Why Did They Become Muslims

Some people go to the shore, and say, “Enough for me.”
Some see it from afar, and become infatuated, dizzy.
Some only watch, and others merely take a sip.
Thou art the one who drank from the ocean till satiety!
Thy work comes next after the Qur’ân and hadîths in priority;
Thy words, so blessed, offer the souls medicinal candy;
Thou art the commander of the world of spirituality;
‘Mujaddid-i-elf-i-thânî [1] is the title granted to thee!
Who made us know of thee, by nature thy friend,
The only scholar fast to thy blessed trend,
Is ‘Sayyid Abdulhakîm’, ablaze with thy love.
For his sake, please bless us with thy shefâ’at! [2]
What illuminates the universe again with thy work,
Attracts, us powerfully towards its wake,
And eliminates the darkness of fourteenth century, [3]
Is the light of ‘Arwâs’, [4] the rest is mere reverie!
We are his disciples and he is thy admirer;
Thy lightsome hearts will sure reflect on each other.
You are, no doubt, in love with each other,
Those who know Maktûbât will love thee and one another!
canonical principles, laws, commandments, prohibitions, etc, and the
Tarîqa, which is the collection of all spiritual paths and orders in
Islam. These two branches had been considered apart from each
other until his time.
[1] Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’ is the last Prophet. No prophet shall
come after him. Islamic scholars will teach Islam to people till the
end of the world. The greatest ones of these scholars are called
‘mujaddid’. Every thousand years after Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’,
Allâhu ta’âlâ will restore the Islamic religion and protect Muslims
from degeneration through a very profound Islamic scholar called
‘mujaddid’. Imâm-i Rabbânî ‘quddisa sirruh’ is the first of such
mujaddids. ‘Mujaddid-i-elf-i-thânî’ means ‘the restorer of the second
millennium’.
[2] Intercession. In the Hereafter, pious Muslims, people loved by
Allâhu ta’âlâ will intercede with Allâhu ta’âlâ for the forgiveness of
sinful Muslims. This intercession is called shefâ’at.
[3] Islamic century is meant.
[4] A village in the vicinity of Van, a city in eastern Turkey.
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