[126] The First World War.
[127] See our book The Religion Reformers in Islam for these insolent writings by Ziyâ Gökalp.
[128] (Pronouncement of the) investigation of the antecedents of a witness in order to assess whether his testimony is acceptable.
[129] The First World War.
[130] See article 15.
[131] According to the atlas titled Mamlakat al-’Arabiyyat as-Su’ûdiyya, which was published in England in 1398 A.H. (1978), the distance through recently-constructed roads from Medina to Riyadh is 1011, to Taif is 535, to Jidda is 424, to Mecca is 442 and to Tebuk is 686 kilometers; from Mecca, it is 989 kilometers to Riyadh, 88 to Taif, 72 toJidda, 1133 to Tebuk, 898 to Nejran and 1879 to Kuwait. The road from Mecca to Taif runs through Minâ, Muzdalifa and ’Arafât squares.
[132] Knowledge that is acquired not for the purpose of practising it with ikhlâs, will not be beneficial. Please see the 366th and 367th pages of the first volume of Hadîqa, and also the 36th and the 40th and the 59 th letters in the first volume of Maktûbât. (The English versions of these letters exist in the 16th and the 25th and the 28th chapters, respectively, of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss).