Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

means behind, they have formed an attachment to their Creator.
Translation of a Persian line:
The broken-hearted hit the ball forward!
Furthermore, prayers repel accidents and calamities. The ever
truthful ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ declared: “Accidents can
be stopped with prayers only.” Swords, jihâd [and all kinds of
means of war] cannot stop an accident. As is seen, soldiers of the
army of supplicants, weak and broken-hearted as they are, are
more important than soldiers of the fighting army. Soldiers of the
army of supplicants are sort of the souls of the soldiers of the
fighting army. Soldiers of the fighting army are their bodies. Then,
soldiers of the fighting army can manage nothing without the
army of supplicants. For, no help or force will be useful for a body
without a soul. Therefore, during times of trouble in his ghazâs,
Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ used to ask for help
from Allâhu ta’âlâ for the sake of the poor ones of the muhâjirs.
Though he had an army and soldiers, he would pray by making
the poor ones of the muhâjirs intermediaries. We faqîrs, soldiers
of the army of supplicants, are wretched, humiliated before
everybody, and heart-broken. For, it has been said: “Poverty is a
disgrace in this world and the next.” So as we are, we are made
valuable ahead of the men of action. Muhkbîr-i Sâdiq (he who
always says the truth: the Prophet) ‘’alaihi min-es-salawâti
atammuhâ’ declared: “On the Day of Rising, the martyrs’ blood
will be weighed against the savants’ ink. The ink will weigh
heavier.” This darkness, this disgrace causes them to be cherished,
honoured. It promotes them from the lowest to the highest. Yes,
translation of a Persian line:
The water of life exists in darkness!
This low person who prays for you is not worthy enough to
deem himself as one of the soldiers of the army of supplicants; yet
only in the name of poverty and with the hope of probable
acceptance of a prayer, he has been counting himself among the
praying soldiers of your powerful state and has been praying with
his spirit and tongue and saying the Fâtiha for your salvation. O
our Allah! Accept our prayers! You hear every word and know
everything.
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