On a lovely spring morning, on the eighth day of March in the year 1911 [A.D.], which coincides with the Hegiral year 1329, he was born in a house numbered [1] on the slope called Shifâ (Şifâ) along the street called Vezirtekke in the Servi District at Eyyûb Sultân in Istanbul. His father Sa’îd Efendi and his paternal grandfather, a wrestler named Ibrâhîm, were from the Tepova village of the township of Lowicz, and his mother ’Âisha Khânim and his maternal grandfather Huseyn Agha were from the township called Lowicz. His father, Sa’îd Efendi, had migrated to Istanbul during the war called Ninety-three War and which was made against Russia in 1295 A.H. and 1878 A.D., and entered into a marriage at Vezirtekke, making his home there. Shortages on account of warfare and migration had kept any kind of schooling beyond his reach, and he had assumed office as public controller of weights, retaining that duty for more than forty years. Incessantly attending reputed teachers’ lessons in the grand mosques of Istanbul, he had dived deep in the oceans of Islamic knowledge. So great was the dexterity he had atained in the vocationally acquired quickness at working out ad-lib the four basic mathetical calculations that he was a marvel to be watched at work.

Huseyn Hilmi ’Ishiq was five years old when his school life commenced in the elementary school called Mihri Shâh Sultân and situated between the Eyyûb Mosque and the Bostan landing place. It took him two years to make a khatm of the Qur’ân alkerîm there. During his elementary education in the Reshâdiyya Numûna School at the age of seven, his father would do his utmost for the purpose of providing him a well-balanced education by sending him to summer Islamic schools called Hakîm Qutb-ud-dîn, Qalenderhâna and Abu-s-su’ûd during holidays. Huseyn Hilmi Efendi received the highest degree when he graduated from the elementary school in 1924 [A.D.]. The gilded honours that he received throughout his elementary education make up a large album. That year he passed with the highest degree the entrance examinations held for the Halicioghlu Military High School which had been moved from Konya to Istanbul and passed to the second grade with the highest degree once again in the junior stage of the school the same year. Receiving various honours every year, he finished the military school as the best graduate in 1929 [A.D.], and was chosen as a student for the military medical university. He was once again the best among his class-mates when he found himself a sophomore in the medical college. He was always the best among his class-mates as he finished both the pharmacy school and the one-year-long college for medical assistants simultaneously and was first appointed as a tutor for military medical students, with the military rank of first lieutenant. As he was a student in the pharmacy department, he improved his French by subscribing to the newspaper called Le Matin and being published in Paris, which was a piece of advice on the part of ’Abd-ul-Hakîm Efendi. (Please review entry number 7.) As he was a tutor for medical students, listening to another piece of advice by his master (’Abdul-Hakîm Efendi), he embarked on a new educational career for a master’s degree in chemical engineering. He studied under supervision of teachers such as Von Mises, a higher mathematician, Prager, a professor in Mechanics, Dember, a physicist, and Gross, a technical chemist. He worked with Arnd, a professor in Chemistry, and earned praises from him. Working with the chemist for six months, he synthesized an organic compound sympolized as ‘Phenylcian-nitromethan-methyl’ and formulated the so-called ester. The successful travail was the world’s first and is written in English with volume number 2 in the faculty of science periodical printed in the State printhouse and also in the entry ‘H.Hilmi Işık’ with the date [1937 A.D.] and number [2519] in the periodical entitled Zentral Blatt and which was published in Germany. Huseyn Hilmi Işık obtained his B.S. degree in chemical engineering with the qualification number 1/1 by the end of the year 1936. It was written in daily newspapers that he was Turkey’s earliest and only chemical engineer with a B.S. degree. On account of this brilliant achievement he was transferred to the branch of military chemistry and was appointed chemical expert for the department of poison gases at Mamak, Ankara. His eleven-years stay here was spent working in collaboration with Merzbacher, general director of Auver factory, with Goldstein, ph D in chemistry, and with Neumann, expert optician. In the meantime he learned German from them. He became an expert in warfare gasses. In 1947 he became a chemistry teacher, and thereafter was promoted to teaching staff director, in the military high school in Bursa, and his teaching career continued for years on end here and later in Kuleli military high school in Istanbul and in the time’s third military high school in Erzincan, teaching chemistry to hundreds of officer cadets. Some time after having been promoted to senior colonel, he was pensioned off after the military coup d’etat in 1960. Thereafter he worked as a maths and chemistry teacher in a high school at Vefâ and in institutes of arts at Cağaloğlu and at Bakırköy, educating many a young Muslim. In 1962 he bought the Central pharmacy at Yeşilköy, where he rendered service to the public health for long years as the owner and director of the pharmacy. He never went in for politics and never joined a political party. In his books he clearly stated that he was against such things as separatism, faction, violation of laws and sedition. In his books in various languages and which he sent to far and near in Turkey and in other countries of the world he strove hard so that Islam and Islamic principles and ethics should be learned from true and authentic sources. These genuine efforts of his unleashed arrows of denigration against him on the part of people who do not have a certain Madhhab and exploit religion as a tool for their worldly advantages. In the autumn of 1391 [1971 A.D.] he went on a tour of Delhi, Diyobend, Serhend, Karachi. It grieved him deeply to see the grave of Hadrat Senâullah and that of Mazhar-i-Jân-iJânân’s blessed wife being trampled underfoot. Spending five hundred dollars, he had the two graves repaired and protected ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’. [Huseyn Hilmi Işık ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ passed away on October 26th, 2001, which coincides with Sha’bâ 9th, 1422 A.H.], and was buried near the Kashghârî Derghâh.]

Vezirtekke was made for the Meshâyikh of (the order of Tasawwuf called) Naqshibendî under the auspices of Muhammad ’Izzet Pâsha of Safranbolu when he came to office as Sadr-i-a’zam (Grand Vizier) in 1210 [1795 A.D.].