Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

Allah. He who serves his Allah is served by the world. The world
is like a man’s shadow. If you chase it, it will evade you. If you run
away from it, it will chase you. The world is a place of troubles for
its lovers. It is a place of blessings for those who are not deceived
by its flavours. It is a place of profit for worshippers. It is a place
of hikmat for those who take warning. It is a place of salvation for
those who know it. It is like Paradise when compared with one’s
mother’s womb. It is like a rubbish-heap when compared with the
Hereafter.
All the things that come before death are called the world. Of
these, the ones that are useful after death are not considered to be
worldly. They are counted as part of the next world. For, the
world is a field of tillage for the next world. Those worldly things
that are not useful for the next world are harmful. So are the
harâms, the sins and excessive mubâhs. If the things that are in
the world are used compatibly with Islam, they will be useful in
the next world. Both the worldly flavor and the blessings of the
next world will be attained. Property is neither good nor bad.
Virtue or evil is in the person who uses it. Then, the world which
is cursed as bad is the thing which Allâhu ta’âlâ disapproves and
which is used in such ways as to demolish the next world. Those
who forget about themselves and Allah are like the stranded
traveller who while on the way busies himself with his horse’s
ornament, saddle and grass, and, thereby, remains behind his
companions. Being left alone in the wilderness, he will perish.
Likewise, if man forgets about what he was created for, falls for
worldly charms, and does not make preparations for the next
world, he will drag himself towards eternal perdition. Love of the
world prevents one from getting ready for the next world. For, the
heart, thinking about it, forgets about Allah. The body, striving to
obtain it, cannot worship any more. The world and the next world
are like the East and the West. He who tries to approach one of
them distances himself from the other. If a person does not
practise Islam and does not observe Allah’s commands and
prohibitions in his living and earning, he has held fast to the
world. Allâhu ta’âlâ makes everybody’s heart feel discord against
him. Nobody likes him.]
Who on earth is free from the bane of griefs?
Everybody has cares since he is human.
A thousand cares chase one pleasure phoenix;
I don’t see why people should fall for such a vision.
– 117 –