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The word "Baktashi' refers to two
different groups of people. The first
group are true, correct Baktashis
who are pure Muslims and follow the
right way shown by Hadrat Hajji Baktash-i
Wali.
The second group of Baktashis are the
fake, untrue ones, they are closer
to Alevis.
These are Hurufis, who are on the
wrong way. Most of them were called
"Baktashi' in the past. In the
course of time, they decreased in
number and became non-existent. Nowadays,
no fake, corrupt Baktashis exist in
Turkey. The fake Baktashis among Muslims
used this valuable name as their mask
so that they could, by hiding their
beliefs, deceive youngsters, and lead
an easy life. As a matter of fact,
the number of those who are disbelievers
but hide themselves under these various
valuable names is really high, such
as the name Malami. Those deviated
ones who never worship, commit every
kind of sin and evil, and never follow
the Shariat called themselves Malami.
Actually, Malami means pure Muslim
person who performs the fard aspects
of all his five daily prayers in a
mosque, abstains from the harams (prohibitions),
performs the supererogatory and sunnat
prayers at home, and avoids being
famous. The book Kashif-ul- asrar
written by Ishaq Effendi from the
city of Tokad states:
Another group trying to demolish Islam
are the Baktashis. When "Baktashis'
is mentioned, two groups of people
should be understood. The first are
those pure Muslims who followed the
right way shown by Hadrat Hajji Baktash-i
Wali.
In the second group are the mendacious
Baktashis. Those people who are said
to be Baktashis today are in this
group. In order to live comfortably
among Muslims and to deceive youngsters
by concealing their irreligiousness,
these false Baktashis have used this
name as a mask. There are quite a
few irreligious people who hide under
various valuable names. For example,
the Rafidis, who it has been declared
will go to Hell, call themselves Alawi.
Formerly, Hadrat Ali's descendants
were called Alawi. Later they were
called Sayyid (or Sayyid) and Sharif.
Alawi means a true Muslim who loves
and follows Hadrat Ali. As it is seen,
Alawi has been the name of three groups
of people. Only one of these groups
is corrupt and false Alawis.
So is the name Malami. Some heretical
people who do not worship at all and
who commit every kind of sin and who
do not follow the Shariat call themselves
Malamis. These people call the true
Muslims who obey the Shariat reactionary
bigots. Of old, those pure people
who performed such fard worships as
namaz five times each day in mosques,
who performed the sunnat and the supererogatory
prayers secretly in their homes, and
who abstained from fame, used to be
called Malamis. But now, those who
do not perform namaz claim to have
become Malamis, thus deceiving Muslims.
Another group of irreligious people who
assume a dear name in order to deceive
Muslims are the Hurufis; they gathered
under the name of Baktashi. Formerly
they used to conceal their real purposes.
In 1288 A.D. they began to take off
their masks. They exhibited their
secret book entitled Jawidan. This
book of theirs consists of six folios.
One of its folios was written in Persian
by Fadl-ullah bin Abi Muhammad Tabrizi,
who is the founder of Hurufiism. The
remaining five were made up by some
of his disciples. Of these, the folio
named Ashknama, or, rather, Ishknama,
by the son of Farishtah, did not reveal
disbelief so clearly; therefore, it
was printed by lithography in Istanbul
in 1288 [1781 A.D.]
The zindiq named Fadl-ullah Hurufi was
a Darwish of the Qaramiti path. The
Qaramitis are also called Ibahiyya.
They called the haram halal and robbed
hajjis for seventy or eighty years.
They killed Muslims. They established
a government. When their government
was demolished in 372 [983] they went
to different places, where they hid.
Of these, Hasan Sabbah established
the Ismailiyya state, which was demolished
in 654 [1256]. Of these, Fadl, spread
disbelief secretly in the city of
Astarabat in Iran. He found nine assistants.
He invented something called the knowledge
of dot. He used to say that such and
such a thing is mubah (permitted)
because the dot came double, and that
such and such thing is haram (forbidden)
because the dot came out single. Hadrat
Ibni Hajar-i Asqalani gives extensive
information about Fadl-ullah and about
Hurufiism in his history book entitled
Anba-i Fadl. When the disbelief of
Fadl-ullah became widespread, Miran
Shah, the son of Timur (Tamerlaine),
killed Fadl-ullah with his father's
command in 796 (1393 A.D.). With a
rope fastened to his leg he was dragged
along the streets. Thus Islam got
rid of an implacably mortal enemy.
As Sultan Salim Khan "rahmatullahi
ta'ala 'alaih' prevented the spreading
of Rafidiism, so Timur Khan "rahmatullahi
ta'ala 'alaih' prevented the spreading
of Hurufiism, which was very dangerous
for Islam, and thus he rendered a
great service to Islam. For this reason,
the Hurufis hate and always speak
ill of Timur Khan.
When Fadl-ullah was killed and Astarabat
was demolished, his nine assistants
vanished into thin air. Later, one
of them, a person named Ali-ul-ala
came to a Baktashi convent in Minor
Asia; he began to spread the book
Jawidan secretly and to deceive the
ignorant. He said that this was the
way of Hajji Baktash-i Wali. Because
he called the haram (prohibited) mubah
(permitted) and issued a blank cheque
concerning sensuous desires, his words
spread rapidly among malevolent people.
Calling his words "secrets,'
he pledged the informed to secrecy.
Those who should reveal the secrets
to strangers would be killed; in fact,
this happened several times. The secrets
were marked with the letters a, c,
v, z in the book Jawidan. These marks,
each a disbelief, were explained in
the book Miftah-ul- hayat. They called
this book Sir (secret), too. He who
does not have the book of Sir cannot
understand Jawidan. They have been
deceiving the ignorant since 800 A.D.
They have caused them to go out of
the Din. Also, Masons have joined
them. Their financial provisions betray
their Jewish traits. In 1240 [1824
A.D.] they began to spread their disbelief
in flouting liberty. Their Ulu (great
chief) was killed by Sultan Mahmud
Khan II "rahmat-Allahi ta'ala
'alaih'. The Baktashi convents were
canceled. He declared a firman ordering
that their places be given to the
Naqshibandis. They spread about and
carried on their activities secretly.
They reappeared in 1288. They edited
the booklet Ishknama by Farishtah's
son Abdulmajid. They began to spread
widely. It is written at the beginning
of the book Hujjat-ul- baligha by
Hadrat Ismail Hakki of Bursa "rahmatullahi
ta'ala 'alaih' that those who were
deceived by them were called the "Group
of Ishik.' [It is written in the book
Mirat-ul-maqasid, which was written
by Sayyid Ahmad Rif'at Bey, a member
of the court of Financial Affairs,
"Abdullatif, the son of Farishtah,
who is Abdulmajid's brother, was a
Sunni. As it is understood from a
book which he wrote about tasawwuf,
he was a devoted Muslim. He was very
sorry about his brother's slipping
into Hurufiism. He did not follow
them." The son of Farishtah also
wrote books other than Ashknama. He
says in his book Saadatnama, "I
have translated this from Jawidan,
from Ashknama and from Muhabbatnama,
and it was completed in the year 826."
The chief caliph of Fadlullah, Mahmud,
somehow unravelled himself from the
isolating influence of his master,
(not as a result of eventually seeing
the truth, but indulging himself into
the allurements of an even more lethal
dosage of self-complacency). Concocting
something called "Ilm-i nokta'
(the knowledge of dot), he wrote a
book with the title Jawidan-i saghir,
in which he proclaimed that the Hurufis
were zindiqs, accursed disbelievers.
It is written in the book Hujjat-ul-
baligha by Ismail Hakki of Bursa that
most of the people who read Jawidan
are on the path of ilhad and that
they are disbelievers because they
deny the rising after death by saying,
"Not the overt meaning but the
covert meaning of the Qur'an is its
real meaning.' This book was printed
on the margins of the book Rashahat
in 1291 [1874] in Istanbul. Hurufis
call people who are most excessive
in disbelief and ilhad "Sayyid.'
For this reason, many of them, such
as the Nasimi, claimed to be Sayyids.]
To deceive Muslims, the Hurufis, hiding
under the name of Baktashi, attacked
through several ways:
1- They say that Fadl-i Hurufi is the
god. It is written in Jawidan, "Eternally
before, the god used to be an invisible
force. It appeared first in letters,
then in prophets, and eventually in
Fadl. First Hadrat Adam appeared in
the guise of a prophet. For this reason
angels prostrated themselves before
Adam. He communicated the meanings
of his four books in Jawidan."
2- Fabling hadiths in their book Khutba-tul-bayan
and also in their other books, which
they made up in the name of Hadrat
Ali's words, they say that sinning
does not harm the lovers of Hadrat
Ali. By saying that worshipping is
unnecessary and that the haram (forbidden)
are halal (permitted), they deceive
those ignorant people who would like
to enter Paradise without pious deeds
and worships. After coaxing a person
into giving up his worships and iman,
they begin to teach him the book Sir,
for Jawidan does not contain even
the names of the Ahl al-bayt. Khutba-tul-bayan
also has a Turkish interpretation.
3- They say that all religions are the
same and that they are all accumulated
in sixteen belts. "Each of the
sixteen belts is a prophet's Shariat.
He who wears each belt will have done
the Shariat of that prophet. For example,
he who wears Hadrat Adam's belt always
wears leather, for Hadrat Adam wore
leather dresses. He who wears Hadrat
Musa's belt does not ride on a mare.
He who wears Hadrat Isa's belt never
gets married. But adultery and homosexual
intercourse are permitted for him.
For Hadrat Isa (Jesus) "alaihi's-salam"
was a bachelor," they say. It
is written in Jawidan by the son of
Farishtah that they believe the existence
of three gods like Christians. It
is written there, again, that the
exalted person called Ali was Fadl-i
Hurufi. It is written in another page,
"Fadl-i Hurufi is superior to
Hadrat Muhammad and Ali [May Allahu
ta'ala protect us against saying so!].
They did not know the subtleties of
the Shariat as well as Fadl does."
Its passages contradict one another.
As it is seen, these false Baktashis
are not Shiites or Alawis, either.
They are so evil. They are polytheists.
Being supported by Jews and Masons,
they cause Muslims to deviate from
the Din. They do not show Jawidan
to those who are newly deceived, but
they introduce themselves to them
as Alawis. However, the Shiite savants
say that the Baktashis are disbelievers.
4- Because it is, according to them,
permissible to lie, they have written
some fabulous books such as Hamzanama
and Battal Ghazi. They relate fabulous
miracles from their superiors whom
they call Baba (father). Ahmad (Baba),
who is the founder of their convents
in the village of Merdiven in Istanbul,
used to gather youngsters and say,
"One of the fathers, whose name
is unknown, flew one day, and he went
to Damascus in an instant. He had
asked that he be picked up from a
certain tavern. They went there the
same day and found him dead at the
bottom of a large earthenware. Another
father went across the ocean on the
back of a lion and then came back."
Also, his teacher, Halil Baba, used
to gather youngsters in a house in
Samatya and tell them many lies. The
author of the book Kashif-ul- asrar,
who was there at the time, disgraced
the Baba, and the host ejected him
from the house. One of their lies
is their claiming that giving property,
rank and children to anybody, the
killing of people, and the healing
of the sick are within the power of
the Babas. They say, "It is fard
to perform namaz once in one's whole
lifetime. And it is fard to fast once
in one's lifetime. Do not misuse your
bodies by performing a ghusl."
To those who go out of the Din by
believing these, they begin to reveal
the secrets. They say that the person
who is called Muhammad was Ali [May
Allahu ta'ala protect us against saying
so!] And they say that the person
whom they call Allah is Ali [May Allahu
ta'ala protect us against saying so!]
If a person becomes as crazy as to
believe this, they say that all these
are Fadl himself. They say, "Every
kind of evil, including fornication,
has been mubah for you." They
then take him to drinking and sex
parties.
Another one of their lies is their saying
that there are twelve paths. When
they are asked how this could ever
be possible, they say, "Are you
denying Hadrat Hajji Baktash-i Wali?"
But, in fact, Hajji Baktash-i Wali,
like other murshids, used to obey
the Shariat, and he would not deviate
from the sunnat-i saniyya, nor would
his disciples. But people who lived
later were deceived and these irreligious
Hurufis appropriated the name Baktashi
to themselves. Thanks be to Allahu
ta'ala, today there are no more of
these false Baktashis. The Baktashis
living in Turkey today are all true
Muslims. They live in fraternity with
the Sunni Muslims.
Another lie of theirs is that they say
that though there are some excessive
ones among the Baktashis their father
is not so. However, all Baktashis
have hard drinks. They never perform
namaz. Could such people ever be said
to be good? Their most famous fathers,
such as Koyun Baba in Osmancik, Abdal
Musa in Elmali, Sucaeddin (Shuja-addin)
in Eskisehir, Kizil Deli in Dimetoka
and Sersem Ali in Kalkandelen all
read Jawidan and spread disbelief.
[It is also written in the dictionary
of Munjid that Koyun Baba was a Baktashi.]
The false Baktashis grow their moustache
too long. They say that it is the
sunnat of Hadrat Ali to grow the moustache
long. They say that it is the sunnat
of Muawiya to cut the moustache. But
the fact is that it has been commanded
in hadith ash-Sharifs to shorten the
moustache. It is sunnat-i muakkada
to shorten the moustache. They say
that Hadrat Ali, whom they claim to
love, neglected this sunnat, and that
Hadrat Muawiya, against whom they
bear hostility, obeyed the sunnat.
Bukhari-i Sharif, alone, contains
various hadith ash- Sharifs about
cutting the moustache short. To say
that Hadrat Ali disobeyed these commands
means not to love but to feel hostility
against him. It has been permitted
to grow the moustache and the fingernails
in combat in order to inspire awe
to the enemy. And it has been made
makruh to let them grow long at other
times. Fadlullah-i Hurufi said, "Such
hairs as the eye-brows, eye-lashes
and the moustache are the appearance
of a holy letter on man. The reason
why angels prostrated before Hadrat
Adam was because of this appearance.
The moustache is sacred. It is a great
sin to cut it." Shah Ismail,
who spread the Rafidi dogma, adopted
it from the Hurufis to grow a moustache.
He ordered the Shiites to grow their
moustache lest they might resemble
the Sunnis. With a view to deceiving
youngsters, they said that it was
Hadrat Ali's sunnat. Thus they slandered
the great imam.
Baktashis do not ever mention Allahu
ta'ala, worship, or read Qur'an al-karim.
Every morning they assemble in the
meeting-room in their peer's home.
One of them enters the room bringing
in a tray with as many glasses of
wine as the number of men present,
a slice of bread and a piece of cheese
for each. They meet him singing chants
of reverence. Stopping in front of
each person he gives him one. Respectfully
they take the things they are given,
rub them gently on their faces, and
then eat and drink them. All their
worships consist of only this. Those
who are married bring their wives
and daughters to the meeting, too.
They drink and dance. If one of them
likes another's wife or daughter,
he goes to the man and asks his permission
to pick a rose from his garden. The
man calls his wife and says to her,
"Meet the demand of this beloved
friend." Then he kisses her.
If the demand is mutual, the two men
go to the father and ask his permission.
When the father gives permission,
they use each other's wife and daughters
all through their lives. True Baktashis
do not commit these vices.
The fathers of Baktashi hear confessions,
like priests. When a person does something
which is considered a sin, he comes
before the father. The father pulls
his ear and then forgives him. If
the person's sin is very grave, he
begs him, saying, "Get what you
like and see to your way." And
the father tells him to sacrifice
an animal for the Forties or to make
a vow for the Three Hundreds. Then,
taking a few liras from him, he forgives
him. If a Baktashi woman has sexual
intercourse with a non-Baktashi man,
she goes to the father and says, "A
dog has jumped over me." By the
father taking money from her, she
gets forgiven. Each father has a different
way. One night, in a meeting, a woman
came before the father and bowed her
head. The father told her to untie
the buqaghi. Then the father said
to whomever he liked of the men, "Stand
up and fasten this sister to the log."
The man retired to a room with the
woman. Another woman who had been
looking for a remedy for her illness
consulted a Baktashi woman. The Baktashi
woman said, "Our father practices
sorcery very well," and took
her to the convent. There they said
to the woman, "Undress yourself!
The father is approaching." The
woman said no, but they frightened
her, by saying, "Don't you dare!
They would rather let your corpse
go out of here than let you give away
their secrets." The woman surrendered.
Afterwards, the woman who had brought
her there said that what the father
had done was not evil and that he
had only done the sunnat of Hadrat
Ali. Because they do not care about
the haram or halal, they do not hesitate
to commit those loathsome and base
deeds which the basest disbelievers
could not do.
In Salonica, at a place called (Gul Baba)
outside the walls of the fortress,
a Baktashi father named Zulfikar gathered
the Baktashis, women and men, on Nawruz
Day, and they began to imbibe. Getting
drunk, each claimed to be a god, expressing
such terms as, "I created those
mountains," "If I command
that pine-tree, it will prostrate
before me," "If I command
those dead people they will resurrect."
Then a Baktashi named Ali Rida, one
of the employees of the telegraph
office, stood up and called aloud,
"Let him who is Muhammad's donkey
come here." One of the men came
forward and he mounted the man, saying
takbir. A bottle of wine in his one
hand a glass in the other, he went
among the Baktashi women. Saying takbir,
he began to distribute the wine. All
the women becoming drunk, he returned
to the male group. Then, he said loudly,
"Let's perform namaz!" They
all stood up, turned their back to
the Qibla and, their father being
the imam, they performed it as follows:
After shouting, "Namaz is a lie.
I don't believe in namaz, I don't
perform namaz," they all prostrated.
When prostrating, their father raised
one of his feet and one of his hands
and shouted. Then this Ali Rida held
his two naked wives by their hands
and took them to Sami Bey, who was
a Sunni and who had been standing
at a distance. He said to him, "See?
What a beautiful thing it is to be
a Baktashi, isn't it? You'd better
become a Baktashi like us. Instead
of sitting deprived at a distance,
you could entertain yourself together
with us." All the Baktashis,
women and men alike, began to walk
and assault the wives of the Ahl as-sunnat,
who had gone out to take air, it being
a holiday. Saying, "We own these
places. What is their business here
who are not from us?" they tore
up their veils. The poor women ran
away and cried for help. Being few
in number, their husbands could not
rescue the women. Hearing their cries,
the artillery-men in the fortress
came to their rescue. They defeated
the Baktashis. Such enmity to Islam,
which even disbelievers do not feel,
was hushed up because Mustafa Bey,
the Chief Secretary of the Ministry
of the province of Salonica, was a
Baktashi. And it was written in a
distorted manner in Masonic newspapers.
This abominable behavior, which took
place in 1288 A.H., was reported to
the Prime Ministry with a large petition
by the patriotic inhabitants. Upon
this, they were punished.
One of their books exposing these liars,
prevailing under the sacred name Baktashi,
as disbelievers is Haqiqatnama. It
is one of the interpretations of Jawidan.
There is another book, Mahsharnama,
written by Amir Ali, and another book,
Muqaddamatul-haqayiq, repeating the
disbeliefs written in Ashknama. It
curses those who disbelieve them and
commands that they be killed. And
the booklet Viran Abdal is not one
of their secret books; they read it
openly in order to deceive Muslims
and to cause them to go out of the
Din. It slanders Hadrat Aisha "radi-Allahu
'anha' and writes ill of Hadrat al-imam-ul-azam
Abu Hanifa by saying that he is a
Khariji. It quotes the writings of
Fadl-i Hurufi in Jawidan under the
pretension of Hadrat Ali's statements.
It prescribes many fabulous ablutions,
prayers of namaz and other types of
worship. Another book is Akhiratnama.
Like Ashknama, it is fraught with
disbelief. It strives to prove that
Fadl-i Hurufi is a god. And another
book of theirs is Risala-i Fadl-ullah.
Another book is Tuhfa-tul-ushshaq.
Their books Risala-i Badraddin and
Risala-i Nokta are all interpretations
of Jawidan. Another book is Risala-i
Huruf. Another one is Turabnama. And
another one is Wilayatnama. Most of
these books are in Persian.
They have about sixty books in all. They
are all based on the nihilism of Allahu
ta'ala and the recantation of the
Shariat, and they cajole people into
worshipping Fadl-i Hurufi. They are
worse than all disbelievers and than
all sects. The above-given information
manifests this fact. This is the end
of our excerpt from the book Kashif
ul-asrar.
A. Rifki Effendi's book Baktashi Sirri
published in Istanbul in 1327 [1909
A.D.] states, "Baktashism goes
back to Hadrat-i Abu Bakr-i Siddiq
through a backward chain of Hajji
Baktash-i Wali, Loqman Khorasani,
Hajji Ahmad Yasawi, and Bayazid-i-Bastami.
Out of two branches parting from Ahmad
Yasawi came Baktashis and Hadjegan.
Hurufism is a way of deviation, whereas
Baktashism is a way of truth. Hurufism
is a branch of Ismailiyya, which has
no connection to the Shariat and tasawwuf.
They had interpreted Qur'an al-karim
according to their own wills and their
ways. Their books entitled "Zarra-
nama,' "Iskender-nama,' "Fadilat-nama,'
"Hakikatname,' and "Risale-i
Istiwa' are widespread among the Shiites.
The books of Baktashis, like "Wilayatname,'
"Kaygusuz Abdal Risalesi', "Rutbatulbayan,'
"Sayyid Nasimi Diwani,' "Small
Wilayatname,' "Tarzi Ali dede
risalesi,' and "Turabi Ali dede
risalesi' have no connection with
Hurufism. The author of the book "Waridat-i
ilahiyya,' Shayh Badruddin the son
of the qadi of Samawna, and Niyazi
Misri of the Halwati way and Hamza
Bali of Bayrami and Ismail Mashuki
are not Hurufis." Furthermore,
Munji Baba Shaikh Muhammad Surayya
makes the following observation in
his book Tariqat-i-Aliyya-i-Baktashiyya:
"The Sunnis are Ali's Shia. And
a person who has affiliated himself
to Ali's path, in his turn, is necessarily
a Sunni. It therefore makes no difference
for us whether Baktashis are called
Sunnis or Shiites. The book Jawidan
contains no proximity to the Baktashi
order. That book is entirely destructive
to Islam's moral values. The heresy
of Hurufiism flouts the Shariat, and
ritualizes dissipation and alcohol
parties as if they were acts of worship."
As is seen, true Baktashis combine
the Shiite and Sunnite characteristics
in one common principle: loving the
Ahl al- bayt. On the other hand, the
Shiite cult is based on hating the
Ashab al-kiram, whereas the Sunni
path consists in loving both the Ahl
al-bayt and the Ashab al-kiram without
any exception. Those who profess to
be true Baktashis, that is, the so-called
followers of Hadrat Hajji Baktash-i-Wali
"rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alaih',
are not opposed to the Shiite course
in one respect; yet it is manifest
that they do not share the atrocities
inculcated by the Hurufi cult. Today,
our country, (Turkey), does not embrace
any Alawis or Baktashis practicing
the Hurufi vices. All the Alawis (or
Alevees) and Baktashis and Sunnis
in Turkey congregate around the love
of the Ahl al-bayt and enjoy the balmy
peace of religious fraternity.
Ahead of all the causes that brought
about Yavuz Sultan Salim Khan's fighting
Shah Ismail and striking a heavy blow
against the Shiis were the preaching
of Mulla Arab, a great Sunni savant.
It is written in Mirat-i Kainat, "Mulla
Arab's name is Vaiz (preacher) Muhammad
bin 'Umar bin Hamza. His father and
grandfather came from Mawara-un-nahr
(Transoxiana) to Antioch, where Mulla
Arab was born. A small child as he
was, he memorized Qur'an al-karim,
the Kanz and the Shatib, and some
textbooks. He was taught by his father,
and by his paternal uncles, Shaikh
Husain and Shaikh Ahmad. He learned
very much in Aleppo and in Damascus.
After hajj, he was given Ijazat-i
hadith by Imam-i Suyuti and Shabi
in Egypt. Malik Qaytabay, one of the
Circassian sultans in Egypt, appointed
him as a preacher and Mufti. Consequently,
he wrote the book of fiqh Nihayat-ul-furu'
for the Sultan. Upon the Sultan's
death in 901, he came to Bursa, and
thence to Istanbul. The books Tahzeeb-ush-shamail
and Hidayat-ul'ibad-ila-sabil-ir-rashad,
which he wrote for Bayazid Khan II.,
added to his fame. He joined the Yundu
expedition and caused the conquest
of Meton city. He encouraged and incited
Yavuz Sultan Salim Khan to perform
jihad against the Shiis. To this end
he wrote the book Assadad fi fadail-il-jihad.
joining the Chaldiran expedition,
he encouraged the army with his preaching.
During the combats, he prayed and
the Sultan said, "Amin.' Preaching
for ten years in Saraykoy and in Uskup,
he caused many disbelievers to become
Muslims. He joined the Angurus expedition
with Sultan Sulaiman (the Lawgiver),
and the prayers for victory which
he sent were accepted by Allahu ta'ala.
Then, going to Bursa, he wrote various
books. He was very much learned in
chemistry. He built two masjids (small
mosques) and two Jami's (big mosques).
He passed away in 938 [1532 A.D.].
He is in his tomb near Mulla Arab
Mosque in the Mulla Arab Quarter in
Bursa. His books Tahzib-ush-shamail
and Al-maqasid fi fadail-il-masajid,
which are about Sirat-i Nabawi, are
well-known. The book Shaqayiq contains
his detailed biography.
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