THE ONLY KEY TO HAPPINESS

The Mihr Publications Translated from the Turkish by Nuri Aydomu

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 ...................................................... 8 5.2- The Owners of Hushu (Reverence)................................. 11 5.3- Those who do not wish to reach Allah ............................. 13 5.4- The Warners (Nezirs) ....................................................... 16 5.5- Vel Asr Sura .................................................................. 17 5.5.1- The spirits of those who want to reach Allah reach Him...................................................................................... 24 5.6- Fundamentals ................................................................... 26 5.7- The state of Sahabe .......................................................... 29 6- 28 Stages ................................................................................. 31 6.1- The first stage................................................................... 31 6.2- The second stage .............................................................. 32 6.3- The third stage.................................................................. 33 6.3.1- Zikir (Recitation, Remembrance, Repetition of the Name of Allah as Allah, Allah, Allah)............................ 34 6.4- The fourth stage................................................................ 37 6.5- The fifth, sixth, seventh stages ......................................... 40

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7- The Second 7 stages ............................................................... 43 7.1- The eight stage ................................................................. 43 7.2- The ninth stage ................................................................. 44 7.3- The tenth stage ................................................................. 47 7.4- The eleventh stage............................................................ 49 7.5- The twelfth stage .............................................................. 49 7.6- The thirteenth stage .......................................................... 50 7.7- The fourteenth stage ......................................................... 50 7.7.1- The Purification of The Soul (The Soul Purification)56 7.7.2- Being a mmin (a believer) ..................................... 58 7.7.2.1- The murshid (The spiritual guide) is obligatory 61 7.7.2.2- The four fundamentals of reaching murshids .... 65 7.7.2.3- Being a mmin and the murshid ...................... 66 7.7.2.4- The Conditions of being mmin....................... 70 7.7.2.5- Seven bounties of reaching the murshid............ 73 7.7.2.6- The conditions of heart, belief and characteristic ........................................................................................ 75 7.7.3- To get rid of the Misguidance (Aberration) .............. 78 7.7.3.1- Those who are in Misguidance will go to Hell.. 86 7.7.4- The Soul Purification ................................................ 90 8- The third 7 stages................................................................... 94 8.1- Nefs-i Emmre (The evil-commanding soul)................... 94 8.2- Nefs-i Levvame (The self-accusing soul) ........................ 96 8.3- Nefs-i Mlhime (The inspired soul)................................. 97 8.4- Nefs-i Mutmainne (The Satisfied soul)............................ 97 8.5- Nefs-i Radiye (The soul pleased with Allah) ................... 98 8.6- Nefs-i Mardyye ............................................................... 98 8.7- 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) .................................... 105 10.2- The second heavenly floor ........................................... 106 10.3- The third heavenly floor............................................... 106 10.4- The fourth heavenly floor............................................. 107 10.5- The fifth floor............................................................... 107 10.6- The sixth heavenly floor............................................... 108 10.7- The seventh heavenly floor .......................................... 110 10.7.1- The gate of conquest (opening up) and the cells of destiny (divine determining) ............................................. 110 10.7.2- 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....................................................................... 111 10.7.3- 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 obligatory mandate......................................................................... 116 10.7.4- Our three oaths...................................................... 119 10.7.5- Hidyet and Dallet (Guidance and Misguidance) 124 10.7.6- To merit (to deserve, to be worthy of) Paradise.... 127 10.7.7- To be a saint of Allah............................................ 129 11- The Stations (Posts, Stages) of the Sainthood ................. 130 11.1- The Station of Annihilation (Fen) .............................. 130 11.2- The Station of Everlastingness..................................... 131 11.3- The Station of Asceticism (Zhd) ................................ 132

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11.4- The Station of the Embellished Ones (Muhsins) [The second Surrender].................................................................. 133 11.5- The Station of Ullelbab............................................. 135 11.6- The Station of hlas (The third surrender).................... 138 11.6.1- To be Islam (muslim)............................................ 139 11.6.2- 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) .............. 144 11.7- The Station of Salah (Improvement)............................ 144 11.7.1- The binding and abolishing of the (Free) Will...... 146 12- Islam is Happiness ............................................................. 148 12.1- Happiness in the three worlds ...................................... 150 12.2- Why are the human beings unhappy? .......................... 151 12.3- 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

A Conversation on the Night of Power. What is Islam?

1- Introduction
We offer infinite praises and thanks to Our Exalted Sustainer that He has gathered us together once again at the Sacred Night. Dear readers, this night is the Night of Power. Let the other people continue to celebrate the Night of Power on the 27th night of the month of Ramadan. But the Night of Power is this night. This night, all the members of Divan- Slihn (the Council of the Improved Ones) descend on the surface of the Earth. Besides them the angels charged with certain duties by Allah are together with us while we are performing our prayers, we are conversing now with you. Dear readers, we again offer infinite praises and thanks to Our Exalted Lord (Sustainer) that He has enabled us to get all our brothers and sisters and the ones informed and recommended by them all over the world to perform the 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 of you. We have nothing to do with the ones outside of us, with those who do not become enamoured of Allah. I want to disclose to you only Islam, Islam in the Qurn. Islam lived by Muhammed Mustafa (Peace and blessings be upon him) and sahabe (his companions) but forgotten today. Dear readers, the word of Islam stems from SLM, Sin, Lm, Mm. Among the words stemming from 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 back anything to ones owner unconditionally. So, dear readers, we are charged with becoming Islam by surrendering firstly our spirit, then our physical body and finally our soul to Allah. The Holy Quran commands these surrenders openly and decisively. Here is the 58th verse of An-Nis' Sura: 4/An-Nis' 58: nnallhe yemurukum en tueddl emnti il ehlih ve iz hakemtum beynen nsi en tahkum bil adl(adli), innallhe nimm yezukum bih(bih), innallhe kne seman basr(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 l tettebi hutuvti eytn(eytni), innehu lekum aduvvun mubn(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-Zumar Sura: 39/Az-Zumar 54: Ve enb il rabbikum ve eslim lehu min kabli en yetiyekumul 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 five conditions 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 there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammed (PBUH) is His servant and His messenger). As Islam consists of five conditions, anyone who has carried them out has surrendered himself to Allah, they claim. Tonight, I want to disclose to you how little this content takes place in the All-Wise Qurn and how it is so far from the truths of Allah. First of all, I can decisively say this: It is not possible for anyone carrying out the five conditions of Islam just like they have taught you to enter Heaven. That is, performing the five prescribed daily prayers, fasting, giving purifying alms, going on the

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pilgrimage to Mecca, repeating kelime-i ehdet (that is, saying by oneself L ilhe illallah Muhammeden reslullah = There is no 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 of getting even his spirit to reach Allah, how will he succeed in surrendering his physical body and then his soul to Allah and so surrender 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 of Paradise 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 of Islam 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 that of the soul to Allah have been realized.

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4- The Night of Power

If our Exalted Sustainer permits me, (tonight) I want to explain all the phases to you to my hearts content. Do you know it, dear reader, we had yearned for this. If so, this night is our night, dear readers, you will always remember it. Here, we are altogether, all of us, in the Presence of Allah, heart to heart. We celebrate a Blessed Night: The Night of Power. Those people whose hearts eyes are not open, how should they know that the Divn- Slihn (the Council of The Improved Ones) are emptied this night, dear readers? If you wish, I would like to tell you an anecdote concerning this how should they know, this will contribute to your remembering this night. A hunter shows a bears hide to his guests. He says: I have hunted this bear in Africa. Their friends are looking at it. They say: But this is not an African bear, on the contrary a polar bear. The hunters answer to them: 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 and those who are not the friends of Allah Tonight is the Night of power. The All-Wise Qurn has been sent down in the sky of the planet 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 the guarantee of 10 rewards (merits, hasent) to one reward for all of them. Whoever acquires a degree of merit (reward, sevap), - no matter who he is, even the worst man in the world -, obtains ten degrees 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 100 degrees of reward instead of 10 degrees. This is so until they ascend to the first heavenly floor. At the second heavenly floor (when the spirit has reached the second heavenly floor), they receive 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. This is 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 had worshipped Allah Teal by receiving seven hundredfold rewards during all the night, however many rewards you would have received, you will receive these rewards multiplied by more than 1000 months rewards (Allah Teal declares: The Night of Power is better than 1000 months) Imagine that you will obtain 700 rewards each second during a single night! And multiply them by the seconds of 1000 months! You will receive tonight that many degrees. We are together tonight. Tonight we maintain a conversation. We are together with our Sustainer tonight. Allah Teal wants me to explain the whole Sufism (Tasavvuf, Islam in the Qurn) to you this night. I wish to stress that I am greatly gratified by it. We experience one of the very rare nights, dear readers! A blessed night occurring once in a year. How I wish that you see the ones who are performing the prayer together with us, dear readers! I do know that most of you will see them one day. Now, only few of you can see them. So, let me begin my speech:

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5- 28 stages in general
The establishment of Islam consists of 28 stages. In the normal standards, being men is constituted at the first 7 stages, that is, to wish to reach Allah is formed. Right after this wish, Allah accomplishes what is incumbent on Him. We go towards Allah by one step but He comes to us by ten steps. Let My servant take one step, I shall approach him by ten steps, He says. He has innumerable gifts, favors this point. Beginning from the day when you have reached your murshid (saint guide), they become bounties (nimet). Dear readers, at the second 7 stages, the activity begins. We are in a feverish endeavor in order to reach our murshid. We reach him at the 14th stage. At the moment we reach our murshid, we surpass the 14th stage. Half of the 28 stages have been surpassed. But the journey towards Allah has not begun yet. The voyaging of our spirit towards Allah. It begins immediately after the 14th stage. Our spirit reaches Allah at the 21st stage. It disappears (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 uppermost level the human being can reach in the sight of Allah is the post of salah. Now, I long to display all these beauties to you to my hearts content tonight, peacefully, dear readers! I wish you to experience the same peace, serenity, too. While you are listening to me, you are considered as doing zikir in any way. But listen to me with zikir still again. Take your pulse with your hand, try to listen 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 so pleasure in it twice, dear readers! If so, we begin the introduction to our topic: To wish to reach Allah Allah Teal expresses decisively that all sahbe (the companions of our Prophet Muhammed (PUBH) had wished to reach Allah. Dear readers, you will appreciate what I am going to 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 the realization of those obligations is Paradise. 3. He absolutely warns that the place of those who have not realized them is Hell. 4. He definitely gives sahbe as patterns. Throughout the four phases, sahbe have been presented as patterns (models). So, thanks to four fundamentals we attain to the concept of wishing to reach Allah, that is, of becoming men. A human being either wishes to reach Allah or does not wish to reach Him. Allah Teal wants you to reach Him in any case. If you wish to, He guarantees that He absolutely shall realize it.

5.1- The Guarantee of Allah

Here 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), ve huves semul alm(almu). Ve men chede fe innem yuchidu li 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 being capable of doing zikir. Our Master, The Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) says: Lesser fights (combats, battles, cihad- sagr) have ended. Now, greater fight, striving, begins. You will struggle against the most inexorable enemy in the universe (against your soul and Satan). And the key to it is ZKR. That is, repeating (remembering) the name of Allah as Allah, Allah, Allah You will 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 part of your right breast (2 thousand zikirs), the third one is the upper part of your left breast (2 thousand zikirs), the fourth one is the upper part of your right breast (2 thousand zikirs), the fifth one is the junction of cavicles (collarbones) (2 thousand zikirs), the sixth place is the joining of your eyebrows (2 thousand zikirs), the seventh one is the joining of your hair with your forehead. All the remaining zikirs are done there. So, dear readers, each part of zikir has 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 the place where your souls heart is situated, that is, the lower part of your breast. So, you will apply the methods together. You will listen 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 our night, the Night of Allahs friends. Let them celebrate it on the 27th night of Ramadan. But we celebrate this night in which all the members of the Council of the Improved ones come down, the angels sent down by Allah descend, all the saints of the highest level are charged with a duty. This night is the Night of Power. Dear readers, as you know it, Allah Teal declares: That day determined by Allah will absolutely come. Is it just so? No, it is not. Allah Teal expresses in the 29th verse of Hd Sura: 11/Hd 29: Ve y kavmi l eselukum aleyhi ml(mlen), in ecriye ill alllhi ve m ene bi tridillezne men, innehum mulk rabbihim 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 reach Allah. Who are they? Those who want to reach Allah, dear readers. Is it just so? No, it is not so again. Here are the 156 and 157th verses of Al-Baqarah Sura. Allah Teal discloses: 2/Al-Baqarah 156, 157: Ulike aleyhim salvtun min rabbihim ve rahmetun ve ulike humul 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 hud min badi m beyyennhu lin nsi fl kitbi, ulike yelanuhumullhu 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 and the ones who do not wish to. One part of the ones who wish to make it reach Him are the ones who are sure, utterly certain that they will make their spirit reach Allah. These are the owners of hushu (reverence). Let us see who are those who are the owners of hushu. This night is that of discoveries. Whichever subject you wish to be investigated, we will reach it and elucidate it. Who are the owners of hushu? Allah Teal explains in the 45 and 46th verses of AlBaqarah Sura: 2/Al-Baqarah 45, 46: Vesten bis sabri ves salt(slti), ve inneh le kebretun ill alel hin(hine). Ellezne yezunnne ennehum mulk rabbihim 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 and requirement prayer) [Istiane is a special help as regards asking his murshid from Allah, that can be asked from Allah only) Ask Allah for 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 to reach Allah but they reckon that they will be saved by reaching their murshid. And they perform the requirement prayer. Allah does not make the ones who do not want to reach Allah their murshid show. And this time, they say: Allah does not make me show 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 in your souls heart, dear readers, Allah hears, knows and sees this wish. 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 owner of hushu, perform the requirement prayer, then you see your murshid, He says. And He continues: These owners of hushu are absolutely certain that they will decisively make their spirit reach

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Allah before dying, they absolutely believe also that their spirit will be made to turn back to Allah by Azrael (PUH). Allah Teal uses the particle inne twice: of a certainty, surely, assuredly So, dear readers, those owners of hushu (those who can see their murshids when they perform their requirement prayer) have wished to reach Allah and are certain: we will absolutely reach our murshid, 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 fe yumin bih fe tuhbite lehu kulbuhum, ve innallhe le hdillezne 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 firstly their murshid and then Allah, out of the two groups of people.

5.3- Those who do not wish to reach Allah

And 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 want to reach Allah, reckon that he has performed all his daily prayers during 30 years in a constant manner. Suppose that he has fasted during 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 prescribed prayers, fasted, given improving alms, gone on the pilgrimage to Mecca. 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 them during 40 years, 50 years. Because Allah says in the 7 and 8 verses of Ynus Sura: 10/Ynus 7, 8: nnellezne l yercne liken ve rad bil haytid duny vatmeenn 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 Teal says in the 5 and 6th verses of Al-Ankabt Sura: 29/Al-Ankabt 5, 6: Men kne yerc likallhi fe inne ecelallhi let(letin), ve huves 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 reach Allah. 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 before dying. They are pleased with this lowly life. (They do not reckon that there is an other world beyond this world, that it is necessary for the spirit to be made to reach Allah by a journeying named seyr-i slk on a Straight Path (Srat Mustakm). The worldly life satisfies them, they are pleased with it. They are unaware of Our Signs (verses). Dear readers, what will be the end of those who are unmindful of the Divine Signs (verses)? Allah Teal declares it in 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 (the degrees) they have acquired. In which case, there are two facts: 1. To wish to reach Allah, to attain to an absolute Salvation. Why? Because Allah Teal promises in the 29th verse of Hd Sura, in the 5 and 6th verses of Al-Ankabt Sura and in the 156 and 157th verses of Al-Baqarah Sura that those who long to reach Allah will absolutely reach Hidyet, that is that they will definitely make their spirit reach Allah. 2/Al-Baqarah 157: Ulike aleyhim salvtun min rabbihim ve rahmetun ve ulike humul 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 hud min badi m beyyennhu lin nsi fl kitbi, ulike yelanuhumullhu 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 they will 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 to them (their second duty). Dear readers, it is Allah that appoints the Warner. All the Messengers whom Allah Teal appoints as warners are at the same time the Messengers of that community (kavm). The Messengers (rsul) have been living at present in all the communities in the world. Each one of these Messengers is charged with teaching his community the signs (verses) of Allah with its own language. They are commissioned with warning them and giving glad tidings to them. Dear readers, now, this mission has been performing. Glad tidings to you that you will absolutely be saved, you will decisively reach Allah if you long to reach Him. But, if you are unaware of this part of the All-Wise Qurn that is, if you do not know that you have to reach Allah, then you perform the five conditions of Islam throughout your life and you go 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 the ones who know and the ones who do not know equal?. Dear readers, those who will go to Hell will go there only because they do not know this reality. Imagine this that the great majority of the people in our country are not informed of these truths. And the Place 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 then died. 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 of Allah. Why? Because Allah has promised: Whoever wants to reach Me, I surely want to make him reach Myself (first matter). Whomever I want to make reach Myself, I absolutely make him reach Myself (second matter). Whomever I make reach Myself, I absolutely introduce him into My Paradise. I do it, says Allah Teal, 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 by Allah Teal from it. You are obliged to want to reach Allah by that free will. Either you want to and you will be saved or you do not want to and then Allah Teal is not responsible for your going to Hell. You are responsible for it yourself. Dear readers, is it 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 to Paradise. Does he really enter it? Yes, it does, indeed.

5.5- Vel Asr Sura

Dear 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 ve tevsav 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 Teal declares that they will absolutely attain to the Salvation in Vel Asr Sura. Now let us consider carefully the content. We will see this, dear readers: To wish to reach Allah is the Salvation of itself. Because whoever wants to reach Allah, as I am going to explain it to you, Allah Teal takes out vakra (weight) from the ear of his souls heart, takes away ekinnet (obstacles) from his souls heart, removes the invisible curtain (hicb- mestre) between him and the post of irshad. The ones whose invisible curtain has been removed 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, dear readers: 67/Al-Mulk 8, 9, 10: Tekdu temeyyezu minel gayz(gayzi), kullem ulkye fh fevcun seelehum hazenetuh e lem yetikum nezr(nezrun). Kl bel kad cen nezrun fe kezzebn ve kuln m nezzelallhu min ey'in entum ill f dallin kebr(kebrin). Ve kl lev kunn nesmeu ev na'klu m kunn f ashbis sar(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 of whom vakra has been taken out, from the souls hearts of whom ekinnet (obstacles) have been taken away are to be found in the Paradise of Allah, dear readers. They are named those who have become men, that is, those who want to reach Allah. In which case, to be men is the starting point of the salvation. And only those who know are capable of benefiting from these magnificent gifts. Those who do not know cannot be saved even though they have performed all the worships throughout their lives, that is, they have performed the daily prescribed prayers, they have fasted, given alms, gone on the pilgrimage to Mecca, repeated the Islamic testimony of faith: l ilhe illallah, Muhammeden

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Resllullah = There is no go but Allah, Muhammed is the Messenger of Allah by themselves. But a person only wants to reach Allah and then dies. His worship is naught but is saved. Because Allah Teal hears, knows and sees the sign of wishing to reach Allah in the souls heart of that person. Just at that moment He takes action. What does 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 of whom vakra has been taken out begins to conceive what the post of irshad has uttered. In other words, he is sure that they are the words coming down from Hakk (Allah). Then, he makes them go down into his souls heart and comprehend them. To be sure is the constitution of the comprehension. Dear readers, the invitation of Allah is the invitation to Himself (His Essence, Zt). 14 centuries ago, 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 those who 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 to Allah for the prayers not performed previously together with our daily prescribed prayers. In the Sunna of midmorning, we perform the obligatory prayers of midday, afternoon and evening times as a compensation. In the tahaccud (after midnight) prayer, we perform the Facr (early morning), Isha (late evening) and vitir prayers. Thus, we pay one days compensation to Allah for the 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 days compensation to Allah for the prayers not performed previously. Dear readers, we first of all and more than 90% of our brothers and sisters are the ones who have entered this way later on and have 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 prayers not performed previously. So, the way of Allah Teal is this. Have you discerned the difference between the ones who know and 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, The Prophet Muhammed (PBUH): You cannot cause the one you love the most to reach hidyet, you cannot make his spirit reach ME. Why does He say so? He has not said what concludes it; He has not said there this: unless that person wants to reach Allah. But when we consider the content of the All-Wise Qurn, we see that it is not possible for a human being to be saved unless he wants to reach Allah. Allah Teal announces in the 45 and 46th verses of Al-Isr' Sura:

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17/Al-Isr' 45, 46: Ve iz karatel kurne cealn beyneke ve beynellezne l yuminne bil hreti hicben mestr(mestren). Ve cealn al kulbihim ekinneten en yefkahhu ve f znihim vakr(vakran), ve iz zekerte rabbeke fl kurni vahdehu vellev 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 put ekinnet (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 in the souls heart of those who do not want to reach Allah. There exists an invisible curtain (hicb- mestra) between them and the post of irshad, dear readers. If there were not, they too would go to Paradise. 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 live them. Nobody is out of this rule. Dear readers, just like the earthquake of this year. This earthquake arising from changes beneath the earths surface (from the breaking of the lines of fissure) and causing more than 50 thousand people to die. That Allah Teal determines the destiny is a fact of the All-Wise Quran. Allah determines the destiny (Kader) and the death is a destiny for all human beings. Allah Teal who is the Possessor of such 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: I should ensure such an easiness for all of My servants that they can go 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 send all the human beings to Paradise (and him to Hell) could not naturally bear it. Therefore, he had to make the human beings forget all the beauties of Allah. Satan has managed to make them forget 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 came to forget. What did you come to forget? I have forgotten it. All the human beings too have forgotten so that to wish to reach Allah is an obligation. Dear readers, there is a content in the sight of Allah. At the moment wishing to reach Allah appears in the souls heart of a man, no matter under what conditions it appears, that man is saved. Thanks to such a plain reason, as certain as this. You all know that all sahabe have gone to the Paradise of Allah. When we take the events into consideration, we see this: Allah Teal has created 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 person will attain to the Salvation at the moment he wishes to reach Allah. Now, we see for instance that all sahabe have wanted to reach Allah. Have they? Let us have a look at the verses. Allah Teal 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 reach Allah reach Him
So, all sahabe have reached hidyet, the spirits of all of them have reached Allah. Allah Teal say in a clear and obvious way this: Only the spirits of those who want to reach Allah reach Him. Let us look at the verses. Allah Teal says in the 20, 21 and 22th verses of Ar-Ra'd Sura as follows: Ellezne yfne bi ahdillhi They 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, the covenant they have given to Allah concerning the fact that they will make their spirits reach Allah) Whoever does not violate his covenant is the one who carries out that covenant. Allah Teal brings the truth to light by underlying 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 (to make reach), so, and they make reach that which Allah commands to make reach Him. This is the covenant (msk), dear readers. The state of making reach that which (the spirit) Allah orders to make reach Himself. The state of that persons reaching hidyet. 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 their Lord. ve yehfne sel hisb(hisbi). And they shudder at the probable bad account. Dear readers, who are the owners of huu? Those who long to make their spirits reach Allah before death and are certain that they will make them reach Him. Let us consider the verses. Are you able to see the golden causal chain between them? Those who want to reach Allah: These are the ones who want to make their spirits reach Allah and they are named the owners of hushu. Vellezne saberbtige vechi rabbihim And 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 that Allah orders to make reach Him). Why? The owners of hushu (reverence). Who? Those who want to make their spirits reach Allah, 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-Baqarah before 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 spirit reach 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 reach a conclusion: All sahabe have made their spirits reach Allah. Who are they? They are the ones who want to make their spirits reach Allah. According to the 22nd verse of Ar-Ra'd Sura, only those who want to make their spirits reach Allah an make them reach Allah. Let us terminate the first 7 stages now. But it is not suitable to pass over without emphasizing the most important thing: All sahabe longed to make their spirits reach Allah. Now, we put the fact in its proper place by comparing the Religion in the Quran with the religion of today beginning from 4 fundamentals.

5.6- Fundamentals
1. Allah Teal has made obligatory (farz): You shall want to reach Allah. 2. He has declared the result: Whoever does not want to reach Allah will go to Hell.

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3. Allah Teal has announced the reward: Whoever wants to reach Allah will go to Paradise. 4. Allah Teal has given a pattern (model) in the history. He has given sahabe as patterns. Thus, dear readers. I ask you again: Is this not a good news? It is possible for all human beings to enter Paradise? (by wishing to reach Allah) through a single wish (demand). Perhaps, the persons who do not know the following component parts of the subject will ask us some questions. - Well, all right. That person has wished to reach Allah but he has not been performing his obligations. How will he be saved? Dear readers, whoever does not want to reach Allah does not perform his duties towards Allah. He cannot enter the way in any way, he merely thinks that he has entered it. But whoever wants to reach Allah absolutely perform his duties. Do you know why? Because Allah makes them perform their duties. It is Allah that puts the love of performing them into his heart and makes impossible for him to give them up. Once he will want to reach Allah, he will deeply long for performing his worships. Pay close attention to what I say: How clear and obvious, how easy an event: I tell you to leave yourselves to Allah. 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 is He who will make you do them. He will put the love for prayers, fasting, zikir (Remembrance, Recitation) into your hearts, dear readers. 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 the All-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 our conversations have been recorded into cassettes. In which points you have hesitations, take the involved cassette, put the Quran opened before you. Listen to the cassette. Look into the verses of the All-Wise Quran, you will see these verses corresponding to that point. It is He who makes us speak. Dear readers, I am telling you now: The Doomsday has come. 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 but Allah, Muhammed is the Messenger of Allah by yourself. But they had not instructed you in reaching Allah, you did not know it. You will go to Hell by repeating ceaselessly: As they did not instruct me in reaching Allah, why is it my fault?, dear readers. I know, Satan is insinuating whisperings into the hearts of those who are listening to us for the first time (as they are unaware of these great truths of Allah): So many people do not know their religion, but he only knows it, is it so? (They intend us). But, in the years to come, within 3 or 4 years, dear readers, everyone will learn that these are the truths of Allah. Because the humankind will feel the obligation of investigating it one day. They will say to themselves: What does he say? Let us control what he has been saying by comparing them with what the Quran says. What has this falsifier been saying? (They use this term for us, the pretended prophet. They claim that we are so). Thats all very well but have we not right to ask a little question? How is it that that falsifier throws Satan to the ground, saves the human beings from the claws of Satan? So, look out! What does Satan say? Hear what he has been saying from them. They pretend that he says: There is nothing 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 you do not want to reach Allah, the place you will go is Hell. But if you want to reach Allah, then your salvation is definite. Do not forget 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 Allah will absolutely enter Paradise. 4. He has given sahabe as patterns. All sahabe have longed to reach Allah. Not enough. All of them have gained the Paradise of Allah. Here is the 100th verse of At-Taubah Sura: 9/At-Taubah 100: Ves sbiknel evvelne minel muhcirne vel ensri velleznettebehum bi hsnin radyallhu anhum ve rad anhu ve eadde lehum cenntin tecr tahtehel enhru hlidne fh 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 yecidnehu mektben indehum ft tevrti vel incli yemuruhum bil marfi ve yenhhum anil munkeri ve yuhllu lehumut tayyibti ve yuharrimu aleyhimul habise ve yedau anhum srahum vel agllellet knet aleyhim, fellezne men bih ve azzerhu ve nasarhu vetteben nrellez unzile meahu ulike humul 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? My sahabe (Companions) are just like the stars in the sky. Whoever depends on them reaches hidyet. Dear readers, his sahbe have been living now, too. We are his Companions (sahbe). You are so, too. The wayfarers of this way, those who are journeying towards Allah, you too are so.

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

6.1- The first stage

The first stage: events. Everybody lives the events, evaluates them wrongly (incorrectly). He thinks that the events that rejoice him are good and the events that sadden him are bad. Whereas, Allah Teal says: There are some events, they rejoice you and you reckon that they are good but they are bad. There are some other events, they grieve you, your think that they are bad but they are good. Dear readers! What is the result? Allah Teal never takes you rejoicing at the events or your grieving at them into consideration. Do you obtain grades (degrees) or lose them on account of those events? This is essential for Him. If you acquire degrees, this event is good, if you lose degrees, that event is bad in the sight of Allah. The first stage is this, living the events and evaluating them erroneously.

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6.2- The second stage

At the second stage, you have to do this evaluation carefully. You will compare the events and you will think: Why did Allah Teal make this event befall me? and you have to come to a decision. The decision at this moment: To want to reach Allah or not to want to reach Him. You are at a forked road as important as to be or not to be The ones who want to reach Allah 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 huge community of MIHR knows the divine truths. We know that there are a lot of people who know the divine truths but for now they do not want to reveal themselves. But we know about them. Dear readers, the truths of Allah have never changed. There has been no other religion than Islam, (that is, than surrendering oneself to Allah). The first phase of surrendering is the human spirits reaching Allah (seyr-i slk, journeying towards Allah). Do not forget: The salvation of men depends on what we have been saying. Everybody will be saved thanks to such an easy cause and the salvation will unfortunately not be possible for the men who did not do this (merely because they did no want to reach Allah). The great majority of men think so: I do not damage anyone. I am leading a spotless life in the world. In that case, Allah will absolutely make me reach His paradise in this or that way (even if He throws me into His Hell, He will decisively take me therefrom). In any case, I believe in Allah, therefore I am a mmin (believer), and there is a verse in the Quran saying that those 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 conditions of attribute (quality). Let alone possess them, they are unaware of what those may be. And they think they are deserving of Heaven.

6.3- The third stage

And 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, he cannot pass on to the third stage. Dear readers, you are at the turning point of your life. You wanted to reach Allah or you did not want to. At this moment, you are of the ones who did not want to reach Him. A new horizon is being opened before you. If you want to, you reach the third stage which is the stage of salvation leaving behind yourself the second stage. But if you do not want to, you have made your choice. You have chosen Hell yourself. Dear readers, there is a saying: well, prove it! Is the shortest way not the verification of those words? Do not be taken in the crookedness of Satan: So many people do not know it, only he knows it!? Ask this question to yourself, too but together with one other question: If Allah teaches him? Is this not possible? Because this matter will turn out to be true within 3 4 years. The human beings will scrutinize all that we have said and will attain to the firm conviction that all we have said is but pure truth. But then, 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 second stage. But, as we have already emphasized it, he has performed the daily 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 of Islam! Did you ever think? If there is no zikir, there is no Salvation (Deliverance), Did you ever think of this truth, dear readers? If there is no zikir, there is not the soul purification of yours. If there is no zikir, there is not your spirits reaching Allah. If there is no zikir, there is not your physical bodys becoming a servant to Allah. You cannot carry out any of the obligations of Allah. Examine the 32 obligations, the 54 obligations of the Islamic catechism. Is there zikir in them? You will see that there is not. Those who have stolen the camel have stolen it together with its 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 8 Vezkurisme rabbike ve tebettel ileyhi tebtl(tebtlen). Repeat the name of your Sustainer and turn to Him (reach Him) 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 you do 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, repeat the name of Allah with too much zikir. [Pass more than half of the day with zikir. The period of time when you repeat the name of Allah must be more than the time when you do not do zikir. He did 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 kitben mevkt(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 three sorts of zikir are obligatory, are they not? Take any Islamic catechism containing 32 obligations, 54 obligations, search for zikir therein. You will see that there is no zikir therein, dear readers. That accursed Satan has managed to annihilate zikir, this greatest worship that will save the human beings. Is it the greatest worship? Yes, it is indeed. Is it even greater than the prayer (namaz)? Yes, it is so. You will naturally say: Nobody has said anything 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 the religion, but it is not the greatest worship. Here is the 45th verse of Al-Ankabt Sura:

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Utlu m hye ileyke minel kitbi Read (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 ekber But the zikir (remembrance) of Allah is the greatest (worship). I do not say this, dear readers, He says. So, whatever He says is beautiful just like brahim Hakk Excellency says: Let us see 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? The repetition of the name of Allah by a person. Thus, Allah Teal sends down his mercy, virtue and blessings into the souls heart of that 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 the third 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 stage

Thus, 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 heart and 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 of Allah Teal with His rahm = All-Compassionate Name over your head. You are at the fifth stage as Allah Teal has taken out the secret curtain. You are at the sixth stage as He has taken out vakra (weight) out of your souls heart. You are at the seventh stage 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 53th verse of Ysuf Sura: 12/Ysuf 53: Ve m uberriu nefs, innen nefse le emmretun bis s ill m rahime 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 make them reach from the starting stage, the stage of Emmre, to the stages of Levvme, Mlhme, Mutmainne, Rdiye, Mardyye and Tezkiye). So, we are arriving at a result starting from what Yusuf Excellency has said. Allah Teal who has heard, known and seen this demand (wish) in the souls heart of the person who has wished to reach Allah by arriving at the third stage immediately begins to act. There is a secret curtain named hicb- mestre between that person and the post of irshad The human beings were hating him due to that secret curtain. First of all, Allah Teal takes it out. Those people who were bearing hatred towards him formerly begin now to crave for him. They ask him from Allah Teal by performing the requirement prayer and those people are the ones who want to reach Allah. They are the ones who are most certain that they will assuredly make their spirits reach Allah before dying. Now, Allah Teal turns anger, grudge they felt in their souls hearts into love by taking out that secret curtain in their souls hearts. Then He takes out vakra (weight) out of their hearts ears and they begin to hear, dear readers. Allah Teal declares in the 36th verse of Al-An'm Sura: 6/Al-An'm 36: nnem yestecbullezne yesmen(yesmene), vel mevt yebasuhumullhu 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 srtin 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 is Srat Mustakm (the Straight Path)? If I ask you so, you will answer such like: the main road, the highway But pay heed: Srat Mustakm is the name of the path leading us to Allah. The 175th verse of An-Nis' Sura makes definite this definition: 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 kitben mevkt(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 can refute it. The verse is extremely plain. Srat Mustakm is a path leading to Allah. Here also, Allah Teal says: He invites to the Essence (Zt) of Allah. Because the Abode of Selm (Surrender, Peace, Repose) is His Essence, Himself. Because He makes you reach the Straight Path in order to make you reach the Straight Path (Srat Mustakm), that means that He will make you reach His Essence, Himself. Dear readers, tonight is our night. The night of the Friends of Allah. The Night of Power (Kadir). We live a night more beneficial (better) than 1000 months. I want you not to forget these beauties. Tonight, I will try to explain to you the whole of Tasavvuf (Sufism, Islam in the Quran). The real Islam, the Islam of Allah. This is so a warning to all the ones who deem that Islam consists merely of five conditions. Dear readers, tonight, I explain this to you.

6.5- The fifth, sixth, seventh stages

So, what was Allah Teal doing? He was taking away ekinnet out of the souls heart of the person and putting instead ihbat. He says this in the 54th verse of Al-Hajj Sura: 22/Al-Hajj 54: Ve li yalemellezne tul lme ennehul hakku min rabbike fe yumin bih fe tuhbite lehu kulbuhum, ve innallhe le hdillezne men il srtn mustakm(mustakmin). hbat (a computer system enabling the comprehension) has been 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 that what the post of irshad says are truth words, we put ihbat into their souls hearts, says Allah Teal. He declares also this: We absolutely make them reach their murshids (We absolutely make them reach the Straight Path (Srat 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)? In order to make the murshids beloved of them. In order to make them reach the post of irshad (murshids). That fact that our dear friends reject by saying: there are no murshids We have arrived at the seventh stage, dear readers. Allah Teal has taken out vakra out of the souls heart, the persons have begun to comprehend the things related to the irshad (saint guidance) 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 all during their lifetime. You know, Allah gives a mosquito as a parable to the human beings. I too give it as a parable just like in the Turkish proverb literally so: A mosquito is a musical instrument for the ones who perceive, drum and pipe are not enough for those who do not comprehend, that is, a word is enough to the wise. Allah Teal says: Are the ones who know and 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. Allah determines those who want to reach Him at the fourth stage by hearing, knowing and seeing that wish and immediately begins to act. What have we done? A single thing: We have wished to reach Allah. What He expects from us is that far in any case. Let us see what He has done: 1. He has taken out the secret curtain (hicb- mestre). We are at the fifth stage. 2. He has taken out vakra out of our hearts ear. We are at the 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. He has given us a guarantee: He will absolutely make us reach our murshid. So, we have arrived at the seventh stage? We are named those who have become men. Have we understood now what being men means? Being men is to be the owner of belief who wants to reach Allah, dear readers. What does Allah Teal say in Vel Asr Sura? Those who are men will absolutely be saved. Those who are not so will absolutely go to Hell. (Those are the ones who are in utter frustration (loss), but once he is men, he will decisively be delivered). Now, if we long to reach Allah, in that case, what is in question for all the human beings is to reach that honor. We have arrived at the seventh stage and become men. Do you think that Allah will bring His help to a halt? What had He done? He had begun to manifest Himself with His Rahm = AllCompassionate name over the head of the person (4th stage). He had 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 heart and put instead ihbat. It was Allah Teal that was making them all the time. We have taken a single step towards Him, we wanted only to reach Him. He has taken five steps towards us. Has He ceased there? No, He has not, dear readers. Let us see how many further steps He will take: We have arrived at the seventh stage. We are named those 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 stage
What happens then? See what happens: The sunna of Allah (The perfectly established and infallibly functioning order of Allah in the immense universe) reaches our souls heart. 64/At-Taghbun 11: M esbe min musbetin ill bi iznillh(bi iznillhi), ve men yu'min billhi yehdi kalbeh(kalbehu), vallhu bikulli ey'in alm(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 reaches our (souls) heart? It does extremely beautiful things.

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7.2- The ninth stage

He 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 kalbin munb(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) heart turn to Him. He makes His lights (nrs) descend in pairs. He announces that these lights of Allah will enter into the souls heart of the human being in the 22nd verse of Az-Zumar Sura and He expresses 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 mesniye takarru minhu culdullezne yahevne rabbehum, summe telnu culduhum ve kulbuhum il zikrillh(zikrillhi), zlike hudallhi yehd bih men yeu, ve men yudlilillhu fe m lehu min 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. He says nezzele, that is, from above downwards but the light door of our souls heart is not turned to Allah, but to Satan. What must the Sunna of Allah do? The infallible system administering the splendid limitless universe renders the light door of our souls heart turned to Allah. This is the third process (operation) in our heart. 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 the comprehension. Ekinnet remains to the ones who do not want to reach Allah. They cannot comprehend. Vakra remains to the ones who do not want to reach Allah. They are unable to hear what we say, dear readers. Their ears receive the sounds but their intellect cannot grasp the gist of the truth, reach its meaning. There is vakra in the ears. Dear readers, do you know how splendidly Allah Teal has designed everything? The devilish door is the darkness door. There is no seal and no obstacle on it. Allah Teal has set Satan free to convey his darknesses into your souls heart as he wishes. But He does not open up the seal on the light door of the souls heart of a person unless he wishes to reach Allah. Let alone 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 these treasuries 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. I do not intervene in the free will of My servants, I sent down My Holy 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 cannot deduce from them any useful result, if you cannot comprehend that you will not be able to reach Paradise unless you long to reach Allah, then mugging all those books up is of no use to you. And this is the useless science, dear readers. That is why Allah Teal says: Are the ones who know and the ones who do not know equal? That is why Allah Teal says about some people: The ones to whom science (knowledge) has been granted, those who are the owners of science. He reiterates: Will you still not think? 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. And the human beings have still been turning the obligation of Allah down. Why does Allah Teal warn: the majority of humankind will go to Hell? This is for this reason. Because they cannot use their intellect. Allah Teal has sent down His All-Wise Quran. He explains to the wise how they will use their intellect. You will wish to reach Allah, He says. They say: No, we will not want to reach Him, because our scholars do not teach us so. Those who wanted 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 to Himself. 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 lil islm(islmi), ve men yurid en yudllehu yecal sadrehu dayyikan haracen, ke ennem yassaadu fs semi, kezlike yecalllhur 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 had said: the servant will wish to reach Allah. Allah Teal will hear, know, see this wish. Allah will in turn wish to make him reach Himself. Here is the 125th verse of Al-An'm Sura that makes definite that Allah wants to make His servants reach Himself. He says: Whose spirit Allah wants to make reach Himself, whom He wants to make reach hidyet, He slits his breast to (for) Surrender (Islam). Dear readers, if He slits (opens up) his breast you Surrender, what happens? The 22nd verse of Az-Zumar Sura gives an explanatory answer to this question. It says: Allahs lights can enter only the hearts of the persons whose breasts Allah Teal has opened up to Surrender. The names of these lights in the first category are mercy and virtue. Before our reaching the murshid, only these two lights come down. Let us have a look at the verse what it expresses:

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24/An-Nr 21: Y eyyuhellezne men l tettebi hutuvti eytn(eytni), ve men yettebi hutuvti eytni fe innehu yemuru bil fahi vel munker(munkeri) ve lev l fadlullhi aleykum ve rahmetuhu m zek minkum min ehadin ebeden ve lkinnallhe yuzekk men yeu, vallhu semun alm(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 Allah should enter your souls heart. How could they enter it? What was He 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 hearts of the ones whom Allah makes reach Himself. If this way does not exist, if Allah Teal has not slit the breast of a person, Allahs lights (nurs) cannot reach that persons heart. What happens? If he does zikir, do the lights not come down from Allah? Yes, they do. Both rahmet (mercy) and fazl (virtue) come down. Whoever does zikir, repeats the name of allah as Allah, Allah, Allah, mercy and virtue absolutely reach his breast.

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7.4- The eleventh stage

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

7.5- The twelfth stage

When this leakage amounts to 2%, we become the owner of hushu (reverence). Allah decrees so in the 16th verse of AlHadd Sura: 57/Al-Hadd 16: E lem yeni lillezne men en tahea kulbuhum li zikrillhi ve m nezele minel hakk ve l yekn kellezne tl kitbe min kablu fe tle aleyhimul emedu fe kaset kulbuhum, ve kesrun minhum fsikn(fsikne). Has the time not come yet for the ones who have become men 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 kasyet (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 stage

The 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 ill alel hin(hine). Ellezne yezunnne ennehum mulk rabbihim 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 stage

Vel 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 most comprehensive Suras. It contains all the All-Wise Quran in its own. Dear readers, Imm- fi Excellency too repeats what Allah Teal says. The All-Wise Quran can not be lost. But to suppose the impossible, if it were to be lost, Vel Asr Sura could disclose to us all the content of it of itself. In reality, Vel Asr Sura contains all of the 28 stages. Allah Teal says the ones who are men for those who are at the first 7 stages; the ones who have begun ameliorating deeds (righteous deeds) for those who are at the second 7 stages; the ones who recommend Hakk (The Truth, The Reality, Allah) (to others) for those who are at the third 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 those who are at the fourth 7 stages. And here is the end of the Path (the station of Salah). Allah Teal declares in the 54th verse of Hacc sura: We absolutely make them reach their murshid (the Straight Path = Srat Mustakm). And He has made them reach him (it). He made the 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. Dear readers, now, we have a look at the scene: Who are there on the scene? 1. There is the Imm of the Era (1st factor) 2. There are the angels that take on the Arsh (the Divine Throne) waiting ready in rows there. (2nd factor) 3. There is the murshid (3rd factor). 4. There is the mrd (disciple), the one who wants to reach Allah (4th factor) And an event occurs there. Only two persons are allowed to speak: The murshid and the mrd. Both have to speak the truth. If they do not speak the truth, the second phase is not realized. Allah Teal describes this scene in the 38th verse of An-Naba' Sura: 78/An-Naba' 38: Yevme yekmur rhu vel meliketu saff(saffen), l yetekellemne ill men ezine lehur rahmnu ve kle sevb(sevben). On that day, the Spirit (the spirit of the Imam of the Era) and the angels in rows (the angels that take on the Divine Throne (Arsh) stand. Nobody apart from the ones to whom the All-

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Merciful gives permission (the murshid and the murd) can speak and (when the murd speaks) he speaks the Truth (that is, l ilhe illallah = There is no god but Allah). Dear readers, what does Allah Teal mean when He says: the Truth? He gives the answer in the following verse (the 39th verse): 78/An-Naba' 39: Zlikel yevmul hakk(hakku), femen ettehaze il rabbih meb(meben). That (Day) (the day when the hand of the murshid is kissed and one depends on him) is the Day of Truth. Whoever wishes (the one who wishes to reach Allah) takes a road (the Straight Path) that makes himself reach his Sustainer. (Allah) is a Shelter (for the person who has reached Allah). Here, there is a clue. There is a person who wishes to reach Allah and takes the road leading to Allah. (His spirit attains to that road, starts on a journey towards Allah on the Straight Path (Srat Mustakm) and reaches Allah). Thus, a clear definition is given here: the fact that the person wishing to reach Allah takes the road leading himself to Allah. Whether the person speaks the truth or not will be understood from that fact. Either he is a person who has wished to reach Allah and when he has reached Allah, the fact that he has spoken the truth will be proved or he is a person who has not wished to reach Allah and for this reason, as his spirit never set out on a journey towards Allah, his (souls) heart has never spoken the truth. Even if such a person reaches his murshid, this murshid is not his murshid and his spirit never set out on a

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journey towards Allah. In which case, dear readers, let us enter into details of the event. The angels bearing the Divine Throne see the operation in the souls heart and read his thoughts, too. The Imam of the Era does the same. The spirit of the murshid does the same. The honorable scribes of the murd (who wishes to reach Allah) do the same. (They read both the state of his souls heart and his system of thought). Not enough. They film it]. Thus, the honorable scribes film not only our actions but also our thoughts concerning those actions. So, the honorable scribes are there and look into the souls heart. And if there is a wish for reaching Allah in the souls heart of that person, the event of arriving in Allah occurs. If there is not such a wish, nothing occurs, only he repents. He contents himself with repenting. It is never in question that he may enter into the way of Allah. But let us think that this person wishes to reach Allah. The witnesses determine it precisely. When the person says that he wants to reach Allah, what is into his souls heart and what he says are identical and the spirit of the Imam of the Era, leaving the angels that bear the Divine Throne, comes over the head of the person who is the owner of the wish for reaching Allah. Allah Teal declares in the 15th verse of Ghfir Sura: 40/Ghfir 15: Refud derecti zul ar(ari), yulkr rha min emrih al men yeu min bdih li yunzire yevmet telk(telk). (Allah) The Increaser of the degrees and the Possessor of the Divine Throne (Arsh) makes reach a Spirit from His Command (a spirit that will communicate the decrees of Allah) over the person He wishes among His Servants (He wishes to make reach

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Himself) (over the head of the person Allah wants to make reach Himself as he wants to reach Him, too) in order to warn him that the day of his reaching Allah has come. Look carefully at this spirit. This is the spirit of the Imam (spiritual leader) of the Time (Era). Allah who increases the degrees (grades): Because whoever depends on the murshid, all his evils have been transformed into merits. All his negatives degrees have been turned into positive degrees. Thus, this verse includes this truth at the same time, too. Allah Teal announces in the 70 and 71st verses of Furkan Sura as follows: 1. Whoever depends on the murshid is a mmin (a believer). 2. He begins the improving (righteous) deeds. 3. All his sins have been transformed into merits. 4. His spirit set out on a journey towards Allah. 5. His spirit returns to Allah as the one whose repentance has been accepted by Allah. In that case, Allah Teal refers to the 70th verse of AlFurqn by saying: Allah, increaser of the degrees and by saying: Allah, the Possessor of the Divine Throne (Arsh) He refers to the 38th verse of An-Naba' Sura and the 15th verse of Ghfir Sura and says as follows:

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40/Ghfir 15: Refud derecti zul ar(ari), yulkr rha min emrih al men yeu min bdih li yunzire yevmet telk(telk). (Allah) The Increaser of the degrees and the Possessor of the Divine Throne (Arsh) makes reach a Spirit from His command (a spirit that will communicate the decrees of Allah) over the person He wishes among His servants (He wishes to make reach Himself) (over the head of the person Allah wants to make reach Himself as he wants to reach Him, too) in order to warn him that the day of his reaching Allah has come. The spirit sent down from the Presence of Allah comes over the head of that person. And he conveys the command of Allah to that person by saying: your day of reaching Allah has come. Allah Teal declares in the 24th verse of As-Sajdah Sura: 32/As-Sajdah 24: Ve cealn minhum eimmeten yehdne bi emrin lemm saber ve kn bi ytin yknn(yknne). We have made imams (spiritual leders, murshids) from among them (the human beings) in order that they make them reach hidyet by Our command (in order that they make the spirits of the human beings reach Allah) because they have Patience and closeness to Our Signs (verses). He does not say: we have made murshids from among them, but He says: we have made imams from among them. He makes so definite that this mission belongs to the Imam of the Presence Prayer. What are his characteristics? They are to be the Possessor of three yakn (closeness): lmel yakn, aynel yakn

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and hakkul yakn. And the owner of Patience. All the calamities in his souls heart have vanished. That Imam of the Era promulgates the decree he has received from Allah. His spirit comes over the head of the person and communicates to him the order of Allah; Your day of your reaching Allah has come. Now, it is time to turn back to Allah, leave this physical body and our spirit immediately quits it. (Here is the stage immediately after the 14th stage). It arrives at the convent of the murshid we have reached.

7.7.1- The Purification of The Soul (The Soul Purification)

Our spirit witnesses a special from of exposition of the subjects. And a process in the souls heart of the person begins: the soul purification. Let us give you a succinct knowledge about this subject. What is the soul purification? It is an obligatory duty upon us. Allah Teal decrees in the 38, 39, 40th verses of AlMuddaththir Sura: 74/Al-Muddaththir 38, 39, 40: Kullu nefsin bim kesebet rehneh(rehnetun). ll ashbel yemn(yemni). F cennt(cenntin), All the souls are hostages in return for the degrees they have acquired But the owners of the oath (vow) are excepted. They will be in Paradise. Dear readers, who are those who will be in Paradise? The answer is given in the 9th verse of ems Sura:

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Verily, whoever purifies his soul reaches Felh (the Salvation) (enters Paradise). If so, we have sworn to Allah in order to purify our soul; when we realize this vow (oath) the soul purification will be completed and Paradise is the subject for us. What is the content of the soul purification? Let us repeat it once more: 24/An-Nr 21: Y eyyuhellezne men l tettebi hutuvti eytn(eytni), ve men yettebi hutuvti eytni fe innehu yemuru bil fahi vel munker(munkeri) ve lev l fadlullhi aleykum ve rahmetuhu m zek minkum min ehadin ebeden ve lkinnallhe yuzekk men yeu, vallhu semun alm(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, excesses) and wickedness. If the virtue of Allah had not been upon you and His mercy, 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. The soul purification is the operation of throwing more than half of the calamities of your souls heart out and placing instead the good qualities of your spirit therein. When you do it (when you surpass 50% in the purification of your souls heart) this means that you have purified your soul, you have surpassed the halfway. As for its refining (tasfiye), it is to illuminate it

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completely with Allahs lights (nrs). Here you can begin the soul purification, dear readers, because Allah Teal completes also the remaining three operations in your souls heart when you will reach your murshid.

7.7.2- Being a mmin (a believer)

Let us recollect the operations related to the souls heart: 1. Allah Teal takes away ekinnet (a divine computer system preventing the comprehension) out of the souls heart. 2. He puts instead of ekinnet ihbat (a divine computer system enabling the comprehension). 3. He brings the light door of the souls heart from the position turned to Satan to the position turned to Allah. 4. He slits (opens up) a light way from the breast to the souls heart. When you will reach your murshid, the fifth operation: 5. Allah Teal opens up the seal on the souls heart. [Unless you will want to reach Allah, you will not be able to attain to this point. Your souls heart will never be opened up and the kfr (unbelief) in your souls heart remains and leads you directly to Hell. 6. He takes out the word of kfr (unbelief) in the souls heart. 7. He inscribes (writes) instead the mn (belief).

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There are two concepts in the All-Wise Qurn for the souls hearts. There is not a third one. There are either unbelief (kfr) or belief (man) in your souls heart. There is not a vacuum therein. A persons heart can never be empty. Absolutely one of these two words is written in everybodys heart, whoever may be. There is the word of unbelief (kfr) into your souls heart until the moment you will reach your murshid and your souls heart is sealed off. Whether you feel embarrassed or vexed, The All-Wise Qurn uses the word of KFIR (unbeliever) for all the persons in the souls hearts of whom kfr (unbelief) is written. Many people consider this word as an insult. Many people esteem the word of kfir as one who does not believe in Allah. whereas the word of kfr (unbelief) expresses a whole. The expression used in the All-Wise Quran for everybody in the souls heart of whom kfr (unbelief) is written is the word of kfir (unbeliever). Allah Teal inscribes the word of man (belief, faith) into the souls heart after having taking out kfr. Into whosevers heart He has written imn (belief), that person is a mmin (a believer). Mmin is the owner of mn and kfir is the owner of kfr according to the All-Wise Qurn. You have only two alternatives; Either man or kfr will be inscribed into your souls heart. All the human beings die with a word written in their souls hearts. As most people deem it, their saying: l ilhe illallah Muhammeden Reslullah = There is no god but Allah, Muhammed is His Messenger cannot change this word in their souls hearts. Dear readers, do not dawdle away your time with fictitious tales. They palmed off a lot of superstitions upon you as truths. As you knows it, those who have stolen the camel have stolen it together with its collar. Now, we speak of the truths. Here are the 6 and 7th verses of Al-Baqarah Sura:

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2/Al-Baqarah 6, 7: nnellezne kefer sevun aleyhim e enzertehum em lem tunzirhum l yuminn(yuminne). Hatemallhu al kulbihim ve al semhim, ve al ebsrihim gveh(gvetun), ve lehum azbun azm(azmun). Verily, they are unbelievers. Whether you warn them or you do not warn them, this is equal to them. They do not believe. Allah has put a seal on their hearts (on the mercy door on their souls hearts) and on the hearing center (in their souls hearts). And He stretches out a curtain named gveh over their seeing center. There is an immense torment for them. Who are the ones whose hearts are sealed off? Allah Teal answers it in the 23rd verse of Al-Jthiyah Sura: 45/Al-Jthiyah 23: E fe reeyte menittehaze ilhehu hevhu ve edallehullhu al ilmin ve hateme al semih ve kalbih ve ceale al basarih gveh(gveten), fe men yehdhi min badillh(badillhi), e fe l tezekkern(tezekkerne). Did you not see the one who has made his whim his deity and Allah has let him go astray according to a science (knowledge) and has put a seal on his hearing center (in his souls heart) and on his (souls) heart (the comprehension center in his souls heart) and stretches out (a curtain named) gveh on his seeing center (in his souls heart). In which case, who can make him reach hidyet after Allah? Do you not still deliberate (this)? Those who go astray (who are misguided, who are in aberration) are the ones who cannot reach their murshids, whose hearts are sealed off.

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Whose hearts were sealed off? The hearts of the unbelievers. In whose heart the word of man = belief is written, the seal of his souls heart is open 100%. Allah does not write mn into someones heart before the seal has been opened. The fact that Allah writes man into his souls heart is only possible by His taking away kfr (unbelief) out of his souls heart. And before this, He should open up the seal of the souls heart. The souls hearts of all the ones who are in aberration are sealed off.

7.7.2.1- The murshid (The spiritual guide) is obligatory

Now, has Allah Teal made reaching the murshid obligatory, dear readers? 5/Al-M'idah 35: Y eyyuhellezne menttekllhe vebteg ileyhil veslete ve chid f seblihi leallekum tuflihn(tuflihne). O those who are men (who are the owners of man wishing to reach Allah). Be the owners of takva. Ask the one who is the means to make you reach Allah from Him and strive in the way of Allah and thus reach Felh (the Salvation, Paradise). He says to Our Master, the Prophet (PBUH): Say to them: I do not want a wage from you in return for this service. I only want all of you to take the path (the Straight Path) leading to Allah. All sahbe had taken this path. The path leading to Allah. Not enough. As I have already said it, all sahbe were not only the

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ones who had reached Allah but also the ones who had invited the others to Allah together with our Prophet (PBUH). Thus, when you will comprehend what I have been saying to you, when you feel the obligation of defending the All-Wise Quran, you too will be of the ones who will invite the human beings to Allah. Your first duty (mission) is this, dear readers. It is to be the man of Allah and not the man of religion. There is an opposition between them as immense as the white and the black, the Paradise and the Hell. Ask this to yourselves: could you learn what I have been saying to you from somewhere else? Dear readers, we have seen that the dependence on the murshid is obligatory. Allah Teal orders us to reach him in any way. Reach the one who will be the means to make you reach Him. Why does He not say: reach the one who will make you reach Him? Because the one who will make you reach Allah is a single person. But the ones who will the means to make reach Him are thousands, tens of thousands. And Allah Teal has absolutely made someone the means to make them reach Himself. Matter 1. At this moment, a Messenger of Allah lives in each community all over the world. (23/Al-Mu'minn-44; 16/AnNahl-36; 14/Ibrhm-4; 2/Al-Baqarah-87) These are the Warners in all the communities at the same time. Matter 2. These are the saint Messengers, it is out of the question that they may be prophets. The last prophet is our Master, the Prophet (PBUH). Allah Teal declares in the 44th verse of AlMu'minn Sura:

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23/Al-Mu'minn 44: Summe erseln rusulen tetr, kullem ce ummeten resluh kezzebhu fe etbn badahum badan ve cealnhum ehds(ehdse), fe buden li kavmin l yuminn(yuminne). Afterwards, we have sent Our Messengers one after the other, whenever Our Messenger has come to a community, it has denied him and we have added some to others (have brought some right behind others) and we have rendered them legends. Let this community who does not believe be away. Under which conditions they may be, when a messenger of Ours has died, we absolutely appoint an other Messenger instead of him. And according to this verse, in all communities, at this moment the saint messengers have been living. Allah Teal declares in the 36th verse of An-Nahl Sura: 16/An-Nahl 36: Ve le kad beasn f kulli ummetin reslen enibudllhe vectenibt tgt(tgte), fe minhum men hedallhu ve minhum men hakkat aleyhid dalleh(dalletu), fe sr fl ard fanzur keyfe kne kbetul mukezzibn(mukezzibne). Truly, we have sent (brought to life, charged) a Messenger in each community (nation, tribe) in order that they refrain from the Tgt (Satan and his followers) and become the servants of Allah. Some of them did Allah lead to hidyet and some of them have deserved the misguidance (Those who have depended on the Messengers have reached hidyet and those who have not depended on them have deserved the aberration) Make journeys on the Earth and see how the end of the deniers has been. Allah Teal says in the 4th verse of Ibrhm Sura:

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14/Ibrhm 4: Ve m erseln min reslin ill bi lisni kavmih li yubeyyine lehum, fe yudillullhu men yeu ve yehd men ye(yeu), ve huvel azzul hakm(hakmu). We have not sent (brought to life, charged) any Messenger but with the language of his own community in order that he explains to it (with its own language). Thus, Allah abandons those He wishes (those who have not depended on their murshids) in Misguidane and lead to hidyet those He wishes (those who have depended on their murshids). And He is AllMighty, All-Wise (They address them with their own language and communicate to them that which we say to them, says Allah). 13/Ar-Ra'd 7: Li kulli kavmin hd(hdin). There are saint guides in all communities (tribes, nations). Dear readers, there is no community in which a mehdi (hidyetchi, saint guide) has not been living at this moment. The word of hd, within the content of hidyet means both the one who has reached hidyet and the one who has made others reach hidyet. So, there is absolutely a hidyetchi (saint guide) in each community. Allah Teal says in the 123rd verse of T-H Sura: 20/T-H 123: Klehbit minh ceman badukum li badn aduvv(aduvvun), fe imm yetiyennekum minn huden fe menittebea hudye fe l yadllu ve l yek.

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He said: Go down from here, all of you, being enemies of each other. When our hidyet (saint guidance) will come to you from Me, whoever depends on our hidyetchi (saint guide) will never go astray nor be an unfortunate one (fit for Hell). And Allah Teal guarantees that He will absolutely make the ones who have become men reach their murshids in the 54th verse of Al-Hajj Sura. In which case, let us stop at this point. Pay close attention to the four fundamentals, dear readers.

7.7.2.2- The four fundamentals of reaching murshids

1. Has Allah made reaching ones murshid obligatory? Yes, He has. 2. Have all sahbe reached their murshid? Yes, all have, the greatest murshid in the universe, our Master, the Prophet (PBUH). 3. What is the end of the one who has not reached his murshid? As the person has remained in the unbelief (kfr), he will go to Hell (1), as he has remained in Misguidance (dallet) he will go to Hell (2). 4. And Allah Teal has made definite that whoever has reached his murshid will absolutely reach Paradise. In that case, all of the four fundamentals are also valid in the matter of reaching ones murshid. Dear readers, let us consider now: the end of the one who has reached his murshid is definite. Because, at the moment the person has reached his murshid, his spirit has left his physical

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body, mn (belief) has been inscribed into his souls heart, he has begun the soul purification. He has become a mmin thanks to these three reasons. At the moment the person has reached his murshid, he has been saved from misguidance (aberration) and has reached hidyet. Whoever has become a mmin (a believer) will enter Paradise according to the 40th verse of Mmin Sura. Allah Teal decrees there that all the believers will enter Paradise and be provided with incalculable sustenance. On the other hand, 10 verses prove that the persons who could not reach their murshids are in misguidance and will go to Hell and that the other persons, as they have stepped into hidyet, will absolutely enter paradise.

7.7.2.3- Being a mmin and the murshid

Let us have a look at the concept of mmin (believer) altogether: What happens when you have reached the murshid? Let us begin from this point on. On the day you have reached your murshid, the fifth, sixth and seventh operations in your souls heart have been executed: 5. Allah Teal opens up the seal on the souls heart. 6. He takes out the word of kfr (unbelief) in the souls heart. 7. He inscribes (writes) the word of mn (belief) into the souls heart. Seven conditions of heart have been completed. The first condition of being a mmin (a believer) is the completion of seven conditions of heart in your souls heart in any way. Do not forget that these last three conditions cannot be realized in any person unless he has reached his murshid. In which case, at the

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foundation of the obligatoriness of the murshid lies this: Nobody can become a mmin unless he cannot reach his murshid (as mn cannot be written in his souls heart). So, is mn written into the souls heart of a person who has reached his murshid? Let us have a look at this altogether: We had previously spoken to you of the 38 and 39th verses of Nebe Sura. A ceremony of repentance accomplished before the murshid. The existence or non-existence of the wish for reaching Allah in the souls heart of the person. If this wish exists therein, the spirit of that person has reached Allah (as he has spoken the truth). The spirit of the murshid comes over the head of that person and addresses it: Your day of meeting with Allah has come. Leave your physical body according to the 15th verse of Mmin Sura. This person is authorized to give this order to him because he is the Imam of the Era (32/As-Sajdah 24). Now, the spirit of the murshid (the spirit of the Imam of the Era) has come and settled over the head of the person. The spirit of the person has left its physical body and set out on a journey towards Allah. What happens when this spirit settles over his head, dear readers? Consider what the 22nd verse of AlMujadilah Sura says: 58/Al-Mujadilah 22: L tecidu kavmen ymunne billhi vel yevmil hri yuvddne men hddallhe ve reslehu ve lev kn behum ve ebnehum ve ihvnehum ev aretehum, ulike ketebe f kulbihimul mne ve eyyedehum bi rhin minh(minhu), ve yudhluhum cenntin tecr min tahtihel enhru hlidne fh,

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radyallhu anhum ve rad anh(anhu), ulike hizbullh(hizbullhi), e l inne hizbullhi humul muflihn(muflihne). You will never find a community (kavmen) who believes in Allah and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His messenger even if they are their fathers or their sons or their brothers and sisters or their tribes. He has written (inscribed) mn (belief) into their souls hearts and supported them with a spirit (trained in His Presence) from Himself and He introduces them into Paradise beneath which rivers flow. They will dwell therein eternally. He is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. These are the adherents of Allah. Pay heed! Verily, the adherents of Allah will reach Felh (the Salvation, Paradise). When the spirit of the Imam of the Era comes and settles over your head, Allah Teal writes man into your souls heart. What does He do? He opens up the seal, takes out the word of kfr (unbelief) and writes mn (belief) into the souls heart. When we consider the content of the verses related to the (souls) heart, we see that this is definitely so. Not enough. When the person falls into fsk. Allah Teal says that the inverse process takes effect. Then, we take out the word of mn from his souls heart, we write again the word of kfr therein, the heart returns to its initial state. The person becomes again of the fsks, He says. In that case Allah Teal has accorded this right three times. Initially, the souls heart of the person is sealed off any way. The person has reached his murshid, thereafter he has fallen into fsk (2nd fsk) Allah Teal grants him the right to enter into the way once again. If he falls once again into fsk; after

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this third fsk the fourth one is impossible. Allah Teal does not allow it. At the most, three times. If so, dear readers, this phase expresses a whole in your relations with Allah. At the moment you came before your murshid, repented and kissed his hand, in case you are one who wants to reach Allah, five groups of witnesses bear witness to it. And if you are really so, the spirit of the Imam of the Era comes over your head. And your spirit leaves your physical body and arrives at the convent of your murshid on whom you have depended (arrives at the Straight Path (Srat Mustakm). And at this point, man is written into your souls heart. Thus, you are a mmin (a believer). Allah Teal declares: into whose souls heart man is written, he is a mmin (a believer). Dear readers, as long as there is the word of kfr (unbelief) into your souls heart, unfortunately you are considered as kfir (unbeliever) according to the All-Wise Quran of Allah. Even if you believe in Allah, you are still considered as kfir (unbeliever). Beginning from the moment mn is written into your souls heart, you are a mmin. If it is not written therein, Allah Teal does not accept you among the mmins. We mean this: Allah Teal announces in the 14th verse of Al-Hujurt Sura: 49/Al-Hujurt 14: Kletil arbu menn, kul lem tumin ve lkin kl eslemn ve lemm yedhulil mnu f kulbikum, ve in tutullhe ve reslehu l yelitkum min amlikum ey(eyen), innallhe gafrun rahm(rahmun). The nomadic Arabs said: We have become mmin (we have believed). Say (to them): You have not become mmin but say: we have entered (the circle of) Islam. Because mn has not

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entered into your (souls) hearts (mn has not been written therein) And if you obey Allah and His Messenger, nothing will decrease from your acts. Verily, Allah is Most-Forgiving, MostCompassionate. How does mn (belief) enter into the souls heart? Kfr (unbelief) goes out, mn (belief) comes in. that is, Allah takes out the word of unbelief from the souls heart of a person and writes therein the word of belief. What has happened? The word of unbelief has gone out of the souls heart and the word of belief has entered instead of it into the souls heart. Now, Allah Teal expresses this in the 14th verse of Al-Hujurt Sura. He says: mn has not entered into your souls heart. Allah has not inscribed mn (belief) into your souls heart. If so, how can you become mmins? You are not mmins. Only you are the ones who have entered into (the circle of) Islm.

7.7.2.4- The Conditions of being mmin

Thus, let us look at the characteristics of being mmin (believer) altogether: The person who has reached the murshid becomes mmin. 1. Because man is written into his souls heart. 2. The person who has repented in front of his murshid becomes mmin because he has begun the soul purification (40/ Ghfir-40, the fortieth verse of the fortieth Sura)

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40/Ghfir 40: Men amile seyyieten fe l yucz ill misleh, ve men amile slihan min zekerin ev uns ve huve mu'minun fe ulike yedhulnel cennete yurzekne fh bi gayri hisb(hisbin). Whoever perpetrates sins (wickedness, bad deeds, acts diminishing positive degrees) will be only punished with its equal. And who ever does good deeds (ameliorating acts, soul purificatin) from either males or females and is a mmin (believer), they will enter Paradise and be provided therein with incalculable sustenance. Allah Teal speaks of the ones who will go to Hell in the 69th verse of Al-Furqn Sura. And He says in the 70th verse of the same Sura: 25/Al-Furqn 70: ll men tbe ve mene ve amile amelen slihan fe ulike yubeddilullhu seyyitihim hasent(hasentin), ve knallhu gafren rahm(rahmen). Excepting the one who has repented (before his murshid) and (as man has been written into his souls heart by repenting in front of his murshid) become a mmin (believer) and (for the same reason) performed acts improving the soul. Allah will transformed his bad deeds (sins, evils) into good deeds (merits, rewards). And Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Compassionate (Allah is the Transformer of bad deeds into good deeds and the Sender of Mercy). But whoever reaches the murshid and repents before him becomes a mmin (a believer) (1) begins the soul purification (2), Allah transforms his bad deeds into good deeds (3), his spirit sets

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out on a journey towards Allah (4) [Allah Teal says in any way in the 39th verse of An-Naba' Sura that the spirit sets out on a journey after reaching the murshid] 3. The person has become a mmin on account of a third reason: His spirit has reached the Straight Path) (Srat Mustakm) Here is the 20th verse of Saba' Sura: 34/Saba' 20: Ve lekad saddaka aleyhim iblsu zannehu fettebehu ill ferkan minel mminn(mminne). And truly bls (Devil, Satan) has made his conjecture upon them (the human beings) come true. All of them have followed him (have depended on him) excepting a sect (group) (consisting) of believers (mmins). Is there an other verse indicating a single sect (frka) reaching the Salvation and all other sects in the All-Wise Qurn? Yes, there is: This is the 153rd verse of Al-An'm Sura: 6/Al-An'm 153: Ve enne hz srt mustekmen fettebih(fettebihu), ve l tettebis subule fe teferreka bikum an seblih(seblihi), zlikum vasskum bih leallekum tettekn(tettekne). This is indeed My Straight Path, follow it and do not follow the other ways (all those ways) that will deviate you from My Way. This is that which has bound you by it so that you may be the owners of takva (Takva stems from the root vikye which means: to avoid, to shun, to keep away, to guard against, to protect from).

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So, those who are on the Straight Path are mmins (believers). The 20th verse of Saba' Sura designates them, names them. Only a sect called as mmins is saved. The 153th verse of Al-An'm Sura gives their characteristics: They (mminsbelievers) are the Saved Ones, those who are on the Straight Path (Srat Mustakm). You all know that, dear readers, your spirits leave your physical bodies when you have reached your murshids and reach the Straight Path. When you have attained to the Straight Path, you become mmins (believers). As Allah declares in the 40th verse of Mmin Sura, all the believers will absolutely go to the Heaven of Allah. Thus, whoever has reached his murshid has become a mmin (a believer), the place he will go is assuredly the Paradise of Allah. In which case, for the ones whom cannot reach them, as this event is not possible to occur, that person remains with the unbelief in his souls heart. There are more than 100 verses concerning the unbelievers in the All-Wise Quran emphasizing that the place they will go is Hell.

7.7.2.5- Seven bounties of reaching the murshid

Dear readers, on the day you have reached your murshids, you receive seven bounties from Allah Teal: 1. The spirit of your murshid (the spirit of the Imam of the Era) comes over your head (1th bounty). Beginning from that day, the Spirit over your head absolutely protects you from the occult sciences. Neither sorcery nor anything else can affect you.

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2. (As the spirit of the murshid comes over your head) mn is written into your souls heart, you become a believer. 3. You spirit arrives at the Straight Path, you become a believer for this reason and this bounty is again a bounty that will lead you to the salvation. 4. You begin the soul purification. You become again a believer. 5. Allah Teal grants an other bounty to you (according to the 261st verse of Al-Baqarah Sura). On condition that you give the material and immaterial bounties bestowed on you by Allah to other fellow humans, He will grant you a bounty. Pay close attention to this, dear readers. A transmutation in seven levels in the content of your soul is in question. 7% of nr (light) accumulation is formed at the stage of Nefs-i Emmre (the Evil-commanding soul), 14% at that of Nefs-i Levvame (the Self-accusing soul) 21% at that of Nefs-i Mlhime (the soul inspired by Allah and unfortunately by Satan, too), 28% at that of Mutmainne (the Satisfied Soul), 35% at that of Nefs-i Radiye (the soul pleased with Allah) 42% at that of Mardyye (the soul obtaining the consent of Allah) and 49% at that of Nefs-i Tezkiye (the purified soul). It amounts to 51% together with 2% of light we have received when we had been the owner of hushu (reverence). Allah Teal says as follows: 2/Al-Baqarah 261: Meselullezne yunfikne emvlehum f seblillhi ke meseli habbetin enbetet seba senbile f kulli sunbuletin mietu habbeh(habbetin)...

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The parable of those who spend their property in the way of Allah is like the parable of a grain that causes seven spikes (ears) to sprout (grow). In each spike there are hundred grains. So, Allah grants them 100 merits to one merit (degree) they have acquired at the first stage, 200 at the second one, 300 at the third one 700 merits at the seven stage of the soul purification. 6. Allah transmutes your sins (bad deeds) into merits (good deeds). 7. Allah Teal sends down a light named salavt (blessings, benedictions) beyond the mercy and virtue into the souls heart of the person as a seventh bounty (nimet).

7.7.2.6- The conditions of heart, belief and characteristic

Being mmin has seven conditions of heart. 1. The taking out of ekinnet from the souls heart. 2. The putting of ihbat instead. 3. The turning of the light door (dominical door) of the souls heart to Allah. 4. The slitting of the light way from the breast to the souls heart. 5. The opening up of the seal on the souls heart 6. The getting out of the word of unbelief (kfr) from the souls heart.

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7. The writing of the word of belief (mn) into the souls heart. Dear readers, what happens in such a design? The person has reached his murshid, become a believer. The seven conditions of heart are completed. Now, are these seven conditions of heart are sufficient so that this person may be a believer? These seven conditions are extremely important but the human beings are ignorant of them. They attach being a believer merely to the conditions of belief. And they believe in 5,5 of them. They consider them as 5,5 conditions. 1. To believe in Allah. 2. To believe His angels. 3. To believe in His Books. 4. To believe in His Messengers 5. To believe in the Resurrection. 6. To believe that both goodness and badness are from Allah. This matter is known incorrectly. Let us correct it. Goodness really comes from Allah. But badness (evil, wickedness) cannot come from Allah, dear readers. Evils, that is, acts that make the person lose degrees are from the persons soul. The truth of the above-mentioned statement is so: To believe that goodness comes from Allah, evils come from our own souls. 7. To believe that the spirit will reach Allah before death. Whoever is the owner of these seven conditions is the owner of the seven conditions of belief. This is not enough. You have to possess three conditions of characteristic too, in order to be a mmin (believer).

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Being mmin has three conditions of characteristic belonging to our three bodies. 1. The soul must begin the soul purification (the improving deeds). 2. The spirit must leave the physical body and set off on a journey towards Allah on the Straight Path (Srat Mustakm). 3. The physical body (Vech) must begin to be saved from being a servant to Satan and and to become the servant of Allah. You will have begun the soul purification. That is, you will have begun the oath (vow, yemn) of being purified given by your soul to Allah. You will have begun your covenant (msk) sworn by your spirit to Allah as to making it reach Allah before death. Your spirit will have left your physical body and reached the Straight Path so that you can be a mmin (believer). Your physical body will have begun to be saved from being a servant to Satan and to be the servant of Allah. If you do not possess 7 conditions of heart, seven conditions of belief and 3 conditions of characteristic, you cannot be a believer, you think that you have been so. Are the ones who know and the ones who do not know equal? Now, you know it. Each of these is a principle based on the verses of the All-Wise Quran we have been mentioning.

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7.7.3- To get rid of the Misguidance (Aberration)

Dear readers, you have reached your murshid in such an atmosphere. You have got rid of the Misguidance as soon as you have reached him. Here are ten verses that emphasize that the person who cannot reach his murshid remains in Misguidance: 1. 28/Al-Qasas 50: Fe in lem yestecb leke falem ennem yettebine ehvehum, ve men edallu mimmenittebea hevhu bi gayri huden minallh(minallhi), innallhe l yehdil kavmez zlimn(zlimne). If they do not respond to you (to your invitation to make them reach hidyet), then know that they follow their desires (their souls). Who is more misguided than the one who follows his whims and does not depend on the hidyetchi (saint guide) from Allah? For sure; Allah does not make the unjust (oppressive) people reach hidyet. Thus, everybody who does not depend on the Inviter of Allah, the saint Guide of Allah is in Misguidance (Aberration). This matter is mentioned in many verses of the All-Wise Quran. The saint guides say: Depend on me that I may lead you to the way of guidance. All the saint guides say the same thing: Depend on me so that I may lead you to the Straight Path. Our Master, the Prophet also says the same thing: Depend on me that I may make you reach hidyet. Has he made it? Yes, he has made all sahabe reach hidyet. According to the 18th verse of Az-Zumar Sura, it is certain that all sahabe have reached hidyet (have made their spirits reach Allah). So, dear readers, now at this point of the

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event, the first verse is Al-Qasas-50. Who continues to follow his desires, his own soul is in misguidance. The ones who do not depend on their murshids are in aberration (misguidance). 2. 20/T-H 123: Klehbit minh ceman badukum li badn aduvv(aduvvun), fe imm yetiyennekum minn huden fe menittebea hudye fe l yadllu ve l yek. He said: Go down from here, all of you, being enemies of each other. When our hidyet (saint guidance) will come to you from Me, whoever depends on our hidyetchi (saint guide) will never go astray nor be an misfortunate one (fit for Hell). Only those who depend on the saint guide reach hidyet, He says. 3. 18/Al-Kahf 17: Men yehdillhu fe huvel muhted(muhtedi), ve men yudlil fe len tecide lehu veliyyen murid(muriden). Whomever Allah has made reach Himself (whose spirit He has reached Himself), he surely reaches hidyet. Whomever He has made go astray, any saint murshid is to be found for him. Any saint guide never comes to the person who does not want to reach Allah. That person can never reach hidyet, remains in misguidance for ever. For this reason, whoever is in misguidance has not reached hidyet as there is no saint murshid for him. Why? They did not search for him. See what the 14th verse of Cin Sura says:

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72/Al-Jinn 14: Ve enn minnel muslimne ve minnel ksitn(ksitne), fe men esleme fe ulike teharrev reed(reeden). Verily, there are the ones who have surrendered themselves to Allah among us and the others who are ksitn (whose hearts have bound kasiyet, have become darkened and hardened). Whoever wants to surrender oneself to Allah searches for his murshid (maturity, perfection). If you do nor search for him, then you cannot reach hidyet. As is indicated in the 17th verse of Kehf Sura, you remain in misguidance, dear readers, unless you want to reach your murshid. 4. 45/Al-Jthiyah 23: E fe reeyte menittehaze ilhehu hevhu ve edallehullhu al ilmin ve hateme al semih ve kalbih ve ceale al basarih gveh(gveten), fe men yehdhi min badillh(badillhi), e fe l tezekkern(tezekkerne). Did you not see the one who has made his desires (whims, fancies, passions) a deity for him and Allah has made him go astray according to a science (knowledge) He has sealed off his hearing center (in his souls heart) and his comprehension center (in his souls heart) and stretched out gvet (a curtain) upon the seeing center (in his souls heart). In that case, who can make him reach hidyet after Allah? Do you not deliberate yet? They are the ones who have made the desires of their souls deities for them, He says and give us their name: Those who are in misguidance.

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Dear readers, only the ones who do not depend on their murshids are in misguidance (aberration). Allah Teal makes an open decision about their being unbelievers: Their souls hearts are sealed off. All human beings will live with the word of unbelief in their souls hearts until the day the seals on the hearts will be opened up. The All-Wise Quran names kfir (unbeliever) the one in whose souls heart unbelief is written. 5. 62/Al-Jumu'ah 2: Huvellez bease fl ummiyyne reslen minhum yetl aleyhim ytih ve yuzekkhim ve yuallimuhumul kitbe vel hikmeh(hikmete), ve in kn min kablu le f dallin mubn(mubnin). He it is who sends (brings to life, commissions) a Messenger into the illiterates from themselves in order that he should read (and explain) to them His signs (verses), purify them and teach them the Book and the Divine Wisdom. Beforehand (before they had depended on this Messenger) they were in an open misguidance. So, the dependence on him is the basic condition of their deliverance. 6. 3/l-Imrn 164: Le kad mennallhu alel muminne iz bease fhim reslen min enfusihim yetl aleyhim ytih ve yuzekkhim ve yuallimuhumul kitbe vel hikmeh(hikmete), ve in kn min kablu le f dallin mubn(mubnin). Verily, Allah has bestowed a bounty upon the believers when He has sent (brought to life, commissioned) a Messenger in them from themselves. He reads (and explain) the signs (verses) of Allah to them, purify them and teach them the Book and

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Divine Wisdom. Beforehand, (before they had depended on this Messenger) they were in an open misguidance. Dear readers, Before they had depended on this Messenger, they were in an open misguidance, says Allah Teal. Not to depend on the Messenger (murshid) is a sign of being in misguidance for Allah Teal. As we have already said, messengers live in each community (tribe, nation) at this moment. To depend on that messenger or on any murshid brought up by him in that region and shown by Allah Teal to the person in his dream solves the problem. 7. 46/Al-Ahqf 32: Ve men l yucib diyallhi fe leyse bi mucizin fl ard ve leyse lehu min dnih evliyu, ulike f dallin mubn(mubnin). And whoever does not respond to the Inviter of Allah (does not depend on him) cannot render Allah impotent. He has not any friend besides Allah. They (those who do not depend on the Inviter of Allah) are in an open misguidance. 8. 16/An-Nahl 36: Ve le kad beasn f kulli ummetin reslen enibudllhe vectenibt tgt(tgte), fe minhum men hedallhu ve minhum men hakkat aleyhid dalleh(dalletu), fe sr fl ard fanzur keyfe kne kbetul mukezzibn(mukezzibne). Truly, we have sent (brought to life, commissioned) a Messenger in each community (tribe, nation) in order that they refrain from the Tgt (Satan and his followers) and become the servants of Allah. Some of them did Allah lead to hidyet and some of them have deserved the misguidance (Those who have depended on the Messengers have reached hidyet and those

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who have not depended on them have deserved the aberration) Make journeys on the Earth and see how the end of the deniers has been. That is to say, those who have depended have depended and have reached hidyet. Those who did not depend? As they did not depend, they have deserved the misguidance. 9. 39/Az-Zumar 23: Allhu nezzele ahsenel hadsi kitben mutebihen mesniye takarru minhu culdullezne yahevne rabbehum, summe telnu culduhum ve kulbuhum il zikrillh(zikrillhi), zlike hudallhi yehd bih men yeu, ve men yudlilillhu fe m lehu min 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, nrs), 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). 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 misguidance (aberration), there is no saint guide (hidyetchi) for him. (As they do not want to reach Allah, as they do not want to reach hidyetchi, Allah Teal does not want to lead them to hidyet.)

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10. 7/Al-A'rf 186: Men yudlilillhu fe l hdiye leh(lehu), ve yezeruhum f tugynihim yamehn(yamehne). Whomever Allah makes go astray, there is no saint guide for him and abandons him in his rebellion dazedly. Behold! The verse expresses, on the one hand, that Allah Teal makes the ones He wills reach hidyet and on the other hand that those whom He abandons in misguidance are the ones who rebel against the invitation of Allah to Himself, that the ones who rebel against the invitation of the murshid are the ones who do not reach their murshids, who do not want to reach them. In this case, whoever is in an attitude that does not deign to reach his murshid rebels against Allah, is a rebellious against Him and has absolutely to depend on his murshid in order to make his spirit set off on the journey towards Allah. Because, as we have seen it, unless the spirit of his murshid comes over his head, the spirit of the person does not leave its physical body. Therefore, the fact that the spirit of the person can set on its journey is bound to his depending on his murshid. Whoever is not dependent on his murshid, his spirit cannot set out on its journey towards Allah. The salvation of the person is not possible in no way. And that person remains in misguidance for ever. Allah Teal declares in the 25th verse of Rad Sura: 13/Ar-Ra'd 25: Vellezne yankudne ahdallhi min badi mskhi ve yaktane m emerallhu bihi en ysale ve yufsidne fl ard ulike lehumul lanetu ve lehum sud dr(dri). And they violate the oath(s) of Allah [their yemn (vow), msk (covenant), ahd (testament)] after they have carried out their

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msk (covenant) and they cut off that which Allah orders to be made to reach Him (they cut off the ties of their spirit with Allah after their spirits arriving in Him) and (thus) make mischief on the Earth (they prevent the others from carrying out their three oaths they had given (sworn) to Allah and thus make mischief as they have opposed the orders of Allah). These are the ones who are cursed and for whom there is a bad homeland (Hell). Who are these? The ones whose spirits have not left their physical bodies as they did not reach their murshids. These are the ones who have rebelled against the orders of Allah, who have made mischief on the Earth. Dear readers, Allah Teal announces that all of them will go to Hell. Now, we conclude: 10 verses emphasize that the person who could not reach his murshid is in Misguidance. And Al-Ftihah Sura also expresses definitely that those who are not on the Straight Path (Srat Mustakm) are in Misguidance. 1/Al-Ftihah 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7: El hamdu lillhi rabbil lemn(lemne). Er rahmnir rahm(rahmi). Mliki yevmid dn(dne). yyke nabudu ve iyyke nestan(nestanu). hdinas srtel mustakm(mustakme). Srtallezne enamte aleyhim gayril magdbi aleyhim ve ld dlln(dllne). All praise be to Allah, the Sustainer of all the Worlds, the AllMerciful, the All-Compassionate. The Possessor of the Day of the Religion. You alone do we worship. From You alone do we seek help. Guide us to the Straight Path, to the Path of those upon whom you have bestowed your Bounty and not to the Path of those upon whom Wrath is shown and of those who are in Misguidance (who could not reach their murshids).

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7.7.3.1- Those who are in Misguidance will go to Hell

Allah says that those are in misguidance cannot be found on the Straight Path. So, we are in the face of a result: The person who could not reach his murshid is in misguidance according to ten verses. What happens if he is in misguidance (aberration)? Nothing. He goes to Hell. Allah expresses this so plainly. Look out: The 167, 168, 169th verses of An-Nis' Sura make definite that the ones who are in misguidance are unbelievers (kfirs) at the same time and that the place they will go is Hell. On their own, these verses are the summary of what we have been saying. 4/An-Nis' 167: nnellezne kefer ve sadd an seblillhi kad dall dallen bad(baden). Truly, those who are unbelievers and cause to deviate from the way of Allah (and they also are not in the way of Allah) are of a surety in a distant misguidance (as they did not reach their murshids and enter into the way of Allah). They are of certainty unbelievers. Who are these unbelievers? Who are these men who are surely unbelievers? Allah says that they are the ones who cause other men to deviate from the way of Allah. They are not on the Staright Path themselves and hinder the others to reach the Straight Path. Not enough. They are in misguidance.

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4/An-Nis' 168: nnellezne kefer ve zalem lem yekunillhu li yagfire lehum ve l li yehdiyehum tark(tarkan). Most certainly they are unbelievers and do wrong (as they have prevented others from reaching their murshids and cause them to go astray) Allah will never forgive them (He will never turn their sins into merits) and make them reach the road (the Path leading to Allah, the Straight Path). Why do we say wrongdoers for them? As they have caused others to deviate from the way of Allah. 4/An-Nis' 169: ll tarka cehenneme hlidne fh ebed(ebeden), ve kne zlike alllhi yesr(yesren). Only the Road of Hell. They will remain therein eternally. And this is easy for Allah. So, let us complete here the nature of reaching the murshid. The ones who cannot reach their murshids are unbelievers. The ones who cannot reach their murshids are in misguidance. The place they will go is definitely Hell, Hell, Hell. Yes, The human beings say: there is no murshid, let alone reach the murshid. They say: Our Master, the Prophet (PBUH) is the Last Murshid. Dear readers, pay close attention to the content of these men and consider now what Allah Teal says in the 100th verse of At-Taubah Sura:

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9/At-Taubah 100: Ves sbiknel evvelne minel muhcirne vel ensri velleznettebehum bi hsnin radyallhu anhum ve rad anhu ve eadde lehum cenntin tecr tahtehel enhru hlidne fh ebed(ebeden), zlikel fevzul azm(azmu). As for the sbiknel evvelne (as for those who take up the three hightest stations which are the stages of Ullelbb, Ihls and Salah) from the emigrants (those who have emigrated from Mecca to Medina) and the Helpers (living in Medina) and the ones who have depended on them with favors (ihsan) (as sahbe were the owners of the post of irshad, they have depended on them), Allah is pleased with them and they are 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). Sahbe (The Companions) have depended on Our Master, the Prophet (PBUH). Thereafter they have depended on Ebubekir Excellency, mer Excellency, Osman Excellency and Ali Excellency. After Ali Excellency, the human beings have depended on sahbe. The following generation has depended on sahbe. That is to say, the fact that murshids have continued after our Master, the Prophet, gains certainty. The 100th verse of AtTaubah makes it definite and some people keeps saying: there is no murshid. Dear readers, tonight is not our night of discussion. Tonight we relate to you but realities in order that you may discern the beauties of Allah. All of this is a beauty, a content. a word is enough to the wise.

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Dear readers, the first characteristic of the one who did not reach his murshid is to remain in unbelief, his second characteristic is to remain in misguidance. The end of both characteristics is absolutely Hell. The All-Wise Quran speaks of such a design. Allah Teal decrees in 7 groups of verses that the place they will go is Hell. We have spoken to you only of one group: The 167, 168, 169th verses of An-Nis' Sura. Allah Teal declares in the 178th and 179th verses of Arf Sura: 7/Al-A'rf 178: Men yehdillhu fehuvel muhted ve men yudlil fe ulike humul hsirn(hsirne). Whomever Allah makes reach Himself then he has reached hidyet. Whomever He abandons in misguidance then He is in frustration (loss) [he brings himself down in utter frustration (utter loss)]. 7/Al-A'rf 179: Ve lekad zeren li cehenneme kesren minel cinni vel insi lehum kulbun l yefkahne bih ve lehum ayunun l yubsrne bih ve lehum znun l yesmene bih, ulike kel enmi bel hum edallu, ulike humul gfiln(gfilne). Truly, we have created most of the jinn and humankind for Hell. They have hearts but they do not comprehend with them, they have eyes but they do not see with them they have ears but they do not hear with them. They are like cattle, nay, they are more misguided. They are unmindful.

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Those who are in misguidance are in utter frustration (Allah Teal says in the 103th verse of Mminn that whoever is in frustration will go to Hell, remain therein for ever). It has been seen that the place of both those who are in frustration and the unbelievers is Hell. Thus, it is definite that a human being who could not reach his murshid will remain in unbelief, in misguidance. Dear readers, read carefully this writing as a document. Here, there is an explanation of the divine verses. And as for the ones who want to reach Allah? The fact that they will reach the paradise of Allah (and how easily they will reach Him) has been designed. Do not forget, the person who has reached his murshid is the one who absolutely want to reach Allah. The one who does not want to reach Allah has already begun to sink his ship. Because the probability of deliverance of a person who does not want to reach Allah is nil (zero). There are 7 stages to be overpassed in front of the person who has reached his murshid: Nefs-i Emmare, Levvame, Mlhime, Mutmainne, Radiye, Mardyye, Tezkiye.

7.7.4- The Soul Purification

The soul purification is a unique taking shape, a becoming beautiful. It is to renew a content, to arrive at a beautiful content. It is to get rid of the calamities of the soul and to place the good qualities of the spirit into the heart of the soul formerly full of calamities. It aims at placing them therein more than half. What had happened? The seven conditions had been completed in his (souls) heart. 1) Allah Teal had taken out ekinnet.

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2) He had put ihbat instead. 3) He had turned the light door of the (souls) heart to Allah. 4) He had slit the light way from the breast to the (souls) heart. 5) He had opened up the seal on the souls heart when he had reached his murshid. 6) He had taken out the word of unbelief (kfr) in the souls heart. 7) He had written the word of belief (mn) into the souls heart. Now, there is a man who has 7 conditions of heart purification, does zikir, repeats the name of Allah as Allah, Allah, Allah Consider what happens when he does zikir: At the moment this person begins doing zikir, two groups of lights, mercy and virtue, mercy and blessings (benedictions) come from the Side of Allah. Mercy and virtue are mentioned in the 175th verse of An-Nis' Sura: 4/An-Nis' 175: Fe emmellezne men billhi vatesam bih fe se yudhluhum f rahmetin minhu ve fadln ve yehdhim ileyhi srtan mustekm (mustekmen). As for the ones who are men and long to hold fast to Him, He will introduce them into a mercy from Him and a virtue and guide them to a Staright Path leading to Him (That is to say, when they do zikir, Allah sends down His mercy and virtue into

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the souls heart of that person). And they guide them to the Straight Path leading to Allah. If a person reaches his murshid, will reach hidyet, then the 157th verse of Al-Baqarah is valid. 2/Al-Baqarah 157: Ulike aleyhim salvtun min rabbihim ve rahmetun ve ulike humul muhtedn(muhtedne). As for them (those who know that they will turn back to Allah while living), the blessings (benedictions) and the mercy of their Sustainer are upon them. These are those who have reached hidyet. What was the event in the 175th verse of Nisa Sura? The mercy and the virtue. And in the 157th verse of Bakara Sura? The mercy and the blessings. Two lights (nrs) once again. There have been four lights but the mercy is common in both groups. The mercies are cargo airplanes. They carry virtue and blessings and lay them down into the souls heart. While they turn back, they expel the darknesses into the souls heart out of the dominical door (light door) into vacuum. Dear readers, you are doing now zikir, the mercy comes from Allah, together with the virtue. The mercy comes from Him, together with blessings (benecdictions) to your breast. They traverse the way going from your breast to your souls heart, the seal on your heart is open and becomes mobile. The mercy and virtue, the mercy and blessings that exercise a pressure upon the seal push it away towards the bottom, the darkness door and shut it. The pressure of the mercy, virtue and blessings upon this seal renders it immovable. The seal remains there as long as zikir

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continues and during this time, the darknesses of Satan apply a pressure upon it but in vain. The three lights of Allah prevent them from entering into the souls heart during zikir, any darknesses can enter therein. As for the existing darknesses in the heart, the particles of mercy, after having laid down the virtue and blessings into the heart, take the remaining darknesses and expel them from the heart while they were returning. In a period of 3-4 minutes, any darkness does not remain in the souls heart. The souls heart is completely filled with the lights of Allah. Well, what is the process here, dear readers? Pay heed to the process: The word of belief is a center of attraction. Allah Teal says in the 7th verse of Al-Hujurt Sura: 49/Al-Hujurt 7: Valem enne fkum reslallh(reslallhi), lev yutukum f kesrin minel emri le anittum ve lkinnallhe habbebe ileykumul mne ve zeyyenehu f kulbikum, ve kerrehe ileykumul kufre vel fuska vel isyn(isyne), ulike humur ridn(ridne). Know that there is the Messenger of Allah among you. If He had followed you in most of affairs, you would have been cursed (you would have fallen into trouble). But Allah has got you to love the belief, has ornamented it in your souls hearts (He has completely filled up your heart with lights by gathering together virtues around the word of belief (mn). He has shown to you the unbelief, deviations, rebellion detestable. These are the ones who have reached irshad (saint guidance, perfectness). Those who are adorned with the word of belief, made utterly pure. Pay heed: only the word of mn (belief) can ensure the illumination in the souls heart. The word of mn is a center

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of attraction. Just like a magnet attracts metallic objects to itself, possesses a magnetic field, an attractive field, so too is the word of mn (belief) is the owner of a magnetic field towards the virtue. The virtues are the extension and the same of the good qualities (haslets) of the human spirit. If they had come from the spirit, their name would be haslet not fazl. But as they come from the Side (Presence, Floor) of Allah, although they have the same property, their name is fazl (virtue).

8- The third 7 stages

8.1- Nefs-i Emmre (The evil-commanding soul)
When the virtues arrive at your souls heart, the attractive power of the word of belief (mn) begins to draw the virtues towards itself, 1%, 2%, 3% 7% of light accumulation is constituted in your souls heart. At one time, in a period of three minutes, your souls heart is completely filled up with Allahs lights but maybe 1%, 2% of these lights have settled around the word of mn (belief), have stuck very tight to it. The attractive force of the word of belief has attracted them to itself and kept them. Darkness cannot subsist any more in the place to which they have clung. Darknesses cannot rip out the lights from their place. Dear readers, what happens when zikir ends? As the pressure on the seal will be removed, the seal will come back again to the light (dominical) door. The darknesses of Satan will penetrate again into the souls heart. But they cannot pull out the virtues stuck to the word of belief. And thus, 1%, 2% 7% of light accumulation is realized in the souls heart. This is the Nefs-i Emmare (the evil-

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commanding soul). You have beome men at the seventh stage. You have become a person who want to reach Allah and who is the owner of some characteristics. You have begun the soul purification at the 14th stage. Allah Teal sometimes calls the soul purification (tezkiyetnnefs) sometimes amilussliht = improving deeds). The actions that improve (reform) the soul, that diminish the calamities in the souls heart. There is zikir at the foundation of the content of these calamities. Zikir performs the function that I have told in your souls heart. 12/Ysuf 53: Ve m uberriu nefs, innen nefse le emmretun bis s ill m rahime rabb, inne rabb gafrun rahm(rahmun). And I cannot exonerate myself (put me in the clear). Truly, the soul constantly commands wickedness (evil) 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 into good deeds and sends down mercy and with it, purifies (tezkiye) and cleanses (tasfiye) the souls). So, Allah Teal manifests Himself with His Rahm = AllCompasionate name. He sends down mercy. Rahmet (mercy) brings with it virtue and blessings. The virtues settle in the souls heart of the person, the Nefs-i Emmre has been completed. While Satan was able to affect 100% the darknesses in the souls heart of that person previously, now he cannot influence 7% of it, dear readers. 7% of his souls heart is out of the field of influence of Satan. It acts now parallel to the good qualities (haslets) of the spirit, the darknesses cannot influence this section in no way. Not

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enough. There is not the word of unbelief any more that retains the darknesses in the souls heart by attracting them to itself. At the moment zikir begins, all of the darknesses go away. Dear readers, the spirit that has left the physical body where there has been an accumulation of 7% of lights in the souls heart, is authorized to ascend to the first heavenly floor (layer), reaches the first heavenly floor.

8.2- Nefs-i Levvame (The self-accusing soul)

The person increases his zikir gradually according to the orders he has received from his murshid. The increasing zikir absolutely realizes a second accumulation of 7% of lights in the souls heart of that person. 75/Al-Qiymah 2: Ve l uksimu bin nefsil levvmeh(levvmeti). I swear by the soul accusing (censuring) itself. What does this mean? The person accuses (censures, condemns) his soul. He does not want to commit faults. He strives but sees that his soul has made him commit them again. He grieves at that. He censures his soul. This nefs-i levvme is in a state of repenting continuously, feels great remorse for what it has perpetrated but cannot give up committing faults in no way. The spirit? It reaches the second heavenly floor.

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8.3- Nefs-i Mlhime (The inspired soul)

At the end of that striving, there is a third accumulation of 7% of lights. The inspired soul. 91/Ash-Shams 8: Fe elhemeh fucreh ve takvh. Then (I swear by) the One who inspires its fucr and its takva to it. That person begins to be inspired by Allah. His spirit ascends to the third heavenly floor.

8.4- Nefs-i Mutmainne (The Satisfied soul)

The process continues. There is a fourth accumulation of 7% of lights. The satisfied soul. The person reaches the satisfaction. 89/Al-Fajr 27: Y eyyetuhen nefsul mutmainneh(mutmainnetu). O satisfied soul! The person comes to the conclusion that that which Allah has given him is sufficient for him. He never gives up hope from Allah. He is aware that that which Allah has given is optimum for him. He thinks so: If Allah Teal had given me too much money, I had perhaps spent it on improper things, it would have been against me. If He had given me too little money, this time I could have rebelled against Allah. But Allah meets all my needs. When you will attain to this

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satisfied soul, you will clearly experience that you can cover all your needs, dear readers. As you will think so, Allah Teal will give you enough money for you. He is always ready to give. But on condition that you should deserve it.

8.5- Nefs-i Radiye (The soul pleased with Allah)

There is a fifth accumulation of 7% of lights. The soul pleased with Allah. 89/Al-Fajr 28: Rdyeten Being pleased with Allah.

8.6- Nefs-i Mardyye

There is a sixth accumulation of 7% of lights in the souls heart. The soul pleased with Allah. 89/Al-Fajr 28: Mardyyeh(mardyyeten). Having obtained the consent of Allah.

8.7- Nefs-i Tezkiye (The purified soul)

There is a seventh accumulation of 7% of lights in the souls heart. The purified soul is reached.

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35/Ftir 18: Ve men tezekk fe innem yetezekk li nefsih(nefsih), ve illlhil masr(masru). Whoever purifies his soul does it for his own soul, and (his spirit) starts on its journey towards Allah (reaches Allah). So, the 7th stage is the stage of the soul purification and the stage where the spirit reaches Allah. Let us have a look at the characteristic of the stage of the soul purification altogether: 7% of light accumulation seven times: this amounts to 49%. Together with 2% of lights we have obtained from huu (reverence), this amounts to 51%, dear readers. Let us consider now the relation of the persons soul with Satan altogether: The state at the beginning is that Satan dominates all of the calamities, influences them entirely (because that persons heart consists only of calamities). A field where Satan is able to affect wholly, 100%, in the souls heart of the person. The starting point. As the person continues the soul purification, this field goes out of the influence of Satan. Take care: Satan is able to affect merely the calamities. As the calamities turn to good qualities (haslets), the domination area of Satan will be shrunk by 7%, 7%, 7%

9- The vow (yemn), covenant (msk) and testament (ahd) of our three bodies
Dear readers, let us look at the order that Allah has given to the physical body altogether: He decrees in the 60, 61th verses of Y-Sn Sura:

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36/Y-Sn 60, 61: E lem ahad ileykum y ben deme en l tabud eytn(eytne), innehu lekum aduvvun mubn(mubinun). Ve enibudn, hz srtun mustekm(mustekmun). O sons of Adam! Did I not tender an oath to you that you should not worship Satan, truly he is an open enemy to you and you should be My Servants and this is (to be on) the Straight Path. You will get rid of being servants to Satan, you will be My Servants, says Allah Teal; our soul has given a vow (yemn) to Allah, our spirit has given a covenant (msk) and our physical body an oath (ahd) to Him. We have spoken of the vow your soul has given to Allah. Here are the 38, 39 and 40th verses of AlMuddaththir Sura: 74/Al-Muddaththir 38, 39, 40: Kullu nefsin bim kesebet rehneh(rehnetun). ll ashbel yemn(yemni). F cennt(cenntin), All the souls are hostages proportionate to their degrees they have acquired with the exception of those who have carried out their vows (yemn). They will be in Paradise. Whoever carries out his vow he has given to Allah will be in Paradise. Where do we know from that this is the soul purification? Allah Teal says in the 9th verse of Ash-Shams Sura:

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91/Ash-Shams 9: Kad efleha men zekkh. Truly, he succeeds that purifies it. (Truly, the one who purifies it (his soul) reaches Felh, the Salvation (Paradise). Allah Teal says in the 38, 39, 40th verses of AlMuddaththir Sura that those who have purified their souls will go to Paradise. Thus, There are oaths that Allah Teal administered to us before Time (in the Pre-Eternity) Our Physical body has given an oath to Him, it will get rid of being a servant to Satan and be a servant of Allah. Our spirit has given a covenant (msk) to Him. 13/Ar-Ra'd 20, 21: Ellezne yfne bi ahdillhi ve l yenkudnel misk(miska). Vellezne yaslne m emerallhu bih en ysale They carry out their ahd (the vows of their souls, the covenants of their spirits and the oaths of their physical bodies) with Allah. And they do not violate their covenants (the covenants they have given to Allah about their spirits reaching Allah before death), says Allah Teal. They make reach that which Allah ordered to be made to reach Him. Dear readers, three oaths, the covenant (msk) of your spirit, the oath (ahd) of your physical body and the vow (yemn) of your soul. The vow of our soul is termed as yemn, the covenant of our spirit is termed as msk and the oath of our physical body is termed as ahd in the All-Wise Quran. The point of the carrying out of all these three is the 21th stage. The soul is illuminated with Allahs lights more than 50%. Whereas Satan had the possibility of affecting 100% of that persons soul at the

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beginning; at this point, this influence has decreased to 49%. Satan has lost his domination in the souls heart of that person 51%. He has fallen into the minority. The majority is not any more at his hand. The control of the soul is not any more at the power of Satan. The majority has passed to the power of Allah. The domination area of Satan has decreased from 100% to 49%, below halfway. For this reason, the person has got rid of being a servant to Satan, has passed over the starting point of being a servant of Allah, surpassed the halfway. For this reason, to get rid of being a servant to Satan and to be a servant of Allah, this oath given to Allah by the physical body has been carried out more than halfway and the physical body is so saved from being a servant to Satan. Could he be a servant of Allah? No, he could not yet. But it is certain that it has got rid of being a servant to Satan. Because the domination of Satan has reduced to 49%. So, dear readers, here is the point your spirit has reached Allah. Here is the point more than 50% of your soul has been purified, the good qualities of the spirit have replaced the darknesses of the soul (51% of the souls heart functions as parallel to the good qualities of the spirit). The person has obtained the Paradise of Allah at this point.

9.1- Being the owner of Takva

Takva stems of the root vikye that means: to avoid, to shun, to keep away, to guard against; to protect from... So, to keep oneself away from trespassing on the forbidden, to protect oneself from not carrying out what Allah orders...) Allah Teal makes the owner of takva the person who has arrived at this point. Allah Teal announces that the owners of takva are the persons deserving of Heaven according to the 15th

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and 198th verses of l-Imrn Sura and to the 31st and 32nd verses of Qf Sura. If so, let us have a look at the All-Wise Quran. Who are the owners of takva? Here is the 32nd verse of An-Najm Sura: 53/An-Najm 32: Ellezne yectenibne kebirel ismi vel fevhe lemem(lememe), inne rabbeke vsiul magfireh(magfireti), huve a'lemu bikum iz eneekum minel ard ve iz entum e cinnetun f butni ummehtikum, fe l tuzekk enfusekum, huve a'lemu bi menittek. They abstain from major sins and immoralities excepting minor faults. Verily, the forgiveness of your Sustainer is immense. He knew very well when He brought you (Adam Excellency) out of earth and when He shaped you in the wombs of your mothers as embryos. Then, do not clear yourselves (in vain) (Do not claim that you have purified your souls) (Because He does know the ones who are the owners of takva). That is to say, the ones who have performed the soul purification: only these are the owners of takva. The others pretend merely that they are the owners of takva. Do not pretend in vain that you have purified your souls. Because Allah Teal does know the owners of takva. That is to say, Allah Teal does know the real owners of takva (those who have reached takva) (He speaks of the ones who have purified their souls). Now, what does He say in the 31th verse of Rm Sura?

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30/Ar-Rm 31: Munbne ileyhi vettekhu ve ekms salte ve l tekn minel murikn(murikne). Turn back to Him and be the owners of takva and perform the Prayers and do not be of those who assign partners to Him. Whoever carries out the covenant (msk) his spirit has given to Allah is the owner of takva. He says in the 21th verse of Bakara Sura: whoever carries out the testament (ahd) his physical body has given to Allah is the owner of takva. 2/Al-Baqarah 21: Y eyyuhen nsubud rabbekumullez halakakum vellezne min kablikum leallekum tettekn(tettekne). O men! Be servants to your Sustainer who created you and the ones who preceded you so that you may be the owners of takva. Which oath your soul had given to Allah? To be purified. Whoever purifies himself is the owner of takva. Which oath your spirit had given to Him? To reach Allah before dying. Whoever reaches Allah is the owner of takva. Which oath your physical body had given to Him? To get rid of being a servant to Satan and to be a servant of Allah. Your three bodies have been formed differently and they have different functions. The one (the physical body) has been created, the other one (the soul) has been designed and the other one (the spirit) has been breathed in (blown). The coming into being of each one of these three bodies bears separate

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particularities. Each one of them has a different oath it has given to Allah. And the process has been completed at the 21th stage. Dear readers, the person had reached his murshid at the 14th stage. Thereafter he had surpassed seven stages of the soul purification (nefs-i emmre, levvme, mlhme, mutmainne, rdiye, mardyye and tezkiye) and respectively traversed the seven heavenly floors: 1st floor, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th floors and seven worlds of the 7th heavenly floor (layer), reached the Essence (Zt) of Allah. Here, the surrender of the spirit to Allah is the subject. Now, I am coming back to the beginning of my conversation. Islm means surrendering oneself to Allah. Islm is the surrender of the spirit to Allah. Islam is the surrender of the physical body to Allah. Islm is the surrender of the soul to Allah. At the 21st stage, the spirit reaches Allah. It is annihilated in the Essence (Zt) of Allah. The 21st stage has been completed. At the 22nd stage, the surrender of the spirit has been completed and the first stage of the sainthood becomes the stage of that person.

10- The spirits reaching Allah

10.1- The first heavenly floor (layer)
The spirit has reached the main convent at the moment it has obtained the authorization of ascending to the first heavenly floor (at the moment 7% of light accumulation in the souls heart has been realized). At the main convent, a low instruction-desk and an All-Wise Quran will be delivered to it. He will be placed in one of the rows of the human spirits in tens. Every morning, he will be of the ones who prostrate themselves at the right side of the golden portal behind the chair of the muderris (a professor in a

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medresseh) there, of the convent there by kissing the hand of Ebubekir Excellency. And it will begin to ascend through the golden portal (the starting point of the Straight Path = Srat Mustakm) (1th heavenly floor). At the first floor, it will prostrate itself and remain there.

10.2- The second heavenly floor

When the authorization of ascending to the second heavenly floor is issued, the spirit will ascend there, it will begin to be watered in the watering ponds, which are 2 meters and 20 cm. deep, transparent and orange. The spirits are completely immersed therein. As they do not have any respiratory problem therein, they can continue to live in these ponds.

10.3- The third heavenly floor

Thereafter, they journey towards the third heavenly floor. Dear readers, at the stage of Nefs-i Emmre, they prostrate themselves. At the Nefs-i Levvme, they reach the second floor, the watering ponds. At the Nefs-i Mlhime, they ascend to the third heavenly floor. The third floor is a convent of two floors. In normal standards, on the top floor of this two floored convent there is merely a prostration and moving out of that floor we reach a cylinder called the touchstone (test vent) hole that is in its courtyard. This cylinder is 1 meter or 1 meter and 20 centimeter wide and endlessly long and its inside is hollow. And this cylinder binds the third floor to the fourth one. This endless cylinder is called Mihenk Menfezi (the touchstone hole). The person who reaches the third floor at the stage of Nefs-i Mlhime prostrates

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himself for a while. When he reaches the stage of Nefs-i Mutmainne, he obtains the authorization of ascending to the fourth floor. Then he will absolutely traverse the touchstone hole. The one who enters it begins automatically to ascend therein. He reaches the fourth floor at an infinite speed, far beyond the light speed. As the one going in front will ascend just before the one following him, the legs of the one going in front will be over the head of the one following him. But they do not touch each other. And just after this prostration performed in front of the touchstone hole, the spirits ascend to the fourth floor by passing through it. We reach the fourth floor at the stage of Nefs-i Mutmainne.

10.4- The fourth heavenly floor

My dear brothers and sisters, the fourth floor is the same of Beyt-l Makdis, that is, of Mescid-il Aksa in our world. The most sacred masjid, the farthest masjid in Jerusalem has been built in this world basing on the original mesjid at that fourth floor. And we enter through the gate there by flying and we prostrate ourselves. The ones who are at the front row ascend to the fifth floor, the remaining ones wait for them in a state of prostration in order that those who have ascended to the fifth, sixth floors may come back and they may fly downwards altogether.

10.5- The fifth floor

When the spirits ascending to the fifth floor reach it, they see that it is the same of the Mescid-il Haram (The Sacred Masjid in Mecca). That is, the original of this great Masjid visited during the time of pilgrimage on the Earth is there. It was built in this

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world basing on the orginal masjid of the fifth floor. The pilgrimage there is called hacc-l ekber (the greater pilgrimage). That is, whatever a person going on the pilgrimage in Mecca performs in this world, can also do it there, he possesses the same possibilities. The pilgrimage on the Earth lasts one month. But whenever the person goes there, he performs a short pilgrimage because the original of the Mescid-il Haram is there. As you know it, the fifth floor is the floor of those who are pleased with Allah (the stage of Nefs-i Radiye).

10.6- The sixth heavenly floor

The sixth floor is the floor of those who have obtained the consent of Allah (the stage of Nefs-i Mardyye). The sixth floor possesses a quite different property. Firstly, the gate of the sixth floor is not an ordinary gate (portal). Imagine a human silhouette. Imagine his silhouette as a gate. Let us suppose that a strapping man passes through it. The gate assumes the form of this man as he passes through it. His head, shoulders, arm and his outline take on the form of it. But imagine that a squat man passes through it after him, this time, it takes on the shape of him. That is to say that, dear readers, the sixth floor is a very special place sui generis. The trace of the one who passes through it after all others absolutely appears there as a silhouette. The one who enters it or goes through it definitely lends his shape to the gate. But it changes its shape together with each one who passes through it. Dear readers, when you will enter, you will see a light quite similar to block of ice about four meters high from the ground. Pay attention to this light. It is a white light of very light green. All the persons are standing in row, they form a single row.

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The saint of the left wing sees them from a post of control above on the left side. The saint of the right wing who is situated a bit more above on the right side sees what has been happening, too. And the rays coming out of the light (nr) turn the skins of all the spirits being there into its color: White and very light green. But, it does not only turn them into its own color but also cracks all the skins of their faces and hands. These cracked skins are healed by means of special instruments (that are at their heads). When these cracks have been removed, the spirits begin to descend from the sixth floor downwards. They descend to the fifth floor, together with those who are at this floor, descend to the fourth floor and taking also the ones who are at this floor, descend to the third floor All of the spirits, with the joining to them of all the spirits who are at each floor, gather together at the first floor and then descend at last to the ground floor. Each one returns to the place to which it belongs in rows of ten spirits. And one day, the face and hands of one of those spirits do not crack any more. Its color takes on the color of that light and never changes once more. Our All-Wise Quran says for this person: he has become sbgatullah, that is, is colored with the hue of Allah. A man who has changed his own color through the hue of Allah. A splendid color, white and very light green. They dress him very special clothes. Dear readers, these clothes are just like the special clothes of the Caucasian dancers, they are black. They are dressed with these clothes and are given a sword, a curved sword. The person rises upwards through the domed roof, through the gate with the curved sword at his hand. And he reaches the seventh heavenly floor. All the other spirits can only ascend up to the sixth floor and then descend again to the fifth, fourth floor and finally to the ground floor. They are not yet authorized to ascend to the seventh floor.

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10.7- The seventh heavenly floor

10.7.1- The gate of conquest (opening up) and the cells of destiny (divine determining)
This person who has ascended to the seventh heavenly floor sees a portal before him. A golden portal (door, gate). This portal is the same of the portal on the ground floor, at the entrance of the Straight Path (Srat Mustakm). It is absolutely identical. A portal without any handle and knocker on it and diamond-shaped. This portal has an other particularity: Below it, there are seven steps of white marble. You are stepping on to the place where this portal is by these seven steps. There are hand-rails on the two sides of the staircase. At the fifith step, there is a golden chain consisting of seven links extended from the right hand-rail. This is a chain approximately as thick as an arm. That person strikes this golden chain once with the sword at his hand. The chain is separated into two parts. At the same instant, the portal that is behind is opened up. He enters through the portal flying above the remaining steps. This is the portal of conquest (opening up). From there, you surpass the roof, above it there are the cells of destiny. Your left side is your past. It is built with a wall. On that wall you cannot see any plaster. It is like an ordinary wall formed by superposed stones. But when you turn to the right side, you will see the cells of destiny before you extending endlessly and belonging to you. Hexagonal (six-sided) cells of destiny very similar to the orange honeycombs. You will move to the second world (of the seventh heavenly floor) by surpassing them at an infinite speed, when you will be authorized to pass to the second world.

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10.7.2- 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
In the second world, you will see the Mother of the Book (mmlkitap). This is a Book as tall as a apartment house of ten superposed flats. It suspends in vacuum about four meters high from the ground. Under it, there is a huge pulpit (platform) around which 60 persons take place. A platform vaster than a normal room. You will see the Imam of the Era, under the Mother of the Book, in the opposite side of the pulpit. He is commissioned there. One page of the Mother of the Book remains opened. All the Holy Scriptures of Allah are present in this Book. The subsequent worlds are: the Sea of Power. The Praised Station, The Council of the Improved Ones and finally the Zikir Cells. Here, you will see hundreds of cells positioned symmetrically in a milieu not so much illuminated. This cell is a globe about 2 meters 20 centimes high. In these transparent globes, the human spirits sit down and do zikir with the prayer beads at their hands. In such a milieu, every day, the Imam of the Era, together with two persons behind him, our Master, the Prophet (PBUH) and Isa Excellency (PUH) descends here. And every day, spirits that are in the zikir cells go out and form a crescent. Before this crescent, on the place of the star found on the Turkish flag, these three persons come and constantly make a conversation for a while. Those who are in the zikir cells, before this conversation, kiss hands and form the crescent. The second row begins after the one who is at the head of the first row, the

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third row begins after the one who is at the head of the second row thus a crescent large in the middle and becoming gradually narrow towards the edges is formed. At the points of the crescent drawing near to each other, a starlike form composed of three persons is in question. In the design of Allah Teal, this conversation is absolutely realized. One day, a person who is in one of these zikir cells completes his zikir. That person reaches Indi Ilh (The Divine Floor) and from there to the farthest Lotetree (Sidretl Mnteh). That person sees his Sustainer at the Sidretl Mnteh (Only the spirit sees Him, you cannot see Him yet at this level) and from there rises and reaches Allah. When he reaches the Essence (Zt) of Allah, he is annihilated in the Essence of Allah.

10.7.3- The first phase of being Islam

10.7.3.1- The spirits reaching Allah (Vuslat)
The person who has reached the zikir cells never descends from there. The cells of remembrance (dhkir, zikir) that are the sixth world of the seventh heavenly floor keep the person who has reached there ceaselessly. Until what time? Until this person will reach Allah by completing his zikirs. And this reaching Allah shows that the journeying has been completed, the arrival in Allah (vuslat) has been constituted. The spirit reaching Allah is annihilated in the Essence (Zt) of Allah. And the Essence of Allah becomes a shelter for that persons spirit. Let us have a look at the 39th verse of An-Naba' Sura. What does Allah Teal say? 78/An-Naba' 39:

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Zlikel yevmul hakk(hakku), femen ettehaze il rabbih meb(meben). That day (on the day when you kiss the hand of your murshid and depend on him) is the day of Hakk (The Truth, The Reality, Allah) Whoever wishes (the one who wishes to reach Allah) takes the road leading himself to His Sustainer (the Straight Path) (Allah) becomes a Shelter (for the person who has reached Allah). Thus, dear readers, those who have reached the Shelter are called evvb. Allah Teal says in the 31 and 32th verses of Kaf Sura: 50/Qf 31, 32: Ve uzlifetil cennetu lil muttekne gayre bad(badin). Hz m tadne li kulli evvbin hafz(hafzin). Paradise has been brought near for the owners of takva without being distant. This is that which has been promised to all the evvb (those whose spirits have reached and taken refuge with Allah) and the hafz (those who carry the spirits of their murshids as guardians over their heads). Li kulli evvbin hafz. To all the evvb (those who have made their spirits reach Allah, for whom the Essence of Allah has become a Shelter and who carry the spirits of their murshids, the spirit of the Imam of the Era over their heads as guardians) Paradise has been drawn near, says Allah Teal. When the spirit of the person reaches the Essence of Allah, it reaches Allah Himself and becomes the owner of takva. For this reason, Allah Teal expresses these facts in the 31 and 32nd verses of Kaf Sura. Allah considers the owners of takva (the

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owners of takva are the ones who have made their spirits reach Allah) and the evvb (the ones for whom the Essence of Allah has become a Shelter) worthy of Paradise. Dear readers, here is the end of the third part. That is, the person has become men at the first 7 stages: Vakra has been taken out of the ears of his (souls) heart. Ekinnet (obstacles) have been taken away from his souls heart and put instead ihbat. The secret curtain (hicb- mestre) between him and the post of irshad has been removed, the person has so become men. He has reached hushu (reverence) at the eleventh stage, has begun the soul purification. He has completed the soul purification at the twenty first stage, more than half of his souls heart has been cleaned and his spirit has reached Allah. His soul has realized its vow (yemn) it has given to Allah, it has been purified. The spirit has realized the covenant (msk) it has given to Allah; it has arrived in the Essence of Allah and surrendered itself to Allah. The physical body has got rid of being a servant to Satan. It could not become a servant of Allah entirely but it has got rid of being a servant to Satan. The term of Islam stems from the root SLM and comprises teslim (surrender). Here, the first phase of being Islam is realized; the spirit surrenders itself to Allah. At the second phase, the physical body will surrender itself to Allah, at the third stay, the soul too will surrender itself to Allah and the person will then be Islam (muslim). That is to say, no one can be Islam because one carries out the five conditions of Islam. Dear readers, you see that this is a great event. And the people have unfortunately any knowledge about this matter. A magnificent All-Wise Quran is at our disposal. These horizans are open to everybody. If so, why can the most part of the humankind

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not experience these beauties? What do you think about this? I think that they harm themselves. So, beyond the 21st stage, there are the stages of sainthood comprising the second and third deliveries. The sainthood begins at the point our spirits have been annihilated in the Essence of Allah. Nobody can be a saint unless his spirit will be annihilated in the Essence of Allah, no one can be the owner of takva. What do the human beings understand when one speaks of being the owner of takva? Takva means to avoid, to shun, to keep away from, to guard against to protect from, to fear... if we consider its meaning in the dictionary. What should it so mean? The one who fears Allah should be the owner of takva! But let us have a look at what the All-Wise Quran declares: Allah stresses that the one who has made his spirit reach Allah is the owner of takva (30/Ar-Rm-31), that the one who has delivered his physical body (VECH) from being a servant to Satan is the owner of takva (2/Al-Baqarah-21), that the one who has purified his soul is the owner of takva (53/An-Najm-32) All of this is realized at the 22nd stage. Whereas the one who is at the second stage and will go to Hell fears Allah. And he is the owner of takva according to these scholars. Is it not good? Dear readers, if a person believes in Allah, reaches Him, he will absolutely fear Allah so that he may be enamored of Him. And Allah may love him. Then this fear turns into love. Do not forget: the one who loves runs to his beloved whereas the one who fears runs away from the one he fears. So, Allah wishes you to love Him and to reach Him. Moreover, He has made vuslat which means your spirits reaching Allah directly obligatory nine times upon you. And He has made it indirectly obligatory twice upon you. He has made the purification of your soul obligatory three times upon you. He has made your physical bodys being a servant of Allah obligatory three times upon you, too.

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I always explain the obligations of the All-Wise Quran to you. All we have been saying bears the obligatory decrees. Your spirits reaching Allah before your death is obligatory upon you. Your soul purification is obligatory upon you. Your physical bodys surrendering to Allah is obligatory upon you. Your souls surrendering to Allah is obligatory upon you. I want to explain them subsequently. But let us consider these obligatory mandates now:

10.7.3.2- The spirits reaching Allah is an obligatory mandate

Is your spirits reaching Allah before your death obligatory upon you? Yes, it is directly obligatory nine time upon you: 1. 39/Az-Zumar 54: Ve enb il rabbikum ve eslim lehu min kabli en yetiyekumul azbu summe l tunsarn(tunsarne). Turn back to your Sustainer and surrender yourselves to Him before the (grave) torment comes to you, afterwards you shall not be helped. Dear readers, Allah Teal orders the free will of the one who is alive: Send your spirit back to Allah, but the surrender of your spirit to Allah is not sufficient, He says. You shall surrender your physical body and your soul, too, in the end. 2. 30/Ar-Rm 31: Munbne ileyhi vettekhu ve ekms salte ve l tekn minel murikn(murikne).

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Turn back to Him and become the owners of takva and perform the prescribed prayers and do not be of the ones assigning partners to Allah. 3. 89/Al-Fajr 28: rci il rabbiki rdyeten mardyyeh(mardyyeten). Be pleased with Allah and obtain the consent (pleasure) of Allah. (O spirit) turn back to your Sustainer, reach Him by turning back to Him. 4. 51/Adh-Dhriyt 50: Fe firr illlh(illlhi), inn lekum minhu nezrun mubn(mubnun). Then run away towards Allah. Surely, I am an open Warner from Him to you. 5. 31/Luqmn 15: Ve in chedke al en turike b m leyse leke bih ilmun fe l tuthum ve shibhum fd duny magrfen vettebi seble men enbe ileyy (ileyye), summe ileyye merciukum fe unebbiukum bi m kuntum tameln (tamelne). And if they (your mother and father) urge you to assign to ME the things about which you do not have any knowledge, do not obey them. Get on well with them inthis lowly world. Be dependent on (follow) the way of those who have turned back to ME (of those whose spirits have reached ME before their deaths) (reach me following the same way). Thereafter (after dying) all of you will turn back to ME (Azrail (PUH) will bring you back to Me). I will let you know that which you have done. 6. 10/Ynus 25:

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Vallhu yed' il dris selm(selmi), ve yehd men yeu il srtin mustekm(mustekmin). And Allah invites (you) to the Abode of Surrender (Peace) [to Himself who will take delivery of your spirit) And He leads the one He wants (to make reach the Abode of Surrender, His Essence) to the straight Path (to the Path leading to Allah). Srat Mustakm (the Straight Path) is the name of the path leading to Allah]. 7. 73/Al-Muzzammil 8: Vezkurisme rabbike ve tebettel ileyhi tebtl(tebtlen). Repeat the name of your Sustainer and turn to Him taking yourself away from all. 8. 42/Ash-Shra 47: stecb li rabbikum min kabli en yetiye yevmun l meredde lehu minallh(minallhi), m lekum min melcein yevme izin ve m lekum min nekr(nekrin). Respond to (accept) the invitation of Allah before the day of death comes The rejection of that day on the part of Allah is impossible. When the appointed hour of death comes, there will be no refuge (in which you will take) for you and you will not be able to deny it. (We have seen the invitation; Allah Teal invites (the human beings) to His Essence, to Himself.) 9. 13/Ar-Ra'd 21: Vellezne yaslne m emerallhu bih en ysale ve yahevne rabbehum ve yehfne sel hisb(hisbi).

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They lead that which (their spirits) Allah has ordered them to lead to Him (before death) And they feel hushu (reverence) towards their Sustainer and they fear the bad account. Dear readers, as you have seen, our spirits reaching Allah before dying is obligatory nine times upon us. Directly. And indirectly twice. Allah Teal says:

10.7.4- Our three oaths

6/Al-An'm 152: Ve bi ahdillhi evf Carry out your oaths [all your vows (yemn) oaths (ahd) and your covenants (msk)]. And the 7th verse of Al-M'idah Sura: You have said: We have heard and obeyed. And Allah has made your covenants (msk) obligatory upon you. If so, what happens? When we consider the event, we see this: Allah Teal says in the 172nd verse of Arf Sura: We have taken all the descendants (offspring) of the sons of Adam out of their backs and gathered all of them together in the Pre-eternity before Us. Thereafter we have said to them: elest birabbikm: Am I not your Sustainer? Kl: they said, bel: Yes. (They said: yes, You are our Sustainer) Allah Teal then says: In this case, o souls! You will give me your vows (yemn) in order to be purified. O spirits! I want your covenants (msk) from you, you will reach Me before dying. O physical bodies! You will give

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me your testaments (ahd), you will get rid of being servants to Satan and you will be My Servants. Allah Teal has asked: Have you heard My words? We have replied: semin = we have heard. Allah Teal has decreed: if so, obey (Me). Our souls have given vows; our spirits have given covenants; our physical bodies have given testaments. Allah Teal has said in order to cause us to attest: Have you carried out My order? Have you obeyed Me? We have said: Atan = We have obeyed. Thereupon He has ordered: We have burdened you with your oaths. Thus, in such a design, our vows, covenants and testaments have been made obligatory upon us Whoever has led ones spirit to Allah has carried out ones vow too and ones soul has been purified. That is, more than 50% of the darknesses of ones soul have been turned into Allahs lights. The good qualities of ones spirit have settled into the souls heart under the name of virtues. The soul has realized its vow (yemn). The spirit has realized its covenant (msk), has reached the Essence of Allah. The physical body has realized its testament (ahd). It has got rid of being a servant to Satan. Dear readers, all this should get a reward. Allah Teal announces openly in the 76 and 77th verses of l-Imrn Sura:

3/l-Imrn 76: Bel men evf bi ahdih vettek fe innallhe yuhibbul muttekn(muttekne). No, (it is not so); whoever carries out ones oath(s) with Allah and reaches takva, of a certainty Allah loves those who are the owners of takva.

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3/l-Imrn 77: nnellezne yeterne bi ahdillhi ve eymnihim semenen kallen ulike l halaka lehum fl hrati ve l yukellimuhumullhu ve l yenzuru ileyhim yevmel kymeti ve l yuzekkhim ve lehum azbun elm(elmun). As for the ones who have sold their oaths and vows at a low price, there is no share for them in the Hereafter and Allah will not speak to them and not look at them on the Day of Judgement and not put them in the clear (exonerate them) (they will not be able to carry out their oaths they had given to Allah, that is, their souls will not be purified). There is a painful torment for them. As for the ones who have not carried out their oaths, there is no share (portion) for them in the afterlife. But those who have realized the oath, vow and covenant they have given to Allah are the owners of takva. In the former, Allah does not say: they enter Paradise He says: They have not any share in the Hereafter. In the latter, He makes definite that those who have carried out their oaths, vows and covenants are the owners of takva. We had already seen that those who have purified their souls (53/An-Najm-32), those who have surrendered their physical bodies to Allah, have rendered them servants of Allah (2/AlBaqarah-21) and those who have made their spirits reach Allah (30/Ar-Rm-31) are the owners of takva. Allah settles accounts all at once and wholly. He says: All the ones who have carried out their oaths, vows and covenants are the owners of takva. He ends His decree so: And Allah loves the owners of takva. Let us

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consider altogether what will happen at the end of this love of Allah: The 15th verse of l-Imrn Sura announces: 3/l-Imrn 15: Kul e unebbiukum bi hayrn min zlikum, lilleznettekav inde rabbihim cenntun tecr min tahthel enhru hlidne fh ve ezvcun mutahharatun ve rdvnun minallh(minallhi), vallhu basrun bil bd(bdi). Say: Shall I let you know better (more beneficial) than this? There are Paradises beneath which rivers flow and in which they will abide for ever in the Presence (Floor) of their Sustainer and spouses spotlessly clean and a (post of) consent (pleasure) form Allah. Surely Allah sees His servants. 3/l-Imrn 198: Lkinilleznettekav rabbehum lehum cenntun tecr min tahtihl enhru hlidne fh nuzulen min indillh(indillhi), ve m indallhi hayrun lil ebrr(ebrri). But for the ones who are the owners of takva towards their Sustainer, there are Paradises beneath which rivers flow and in which they will abide eternally with a well treatment from the Presence of Allah. And that which is in the Presence (Floor) of Allah is good for Ebrar (those who have done good deeds and so become worthy of entering Paradise). 50/Qf 31, 32: Ve uzlifetil cennetu lil muttekne gayre bad(badin). Hz m tadne li kulli evvbin hafz(hafzin). Paradise has been brought near without being distant. This is that which has been promised (Paradise) for all the evvb (those

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whose spirits have reached Allah and taken shelter in Him) and the Hafz (those who carry the spirits of the murshids over their heads as guardians). Dear readers, these three verses announce definitely that the owners of takva will enter Paradise. And Allah Teal says in the 76th verse of l-Imrn Sura that those who are not the owners of takva, who have not carried out their oaths, vows and covenants will not have any share in the afterlife. He expresses in the 77th verse of the same Sura that the ones who have carried them out are the owners of takva and will enter Paradise. Well, has Allah Teal previously declared that those who have purified their souls, who have got their spirits to reach Allah, who have rendered their physical bodies servants of Allah will go to Paradise? Yes, He has announced openly, word by word, unequivocally: 89/Al-Fajr 27, 28, 29, 30: Y eyyetuhen nefsul mutmainneh(mutmainnetu). rci il rabbiki rdyeten mardyyeh(mardyyeten). Fedhul f ibd. Vedhul cennet. O satisfied soul! Be pleased with Allah and obtain the consent (pleasure) of Allah, (be purified) (Let us look at the stages: emmare, levvame, mlhime, mutmainne (4th stage), O satisfied soul, He says. Allah Teal addresses a soul that has reached the stage of mutmainne). Be pleased (content) of Allah (rdiye), let Allah be pleased with you, obtain the consent of Allah (mardyye) and be purified (tezkiye). He addresses the spirit: Irci il rabbiki O spirit! Turn back to your Sustainer.

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O soul! Be purified, that is to say, carry out the vow (yemn) you have given to Me. O spirit! Turn back to Me: Carry out the covenant (msk) you have given to Me. He addresses the physical body: Fedhul f ibd Then, He says, o physical body! When your soul has been purified, when your spirit has reached Me and the person has realized the vow and the covenant he has given to Me, only then you can be a servant to Me, you have been so, come and enter among My servants. You will say: it is so good. But what will come out of this, wont you? The 30th verse announces the result: Vedhul cennet. Enter into My Paradise. Allah Teal makes definite with this verse that the person who has carried out the vow (yemn) of his soul, the covenant (msk) of his spirit and the testament (ahd) of his physical body will go to Paradise.

10.7.5- Hidyet and Dallet (Guidance and Misguidance)

When we consider sahbe, we see that all of them have realized them. Because Allah Teal declares that all the sahbe (all the Companions of our Prophet (PBUH) have reached hidyet (guidance) in the 18th verse of Az-Zumar Sura. 1. The spirits reaching Allah is hidyet.

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2. The physical bodys being delivered from being a servant to Satan is hidyet. 3. The souls being purified is hidyet. All these three accomplishments are hidyet, says Allah Teal. Allah Teal announces in the 23rd verse of Az-Zumar Sura that He sends down His lighs in pairs and these lights ensure the purification in the souls heart of the person. And He says the result of this purification: 39/Az-Zumar 23: Allhu nezzele ahsenel hadsi kitben mutebihen mesniye takarru minhu culdullezne yahevne rabbehum, summe telnu culduhum ve kulbuhum il zikrillh(zikrillhi), zlike hudallhi yehd bih men yeu, ve men yudlilillhu fe m lehu min hd(hdin). Allah sends down the most beautful (ones) (of the lights) He produces in pairs (rahmet-fazl and rahmet-salavat) as similar to the Book. The skins of those who feel reverence (hushu) towards their Sustainer shiver with these (lights). Thereafter, these lights soften the skin and the (souls) heart of the person with Allahs zikir (quiver it, illumine it and purify it and so lead the persons spirit to allah and makes him reach hidyet). This is the hidyet (guidance) of Allah, He makes reach hidyet with it the person He wishes (by puriying his soul (s heart) through His lights and so leading him to His Essence) Whomever He abandons in Misguidance, there is no saint guide (hidyetchi) for him. He says in the 36th verse of An-Nahl Sura as follows:

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16/An-Nahl 36: Ve le kad beasn f kulli ummetin reslen enibudllhe vectenibt tgt(tgte), fe minhum men hedallhu ve minhum men hakkat aleyhid dalleh(dalletu), fe sr fl ard fanzur keyfe kne kbetul mukezzibn(mukezzibne). And truly We have sent (brought to life, commissioned) a Messenger in each community in order that they may become the servants of Allah and abstain from Satan (get rid of Satan), some of them have reached Allah and some have deserved Misguidance. (Those who have depended on (followed) the Messengers have reached hidyet and those who have not depended on them have deserved Misguidance) get round the Earth and see how the end of the deniers has been. So, the physical bodys being delivered from being a servant to Satan is hidyet, the spirits reaching Allah is also hidyet. Because Allah Teal expresses openly: 3/l-Imrn 73: nnel hud hudallhi... Verily, hidyet is to reach Allah. 2/Al-Baqarah 120: nne hudllhi huvel hud Verily, reaching Allah: this is hidyet (guidance). 18/Al-Kahf 17: Men yehdillhu fe huvel muhted(muhtedi) Whoever reaches Allah is the one who reaches hidyet (the guided one) (the one Allah makes reach His Essence is then the one who reaches hidyet).

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Allah Teal says in the 105th verse of Al-M'idah Sura: 5/Al-M'idah 105: Y eyyuhellezne men aleykum enfusekum, l yadurrukum men dalle izehtedeytum illlhi merciukum cemn fe yunebbiukum bim kuntum tameln(tamelne). O those who have become men! (those who have surpassed the first 7 stages, who want to reach Allah), the responsibility of your souls is upon you (purifying your souls is incumbent on you). When you have reached hidyet (by purifying your souls hearts), those who have gone astray cannot harm you. All of you will be made to turn back to Allah. Then He will inform you of all that you have done. In which case, dear readers, there is hidyet in three different aspects. Thus, the soul purification is hidyet, the spirits reaching Allah is hidyet, the physical bodys being servant of Allah is hidyet (guidance).

10.7.6- To merit (to deserve, to be worthy of) Paradise

As you see, dear readers, here is the point where the salvation is. Here is the place where our spirit surrenders itself to Allah, our three bodies carry out the duties incumbent on them and the person merits Paradise for the third time. What do we mean? 1. Whoever longs to reach Allah deserves Paradise.

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If the person continues to live, he will decisively reach his murshid (saint guide). He will merit Paradise on account of two reasons: 1. Because he has got rid of the aberration. 2. Because he has got rid of unbelief. At the moment this person reaches his murshid, repents knealing down before him, he deserves Paradise in three separate aspects. When he has made his spirit reach Allah, he has purified his soul, he has made his physical body a servant of Allah, he deserves Paradise in three different aspects too, that is, in six aspects Whoever makes his spirit reach Allah and completes so his first surrender, deserves Paradise in six different aspects. At the first phase, because he longs to reach Allah, he merits Paradise only in one aspect. At the second phase, (as the person reaches his murshid), to merit Paradise in two different aspects is added to this owing to the deliverance from the misguidance and unbelief. In which standards is this valid? The person wanted to reach Allah but died without attaining to the second phase. That person will absolutely go to Paradise. He has deserved Paradise merely in one aspect. 1. Because he has wanted to reach Allah. The person has reached his murshid, he has got rid of misguidance and then has died. He has deserved then in three separate aspects. He has led his spirit to Allah, has purified his soul, has made his physical body a servant of Allah. He has deserved Paradise in three further different aspects. He has deserved Paradise just in six aspects, in six different points of view. 1. As he has wanted to reach Allah. 2. As he has got rid of aberration (misguidance)

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3. As he has become a believer (mmin) 4. As he has led his spirit to Allah. 5. As he has purified his soul. 6. As he has delivered his physical body from being a servant to Satan (as he has reached the first servanthood) This man is then a saint of Allah.

10.7.7- To be a saint of Allah

Dear readers, let us consider together being a saint of Allah and reaching the bliss of the next world of Allah. Allah Teal says: 10/Ynus 62, 63, 64: E l inne evly allhi l havfun aleyhim ve l hum yahzenn(yahzenne). Ellezne men ve kn yettekn(yettekne). Lehumul bur fl haytid duny ve fl hreh(hreti) Take care! There is no fear for the saints (friends)of Allah and they will not be saddened, too. They are men and have become the owners of takva. There is glad tidings (happiness) for them in this world and in the next world. Allah Teal says: Both this worldly happiness and the next worldly bliss are for them. As you see, dear readers, here is the first phase of being Islam, here is the point where we have reached the salvation, we have been the saints of Allah in six different aspects. You have realized the first surrender to Allah, you have surrendered your

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spirit to Allah. The first surrender has been completed. Could you be Islam (a muslim)? No, you could not. But you have succeeded in realizing the first phase of being Islam.

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

11.1- The Station of Annihilation (Fen)
Dear readers, thereafter, the seven stations (stages) of the sainthood are the subject The first station is the stage of Annihilation. It arises from the annihilation of the spirit of the person in the Essence of Allah, from its disappearance therein, from its surrender to Allah. The 18th verse of Ftir Sura says: 35/Ftir 18: Ve men tezekk fe innem yetezekk li nefsih(nefsih), ve illlhil masr(masru). Whoever purifies ones soul does it for ones own soul and (ones spirit) sets out for Allah (reaches Allah). Because the soul of the person has given a vow (yemn) to Allah for its purification. The stage of tezkiye (purification) is the seventh stage of the soul. At the end of the seventh stage, the spirit will reach the Essence of Allah. Whoever purifies ones soul reaches Allah. The Essence (Zt) of Allah becomes a Shelter for the spirit of that person. This is the surrender of the spirit to Allah. The 39th verse of An-Naba' Sura expresses this.

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78/An-Naba' 39: Zlikel yevmul hakk(hakku), femen ettehaze il rabbih meb(meben). That day [the day when a person kisses the hand of his murshid in order to reach The Truth (Hakk, Allah) and depends on him] is the Day of Truth; the person who wishes (the person who wishes to reach Allah) takes a path (the Straight Path = Srat Mustakm) leading to his Sustainer. (Allah becomes) a Shelter (for the person who has reached Allah). His spirit reaches Allah. The Essence (Zt) of Allah becomes a Shelter (Refuge) for that persons spirit, says Allah. That persons spirit has been annihilated in the Essence of Allah. This is why this station (stage) is called the station of Annihilation (Fen).

11.2- The Station of Everlastingness

The person who has reached the Essence of Allah with 51% of lights in his souls heart rises to a new station with 61% of lights. This station is the stage of Everlastingness (Eternalness). What is the Everlastingness? To be eternal, everlasting. Allah Teal, creating a new spirit for the person, bestows a throne on this spirit. Pay close attention to this throne, dear readers. This is a golden throne. There is a station existing in the Presence (Floor) of Allah. This is a throne, an Abode of the Next World. This throne which is found in the Presence (Floor) of Allah is a golden throne. If you look at the Imam of the Era from behind in the Presence Prayer, you will see a great many thrones four meters high from the ground on the left side, ahead of the one (the Imam of the Presence Parayer) who is at the forefront. The thrones in the lower

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parts are out of gold, the ones in the upper parts are of gold, too, but they are encrusted with jewelry, the uppermost ones are entirely covered with jewelry. Whomever Allah Teal has bestowed of these thrones on, this one has become the owner of a golden throne. 6/Al-An'm 127: Lehum drus selmi inde rabbihim ve huve veliyyuhum bim kn yameln(yamelne). There is the Abode of Surrender (golden thrones) for them in the Presence (Floor) of their Sustainer and He has become their Friend (vel) owing to that which they have done. 70/Al-Ma'rij 41: Al en nubeddile hayren minhum ve m nahnu bi mesbkn(mesbkne). We are powerful to change them with the ones better than them. And no one can prevent us (from doing it). Dear readers, here is the second station of the sainthood.

11.3- The Station of Asceticism (Zhd)

Thereafter, when the person obtains 10% of further lights, he becomes the owner of the station of asceticism. The property of being the owner of this station is that the person repeats the name of Allah (does zikir) every day during more than half of the day. In other words, a person who passes more than 12 hours in a day consisting of 24 hours can only be the owner of the station of asceticism. Negative asceticism (zhd) takes in the 20th verse of Ysuf Sura as follows:

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12/Ysuf 20: Ve erevhu bi semenin bahsin derhime maddeh(maddetin), ve kn fhi minez zhidn(zhidne). And they have sold him at a low price, at a few drachms and they were of the zhidn towards him. They did not attach any importance to thim. What is the positive asceticism? This is the value we attach to the dhikir (zikir). Whoever is able to do zikir for example 13 hours every day is decisively a zhid (ascetic) as the time passed without zikir is only 11 hours.

11.4- The Station of the Embellished Ones (Muhsins) [The second Surrender]
The lights that amount to 71% at the station of Everlastingness rise to 81% at the station of Asceticsm, dear readers and the person attains to a new station with 81% of lights. This is named the Station of the Embellished Ones (muhsins). The physical body of this person has surrendered itself to Allah. 4/An-Nis' 125: Ve men ahsenu dnen mimmen esleme vechehu lillhi ve huve muhsinun vettebea millete ibrhme hanf(hanfen), vettehazallhu ibrhme hall(hallen). And who is more beautiful (perfect) than the one who has surrendered its physical body (vech) to Allah in respect of religion and he is a muhsin (an embellished one) and he has depended on (followed) the religion of Ibrahm (PUH) as a hanf (having the nature of surrendering itself to Allah and

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thus entering into peace and serenity) And Allah has made Ibrahm (PUH) His Friend. Here is the station of the surrender of the physical body. A person who becomes of the embellished ones (muhsins) by surrendering his physical body to Allah. What kind of thing is this? What does being ahsen (the most beautiful) mean? Dear readers, being ahsen is to possess the property of carrying out absolutely, without any exception all the orders of Allah and of not committing any acts (actions) forbidden by Him. Our spirit is ahsen (the most beautiful, perfect) beginning from the instant of its creation. It obeys 100% the commandments of Allah. It is not in any case possible for it to commit any act prohibited by Allah. For this reason, the surrendering of our spirit to Allah is realized by its reaching the Essence of Allah. But our physical body and our soul are not ahsen (the most beautiful, perfect) As they are not ahsen yet, their surrender to Allah will be realized through their being ahsen. Allah Teal says this for the soul: 95/At-Tn 4, 5: Lekad halaknel insne f ahseni takvm(takvmin). Summe redednhu esfele sfiln(sfilne). Verily, we created the human being (the soul of the human being) in a disposition capable of attaining to the most beautiful in a certain period of time (takvm = calender). Thereafter we packed him away to the Lowest of the low. That is, He says: We created the Soul in ahsen-i takvm (in a certain period of time) in a nature capable of reaching ahsen (the most beautiful, perfect constitution). The same thing

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is valid both for the physical body and the soul. Dear readers, the primordial condition of the surrender of a persons physical body to Allah is that that persons zikir must exceed in any way half of the day, otherwise he cannot be zhid (ascetic). We are still far from surrendering our physical bodies to Allah. Beginning from the point physical body starts to surrender itself to Allah, that person direct his physical body at a target at which it carries out all the orders of Allah and does not commit any act forbidden by Him. Whenever this person will attain to this target, he will be one of the embellished ones (muhsins).

11.5- The Station of Ullelbab

The subsequent station is the stage of ullelbab which is the fifth station of the sainthood. Ul means the owner(s) elbb means lbbs (treasuries of the divine mysteries) Lbb is that which we cannot perceive with our five senses, is the ability of seeing and hearing that which is beyond the five senses, is beyond the physical ones and be the owner of judgement about them. Dear readers, Allah Teal opens up the seal on the hearing center of your souls heart when you have reached continuous zikir. Your hearts ear begins to hear. A curtain named gvet is taken out of your hearts eye. So, you begin to live in a milieu where your hearts ear hears what Allah says to you, your hearts eye sees what Allah shows you. Thus you become the owner of divine wisdom (hikmet). That is, when you consider a verse in the All-Wise Quran, you begin to make out at one glance to which stage of the 28 stages of approaching Allah this verse is related. And this is to be the owner of judgement, of wisdom. The station of ullelbab

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has basically three conditions of particularity. The hearts eye and ear of this person will absolutely be opened, he will decisively be the owner of wisdom. All the owners of wisdom are the owners of goodness at the same time. Why? Because they have not any calamities in their souls hearts. They have not any more calamities therein beginning from the moment they are the owners of continuous zikir. It is not possible for these calamities to come back once more. Because the seal constantly remains on the darkness door as they do continuous zikir. It is not possible for these darknesses to enter into this souls heart any more until this person will die. So, here is the station of ullelbab. What is the common property of the station of ullelbab? All the owners of this station are also the owners of continuous zikir. Here is the 190th and the 191st verses of l-Imrn: 3/l-Imrn 190, 191: Ellezne yezkurnallhe kymen ve kuden ve al cunbihim ve yetefekkerne f halks semvti vel ard(ard), rabben m halakte hz btl(btlan), subhneke fekn azben nr(nr). They (ullelbab, the owners of the treasuries of the divine mysteries) repeat the name of Allah (do zikir) while they are standing, sitting down and lying sidewards and think profoundly about the creation of the heavens and the Earth (and they say so), O our Sustainer, you did not create them in vain (uselessly), Glory be to You, preserve us then from Hellfire. To be the owner of continuous zikir is to repeat uninterruptedly the name of Allah in all these three positions (one can be only in these three positions). And dear readers, according

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to the 7th verse of l-Imrn Sura, the competence (authorization) of expounding the analogous verses is accorded to the ull elbb servants of Allah. Allah Teal says in that verse: 3/l-Imrn 7: Huvellez enzele aleykel kitbe minhu ytun muhkemtun hunne ummul kitbi ve uharu mutebiht(mutebihtun), fe emmellezne f kulbihim zeygun fe yettebine m tebehe minhubtigel fitneti vebtige tevlih(tevlihi), ve m yalemu tevleh illllh(illllhu), ver rsihne fl ilmi yeklne menn bih, kullun min indi rabbin, ve m yezzekkeru ill ull elbb(elbbi). He it is He who has sent down the Book to you. Some verses of it are muhkem (unequivocal, certain). These are the Mother of the Book. (These are the clear and definite verses taking place in the Mother of the Book on the Preserved Tablet) Others are mteabih (equivocal, analogous, necessitating some interpretations). Those in the hearts of whom there is crookedness (fickleness) follow the mteabih verses in order to aim at making mischief between people and misinterpreting them intentionally whereas it is only Allah who knows their real interpretations and those who are deeply specialized in sciences (knowledge) say: We believe in them, all of them are from the Presence (Floor) of our Sustainer. But it is only ullelbab who can deliberate duly on them. To be ullelbab is to be cognizant o the mysteries (secrets) of the ground floor. Allah Teal shows them openly the main convent where His greatest secrets (mysteries) are found: the fact that golden pieces form a huge heap, the pulpit of Ebubekir Excellency, the All-Wise Quran before everyone, the low

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reading-desks, the row of the human spirits in tens, the saint of the right side, the saint of the left side, a bit above, the Imam of the Era gives special lessons to the ones who will ascend to the seventh heavenly floor the golden portal at the beginning of the Straight Path leading to Allah Teal, all is shown to them.

11.6- The Station of hlas (The third surrender)

Dear readers, whenever this person who has reached continuous zikir begins to see the first floor of the heavens, from that point on, that person reaches a new stage. He becomes the owner of Ihlas (being utterly pure). Here is the second and last level of wisdom. Wisdom settles on a trivet: being the owner of wisdom, tezekkr (continuous zikir, deliberation) and goodness. Why is goodness? Because there are no more calamities in his souls heart. Henceforth he always does good. It is not possible for him to commit wickedness (badness) by no means. Allah Teal expresses in the 5th verse of Al-Bayyinah Sura: 98/Al-Bayyinah 5: Ve m umir ill li yabudllhe muhlisne lehud dne hunefe ve yukms salte ve yutz zekte ve zlike dnul kayyimeh(kayyimeti). And they are ordered but to become the utterly pure servants of Allah in the Religion as hanf (having the disposition of believing in a Single Allah and so being in order and serenity) and to perform the prescribed prayers and to give alms and this is the lasting religion.

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Those who have rendered their souls utterly pure. That is to say, those who have removed all the mixedness and negativeness in their souls hearts. Here is the station of Ihlas. Beginning from the moment the first floor of the heavens is shown to him, the person is the owner of the station of Ihlas. This is the sixth station of the sainthood. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh floors of the heavens, all the particularities of the seventh floor up to the Farthest Lote-tree (Sidretl Mnteha) are shown to this person. When he is honored to see the Farthest Lote-tree, after ndi lhi, at this point, Allah absolutely invites him to the Tvbe-i Nasuh (Irrevocable Repentance) which is the opening up of the station of Salah after the station of Ihlas.

11.6.1- To be Islam (muslim)

Dear readers, this person has surrendered also his soul to Allah at the station of Ihlas. The person who has surrendered his spirit to Allah at the station of Annihilation which is the first stage of the sainthood has realized the first phase of being Islam. When this person surrenders his physical body to Allah, he realizes the second phase of being Islam at the fourth stage of the sainthood. When the person surrenders his soul to Allah at the sixth stage of the sainthood, the third phase of being Islam is also realized. This person has surrendered himself to Allah in the real sense of Islam. The three surrenders (deliveries) have been completed. The surrender of the spirit is the first surrender, the first phase of being Islam, of being surrendered to Allah. The surrender of the physical body is the fourth stage of the sainthood. This person has realized the second phase of being Islam by surrendering also his physical body to Allah. And finally the person has surrendered his soul to Allah at the sixth stage of the sainthood and has so completed the

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third phase of being Islam. That is to say, he has attained to the honor of BEING ISLAM.

11.6.2- All the sahbe had been Islam

Dear readers, Allah has presented the Companions of the Prophet (PBUH) (sahbe) as models in all matters in the All-Wise Quran. All the sahbe have realized the first surrender by making their spirits reach Allah. The 18th verse of Az-Zumar Sura makes this definite: 39/Az-Zumar 18: Ellezne yesteminel kavle fe yettebine ahseneh(ahsenehu), ulikellezne hedhumullhu ve ulike hum ull elbb(elbbi). They are the ones who hear (heed) the words and depend on (follow) the most beautiful (of those words) (on the words uttered by our Master the Prophet (PBUH). It is those whom Allah has led to Himself (those who have made their spirits reach Allah before dying). And it is those who are ullelbab (the owners of continuous zikir, consequently of the treasuries of the divine mysteries). Allah Teal says that all of them have reached hidyet. They have made their spirits reach Allah, they have made their physical bodies and souls reach hidyet by realizing the oaths they have given to Allah. Well, had all sahbe surrendered their physical bodies to Allah, too? Yes, they had indeed. Allah Teal expresses in the 20th verse of l-Imrn Sura as follows: 3/l-Imrn 20:

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Fe in hccke fe kul eslemtu vechiye lillhi ve menittebean(menittebeani), ve kul lillezne tl kitbe vel ummiyyne e eslemtum, fe in eslem fe kadihtedev, ve in tevellev fe innem aleykel belg(belgu), vallhu basrun bil ibd(ibdi). If they are to argue with you, say: I have surrendered my physical body (vech) to Allah and those who have depended on me, too. And say to those to whom the Book has been given and to the illiterates: Have you surrendered (your physical bodies) too? If they have surrendered (them to Allah) then they have surely reached hidyet. If they turn their backs (on you), then the duty (that is incumbent) on you is only to communicate (that which has been revealed to you). And verily Allah sees His servants.

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

This verse proves by itself that sahbe have surrendered both their spirits and physical bodies to Allah. Allah Teal has made the surrender to Allah obligatory. He says this: 39/Az-Zumar 54: Ve enb il rabbikum ve eslim lehu min kabli en yetiyekumul azbu summe l tunsarn(tunsarne). Turn back to your Sustainer (lead your spirits to Allah) and (thus) surrender yourselves to Him before the (grave) torment has come to you. Thereafter you will not be helped. Allah Teal decrees in the 58th verse of An-Nis' Sura:

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4/An-Nis' 58: nnallhe yemurukum en tueddl emnti il ehlih ve iz hakemtum beynen nsi en tahkum bil adl(adli), innallhe nimm yezukum bih(bih), innallhe kne seman basr(basran). Verily Allah orders you to give back your Trusts to their Possessor and when you judge (rule, have authority over) among people, to reach a decision with justice. Verily Allah gives you a bountiful advice with this. For sure, Allah is All-Hearing, AllSeeing. Allah uses Trusts as plural and Possessor (Owner) as singular. He says: Give back all of the Trusts to their Possessor, to the Unique Being, (to Allah). Allah Teal decrees in the 208th verse of Al-Baqarah Sura: 2/Al-Baqarah 208: Y eyyuhellezne mendhul fs silmi kffeh(kffeten), ve l tettebi hutuvti eytn(eytni), innehu lekum aduvvun mubn(mubnun). Oh those who are men (believe) Enter all of you the Silm (in the sphere of surrender). And do not follow the steps of Satan. Surely he is an open enemy for you. Allah Teal decrees so in the 102nd verse of l-Imrn Sura: 3/l-Imrn 102: Y eyyuhellezne menttekullhe hakka tuktih ve l temtunne ill ve entum muslimn(muslimne).

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Oh those who are men! Be the owners of takva (just like the rightfully owners of takva) properly. And surrender yourselves to Allah before dying. 2/Al-Baqarah 132: Ve vass bih ibrhmu benhi ve yakb(yakbu), y beniyye innallhestaf lekumud dne fe l temtunne ill ve entum muslimn(muslimne). And Ibrahm (PUH) recommended it testamentarily to his sons and Yakb, too: Oh my sons! Verily Allah has chosen this Religion for you. So, surrender yourselves to Allah before dying. Thus, the surrender of our spirit, our physical body and our soul to Allah is obligatory upon all of us. Dear readers, all of sahbe have surrendered them to Allah. Have they also surrendered their souls to Him? Allah Teal says in the 20th verse of l-Imrn Sura: 3/l-Imrn 20: Fe in hccke fe kul eslemtu vechiye lillhi ve menittebean(menittebeani), ve kul lillezne tl kitbe vel ummiyyne e eslemtum, fe in eslem fe kadihtedev, ve in tevellev fe innem aleykel belg(belgu), vallhu basrun bil ibd(ibdi). If they are to argue with you, then say: I have surrendered my physical body (vech) to Allah and those who have depended on me, too. And say to those to whom the Book has been given and to the illiterates: Have you surrendered (your physical bodies to Allah), too? If they have surrendered (them to Allah) then they have reached hidyet. If they turn their backs (on you) then the

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duty (that is incumbent) on you is only to communicate (that which has been revealed to you) And verily Allah sees His servants. Thus all sahbe has attained to the honor of being Islam (muslim).

11.6.2.2- The Night of Power (Leyle-i Kadir)

Tonight we are ttette (together). We will live altogether all the beauties. This will be a recollection (memory) for you. You will remember this first night where we have entered the third millennium. The real property of this night in comparison with which entering into the third millennium remains utterly insignificant is that it is the Night of the Creator and the most important of all the other nights: The Night of Power. I disclose all this to you in the Night of Power. Tonight I want to explain this great event to you. Whoever asks you the Islam in the Quran, you will ask him if he really wants to learn it? Here are cassettes. From end to end. This is a summary. This is a topic explainable within twenty to twenty one hours. But tonight it will be, inshaallah, possible for us to accomplish it in three to four hours. In which case, we are about to approach th end.

11.7- The Station of Salah (Improvement)

Whoever accomplishes this series of surrenders, surrenders also ones soul to Allah Teal and becomes Islam. The final stage of being Islam is the station of Salah. This station expresses beyond wisdom, too. Allah Teal announces in the

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151st verse of Al-Baqarah Sura about our Master the Prophet (PBUH) as follows: 2/Al-Baqarah 151: Kem erseln fkum reslen minkum yetl aleykum ytin ve yuzekkkum ve yuallimukumul kitbe vel hikmete ve yuallimukum m lem tekn talemn(talemne). In just the same way, we have sent a Messenger (in order that he may perform his mission) among you and from you so that he should read and explain our signs (verses) to you, purify you (your souls hearts), teach you the Book and the (Divine) Wisdom and that which (beyond wisdom) you do not know yet. Dear readers, that which is beyond wisdom is the station of Salh. Whoever sees the seven heavenly floors, sees everything (with the exception of the Essence of Allah), the seven worlds of the seventh heavenly floor, Allah absolutely invites him one day at a daybreak to the Tvbe-i Nash (The Irrevocable Repentance). As a result of this invitation, if Allah Teal will assign him to the post of irshad, He grants him the greatest favor of the universe with the sentence: You have been commissioned and authorized to irshad. He will be invested with a property of living merely for other human beings by Allah Teal. His life will always pass with delight. He will devote himself to the service of others. This is a pleasure, a delight rather than self sacrifice. This is a way of life, a splendid event. Allah Teal says in the 8th verse of At-Tahrm Sura as follows: 66/At-Tahrm 8:

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Y eyyuhellezne men tb illlhi tevbeten nash(nashan), as rabbukum en yukeffire ankum seyyitikum ve yudhilekum cenntin tecr min tahtihel enhru, yevme l yuhzllhun nebiyye vellezne men meah(meahu), nruhum yes' beyne eydhim ve bi eymnihim yeklne rabben etmim len nren vagfir len, inneke al kulli ey'in kadr(kadrun). Oh those who are men! Repent to Allah with an Irrevocable Repentance so that your Sustainer may wrap (pardon) your sins and introduce you in the Gardens of Paradise beneath which rivers flow, on that day He will not put the Prophet and those who are amen together with him to the blush. Their light (nr) pursues them in front of them and on their right side. They say: Oh Our Sustainer! Complete our Light for us and forgive us. Verily you are Powerful over all things. The Irrevocable Repentance is bestowed as a bounty on the owners of ihlas in the souls hearts of whom all the calamities have been removed when they have completely seen all the heavenly floors. This is an order and the Irrevocable Repentance is made to Allah at the final point in this direction. This repentance is realized by repeating one by one the words uttered by Allah Teal. The person is from now on at the Station of Salh.

11.7.1- The binding and abolishing of the (Free) Will

The Station of Salah constitutes seven separate stages in itself. If the first four stages are surpassed, there is the binding (connection) of the (free) will at the fifth stage and the abolishing (removing) of the (free) will at the six stage. The connection of the

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free will of the person to the Will of Allah occurs. The person will pass all his remaining lifetime with the commands he will receive from Allah. And Allah Teal designates one of the Messengers existing in all the tribes, communities as the Imam of the Era. That person is at the disposal. He enters under the absolute disposal of Allah. Here is the seventh and final stage of Salah. Dear readers, here is the end of the road. And the person absolutely attain here to the honor of being slam. Here is the Station of Salah and beyond all stations. The light of salah (halo) is constituted over the head of that person. A light in the form of a cloud that can be diminished to 30 cm but can also envelop even the inside of the huge mosques. (Our brothers have photographed this halo many times. We preserve them as souvenirs and documents for proof.) The station of salh (improvement) expresses the owner of the Light of Improvement (halo). The person becomes of the improved ones. What happens if he becomes so? Pay attention to that which Allah Teal says in the 69th verse of An-Nis' Sura: 4/An-Nis' 69: Ve men yutillhe ver resle fe ulike meallezne enamellhu aleyhim minen nebiyyne ves sddkne ve uhedi ves slihn(slihne), ve hasune ulike refk(refkan). And as for the ones who obey Allah and the Messenger, it is those who are together with the Prophets and the utterly truthful ones and the martyrs and the improved ones and the pure servants (of Allah). How good friends they are!

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12- Islam is Happiness

We have attained now to an essential point: Have you ever asked yourselves what has been lying behind all this? Allah Teal has created the human being. Pay close attention to my words: He has created him as the most superior creature in the universe. He has created all His other creatures apart from the human being for the human beings. But He has created man for Him. If so, all of you, you are created for Allah. You are the most valuable and valued creatures in the universe. Whatever He created apart from you is created for you. But you are created for Allah. The spirit exists only in you, in the human beings. You have a spirit that has come from Allah and will turn back again to the Essence of Allah. Allah Teal wants to make happy a creature so valuable and for the sake of whom He has created the whole universe. And all the heavenly Books sent down by Allah is to make the human beings reach Happiness: the eternal bliss of Paradise and the worldly happiness. Dear readers, we have seen that all the sahbe have attained to all these goals. All of them have become slihs (the improved ones). The basic characteristic of being slih (improved) is to be able to become a murshid appointed by Allah Teal. Have all of the sahbe attained to this honor? They have become without exception murshids (saint guides) appointed by Allah Teal. Here is the 100th verse of At-Taubah Sura: Allah Teal brings therein a definite judgement: 9/At-Taubah 100: Ves sbiknel evvelne minel muhcirne vel ensri velleznettebehum bi hsnin radyallhu anhum ve rad

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anhu ve eadde lehum cenntin tecr tahtehel enhru hlidne fh ebed(ebeden), zlikel fevzul azm(azmu). And as for the sabikn-el evveln (the previous competitors) (those who have occupied the most superior three stations that are those of ll elbb, Ihlas and Salah) some them of are out of the Emigrants (those who have emigrated from Mecca to Medina) and some of them are out of the Helpers (in Medina) and some are out of those who have deended on them with (divine) favors. (As the sahbe were the owners of the posts of irshad, they have depended on them) Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allah. He has prepared for them the Gardens of Paradise beneath which rivers flow They will abide therein for ever. This is greatest (immense, tremendous) reward (success). Wherever you encounter in the Quran a reward (fevz), a remuneration (ecr) and a gratification (delight, pleasure, hazz, share, portion) qualified with azm (greatest, tremendous, immense, infinite) know that it is a sign to the station of Salah. At this point, you become the owner of wisdom when you have obtained that station. We see that all sahabe were the owners of hazzl azm (the greatest delight), fevzl azm (the greatest success, reward) and ecrl azm (the greatest remuneration). And all of them are the owners of the post of irshad. The hadith of our Prophet (PBUH) also says the same thing: My Companions (sahbe) are like stars in the sky. Whoever depends on them reaches hidyet. We see that sahbe have become the owners of both the worldly happiness and the bliss of Paradise in such a milieu. The fact that sahbe have become the owners of the bliss (felicity) of paradise was related in the aforementioned verses and is related

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here, too. But in the 100th verse of Tevbe Sura, the fact that sahbe have been the owners of the worldly happiness beyond the bliss of Paradise has been made definite. They all are the owners of hazzl azm (the greatest delight), ecrul azm (the greatest remuneration) and fevzl azm (the greatest reward, success). If so, dear readers, what is that thing we name happiness according to the basic judgement of the All-Wise Quran? It was not possible for the subject to be terminated before this point is elucidated. What is the goal (aim, target) of Allah? It is to cause the human beings to reach the bliss of Paradise in any case and to make them reach the salvation, based on an extremely simple reason such as wishing to reach Allah. Everlasting life in Paradise. Everyone who has learnt to use ones intellect (reason) wants to reach Allah. The result of this is to be the owner of Paradise. On the day on which you have made your spirit reach Allah, the bliss of Paradise is entirely for you on account of six reasons. What is the rest? The worldly happiness. Half of the worldly happiness also belongs to you. As for the remaining half, you are in a state of quarrel (argument) with Satan. But when you reach the stages of Ihlas and Salh, then you will entirely be the owners of the worldly happiness. Thus The All-Wise Quran says that Islam is a happiness. Is it really a happiness? Let us consider it altogether.

12.1- Happiness in the three worlds

Dear readers, happiness consists of three dimensions. Happiness in your inner world, happiness in your outer world (in your relations with other human beings) and happiness in your relations with Allah.

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From the first point of view, this is a goal that has to be formed in your three worlds at a time. From the second point of view, this happiness has a most crucial trait: it must be uninterrupted. Otherwise, you are not happy. So, why are the human beings unhappy? Why are they happy? When do they become happy? Why are the human beings always unhappy at the beginning? They are unhappy in their inner world? They are unhappy in their outer world. They are also unhappy in their relations with Allah. Why? Because their souls hearts are full of calamities. Pay close attention to the concepts of soul and spirit. Your soul bears 19 calamities (sicknesses, darknesses) in its constitution (structure). Your spirit, on the contrary, bears 19 good qualities (haslets). There is rebellion in your soul, obedience in your spirit. There is hatred in your soul, love in your spirit. There is ignorance in your soul, knowledge (science) in your spirit

12.2- Why are the human beings unhappy?

The opposite of all the calamities exist in your spirit as positives. Thus all the negatives are in your soul whereas all the positives are in your spirit. If what the calamities desire is executed, you are unhappy in your inner world, in your outer world and in your relations with Allah. Why are you unhappy? Because there are only calamities in your souls heart. Your soul (if a command has come from Allah) wishes it not to be applied. It wants you not to carry out the orders of Allah. It absolutely desires you to commit what is

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forbidden by Allah. Satan and the calamities in your soul constitute a whole. Satan has a property of inciting you constantly to commit sins by exacerberating intensely the calamities of your soul that are basically negative. Can Satan succeed in reaching his goal? Most often. How? The commander of your physical body is the intellect (reason). Think that your intellect has gained consciousness in a world where all the prohibitions of Allah have normally been committed and His orders have never been carried out. It has been formed under the influence of the events. Has Allah Teal forbidden alcoholic beverages? All the people around you drink them. Has Allah Teal forbidden the gambling? Everybody gambles. If you are in such a milieu you will see that your intellect will let your soul satisfy most of its demands. Your intellect will accept most of your souls demands. If it accepts them, it is subject that you will commit the act forbidden by Allah Teal because your intellect has agreed to its perpetrating. As a result, your spirit will torment your soul and Allah Teal will cause you to suffer a torment because of each wickedness (evil) you have perpetrated. Dear readers, a person constitutes two separate aspects because of his spirit and his soul. The soul constantly wishes your intellect not to carry out the orders of Allah. When your intellect accepts this wish, you do not carry out an order of Allah. In case you do not carry it out, an uneasiness will inevitably comes and settles down inside you. This is the first torment applied to you by Allah. Subsequently your spirit will torment your soul. Allah Teal says: I torment those who do not use their intellect properly. And in order that you may use it fittingly, He has sent down the All-Wise Quran, has given His Commandments. You do not carry them out. When you do not carry them out, you will

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inevitablely be tormented. This torment manifests itself as an uneasiness, it is an immaterial torment. When you have experienced the torment, you become an uneasy man. You do not carry out the order of Allah, you taste two separate torments. Allah Teal cause you to suffer one, your spirit the other. Why has Allah Teal given such an authorization to the spirit? Because our spirit has a great longing for reaching Allah. But as long as our soul keeps on committing evils, it is not possible in any way for our spirit to reach Allah. In which case, in order that the Trust (your spirit) may reach Allah, the Possessor of the Trust, the hostage (your soul) has to change. It is necessary that the hostage should obtain the keys to the heavenly floors. Unless the calamities in your soul (heart) have been annihilated, your spirit cannot ascend to the heavenly floors. It is necessary that 7% of nurs (lights) should be formed in your souls heart so that your soul can obtain the key to the first heavenly floor and your spirit can ascend from the ground floor to the first heavenly floor. If the soul does not perform its duty, this is to say that the spirit will never be able to reach Allah while that person will be alive. Then it is subject that your soul will be tormented by your spirit because this person does not use his intellect fittingly. Not to use ones intellect has nothing to do with being intelligent or unintelligent. Not to use ones intellect is not to obey the judgements of Allah, is not to be able to comply with them. There are a lot of professors who live the occult sciences. They make the transcendental meditation, They believe in the reincarnation, they are preoccupied with the occult (satanic) sciences. They have been telecasting all over the world by means of eight satellites. They have been spreading the occult (satanic)

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sciences everywhere in the world. These men have been inculcating them upon all the people in the world. These men have got the title of professorship. May they be deprived of intelligence? They are intelligent but they do not know how they ought to use it. They are unable to get their share out of the books Allah Teal has sent down. If so, dear readers, pat attention to the event: you do not carry out the orders of Allah and you commit His prohibitions. You have lost (degrees) in both cases. You immediately experience uneasiness. Both Allah Teal causes you to experience it and thereafter your spirit torments your soul. This is the first cause of your uneasiness. The second one is more distressing and more constant. Your soul absolutely desires you to be a tool to the evil, (wickedness), not to carry out what Allah commands and to commit all the actions (deeds) prohibited by Allah. As for your spirit on the contrary, it wishes you to carry out all the orders of Allah and not to commit all His prohibitions. Both of them do not give up their demands. Because their structures are designed accordingly. As they will not give them up, a continuous quarrel is inevitable between them. Wherever there is quarrel (dispute, trouble, fight, war) chaos, there is uneasiness there. You feel disquiet in your inner world due to a reason unknown to you. There is this quarrel behind it. Your soul and your spirit are in incessant quarrel, fight, dispute. This makes your inner world ceaselessly unquiet. A war continues in your inner world between the armies of your soul and those of your spirit you are constantly troubled. Thus, you do not carry out the orders of Allah, you are troubled. You commit His prohibitions, you feel again embarrassed Moreover, your soul and your spirit are in incessant combat in your inner world. Wherever there is a war, there is uneasiness there. If so, an unhappy man is in question.

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12.3- How can the human beings attain to the happiness?

Let us consider a person who has attained to the goal, who has come to the stages of Ihlas and Salah. This person is happy. Why is he happy? He is happy in his inner world because the war has ended therein. Why has it ended? Because all the calamities in your soul have been annihilated. All the good qualities (haslets) of your spirit have come under the name of virtues and settled down in your souls heart entirely. In which case, your soul also has acquired a property to accept all the demands of your spirit and of never to commit what it has forbidden. Both the soul and the spirit have the property to wish the same things, that is, to wish to execute all the orders of Allah and not to commit any act He has forbidden. As the two advisers of the intellect have a judgement in this direction, the intellect cannot cause the physical body to commit any more what Allah has forbidden. It is obliged to give orders to the physical body in order that it should carry out everything that is ordered by the soul and the spirit in common and that grants happiness to the person. Because it is out of the question that both the soul and the spirit may accept an other thing. Dear readers, here the war has come to an end. The war in your inner world has ended. You begin to live that splendid happiness resulting from peace and order. The stages of ll elbab, Ihlas and Salah possess these particularities. To surrender oneself to Allah makes the human being reach an absolute quietness. Why? Firstly the war inside you has ended. Secondly both your spirit and your soul want to execute only what Allah

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orders them and carry them out infallibly. As you have accomplished the orders, Allah will assuredly reward you, will give a serenity inside you. Your spirit will also give a contentment to the soul. As long as you will carry out all that Allah orders you will experience twice the quietude. Both your spirit and your soul will never commit any acts (actions) forbidden by Allah. When you will not commit the prohibitions, you will again live the quietness twice. In this case you are in an infinite happiness in your inner world owing to the three separate reasons. As the quarrel in your inner world has ended (1), as you experience the easiness of carrying out all the commands of Allah (2), as you live the calmness of not committing any acts forbidden by Him (3). The interruption of your happiness is not possible in any way. It is in this way that the happiness, the ceaseless happiness, the happiness in your inner world is constituted. Dear readers, let us come to the happiness in your outer world. Why are you unhappy at the beginning? Because there are a lot of people around you. And due to the calamities in your souls heart, you are most often of wrong behaviors towards them. You are perhaps unaware of them, maybe you are aware of them and you do them on purpose. You do wrong to them. As soon as an oppression (tyranny) accurs, you absolutely excperience its uneasiness. The persons to whom you have done wrong want to revenge on you. If they are to find any opportunity, they will revenge on you. You will also be distressed then. You will desire vehemently to revenge on them. If you can, you will be troubled once again as you have committed a sin. If you cannot revenge,

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stress arises, you will be uneasy this time, too. That is to say, you will always be saddened. But when you attain to the continuous zikir, you cannot oppress anyone (as there are not any more calamities). Your being uneasy is out of the question. No one can revenge on you, because it is not possible for you to oppress them. You are happy again. You will not be unhappy as you will not revenge on anyone. It is not possible that stress may occur to you. You will always experience an uninterrupted happiness in your outer world. As for the commands of Allah: at the beginning you will be unhappy as you have not carried them out and as you have committed His prohibitions. But if you succeed in being Islam by attaining to the continuous zikir, as there are not any more calamities in your souls heart, both because you have perfectly carried out all the orders of Allah and because you have not committed any acts forbidden by Him, you will experience (live) an uninterrupted happiness. When you complete your three surrenders, that is, when you become Islam (muslim) you experience the worldly happiness in your three worlds together. This is to be Islam. In which case, Islam is Happiness. We want to finish our speech inshaallah here, praying for your reaching the endless degrees of felicity. May Allah pleased with all of you.

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The Requirement Prayer (Namaz, Salat)

It is essential for the requirement prayer to be performed during the nights binding Thursdays to Fridays or during the nights of kandil [five Islamic holy nights when the minarets are illuminated]. But it may be performed during all the nights. Firstly, a person performs a total ablution (gusl), then he intends to perform the requirement prayer. The following verses are recited: 1. Posture (Rekat): Subhneke + Ftih + 3 yetel Krs 2. Posture (Rekat): Ftih + hlas + Felk + Ns At the end of 2. posture (rekat): Ettahiyyt 3. Posture (Rekat): Ftih + hlas + Felk + Ns 4. Posture (Rekat): Ftih + hlas + Felk + Ns

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After completing the Prayer, the person asks Allah for what he needs. If he has performed the requirement namaz in order to ask Allah for his murshid, he asks his murshid of him. You should go to bed without speaking to anyone after this prayer. You should make up your bed so that the kiblah will be on your right side. You will be lying down by turning the front side of your body towards the kiblah (Mecca). You should recite 3 yetel Krs. You will ask your murshid from Allah. If the requirement of the person is not his murshid, but is to reach an other goal (this may be an outward or inward goal), he wants to reach that goal. The silent remembrance (zikri haf) begins after this request. As you are lying down on your right side, your right ear will be on the pillow. By moving a little the head to the right side or to the left side, you will come to a position in which you will hear easily the beatings of the heart in the ear owing to the pressure. And with each double beating of the heart, you repeat the name of Allah (does zikir) by saying Allah, Allah silently and inwardly. If you do not see anything when you sleep after the first prayer, you should continue to perform the prayer again and again at night binding each Thursday to Friday. You can perform this prayer each night, too.

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