Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle by Huseyin Hilmi Isik - HTML preview

FOOTNOTES(21-41)

[21] Please see par. 8 in the following chapter.

[22] In 1997, when a U.S. dollar costs 120.000 T.L.

[23] Immutable, unalterable.

[24] Turmoil, commotion, confusion.

[25] This book was translated into English in 1992. The English version, entitled Documents of the Right Word, is available from Hakîkat Kitâbevi, Darüşşefeka Cad. 57/A P.K. 35 34262 Fâtih-Istanbul-Türkiye.

[26] Japheth.

[27] Documents of the Right Word; first edition, 1992; 480 pp.; available from Hakîkat Kitâbevi, Fâtih, Istanbul, Turkey.

[28] Chief Military Judge.

[29] Not Shams-ud-dîn Muhammad Kirmânî, who passed away in 786 [1384 A.D.].

[30] Abdurrashîd Efendi passed away in Japan in 1944.

[31] To revolt against the Ulul’amr means to disobey those commandments of a Muslim commander, (chief, president or superior) which are not disagreeable with the Sharî’at.

[32] The Mystery of Bektâshî.

[33] Friedrich Engels (1820-95).

[34] Hadrat Muhammad and the Qur’ân, Part I, Chapter 1; London.

[35] Weekly Periodical, The Muslim World, Pakistan, August 26, 1972.

[36] Jean Mocheim, German theologian and historian, d. [1755].

[37] The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon; edited by Dero A. Saunders, 1952, chap. 16, div. 2, p. 653.

[38] With respect to comprehensiveness, there are two kinds of fard. When something is compulsory for each individual Muslim, it is called fard-i-’ayn. If the obligation of a fard lapses from other Muslims when one Muslim performs it, that is, if other Muslims do not have to perform it when it is carried out by one Muslim, and if all Muslims are responsible and become sinful when no Muslim performs it, this kind of fard is called fard-i-kifâya.

[39] Anything permitted by Islam.

[40] Yaqîn means absolute belief: belief which is as positive as the conviction that you feel when you have seen something you are to believe.

[41] Knowledge that is acquired not for the purpose of practising it with ikhlâs, will not be beneficial. Please see the 366 th and 367 th pages of the first volume of Hadîqa, and also the 36th and the 40 th and the 59 th letters in the first volume of Maktûbât. (The English versions of these letters exist in the 16th and the 25 th and the 28 th chapters, respectively, of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss).