The Last of the Prophets (Hâtem-al Enbiya)

 

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I could not praise Muhammad with my words; rather, my words were made praiseworthy by Muhammad.

 

FIRST DROPLET

There are three great and universal instructors (muarrif) which make known to us our Sustainer (Rab). One is the book of the universe, a jolt of whose testimony we have heard from the thirteen Flashes together with the thirteenth lesson from the Arabic Risale-i Nur. Another is the Last of the Prophets (Hâtem-ül Enbiya Aleyhissalâtü Vesselâm), the supreme sign of the book of the universe. The other is the Qur’an of Mighty Stature (Kur’an-ı Azîmüşşan). Now we must become acquainted with the Last of the Prophets (PBUH), who is the second and articulate proof, and must listen to him.

Yes, consider the collective personality of this proof: the face of the earth has become his mosque, Mecca, his mihrab, and Medina, his pulpit (minbar). Our Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him), this clear proof, is leader of all the believers, preacher to all mankind, the chief of all the prophets, lord of all the awliya, the leader of a circle for the remembrance of Allah comprising all the prophets and awliya. He is a luminous tree whose living roots are all the prophets, and fresh fruits are all the awliya; whose claims all the prophets relying on their miracles and all the awliya relying on their wonder-working (karamat) confirm and corroborate. For he declares and claims: “There is no god but Allah!” And all on left and right, that is, those luminous reciters of Allah’s Names lined up in the past and the future, repeat the same words, and through their consensus in effect declare: “SADAKTE VE BİL HAKKI NATAKTE” “You speak the truth and what you say is right!” What false idea has the power to meddle in a claim which is thus affirmed and corroborated by thousands?!

SECOND DROPLET

Just as that luminous proof of Divine unity (bürhân-ı Tevhid) is affirmed by the unanimity and consensus of those two wings, so do hundreds of indications in the revealed scriptures, like the Torah and Bible, (1) and the thousands of signs that appeared before the beginning of His mission, and the well-known news given by the voices from the Unseen and the unanimous testimony of the soothsayers, the indications of the thousands of his miracles like the Splitting of the Moon (şakk-ı Kamer), and the justice of Shari’a all confirm and corroborate him. So too, in his person, his laudable morals, which were at the summit of perfection; and in his duties, his complete confidence and elevated qualities, which were of the highest excellence, and his extraordinary fear of Allah, worship, seriousness, and fortitude, which demonstrated the strength of his belief, and his total certainty and his complete steadfastness, – these all show as clearly as the sun how utterly faithful he was to his cause.

THIRD DROPLET

If you wish, come! Let us go to Arabian Peninsula, to the Era of Bliss (Asr-ı Saadet)! In our imaginations we shall see him at his duties and visit him. Look! We see a person distinguished by his fine character and beautiful form. In his hand is a miraculous book and on his tongue, a truthful address; he is delivering a pre-eternal sermon to all mankind, indeed, to man, jinn, and the angels, and to all beings. He solves and expounds the strange riddle of the mystery of the world’s creation; he discovers and solves the abstruse talisman which is the mystery of the universe; and he provides convincing and satisfying answers to the three awesome and difficult questions that are asked of all beings and have always bewildered and occupied minds:

“Where do you come from? What are you doing here? What is your destination?” (19th Letter, Risale-i Nur)

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(1) In his Risale-i Hamidiye, Husayn Jisri extracted one hundred and fourteen indications from those scriptures. If this many have remained after the texts have become corrupted, there were surely many explicit mentions before.