’ABD-UL-HAKÎM EFENDI ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ (II)

Sayyid ’Abd-ul-Hakîm Efendi was a deep ocean in Islamic knowledge as well as in the subtle ma’rifats. His books entitled Râbita-i-sherîfa and er-Riyâd-ut-tasawwufiyya were printed. Notes taken from his preaches and some of his letters were compiled to make up a book of five volumes in 1404 [1983 A.D.] University teachers, scientists and statesmen would come to his place to attend his sohbats and lessons and ask difficult questions which they thought were insoluable, sit here for about an hour, and leave here fully satiated with the knowledge they needed without having to ask the questions in their minds. People who had attained his tawajjuh and sympathy would see innumerable kerâmats.[1] He was very modest. He was never heard to say, “I.” He would say, “We do not deserve to be taken into consideration. We cannot understand the writings of those superior people. We read them for bereket (or barakat),” which means: We read them to get blessed. The fact, however, was that he was an expert in all those Islamic sciences. He said to one of his adherents: “A couple of Walîs were being raised here.” Yûsuf Ziyâ Akishik, director of Karamursel textile factory and one of his adherents, related: “I had a dream in which I kissed ’Abd-ul-Hakîm Efendi’s palm. The following day I went to his place at Eyyûb Sultân to tell him about my dream. When I entered and stooped down to kiss his hand as usual, he stretched out his blessed hand with its palm turned upwards, and said, ‘Kiss it as you did in your dream,’ adding complimentary remarks and disclosing a number of facts” Please see the two hundred and fifteenth page of the fourth edition of SAHÂBA ‘The Blessed’.