Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

Islamic religion and civilization. Today the existence of more than
a hundred million Muslims in India is the result of this movement.
The Ottoman fleet went to India in 940 [1533 A.D.], and returned
to Jedda five years later.
The second migration involved the Oghuz Turks crossing Iran
and, after the victory of Malazgirt, invading Asia Minor, which
had been under the possession of the Byzantines. The Oghuz
Turks also came here after having been honoured with Islam.
Today, despite the elapse of centuries since then, they have still
been living in Asia Minor and have been partaking in world
politics only owing to their remaining as Muslims.
The third invasionary movement was towards the Balkan
Peninsula through the northern Black Sea. The Turks of
Pechenek and Koman, which included a number of Oghuz Turks,
also settled on the Balkan Peninsula. They, it is a shame, went
there without having been honoured with the Islamic religion.
With the oppression of the Christian states surrounding them,
they soon forgot about their national character. They lost their
traditions. They melted and perished. They were not like the
other members of their race, who have been living in India, in
Asia Minor, and in other places today. Why couldn’t they
survive? Who and what remained from them? Why was it so?
As it can be understood, the great and principal power that
keeps the Turkish states and nations living and standing is îmân,
and it is the power of justice, goodness, righteousness, and
devotion, which are very strong in Islam.
[It is not an act of civilization to imitate the West’s beliefs,
customs, traditions, and immoralities. It would mean to damage
the constitution of the Muslim nation.]
Ignatiev, who worked as the Russian Ambassador to the
Ottoman Empire for a long time, divulges in a letter written to
the Russian Czar Alexander by the chief plotter of the Byzantine
rebellion of 1237 [1821] Patriarch Gregorius, who was hanged
before of the Phanar Patriarchate in the time of Sultân Mahmood
the second. The letter is a warning lesson:
“It is impossible to crush or demolish the Turks materially.
Being Muslims, the Turks are very patient and enduring people.
They are utterly proud and majestically faithful. These qualities
originate from their devotion to their faith, their contentment
with destiny, their traditionalism, and their loyalty to their
Pâdishâs [State authorities, commanders, superiors.]
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