Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

that most of the people who read Jâwidân are on the path of ilhâd
and that they are disbelievers because they deny the rising after
death by saying, ‘Not the overt meaning but the covert meaning
of the Qur’ân is its real meaning.’ This book was printed on the
margins of the book Rashahât in 1291 [1874] in Istanbul. Hurûfîs
call people who are most excessive in disbelief and ilhâd ‘Sayyid.’
For this reason, many of them, such as the Nasîmî, claimed to be
Sayyids. To deceive Muslims, the Hurûfîs, hiding under the name
of Bektâshî, attacked through several ways:
1— They say that Fadl-i Hurûfî is a god. It is written in
Jâwidân: “Eternally before, god used to be an invisible force. It
appeared first in letters, then in prophets, and eventually in Fadl.
First Hadrat Adam appeared in the guise of a prophet. For this
reason angels prostrated themselves before Adam. He explained
the meanings of his four books in Jâwidân.”
2— Fabling hadîths in their book Khutba-tul-bayân and also in
their other books, which they made up in the name of Hadrat
’Alî’s words, they say that sinning does not harm the lovers of
Hadrat ’Alî. By saying that worshipping is unnecessary and that
the harâm (forbidden) are halâl (permitted), they deceive those
ignorant people who would like to enter Paradise without pious
deeds and worships. After coaxing a person into giving up his
worships and îmân, they begin to teach him the book S›r, for
Jâwidân does not contain even the names of the Ahl-i Bayt.
Khutba-tul-bayân also has a commentary in Turkish.
3— They say that all religions are the same and that they are
all accumulated in sixteen belts. “Each of the sixteen belts is a
prophet’s sharî’at. He who wears each belt will have performed
the religion of that prophet. For example, he who wears Hadrat
Adam’s belt always wears leather, for Hadrat Adam wore leather
clothes. He who wears Hadrat Mûsâ’s belt does not ride on a
mare. He who wears Hadrat Îsâ’s belt never gets married. But
adultery and homosexual intercourse are permitted for him. For,
Hadrat Îsâ (Jesus) ‘’alaihi’s-salâm’ was a bachelor,” they say. It is
written in Jâwidân by the son of Farishtah that they hold the
belief of trinity like Christians. It is written there, again, that the
high person called ’Alî was Fadl-i Hurûfî. It is written in another
page: “Fadl-i Hurûfî is superior to Hadrat Muhammad and ’Alî
[May Allâhu ta’âlâ protect us against saying so!]. They did not
know the subtleties of Islam as well as Fadl does.” Its passages
contradict one another.
These false Bektâshîs are not Shiites or Alawîs, either. They
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