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    THE ONLY KEY TO

    HAPPINESS

    The Mihr Publications

    Translated from the Turkish byNuri Aydomu

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    CONTENTS

    1- Introduction ............................................................................. 1

    2- Does anyone carrying out the five conditions of Islam

    become Islam (a muslim)?........................................................... 3

    3- What is Islam? ......................................................................... 4

    4- The Night of Power.................................................................. 5

    5- 28 stages in general.................................................................. 7

    5.1- The Guarantee of Allah ...................................................... 85.2- The Owners of Hushu (Reverence)................................. 115.3- Those who do not wish to reach Allah............................. 135.4- The Warners (Nezirs) ....................................................... 165.5- Vel Asr Sura .................................................................. 17

    5.5.1- The spirits of those who want to reach Allah reach

    Him...................................................................................... 245.6- Fundamentals ................................................................... 26

    5.7- The state of Sahabe .......................................................... 29

    6- 28 Stages ................................................................................. 31

    6.1- The first stage................................................................... 316.2- The second stage .............................................................. 326.3- The third stage.................................................................. 33

    6.3.1- Zikir (Recitation, Remembrance, Repetition of the

    Name of Allah as Allah, Allah, Allah)............................ 346.4- The fourth stage................................................................ 376.5- The fifth, sixth, seventh stages......................................... 40

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    7- The Second 7 stages ............................................................... 43

    7.1- The eight stage ................................................................. 437.2- The ninth stage ................................................................. 447.3- The tenth stage ................................................................. 477.4- The eleventh stage............................................................ 497.5- The twelfth stage .............................................................. 497.6- The thirteenth stage .......................................................... 507.7- The fourteenth stage ......................................................... 50

    7.7.1- The Purification of The Soul (The Soul Purification)567.7.2- Being a mmin (a believer) ..................................... 587.7.2.1- The murshid (The spiritual guide) is obligatory 617.7.2.2- The four fundamentals of reaching murshids.... 657.7.2.3- Being a mmin and the murshid ...................... 667.7.2.4- The Conditions of being mmin....................... 707.7.2.5- Seven bounties of reaching the murshid............ 737.7.2.6- The conditions of heart, belief and characteristic

    ........................................................................................ 757.7.3- To get rid of the Misguidance (Aberration) .............. 78

    7.7.3.1- Those who are in Misguidance will go to Hell.. 867.7.4- The Soul Purification ................................................ 90

    8- The third 7 stages................................................................... 94

    8.1- Nefs-i Emmre (The evil-commanding soul)................... 948.2- Nefs-i Levvame (The self-accusing soul) ........................ 968.3- Nefs-i Mlhime (The inspired soul)................................. 978.4- Nefs-i Mutmainne (The Satisfied soul) ............................ 978.5- Nefs-i Radiye (The soul pleased with Allah) ................... 988.6- Nefs-i Mardyye ............................................................... 988.7- Nefs-i Tezkiye (The purified soul)................................... 98

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    9- The vow (yemn), covenant (msk) and testament (ahd) of

    our three bodies.......................................................................... 99

    9.1- Being the owner of Takva........................................... 102

    10- The spirits reaching Allah ............................................... 105

    10.1- The first heavenly floor (layer) .................................... 10510.2- The second heavenly floor ........................................... 10610.3- The third heavenly floor............................................... 106

    10.4- The fourth heavenly floor............................................. 10710.5- The fifth floor............................................................... 10710.6- The sixth heavenly floor............................................... 10810.7- The seventh heavenly floor .......................................... 110

    10.7.1- The gate of conquest (opening up) and the cells of

    destiny (divine determining) ............................................. 11010.7.2- The Mother of the Book (The Archetypal Book), the

    Sea of Power, The Praised Station, The Council of the

    Improved Ones, the Remembrance (Recitation, Dhikr)

    (Zikir) Cells....................................................................... 11110.7.3- The first phase of being Islam............................... 112

    10.7.3.1- The spirits reaching Allah (Vuslat) .............. 112

    10.7.3.2- The spirits reaching Allah is an obligatorymandate......................................................................... 116

    10.7.4- Our three oaths...................................................... 11910.7.5- Hidyet and Dallet (Guidance and Misguidance)12410.7.6- To merit (to deserve, to be worthy of) Paradise.... 12710.7.7- To be a saint of Allah............................................ 129

    11- The Stations (Posts, Stages) of the Sainthood ................. 130

    11.1- The Station of Annihilation (Fen) .............................. 13011.2- The Station of Everlastingness ..................................... 13111.3- The Station of Asceticism (Zhd) ................................ 132

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    11.4- The Station of the Embellished Ones (Muhsins) [The

    second Surrender].................................................................. 13311.5- The Station of Ullelbab............................................. 13511.6- The Station ofhlas (The third surrender).................... 138

    11.6.1- To be Islam (muslim)............................................ 13911.6.2- All the sahbe had been Islam .............................. 140

    11.6.2.1- To surrender to Allah (to be Islam) is an

    obligatory mandate (farz).............................................. 141

    11.6.2.2- The Night of Power (Leyle-i Kadir) .............. 14411.7- The Station of Salah (Improvement) ............................ 14411.7.1- The binding and abolishing of the (Free) Will...... 146

    12- Islam is Happiness ............................................................. 148

    12.1- Happiness in the three worlds ...................................... 15012.2- Why are the human beings unhappy? .......................... 15112.3- How can the human beings attain to the happiness?.... 155

    The Requirement Prayer (Namaz, Salat) .............................. 158

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    THE ONLY KEY

    TO

    HAPPINESS

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    A Conversation on the Night of Power.

    What is Islam?

    1- IntroductionWe offer infinite praises and thanks to Our Exalted

    Sustainer that He has gathered us together once again at the SacredNight.

    Dear readers, this night is the Night of Power. Let theother people continue to celebrate the Night of Power on the 27thnight of the month of Ramadan. But the Night of Power is thisnight. This night, all the members of Divan- Slihn (theCouncil of the Improved Ones) descend on the surface of theEarth. Besides them the angels charged with certain duties byAllah are together with us while we are performing our prayers,we are conversing now with you. Dear readers, we again offerinfinite praises and thanks to Our Exalted Lord (Sustainer) that Hehas enabled us to get all our brothers and sisters and the onesinformed and recommended by them all over the world to performthe Isha prayer and the Terawih prayer by means of the

    computers and the saints of Allah thanks to their hearts eyes.Dear readers! I wish to explain Islam to you at this Sacred

    Night. We are not restricted tonight. We are ttette with all ofyou. We have nothing to do with the ones outside of us, with thosewho do not become enamoured of Allah. I want to disclose to youonly Islam, Islam in the Qurn. Islam lived by MuhammedMustafa (Peace and blessings be upon him) and sahabe (hiscompanions) but forgotten today. Dear readers, the word of Islamstems from SLM, Sin, Lm, Mm. Among the words stemmingfrom it, there are Islam, mslim, mslman, selm,selmet and in particular, especially teslim. Allah be praised,

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    you all know what the word of TESLM means. It is to give backanything to ones owner unconditionally. So, dear readers, we arecharged with becoming Islam by surrendering firstly our spirit,then our physical body and finally our soul to Allah. The HolyQuran commands these surrenders openly and decisively. Here isthe 58th verse of An-Nis' Sura:

    4/An-Nis' 58:

    nnallhe yemurukum en tueddl emnti il ehlih ve izhakemtum beynen nsi en tahkum bil adl(adli), innallhenimm yezukum bih(bih), innallhe kne semanbasr(basran).Verily, Allah orders you to give back the Trusts to His Owner

    and when you arbitrate (rule, decide) among people, to arbitrate

    (judge) with utter justice. Surely, how bountifully Allah advises

    you with this. For sure, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. Take

    care! Allah says emnat = Trusts not emnet = Trust. But

    He says il ehlih = to His Owner, (to the Exalted Creator, to

    Allah, the Possessor of those Trusts). He orders us to surrender

    the Trusts to His Owner.

    Allah Teal says in the 208th verse of Al-Baqarah Sura:

    2/Al-Baqarah 208:Y eyyuhellezne mendhul fs silmi kffeh(kffeten), ve ltettebi hutuvti eytn(eytni), innehu lekum aduvvunmubn(mubnun).Oh those who have become men! Enter all of you into the

    SLM (into the circle of Islam). Do not follow the steps of Satan.Surely, he is an open enemy to you.

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    Allah Teal announces in the 54th verse of Az-ZumarSura:

    39/Az-Zumar 54:Ve enb il rabbikum ve eslim lehu min kabli enyetiyekumul azbu summe l tunsarn(tunsarne).And turn back to your Sustainer and surrender yourselves to

    Him before the (grave) torment comes to you. Later you will not

    be helped.

    2- Does anyone carrying out the fiveconditions of Islam become Islam (a

    muslim)?Dear readers, to be Islam is to surrender oneself to Allah.

    They pretend that Islam has five conditions: 1) performing the five prescribed daily prayers, 2) fasting, 3) giving purifying alms 4)going on the pilgrimage to Mecca 5) repeating the (Islamic)testimony of faith (saying: Ehed en l ilhe illallah ve ehed

    enne Muhammeden abdh ve reslh = I bear witness that thereis no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammed (PBUH) isHis servant and His messenger). As Islam consists of fiveconditions, anyone who has carried them out has surrenderedhimself to Allah, they claim. Tonight, I want to disclose to youhow little this content takes place in the All-Wise Qurn and howit is so far from the truths of Allah.

    First of all, I can decisively say this: It is not possible foranyone carrying out the five conditions of Islam just like they havetaught you to enter Heaven. That is, performing the five prescribeddaily prayers, fasting, giving purifying alms, going on the

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    pilgrimage to Mecca, repeating kelime-i ehdet (that is, sayingby oneself L ilhe illallah Muhammeden reslullah = There isno god but Allah, Muhammed is His messenger) never cause a

    person to reach Paradise of Allah. Surrender oneself to Allah?What does it mean, I wonder? A human being not capable ofgetting even his spirit to reach Allah, how will he succeed insurrendering his physical body and then his soul to Allah and sosurrender himself to Allah?

    3- What is Islam?Dear readers! Islam is a fruit maturing in five phases. The

    first phase of it absolutely destines a person to the Eternal Bliss ofParadise and the two last phases to his worldly happiness.

    The first phase: To wish to reach Allah.

    The second phase: To reach ones murshid.

    The third phase: To make the spirit reach Allah.

    These three phases separately (those five conditions ofIslam together with ZKR to be added to them in any case)absolutely cause the human beings to reach the Heaven of Allah.At the last two phases, the surrender of the physical body and thatof the soul to Allah have been realized.

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    4- The Night of PowerIf our Exalted Sustainer permits me, (tonight) I want to

    explain all the phases to you to my hearts content. Do you knowit, dear reader, we had yearned for this. If so, this night is ournight, dear readers, you will always remember it. Here, we arealtogether, all of us, in the Presence of Allah, heart to heart. Wecelebrate a Blessed Night: The Night of Power. Those peoplewhose hearts eyes are not open, how should they know that the

    Divn- Slihn (the Council of The Improved Ones) areemptied this night, dear readers? If you wish, I would like to tellyou an anecdote concerning this how should they know, thiswill contribute to your remembering this night.

    A hunter shows a bears hide to his guests. He says: I havehunted this bear in Africa.

    Their friends are looking at it. They say: But this is not anAfrican bear, on the contrary a polar bear. The hunters answer tothem: Poor bear, how can it know that it is in Africa?

    I wanted to begin my speech with such an anecdote. Those

    who know and those who do not know. The friends of Allah andthose who are not the friends of Allah Tonight is the Night ofpower. The All-Wise Qurn has been sent down in the sky of theplanet named the Earth, the World, tonight. Allah Teal decrees:This night is better (more beneficial) than a thousand months.Why? Consider how many differences Allah Teal has placed

    between the human beings? The Holy Quran provides theguarantee of 10 rewards (merits, hasent) to one reward for all ofthem. Whoever acquires a degree of merit (reward, sevap), - nomatter who he is, even the worst man in the world -, obtains tendegrees of reward. As to the ones who have entered into the way

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    of Allah, as soon as they have entered it, they begin to receive 100degrees of reward instead of 10 degrees. This is so until theyascend to the first heavenly floor. At the second heavenly floor(when the spirit has reached the second heavenly floor), theyreceive 200 degrees. When they reach the third heavenly floor,they receive 300 degrees. When they reach the fourth, fifth, sixth,seventh heavenly floors, one degree rises up to 700 degrees. Thisis a differentiating process of Allah for those He loves. This

    differentiating process is not 700 degrees, not seven thousandfold but perhaps seventy thousandfold. Consider: if you hadworshipped Allah Teal by receiving seven hundredfold rewardsduring all the night, however many rewards you would havereceived, you will receive these rewards multiplied by more than1000 months rewards (Allah Teal declares: The Night of Poweris better than 1000 months) Imagine that you will obtain 700rewards each second during a single night! And multiply them bythe seconds of 1000 months! You will receive tonight that manydegrees. We are together tonight. Tonight we maintain aconversation. We are together with our Sustainer tonight. AllahTeal wants me to explain the whole Sufism (Tasavvuf, Islam in

    the Qurn) to you this night. I wish to stress that I am greatlygratified by it. We experience one of the very rare nights, dearreaders! A blessed night occurring once in a year. How I wish thatyou see the ones who are performing the prayer together withus, dear readers! I do know that most of you will see them oneday. Now, only few of you can see them. So, let me begin myspeech:

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    5- 28 stages in generalThe establishment of Islam consists of 28 stages. In the

    normal standards, being men is constituted at the first 7stages, that is, to wish to reach Allah is formed. Right after thiswish, Allah accomplishes what is incumbent on Him. We gotowards Allah by one step but He comes to us by ten steps. LetMy servant take one step, I shall approach him by ten steps, Hesays. He has innumerable gifts, favors this point. Beginning from

    the day when you have reached your murshid (saint guide), theybecome bounties (nimet).

    Dear readers, at the second 7 stages, the activity begins.We are in a feverish endeavor in order to reach our murshid. Wereach him at the 14th stage. At the moment we reach our murshid,we surpass the 14th stage. Half of the 28 stages have beensurpassed. But the journey towards Allah has not begun yet. Thevoyaging of our spirit towards Allah. It begins immediately afterthe 14th stage. Our spirit reaches Allah at the 21st stage. Itdisappears (vanishes) in the Essence (Zt) of Allah and we

    become a saint of Allah. The 28th stage is the end of the path. The

    servant rendered the owner of the post (station) of Salah(Improvement) has so reached the highest station of sainthood.This stage (the 28th stage) is the end of everything. The uppermostlevel the human being can reach in the sight of Allah is the postof salah. Now, I long to display all these beauties to you to myhearts content tonight, peacefully, dear readers! I wish you toexperience the same peace, serenity, too. While you are listeningto me, you are considered as doing zikir in any way. But listen tome with zikir still again. Take your pulse with your hand, try tolisten to me saying Allah, Allah, Allah, or take your prayer

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    beads, try to listen to me telling your beads. You will take sopleasure in it twice, dear readers!

    If so, we begin the introduction to our topic: To wish toreach Allah Allah Teal expresses decisively that all sahbe(the companions of our Prophet Muhammed (PUBH) had wishedto reach Allah. Dear readers, you will appreciate what I am goingto say considering four fundamentals. The four fundamentals(bases) of the All-Wise Qurn are as follows:

    1. Allah Teal decrees the obligations (the precepts,farz).

    2. He absolutely proclaims that the result of therealization of those obligations is Paradise.

    3. He absolutely warns that the place of those who havenot realized them is Hell.

    4. He definitely gives sahbe as patterns.

    Throughout the four phases, sahbe have been presentedas patterns (models). So, thanks to four fundamentals we attain to

    the concept of wishing to reach Allah, that is, of becomingmen. A human being either wishes to reach Allah or does notwish to reach Him. Allah Teal wants you to reach Him in anycase. If you wish to, He guarantees that He absolutely shall realizeit.

    5.1- The Guarantee of AllahHere are the 5 and 6th verses of Al-Ankabt Sura. Allah

    Teal decrees:

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    29/Al-Ankabt 5, 6:Men kne yerc likallhi fe inne ecelallhi let(letin), vehuves semul alm(almu). Ve men chede fe innem yuchiduli nefsih(nefsih), innallhe le ganiyyun anil lemn(lemne).Whoever wishes to reach Allah, then of a certainty the term

    appointed by Allah will definitely come. And whoever strives

    (endeavors) for ones soul indeed. Verily Allah is not in need of

    the worlds.

    Dear readers, mans striving for his soul means beingcapable of doing zikir. Our Master, The Prophet Muhammed(PBUH) says: Lesser fights (combats, battles, cihad- sagr) haveended. Now, greater fight, striving, begins. You will struggleagainst the most inexorable enemy in the universe (against yoursoul and Satan). And the key to it is ZKR. That is, repeating(remembering) the name of Allah as Allah, Allah, Allah Youwill achieve this at the 7 separate points of your physical body.

    The first place is the lower part of your left breast (Here,up to 15 thousand zikirs are done), the second one is the lower partof your right breast (2 thousand zikirs), the third one is the upper

    part of your left breast (2 thousand zikirs), the fourth one is theupper part of your right breast (2 thousand zikirs), the fifth one isthe junction of cavicles (collarbones) (2 thousand zikirs), the sixth

    place is the joining of your eyebrows (2 thousand zikirs), theseventh one is the joining of your hair with your forehead. All theremaining zikirs are done there. So, dear readers, each part of zikirhas a special place, then you will do it there. The first place is the

    point you do the most zikir, 15 thousands in number. Here is theplace where your souls heart is situated, that is, the lower part ofyour breast. So, you will apply the methods together. You willlisten to me and besides you will do zikir, let us make this night

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    prosperous, dear readers. I repeat once again, this night is ournight, the Night of Allahs friends. Let them celebrate it on the27th night of Ramadan. But we celebrate this night in which all themembers of the Council of the Improved ones come down, theangels sent down by Allah descend, all the saints of the highestlevel are charged with a duty. This night is the Night of Power.Dear readers, as you know it, Allah Teal declares: That daydetermined by Allah will absolutely come. Is it just so? No, it is

    not. Allah Teal expresses in the 29

    th

    verse of Hd Sura:11/Hd 29:Ve y kavmi l eselukum aleyhi ml(mlen), in ecriye illalllhi ve m ene bi tridillezne men, innehum mulkrabbihim ve lkinn erkum kavmen techeln(techelne).O my Community! I do not demand any goods from you. My

    reward (wage) only belongs to Allah. I cannot expel those who

    become men from my presence. Truly they will reach Allah.

    But I see you as people who are in utter ignorance.

    Allah Teal uses here the particle inne (absolutely,

    decisively of a certainty). Their spirit will absolutely reachAllah. Who are they? Those who want to reach Allah, dearreaders. Is it just so? No, it is not so again. Here are the 156 and157th verses of Al-Baqarah Sura. Allah Teal discloses:

    2/Al-Baqarah 156, 157:Ulike aleyhim salvtun min rabbihim ve rahmetun ve ulikehumul muhtedn(muhtedne).Those (those who surely know that they will return to Allah in

    their worldly lives) upon whom blessings are from their

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    Sustainer and mercy and it is those who have reached

    hidyet.

    2/Al-Baqarah 159:nnellezne yektumne m enzeln min el beyyinti vel hudmin badi m beyyennhu lin nsi fl kitbi, ulikeyelanuhumullhu ve yelanuhumul linn(linne).As to the ones who have concealed that which spirits reaching

    Allah before death after Allah has announced them in the Book for the human beings, Allah curses them and those who are

    allowed to damn them.

    5.2- The Owners of Hushu (Reverence)Dear readers! There are two kinds of human beings: The

    ones who long to make their spirit reach Allah before dying andthe ones who do not wish to. One part of the ones who wish tomake it reach Him are the ones who are sure, utterly certain thatthey will make their spirit reach Allah. These are the owners ofhushu (reverence).

    Let us see who are those who are the owners of hushu.This night is that of discoveries. Whichever subject you wish to beinvestigated, we will reach it and elucidate it. Who are the ownersof hushu? Allah Teal explains in the 45 and 46 th verses of Al-Baqarah Sura:

    2/Al-Baqarah 45, 46:Vesten bis sabri ves salt(slti), ve inneh le kebretun illalel hin(hine). Ellezne yezunnne ennehum mulkrabbihim ve ennehum ileyhi rcin(rcine).

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    Ask Allah for special help (istiane) with patience and

    (requirement) namaz (prayer). But this (Asking Allah for special

    help (that is, the murshid who will make the person reach Allah

    by means of the requirement prayer) is a hard task with the

    exception of the owners of hushu who are absolutely sure they

    will assuredly reach their Sustainer (in their worldly lives) and

    (when dying) they will turn back to Him.

    Ask Allah for your murshid (with patience andrequirement prayer) [Istiane is a special help as regards asking hismurshid from Allah, that can be asked from Allah only) Ask Allahfor special help (istiane) with patience and requirement prayer,says Allah. Because this is a hard (kebretn) task, a heavy task.

    Why has he said so? The human beings do not want toreach Allah but they reckon that they will be saved by reachingtheir murshid. And they perform the requirement prayer. Allahdoes not make the ones who do not want to reach Allah theirmurshid show. And this time, they say: Allah does not make meshow my murshid. Allah Teal says in response

    : Allhu basrun bil bd. Allah sees His bondsmen(servants).

    : Allhu semul alm. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

    The moment the wish for reaching Allah is constituted inyour souls heart, dear readers, Allah hears, knows and sees thiswish. Now, He says the state of those people: This is a hard task

    but it is not so for the owners of hushu. When you are the ownerof hushu, perform the requirement prayer, then you see yourmurshid, He says. And He continues: These owners of hushu areabsolutely certain that they will decisively make their spirit reach

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    Allah before dying, they absolutely believe also that their spiritwill be made to turn back to Allah by Azrael (PUH). Allah Tealuses the particle inne twice: of a certainty, surely, assuredlySo, dear readers, those owners of hushu (those who can see theirmurshids when they perform their requirement prayer) havewished to reach Allah and are certain: we will absolutely reach ourmurshid, we will assuredly reach Allah. Why do they say so?Because they possess information about the 54th verse of Al-Hajj

    Sura:

    22/Al-Hajj 54:Ve li yalemellezne tul lme ennehul hakku min rabbike feyumin bih fe tuhbite lehu kulbuhum, ve innallhe lehdillezne men il srtn mustakm(mustakmin).And so that those who are the owners of lm (knowledge,

    science) may know that it a Truth coming from your Sustainer

    and believe in it and ihbat may be put in their souls heart.

    And truly Allah will lead those who have become men to the

    Straight Path [Srt- Mustakm].

    Dear readers, These are the ones who wish to reach firstlytheir murshid and then Allah, out of the two groups of people.

    5.3- Those who do not wish to reach AllahAnd as for the ones who do not want to reach Him? Dear

    readers, the place they will go is Hell. If the person does not wantto reach Allah, reckon that he has performed all his daily prayersduring 30 years in a constant manner. Suppose that he has fastedduring all the months of Ramadan. Imagine a person who has done

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    all the beauties. That is, he has performed the daily prescribedprayers, fasted, given improving alms, gone on the pilgrimage toMecca. He has said: L ilhe illallah Muhammeden Reslullah =There is no god but Allah Muhammed is the Messenger of Allah

    by himself. He has regularly performed all this during 30 years.But that person will not be saved even if he will perform themduring 40 years, 50 years. Because Allah says in the 7 and 8 versesof Ynus Sura:

    10/Ynus 7, 8:nnellezne l yercne liken ve rad bil haytid dunyvatmeenn bih vellezne hum an ytin gfiln(gfilne).Ulike mevhumun nru bim kn yeksibn(yeksibne).Verily, those who do not wish to reach us (they do not want to

    make their spirit reach Allah while they are alive), are pleased

    with the worldly life and satisfied with it and are unmindful of

    our Signs (verses), Those are the ones whose place they will

    arrive in is Hell in return for what (the degrees) they have

    acquired.

    Dear readers, how had we begun our speech? Allah Tealsays in the 5 and 6th verses of Al-Ankabt Sura:

    29/Al-Ankabt 5, 6:Men kne yerc likallhi fe inne ecelallhi let(letin), vehuves semul alm(almu).Whoever wishes to reach Allah, the day appointed by Allah will

    decisively come. For sure, He is all Seeing, all Knowing.

    Men kne yerc likallhi. = Whoever wishes to reachAllah. And now Allah is proclaiming those who do not wish to

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    reach Him: They do not want to make their spirit reach US beforedying. They are pleased with this lowly life. (They do not reckonthat there is an other world beyond this world, that it is necessaryfor the spirit to be made to reach Allah by a journeying namedseyr-i slk on a Straight Path (Srat Mustakm). The worldlylife satisfies them, they are pleased with it. They are unaware ofOur Signs (verses).

    Dear readers, what will be the end of those who are

    unmindful of the Divine Signs (verses)? Allah Teal declares itin the subsequent verse:

    10/Ynus 8:Ulike me'vhumun nru bim kn yeksibn(yeksibne).The place they will arrive in is Hell for return to what (thedegrees) they have acquired.

    In which case, there are two facts:

    1. To wish to reach Allah, to attain to an absoluteSalvation. Why? Because Allah Teal promises in the 29 th verse

    of Hd Sura, in the 5 and 6th

    verses of Al-Ankabt Sura and in the156 and 157th verses of Al-Baqarah Sura that those who long toreach Allah will absolutely reach Hidyet, that is that they willdefinitely make their spirit reach Allah.

    2/Al-Baqarah 157:Ulike aleyhim salvtun min rabbihim ve rahmetun ve ulikehumul muhtedn(muhtedne).Those are the ones upon whom there are blessings from their

    Lord (Sustainer) and mercy and those are the ones who are the

    owners of hidyet (who have reached Hidyet).

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    2/Al-Baqarah 159:nnellezne yektumne m enzeln min el beyyinti vel hudmin badi m beyyennhu lin nsi fl kitbi, ulikeyelanuhumullhu ve yelanuhumul linn(linne).As for the ones who have been concealing what Allah has sent

    down concerning the arguments and hidyet after we have

    expounded them for the human beings in the Book, Allah curses

    them and the ones allowed to imprecate upon them, curse them.

    2. Those who do not want to reach Allah. The place theywill arrive in is unfortunately Hell.

    5.4- The Warners (Nezirs)Allah Teal has sent the Warners in order that they warn

    the human beings (their first duty) and they give glad tidings tothem (their second duty). Dear readers, it is Allah that appoints theWarner. All the Messengers whom Allah Teal appoints aswarners are at the same time the Messengers of that community(kavm). The Messengers (rsul) have been living at present in allthe communities in the world. Each one of these Messengers ischarged with teaching his community the signs (verses) of Allahwith its own language. They are commissioned with warning themand giving glad tidings to them. Dear readers, now, this missionhas been performing. Glad tidings to you that you will absolutely

    be saved, you will decisively reach Allah if you long to reachHim. But, if you are unaware of this part of the All-Wise Qurnthat is, if you do not know that you have to reach Allah, then you

    perform the five conditions of Islam throughout your life and yougo directly to Hell. Dear readers, have you ever pondered over

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    why Allah Teal repeats so many times in the Qurn Are theones who know and the ones who do not know equal?. Dearreaders, those who will go to Hell will go there only because theydo not know this reality. Imagine this that the great majority of the

    people in our country are not informed of these truths. And thePlace they will go is Hell. If so, the most important subject is this.Let us suppose that a person has wanted to reach Allah and thendied. What happens? You will think that he will go to Hell. But he

    does not go there, dear readers. He goes straight to the Paradise ofAllah. Why? Because Allah has promised: Whoever wants toreach Me, I surely want to make him reach Myself (first matter).Whomever I want to make reach Myself, I absolutely make himreach Myself (second matter). Whomever I make reach Myself, Iabsolutely introduce him into My Paradise. I do it, says AllahTeal, I do not let you do it.

    In which case, there is not an event realized by your (free)will. Dear readers, there is merely one single thing wanted byAllah Teal from it. You are obliged to want to reach Allah bythat free will. Either you want to and you will be saved or you donot want to and then Allah Teal is not responsible for yourgoing to Hell. You are responsible for it yourself. Dear readers, isit no so a good news? I say: the one who wants to reach Allah,the one who is the owner of a single demand will absolutely go toParadise. Does he really enter it? Yes, it does, indeed.

    5.5- Vel Asr SuraDear readers, Allah Teal speaks of the 4 seven stages in

    Vel Asr Sura. He says as follows:

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    103/Al-'Asr 1:Vel asr(asri).I swear by the Time (Asr).

    103/Al-'Asr 2:nnel insne le f husr(husrin).Verily, the human beings are in utter frustration (loss).

    103/Al-'Asr 3:llellezne men ve amils slihti ve tevsav bil hakk vetevsav bis sabr(sabr).But those who have become men (those who have surpassed

    the first 7 stages) and those who have done improving deeds (the

    soul purification) (those who have surpassed the second 7

    stages) and (by reaching Hakk, The Truth, The Reality, Allah)

    those who recommend Hakk (to others) (those who have

    surpassed the third 7 stages) and those who recommend Patience

    (to others) are excepted.

    Dear readers, there is thus a result in the sight of Allah: To

    become men (To want to reach Allah) and Allah Tealdeclares that they will absolutely attain to the Salvation in VelAsr Sura.

    Now let us consider carefully the content. We will seethis, dear readers: To wish to reach Allah is the Salvation of itself.Because whoever wants to reach Allah, as I am going to explain itto you, Allah Teal takes out vakra (weight) from the ear ofhis souls heart, takes away ekinnet (obstacles) from his soulsheart, removes the invisible curtain (hicb- mestre) between himand the post of irshad. The ones whose invisible curtain has beenremoved absolutely will go to Paradise according to the 8, 9, and

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    10th verses of Al-Mulk Sura. Allah Teal decrees therein, dearreaders:

    67/Al-Mulk 8, 9, 10:Tekdu temeyyezu minel gayz(gayzi), kullem ulkye fhfevcun seelehum hazenetuh e lem yetikum nezr(nezrun).Kl bel kad cen nezrun fe kezzebn ve kuln mnezzelallhu min ey'in entum ill f dallin kebr(kebrin). Ve

    kl lev kunn nesmeu ev na'klu m kunn f ashbissar(sari).(Hell) will almost burst with fury. whenever a flow of people

    are thrown therein, the guardians of the Hell ask them: Did a

    Warner not come to you? They said: Yes, he did. Verily, a

    Warner came to us. But we had denied him, and we had said to

    them: Allah has sent down nothing. Truly, you are but in a great

    aberration. And they said too: if we had heard or comprehended,

    we had not been among the inhabitants of Hellfire.

    That is, human beings from the ears of the souls hearts ofwhom vakra has been taken out, from the souls hearts of whomekinnet (obstacles) have been taken away are to be found in theParadise of Allah, dear readers. They are named those who have

    become men, that is, those who want to reach Allah. In whichcase, to be men is the starting point of the salvation. And onlythose who know are capable of benefiting from these magnificentgifts. Those who do not know cannot be saved even though theyhave performed all the worships throughout their lives, that is,they have performed the daily prescribed prayers, they havefasted, given alms, gone on the pilgrimage to Mecca, repeated theIslamic testimony of faith: l ilhe illallah, Muhammeden

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    Resllullah = There is no go but Allah, Muhammed is theMessenger of Allah by themselves.

    But a person only wants to reach Allah and then dies. Hisworship is naught but is saved. Because Allah Teal hears,knows and sees the sign of wishing to reach Allah in the soulsheart of that person. Just at that moment He takes action. Whatdoes He do? He takes out vakra from the ear of his souls heart.He takes away ekinnet from his souls heart and puts instead

    ihbat therein. The mind of the person from the hearts ear ofwhom vakra has been taken out begins to conceive what the postof irshad has uttered. In other words, he is sure that they are thewords coming down from Hakk (Allah). Then, he makes them godown into his souls heart and comprehend them. To be sure is theconstitution of the comprehension. Dear readers, the invitation ofAllah is the invitation to Himself (His Essence, Zt). 14 centuriesago, all sahabe (the Companions of the Prophet) were inviting(others) to Allah. He declares in the 108th verse of Ysuf Sura:

    12/Ysuf 108:Kul hzih sebl ed ilallhi al basretin ene ve menittebean,ve subhnallhi ve m ene minel murikn(murikne).Say: the way on which I and the ones who follow me (depend

    on me) have been inviting by seeing with the eye of the heart, by

    seeing Allah) is this way. Glory be to Allah and I am not of the

    ones who associate partners to Allah (of the polytheists).

    The Prophet (PBUH) says: the way on which I and thosewho depend on me have been inviting. All sahabe were inviting(human beings) to Allah, dear readers. We too have been inviting(them) to Allah. We have been doing just like sahabe were doing.We perform the tahaccud prayer (after 12 pm at night) like

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    them. Dear readers, every day we pay two days compensation toAllah for the prayers not performed previously together with ourdaily prescribed prayers. In the Sunna of midmorning, we performthe obligatory prayers of midday, afternoon and evening times as acompensation. In the tahaccud (after midnight) prayer, we

    perform the Facr (early morning), Isha (late evening) andvitir prayers. Thus, we pay one days compensation to Allah forthe prayers not performed previously. In each prayer, by

    performing an additional obligatory prayer [of course in the isha(late evening) prayer, together with the compensative obligatory prayer, performing vitir prayer], every day, we pay two dayscompensation to Allah for the prayers not performed previously.Dear readers, we first of all and more than 90% of our brothersand sisters are the ones who have entered this way later on andhave been giving infinite thanks to Allah because of this. That is,on account of our debts of prayers and conformable to the Sunna,we pay two days compensation every day to Allah for the prayersnot performed previously. So, the way of Allah Teal is this.Have you discerned the difference between the ones who knowand the ones who do not know now? To want to reach Allah or not

    to want to reach Him. Allah Teal says to our Master, TheProphet Muhammed (PBUH): You cannot cause the one you lovethe most to reach hidyet, you cannot make his spirit reach ME.Why does He say so? He has not said what concludes it; He hasnot said there this: unless that person wants to reach Allah. Butwhen we consider the content of the All-Wise Qurn, we see thatit is not possible for a human being to be saved unless he wants toreach Allah. Allah Teal announces in the 45 and 46 th verses ofAl-Isr' Sura:

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    17/Al-Isr' 45, 46:Ve iz karatel kurne cealn beyneke ve beynellezne lyuminne bil hreti hicben mestr(mestren). Ve cealnal kulbihim ekinneten en yefkahhu ve f znihimvakr(vakran), ve iz zekerte rabbeke fl kurni vahdehuvellev al edbrihim nufr(nufren).And when you read and explain the Quran to them, we put an

    invisible curtain (hicb- mestra) between you and those who

    do not believe in the Last Day (Future Life, hereafter) We putekinnet (obstacles) on their souls heart so that they cannot

    comprehend what you say. And we put vakra (weight) in their

    hearts ear (in order) to prevent them from hearing you). When

    you recite your Sustainer as Single One in the Quran, they turn

    their back to you, being filled with hate.

    Thus, there are vakra in the hearts ear and ekinnet inthe souls heart of those who do not want to reach Allah. Thereexists an invisible curtain (hicb- mestra) between them and the

    post of irshad, dear readers. If there were not, they too would go toParadise. See with what Allah Teal rewards those who will enter

    the way of Allah at this phase (the phase of being men).We had said: Islam consists of 28 stages. At the first stage

    we live events. All the human beings are in the events, they livethem. Nobody is out of this rule. Dear readers, just like theearthquake of this year. This earthquake arising from changes

    beneath the earths surface (from the breaking of the lines offissure) and causing more than 50 thousand people to die. ThatAllah Teal determines the destiny is a fact of the All-WiseQuran. Allah determines the destiny (Kader) and the death is adestiny for all human beings. Allah Teal who is the Possessor ofsuch a Design wills all the human beings to be saved and for this

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    purpose indicates an extremely easy way for them. He says: Ishould ensure such an easiness for all of My servants that they cango directly to Paradise. He ensures it but Satan is aware of it.Satan who has seen that Allah has made a decision in order to sendall the human beings to Paradise (and him to Hell) could notnaturally bear it. Therefore, he had to make the human beingsforget all the beauties of Allah. Satan has managed to make themforget that to wish to reach Allah is the Salvation. Dear readers,

    the anecdote is as follows:The naval officers land on an island. They see an old, long

    bearded man. They ask him: Why did you come here? I cameto forget. What did you come to forget? I have forgotten it.

    All the human beings too have forgotten so that to wish toreach Allah is an obligation.

    Dear readers, there is a content in the sight of Allah. Atthe moment wishing to reach Allah appears in the souls heart ofa man, no matter under what conditions it appears, that man issaved. Thanks to such a plain reason, as certain as this. You allknow that all sahabe have gone to the Paradise of Allah. When wetake the events into consideration, we see this: Allah Teal hascreated all the human beings at the beginning with the unbelief(kfr) in their souls hearts. When we considers the fundamentals(of the religion), we see that Allah has made definite that a personwill attain to the Salvation at the moment he wishes to reachAllah. Now, we see for instance that all sahabe have wanted toreach Allah. Have they? Let us have a look at the verses. AllahTeal expresses in the 18th verse of Az-Zumar Sura as follows:

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    39/Az-Zumar 18:Ellezne yesteminel kavle fe yettebine ahseneh(ahsenehu),ulikellezne hedhumullhu ve ulike hum ull elbb(elbbi).They (sahabe) hear the words and follow (depend on) the most

    beautiful (perfect) of them (the words uttered by the Prophet, our

    Master (PBUH). Those are the ones whom Allah has made

    reach hidyet and those are the ones who are ll elbb (the

    owners of continuous zikir).

    5.5.1- The spirits of those who want to reachAllah reach Him

    So, all sahabe have reached hidyet, the spirits of all ofthem have reached Allah. Allah Teal say in a clear and obviousway this: Only the spirits of those who want to reach Allah reachHim. Let us look at the verses. Allah Teal says in the 20, 21 and22th verses of Ar-Ra'd Sura as follows:

    Ellezne yfne bi ahdillhiThey carry out their ahd (oaths) with Allah. [the oath(testament), the vow (yemn) and the covenant (msk) with Allah]

    ve l yenkudnel misk(miska).In particular, they do not violate their covenant (that is, thecovenant they have given to Allah concerning the fact that theywill make their spirits reach Allah)

    Whoever does not violate his covenant is the one whocarries out that covenant. Allah Teal brings the truth to light byunderlying it. Now, He says to us what this covenant means:

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    Vellezne (and they) yaslne (make reach) m (that which)emerallh (Allah commands) bih (Him, Allah) en ysale (tomake reach), so, and they make reach that which Allahcommands to make reach Him. This is the covenant (msk), dearreaders. The state of making reach that which (the spirit) Allahorders to make reach Himself. The state of that persons reachinghidyet. The state of that persons realizing his covenant (msk).

    Now, He gives the characteristics of these persons: ve

    yahevne rabbehm They feel hushu (reverence) towards theirLord.

    ve yehfne sel hisb(hisbi).And they shudder at the probable bad account.

    Dear readers, who are the owners of huu? Those wholong to make their spirits reach Allah before death and are certainthat they will make them reach Him. Let us consider the verses.Are you able to see the golden causal chain between them? Thosewho want to reach Allah: These are the ones who want to maketheir spirits reach Allah and they are named the owners of hushu.

    Vellezne saberbtige vechi rabbihimAnd they are the ones who want to reach the Essence (Vech,Face Zt) of their Sustainer with Patience.

    What had He said above? They do not violate their msk(covenant), they make their spirits reach Allah (their spirits thatAllah orders to make reach Him). Why? The owners of hushu(reverence). Who? Those who want to make their spirits reachAllah, and with Patience. What does this remind you of? Let us

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    turn back again. We see the 45 and 46th verses of Al-Baqarahbefore us:

    Vesten bis sabri ves salt(slti),Ask (Allah) for special help with Patience and Prayer.

    Take care! Allah Teal uses patience here once again.They are the ones who want to reach the Essence (Vech, Zt) of

    Allah with patience. Why does a person perform the requirement prayer with patience? He performs it in order to make his spiritreach Allah Teal, dear readers. Here is the golden causal chain

    between the 45 and 46th verses of Al-Baqarah Sura and the 20, 21,and 22nd verses of Ar-Ra'd Sura. Can you sense it? Thus, we reacha conclusion: All sahabe have made their spirits reach Allah. Whoare they? They are the ones who want to make their spirits reachAllah. According to the 22nd verse of Ar-Ra'd Sura, only thosewho want to make their spirits reach Allah an make them reachAllah. Let us terminate the first 7 stages now. But it is not suitableto pass over without emphasizing the most important thing: Allsahabe longed to make their spirits reach Allah. Now, we put thefact in its proper place by comparing the Religion in the Quranwith the religion of today beginning from 4 fundamentals.

    5.6- Fundamentals1. Allah Teal has made obligatory (farz): You shall

    want to reach Allah.

    2. He has declared the result: Whoever does not want toreach Allah will go to Hell.

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    3. Allah Teal has announced the reward: Whoeverwants to reach Allah will go to Paradise.

    4. Allah Teal has given a pattern (model) in thehistory. He has given sahabe as patterns.

    Thus, dear readers. I ask you again: Is this not a goodnews? It is possible for all human beings to enter Paradise? (bywishing to reach Allah) through a single wish (demand). Perhaps,

    the persons who do not know the following component parts of thesubject will ask us some questions.

    - Well, all right. That person has wished to reach Allah buthe has not been performing his obligations. How will he be saved?

    Dear readers, whoever does not want to reach Allah doesnot perform his duties towards Allah. He cannot enter the way inany way, he merely thinks that he has entered it. But whoeverwants to reach Allah absolutely perform his duties. Do you knowwhy? Because Allah makes them perform their duties.

    It is Allah that puts the love of performing them into hisheart and makes impossible for him to give them up. Once he will

    want to reach Allah, he will deeply long for performing hisworships. Pay close attention to what I say: How clear andobvious, how easy an event: I tell you to leave yourselves toAllah. Let Him make you love the prayers, the fasting, the zikir,let Him make you live all the beauties. You will not do them. It isHe who will make you do them. He will put the love for prayers,fasting, zikir (Remembrance, Recitation) into your hearts, dearreaders. If so, a person will want to reach Allah but will not

    perform his worships (prayers): No, this is not possible.

    Dear readers, if they believe in Allah, they believe in theAll-Wise Quran, too. If they believe in it, they always possess the

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    possibility of investigating what I have been saying. All ourconversations have been recorded into cassettes. In which pointsyou have hesitations, take the involved cassette, put the Quranopened before you. Listen to the cassette. Look into the verses ofthe All-Wise Quran, you will see these verses corresponding tothat point. It is He who makes us speak.

    Dear readers, I am telling you now: The Doomsday hascome. You were the one who used to perform the daily prescribed

    prayers, fast, give alms, go on the pilgrimage to Mecca and say:l ilhe illallah Muhammeden Resllullah = There is no god butAllah, Muhammed is the Messenger of Allah by yourself. Butthey had not instructed you in reaching Allah, you did not know it.You will go to Hell by repeating ceaselessly: As they did notinstruct me in reaching Allah, why is it my fault?, dear readers. Iknow, Satan is insinuating whisperings into the hearts of thosewho are listening to us for the first time (as they are unaware ofthese great truths of Allah): So many people do not know theirreligion, but he only knows it, is it so? (They intend us). But, inthe years to come, within 3 or 4 years, dear readers, everyone willlearn that these are the truths of Allah. Because the humankindwill feel the obligation of investigating it one day. They will say tothemselves: What does he say? Let us control what he has beensaying by comparing them with what the Quran says. What hasthis falsifier been saying? (They use this term for us, the pretended

    prophet. They claim that we are so). Thats all very well but havewe not right to ask a little question? How is it that that falsifierthrows Satan to the ground, saves the human beings from theclaws of Satan? So, look out! What does Satan say? Hear what hehas been saying from them. They pretend that he says: There isnothing like the human spirits reaching Allah in the Quran. I

    beg your pardon?

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    Allah Teal emphasizes in His All-Wise Quran: If youdo not want to reach Allah, the place you will go is Hell. But ifyou want to reach Allah, then your salvation is definite. Do notforget the four fundamentals.

    5.7- The state of Sahabe

    1. Allah Teal makes reaching Allah obligatory.2. He has made definite that those who do not want to reach

    Allah will decisively go to Hell.

    3. He has made definite that those who want to reach Allahwill absolutely enter Paradise.

    4. He has given sahabe as patterns. All sahabe have longedto reach Allah. Not enough. All of them have gained theParadise of Allah. Here is the 100th verse of At-TaubahSura:

    9/At-Taubah 100:Ves sbiknel evvelne minel muhcirne vel ensrivelleznettebehum bi hsnin radyallhu anhum ve radanhu ve eadde lehum cenntin tecr tahtehel enhru hlidnefh ebed(ebeden), zlikel fevzul azm(azmu).As for the sbiknel evvelne (as for those who take up the

    three highest stations which are the stages of Ullelbab, Ihlas

    and Salah) from the emigrants (those who have emigrated from

    Mecca to Medina) and the Helpers (the helpers living in

    Medina) and the ones who have depended on them with favors,

    (as sahbe were the owners of the post of irshad, they have

    depended on them), Allah is pleased with them and they are

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    pleased with Him. He has prepared for them Paradises beneath

    which rivers flow, they will dwell therein for ever. This is the

    greatest success (happiness). This verse makes definite that both

    the Emigrants and the Helpers, all sahbe, will absolutely enter

    Paradise.

    Allah Teal declares in the 157th verse of Al-A'rf Sura:

    7/Al-A'rf 157:Ellezne yettebiner reslen nebiyyel ummiyyellez yecidnehumektben indehum ft tevrti vel incli yemuruhum bilmarfi ve yenhhum anil munkeri ve yuhllu lehumuttayyibti ve yuharrimu aleyhimul habise ve yedau anhumsrahum vel agllellet knet aleyhim, fellezne men bih veazzerhu ve nasarhu vetteben nrellez unzile meahu ulikehumul muflihn(muflihne).Those who have depended on the illiterate Messenger, the

    Prophet have found him written in the Torah and the Gospel by

    them. He commands them with irfan (transcience aynel yakn

    = closeness to the signs of Allah through witnessing them,

    certainty at the degree of witnessing and hakkul yakn =closeness to Allah really, absolute certainty), he prevents them

    from His prohibitions and makes licit the clean things for them

    and forbids them the unclean things and takes down the heavy

    burden from their back and tears off the chains to which they

    were fastened. Those who have believed him, respected him,

    succored him and are dependent on the Light (nr, the Quran)

    sent down with him are the ones who have attained to the

    Salvation.

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    What does the Prophet, our Master (PBUH) say? Mysahabe (Companions) are just like the stars in the sky. Whoeverdepends on them reaches hidyet.

    Dear readers, his sahbe have been living now, too. Weare his Companions (sahbe). You are so, too. The wayfarers ofthis way, those who are journeying towards Allah, you too are so.

    6- 28 StagesNow, we examine the first 7 stages (shortly) together:

    6.1- The first stageThe first stage: events. Everybody lives the events,

    evaluates them wrongly (incorrectly). He thinks that the eventsthat rejoice him are good and the events that sadden him are bad.Whereas, Allah Teal says: There are some events, they rejoiceyou and you reckon that they are good but they are bad. There are

    some other events, they grieve you, your think that they are badbut they are good. Dear readers! What is the result? Allah Tealnever takes you rejoicing at the events or your grieving at theminto consideration. Do you obtain grades (degrees) or lose them onaccount of those events? This is essential for Him. If you acquiredegrees, this event is good, if you lose degrees, that event is bad inthe sight of Allah. The first stage is this, living the events andevaluating them erroneously.

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    6.2- The second stageAt the second stage, you have to do this evaluation

    carefully. You will compare the events and you will think: Whydid Allah Teal make this event befall me? and you have tocome to a decision. The decision at this moment: To want to reachAllah or not to want to reach Him. You are at a forked road asimportant as to be or not to be The ones who want to reachAllah will absolutely go to the Paradise of Allah. Now, I am

    addressing all of you: If we had not said that Allah guarantees it,where would you have gone, dear readers? You have no choice

    but to go Hell 100%. Because you did not know. But now, a hugecommunity of MIHR knows the divine truths. We know that thereare a lot of people who know the divine truths but for now they donot want to reveal themselves. But we know about them. Dearreaders, the truths of Allah have never changed. There has been noother religion than Islam, (that is, than surrendering oneself toAllah). The first phase of surrendering is the human spiritsreaching Allah (seyr-i slk, journeying towards Allah). Do notforget: The salvation of men depends on what we have beensaying. Everybody will be saved thanks to such an easy cause andthe salvation will unfortunately not be possible for the men whodid not do this (merely because they did no want to reach Allah).The great majority of men think so: I do not damage anyone. Iam leading a spotless life in the world. In that case, Allah willabsolutely make me reach His paradise in this or that way (even ifHe throws me into His Hell, He will decisively take metherefrom). In any case, I believe in Allah, therefore I am ammin (believer), and there is a verse in the Quran saying thatthose who are mmin enter Paradise. I shall surely enter Paradise.They think so. Whereas a man is not mmin (believer) only he

    believes in Allah. A person who is mmin has to possess 7

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    conditions of heart and 7 conditions of belief and three conditionsof attribute (quality). Let alone possess them, they are unaware ofwhat those may be. And they think they are deserving of Heaven.

    6.3- The third stageAnd now we are passing on to the third stage. Unless a

    person says to himself: they speak on an event of reaching Allah.

    I must absolutely realize it, that is, I must want to reach Allah, hecannot pass on to the third stage. Dear readers, you are at theturning point of your life. You wanted to reach Allah or you didnot want to. At this moment, you are of the ones who did not wantto reach Him. A new horizon is being opened before you. If youwant to, you reach the third stage which is the stage of salvationleaving behind yourself the second stage. But if you do not wantto, you have made your choice. You have chosen Hell yourself.

    Dear readers, there is a saying: well, prove it! Is theshortest way not the verification of those words? Do not be takenin the crookedness of Satan: So many people do not know it, only

    he knows it!? Ask this question to yourself, too but together withone other question: If Allah teaches him? Is this not possible?Because this matter will turn out to be true within 3 4 years. Thehuman beings will scrutinize all that we have said and will attainto the firm conviction that all we have said is but pure truth. Butthen, it will be too late. Now, let us go to a conclusion. There is a

    person. He does not want to reach Allah and he is at the secondstage. But, as we have already emphasized it, he has performed thedaily prescribed prayers, fasted, given alms, gone on the

    pilgrimage to Mecca, etc

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    6.3.1- Zikir (Recitation, Remembrance,Repetition of the Name of Allah as Allah, Allah,

    Allah)

    Look out! Zikir does not exist among the 5 conditions ofIslam! Did you ever think? If there is no zikir, there is noSalvation (Deliverance), Did you ever think of this truth, dearreaders? If there is no zikir, there is not the soul purification ofyours. If there is no zikir, there is not your spirits reaching Allah.If there is no zikir, there is not your physical bodys becoming aservant to Allah. You cannot carry out any of the obligations ofAllah. Examine the 32 obligations, the 54 obligations of theIslamic catechism. Is there zikir in them? You will see that there isnot. Those who have stolen the camel have stolen it together withits collar. They have annihilated zikir putting it into its collar.Zikir is the repetition of the name of Allah saying Allah, Allah,Allah And Allah Teal has made zikir obligatory (farz).

    73/Al-Muzzammil 8Vezkurisme rabbike ve tebettel ileyhi tebtl(tebtlen).

    Repeat the name of your Sustainer and turn to Him (reachHim) keeping yourself clear of everything.

    Allah Teal has made too much zikir obligatory.

    33/Al-Ahzb 41:Y eyyuhellezne menzkrullhe zikren kesr(kesran).O those who are men! Repeat the name of Allah very much.

    O those who are men (those who want to reach Allah).Look out! This is valid for those who want to reach Allah. If youdo not want, you do not love doing zikir. You cannot do zikir in

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    any way. Thus, O those who want to reach Allah, He says, repeatthe name of Allah with too much zikir. [Pass more than half of theday with zikir. The period of time when you repeat the name ofAllah must be more than the time when you do not do zikir. Hedid not content Himself with commanding this.

    4/An-Nis' 103:Fe iz kadaytumus salte fezkurllhe kymen ve kuden ve

    al cunbikum, fe izatmanentum fe ekmus salt(salte),innes salte knet alel muminne kitbenmevkt(mevkten).When you have performed the prayer, repeat the name of Allah

    (do the zikir of Allah) while you are standing and sitting and

    lying down sidewards. When you have regained safety, perform

    the prayer properly. Verily, the prayer has been made obligatory

    for the believers at determined times.

    Do zikir saying Allah, Allah, Allah All these threesorts of zikir are obligatory, are they not? Take any Islamiccatechism containing 32 obligations, 54 obligations, search for

    zikir therein. You will see that there is no zikir therein, dearreaders. That accursed Satan has managed to annihilate zikir, thisgreatest worship that will save the human beings. Is it the greatestworship? Yes, it is indeed. Is it even greater than the prayer(namaz)? Yes, it is so. You will naturally say: Nobody has saidanything like this. Yes, you are right in this respect, too. We were

    just like you. We used to say: The prayer is the greatest worship,it is the pillar of the religion. The prayer is still the pillar of thereligion, but it is not the greatest worship. Here is the 45th verse ofAl-Ankabt Sura:

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    Utlu m hye ileyke minel kitbiRead (and explain) that which has been revealed to you from

    the Book.

    ve ekms salt(salte),And perform the prayers

    innes salte tenh anil fahi vel munker(munkeri),Truly, the prayer prevents from the immoralities and

    wickedness.

    ve le zikrullhi ekberBut the zikir (remembrance) of Allah is the greatest (worship).

    I do not say this, dear readers, He says. So, whatever Hesays is beautiful just like brahim Hakk Excellency says: Let ussee what our Lord makes, whatever He makes, He makes it

    beautifully.

    The Truth One (Hakk) makes badness into goodness

    Do not think that He makes it into other thing.

    Let us see what Our Lord makes

    Whatever He makes, He makes it beautifully.

    Dear readers, everything is in its center (in its due place).We have thus spoken shortly of zikir. What is zikir? Therepetition of the name of Allah by a person. Thus, Allah Tealsends down his mercy, virtue and blessings into the souls heart ofthat person and virtue, out of them, settles therein and so firstly

    purifies it (tezkiye) and then refines it (tasfiye).

    Now, you have wished to reach Allah and you are at thethird stage. Allah Teal has heard, known and seen this demand(wish) in your souls heart. Let us repeat:

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    Allh basrun bil bd. Allah sees His servants.

    Allh semun alm. Allah is All-Seeing, All-Knowing.

    6.4- The fourth stageThus, you are in a sphere in which Allah Teal is

    involved as All-Seeing and All-Knowing, dear readers. You have

    wished to reach Allah, He has seen the wish in your souls heartand immediately begun to act.

    1. He has taken out the secret curtain (hicb- mestre)between you and the post of irshad.

    You are at the fourth stage thanks to the manifestation ofAllah Teal with His rahm = All-Compassionate Name overyour head. You are at the fifth stage as Allah Teal has taken outthe secret curtain. You are at the sixth stage as He has taken outvakra (weight) out of your souls heart. You are at the seventhstage as He has taken away ekinnet from your souls heart and

    put instead ihbat therein. (As we have just spoken of these

    verses, we do not mention them here) Allah Teal says in the 53 thverse of Ysuf Sura:

    12/Ysuf 53:Ve m uberriu nefs, innen nefse le emmretun bis s ill mrahime rabb, inne rabb gafrun rahm(rahmun).And I cannot exonerate myself (put myself in the clear).

    Truly, the soul constantly commands wickedness, except for the

    ones upon whom my Sustainer has manifested Himself with His

    Rahm = All-Compassionate name. Verily, My Sustainer (Lord)

    is Most-Forgiven, the All-Compassionate. (He transforms sins

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    into good deeds and sends down mercy and with it, purifies

    (tezkiye) and refines (tasfiye) the souls).

    They can exonerate their souls (That is, they can makethem reach from the starting stage, the stage of Emmre, to thestages of Levvme, Mlhme, Mutmainne, Rdiye, Mardyye andTezkiye).

    So, we are arriving at a result starting from what Yusuf

    Excellency has said. Allah Teal who has heard, known and seenthis demand (wish) in the souls heart of the person who haswished to reach Allah by arriving at the third stage immediately

    begins to act. There is a secret curtain named hicb- mestrebetween that person and the post of irshad The human beings werehating him due to that secret curtain. First of all, Allah Tealtakes it out. Those people who were bearing hatred towards himformerly begin now to crave for him. They ask him from AllahTeal by performing the requirement prayer and those people arethe ones who want to reach Allah. They are the ones who are mostcertain that they will assuredly make their spirits reach Allah

    before dying. Now, Allah Teal turns anger, grudge they felt intheir souls hearts into love by taking out that secret curtain intheir souls hearts. Then He takes out vakra (weight) out of theirhearts ears and they begin to hear, dear readers. Allah Tealdeclares in the 36th verse of Al-An'm Sura:

    6/Al-An'm 36:nnem yestecbullezne yesmen(yesmene), vel mevtyebasuhumullhu summe ileyhi yurcen(yurcene).Verily, only those who hear (the ones from the souls heart of

    whom vakra has been taken out) respond (accept) to the

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    invitation (to Allah) As for the dead, Allah restores them to life

    and then they are made to turn back to Him.

    The invitation of Allah is the invitation to Himself. Here,Allah Teal says in the 25th verse of Ynus Sura:

    10/Ynus 53:Vallhu yed' il dris selm(selmi), ve yehd men yeu il

    s

    rtin mustekm(mustekmin).And Allah invites to the Realm of Surrender (to His Essence(Zt) who will take delivery of the spirit) And He will lead the

    ones whom He wishes (the ones whom He wishes to make reach

    the Realm of Surrender, to His Essence) to the Straight Path

    (the path leading to Allah).

    Dear readers, here is a further riddle for you. What isSrat Mustakm (the Straight Path)? If I ask you so, you willanswer such like: the main road, the highway But pay heed:Srat Mustakm is the name of the path leading us to Allah. The175th verse of An-Nis' Sura makes definite this definition:

    4/An-Nis' 103:Fe iz kadaytumus salte fezkurllhe kymen ve kuden veal cunbikum, fe izatmanentum fe ekmus salt(salte),innes salte knet alel muminne kitbenmevkt(mevkten).As for the ones who have become men and wished to hold

    fast to Him, He soon will introduce them into a mercy from Him

    and a virtue and will convey them to a Straight Path (leading

    them to Him).

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    The expression is extremely clear. None of the deniers canrefute it. The verse is extremely plain. Srat Mustakm is a pathleading to Allah. Here also, Allah Teal says: He invites to theEssence (Zt) of Allah. Because the Abode of Selm (Surrender,Peace, Repose) is His Essence, Himself. Because He makes youreach the Straight Path in order to make you reach the StraightPath (Srat Mustakm), that means that He will make you reachHis Essence, Himself.

    Dear readers, tonight is our night. The night of the Friendsof Allah. The Night of Power (Kadir). We live a night more

    beneficial (better) than 1000 months. I want you not to forgetthese beauties. Tonight, I will try to explain to you the whole ofTasavvuf (Sufism, Islam in the Quran). The real Islam, the Islamof Allah. This is so a warning to all the ones who deem that Islamconsists merely of five conditions. Dear readers, tonight, I explainthis to you.

    6.5- The fifth, sixth, seventh stages

    So, what was Allah Teal doing? He was taking awayekinnet out of the souls heart of the person and putting insteadihbat. He says this in the 54th verse of Al-Hajj Sura:

    22/Al-Hajj 54:Ve li yalemellezne tul lme ennehul hakku min rabbike feyumin bih fe tuhbite lehu kulbuhum, ve innallhe lehdillezne men il srtn mustakm(mustakmin).hbat (a computer system enabling the comprehension) hasbeen put into their souls hearts so that those to whom science

    (knowledge) has been granted may know that it is a reality

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    (Hakk, truth) from your Sustainer and that they believe in Him.

    And truly Allah makes those who have become men reach the

    Straight Path.

    Why? In order that they believe in a decisive way thatwhat the post of irshad says are truth words, we put ihbat intotheir souls hearts, says Allah Teal. He declares also this: Weabsolutely make them reach their murshids (We absolutely make

    them reach the Straight Path (S

    rat

    Mustakm).Have you now understood why Allah Teal takes out the

    secret curtain (hicb- mestre) out of the souls heart of the person (the curtain that causes men to hate their murshids)? Inorder to make the murshids beloved of them. In order to makethem reach the post of irshad (murshids). That fact that our dearfriends reject by saying: there are no murshids

    We have arrived at the seventh stage, dear readers. AllahTeal has taken out vakra out of the souls heart, the personshave begun to comprehend the things related to the irshad (saintguidance) Take care: those who have begun to comprehend are the

    first group of those two groups. (those who have reached Allah).Those who do not want to reach Allah will not comprehend at allduring their lifetime. You know, Allah gives a mosquito as a

    parable to the human beings. I too give it as a parable just like inthe Turkish proverb literally so: A mosquito is a musicalinstrument for the ones who perceive, drum and pipe are notenough for those who do not comprehend, that is, a word isenough to the wise. Allah Teal says: Are the ones who knowand the ones who do not know equal? Here are the banquets,feasts of the assembly of the knowing ones, of the divine Council,dear readers. All the beauties are for you, it is enough that you

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    wish to live them. It is enough that you wish to reach Allah. Allahdetermines those who want to reach Him at the fourth stage byhearing, knowing and seeing that wish and immediately begins toact. What have we done? A single thing: We have wished to reachAllah. What He expects from us is that far in any case. Let us seewhat He has done:

    1. He has taken out the secret curtain (hicb- mestre). Weare at the fifth stage.

    2. He has taken out vakra out of our hearts ear. We are atthe sixth stage.

    3, 4. He has taken away ekinnet out of our souls heart and put instead ihbat therein. We are at the seventh stage. Hehas given us a guarantee: He will absolutely make us reachour murshid. So, we have arrived at the seventh stage? We arenamed those who have become men. Have we understoodnow what being men means? Being men is to be theowner of belief who wants to reach Allah, dear readers. Whatdoes Allah Teal say in Vel Asr Sura? Those who aremen will absolutely be saved. Those who are not so willabsolutely go to Hell. (Those are the ones who are in utterfrustration (loss), but once he is men, he will decisively bedelivered).

    Now, if we long to reach Allah, in that case, what is inquestion for all the human beings is to reach that honor. We havearrived at the seventh stage and become men. Do you think thatAllah will bring His help to a halt? What had He done? He had

    begun to manifest Himself with His Rahm = All-Compassionate name over the head of the person (4th stage). Hehad taken out vakra out of our hearts ear, the secret curtain

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    between us and our murshid and ekinnet out of our souls heartand put instead ihbat. It was Allah Teal that was making themall the time. We have taken a single step towards Him, we wantedonly to reach Him. He has taken five steps towards us. Has Heceased there? No, He has not, dear readers. Let us see how manyfurther steps He will take:

    We have arrived at the seventh stage. We are namedthose who are men. We have become so one of the owners of

    belief (faith) who want to reach Allah, dear readers.

    7- The Second 7 stages

    7.1- The eight stageWhat happens then? See what happens: The sunna of

    Allah (The perfectly established and infallibly functioning order ofAllah in the immense universe) reaches our souls heart.

    64/At-Taghbun 11:M esbe min musbetin ill bi iznillh(bi iznillhi), ve menyu'min billhi yehdi kalbeh(kalbehu), vallhu bikulli ey'inalm(almun).Any calamity does not befall anyone but with the permission of

    Allah. And who is men to Allah, He reaches his (souls) heart.

    And Allah knows everything.

    Who is men to Allah, He reaches his (souls) heart,decrees Allah. Well, what does the Sunna of Allah do, if it reachesour (souls) heart? It does extremely beautiful things.

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    7.2- The ninth stageHe makes the light door of our souls heart turned to Satan

    turn to Him. Here is the 33rd verse of Qf Sura:

    50/Qf 33:Men haiyer rahmne bil gaybi ve ce bi kalbinmunb(munbin).Who feels reverence for the All-Merciful (Allah) in the Unseen

    (without seeing Him) and come (to the His Presence) with a(souls) heart turned (to Him).

    Allah Teal makes the light door of your (souls) heartturn to Him. He makes His lights (nrs) descend in pairs. Heannounces that these lights of Allah will enter into the souls heartof the human being in the 22nd verse of Az-Zumar Sura and Heexpresses how they have been made to come down in order to

    purify it in the 23rd verse of Az-Zumar Sura:

    39/Az-Zumar 23:Allhu nezzele ahsenel hadsi kitben mutebihen mesniyetakarru minhu culdullezne yahevne rabbehum, summetelnu culduhum ve kulbuhum il zikrillh(zikrillhi), zlikehudallhi yehd bih men yeu, ve men yudlilillhu fe m lehumin hd(hdin).Allah sends down the most beautiful (of the lights) He has

    brought about in pairs (mercy-virtue and mercy-blessings) as

    similar to the Book. The skins (hairs) of those who feel

    reverence towards their Sustainer bristle up with these (lights),

    then they (these lights) soften the skin (the body) of the person

    and his (souls) heart (quiver, illumine, purify it and thus makes

    the persons spirit reach Allah and makes him reach hidyet)

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    This is the hidyet of Allah, He makes the person He wills reach

    hidyet (by purifying his souls heart with His lights and thus

    making him reach His Essence) Whoever He lets go into

    aberration (misguidance), there is no saint guide (hidyetchi) for

    him.

    Thus, Allah Teal sends down His lights in pairs. Hesays nezzele, that is, from above downwards but the light door

    of our souls heart is not turned to Allah, but to Satan. What mustthe Sunna of Allah do? The infallible system administering thesplendid limitless universe renders the light door of our soulsheart turned to Allah. This is the third process (operation) in ourheart. What was the first process? He has taken away ekinnet(obstacles, barriers) out of our (souls) heart. The second process?He has put instead ihbat.

    What is ekinnet? The system that prevents thecomprehension. Ekinnet remains to the ones who do not want toreach Allah. They cannot comprehend. Vakra remains to theones who do not want to reach Allah. They are unable to hearwhat we say, dear readers. Their ears receive the sounds but theirintellect cannot grasp the gist of the truth, reach its meaning. Thereis vakra in the ears. Dear readers, do you know how splendidlyAllah Teal has designed everything? The devilish door is thedarkness door. There is no seal and no obstacle on it. Allah Tealhas set Satan free to convey his darknesses into your souls heartas he wishes. But He does not open up the seal on the light door ofthe souls heart of a person unless he wishes to reach Allah. Letalone open the seal on the light door, He lets it remain in a

    position turned to Satan. Everything is dependent on your demand(wish). Either you want and you will be the owner of all thesetreasuries or you do not want and you choose Hell. The choice

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    belongs to you. Allah Teal does not intervene in your choice. Ido not intervene in the free will of My servants, I sent down MyHoly Scriptures in order to teach you how to use your intellect.,He says.

    There are two sorts of science (knowledge): The useful(profitable, beneficial) science and the useless (unprofitable)science (knowledge). If you read those books and you cannotdeduce from them any useful result, if you cannot comprehend

    that you will not be able to reach Paradise unless you long to reachAllah, then mugging all those books up is of no use to you. Andthis is the useless science, dear readers. That is why AllahTeal says: Are the ones who know and the ones who do notknow equal? That is why Allah Teal says about some people:The ones to whom science (knowledge) has been granted, thosewho are the owners of science. He reiterates: Will you still notthink? Will you still not reason? We too say the same things.Allah Teal shows us such an easy way to Salvation. He decrees:If you want to reach Allah, you will absolutely be saved. Andthe human beings have still been turning the obligation of Allahdown. Why does Allah Teal warn: the majority of humankindwill go to Hell? This is for this reason. Because they cannot usetheir intellect. Allah Teal has sent down His All-Wise Quran.He explains to the wise how they will use their intellect. You willwish to reach Allah, He says. They say: No, we will not want toreach Him, because our scholars do not teach us so. Those whowanted to reach Allah wanted it and so we are at the ninth stage.Allah has caused the light door in our (souls) heart to turn toHimself. What did He do thereafter? Consider it:

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    7.3- The tenth stage

    6/Al-An'm 125:Fe men yuridillhu en yehdiyehu yerah sadrehu lilislm(islmi), ve men yurid en yudllehu yecal sadrehudayyikan haracen, ke ennem yassaadu fs semi, kezlikeyecalllhur ricse alllezne l yuminn(yuminne).Whomever Allah wants to make reach hidyet (wants to make

    his spirit reach Him), He slits his breast to Surrender (Islam).Whomever He wants to abandon in Misguidance (Aberration),

    He makes his breast tight and distressed as if he were ascending

    in the sky (heaven). Like this, Allah lays down filth (torment)

    upon the ones who do not believe. What did He do? He opened

    up his breast to (for) Surrender (Islam). Whose breast? The

    breast of the one whom He wants to make reach Himself.

    What had we seen at the beginning, dear readers? We hadsaid: the servant will wish to reach Allah. Allah Teal will hear,know, see this wish. Allah will in turn wish to make him reachHimself. Here is the 125th verse of Al-An'm Sura that makesdefinite that Allah wants to make His servants reach Himself. Hesays: Whose spirit Allah wants to make reach Himself, whom Hewants to make reach hidyet, He slits his breast to (for) Surrender(Islam). Dear readers, if He slits (opens up) his breast youSurrender, what happens? The 22nd verse of Az-Zumar Sura givesan explanatory answer to this question. It says: Allahs lights canenter only the hearts of the persons whose breasts Allah Tealhas opened up to Surrender. The names of these lights in the firstcategory are mercy and virtue. Before our reaching the murshid,only these two lights come down. Let us have a look at the versewhat it expresses:

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    24/An-Nr 21:Y eyyuhellezne men l tettebi hutuvti eytn(eytni),ve men yettebi hutuvtieytni fe innehu yemuru bil fahivel munker(munkeri) ve lev l fadlullhi aleykum verahmetuhu m zek minkum min ehadin ebeden velkinnallhe yuzekk men yeu, vallhu semunalm(almun).

    Oh those who are men! Do not follow the steps of Satan.Whoever follows the steps of Satan is ordered (by his soul and

    Satan) to perpetrate shamelessness (fornication, immoralities)

    and wickedness. If the virtue of Allah had not been upon you

    and His mercy, (if they had not entered your souls heart), none

    of you could have purified his soul for ever, but Allah purifies

    the soul of the person He wishes (by sending down His lights

    into his souls heart). And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

    What should be done? The mercy and the virtue of Allahshould enter your souls heart. How could they enter it? What wasHe saying in the 22nd verse of Az-Zumar Sura? They can enter

    only the hearts of those whose breasts Allah has slit to (for)surrender. What does He say in the 125th verse of Al-An'm Sura?Allah slits the light way only from the breasts to the souls heartsof the ones whom Allah makes reach Himself. If this way does notexist, if Allah Teal has not slit the breast of a person, Allahslights (nurs) cannot reach that persons heart. What happens? If hedoes zikir, do the lights not come down from Allah? Yes, they do.Both rahmet (mercy) and fazl (virtue) come down. Whoever doeszikir, repeats the name of allah as Allah, Allah, Allah, mercyand virtue absolutely reach his breast.

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    7.4- The eleventh stageThese nurs (lights) cannot reach the souls heart. Turn

    back again from the persons breast to Allah. They cannot makeany illumination in the inner world. But after the opening up of theway, mercy and virtue arrive into the souls heart. But the heart(all the hearts) is sealed off. The lights cannot penetrate into theheart. Only the mercy particles can leak therein.

    7.5- The twelfth stageWhen this leakage amounts to 2%, we become the owner

    of hushu (reverence). Allah decrees so in the 16th verse of Al-Hadd Sura:

    57/Al-Hadd 16:E lem yeni lillezne men en tahea kulbuhum li zikrillhive m nezele minel hakk ve l yekn kellezne tl kitbemin kablu fe tle aleyhimul emedu fe kaset kulbuhum, vekesrun minhum fsikn(fsikne).

    Has the time not come yet for the ones who have becomemen that their (souls) hearts may reach hushu with the zikir

    of Allah and that which come down from Hakk (thanks to zikir).

    Let them not be like those to whom the Book had been granted

    previously and since then, a long period of time has passed over

    them and (as they did not do the zikir of Allah within that long

    time) whose hearts have bound kas yet (whose hearts have

    been darkened and hardened and have become sick) (that is, let

    them do zikir so that their hearts do not become darkened). And

    the majority of them are fsk (that is, those who have gone

    astray after their reaching hidyet).

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    7.6- The thirteenth stageThe person who has become the owner of hushu performs

    the requirement prayer. Allah absolutely shows him his murshid.

    2/Al-Baqarah 45, 46:Vesten bis sabri ves salt(slti), ve inneh le kebretun illalel hin(hine). Ellezne yezunnne ennehum mulkrabbihim ve ennehum ileyhi rcin(rcine).Seek special help (istiane) (from Allah) with Patience and(requirement) Prayer. And truly it is a hard thing. But it is not so

    for those who are the owners of hushu, who are certain that

    they shall absolutely reach their Sustainer (in this worldly life)

    and (in the end due to death) and that they shall return to Him.

    7.7- The fourteenth stageVel Asr Sura bears a peculiarity to explain to us a trend

    of 28 stages in its all dimensions. It is one of the briefest but mostcomprehensive Suras. It contains all the All-Wise Quran in its

    own. Dear readers, Imm- fi Excellency too repeats whatAllah Teal says. The All-Wise Quran can not be lost. But tosuppose the impossible, if it were to be lost, Vel Asr Sura coulddisclose to us all the content of it of itself. In reality, Vel AsrSura contains all of the 28 stages. Allah Teal says the ones whoare men for those who are at the first 7 stages; the ones whohave begun ameliorating deeds (righteous deeds) for those whoare at the second 7 stages; the ones who recommend Hakk (TheTruth, The Reality, Allah) (to others) for those who are at thethird 7 stages; the ones who recommend Patience (to others)(the ones who have annihilated the calamity of Impatience

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    together with all other calamities in their souls hearts) for thosewho are at the fourth 7 stages. And here is the end of the Path (thestation of Salah).

    Allah Teal declares in the 54th verse of Hacc sura: Weabsolutely make them reach their murshid (the Straight Path =Srat Mustakm). And He has made them reach him (it). He madethe station of irshad loved to the person. He has got him to

    perform the requirement namaz (prayer). He has shown his

    murshid to the person who has performed the requirement prayer.The person has reached his murshid.