Maulana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani 2000 Sohbats 1979-2013 (248/777)
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Good character people are healthy in their spiritual lives
Our Grandshaykh says, "Allah Almighty sent our Prophet (peace be upon him) for what? He was sent to complete good characters, for changing bad characters into good characters. He was teaching, during his life, how a man can change his bad character into good. This is the main goal of prophet hood." Once, I asked my Grandshaykh, 'O, my Master! Is there any complaining from a man with good character?' 'Never!' he replied to me. 'You, won't find a man with good character complaining!' So many complaints from man, you cannot count them. Yet, you never find a man with good character complaining. Good charactered people are like a healthy body. (He nudges one of his murids.) If you touch a healthy body, there is no complaint. But if a man has sores on his skin, then, ‘Ouch!’ So, likewise, good charactered people are healthy in their spiritual lives. But bad charactered people, there are like a man wounded; wounds everywhere, you cannot touch any side of him, any part of his body. Therefore, it is the measure of a man’s good character, or bad; how much complaining he is doing. As much as his complaining is little, you may know how few bad characteristics are left with him. When you finish all your complaining, you may know that you are healthy. No more bad character! This is an important point, because a good-charactered person, if he has no complaint, has patience. And when he has patience, it means that he has real faith, real Iman. Real faith equals good character, and real faith also equals patience. To be
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patient, always. Anywhere you are not patient, you are not in Iman. If a man complains, it means he hasn’t any patience, no Iman. No Iman, no good character. Therefore, you must diminish your complaints until you haven’t any left. Then, you will be restful. Nothing can give you trouble. You will be like a rocket, going up till it reaches the point where it escapes the earth’s pull; then, no troubles for it. When we can escape the pull of our bad character, and reach the level of good character, there will be no troubles for us also. Finished, in this life and in the life hereafter.” „How does one do that?” asked a murid. "I am saying,” replied the Shaykh. "You must diminish complaints, little by little. Rockets going up like this (he gestures with his hand). How much power it is using to reach that point! It is not easy. You are starting with so many complaints: of your wife, of your children, of your neighbours, and of your family! From Jews, from Americans, from Russians, from Jinn, from women, from boys, … everything! Too much complaining! When it will be finished, good tidings! People are in trouble until they reach to the level of good character. This is important. Therefore, our Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'I came to take you from the lowest level of bad character to the highest level of good character. Then, you will be in absolute happiness and enjoyment!’ Do you understand now the wisdom of the Prophet’s word, the hadiths? This is a lesson for all mankind. They can know themselves; they can recognize their personality with this balance. Then they can save themselves from all troubles, from all problems. This, only, is enough. A little sentence; one question, and one answer, from my Grandshaykh (may Allah be pleased with him); giving mankind such a knowledge that it will be enough to carry them from all troubles to a level where those troubles will be gone! Do you understand? Now we must practice always to leave complaining. These words you wrote here (and you are reading here), but it is written also will be able to remember all the time. Divine powers are going through your heart, helping you to recall these words. Immediately, will come to your heart, 'I will not be a complainer, because this thing that is happening to me is going on with my Lord's will!' This is the key. This is the medicine for that illness! When a complainer comes to you, you must remember that, 'This thing is going on with my Lord's will. With Allah’s will it is going on!' "
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„Are you speaking of the thing that is making us complain?" asked a disciple. "Yes," replied the Shaykh. "Without Allah’s knowledge and without Allah's will, nothing is going on. You must say, 'Why am I complaining, when He Almighty ordered this to be!’ Understand? This is practice. When you remember this point, you will be satisfied with His will. You will agree, also, with His will, with your Lord's will. When you agree with Him: happiness for you!" Another question came: "What if you come up against injustice? Wouldn't this attitude lead you to say, ‘O, well, it’s just Allah's will?' Isn't this fatalism?" Maulana answered, "Correction for wrong things is another thing entirely. We are not saying that you shouldn’t try to make wrong things right, that you shouldn’t try to prevent badness. No! As much as we can, we are correcting all things, if we can. But, what we are talking about here, when we speak of reducing our complaints and accepting all things as they come from our Lord's will, are those positions in which Allah is leaving us. For example, if we are poor – no complaining. If we are ill - no complaining." „I don't understand these things," said one of our brothers. "They're very subtle. So much of the time, there’s confusion. When you say not to complain, I think, ‘Okay, I’ll accept everything.’ ” “We accept everything,” answered the Shaykh, “that Allah Almighty is making happen to ourselves, and to other people.” „How do you tell the difference between a badness that needs correction, and a condition that you should accept?” asked another. "Some things we definitely bring upon ourselves with our bad actions." Shaykh Nazim responded, "Bad actions bring some things on us, but, when we keep ourselves, they do not come on us." A murid objected, "Don't they sometimes come more? If you are a man of God, doesn't it make people angry with you?" "Yes!" agreed the Shaykh. "But we are not complaining! We know that if there is a tree with fruits on it, children will throw stones. Children cannot reach the fruit in high places, so they throw stones to make it fall
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to them. Therefore, all prophets have people throwing stones at them. Understand? Some bad things come upon men because of their bad doings, but that which comes upon prophets and holy men is not because of their bad doings. No, it is because they are like trees, full of fruit which is high up and out of reach. Common people are like children, they cannot reach the fruit. Therefore, with stones, bad people are trying to reach those fruits." „Good people are waiting for the dates to fall?" "Yes.” A disciple said, "So, if something is going on in your house, and you don't want it, you can correct it? You can say, 'Don't do this, don’t do that?' You only have to accept that which you can do nothing about; is that correct?" "You may correct whoever will listen to you, but you must be very careful," Maulana replied, "because all people, each of us, each man is looking to himself and seeing that he alone fills the whole world. So big is this looking to himself! Therefore, if you say to him, 'Don't do this!' he will never accept. But you may say instead, 'O, my Lord! If I were to do like this one (the person you wish to correct) is doing, how would you look upon it! Is it good, O, my Lord, to do like this?' When he hears this (or words to that effected), he may realize that he is wrong, and come down from his position. But, if you are saying to him, 'Don't do this!' he will never accept. He will have too much ego." Maulana went on: "In the case of something going on in your home that is in direct violation of Allah's orders, for example, a family member wanting to eat pork, you may forbid it. This is not complaining." A murid offered this comment: "Yes, but then if I forbid something to my wife or children saying, 'You can't do that because it is against Allah's orders,' they just say, 'That's just what you believe, not what I believe! You have no right to impose your beliefs on me!' That's the American way, Shaykh Nazim!" "When that happens," said Maulana, "you are free. You may continue to live with them or not. You are free. Or," he added, "you may let them do those things, but you must not sit with them while they are doing them. You must make it clear that you will not participate. She (they) may sit alone, eating or drinking. As long as she (they) is not Muslim, we cannot ask her (them) to obey the Islamic laws. She may even go to church; she
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is free. Shariah gives us permission to marry someone of another religion." „Don't the children have to be raised Muslim'?" ask another. "The children are your responsibility, if they are your children." „So, we must make it clear that we are not free to take part in forbidden things'?" said a murid. Shaykh Nazim answered, "Yes." The murid who had originally raised the question objected, saying, "But aren't we getting off the point?" The second disciple interrupted him: "No, because that’s leverage. If they realize that you're not going to participate certain things with them, no matter when they do or say. . .” "Yes," said Shaykh Nazim. The second brother continued, ". . . then they will either have to drop what they are doing, or drop you!" The Shaykh then said, "She may eat, she may drink! You must not sit with her. She may go to church; you are not going with her!" Still another murid asked, "What of the case when a neighbour’s animals, for instance, destroy your property? Mustn’t we go to the judge and complain'? We can't go around saying, 'What a bad man my neighbour is!' " Maulana answered, "If a man is bringing harm to you, Shariah gives us the authority to prevent it. Shariah gives authority to prevent harm among people. This is not complaining. It is your right to keep your property secure. If anyone harms you, with his hand or with his tongue, he is not a Muslim, not a believer. If you take action against that, we are saying that is not complaining. That is the right of Shariah. Say, for instance," elaborated the Shaykh, "that a man comes and cuts fruit off your trees and takes it away. It is not complaining to stop him. If he is making trouble, it is not complaining to take legal action against him. It is the right of Shariah. There is no permission for doing harm in Islamic law.” A brother asked, "What are my rights regarding my non-Muslim wife? Must I allow her to do as she
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wishes? What is legitimate for me to demand of her, if anything?” "Your rights?" said Maulana. "To keep your honour. Your honour is with your wife. If she is honourable (faithful), that is enough for you. When you find her faithful with you, and she likes to be with you, it is enough." „This is for a non-Muslim wife, isn't it?" "Yes," replied the Shaykh, "and also for a Muslim wife.” „But," said a murid, "if you find a Muslim wife eating pork, or drinking wine. . ." "No," replied the Shaykh, again, "because in the case of a Muslim, she has been ordered not to do these things. We cannot give permission. How? The answer is 'No!” „You said before that there should be certain conditions in the relationship. What should these be?" asked another disciple. Maulana answered him, "If your wife likes you and said ‘I am satisfied with you as my husband. You are free in your religion, and I am free in mine', then there are nor more conditions. The only conditions are to be faithful with you, with your children, and with your property." „Is there anything else I have to submit to?" the first murid asked. "If you like!" returned Shaykh Nazim. "If you don’t like, leave her! But we prefer for believers to marry with unbelievers; so that from their love for their husbands, they may approach belief themselves. Therefore, we are saying, 'Keep her,’ so that day by day she may agree with you because of her love for you. We have a saying: 'Shartul mu'arfiqa mu'arfiqa.’ It means 'From the condition of friendship, we may me meet on the same way.' Therefore, she will take him on her way, or he will take her on his way." „What if you marry an unbelieving woman," asked a murid, “and, as time goes by, and even though you are tolerant, still she is not coming to Islam?" "You must be patient with her for some time,“ said the Shaykh, "and you must pray to Allah to make her with
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you on the same way. 'Keep me, O, my Lord, on Your way, and keep her with me also on Your way.' If there is no result, then you may say to her, ‘You are in your way and I am in my way!’ ” A murid said, “What if she begins to hate Islam, to speak badly of the Prophet (peace be upon him), and to be vicious? Sometimes Islam evokes very strong feelings in people". “You must leave her!" said the Shaykh. "Not coming to discussion!" "But not until you've done the other things first?” said a murid. "Not until you've been patient first?" Shaykh Nazim nodded. "Yes," he said. "An important point. We must know that each person - their forelock – is in the hands of Allah Almighty. You cannot change people until Allah changes them. Even prophets cannot change people. If Allah is not changing, no one can change. The hearts of people are in the hands of Allah Almighty. Maybe Allah's will is going to change a servant; therefore He is sending her to you. If you have patience with her, your patience will bear fruit at the end, and she will come on your way." 01.01.1979
BookMercyOceans, CategoryRelationship, CategoryMarriage, CategoryIslam, CategoryPatience
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The 12 good characters in dogs
Our Grandsheikh said: “There are 12 good characters in dogs that you may also find in Prophets and Awliya. They are:
1. Not forgetting goodness: they don’t forget those who have done goodness to them.
2. They are patient and always grateful for everything that they are given.
3. They are not angry with their owners, even if they are beaten and sent away. If their owners call, they return with their tails
wagging.
4. They are humble;
5. obedient;
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6. truthful;
7. trustworthy;
8. good friends;
9. loyal, always remaining with their owners and never turning traitor.
10. They are satisfied with small things; they are ‘zahid’, not looking to anything from this dunya.
11. They have nothing from this world, they have no place for themselves.
12. They may sleep anywhere, and if someone throws stones at them, they quickly get up and go somewhere else. They are very
light sleepers, they don’t sleep too much, and quickly awaken.
If a man has those attributes, he is a Wali. Those 12 attributes belong to Prophets and Saints. 01.04.1999
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Good Life
Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. We may say the Ism Al-Jalil of our Lord: La ilaha illa Allah Sayyidina Muhammadun Rasulullah (sas). It is said "Yawm al-jadid,rizq al-jadid" A new day and a new provision. Allah Almighty sustains His Divine Grants in the apparent too. Audhu Billahi min al shaytani r-rajim. Why does He (swt) make us recite the Audhu? "Fasta`idh biLlahi Mina sh-Shaytani r-Rajimi" (16:98). Dastur Ya Rijalullah; may there be a heavenly support from the holy ones, that we say a few words, and open insha Allah. Our first word is Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. The Bismillah should be our first word. "The Bismillah is Your Pure Name and who remembers it is purified. Who says Allah can reach everything he desires". What a beautiful teaching; it teaches people that any act without the Bismillah is cut off. "Kullu 'amrin lam yabda'a fihi Bismillah, fa huwa abtar". This is the word of Allah and the teaching of the Prophet. Whichever act it is that it starts without the Bismillah, it is cut off; it has no result. Yawm al-jadid, rizq al-jadid. In every new day there are the grants of Allah Almighty for His servants; His blessings, His gifts. Allah Almighty Jalla Jalaluhu... O people, listen! You are Man. You should listen and understand. For what does Allah Almighty make us recite the Bismillah? For our every doing to succeed. The key for opening all difficulties is Bismillahi r-Rahmani r- Rahim. Allah Almighty (swt) Hz wants His servant's life to be a sweet life. Whosoever wants every day, every hour of this life to be sweet, whoever wants a sweet life; a life without troubles, sorrows, hardness, whoever wants a sweet life, Allah Almighty says: "La Yuridu Bikumu l-`Usra" (2:185). Allah Almighty says "I did not give you a life that will be a burden to you. And I never want to put a burden on you, I don't want My servant to be crushed. I don't want him to live in difficulties. La Yuridu Bikumu l-`Usra. An easy, sweet life: This is what I want. I didn't create My
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servants to be crushed in dunya, they should enjoy the dunya". How should they enjoy? I want them to spend a comfortable life full with pleasures, this is My desire. I created My servant and sent him to dunya, not to crush him there". Rabbul 'Izza, Allah Almighty (swt) Hz, our Lord says: "I did not order anything to make hardship for you. Your everything should go so easy. Your day should be a sweet day. It should not be a bitter life for you, not a life like poison. This is what I want: I want you to live comfortably, happily in dunya life, and in contentment, being busy with My servanthood. But you followed the evil shaytan. The evil shaytan wants to burden you with the burden of dunya so that your dunya life will be like poison". Allah Almighty wants a beautiful life for His servants. Shaytan on the contrary, wants to corrupt the beautiful life Allah Almighty taught mankind. His whole hatred and struggle is for Man to not find comfort, for him to live in misery, for mankind's dunya life to be as the wheat that is crushed between the two millstones. Shaytan wants his life to be poisonous and in hardships like this. Therefore Man should say it first, to open his day, for the door of a comfortable life to open for him; Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Say the Bismillah. "Fadhkuruni 'Adhkurkum" (2:152). Remember My Ism Al-Jalil and I grant you, feast you with My blessings. "Wa shkuru Li", be grateful to Me. "Wa La Takfuruni", don't deny Me. It is a shame for you". This is the address. "O Man! I created you, I made everything ready for you on earth so that you won't have any hardship. This is the situation but you don't accept this, you don't appreciate this and you fall from one hardship to another. You become like the wheat that is crushed between the two millstones. I don't want this! I sent you to dunya. I didn't send you to crush or to make you crushed between two millstones. It is a temporary life. Acknowledge Me and your everything will be beautiful. I like good deeds. I like beautiful servants and their beautiful deeds. If you want this, then start, say My Ism Al-Jalil: Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim and your every doing goes easy, flows like water. There is no difficulty in front of you. Your life goes easy and sweet". Because Allah Almighty did not want any hardship for you. He (swt) presented you the most beautiful life. What is its key? Say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim and stand up for Allah. What comes first? What are you granted when you stand up for Allah? The sweet life. Allah Almighty doesn't want a life like poison. Hasha! Hasha thumma kalla. He (swt) didn't make it as a poison
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for mankind, but a sweet life: hayat at-tayyiba. It may be a nice life. He (swt) wants this: "Let them be My guests in dunya for 3 days and live comfortably. Let them be My guests and listen to Me. Return to Me and I grant them everything". They don't do this. What is the key for this? Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Why do you run in the streets? Let alone running in the streets, in all countries, everywhere turned into streams of people. They don't know what they want. What is it that they want? Hayat at-tayyiba: the sweet life, nice life. But you are the guests of Allah Almighty in dunya. Can Allah Almighty give a hardship to the ones who are His guests? No, He (swt) doesn't. But foolish men are following shaytan and can't enjoy life: they fall from one trouble to another. Why do you run in the streets, men and women? Did Allah order you like this: "O people, go out into the streets and scream, men and women"?! This is not suitable for your humanity. What is suitable for your humanity is for you to return to your Lord. When you don't accept Your Creator, then no one accepts you. And shaytan makes you a toy in his hand. The streets are filled with people. What do they want? What do they want? They don't know. When the Muslim soldiers were entering Izmir, there was a group of people there from other religions. They were also calling with the rest. Muslims said "Long live!" They were also calling "Long live!" "Who should live long?" asked one. They said "Whoever won, may they live long". Look at who makes you win, why do you run after shaytan? Shaytan ridiculed you and makes you run in the streets like wild animals. He makes you scream, swear. They have no rest, no comfort. They have nothing to eat or drink. All their claim is protesting in streets. This is not suitable for the adab of mankind. When Allah Almighty appoints a servant to rule over you who is covered in black hair and even if the rest of him is all black obey him, he also can protect you. Obey him, say "Allah appointed him for us" and take the attitude of adab. Remain with adab: "It means Allah Almighty appointed for us this servant. We may walk on his way and say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Ya Rabbi, may You make this servant of Yours a Mercy for us, not Wrath." They don't say this but scream in the streets. Say one Bismillah and you can destroy! You can destroy the doings of shaytans. But they don't say it. "Don't ever say it! We are social people. We are filthy ones. We belong to the "giddyup!" level. The giddy up ones run, scream,kick... We too are from them. We don't want the other level: We don't want the level of who goes to the mosque. We are the giddy up level who scream
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and run in the jungles". Ok then, take what is suitable for you! Run, scream, shout all day! You won't be well regarded. The Realm of Malakut does not respond to you. You are out of the level that will be protected. You enter the giddy up level, which means the four-legged animals level. If you were in the human level, you would go to mosques. You have temples. You go there and call: "O our Lord Who Created us, may You grant us the hayat at-tayyiba". "O My servant, you are given the key; you are given the key to the beautiful life: Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. It opens for you all the locked doors. It opens for you all the treasures. It opens the doors of eight Paradises. Say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim". "We won't say!" "So you are that arrogant? Ok. Run in the streets and may you not find what you seek" say the Angels. O man who have become animals! O animals who deny their Lord! Scream in the streets? Who will answer you? Who has ever gotten an answer like this anyways? You are man! Prove your humanity. Call: "O our Lord! Bi smika l-Azim. We seek refuge in Your Holy Name, Al-Azim. Save us O Lord. May You send Your beautiful servants, powerful servants who will teach us our humanity. May You send us the deputies of Prophets who will save us from being animals and we follow them". What business do you have in the streets? For whom are the mosques? Do the dogs ever enter a mosque? Neither a dog nor anyone from the giddy up level enters there. Don't sleep! Open your eyes! That you know the magnificence of humanity, you know what a beautiful life Allah Almighty appointed for His servants. They kick it away, they kick it away and they gather behind shaytan and run. Who makes them go out and shout in the streets, who makes people uneasy, who makes them kill each other, who crushes them in fights and wars, is shaytan. Allah Almighty says "I appointed hayat at-tayyiba, beautiful life for you. Start with the Bismillah. Turn towards Me that I make your every day a beautiful day, your everyday go nicely, you never face any troubles. Turn to Me" says Allah Almighty. "No, we will scream no matter what!" Ok, scream. Scream, scream but you can't find a place that will answer them. They are running and screaming in the streets. Who are you running to? Why are screaming? What do you seek and from whom? What is it that you want? They don't know. Shaytan pulled them out of the human level and make them enter the four-legged, giddy up ones' level and says "Run!" "We are passing near a mosque?" "Don't look at the mosque, look at the streets". If they say one Bismillah, Allah Almighty makes the dunya changed. This dunya turns to a different dunya for His servants who
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say His Ism Al-Jalil. "Yawma Tubaddalu l-Ardu Ghayra l-Ard" (14:48). On that day Allah Almighty changed the dunya to another dunya. He (swt) appoints a nice life, a sweet life for you. You don't do this? Run then! They don't feel their hunger, thirst or exhaustion.
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Good character people are healthy in their spiritual lives
Our Grandshaykh says, "Allah Almighty sent our Prophet (peace be upon him) for what? He was sent to complete good characters, for changing bad characters into good characters. He was teaching, during his life, how a man can change his bad character into good. This is the main goal of prophet hood." Once, I asked my Grandshaykh, 'O, my Master! Is there any complaining from a man with good character?' 'Never!' he replied to me. 'You, won't find a man with good character complaining!' So many complaints from man, you cannot count them. Yet, you never find a man with good character complaining. Good charactered people are like a healthy body. (He nudges one of his murids.) If you touch a healthy body, there is no complaint. But if a man has sores on his skin, then, ‘Ouch!’ So, likewise, good charactered people are healthy in their spiritual lives. But bad charactered people, there are like a man wounded; wounds everywhere, you cannot touch any side of him, any part of his body. Therefore, it is the measure of a man’s good character, or bad; how much complaining he is doing. As much as his complaining is little, you may know how few bad characteristics are left with him. When you finish all your complaining, you may know that you are healthy. No more bad character! This is an important point, because a good-charactered person, if he has no complaint, has patience. And when he has patience, it means that he has real faith, real Iman. Real faith equals good character, and real faith also equals patience. To be
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patient, always. Anywhere you are not patient, you are not in Iman. If a man complains, it means he hasn’t any patience, no Iman. No Iman, no good character. Therefore, you must diminish your complaints until you haven’t any left. Then, you will be restful. Nothing can give you trouble. You will be like a rocket, going up till it reaches the point where it escapes the earth’s pull; then, no troubles for it. When we can escape the pull of our bad character, and reach the level of good character, there will be no troubles for us also. Finished, in this life and in the life hereafter.” „How does one do that?” asked a murid. "I am saying,” replied the Shaykh. "You must diminish complaints, little by little. Rockets going up like this (he gestures with his hand). How much power it is using to reach that point! It is not easy. You are starting with so many complaints: of your wife, of your children, of your neighbours, and of your family! From Jews, from Americans, from Russians, from Jinn, from women, from boys, … everything! Too much complaining! When it will be finished, good tidings! People are in trouble until they reach to the level of good character. This is important. Therefore, our Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'I came to take you from the lowest level of bad character to the highest level of good character. Then, you will be in absolute happiness and enjoyment!’ Do you understand now the wisdom of the Prophet’s word, the hadiths? This is a lesson for all mankind. They can know themselves; they can recognize their personality with this balance. Then they can save themselves from all troubles, from all problems. This, only, is enough. A little sentence; one question, and one answer, from my Grandshaykh (may Allah be pleased with him); giving mankind such a knowledge that it will be enough to carry them from all troubles to a level where those troubles will be gone! Do you understand? Now we must practice always to leave complaining. These words you wrote here (and you are reading here), but it is written also will be able to remember all the time. Divine powers are going through your heart, helping you to recall these words. Immediately, will come to your heart, 'I will not be a complainer, because this thing that is happening to me is going on with my Lord's will!' This is the key. This is the medicine for that illness! When a complainer comes to you, you must remember that, 'This thing is going on with my Lord's will. With Allah’s will it is going on!' "
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„Are you speaking of the thing that is making us complain?" asked a disciple. "Yes," replied the Shaykh. "Without Allah’s knowledge and without Allah's will, nothing is going on. You must say, 'Why am I complaining, when He Almighty ordered this to be!’ Understand? This is practice. When you remember this point, you will be satisfied with His will. You will agree, also, with His will, with your Lord's will. When you agree with Him: happiness for you!" Another question came: "What if you come up against injustice? Wouldn't this attitude lead you to say, ‘O, well, it’s just Allah's will?' Isn't this fatalism?" Maulana answered, "Correction for wrong things is another thing entirely. We are not saying that you shouldn’t try to make wrong things right, that you shouldn’t try to prevent badness. No! As much as we can, we are correcting all things, if we can. But, what we are talking about here, when we speak of reducing our complaints and accepting all things as they come from our Lord's will, are those positions in which Allah is leaving us. For example, if we are poor – no complaining. If we are ill - no complaining." „I don't understand these things," said one of our brothers. "They're very subtle. So much of the time, there’s confusion. When you say not to complain, I think, ‘Okay, I’ll accept everything.’ ” “We accept everything,” answered the Shaykh, “that Allah Almighty is making happen to ourselves, and to other people.” „How do you tell the difference between a badness that needs correction, and a condition that you should accept?” asked another. "Some things we definitely bring upon ourselves with our bad actions." Shaykh Nazim responded, "Bad actions bring some things on us, but, when we keep ourselves, they do not come on us." A murid objected, "Don't they sometimes come more? If you are a man of God, doesn't it make people angry with you?" "Yes!" agreed the Shaykh. "But we are not complaining! We know that if there is a tree with fruits on it, children will throw stones. Children cannot reach the fruit in high places, so they throw stones to make it fall
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to them. Therefore, all prophets have people throwing stones at them. Understand? Some bad things come upon men because of their bad doings, but that which comes upon prophets and holy men is not because of their bad doings. No, it is because they are like trees, full of fruit which is high up and out of reach. Common people are like children, they cannot reach the fruit. Therefore, with stones, bad people are trying to reach those fruits." „Good people are waiting for the dates to fall?" "Yes.” A disciple said, "So, if something is going on in your house, and you don't want it, you can correct it? You can say, 'Don't do this, don’t do that?' You only have to accept that which you can do nothing about; is that correct?" "You may correct whoever will listen to you, but you must be very careful," Maulana replied, "because all people, each of us, each man is looking to himself and seeing that he alone fills the whole world. So big is this looking to himself! Therefore, if you say to him, 'Don't do this!' he will never accept. But you may say instead, 'O, my Lord! If I were to do like this one (the person you wish to correct) is doing, how would you look upon it! Is it good, O, my Lord, to do like this?' When he hears this (or words to that effected), he may realize that he is wrong, and come down from his position. But, if you are saying to him, 'Don't do this!' he will never accept. He will have too much ego." Maulana went on: "In the case of something going on in your home that is in direct violation of Allah's orders, for example, a family member wanting to eat pork, you may forbid it. This is not complaining." A murid offered this comment: "Yes, but then if I forbid something to my wife or children saying, 'You can't do that because it is against Allah's orders,' they just say, 'That's just what you believe, not what I believe! You have no right to impose your beliefs on me!' That's the American way, Shaykh Nazim!" "When that happens," said Maulana, "you are free. You may continue to live with them or not. You are free. Or," he added, "you may let them do those things, but you must not sit with them while they are doing them. You must make it clear that you will not participate. She (they) may sit alone, eating or drinking. As long as she (they) is not Muslim, we cannot ask her (them) to obey the Islamic laws. She may even go to church; she
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is free. Shariah gives us permission to marry someone of another religion." „Don't the children have to be raised Muslim'?" ask another. "The children are your responsibility, if they are your children." „So, we must make it clear that we are not free to take part in forbidden things'?" said a murid. Shaykh Nazim answered, "Yes." The murid who had originally raised the question objected, saying, "But aren't we getting off the point?" The second disciple interrupted him: "No, because that’s leverage. If they realize that you're not going to participate certain things with them, no matter when they do or say. . .” "Yes," said Shaykh Nazim. The second brother continued, ". . . then they will either have to drop what they are doing, or drop you!" The Shaykh then said, "She may eat, she may drink! You must not sit with her. She may go to church; you are not going with her!" Still another murid asked, "What of the case when a neighbour’s animals, for instance, destroy your property? Mustn’t we go to the judge and complain'? We can't go around saying, 'What a bad man my neighbour is!' " Maulana answered, "If a man is bringing harm to you, Shariah gives us the authority to prevent it. Shariah gives authority to prevent harm among people. This is not complaining. It is your right to keep your property secure. If anyone harms you, with his hand or with his tongue, he is not a Muslim, not a believer. If you take action against that, we are saying that is not complaining. That is the right of Shariah. Say, for instance," elaborated the Shaykh, "that a man comes and cuts fruit off your trees and takes it away. It is not complaining to stop him. If he is making trouble, it is not complaining to take legal action against him. It is the right of Shariah. There is no permission for doing harm in Islamic law.” A brother asked, "What are my rights regarding my non-Muslim wife? Must I allow her to do as she
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wishes? What is legitimate for me to demand of her, if anything?” "Your rights?" said Maulana. "To keep your honour. Your honour is with your wife. If she is honourable (faithful), that is enough for you. When you find her faithful with you, and she likes to be with you, it is enough." „This is for a non-Muslim wife, isn't it?" "Yes," replied the Shaykh, "and also for a Muslim wife.” „But," said a murid, "if you find a Muslim wife eating pork, or drinking wine. . ." "No," replied the Shaykh, again, "because in the case of a Muslim, she has been ordered not to do these things. We cannot give permission. How? The answer is 'No!” „You said before that there should be certain conditions in the relationship. What should these be?" asked another disciple. Maulana answered him, "If your wife likes you and said ‘I am satisfied with you as my husband. You are free in your religion, and I am free in mine', then there are nor more conditions. The only conditions are to be faithful with you, with your children, and with your property." „Is there anything else I have to submit to?" the first murid asked. "If you like!" returned Shaykh Nazim. "If you don’t like, leave her! But we prefer for believers to marry with unbelievers; so that from their love for their husbands, they may approach belief themselves. Therefore, we are saying, 'Keep her,’ so that day by day she may agree with you because of her love for you. We have a saying: 'Shartul mu'arfiqa mu'arfiqa.’ It means 'From the condition of friendship, we may me meet on the same way.' Therefore, she will take him on her way, or he will take her on his way." „What if you marry an unbelieving woman," asked a murid, “and, as time goes by, and even though you are tolerant, still she is not coming to Islam?" "You must be patient with her for some time,“ said the Shaykh, "and you must pray to Allah to make her with
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you on the same way. 'Keep me, O, my Lord, on Your way, and keep her with me also on Your way.' If there is no result, then you may say to her, ‘You are in your way and I am in my way!’ ” A murid said, “What if she begins to hate Islam, to speak badly of the Prophet (peace be upon him), and to be vicious? Sometimes Islam evokes very strong feelings in people". “You must leave her!" said the Shaykh. "Not coming to discussion!" "But not until you've done the other things first?” said a murid. "Not until you've been patient first?" Shaykh Nazim nodded. "Yes," he said. "An important point. We must know that each person - their forelock – is in the hands of Allah Almighty. You cannot change people until Allah changes them. Even prophets cannot change people. If Allah is not changing, no one can change. The hearts of people are in the hands of Allah Almighty. Maybe Allah's will is going to change a servant; therefore He is sending her to you. If you have patience with her, your patience will bear fruit at the end, and she will come on your way." 01.01.1979
BookMercyOceans, CategoryRelationship, CategoryMarriage, CategoryIslam, CategoryPatience
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The 12 good characters in dogs
Our Grandsheikh said: “There are 12 good characters in dogs that you may also find in Prophets and Awliya. They are:
1. Not forgetting goodness: they don’t forget those who have done goodness to them.
2. They are patient and always grateful for everything that they are given.
3. They are not angry with their owners, even if they are beaten and sent away. If their owners call, they return with their tails
wagging.
4. They are humble;
5. obedient;
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6. truthful;
7. trustworthy;
8. good friends;
9. loyal, always remaining with their owners and never turning traitor.
10. They are satisfied with small things; they are ‘zahid’, not looking to anything from this dunya.
11. They have nothing from this world, they have no place for themselves.
12. They may sleep anywhere, and if someone throws stones at them, they quickly get up and go somewhere else. They are very
light sleepers, they don’t sleep too much, and quickly awaken.
If a man has those attributes, he is a Wali. Those 12 attributes belong to Prophets and Saints. 01.04.1999
BookOnthebridgetoEternity, CategoryAnimal, CategoryAdab
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Good Life
Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. We may say the Ism Al-Jalil of our Lord: La ilaha illa Allah Sayyidina Muhammadun Rasulullah (sas). It is said "Yawm al-jadid,rizq al-jadid" A new day and a new provision. Allah Almighty sustains His Divine Grants in the apparent too. Audhu Billahi min al shaytani r-rajim. Why does He (swt) make us recite the Audhu? "Fasta`idh biLlahi Mina sh-Shaytani r-Rajimi" (16:98). Dastur Ya Rijalullah; may there be a heavenly support from the holy ones, that we say a few words, and open insha Allah. Our first word is Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. The Bismillah should be our first word. "The Bismillah is Your Pure Name and who remembers it is purified. Who says Allah can reach everything he desires". What a beautiful teaching; it teaches people that any act without the Bismillah is cut off. "Kullu 'amrin lam yabda'a fihi Bismillah, fa huwa abtar". This is the word of Allah and the teaching of the Prophet. Whichever act it is that it starts without the Bismillah, it is cut off; it has no result. Yawm al-jadid, rizq al-jadid. In every new day there are the grants of Allah Almighty for His servants; His blessings, His gifts. Allah Almighty Jalla Jalaluhu... O people, listen! You are Man. You should listen and understand. For what does Allah Almighty make us recite the Bismillah? For our every doing to succeed. The key for opening all difficulties is Bismillahi r-Rahmani r- Rahim. Allah Almighty (swt) Hz wants His servant's life to be a sweet life. Whosoever wants every day, every hour of this life to be sweet, whoever wants a sweet life; a life without troubles, sorrows, hardness, whoever wants a sweet life, Allah Almighty says: "La Yuridu Bikumu l-`Usra" (2:185). Allah Almighty says "I did not give you a life that will be a burden to you. And I never want to put a burden on you, I don't want My servant to be crushed. I don't want him to live in difficulties. La Yuridu Bikumu l-`Usra. An easy, sweet life: This is what I want. I didn't create My
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servants to be crushed in dunya, they should enjoy the dunya". How should they enjoy? I want them to spend a comfortable life full with pleasures, this is My desire. I created My servant and sent him to dunya, not to crush him there". Rabbul 'Izza, Allah Almighty (swt) Hz, our Lord says: "I did not order anything to make hardship for you. Your everything should go so easy. Your day should be a sweet day. It should not be a bitter life for you, not a life like poison. This is what I want: I want you to live comfortably, happily in dunya life, and in contentment, being busy with My servanthood. But you followed the evil shaytan. The evil shaytan wants to burden you with the burden of dunya so that your dunya life will be like poison". Allah Almighty wants a beautiful life for His servants. Shaytan on the contrary, wants to corrupt the beautiful life Allah Almighty taught mankind. His whole hatred and struggle is for Man to not find comfort, for him to live in misery, for mankind's dunya life to be as the wheat that is crushed between the two millstones. Shaytan wants his life to be poisonous and in hardships like this. Therefore Man should say it first, to open his day, for the door of a comfortable life to open for him; Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Say the Bismillah. "Fadhkuruni 'Adhkurkum" (2:152). Remember My Ism Al-Jalil and I grant you, feast you with My blessings. "Wa shkuru Li", be grateful to Me. "Wa La Takfuruni", don't deny Me. It is a shame for you". This is the address. "O Man! I created you, I made everything ready for you on earth so that you won't have any hardship. This is the situation but you don't accept this, you don't appreciate this and you fall from one hardship to another. You become like the wheat that is crushed between the two millstones. I don't want this! I sent you to dunya. I didn't send you to crush or to make you crushed between two millstones. It is a temporary life. Acknowledge Me and your everything will be beautiful. I like good deeds. I like beautiful servants and their beautiful deeds. If you want this, then start, say My Ism Al-Jalil: Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim and your every doing goes easy, flows like water. There is no difficulty in front of you. Your life goes easy and sweet". Because Allah Almighty did not want any hardship for you. He (swt) presented you the most beautiful life. What is its key? Say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim and stand up for Allah. What comes first? What are you granted when you stand up for Allah? The sweet life. Allah Almighty doesn't want a life like poison. Hasha! Hasha thumma kalla. He (swt) didn't make it as a poison
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for mankind, but a sweet life: hayat at-tayyiba. It may be a nice life. He (swt) wants this: "Let them be My guests in dunya for 3 days and live comfortably. Let them be My guests and listen to Me. Return to Me and I grant them everything". They don't do this. What is the key for this? Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Why do you run in the streets? Let alone running in the streets, in all countries, everywhere turned into streams of people. They don't know what they want. What is it that they want? Hayat at-tayyiba: the sweet life, nice life. But you are the guests of Allah Almighty in dunya. Can Allah Almighty give a hardship to the ones who are His guests? No, He (swt) doesn't. But foolish men are following shaytan and can't enjoy life: they fall from one trouble to another. Why do you run in the streets, men and women? Did Allah order you like this: "O people, go out into the streets and scream, men and women"?! This is not suitable for your humanity. What is suitable for your humanity is for you to return to your Lord. When you don't accept Your Creator, then no one accepts you. And shaytan makes you a toy in his hand. The streets are filled with people. What do they want? What do they want? They don't know. When the Muslim soldiers were entering Izmir, there was a group of people there from other religions. They were also calling with the rest. Muslims said "Long live!" They were also calling "Long live!" "Who should live long?" asked one. They said "Whoever won, may they live long". Look at who makes you win, why do you run after shaytan? Shaytan ridiculed you and makes you run in the streets like wild animals. He makes you scream, swear. They have no rest, no comfort. They have nothing to eat or drink. All their claim is protesting in streets. This is not suitable for the adab of mankind. When Allah Almighty appoints a servant to rule over you who is covered in black hair and even if the rest of him is all black obey him, he also can protect you. Obey him, say "Allah appointed him for us" and take the attitude of adab. Remain with adab: "It means Allah Almighty appointed for us this servant. We may walk on his way and say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Ya Rabbi, may You make this servant of Yours a Mercy for us, not Wrath." They don't say this but scream in the streets. Say one Bismillah and you can destroy! You can destroy the doings of shaytans. But they don't say it. "Don't ever say it! We are social people. We are filthy ones. We belong to the "giddyup!" level. The giddy up ones run, scream,kick... We too are from them. We don't want the other level: We don't want the level of who goes to the mosque. We are the giddy up level who scream
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and run in the jungles". Ok then, take what is suitable for you! Run, scream, shout all day! You won't be well regarded. The Realm of Malakut does not respond to you. You are out of the level that will be protected. You enter the giddy up level, which means the four-legged animals level. If you were in the human level, you would go to mosques. You have temples. You go there and call: "O our Lord Who Created us, may You grant us the hayat at-tayyiba". "O My servant, you are given the key; you are given the key to the beautiful life: Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. It opens for you all the locked doors. It opens for you all the treasures. It opens the doors of eight Paradises. Say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim". "We won't say!" "So you are that arrogant? Ok. Run in the streets and may you not find what you seek" say the Angels. O man who have become animals! O animals who deny their Lord! Scream in the streets? Who will answer you? Who has ever gotten an answer like this anyways? You are man! Prove your humanity. Call: "O our Lord! Bi smika l-Azim. We seek refuge in Your Holy Name, Al-Azim. Save us O Lord. May You send Your beautiful servants, powerful servants who will teach us our humanity. May You send us the deputies of Prophets who will save us from being animals and we follow them". What business do you have in the streets? For whom are the mosques? Do the dogs ever enter a mosque? Neither a dog nor anyone from the giddy up level enters there. Don't sleep! Open your eyes! That you know the magnificence of humanity, you know what a beautiful life Allah Almighty appointed for His servants. They kick it away, they kick it away and they gather behind shaytan and run. Who makes them go out and shout in the streets, who makes people uneasy, who makes them kill each other, who crushes them in fights and wars, is shaytan. Allah Almighty says "I appointed hayat at-tayyiba, beautiful life for you. Start with the Bismillah. Turn towards Me that I make your every day a beautiful day, your everyday go nicely, you never face any troubles. Turn to Me" says Allah Almighty. "No, we will scream no matter what!" Ok, scream. Scream, scream but you can't find a place that will answer them. They are running and screaming in the streets. Who are you running to? Why are screaming? What do you seek and from whom? What is it that you want? They don't know. Shaytan pulled them out of the human level and make them enter the four-legged, giddy up ones' level and says "Run!" "We are passing near a mosque?" "Don't look at the mosque, look at the streets". If they say one Bismillah, Allah Almighty makes the dunya changed. This dunya turns to a different dunya for His servants who
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say His Ism Al-Jalil. "Yawma Tubaddalu l-Ardu Ghayra l-Ard" (14:48). On that day Allah Almighty changed the dunya to another dunya. He (swt) appoints a nice life, a sweet life for you. You don't do this? Run then! They don't feel their hunger, thirst or exhaustion.
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