and that they are called
mâ-siwâ:
Hamd be to Allâhu ta’âlâ and salâm to those slaves of His
chosen and loved by Him! The valuable letter sent by the light of
my eye has arrived here. “As if they were toys on the way of
Tasawwuf, all the things diverting the wayfarers have disappeared
with the help of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Nothing is now continuous.
Everything coming to my mind or imagination is disappearing as
soon as I say the word ‘lâ’,” you say. You write many other similar
things. You add that you have been struggling so that they will be
annihilated and hoping that later on they will be annihilated
spontaneously. My dear son! All the things coming to mind and
imagination, even those pieces of knowledge found through kashf
and shuhûd, are mâ-siwâ, whether they are âfâqî, outside of man,
or anfusî, inside man. [In other words, they are the creatures of
Allâhu ta’âlâ.] To set the heart on them means to waste time on
trivial things such as playing and toys. It is to play with useless
things. If their annihilation is managed by struggling, this work is
’ilm-ul-yaqîn. If they are annihilated by themselves, without
struggling, the matter has exceeded the limits of a struggle and
gone beyond the street of knowledge, and one has been honoured
with Fanâ. It is easy to say but difficult to attain these. They are
attained only by people whom Allâhu ta’âlâ has blessed with the
lot. The things in the grade of haqîqat are attained later. After
Fanâ the grade of ithbât is attained. After knowledge the ’ayn is
attained. Working is of no value when compared with the haqîqat.
Nafy [to dispel the thought of creatures from the heart] is of no
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