Islam and Sufism 1
İmam İskender Ali MİHR
THE REUNIFICATION OF THE RELIGIONS
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I take refuge in Allah from Satan the Rejected. In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate CHAPTER 1THE REUNIFICATION OF THE RELIGIONSThe Reunification of the Religions 1 - 2 - 3 The Creation of ManWhy Did Allah Create the Universe? To Be Saved from “Dalâlet” (Misguidance) and to Reach Hidâyet (Guidance) To Be a Mü’min (Believer) The Soul’s Purification and the Spirit’s Surrendering to Allah The Stations of Sainthood Is There a Happiness Called Worldly Happiness? What is This Happiness? |
1-1-1- THE REUNIFICATION OF THE RELIGIONS - 1
The decrees of Allah are the same in all the heavenly Books.
Allahû Tealâ says: “There is only one religion: To surrender to Allah. You are charged with surrendering your spirit, your physical body, your soul, your free will to Me, to Allah. There has not been any other religion than this.”
To be the owner of “Takva”, to be a believer (mu’min), to be a servant to Allah, to be the owner of wisdom (hikmet): All of these are the events put forward not only by our Master the Prophet (PBUH). All the prophets have said the same things to their nations, to the whole world, to all the universe.
As to our time, it is the age of illuminating the universe. In this time, explanations have been arriving to all the universe. And Allahû Tealâ announces that there is only one religion in all the universe.
Now, we have been seeing that Allahû Tealâ has constantly given the same things to each prophet, to each personage whom He has commissioned with explaining them, that He has given them the same orders. The same concepts are at issue.
Allahû Tealâ decrees so:
And before this, was the Book of Moses (the Old Testament) as imam (a guide) and a mercy. And this is a Book which confirms (the Books sent before it), which is (has been sent) in the Arabic language, which admonishes the unjust, and which is as Glad Tidings to those who are MUHSIN (righteous) (good-doers).
Just as the Noble Qur’ân was sent down as a Mercy to all the Worlds, Allahû Tealâ says the same thing for the Torah, too. He says that it also was sent down as a guide (imam, leader), as a Book making men reach hidâyet (guidance).
From two aspects, we see the relation between the Noble Qur’ân and the Torah. Both are a guide and a mercy. It makes men addressees to the Divine Mercy.
And both the All-Wise Qur’ân and the Torah are the Books confirming the Books prior to them.
The Torah was sent down by Allahû Tealâ as a Book confirming the Books sent down to all the prophets before Hz. Mûsâ (Moses).
The Book of Psalms was sent down as a Book confirming the Torah and other Books.
The Gospel was sent down as a Book confirming the Torah and the Book of Psalms and other Books.
The Noble Qur’ân was sent down as a Book confirming the Torah, the Psalms, the Gospel and other Books.
We see that all the Books confirm one another. All of them contain the same things. They do not have any contents differing from each other. Each one confirms those that have preceded it, confirms the prophethood of the prophets who have come before them, and confirms the messengerhood of the messengers who have come before them. We see thus that those which were sent down are the same.
Allahû Tealâ calls men to Guidance (Hidâyet).
He invites men to be servants to Allah.
He wills men to be saved from Misguidance (Dalâlet).
He wills them to be the owners of “Takva”.
He wills only them to reach the Happiness of this world and of Paradise.
Allahû Tealâ decrees so in the 48th verse of Âl-‘Imrân Sura:
And (Allah) will teach him the Book, the Wisdom, the Torah and the Gospel.
Pay heed to what Allahû Tealâ has said to our Master the prophet (PBUH): He has sent down the Book. There is Wisdom in this Book. Consequently He has sent down Wisdom, too. He has not sent down only the content of the Book and Wisdom; He also has taught him the Torah and the Gospel, because those in the Torah, the Gospel and the Noble Qur’ân are the same with each other.
All of them are the same teachings that the Single God has granted to all His prophets in all ages. There is no difference in the teachings of the Books. But Iblîs (The Devil) has managed to make men deviate from the Way of Allah and caused them to forget all the Holy Books. Is it the entirety of the Books? No, he has caused them to forget all the particularities that will make men reach worldly happiness and the Bliss of Paradise. Because of this, both Jews and Christians, and most of the people in the Islâmic World (more than 90%) have forgotten the fundamentals of the Book.
Then, Allahû Tealâ taught our Master the Prophet the Book, the Wisdom, the Torah and the Gospel, too, just as He taught Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) the Book, the Wisdom, the Torah and the Book of Psalms, just as He taught Hz. Dâvûd (David) the Book He had given him, the Wisdom, the Torah He had sent down before him and all the books sent down before him.
The same things have occurred in all the periods of time. Allahû Tealâ confirms the previous Books with His new Book.
This means that: After each prophet has revealed his explanations, and he has made men reach hidâyet (guidance), ages continue to pass. With the passage of time, Iblîs (The Devil, Satan) manages to deform, to cause to forget, and to gradually annihilate all the truths that Allah had sent down to all the prophets, by means of the wrong teachings he has inculcated upon men, and those wrong teachings taught by these men to others… Pay heed! Iblîs (Satan) especially annihilates the main factors that will make men reach worldly happiness and the Beauty of Paradise. All he desires is to drag men into Hell along with himself and to prevent them from living the happiness of this world.
Now, in the days to come, all the human beings will learn that the Noble Qur’ân, the Gospel, the Book of Psalms, the Torah, and all that which was sent down to the prophets are exactly the same with each other. They contain the same Law (şeri’at). These verses have been sent down by Allahû Tealâ in order to explain the same matters again and again.
Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 65th verse of Âl-‘Imrân Sura:
Oh people of the Book! Why are you disputing about Abraham? Both the Torah and the Gospel were revealed after him (at his time)? Do you still not contemplate?
Men say: “Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) was a Jew, Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) was a Christian.” That is, they say that Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) was related to one of those two religions. Jews claim that he was a Jew; Christians assert that he was a Christian.
But there is not any other religion! All are the same religion, the only religion. With certainty, Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), Hz. Mûsâ (Moses), Hz. Dâvûd (David), Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) and our Master the Prophet (PBUH) possessed the same things. They lived the same religion. A single religion was lived during the ages of all the prophets. All of them and those who had depended on them had surrendered their spirits, physical bodies, souls and free wills to Allah. They were the owners of wisdom. They were the owners of “takva”. They were servants to Allah. They had reached hidâyet (guidance). All of them had fulfilled the same things. They had received the same Book from Allah, the same order of Law.
Allahû Tealâ says that Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) was “Hanîf”: He believed in One Allah. They had formed a single community, he and his dependents. That is, Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) and his dependents were unified (tevhid).
The religion of Hanîf bears two characteristics:
1) To believe in One Allah (Monotheism): The unification of men, that of the believers in the Way of Allah, their forming a single unity, embracing one another very tightly.
2) To surrender to Allah:
Therefore, all the religions are “hanîf”. A single religion comprised of the surrender of the spirit, the physical body, the soul and the free will to Allah and making men into a single group in the Way of Allah.
Then, it is wrong that men say: Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham)was from us. Men have been divided into separate groups, they have made differences between them, they have even seen themselves as enemies to each other.
To consider those who belong to another religion as enemies is still a habit in a great many of religions. But Allahû Tealâ declares throughout the Noble Qur’ân: “There is no difference between them.” With the passage of time, men have formed separate religions by themselves and have begun to consider themselves as enemies to each other.
If the Torah, the Book of Psalms and the Gospel were sent down after the time of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), as Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) had lived before them, is it at all possible that he may be a Jew or a Christian? He already possessed the same fundamentals on which they depended during the ages of their own prophets.
In that case, is it at all possible that Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) would have belonged to any of those religions that men named “Judaism” and “Christianity” a very long time after him? We have to accept that it is those who had depended; it is impossible for him to be so. Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) was the owner of the religion of Hanîf, that is to say, of the religion of believing in One Allah and surrendering to Him.
This 65th verse of Âl-‘Imrân Sura is an extremely noteworthy verse. No one can claim that Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), who was the owner of the religion of Hanîf, was a Jew or a Christian. This claim is not valid considering the concepts Christians have intended by the term “Christianity” and Jews by “Judaism”. Everything has changed with the passage of time, and men have forgotten the fundamentals. Unfortunately, the same “corrosion” has arisen in Islâm, too. And the degeneration has pulled more than 90% of men out of Allah’s mercy.
3/Âl-‘Imrân - 67:
Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian; but he had submitted himself (to Allah) as HANIF in nature (the one who believes in the oneness of Allah and that it is a command of Allah to reach Allah before death and to submit). He was also not one of those MUSHRIK (those who attribute partners to Allah).
The basis of being Hanîf is to surrender to Allah. The only religion in the universe is the religion of Hanîf. This religion commands men to surrender their spirits, physical bodies, souls and free wills to Allah.
Our Master the Prophet (PBUH) and his Companions (sahâbe) fulfilled it.
Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) and his apostles performed it.
Hz. Dâvût (David) and his dependents did it.
Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) and his dependents did it.
Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) and his dependents did it.
All the prophets and those who depended on them were “hanîfs”, that is to say, had surrendered to Allah.
Thus, we see that all the prophets carried out the same things.
Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 68th verse of Âl-‘Imrân Sura as follows:
Without doubt, among men, the closest ones to Abraham are certainly those who depend on (follow) him, and also this Messenger and those who are AMENU (those who wish to reach Allah in this life before death). And Allah is a Friend of MUMIN (those who have faith in their hearts).
Allahû Tealâ says: “Those who have the best claim to Ibrâhîm (Abraham).” As he was the former prophet, Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) and all those who are the owners of the Books up to this day came after him, it becomes evident why Allahû Tealâ has said about Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) “your forefather Ibrâhîm (Abraham)” and qualified him as the ancestor of men in the Noble Qur’ân. He was the owner of the religion of Hanîf, that is to say, he was the one who believed in One Allah, constituted a single community composed of those who were in the Way of Allah and surrendered to Allah (those who had surrendered their spirits, physical bodies, souls and free wills to Allah).
Our Master the Prophet (PBUH) acts according to the Book, the Noble Qur’ân. And the Noble Qur’ân states that both Judaism and Christianity have been gradually altered in the course of time and the Owners of the Scripture have not fulfilled the duties incumbent on them; they have been the owners of a different religion and have gradually separated from one another.
A state of BEING ÂMENÛ is composed of seven levels:
1. You become âmenû when you wish to reach Allah.
2. You become âmenû when you depend on your murshid.
3. You are âmenû when you make your spirit reach Allah.
4. You are âmenû when you surrender your physical body to Allah.
5. You are âmenû when you surrender your soul to Allah.
6. You are âmenû when you reach “irshad”.
7. You are âmenû when you are the owner of the “true takva”, you reach “Hakku’l yakîn” (Absolute Certainty, Closeness to Allah in truth).
In which case, “being âmenû” always existed in the Era of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), in the Age of Hz. Mûsâ (Moses), of Hz. Dâvûd (David), in the Age of Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus), during the Ages of Hz. Lût (Lot), of Hz. Nûh (Noah), …in the ages of all the prophets, too. Now, Allahû Tealâ says that those who are âmenû have the best claim to Ibrâhîm (Abraham), who is considered as the forefather of all the prophets coming after him.
When we consider the standards of being âmenû, we see that they are reduced to a whole. It is a way that men have taken until the end.
In this verse of the Noble Qur’ân, it is decreed: “Allâh is the Friend of the believers.” If so, those who depended on Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) were believers. At the moment they had depended on him, they got rid of Misguidance. The word Disbelief (Küfür) was taken out; the word Faith (Îmân) was written in their souls’ hearts. All of them attained the honor of being believers. At the second level of being âmenû, all men were believers. The same things were in question in the Era of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), too. Those who were the closest to him, those who had depended on him in that time, were those who lived the seven levels of “takva” in that Era. And in all the ages, as in the Age of our Master the Prophet, all those who were âmenû were the ones closest to Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham).
Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 95th verse of Âl-‘Imrân Sura as follows:
Say: "(Allah) spoke the Truth. Then follow (depend on) the religion of Abraham as HANIF. And (also) he was not of the Pagans."
He was neither a Jew nor a Christian but had surrendered to Allah as Hanîf (one who believes in the Oneness of Allah and that reaching Allah before dying and surrendering to Him is obligatory). He was not of Al-Mushrikûn.
So, when Allah says: “Depend on the religion of Ibrâhîm (Abraham) as hanîfs”, He means to say, “Surrender to Allah”. Surrender your spirits, your physical bodies, your souls and your free wills to Allah. That is to say, He sees no difference between depending on the religion of Islâm of our Master the Prophet, depending on the Noble Qur’ân that Allah sent down to our Master the Prophet (PBUH) and depending on the religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), and Allahû Tealâ says also that both Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) and Hz. Dâvûd (David), Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) were hanîfs. He says that our Master the Prophet (PBUH) also was hanîf: those who believe in one Allah and surrender to Him. And Allahû Tealâ gives this order to all sahâbe: Depend on the religion of Ibrâhîm (Abraham) as hanîfs.
You set yourself as HANIF to the religion, with the HANIF Nature of Allah, as Allah has created mankind with HANIF nature. This is the religion, which will be forever, but most people do not know.
And just think now, if the Noble Qur’ân says that the religion of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) is the same religion like that of Islâm, if the Torah sent down to Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) confirms the Book sent down to Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) and all the books sent down to all the prophets before him, if the Book of Psalms confirms the Book of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) and the Torah sent down to Hz. Mûsâ (Moses), if the Gospel confirms the Torah, the Books sent down before it, the Book of Psalms and if the Noble Qur’ân confirms the Books sent down before Hz. Mûsâ (Moses), especially the Book of Hz. İbrâhîm (Abraham), his religion, the Torah, the Psalms, the Gospel, and if there is the command: “Depend on the religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham)” in the Noble Qur’ân, then, are the books sent down to all the prophets not the same?
In that case, why is there this quarrelling, this conflict between men? Why are men the victims of this commotion?
All the religions absolutely have to come together following the decree of Allah in this Age [the Age of Guidance (Hidâyet)]. All men should learn that they are the faithful of the same religion.
Now, our Age is the Age of Guidance. In the Age of Hidâyet (Guidance), all men will be invited to Guidance. Those who make (men) reach Hidâyet (Guidance) and those who reach it will put their mark on this Age. This Age is that of Guidance!
Verily the first House (of worship) appointed for men was that in Mecca: full of blessing and of HIDAYET (the true guidance leading to Allah) for all kinds of beings: In it are Signs Manifest, the Station of Abraham. Whoever enters it attains security (from any kind of attack). For those who can afford a journey to there, pilgrimage is a duty men owe to Allah (fard). Whoever denies this (fard), verily Allah stands not in need of any of His creatures but everybody and everything of Him.
Allahû Tealâ expresses in an extremely clear fashion that the religion of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), the religion of surrendering to Allah, the religion of Hanîf, the religion of being Islâm (Muslim), this religion that has taken all other names, is the religion of all the Worlds. Beyti’l Harâm [the Inviolable House (of worship) in Mekke (Mecca)] was built by Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) and his son Hz. İsmâil (Ishmael). This House (of worship) has been the center of all the Worlds, the center of worship in all the ages.
Allahû Tealâ decrees: “Beyti’l Harâm is a Guidance for all the Worlds.” Allahû Tealâ says in the 97th verse of Âl-‘Imrân Sura: “There is the Place of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) in it. And Hacc [Pilgrimage to Mekke (Mecca)] to the House (Ka’be) is a duty that mankind owes to Allah. Whosoever enters it, he attains security. It is a place of security.”
Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 159th verse of Âl-‘Imrân Sura as follows:
It is part of the Mercy of Allah that you dealt gently (and with tolerance) with them. If you were severe or harsh-hearted, they would have broken away from about you. So, forgive them and ask for ((Allah)'s) forgiveness for them. And consult them in affairs. Then, when you have made a decision, put your trust in Allah. For Allah loves those who put their trust (in Him).
We are looking at the 26th verse of Al-Hadîd Sura. Allahû Tealâ says that the prophethood has been granted to the descendants of Hz. Nûh (Noah) and Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham).
Allahû Tealâ makes known in the 27th verse of Al-Hadîd Sura that just as our Master the Prophet (PBUH) dealt with his sahâbe gently, Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) also dealt with his apostles with the same standards.
We followed them up with (others of) Our messengers in succession. We sent after them Jesus, the son of Mary, and gave him the Gospel. And We ordained in the hearts of those who depended on (followed) him Compassion and Mercy. But the monasticism which they invented for themselves, We did not prescribe for them; but they sought for the Good Pleasure of Allah, but that they did not obey even as they should have done. So We bestowed, on those among them who were AMENU (who wish to reach Allah in this life), their (due) reward, but many of them were rebellious.
The fact that Allah ordained in the hearts of those who followed Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) compassion and mercy demonstrates exactly our Master the Prophet’s relationship with compassion and mercy, too. He had bestowed upon Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) the Mercy that He has also bestowed upon our Master the Prophet. He granted to Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) the same gentle dealing with others of our Master the Prophet. The same things were realized by all the prophets.
Allahû Tealâ has bestowed gentleness, compassion and mercifulness to our Master the Prophet. He has accorded the same things to Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus), too. He has accorded all these things to all the prophets.
Lest you should say: "The Book was sent down to two nations before us; and we indeed were unaware of what they recited." Or lest you should say: "If the Book had been sent down also to us, we certainly would have attained HIDAYET (the true guidance leading to Allah) better than them." There has come unto you HIDAYETCHI (a guide who takes you to HIDAYET), an evidence and mercy from your Lord. Then, who is more unjust than the one who belies the verses of Allah, and turns away from Him? We will chastise those who turn away from Our verses, with a dreadful (evil) torment for their turning away.
Here, Allahû Tealâ gives a warning to the Arab World, too. Allahû Tealâ decrees: Lest you should say, “We were in fact unaware of what they studied because it was sent down in other languages,” or lest you should say, “If only the Book had been sent down to us, we would surely have been better guided than they”. So now has come unto you a clear proof, the Qur’ân in the Arabic language from your Lord, and a guidance and a mercy.
When we consider the content, we see that all the prophets took and communicated the same things in essence, and that those who depended on them absolutely reached Felâh (Salvation, the glad tidings of Paradise). No matter on which prophets men had depended, they fulfilled the same commands that Allah had given to all the prophets.
Throughout the verses mentioned till now, Allahû Tealâ has spoken of being the owner of “Takva”, of being a servant to Allah, of surrendering to Allah, of the manners of behavior of the prophets.
We see that the manners of behavior of all the prophets are the same.
There is a message that Allah wills to give by means of all the Holy Books:
Each Holy Book was sent down in order to confirm all of the Books sent down before it.
Allahû Tealâ speaks of that which He gave to all the prophets in the 81st verse of Âl-‘Imrân Sura. He gave the same things to all the prophets. He bestowed mildness, gentleness, and mercifulness upon them. He made them to be a guide and charged them with the duty of showing His Way to all the universe.
You see that all the prophets and those who depended on them were fulfilling that which you have been carrying out in your relationship with Allah today. In those ages also, the greatest part of mankind had not attached any importance to them, and were not on their sides. And a great majority had done wrong things in a hostile manner.
All the beauties of Allah are for you in your relationship with Allah. All the religions are the same with each other. There is no difference with respect to the main factors. All the Books were sent down as a confirmation of the Books sent down before them.
Allahû Tealâ says to those who lived in all ages: “There were always messengers prior to your age, too. And those messengers who have existed in all ages have conveyed all the beauties to humankind.”
There is only one religion: the religion of Hanîf. There has been only one religion that leads men to believe in one Allah, to surrender to Allah, THAT MAKES THE SURRENDER of the spirit, the physical body, the soul and the free will to Allah obligatory throughout human history. Only one religion!
Requesting beseechingly from our Exalted Lord that you may reach both worldly happiness and the Bliss of Paradise as the faithful (adherents) of the religion of HANÎF (ISLÂM) of Allah, we wish to complete our conversation here, inshaallah.
May Allah be pleased with all of you.
Allâh is the Key to Happiness.
Allâh is the Owner of Happiness.
Allâh is the very Source of Happiness.
And Allah wants all of us to be happy, only this. He has created us for this purpose.
Although our topic is the Reunification of the Religions, in essence, this is not a reality. There is no such thing as “the religions” in the Noble Qur’ân. THERE IS ONLY ONE SINGLE RELIGION! The everlasting religion of the universe, the unique religion of Allah enjoining us to surrender to Allah and thus to be the owners of absolute happiness in this world and in Paradise, the religion of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), the religion of Hz. Îsâ (Jesus), the religion of Hz. Dâvud (David), the religion of our Master the Prophet (PBUH)… The unique religion of all the prophets, and all the messengers.
The religion consists of this:
Allahû Tealâ, a Unique Allah.
The religion of “Hanîf” of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) adopts as its foundation the unity of those who believe in One Single Allah, aiming at their constituting a single community, the unique religion of the universe, the religion of Hanîf of Hz. İbrâhîm (Abraham). This same religion was lived by all the prophets and their dependants.
There are the messengers of Allah in all nations today, too. All of these messengers have been living the same beauty, together with a small minority who depend on them all over the world and in the universe. But a very great part of human beings have forgotten this unique religion of Allah throughout the centuries. With the passing of centuries, everything has been corrupted, and men have deviated from the main goals in the Way of Allahû Tealâ.
Allahû Tealâ has sent down the same decrees. The decrees of Allah are the same in the Torah, in the Book of Psalms, the Gospel and the Noble Qur’ân. The decrees of Allah are the same in all the heavenly books.
The Day that We roll up the heavens like a scroll rolled up for books (completed), even as We produced the first creation, We will reproduce it (as the former situation). This is a promise We have undertaken. Truly, We are the one to fulfill (it).
21/Al-Anbiyâ’-105:
Verily, We wrote in the Psalms, after the Old Testament (given to Moses) that My servants who are SALIH (righteous) will inherit the earth."
In the statement: “As We began the first creation, We shall repeat (return, restore, restitute) it,” a matter has been expressed: Allahû Tealâ has uttered the same thing in the Book of Psalms after the Torah. As long as the universe continues to exist, the earth also will last and Allah will grant the earth as an inheritance to His improved servants.
Verily in this (Qur'an) is a Message, an Advice for people who would (truly) worship Allah.
For people who are the servants of Allah, there is advice in the Noble Qur’ân regarding the surrenders to Allah.
We sent you as a Mercy for all creatures, not for another thing.
He was not the Prophet of this minute earth only; He was created as a mercy for the Worlds.
He was sent as a mercy for the Worlds.
He was a Sender of mercy to all the Worlds.
(We dedicate this to those who consider our Master the Prophet as a Messenger, a Prophet sent only to this world).
The personage who performs the Imamat of the Era is the spirit over the head of everyone who steps on the Way of Allah in all the worlds. That Spirit expresses that he is a mercy for all the worlds.
As for the Imam of our Age, he was sent as a Guidance (Hidâyet) to the worlds. For this reason, his title is the saint Guide (hidâyetchi), the one who makes (men) reach hidâyet (Guidance).
Our Age is the Age of Guidance.
Say: "What has come to me by revelation is that your Allah is the only god. Will you therefore become MUSLIM (submit yourselves to Allah)?"
Selâm (Peace), teslim (Surrendering) Müslim [the one who has surrendered (to Allah)], Müslüman (mussulman), all stem from the root SİLM (Surrender, Peace).
From Hz. Âdem (Adam) who was the first man and the first prophet up to our Master the Prophet (PBUH) who was the Last Prophet, Allah has constantly given the Books of Canon Law (şeri’ât). The last Book of Canon Law is the Noble Qur’ân sent down to the Last Prophet. From Hz. Âdem (Adam) up to this day, the Religion of Allah has never changed in the sight of Allah. This religion is the religion of “Hanîf” of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham). This religion is the religion of Hz. Nuh (Noah), Hz. Lut (Lot), Hz. Sâlih, Hz. Hûd, Hz. Dâvûd (David), Hz. Îsâ (Jesus) and Hz. Muhammed (PBUH), our Master the Prophet. The unique religion, the same religion… A unique religion is present from the creation of the universe until the Day when the heavens and the mountains will be rolled up. Allahû Tealâ has said the same thing in all the Holy Books.
Allahû Tealâ gives the Sahâbe as an example:
Muhammad (PBUH) is the messenger of Allah. Those who are with him are strong against the ones who are in blasphemy, (but) compassionate amongst each other. You will see them bowing and prostrating themselves (in prayer), seeking grace from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure. On their faces are their marks, traces of their prostration. This is their characteristic in the Torah; and their characteristic in the Gospel is like a seed which sends forth its shoot, becomes thicker as they become strong, and stands straight on its own stem, delighting the sowers. As a result, it fills the ones who are in blasphemy with rage at them. Allah has promised those among them who become AMENU (who wish to reach Allah in this life) and do improving righteous deeds, forgiveness and a great Reward.
Allahû Tealâ mentions sahâbe (the Companions of the Prophet) in the Torah and the Gospel that are His Books. He speaks of Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) and his dependants, of Hz. Dâvud (David) and his dependants, of Hz. Îsâ (Jesus) and his dependants, and of our Master the Prophet and his sahâbe (Companions). And if Allahû Tealâ speaks of each messenger, each prophet as “His messenger and prophet”, He has revealed approximately the same things to each of those 20 messengers and prophets as He has mentioned in the Noble Qur’ân.
He has given a Book to each prophet. Therefore, there is continuity. Each messenger, each prophet fulfills his mission incumbent on him and then dies. In the succeeding period of time, in that nation (community, tribe) a messenger is absolutely commissioned. But he is not a prophet (nebî) now.
The messengers have existed continuously after our Master the Prophet in all nations (communities). What a pity that that which is said by those messengers has been rejected due to the books distorted by men.
The messengers of Allah have been living in all nations at the moment. The reunification of the religions will be realized with them.
Whatever Allahû Tealâ had sent down to Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), Hz. Mûsâ (Moses), Hz. Îsâ (Jesus), Hz. Dâvûd (David), Hz. Hûd, his brother Hz. Sâlih, Hz. Nuh (Noah), He has sent down the same things to our Master the Prophet.
YOUR GOD IS ONLY ONE GOD. BE SERVANTS TO Allah!
We have created human beings and Jinns just so that they may be servants to Us.
5/Al-Mâ’idah - 43:
How do they appoint you as a referee when they have with them the Torah in which are the laws of Allah? And then, they turn away from it (your decision). And they are not MUMIN (those who have faith).
If they had depended on the standards of surrendering to Allah that are to be found at the basis of the Torah, they absolutely would have become believers. First, they would have wished to reach Allah, and then they would have reached their murshids. In the Era of our Master the Prophet also, there were murshids among the Jews and the Christians. And they have been present in each period of time. There were always murshids from the time of Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) to that of our Master the Prophet, and everyone has completed one’s lifetime by being dependent on one’s murshid. This has continued until the Era of our Master the Prophet. But the number of them was naturally very limited among the Jews and the Christians. Their number is also very limited inside the Islamic world.
Allahû Tealâ says that those who applied the decrees in the Torah were the believers among the Jews, and that those about whom He tells, “They are not believers,” were those who had not applied His decrees.
If human beings wish to reach Allah just like it is ordered in the Noble Qur’ân, Allah will absolutely show them their murshids. If they depend on them, they will assuredly become believers by taking 12 favors from Allahû Tealâ. Just like this, the same thing is valid for Jews and Christians, too. There absolutely are the messengers of Allah who are alive among each of them. All the Books are a Light. The Noble Qur’ân is a Light, a Guidance.
Verily, We revealed the Torah. Therein are a HIDAYET (the true guidance leading to Allah) and a light. The prophets who submitted themselves (to Allah) judge over the Jews with it. And those who have devoted themselves to Allah and those who are AHBAR [the ZAHID: who feel themselves incomplete without DHIKR (remembering and repeating the name of Allah) and the scholars] judge by what they are asked to protect of the Book of Allah. And they also bear witnesses thereto. Therefore, do not fear people, but fear Me; do not sell My verses for a low price. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, then they are QAFIR (blasphemous).
Allahû Tealâ says the same thing for the original of the Torah. And it has been announced here that the basic characteristic of all the prophets is to surrender to Allah.
You will find in the Noble Qur’ân sent down to our Master the Prophet (PBUH) this decree: “Truly, the religion with Allah is Islâm.” 3/Âl-‘Imrân - 19. Because Islâm means to surrender to Allah.
Those who judged had judged by what they were charged with the duty of protecting.
With the passage of time, this matter was distorted and corrupted. Men have begun not to give heed to a point they were charged with protecting. In all the periods of time, the prophets and the messengers and the murshids are charged with the duty of preserving the basic decrees of Allah.
There is a very plain decree in the 44th verse of Al-Mâ’idah Sura. Allah has given there the conditions of becoming a believer:
To wish to reach Allah.
To reach and depend on the murshid thanks to 12 favors obtained from Allah.
The writing of Faith (Belief, Îmân) into the (soul’s) heart. To be the owner of Faith born in the (soul’s) heart (to be a believer).
To be believers now whereas we were previously named the owners of Disbelief (Küfür), disbelievers, as disbelief was written in our (souls’) hearts.
These men are the ones who know the decrees of Allah and protect them.
The decree of Allah: to wish to reach Allah. And this is the fundamental decree of Salvation.
To wish to reach Allah absolutely makes a man reach his murshid. You perform this willingly. Allahû Tealâ grants you this basis:
To make the spirit reach Allah and thus to surrender to Allah spiritually.
To surrender the physical body to Allah.
To surrender the soul to Allah.
The salvation of the one who does not wish to reach Allah is not possible.
There is the Law of Equality in punishment (Kisas) in all the Holy Books.
We (in the Torah) commanded them: "Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth, and wounds equal for equal." But if anyone gives up his right to retaliation by way of charity, it will be an atonement for himself (for his sins). And those who fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah has revealed are unjust (wrong-doers, cruel).
There is the Law of Equality in punishment (Kisas) in the Torah just like in the Noble Qur’ân. Whatever is in the All-Wise Qur’ân is also in the Torah and the Gospel.
It has become definite that Guidance (Hidâyet = reaching Allah spiritually before death) existing in the Qur’ân exists also in the Torah. Hidâyet (Guidance) is the surrender of the spirit, the physical body and the soul to Allah.
And there are the Lights. All the Holy Books use as a basis the formation of guidance through three lights called mercy (rahmet), virtue (fazl) and benedictions (salavât) that Allah sends.
And in their footsteps, We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming what they had of the Torah. And We gave him the Gospel in which are a HIDAYET (the true guidance leading to Allah) and a light, and which is a confirmation of what they had of the Torah, and which, for those who have TAQWA (piety), takes to HIDAYET (the true guidance leading to Allah) and is an advice.
Hz. Îsâ (Jesus) has come as a confirmation of the Torah.
Our Master the Prophet has come as a confirmation of the Gospel and all the Holy Books prior to it.
Hz. Îsâ (Jesus) has come as a confirmation of the Book of Psalms, the Torah and all the Holy Scriptures prior to them.
The Gospel, which confirms the Torah, was sent down to Hz. Îsâ (Jesus). He also says the same things. There is guidance and light therein.
There is guidance in the Noble Qur’ân. There is also guidance in the Gospel and the Torah.
There is light in the Noble Qur’ân. There is also light in the Gospel and the Torah.
The Glorious Qur’ân confirms the Gospel, the Psalms and the Torah and those that have preceded them.
The Gospel confirms the Psalms, the Torah sent down before it and all the Holy Books that had come before it.
The Book of Psalms confirms the Torah and all the Books that had preceded it.
The Torah confirms all the Books that had preceded it. Furthermore, not only the events that occurred before them, but also the events that will happen in the future take place therein. Allahû Tealâ mentions our Master the Prophet (PBUH) both in the Torah and the Gospel. Allahû Tealâ has established a firm causal chain between the Holy Books. He has said the same things therein.
The practice of “Takva” exists both in the Torah, the Gospel and the All-Wise Qur’ân. There are just 7 “takvas”.
The practice of “Fısk” exists both in the Torah, the Gospel and the Qur’ân. Allahû Tealâ decrees so:
Let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, then they are FASIQ (who fall into blasphemy).
5/Al-Mâ’idah - 48:
To you (O Muhammad!) We sent down the Book in truth as a confirmation of the books they have in their hands, and as a guardian. So judge between them by what Allah has revealed, and do not obey their desires, diverging from the Truth (Allah) that has come to you. We have prescribed a law and an open way for each among you. If Allah had willed, He would have made you a single nation; but this is to test you in what He has given. So, compete in good deeds. strive as in a race in all virtues. The return of you all is to Allah. He will inform you about the matters in which you differ.
If Allah had willed, He would have made it possible for you to carry out (apply) the unique Law (şeriât) He has given you. Allahû Tealâ commands our Master the Prophet:
Saying, “ Establish religion and make no divisions in it”, He (Allah) has ordained the same religion for you as that which We ordained for Noah - that which We have revealed to you - and that which We ordained for Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. The thing (invitation to Allah and to have faith in Allah) to which you invited was hard for those MUSHRIK (who attribute a partner to Allah). Allah chooses to Himself those whom He pleases, and guides (takes) unto Himself those who turn to Him.
Allahû Tealâ says that their Canon Law (şeri’at) is present exactly in the All-Wise Qur’ân. Here also, He says: We have made a unique Law for all nations.
Here is a judgment: Allahû Tealâ makes known that He has sent down this Book (this Qur’ân) in truth for the confirmation and protection of those Books.
In the 48th verse of Al-Mâ’idah Sura, this act of protection is present. The Glorious Qur’ân bears a decree protecting all that should be protected in the Torah, the Gospel and the Holy Books sent down to the prophets before them. He has sent down this Book (the Qur’ân) in order that It should confirm and protect them. And He has sent down all the Holy Books - the Qur’ân, The Torah, the Gospel… - in truth. There is “Takva*” in the Noble Qur’ân. There is “Takva” in the Torah and in the Gospel, too.
(*Takva stems from the root “vikâye” that means: to abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which He has forbidden and to perform all kinds of good deeds which He has ordained.)
There is “*Hidâyet” (Guidance) in the All-Wise Qur’ân. There is Hidâyet in the Torah and in the Gospel, too.
(*Hidâyet: reaching Allah before death.)
There is Light in the Noble Qur’ân. There is Light in the Torah and in the Gospel, too. There is the surrender of the human spirit, physical body, soul and free will to Allah and the decrees that should be protected in all of these Books.
Thus, it has been seen that centuries have passed since then, and Iblîs (the Devil, Satan) has managed to alter and distort everything.
In such a design, it has become definite that the decrees, the properties and the aims of the Books of Allahû Tealâ - the Noble Qur’ân, the Torah, the Gospel… - which are placed at our disposal are the same.
With our prayers.
We see that a multitude of religions that do not have any heavenly books, but might have had them many centuries ago, and afterwards they have disappeared, have nowadays been finding a field of practice in the world, besides Jews, Christians and the faithful of the religion of Islâm who have their heavenly books.
A great many religions… that still split human beings into groups, into various sects, and signs indicating that the constant effort of Satan has been successful in this matter…
Satan desires for men to be split into separate camps. His aim is to ensure that the group in each camp may be an enemy to all the other groups apart from itself. And throughout human history, the matter upon which the Devil (Satan) has dwelt the most, that he has elaborated and in which he has succeeded is enmity.
These vices are present in all human beings. The souls of men have been created with 19 vices. Now, some of these constitute grudges, enmity, and hatred. Unless men will purify their souls, diminish the vices, place the good qualities (haslets) of the spirit under the name of “virtues” into their souls’ hearts instead of them, and passing beyond them, annihilate all the vices in their souls’ hearts by reaching continuous zikir, the constitution of a milieu of peace and tranquility will occupy humankind too much due to the ceaseless effort of Satan.
Allahû Tealâ wills only the peace and religion of “Hanîf” of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) that is the unique religion in the universe (the Arabic name of this religion is Islâm) and enjoins that all the vices in men’s souls should be extinguished through continuous zikir and that the good qualities (haslets), the virtues, should replace them. And the goal that the person wants to reach is to bring an end to the quarrel between his soul and his spirit and to reach peace and serenity. It is to terminate the quarrel with other men in his outer world and to reach peace and calmness. It is to finish the resistance to the orders and the prohibitions of Allah in his relationship with Him and to reach a complete peace and tranquillity, respecting both the commands and the prohibitions, and to live in a state of uninterrupted peace and calmness.
This state is called happiness, and Allahû Tealâ wants only one thing from men: their being happy. In this respect, the Noble Qur’ân is:
1) an Invitation to Happiness
2) a Prescription for Happiness
3) a Guarantee of Happiness
In that case, there are the souls of human beings, the vices of their souls, and the vain desires of their souls behind their being uneasy and unhappy.
The soul is full of the vices that absolutely oppose all the commands of Allah, that are reluctant to execute His orders and that desire to do whatever He has forbidden. At the beginning, the soul’s heart is 100% full of vices. Whenever you wish to reach Allah, you attain the post of irshad (murshid) by taking 12 favors from Allah, you repent in front of him, and you begin the soul’s purification from that point on. Thanks to the zikir you do, the virtues, out of the mercy, virtue and benediction particles, begin to accumulate around the word of Faith (Îmân) in your soul’s heart (that Allah has written at the moment you depended on your murshid) and stick to it very tightly. No power is able to expel them from there. And the soul’s heart gradually begins to be filled with virtues, that is to say, with the beauties that will obey all His commands and not commit any acts forbidden by Him.
Now, this being filled up with each accumulation of 7% light, makes the spirit draw near to Allah, the spirit that has set off towards Allah by leaving the physical body at the moment the person depended on his murshid. And in the end, it makes him reach Allah. With each accumulation of 7% light, the soul surpasses the stages of Emmâre, Levvâme, Mülhîme, Mutmainne, Râdiye, Mardıyye and Tezkiye respectively. While there were no virtues in the soul’s heart at the beginning, and there were only the vices of the soul, when that point is reached, 51% light accumulates. The area of domination of Satan has decreased from 100% to 49%. Do not forget: Satan can only influence the vices of the soul! The method of annihilating those vices is to do Allah’s zikir. Allah has taught this to all the prophets and all the messengers beginning from Hz. Âdem (Adam).
While the soul’s heart is full of vices, he desires the orders of Allah not to be fulfilled, whereas the virtues of the spirit demand that they have to be fulfilled in any case (the spirit is full of the virtues, of the beauties).
Therefore, there are two opposite forces to each other in our inner world. They are in constant quarrel. Wherever there is a quarrel or a conflict, there is an uneasiness and unhappiness there. For this reason, human beings are unhappy. There is a ceaseless conflict in their inner worlds.
The intellect that has often gained consciousness in an environment outside of the orders of Allah often consents to the demands of the soul and carries them out. Beyond the quarrel between the soul and the spirit in your inner world, an attitude in this direction urges man to an easiness once more, because Allah causes him to taste an immaterial torment immediately after each sin committed. The spirit also applies a torment to the soul.
In which case, the vices of his soul are absolutely behind his being unhappy in his inner world. Do not forget that Satan has the possibility to influence them constantly. Whoever wants to get rid of the influence of Satan is obliged to annihilate the vices in his soul (’s heart). Allahû Tealâ has given the formula in His All-Wise Qur’ân.
You are uneasy in your outer world, too. In your discussions and behaviors with other people, you wish to put them in their places, to be superior to them, to be respected. You want to prove to them that you are superior to them. You hurt them and treat them brusquely. You cause them to be uneasy, but at the same time you too become troubled, because Allahû Tealâ applies a torment to you.
Know that you are at the command of Satan when you break someone’s heart. Satan has overcome you once again in a new event. Thereafter you will experience uneasiness. You will be uneasy once again as that person will take revenge on you. And you cannot stomach the revenge done to you. You too will attempt to take revenge on him. If you can, you will be troubled once again. If you cannot, there will be an accumulation of stress, and you will again be troubled.
You are also uneasy in your outer world. The means to get rid of this is to annihilate the vices of the soul (’s heart). Beginning from the moment you will annihilate them, you cannot behave badly towards others. You will always behave towards them so as to make them happy. You will so experience easiness and happiness after each event. No one will take revenge on you. You are always happy.
It is not possible for your subconscious accumulation to be formed, because there is no more resistance in your inner world. The soul and the spirit are in complete accord. You have reached peace and tranquility. Neither will you do wrong to others nor will they take revenge on you, nor will there be any subconscious accumulation in your inner world arising from your being unable to take revenge on others where before you burned to take revenge on them. None of these is in question.
As for your relationship with Allah: whenever the vices in your soul (’s heart) are purified, you will attain complete quietness. You will fulfill all the orders of Allah; you will not commit any acts forbidden by Him. Thus, Satan cannot dominate you at any point.
This is the goal that Allah wants to make all human beings reach. He enjoins this exceptional creature of His called “man” to live in an uninterrupted state of peace and quietness, that is, happiness both in his inner world, in his outer world and in his relationship with Allah, respecting the orders and the prohibitions.
The first surrender in Islâm is the surrender of the spirit to Allah. You experience happiness for half of the day and in the other part, you still continue to behave so that you will be unhappy. When you surrender your physical body to Allah, your happiness surpasses 80%. But when you annihilate all the vices in your soul (’s heart), you will succeed in it 100%. From this point on, you will live happiness 100% in your inner world, in your outer world and your relationship with Allah.
This is the goal of happiness of Allah for all human beings, the unique order He has given from Hz. Âdem (Adam), who was the first man and prophet, to the Last Prophet to whom Allah has sent down the Last Book of Canon Law (Şeri’at):
TO SURRENDER YOUR SPIRIT, PHYSICAL BODY, SOUL AND IN THE END YOUR FREE WILL TO ALLAH, AND THUS TO LIVE IN AN UNINTERRUPTED STATE OF HAPPINESS.
The word Islâm means to surrender. (This is) a way of happiness that passes through surrendering your spirit, physical body and soul and in the end your free will to Allah…
Besides the religion of Hz. Mûsâ (Moses), the religion of Hz. Îsâ (Jesus), the religion of Hz. Muhammed Mustafa (PBUH) there was the religion of Buddha, the religion of Confucius, and a great many other religions apart from them. Such conceptions of religions exceeding 50-60, perhaps 100, have split humankind into so many groups and sects. However, there are not religions, there is only one religion. That religion is that of Hanîf (Hanîf means the ability to believe in One Single Allah, to surrender to Him and thus to experience peace and quietness, in other words “Islâm”) of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham). That religion is that of Hz. Âdem (Adam). That religion is the religion of mankind nowadays.
At this moment, each faithful of each religion thinks that his own religion is true and other religions are false or on the wrong way. Furthermore one group (sect) in each religion considers all other religions outside of their own religion as an enemy to themselves and are busy with inciting this enmity. Unfortunately, there are such types of men in each religion. Some of them do not remain on this basis of thought; they put it into practice and so attempt terrorist actions and shed the blood of innocent people. The events which occurred in the USA are the most manifest sign of this.
ALLÂH DOES NOT ENJOIN ENMITY. ALLAH ENJOINS FRIENDSHIP.
And enmity is of the vices of your soul (’s heart). Allahû Tealâ, who has ordered you to annihilate all the vices of your soul (’s heart) in a categorical fashion enjoins you also to get rid of the vices of enmity, grudges and hatred in order that you should attain a state of peace and tranquility.
Now, if some men in all religions make declarations such as: “Other religions are false, only our religion is true, we are enemies to whomever is in the other religions, you also, be enemies to them.” If they thus want to instigate everybody to be enemy to the adherents of the other religions, this is definitely an act forbidden by Allah.
Allâh commands Friendship and Love.
Verily, We created man (his ego) in a design in which he can reach the best (ahsen).
95/At-Tîn - 5:
Then, We turned him into the deepest pit of Hell.
Allâh has created the soul in a period of time and in such a fashion that he can annihilate all the vices in his soul (’s heart) and become the most beautiful if he begins to do zikir and reaches continuous zikir by possessing the required conditions. But as the majority of men do not perform this, they will go to Hell.
There has been a single religion of Allah in the world from the time of Hz. Âdem (Adam) up to this day and there shall be so until the Day of Judgment. And that is the religion of Hanîf of Hz. İbrâhîm (Abraham), our ancestor.
Allahû Tealâ commands this to our Master the Prophet in the Noble Qur’ân:
You set yourself as HANIF to the religion, with the HANIF Nature of Allah, as Allah has created mankind with a HANIF nature. This is the religion, which will be forever, but most people do not know.
Turn back to Him (Allah), and have TAQWA (piety) for Him, and perform regular prayers, and do not be among those who are MUSHRIK (those who attribute partners to Allah).
Do not be one of those MUSHRIK (those who attribute a partner to Allah) since they split up their religion, and become Sects, and each party rejoices in the knowledge with it.
The religion that Allah had ordered to Hz. Âdem (Adam) is the religion of Hanîf that means to surrender the spirit, physical body, soul and free will of the human being to Allah.
The religion of Hanîf is the unique religion in the universe that commands men to constitute a unique community (there should not be two opposite communities) in the Way of Allah and that commands the Oneness of Allah.
Allahû Tealâ has created all human beings with the properties with which they can live the requirements of the religion of “Hanîf”. It is Allahû Tealâ who has brought forth the religion and it is also Allahû Tealâ who has created mankind.
Factor 1: To believe in Allah, in One Single Allah; that is to say, to accept only one God as Allah.
Factor 2: To constitute only one community in the Way of Allah; to put an end to the quarrel, conflict and war between various communities, to annihilate these discords.
Factor 3: To surrender to Allah; to surrender the spirit, the physical body, the soul and in the end the free will to Allah.
Allahû Tealâ has brought forth a religion, only one religion: the religion of Hz. Âdem (Adam). This is also the religion of the last men who will be living when the Day of Judgment arises: The Religion of Hanîf. The order given by Allah to the Prophet of that religion He has named Islâm in Arabic (a word synonymous to Hanîf), to Hz. Muhammed Mustafa (PBUH) is:
You are related to the religion of Hanîf; fulfill the requirements of this religion of Hanîf. So direct yourself to that religion, the religion of your ancestor Ibrâhîm (Abraham). We have created men with the disposition of Hanîf. And we made the religion also as a religion of Hanîf, that is to say, as a unique religion that will make men reach peace and quietness. You too will live that religion.
PLEASE PAY HEED TO MY WORD: Human beings are created with the disposition (nature) of Hanîf and are endowed with the properties with which they will be able to live only the religion of Hanîf, and the religion that Allah has brought forth is the religion of Hanîf.
Thus, Allah who has brought forth the religion of Hanîf, Allah who has created the human beings, has created all of them with the properties with which they will be able to live the religion of Hanîf.
“Lâ tebdîle lihalkıllâh (lihalkıllâhi).”
There cannot be any change in the creation of Allah.
Allahû Tealâ will create all men with the properties with which they will live this religion of Hanîf until Doomsday as He had so created the first man.
“This is the lasting religion.”
This is the unique religion, the only religion that will last from the pre-eternity to post-eternity, that had formerly existed and will continue to exist.
“But most men do not know (this truth).”
Today, both Jews and Christians think that they are related to separate religions. So does the world of Islâm, too.
Furthermore, the adherents (dependants, faithful) of the religions existing today all over the world have been thinking that they belong to separate religions.
Allahû Tealâ says to our Master the Prophet:
This religion that We have sent down to you under the name of “Islâm” in Arabic is the religion of “Hanîf” of your forefather (ancestor) Ibrâhîm (Abraham).
We have made a Law (şeri’at, Canon Law) for you that which We had made for Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), Hz. Nûh (Noah), Hz. Mûsâ (Moses), Hz. Îsâ (Jesus) . The Law of all of you is a single Law. Why does Allahû Tealâ say “Your father” (forefather, ancestor) about Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham)? Because it was Allahû Tealâ who taught him the religion of Hanîf. That which He taught to Hz. Âdem (Adam) was the same. But with the passage of many centuries, men have again lost their religion. Allahû Tealâ marked a new epoch with Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) and mentions the religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham).
Allahû Tealâ decrees:
Saying, “ Establish religion and make no divisions in it”, He (Allah) has ordained the same religion for you as that which We ordained for Noah - that which We have revealed to you - and that which We ordained for Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. The thing (invitation to Allah and to have faith in Allah) to which you invited was hard for those MUSHRIK (who attribute a partner to Allah). Allah chooses to Himself those whom He pleases, and guides (takes) unto Himself those who turn to Him.
The order that Allahû Tealâ has given is extremely clear:
Make no divisions (no various sects) in religion!
The religion of Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) is the same religion. That of Hz. Îsâ (Jesus) is the same. Your religion also is the same religion and this religion did not begin with Hz. Mûsâ (Moses). It began with Hz. Âdem (Adam). All the people (tribes, nations) that had lived Hz. Âdem (Adam) died out (vanished) as the Flood of Noah enveloped the whole world. As only Hz. Nûh (Noah) and his few dependants survived, Allahû Tealâ ordained the same thing for Hz. Nûh (Noah), that religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham). Afterwards, that religion continued by preserving the same fundamentals. Thereafter, Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) lived the same religion, he and his followers. After him, Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) and his dependants lived the same religion. And then, our Master the Prophet and those who depended on him lived the same religion. Allahû Tealâ who has created all human beings with the disposition of Hanîf and said to His Prophet:
“Direct yourself to the religion of Hanîf, it is your religion, too. This is the religion that will last until the Day of Judgment” has also created the religion as a religion of Hanîf in order that all men may live in perfect accord… Here, Allahû Tealâ is giving His Command to all human beings:
Make no divisions (no various sects) in religion!
There is no other religion called “Islâm” apart from the religion of “Hanîf”. There is only THE RELIGION OF HANÎF of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham).
There is no other religion called Christianity apart from the religion of Hanîf.
The Jews do not have a religion called Judaism apart from the religion of Hanîf. Any sect does not have a separate religion apart from the religion of Hanîf. There has only been one religion; that is the religion of Hanîf. The Law of Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) is just like that of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham). As for Hz. Îsâ (Jesus), he has also lived the Law of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham).
Remember that Allahû Tealâ has given the same commandment to Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) some 3000 odd years ago. Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) also lived the religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham). Allahû Tealâ has given the same order to Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus). He lived the religion of Hanîf. Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) and his dependants, and Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) and his dependants, all of them surrendered their spirits, physical bodies, and souls to Allah and lived the fundamentals of the religion of Hanîf (42/Ash-Shûra - 13).
We made a Law (Canon Law, şeri’at) for Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) also that which We ordained for Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), he too lived the religion of Hanîf that Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) lived. We made it a Law for Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus), too. He also lived the religion of Hanîf that Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) lived. We have also made it a Law for you. You also have been living the same religion. So set your face (physical body) towards that religion, says Allahû Tealâ.
And… “Beware! Make no divisions (no various sects) in religion!”
You are the same, the religion of all of you is one single religion. UNITE!
The time of reuniting has come. We are in that era. Allah has given His definite command in the 13th verse of Ash-Shûra Sûra: “Make no divisions (no various sects) in religion.” No divisions (no sects)!
All the faithful of any religion should know that there is only one religion; a multitude of religions deemed the religion did not exist, does not exist, and will not exist. None of them is different from the others. Strip off the skin (peel) of Islâm, Christianity and Judaism, take them out of the standards men have ascribed to those “religions”. When you put them in their original place, you will see then that there is only one religion. The religion you have called “Islâm” is not a religion apart from the religion of “Hanîf”.
The religion you have called the religion of the tribe of Judah (Judaism) is not separate in essence from the religion of Hanîf.
There is only one religion: That is the religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham).
We have sent down this Qur’ân in the Arabic language.
As the Qur’ân has been sent down in Arabic, Allahû Tealâ has used the word Islâm that is the exact equivalent of “Hanîf”. Otherwise Islâm is not a “new” religion. Christianity also is not a “new”religion. The religion that Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) lived during his lifetime was not a “new” religion.
There has never been a second religion. There is only one religion that had begun with Hz. Âdem (Adam) and will continue till the Day of Judgment: The religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham). That is to say, with its Arabic name: the religion of Islâm.
The order that Allahû Tealâ has given to our Master the Prophet is categorical: Our Religion is the religion of Hanîf. Set your face (physical body) too towards that religion. That religion is the lasting religion. You will only live that religion.
Before you, Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) and his dependants lived it. First, Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) and those who depended on him lived it. Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) and his followers, Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) and his followers, all of them lived the religion of Hanîf. Allah has never changed His religion in any epoch, He says.
There cannot be any change in the creation of Allah!
Allahû Tealâ has created men with the disposition of Hanîf. He has established in the universe one single religion that men whom He has created with the disposition of Hanîf can live: the religion of Hanîf.
We want you to know that the time for the reunification of the religion has come! And this will absolutely be realized. There are not 2, 3, 4, … 20 religions. There never have been.
Men have definitely lived the religion of Hanîf during the Era of any prophet on whom they depended. With the passage of time, the Devil (Satan) has dragged men into divisions and into various sects in religion.
All the religions lived in the Ages of Hz. Mûsâ (Moses), Hz. ‘Îsâ (Jesus) and Hz. Muhammed Mustafa (PBUH) were exactly the same. But nowadays, let alone their splitting from each other, men become enemies to the faithful of other religions, and murder the sinless, innocent people. In such a design, the order of Allah: “Make no divisions (no various sects),” and men’s being divided into separate religions are incompatible. Above all, the fact that people belonging to different religions consider others as enemies, kill them without mercy, and massacre thousands of innocent people unjustly: This is TERRORISM!
WE CURSE TERRORISM!
Allah has commanded Friendship.
If we who are living our religion, all of us, if we are living the religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham), if this is the religion that we have to live, if we are created with that disposition, that nature, by Allah, if we are endowed with the properties of living that religion, if all men have lived the religion of Hanîf during the Era of each prophet, if there has never been another religion apart from that single religion, then, oh! those who have been reading us and listening to us, just think: Shall we still not realize that we have fallen into a great trap of Satan?
Who desires Enmity? Îblîs (The Devil) desires it, Satan desires it.
Who wishes Friendship? Allah wishes it. If Allahû Tealâ says: “You do not have separate religions. The religion of all of you is the same, the unique religion. Unite then upon it, make no various sects!” should we not put an end to this enmity, by coming to our senses?
We have to come to our senses, as the faithful of the religion of Hanîf.
Each event of terror and each crime incites a new crime, because men are addicted to the vice of revenge. There are the vices of revenge, of grudges, of hatred, and of enmity in their souls (’ hearts). They will reciprocate the enmity made to them with the same weapon. Such an event will provoke the retaliation of the opposite side. That means that blood will be shed unjustly on this globe of the earth for only God knows how many years.
All the faithful of the religion have to act in order to save the world from this disaster. We should once again live the religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham) lived during the periods of time of all the prophets at the end the world. Everyone thinks that he belongs to a religion separate from that of others. There is no such thing. There is only one religion. When we scrutinize the fundamentals of that religion, we see the same thing in all the Holy Books.
Allâh wants everybody to surrender to Him but most men do not know how they will surrender themselves to Him. Now, Allah has granted that knowledge to us.
How will you surrender to Allah?
How will you live the religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham)?
The days to come will pass by communicating those fundamentals to the entire world.
The world has finally come to a point of reunification.
You will see that Allah’s enemies who desire to divide people will not be able to succeed in it for long. After a while, grudges and revenge will come to an end. Humanity will enter a period of peace and tranquility. Now, we have to join together in order to arrive at such a point.
Thanks be to Allah that the basic data of this are ready.
Allahû Tealâ says:
Our messengers are present in all eras, and absolutely in all nations. We continuously send a messenger in each nation (community, tribe…), we bring to life, we commission a messenger in it and when the one dies, we absolutely appoint another in place of him at the same time. We never leave any nation (tribe) without a messenger. If We had left it without him, We would not have punished that nation (community). Whereas, there has not been any nation that did not get what is deserved (that was not deserving of punishment). Men who will assemble in Hell after the Day of Judgment will represent both the periods of time in which they had lived and the men in that time and place where they had lived, no matter in which part of the world they had lived. No nation is excepted from this. Now then, consider this as glad tidings.
Consider this as glad tidings that the messengers of Allah have definitely been living at the moment in all nations. They will join together step by step in the near future. They are those who know whatever We have taught you. They are those taught by Allah. He has been teaching them just like He has been teaching us. And these men who are to be found in each nation will gather together in the days to come. This is the book that has initiated the progression step by step towards worldwide peace.
You will absolutely witness that the messengers in all nations and communities will emerge one by one in the days to come. And this grudge, this enmity will be terminated.
My dear brothers and sisters! We serve only Satan with grudges and enmity. Terrorism is not a way out. It is a whirlpool that drags men into Hell. The command of Allah is not enmity, it is friendship.
ALL OF US, WE SHOULD BE THE REPRESENTATIVES OF FRIENDSHIP AND DO NOT FORGET: WE HAVE BEEN CREATED FOR THIS. WE HAVE BEEN CREATED IN ORDER THAT WE SHOULD BE FRIENDS, NOT ENEMIES!
Now, human beings will be in a circle of friendship hand and glove after some conflicts and some events of shedding blood. They will unite in the Way of Allah heart to heart. Allah be praised that the main factors of this are present today in all the nations as messengers and in the near future the messengers in all nations will emerge one by one. And they will absolutely establish a togetherness with the Imam of the Era.
This is a declaration. Thus, let us know this:
Terror can bring forth nothing other than bloodshed, enmity, and grudges.
The Command of Allah is to prevent bloodshed.
And therefore, we say openly and proudly that your religion, their religion, and our religion are not separate. We all have a unique religion. We all are the faithful, the adherents of the same religion: the religion of Hanîf of Hz. Ibrâhîm (Abraham).
Therefore, we are obliged to know, to learn that we are only the faithful of a single religion, that our Prophet had lived that religion and we also should live it, and apply it in our lives.
If you place into its proper place the fact that you are in reality the faithful of a unique religion, no matter to which religion you are related now, you will absolutely find in your own Book the verses related to it. And as a result, you will see that just like there is no religion other than the unique religion, there is also nothing other than friendship.
The basic command of Allahû Tealâ: “Make no divisions (no various sects) in religion. Live the religion of Hanîf.”
In which case, do not split into various sects, separate groups, and especially into communities that are enemies to each other!
Live the religion that makes men reach all the beauties of Allah!
Put an end to the quarrel between your spirit and your soul in your inner world!
Terminate the conflict between you and other people, other communities, and other nations in your outer world!
Finish the quarrel in your relationship with Allah by annihilating the elements opposing His orders and prohibitions.
In a design of peace and calmness, be united, be all together, receive each other with open arms, and embrace the future all together!
Dear readers, my very close friends, my cordial friends, this is the testament of Allah for all of you! We request beseechingly from our Exalted Lord that He make you both the owners of worldly happiness and the Bliss of Paradise in the Afterlife through your living the requirements of the disposition of Hanîf in this world.
May Allah be pleased with all of you.
With our prayers.
Man has been created out of three bodies. He has a physical body, a spirit and a soul. He has three different bodies belonging to the three separate worlds. Allahû Tealâ has created six worlds. Three of them are considered as bases. Three of them are their opposites. He decrees: We create everything in pairs, causing it to exist through its opposite. Allahû Tealâ has created the Manifest (Visible) World. The planet we call the Earth (the world) is a part of it (belongs to it). We can see the Manifest World with our eyes, we can hear the sounds in the Manifest (Visible, Apparent) World. It is the world of our physical body.
Allahû Tealâ has created a second world, which is one of the worlds we call the Invisible World, where the jinns (genies, spirits) have been living. Allahû Tealâ has created a different world named by us the World of Command (âlem-i emr) beginning from the Ground Floor (consisting of about 200 billion galaxies, each containing approximately 200 billion stars and to which our Earth also belongs). This is the World where our spirit materializes. These three Worlds are basic (asıl): The Manifest (Visible) World where human beings live, the Invisible World where the jinns live, and the World of Command where our spirits live. The World of Command expresses a journey (an extension) to Allah, contains the seven heavenly floors and the seven worlds of the seventh heavenly floor. Each world also has its opposite:
The opposite of the Manifest World is the Intermediate World (âlem-i berzâh). This is the name of the world where dead human beings continue to live until the Day of Judgment (Doomsday). The Intermediate World of the Invisible World, is the name of the world where the souls of the jinns continue to live until the Day of Judgment. The world of Darkness, the opposite of the World of Command, is the World of Satan. We have so described and separated the six Worlds. But they always speak of seven Worlds. The seventh World is Non-existence, Nothingness. If Allahû Tealâ had also created Nothingness - as it is nothingness, it is not possible for it to be created by its very definition - there would have been eight Worlds. And Allahû Tealâ would have absolutely caused it to exist with its opposite. As it is not created, it is single, without any partner. Thus, there are seven Worlds. Our physical body belongs to the Manifest World. Our soul belongs to the Intermediate World. Our spirit belongs to the World of Command. Now, the three bodies named differently and belonging to the three separate Worlds have been brought forth by Allahû Tealâ.
Allahû Tealâ has created our physical body.
We created man from sounding clay of a mud molded into shape.
So, Allah created (HALK) the physical body of the human being out of earth.
I swear, that soul (ego) was given the proportion and order (at 7 steps).
Our soul in which 19 vices (imperfections, sicknesses) have been placed is designed, (built with concentrated darkness) is shaped by Allahû Tealâ with the property (ability) of transforming into virtues (haslets).
As for our spirit, it is breathed (blown) into us, into our physical body.
Then (Allah) fashioned him in due proportion and breathed into him (into WAJH: physical body) something of His spirit, and He gave him (his soul’s (ego) heart) the faculties of SEMI (hearing) and BASAR (sight) and FUAD (comprehending). How little are the thanks you give!
Allahû Tealâ announces that our soul is designed (91/Ash-Shams - 7), our physical body is created, and our spirit is breathed into us. Our three bodies have been brought forth differently. Our Exalted Sustainer orders our three bodies to surrender to Allah during this worldly life in all of His Holy Scriptures. All the Holy Scriptures, all the religions are present for the accomplishment of this order.
The common characteristics of all the religions is to submit (surrender) to Allah.
Until recently, people did not have any detailed knowledge about the fact of surrender. The existence of an element capable of reuniting all the religions was unknown to them. In an international conference held for the purpose of the reunification of the religions, for the first time such a proposal was presented for consideration. And this matter is known today. Allah has had only one religion throughout human history. It orders us to surrender to Allah. The Devil could not manage to extract the verses related to submission (surrender) from the Old Testament (the Torah and the Psalms) nor from the New Testament (the Gospel) in spite of all his efforts he has expended in order to trap human beings and drag them into Hell together with him. We see that Allahû Tealâ has absolutely placed the verses related to surrender in those Holy Scriptures. Until recent days, the faithful of these religions believed that these verses of surrender existed only in their own religions. Moreover, they did not know that this is a common element and the most important common element in the relationship between Allah and human beings in the universe. The world has hardly begun to learn this reality.
There are discussions about the matter of religion in developed countries. All the faithful of the religions are invited; men can express their thoughts freely. They wish for unity and togetherness. They wish to be together with Allah. Neither the Jews nor the Christians nor the adherents of the other religions object to the fact that the verses related to “surrender” also exist in their own religions. There have been some changes in the unique religion sent down by Allahû Tealâ, in the religion of surrender, throughout the course of time. Therefore, the ceremonies of the different religions have displayed some differences from each other. But what is necessary for us is to start from the points on which we come to an agreement, to accept them and then to treat the matters one by one in a basis of agreement in the course of time and to determine their common points. There is only a single Allah (God), and there are solely the prophets of Allah.
Allah is the Owner of the names El-Hakk (The Truth, The Reality) and El-Adl (Just). It is not possible for Him to treat men unjustly, to withhold from certain men what He has granted to others. The Glorious Qur’an is the last Book of Canon Law (Sharia) that was sent down to the Last Prophet and considers the surrenders as fundamental in man’s reaching the Bliss of Paradise and worldly happiness. The spirit’s surrendering to Allah guarantees the Bliss of Paradise, the physical body’s submitting to Allah adds to it 90% of the worldly happiness. The soul’s surrendering to Allah makes him reach the entirety of the worldly happiness.
A man possessing the entirety of the Happiness of Paradise and worldly happiness is a man who:
1. has surrendered his spirit to Allah,
2. has surrendered his physical body to Allah,
3. has surrendered his soul to Allah.
4. has surrendered his free will to Allah
Now, the religions brought forth by Allahû Tealâ express these realities.
The matter of revelation that has been giving rise to such vehement disputes (debates, arguments) in our country (Turkey) is that there is an environment in which hundreds, even thousands, of men, receive revelations from Allahû Tealâ in the United States. There are a few people receiving revelation from Him in each church in any case.
Those who can experience these beauties are the ones to whom Allah has granted some favors. Allahû Tealâ says about them: “Among them too, there are the ones who prostrate themselves, do zikir, believe in all the prophets, and surrender to Allah.” Did you ever think of what kind of fact Allahû Tealâ speaks? Allahû Tealâ, who had given the initial religion to Hz. Adam (PBUH) and those who had depended on him, made it the goal of their surrender to Allah. All the religious learnings He revealed to Hz. Adam (PBUH) are roughly the same as those He revealed to our Master the Prophet (PBUH). The common element in all the religions from Adam (PBUH) until our Master the Prophet has never changed: The spirit’s surrendering to Allah, the physical body’s surrendering to Allah, and the soul’s surrendering to Allah and the free will’s surrendering to Allah. As the faithful of the religion of Islam, we see that the religion of Islam makes our surrender to Allah obligatory on us. It makes it an obligation for us to surrender our spirit, our physical body, our soul and our free will to Allah. It expounds magnificently on the standards and how these will be realized. The conditions of surrendering to Allah have been repeated many times in a plain and definite fashion in all the religions. Human beings only recently became aware of the fact that there are a bridge, a common starting point, and certain common, main and final goals among the religions.
If so, let us consider the status of surrendering to Allahû Tealâ from A to Z comprised of hundreds of verses where the explanations in the Glorious Qur’an have been complete. The fact that the details do not exist in other religions is not so important; what is essential is that the fundamentals exist therein. Allahû Tealâ has not given Satan the authority to spoil or destroy the fundamentals concerning surrendering to Allah. The Devil could not alter the verses related to surrendering to Allah in the Holy Scriptures previous to the Glorious Qur’an in spite of all efforts he has expended in order to distort them. Now, the common points around which humankind will gather together in the near future display three phases consisting of: the spirit’s surrendering to Allah, the physical body’s submitting to Allah, the soul’s delivery and the free will’s surrendering to Allah. For this reason, we are approaching the days in which the believing part of humanity will become unified. Just as the verses of Allahû Tealâ discussing the surrender remain exactly in other religions, so too Satan who could not distort any point of the Glorious Qur’an and also could not meddle with the verses related to surrendering to Allah. The word “teslim” (surrender, submit) originates from the root “SILM” (Sîn, lâm, mîm). We offer infinite praises and thanks to our Exalted Sustainer (Lord) that the word Islam also stems from the same root. When we say “Islâm”, “to surrender to Allah” should come to our minds. Let us have a look at the words coming from the root SILM: “Islâm, teslim, selâm, selâmet, müslim, müslüman…” all these words originate from the same root: SILM.
Thus, we will witness that all religions including Islam will cover crucial phases in their relationships with Allah in the days to come and especially in a few years. We will see that those who believe in Allah will come to certain agreements in unity around the same goal, the goal of surrendering to Allah. Satan has been trying to annihilate such a unity as best as he can. As you know, he has put forth efforts (he has done his best) throughout human history, but he could not manage to cause the Friends (saints) of Allah to go astray. So, what is “submitting to Allah”? The adherents of all religions acknowledge that submission to Allah (surrendering to Allah) exists in their holy books too and that this is a law (decree) of Allah. Well, what is lacking? What is lacking is that they do not yet know how they will reach the goal (aim). I am not speaking only of the religions outside of Islam, but the people inside Islam also do not know how they will surrender to Allah.
Human beings, in particular the great majority of one billion people living the religion of Islam, do not know what “surrendering to Allah” is. Even if they say: “Islam, as it is said, is to surrender oneself to Allah,” notice how they consider it. They say Islam has five conditions, consequently submitting to Allah also has five conditions: to perform the prescribed daily prayers, to fast, to give alms (zakât), to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and to repeat the Islamic testimony of faith. Whoever has accomplished these five things has surrendered themselves to Allah. And they say: we too do them. We perform our prayers, we fast, we give alms, we go on the pilgrimage to Mecca if we can afford it, and we frequently say: Lâ ilâhe illallah Muhammedün Resûlallah: There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. We are those who surrender ourselves to Allah.
Those who are inside Islam and have this creed (belief) do not know about surrendering to Allah and are unaware of what surrendering to Allah is. They believe that they have surrendered themselves to Allah by carrying out the five conditions of Islam. But all of these five conditions are related to the physical body.
We consider other religions: Allahû Tealâ sent the Torah written on tablets to Hz. Mûsâ (Moses). They contained what Allah had revealed to him. Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) (PBUH) and those who depended on him surrendered themselves to Allah. Men constantly have lived with differences about the religion of Allah after those days due to the side of human nature open to degeneration.
It is due to those differentiations, the degeneration of men, and their having forgotten their religion throughout the course of time that Allah sent the Psalms to Hz. Dâvût (David) (PBUH). The majority of people had forgotten to surrender themselves to Allah by the time of the Era of Hz. Dâvût (David) (PBUH). But a group among them who received knowledge and irfan (beyond physical knowledge) from the preceding believers and surrendered themselves to Allah from among them always lived and are living today, too.
The greater part of society forgot to surrender to Allah. But a group among the Jews who have not forgotten to surrender to Allah are always alive. Nowadays, the group who surrenders following the Commandments coming down from Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) (PBUH) up to now has still been a minority, a little group of men. Those who lived together with Davut (David) (PBUH) surrendered themselves to Allah together with him. Those who lived in the time of Hz. Ibrahim (Abraham) surrendered themselves to Allah together with him. Those who lived in the time of Hz. Nuh (Noah) surrendered themselves to Allah together with him. And it continues. When we say, “those who had lived in that period”, you should not assume that all those who lived in that period surrendered themselves to Allah. Those who surrendered constituted a minor part of society as usual. While this minority was surrendering to Allah in the way of Allah, the greater part of society in the subsequent generations (progeny) was departing from their way. But in all the subsequent generations, men who have maintained the same Tradition, depended on their murshids, and surrendered their spirits, physical bodies, souls and free wills to Allah always lived and are still living. Allahû Tealâ sent the Gospel to Hz. Îsâ (Jesus Christ) (PBUH). Allahû Tealâ says that Hz. Dâvût (David) and those who depended on him, Hz. Îsâ (Jesus Christ) and those who depended on him (the Apostles) surrendered themselves to Allah.
In that case, only the ones who have surrendered (to Allah) receive the honor of reaching Paradise. To surrender one’s spirit to Allah is absolutely to obtain the Bliss of Paradise. The physical body and soul’s surrender is the key to acquire worldly happiness in addition to it. Since the time of Hz. Îsâ (Jesus Christ), the people have gradually forgotten the standards of surrendering to Allah.
But the fact that the great majority has forgotten did not prevent a tiny minority from living the standards of surrendering to Allah. As the Glorious Qur’an says, there are still those who surrender themselves to Allah among them. They have reached this point by maintaining their traditions in the Era of Hz. Îsâ (Jesus Christ) (PBUH), by continuing what Allah said to him during that period. What was said to Hz. Îsâ (Jesus) (PBUH) was the same as what was revealed to our Master the Prophet with respect to their fundamental points. Allahû Tealâ described the religion of Hz. Ibrahîm (Abraham) (PBUH) to our Prophet and ordered him to be Islam. To be Islâm (Muslim) means to surrender to Allah. But we cannot become Islam by carrying out the 5 conditions of Islâm. Those people merely believe that they have surrendered themselves to Allah.
Allahû Tealâ sent the Glorious Qur’an to Hz. Muhammed Mustafa (PBUH). And Allah be praised that the Devil could not make the least little change in this Book. For this reason, the Glorious Qur’an is the soundest (most trustworthy, dependable) source capable of conveying to all the world all the essentials, bases, and details of surrendering to Allah.
In other religions, among the Jews, those who depend on Hz. Dâvût (David) and on Hz. Îsâ (Jesus) there are still the ones who have been carrying on their traditions through those epochs, for thousands of years, just like the prophets on whom they depend by remaining loyal to what was sent to Hz. Mûsâ (Moses), Hz. Dâvûd (David), Hz. Îsâ (Jesus) (in regard to the essentials of surrendering to Allah).
All over the world, there are some people in each nation living in this manner. When considering our matter from this point of view, we will better understand why Allahû Tealâ sent (brought to life, commissioned) messengers in all nations (communities).
23/Al-Mu’minûn - 44:
Then, We sent our messengers in succession. Every tribe to which their messenger came rejected him. So We terminated them and made them a legend. Let the tribe which is not MUMIN (that among the believers of Allah who wishes to reach Him) be away!
2/Al-Baqarah - 87:
Verily We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of messengers, and We gave Jesus the son of Mary Clear (Signs) and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit. Whenever there came to you a messenger with what (an order) your souls (ego) do not like, you were puffed up with pride? Some you called impostors, and some you slayed!
16/An-Nahl - 36:
For We assuredly sent (appointed) amongst every People (tribe) a messenger lest they become servants and avoid the Satanic Way (man and jinn demons). Some of them (those who depended on a messenger) attained HIDAYAT (the true guidance leading to Allah) and some of them (those who did not depend on a messenger) were inevitably (established) in DALALET (misguidance). So travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who denied (the Truth).
3/Âl-‘Imrân - 164:
Verily We grant a great blessing (spirits of the messengers) on the MUMINs (those among the believers of Allah who wish to reach Him) when We send among them a messenger from among themselves. That messenger rehearses unto them the Signs of Allah, takes them to purification, and instructs them in Scripture and Divine Wisdom. Before that (before having depended on these Guide Messengers), they had been in manifest Misguidance.
14/Ibrahim - 4:
There is no Messenger that We sent except (to teach) in the language of his (own) people, in order to make (things) clear to them. So Allah leaves those (who do not wish to reach Allah) whom He pleases in DALALET (Misguidance), and guides whom He pleases to Himself (HIDAYAT= True Guidance leading to Allah). He is Exalted in power, the All-Wise.
Allahû Tealâ says: There is not even a single day passing without the existence of a messenger in any nation (tribe, community…) The messengers of Allah always existed in all communities. It is definite that the messengers of Allah existing in all communities are not the prophets (enbiyâ) of Allah. We know that there were some periods of interruption between the prophets (nebî, enbiyâ), but there are not any intervals between the Messengers, between the saint messengers who are not prophets. Allahû Tealâ declares: We absolutely send (bring to life, commission) a Messenger in each nation uninterruptedly, in succession. In comparison with the greatness (size) of society, there is always a little group that continues the standards of surrendering to Allah following from the time of their own prophet. But the greater part of society in all religions have been living without being aware of this great reality.
This same great truth is at issue for all religions. Nowadays, a very large portion of people, more than 90% of them, in the religion of Islam are saying: We carry out the 5 conditions of Islam and will enter Paradise, because Islam is composed of these 5 conditions, and in essence Islam means “surrendering”. If Islam is to surrender, and if Islam has 5 conditions, the one who carries out these 5 conditions has thus surrendered oneself to Allah.
Let us consider our subject carefully: Here those who will gather humankind together are the messengers of Allah who are to be found in each nation (community). They instruct the people around them in surrendering to Allah. Now, the magnificent truth that will gather all human beings together all over the world is to surrender oneself to Allah.
Henceforth, let us explain how we can realize these surrenders. While revealing this explanation by basing it on the verses of the Glorious Qur’an, we will be able to make public how we will reach the common and main goal of not only the Qur’an but also of all the Holy Scriptures. We should know this: that the goal of all the prophets and of all the Holy Scriptures is the same. If so, all the explanations that have been made will shed light not only on the Islamic World but also on all the faithful of other religions. When we consider the World of Islam, let us see together whether the 5 conditions are sufficient for surrendering to Allah or not. The standards of surrendering to Allah are based not on the 5 conditions but on the 7 phases:
Phase 1: the phase of wishing to reach Allah. If we do not wish to reach Allah, we cannot reach any other place. Everything begins with wishing to reach Allah. Allahû Tealâ decrees that the one who does not want to reach Allah will go to Hell.
Phase 2: to reach the murshid and to depend on him.
Phase 3: to send the spirit to Allah, to make it reach the Essence (Zât) of Allah and to ensure that Allah will be the Shelter for the spirit, and thus to have surrendered the spirit to Allah.
Phase 4: to ensure that the physical body becomes “ahsen” (the most perfected, the most beautiful), that is to say, it will possess a property enabling it to obey all the orders of Allah and to not commit any acts prohibited by Him, and thus to surrender the physical body also to Allah.
Phase 5: to ensure that the soul also becomes “ahsen” (the most perfected, the most beautiful), that it will possess a property enabling it to carry out all the orders of Allah and not to commit any acts forbidden by Him, and thus to surrender the soul to Allah.
Phase 6: to arrive at Irshad. Whenever our soul’s heart becomes embellished, 7 steps at Ulul Elbab, 7 steps at Ikhlas, and 4 steps at Salah, at that time we reach Irshad (Guidance).
Phase 7: to surrender the free will to Allah. When we submit our free will to Allah, Allah gives the duty of Irshad (Guidance).
All this is accomplished by attaching extreme importance to zikir, by putting your heart and soul into it. If there is no “zikir”, we cannot pass more than the second of these seven phases. Yet the first phase makes man reach the Bliss of Paradise. Worldly happiness is completed through the purification of the soul. The point at which we complete worldly happiness is continuous zikir. This is the stage at which we have finished the refining (tasfiye, cleansing) of the soul.
At the soul’s purification, when the lights of Allah fill up more than half of the soul’s heart, the spirit of that person has surrendered to Allah. At the same point, the soul’s heart has been purified by more than 50%. When the proportion of purification in the soul’s heart has reached completeness, the soul surrenders to Allah. We see that the physical body has surrendered to Allah when this proportion of purification has reached 90%, and that the soul has surrendered to Allah when this proportion becomes 100%.
At the moment when the physical body surrenders to Allah, the illumination of the soul’s heart reaches 90%. When the soul surrenders to Allah, it becomes 100%. We have spoken of the seven phases of surrendering to Allah. As it has been seen, these seven phases are unrelated to the five conditions of Islam. At each stage, it is necessary to carry out the conditions of that stage.
Without them, we cannot go to the goal. They are not the goal, but the means to it. Praying, fasting, giving alms (zekât), going on the pilgrimage to Mekka, repeating the Islamic testimony of faith, all these are the instrumental orders; none of them are the goal (aim, target).
Allahû Tealâ did not create us in order that we pray, fast… He created us so that we would surrender ourselves to Allah by performing the prescribed daily prayers, fasting… doing zikir so that we would become a servant of Allah through the surrender of our spirit, be a greater servant (ekber kul) through the surrender of our physical body, and be a greatest servant (azîm kul) through the surrender of our soul to Allah, so that we should attain the Bliss Paradise through the first delivery (surrender, submission) and the worldly happiness through the third delivery.
Oh men, Allahû Tealâ decrees that He has subjected all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth to you (as a favor and kindness) from Him.
And He, Allah the Almighty, has subjected to you (human beings), as from Him, all (everything He has created for the worlds where there is life) that is in the heavens and on earth. In that are Verses (Signs) for a tribe who contemplates.
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Turn to Allah (make your spirit reach Allah) and (so) submit yourself to Allah before the torment (in the grave) (before death) comes on you. Or after that you will not be helped.
We should notice that neither our physical body, nor our soul, nor our spirit are ours. Such a day will come when you will feel the need to hand over your intellect, which is the owner of the Trusts, and its closest helper, your free will, to Allah. Then, beyond the surrender of all the Trusts to Allah, He will accept the last Trust. Then, you will be the slave, the “captive” of Allah. At the point at which the liberties are limitless, the captivity (slavery) of Allah begins.
The process of surrendering to Allah that will reunite all the religions occurs (takes place) in seven phases: Phase 1: to wish to reach Allah. Phase 2: to reach the murshid. Phase 3: to surrender our spirit to Allah by making it reach Allah. Phase 4: to surrender our physical body to Allah by making it the most perfected, the most beautiful. Phase 5: to surrender our soul by making it “ahsen” (the most perfected, the most beautiful). Phase 6: to reach irshad. Phase 7: to surrender the free will to Allah. All the religions are thus composed of seven phases.
Recall all the prophets who come to your mind: Hz. Yakup (Jacob), Hz. Ibrahim (Abraham), Hz. Ismail (Ishmael), Hz. Eyup (Job), Hz. Mûsâ (Moses) , Hz. Îsâ (Jesus), Hz. Dâvûd (David), Hz. Nûh (Noah), ... Hz. Muhammed Mustafa (PBUH). They all surrendered themselves to Allah together with those who depended on them. Now, today, we are at a point where all living men have entered the age of surrender. Within a general framework we can consider that we are facing the fact that the greater part of about seven billion people all over the world do not know how they will surrender themselves to Allah. But there is definitely a group composed of those who have surrendered to Allah in all communities (nations) and assuredly there is the Messenger of Allah in each, too. Here are two verses related to this matter:
Then, We sent our messengers in succession. Every tribe to which their messenger came rejected him. So We terminated them and made them a legend. Let the tribe which is not MUMIN (that among the believers of Allah who wishes to reach Him) be away!
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Verily We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of messengers, and We gave Jesus the son of Mary Clear (Signs) and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit. Whenever there came to you a messenger with what (an order) your souls (ego) do not like, you were puffed up with pride? Some you called impostors, and some you slayed!
Those who will reunite the whole world in the Era to come as the friends (saints) of Allah will be the Messengers of Allah. The Messengers of Allah have been living at this moment in each nation (community)
Now, let us discuss our topic step by step: Why has Allahû Tealâ created man? - For Himself. First, we answered that question. All that Allah created in the heavens and in the earth are created for man and given to his order (for his disposal).
And He, Allah the Almighty, has subjected to you (human beings), as from Him, all (everything He has created for the worlds where there is life) that is in the heavens and on earth. In that are Verses (Signs) for a tribe who contemplates.
Why was man created? Man was created for Allah.
They are those who said, when afflicted with vice: "We are (created) for Allah, and to Him is our return."
While we are created with the nature (disposition) of man, we are created for Allah, and all the universe (cosmos) with all its heavens and earths (planets) is created for us.
Therefore, we should give praise and thanks for being created as human beings. This is an endless praise and thanks. The most valuable and valued beings, the creatures Allah loves the most, are human beings. We praise and thank Allah endlessly that He created us as men.
We have created human beings and Jinns just so that they may be servants to Us.
So, Allahû Tealâ speaks of a great truth in His relationship with men. He has created all human beings in order that they should be His servants. Perhaps such a question may come to your mind: What relation is there between our being servants to Allah and our happiness? First, let us think about the expression: We did not create the jinns (good and bad spirits, genies) and mankind for any other thing; we created them solely for the purpose that they should be My servants.
Here some people take the phrase “liya’büdûn” as “in order that they should worship Me” and thus fall into a great error, like rendering an instrumental order into a target order. To be a servant requires three standards exceeding this content in any way. When we surrender our spirit to Allah, we reach the first servanthood; when we surrender our physical body to Allah, we reach the greater servanthood (ekber kulluk), and when we surrender our soul to Allah we reach the greatest servanthood (azîm kulluk). And thus we reach three immense goals: The first is the never-ending compensation, the greatest of the rewards (ecrü’l ‘azîm); the second is infinite success (victory) [fevzü’l ‘azîm]; the third is boundless delight (gratification) [Hazzu’l ‘azîm], the greatest of the worldly delights, happiness.
Surrendering to Allah is realized at the 27th step, on a stairway of 28 steps of the religion, on the common stairway of the religions.
We have spoken of 28 steps. At which step can human beings not save themselves, at which step does Salvation begin, at which step do we surrender our spirit to Allah, at which stage do we surrender our physical body to Allah, and at which step do we surrender our soul to Allah? Let us see together with the verses in the Glorious Qur’an all of these steps in an undoubtable way:
Allahû Tealâ speaks of these 28 steps in Al-‘Asr Sura without delineating the sphere (field, domain) of the steps. He decrees:
“I swear by the Time.”
“Indeed, human beings are in utter frustration (loss).” That is to say, the place where they will go is Hell according to the 103rd verse of Al-Mu’minûn Sura.
But those whose balance (of merits) is light, will be those with their souls (ego) in frustration. They will dwell in Hell forever.
Thus, the great majority of men will be in Hell. Allahû Tealâ continues in Al-‘Asr Sura:
The first stage of 7 steps results in wishing to reach Allah. The second stage of 7 steps results in doing ameliorating (improving) acts. Here is the 14th step: The point at which we have reached our murshid, entered the way of Allah and begun the soul’s purification. [“illellezîne âmenû ve ‘amilussâlihâti”]
And recommend to one another the Truth (Allah). Those who made their spirits reach Allah, surrendered them to Allah, and thus acquired this experience and recommended to others to reach the Truth (Allah). This is the end of the third phase of 7 stages.
And recommend to one another Patience. The servant who is one of the sâlihs (The Improved Ones), who is the owner of Patience, recommends to others Patience after having attained the Truth (Hakk, Allah). This is the end of the fourth phase of 7 stages.
One of the 19 vices (imperfections, faults, darknesses) of our soul is Impatience. One of the 19 virtues (haslets) of our spirit is Patience. Thus, when we reach continuous zikir and extinguish all of the 19 vices in our soul (’s heart) or when we put the 19 virtues of our spirit into our soul’s heart instead of those vices, then the vice of impatience has been extinguished, and the good quality of patience has really replaced it. Here is the 28th step. The post of Salah is the ending of the improving acts, these acts reaching the goal, the fact that no more dark points remain in the soul’s heart. Let us have a look at these 28 steps in the light of the explanations given in the Glorious Qur’an:
Step 1: At the first step, we experience some events. Allahû Tealâ decrees that everybody lives the events and evaluates them according to his own standards and that the evaluations made nowadays are erroneous. Everyone lives the events. Here is the first step, but everyone will go up to the second step. He will evaluate the events. And the problem begins thereafter.
Step 2:
Fighting, whether you dislike it (or like it) is prescribed for you. But it is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and that you love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knows (all this), and you do not know.
Allahû Tealâ has made certain His saying that: “Everyone lives the events” at the first step. He decrees: We will test you with your children, your wives, your money, your animals, with all you possess.
You did not come to this world in vain. In that case, Allah has a goal for making you live the events. The process of examination is in force everywhere. Everybody absolutely lives these events, endures these examinations. The matter is the evaluation of these experiences.
Let us pay close attention to this evaluation: Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 216th verse of Al-Baqarah Sura: There are some events. They are an enjoyment (delight, pleasing) for you. You think that they are a good thing for you whereas they are a bad thing for you. There are some events that grieve you. You think that they are bad for you whereas they are good for you. You do not know (all these); Allah knows (them). According to the Glorious Qur’an, if men obtain degrees (points), this is good. If they lose degrees due to their actions, this is evil (wickedness). The events are evaluated by Allahû Tealâ not in the respect of your being delighted or your being grieved, but regarding your gaining degrees or losing them. And this is because men may rejoice at evil (wickedness, badness, “Sherr”) and be sad at goodness (Hayr). Allahû Tealâ decrees: You do not know, Your Sustainer knows.
Step 3: You are obliged to evaluate the events at the second step. Allahû Tealâ separates men into two groups with regard to these evaluations. A good man wishes to reach Allah at the end of this evaluation and passes to the third step. Or a man does not want to reach Allah and stays at the second step which is a step of evaluation and his Salvation is never possible. Because Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 7 and 8th verses of Yûnus Sura:
Verily, they do not wish to reach (to make their spirits reach Allah in this life) Us. They are pleased and satisfied with the life of the present world, and they are those who are unaware of Our Verses.
Their abode is the Fire (Hell), because of the (bad degrees) they earned.
Unless a man wishes to reach Allah, he remains at the second stage and the place where he will go is Hell (fire). No one can save him from Hell. Allahû Tealâ declares in Al-Insân Sura:
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Verily We take him (a human being) to the Path (that leads to Allah). Some are grateful (attaining Allah through HIDAYAT (Guidance to Allah)) or some ungrateful (never take the Guidance leading to Allah and never make their spirits reach Allah) and (so) become of those in blasphemy.
What does Allah mean by this? Either you reach your murshid and begin to act in the direction of thanking (Allah) or you do not reach him. Then, unbelief (küfür) remains written in your (soul’s) heart and as long as it is written therein, you cannot change. Your salvation is utterly impossible. Your (soul’s) heart is sealed off. Unbelief (küfür) is inscribed in your (soul’s) heart.
The persons appointed by Allah show the way to salvation. Only those who take the way to salvation can be saved. To wish to reach Allah indicates that we have reached the third step. Whoever does not wish to reach Allah, the place where he will absolutely go is Hell. There is no salvation at all. As for the one who wishes to reach Allah, he will definitely attain Salvation. Allahû Tealâ clearly makes His decree: “Whoever wishes to reach Allah, He wills to make him reach Himself. And He absolutely makes them reach His Paradise.”
Hz. Nuh (Noah) says so to his nation in the 29th verse of Hûd Sura:
And O my people (tribe)! I ask of you for no wealth in return (for what I have conveyed to you). My reward is from none but Allah. And I will not drive away (in contempt) those who are AMENU (who wish to reach Allah in his life) for verily they will reach their Lord (before dying).
Step 4: The fact that the spirit of the one who wants to reach Allah will absolutely reach Him becomes definite. Let us suppose that you have this wish, that this wish has come into being in your soul’s heart, that you want to reach Allah. As soon as you want it, Allahû Tealâ assuredly hears, knows and sees your request. He decrees: “Surely, He is the All-Hearer, the All-Knower.” “Verily, Allah is the Seer of the Servants.” Now, you wish to reach Allah at the third stage and Allah hears, knows and sees immediately that you wish to reach Him. Thus, you are going up to the fourth stage. Allah hears, knows, sees this wish in your soul’s heart and manifests Himself with His Rahîm (Most Compassionate) name over your head.
And I myself cannot cleanse my soul (ego) since the soul (ego) orders evil except (the souls) on which the mercy of my Lord manifests. Surely, my Lord is Oft-forgiving, (changes sins into merits) and Most Merciful (sending the light Mercy, and cleansing and purifying the soul (ego) by His Mercy).
You are at the fourth step.
This manifestion firstly ensures the removal by Allahû Tealâ of the secret curtain (hicab-ı mesture) between you and the post of irshad. You are at the fifth step.
Thereafter, Allahû Tealâ takes “vakra” out from the ears of the person who cannot understand the matters concerning irshad (saint guidance), or reach their meanings due to this vakra (weight, obstacle). He can only find their meanings after the taking out of “vakra” by Allahû Tealâ. The person here is at the sixth step.
At the seventh step, Allahû Tealâ takes away “ekinnet,” which prevents comprehension from the soul’s heart of the person and instead of it puts ‘ihbat’, ensuring comprehension, into the soul’s heart of the person.
What has Allahû Tealâ done? He has bestowed 7 favors upon you.
1) He has manifested Himself over you with His Rahîm name.
2) He has removed the secret curtain between you and the post of irshad. He has taken out the veil named “gışavet” on the sight. Annihilating the hatred you used to feel against the post of irshad (murshid), He transformed it into love towards him.
3) By taking out “vakra” from your ears, and the stamp on the hearing of your (soul’s) heart He enabled you to comprehend what the post of irshad has been saying to you, to find its meanings.
4) He has taken away “ekinnet” from your heart and annihilated the system preventing you from comprehending, appropriating to you what the post of irshad has been relating to you.
5) And He has caused you to comprehend, to appropriate to yourself what the post of irshad wants to convey by means of the “ihbat” He has put into your heart.
Allahû Tealâ declares in the 45th and 46th verses of Al-Isrâ’ Sura:
When you do recite (explain) the Holy Qur'an to them, We put an invisible veil (hijab-i mesture) between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter,
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And We put coverings (AKINNAH) over their hearts lest they should understand (comprehend) the Qur'an (your words), and deafness (WAQRA) into their ears (to prevent them from hearing you). When you mention your Lord alone in the Qur'an, they turn their backs with dislike.
6) He has opened up the stamp on your (soul’s) heart.
7) He has taken the unbelief out of your (soul’s) heart.
We have spoken of seven favors to you, dear readers. In which process? You only wanted to reach Allah, you have done nothing else. 7 favors have come into being automatically, merely as you have taken a step towards Allah, and you have wished to reach Allah.
At the eighth step, Allah reaches your (soul’s) heart, puts hidayet into your (soul’s) heart. This is the eighth favor of Allah.
No kind of vice can occur, except by the permission of Allah. Allah reaches the heart of him who is AMENU (those who wish to reach Allah in this life). Allah knows all things.
They are those who feel HUSHU (reverence) in the unseen to the Most Gracious, and come (to the presence of Allah) with a heart turned in devotion (to Allah).
The ninth favor of Allah is that a way of light from the breast to the (soul’s) heart has been opened up. Allahû Tealâ declares:
Those whom Allah (in His plan) wills to guide [HIDAYET (the true guidance leading to Allah)], He opens their breast to Islam; those whom He wills to leave astray (in Dalalet), He makes their breast close and constricted, as if they had to rise up to the skies. Thus Allah does (heap) the penalty on those who refuse to be Mumin (those among the believers of Allah who wish to reach Him).
Is one whose breast Allah has opened to Islam, and so he receives light from Allah (into his heart) the same as one whose heart has been hardened and darkened? Woe to them whose hearts are hardened and darkened because of the lack of DHIKR (remembering and repeating the name of Allah). They are in obvious DALALET (Misguidance)!
10) The tenth favor is this: He slits a light way from your breast into your (soul’s) heart.
Thus, we understand that this slitting, opening up, of the way is to enable the lights of Allah to enter the soul’s heart.
Afterwards, you become the owner of hushu’ (reverence, awe) with the little zikir you will do. The mercy of Allah can enter your soul’s heart. When you do zikir, the mercy and virtue coming from the Presence of Allah reach your breast and following the encoded way, the opened way, reach your (soul’s) heart, but your heart is sealed off. The mercy and virtue cannot easily enter therein; only mercy can infiltrate (leak) into the (soul’s) heart, and this leakage constitutes 2% light, and so you become the owner of hushu’ (reverence, awe). This is the eleventh favor of Allah.
Has not the Time arrived for the hearts of AMENU (who wish to reach Allah in this life) to engage in HUSHU (reverence) by the thing (light) that came down through the dhikr of Allah? Let them not be like those who received the Book, and long ages passed over them (as they did not practice dhikr during that time) and their hearts hardened (whose hearts became dark and hard and ill because of the lack of dhikr). Many among them are rebellious (the ones who went astray after having attained HIDAYET (The True Guidance Leading To Allah).
And the twelfth favor of Allah: When you will perform the requirement prayer, Allah will show you your murshid.
Seek ((Allah)'s) help with patient perseverance and prayer. It (asking Allah through the Requirement Prayer about the Religious Guide who takes one to Allah ) is indeed hard, except to those who have HUSHU (reverence).
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They (who have HUSHU (reverence)) are those who bear in mind the certainty that they are to meet their Lord (in this world), and that they are to return (finally after death) to Him. (They believe as in the level of YAKEEN (certainty.)
Allahû Tealâ has thus given you 12 favors because you merely wanted to reach Allah. It is a single wish. You have done nothing else. But by wishing to reach Allah, you have taken one step. And Allah has immediately taken ten steps and so completed His favors from 1 to 12. He has given you as a gift twelvefold of that which you have done. By showing you your murshid, He has made you ready to take the second step.
The second step is to reach your murshid. Great changes have occurred in yourself: (As you were detesting your murshid previously), you have begun to love him. You have started to hear, to comprehend what Allah has been saying to you by means of your murshid and to reach its meanings. Your (soul’s) heart was made to turn to Allah so that it can receive the lights of Allah, and a light way was slit from your breast to your (soul’s) heart. It is Allah that has done all this. That is to say, when you do zikir in order that this zikir can be beneficial to you, Allah has made you ready for it.
You have reached your murshid and knelt down before him. (An-Naba’-38)
The angels (which uphold the Throne) in ranks and the spirit (of the Imam of the Age) will be there. No one can speak except those (the religious guide and the one who depends on him) who are permitted by Most Gracious. And they say what is right.
The angels that hold up the Divine Throne (‘arş) are there...
The Spirit of the İmam of the Era that is over the head of the murshid is there...
The honorable scribes (the angels) of the person are there...
The life film displaying the thoughts of that person is there...
Allah also is one of the witnesses...
...And you have repented before your murshid by repeating word by word that which he has said to you. Seven witnesses including Allah look into your soul’s heart and see the demand in it. You have a longing to reach Allah in your soul’s heart. If so, thereafter the activity starts.
After that, 7 blessings will be granted by Allahû Tealâ to that person. In order that these 7 blessings can be accorded to him, first of all, that person has to obtain 12 favors from Allah. And to obtain these 12 favors, the person absolutely has to wish to reach Allah. Allahû Tealâ should hear, know and see this wish in the soul’s heart of that person. No one can have a right to 7 blessings unless he receives (obtains) 12 favors.7 blessings are the vested rights of 12 favors. Whoever performs his first duty, wishes to reach Allah, 12 vested rights follow this duty. The person who has wished to reach Allah has accomplished his duty. Allah has automatically given 12 favors to whomever wishes to reach Him. This is the law of Allah; He will absolutely accord them to him. Unless these 12 favors are constituted as a basis, unless the person obtains this right Allah which makes available to him, unless he obtains this right by executing his duty (by wishing to reach Allah), he will never be able to obtain these 7 blessings.
There are some people who ask us: “How can we reach our murshid? What must we do to reach him? Can we enter Paradise when we reach him?” We say to them: “Before reaching your murshid, you are obliged to wish to reach Allah.”
Two kinds of men can reach the murshids:
1. Those who reach the murshids by wishing to reach Allah (those who are the owners of 12 favors)
2. Those who reach the murshids but who do not want to reach Allah.
The former will absolutely attain Salvation. The Paradise of Allah will definitely be for them. They will assuredly enter Paradise. But the latter, as they did not want to reach Allah, even if they have reached the Imam of the Era, the greatest murshid, their Salvation is not possible, because 7 blessings are based on 12 favors.
Unless a man obtains 12 vested rights, and he carries out the duty of wishing to reach Allah, he cannot obtain 12 favors; unless he obtains these 12 favors, reaching a murshid cannot save him in any way and cannot lead him to Paradise.
Allahû Tealâ declares: Allah does not want any hardship (difficulty) for you. He wants easiness for you.
Pay close attention to the ease Allah wishes for you: the ease comes to you in a clear and definite fashion. You are merely the owner of a wish; you wish to reach Allah. Thereupon, Allah bestows 12 favors upon you.
To wish to reach Allah is a duty for human beings. The realization of this duty brings forth 12 rights automatically; for whoever wishes to reach Allah, He will accord 12 favors to him, and this is an automatic right, of the one who wishes to reach Allah. This right is realized automatically. If so, the one who has obtained 12 favors is someone to whom his murshid has been shown by Allahu Teala. He is there and he can attain him. What will happen? The person will go and depend on his murshid. If this one stands as a proxy for the murshid, he will lead him to his principal murshid. Let us say that he has reached him. He has knelt down before him, repented and said: “There is no god but Allah, Muhammad (PBUH) is the Messenger of Allah.” (Nebe - 38)
The Spirit of the Imam of the Era is there, the honorable scribes, the angels holding up the Divine Throne (‘arş), the mürrshid (the heart’s eye of the murshid), the spirit of the Imam of the Era is over his head, the life film displaying the thoughts of that person and Allah, these seven witnesses consider the wish in the soul’s heart of that person. Does he wish to reach Allah or not? If he has wished, all these witnesses see that there is no more “ekinnet” in his soul’s heart but there is “ihbat”. “Vakra” has been taken out from the ears of this person, “hicab-ı mesture” has been removed between him and the post of irshad, the light door of the soul’s heart of that person has been made to turn to Allah, the light way has been slit from his breast to his (soul’s) heart, an accumulation of light has begun in the soul’s heart of that person, 2% of mercy was able to infiltrate (leak) into his soul’s heart. All this is seen by witnesses. That is, has he obtained 12 favors or not? Has he obtained these vested rights or not? The event is made evident instantly. Has the basis on which 7 blessings will settle become ready or not? It becomes instantly evident. If this ground is existent (if he has already obtained 12 favors), first of all, the Spirit immediately arrives over the head of that person and communicates the decree of Allah to him through His command. Allahû Tealâ says there:
Allah Who raises the ranks (degrees) and Who is the owner of the Throne sends a spirit (that will convey the command of Allah) by His Command onto any of His servants (the heads of His servants) He pleases (since he wishes to reach Allah, Allah also wishes to make him reach Himself) in order to warn (the spirit of that servant) of the Day to reach Allah.
The goal of His saying “from his command, at his command...” is what He says in the 24th verse of As-Sajdah Sura;
And We appointed, from among them, IMAMs (murshid: the religious guide leading to Allah), taking them to HIDAYET (The True Guidance Leading To Allah) under Our command, since they persevered with patience and got close to Our Verses (the Verses of Allah).
Now, the spirit of the İmam of the Era addresses the spirit in the physical body of that person, “Your day of meeting with Allah (yevmettelak) has come. I am communicating to you the decree of Allah. I say this to you with the authorization given to me by Allah. (This is the explication of the decree (order) from the first point of wiev.) Now, I, who am the owner of this decree, gives you a second order thanks to the authorization Allah has given to me: Leave your physical body and set forth towards Allah.”
Thereupon, your spirit will leave your physical body.
Let us repeat respectively the events now:
Blessing 1: The spirit of the İmam of the Era comes and settles over the head of the person. Another spirit possesing competence far beyond that of the spirit in the physical body of that person (because that spirit is at the same time the owner of a property capable of preserving the person from the negative influence of all the occult sciences, is a guardian). It comes and settles down over the head of the person and says to his spirit; “your day of meeting with Allah has come.” Together with the settling down of this spirit over your head Allah begins to act according to the 22nd verse of Al-Mujadilah Sura.
You shall never find a community who believes in Allah and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His Messenger even if they are their fathers or their sons or their brothers and sisters or their tribes. He has written iman (belief) into their (souls’) hearts and supported them with a spirit (trained in His presence) from Himself and He causes them to enter the gardens of paradise beneath which rivers flow. They will dwell therein for ever. He is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. These are the Party of Allah. Behold! Verily, it is the Party of Allah that will reach Salvation (Felah, Paradise).
Blessing 2: When the spirit of the Imam of the Era comes and settles down over the head of the person, Allah writes the word faith into his soul (’s heart). Thus, the 7 conditions of being a believer is formed:
1) Allah takes the word Disbelief out of his (soul’s) heart.
2) He takes out the “ekinnet” over the soul’s heart.
3) He puts “ihbat” therein.
4) He turns the light’s door to Himself.
5) He opens up (slits) a light’s way from his breast to his (soul’s) heart.
6) His heart reaches hushu’ (a feeling of awe).
7) Allah writes the word Faith into his (soul’s) heart.
Blessing 3: He changes all the sins of the person into good deeds.
Except for the one who repents (in front of his murshid) and (as the belief is inscribed into his soul’s heart by repenting before the murshid) becomes a believer (a mumin) and (for the same reason) performs the improving deeds (the soul’s purification); Allah transforms the evil deeds (sins) of this person into good deeds (merits). And Allah is the Most Forgiving (the one who transforms sins into merits) and the All-Compassionate (the One who sends down His mercy)
And whoever repents and does the improving deeds (the soul’s purification) then he assuredly returns to Allah as the one whose repentance has been accepted by Him.
And while Allah was giving him 10 to 1 merit, from that day on, He begins to grant him 100 to 1 merit…
2/Al-Baqarah - 261:
The parable of those who spend their property (goods) in the way of Allah is like the parable of a grain that causes seven spikes (ears) to sprout (grow). In each spike there are one hundred grains. And Allah augments (the sustenance) for the ones He wishes, And Allah is the All-Embracing, the All-Knowing.
Blessing 4: The spirit of the person sets off towards Allah.
40/Ghâfir - 15:
The Increaser of the degrees and the Possessor of the Divine Throne (‘arş) makes reach a Spirit through His command (a spirit that will communicate to him the decree of Allah) over the person He wishes among His servants (He wishes to make reach Himself) (over the head of the person whom Allah wants to cause to reach Himself as he wants to reach Him, too) in order to warn him that the day of meeting with Him (the day of reaching Him) has come.
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That day (the day when one kisses the hand of the murshid and depends on him) is the Day of the Truth. Whoever wishes (to reach Allah) takes a road (the Straight Path) that makes himself reach His Sustainer. (Allah) is a Shelter (for the person who has reached Him).
Blessing 5: His physical body begins to be saved from being a servant to Satan.
16/An-Nahl - 36:
Truly, we have sent (brought to life, charged) a Messenger in each community in order that they refrain (abstain) from Tagut (Satan and his followers) and become the servants of Allah. Some of them did Allah lead to hidâyet and some of them have deserved Misguidance (those who have depended on the Messengers have reached hidâyet and those who have not depended on them have deserved Aberration). Make journeys on the Earth and see what the end of the deniers has been.
36/Yâ-Sîn - 60, 61:
Oh sons of Adam! Have I not taken a covenant (ahd) from you that you should not be servants to Satan; truly he is an open enemy to you and that you should be My Servants. This is (to be on) the Straight Path.
Blessing 6: His soul (’s heart) begins to be purified.
5/Al-Mâ’idah - 105:
Oh those who have become âmenû (those who have surpassed the first 7 stages, who have wished to reach Allah) the responsibility of your souls (purifying your souls) is upon you (is a duty to you, is incumbent on you); when you have reached hidâyet (by purifying your souls), those who are in Misguidance cannot harm you. You will be made to turn back to Allah, all of you. Then He will make known to you that which you had done.
Blessing 7: His free will begins to be fortified in accordance with the purification of his soul’s heart.
My dear brothers and sisters! Here the blessings have been completed. The person becomes the owner of the 7 conditions of belief (faith):
1. He believes in Allah.
2. He believes in His angels.
3. He believes in His Books.
4. He believes in His Messengers.
5. He believes that goodness is from Allah and evil (wickedness) is from the soul of the human being.
6. He believes in the Resurrection.
7. He believes that he will make his spirit reach Allah before dying.
He becomes the owner of the seven conditions of the heart:
1. “Ekinnet” has been taken away from his (soul’s) heart.
2. “Ihbat” has been put instead of it.
3. The light way of the (soul’s) heart has been made to turn to Allah.
4. A light way has been slit from his breast to his (soul’s) heart.
5. The seal of his (soul’s) heart has been opened up.
6. The word unbelief has been taken out of the inside of his (soul’s) heart.
7. The word belief (iman) has been inscribed into the (soul’s) heart and thus this person has attained the honor of becoming a believer.
He becomes the owner of the seven conditions of attribute.
1. The first condition of attribute: the hidayet of the soul has begun.
In such a standard, a man does zikir. This is the beginning of the soul’s purification, that is, the beginning of the hidayet of your soul.
The mercy and virtue, and the mercy and benedictions coming from Allah reach the breast of the person and from there to the (soul’s) heart. The mercy and virtue, and the mercy and benedictions that apply a pressure upon the seal on the (soul's) heart push the seal to the bottom of the heart. There is a darkness door on the lowest part of the heart. The seal arrives at the darkness door and locks it up and during zikir, as long as the pressure of the three energies (mercy, virtue and benedictions) continues, the darknesses of Satan cannot penetrate to the (soul’s) heart, no matter how powerful they may apply a pressure from the bottom. What happens? The mercy, virtue and benediction coming from Allah completely fill up the soul’s heart. The mercy particles that have deposited the virtue and benediction particles into the soul’s heart transport the darknesses to the outside of the soul’s heart.
An extremely important event occurs in the soul’s heart. The attraction power of the word belief (iman) begins to gather together the virtues around it. This is the beginning of the soul’s purification.
2. The second condition of attribute: The spirit’s setting out on a journey towards Allah, that is, the spirit's beginning hidayet. You become the owner of Nefs-i Emmâre (the evil-commanding soul) when 7% light accumulation, virtue accumulation, is realized. Your spirit reaches the first heavenly floor. Here, Allahu Teala accords you 100 to 1 degree.
Second 7% light accumulation: You are the owner of Nefs-i Levvâme (the self-accusing soul). You blame (accuse, censure) your soul. Your soul ascends to the second heavenly floor. Allahû Tealâ grants you 200 to 1 degree.
Third 7% light accumulation: You are the owner of Nefs-i Mulhîme (the inspired soul). You begin to receive inspiration from Allah.Your soul ascends to the third heavenly floor. Your obtainment from Allah is 300 to 1 degree.
Fourth 7% light accumulation: You are the owner of Nefs-i Mutmainne (the satisfied soul). You become satisfied, you attain satisfaction. Your soul ascends to the fourth heavenly floor. The divine bounty is 400 to 1 (degree).
Fifth, 7% light accumulation: You are the owner of Nefs-i Râdiye. (the soul pleased with Allah).You are pleased with Allah.Your spirit ascends to the fifth heavenly floor. You begin to obtain 500 to 1 (degree).
Sixth 7% light accumulation: You are the owner of Nefs-i Mardiyye (the soul that has obtained the consent (pleasure) of Allah). Allah is pleased with you, too. Your spirit ascends to the sixth heavenly floor. You obtain 600 to 1 (degree) from Allah.And finally, 7 % light accumulation. You are the owner of Nefs-i Tezkiye (the purified soul). Your soul is purified. The lights in your soul's heart amount to 51%, together with 2% light you have acquired through hushu’, you attain 51% light accumulation. You complete your soul’s purification thanks to the blessings. Allah has bestowed on you as 700 to 1 (degree). Your soul has reached hidayet by arriving in Allah.
In that case, the sum of 7 %’s that you have received from Allah, the total of the blessings bestowed on you by Allah bring you to a conclusion. Allahû Tealâ who begins to grant you 100 to 1 increases them up to 700 to 1 (degree). Thereafter, you continue to receive 700 to 1.
3. The third condition of attribute: Your physical body begins hidâyet.
At this point, the soul’s purification, the constant augmentation of Allah's lights in your soul’s heart and the gradual decreasing of the domination area of Satan (as Satan can only influence the vices of your soul) from 100% to below 50% are at issue. Thus, your physical body surpasses halfway of being a servant to Allah.
Allahû Tealâ announces that the human beings will be accepted as believers if they are within this standard.
The Arabs said, "We are MUMINs (those among the believers of Allah who wish to reach Him)." (O My Beloved!) Say, "Do not say you have become MUMINs but say 'We have entered (the circle of) ISLAM (submission),' for Faith has not entered (been written in) your hearts yet. But if you obey Allah and His Messenger, nothing will decrease out of your deeds. Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
So, in order that a person can be a believer, it is necessary for belief to be written into his (soul’s) heart. When is it written? When the spirit of the murshid comes over his head.
Allahû Tealâ speaks of a ceremony of repentance in the 38th verse of An-Naba’ Sura. He announces that the angels bearing the Sublime Throne and the Imam of the Era are there. During this repentance, taking place with the presence of the Imam of the Era, there is a murshid who makes the person repent and there is a murîd (a disciple, the one who longs to reach Allah) who repents.
The disciple’s reaching Allah is the topic. If he longs for Allah (to reach Allah), the Imam of the Era, the eye of the heart of the murshid, the honorable scribes (angels) of the person, the life film of the person, the spirit of the Imam of the Era who is over the head of the murshid, and the Angels bearing the Divine Throne (‘arsh) bear witness to this ceremony of repentance. There is a wish to reach Allah in the soul’s heart of the person. Allah also bears witness to it. All the witnesses see this longing to reach Allah, too.
And thus, the person who has surrendered (to Allah) with the demand (wish, longing) to reach Allah has said the truth. Therefore, He decrees in the 38th verse of An-Naba’ Sura: There are two persons to whom permission has been given to speak (the saint guide and the disciple, the seeker). He (the disciple) speaks the truth [Kâle sevâbâ].
The angels (which uphold the Throne) in ranks and the spirit (of the Imam of the Age) will be there. No one can speak except those (the religious guide and the one who depends on him) who are permitted by Most Gracious. And they say what is right.
What does Allahû Tealâ say thereafter? He says in the 15th verse of Ghâfir Sura that the spirit of the Imam of the Era will come over the head of the person and say to him: Your day of reaching Allah has come.
Allah Who raises the ranks (degrees) and Who is the owner of the Throne sends a spirit (that will convey the command of Allah) by His Command onto any of His servants (the heads of His servants) He pleases (since he wishes to reach Allah, Allah also wishes to make him reach Himself) in order to warn (the spirit of that servant) of the Day to reach Allah.
When this spirit comes over the head of that person, Allah writes Faith (îman, Belief) into his (soul’s) heart.
You will not find any people who have faith in Allah and the Last Day (before they die), loving those who resist Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their fathers or their sons, or their brothers, or their kindred. Faith is written in their hearts and He supported them with a (trained) spirit (the settlement of the spirit of the Imam of the Age over their heads) from Himself, and they will be put in Gardens beneath which Rivers flow; they will dwell therein forever. Allah is well pleased with them, and they with Him. They are the Party (supporters) of Allah. Truly it is the Party of Allah that will achieve salvation (Prosperity).
Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 22nd verse of Al-Mujadilah Sura that He sends down a Spirit from Him, from His Presence over them, over the heads of the persons. This is the Spirit of the Imam (Spiritual Leader) of the Era. This Imam is the one who is in the Presence of Allah. Allahû Tealâ says: We then write the word Belief into the (soul’s) heart of that person. The inscribing of Faith into the (soul’s) heart of the person is performed in this fashion. Allahû Tealâ takes out the word Unbelief (Küfür) existing in his (soul’s) heart, and writes the word Belief (Îmân) therein. If this person is to fall into “Fısk” later on, He takes the word “Îman” out of the (soul’s) heart, the seal of which is open. The word “Küfür” is again put into the (soul’s) heart by Allahû Tealâ. The seal that was opened is closed again, and the person falls again into “Fısk” (falling into Misguidance after having reached hidâyet).
When the person who has reached his murshid repents before him, he becomes a mü’min (believer) on account of the writing of belief (îman) into his (soul’s) heart. Thus, seven conditions of the heart have been completed. He also becomes the owner of the seven blessings mentioned above. This is the end point of the second stage of 7 steps. The person has become a believer, has been saved from Misguidance (dalâlet) and has stepped into hidâyet (Guidance). His being a believer (mü’min) saves the person, because there are more than a hundred verses announcing that unbelievers will go to Hell.
The person has reached his murshid at the 14th step, and the soul’s purification has started. The person has reached his murshid and so got rid of Misguidance; he has reached his murshid and thus become a believer (mü’min). Does a person step into hidâyet by getting rid of Misguidance (dalâlet) if he has reached his murshid? He definitely does it; 10 verses of the Glorious Qur’an declare this:
But if they do not answer (accept) you (your invitation to HIDAYAT (True guidance leading to Allah)), you should know that they only depend on (follow) their own desires (souls (ego)). And who is in more DALALET (misguidance) than the one who does not depend on (follow) the Religious Guide (appointed by Allah), but his own desires? Allah verily does not guide unjust (cruel, wrong-doers) people (tribes).
So, if a man cannot reach his murshid (saint guide), he is in Misguidance (Dalâlet).
Get you all down from Paradise as enemies to each other. When there comes to you a HIDAYET (the true guidance leading to Allah) from Me, whosoever depends on (follows) My Man of HIDAYET (the true guidance leading to Allah) will not be in DALALET (Misguidance) nor fall into misery.
Hüden means both Guidance and Guide.
(O My Messenger! If you had been there) you would have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from their Cave; and when it set, turning away from them to the left. They were in the open space in the midst of the Cave. This is among the Verses of Allah. He whom Allah pleases attains HIDAYET (The True Guidance Leading To Allah), and for the one who is in DALAET (Misguidance), no guiding friend (Messenger) can be found.
That is to say, if those persons have remained in Misguidance, this is because they did not search for their murshids. For them a saint guide cannot be found. All the murshids are saints. Then where do we arrive? From this point on, Allahû Tealâ decrees:
(My Beloved!) Don’t you see the ones who take their own desires (EGO) as god? Allah leaves them astray (in Misguidance), and seals their hearing and hearts (and understandings), and puts a cover on their sight. Who, then, will guide him (to Allah) after Allah (has withdrawn Guidance)? Do you still not think?
Why do they take their own lusts as their gods? As they follow their own souls (’ vain desires). Who are those? Those who do not depend on their murshids according to the 50th verse of Al-Qasas Sura. Thus, they are in Misguidance as they do not depend on their murshids.
It is He (Allah) Who has sent (appointed) among the unlettered a messenger from among themselves, to rehearse to them His Verses (Signs), to purify them, and to instruct them in Scripture and Divine Wisdom. Before that (before having depended on this messenger) they had been in manifest DALALET (Misguidance).
In the reunification of the religions, the messengers living among their nations (communities) will be charged with making them reach hidâyet.
Verily We grant a great blessing (spirits of the messengers) on the MUMINs (those among the believers of Allah who wish to reach Him) when We send among them a messenger from among themselves. That messenger rehearses unto them the Signs of Allah, takes them to purification, and instructs them in Scripture and Divine Wisdom. Before that (before having depended on these Guides Messengers), they had been in manifest Misguidance.
They should depend on the Messenger in order to be saved from Misguidance. Here we see a clear indication of Allahû Tealâ: Those who do not depend (on the murshid) cannot get rid of Misguidance.
A person who does not accept (depend on, take allegiance to) the one who invites him to Allah cannot weaken ((Allah)'s Plan) on earth. And no one can be a friend to him besides Allah. Such men (who do not depend on him who invites to Allah) are in DALALET (Misguidance).
For We assuredly sent (appointed) amongst every People (tribe) a messenger lest they become servants and avoid the Satanic Way (man and jinn demons). Some of them (those who depended on a messenger) attained HIDAYAT (the true guidance leading to Allah) and some of them (those who did not depend on a messenger) were inevitably (established) in DALALET (misguidance). So travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who denied (the Truth).
Allah sends down the most beautiful (among His lights) ones in two pairs (mercy-virtue and mercy-bounty) in the sense of the Book. With those (lights), the skins of people tremble, and then they have HUSHU (reverence) to their Lord. And then, they (the lights), with the DHIKR of Allah (remembering and repeating the name of Allah), soften one’s skin and his heart (soul’s (ego) heart). This is HIDAYET (The True Guidance Leading To Allah) of Allah. Allah takes (by purifying his soul (ego) with His lights and so making him reach Himself) whom He pleases to HIDAYET (The True Guidance Leading To Allah) (the 3 HIDAYET (The True Guidance Leading To Allah)); and for whom Allah leaves in DALALET (Misguidance), there is no one who can take him to HIDAYET (The True Guidance Leading To Allah).
To whom Allah rejects from His guidance, there can be no religious guide. He leaves them in their trespasses (rebellions), wandering in distraction.
Allahû Tealâ uses the term “tuğyan”, rebellion. Whoever could not reach Allah, has revolted against Him. If he does not depend (on the murshid), he has rebelled against Allah. He says: “Allah lets them wander blindly in their transgressions (in their revolts, rebellions).”
Allahû Tealâ proves with these 10 verses that the person who cannot reach his murshid is in Misguidance. All the religions, all the Holy Books have been sent down as a Guidance to save men from Misguidance.
As a matter of fact, we say by mistake the religions, but there has been no other religion except surrender to Allah. In the same way that there initially was one single religion, there will also be so in the end. Surrendering oneself to Allah will be the most beautiful form of behavior for everyone.
And men will, inshaallah (if Allah wills), aim at surrendering themselves to Allah in such a design.
Thus, on the one side are those who believe, the Friends of Allah, the men of Allah. On the opposite side are the friends of Satan, the men of Satan. Allah will absolutely complete His light on this Earth.
We have seen the results of depending on the post of irshad at the 14th stage. If a person does not depend (on his murshid), he is remaining in Misguidance according to the 10 verses we showed you. If he had depended (on his murshid), he would have stepped from Misguidance into Guidance. At the end of this, reaching hidâyet (guidance) is a matter guaranteed by Allahû Tealâ. At the moment in which we have reached our murshid, our spirit leaves our physical body through the Command that the Spirit of the Imam gives it, and it sets off towards Allah. It reaches the convent of the murshid on whom he has depended. All the convents have a material face, that is to say, a general view pertaining to this world, and an immaterial face. This is shown by Allahû Tealâ only to those whose eye of the heart is open.
Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 20th verse of Saba’ Sura.
And Satan proved true his thought on people. All depended on (followed) Satan except for a party of MUMIN (those among the believers of Allah who wish to reach Him).
Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 153rd verse of Al-An’âm Sura:
Verily, this is My Straight Way; so depend on (follow) it, and do not follow (other) paths, as they will scatter you about from His path. Thus He commanded you so that you may have TAQWA (piety).
This is My Straight Path. Depend only on this Straight Path! Don’t follow (other) ways, for they will separate you from His Way and make you the servants of Satan. In the 20th verse of Saba’ Sura, Allah gives us the name of a single group that will attain Salvation: the believers. He gives us the characteristic of those who will reach Salvation: those who are on the Straight Path.
Whoever has reached his murshid, knelt down and repented before him, the spirit of the Imam of the Era absolutely takes its place over the head of that person and communicates the order of Allah to him: Your “yevmettelâk” (your day of meeting with your Sustainer, your day of reaching Allah) has come. Now leave your physical body, reach the immaterial part of the convent where the murshid on whom you have depended is found. And our spirit arrives there by leaving its physical body, and the spirit setting off from there absolutely reaches Allah. Here is the 39th verse of An-Naba’ Sura:
That Day (the day the pledge is taken by kissing the hand of the MURSHID (the religious guide)) is the Day of Allah. Those who wish (to reach Allah) take the path leading to Allah (The Straight Path to Allah). (Allah) will be a shelter (for the one who wishes to reach Allah).
All human beings come to the world with the word “KÜFÜR” (Unbelief) in their (souls’) hearts, and their hearts are sealed off. No one gets Unbelief subsequently. The day on which they get rid of this word unbelief is the day on which they have reached their murshids.
(My Beloved!) Don’t you see the ones who take their own desires (EGO) as a god? Allah leaves them astray (in Misguidance), and seals their hearing and hearts (and understandings), and puts a cover on their sight. Who, then, will guide him (to Allah) after Allah (has withdrawn Guidance)? Do you still not think?
We see the existence of the seal in the 23rd verse of Al-Jâthiyah Sura. (My Beloved), you see the ones who take their souls as gods to themselves. Why do they take them as gods? Because they follow their souls. As they did not depend on their murshids, “Allah left them in Misguidance,” says Allahû Tealâ. The meaning of the phrase in the verse: “Their hearts are sealed” is that the hearts of all those who did not depend on their murshids, who are in Misguidance, are sealed. There is a cover called “gışavet” on their sight (on their sight in their souls’ hearts), says Allahû Tealâ. Who are the owners of these sealed hearts? The 6 and 7th verses of Al-Baqarah Sura answer this question:
They verily are those who reject Faith. It is the same (equal) to them whether you warn them or not. They will not be MUMIN (those among the believers of Allah who wish to reach Him).
2/Al-Baqarah - 7:
Allah had set a seal on their hearts (on the mercy door in their hearts) and on their hearing (of their hearts), and on their eyes (of their hearts) is a veil called GISHAWAT. There is a great penalty for them.
Allah announces: (My Beloved) whether you speak to the unbelievers or you do not speak to them, it is the same to them. They will not be believers; their hearts are sealed. If they had depended on their murshids, what would have happened? Allahû Tealâ would have opened the seals of their hearts, taken out the word unbelief from their (souls’) hearts, and written the word belief therein. Allahû Tealâ expresses clearly that whoever is in Misguidance is absolutely an unbeliever and will go to Hell in any way.
Here are the 167, 168, 168 and 169th verses of An-Nisâ’ Sura:
They are those who are in blasphemy, and they prevent people from the Path of Allah (they themselves are also not on the Path of Allah). Verily, they are in far DALALET (misguidance) (since they have not reached their MURSHIDs (the religious guide appointed by Allah) and have not taken the Path leading to Allah.)
4/An-Nisâ’ - 168:
Verily they are in blasphemy and unjust (since they prevent other people from reaching their MURSHIDs (the religious guide appointed by Allah) and make them go astray). Allah never forgives them (transfers their sins into merits) nor guides them to the Path (leading to Allah).
4/An-Nisâ’ - 169:
He leads them only to the Path of Hell. They will dwell therein forever. And this is easy for Allah.
Allahû Tealâ decrees: They are unbelievers. They are not on the Straight Path themselves. They cause others to deviate from the Way of Allah. They prevent them from entering the Way of Allah. They are unbelievers who are in a far Misguidance. In short, all the unbelievers are in Misguidance. The common point of these two is that they do not depend on the murshid. He continues: “They are unbelievers and wrong-doers. As they prevent others from entering the Way of Allah, they do wrong to them, and prevent them from attaining Salvation. Allah will never forgive them or change their sins into good deeds (merits). If they had depended on their murshids, what would have happened? According to the 70th verse of Al-Furqân Sura, all their sins would have been transformed into good deeds.
Allah will never lead them to the Straight Path (Sırât-ı Müstakîm), to the Straight Road (Tarîk-i Müstakîm). He will only lead them to the Road of Hell. They will dwell therein forever.
Now, the 167, 168 and 169th verses where both the concept of unbelief (küfür, concealing the truth) and that of belief (îman) are mentioned together make it definite that both are of the same category and that the place where unbelievers will go is Hell.
Men qualified as kâfir (unbelievers) in the Glorious Qur’ân by Allahû Tealâ are not those who do not believe in Allah. The statement that those who do not believe in Allah are “kâfir” (unbelievers) and those who believe in Allah are “mü’min” (believers) is an erroneous innovation. Allahû Tealâ uses this phrase: the one in the (soul’s) heart of whom the word unbelief (küfür) is written is an unbeliever (kâfir). The person who is the owner of the word unbelief is an unbeliever (kâfir).
The great part of them believe in Allah but their belief in Him cannot deliver them from being unbelievers (kâfir), from entering Hell, too. Satan has trapped them in such a way that there is no Salvation for them.
Allahû Tealâ decrees it so in Al-‘Asr Sura concerning the 14th stage:
I swear by the Time (through the ages),
Verily Man is in loss,
103/Al-‘Asr - 3:
Except those AMENU (who wish to reach Allah in this life) (who have completed the first seven steps), and those who practice AMILUSSALIHAT (purification of the soul (ego)) (who have completed the second seven steps), and those who recommend Allah (who have had their spirits reach Allah) (who have completed the third seven steps), those who recommend Patience (those who have completed the fourth seven steps).
Those who have reached the 14th step and have depended on their murshids begin the soul’s purification. They also are excepted. They also will absolutely enter the Paradise of Allah, because they have begun the soul’s purification; they have become believers (mü’min); they have got rid of Misguidance. As we have already seen it, if they had remained in Misguidance, the place they would have gone would have been Hell. 7 groups of glorious verses say that those who are in Misguidance will go to Hell. The fact that those who are unbelievers will go to Hell has been told in more than 100 verses.
Step 15:
1. Nefs-i Emmâre [The Evil-Commanding Soul] The person begins to do zikir after having reached his murshid. He repeats the name of Allah as “Allah, Allah, Allah…” Two groups of lights, mercy-virtue and mercy-benedictions (salavât) come from the Presence of Allah. Following the way opened from the breast of the person to his (soul’s) heart, they reach the heart. The seal of the heart has been opened and become mobile. The pressure of the three lights called mercy (Rahmet), virtue (Fazl) and benedictions (Salavât) move that seal. They push it towards the bottom of the (soul’s) heart and close up the darkness (Satan’s) door.
The seal on the divine door is thus pushed into the darkness door. The darkness door closes. As mercy, virtue and benedictions will always come during zikir and as the pressure of these three energies will continue on the seal, the seal will always remain there. It is not possible henceforth for the darknesses of Satan to enter the (soul’s) heart.
Out of the lights called “rahmet,” “fazl,” and “salavat,” the virtues begin to settle into the (soul’s) heart by being caught by the attractive power of the word Belief (Îmân). It is not possible for darkness to reach the places occupied by the virtue particles or to replace them by expelling them therefrom. These lights, these virtues accumulating around the word Îmân (Faith, Belief) gradually amount to 1%, 2%…7%. When they reach 7%, the Nefs-i Emmâre is purified.
Here is the 53rd verse of Yûsuf Sura:
And I myself cannot cleanse my soul (ego) since the soul (ego) orders evil except (the souls) on which the mercy of my Lord manifests. Surely, my Lord is Oft- forgiving, (changes sins into merits) and Most Merciful (sending the light of Mercy, and cleansing and purifying the soul (ego) by His Mercy).
Now, this step that commands evil and sins is the stage of Nefs-i Emmâre. The Evil-Commanding Soul starts with 100% darkness; the soul’s heart is entirely dark. It contains 19 vices. There is no other thing therein. The process of being purified from the 19 vices begins with zikir. Virtue settling into the soul’s heart reduces the darkness from 100% to 93%. With the accumulation of 7% light, the Nefs-i Emmâre (the Evil-Commanding Soul) is completed. And the spirit that has left the physical body ascends from the Ground Floor to the first heavenly floor.
Stage 16:
2. Nefs-i Levvâme: The Self-Blaming (Accusing) Soul. The Spirit is a Trust, the Soul is a Hostage. The hostage becomes the owner of a key to one heavenly floor with each purification of 7%. It will make the spirit ascend to the first heavenly floor and to all the heavenly floors one after the other. With a second accumulation of 7% light, with the lights’ accumulation around the word Belief, we reach 14% light. And the darkness in the soul’s heart naturally decreases by 14%.
Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 2nd verse of Al-Qiyâmah Sura:
And I do swear by the self-reproaching soul (ego).
“Levm” means to censure, to blame, to reproach, to accuse. The person accuses himself of the mistakes he has made. He constantly seeks forgiveness and repents. He is very remorseful. But he cannot help making mistakes.
Step 17:
3. Nefs-i Mülhîme = The Inspired Soul
A third 7% light accumulation and the spirit’s ascending to the third heavenly floor means the soul is illuminated with a third 7% light. 21% light accumulation has come into being and the spirit can ascend to the third heavenly floor.
And to that (soul (ego)) is inspired the TAQWA (piety) (of Allah) and the FUJJUR (what Satan says);
Step 18:
4. Nefs-i Mutmainne = The Satisfied Soul.
The person increases his zikir according to the orders He has received (from his murshid). When he has increased it, a further 7% light accumulation is realized: This is the Satisfied Soul.
O you soul, in (complete) rest and satisfaction!
They are AMENU (those who wish to reach Allah in this life) and whose hearts find satisfaction in the dhikr of Allah (remembering and repeating the name of Allah). Hearts find satisfaction in the dhikr of Allah, do they not?
Allahû Tealâ expresses that hearts can complete the stages of “Emmâre”, “Levvâme”, “Mülhîme” and “Mutmainne” through the zikir of Allah. In the case that these lights coming into the (soul’s) heart amount to 28%, the person is satisfied or reaches satisfaction. He is absolutely certain that what has been granted to him by Allahû Tealâ is definitely sufficient for him. His spirit will ascend to the fourth heavenly floor.
Steps 19 and 20:
5. Nefs-i Râdiye (the soul pleased with Allah)
6. Nefs-i Mardıyye (the soul obtaining the consent of Allah)
Again with 7% light accumulation we reach Nefs-i Râdiye (the soul well-pleased with Allah). The spirit is at the fifth heavenly floor. With 7% light accumulation once again we have Nefs-i Mardıyye (the soul obtaining the pleasure (consent) of Allah.) The spirit is at the sixth heavenly floor. Both stages take place in the 28th verse of Al-Fajr Sura: “Râdıyeten Mardıyyeh”. We are well-pleased with Allah and we obtain the Pleasure of Allah (He is well-pleased with us). There is 42% light accumulation in the soul’s heart. We have become pleased with Allah and Allah has become pleased with us. Our spirit has reached the sixth heavenly floor.
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7. Nefs-i Tezkiye = The purified Soul
We are coming to the stage of “Tezkiye”. Once again there is an accumulation of 7% light. The light in the soul’s heart has reached 49%. We had obtained 2% light through hushu’ (reverence): The total is 51%. The darknesses in the soul’s heart have decreased from 100% to 49%, whereas the lights of Allah have surpassed 50% and so 51% is reached. As Satan can only influence the darkness of your soul, his possibilities of influencing it have decreased from 100% to 49%; the domination of Satan is definitely precluded. Now, this is the point of being purified.
Allahû Tealâ says in the 18th verse of Fâtir Sura as follows:
No one bears the burden of another. If one calls (another) to bear his load, no one will bear it even though he is nearly related. You admonish those who feel HUSHU (reverence) for their Lord unseen and perform regular Prayer. And whoever purifies his SOUL (ego) does so for the benefit of his own soul, and (his spirit) sets out for Allah (reaches Allah).
Then he purifies his soul, can purify it more than 50%, and has made this for himself. Why has he done it for himself? Because his soul had promised to Allahû Tealâ in the Pre-eternity that it would be purified. Allahû Tealâ says that the spirit of the person who has performed the soul’s purification reaches Allah. Now, the spirit of the person who has purified his soul reaches the 7th heavenly floor, surpasses the seven Worlds in the seventh heavenly floor, reaches the Tree of the farthest limit of existence (Sidretü’l Müntehâ), and from there reaches the Essence (Zât) of Allah in Nothingness (Adem, Non-Existence). He is extinguished in the Essence of Allah. The Essence (Zât) of Allah becomes a Refuge (Shelter) for our spirit. Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 39th verse of An-Naba’ Sura:
That Day (the day the pledge is taken by kissing the hand of the MURSHID (the religious guide)) is the Day of Allah. Those who wish (to reach Allah) take the path leading to Allah (the Straight Path to Allah). (Allah) will be a shelter (for the one who wishes to reach Allah).
Allahû Tealâ decrees: “That day is the Day of Truth, the day of reaching the Truth (Allah). That day, the person longing to reach Hakk (Truth, Reality, Allah) takes the way leading to Allah (the Straight Path) as a way for himself. When the spirit has arrived at Allah, the Essence of Allah becomes a Refuge (Shelter) for him. We are at the 21st stage when our spirit reaches Allah.
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1. The Stage of Extinction (Fenâ)
We are at the 22nd step when our spirit is extinguished in the Essence (Zât) of Allah. We are at the stage of Extinction that is the first post of sainthood. Our spirit has surrendered to Allah at the moment it is extinguished in the Essence of Allah and has attained the first post of sainthood, the stage of Extinction (Fenâ).
We thus have the honor of surrendering our spirit to Allah, the common characteristic of the religions. We have the honor of being one of the saints (friends) of Allah.
The first post of sainthood is the stage of Extinction. Here, we become the servants of Allah. We have attained the first servanthood. We become the owners of the third “takva” (to take shelter in Allah). We become the saints of Allah and are absolutely the owners of the Bliss of Paradise. We consider Al-‘Asr Sura that is the herald of the 28 steps: I swear by Time, says Allahû Tealâ. “Inne’l insâne le fî husr.” Verily human beings are in utter frustration (loss). The place where they absolutely will go is Hell. But those who have become âmenû, that is, have passed the first 7 steps, wish to reach Allah, whose “vakra” (blocks) in their ears have been taken out, “ekinnet” (coverings) have been taken away from their (souls’) hearts, and “hicâb-ı mestûre” (invisible veil, secret curtain, screen) has been removed between them and the posts of irshad are excepted. They will go to Paradise.
And those who have done improving deeds, begun the soul’s purification at the 14th step are excepted, He decrees. They too will go to Paradise. And now we are getting to what we have said: those who have recommended to one another the Truth (Hakk, Allah) are excepted. Who can recommend others (to Hakk)? Those who have received the honor of reaching Allah, those who have experienced this happiness and for this reason are in a position to explain this experience to others.
Here is the first post of sainthood. At this point that is common in all religions, the first surrender (delivery) (the surrender of the spirit) has been completed. The first of the three surrenders is realized here. At the 22nd stage, the spirit is extinguished in the Essence of Allah, and surrenders to Allah.
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2. The Stage of Everlastingness (Bekâ)
Thereafter Allahû Tealâ bestows a golden throne for our spirit. For whomever such a throne has been bestowed, as the spirit of that person will abide there eternally, the owners of this throne are called the owners of the stage of Eternalness. Here is the second post of sainthood. Allahû Tealâ speaks of a homeland of delivery (surrender) granted to the men’s spirits, of a throne in the 127th verse of Al-An’âm Sura:
For them will be a home of peace (home of submission) in the presence of their Lord. He (Allah) will be their friend because of their deeds.
These thrones are called “erâik”. The golden thrones begin 4 meters above the Ground. One of those thrones is conferred on you. The second post of Sainthood is the stage of Everlastingness. We do more zikir. Meanwhile, when we look at the lights accumulated in the soul’s heart, we see this: when a person has reached the 21st step, the lights in his soul’s heart amount to 51%. When he has reached the 22nd stage, with an increase of 10%, they amount to 61%. At the stage of Eternalness, there is a further increase of 10%. They so amount to 71%.
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3. The Station of Zühd (Asceticism)
Thereafter we pass to the stage of Asceticism. When the lights in our soul’s heart amount to 81%, surpassing 71%, we are at the stage of Asceticism (Zühd). When we begin to do zikir more than half of the day, then the lights in our soul’s heart surpass 71%. The owners of the post of Asceticism are called Zâhid (Ascetics). The institution of Asceticism has taken on a shape in the 20th verse of Yûsuf Sura:
They sold him for a miserable price, for a few dirhams counted out, as they were indifferent to him.
Allahû Tealâ speaks here of negative Zühd (asceticism). The older brothers of Yusuf (Joseph) (PBUH) were zâhid against Yusuf (Joseph) (PBUH). For this reason, Allahû Tealâ says that they sold him for a low price, for a few silver coins to the slave traders, as they were “zâhid” against him; they did not attach any importance to him. All the religions speak of the positive “zühd”. The positive zühd is the opposite of the negative zühd. That is to say, unless a man does zikir more than 12 hours in a day, he cannot be the owner of positive “zühd”. He cannot be “zâhid” (an ascetic). The gist of being an ascetic is to do zikir more than half of the day. Whenever we increase our zikir to more than half of the day, for instance, whenever we can do zikir 13 hours in a day on the condition that we do not bring it down below half of the day in any day, we become the owner of “zühd” (asceticism) and the lights in our soul’s heart (that had begun at 71%) reach 81% here.
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4. The Station of Muhsins (the Good-Doers)
When the lights in the soul’s heart exceed 81%, the physical body has become ready to surrender to Allah. Here we become Muhsins. This is the station where our physical body has surrendered to Allah. Allahû Tealâ says in the 125th verse of An-Nisâ’ Sura:
Who is better than him with such physical body in religion? That person has submitted his physical body to Allah and become one of those MUHSINs (those who have submitted their physical bodies) and depended on (followed) the HANIF (believing in the single Allah) religion of Abraham. And Allah has taken Abraham as a friend.
Here, there is still some darkness in the soul’s heart. In spite of this darkness, the person makes light of the darkness remaining in his soul’s heart. He does not attach any importance to them. The heart of his soul is full of lights between 81% and 91% and in the end these lights amount to 91%. There is still 9% darkness in his soul’s heart at this point. The Station of Muhsins (good-doers) that is, the fourth post of Sainthood, is the 25th step. At this stage, the physical body surrenders to Allah. The physical body becomes the owner of a characteristic of carrying out all the orders of Allah and of not committing any acts forbidden by Allah. For this reason, it has become “ahsen”, the most beautiful (perfect). Our second delivery (surrender) has been realized. Allahû Tealâ announces that all sahâbe [the Companions of our Prophet (PBUH)] had surrendered their spirits to Allah, reached hidâyet in the 18th verse of Az-Zumar Sura:
They (SAHABA: disciples of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)) listen to the Word, and depend on (follow) the best of them (the Word said by our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)), they are those who have attained HIDAYET (The True Guidance Leading To Allah) (those who have made their spirits reach Allah in this life before they die). And they are ULUL ELBAB (to whom the secrets of Allah are revealed) (they are of CONTINUOUS DHIKR (constantly remembering and repeating the name of Allah).
When we consider what Allah means by the Best of the words, we see a single person who utters what is best: He is our Master the Prophet to whom the Glorious Qur’ân was sent down. Ahsen means the most beautiful of the beautiful in the dictionary, Hüsün (beauty), hasene (good act), muhsin (good-doer) and ahsen (the most beautiful) all stem from the same root. Its second meaning, from the point of view of actions, acts and deeds, is this: the one who carries out all that Allah has ordered and does not commit all that Allah has forbidden.
All sahâbe made their spirits reach Allah, became the saints (friends) of Allah, and succeeded in carrying out their first delivery, to surrender their spirits to Allah. The spirit is “ahsen” (the most beautiful, perfect). All the virtues that will absolutely execute all the commands of Allah are inherent in it. It is programmed in order to infallibly carry out what Allah orders him.
If we consider him from another point of view, the being of the most beautiful nature (the spirit) never commits any acts forbidden by Allah. Is the soul that is one of the three human bodies “ahsen”, too? No, it is not, because, at the moment the person comes into the world, the soul is merely full of faults. Our Master the Prophet was “ahsen” (the most beautiful, perfect, impeccable) because he was bearing the Glorious Qur’an in his heart. Allahû Tealâ had perfected all therein by bringing down the Glorious Qur’ân into his heart and recording it into the memory of his heart. He had said to Him: “And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it suitable for him. He is only a Reminder (Zikir) and a plain Qur’ân. Allahû Tealâ was saying to our Master the Prophet while He was sending down the Glorious Qur’an: “(O My Beloved!) Why do you exhaust yourself by memorizing the verses when We send them down? Your Lord, capable of sending them down into your heart, is also capable of inscribing them therein.” Our Master The Prophet is thus “ahsen” (the most beautiful, perfect) as he does not speak of (his own) desire and is only a Revelation revealed (53/An-Najm - 3, 4).
Allahû Tealâ announces that all sahâbe who have depended on that “ahsen” being have reached hidâyet (Guidance). We know that all sahâbe have also surrendered their physical bodies to Allah. Allahû Tealâ decrees in the 20th verse of Âl-‘Imrân Sura:
So if they dispute with you, then say: "I and those who depended on me have submitted our physical bodies (Wajh) to Allah." And say to the People of the Book and to those who are illiterate: "Have you also submitted (your physical bodies)?" If they have, truly they are in HIDAYET (The True Guidance Leading To Allah). If they turn back, your duty is to convey the Message. Allah sees His servants.
Here is the post where the physical body surrenders to Allah, which is common in all religions. This point is the second phase of surrendering to Allah.
All Sahâbe had surrendered their physical bodies to Allah together with our Master the Prophet (PBUH) and so had accomplished their second surrender (delivery).
The fourth post of sainthood is the stage of Muhsins (Good-doers). The 131, 132, 133, 136th verses, all of them, are related to surrendering to Allah:
Beware that Fire which has been prepared for those QAFIR (those who have blasphemy in their hearts).
3/Âl-‘Imrân - 132:
And obey Allah and the Messenger so that you may obtain mercy (of Allah) (you become one of those upon whom mercy is sent).
Be quick in the race for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a Garden whose width is that (of the whole) of the heavens and of the earth, prepared for those who have TAQWA (piety).
3/Âl-‘Imrân - 136:
Their rewards are forgiveness from their Lord, and Gardens with rivers flowing underneath, where they will dwell forever. How excellent a reward this is for those who work so.
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5. The Post of Ûlü’l Elbâb (Owners of Continuous Zikir, of The Treasuries of the Divine Mysteries, Secrets)
The fifth Post of Sainthood is the stage of “Ûlü’l Elbâb”. The fact has been seen that the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) (PBUH) surrendered himself to Allah, and recommended this surrender to his son Ismail (Ishmael) (PBUH), and that Hz. Ya’kub (Jacob) recommended it to his sons, and that all sahâbe did not distinguish any Books. This is on account of the fact that the Religion Allah has chosen is only the religion of surrendering (to Allah).
The soul’s heart of the person is wholly filled up with lights, rising from 91% to 100%. As zikir will continue night and day and it is not possible at all for the darkness door to be opened once more, it is impossible for darkness to enter the soul’s heart anew. The soul’s heart will be completely illuminated. Here is the step of “Ûlü’l Elbâb”. Allahû Tealâ is defining “Ûlü’l Elbâb”.
Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, there are indeed Signs for people of understanding (to whom the secrets of Allah are revealed).
3/Âl-‘Imrân - 191:
Those are ULUL ELBAB (to whom the secrets of Allah are revealed) who remember and repeat the name of Allah all the time, standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides. They contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the heavens and the earth (with the thought): "Our Lord! You have not created (all) this in vain! Glory to You! Give us salvation from the penalty of the Fire.
In any case, our Lord says in the 18th verse of Az-Zumar Sura that all Sahâbe are “Ûlü’l elbâb”. The person becomes the owner of “Hikmet” (Wisdom) at the Post of “Ûlü’l Elbâb”. He is the owner of “Tezekkür” (Deliberation). The eye of his heart and the ear of his heart are opened. He can speak with Allahû Tealâ. He hears what Allahû Tealâ says to him. He sees everything which is beyond physical things, shown to him by Allahû Tealâ through the eye of the heart, and He teaches him the verses related to what He has shown him.
Ûlü’l Elbâb, who is the owner of wisdom, is at the same time the owner of “hüküm” (judgment) and of tezekkür (deliberation), (he can talk about matters with Allah), and of goodness (hayır). Why is he the owner of goodness? Because all his behaviors will be those of his soul having acquired the characteristics of the spirit, as the vices do not exist any more in his soul (’s heart). He will gain degrees with what he will do; it is not possible for him to lose degrees.
At the step of Ûlü’l Elbâb that is the first post of Wisdom, Our Exalted Sustainer (Lord) gives the certain indication that the level of ‘Ilme’l Yakîn (Closeness through Knowledge, Certainty at the degree of knowledge) was surpassed. The person is at the level of “Ayne’l Yakîn” (Closeness through Witnessing, Certainty at the degree of Witnessing). The eye of his heart and the ear of his heart are decisively opened, and Allahû Tealâ bestows a favor on him by showing him the Ground Floor (consisting of about 200 billion galaxies containing in turn 200 billion stars approximately). Your soul’s heart is completely illuminated, is completely filled up with lights, is covered with 100% lights.
The virtues have pervaded the soul’s heart. All of the 19 vices have gone out and the 19 virtues (haslets) have come and settled therein instead. Ûlü’l Elbab cannot see farther than the Ground Floor. All the characteristics of the Main Convent in the Ground Floor are shown him.
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6. The Post of Ihlâs (Utter Purity)
When we shall see the first heavenly floor, this indicates that we have passed from the stage of Ûlü’l Elbâb to that of Ihlâs.
Allahû Tealâ decrees so in the 5th verse of Al-Bayyinah Sura:
And they have been commanded for nothing but to worship Allah as HANIF, being righteous (with a purified soul (ego)) and to perform regular prayer and to give alms. And that is the Religion which is QAYYUM (True and Acceptable).
Our Lord says: They have succeeded in being pure (unmixed) servants thanks to the disposition of “Hanîf.” From this point on, the first heavenly floor comes to be shown. This person has terminated the step of Ûlü’l Elbâb. He has become the owner of the step of Ihlas (Utter Purity). The step of Ihlas bears a characteristic in which the soul (’s heart) is completely refined. The heavenly floors are shown to him one by one.
The act of prostrating oneself is shown on the Ground Floor. Then the moving out of the golden portal is shown. How the first heavenly floor is reached is shown. How they prostrate themselves, how the process of being baptized in the transparent ponds is realized, how the hands of our Master the Prophet and of the Imam of the Era are kissed are shown, and the prostration in the third heavenly floor is shown. The touchstone (test) hole (vent) that connects the third heavenly floor to the fourth one is shown. The original of the Remote House of Worship (The Most Sacred House = Beytu’l Makdes. Mescidi’l Aksa in Jerusalem) is shown at the fourth heavenly floor. The original Inviolable House of Worship (Beytu’l Haram, Mescidi’l Haram in Mecca) is shown. And the Golden Gate of the 7th heavenly floor, the Cells of Destiny (Divine Determining), the Mother of the Book (Ümmü’l Kitâb, the Archetype of the Book), the Sea of Power, then the Council of the Improved Ones (Divân-ı Sâlihîn), the Praised Station (Makam-ı Mahmud), the Cells of Recitation (Zikir, Remembrance), and Ind-i Ilâhî (Divine Presence) in the 7th heavenly floor are shown. The place shown finally is the Lotus-tree of the Farthest Limit. Here is the point at which men surrender their souls (to Allah), which is the third surrender according to all the religions in the world that are in essence one single religion. The third surrender is completed here. Endless happiness is attained here.
On that day, this person, who is the owner of the post of Ihlas (Utter Purity), is invited by Allahû Tealâ to the Irrevocable Repentance (Tövbe-i Nasûh). The person has surrendered his spirit at the step of Extinction [Fenâ] that is the first Post of Sainthood (first surrender). He has accomplished his second surrender at the step of Muhsins (Good-doers) that is the fourth Post of Sainthood. He has surrendered his physical body to Allah. He has surrendered his soul, too, at the step of Ihlâs (Utter Purity) that is the sixth Post of Sainthood, and he has thus accomplished his third surrender. In order to invite him to the step of Salâh (Improvement), Allahû Tealâ has invited him to the Irrevocable (Irreversible) Repentance. The person completes his Irrevocable Repentance by repeating one by one in the Presence of Allah that which Allah says to him. From this point on, the person has surpassed the step of “Ihlâs”. He has become the owner of the step of Salâh” that is the most superior Post of Sainthood.
Our Exalted Lord absolutely rewards the person with the Light of Improvement (Salâh nûru) at the stage of Salâh. A light similar to a cloud comes into being over his head. This light may shrink to diameter of 30 cm, become a very intense light, or expand so that it may envelop the most voluminous halls and its intensity is reduced. It is the same light at that time, too. It is still the same light of improvement. Here is the 8th verse of At-Tahrîm Sura:
O you AMENU (those who wish to reach Allah in this life)! Take such an unbreakable repentance to Allah that Allah will conceal your sins and let you dwell in Gardens beneath which Rivers flow. On that Day, Allah will not make the prophets and those who are AMENU (those who wish to reach Allah in this life) with him feel embarrassed. (That Day) They will be with their light running forward before them and by their right, and (on the Day of Unbreakable Repentance) they say, "Our Lord! Perfect our Light for us, and grant us Forgiveness; You verily have power over all things."
Allahû Tealâ speaks of the invitation to the Irrevocable Repentance and of lights being over men. This is the light of improvement. The three phases of surrendering to Allah have been completed and the person has attained the final post of sainthood (the step of Salâh). This is the common nature of all the religions of Allah.
This nature is a property enabling man to surrender to Allah in all its dimensions. Allahû Tealâ definitely makes the person the owner of the Bliss of Paradise at the first surrender (the surrender of the spirit). At the second surrender (the surrender of the physical body) 80% of the worldly happiness is added to it. At the third surrender (the surrender of the soul), it becomes possible for the soul of that person to surrender to Allah.
The entire worldly happiness is added to the Bliss of Paradise. The person becomes the owner of two wings. He becomes two-winged. When you have reached such a point, all the vices in your soul’s heart have vanished. All the virtues of your spirit have come and settled therein instead. Let us look at this design very carefully: In all His religions that are in essence one single religion, Allahû Tealâ wills for you to experience these beauties. When you have reached the result, you live the most beautiful of the beautiful. The step of Salah is the most superior Post of Sainthood. It is the step at which your happiness is at the utmost degree.
In the years to come, all over the world, you will see and experience that the Friends (saints) of Allah who have believed in Allah and surrendered their three bodies and their free wills to Him will realize a turn back to the origin under the name of the religion of “hanîf”. Let us consider the Goal of Allah: What was He saying?: I did not create the jinn and mankind except that they should be My Servants (51/Adh-Dhâriyât - 56). When you surrender your spirit to Allah, you live the first servanthood, you become a servant of Allah.
When you surrender your physical body to Allah, you become a greater servant (ekber kul). When you surrender your soul to Allah, you become the greatest servant (ahsen kul).
We can say the same for “takva”. At the surrender of your spirit, you become the owner of “takva”. At the surrender of your physical body, you become the owner of “greater takva,” and at the surrender of your soul to Allah, you become the owner of “the greatest takva”. At the first of the surrenders, you have surrendered your spirit to Allah. At the second, you have surrendered your physical body to Allah. At the third, you have surrendered your soul to Allah. And when you have surrendered your soul and your free will to Allah, the greatest and most magnificent good news are given to you.
There you become the owner of “Hazzü’l ‘Azîm” (Endless Delight, Gratification). There you become the owner of “Ecrü’l ‘Azîm” (the Greatest Reward). There you become the owner of “Fevzü’l ‘Azîm” (the boundless Success, Victory).
All sahâbe were the owners of Endless Delight (Happiness), of the Greatest Reward and of the Boundless Success, Victory. Why are we using sahâbe as examples? Because the content of the Glorious Qur’ân never changed since it was sent down. Besides, Allahû Tealâ has given Sahâbe as models.
Muhammad (PBUH) is the messenger of Allah. Those who are with him are strong against the ones who are in blasphemy, (but) compassionate amongst each other. You will see them bowing and prostrating themselves (in prayer), seeking grace from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure. On their faces are their marks, traces of their prostration. This is their characteristic in the Torah; and their characteristic in the Gospel is like a seed which sends forth its shoot, becomes thicker as they become strong, and stands straight on its own stem, delighting the sowers. As a result, it fills the ones who are in blasphemy with rage at them. Allah has promised those among them who become AMENU (who wish to reach Allah in this life) and do improving righteous deeds, forgiveness and a great Reward.
For this reason, these genuine verses have been telling us the truth which could not be changed by anyone, the recommendations, the stages. At the 28th stage, we reach the most beautiful of everything.
Allahû Tealâ has created the universe. He has created six Worlds and the seventh one: the Nothingness.
Allahû Tealâ has created mankind. He has created everything for humankind, all the universe with its Manifest World, the Invisible (Gayb) World, the World of Command, and their opposites.
All the animals, all the jinn, all the contents have been created as directed at this Goal. Let us pay close attention to what Allahû Tealâ says. He is powerful over all things. His main goal is that human beings may attain the most beautiful. What does “attaining the most beautiful” signify? Allahû Tealâ is ready to immediately grant the Happiness of Paradise to men through the easiest event. Whoever wishes to reach Allah automatically becomes the owner of the Bliss of Paradise.
But the fact that a human being can be the owner of worldly happiness and obtain it 100% is only realized with the completion of the four surrenders to Allah. There is such a fact for all of us; we should realize it within a system. As Allahû Tealâ has made the surrenders to Allah obligatory for us, is it obligatory for us to surrender ourselves to Allah? Yes, it is indeed. We clearly and definitely see that it is obligatory for us to surrender to Allah.
He decrees in the 58th verse of An-Nisâ’ Sura:
Allah commands you to render back the Trusts to their Owner. And He commands you to judge with justice when you judge between men. Verily how excellent is the teaching He gives you by this! And Allah is the All-Hearer and the All-Seer.
Allah uses the trusts in plural form, whereas He uses the Owner (ehl) in singular form. There is a single Owner of all the trusts. The spirit, the physical body, the soul and the free will are obliged to surrender to Allah. This is the common characteristic of all religions. Thus, the one who will acquire the Happiness of Paradise through the first surrender will receive the entirety of the worldly happiness at the fourth surrender.
In the years to come, the Bliss of Paradise and worldly happiness will come true for the whole world corresponding with these surrenders. There are waterfalls, rivers, all kinds of diverse flowers, glass houses, golden palaces, tables extending meters and meters, splendid services, all sorts of beauties, and an eternal life in Paradise. If so, is the Goal of Allahû Tealâ only the Happiness of Paradise? Many people think so. They say categorically: There is no comfort (ease) in the world. However, Allahû Tealâ expresses that He does not consider sufficient their reaching only the Bliss of Paradise but that they should absolutely receive worldly happiness by commanding them to be the servants of Allah and to surrender themselves to Him.
Allahû Tealâ declares that He created the whole universe for humankind:
And He, Allah the Almighty, has subjected to you (human beings), as from Him, all (everything He has created for the worlds where there is life) that is in the heavens and on earth. In that are Verses (Signs) for a tribe who contemplates.
The jinn who possess information about the Glorious Qur’an know that all the jinn are created for men; all the angels know that they are created for men. Man is the most valuable and valued creature in the sight of Allah. Allah wills that all the adherents of the present religions absolutely enter Paradise and definitely attain worldly happiness. What is worldly happiness?
Worldly happiness expresses a splendid design you experience with your three bodies. Happiness in your inner world, happiness in your outer world, that is, in your relationship with other people, and happiness in your relationship with Allah. The definition of happiness is: An uninterrupted state of peace and serenity in your three worlds. Whoever has acquired this state is the one who has reached happiness. He will live in endless happiness without ceasing, both in his inner world and in his outer world, and in his relationship with Allah. Why are men unhappy at the beginning, and then are the owners of limitless happiness in his inner world, in their outer world and in their relationship with Allah when they reach continuous zikir?
When we consider the content, we see this: Men do not stand in need of performing what is obligatory for them as long as they do not recognize Allah and do not know that Allah created them in order to make them happy. Unfortunately, they are the creatures who will go to Hell. Our Master Prophet predicted that 72 out of 73 groups (sects) would go to Hell. The greater part of humankind will go to Hell.
Men who will go to Paradise form the answer to the question: “Are those who know and those who do not know equal?” Those who long to reach Allah, who desire to surrender to Allah, that is to say, those who are the owners of the Bliss of Paradise, as soon as they wish to reach Allah become the owners of worldly happiness 100% too, when they surrender their souls and their free wills that can surrender (to Allah) last.
Why are men unhappy at the beginning? Let us begin with our inner world. Our soul is full of 100% vices in our inner world at the beginning. All the vices are turned to evil (wickedness). We do not want to carry out whatever Allah orders us. We desire to do whatever Allah forbids us. This is not enough. Our soul’s heart is initially filled up with 100% vices, and Satan is the owner of a nature capable of influencing all of them. Our soul gives this possibility to him. Men are not even aware of the fact that they have been deceived by Satan.
Whereas, the brains of all men have been washed by the Devil. The Devil has managed to deprive people whose brains were washed with his filthy water of Divine Knowledge through the influence he exercices upon them. If human beings had known this: “whoever wishes to reach Allah is absolutely saved”, they would have absolutely wished to reach Allah. But the Devil, washing the brains of people, has kept them away from the beauties of Allah. Now, let us look at the contents of a man: His soul’s heart is pitch-black. There is a fight (war, battle) in his soul’s heart.
In the realm of the body of that person, there is a war between the vices of the soul and the virtues of the spirit. This war (fight, struggle) causes us to lose a lot of things. First of all, we are uneasy in our inner world because there is combat (war) inside us.
Our soul demands our intellect that is the commander of our body to do all that Allah forbids and not to do what Allah orders. As for our spirit: It possesses information about all things. Whenever the soul suggests an act forbidden by Allah to the intellect, the spirit is informed thereof, it immediately reaches it, and it orders the intellect to do good, which is diametrically the opposite of the suggestion of the soul. It is the intellect that makes decisions. But if the intellect has taken on a shape with an erroneous design and gained consciousness in a milieu where committing acts forbidden by Allah becomes a habit, a practice, it does not deem it inconvenient to cause the physical body to do the acts prohibited by Allah. It does not carry out the orders of Allah. It takes heed of the demands of the soul; it does not give heed to the requests of the spirit.
In this state, Allah gives us uneasiness. Thereafter our spirit torments our soul; we again become uneasy. Every time we commit a sin (a bad deed) we are always uneasy in our inner world. This is not enough. There is a continuous fight inside us. Our soul wants to make us do the acts forbidden by Allah and not to make us execute His Orders. On the contrary, our spirit absolutely wants us to do what Allah orders and to not commit what Allah forbids.
The demands of these two bodies are diametrically the opposite. Both do not give up their demands in accordance with their dispositions.
In that case, a fight is inevitable in our inner world. As long as this fight (dispute) continues, two voices in us will continuously take up a quarrel with each other.
Ceaseless quarrelling, constant uneasiness… Now, the people whose souls are full of vices are continuously in uneasiness, and live in constant distress for this reason, both as there is an uninterrupted quarrel in their inner world and as they perpetually commit sins.
If we reach continuous zikir, all the vices in our soul’s heart vanish, and the virtues of our spirit replace them.
Then both our soul and our spirit wish the same thing. The quarrel in our inner world, the battle between the armies of our soul and those of our spirit have come to an end. As the war has ended, the uneasiness, and the chaos too, have terminated. From this point on, we shall live an inner world life in peace and serenity; we shall be happy in our inner world.
From this point on, both our spirit and our soul only want to carry out the orders of Allah because there is no other alternative for the intellect (reason). As both demand the same thing, the intellect is in a position to accept a thing that its two consultants (advisers) demand. The beauty lies here. Both our soul and our spirit want goodness. By carrying out the orders of Allah and not committing His Interdictions we are happy in both alternatives. In both states, we continuously gain degrees and do good.
Now, let us come to our outer world. Why are we uneasy in our outer world? At the beginning, the soul (’s heart) is full of vices in all its dimensions; as the soul’s heart is full of vices, we always behave wrongly against other people. The soul desires to dominate over others; the soul wishes others to respect him. The soul desires to suppress other people. It constantly wants to prove its superiority. The soul is turned to hatred. As all the dire vices are in the soul (’s heart) when we leave the door ajar to them, we become a man who breaks the hearts of other people. Every time we break someone’s heart, the first warning will come from Allah. An indescribable uneasiness will permeate us. Thereafter our spirit will apply a torment to our soul. We will be uneasy at once because the people whose hearts we have broken, over whom we have tyrannized, will burn to take revenge on us. Out of them, those who will be able to seize the opportunity of taking revenge, due to the vice of revenge in their souls (’ hearts), will absolutely want to take revenge on us and as soon as they can succeed in doing it, they will absolutely take revenge on us.
Then, we will be grieved. When another person takes revenge on us, without thinking at all that this revenge he has taken on us is the response to our behavior, we will be sad and uneasy, thinking that we are exposed to an unjustice. Thus, we will be grieved for the third time.
The vice of revenge of our soul, beginning to act, will want us to repay the injustice he has done to us, too. When we do it, we will be sad for the fourth time, because by doing wrong to another person, we will commit a sin. There is another alternative: We want to take revenge but we are unable to do it. This turns into a revenge that could not be taken, into a grudge (rancor). We begin to nourish a grudge against that person. All kinds of beauties have vanished in our relationship with Allah and other people. If we thus continue to take revenge on other people, this means that we will constantly live in uneasiness and in distress.
Look at the content in your relationship with the human beings. There are people around you; you break their hearts, and as you see it, you feel sad five times.
Now, you want to take revenge on that person who wants to revenge himself on you, but he is very powerful and influential, and you are incapable of taking revenge on him. Then, a subconscious accumulation, that is stress, begins, and you are uneasy due to this stress. So, you will always be regretful, uneasy, stressed in your outer world, in your relationship with other people if there are vices in your soul’s heart.
Now, let us suppose we have reached continuous zikir. We are not sad any more because the vices in our soul’s heart have vanished. The virtues of our spirit have come and completely annihilated the vices of our soul (’s heart). Our soul has acquired the same characteristics with our spirit. Both want to do good. We always treat other people in the best fashion. We never commit an act forbidden by Allah because both our soul and our spirit never want to commit any act forbidden by Allah; both oppose this.
For this reason, we cannot break anyone’s heart and as we do not do it, we always lead a happy life. We possess a series of beautiful behaviors thanks to which all the people have confidence in us, feel love for us, and find quietness by us.
1. We are happy because we do not do wrong to others.
2. We are happy because they do not take revenge on us.
3. We are happy as we also do not take revenge on them.
4. We are happy as we will never undergo any subconscious stress, as no stress will be formed inside us.
We only live in happiness in our outer world. The unique religion that is the basis of all religions is directed to this goal.
We are coming to the third phase: to the relationship with Allah. Why is man uneasy in his relationship with Allah at the beginning? Because he never carries out the orders of Allah; for this reason he is uneasy. He has become accustomed to committing any acts forbidden by Allah. Allahû Tealâ decrees: “Do not gamble”; he keeps on gambling. He orders: “Do not drink any alcoholic drinks”; he keeps on drinking. He thus commits all kinds of acts that Allah prohibits. Thereafter he becomes uneasy.
If this person has reached continuous zikir, what has happened? All the vices in his soul’s heart have vanished. His soul has acquired the property of his spirit. This person is not only contented with carrying out all the orders of Allah, but also he becomes aware of another great thing: All the orders of Allah, in particular the worships, are indescribable delights. The person then begins to experience that Allah has given all these orders of worship in order to cause people to live in great enjoyment. He perceives that performing the daily prayers is a great pleasure for him after the opening of the eye of his heart. He realizes that doing zikir is a great pleasure after the opening of the ear of his heart. The veil (wall, barrier) in front of him disappears. All the universe is opened before him. This person takes pleasure in all the worships of Allah and lives immersed in unimaginable delights.
The transformation of fasting into an event that never causes the person to feel any hunger and thirst becomes definite again in this period. Here is a state of never-ending happiness. The person experiences endless happiness in his relationship with Allah with respect to both His orders and His prohibitions. The man who surrenders to Allah, no matter to which religion he belongs, lives in endless happiness both in his inner world and in his outer world and in his relationhip with Allah when he has surrendered to Him. This endless happiness is possible and valid for all of us.
What does Allahû Tealâ decree in the 208th verse of Al-Baqarah sura?
O you who are AMENU (who wish to reach Allah in this world)! Enter into SILM (circle of submission). Do not follow (depend on) the footsteps of Satan. No doubt, he is an oathed enemy to you.
O you who are âmenû, who wish to reach Allah, enter, all of you, into “Silm”. Surrender to Allah, all of you, He decrees. All the religions are but a single religion of Allah. Allahû Tealâ announces in the Glorious Qur’an:
Truly, the religion with Allah (in the sight of Allah, in the Presence of Allah) is Islâm (Surrender to Allah). There is only one single religion in the universe, He says, it is the religion of surrendering to Allah. Allah be praised that humanity has reached a new phase. In the near future, we will see that all human beings, all the believers will gather together within the standards of surrendering to Allah, as this is both the reunifying factor of all the religions and is the most important component of religion. We will witness “brand-new” days in which everything will be experienced in the most beautiful dimensions; all the believers will live in magnificent happiness all together. For sure, a splendid period of peace will succeed the third World War.
A state of peace and security and a second Age of Happiness will be experienced after the reunification of the religions. In the religion of surrendering to Allah, in the unique religion, through the coming together of the ones belonging to all the religions, through their reunification, the adherents of the unique religion emerging victorious from the War will live in endless worldly happiness.
This is the Second Age of Happiness. Everything is so beautifully designed that it is not possible to not admire Allah. Allah only wants men to submit (surrender) to Allah. In reality it is Allah who will take delivery of men. Men will only wish (to reach Him).
He will get you to love every aspect of the religion separately, and you will not do, but He will do all that is required in order that you may attain absolute happiness.
Allah has had a single religion. The religion of Hz. Musa (Moses), that of Hz. Îsa (Jesus), that of Hz. Ibrahîm (Abraham) and that of Hz. Muhammed Mustafa (PBUH) reveal the same things. At the request of Hz. Ibrahîm (Abraham) to surrender to Allah, He tests Hz. Ibrahîm (Abraham) by demanding him to sacrifice Hz. Ismail (Ishmael), his son, why? Because Hz. Ibrahîm (Abraham) says to Allahû Tealâ: “O My Lord! I want to surrender myself to You with a complete submission.” Thereupon, Allahû Tealâ judges suitable such an examination. Hz. Ibrahim (Abraham) speaks with Hz. Ismail about this matter. He needs not to persuade him because Allahû Tealâ has said the same thing to him, too. Hz. Ismail (Ishmael) is ready (to be sacrificed).
Hz. Ibrahim (Abraham) binds the eyes of his son but sees that the knife is not cutting the throat of Hz. Ismail (Ishmael) when he tries to cut it. At that time, Cebrail (Gabriel) (PBUH) comes down together with a ram. He says: Leave him. “You will kill this as a sacrifice.” Hz. Ibrahim (Abraham) possessed all the characteristics of the religion of “Hanîf”, the religion of surrendering to Allah.
We are on a continent of the earth, in the United States, where lectures and assemblies continue to be held extremely frequently, and people keep on leading their lives in an effort of unconscious agreement without comprehending perhaps the gist of the matter.
To whomever we have said until today that certain men have been speaking with Allahû Tealâ, that they have been receiving orders from Him and that men will gather together under the Flag of Surrender, no one has objected to this. The environment (milieu) has been approaching the most beautiful. Human beings seem to receive unity with open arms in order to make their future prosperous. It is certain that the One who dominates their hearts is again Allah. Allahû Tealâ declares in the Glorious Qur’ân. “... Not all of them are alike; a community of the People of the Scripture stands for the right, they recite the Verses of Allah during the hours of the night, prostrating themselves in prayer.” (3/Âl-‘Imrân - 113) They believe in Allah and the Last Day; they enjoin “El-Ma’ruf” and forbid “El-Münker”; they hasten in (all) good works; they are among the Improving Ones (Sâlihîn) (3/Âl-‘Imrân - 114). They will reach Salvation, too. We saw in an assembly that we have to suppress the matters on which we could not come to an agreement and to develop the most completely the matters on which we came to an agreement.
It is from here that unity and togetherness will emerge. No matter where you are in the world, know that humankind is going to proceed towards a togetherness in the near future. We are drawing near to a day on which everything will be the most beautiful in the sight of Allahû Tealâ. Satan and Tâgût (false deities, satans from humankind and jinn who are their followers) are not unaware of what is going on. In order to prevent the formation of this unity, each one of them makes plans separately. But they are forgetting one thing: that those who will be reunited in the Way of Allah live the requirements of the religion of surrendering to Allah and are the Friends (saints) of Allah. Allah, who is the unique Ruler of the universe, wills that this should be so. Will those not exist who desire that this should not be so? Yes, they will.
Allahû Tealâ says: Fight against them until religion will be only the Religion of Allah. Humankind will form two groups: the men of Satan and the men of Allah. How did the event start in the time of Adam (PBUH)? Kâbil (Cain) killed Hâbil (Abel); Hâbil did not oppose him (resist him).
A follower of Satan, Cain (Kâbil) killed his brother Abel (Hâbil), who was an adherent of Allah, in the period of time in which the first human beings lived. Its retaliation will be realized in the Third World War.
The Victors of this War will be the Friends (saints) of Allah. It has been known that a small group has defeated a mighty host throughout the history of humanity.
All over the world and in all religions, a return to the sole religion of Allah that necessitates surrendering to Allah will begin. Allahû Tealâ does not abandon men to the Devil. They try to extinguish the Light of Allah. But He shall complete His Light even if criminals do not wish it. When that Day comes, you will see that men will enter the Religion of Allah in crowds.
When the Day of Conquest and the Help of Allah comes, men of Allah out of all the armies will be on the Side of Allah. If the parties to which he had previously belonged were composed of the majority of a devilish army, the minor party will abandon them and pass to the Line of Allah. In such a design, all the beauties of Allah will come into being.
Pay close attention to the future, the day of surrender formed by the Last Dawn. That Day will be a Day of Happiness that will embrace everybody who is in the Way of Allah and lead him definitely to one of two Mercies: to be a ghazi (fighter of Islam) or a martyr.
I request beseechingly from Allahû Tealâ that He should lead you to Endless Happiness. May the Happiness of the two worlds be yours. May Allah be pleased with all of you.
With our prayers.