Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

20 — SECOND VOLUME, 25th LETTER
This letter, written to Khwâja Sharâfaddîn-i Huseyn, explains
that everything done so as to follow Rasûlullah is dhikr:
Alhamdu-l-illâhi wa salâmun ’ibâdihil ladhî-n-astafâ. The letter
which my dear son sent through Mawlâna ’Abd-ur-Rashîd and
Mawlâna Jân Muhammad has reached us, together with the sum of
the votive offering. May Allâhu ta’âlâ bestow the best things upon
you in return! We are glad to hear that you are in good health.
O my son! This time of yours is a chance. And chance is a
great blessing. Time that is spent in good health and without care
is a rare blessing. Every hour should be spent remembering
Allâhu ta’âlâ. Everything, even buying and selling, done in
obedience to Rasûlullah, will become dhikr. Then, every action,
every attitude should be adapted to Rasûlullah. Thus all of them
will become dhikr. Dhikr means to expel unawareness. [1] That is, it
means to remember Allâhu ta’âlâ. When one observes Allah’s
commands and prohibitions in one’s every action, every deed, one
will be secure against forgetting about the Owner of the
commandments and prohibitions and will always remember Him.
21 — THIRD VOLUME, 105th LETTER
This letter, written in response to a letter from Shaikh Hasan-i
Berkî, encourages to recover the forgotten sunnats and to avoid
bid’ats.
I begin to write this letter with the Basmala. May hamd
(praise and gratitude) be to Allâhu ta’âlâ. I send my salâms to
and invocations for the good people chosen by Allâhu ta’âlâ. I
very much rejoiced to read the letter from my brother Shaikh
Hasan. Valuable pieces of knowledge and ma’rifats were written
in it. When I understood them, I became very happy. Thanks be
to Allâhu ta’âlâ, all the knowledge and kashfs which you wrote
are correct. They are all agreeable with the Qur’ân and hadîths.
So are the right beliefs of the savants of Ahl as-sunnat. May
[1] Please see the twenty-fifth chapter of the fourth fascicle of Endless
Bliss.
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