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Maulana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani 2000 Sohbats 1979-2013 (3/777)


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is servants too. Our Lord is their Lord and their Lord is ours. We must be patient and we will gain little by little. Cherry trees first yield bitter fruit but you must wait – little by little the tree starts to yield sweet and tasteful cherries.

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The Holy Masters have promised me that whoever sits with us and listens with his heart full of love must come to that same level; their hearts must open to Divine Love. The Masters are not going to abandon us, and we are not going to turn from them as our hearts have been bound with the strongest of bonds; the bond of Divine Love, that strongest of relationships of Love that exists between the Creator and His creatures. That relationship is the ultimate goal of existence and we pray that it may grow stronger always. Those with whom we sit and whose hearts are receptive to Divine Love will attain that Love. I ask my Lord for permission to spread His permanent Love to the hearts of all people – and the time is approaching when we hope that permission will be granted. (shortened version of “The absolute love oceans of our Lord “ from Mercy Oceans of the Heart) 01.07.1984

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28 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: AcceptTheUnexpected

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Accept the Unexpected

We are always under inspection. That is important to know. We are free to do what we want, but at the same time we are not free, because things do not always happen the way we planned them. What we want does not always correspond with reality. Nothing in this world will ever be 100% the way we want it to be. Whoever welcomes whatever comes to them, can be satisfied. Every day we face so many unexpected disliked things, but we must have good manners and accept whatever happens to us, to our family, to our people or to humanity on this planet, because it is out of our control. No-one can really judge what is their own destination. Everyone has a private destination which only belongs to them. Until you reach the end of that destination you will encounter so much of the unexpected. You cannot avoid that which will happen tomorrow. Even if we try to arrange everything in a most perfect way, it will not be exactly the way we wanted it to be. - 01.01.1996

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29 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: AcceptToBeAServant

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Accept To Be A Servant

(Mawlana Shaykh stands) As-salaamu `alaykum, O my Lord’s servants. Say with me Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, wa lillahi 'l-hamd! Allahumma salli `alaa Sayyidina Muhammad wa `ala aali Sayyidina Muhammad wa `ala Sahabati Nabiyyina sallAllahu `alayhi was-sallam, wa `ala Ummatihi `alayhi 's-salaatu wa 's-salaam. Alhamdulillah wa shukrulillah. SubhaanAllah, Sultaan Allah. O people! I lost my eyeglasses, but I can look at you well. Even if you are a long distance away, it doesn’t matter. I may look like this but I can see from east to west. It is possible; why not? This `alam, creation has two different beings, or we may say, world of possibilities. Everything may be possible or may be impossible. Help us, O our master, to understand this world we are in. Everything that you are thinking, seeing, or looking should be either possible or impossible. SubhaanAllah, subhaanAllah, subhaanAllah. As-salaamu `alaykum, our listeners, who are accepting to be servants. But, our egos never like to be named as servant; it's the heaviest thing. Our egos are always refusing, saying, "I am not servant." Mashaa-Allah. If you are not servant, who are you? You think that you are the Lord of the Worlds? Your mentality is accepting this? Never accepting! Why are you claiming, and insisting, and refusing to be a servant? No. You are a

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servant! You may be a majestic person, a majestic king or emperor but that is the last point a man can reach in this level, and after that, what is happening? We shall say as they are giving something to my heart; I am trying to speak on it as much as possible. O our listeners, as-salaamu `alaykum. Someone may say, "Salaam `alayna; salaam is not on you." Why are you saying this? I am not from the human family? Why are you refusing? And you are accepting salaam on yourself, and not on a weak servant who is speaking something according to his inspirations? You are not happy to listen to truth! If you are not accepting to listen to the truth, there is a heavenly hammer that may come on your head! The Lord of Heavens is not playing. No, He is not in need to play or tassalli (amusement). No. O people, I am speaking through their heavenly channel that is reaching to my weak heart, and I am trying to translate to you something through my speech. Once again to you, who are accepting truth, as-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh! And those who are not accepting truth, no salaam, no rahmah, no barakah on them. Beware! Don’t try to go beyond your limit. That is a writing, no way! You must know your capacity or your ability, and you must stop there. Therefore, subhaanAllah, Allah Almighty (swt) said to His Prophet (s)," Rahimahullahu imra'in `arifa haddahu wa waqafa `indahu - May Allah have mercy on a man who knows his limits and stops at them." So many people are knowing Arabic, but they are not using these holy words from the Seal of Prophets (s), most beloved and most honored (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Stand up! Allah (swt) saluting him on the Night of Power, Night of Journey! (Mawlana Shaykh sits) O people, hear and listen and try to give your most high respect for that one who had been granted the last point of highness in the Divinely Presence. Don’t say that we are speaking wrongly! Some people are speaking and changing the meanings that for 14 centuries, the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) has been using. (Mawlana Shaykh stands for respect to Prophet [s] and sits.) They are wrong ones! Look at this hadith only, "Rahimahullahu imra'in `arifa haddahu wa waqafa `indahu - May Allah have mercy on a man who knows his limits and stops at them." O people, don’t think that I am addressing those proud Salafi and Wahabi people, and other people with wrong understanding. Beware, stop at your limit! Don’t pass that limit! If you are passing your limit, some heavenly arrows may touch you before the Day of Resurrection. O people, laugh a little bit. I am nothing. You may laugh, you may smile, you may do like this (Mawlana

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Shaykh makes a crooked face), you may think, "That person just passed over 90 years and he lost what he had through his mind. Now we may listen to him and we may laugh." Yes, you may laugh, doesn’t matter. I am laughing at you, because I am accepting to be a servant, but you are not accepting to be a servant! You must accept to be servants or a heavenly whip is coming on you. O my Lord's servants, welcome to you. It is an introduction; for the last four days or one week, I did not meet with you, because my worker, who takes my humble speech to people, was absent. He was happy with marriage and therefore, was forgetting this important meeting, saying, “It doesn’t matter, one week I may be with my darling and they may wait." Today, he is coming to me and saying, “Now I am ready. I am fed up being with my darling. Enough, let me be hungry again. Until I am going to be hungry, I am going and coming.” I am saying, "It doesn’t matter, that time you may be servant of your darling." That was the reason! O people, now I am a very serious one. (Mawlana Shaykh laughs.) I was trying to be serious (smiling), but the Creator created me not to be so serious! Now I am over 90 years old, and sometimes when asked, "How old are you?" I am saying, "90", then I am thinking up to 90 there is such a long distance. But then they are saying, "You are 19?" I am saying, "No, nine and zero, 90." "Oh mashaa-Allah, you are on such a perfection, O Shaykh." No, I am not shaykh. I am trying to be accepted as a servant and five times daily I am coming to our Lord's Divinely Presence and saying, "O my Lord, please accept me to be Your servant. If You are not accepting me as a servant, I am finished, I am nothing, I am falling into fire, O my Lord!" That is the real meaning of praising five times a day, to make your ego accept His servanthood. Believers come five times a day saying, "O our Lord, please accept this weak one as a servant to Your Most High Presence, for your Heavenly Presence." Don't quarrel, or discuss with people that as-salaat was salaam is bid`ah, or that this or that is bid`ah. There is no meaning to those things, but you must teach people, "O my brother, don't forget that you are a servant." Even for your jalaalat ul-maalik (majesty the king) it must be shouted, "O jalaalat ul-maalik, don't forget that you are a servant of your Lord!" Don't discuss with people that saying as-salaat wa 's-salaam are mushrikeen (idol worshippers). Whoever is doing this is under the feet of angels! If I am saying wrong, anyone may answer to me. For one thousand years the Ottomans, their emperors and sultans were khalifahs of Rasulullah (s). Every

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Friday they came from their palaces to the mosque to pray Salat ul-Jumu`ah (Friday prayer) and armies were shouting to them, "O our king, don't be proud." To be proud is only for Him Almighty! Don't make yourself to be proud. You must remember that Allah is jala jalalahu, the only One that should be proud! They were riding on horses, ihyaaun li 's-sunnah (reviving the sunnah), not in Cadillacs or Rolls Royces. They had no bullet- proof glass, no; they were on their horses and dressing in the full sunnah dress of the Prophet (pbuh) and saying, "O our sultan, don't be proud and don't claim that you are a big one, no. The Lord of Heavens Who created you is the Great One." And the sultan would bow his head down. Where is such a sultan now? If we have such sultans with this adab, what can our enemies do to us? And we are running after new weapons and to make wars against our enemies and never saying, "O our Lord, help us." You are never going to be winners until you come in such a way to Jumu'ah prayers. The first command of Shari'ah is that the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) (Mawlana stands for Prophet [s] and sits) should only be under one flag, and under one command of the one who is khalifatullah and khalifatu Rasulullah (s). O people, we are like drunk ones. We lost everything that our Salafu 's-saalih and Sahaabatihi 'l-kiraam carried to us, and we are bringing new meanings and saying, "Who is that prophet? He was a prophet only and bringing only the Holy Qur'an, nothing else." That is your mind's smallest point! Come and accept truth! If you are not accepting truth, meaning all that was brought to us and that we must say we are servants of the Lord of Heavens, but you are never saying! You are looking at your dollars, or your pounds or your gold, and you are saying, "We are such a people! We are not servants, we are kings, we are queens, we are medics." I am speaking the truth. If anyone is objecting to it, until morning, something may touch him and he may never be happy! O my listeners, we are humble ones. You are running to find something; some business in the US, UK, France, Germany, through east and west. "Oh, we are trying to reach some richness through those countries." The angels are asking, "O Mankind, those who are claiming to be Muslims, do you think you have been created to collect dunya? You are not reciting the Holy Qur`an and what is mentioned about Qaaroon!?" This is a big strong arrow to all believers. What happened to them? They collected as no one collected from treasures, and what happened? O People! Come and accept servanthood and teach people that you are servants. If you are a servant, your boss will never leave you hungry or thirsty or without something to dress. We must change our understanding now. If not, a heavenly whip is coming first on those people who are saying, la ilaaha illa-Llah but not saying, "We are servants to the Lord of Heavens." O People!

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(Mawlana Shaykh sings) Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Adheem Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultan Allah If a group of people are coming into the mosque and saying this, so many Salafi people are running to them, saying, "Bid`ah, bid`ah, bid`ah! What are you doing?" If we are saying Allah's Holy Name (swt), that is bid`ah? Which books are writing this? Shaytan’s books are writing this foolishness, not the Holy Qur'an. O Salafi people, what are you saying? (Arabic) That you may understand. I am not from the Arabs, for Arabic to be my language to understand as you are understanding. How are you running with sticks and with so many things, and saying that if a group of people are sitting in a mosque and saying (Mawlana singing), "SubhaanAllah, Sultaan Allah, SubhaanAllah, Sultaan Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah", you say it is bid`ah!? Go to Jahannam (Hell) for saying dhikr is bid`ah! May Allah (swt) take them away! Whole cursing coming after those no-mind people. They are not the real nation of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Only their language is Arabic, but they are not Arabs. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) Dome dome dome dome 4x Beware! Heavenly revenge is approaching, approaching, approaching, approaching to cover those people who are saying, "We are believers," and they are not believers. They are saying, "We are Muslims," but they are not Muslims. O People! May Allah (swt) forgive me and you for the honor of the most honored one, Sayyidina Muhammad (s). (Mawlana Shaykh stands for honor of Prophet, then sits.) Fatihah. (39 minutes) Enough for today, it is enough. May Allah (swt) forgive us. Fatihah. Lefke, 18.10.2009

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34 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: AchtetDieNahrungSieIstEineGunstDesHerrn

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Achtet die Nahrung! Sie ist eine Gunst des Herrn

Dies ist ein wichtiges, für alle wichtiges Adab, die beanspruchen, religiös zu sein und den Kampf gegen ihr Ego gewinnen wollen. Wir müssen sorgfältig den Respekt vor der Nahrung wahren. Unsere Körperkraft für eine jede gute Handlung kommt durch das Essen. Es ist uns geboten, die Versorgung durch unseren Herrn zu respektieren. So viele Engel arbeiten daran, die Nahrung für den Menschen geeignet zu machen, Engel, die aus Allahs Meeren der Barmherzigkeit geschaffen wurden. Wenn wir den Respekt vor der Nahrung bewahren, helfen uns jene Engel, diese Kraft für gute Handlungen und gutes Verhalten zu nutzen. Wenn wir ihn nicht wahren, fühlen sich die Engel beschämt und gehen fort. Unser Großsheikh begann jedes Mahl mit den Worten der Shahada. Das läßt unseren Herrn uns zugeneigt sein, und die Nahrung wird halal. Es ist allein die Gunst unseres Herrn; diese Nahrung, fertig auf dem Tisch zur Ehre Seines geliebten Propheten Muhammad (s.a.s.). Du mußt zu dir sagen: „Ich bin dieser Gunst nicht würdig, aber Du, Allah, gewährst es mir zur Ehre Deines Geliebten.“ Dann werden alle Engel bleiben, um diese Nahrungs-Kraft für die Wege des Propheten auszugeben. Es ist eine erbärmliche Handlung, sich über Essen zu beklagen, denn es eröffnet Satan und seinen Soldaten einen Weg, diesen Tisch zu belegen. Und nur schlechte Handlungen können dieser Nahrung entspringen. Es ist die Gunst und Barmherzigkeit unseres Herrn, die alles auf den Tisch kommen läßt. Das ist der Weg des Adab. Unser Großsheikh beherzigte es sehr sorgfältig.

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Dem Grad unserer Demut gemäß haben wir einen entsprechend hohen Rang in der Göttlichen Gegenwart. Unser Großsheikh erzählte mir, daß er im Ersten Weltkrieg Soldaten Stücke Fleisch von toten Pferden abschneiden und essen sah, während sie die Straße weiter entlanggingen. In Adrianopolis schnitten sie Stücke von den Sohlen ihrer Schuhe ab, kochten und aßen sie. Und immer noch nicht sind wir dankbar. Niemand erreicht die Göttliche Gegenwart ohne Adab. Unser Großsheikh sprach vom Propheten und seinem hohen Charakter. Einer der Gefährten hatte die Absicht, den Propheten zum Essen einzuladen, und noch bevor er die Einladung entsandte, bereitete er drei Monate lang vor, er trug gute Dinge von überallher zusammen, um es der Ehre des Propheten angemessen sein zu lassen. Nachdem der Prophet angenommen hatte und nun den Raum betrat, da erblickte er all die Engel an jenem Tisch und hielt inne. Beschämt über so viele Engel, wandte er sich wieder hinaus, ohne gekostet zu haben, und befahl seinen Gefährten, zu kommen und zu essen. Als er allein zurückkehrte, wurde er von einem armen alten Mann begrüßt, der ihn in seine Hütte einlud, indem er sprach: „O Prophet, meine Frau liebt Euch so sehr, aber sie ist krank und kann nicht laufen, komm bitte herein.“ Als sie den Propheten kommen sah, weinte sie und sagte: „Ich kann nicht aufstehen, um Euch zu Diensten zu sein.“ Der alte Mann nahm einen Sack getrockneten Gerstenbrotes, das wie Stein war, Salz und Wasser und bot es an mit den Worten: „O mein Prophet, ich lade Euch ein, an den wertvollsten Günsten Eures Herrn teilzuhaben. Der Prophet aß und aß und sagte: „Niemals zuvor fühlte ich, daß etwas meinen Magen füllte, bis heute. Jetzt bin ich gesättigt.“ Die Menschen sorgen sich um ausreichende Nahrung, um den Bedürfnissen der Zukunft begegnen zu können. Bewahrt man vor der Nahrung den ihr gebührenden Respekt, so könnten sogar fünfzig Milliarden auf dieser Erde leben. – Eines Tages fand der Prophet ein Stück Brot auf dem Boden neben seinem Haus. Er hob es auf, blies den Staub weg, aß es und sagte zu seiner Frau: „O Aisha, du mußt Respekt bewahren vor der Gunst des Herrn, oder sie wird von dir abgewendet, und, einmal abgewendet, ist es sehr schwierig, daß sie zu dir zurückkehrt.“ Ich bitte Allah um Vergebung und Führung für mich und alle und bitte Ihn um Seine Segnungen für die Menschheit und daß er uns auf dem geraden Weg halte. - 01.10.1979

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36 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: AcknowledgeServanthood

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Acknowledge Servanthood

(Mawlana Shaykh stands) Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah Subhaan Allah, Sultaan Allah, `Azeez Allah, Kareem Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, SultaanAllah Zid habeebika `izzan wa sharafa nooran masroora. Yaa Rabbal `izzati wal-`azhamati wa 'l-jabaroot. Zidhu yaa Rabbana wa mani 'ttaba`ahu wa 'l-mu`mineen wa 'l-muslimeen wa `ibaadika ‘s-saaliheen. Yaa Rabbee ishrah sudoorana. Rabbi 'shrah lee sadree wa yasir-lee amree wahlul `uqtadan min lisaanee yafqaahu qawlee. Subhaan sen, Sultaan sen! (Mawlana Shaykh sits) O our Attenders! As-salaamu `alaykum ayyuha 'l-mu`mineen wa 'l-muslimeen! We are asking our Lord to grant us much more understanding from the holy knowledge of Heavens, and they are not our mindly productions, which are nonsense. Therefore, we are asking a heavenly grant for understanding, and heavenly grants are just granted to those servants who are not thinking of anything else in their lives except servanthood. They are never asking for anything else, only servanthood. They are on the right path, the right road. Tooba lahum, such endless pleasures are for them. They are the luckiest people in this life! They are keeping their oath from the Day of Promises. They understand something and they are trying to understand

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more and more about the Day of Promises and why it happened. O Mankind! As-salaamu `alaykum, who are asking for their Lord's Pleasure. Pleasure to you also, that you are giving pleasure that the Lord Almighty is granting to you. O Salafi `ulamas! Marhaban! Where are you? We are saying now, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r- rajeem, because Shaytan is always asking to make people on the wrong way. That is Shaytan's last or final desire. The final purpose of Shaytan, what is that? It is to make people understand the wrong understanding; that is making Shaytan and his agents so happy. True happiness is when people understand the messages of Heavens, and when their understanding is in the wrong way, then Shaytan and its agents are so happy. Therefore, we must take shelter from Shaytan, not to touch us and not to play with our understandings, because he is coming and saying this and that, making people accept wrong understandings. All shaytanic centers are trying to do that. And we are saying, (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem! O our Lord, we are running to You, to Your shelter. (Mawlana Shaykh sits) Madad yaa Sultan al-Awliyaa, you are our protector! The Lord of Heavens is never leaving His servants without a protector. There are countless protectors with countless shelters. Therefore, when we are saying Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem, they are ready to shelter you from Shaytan's false demands. Shaytan is asking to carry people on the wrong way, quickly running and saying, "It is the not true way, it is a wrong idea! Listen to me, I may carry you and lead you to the true way, and I am sheltering you from them." Shaytan and its agents are saying this. O People! That is an introduction. We are now beginning to fight Shaytan and its agents, yes. We are in a holy month and Shaytan and its agents are looking and running after people to make a bad understanding of fasting and this holy month, and asking to do everything based on wrong understandings! O People! O People! The first responsibility is going to be on that group of people who are saying, "We are ayaatullah," or, "We are hujjatullah." And soon they are taking away ayat and hujjat, and there is remaining only “Allah,” Ayaatullah. Shaytan is saying to them, "Why are you saying 'ayaatullah'? Take that away and say, 'I am Allah;' it is better for you. Why are you making such useless titles, 'ayaatullah, hujjatullah,' and there are so many! Leave that and say, 'I am Allah!' Finished, so easy.” That is a shaytanic teaching, to use such titles that common people aren’t able to say for themselves, "I am ayaatullah, I am hujjatullah."

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Therefore, Shaytan uses this to attack people's faith. No, you must consult someone whose level is above yours! If a person makes himself "ayaatullah", it means there is no more care for his physical being; it will be taken away and only “ayah” or “hujjah" remains, and no other existence. They create this fitnah so people will walk on the wrong way. Say only, "I am a weak servant." There is nothing above that title. The highest and most beloved title for Mankind is to say, "I am `AbdAllah, Allah's Servant." If anyone is asking you, “Who are you?” don’t say, "I am ayaatullah,” or, “hujjatullah," but say, “I am `AbdAllah.” So beautiful, such a true title for humanity to be able to say, "I am `AbdAllah." Leave all titles and say, "I am only `AbdAllah, a servant of my Lord." O People! They are making me fight Shaytan and its works. I am trying to be a fighter against shaytanic efforts. Yes, try to be against all shaytanic efforts. Shaytan's effort is only to make people say for themselves, “We are going to be something.” Shaytan is never saying to people, "You are a servant of your Lord, so try to do good, better, and the best service for your Lord." Why are you not saying this, `ulamas and rabbis, bishops and holy ones? How are you going to be holy ones if you are not saying, "I am a servant.” A real holy one accepts that he is a servant of his Lord. Only He is the Lord, and we are His servants. In other religions they say, "We are cardinals." What does that mean? Why aren’t you saying, “I am a servant of the Lord of Heavens.” What does it mean, "cardinal, “bishop" or, “patriarch.” Why are you saying this? Was Jesus Christ (a) saying of himself, "I am the chief cardinal," or, "I am the chief bishop"? Was Moses, peace be upon him, saying, “I am chief rabbi,” or was he saying, “I am a servant of my Lord”? And Muslims are also saying, “We are ‘Salafi’ `ulamas," or "We are Wahhabi’ `ulamas. We have a different appearance here and Hereafter.” In the Hereafter, the Lord of Heavens will ask you, "Who gave you that imitated title? Who granted that to you? Did it come from the Heavens?" Why aren't you saying, “We are followers of Ahlu ‘l- Sunnah wa ‘l-Jammah.” Leave all titles and say, "We are servants!" What was the title of the Seal of Prophets (s) ? (Mawlana Shaykh stands) His title was, “I am `AbdAllah, the servant of my Lord! I am Rasoolullah, because He is ordering me to teach His servants about servanthood. I am that one, and nothing else!" (Mawlana Shaykh sits) All `ulamas! You must leave everything and try to teach people about servanthood. You are writing and

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reading thousands and thousands of books, but what is your main purpose? The purpose of all prophets and the Seal of Prophets (s) was to teach Mankind about their servanthood, not to make for them this or that special title! Every title you assign to yourselves gives imitated honor that makes you to be proud. And Shaytan, for the reason of pride, became Shaytan. Why are you proud of something you learned to read or write? What is your proof that you are a servant, that you are writing so many books and you are keeping in your memory hundreds or thousands of holy ahadeeth? If you you are keeping it, is that a speciality? They are not asking for a specialty, they are asking for servanthood! Learn and teach! For all nations, for all religions, a holy command came from Heavens, because He sent the Seal of Prophets (s) and all prophets to teach people servanthood! From where are you bringing such nonsense titles, saying, “We are this and that,” and you are never going to be happy if anyone calls to you, "Yaa `AbdAllah!" You are going to be very angry. “Why are you saying `AbdAllah'? I am a Salafi `alim! I am a Wahhabi `alim! I am a doctor! How are you calling me, '`AbdAllah'? You may call common people by that, but we are specialized ones! You can't say to me, 'Ta`al yaa `AbdAllah, Come here, O my Lord's servant.'" O our Attenders! Be happy if you can be malik, sultan, amir, president, and such nonsense titles you have been given, but their value is of no value in the Divinely Presence. In the Divine Presence you must say, "I am `AbdAllah." O People! When you stand up for the Friday khutbah, say, (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Ash-hadu an laa ilaaha illa-Llah, wa ash-hadu anna Sayyidina Muhammadan `abduhu wa rasooluh. (Mawlana Shaykh sits) I am only asking to remind people to remember their real missions and their real purpose for their c
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