Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

actually. It is not good to believe them to be separate theoretically.
Allâhu ta’âlâ is Qadîm. [That is, His existence does not have a
beginning. He was never nonexistent before His existence; He
always existed.] He is Azalî. [That is, He was never nonexistent.]
No being other than He is qadîm or azalî. Owners of faith, owners
of heavenly books have always held this belief and have said that
those who deem anybody besides Allâhu ta’âlâ as qadîm and azalî
are polytheists. For this reason, the Hujjat-ul islâm Imâm-i
Muhammad Ghazâlî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ has said that Ibni Sînâ
and Fârâbî and a few others were disbelievers; for they believed
that the Primordial matter, [which they said was the initial state of
mind, soul and matter,] was eternal, and that the heavens,
together with their contents, were eternal.
[It is written in the book Akhlâq-i-’alâ’î: “Ibni Sînâ (Avicenna)
denied the rising after death in his book Mu’âd. Though it is
rumoured that towards his death he performed a ghusl ablution
and did penance for the cruelties he had done when he had been a
vizier, it is said (by savants) that the ghusl, the namâz and the
prayers of a person with the wrong belief will not be accepted.”]
My master said, “Shaikh-i akbar Muhyiddîn-i ’Arabî’s
statement, ‘The souls of great people are eternal,’ should be
adapted to the unanimous beliefs and statements of savants: its
outward meaning should not be considered.”
Allâhu ta’âlâ is Qâdîr-i mukhtâr. [That is, He can do whatever
He wills to. Unlike natural forces, He is not compelled [to do
things]. Ancient Greek philosophers, being unable to
comprehend the matter, presumed that it would be perfection,
greatness, to have to act, create, thus denying the choice of Allâhu
ta’âlâ. They said that He had to act. These idiots said that Allâhu
ta’âlâ had to create one thing, and that he had not created
anything else. They called that fabulous thing the first intellect
and said that it was making everything.
What they call ’Aql-i fa’âl (the first intellect) is only a fancy
that exists in their imagination. According to their profane belief,
“Allâhu ta’âlâ does not do anything. When man is in trouble, he
invokes ’Aql-i fa’âl. He does not ask anything of Allâhu ta’âlâ.
For Allâhu ta’âlâ is not interested in what is going on on earth.
Everything is made, created by ’Aql-i fa’âl.” In fact, they do not
invoke ’Aql-i fa’âl, either. For, they do not consider it to have a
will or option for freeing them from trouble. These unfortunate
people are the lowest of all the heretical groups in idiocy and
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