Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

is better to do dhikr silently. Doing dhikr aloud may be
permissible to increase the heart’s fervour and to remove
slackness. Doing dhikr very much and suffering riyâdât will
increase love of Allâhu ta’âlâ in the heart and cause the mysteries
of wahdat-i wujûd to occur. Wahdat-i wujûd means to see the
creatures as one being. It does not mean to deem the creatures as
Allâhu ta’âlâ. It is not compatible with Islam, nor is it reasonable
to speak so out of one’s own opinion and imagination and to
represent oneself as a man of wahdat-i wujûd by hearing the
words about wahdat-i wujûd of those who experience this
mysterious state called hâl, which is formed in the heart by love
of Allah. Rukn-ud-dîn ’Alâuddawla-i Samnânî and Mujaddid-i
Alf-i Thânî Ahmad Fârûqî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaihimâ’ and superiors
who followed them saw and found out the fact that besides the
ma’rifat of wahdat-i wujûd there was another kind of ma’rifat
which came into being in all Prophets ‘’alaihimussalawâtu
wassalâm’.
To be a dervish means to be with Allâhu ta’âlâ, to form good
habits and to obey Islam. It means to dispel all things other than
Allâhu ta’âlâ from the heart and to adapt all one’s limbs to
Hadrat Muhammad Mustafâ ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’. To be
with Allâhu ta’âlâ is called hudûr, which is the grade of ihsân
stated in the hadîth-i-sherîf. A dervish’s heart must be in this
grade. Any person who is given this lot must deem it as a great
blessing!
Tawhîd-i af’âlî means to see all the deeds and actions of
creatures to be of the deeds of One Single Maker.
Tawhîd-i sifâtî means to know the attributes, the properties of
creatures as the appearances of Haqq ta’âlâ’s Attributes, and to
see every being to be annihilated in Allâhu ta’âlâ’s being. The
blessed Awliyâ have always been in this state.
Ijâzat and khilâfat means to grant permission to a mature
person so that he will place dhikr into the hearts of tâlibs. The
superior person who has been given the permission is called
khalîfa or wasîla. The bâtin [that is, the heart and the other four
latîfas] [1] of the superior person who is given the permission must
[1] Please see the thirty-ninth chapter of the first fascicle, and also the
twenty-third and twenty-sixth chapters of the sixth fascicle, of Endless
Bliss for ‘latîfa’.
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