[21] Âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs with clear meaning are called the Nass.
[22] Hadrat Imâm-i-Rabbânî means himself.
[23] One of the Prophet’s blessed wives and, at the same time, hadrat Abû Bekr’s daughter.
[24] Also see TURKISH AND ENGLISH LEXICON, by Sir James W. Redhouse, 1974, Librairie du Liban, p. 957.
[25] The book Se’âdet-i-Ebediyye has been partly translated into English and published in fascicles entitled Endless Bliss.
[26] Certain amount of property which people who are rich according to Islam have to give yearly to people whom Islam accepts as poor. Zakât is one of the five commandments of Islam. There is detailed information about zakât in the first chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
[27] When a Muslim dies, other Muslims come together and perform a certain prayer of namâz, which is called namâz of janâza.
[28] A person who disbelieves âyats of Qur’ân al-kerîm and conceals his disbelief is called a munâfiq. He is the basest type of unbeliever.
[29] Kinds of hadîth-i-sherîfs are explained in detail in the sixth chapter of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss.
[30] The Arabic word is “Al-hamd-u-lillâh”, which means, “May thanks, praise and laud be to Allâhu ta’âlâ.”
[31] Person who martyred hadrat Alî.
[32] Bid’at is any act, any behaviour, any belief, any prayer or worship that did not exist in Islam originally and which was fabricated later in the name of religion. All kinds of bid’at are somehow harmful to Islam.
[33] The highest grade of Tasawwuf. In this grade the person concerned totally forgets about his own existence and disappears into the existence of Allâhu ta’âlâ.
[34] The grade in which the malignant component existent in man’s nature, which is called NAFS, forgets about its own sensuous desires and adapts itself to the commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ.
[35] The malignant being in man’s nature; all the desires of the nafs run counter to the commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ. It is one’s nafs that causes one to feel reluctant to do Islam’s commandments. And it is this very nafs again that may tempt one into the very dangerous position of being proud of the worships one has done.