Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

‘’alaihimussalawâtu wa-t-teslîmât’ through an angel, could man
not receive through his mind the facts pertaining to the eternal
and real Being directly from Him?
Answer: Mind could establish such a connection. But as long
as mind remains in this world, it remains attached to the body,
too. It cannot free itself from this attachment. Its connection with
this temporary being cannot be cancelled. Delusions always
cluster around mind, and fancies stay with it. Wrath (ghadâb) and
lust (shahwat), that is, desires of the nafs, always stay with it.
Ambitions and personal concerns do not leave it alone. Confusion
and oblivion, the indispensable signs of being human, never leave
it to itself. Going wrong and erring, which are properties peculiar
to this world, do not just slip away from it. Then, how can mind be
believed in everything? Mind’s decisions and commands cannot
escape the interference of delusions or the influence of fancies,
nor can they be protected against the danger of oblivion and
confusion, whereas none of these defects exists in angels. These
stains and evils do not exist in them. For this reason, angels
certainly never make errors. Angels can be trusted and relied
upon. The interference of delusions, the danger of oblivion, the
probalitity of confusion cannot influence the reports that an angel
brings. Sometimes when I want to convey some information
which has come from the soul through the sense organs, I feel that
some untrue origins come out by way of delusion and fancy and
that against my will they get mixed with the information coming
from the soul, so that I cannot distinguish them. And sometimes I
am inspired as to how to distinguish them. So, as a result of errors
getting mixed with the information coming through the soul, it all
becomes unreliable. Another answer would be as follows: The
progress and the purgation of mind is possible only by doing the
acts which Allâhu ta’âlâ likes, that is, by learning and practising
the rules of Islam. And this, in its turn, requires learning and
doing what Prophets ‘’alaihimussalawâtu wassalâm’ say and
teach. Unless they inform us, mind cannot make progress or
purify itself. The signs of purity and brightness, which some
disbelievers seem to have, are not the brightness of the heart; they
are the brightness of the nafs. And the brightness of the nafs
brings nothing but digression, damage and loss. It is called Istidrâj
when disbelievers and sinners are informed with some unknown
things, when their nafs shine. It is intended to entice them to utter
perdition, to torment, gradually, slowly. May Allâhu ta’âlâ protect
us all against such perdition. For the sake of the greatest of
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