Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

one of the employees of the telegraph office, stood up and called
aloud, “Let him who is Muhammad’s donkey come here.” One of
the men came forward and he mounted the man, saying takbîr. A
bottle of wine in his one hand and a glass in the other, he went
among the Bektâshî women. Saying takbîr, he began to distribute
the wine. All the women becoming drunk, he returned to the male
group. Then, he said loudly, “Let’s perform namâz!” They all
stood up, turned their back to the Qibla and, their father being the
imâm, they performed it as follows: After shouting, “Namâz is a
lie. I don’t believe in namâz, I don’t perform namâz,” they all
prostrated. When prostrating, their father raised one of his feet
and one of his hands and shouted. Then this Alî Ridâ held his two
naked wives by their hands and took them to Sâmî Bey, who was a
Sunnî and who had been standing at a distance. He said to him,
“See? What a beautiful thing it is to be a Bektâshî, isn’t it? You’d
better become a Bektâshî like us. Instead of sitting deprived at a
distance, you could entertain yourself together with us.” All the
Bektâshîs, women and men alike, began to walk and assault the
wives of the Ahl as-sunnat, who had gone out to take air, it being a
holiday. Saying, “We own these places. What is their business here
who are not from us?” they tore up their veils. The poor women
ran away and cried for help. Being few in number, their husbands
could not rescue the women. Hearing their cries, the artillerymen
in the fortress came to their rescue. They defeated the Bektâshîs.
Such enmity to Islam, which even disbelievers do not feel, was
hushed up because Mustafa Bey, the Chief Secretary of the
Ministry of the province of Salonica, was a Bektâshî. And it was
written in a distorted manner in Masonic newspapers. This
abominable behavior, which took place in 1288 A.H. [1871 A.D.],
was reported to the Prime Ministry with a large petition by the
patriotic Muslim inhabitants. Upon this, they were punished.
These liars, who dissemble their infidelity under the guise of
this blessed epithet, ‘Bektâshî’, are betrayed by their own
literature, i.e. the book Haqîqatnâma, which is one of the
commentaries to Jâwidân. There is another book, Mahsharnâma,
written by Amir ’Ali, and another book, Muqaddamatul-haqâyiq,
repeating the heresies written in ’Ashknâma. It curses people who
will not believe them and commands that they be killed. And the
booklet Viran Abdal is not one of their secret books; they read it
openly in order to deceive Muslims and to mislead them out of
Islam. It slanders Hadrat ’Âisha ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhâ’ and writes ill
of Hadrat al-imâm-ul-a’zam Abû Hanîfa by saying that he is a
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