Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

all Muslims. My brother Muhibbullah’s honourable letter has
arrived here to please us very much. It is necessary to endure
people’s bothering you. There is nothing to do but to be patient
with your relatives’ hurting you. Allâhu ta’âlâ commands His
Beloved Prophet and declares in Ahkâf Sûra: “As the Ulul’azm
ones of the Prophets were patient, you, too, be patient! Do not
hurry to invoke that they be tormented!” The most useful thing to
those being there is the annoyance and trouble given to them by
others there. You do not wish this blessing and abstain from it.
Yes, he who is used to always eating sweet things will avoid the
healing, bitter medicine. I am at a loss as to what to say about this.
A Persian couplet in English:
A person seized by love, easily piqued as he may be,
Should inure himself to a darling piqued as easily!
You ask for permission to move to a place called Ilâhâbâd. “...
Or recommend some other place. The hardships caused by the
people here have become unbearable. I will go there and breathe
freely for a while,” you say. Rukhsat, permission, can be given for
this. But ’azîmat, i.e. the better way, is to remain there and to be
patient with and endure the difficulties. As you know, this season
makes me feel enervated. That is why I write briefly. I send my
salâm.
23 — SECOND VOLUME, 29th LETTER
This letter was written to the virtuous Shaikh ’Abdulhaqq-i
Dahlawî. It informs that the most valuable capital in this world is
(formed by) sorrows and hardships and that the sweetest blessings
are adversity and sufferings:
Hamd be to Allâhu ta’âlâ and salâm to those slaves of His
whom He has chosen and loved! My Dear Sir. The coming of
disasters may be unpleasant outwardly, but it is expected that they
will be blessings. The world’s most valuable stock is (collected
from) sorrows and afflictions. The most delicious food on the
world’s meal table is (made up of) problems and calamities. These
sweet blessings are covered with bitter medicine. Therefore,
calamities and disasters are showered on the beloved ones. Those
who are fortunate and wise see the sweets placed in them. They
chew the bitter covers on them as if they were sweet. They take
flavour from the bitter. Why shouldn’t they, since everything
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