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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