Seadet i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss - First Fascicle - Huseyn Hilmi Isik

loves them. Everybody who came to Asia Minor as guests introduced themselves as Arabs to us in order to receive respect and kindness, and the credulous Anatolian Muslims believed and loved them. That was because the black and the white weren’t looked upon differently in terms of this love. A black Muslim is better, dearer, and more lovable than a white disbeliever. To be black does not diminish the value of îmân (faith) for any person.

Some of Rasûlullah’s Ashâb were black even though they were Arabs. Hadrat Bilâl-i Habashî and Usâma whom the Prophet loved very much were black. But such disbelievers as Abû Lahab and Abû Jahl, whose evil and baseness are known by everybody, were white. Allâhu ta’âlâ evaluates a man not with regard to his colour, but with respect to the strength of his îmân and taqwâ.

However, the enemies of Islam, the Jews, introduced blacks as if they were of a low and horrible class. They used them as slaves.

They wanted to wipe out the love existing among Muslims and to break off their relation of brotherhood. On the other hand, by calling black pets such as cats and dogs ‘Arab’ and by referring to the blacks in their pictures, cartoons, magazines and newspapers as Arabs, they tried to misrepresent the Arabs to our youth as badly as they could in order to estrange Muslim children from our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’. Today, people living in Arabia, Mecca-i mukarrama, and Medina-i munawwara are the descendants of the foreigners who came in the course of centuries from Africa, Asia, and other places and settled there. Those foreigners were black and were lovers of Allah and Rasûlullah.

Eyyüb Sabri Paşa, ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’, one of Sultan Abdulhamîd Khan II’s ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ admirals, writes in his five-volumed Turkish book Mir’ât-ul-harâmayn that in the entire city of Mecca there are only two Arab homes left. And today, there aren’t any.

After our Prophet’s death, all his companions and then his descendants moved out of Arabia for jihâd, that is, in order to spread Islam all over the world. They spread far into Asia, Africa, Cyprus, Istanbul and, in brief, everywhere. In order to teach Allah’s religion to His human creatures, they fought, and they sacrificed their lives. These vast lands teem with those blessed martyrs. They sent their sons to the faculties of Baghdad University, which was at that time the greatest universtiy in the world –and it can be seen in its surviving artifacts today that they had experimented and discovered many new things in physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography and mathematics–, in order that they might learn knowledge. When Hulâghu, the famous tyrant, – 233 –