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

FOOTNOTES (176-191)

[176] Written by Ibn-is-Sâ'atî Ahmad bin Alî Ba'lebekî 'rahmatullâhi ta'âlâ' 'alaih', (d. 694 [1294 A.D.].)

[177] Written by Ahmad bin Muhammad ibni Atâullah Tâj-ud-dîn Iskenderî 'rahmatullâhi ta'âlâ 'alaih', (d. 709 [1309 A.D.], Egypt).

[178] Nafs is malignant force in man that lures him to do what Allah prohibits and prevents him from doing what Allah commands.

[179] To fail to perform a certain prayer with fawt, means to be unable to perform it within its time for reasons justified by Islam.

[180] An abridged version rendered by Abd-ul-Wahhâb Sha'rânî 'rahmatullâhi ta'âlâ 'alaih', (d. 973 [1565 A.D.] for the book Tedhkira-i-Qurtubî, which in turn had been written by an Andalusian Islamic Mâlikî scholar named Abû Abdullah Muhammad bin Ahmad Qurtubî'rahmatullâhi ta'âlâ 'alaih', (d. 671 [1272 A.D.].

[181] 'Darûrat' is defined at various places of this book, especially in the chapter dealing with 'Ghusl and Ablution'.

[182] Written by Sayyid Abdullah Dahlawî 'rahmatullâhi ta'âlâ 'alaih', (1158 [1744 A.D.], Punjab-1240 [1827], Delhi.)

[183] Abu Bakr Ahmad bin Husayn of Beyhek, Nishâpûr 'rahmatullâhi ta'âlâ 'alaih', (384 [994 A.D.]-458 [1066].)

[184] The voiceless glottal fricative, /h/, and the voiceless pharyngeal fricative, / ħ /,are two different phonemes in the Arabic language.

[185] Also ‘loudspeaker’ in Macmillan Contemporary Dictionary, 1979, Mac Millan Publishing Co. Inc., New York.

[186] Radd-al-muhtâr, page 516.

[187] Written by 'Ali bin Emrullah 'rahmatullâhi ta'âlâ 'alaih', (916 [1509 A.D.]-979 [1571], Edirne, Turkey.)

[188] Written by Abu-l-berekât Hâfiz-ud-dîn, Abdullah bin Ahmad Nesefî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, (d. 710 [1310 A.D.], Baghdâd.)

[189] Written by Husayn Wa’id-i-Kâshifî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, (d. 910 [1505 A.D.], Hirât)

[190] Please see the book Documents of the Right Word.

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