Dear readers,
It was about a month ago. The phone
rang. I picked up the handset. It was my daughter in Istanbul .
Of course, I was glad to hear her voice. After inquiring her and my health, we
talked about some issues for a while. I don't remember how it was opened
up, she said me that "Daddy, I'm reading the messages that you
sent. You explain the issues very well with clear and comprehensible
terms, basing on hadiths and verses. But you're talking about death always lately. It is all
the good… Are you depressed?" I want
to share with you the answer that I replied he since I consider it
very important.
Dear readers, of course I'm not depressed. Praise
be to Allah, my physical health, and mental health is good… I'm not
dependent on anyone else my Rab. I have nothing except of a house, a pension,
food and clothing enough to meet my needs, a computer with the necessary
hard ware, and a library. All my need is being supplied my hard-working wife
whom my Lord has granted me. I try to share some issues that I know with you
for Allah’s consent with love and affection in my heart. I don't have any
expectations from anyone… I love
everything and everyone very much. I feel myself the most happy and
peaceful person in the world. We beg Rab not to ruin
our established order. What's better than that…
Dear readers, this approach
of my dear daughter, in fact, is not anything other than the
reflection of very serious spiritual disease to her, happened to our dear folk
in recent years. We began to remember death only in the case of depression,
distress and illness. If we don’t have a head ache and our business doesn’t go
wrong, we will not remember neither death nor further of it. However, formerly
our dear folk never used to get death and doomsday out of their mind. That's
how it was overtopped than other nations. Now, I will share with you a few
paragraphs from an article titled "What we were and what we
became“ posted on a site on the internet, the source of which I couldn’t
identify. See the difference.
[We
wouldn’t touch illicit things: French
author Motray, tells our status in 1700 as follows: "Even
my single penny never got lost in Turkish shops. Whenever I forgot anything,
the shop owners whom I didn’t introduce any time, submitted man behind me to
help, in fact, a few times, they had come up my resident in Beyoglu."
We were civilized: British Ambassador Sir James Porter
tells about Turkey ’s
status in the 1740s as follows: "Safety and public peace prevailing both in Istanbul
We were rightful: French general the Comte
de Bonneval pass a decision that: “The
offenses, such as, injustice, usury, monopolism, burglary doesn’t exist among
Turks... They exhibit such a honesty that many times people
remain fascinated their accuracy.“
We wouldn’t know what burglary was: French
author Dr. Brayer sets out Istanbul in the 1830s: “In Istanbul where gate of house used to rarely closed, and shops used
to leave open trusting public, five to six cases of the burglary used to happen
in Istanbul every year."
Ubicini, certifies Dr. Brayer by saying that: "In
this amazing city, although owner of shops leaves their shops open on salat
times, and gates of houses is closed with a simple latch, the number of case of burglary doesn’t exceed four. However, in Galata and Beyoglu, people
of which are Christian inhabitants, without exception, every day, cases of burglary and murder
occur.”
We were kind: Italian
explorer, namely Edmondo de Amicis tells about us in the 1880s: "Turkish people in Istanbul Europe . Street fighting is rare.
Laugh loudly is rarely heard."
We led by example to the world: Judgment of Du Loir on Turkey
in the 1650s, who is famous with his travel book on Turkey ,
is as follows: "Undoubtedly, Turkish
politics and Turkish civil life could be an example to the world in terms of morality."]
And author ends the article with a question as
follows :
[The
essential question that worth asking and answering: What is that existed at
that times but doesn’t exist today? How did we lose it? And how can we acquire
it?]
Dear readers, the answer of this question is quite
simple: This thing that existed at that times but doesn’t exist today is "mature faith ", "fear of Allah”. And of
course, it is to remember death basing
on these, and often remember the doomsday. Rasulullah (s.a.w) ordered that:
"Remembering
the death protects from sins and prevents from engaging with the world
exceedingly" [Ibni Abiddunya]
"Anyone who thinks the death twenty
times every day, rises to the degree of the martyrs." [I.
Ghazali]
"Remember
the death very often, the heart of the people remembering the death very often
becomes very happy, and his death occurs easier." [Daylami]
“Remembering
the death is a good deed like giving alms” [Daylami]
“As iron
rusts, hearts get rusted with sins. The
polish of hearts is to remember the death very often and read Qur’an” [Bayhaqi]
In the communities forgetting
Allah, remembering the death and the Hereafter only on depressed days and in
cases of illness, do troubles get end?
Be entrusted to Allah.
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