Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

laws, too.] We should learn Islam by asking true scholars who
know Islam well and who keep the next world in their minds. The
statements and books of such blessed people are influential.
Owing to the blessed words that their blessed breath carries, it will
be easy to keep their advice. [One should run away from robbers
of faith and their books because these people write religious books
and make speeches in order to earn money, to influence votes, or
to seize a post, and they smile at Muslims in order to deceive
them.] In places where true scholars cannot be found and
dependable books are not available, these fake scholars can be
asked questions only when it is inevitable. Yet even in such cases
we should not listen to their preaches and speeches.
O my son! What business do we, faqîrs, have with the so-called
lovers of this world so that we should be interested in their good
or bad behaviours? Allâhu ta’âlâ’s Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ has given all the necessary pieces of advice and left behind
nothing unsaid. Yet, since this dear child came to us, faqîrs, and
asked for advice and help, it has been coming to (our) heart,
frequently, how and in what states this dear child has been. It is
this attachment that has occasioned these lines to be written. I
know that this dear child has heard words of this nature myriads
of times. Yet one will not attain anything only by hearing. It is
necessary to practise what one hears and learns. A patient may
know what medicine he needs. Yet he will not recover unless he
takes the medicine. Knowing the medicine cannot cure him. The
millions of statements made by all the Prophets ‘’alaihim-ussalâm’
and the thousands of books written by the multitude of
savants ‘rahimah-um-Allah’ are intended for being put into
practice. Knowing will not be a beneficent intercessor in the next
world, but it will be a document, a testimony serving as a ground
for torment. Our master, the Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa
sallam’ stated: “On the Day of Judgment, the person who be
subjected to the most vehement and the worst torment is the
savant who did not benefit from his knowledge and whose
behaviour did not keep pace with his knowledge.”
My son! You, too, know that tawba on that day will be futile!
For, the life you have led away from those who love and never
forget Allâhu ta’âlâ has prevented that bud of happiness from
blossoming into a flower. Yet the fact that that bud has not
decayed indicates that this dear child is an absolute gem who will
immaculately respond to tuition. For the barakat of that tawba
and attachment, it is hoped that Allâhu ta’âlâ will sooner or later
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