Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss First Fascicle

belief of their descendants, they wrote valuable books and left
them as a legacy to us. We should learn our holy faith by reading
the sincere and virtuous books written by the blessed hands of our
famed and honorable Islamic scholars, whose beautiful morals,
justice, diligence, and whose records in art, science, and bravery
are inscribed in world’s history. Moreover, they shed their blood
for our faith, lest the enemy hands might touch it, and they left all
these valuable writings in their original purity as an inheritance to
us. We have to be very careful not to be deceived and not to let our
sacred iman be seized by reading books that are written by those
using the same names (as real Islamic scholars) but veiled in
sequined words written by zindiqs that sold themselves out to
British spies! Let me also inform you that hadith sharifs and
explanations of Islamic scholars (rahmatullahi taala alaihim
ajmain) strongly prohibit the interference of men of religion in
matters of politics. Ahl as-Sunna scholars observed this
prohibition very carefully. Muslims don’t exploit Islam as a tool for
politics. Therefore, I have never entered politics. I haven’t
defended any type of political state in any of my writings. It has
reached my ears that there have been people who, disliking this
behavior of mine, try to prevent people from reading and learning
my books by calling them corrupt, and who then are bewildered
and unable to answer when they are questioned about what parts
of the books are corrupt. I wrote a book called Yuz Karesi (Black
Faced [disgraceful]) to advise those who slander me so that they
may wake up from their stupor and attain true guidance.
With the encouragement of those who read my book Seadet-i
Ebediyye, which consisted of sixty pages and thirty chapters, I
prepared the second volume in three hundred pages, and I had it
printed in 1957. These two volumes aroused so much interest and
attraction among the innocent youth towards Islam that I
experienced a shower of questions. To answer these various
questions by translating from reliable books and by adding seventy
new chapters to the original thirty chapters of the first volume, the
second edition was formed and printed in four hundred pages.
Later by the blessing of Allahu Taala, and with exhausting labor,
the accomplishment of the third volume was granted by Allahu
Taala, and it was printed in 1960/1379.
Though I was not authorized, only as a reward for my
admiration of the dumbfounding superiority of Islamic scholars,
for the love and respect which I had had towards them, and as a
reward for the prayers which I had sent with the utmost suffering
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