Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

mind’s taking for granted the fact that the Prophet has been sent
by Allah and he always tells the truth. When mind accepts this
basic teaching it has accepted also all of what the Prophet taught.
Unless mind accepted the fact that the Prophet had been sent by
Allah and that he reported what Allah had declared, it would be
impracticable to make it believe Islam’s teachings one by one.
The shortest way for mind’s believing the Prophet easily and to
form a perfect îmân in the heart is the dhikr of Allâhu ta’âlâ. The
thirtieth âyat of Ra’d Sûra purports: “You should know well that
with the dhikr only will hearts will attain serenity and ease!” In
other words, they will attain perfect îmân. It is difficult, very
difficult to reach this high rank by thinking, by measuring with
mind.
Couplet:
A rationalist’s feet are made of wood.
How can one ever say that they are sound.
I would like to add that a person who follows the Prophet’s way
and adapts himself to the Prophet in everything he does by
accepting and confirming the fact that the Prophet has been sent
by Allah and is always true in his words after thinking over it for a
long time, has done everything thoughtfully, and he has followed
mind in everything. His following each word of the Prophet means
to follow mind. If the human mind understands and accepts the
existence of something it has also understood and accepted the
existence of the parts which issue from that thing and which make
up that thing. It does not need to understand the existence of each
of the parts by studying, thinking over them one by one. Since it
has accepted the existence of that thing after observation, it will be
deemed to have accepted all the parts after observation. Hamd be
to Allâhu ta’âlâ, Who has blessed us with this right way! If He had
not guided us to the right way, none of us could have attained the
right way. All Prophets ‘’alahim-us-salawât-u-wa-t-teslîmât’ were
sent by Allah. We believe that they all said the truth. Our salâm be
upon those who are on the right way!
[It is written as follows in the thirty-fifth page of the twentyfourth
(1428 [2007 A.D.]) edition of the book entitled Belief and
Islam:
“The number of Prophets (’alaihimu-s-salâm) is not known. It
is widely known that there were more than 124,000 of them.
Among them, 313 or 315 were rasûls; the six higher rasûls among
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