Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

the ninety-eighth page of Maqâmât-i-Mazhariyya: “A prayer’s
being accepted is conditional on halâl consumption, trueness to
one’s word, and doing with ikhlâs, (i.e. only to please Allâhu
ta’âlha and in a manner to please Allâhu ta’âlâ.)” It is written in
Tezkira-t-ul-Awliyâ (written by Ferîd-ud-dîn ’Attâr
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, 513, Nishâpûr-martyred by the
hordes of Dzenghiz Khân in the same place in 627 [1230 A.D.]):
Some of the disciples of Abul Hasan Kharqânî ‘rahmatullâhi
ta’âlâ ’alaih’ were setting out for a journey. They visited the great
Walî and requested: “The journey will take long and the way is
beset with dangers. Please teach us prayers! We will say them
and attain safety if we should be stopped by highwaymen.” “If
you run across something dangerous on your way, say, ‘Yâ abal
Hasan,’ ” said the blessed scholar. Most of the disciples were not
pleased with this answer on the part of their master. During the
journey they encountered highwaymen. One of them said, “Yâ
abal Hasan!” He and his property and his animal became
invisible. Others’ animals were taken away by the robbers. When
the robbers were gone they asked him how he had managed to
get over trouble, he replied, “I said, ‘Yâ abal Hasan,’ and they
kept away from me.” When they were back they begged their
blessed teacher: “We begged our Rabb (Allâhu ta’âlâ), saying,
‘Yâ Allah.’ We were robbed. This friend of ours attained safety
by saying, ‘Yâ abal Hasan.’ Please do enlighten us. Why?” The
blessed Walî explained: “You called Allâhu ta’âlâ with mouths
that consume harâms and emit harâms. As for this person; he
entreated through Abul-Hasan. Allâhu ta’âlâ made Abul-Hasan
hear his voice. So Abul-Hasan invoked (Allâhu ta’âlâ) for his
salvation. And his invocation was accepted (by Allâhu ta’âlâ).”
[The twenty-seventh âyat-i-kerîma of Mâida Sûra purports:
“Only (prayers and invocations of) people of taqwâ will Allâhu
ta’âlâ accept.” It is stated in a hadîth-i-qudsî: “If a slave of Mine
brings himself close to Me, I shall make him hear voices and
show him hidden things.” Please see the latter part of the fortieth
chapter of the first fascicle, and also the thirty-second chapter of
the current fascicle, of Endless Bliss! Prayers should not be made
with words with unknown meanings. Prayers said in the
following situations will not take long to (take effect and to) be
accepted (by Allâhu ta’âlâ): Prayers said by civil servants who
render justice, prayers said by oppressed people, by people in
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