Allahű Zu’l Celâl Hz. (Allah, the Owner of Majesty) decrees:
And Allah has created the heavens and the earth with truth and that every soul may be rewarded for what he has earned and they shall not be wronged at all.
One of the
Names of our Sustainer (Lord) is “El-Hakk” (the Truth, the Reality). He is
the One who causes the truth to become manifest. The Truth (Hakk) is in a
perpetual manifestation. All the souls will absolutely be called to account and
will be rewarded with
And We shall set up Balances of justice on the Day of Resurrection. Thus, no soul will be treated unjustly. And even though it be the weight of mustard seed, We shall bring it forth (to be weighed); and Sufficient are We to take account.
The person will give the account of all the deeds He has had in the life of the Manifest World (zâhirî âlem) on the Day of the Supreme Tribunal (Court). No one will be wronged before Allah, the Judge of the Judges.
Certainly We have sent Our Messengers with clear arguments, and sent down with them the Book and the Balance, that mankind keep up Justice.
The Book contains all the decrees that Allah has sent to mankind so as to lead mankind to guidance and to “irshad”. As for the Balance: Allahű Tealâ names the Balance the system making known the negative or positive degrees that any good or evil act will cause the person to acquire in case it will be done or committed by him. Therefore, our Lord has exposed in the Book through the verses all the deeds we have to accomplish each second and even in the smaller fractions of a second. The equivalent of these deeds are present in the Balance as negative and positive points. In which case, all the positive and negative points that are the equivalents of all the actions that might take place in the universe are present in the Balance.
Allah it is Who has sent down the Book with truth, and the Balance; and what shall make you understand that haply the Hour is close at hand?
As can be understood from these verses, the equivalents of the deeds we have acquired while living the life of the Manifest World will be given to us as rewards or punishments on the Day of Accounting. Really, our Lord has appointed the angels, the honorable scribes placed on our right and left shoulders and charged with recording our deeds every instant, even our thoughts.
And most surely there are keepers (guardians) (watching) over you. Honorable Recorders, they know of all that you do.
The angels on our right shoulder record and preserve our good deeds in perfects order and chronologically together with their equivalents in the Balance. As for the angels on our left shoulder: they record and preserve our sins together with the equivalent degrees (figures) in the Balance. If our good deeds are more than our sins, the (life) film will be completed on the right side. And the Balance also will be (found) heavy.
And the weighing on that Day will be the true (weighing); as for him whose
scale (of good deeds) is heavy, those are they who shall reach the Salvation
(the Bliss of
If our sins are more than our good deeds, our (life) film will be completed on the left side. And our scale will be light.
And as for him whose scale (of good deeds) is light, those are they who have made their souls suffer loss because they wronged (did wrong to) our verses (signs).
To wrong the sacred verse of Allah is not to act in the way Allah has ordered, according to the verse, not to fulfil it. In short, not to give its due to the verse. If the person did not act and live in accordance with the orders and the prohibitions that Allah has made known to us in His Holy Scriptures while living the worldly life, of a certainty, the negative degrees that are the equivalents of not fulfilling them are recorded in the Balance. For this reason, as the positive degrees are less in their (life) films, their scales (of good deeds) will be light.
Our Lord decrees so in the 7th and 8th verses of Şems Sura:
I swear by that soul that has been designed (fashioned) (through seven levels).
(Allah’s) takvâ and (Satan’s) fucűr are inspired to him.
“Takvâ” comprises all the orders and prohibitions that Allah conveys to our soul’s heart. That is to say, it calls men to fulfill the commands of Allah and not to commit what He prohibits.
Let there arise from you a community who invite to goodness and enjoin
what is right (el ma’rűf, what is ordered by Islâm) and forbid evil (el
munker, what is forbidden by Islâm). Such are they who have reached the
Salvation (Felâh = the happiness of the worldly life and the Bliss of
Allah’s Inspiration is given to man either as improving deeds in accordance with “takvâ” or as a prohibition of evil.
Following the order in the 103th verse of An-Nisâ’ Sura in the Holy Qur’ân of Allahű Tealâ; “The Prayer at fixed hours has been enjoined on the believers”, (when the time of performing it has come) the spirit that is the representative of Allah inside us calls us to the Prayer, whereas Satan does everything possible in order to prevent us from performing it when the time of performing the prayer has come.
O you who are âmenű! Do not follow the steps of Satan, for whosoever follows the steps of Satan, then surely he bids the doing of indecency and evil; and were it not for Allah’s Virtue upon you and His mercy, none of you would have ever been purified. But Allah purifies whom He wills. And Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower.
The name of those who have followed Satan is Fuccâr (the Most Wicked Ones). The owners of fucűr (wickedness, evil-doing, disbelief, sinning…) will all go to Hell. Allahű Tealâ has separated out the Cells of Destiny of the Ebrâr (those who depend on the Inspirations of Allah) and of the Fuccâr (those who follow the Inspirations, Whisperings of Satan) from each other.
The Cells of Destiny are the exact and perfect copy of what we have done in the life of the world. Our Lord has placed those deeds either in Siccîn (these are the deeds of the “Fuccâr”) or in İlliyyîn (these are those of the “Ebrâr”) through His Pre-Eternal Knowledge. That is to say, our Lord knows through His Pre-Eternal Knowledge who will follow Satan and who will depend on Allah. And as a result of His Pre-Eternal Knowledge, He has placed the life films of the “Ebrâr” in the first World of the Guarded Tablet, in the Cells of Destiny, before we had come to this world.
Nay! Most surely the Record (writing of the deeds) of the clean-living (ebrâr, those who have arrived in Allah, have reached hidâyet) is (preserved) in “İlliyyîn”.
As for the Cells of Destiny of the Fuccâr [those who have followed the fucűr (wickedness) of Satan]: He has placed them in the first world of the Lowest of the Low (Esfel-i Sâfilîn) in “Siccîn”.
Nay, verily the Record of the Fuccâr (the Most Wicked) is (preserved) in “Siccîn” (in the Dark Cells of Destiny to be found 7 floors beneath the Ground Floor).
The Cells of Destiny of the Most Wicked (fuccâr) who will go to Hell are in “Siccîn”. If so, the Cells of Destiny on the 7th Floor are those of the Clean-Living (Ebrâr) who will go to Paradise, whereas the Dark Cells of Destiny that are in the first World of the Lowest of the Low (Esfel-i Sâfilîn) are those of the Most Wicked (Fuccâr) who will go to Hell. Those of the “Ebrâr” are 7 Floors above, those of the “Fuccâr” are 7 Floors below. That is, there are 14 Floors (Layers) between them.
Our Exalted Lord makes known in the 123th verse of Tâ-Hâ Sura that those who will depend on their guides (hidâyetchis) will be saved from Misguidance and will not be “şakis” (unfortunate ones) (those who will go to Hell).
He (Allah) said: “Get you down therefrom, all (of you), one of you (is) enemy to another. Then there will surely come to you guidance from Me, then whoever depends on My Guide, he shall not fall into Misguidance nor be unhappy (şakî, one who will go to Hell).
“Ashâb-ı Meş’eme” (those on the Left Hand, the companions of the Left Hand, the Ill-Omened, the Inauspicious…) of whom the Noble Qur’ân speaks are those who will dwell in Hell forever. Our Lord speaks of “Ashâb-ı Meş’eme” in the 9th verse of El-Vâkı’â:
So those on the Left Hand (those who will be given their Record in their left hands on the Day of Judgement, the Ill-Omened, the Inauspicious…) how (unfortunate, unhappy) will be those on the Left Hand (because they will enter Hell)!
These are ill-omened (inauspicious), evil. They are the ones who have given in Satan. They have sold their souls to Satan. They are disbelievers. They have arrived in Satan.
But those who disbelieved in our Verses (Signs), they are those on the Left Hand (the Companions of the Left Hand, the Ill-Omened, the Inauspicious). The Fire will be shut over them.
These are those whose records (books, life films) will be given from their left sides and will dwell in Hell forever.
69/Al-Hâqqah – 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34:
And as for him who is given his book (life film) in his left hand: He says: O would that my book had never been given me: And I had not known what my account was. O would that it had made an end (of me): My Property has availed me nothing: My authority (arguments to defend myself) has gone away from me. Lay hold on him and fetter him, then cast him into the blazing Fire, then thrust him into a chain the length of which is seventy cubits. Surely he did not believe in Allah, the Most Great (the Tremendous), nor did he urge the feeding of the poor (those incapable of gaining their livelihood).
84/Al-Inshiqâq – 10, 11, 12, 13, 14:
And as to him who is given his book from behind his back: he shall call for perdition and enter a blazing Fire. Surely he was (erstwhile) joyful among his people. Surely he thought that he would never return (to Allah).
And as for him whose scales are light: the bottomless pit will be his home (his mother).
Allahű
Tealâ mentions two groups that will enter
Our Lord decrees so in the 17th verse of Zumer Sura:
And (as for) those who keep off from false deities (Satan and his followers) lest they should be servants to them and turn to Allah: they shall have good news, therefore announce glad tidings to My servants.
These personages who have attained the Servanthood of Allah are the Saints (Friends) of Allah. They are the Owners of the Covenants. Allah decrees in the 62, 63 and 64th verses of Yűnus Sura as follows:
For sure, the Friends of Allah: no fear shall come upon them, neither shall they grieve.
Those who are âmenű (who have wished to reach Allah and surrender to Him) and became the owners of “Takvâ” (guarded against all kinds of evils, sins).
For them are glad tidings in this world’s life and in the Hereafter. No
change can there be in the Words of Allah. This is
As you know it, we shall be called to account on the Day of Judgement. We shall either be rewarded or punished according to the films prepared by the honorable scribes (angels) placed on our right and left shoulders when we shall be called to account. If our good deeds are more than our sins, our film will be completed on our right side. Our scales will be heavy. And our book (life film) will be given us from our right side.
The
personages named “Ashâb-ı Meymene” are the ones who have purified
their souls (’ hearts) and who will be accepted to enter
69/Al-Hâqqah – 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24:
Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand: he will say:
“Here! read my book: Surely, I did believe (know) that I shall meet my
Account! So he shall be in a life, well-pleasing. In a lofty Garden (
Then, as for him whose scales are heavy (with good deeds): He will be in a pleasing life.
They are
the people of the
Our Lord announces that “Ashâb-ı Yemîn” are those who have arrived in Allah in the 71th verse of Isrâ Sura:
On the Day when We shall call together all human beings with their (respective) Imâms (Leaders, their murshids); those who will be given their books (life films) in their right hands, will read it and they will not be wronged in the least.
The Record of deeds or the book is the film of our life. This film is in the form of a three-dimensional hologram. This film needs no screen. It is on in the vacuum three-dimensionally. We watch our life film from end to end 50 - 60 cm.’s distance from us. This is taken and preserved by the Honorable Scribes (Angels). We gain or lose degrees each instant. Goodness is to gain degrees, evil is to lose degrees.
The sacred verses below announces these realities:
See how We exalted some above another; and verily, the Hereafter will be greater in degrees and greater in preferment.
And all have degrees according to what they do; and Your Lord is not heedless of what they do.
And for all are degrees according to what they did, and that He may pay them back fully their deeds and they shall not be wronged.
On the Day of Resurrection, a Balance and a Book will be given us in return for our deeds as reward or punishment.
And we have made every man’s actions (augury, deeds) to cling to his neck and We will bring forth on the Day of Resurrection a book which he will find wide open.
And the Book shall be placed, then you will see the guilty (sinners, criminals, polytheists) fearful of what is (inscribed) in it. Ah! Woe to us! What a book is this! It does not omit a small one nor a great one, but numbers them (all); and what they had done they shall find present (there); and your Lord does not deal unjustly with anyone.
And everything they have done is in the writings (in their records of deeds). And everything small and great is written down.
And all things We have recorded in a Book.
Read your book! Your soul is sufficient this Day as a reckoner against you.
The sum of
what was filmed by the honorable scribes (angels) on our right and left
shoulders constitutes our Record of Deeds. If the film is gathered on our right
side, we take our book from the hand of the angel on our right side.
Consequently, we go to
That Day shall you be brought to Judgement (to His Presence) no secret of yours shall remain hidden.
This Day, We seal up their mouths and their hands speak to Us, and their feet bear witness to what they used to earn.
41/Fussilat – 19, 20, 21, 22, 23:
(Imagine) the Day that the enemies of Allah shall be brought together to the Fire, then they shall be formed in groups. Until when they come to it, their ears and their eyes and their skins shall testify against them as to what they did. And they shall say to their skins: Why have you testified against us? They shall say: “Allah Who makes everything speak has made us speak, too, and He created you in the first instance and to Him you are made to return. And you did not veil yourselves lest your ears and your eyes and your skins should bear witness against you, but you thought that Allah did not know most of what you did. And that thought of yours which you thought about your Lord has tumbled you down into perdition, so are you become of the lost ones (fit for Hell).
Do not go after that of which you have no knowledge, surely the hearing and the sight and the heart, all of these shall be closely questioned (by Allah).
On the Day when their tongues and their hands and their feet shall bear witness against them as to what they did. On that Day Allah will pay back to them in full their just reward, and they shall know that Allah is the manifest Truth.
This Day every soul shall be rewarded for what he has earned. No injustice (shall be done) this Day; surely Allah is Swift at Reckoning.
On the Day
of Judgement (Resurrection) we shall be called to account. At the end of this
Accounting, we shall either be rewarded or punished. Those who have obtained the
recompense acquire the life of
And as to those who are made happy, they shall be in Paradise, abiding therein as long as the heavens and the earth (of the Next World) endure, except as Your Lord ordains otherwise; a gift which shall never be cut off…
However, we are again in the face of an Absolute Infinity beyond an infinity, a series of periods of time that the human mind can not conceive.
And do not invoke any other god along with Allah. There is no god but He. Everything will perish save His Face (Countenance, Essence) His is the Judgement and to Him you shall be brought back.
It has
been understood that
Those who prefer this life of the present world consisting of a game, an amusement, a pomp, of having property and children, of these deceiving and ephemeral things to the Afterlife will be deprived of that infinite delightful life of Paradise.
Those who
have longed to reach Allah are those who have become âmenű. Whoever becomes âmenű
will absolutely enter
Whoever hopes to meet Allah, the term appointed by Allah will then most certaintly come; and He is the All-Hearer, the All-Knower.
And whoever strives hard, he strives hard for his own soul; most surely Allah is Self-Sufficient, above (need of) the Worlds.
And, O my people! I ask of you no property in return for it; my reward is from none but Allah and I am not going to drive away those who have become âmenű; surely they shall meet their Lord, (they shall make their spirits reach Allah before dying), but I consider you a people who are ignorant.
Truly, man reaches “irshad” in person at the end of this invitation. For this reason, Allah calls all the human beings to “irshad”. For He wills man He loves the most to live happily in this world and in the next world. In case the person has not got rid of the tyranny of his soul through irshad, he cannot experience happiness neither in the life of this world nor in the Afterlife.
Answer the call of Your Lord before there comes the Day from Allah for which there shall be no averting; you shall have no refuge on that Day, nor shall it be yours to make a denial.
It is necessary for us to attain to the murshid appointed for us by Allah in order to answer the Call of our Sustainer (Lord). As for the designation of the murshid: it belongs to Allah. There is the guarantee of Allah concerning the fact that He will appoint a murshid for anyone who will seek his murshid from Allah. On the other hand, our Lord declares that the one who asks him of others than Allah, that is to say, the one who sets up partners to Allah will not be able to reach his goal.
To Him (Alone) is the Call of truth; and those upon whom they call besides Allah give them no answer, but (they are) like one who stretches forth his two hands towards water that it may reach his mouth, but it will not reach it; and the invocation of the disbelievers can only be in error (the invocation of the disbelievers are not answered, they are in Misguidance).
Verily, those on whom you call besides Allah are servants like unto you. Call on them then, and let them answer you, if you are truthful.
If you call upon them, they do not hear your call; and in case they were to hear, they shall not answer you; and on the Day of Resurrection they will deny your associating them (with Allah) and none can inform you like One who is the All-Aware (Allah).
And Your Lord said: “Call upon me, I will respond to you; surely those who are too proud for My Service (My worship) shall soon enter Hell abased (disgraced, in humiliation).
And He answers those who are âmenű and do improving deeds and gives them more out of His grace (Virtue): and (as for) the disbelievers: theirs will be a severe torment.
And those who answer the Call of their Lord and perform the (prescribed) prayers and whose affairs are by mutual consultation and who spend out of what We have given them as sustenance.
This consultant is the murshid whom Our Lord has appointed for us. It has been seen that it is necessary to answer the Call of our Lord at the beginning. But the realization of this is possible with a murshid. As for reaching the murshid: it is possible through seeking him from Allah.
Truly, The
Glorious Qur’ân announces in the 25th verse of Al-Baqarah Sura
that those who do improving deeds and are the owners of Belief will have the
glad tidings of
And give glad tidings to those who are âmenű (who wish to reach Allah and surrender to Him) and do improving deeds, that for them will be Gardens under which rivers flow.
These persons can begin to do improving deeds only when they have repented in front of their murshids and then the seals on their souls (’s hearts) have been removed and the writing of Disbelief (Kufur) has been taken out and the word of Belief has been written in its place.
Save Him who repents (in front of his murshid) and becomes a believer [as the Faith has been inscribed into his (soul’s) heart by repenting before his murshid] and (for the same reason) does improving deeds; such, Allah transmutes their misdeeds into good works. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
Dear readers! you will see that the beginning of the faithful of all the religions is made to base upon Hz. Âdem by Allahű Tealâ, because, when the two sons of Hz. Âdem had fallen into conflict, Hâbil (Abel) had said to his brother Kâbil (Cain):
Why are you grieved and getting angry? Allah accepts only the sacrifice of the owners of “Takvâ”.
What does this mean? This means that there had been “Takvâ” at the time of Hz. Âdem, too. That means that all the faithful of all the religions have to be the owners of Takvâ. It is true that the word of “Takvâ” means: to fear, to abstain, to keep away, to draw back. But, unless you wish to reach Allah, however much you fear Allah, you cannot be the owner of “Takvâ”.
This contains 7 phases
On the scale of a whole series of religions containing 28 stages, the first takvâ corresponds to the 3th stage. At the 3th stage, you wish to reach Allah. This is the “Takvâ of Âmenűs”. You become the owner of Takvâ just when you wish to reach Allah. This is the beginning of “Takvâs”. Before this, the person is not the owner of Takvâ. If you do not wish to reach Allah, you will remain at the 2th stage for ever. And you cannot be the owner of Takvâ, you cannot reach the Salvation (Felâh). (See: 2/156, 157; 41/8; 27/53; 5/35).
Afterwards, Allahű Tealâ will grant you just 12 favors (ihsan). And thanks to these 12 favors, you will realize your dependance (on your murshid).
And Allah will take out the word of Disbelief (Kufur) from inside your (soul’s) heart, write the word of Belief (Îmân, Faith) therein and then you will become a believer (mu’min). up to that time, you considered yourself as a believer simply because you believe in Allah, whereas you cannot be a believer unless the Belief is written into your (soul’s) heart, you begin the soul’s purification. Thus, you are the owner of the “Takvâ of the Believers” at the 14th stage. (See: 3/15; 5/11).
Afterwards, you begin the soul’s purification. Allah’s virtues (fazıls) begin to enter your soul’s heart and accumulate around the word of Belief (Faith) that Allah has written into your (soul’s) heart. Previously, the word of Disbelief was written into your (soul’s) heart. According to the Glorious Qur’ân, each man is born with a heart sealed off and the Disbelief is written in the (soul’s) heart of everybody until he has realized his dependence but realized it with (12) favors…
Thereafter, as long as the lights that Allah sends accumulate in your soul’s heart when you do zikir, the purification of the soul is realized. Each amount of 7% of light indicates that your spirit departed from your physical body (your spirit that had left your physical body when you had depended on your murshid) ascends to one heavenly floor in his journey named “seyr-i sulűk” he has made towards Allah. Thus, in the order of the soul’s purification, the stage of Nefs-i Emmâre (the Evil-Commanding Soul) corresponds to the first heavenly floor. The accumulation of 7% of light in your soul’s heart, the decrease of the vices at the rate of 7% therein, the settling of the virtues into your soul’s heart at the rate of 7%. Your spirit given to you by Allah as a Trust will return to Allah.
A second accumulation of 7% of light in your soul’s heart… Your spirit is on the second heavenly floor. You are at the stage of Nefs-i Levvâme (the Self-Reproaching Soul). You blame, reproach your own soul.
A third accumulation of 7% of light. You are at the stage of Nefs-i Mulhîme (the Inspired Soul). You begin to be inspired by Allah. And your spirit is on the 3th heavenly floor.
A fourth accumulation of 7% of light. You become satisfied. You feel that what is given by Allah is sufficient for you. You become absolutely sure of this. Your spirit is on the 4th heavenly floor.
A fifth accumulation of 7% of light. You are well-pleased with Allah. Your spirit is on the 5th heavenly floor.
A sixth accumulation of 7% of light in your soul’s heart: Allah also is well-pleased with you. Your spirit is on the 6th heavenly floor. These stages are called Râdiye and Mardıyye respectively. You are well-pleased with Allah and He is well-pleased with you, too.
And at last, a seventh accumulation of 7% of light in your soul’s heart and together with 2% of mercy light you have obtained through hushu’ (reverence, awe), this amounts to 51%. As Satan will be able to influence only the vices of your soul (’s heart), he who could influence completly your soul’s heart at the beginning can influence now only 49% of your soul’s heart. The control of its 51% has passed henceforth to the virtues, to the mercy of Allah.
Now, dear readers, here is the place where your spirit has reached Allah. The spirit has arrived at the Farthest Lote-Tree (Sidretu’l Muntehâ) after having surpassed the 7 worlds from the right to the left of the 7th heavenly floor. The Farthest Lote-Tree is the most superior point of the World of Beings. Afterwards, he has passed on to the Nothingness. He has reached the Essence (Zât) of Allah. You are at the 21th stage. Your spirit will disappear in the Essence of Allah, with the expression of the Noble Qur’ân, will hold fast to the Essence of Allah, will be extinguished in the Essence of Allah. You are at the 22th stage.
At the 22th stage, you become the owner of “Evvâb Takvâ”. Your spirit has reached the Essence of Allah who is a Shelter, a Refuge (meâb) for him. He has taken shelter in Him. You are the owner of the third takvâ.
After the Station of Fenâfillah (the Extinction in Allah). Allahű Tealâ will bestow a golden throne on you, you are thus at the Station of Bekâbillâh (the Everlastingness together with Allah). You are at the 23th stage.
Your zikir will exceed half of the day, you will rise to a further Station. You are at the Station of Zuhd (Asceticism). You are at the 24th stage. (See: 50/31, 32).
Later, you will surrender your physical body to Allah. The physical body surrenders to Allah through acquiring a particularity that will fulfil the orders of Allah, but not commit any acts forbidden by Him, and not through reaching Allah.
Allahű Tealâ calls “Muhsins” (Good-doers) those who have surrendered their physical bodies to Allah. Thus, you become the owners of the “Takvâ of Muhsins”. You are at the 25th stage.
Later on, you pass on to the continuous zikir. You become űlu’l elbâb (the owner of continuous zikir and thus of the treasures of the divine secrets), you become the owners of the Wisdom, and the ground floor, the first floor of the heavens are shown to you through your eye of the heart. (See: 3/133, 134).
Thereafter, Allahű Tealâ shows you the 7 heavenly floors one by one. Then you are the owners of the Station of Ihlâs (Utter Purity). You are the owners of the “Takvâ of Muhlis” (the Takvâ of the Utterly Pure Ones) or the Most Beautiful (the Best) Takvâ. We name it “the Most Beautiful (the Best) Takvâ” as your soul has become the most beautiful (the best). We name it “Muhlis Takvâ”, too, as Allahű Tealâ has named it “muhlis” (Utterly Pure), as He has made your soul’s heart utterly pure. (See: 39/10; 5/93).
And a further takvâ, the sixth takvâ. You are at the 27th stage. When you see the Farthest Lote-Tree (Sidretu’l Muntehâ), you will be invited to the Irrevocable Repentance by Allah (Tövbe-i Nasűh) and when you have risen to the 4th rank of the Irrevocable Repentance, you will have reached irshad. You will be the owners of the Supreme Takvâ (‘Azîm Takvâ). Your (soul’s) heart has been embellished (ornated) through just twelve ranks in order that you should surrender your free will to Allah. Here is the stage at which you have reached the 6th takvâ. (See: 33/70, 71).
And after having reached irshad, you surrender also your free will to Allah. Allahű Tealâ binds your will to His Will. From that point on, you become a man who constantly takes orders from Allah. Here is “Bihakkın Takvâ” (Truly Takvâ). Here is the “Takvâ of Hakku’l Yakîn” [Takvâ of Absolute Certainty, Takvâ of Closeness to Hakk (the Truth, Allah)]. Here is the Takvâ of “Hakka Tukâtihi” (Takvâ within one’s utmost capabilities). The 7th takvâ is the last of the “takvas” and Allahű Tealâ designates you for the Station (Post) of Irshad with the phrase: “You have been charged with and authorized to irshad.”
Allahű Tealâ expresses that the takvâ had existed in the Era of Hz. Âdem (Adam), too.
Abel was the owner of “Takvâ”, of such a takvâ that his free will had been connected to Allah. He did not raise his hand to his brother coming to kill him, as Allahű Tealâ did not give him the authorization in this direction. He was the owner of the 7th takvâ. (See: 3/102)
Allahű
Tealâ speaks in Al-Wâqi’ah Sura of the two groups who will enter
He says that the owners of the covenants will rest on raised soft couches and under the fruit-trees.
As for “sâbikűn”: they are those who vie in good works with each other. They have attained to the station of continuous zikir. They have been given thrones encrusted with jewelry (88/Al-Ghâshiyah – 13: Fîhâ surűrun merfu’ah = Therein are thrones raised high). The owners of the covenants (Ashâb-ı Meymene) have been given raised couches (56/Al-Wâqi’ah – 34: ve furűşun merfu’ah).
The least
condition of being able to enter
And certainly the Devil (Satan) found true his conjecture concerning them, so they follow him, except a Party of the believers.
As for being a believer (mu’min): it is possible only by reaching the murshid and the writing of the Belief (Faith, “Îmân”) into the (soul’s) heart. All of men think that they have been saved. All the Islâmic institutions all over the world constantly call us to comply with the 5 conditions of Islâm. They say: “If you have completed these 5 conditions, you have been saved.” But Allahű Tealâ wills far much more than this.
He wills not only the fulfillment of the 5 conditions by the physical body but also the spirit, the physical body, the soul and the free will to fulfill Allah’s orders and to surrender themselves to Allah. And Allahű Tealâ emphasizes in His Glorious Qur’ân how those who follow a great many books outside of the Noble Qur’ân by adopting them as sources of Knowledge are on a wrong way.
Those who are on the Straight Path are believers. This unique party (sect) are those who are on the Straight Path (Sırât-ı Mustakîm).
And certainly the Devil (Satan) found true his conjecture concerning them, so they follow him, except a Party (consisting) of the believers.
And (know) that this is My Path, the Straight One, therefore depend on It, and follow not (other) ways, for they will lead you away from His Way; this He has enjoined you with that you may possess Takvâ.
It has been thus seen that being a believer necessitates being on the Straight Path.
The Path of those upon whom you have bestowed blessings. Not (the Path) of those upon whom Your Wrath is brought down, nor of those who are in Misguidance (go astray).
It has been understood that there is a close relationship between the Blessings, the believer and the Straight Path.
Certainly Allah conferred the spirit of the Messenger as a Blessing upon the heads of the believers when He raised among them a Messenger from among themselves; He recites (reads and explains) to them His Verses (Signs) and purifies their souls (’ hearts) and teaches them the Book and the Wisdom, although before that [before depending on these (murshids) Messengers] they were surely in manifest Misguidance.
The Blessings over (the heads of) the believers who are on the Straight Path belongs to the Messenger whom Allah has raised (brought to life, commissioned) among people. It is the spirit of the Messenger.
The One who increases the Degrees, the Possessor of the Divine Throne, makes the Spirit reach by His Command upon whom He wills of His servants, that he may warn (that person’s spirit) of the Day of meeting (with Allah).
The person over the head of whom Allah has sent the spirit belonging to the Messenger by His Command goes up to the Way leading to Allah (on the Straight Path).
The Belief is written into his (soul’s) heart thanks to the coming of that Blessing over his head.
You shall not find a people who believe in Allah and the Latter Day (Last Day) befriending those who act in opposition to Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their (own) fathers, or their sons or their brothers or their kinsfolk; these are they into whose (souls’) hearts He has written the Faith (Belief) and whom He has strengthened with a Spirit from Him (the spirit of the murshid trained in His Presence): and He will cause them to enter Gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein; Allah is well-pleased with them and they are (also) well-pleased with Him; these are Allah’s Party: now surely the Party of Allah are the ones who have reached the Salvation (who are the Successful Ones).
The dwellers of the desert say: We believe. Say: You do not believe but say: We have entered (the circle of) Islâm; and the Faith has not yet entered your (souls’) hearts; and if you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not diminish aught of your deeds; surely Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Compassionate.
The realization of all those processes and the person being a believer depends on the fact that he should depend on the murshid whom Allah appointed for him (in the Pre-eternity) and he should repent in front of him.
Save Him who repents (in front of his murshid) and becomes so a believer (as the Faith has been written into his (soul’s) heart by repenting before his murshid) and (for the same reason) does improving deeds; such, Allah changes their sins into good deeds. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.
And whoever repents and does improving deeds he surely turns to Allah a (goodly) turning (as someone whose repentance has been accepted).
Our Lord stresses once again in the above-mentioned verse that this repentance will make the person a believer and cause him to go up on the Straight Path.
The fact that a man can become a believer depends on the 7 conditions of belief, the 7 conditions of heart and the 3 conditions of attribute (characteristic).
7 Conditions of belief
1. To believe in Allah
2. To believe in His angels
3. To believe in His Books
4. To believe in His Messengers
5. To believe in the Last Day (the spirit’s reaching Allah before death)
6. To believe in the Resurrection
7. To believe that goodness is from Allah and evil from our souls.
7 Conditions of Heart
1. The coverings (ekinnet) on the (soul’s) heart being removed.
2. “İhbat” being put into the (soul’s) heart.
And when you recite the Qur’ân, We place between You and those who do not believe in the Hereafter a hidden barrier (an invisible veil).
And We have placed coverings (ekinnet) on their (souls’) hearts and a heaviness (an immaterial weight) in their ears lest they understand it, and when you mention your Lord Alone in the Qur’ân, they turn their backs in aversion (with hatred).
And that those who have been given the knowledge may know that it is the truth from your Lord, so they may believe in it and their hearts may be lowly before it [and ihbat (lowliness, a divine computer system ensuring the comprehension) may be put in their (souls’) hearts]; and most surely Allah makes those who are âmenű reach a Straight Path.
3. The (soul’s) heart being made turn to Allah.
Who feels hushu (awe, reverence) towards the Most Merciful (Allah) and comes with a (soul’s) heart turned (to Allah).
4. The constitution of hushu’ (a feeling of awe)
Man in the (soul’s) heart of whom a feeling of awe has come into being obtains the special help (istiane) of Allah thanks to this hushu’ (feeling of awe).
And seek (special) assistance (from Allah) through patience and prayer (the requirement prayer), and most surely it is a very hard thing except for the humble ones [the owners of hushu (a feeling of awe)]
Who are certain that they shall meet their Lord (in the life of the present world) and that they shall return to Him (after their death).
And he repents by reaching his murshid.
5. The seal of the (soul’s) heart is opened.
6. The Disbelief in the (soul’s) heart is taken out.
You shall not find a people who believe in Allah and the Latter (Last) Day (reaching Allah spiritually before death) befriending those who act in opposition to Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their (own) fathers, or their sons or their brothers or their kindred; these are they into whose (souls’) hearts He has written the Faith and whom He has strengthened with a spirit from Him (the spirit of the murshid trained in His Presence): and He will cause them to enter Gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein; Allah is well-pleased with them and they are (also) well-pleased with Him; these are Allah’s Party; now surely the Party of Allah are the ones who have reached the Salvation (Felâh, the worldly happiness and the Bliss of Paradise).
7. The Faith is written into the (soul’s) heart.
You shall not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day (reaching Allah spiritually before death) befriending those who act in opposition to Allah and to His Messenger, even though they were their (own) fathers, or their sons or their brothers or their kindsfolk; these are they into whose (souls’) hearts He has written the Faith and whom He has strengthened with a Spirit from Him (the Spirit of the murshid trained in His Presence): and He will cause them to enter Gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein; Allah is well-pleased with them and they (also) are well-pleased with Him; these are Allah’s Party: now surely the Party of Allah are the ones who have reached the Salvation (Felâh).
Thus, we become the owners of three attributes (characteristics):
1. The spirit reaches the Straight Path in order to arrive in Allah [The spirit’s beginning “hidâyet” (guidance)].
2. The soul begins to be purified [the improving (amending) of the soul] (the soul’s beginning “hidâyet”).
3. The physical body become a servant to Allah (The physical body’s beginning “hidâyet”).
It has been seen that to believe merely in Allah does not make man a believer (mu’min). We have to realize the 7 conditions of belief. And Allahű Tealâ also should realize the 7 conditions of heart in connection with it. The first four of these conditions are realized when we fulfil the conditions of belief and the last three of them are realized when we depend on our murshid. As a result of these conditions, man possesses the three attributes of hidâyet (guidance, reaching Allah spiritually before death) and becomes a believer.
The owners of the continuous zikir are the first, second and third of the competition. Allahű Tealâ uses the term: “Sâbikűne’l evvelűn = the Former Competitors” for the Companions (sahâbe). And He tells in the 100th verse of At-Taubah Sura that all the Companions in the Age of our Master the Prophet (PBUH) are competitors (sâbikűn). He decrees there:
And (as for) the Former Competitors (those who occupy the foremost stations of former “űlu’l elbâb”, “İhlâs” and “Salah”) of the Muhajirs (those who migrated from Mecca to Medîne) and the Ansars (the inhabitants of Medîna who helped and gave aid to the Muhajirs) and those who depended on them with favors, Allah is well-pleased with them and they are well-pleased with Him, and He has prepared for them Gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide therein for ever; that is the Mighty Achivement (fevzu’l ‘azîm).
Thus, the
“Muhajirs” and the “Ansars” had constituted altogether the Competitors
(sâbikűn) (those vying with one another in good works) 14 centuries ago. Allahű
Tealâ discloses at the end of this sacred verse that these personages we call
“sâbikűn” are the owners of Wisdom. As you know it, the Greater Consent
(Ekber Rızâ) is essential for the Wisdom. It is essential to obtrain the
Greater Consent of Allahű Tealâ. Those who are “sâbikűn” (competitors)
are those who have attained to continuous zikir. They comprise the Station of
Improvement (Salâh), too. They were well-pleased with Allah and Allah also was
well-pleased with them. If so, the term: “sâbikűn” bears also a sign of
the most beautiful (best) takvâ (ahsen takvâ). Allahű Tealâ bestows golden
thrones on the Competitors in
1. They have reached continuous zikir.
2. They are the owners of Wisdom.
3. They have acquired the uppermost degrees.
1. Űlű’l Elbab (the Owners of the treasuries of the Divine Secrets).
2. İhlâs (Utter Purity).
3. Salâh (İmprovement).
Those who are at these three Stations are named competitors (Sâbikűn) (those vying with one another in good works).
The owners of the Covenants have attained to the rank of Allah’s Friendship. These are the Saints (Friends of Allah).
Now surely the Friends of Allah: no fear shall be upon them nor shall they grieve.
Those who became âmenű and possessed Takvâ (guarded against all kinds of evils).
This is the first takvâ. The fact that the persons possessing the first takvâ are the saints (friends of Allah) is made clear once again in the sacred verse.
As a
result of what they have done in the life of this world, they are punished with
Hell. They constitute Ashab-ı Meş’eme (the Companions of the Left
Hand, the Inauspicious ones, the Unfortunate Ones) and are composed of three
groups. These are the Unbelievers, those who believe without any (good) works,
those who believe with insufficient (good) works. There is
So as to those who are unhappy (şakî) (wretched), they shall be in the Fire; for them shall be sighing and groaning in it: abiding therein as long as the heavens and the earth (of Hell) endure, except as your Lord wills; surely your Lord is the mighty doer of what He intends.
Our Lord decrees:
And do not invoke any other god along with Allah: There is no god but He; every thing is perishable save His Face (Countenance, Essence, Zât); His is the Judgment, and to Him you shall be brought back (You will be made to bring back to Him).
Allah will
make everything return to its origin. As Allahű Zu’l Celâl Hz. created
everything out of Energy, a day will come when everything will be made to return
to its state of energy. That Day, nothing will be left over, all that exists
will transform into energy. That Day, both
Our Lord exposes the disbelievers who are too proud for worshipping Allah as follows:
And your Lord says: Call upon Me, I will answer you; surely those who are too proud for being a servant to Me shall soon enter Hell abased (in humiliation, disgraced).
There are those who believe in Allah. But if they have not become the owners of Faith, that is, if they cannot comprehend that it is an obligatory duty to reach the Essence (Zât) of Allah spiritually (before death), Allahű Tealâ does not respond to their Call, because they are in polytheism (associating partners to Allah). Our Lord answers the demands made by heart. The Faith has not entered yet their (souls’) hearts.
They perform apparently some worships with their physical bodies. But they do not hope to reach the Essence of Allah spiritually before dying, they do not deem it possible by following some whims and fancies, some conjectures. They do not think of arriving in Allah spiritually. For this reason, as they have denied the sacred verse of Allah, it cannot be possible to answer their invocations.
And on the Day when He shall gather them together, (it will be) as though they had not stayed but an hour of the day (when) they had known each other. They will perish indeed who called the meeting with Allah (spiritually before dying) to be a lie. They cannot reach hidâyet (guidance) (they cannot make their spirits reach Allah before death).
So, these persons belie reaching Allah at the beginning. Our Lord announces that those who belie (deny) reaching Allah cannot possess Faith, because the owner of faith is a person who can perceive as an obligatory duty his making the spirit belonging to himself reach Allah while he is living the life of this world. If he has not yet attained to this level of comprehension, his invocation will not be answered (by Allah).
To Him is due the true invocation. And those whom they invoke besides Allah give them no answer, but (they are) like one who stretches forth his two hands towards water that it may reach his mouth, but it will not reach it and the invocation of the disbelievers will not be answered, they are in Misguidance (and the prayer of the unbelievers is only in error).
To invoke Allah is to be the owner of Faith in Him. The answer to the invocation (invitation, call) of those who possess Faith is under Allah’s guarantee.
And when My Servants ask you concerning Me, then surely I am very near (to them); I answer the invitation (prayer, call) of the suppliant when he calls on Me, so they should answer My Call (Invitation) and believe in Me that they may reach “ irshad”.
Therefore, the answer to our invocation (prayer, supplication) depends on two conditions: on our responding to the Call of Allah and our possessing Faith. Those who cannot possess Faith do not think of depending on the murshid (the teacher appointed by Allah) indispensable in carrying out the invitation, they do not accept him, but follow the caprices of their souls and become of the wrong-doers.
If they do not answer you (your invitation to make them reach hidâyet) then know that they only follow their low desires (lusts, whims); and who is more misguided than he who follows his low desires without any guide [hidâyetchi, one who makes men reach hidâyet] from Allah? Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
As is understood from this verse, to answer the basic Call of Allah is only possible by depending on the murshid appointed for us by our Lord. Our Lord announces that the one who has not the murshid is in Misguidance and will never reach hidâyet, that is, arrive in Allah as he follows the low desires of his soul.
Whomsoever Allah guides [Whomever Allah causes to reach Himself, he has reached hidâyet (guidance)] and whomsoever He abandons in Misguidance, you shall not find for him any “veli murshid” [any Friend (of Allah) who will make him reach “irshad”].
The fact that a saint causing a person to reach irshad does not exist arises from the structure of the (soul’s) heart of that person. For the murshid is the personage charged by Allah with the duty to make us reach Allah. But if the person belies reaching Allah (before death) that means automatically that he does not seek his murshid from Allah. He does not deem the murshid necessary. As a natural result of this, it is extremely fitting that Allah will not send any saint to make them reach irshad. Because Allah has promised that only those who consider the murshids indispensable, consequently seek them from Allah will be able to reach them.
Surely those who do not hope in Our Meeting (in making their spirits reach US while they are living in this world) and are pleased with this world’s life and are satisfied with it, and those who are heedless of Our Verses (Sings, Communications…).
(As for) those, their abode is the Fire, because of what they earned.
He said: And whoever disbelieves, I will grant him enjoyment for a short while, then I will compel him to the torment of the Fire, and it is an evil destination.
For those who respond to their Lord’s Call is Good (the most beautiful reward); and (as for) those who do not respond to His Call (Invitation): had they all that is in the earth and the like thereof with it they would certainly offer it for a ransom. (As for) those, an evil reckoning shall be theirs and their Abode is Hell, and worst indeed is the resting-place.