Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

14 — FIRST VOLUME, 70th LETTER
This letter, written to Khân-i Khânân, informs that man’s
accumulating the ’âlam-i khalq and the ’âlam-i amr within
himself makes him remote from Allâhu ta’âlâ on the one hand
and brings him closer to Allâhu ta’âlâ on the other:
May Allâhu ta’âlâ keep you on the right way shown by
Hadrat Muhammad Mustafâ’s ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’
religion. May He have mercy upon those who say ‘Âmîn’ to this
invocation! The accumulation of the ’âlam-i emr and the ’âlam-i
khalq [1]
within man has caused him to become close to Allâhu
ta’âlâ, to be valuable and superior. It is this accumulation, again,
which has caused him to become away from Allâhu ta’âlâ, to
deviate from the right way, and to remain unaware of Him.
Owing to this accumulation, man’s mirror has been made perfect
and he has been closer to Allâhu ta’âlâ. He has become eligible
for reflecting the Names and Attributes of Allâhu ta’âlâ and even
the Divine Person Himself (the Dhât-i-ilâhî). The hadîth-i qudsî
that purports: “I do not go into heaven or earth. But I go into the
heart of My believing slave,” implies this fact. Man’s needing
every mote of the motes in the ’âlam (all classes of beings) has
caused him to be away from Allah. For, man needs everything,
every mote. The twenty-ninth âyat of Baqara, “I created
everything on earth in order to meet your needs,” states this fact.
Because of this need of his, man sets his heart upon everything.
On account of this indigence inherent in his nature, man is
inclined to set his heart on worldly needs. And this, in turn,
pushes him away from Allâhu ta’âlâ and causes him to deviate
from the right way. Translation of a stanza in Persian:
The highest of creatures is man
He, again, is deprived of this rank.
If he does not give up that way and come back,
He will be more deprived than anybody else.
As is seen, man is the highest of creatures. He, again, is the
[1] Please see the twentieth, the twenty-first, and the twenty-second
chapters of the sixth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
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