Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

eported by Hadrat ’Alî states: ‘The best medicine is the Qur’ân
al-kerîm.’ If it is recited and breathed on the ill person, he will feel
better.” If his death time has not come yet, he will recover health.
If it is his death time, it will become easy for him to surrender his
soul. For ridding sorrow, anxiety and annoyance, Rasûlullah ‘sall-
Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ used to say this prayer: “Lâ ilâha
illallâhul-’adhîm-ul-halîm lâ ilâha illallâhu Rabb-ul-’Arsh-il-
’adhîm lâ ilâha illallâhu Rabb-us-samâwâti wa Rabb-ul-Ardi
Rabb-ul-’Arsh-il-kerîm.” It has been communicated by Anas bin
Mâlik that it is good for neuralgia and for all other illnesses to say
this prayer: “Bismillâhirrahmânir-rahîm wa lâ-hawla wa lâquwwata
illâ billâhil ’aliyyil ’adhîm.” Prayers of a person who
commits harâm and whose heart is unaware will not be accepted.
In the Mâid Sûra we are commanded to hold on to the means that
will cause Allâhu ta’âlâ’s creating. It is farz, (i.e. an open
commandment of Allâhu ta’âlâ,) to hold on to means with definite
effects. For instance, we have been commanded to obey Islam and
to invoke Allâhu ta’âlâ so that we should attain Allâhu ta’âlâ’s
grace and love. Because other means and their effects have not
been clearly stated, it has been an act of sunnat to obey them. It
has been an act of sunnat, (for instance,) to expect a salutary
effect from the Prophets’ and the Awliyâ’s souls and to utilize
them as means for getting over pestilences and disasters.
Wahhâbîs have been denying the âyat-i-kerîma by stigmatizing
this act of sunnat as an act of polytheism and disbelief. That souls
are wasîla (intermediaries, means) is explained clearly and in
detail in the book entitled Advice for the Muslim, in a discourse
beginning with the first paragraph of the hundred and seventieth
page of its twenty-second edition. When these prayers are recited
by a person who does not have the belief of the Ahl as-sunnat,
they will not be useful. Allâhu ta’âlâ creates everything through a
means. A person who wants to attain something should hold on to
its means. Praying, giving alms, and taking medicine are things
created by Allâhu ta’âlâ as means for His born slaves to use so
that He will give them health or restore them to health. An âyati-kerîma
or a prayer is written in a pot. Or it is written on a piece
of paper, which is then put into the pot. Then the pot is filled with
some water. When the writing is washed off and mixed with the
water in the pot, you drink some of it daily. Another way is to
make an amulet of the paper and carry it on you. Another way is
to read it and breathe it on your both palms. Then you rub your
palms gently on your body. It is written as follows in the last page
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