بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ الصَّلاَةُ وَ السَّلاَمُ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَلَى آلِهِ وَ صَحْبِهِ اَجْمَعِينَ

TASATTUR – HIJÂB – COVERING - 4

The consequences of the corruption of women caused by the abandonment of tasattur and the free mixing of men and women in society under the guise of freedom:

1. The haqiqah of the images that the civilisation considered to be one of its virtues, and their effects on the community:

Increased freedom of womankind has caused a sudden unfolding of bad morality in mankind.

Little corpses, the smiling deads, which are called images, have played a great role in the violent-tempered rûh of civilised mankind. {Just as to look lustfully at a dead woman shows extreme despicability of nafs, in the same way, to look with carnal desires at a beautiful picture of a helpless female corpse needy of compassion extinguishes the elevated feelings of the rûh.}

The statues and images prohibited by the Sharî’ah are either dhulm transformed into stones, embodied riyâ, or frozen desires of the nafs.1 Or it is a talisman attracting those evil rûhs.

 The Words-Gleams

 

Just as the Qur'an severely prohibits the ‘ibâdah to idols, so does it forbid the ‘ibâdah to images, which is a sort of imitation of the ‘ibâdah to idols. Whereas, considering the images as one of its virtues, civilisation has wanted to dispute the Qur'an. But images, whether possessing shadow or not, are either dhulm transformed into stones, embodied riyâ, or embodied desires of the nafs. By whipping up the desires of the nafs, images encourage mankind to dhulm and riyâ and to follow the desires of the nafs. Moreover, in order to preserve the respect shown to them, the Qur'an compassionately commands women to wear the veil of hayâ so that those mines of compassion will not be crushed under the feet of the vile desires of the nafs nor be a worthless commodity that is an instrument satisfying lust. {Note-2: The Twenty-Fourth Flash of the Thirty-First Letter on the tasattur of the women has decisively proved that tasattur is appropriate for women’s fitrah and the abrogation of tasattur is contrary to fitrah.} As for civilisation, it has drawn women out of their homes, torn their veils and corrupted mankind, whereas family life can continue with the mutual love and respect of man and woman. But immodest dressing has destroyed sincere respect and love and poisoned family life. From the following, it can be understood that especially ‘ibâdah to images appallingly shakes morality and causes the degradation of rûh: just as looking lustfully and with desire at the corpse of a beautiful woman who is in need of pity and compassion destroys morality, so too does looking at the images of dead women or the images of living women, which are their little corpses, in a way that nurtures the desires of the nafs shake the elevated human feelings from their very roots and destroy them to that extent.

The Twenty-Fifth Word/3rd Ray/2nd Radiance/Fourth Principle

2. Committees that work to corrupt women:

I knew that just as in order to harm the social life of Islam and thereby the religion of Islam, one or two committees work to lead youth astray and drive them to dissipation by using the desires of youth. In the same way, I felt that one or two committees effectively work under the veil in order to lead the ghâfil ones among women in the wrong ways, and I understood that a terrifying blow to this Muslim nation is coming from that aspect.

The Twenty-Fourth Flash- A Conversation with Women-2nd Subtle Point

 

Both Dajjals will be supposed to possess tremendous power because they won the assistance of a secret committee of Jews, which seeks severe revenge against Islam and Christianity, and the help of another terrible committee, which is under the guise of women's liberation, and the Dajjal of Islam won even the aid of the Mason committees by deceiving them.

The Fifth Ray- The Third Aspect and Reason

3. The essence of the fitnah of the âkhirzaman and its causes:

One time, I was sitting by the window in Eskishehir Prison. The older girls of the high school opposite the prison were laughing and dancing in the schoolyard. I saw them as the houris of Jahannam in that Jannah of the world. Then, suddenly, their situation fifty years later appeared to me. Their laughter had turned into their excruciating weep. From this, the following haqiqah was uncovered. That is to say, with a ma’nawî and imaginary cinema, I saw their situation fifty years later. I saw that fifty of those sixty laughing girls were suffering torments in the grave and turned into earth, while ten of them, at seventy years old, had become ugly and were drawing everyone’s look of disgust. I wept for them.

The essence of the fitnah of the âkhirzaman appeared to me that the most terrible and attractive of that fitnah emerges from the shameless faces of women. Invalidating the will, they cast people into the fire of dissipation, like moths, and make them prefer one minute of the life of this world to years of eternal life.

One day, while watching the street, I felt a powerful example of that fitnah. I felt great pity for those young people I saw. While thinking, “These unfortunates cannot save themselves from the fire of this attractive fitnah, like a magnet,” the ma’nawî collective personality of apostasy that ignites the fitnah and teaches it has been embodied before me. I said to it and to those mulhids who receive lessons from it:

O you wretched who sacrifices his religion on the way of taking pleasure from Jahannam houris, plunges willingly into dhalâlah full of dissipation, accepts ilhad and irreligion on the way of the pleasures of the desires of nafs, worships life and is terrified of death, and who does not want to remember the grave and is on the brink of apostasy!...

A Guide For Youth 18-19

 

In the riwâyât, it was mentioned that "the fitnah of the âkhirzaman will be so terrible that no one will restrain his nafs." It is because of this that all ummah have sought refuge with Allah (isti‘âdha) from that fitnah for one thousand three hundred years, on the command of the Prophet (asm). مِنْ فِتْنَةِ الدَّجَّالِ وَ مِنْ فِتْنَةِ آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ2 became the wird of the ummah after seeking refuge from the torments of the grave.

اللّٰه أعلم بالصواب3, a ta’wîl of it is this: those fitnahs will attract the nafs of people to themselves and infatuate them. People will perpetrate them voluntarily, indeed, with pleasure.

For example, in Russia, men and women bathe naked together in public baths. And since, by fitrah, women have a strong inclination to show off their beauty, they willingly plunge themselves into that fitnah and are led astray. Men, too, who worship beauty in their fitrah, are defeated by their nafs and, with drunken joy, fall into the fire and are burned. By means of attraction, entertainment, kabâir and bid’ahs of that time, such as dance and the theatre, draw those who perform ‘ibâdah to their nafs around them, like moths, and daze them. But if this occurs through absolute compulsion, since the will is invalidated, it will not even be a sin.

The Fifth Ray- Sixth Matter

 

It is understood from hadiths’ narrations that what will play the most terrible role in the fitnah of the âkhirzaman will be women and their fitnah. Yes, just as it is reported in the histories that, in ancient times, a group of soldiers composed of extremely skilled warrior women called ‘Amazons’ fought extraordinarily in battles. In the same way, at the present time, in the war of the dhalâlah of zandaqa against Islam, through the plan of nafs al-ammarah, the most fearsome group that is put under the command of shaytan is half-naked women; with their bare legs, which are terrible knives, they attack and assault the people of îmân. By working to close the road to marriage and widen the road to houses of debauchery, they take many people’s nafs captive and wound their hearts and rûhs with kabâir; rather, they kill some of those hearts.

As a perfect punishment for displaying them to the desires of non-mahram men’s nafs, those legs with knives will be the logs of Jahannam and burn first. And since she lost her trustworthiness and loyalty in this world, she is no longer able to find a suitable husband whom, by her creation, she wants and who, by her fitrah, she is in great need of. Even if she finds one, it only brings her trouble. It is even understood from hadiths’ narrations that as a result of this situation, in the âkhirzaman, due to marriage being neither sought after nor respected, women will be without a guardian, unimportant and valueless to the extent that one man will look after forty women in some places.

Since the haqiqah is this. And since every beauty loves her beauty and wants to preserve it as far as she can and does not want it to be spoiled. And since beauty is a ni’mah, if shukr is offered for a ni’mah, it increases in a ma’nawî manner, while if shukr is not offered, it becomes ugly. For sure, if she has a mind, she will run away with all her strength from using her beauty and loveliness to gain sins for herself and others, making her beauty and loveliness ugly and poisonous, and due to ingratitude, turning that ni’mah into a source of punishment, and in order to make her transient five or ten years of beauty permanent, she will offer shukr for that ni’mah by using it in a way that Sharî’ah permits; otherwise, in her old age, she will be detested for a long time and will weep despairingly.

It is definitely established in the hadiths that if her beauty is beautified with the adornment of Qur’anic âdâb within the sphere of Islamic tarbiyyah, that transient beauty will be eternal in a ma’nawî manner, and in Jannah, it will be given to her in a more graceful and shining fashion than the beauty of the houris. If such a beauty has even an iota of mind, she will not allow this beautiful, shining and eternal result to slip from her hand.

A Guide For Youth/An Important Matter Warned Suddenly

 

In the riwâyât, it was mentioned that "in the âkhirzaman, one man will look after forty women."

اللّٰه أعلم بالصواب4, it has two ta’wîl:

First: Lawful marriage will decrease at that time, or, like in Russia, it will disappear. A man, who flees being tied to one woman and remains footloose, becomes a shepherd to forty unfortunate women.

Its second ta’wîl: It is an allusion that, at that time of fitnah, most men will be killed in wars, and as a consequence of a hikmah, most of the children born will be girls. Perhaps since the independence of women and their total freedom intensely inflame the women’s lust, they will acquire superiority over their men regarding their fitrah. Since it attracts the child’s gender to its mother, girl children will be more numerous through the command of Allah.

The Fifth Ray- Eleventh Matter

4. Dajjal’s fake Jannah, which is the modern, western lifestyle, life of comfort and luxury that civilisation presented to us as the only way to happiness through all its means like social media, movies, music, etc., and his fake Jahannam that is represented to be the source of misery:

In the riwâyât, it was mentioned that "the Dajjal has a fake Jannah; he puts those who follow him into it. He also has a fake Jahannam; he casts into it those who do not follow him…

As for the Dajjal's fake Jannah, it is the alluring entertainment and fantasies of civilisation.

 The Fifteenth Letter

 

In the riwâyât, it was mentioned that "The despotic rulers of the âkhirzaman, especially Dajjal, will have fake Jannahs and Jahannams." الْعِلْمُ عِنْدَ اللّٰهِ5, a ta’wîl of it is this: it is an indication that the prison and the high school, which are the government offices that are situated opposite and facing each other, the high school will take the form of an ugly imitation of the houri and qilman6 and the prison will take the form of torture and a dungeon.

The Fifth Ray- Third Matter

 

Just as the name al-Masih was given to Hazrat‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm in riwâyât, so was the name al-Masih given to both Dajjals, and in all riwâyât it was said: مِنْ فِتْنَةِ الْمَسِيحِ الدَّجَّالِ مِنْ فِتْنَةِ الْمَسِيحِ الدَّجَّالِ7. What is the hikmah and ta’wîl of it?

The Answer: اللّٰه أعْلَم , the hikmah of it is this: Just as with the command of Allah, ‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm repealed some of the heavy responsibilities from the Sharî’ah of Mûsâ ‘Alayhissalâm and made some desirable things like wine halal, so too, by the rule of shaytan and being led astray by him, the Great Dajjal repeals the laws of the Sharî’ah of ‘Îsâ ‘Alayhissalâm, destroys the ties that administer the social life of Christians and prepares the ground for anarchy and Ya’juj and Ma’juj.

And, Sufyan, too, who is the Dajjal of Islam, unties the luminous chains like respect and mercy by working to repeal some of the eternal laws of the Sharî’ah of Muhammad (asm) by using the wiles of shaytan and the nafs, destroying the material and ma’nawî bonds of the life of mankind and freeing the bridles of the rebellious, drunken and stupefied nafs of the people; he gives the opportunity for terrible anarchy by giving compulsory freedom and liberty, which is pure despotism, in order to make people assault each other in the swamp of putrid desires of the nafs; then, such people cannot be subdued other than by the most severe despotism.

 The Fifth Ray-Three Brief Matters-First Matter

5. The cause of the general calamities:

First Question: Why is it that the fear and despair arising from further earthquakes as a ma’nawî calamity, which is more excruciating than the material calamity of this severe earthquake, take away most people's rest at night in most of the country and give them terrible torment?

Again, the ma’nawî answer: It has been said that, at the time of noble Ramadhan’s tarawih, with utmost joy and cheer, the drunken songs serving the desires of nafs being made to be heard attractively by the mouth of the radio, sometimes through the voices of girls, in every corner of this blessed centre of Islam, resulted in the torment of this fear.

Second Question: Why does this samâwî slap not befall unbelievers in their countries? Why does it befall unfortunate Muslims? 

The Answer: Just as the punishment for the big wrongdoings and crimes is postponed and given in big centres and the punishment for the small crimes is given quickly in small centres, as a consequence of an important hikmah, the punishment for the greater part of the crimes of the people of kufr is postponed to the Supreme Court at the rising from the dead and assembling for judgment, while the punishment for the wrongdoings of the people of îmân is in part given in this world. {Note: Furthermore, for now, the earth displays its anger towards Muslims, not them, because by abandoning an abrogated and corrupted religion, people like the Russians do not attract Allah’s wrath to the extent of betraying a haqq and eternal religion that cannot be abolished.}

Third Question: What is the reason for this calamity, which arises from the wrongdoings of some individuals, taking the form of a general calamity in the country to a degree?

The Answer: From the point of general calamity being aroused from the wrongdoings of the majority, since most people, in a ma’nawî manner, participate in the actions of those dhâlim individuals by supporting them through their actions, by having iltizâm for the actions of those dhâlim individuals, or by joining them, they cause the general calamity.

The Addendum to the Fourteenth Word

 

A warning and astonishing event

An important pillar of the Risale-i Nur writes that: “The same day of the Adapazari earthquake, a few hours before it, a large public theatre had been set up for general admission, which paraded four of its attractive actresses nakedly in a public display around town. More than a thousand people who were allured by this gathered around the building that housed the theatre. Just as the play was about to begin, the earth suddenly struck a blow at their shameless faces with complete fury and wrath and ruined them, leaving them in complete disarray. It levelled that building to the ground.” For the last two years, I received no news about such incidents of the world; I did not look at them. Recently, however, the news given by both Husrev and hero Chelebi about the earthquake; and by the opinion of Husrev and his companions, the Risale-i Nur acting as a strong shield against the thundery earthquake of Isparta and averting its harm; and the destruction of the hail storm being limited to the crops of that hoja who was antagonistic to the Risale-i Nur and not harming anyone else, provide a degree of conviction that: with such an open betrayal of the shaâ’er of tasattur – an important principle of the Risale-i Nur that has spread across most provinces but did not enter Adapazari – the Risale-i Nur did not run to its aid. I only looked at this event for this reason.

Kastamonu Addendum (287)

 

Third Question: Why do certain religious men suffer much difficulty from their mahrams who have plunged into worldly life? There are so many of these sorts of incidents in this region.

The received answer: In this age of women’s freedom, as a requirement of their devoutness, Qadar has allowed those religious men to be struck by the hands of liberated women due to their mistake of meddling with the world by means of such liberated women. The remainder has been postponed due to an unintentional interruption by a blessed lady.

Kastamonu Addendum 265

 

A young hâfidh among the students of the Risale-i Nur said, like many other men, “The sickness of forgetfulness increases in me. What should I do?” I told him: Do not look at non-mahrams as much as possible because there is a riwâyât on this. As Imam Shafi (ra) has said, “Looking at what is haram causes forgetfulness.” Yes, among the people of Islam, as haram look8 increases, desires of the nafs will be excited and will cause one to waste (israf) through the misuse of body. He will be obliged to take ghusl a few times a week as a result of it, and will medically experience a weakness in his faculty of memory.

Yes, in this age, particularly in these warm countries, the misuse arising from evil looks due to the immodest clothing begins to result in a general sickness of forgetfulness. Whether minor or major, everyone in general voices this complaint. Thus, with the rise of this general sickness, the tip of the ta’wîl of striking news given by the noble hadith is seen. The Prophet (asm) decreed, “In the âkhirzaman, the Qur’an will be torn away, lifted from the hearts of hâfidhes and be forgotten.” That is, this sickness will intensify, and for some people, the memorisation of the Qur’an will be barred due to these evil looks; it will demonstrate the ta’wîl of this hadith.لاَ يَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ اِلاَّ اللّٰهُ .

Kastamonu Addendum 134

 

May Janâb-i Haqq save us and you from the alluring fitnah of this time, and preserve us from them. Amen

اَللّٰهُمَّ يَا اَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِينَ وَ ارْحَمْ اُمَّةَ مُحَمَّدٍ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلاَةُ وَ السَّلاَمُ وَ نَوِّرْ قُلُوبَ اُمَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلاَةُ وَ السَّلاَمُ بِنُورِ اْلاِيمَانِ وَ الْقُرْآنِ وَ نَوِّرْ بُرْهَانَ الْقُرْآنِ وَ عَظِّمْ شَرِيعَةَ اْلاِسْلاَمِ آمِينَ

سُبْحَانَكَ لاَ عِلْمَ لَنَا اِلاَّ مَا عَلَّمْتَنَا اِنَّكَ اَنْتَ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ