Similarly, God’s Most Noble Messenger (Upon whom be blessings and peace), the lord of all the saints, opened up a mighty highway with his Ascension,  which lasting forty minutes rather than forty years, was the supreme wonder of sainthood, and which he made not only with his heart and spirit, but also with his body and his senses and his subtle faculties. He rose to the ultimate degrees of the truths of faith. He mounted by the steps of the Ascension to the divine throne, and at the station of “the distance of two bow-lengths” witnessed with his own eyes with the vision of certainty belief in God  and belief in the hereafter,  the principal truths of faith; he entered Paradise and saw eternal happiness. Then he left open the highway he had disclosed  through the door of the Ascension,  and  all the saints of his communit y travel on their spiritual journeyings under its shadow, with the spirit and heart, in accordance with their degrees.

Fifth Point

The  recitation  of  the  Prophet’s  (UWBP)  Mevlid  and  its  section  about  his Ascension is a fine, beneficial custom and admirable Islamic practice. It strengthens in a pleasant, shining, and agreeable way the fellowship of Islamic social life; it is gratifying and pleasurable instruction in the truths of faith; and is an effective and stimulating way of depicting and encouraging the lights of belief, and love of God, and love for the Prophet (UWBP). May Almighty God cause this custom to continue to eternity, and may He grant mercy to the writers of Mevlids like Süleyman Efendi, and a place in Paradise. Amen.

               Conclusion

Since  the  Creator  of  the  universe  created  in  every  species  an  outstanding individual, including in it all the species’ perfections and making it the pride of the species, He would surely create – through the manifestation of His Greatest Name – an  individual  who  within  the  universe  would  be  exceptional  and  perfect.  Just  as among His names there is a Greatest Name, so among His creatures there should be a pre-eminent individual in whom He would bring together all the perfections dispersed through the universe, and through whom He would draw gazes upon Himself.