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As it is known, every scholar has interpreted religion according to himself, from his point of view. The problem is to choose the most proper one for the essence of religion. Religious interpretation of the Sufis is the most appropriate for Islam because Sufism is the teaching of the essence of religion. It is not interested in the exterior aspects, rules and canonical laws, shortly in details. Sufism tries to teach Allah, Nature, Man and the realities of them. The beauty, order and wisdom in nature are the reflections of Allah on the nature. Nature is the work of Allah and Man is the greatest work of Him, because he is consisted of a body and Spirit (Mind). He is the most superior of all the worlds because he is the synthesis of the inner and outer worlds. Sufis try to live this knowledge, order, wisdom and beauties in nature and see the physical and spiritual beauties in human and learn the divine realities of them.

Briefly, Sufism is the Knowledge of Allah, Wisdom and Love. Sufis know that Allah is the essence of Man (Human) and nature. This is infinite knowledge and wisdom. To know the Absolute Existence is to fall in love with this Absolute Beauty. Sufism does not deal with the Canonical Law and Jurisprudence. It does not care about the Catechism except enough knowledge for performing the worship. Shariat (Law) and Tariqat (Way) are not his aims or objectives and they are not the essential but only the details, symbols and ways.

“A Sufi looks for Allah, who has encompassed both the Earth and the Heavens and who is the infinite knowledge, beauty and energy, in human and in his heart.”

Again, a Sufi would like to learn wisdom (True Knowledge) and divine reality through deep contemplation and to love the Divine Beauty (the Absolute Beauty) through the beauties of human and nature, that is to say, he tries to acquire real love by metaphorical love.

The result of this is good moral qualities and honesty, which means to consider the benefits of the society more than his own benefits and to be realistic and sincere by abstaining completely from hypocrisy. It is to struggle against his own carnal self and desires but not of the others’, leaving all kinds of fights, arguments, temptations, corruption and intrigue. It is to be merciful, generous and be pleased with the little in this life and also to oppose violence and terror.

A real Sufi is against formal (disguise) Islam. He does not pay any importance to Madrasa, Tekke (convent) and Mascid (places of worship). He finds reality in himself and seeks Allah in his heart. His place of worship is his heart because the real tekke and mascid (mosque) is the Heart. The most important thing for the heart is the Remembrance (Ziqr) and the Love of Allah (the Remembrance of the heart and the love of the heart). This is not an external remembrance or physical love.

It is deep contemplation (thinking), remembrance (to remember Allah and never forget Him) and more importantly, to love God, the Perfect Man (Adam), who is the great and mysterious work of Him, his children and nature.

It is to become mature while being immature and to reach divine perfection. All the Sufis have explained it in this way. This humble servant (fakir) has already explained Sufism in details in the books we have written so far, such as: “Varlık (Existence), İslâm’ da Mezhepler ve Yükseliş (The Religious Sects in Islam and Ascending)”, “Muhammed-İsa-Adem (Muhammad-Jesus-Adam)” and in others. Yunus Emre and Sayyid Ahmed er Rufai Hz. also summarized Sufism, which is a divine sea, as follows:

(*) Poet Neyzen Tevfik meant to say that the striking appearance of these rituals is ornamentation. However, he indicates that he is respectful to the real meanings of these places.

Sources: “Yunus Divanı”, “Onların Alemi” by Sayyid Ahmed er Rufai, 25^th hadith

“İli’l İslamü hüsnü’l hulk- Islam (accepting the truth) is good moral”.

“Ve Höve’l Veliyyü’l Hamid-(He) God is the Guardian worthy of praise. (He has praised qualities.)” (Al-Shura, 28)

“Vallahu zü’l fadl’il azim- God’s grace is infinite.” (Al-Imran, 74)

“Ve inneke lealahülkün azim- Surely, O Muhammad! Yours is a sublime nature” (Al-Qalam, 4)

We will try to explain the “ASCENSION IN MAN” and which qualities enable man to ascend (exalt) depending on the above sacred saying of the Prophet and the verses of God.

This is, in fact, our fourth book. We have already presented our respectable readers our other books called “VARLIK-EXISTENCE” (İstanbul, 1974), “İSLAM’DA MEZHEPLER VE YÜKSELİŞ (RELIGIOUS SECTS IN ISLAM AND ASCENDING)” (İzmir-1988) and “GÜNAHSIZLAR (THE SINLESS)” (Malatya, 1992).

This book we are going to explain part by part consists of two main chapters. In the first chapter, good moral qualities; in the second chapter, “the manners (correct behaviors) of the traveler of Holy God” taught by Hz. Aliyyel Murtaza (k.v) will be explained.

These explanations are written with the permission of four great Gavsullahs, who are the greatest scholars of Sufism: Sayyid Abdulkadir Geylani, the Sultan of the Gnostics and wise saints; Sayyid Ahmed al Rufai, Sayyid Ahmed al Badawi, Sayyid ibrahim al Dusuki, the Masters of the Saints and the Wise People.

This book is formed under the teaching and high spiritual supervision of the Holy Spirits in the inner world; by Abdulkadir-i Geylani, the Sultan of Sayyids, and by Sayyid Ahmed al Rufai.

May Allah be pleased with them, with their ancestors, descendants and their followers!

The passages written part by part in this book are exactly taken from the rank of Hz. Shah-i Velayat (k.v), the Imam of the Spiritual Guidance.

The gravest sin in Islam religion is to be a liar and to tell lies. Islam severely prohibited telling lies except in two situations because telling lies is the source of all the wickedness and the worst quality that degrades people and society.

Telling lies causes immorality and makes the person who tells lies ugly and degraded. A liar gradually loses his personality and becomes a hypocrite. A hypocrite nation has died while living on the earth and it has lost its presence. The worst of all is to be addicted to tell lies.

“A liar’s candle only burns till bedtime (a lie has only a short life)”. Once a person is known as a liar, he is not trusted, believed and liked anymore and he is excluded from the society and not respected and loved anywhere.

“Lime tekulune mala tef’alun-Do not profess what you never do!” (Al-Saff, 2)

Therefore, God opposes to telling what you have not done or to showing what is not done as it is done.

Telling lies is the source of all the wickedness. Islam is not in accordance with being a liar. God says: “Ülaikehümüssadikun- Such are those who are righteous.” (Al-Hujurat, 15)

Telling lies is permitted in two cases: Firstly, in a war; secondly in a family- to protect the family. There are harmless, white lies but there are some other lies that are told intentionally, purposely because of fear or advantage. Lies that are told purposely and for the benefit of a person are not forgiven. Giving a false testimony is directly damned. God curses on him. (1)

It is very dangerous to swear on lies and this makes God angry. The greatest oath is to say: “Vallah” because “Vallah” means “I swear in the name of God”.

In the Koran, God cursed on the liars (denials), but they are not the ones who tell lies. The liar people God cursed are those who deny the Prophets, the religion of God, the revelation, the Holy Books. They say that the religion is a lie, the prophets are telling lies and they are not getting any revelations from God. They do not believe in the truth.

“Fema yükezzibuke ba’du biddin-After the religion has come, how can they deny you? O Muhammad!” (Al-Tin, 7)

It is clearly understood from the above verse that the liars whom Allah cursed are not ordinary liars but they are the people who deny religion.

God and His Apostle (a.s.v.) commanded to struggle against carnal self. God explained that self is an evil thing saying:

“Vema öberriü nefsi innennefse leemmaratin bissui-Do not think that your self is free from sin; man’s self is certainly prone to evil.” (Joseph, 53)

Self (nafs) is a low, wicked, non-material creature that gathered all the fleshly desires and that is given man by God. It is between two left ribs, just like hot, black smoke. It is represented by the wolf among the wild animals. It represents a coward, treacherous violent power which does not know what is forbidden and what is permitted and attacks especially the weak people.

“Vecahidu biemvaliküm ve enfüsiküm! - Fight against yourself and your wealth!” (Al-Tawba, 41)

“Vemen cahede feinnema yücahidu linefsihi - He who wants fight should fight against his self.” (Al-Anqabut, 6) (2)

He who does not obey his fleshly desires (soul’ vagaries) meets his Lord eventually.

In the inner world, “the wolf of self” and “the ram of ziqr” are constantly fighting.

The spirit of a person, who worships a lot, resist against the wolf of self like a strong ram and he knocks it down and even kills it as it becomes a very strong ram and the horns of it become very big and he divides it into parts when he hits it.

In the inner world there are powers called as “the son of self” and “the son of dhiqr”.

The son of dhiqr knocks down the son of self and the son of self becomes small like a child. When a follower of God stops his dhiqr (remembrance) for a while, the son of self becomes alive again and suddenly turns back to his former state and starts to attack.

The Follower of God finally beats his self through remembrance (dhiqr). This struggle continues and he acquires the divine manifestation at the end. This is “to die before you die”. (3)

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(3) Our Exalted Prophet (s.a.w.) said: “Die before you die” (Ajluni, Kashf’ul Hafa, vol. 2, p. 402, Beirut-1932)

According to Islam, a traveler of God should pay all the importance to divine values; he will not concern about the world very much.

Our great Prophet (a.s.v.) said: “The mother of all the wickedness is the love for the world”. (4)

The world is not very important, as it is transitory. Man is also transitory but God and the World of spirituality is eternal. Yet, there is something lovely in the world although it is very common and low because Allah created the world for the sake of our Prophet (a.s.v.), whom He loved very much, who is His first manifestation and the First Spirit. Therefore, the world is permitted to be loved a little, again for the sake, for the love of the Prophet (a.s.v.). It should never be loved heartily, but only with a glance.

“Levlake levlake lema halaktü’l eflak- Were it not for you, O Muhammad, I would not have brought creatures into being.” (5)

This can be exemplified as: If the Sun did not exist, the other beings need not be existed.

(4) From Ibn Ebi’d Dünya and Beyhaki; İhya-I Ulumi’d Din, Ghazzali, vol. 3 p.454, Bedir Publications. İst.-1974

(5) Ajluni, vol.2, p.163

The Spirit of our Prophet (a.s.v.) is like the sun in the 18 thousands worlds and the earth is like a star. If the earth is beautiful, this is due to the sun. God says:

“Know that the life of this world is but a sport and a pastime, a show and an empty vaunt among you, a quest for greater riches and more children. The life of this world is but a vain provision.” (Al-Hadid, 20)

These qualities of the earth are reported to us obviously in our Holy Book, the Koran. (6)

Pride is an attribution of Satan. Therefore, man especially a traveler of God should be very careful not to let himself attach the world as it causes to forget God and to act heedlessly.

Islam religion enjoins to work hard and to earn one’s own living to look after his family and not to attach the world very much and not to be a burden on others.

Islam commands Muslims to work hard in order to make their country more powerful to maintain the religion after they earn their own subsistence and to make Islam more superior and stronger compared to other non-Muslim countries because if the state gets weaker, enemies invade the Islamic country and change the religion of Muslims by force. They may change our mosques to a church or a nightclub, which is the destruction of religion, honor and faith. Our national culture will be annihilated then.

The aim of a Muslim should be to exalt his country higher than other countries. He should help his country with his life and wealth and spend all of them for his country if it is necessary. If this is not his aim, he has no place in the sight of God and the Prophet (a.s.v.) even if he goes to the Kaaba for a thousand of times, fasts everyday and worships until morning. He is in disgrace.

If there is no country, there will be no religion! There are many enemies of the religion and the power to protect it is the government.

(6) See the Koran: Baqarah-212, Al-Imran-14 and other verses. Our Most High Prophet (a.s.v.) states: “The slaves of the gold and silver were perished, they did not stumble but they were completely destroyed.” (From Enes b. Malik r.a; Thirmizi, Ibn Mace, from Hakim

As for the state; the state must concern the health of his citizens and give them a good education. If a nation’s people are unhealthy and ignorant, it lacks the power of fighting.

If a nation does not help his country with his life and his wealth, he puts his government, his presence and his religion into danger.

Therefore, a nation should help their country by overworking after they earn their own living. The state will increase their war power by educating citizens and providing them the conditions to be healthy. An ignorant and unhealthy nation can never make war. Peace can be made by deterrent war power.

In this situation, we say that the government should take the responsibility to educate the children of his country from primary school until university. Education must be compulsory and the government should pay all the educational expenses until they complete their schools. The government should also pay for the health and medicine expenses and all kinds of health and education spending must be nationalized.

If this matter is solved with the cooperation of nation and government, other problems can be settled down easily.

What we understand from Islam religion is; the life and the property of a Muslim that is left from his urgent needs belong to his government, which protects his religion, his nation and his country.

The rule is: If there is no state (country), there will be no religion. Religion is protected by government. If a government weakens, the enemies invade the country and they destroy our religion and culture, so we should try to make our established republic and democrat country stronger if we are Muslims, if we like our religion and if we really insist on Islam. This is the reality.

The country is protected with the unity and cooperation of Muslims and nation. The concept that Islam opposes most is separatism (disunity).

“The believers are a band of brothers. Make peace among your brothers! (Make peace and do not spoil your unity and your cooperation)” (Al- Hujurat, 10)

May Allah protect our nation from the invasion of enemy and enable Muslims to be happy and united with His grace and His mercy for the sake of our Prophet, his Family, his Children and his Companions! (7)

Pride means to have high opinions of one’s self and to be arrogant. Arrogance means to boast. Human beings are the descendants of only one father. They have no right to be proud as they are “created”. Why and for whom will people become arrogant? It is ignorance for a man, who is a handful of earth, to be boastful. (8)

To be boastful or arrogant means to see your self however, there is nobody except infinite and most high God in reality. The greatness and majesty belong to Allah. The One who exists and who is eternal has the right to be arrogant. The One who exists and who is everlasting is Allah. Man is a manifestation -a sign- of the manifestations of Allah, who Himself is the existence. Man is transitory and has no difference from other human beings.

A proud person is not liked by God and by the slaves of God. In the Koran, God severely indicts those who walk with pride and arrogance on the earth. (Al-A’raf, 146, Al-Kiyamah, 33)

Pride is the quality of Satan. A proud person, in fact, has no religion no matter what religion he belongs to. He is an atheist because he does not respect others and he sees himself as a god. Only Allah can be proud. An arrogant person insults other people. It is the worst quality as all the people are accepted to be a human. Everybody is the slave of one God. (9)

Man should be humble -modest- and prostrate himself before God accepting all things superior and he should be in conscious of his inability and his mortality and be respectful to the other slaves of God.

(8) Our Most High Prophet (a.s.v.) says: “Men are the sons of Adam and Adam is from earth”. (Camiussağir, vol.2, p.175)

Allah, who is the true God, becomes an enemy of the arrogant person as he claims to be a kind of deity. He gets him into trouble and He breaks his neck as a result. He makes him despicable and ashamed while living in this world and He proves His own deity on him.

He understands that he is nothing but it is too late for him to correct himself.

Man should be aware of his slavery and sit down well-behaved and good mannered. He should know that God, who is the greatest, has encompassed everything and so he should be careful and alert.

Islam attaches great importance to the manners of sitting. The follower of God should sit well-behaved -especially when he is alone- as if he is sitting in the presence of Allah, the Prophet of Allah (a.s.v.) and the King of Sanctity (k.v.). He is permitted only to rest. He can rest leaning on his side in a well-behaved way.

Islam severely prohibited sitting cross-legged, walking chin up and joining hands behind the body, and walking arrogantly and lying flat on your back or on your face.

When you sit with you legs crossed in a crowded place, you are accepted as an egotist, arrogant and boastful person.

Egotism or self-esteem belongs to God. God does not like an egotist person and other people hate him, as he does not care for others. Yet, everybody has a personality and they are also a slave of God.

God and His slaves dislike a person who sits boastfully and bad mannerly and that person becomes an unlikable man for this reason.

What God does not like most is mocking and making fun of other people. Mocking and insulting others means to regard yourself superior. (10) Yet, the creator of all things is Sole God. Everybody is created by one master.

Mocking others and insulting a creature means not to like the Creator of them. This is a keen ignorance that causes to attract the wrath of God on you.

“Vetebarekallahu ahsenü’l halikin-God is the noblest of creators.” (Al-Muminun, 14)

A person who believes in God should be very merciful and compassionate towards other believers because God has the most mercy on those who believe in Him.

“Vekane bi’lmü’minine rahima-God is merciful to true believers.” (Ahzab, 43)

Compassion and mercy are the qualities of a believer. Those who deserve it most are the people who believe in God, as mercy is the quality of God. This attribution exists in a person who believes in God. If a person is not compassionate and merciful, he is not a believer then. (11)

“Vema erselnake illa rahmete’n li’l alemin - O Muhammad! I sent you forth as a Blessing (My mercy) to all the worlds!” (Al-Anbiyah, 107)

“Harisun aleyküm bi’l Müminine Raufu’n Rahim- Muhammd (a.s.v.) is benevolent and merciful to true believers.”(Al-Tawbah, 128)

God is benevolent and merciful and our Prophet (a.s.v.) is also reported to be benevolent and merciful. So, the Prophet (a.s.v.) is created with the qualities of God. “Rauf” means compassionate, benevolent and “Rahim” means merciful.

God also says that He blesses not only the believers but also all the people with the following verses:

“Raufu’nnas- God is compassionate to His servants.” (Al-Baqarah, 207), “Raufu’n bi’l ibad- Compassionate is God and merciful to men.” (Hajj-65)

“Have mercy on the people in the world then those in the Heavens will have mercy on you!” (Tabarani, Camiüssağir, from Hakim, 500 Hadiths)

As God is very gentle, mild, clement and soft, He wants His slaves not to be violent but to be good-tempered. Nobody is harmed from a gentle person. Anger and violence attract the anger and violence of the opposite side and the people around him are afraid of him and dislike him. He is not liked by the society.

Man should speak less and listen more. If a person speaks a lot, his heart becomes tired and he starts to tell lies. He makes people bored and he disturbs and annoys them.

A person who listens much is lucky and learns what he does not know. His mind and conscious do not get tired.

One who listens is charged but the one who speaks is discharged. To be charged means to be loaded or to be filled and it is a benefit, but to be discharged means to let out and it is a loss!

10- NOT TO OBEY CARNAL (Sensual) DESIRES AND TO ABSTAIN ESPECIALLY FROM THESE

Man should not pursue his sexual desires as it is very dangerous and makes him a maniac and causes him to lose his self-control. Lust causes several murders and makes you unhealthy.

Over-sex kills the heart and makes you attach the world. For a follower of God there is nothing more dangerous than loving the world.

It also spoils the generation. The children of an adulterer are born mentally and physically ill.

Lust is a carnal (sensual) desire and it does not exist in Angels so man should not pursue his lust.

God says in the Koran: “Have intercourse with your wives that what God enjoins come true, that a human can be born” (Al-Baqarah, 223)

What is understood from this verse is the aim of God is the formation of a human. He does not let us have an intercourse to get a high pleasure. However, man is obliged to do it while God does His task. He gave this pleasure for this reason. He did not give it to have fun.

A mature and virtuous person does not have an intercourse with his wife after she becomes pregnant. He controls his passions because what is desired has been done and the aim of God has been proved to be true. He knows this wisely.

Gambling is a quality of Satan. It is a waste of time and it causes to forget God. It also makes people an enemy of each other.

Gambling prevents you from doing your worship and remembering God. It makes the society bad mannered as it provokes the pleasure of earning without working, which is contrary to the Glory of man. Man should live by his own labor.

“Ve en leyse li’l insani illa masea- Each man will be judged by his own labour.”(Al-Najm-39)

For this reason, Islam prohibited gambling and watching gamblers because it is a waste of time to watch gambling because it is a beginning of gambling. A person who watches gamblers becomes a gambler at the end.

Islam severely prohibited the entertainment with drinks and the desire for a luxurious life as they mean to be against God.

Drinking alcohol and dancing at bars and night clubs, enjoying yourself with men and women and listening to sexual music is to waste the national product. They are the worst behaviors for an individual and for a society and they may prepare a family’s end.

Having fun with drinks and luxury destroyed many nations and put an end to several people.

Mawlana says: “When ignorance, wealth and power are united, the Pharaoh burns the world.”

To waste national product is a person’s treachery against his family, his country and his nation.

Man should be very kind and polite. Politeness should be very important for him because a polite person or society enable them to be loveable.

Everybody likes a polite person. A society consisted of polite people is very peaceful and there is no argument or fight there. Everybody desires for being a gentleman and kind; and this causes gentlemanly behaviors.

They start to be respected and liked by their community and gradually a polite and kind society is established. A feeling of joy, pleasure and respect dominate it.

God said in the Koran: “Inneme’l Mü’minine ihvetün ve eslihu beyne eheveyküm-The believers are a band of brothers. Make peace among your brothers!” (12)

And God also reminds that it is a very disgusting action to speak against a believer; same as eating the flesh of his dead brother. (13)

Speaking against someone means to lie about the person who is not there and who cannot defend himself, by using his absence. He should not do such a bad behavior as he is not present there and he does not have a chance to defend himself.

Speaking against a person is due to cowardice. A brave person tells his word to the face of that person. Nobody likes a person who speaks against others here or there.

Especially, to speak against people who believe in God means to speak against religion. He opposes to the sacred beliefs of him in his person.

Speaking against people causes mischief (anarchy) and it starts fights, arguments, strong enmity and even blood-shedding.

A man should speak openly to others even they are his enemies. He should not deign to speak behind him.

Those who speak against people are the dishonest, coward people who do not have a personality.

God objected to hypocrisy in many verses of the Koran. Hypocrisy is a false behavior and an extreme insincerity. A hypocrite person is a kind of actor. He pretends to be different as he pretends to believe what he does not believe.

Hypocrisy in worshipping: A hypocrite person attributes partnership to God while worshipping and he becomes a polytheist. He is a hypocrite; which means a false Muslim.

A secret infidel is called a hypocrite. He is much worse than an unbeliever, because an unbeliever (a person who denies the truth) says openly what he is and a real Muslim takes precautions against him. But, a hypocrite confuses real Muslims as he pretends to be a Muslim.

The follower of God who abstains from hypocrisy and who is busy with his own work meets God much sooner than the aspirant that leaves the worldly affairs, because a person who renounces the world is a kind of formalist (pretentious) and this causes hypocrisy and fame. Fame is calamity.

We have already explained “hypocrisy” in our first book “Varlık-Existence”. It is more beneficial to read the details from the related Chapter. (15)

(14) The verses hypocrisy is blamed in the Koran are: Al-Baqarah, 263, Al-Nisa, 36, Anfal, 47, Zumar, 47 and Maun, 6

God says in the Koran: “İnnallahe Maassabirin-God is with those that are patient”. (Al-Baqarah, 153)

Our Prophet (a.s.v.) said: “Essabrü minerrahman- Patience is from the Merciful.” because one of the names of God is “Patient”. It is confirmed with the Koran that hastiness is a quality of satan and incurs the wickedness. (16)

God performs His tasks slowly. Everything has a slow process in nature. The sun starts with dawn and rises slowly. Shadow slowly extends and leaves. A seed slowly sprouts. A shoot slowly becomes a tree. Human beings and animals develop slowly; a person learns a science slowly. This is called “gradual development-evolution”.

There is always a gradual formation, for instance: the world moves around itself in 24 hours and the earth goes once around the sun in 365 days.

God established His order this way. There is no way to change this order. You cannot imagine a more excellent order than this. Then, if a man acts in accordance with this order in Nature, he becomes successful. If he does not understand it, if he is in a hurry, he cannot reach the result no matter what he does, because his behavior is not in accordance with the order of God.

Our Prophet said: “Men sabere zafere- A person who is patient and who endures difficulties is successful and he always wins.”

a) Müslümanlığın Temel Bilgileri, by Prof. Dr. Abdulkadir Karahan (100-101)

God also says: “Fasbir inne va’dallahi hak- Have patience; God’s promise is true.” (Ghafir, 77/ Al-Rum, 60)

That is to say; if you are in a true path, you must be patient and fortitude because God will help you and you will see the result.

God also said: “Fasbir sabren cemila-Conduct yourself with becoming patient. Patience is good.” (Mearij, 5)

“Vetavasevbi’l hakki vetevasevbi’ssabr- Exhort each other to justice and fortitude.” (Al-Asr, 3)

Our ancestors said: “Patience is rewarded.” The saying: “A patient aspirant attains his desire.” is also very well-known.

“God bestowed on Job a healthy life due to his patience Be patient and attain the secrecy of God!”

A person that has common sense knows that nothing happens at once and by force. If he is determined to do something, he knows that he will achieve it with patience and in time.

Everything happens by the decree of God in the Universe so one should endure everything that comes from God.

Impatience and intolerance means a struggle against God and nature but man is not strong enough to do it.

It is also like this in a war too. If a determined army is patient, they can beat the enemy. The hasty side loses the war. Patience is positive; hastiness is negative. Being patient is a manly quality but impatience is a feminine quality. A brave man endures all kinds of difficulties and troubles such as war, fighting, injuries, hunger, thirst, poverty etc. because he is a Man, he is a Man of God. A female cannot endure any of them. If a female controls her passions, he is accepted as a man, if a man loses his control of his passions, he is a female then.

Patience is also a quality of Holy Spirit but impatience is a quality of the wicked self. Spirit is from the qualities of God. There is no negative quality in the Person of God.

A person who believes in God knows that everything is decided by God and he endures all the hardship that comes from Him and he thinks wisely and sees the beauty of the result.

A disciple (a follower of God) should not be hasty in the divine school of the Perfect Man after he swears fealty to Him. He will obey all the rules of education of the Holy Teacher. He should study his lessons and try to pass his class. He should not concern about the lessons of the upper classes. If he becomes patient and endures the difficulties, he can complete his education no matter how hard the lessons and education are.

He gets his diploma after completing his higher education and he may start to teach other students if God permits.

However, if he becomes hasty, he cannot complete his education and cannot reach God and the Truth. He cannot finish his school.

Man should be contented but this should not recall meanness. Contentment is richness. A content person is happy but a greedy person is always unhappy because numbers have no end. He struggles in vain. Nobody has earned this world. You must thank for what God gives you because it is the same whether it is less or more.

There cannot be a better life than the life and meal earned by effort and hard work.

There is a very high meaning and delicate pleasure in the saying: “I’d better have peace than a house.”

However, you should not obey the cunning recommendations of the bad people who are greedy and mean because they tell you not to help the unemployed poor people and not to give any food to your family while telling to be contented.

Contentment means to be contented with what you have and not to use any illegal ways to earn money in order to be rich. The real meaning of contentment is hidden in the following proverb:

God loves contented people because he consents to his right. If everyone consents to his right, social justice comes true in that society and people live peacefully.

All the disorders are due to the disobedience to the rule of God’s consent.

Those who recommend and incite to be greedy and to earn a lot of money are not the people who suggest working. They use the word “working” in the meaning of being rich and they try to gain power by exciting people’s feelings on the radio, in newspapers and on the stage and even at the pulpit of the Prophet. God and His Prophet (a.s.v.) command people to work and lead his life on his labor and not to be a burden for others. They do not tell people to be rich and to hoard goods and to enjoy yourself at parties like a king.

We, the descendants of Adam, are not sent to this world to entertain ourselves and to have fun. We are sent to know our reality and our Lord and after becoming mature to meet our Lord again.

Not all people can be rich. But, if everybody works and gets his pay as a return of his labor, he can lead a normal life style. He can find time to remember his God, to contemplate on Him and to worship Him.

Then, Islam does not mean to say to be rich with the order to work. God also said in the Koran that He does not like arrogant people. God enjoins man to earn his living through working and not to exploit others. He forbids theft, usury, seizure by violence and living on someone else, buying at a low price and selling at a high price, misusing the measurement and weight. He orders justice and distribution. (17)

In our society, justice is also misunderstood; because when justice is mentioned, most of us recall the courts and the punishments but justice is also an attribute of God. A name of God is “Just -fair-”. God is the God of everyone so the word “justice” contents Socialism in it because justice is for the society and it is the base of the state. Justice is naturally social. The word social is in the word justice. Justice is truth and supports the truth. God says in the Koran:

“O Muhammad, those that deny God’s revelations slew the Prophets unjustly and killed the men who preached fair dealing.” (Imrans, 21)

“O Muhammad, the spoils shall not be the property of the rich among you.” (Al-Hashr, 7)

When this high opinion about social justice in the above verse was declared to mankind by Hz. Muhammad 1400 years ago, where were the false, demagogue socialists like Marks, Engels, Lenin, Mao and Trochki, who did not believe in the unity of the family, sacred values and who did not accept the freedom of thoughts, free expression, free communication and free democratic election? In our opinion, Marx had made a scientific demagoguery under the name socialism by laying stress on some realities.

Engels and Lenin exploited this and established a dictatorship, which turned the world into a hell for millions of people.

There is no social justice, no socialism, no religion and no faith in the place where there is no freedom of individuals because everybody becomes a liar for the fear of his life. If a society becomes a liar altogether then there cannot be any morality and virtue in that community. But, the aim of real socialism is a morally good and virtuous society. Dictatorship makes the society liar and telling lies is the greatest immoral behavior because everybody pretends to like that system of government (regime) although they do not like it. And the flatteries praise the dictators of the government and make the society to be obliged to do it.

“O Muhammad, the spoils shall not become the property of the rich among you.”

Therefore, God does not want the property-the capital- to be collected by one class and to be turned into a sultanate or state. There are rich people in Islam but they are not too many to establish a state.

The great God, who even cares for His bee, wants the property, the national product to be divided to all His servants in return of their labor and effort and He wants it to be distributed. He wants each of His servants to benefit from this property (today this is named as a cake by the upper class of the society). So God is obviously a socialist, it should be like this because He Himself created everybody and each individual is His slave. God declared openly, without causing any comments, in Chapter Najm, verse 39 that He supports the labor:

Then, the rule is: If the lifestyle of a person is lower than his labour, he is being exploited but if it is higher than his labor, he is exploiting. We should note this very importantly. (Inheritance depending on true measurements and which is not earned as a result of exploitation is exceptional from this).

As it happened for all the Prophets, those who opposed the true struggle of Our dear Prophet Muhammad Mustafa (a.s.v.), who is the only beloved of God, were the capitalists, the upper class of Mecca. Our Prophet fought against these cruel enemies of people constantly and bravely and he could set up Islam religion and made it a universal religion after he had beaten them.

The Koran, the Sacred Traditions, the time of the Prophet’s Four Caliphs are the witnesses of it. Whoever denies this fact is in the struggle of showing Islam incorrectly. They also want to use the holy Religion of God as a mean for capitalism, liberalism and fascism. They are selfish and monk-spirited fanatic people who support the Kings and Rulers.

In Islamic religion, there is no monastic life. The service of Religion is done for the sake of Allah and it is free. (18) The Prophet (a.s.v.), the four Caliphs, the expounders, Hanafy, Shafii, Maliky, Hanbely Hazretleri and all the scholars of Sufism served the religion without having been paid.

“Kül la es’eleküm aleyhi ecren ille’l meveddete fi’l kurba-O Muhammad! Say: ‘For this religious service I demand of you no recompense. I ask you only to love My kindred (the Family of the Prophet)’! ” (Shura, 23)

Islamic state did not leave the possession of the earth to individuals. He left it to families who deal with farming, to their disposal in accordance with the number of the people in that family under the law called “Arazi-i Emiriye” in return to “öşür-aşr” (19) on condition that the right of property will belong to the state. Two great students of Hanafi Hazretleri: Muhammad and Yusuf also said that the earth belonged to the state. (See Kitab ül haraç)

% 10 of the profit which comes from the grain cereals which is given as a tithe (aşr) belongs to the state. Humus means that % 20 of the profit of the products of watered lands such as vineyards, gardens, orchards and of cotton, tobacco, tea and poppy also belongs to the state.

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(19) Öşr: Tithe. One tenth of the agricultural product

Although the right of possession was held by the state and %80-90 of the income belonged to the farmer, as the disposal of it was given to the farmer, he would try to make his income more and would put his own effort to it and this will make the national product to be increased.

However, in the other countries where the state control is dominant, the government both owns the earth and runs it itself. In those countries, villagers are employed on pay. As the income of the land does not belong to him, he will not try to support it personally and he will get out of doing his job.

Another reality is: Earth is a mean of general production. It is a fact that there were not any other means of production except earth at that time. There were not any factories that affected general economic order of the society. There were only small trade and handicraft businesses apart from agriculture and they were regional for that time.

The economical view of Islam is categorized in two aspects as general and regional because it is obvious that Islam did not give the land (earth), which was the only mean of general production and which had an effect on the entire society and influenced the maintenance of the nation and the state, to individuals.

So, it is very clear that Islam did not leave the general means of production, which had an effect on the whole society and had a role on the maintenance of the nation and the state, to individuals.

Islam has severely forbidden hoarding (storing up large quantities of something in order to sell at a high price). (20) This is also another proof that in Islam, the government keeps every matter that will affect the general economical life of society under its control and disposal.

40 days and then give it as a charity, it will not be the expiation for his sin of black - marketing.”(from Hz. Ali Deylemi; From Enes r.a. Hatib.)

There were not any import and export businesses like today’s which would affect the general life of the society at the Prophet’s time. As it is definite that in Islamic government, everything that affected the life of society was kept under the control and disposal of the state, the government would never leave the general means of production of today and the import and export to individuals.

Since earth belonged to the state in Islam, the subterranean wealth, petrol and mines would belong to the government. Coasts, harbors, forests, lakes, rivers are related to the maintenance of the state and nation so they could not be left to individuals either.

“O Muhammad! The spoils shall not be the property of the rich among you.” (Hashr, 7)

“İnne ardallah-Earth (as it is the means of general production) is surely the God’s. (It belongs to the state in the name of God.)” (Al-A’raf, 73)

“Ve en leyse li’l insani illa masea- Each man will be judged by his own labour.” (Al-Najm, 39) confirm that this is true.

“He who sleeps with a full stomach while his neighbor is hungry is not a Muslim.” (21)

“Pay the wages of the workers while they are working.” (22)

Allah says: “Even the unbelievers give aid and comfort to each other. If you (the believers) fail to do likewise, there will be disorder in the land and great corruption.” (Anfal, 73)

“İnneme’l Mü’minune ihvetün-The believers are a band of brothers.” (Al-Hujurat, 10)

Brotherhood cannot be accomplished with talk. Brothers help each other physically and spiritually and prove their brotherhood by this way.

In Islam, inheritance is a right but the property of the heir, the wealth he left must be based on labor and correct considerations. If it is not like that, it is exploitation then. The money and property which is hoarded as a result of exploitation is falsehood. The transfer of the falsehood is again falsehood.

God ordered to cut off the hand of the thief. A person who exploits people in several ways is also a thief. Thus, the property an exploiter steals should be taken from him and his hands should be cut off. (The way of theft (stealing) should be cut off.)

Islam entitled very strict provisions about heritage. Islam confiscates the property of people who lead a very luxurious life because luxury means to waste the national product uselessly, from the point of view of Islam. Luxury involves all kinds of parties, drinks and entertainment, very expensive receptions, cocktail parties, misbehaviors at dirty nights, living at the castles and villas, and leading a very comfortable life. They are all included in luxury.

Islam Religion accepted all kinds of unnecessary spending as a luxury and prodigality except one’s compulsory subsistence such as food, drinks, clothes…etc.(23)

(23) Islam has severely forbidden and refused prodigality and suggested to confiscate the property of the prodigal (spendthrift) because Islam never accepts the national income to be wasted unnecessarily. Prodigality is a forbidden act. (Whatever the religion forbids is prodigality.)

Islam defends labor, state and community definitely and openly. In spite of this, the reason why the materialist, dictator socialists do not accept our Religion is only they do not believe in God and moral qualities.

The reason why the capitalists and liberalists do not accept Islamic economy is as it is explained above, it objects to living in luxury and prodigality because the upper -the rich- class wants to lead a luxurious life and they got used to it. For this reason, the greatest opponents of Islamic system are generally liberal and rich people. But they act hypocritically and they pretend to be a Muslim. (We exempt the good ones from this.)

“O Muhammad! They do not deny you, what will they deny about you? (They know that you are a Prophet.) But they blame you because they do not want to leave their dirty pleasures and lives which they are accustomed to. (They resist against You.)” (Al-Baqarah, 46 Al- Nahl, 107)

I even do not want to presume that the democrat socialists who believe in God and freedom will be against this Muhammadan economical opinion.

Islam enjoins not to waste any money even when marrying except Mihir. (24) There is no such a thing in Islam like wasteful spending on wedding ceremony and the money paid by the bridegroom to the bride’s family.

In the Religion of Islam, “alms” does not belong to state but it is the right of the poor and it is obligatory. This is collected by the government itself and distributed to the poor people.

Hz. Omar was a tax collector during the Prophet’s time. Nobody can deny the reality that he would estimate a value while the dates were even green (unripe). (25)

10 or 20 percents of the income of the means of production mentioned above belonged to state and 80 percents of it belonged to the laborers or to those who worked them.

Consequently, in Islam, the possession of the means of general production belonged to the state, by comparison: it is obvious that the disposal and the income of the taxes which are collected as % 10 and % 20 from the factories and agricultural works can be used by laborers, workers and farmers.

It is certain that the national income of the underground and over ground wealth and % 20 of the income of the factories can make the country to prosper.

Both the theory and practice of the economic precept of Islam have been confirmed by the Koran, by the Hadiths and by the era of the Prophet’s Four Great Caliphs and also by the expounders of the great people of Hanafi; Muhammad, Yusuf and Malik. (See Kitabül Haraç by İmam Muhammad)

Let us think that the possession of the means of general production belonged to state and the disposal of it were given to laborers, workers and farmers. The laborers would put their personal contribution (they would use their personal effort and ability) and they would want to work harder and earn more.

This will enable the laborers and farmers to live humanly and to be happy. And the state will gain state power by getting % 20 income from the factories and % 10 from agricultural products. By means of this, the state will have the possibility to take the social services to the farthest corners of the country.

Inside the country, a strong state that has a great power of war and a deterrent force will be established. (The country that wants peace should be ready for war.)

The state will also be respectful for the sacred values and for the freedom of thought and speech. Everybody will think and work freely. It is beneficial to re-read the fourth chapter. I advise it to you.

“Külle yevmin hüve fi’şan- God is in a glory every instant.” (Al-Rahman, 29)

Thus, Islam is not scholastic (conservative) but on the contrary, Islam always believes the perfection, evolution of the nature and universe every instant. In this case, Islam accepts the infinity of evolution. The first person who reported this infinite evolution and perfection was Hz. Muhammad Mustafa (a.s.v.).

It is confirmed 1400 years ago with the words of God and the great Prophet that Islam is evolutionist.

“Ve küli’l hakku min Rabbiküm feme’n şae fe’l yü’min ve men şae fe’l yekfür- Say o Muhammad! This is the truth from your Lord. Let him who will believe in it and him who will deny it.” (Al-Kahf, 29)

Man is obliged to thank his God and to obey God, who created himself from a drop of water, who embellished him with all the beautiful qualities, who gave him from His own will through breathing His spirit that has the qualities of knowledge, thinking and inventing. His God is his origin and his Lord who caused him to exist, who fed him and grew him up and protected him.

Obeying such a beautiful God exalts the glory of man and his exalted Lord loves him and helps him in this world and in the next world. He bestows on him His own virtue.

In order to obey God, one should disregard his self-monster mentioned above, as self orders wickedness. It provokes (attracts) man to physical, low and carnal desires from divine pleasures and feelings. By this way, it causes him to be offended with his God. For this reason, a person who has common sense should obey the voice of his spirit and his mind but not the motives (drives) of his self or his instincts.

The soul of the person who fattens his body and self becomes weak. He cannot think correctly, he becomes a kind of maniac. A person in this situation forgets his God. He deals with evil things and he cannot worship his Creator.

The way to overcome self is to benefit from the Spirit and Intellect of Hz. Muhammad (a.s.v.), who is the Universal Spirit, Universal Intellect, which is the source of Spirit because the great Prophet (a.s.v.) is a very big Divine Light like the Sun. The intellect and spirit in man are like the stars that are separated from it. A star cannot illuminate the sky of Spirit however bright it is.

The star of intellect and spirit cannot have the power to be against the drives of instincts and feelings unless it gets the light and energy from the Muhammadan Spirit (a.s.v.), the Sun of God.

One can benefit from Him, from Muhammad (a.s.v.), who is the Light of God if he follows his divine path and if he obeys his orders. In order to strengthen the spirit, one should remember God abundantly (Dhiqr) and worship Him (namaz-salat). Dhiqr (to remember God abundantly) revives the heart. When God is remembered, it causes God to remember man. (27)

Salat (ritual worship) means to exalt God, to stand in a respectful position with hands folded in front of the presence of God, to bow down and finally to prostrate before Him. So, salat means “slavery-worship” and slavery means “to thank God”.

Then, to remember God is “faith”, to perform salat (ritual prayer) is “gratitude” (to be thankful).

Self (one’s lust and pride) can be mortified in the course of time by eating less, sleeping less and opposing the violent desires of the self.

Islam severely opposes hatred, envy, enmity, rancour and hostility. (28) A forgiving person has a quality of God.

Envy means to dislike God. God is free in His will. He gives what He wants to whom He wills. He knows His task and everything is done wisely and justly.

One should not envy the good qualities and the beauties of others. Envy is the quality of Devil. The reason of it is ignorance. If a person knows his God and worships Him, he finds his God very generous (munificent) and rich. God gives him whatever he wants.

God is almighty to create reasons and time in time. Enmity towards others and hatred do not suit man. All of them are the qualities of self and satan.

Envy, hatred and enmity disturb the person himself. Man should love those whom God created. God created them so we should try not to feel enmity against them.

Envy: To look greedily at someone and wish that you had what they have, jealousy

Egotism belongs to God because God is the one who really exists. He is eternal in the past and eternal in the future. He is the owner of infinite and enormous power and God is Divine Light.

God says in the Koran: “Innehu ene’llah-I absolutely am. I am Allah”. (Naml, 9)

We are like temporary and very small foam or particle on that infinite sea of Divine Light. How shall we boast with this little being of us? The power in our arms and legs, the Spirit in us, the intellect in our brain and the property we have all belong to Him. He can take back everything at once if He wills. He destroys (annihilates) all things.

For this reason, man should think of his inability, incapacity, nonentity, his being transitory and perishable and he should mostly abstain from egotism. It is very dangerous.

When a servant says “I am” and God says “Not you but I am”. When He says “I am”, all the egos are perished. He tortures man and causes pain or great troubles; He takes back from him his health and wealth and paralyzes him. He makes him beg from street to street. That is why, man should be careful. Egotism belongs directly to God so we should try to say “We” instead of “I”.

“Küllü şey’in halikun illa vechehu-All things shall perish except Himself.” (Kassas, 88)

(29) Our Exalted Prophet (a.s.v.) said: “All of you are the Children of Adam (a.s.) and Adam is from earth-soil- .” (Camiussağir, vol.2, p.175)

God’s decree overrides man’s plans. A servant should know that everything comes true with the decree of God .

“Köl küllün min indillah- say to them: ‘All is from God’ ”. (Nisa, 78)

We must remember this verse and not to take measures forgetting God’s preordaining. Man can only take % 1 precaution.

However firmly a man builds a building, it may completely be demolished by a slight earthquake. But God also says:

“Do not with your hands cast yourselves into destruction.” (Al-Baqarah, 195)

You should act in accordance with common sense, you should take precautions but you should not say that it is definitely possible with precaution. God must not be forgotten. You must put your trust in God. You should seek refuge in Him but should not act without caution or incautiously.

Man should take precaution but he should not forget the preordination of God saying everything is all right; nothing may happen. For instance, a driver should not start driving without checking his car. He must control it thoroughly. However, we must not say nothing will happen because I have taken precaution. If God wills, He can make his car upside down even on a smooth, asphalt road after driving a while.

If he does not take any precautions, if he has alcoholic drinks and use drugs and drives very fast and carelessly and if he hangs a notice saying: “May God protect it or what Allah wills happens!” and drive stupidly, this is called “craziness” then. It is a kind of making fun of God.

We think that it would be better if they hung the verse. “Do not with your hands cast yourselves into destruction!”

God gets angry about severe measures because it means not to consider God at all. God overrides the precaution of a person in this intention because God is almighty of everything. To take strong measures means not to refuge in Him and even to struggle against Him.

Nobody is able to struggle against God. God knows the intentions of all the people. If a person does not intend to take God into consideration, all his precautions may be of no use.

God proves His deity on him and shows that He has the control of everything. By this way, He shows him that preordination overcomes the precaution.

“Ve tevekke’l ala’llah fehüve hasbühü –Put your trust in God. God is your all-sufficient guardian.” (Al-Nisa, 81, Al-Ahzab, 3)

You do not exist. This egotism is your conjectures and suspicions, your doubts!”

All things are created by God. In the each creature of God, there is certainly a divine reason and a deep inner meaning. God is very beautiful so the creatures of God are also beautiful. If man considers his self more despicable than all the creatures, he sees the creatures of God beautiful and perfect. He feels good opinions about his God and he likes his God by means of this because to like a work means to like the owner of that work.

Man should not look down upon anybody. He should see his weak points, the wickedness of his self and accept himself inferior than all things. Such a person is not proud and egotist. God likes humble and calm people. When he likes him, He loves him and He gives him divine beauties.

The self of a person who overcomes egotism dies. He gains a state of complete slavery. If man thinks about his creation, he understands that he is but a handful of soil and he is transient.

Spirit and intellect belong to God. Man cannot be proud of his Spirit and intellect because they are the divine qualities of God. They are given man as a trust. (30)

Man consists of flesh and bone. Everybody knows his evil characteristics although he does not know his reality. He knows his thousand kinds of human weaknesses and deficiencies though he does not tell it anybody.

“There is no better knowledge for a person than knowing his own deficiency.”

a) “İslam’da Mezhepler ve Yükseliş (Religious Sects in Islam and Ascending)” Kısaca Önemli İtikat Konuları pp. 90-116 by Kazım Yardımcı, Anadolu Pub. House, 1988-İzmir

A servant of God accepts all His commands and prohibitions after he believes in his exalted Lord; for, if he had faith in God, there would be no other choice. He both obeys all His commands and prohibitions and he knows that every thing happens with His decree in reality and he accepts all the rules of God.

What God wills happens whether or not a man likes it. God wants us to obey Him and not to act according to our own wishes. There is certainly a great wisdom and justice in each of His commands. God does not torture anybody. He does everything justly and knowingly. A believer must accept them and he must consent to His rules. Once you consent to, you are consented as well and you prove your slavery by this way. (31)

If God is pleased with His servant, he attains the happiness of this world and hereafter.

(31) “They are pleased with Allah and Allah is pleased with them.” (Al-Maidah, 119)

“Whoever seeks the harvest of the world to come, to him We will give in great abundance, but in the hereafter he shall have no share at all.” (Shura, 20)

Thus, if a person wants the world very much, God gives him from this world but He cuts his share from the hereafter. The world is transitory but the next world is eternal and everlasting. Preferring transitory to eternal is both stupidity and deep ignorance.

Anger is due to pride and pride is an attribute of Satan. Allah is the enemy of the boastful people because egotism and pride are the attributions of God. Man should be humble, mild and gentle. Anger is violence. Violence is a quality of a boastful person. In this situation, man ought to repent by thinking and remembering the greatness of God.

Man should try to get rid of his angry state by prostrating before God and by thinking that he is a weak and impotent servant.

Whoever saves himself from anger, he leaves egotism and pride. He feels regretful and he repents. God loves those who become regretful and repent. He manifests on him with His grace and makes him calm and mild. He has mercy on him and accepts him to His slavery again. He forgives him.

Slander means to harm an innocent person by making a false statement about an action he has not done and to disregard him in society and blame on him.

Does making a false statement about an innocent person suit a believer or a person who says he is a Muslim? If a person has a little faith in Allah, can he slander anybody?

Slanderers are not accepted as Muslims because to slander means to show an innocent person guilty and to make fun of his pride and personality. (32)

God does not like slanderers. He hates them. Slander is such a lie that it both harms and insults others. So slanderer is a liar and he shows an innocent person guilty to his community. God tortures such a person. He plans such a trap for him that he cannot walk freely in community.

Slanderers harm the society in many ways. It can even cause blood-shedding and violent family disputes (enmities). It causes anarchy and disorder in community.

God does not like a slanderer and he is not liked by the people around him either. But, what a pity that poor person is not aware of this and thinks that he is doing a good job.

He is despised in the community and called as a slanderer by others. Nobody wants to be a friend of him. Everybody speaks carefully near him. He has a bad reputation in his community. He becomes disgraced and disreputable. He understands his mistakes afterwards but it is too late because he is already excluded from his society.

(33) Our great Lord commands: “Those that defame honorable innocent women are cursed both in this world and in the hereafter.” (Al-Nur, 24)

Mischievousness (anarchy) means to start disorder in a society and to make the water turbid. Some people are naturally anarchists and some people look like them as they spend their time together with them. They get a kind of sexual pleasure from this.

Their bosom is stressed because they have no divine light in their hearts. They are always in straits and they try to get rid of their stress by starting anarchy and disorder and they comfort themselves in this way.

What we call as militant and terrorist among anarchists are this sort of people.

There are also some big mischief-makers. They are the wicked people who want to get the control of the government and be in power to give orders and commands in the society where they live. They start anarchy systematically; although they show themselves as a reformer or renovator, they always defend disorder, action and fighting.

“O Muhammad! Those who say that they do nothing but good are the people who are the real evil-doers (anarchists).” (Al-Baqarah, 11-12)

A real reformer or renovator never says that he is a reformer. He tries to correct people for the sake of Allah and nobody knows this.

Starting anarchy in the world causes disorder and provokes mischief, quarrels, brawls, fights and bloodshed in that society.

God says in several verses: “Do not corrupt the earth after it has been purged of evil!” (Al-Araf, 56)

But Islam also commanded to resist legally and not to be humiliated before cruelty. Islam always ordered to defend the truth, the real justice and patience.

In Islam, jihad (strive, defense of the faith, holy war) is permitted against the cruel (dictator) and against those who forbid the declaration of the path of Allah and His Prophet (A.S.V.).

Jihad is also made against the enemies who attack our country by the order of the ruler or leader of the country.

“Say (O Muhammad!): Obey Allah and obey the Apostle and those in authority among you (the Muslim ruler of your country)!” (Al- Nisa, 59)

“He that fights fights for himself (against his carnal desires).” (Al-Ankabut, 6)

Depending on the above verses, jihad cannot be started by whoever wants. Allah advised to fight against one’s own carnal desires and to correct himself as jihad is decided by the ruler of that country. (34) The benefit of jihad is again for the person who jihads himself.

It is also commanded not to object or not to be against to the government or the rulers of the government as long as they do not ban the proclamation and transmission of the Koran and the sacred sayings of the Prophet and the performance of worship even though the government or the rulers of that country are not Muslims.

If the Book of Allah-the Glorious Koran-, the sacred sayings of the Prophet, the works and doctrines of the great Religious personalities, the interpreters of law and of Sufis are openly spoken, discussed and communicated, resisting or opposing against the leader of the country under the name jihad means only mischief making or causing anarchy because God says:

God ordered not to constrain one’s thoughts and beliefs. If the statesmen of a country forbid the reciting, translating and interpreting of the Koran, then it is the duty and the greatest worship of every Muslim to resist and to oppose against it. If he does not object to it, in that case, he will be responsible for it at God’s sight. Whoever dies for the sake of this is accepted as a martyr. (Fortunately, the Koran and the Sacred Sayings of the Prophet are permitted in our country.)

Islam also ordered to resist against the cruel (dictator). Those who desire jihad in any way, apart from these, are the sadist people who have evil thoughts and who like bloodshed. Shortly, they are the mischief-makers, anarchists that support terrorism.

They do not support jihad but they provoke mischief. They cause the division of the country or nation and the invasion of the enemy by making everybody hate each other and starting a war inside the country. They make matters worse. Most of them are wicked, selfish people who worship their own benefits and who want to be in power. They are dangerous, religious fanatics and hypocrites.

It is advised not to follow such mischief-makers and you should struggle against them violently. They are adventurous, maniac, dishonest people who do not care for the result of an event.

You must think about the mischief which was started even during Hz. Osman’s time by the mad mischief-makers like Muaviye, Marwan and Amr ibn ül As and the result of that mischief in Islam. Nobody can deny how they divided and separated such a great and true religion.

The blood of the wound carved with a dagger into the heart of Islam in order to be in power by these three mischief-makers mentioned has not stopped yet and it is still dripping.

Muslims should take warning from this historical fact and try to strengthen our established order and country and they should try to make it better through free discussion in a humanly way instead of ruining or destroying it.

If we do not get along well with each other, our historical state weakens and (May Allah protect it!) the enemies invade it. They turn our mosques into a church or a nightclub, change the religion of our people by force and they rape our mothers and sisters in front of our eyes.

All the illegal demonstrations and actions taken against a state, which are accepted as democracy, are mischief and anarchy even if they are performed under the name either action or jihad. They prepare a way for terrorism.

(34) Our great Prophet (s.a.v.) said: “The real fighter is the one who fights against his carnal desires”. (From Fudale b. İbat, Hakim; see also İbni Habban Taberani, Thirmizi)

(35) Those who have a thousand kinds of immoral qualities in themselves want to arrange the society according to their wishes.

A hypocrite is a person who is the most coward and lowest of unbelievers. He is worse than an infidel. He is the most dangerous infidel because he hides his disbelief from the believers and practices imposture by pretending as if he is a believer. He is a liar, at the same time he is a false Muslim.

You cannot think of a more vicious person than a hypocrite among people. False Muslims harm Islam very much. He is the enemy inside. He is a secret disbeliever who even enters into mosques.

A real Muslim has taken all his precautions against an unbeliever and he is careful but he cannot do anything against a hypocrite since he pretends to be a Muslim or even more faithful than a real Muslim is.

Nobody can know that they are hypocrites except the pious people who are aware of their inner structure. God describes them as: “When they rise to pray, they stand up sluggishly, they pray for the sake of ostentation and remember God but little.” (Al-Nisa, 142)

And He reports: “The hypocrites are in the lowest depth of the fire.” (Al-Nisa, 145)

God tells His Apostle in the very first verse of Chapter of Al- Ahzab: “Do not yield to the unbelievers and the hypocrites!” (Al-Ahzab, 1)

A hypocrite takes on the color of every society in which he lives because of his fear or his benefit. There is no such a dangerous person but him for Islam.

Another sign of them: When the Muslims are strong, they become a Muslim and when Muslims weakens, they cooperate with unbelievers and they say to them: “We are only mocking with Muslims.” (Al-Baqarah, 14)

A hypocrite has three distinguishing signs: First, when he talks, he talks a lie; second, when he makes a promise, he breaks it, and third when something is entrusted to him he misappropriates it. (36)

This is confirmed by both the Koran and Hadiths and by the sayings of the Prophet. A real Muslim is clever and foresighted. Our Prophet said:

A real believer is foresighted. He recognizes the hypocrite as soon as he sees him. For this reason, the people whom a hypocrite fears and hates are those foresighted real Muslims.

They become friends with illiterate and pretentious Muslims and they try to make themselves loved by them. They incite some poor Muslims to real Muslims by getting their sympathy through helping them financially. They try to make illiterate and poor Muslims using several tricks, demagoguery and slanders because they know very well that the idealists of Islam religion know them and they do not obey them and they are the real defenders and self-sacrificing people.

(36) From Abu Hurayra and Abdullah b. Amr; Sahii Buhari and Tec. Sarih Trans. Vol. 1, p.45 Diy. İşl. Bşk. Yard. Ankara-1976

Our Exalted Prophet (a.s.v.) says: “A believer is not stung twice the same hole.” Kuteybe b. Sait, İbn Müssaeyyeb, from Abu Hureyre r.a.; Sahih-i Müslim, vol.8, p.549, M. Sofuoğlu, İst.

Thus, the aim of these hypocrites is to disregard the real, idealist Muslims in Islam society. They try to influence the poor, ignorant people by several tricks, intrigues, plots and simple advantages.

“They desire to “debar” others from the path of God” (A’raf, 145) by committing all the wickedness under the costume of Islam and by having a commanding power over the people where they live.

They try to enjoin evil and forbid what is just on the contrary to the rule of Islam: “Enjoining what is just and forbidding what is evil.” (Al-Tawbah, 71)

May God protect real Muslims and the world of Islam from the wickedness of hypocrites among us, who are the enemies of religion and society!

To sigh is to manifest sorrow and lament. To sigh means to suffer, to moan, to groan and to burn. A person who is suffering is burning and he is in great pain and sorrow because to sigh means fire. A distressed and suffering person is oppressed and he is in pain and tears.

After explaining suffering this much, let us make this matter clear as follows in order not to be cursed by anyone for cruelty and not to cause others to shed tears:

a) Man should not go away from his family leaving his wife and children behind because he causes them to suffer from poverty and deprivation. He will not be able to provide them the sufficient conditions of education and training of a profession then. His children will be left in a ruined state, very wretched and contemptible. Such a family becomes a burden for the society. The person that leaves his family is cursed by his own family and this is not in accordance with Islam and it is a great sin.

b) Involving innocent people in drinking alcohol, using drugs and gambling means to play with their chastity, honor and life. It is known that gambling, using drugs and intoxication are very harmful and they are the biggest enemy of human life. Those who addict to them are disgraced and vile. He who causes poor and weak people to addict to them is cursed by them.

c) Inciting innocent people, especially the young girls and chaste, innocent women to prostitution by using several tricks means to make them suffer and to ruin their lives. The woman who becomes a prostitute is disreputable and sighs at least a hundred times a day. He who has caused this has committed the gravest sin.

d) Exaggerating a person’s words to another person who is not in good terms with him increases their enmity between them and it also causes bloody events, disorders, injuries and death. These two families also suffer very much and they are in sorrow and lamenting. And they curse them.

e) Inciting well-behaved people to theft, fraud and swindle lead them to prison at the end. Those who are accustomed to these crimes cannot give up them easily because they are like an illness. Those who cause it are cursed by these people.

Man should not blunt the future of his children; he must take care of them and provide a good education and training for them. He must not cause anyone to be a bad person and he must not torture the weak, ignorant and innocent people using tricks.

He must not seduce the child of any person and ruin his family and especially he must not break up a home.

We should get a lesson from the warning and frightening meaning of the following lines of a poet:

Every suffering is paid. All the sighs, specially the sighs of oppressed, weak, fatherless children, of orphans and widows reach the Throne-the presence of God-. Those who cause tears are punished when the sighs reach the rank of that great King (God). The powerful and Omnipotent God curses them, He ruins their homes and makes them perished even in this world. (38)

(38) Our Exalted Prophet (a.s.v.) says: “Beware of the malediction of the oppressed because his pray reaches Heaven like a spark.” (Hakim, Camiüssağir, from 500 Hadis)

He also tortures them in a hard and harsh punishment in the next world because “God is mighty and capable of revenge.” (The Imrans, 4)

Allah is just, He does not ignore the tears of anybody, He eventually punishes those who cause suffering.

He especially punishes those who lead weak and innocent people astray, those who oppress them and exploit their property directly and indirectly. Briefly, He punishes those that are cruel. He gets the revenge of the oppressed from the cruel. He absolutely punishes wrongdoers. He does not forgive them because the person who is cursed is definitely cruel and guilty. (He has committed grave sins.) God does not forgive the people who commit grave sins. He curses and tortures them. They pay the punishment of their crimes. We had better indicate that a person who commits grave sins and who is an ordinary sinner are not the same. Allah does not forgive the cruel and those who commit grave sins. (39)

Therefore, Islam Religion reports that man should not torture others and cause tears, as they are the grave sins and crimes. (The crimes that put the fundamental benefits of people into danger.). God cursed them.

“Lanetullahi alazzalimin- The curse of God is on the wrongdoers.” (Hud, 18)

A person who commits grave sins: Very guilty (Those who associate partners to God, who murder innocent people unjustly, who commit adultery and similar crimes). Those who repent and do not commit grave sins like adultery and murder except associating partners to God, those who worship a lot and correct themselves, those who serve Allah and His Apostle and dedicate his life and his property to Islam, the Religion of Allah, are promised to be forgiven by Allah the Most high, who is the Compassionate and Merciful, as it is confirmed with the Koran. (See Furqan: 70-71)

May Allah the Most High protect us from committing evil deeds and make us a person who does not oppress and insult others and who does not hurt even a small living being!

God orders in the Koran not to harm a person’s parents, who were the means of his creation, but to treat them kindly and to speak to them nicely. He even tells not to rebuke them. Man should not leave his parents alone when they get older, he should look after them taking them to his home. (40)

Although God ordered to look after both of them, if he is not able to afford to look after both of them, he should choose his mother. (41) In this verse, it is obviously understood that God attaches great importance to mothers and women because women are weak and helpless. Her child should not let her beg in the streets as she had carried him in her womb for 9 months, cleaned and washed his dirt, she abandoned her sleeps for him and fed him with her body at least two or three years affectionately.

She also protected him from his father’s wrath and anger by preventing his father. Therefore, nobody can repay the mother. Our dear Prophet (a.s.v.) said: “Paradise is under the feet of mothers.” (41)

“If either or both of them attain old age in your dwelling, show no sign of impatience, nor rebuke them, but speak to them kind words. Treat them with humility and tenderness and say “Lord, be merciful to them! They nursed me when I was an infant.”

(41) The Great Prophet answered the man who asked him which to serve more; father or mother: “To your mother, your mother, your mother, then to your father.”

A pure person does not treat any women badly as he does not his own mother. He thinks about the quality of motherhood in a woman and he considers all the women sacred with this quality. He respects this sacred quality in her.

A father takes his child under his control after he is seven years old. He protects him against several dangers in society. He looks after him and brings him up.

All the fathers are fond of their children (if they did not lose the quality of fatherhood). He certainly wants him to be well-educated, to be good-mannered and to have a job. He tries to give him a good education and a good profession, shortly he desires him to be a good person.

God commands a person to pray for his parents and to implore forgiveness from God with the words of Hz. Abraham. (43)

Our Great Prophet (a.s.v.) said: “El veledü sirri ebi- A child is the secret of his father.” (44)

This sacred saying of Prophet has a deep, inner meaning (45) which can be solved by only those who comprehend the meaning in the sacred saying of God: “My servant is My secret and I am also his secret.” (46)

(43) See the Chapter Abraham, Verse 4: “Forgive me Lord and forgive my parents and all the faithful on the Day of Reckoning”.

(45) A child represents the self of his father. The real meaning of Hz. Abraham’s sacrificing his son Isaac or Ishmael (a.s.) is Hz. Abraham sacrifices his own self to his Lord who is Compassionate. The reason why a father likes his son very much lies under the fact that he is a piece of him, he is himself because each self likes himself.

(46) Sirrul Esrar by Abdülkadir Geylani, trans, by A. Akçiçek, Rahmet ubl. 1968-İstanbul

God says in the Koran: “Do not associate partners to Me. Thank Me and your parents!” (Al-Nisa: 36, Al-An’am: 151)

In this verse, it is understood that God does not want to be attributed partners to Him (Because God is infinite and sole and He has no partners. This is a great reality.) God mentions thanking parents after thanking Himself. What we mean can be understood by the one who understands it!

So, God wants His servant to be very respectful and grateful to his parents after Himself because parents are the reasons of his life or the reasons of his existence.

A father has the qualities of educating and administrating which belong to God. “Eb-baba” in Arabic means the one who trains or educates. It means educator or trainer.

We hope that the meaning of the sacred sayings mentioned above: “A child is the secret of father.” and “My slave is My secret and I am also his secret.” (47) are explained briefly. This subject is about the mystery of Rububiyet (Divine Lordhood) so it is not permitted to explain it thoroughly.

These two sacred sayings have a very deep meaning but we do not want to explain it widely and deeply, as it is a mystical subject and contrary to the contents of this book. This matter has already been written in the book called “Existence” which we have written before and it will be explained openly in the books we are going to write afterwards.

We, consequently, indicate that Islam attaches great importance to parents and women and they should be treated very respectfully and looked after kindly. God and His Prophet (a.s.v.) attaches great importance to this matter.

(47) Sirrül Esrar by Sayyid Abdulkadir Gilani, Rahmet Publications, p.32 İstanbul

God advised in many verses not to misappropriate what is entrusted. While He was explaining the characteristics of a believer in the first verses of Chapter Muminun, He said: “The believers are the people who are true to their trusts and promises.” (48)

It is a fact that one of the qualities of a believer is to be true to trust. Our Holy Prophet (a.s.v.) also said in one of his sacred sayings: “He who tells lies, who breaks his promise and who misappropriates when something is entrusted to him is a hypocrite (or a false Muslim).” (49)

A hypocrite is a disbeliever (the one who covers the reality) who pretends to be a Muslim who disguised himself in Islamic costume.

What is trusted is, first of all, the Glorious Koran, which is the holy Book of God and the Sacred Sayings of the Prophet (Hadiths).They are the most sacred trusts for a faithful Muslim. Muslims should regard the Glorious Koran and the Sacred Sayings of the Prophet (a.s.v.) superior to his life, his property and his children and he will protect them as he protects his own life because Allah and his Apostle entrusted the Koran and the Hadiths to faithful Muslims. They are the trusts of God and of the Prophet (a.s.v.). If a person breaches them, if he does not protect them and does not sacrifice his life and his property for the sake of them, he can never be a Muslim.

In addition to them, the Holy Books of God and the Holy Works of the Religious Personalities are also entrusted to Muslim Community. They will be protected same as the Glorious Koran and the sacred sayings as they are the explanations of them. They will never be changed or corrupted (falsified).

Those who change them will be like those who changed the Torah and the Bible, they will be an infidel and God will never forgive them.

The Kaaba, the Prophet’s Tomb and Mascid-i Aksa (the Mosque just south of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem) and the Tombs and Convents of the Prophets and Muslim Saints, shortly whatever is considered sacred according to Islam Religion are also entrusted to Muslims. Every Muslim is assigned with the duty of protecting them.

The Property of Islam, that is to say, the Country and the State of Muslims are entrusted to them too. Each Muslim shall protect his country and His State and he will never betray them because if a country and state are not protected, Religion and Sacred trusts cannot be protected either.

The principle is: “If there is no country, there will be no religion.” Enemies invade the country and destroy our Religion and everything that we consider sacred. May Allah protect it!

A secret, a sum of money or a woman “chastity” which are entrusted to a person, will also be protected. They will not be betrayed. “God does not like the treacherous.” (Anfal, 58)

We should remember the above verse and know that the enmity of God is very severe. If God becomes an enemy of a person, He puts him into very bad condition and he finds nobody, no helper to protect him.

Islam attaches great importance to the treachery of trust and it is advised not to covet the chastity, life and property of a person that he earned as a result of his labor. (50)

May Allah the Most High protect all the Muslims, the oppressed, the poor and us against the danger of being treacherous and cruel, with His virtue and mercy!

__________________________________________________________(50) In Islam, there is a principle: “The property of the cruel are permitted to the oppressed”. The cruel has taken the property of the weak using tricks and by force because the cruel are the dictators who oppress people. This principle was declared by the martyr of Karbala, Hz. İmam Husain in Karbala. It is reported from our Martyred Master (A.S.) that a person who becomes prosperous using tyranny becomes ruined at the end.

Islam severely objects to all kinds of open and secret theft. A thief is a coward person who desires to be rich without working. Theft is vileness and it is to covet the labors of others. What can be worse than stealing the property of a person who earned it with several difficulties? The worst point of theft is to form it as a habit.

Islam does not punish the theft done in case of necessity such as to eat something when he is hungry, in order not to walk naked or to steal the medicine that he needs.

The theft committed to live without working or to become well-off (to possess wealth) is not forgiven. It is ordered to cut off the hands of the thief. What we understand from this is: it may be a physical or metaphorical punishment like stopping the ways of stealing or cutting off the way of theft.

Open theft: It means to break into a house or a shop for stealing money or property.

Secret theft: This means to exploit people such as buying at a low price and selling it at a high price using tricks while measuring or weighing; and lending money on interest, bribery and not repaying the labor of workers or laborers justly that work in his shop, his field, his garden, his factory or workshop or making them overwork and paying them less salary. These are also theft and they steal the money- the right of laborers- indirectly, without working. Exploiting means theft and the person who exploits is a thief.

Islam religion takes back the property or money which a thief has stolen in any way and cut his hands in order to make him not to steal again and prevent open or secret theft- “exploitation”-.

Islam also takes deterrent precautions against them. If a person sets up a business and exploits people or workers in tricky ways, and earns a wealth or if an official receives a bribe from people in a town or city, these wealth are accepted as exploitation and the people who do this are regarded as secret thieves or exploiters.

In Islam, this wealth must be taken back from them and their hands must be cut off. Whereas, these secret thieves own buildings, shops, lands and factories etc. in their own towns or in other cities using the money that they have stolen from people or workers indirectly.

These thieves also oppose to the people who defend the rights of the poor and who wants the labors of the workers not to be exploited.

These crazy, old people who are the slaves of their lust and who enjoy and entertain themselves with very young innocent girls at parties, bars, night clubs and secret meeting places pretend to be religious by screaming “They are playing with our sacred right of property!” by basing this on religion and sacred values. They become the protector of the right of property of Islam as if they accepted all the requirements of The Religion of Islam.

If every Muslim knew the economic view of Islam Religion, they would struggle against these false Muslims who are secret thieves and exploiters, before socialists.

For the socialists who deny Islam, we ask where they were when the following verse: “Ve en leyse li’l insani illa masea- Each man shall be judged by his own labour.” (Al-Najm, 39) had come to mankind 1400 years ago.

Labor and the economical view of Islam have thoroughly been explained in 4^th, and 17^th chapters of this book. I advise the secret thieves who are the noisy defenders of sacred right of property, the dictators and materialist socialists who are the enemy of freedom of belief, which one cannot give up, to read 4^th, 17^th, 31^st chapters of this book and to be fair!

It is also unfair and lack of conscience to see or to show Islam as if it is against the social justice, the freedom of opinions, religion and conscience and also the Constitution, which regards the Democratic Parliamentary System as a guarantee of these freedoms, concerning Social Justice and Freedom. I especially stress on this reality too. The missing points can be corrected.

Islam advised not to inform against a person for his trifle faults except betraying Religion, State, Country and community.

Informing against someone for his thoughts, his words and behaviors is due to envying him and not being strong enough against him. This is vileness, cowardice and dishonesty. Informing on someone may cause him to be put into prison or to put an end to his life. It may prepare sorrow and poverty for his family and cause enmity between families. This enmity continues among the children of these two families for years and sometimes this causes the lost of property and lives.

Informants are usually seen in dicta regimes. They do it in order to curry favor with dictators and to draw near to them. They frighten people in that region by establishing authority on them. They desire people to respect them compulsorily. They are the secret agents of dictators and similar administrators.

These informants are low, materialist, coward, sadist and dishonest people who lack personality. They get a kind of sexual pleasure from the troubles and sufferings of other people. Their neighbors or their surrounding dislike such people and hate them. They are loathed and disrespected by society. All the people feel hatred for them and expect them to be punished.

Informants cannot live in their neighborhood any longer when the people whom they flattered change because they are disgraced and shamed.

Informing against someone recklessly is the worst quality and informants are vile and toady people who are generally hated by society and named as “sneaky” by others.

Islam definitely objects to swearing. A person who knows himself believes that swearing at someone is a rude behavior even if he is his enemy. He does not suit it his personality as it is an inhuman behavior.

Swearing especially at a human being, at his mouth and his eyes is the ugliest and biggest sin because man and his face are sacred. (51)

Swearing also does not suit the loftiness and nobility of Islam. It is forbidden in Islam Religion. A Muslim is the most beneficial person for community as he enjoins what is good and forbids what is evil. This is confirmed with the Koran. (52)

Swearing is such a bad behavior that rational people cannot accept it. The proverb: “Bad words belong to whom he utters them.” is a very deep and meaningful inheritance inherited to us from our ancestors. A Muslim does not answer back to the swearing person. He even says “May your tongue be protected or Well done!” in order to do a favor for a wickedness.

A foul-mouthed person is rude, shameless, insolent and ill-mannered. He has no honor and respect in society. Everybody hates him. Nobody wants to be friends with swearing people.

“Everybody is known by his friend”, therefore, nobody would like to be known as a friend of a swearing person. (53)

Swearing is a grave sin. You must not use swear words and get used to it. You must not speak with swearing people as you may get used to it.

(51) See “Varlik (p.28) - Existence” (p.25) by Kazım Yardımcı, and “Günahsızlar (The Sinless)” by Kazım Yardımcı, Özmert Ofset, Malatya-1992

(53) Our Exalted Prophet (a.s.v.) said: “A person follows the religion and the manners of his friend, so when you make friends, let him be careful who he is going to be a friend with.” By Abu Hurayra r.a.; Ebu Davud, Thirmizi, Hakim

A Muslim should first of all, be faithful to Allah and His Prophet, the Prophet’s Family (Ahl al Bayt) and his Spiritual Master who is his divine father. He will not betray them and change his belief. If he changes his mind a little bit, he is harmed very much. He will especially be very faithful to his spiritual guide. He will prove his loyalty to his master like Hz. Abubaqir (r.a.).

When a disciple or adherent proves his loyalty, every door will be opened to him then.

Loyalty is a quality of God. One of the beautiful names of God is “Honest (loyal, faithful)”.

The opposite of loyalty is treachery. God does not like the treacherous. Loyalty should be towards a true person not for the falsehood. (54)

Sometimes a simple, sincere Muslim can follow a false sheikh. He may believe him. He must leave him as soon as he understands that he is false. Showing loyalty to falsehood means stupidity because loyalty is for the sake of God. If he is not a man of God, insisting on loyalty for him is a kind of craziness and paganism.

But, if his master is true, he will not leave him until his last breath. If he leaves him, neither another real saint of God accepts him, nor is he accepted by God and His Apostle (a.s.v.). (55)

A person who is treacherous to his father is treacherous towards the Prophet, a person who is treacherous to the Prophet is treacherous to Allah because a real sheikh is the heir, the representative of the Prophet and he is the spiritual and holy father of the follower of God.

(55) “Know that, the servants of God have nothing to fear or regret. Those that have faith and keep from evil shall rejoice both in this world and in the hereafter.” (Yunis: 62, 63, 64)

In addition to this, a person has only one father. The Prophet (a.s.v.) is reached through one door. A mosque may have several doors but you cannot enter it from each door at the same time. As there cannot be a person with two fathers, there cannot be a follower of God (disciple) with two spiritual fathers.

The spiritual teacher (guide) of every adherent (dervish) is Abdulqadir Gilani (k.s.) after the spiritual journey is completed because another title of that holy Saint is: “The Sheikh of all the Sheikhs”.

Man should also be faithful to the State, Nation and his friends. He must not take a contrary stand against them and he must not betray the secrets they know.

Everybody likes faithful people but neither God nor people do like the treacherous. The punishment of the treacherous is death. Allah kills him.

May God enable us to be one of the real faithful people of His Pure Person, of Our Prophet (a.s.v.), of Ah al Bayt and of our Spiritual Masters together with our Country and to State! May He protect us against treachery!

Affection and mercy are the biggest qualities of our Great Prophet (a.s.v.).

“Vema ersalnake illa rahmeten lil alemin- I sent you forth but as a Blessing to mankind.” (Al-Anbiyah, 107)

“Vetevasevbi’sabri vetavasevbi’I merhameh- O Muhammad! Enjoin to be patient and to be merciful!” (Al-Balad, 17)

Allah, the Lord of the Universe is the Administrator and the Creator of the worlds. There is no other creator and administrator except Him. He is our sole God, who is very compassionate and merciful.

“Ve Rahmeti vasiat külli şey’in-My mercy really encompasses all things.” (Al-A’raf, 156)

The above commandments of God show us how compassionate, kind, merciful the God and Hz. Muhammad (a.s.v.) are.

Animals also have a living quality. Tame animals should not be hurt, they should be protected and treated kindly, as they do not have any conscious or reason and they may have many faults due to it.

Man should oversee their mistakes and not treat them cruelly because we are the human beings who bear the holy spirit of God. They will naturally have faults as they are simple and coarse compared to men.

Men should caress tame animals that are looked after by people and not hurt them, as he loves all the living beings. We should protect and take care of them because God is pleased with the man who behaves in this way and His Prophet (a.s.v.) helps and prays for that person.

“One who has compassion for others is entitled for compassion; one who has not compassion for others is not entitled for compassion!” (57)

A saint of God asked: “O Lord! Show me a servant of You who is destined for Heaven and another who is destined for Hell!

God said that such and such woman was destined for Hell and that saint went to see her. He was very astonished when he saw that the woman God mentioned was a chaste housewife, who obeyed all the requirements of religion, and he asked the reason of it:

“O Lord! Why is this chaste woman who performs her ritual prayer is destined for Hell?”

God said: “What you say is true, but one day, that woman was cutting meat into pieces and a cat was trying to take it away. She was getting angry as the cat was walking around. She tied the cat around a post and did not give it any meat. She cooked the meat after she cut it into pieces and ate it in front of the cat. The poor animal died from hunger and this made Me very sorry. I made that woman deserve to Hell. (58)

(57) Our Great Prophet (a.s.v.) said: “Have mercy for the dwellers in the world so that the people of Heavens will have mercy for you!” (From Teberani, Camiussağir, Hakim, 500)

(58) From İbn Omar (r.a) as a hadith, Suyuti, Camiussağir, vol.2, p.318 trans. By A. Aydın, İst. 1977

The Saint of God asked Him which servant was destined for the Paradise (Heaven) and God told him who she was, so he went to the place where she lived but he was very surprised when he saw her that she was a prostitute and asked God the reason of it.

God said to him: “This servant of mine really obeyed her womanly self and became a prostitute for several reasons, but; on a hot summer day, she saw a very thirsty dog passing by her house staggering as its tongue was out of its mouth. She had pity on this thirsty animal, brought a bucket of water, and had it drunk and revealed its thirstiness. This made Me pleased as a God and I made this servant of Mine deserve for Heaven.” (59)

This is a very meaningful tradition that we must think over and know what makes our God pleased and how merciful He is. God does not like pitiless and cruel people although they are pious but He likes those who are compassionate and merciful although they commit sin and they are in a wrong way.

The great personalities of Islam, who are the heirs of the very merciful Prophet Hz. Muhammad (a.s.v.), Hz. Jesus, Hz. Abraham and all the Prophets that are the mystics of God and believe in Allah and Hz. Muhammad (a.s.v.), are very compassionate and merciful. They do not hurt anybody and any living being including domestic animals.

(59) This event is written as a Glorious Hadith in Hadith Books. For ex: See from Abu Hurayra, Sahih-i Muslim vol.7, p.111, trans. by M, Sofuoğlu, İrfan Yayın. 1970- İst

Islam pays great importance to the care and protection of trees. The importance of planting, growing and protecting trees is stated clearly and advised people.

Trees are the decorations and rejoice of the world. They affect the climate of the region where they grow. They prevent several natural disasters, incite rain and give coolness. Especially the trees with fruit are a gift of God. Various kinds of fruits and their juice give remedy to humankind. They have numerous benefits. Other trees in a forest are the natural wealth of a country. They make the world beautiful, and contribute the national income and provide the need of a country’s wood supply.

In addition to this, several hunting animals live in these forests. People get benefit from the meat and skin of these animals so the forests have various benefits for men and for a country.

Planting trees, growing them and protecting the grown up trees are the commands of Islam. Growing a tree resembles bringing up a child, and it needs care and it is useful as a child.

God gave the living quality to trees too. They are also organic substances. Trees prostrate before God by always curling down (twisting) towards ground. Each leaf and cell of them declares the praises of God and believes God to be free from defect. In Islam, planting trees, growing and taking care of them is accepted a kind of worship. (60)

Muslims plant trees at the head of the tombs of their dead relatives because trees praise and remember God.

Thousands of birds that remember God fly on these trees and make a nest. They chirp up with their sweet voices and increase the joy of life.

(60) Our Great Prophet (a.s.v.) said: “Whoever plants a tree, then whatever is eaten from it by a living being among the creatures of God is written as a charity on his behalf.” (Feyzü’l Kadir, vol.6, p.184)

Hz. Sayyid Ahmed al Rufai from Basra, a great scholar of Sufism and one of the descendants of Hz. Husayn, once got ill. A few days before his death, his students wanted his son to represent him in order to fill his place. Hz. Rufai said: “Let me think about it!” They repeated their request a few days later so he called his son:

“My son! I am ill, so take this bag and pick up such and such flowers and bring them to me because I will make medicine!”

His respectable son went to fields and picked up the flowers he said on his request and brought them to his father.

Meanwhile Sayyid Ahmed el Rufai Hazretleri (k.s.) called his sister’s son, his spiritual student Sayyid Hasan-ı Rufai Hazretleri near him:

“My nephew, Hasan! I am ill, take this bag, go to fields and pick up such and such flowers and bring them to me because I am ill and I will make medicine.”

Hz. Sayyid Hasan said: “with pleasure, my uncle!” and went to fields taking the bags with him but after walking for a long time he came back to his Master and his uncle Sayyid Ahmed er Rufai Hazretleri with empty bags.

The other students were also near his respectable uncle when he arrived. When his uncle saw the empty bags, he asked: “Hasan, I told you to bring me such and such flowers, why did you not keep my order?”

“My dear and respectable uncle! Let me sacrifice my life to your orders and to your pure person! I went to fields as you ordered. When I leaned over the flowers to pick them up, I heard them praising and reciting the Lord of the Universe saying “Sübhanallah-Praise be to God!” so I could not pick them up. I couldn’t dare to pick them up because I feared God.”

Then, Sayyid Ahmed er Rufai Hazretleri (r.a.), who knew Allah Hu very well, the descendant of Hz. Muhammad (a.s.v.), the heir of his spiritual knowledge and his good manners, the great Saint said to his students who wanted his son to represent him:

“Here is my representative and my spiritual heir who will be your master after me and who will train you! He is the well-educated and perfect Man, my nephew Hasan!”

This narrative is very important and teaching. It is understood what kind of qualities a Perfect man attains and how the plants and trees praise, recite and remember Allah. God said:

“Yusebbihu lehu mafissemavati ve’l ard- All that is in Heaven and earth gives glory to God. (All things know that God is free from defect and they exalt and praise Him.)” (Hashr, 24)

When a Muslim earns wealth, property, money lawfully and justly by his own labour, he will know that this is from Allah because the earning earned lawfully is a blessing and blessing is from Allah.

A Muslim knows that the One who created himself and bestowed intelligence, mind and energy on him is God, who is the Creator of the Universe and the Administrator. These are a person’s natural capital.

Illegal earning is exploitation. It is a sum of money due to tricks, plots, intrigue which is not earned as a result of labor and right consideration. Illegal property and wealth means secret theft. The person who exploits others is a thief. Accepting the wealth a thief has stolen as if it is from God is an insult towards God.

The sayings of some people or of uneducated mullahs such as: “The wealth is given to the rich by God; it is God, who makes the rich wealthy and the poor deprived or everybody should consent to his fate!” are nonsense and they are said to defend thieves. (It is a way of leading his way by flattering others.)

God orders to take the stolen wealth back from the thief as well as He orders to cut off his hands. That is to say, He ordered to make the thief unable to steal. This is possible through imprisoning the thief, taking fierce precautions and preventing secret and open theft and establishing a just state supervision by changing the order of exploitation.

Knowing illegal wealth to be earned as a result of open or secret exploitation from Allah means not to accept Allah and to deny His justice.

Besides this, God does not make the poor intentionally poor (excluding some exceptions). God Most High ordered everybody to work and to live by his own earning because He gave everybody mind, intelligence and a labor force. He that works is never hungry. A person’s labor, energy and mind are his natural capitals.

None of the religions but Islam has ordered to work and considered labor this much. (61)

While the working order of Islam is obvious, the expressions such as: “Be consented to your fate! Do not desire the property of the rich! God makes whoever He wills poor or rich!” are not in accordance with the view of Islam about fate, but they are the views of Jabri Sec. They use these demagogueries to deceive people and to defend the thief upper class that exploits people consciously or unconsciously. They are contrary to Islam Religion (62) except those who earn in legal ways.

Islam definitely enjoins people to work constantly in order to earn one’s own living and to make the state powerful. Islam wants everybody to earn his own living with the labor force He gave them and not to be a burden for others, and to make the country powerful.

Islam also suggests those who have a job: “social aid” which means to help the unemployed people. It also says: “The poor, the unemployed have a right to get help from the employed. Therefore, God says:

(61) Our Most High Lord commands in a sacred hadith: “I am an enemy of three people: The first one: he promises in the name of Me, but he breaks his promise, the second one: he sells a free person as a slave and spends the money he earns over him and the third one: he does not pay the wage of workers completely. (40 Hadis, by Sadreddin Konevi, trans. by Harun Ünal. Sources: Bukhari, Ibn Mace, Müsned)

(62) See “Islam’da Mezhepler ve Yükseliş (Religious Sects in Islam and Ascending), Kısaca Önemli İtikat Konuları and other Chapters” in order to read about the precept and characteristics of Jabri Sect. by Kazım Yardımcı, 1988, Anadolu Bas. İzmir.

“As for those who hoard up money for their self: ‘I will heat their money in the Hell and brand with them on their foreheads, sides and backs and I will torture them until they finish their money.” (Al-Tawba, 34-35)

Although this verse is very clear, the hodjas at pulpits and the people who exploit people, the thief and immoral rich people and their flatterers tell unconscious people this in an opposite way: they tell them to be rich instead of to work hard. (64)

Yet, Islam enjoins to work hard and to live through his own labor and not to hoard up for their ego. It commands people to give the rest of their earning to the government, which will provide the maintenance of religion, nation, country and then to poor people, poor neighbours as alms and aid.

“El malu ve’l benune zinetü’l hayati’ddünya ve’l bakiyatüs salihat- Wealth and children are the ornament of this life but the deeds of lasting merit are better (to perfect yourself, to be a virtuous human).” (Al-Kahf, 46)

“Len tenalü’l birre hatta tünfiku mimma tahibbun- You shall never be truly righteous until you give in alms what you clearly cherish.” (Al-Imran, 92)

When this verse was revealed, the faithful friends of our Most High Prophet (a.s.v.) asked: “O the Prophet of Allah, what should we give in alms?”

Our Prophet Muhammad (a.s.v.), who is the father of the poor and weak, said: “What God says as alms is what you spare from the property after you need compulsorily.”

(64) It is impossible for everybody to be rich. If everybody becomes rich, who will the rich people make work? But, everybody can be a laborer. He can work and he is paid and can buy what he needs.

The above verse and the sacred sayings of the Prophet affected the Great Turkish Poet Fuzuli very much and he said:

“Become rich! „ and “Work! „ has different meanings. A rich person does not work but he makes other people work. He leads a luxurious life but Islam commands to work until a person dies if he has a labor force.

Then, according to Islam, everybody is a laborer and they should work. Mental worker is also a laborer and the managers should also work.

“O Muhammad! Let this property not become the property of the rich among you.” (Hashr, 7)

He ordered the property (national income) not to belong to certain people by saying this very clearly. He wanted everybody to benefit from the National income.

In another verse, God said: “O Muhammad, how many generations have your Lord destroyed as they lived in comfort?” (Al-Isra, 16)

When our great Book, the Glorious Koran is studied about this subject, we meet the following verses:

(65) “Veyes’eluneke maza yünfiküne kuli’l afve- They ask you what they should give in alms. Say: “What you can spare.” (Al-Baqarah, 219)

(66) As in today’s Turkish version: “If He tells you that you will not be saved if you do not give what you like: O the informer! Make people hear what you want them to hear! Say: “O the people who want to be forgiven: this is the opportunity! Here you are”

“God does not like the exultant, those who live in comfort and boast.” (Al-Kassas, 76)

“O Muhammad! Those who lived before you slew the Prophets unjustly and killed the men who preached fair dealing.” (Al-Imran, 21)

“When it is said to them: ‘Give alms of that which God has given you!’ The unbelievers said to the faithful: ‘Are we to feed those whom God can feed if He chooses?’ and they also say to them: ‘Surely you are in glaring error.’ ” (Ya Sin, 47)

They mean to say “God has not given them, why should we give them?” They define the principle of “helping” as a “glaring error”.

“Woe to every back-biting slanderer who amasses riches and sedulously hoards them!” They hoard the wealth, then they start to count it.” (Al-Humaza, 1-4)

Our Great Prophet (a.s.v.) said: “The reason of all the wickedness is the love of the world.” (67)

Again our Prophet said: “Eddünya cifetün vetalibuha külabün- The world is carcass and those who want it are the dogs.” (68)

God says in one of His sacred saying: “I was a hidden treasure. I liked to be known so I created the beings (I manifested).” (69)

The rich considers their own wealth as a treasure but they do not consider God as a treasure. They collect their property ambitiously and they leave it longingly. (They pass away.)

Consequently, Islam enjoins to work hard and continuously but not to be rich. Islamic Religion supports laborers. A Muslim should work and he should not be a burden for other people. He will overwork and help his state because it is the powerful state, which protects his religion, his chastity and his country.

He should help the unemployed, orphans, widows and those that are needy. He will give them a lending without interest (70) in order to enable him to set up his business. He should also help the poor ones among his neighbors, sick people and his old parents. He should help domestic animals and he should take care of his poor relatives.

When we study Islam itself, the Koran, the Prophet (a.s.v.) and the time of the Four Great Caliphs, we can understand this reality very easily: Islam is not individualist but it is socialist. In Islam, there is New Creation, the Constant Creation.

“Külle yevmin hüve fi şa’n- The Great God is always in a glory.” (Al-Rahman, 29) By these verses, it is understood that God is always active. The Universe is being perfected and beautified and this is infinite and constant revolution. Then, it will be seen very clearly that Islam supports laborers and believes infinite revolution.

(70) “Who will give a generous loan to God. He will pay him back twofold and he shall receive a rich reward.” (Hadid, 11)

It is an indisputable reality that Islam has Democratic State System depending on the fact that the Great and the Most High Prophet Hz. Muhammad (a.s.v.) had not left the state to his family after him and he objected to racism and nobility, and abolished aristocracy and brought a humanist approach. (71)

He gave everybody the right of free opinion, free expression and free belief with the verse: “There is no compulsion in religion.” (Al-Baqarah, 256)

I advise you to read Chapter 4, 17, 31 of this book in order to understand this matter in details (Chapter, 37).

“Allah wiped out all practices of the days of ignorance, those bad habits and the boasting with his ancestors and parents. All mankind is the progeny of Adam and Adam was fashioned out of clay.

There is no superiority for an Arab over a non-Arab and for a non-Arab over an Arab, nor for the white over the black nor for the black over the white except in piety. The superiority belongs to the one who is the most God-fearing.” (From the Farewell Khutba)

Man should really be thankful to his God, who created him from a drop of water, who gave him the most beautiful face and who gave him from his Spirit that has all the beautiful qualities. He should always thank Him, praise Him and exalt Him.

Man must not be ungrateful and he must be faithful-loyal to his God. He should be pleased with Him. To thank God and to be pleased with Him means to submit himself to Him faithfully.

Man should not frown with displeasure and should not rebel his God. He should not object to Him and His commands. He should be grateful to his God for His benefactions and favors. He will not be angry with his God.

To thank God means to consent to Him. God is not pleased with those who are not pleased with Him. (72)

Gratitude is not affirmed by the tongue only. Real gratitude is the smiling of the heart. A person whose heart is smiling is pleased with his God. And God is also pleased with such a servant because consent is mutual. The greatest gratitude is to perform ritual prayer while his heart is smiling, which means obeying God. God likes and He is pleased with His servant who serves Him with love and who obeys His commands same as a father likes his son who serves him with love.

A smiling face, sweet, soft words express and mean that the heart is happy. A frowning man’s heart is not joyful. It means that he is not pleased with his God. To be ungrateful to God for what He gives is also not to be pleased with Him.

Man should thank his God both in the inner and outer world. He would be contented and thankful for what He has given and what He will give. It is the same whether or not it is little or much. The troubles and joys of the world are temporary. The permanent One is God and His beautiful, holy, Divine Light of His face.

“Allahu bes, ve der heme an zü’l Cemalü bes - God is enough-satisfactory and His infinite beauty is satisfactory.”

Man should also praise his God. He is the One who deserves to be praised. Yet, man is unable to praise Him but he will praise Him as much as he can.

How can this God, who created everything from His own Divine Light, who created the Universe, who decorated our Sky with Stars, and who is obvious with His unbelievable Power and Perfection, not be praised?

He, the beautiful God, who has no deficiency, does not need our praise. His exaltation is very obvious yet God likes the servant who praises Him because He is the One who deserves to be praised abundantly.

To praise God means to see yourself nothing, unable and bad compared to Him. God does not accept the verbal praise of a person who boasts, because a person who knows his God great and graceful accepts himself deficient.

“La ilahe illa ente sübhaneke inni küntü minezzalimin- O Lord ! There is no god but You. Glory be to You! I have done wrong.” (Al-Anbiyah, 87)

That is to say, You have no deficiency, You are good and beautiful but I am bad and ugly.

“Elhamdülillahi Rabbi’l Alemin- Praise be to God, Lord of the Universe. His glory is Exalted.” (Al-Fatiha, 1)

False testimony damages the Justice. False testimony is worse than telling lies, which is also very bad. A person who tells lies forms it as a habit and it is an evil quality for a man.

Bearing witness is an important institution of Justice. If witnessing institution does not work, Justice does not work either. Tyranny becomes dominant in a place where there is no justice. When wickedness is in power, the existence of that country and its citizen fall into danger as wickedness cannot last long and it is obliged to be perished.

False testimony is due to fear, advantage and protection. A person who knows God, who has a personality and who is virtuous does not deign to accept such a low thing as false testimony. He tells judge what he has seen and heard as it is to make the truth known.

A true witness has a great reward. He is rewarded by God and His Apostle (A.S.V.) same as the fair judge. He gets the spiritual power-enlightenment from the Spirit of Hz. Omar (r.a.), who is the Symbol of Justice. (73)

God and His Apostle (a.s.v.) definitely banned telling lies and giving false testimony. God says in the Koran that the false witnesses are cursed. (74)

Giving a false testimony intentionally harms both the Truth and Justice and he is cursed by the innocent person as he damages his family.

(73) “Believers! Conduct yourselves with Justice and bear true witness before Allah, even though it be against yourselves, your parents, or your kinsfolk! Be they rich or poor.” (Al-Nisa, 135)

In addition to this, helping a wrongdoer to save him from justice makes him to continue his tyranny. A person who helps a cruel person is cruel himself.

God cursed the wrongdoers no matter which nation they are from. (75) It is written in the Koran that wrongdoers are unbelievers. God criticized those who help the wrongdoers. Our great Prophet (a.s.v.) said:

“God will sway over the wrongdoer whom he helped.” (76) This is confirmed with clear events.

It is really seen that those who bear false testimony are disliked by the innocent side and he is in a very low position in the guilty side whom he protected, feared and took advantage. He is also harmed by them in time.

A person who knows himself and who bears a little faith for God can never perform such inhuman false witnessing.

He is known among the lowest and the most wicked people in a society and he is excluded from the society.

(76) “Thus, We give the wicked sway over each other as a punishment for their misdeeds.” (Al-An’am, 128)

There is also a Sacred Saying in the same meaning in the works of Ghazzali called as “Ihya-i Ulum and Kimya-i Saadet.

40- NOT TO HEAR AND NOT TO SEE WHAT ALLAH HAS FORBIDDEN, BUT, TO LEARN WHAT HE COMMANDS

A person who believes in God will try not to hear and see what God has forbidden because whatever God forbids is surely an evil thing. They are harmful for man and society.

To hear and see evil things both makes that person a witness of it and disturbs him. It annoys and discomforts him. They are very disgusting and shameful things.

There is an inclination and curiosity in man towards what is forbidden. These feelings may be incited and cause him to commit what he hears and sees. He may form them as a habit.

When the wicked thing becomes a habit, then it is very difficult to leave it. He who walks with a good person becomes good; he who walks with a bad person becomes bad. Everybody is known by his friend. Each bird flies with its own kind. Nobody has seen that wolves make friend with pigeons. People are also like this. Our great Prophet (a.s.v.) said:

Therefore, a believer should be very careful when he chooses his friend. He will always spend his time and try to be a friend with the people who are better than him, who are more virtuous, more faithful, more educated, more innocent than himself.

(77) From Ebu Hureyre (r.a.); Riyazü’ssalihin, Nevevi, p. 281 Bedir Publ. 1974- İstanbul

A person who believes in the Koran must surely learn the commands of God in the Koran. If a person does not know the commandments of God, he cannot obey them. Man should firstly learn what God orders so that he can obey them. A person who does not obey God is a rebel to God. Obeying an order starts with learning it. Thus, our Prophet said: “Learning knowledge is an obligatory duty for all the Muslims; man or woman.” (78)

The great Master Sheikh Abdülkadir Geylani (k.s.) explained in his book called “Sirr’ül Esrar” that learning knowledge is an obligatory duty, as follows:

“The obligatory duty is first of all to know God. This is related to making contact with the Holy Spirit of a Wise Perfect Man and remembering God abundantly, meeting and speaking with holy Spirits and learning “Men Araf-The Knowledge of Knowing yourself” because our Prophet (a.s.v) said: “He who knows himself knows God”. To believe in God and His Existence and to know the existence of God, His Person, His qualities are different matters. The obligatory duty is this spiritual knowledge -Ledunni.

The other obligatory duties are: one should know the commands of God in order to worship. This knowledge can be learnt from the Books of Catechism. If they do not know how to write and read, they can be learnt from those who read “Catechism” by listening to them.” (79)

(78) From Hz. Enes, Ibn Mace, See also İhya-i Ulum by Ghazzali, v. 1 Bedir Publ. İstanbul

41- BELIEVERS SHOULD SHOW DISLIKE (HOSTILITY) TO WRONGDOERS (THE INFIDELS WHO COVER THE TRUTH AND FEEL HOSTILITY TO TRUTH) AND THEY WILL NOT BE FRIENDLY TO THEM

A believer should feel hostility to wrongdoers and unbelievers as they oppress people and they are the enemies of Truth. He should dislike them and not make friends with them because they are the enemies of God and people.

Islam is full of with human love. It is respectful to people and it suggests them the consciousness of love.

But, Islam does not regard those who are the enemies of the Truth and people, as human beings because those are lower and more wicked than the wildest animals. It does not accept a wrong humanist opinion.

The love for these sadist, egotist, cruel and infidel people who are the enemies of truth and people that look for their benefits in the exploitation of people is harmful for humanity and it is stupidity.

In His Books, God cursed the wrongdoers who exploit people, mock with them and torture them and who are boastful, insulting others no matter what their races and Religions are. He ordered people not to love them and to fight against them until they get rid of them. He also reported that the wrongdoers who are the enemies of the Truth and people are grave sinners. (80)

“Vekafirune hümüzzalimin-Truly, it is the unbelievers who are unjust. (Those who do not know the truth and who do not want people to know the truth are the wrongdoers and unbelievers.)” (Al-Baqarah, 254)