Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

doing dhikr its meaning must be thought about. When this
meaning pervades all one’s conscience the heart becomes lighted
with nûrs. So one thinks one has attained the meaning. One feels
as if one were united with Allâhu ta’âlâ. My dear sir! Who on earth
could object to these words of the superiors? Ruzbahân-i Baqlî
and Molla ’Aliyy-ul-qâri insisted on denying this ma’rifat. In
response to them, this faqîr [Hadrat Abdullah-i Dahlawî means
himself] has written: out of his excessive love for Leylâ, Majnûn-i
’Âmirî gave up eating and drinking. He turned away from
everything else. He began to mention the name of Leylâ
incessantly. Later on he said he was Leylâ. He saw everything to
be Leylâ. After suffering many hardships the nafs becomes
purified, loses the properties and effects of the body and attains
the state of the soul. When one does dhikr very much and the
meaning of dhikr covers one all over, one deems oneself to be
united with the rank of tanzîh, too. [When covered with this state
of deeming], Husayn bin Mansûr said: “Ana-l-Haqq” (I am Haqq).
We ignorant people cannot think over this subtle ma’rifat. Such
statements as “I am Ahmad without the ‘m’,” [which means ‘I am
Ahad,’ which also means Allah], and “I am the Arab without the
’ayn (the first ‘a’)” [which means ‘I am Rabb,’ which is another
name for Allah], are not hadîths. They are statements concocted
by the followers of those (great people) who have attained the
grade of tawhîd — May Allâhu ta’âlâ forgive them all! Also, those
things which are written in the book Nahj-ul-balâghât under the
name of Hadrat ’Ali’s khutbas are untrue.
[It is unanimously informed by Islamic savants that the book
Nahj-ul-balâghât was written by a Shî’î (Shiite) named Radî.
Hadrat ’Abdul-’azîz-i Dahlawî, one of the great savants of India,
writes in detail in his great book Tuhfa-i ithnâ ’ashariyya that Radî,
author of the book, was a Jew. In Rampour city of India, a Râfidî
named Imtiyâz ’Alî ’Arshî wrote a book named Istinâd in 1389
A.H. (1969); he attempted to prove that the book Nahj-ulbalâghât
was correct, yet the people whom he puts forward as
witnesses are such heretical masons as Abdoh and other wellknown
Shi’îs. They published the second edition of Istinâd in
Teheran in 1393 hijrî and have been spreading its copies in Muslim
countries, thus striving to deceive youngsters who are Sunnî. It is
written also in the preface of the book Istinâd that the savants of
that era, such as Imâm-i Dhehebî and Ibni Hajar-i Asqalânî, said:
“This book was written by Sherîf Radî.” Each statement made by
(any one) of these three great savants is a witness, a strong
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