Here is that bright, luminous, beautiful face, which has become the core of life and meaning, from whom the Almighty, the Glorious, has created a tree of the paradise of servitude, whose blessed branches have adorned every corner of the human world with luminous fruits. It has scattered all the darkness of the past, and that long past time, as philosophy sees it, is not a great tomb or a purgatory, but rather a luminous station and a multi-leveled, colorful miracle, which leaves behind heavy burdens, liberates and frees the souls that have escaped from the world, and becomes a luminous garden and a blooming orchard.
The second aspect is philosophy. Philosophy, however, has looked at it with the meaning of its name. That is, it says, it leads itself, its meaning is within itself, it works for itself, it governs. It assumes that its body is original and inherent. That is, it says, it has a body in itself. It has a right to life, is the true owner within its domain, and claims dominion. It considers it a fixed truth. It knows its duty to be a self-perfection originating from love of the self, and so on. They have built their doctrines upon many false foundations. How baseless and rotten these foundations are, I have conclusively proven in my other essays, especially in "Sözler," particularly in the Twelfth and Twenty-Fifth Sayings.
Sözler
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It occurred to my heart that on the other side of this ground there is light, breeze, and the water of life, and that I must go there. I saw that I was being led without hesitation. I was taken into a tunnel-like cave inside the ground. I traveled deeper and deeper into the ground. I saw that before me, many people had walked this path of the earth, and everywhere I looked, they had drowned and remained. I could see their footprints. At times I could hear the voices of some of them; then their voices would stop.
O friend who shares my imaginary journey with your imagination! That ground is nature and natural philosophy. The tunnel is the profession that the people of philosophy have opened with their thoughts to reach the truth. The footprints I saw are of famous figures like Plato and Aristotle. The voices I heard are of geniuses like Ibn Sina and Al-Farabi. Yes, I saw some of Ibn Sina's words and laws in certain places. Then they would all disappear. He could not go any further. So he drowned. Anyway, to free you from curiosity, I showed you a corner of the truth beneath your imagination. Now I return to my journey.
Going deeper and deeper, I saw that two things were given to my hand: one was an electricity that disperses the darkness of nature; the other was a tool with which even mighty rocks and mountain-like stones were being shattered to make a path for me. I heard in my ear: "This electricity and this tool have been given to you from the treasure of the Qur'an."
Whatever it was, I went on like that for a long time. I saw that I had emerged on the other side. I saw a world of spring, a cloudless sun, a soul-refreshing breeze, a delicious water of life, and a world full of joy everywhere. I said, "Praise be to God." Then I saw that I was not the master of myself. Someone was testing me.
Sözler
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Third example:
From the high effects and general principles of the unity of God in the Prophethood, 1 "Al-Wāhidu lā yusūru illā min al-Wāhid" meaning "Only one can produce from one; since there is a unity in everything and all things, it must be the creation of a single Being," where is the principle of this monotheistic belief? From an old philosophical principle, 2 "Al-Wāhidu lā yusūru minhu illā al-Wāhid" meaning "One produces only from one," that is, "Only one Being can produce one thing directly. Other things are produced through intermediaries," this philosophy, by depicting the Absolute and Omnipotent Creator as needing intermediaries and being incapable of direct creation, gave a kind of partnership to all causes and intermediaries in the domain of lordship, and by giving the Creator of the universe, the "first intellect," the name of a created being, and by distributing the rest of His dominion to causes and intermediaries, it led to a great partnership and was full of error and deviation. Where is the principle of such a philosophy? If the higher part of the followers of the doctrine of partnership (ishrāqīyyun) commits such nonsense, how much more nonsense will the lower parts, like the materialists and naturalists, commit?
Fourth example:
From the wise principle of the Prophethood, 4 "Wa in min shay'in illā yusabbiḥu bi hamdihi," meaning "The result, wisdom, and purpose of every thing and every living being is its own, and the results and wisdom of the Creator are countless. Every thing, even a fruit or the fruit of a tree, has its own wisdom and results," where is the principle of this true wisdom? Where are the absurd and meaningless principles of the philosophy that says "The result of every living being is for itself or for human interests," like putting a mustard-seed-like fruit on a huge mountain-like tree as a result? Since this truth was shown to some extent in the Tenth Statement of the Tenth Truth, we have kept it short.
Sözler
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