Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

Deliver your heart from love of this world,
So that you can receive what comes from souls’ world!
From harâms, keep away; and what is farz, do!
If you don’t do the farz, you will end in woe!
20 — THIRD VOLUME, 54th LETTER
This letter was written to Khân-i Jihân ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
’alaih’. It enjoins holding fast to this religion, which is firm, and
informs that to be careful about observing Islam in one’s worldly
businesses is to earn one’s faith and the world together:
May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless you with doing the things which He
likes! May He bestow safety upon you and bless you with being
valuable and cherished! For the sake of His high Prophet and his
close relatives ‘’alaihi wa ’alaihimussalawâtu wa-t-teslîmât’, may
He accept this prayer of mine! A Persian couplet in English:
The ball of prosperity and happiness is thrown onto the field.
There is none in sight, where are the polomen?
The world’s sweet things and transient blessings are useful and
halâl only when they help one to obey this brilliant religion. A
worldly advantage is good when it is together with the advantage
pertaining to the Hereafter. Those worldly blessings which do not
help earn the Hereafter are like poisons covered with sugar. Idiots
are deceived by them. Woe betide people who do not use the
theriac prescribed by Allâhu ta’âlâ as a curative against these
poisons! So wretched are those who do not tame these sugary,
sweet poisons by enduring the difficulty of obeying Islam’s
commandments and prohibitions. In short, a person who makes
only a small effort, a little attempt at following Islam, will attain
endless advantages. It is so easy to follow Islam’s commandments
and prohibitions. And and it will take only a little unawareness and
slackness to lose these endless blessings. A person with a farsighted,
accurate mind should follow this briliant religion. He
should not be like a child who misses useful things by being
absorbed in playing with walnuts and cypress cones. If you observe
and obey Islam during your worldly occupations you will have
followed the Prophets’ ‘’alaihimussalâwâtu wa-t-teslîmât’ way and
enlightened and perpetuated this firm religion! Even if we worship
sincerely for many years, we incapable people cannot approach the
grade of a hero like you, who have earned the religion and the
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