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Let us mention also the fact that as each person has a different illness in his heart and soul, likewise everybody has a different property, a different tendency called “idiosyncracy: Uberempfindlickheit gegen bestimmte Reize.” Rasûlullah has not only communicated the diseases of the heart and its treatment, but he has also given hundreds of thousands of different kinds of facts regarding individuals, families, societies, wars, and problems of inheritance, that is, all kinds of matters pertaining to this world and the next. It is next to impossible for us, ignorant people, who do not know our own illness or its medicine, to pick out the one which is suitable for us of these hadîths. It is stated in the fifty-fourth letter of the second volume: “Hadîths have been forgotten by now. Bid’ats are widespread. True and false books have been mixed with one another. Murshid-i kâmils, being specialists of the heart and the soul, have picked out from these hadîths the spiritual medicines which are suitable for the nature of each individual, for his special illness, and for the time’s zulmat and fesâd.
Rasûlullah, being the chief doctor, prepared hundreds of thousands of medicines for the world’s pharmaceutical store. Awliyâ are like his assistant doctors who distribute these ready made medicines in accordance with the illnesses of the patients. Since we do not know our own illness or understand its appropriate treatment, if we attempt to look for a medicine for ourselves among hundreds of thousands of hadîths, we may, having an allergy, suffer harm instead of getting better, thus having our nemesis for being ignorant. It is for this reason that it was stated in a hadîth: “He who interprets the Qur’ân in accordance with his own understanding becomes a disbeliever.” Since lâ-madhhabîs and the like cannot understand this subtlety, they say, “Everybody should understand his faith by himself by reading the Qur’ân and hadîths. He should not read the books of the four Madhhabs.” By saying so they prevent the books of the Ahl-i sunnat savants from being read.
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