Maulana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani 2000 Sohbats 1979-2013 (287/777)
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to get up, to climb from one level to another, from that level to another, from that level to another. Everything that belongs to Allah is eternal, no beginning and no ending. Everything belongs to Allah, our Creator! And if you are asking to give something that you are eating, you may kill that one. Because that one may not know how to swallow, and may pass on. Therefore, we are here now for a preparation when we are going to present for Lord of Heavens. We must learn and we must be prepared for that levels to reach up. And prophets are saying the most simple knowledge about our Lord’s Heavenly Presence, or heavenly presenting in Divinely and Heavenly Appearance. Now, we are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. Always, Shaytan, through his worst attribute, he is asking to prevent Man to reach maraatib, ranks, not to reach and not to taste. Therefore, he is trying to occupy Man with such nonsense. Now for people to be occupied with such a nonsense, talab, request, making people on zero level. Shaytan asking to make people, when they are asking to go up, taking them on a wrong way, taking them to a level that they can’t see, they can’t hear, they can’t taste! Like such a small creature living under Earth, can’t see, they are making work for generations, they can’t taste. Therefore Shaytan is making so people can’t taste anything from illaahiyaat, divinity, taking on wrong direction, and now whole world on wrong direction. There is explanation for that: people never tasting for their spirituality, but they are running after their material being. They are never tasting for their realities that are taking them to their mawjood, heavenly creation. They are in such a way of laa yubsiroon, no hearing, no listening, no looking, no tasting, nothing! You bring a small insect under Earth and you put it on a king’s table, what it is going to taste? Nothing. Even if you are having on that
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table so many things, that small creature running away. Why the Lord of Heavens is asking to teach servants? For what they are living, for what must be their last target or aims? People not knowing (this purpose), people knowing only that everything for this world is their last desire to reach there. There are some clean insects, but there is also some living in dirtiness. Those first ones’ levels are higher, but the others are pleased with their delicious desires, they are happy. But there are others living on dirtiness and never asking to go to high levels, the most high levels that are just granted to Mankind, to know, to do, to taste. Yes! Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar wa lillahi ‘l-hamd! Now we are speaking to Salafi `ulamas. Prophet (s) once was speaking to (do) best actions, anna khayru ‘l- `amaal, you understand? I think so. Best actions or best efforts, what is that? A Sahabi (r) was asking, afdal ‘l- `amal, best work for a person, what is that? Perhaps Salafi `ulama knowing this hadith, but there is another that Prophet (s) said what is the best efforts, the best doings, what is the most precious thing? Yes, Saheeh hadeeths? What is that we are asking from Salafi `ulamas? What do you think? Why so many days you are only speaking on such a topic? Now coming answer that people asking. “What is the best effort, best praying, what is that?” Prophet (s) was saying al-`ilmu billah. Most important point that giving Mankind honor, al-`ilmu billah, to know what Allah (swt) loves, what is best actions. We may give an example. You may be called to a policy session and you are going there and you are looking at a person sitting behind a table and he written now new fashion, written name and written under it “most famous teacher through Damascus,” yes, this is one. You may be called in a king or sultan’s place, to his sultanate and appears on him in that area not same as a policeman sitting, that is man. For which one you are giving your most high respects, for police or colonel also? We are taking this out myself, I may see them, I may find such a people. But when you have been invited for Sultan’s feast, you are understanding and yourself preparation going to be same as for a (chawish)? (...) Sultan giving you an honour, and therefore so many days they are sending people as a message for their Lord’s holy beings or for Lord’s holy being, for their understanding, as much as you are understanding Sultan’s grant coming to you. Once a person from Bedouins was asking to go to caliph’s centre, to city, and he was asking, “O my darling, I am intending to go today to see Ameer al-Mumineen, Muslims’ Sultan. What is a good thing for me to take because it is not a good thing to go empty handed. ”Finally their ideas coming together and they are saying,
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“O the best thing we can take is water. Abee batal, fill the bucket, that is best.” Because he was living in desert and in desert nothing going to be much more precious than water, and he was carrying this, going to Sultan’s palace. And guardian saying, there is someone to meet khalifata 'l-Muslimeen Sultan. “Come in, welcome.” He was coming in with his bucket of water and giving his salute to Sultan and saying, “O your Majesty, I am bringing to you a bucket of water.” Sultan saying, “O well done, memleketli, citizen. I am so happy that you are bringing water.” “Yes, you are Sultan, and I am bringing to you most precious gift, I am filling and bringing to you.” Sultan was saying, I am so happy you are giving to me,” and he was ordering to fill his bucket with gold, and taking, going back to his wife in his tent. And he was so happy that Sultan granted to him a lot of golden coins. And then his wife looking, “What is this? What is gold? It was better to fill a bag with straw, it was so valuable for us, and our donkey was needing and asking, it was so precious to us!!! Put in front of our donkey.” And then bringing, (dumping that gold) into a heap, and the donkey was looking. (Mawlana makes puzzled expression.) “I am asking what is that?” speaking, giving a lesson. You must understand your Lord and His endless generosity. He is granting us such a thing but we are donkeys, making like this for gold: we are asking for straw. Don’t ask for straw, ask for strawberry! Yes, and now people they lost their meezaan, balance. They are never interesting for gold, but they are interested for straw. Therefore, command from holy ones to people living on this planet, saying anta kulli bi haqqi haqqa is true! People are asking for straw. Leave them and they are asking for strawberries or straw! They are never interesting for jewels, they are asking for straw. And that is the reason for economic crisis, that whole world fell in it, because they are asking for strawberries, saying, “Where is straw?” O Our Listeners! Listen and try to understand what our Lord Creator granted to you and promised for you up to Eternity! And you are asking for straw and they are saying “economic crisis.” For what you are saying economic, you are asking for straw, you are like a donkey bringing stones, donkey never interested, donkey much more clever than its owner! O People! Be interested for Endless Life through heavens! Beware, (...) when you are going to make your Lord happy with you, He is going to pleased with you and making you to live in pleasure and enjoyment! May Allah be pleased with us, for the honor of His most honored one. Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana stands and sits for honor of Prophet [s].) Allah, Allah.
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(53 minutes) They are making up. Laa hawla wa laa quwatta illa billah. (528,000) Alhamdulillah, they are showing the interest of people for reality and being cheated by Shaytan’s groups and
insha’Allah Allah takes them away, to make peace from east to west, from north to south. Hearing, it is not
easy, not easy. Fatihah. (Sayyidee, people asking if today is the first of Safar?) (Today is 1st Safar 1431) Safar is the heaviest of months and I am fearing something happens through this month. As a protection, our grandshaykh (q) was saying that daily you
must keep three times (recite) Kalimatu 'sh-Shahadah and 300 times astaghfirullah, and give sadaqah of even one penny (small daily charity), and keep
at least one sajdah daily and pray for Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Yes sir, may Allah forgives us. Lefke, 16.01.2010
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4071 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: HonorOfBeingAllahsServant
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The honour of being Allahs servant
As-salamu alaikum!...Ask forgiveness from Allah Almighty!... Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, la haula wa la quwatta illa bi-llahi-l ’Aliyu-l ‘Adhim! O people! O people, (it is) enough to be on (the) wrong way- Meded, ya Sultanu-l Awliya, Meded, ya Rijalallah- (it is) enough that you are insisting on (the) wrong way… I am asking Sheikh Hisham Efendi Hazretleri to address to you, but he refused; he is saying: “(You) speak! What we are speaking, people (are) understanding ‘bi-l aks’ (opposite)”… Hahaha… He is saying to me: “O Sheikh, speak!” “What we are speaking?” “(It) doesn’t matter. If you are saying true, then they are understanding wrong, if we are speaking wrong, they are saying: ‘That is true’…” Therefore just his Holiness... His Eminence Sheikh Hisham Effendi Hazretleri (is) ordering that: “O Sheikh, you know their language, speak
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to them”, and I am saying: “Yes, Sir, if you are ordering, I may do…” Merhaba, Sheikh!… He is (a) very serious person, never smiling…like me, I am also (a) very serious person, but you are making me not to be serious... You are all foolish people also, crazy ones, coming, and I must be like you, not to be serious… Sheikh Hisham Efendi, he is giving to me permission and I am speaking… under earth, over skies- speaking… May Allah give His Blessings to you! We are asking forgiveness. It is a humble meeting, people (are) coming from East, from West… Anything I am saying, you are understanding wrong, anything I am speaking wrong, you are understanding true. That is our position now- Allah forgives us, for the honour of (the) most honoured and glorious servant of Allah Almighty S.Muhammad sws… Yes. Grandsheikh, the pillar, (the) main pillar of the Naqshbandi Order, Shah-u-Naqshband, he was saying that: “Our Tariqats pillar is to be, to give people something that they may understand and (that) may be easy for them that way.” All Awlyia they are looking an easy way for people, because you are not yet reaching to (the) position of obediency. Yet we are not reaching the level of servanthood and (this) servanthood that (means) on this earth. Because servanthood it has several levels; from one to (the) second you may do your obediency, from one level to another level you may give your high respect to Allah Almighty. High respect it is a word that you can understand. High respect means glorifying, and glorifying is something that, if you are not giving whole your power to do something, you can’t reach. The levels of glorifying (are) countless, unlimited. And now we are on this earth and whole Prophets (were) coming to teach people how they should glorify their Lord Almighty Allah. But the levels of glorifying it is going to be endless, countless, or unlimited.
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We now, I (am) never saying or I can’t say that we are on (even the) first level of glorifying of our Lord, (of) glorifying the Lord of Heavens, because we are not reaching yet that level; we are on the level of obediency, the lowest level for obediency, obediency that we have been ordered to be servants, to be servants for the Lord of Universes, the Lord of whole Creation, and our unchangeable base for mankind, unchangeable position for mankind is servanthood. All if us, whole mankind, must know that our first level that we must keep it, from beginning up to end, our mission, is servanthood. You must try to teach yourself as well as for your generation. (The) first knowledge that you must teach to your children, your generation, (is) that they are servants for their Creator and (that) the Lord of Heavens just dressed them, just dressed them servanthood. No any (other) position should be for you! Perhaps you may be cheated by Shaitan. Shaitan, Satan, the point that it had been thrown away, what was the reason? The reason (is) that he was asking a level over servanthood. He was much more learned one through Heavens, even he was teaching Angels and his knowledge also was so high knowledge, and (with) his servanthood that he was doing as a servant, he was on the top level. But he was not happy to be on the level of servanthood. He was asking over that level another level. He was knowing so many things, but only he was ignorant for one point: he was on the level of servanthood, but he was asking over that servanthood another level. That (was) making him to fall down. Servanthood (is) just granted to (the) whole (of) mankind and (also to the) Angels, but Shaitan was asking (something else), he was not happy to be always servant servant, servant… and he was saying: “How I may be always a small snake? I must get bigger, bigger, bigger, so that I may
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be this serpentine! I don’t like to be always (a) small creature, no, I must grow up and I must be (a) serpentine!” Who are you to be (a) serpentine or (on) the level of serpentine? He was not happy to be small worm: “No, I never like it! I am trying to be over servanthood to be serpentine!” Therefore, when the Lord of Heavens created Adam and (He was) saying “Make Sajda, bow to Adam!” he was saying: “What is that? I am that one that (is) asking for (the) whole creation to bow, to do, and now You are ordering to me to bow to Adam? What is that!” Shaitanic teachings; that is shaitanic teaching that just covered (the) whole world now: that no one (is) accepting to be on the level of servanthood, no! “How I can be a servant and I have graduated from Boston University” or: “Just I am (a) Doctor of Philosophy from Sorbonne”… “How I can be a servant and I am just graduated from Boston? How I can be? I am trying to go up, (and) you are making me to be on the level of servanthood? No, we are not happy with that!” That is (the) illness that is making people now to fall in Hells. We have been created and we have been honoured to be on the level of servanthood. You must not consider anything among people! Who are you? You are asking to take up, to be taken away from you servanthood, never thinking that: “Just I am servant of my Creator, of my Lord, nothing else!” And who is reaching to that point, Hisham Effendi, that time he is going to reach the level of glorifying. Obediency (is) bringing him to the level of glorifying the Lord, the Creator, but Shaitan is saying: “No, I am not bowing, I must be glorified! I don’t like anyone to be glorified on me. Who is Adam and You are giving such a glory to him and
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ordering me to bow to him? I (am) never going to bow!” … Go to Hell!... Everyone (is) asking to be glorified: “I have graduated from Sorbonne University”, “I am the Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge University”, ”I am the Master of the University of Oxford”… That is… They (are) never thinking about their identity, that they are only servants. (Allah is saying:) “I am only making you to get up from one level to another level; beginning from obediency, and then I am dressing you the honor of glorifying. I am glorifying you!” But you are so high, ‘haris’, you (are) never asking (for the) real way of being (a) glorified servant. (Only) on servanthood you may find your way (to) the level of (being) glorified ones and then the levels of glorifying (are) countless! And (Allah is saying): “…wa kullun fi falakin yasbahun…- everyone (is) asking to swim through their glorifying oceans. Be patient, o My servant, I am that One who may grant to you an ocean from glorifying that (there is) no any Sharik, partner! That ocean is only for you, (there) can’t be a partner for you: ‘…kullun fi falakin yasbahun’... Everyone that I created them and giving their honours, you have been granted from the honour of glorifying and that should be an ocean and (there is) no partner for you in that ocean, it should be only for you!” But you are not understanding! You are asking to jump; (you are) leaving obediency and servanthood oceans and you are asking for that ocean, another ocean, to be for you. No! No, it is big false for you! You must look, you must try first what you have been created (for), then the Creator (is) granting to you an honour and you should be through your glorifying ocean alone. Glorifying ocean it is not only one, or it is not only for one person, (but) for everyone.” But people (are) never understand. Therefore we are here trying to do something and asking from Allah Almighty to grant us (something) for
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understanding… And He is not by Himself granting, but using someones - as Prophets and as Saints- that, if you are following them and their teachings, you can understand something, then you should be granted from (the) endless mercy oceans of glorifying. O people, Allah Almighty nothing preventing from you, but you are someone (that) your head (is) like rocks, and (you are) never understanding. May Allah forgive us!... That is something a little bit over our understanding, but for the honour of Sheikh Hisham Effendi- (a) very, very, very small thing from spirituality, granted to our friends or granted to our followers, so that they should be happy here and Hereafter. May Allah forgive us… People (are) on (the) wrong way. Try to know (the) wrong way, try to ask (the) right way, to ask how we can reach (the) right way that (is) leading ourselves to (the) divinely Presence for the Lord of Heavens, the Creator. For the honour of (the) most honoured one in His divinely Presence, S.Muhammad sws, Fatiha. Lefke, 22.7.2007 Transcribed by Khairiyah Siegel
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4077 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: HonorOfRamadan
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The Honor Of Ramadan
Marhaban, how is it in Ramadan? Wonderful. What can we do? Dastur ya Sayyidi ya Rasulullah. MashaAllah la quwwata illa billah. In the old times, meaning in the powerful times of our Ottoman Empire, it's presence would reach from East to West. No any nation could open their mouth in any assembly without mentioning the name of the Ottoman Empire. We had such an honour & power. We had majesty. Until when? Until Sultan Hamid, paradise be his abode. Treacherous Young Turks - the meaning of Young Turks is unbeliever Turks, those who reject Isla - dethroned him with cheats & tricks. However if he had wished, Sultan Hamid, paradise be his abode, for those who come to dethrone him, he would have given a sign to his guards "Catch & put them in jail". But he didn't do this, he said "Ok". He said "Ok", the great Islamic Caliph. Who did the Young Turks gather to dethrone the Sultan of Ottoman Empire? There was a Jewish man and after him people whose name & origin is not known came & dethroned him. He was Sultan. If he had wanted he could have immediately said "arrest them, put them in jail. How did they enter inside without permission?" But he didn't say this. He said, "Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. The order of Allah Almighty is like this, we do not object. We leave them and they will suffer what comes on them". He surrendered. They sent him to Salonica with many insults. These ones imprisoned the Majestic Sultan who ruled the Great
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Empire for 35 years, 40 years perfectly, in Salonica. He said "Ok. We don't go against the Divine Will" so he surrendered. And after this, this nation suffered & went through so many bad things & calamities. It has come to what it is today and now maybe Turkish Republic is a state of 90 million people but there is no alliance between them. Because there is no alliance, they can't make their presence felt against a handful of their old citizens. They beg, say "please withdraw". What does this mean? There is no begging in manliness. Manliness is to show your courage, not begging. This is the job of rijal/man. Woman begs man doesn't beg. O Turkish nation, know this! There are some who know & some who don't know, they are bewildered. May Allah protect us from the corruption of the end of times. At the time of the Ottoman Empire- a great state whose honour dominated all 3 continents, who ruled over an area of 7 million km - in their time the month of Ramadan Sharif would be welcomed with honour. Now there is no one who knows. This ministry, what was it? They removed the Mufti Office also. Instead they put head of Diyanat- chief of Religious Affairs. What does Diyanat mean? What does Religious Affairs mean? At least you could name it "The affairs of Deen", what is Diyanat? And now they are in a state of hesitation. The Republic of Turkey is now a state of 90 millions but it is not with quantity. The way a state appears & shows itself should express majesty. Ottomans were Majestic. The state which stands in the place of the Ottomans now has no majesty. If they have, they may come out & show their majesty. They may march to Syria, march to Iraq, to Hijaz, which all belonged to us in the time of Caliph. When you throw away the Caliph, who listens to you? They don't even consider you as a doorman. So in old times, when it was Ramadan "Welcome O holy Ramadan, the month of Ramadan has arrived. Marhaban, O month of Mercy" they would welcome like this. Everyone would clean, arrange & make preparations, would know & keep the barakah & manners of this holy month. Who went astray would come to repent. Our mosques would get full. Our markets would refresh. Our young ones would gather. To sum up, places of fasad/corruption would be closed. It had grandeur. Now it has no grandeur. If there is no grandeur then Allah Almighty took away from you your majestic look. Turkey is a country of 90 million people but who respects us? We are begging to Sham
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"please stop." What does this mean? Sham is ours! Why should you beg? Do you not have soldiers? You have Turkish soldiers. March to them. Why do you keep Turkish soldiers waiting? Our army is to protect our religion, chastity, honour & land. They are on the wrong way but you can't tell them this. If you do, you are the one they will hate. To sum up, now there are people to preach in the mosques. They say a few words according to the instructions given to them, "don't speak beyond this. Watch yourself, or else you know what will happen to you". So they are telling stories. What kind of stories? I say a story, the people may laugh & take a lesson from it. And our sohbat today is close to this. The one who gave ijazah to this poor servant is Alasonyali Hoja Effendi, he was in Besiktas (Istanbul). His name was Haji Jamal Effendi. He would call people to the right way by telling nice stories. One day he said in his asr time sohbat: "O Muslims, today an astonishing thing happened". "What happened Hoja Effendi?" "Don't even ask, even I myself am astonished. Today is Ramadan. Yes. While I was going out from the door my wife, that she is like your mother, like your aunt, I said to her "O wife/khatun, today is Ramadan, don't offer anyone food". She said "I won't Hoja Effendi. Your order is above my head." When he is about leave, she calls after him "Hoja Effendi?" "Yes khatun, what happened?" "I forgot to ask you something." "What were you going to ask?" You ordered me to not give anyone anything to eat. So I will not give food to cats also?" "Subhan Allah! How many times I told you, animals don't fast! It is man who fasts. How many times I told you. Why don't you get it?" "Ok, I understand but I wanted to make sure it is ok to give to cats" "No khatun, fast is for man. Animals don't fast" And with this we end our sohbat today, he said. People were all laughing. To whom do you say this now? Who fasts? Cats are to fast, or man? Why man should not fast? If you are Muslim, why are you not fasting? If you are not Muslim, why do they bring your funeral to Muslim Cemetery, to mosque? They shouldn't bring! So there are such matters. Our short sohbat of today is like this. It means, there are many things to take lesson from. And I have reached this age, they ask me "Hoja Effendi, are you 50 years old?" "What 50? There is still time for 50. I am between 40 and 50." "Are you still sane?" "Any problem with my sanity? No. I have a sound mind, I know. Haven't you heard how I lectured my wife?! It means I have a sound mind. Therefore let this sohbat of today end like this."
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We have also aged. This story that we said is something that happened 70-80 years ago. May Allah grant us guidance & make us be in safety. May Allah grant us sound mind, under- standing, faith, good manners & respect. May we recite, learn & teach the Holy Quran, the Book of Allah. May we be accepted on Allah's side on the side of inhabitants of Heavens & earth. If not, who is not accepted on their side has no value. Where does he go to? To WC. They don't end up in a good place. Allah, tawba ya Rabbi, tawba ya Rabbi, tawba Astaghfirullah.
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to get up, to climb from one level to another, from that level to another, from that level to another. Everything that belongs to Allah is eternal, no beginning and no ending. Everything belongs to Allah, our Creator! And if you are asking to give something that you are eating, you may kill that one. Because that one may not know how to swallow, and may pass on. Therefore, we are here now for a preparation when we are going to present for Lord of Heavens. We must learn and we must be prepared for that levels to reach up. And prophets are saying the most simple knowledge about our Lord’s Heavenly Presence, or heavenly presenting in Divinely and Heavenly Appearance. Now, we are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. Always, Shaytan, through his worst attribute, he is asking to prevent Man to reach maraatib, ranks, not to reach and not to taste. Therefore, he is trying to occupy Man with such nonsense. Now for people to be occupied with such a nonsense, talab, request, making people on zero level. Shaytan asking to make people, when they are asking to go up, taking them on a wrong way, taking them to a level that they can’t see, they can’t hear, they can’t taste! Like such a small creature living under Earth, can’t see, they are making work for generations, they can’t taste. Therefore Shaytan is making so people can’t taste anything from illaahiyaat, divinity, taking on wrong direction, and now whole world on wrong direction. There is explanation for that: people never tasting for their spirituality, but they are running after their material being. They are never tasting for their realities that are taking them to their mawjood, heavenly creation. They are in such a way of laa yubsiroon, no hearing, no listening, no looking, no tasting, nothing! You bring a small insect under Earth and you put it on a king’s table, what it is going to taste? Nothing. Even if you are having on that
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table so many things, that small creature running away. Why the Lord of Heavens is asking to teach servants? For what they are living, for what must be their last target or aims? People not knowing (this purpose), people knowing only that everything for this world is their last desire to reach there. There are some clean insects, but there is also some living in dirtiness. Those first ones’ levels are higher, but the others are pleased with their delicious desires, they are happy. But there are others living on dirtiness and never asking to go to high levels, the most high levels that are just granted to Mankind, to know, to do, to taste. Yes! Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar wa lillahi ‘l-hamd! Now we are speaking to Salafi `ulamas. Prophet (s) once was speaking to (do) best actions, anna khayru ‘l- `amaal, you understand? I think so. Best actions or best efforts, what is that? A Sahabi (r) was asking, afdal ‘l- `amal, best work for a person, what is that? Perhaps Salafi `ulama knowing this hadith, but there is another that Prophet (s) said what is the best efforts, the best doings, what is the most precious thing? Yes, Saheeh hadeeths? What is that we are asking from Salafi `ulamas? What do you think? Why so many days you are only speaking on such a topic? Now coming answer that people asking. “What is the best effort, best praying, what is that?” Prophet (s) was saying al-`ilmu billah. Most important point that giving Mankind honor, al-`ilmu billah, to know what Allah (swt) loves, what is best actions. We may give an example. You may be called to a policy session and you are going there and you are looking at a person sitting behind a table and he written now new fashion, written name and written under it “most famous teacher through Damascus,” yes, this is one. You may be called in a king or sultan’s place, to his sultanate and appears on him in that area not same as a policeman sitting, that is man. For which one you are giving your most high respects, for police or colonel also? We are taking this out myself, I may see them, I may find such a people. But when you have been invited for Sultan’s feast, you are understanding and yourself preparation going to be same as for a (chawish)? (...) Sultan giving you an honour, and therefore so many days they are sending people as a message for their Lord’s holy beings or for Lord’s holy being, for their understanding, as much as you are understanding Sultan’s grant coming to you. Once a person from Bedouins was asking to go to caliph’s centre, to city, and he was asking, “O my darling, I am intending to go today to see Ameer al-Mumineen, Muslims’ Sultan. What is a good thing for me to take because it is not a good thing to go empty handed. ”Finally their ideas coming together and they are saying,
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“O the best thing we can take is water. Abee batal, fill the bucket, that is best.” Because he was living in desert and in desert nothing going to be much more precious than water, and he was carrying this, going to Sultan’s palace. And guardian saying, there is someone to meet khalifata 'l-Muslimeen Sultan. “Come in, welcome.” He was coming in with his bucket of water and giving his salute to Sultan and saying, “O your Majesty, I am bringing to you a bucket of water.” Sultan saying, “O well done, memleketli, citizen. I am so happy that you are bringing water.” “Yes, you are Sultan, and I am bringing to you most precious gift, I am filling and bringing to you.” Sultan was saying, I am so happy you are giving to me,” and he was ordering to fill his bucket with gold, and taking, going back to his wife in his tent. And he was so happy that Sultan granted to him a lot of golden coins. And then his wife looking, “What is this? What is gold? It was better to fill a bag with straw, it was so valuable for us, and our donkey was needing and asking, it was so precious to us!!! Put in front of our donkey.” And then bringing, (dumping that gold) into a heap, and the donkey was looking. (Mawlana makes puzzled expression.) “I am asking what is that?” speaking, giving a lesson. You must understand your Lord and His endless generosity. He is granting us such a thing but we are donkeys, making like this for gold: we are asking for straw. Don’t ask for straw, ask for strawberry! Yes, and now people they lost their meezaan, balance. They are never interesting for gold, but they are interested for straw. Therefore, command from holy ones to people living on this planet, saying anta kulli bi haqqi haqqa is true! People are asking for straw. Leave them and they are asking for strawberries or straw! They are never interesting for jewels, they are asking for straw. And that is the reason for economic crisis, that whole world fell in it, because they are asking for strawberries, saying, “Where is straw?” O Our Listeners! Listen and try to understand what our Lord Creator granted to you and promised for you up to Eternity! And you are asking for straw and they are saying “economic crisis.” For what you are saying economic, you are asking for straw, you are like a donkey bringing stones, donkey never interested, donkey much more clever than its owner! O People! Be interested for Endless Life through heavens! Beware, (...) when you are going to make your Lord happy with you, He is going to pleased with you and making you to live in pleasure and enjoyment! May Allah be pleased with us, for the honor of His most honored one. Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana stands and sits for honor of Prophet [s].) Allah, Allah.
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(53 minutes) They are making up. Laa hawla wa laa quwatta illa billah. (528,000) Alhamdulillah, they are showing the interest of people for reality and being cheated by Shaytan’s groups and
insha’Allah Allah takes them away, to make peace from east to west, from north to south. Hearing, it is not
easy, not easy. Fatihah. (Sayyidee, people asking if today is the first of Safar?) (Today is 1st Safar 1431) Safar is the heaviest of months and I am fearing something happens through this month. As a protection, our grandshaykh (q) was saying that daily you
must keep three times (recite) Kalimatu 'sh-Shahadah and 300 times astaghfirullah, and give sadaqah of even one penny (small daily charity), and keep
at least one sajdah daily and pray for Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Yes sir, may Allah forgives us. Lefke, 16.01.2010
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4071 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: HonorOfBeingAllahsServant
Maulana Sheikh Nazim : HonorOfBeingAllahsServant
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The honour of being Allahs servant
As-salamu alaikum!...Ask forgiveness from Allah Almighty!... Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, la haula wa la quwatta illa bi-llahi-l ’Aliyu-l ‘Adhim! O people! O people, (it is) enough to be on (the) wrong way- Meded, ya Sultanu-l Awliya, Meded, ya Rijalallah- (it is) enough that you are insisting on (the) wrong way… I am asking Sheikh Hisham Efendi Hazretleri to address to you, but he refused; he is saying: “(You) speak! What we are speaking, people (are) understanding ‘bi-l aks’ (opposite)”… Hahaha… He is saying to me: “O Sheikh, speak!” “What we are speaking?” “(It) doesn’t matter. If you are saying true, then they are understanding wrong, if we are speaking wrong, they are saying: ‘That is true’…” Therefore just his Holiness... His Eminence Sheikh Hisham Effendi Hazretleri (is) ordering that: “O Sheikh, you know their language, speak
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to them”, and I am saying: “Yes, Sir, if you are ordering, I may do…” Merhaba, Sheikh!… He is (a) very serious person, never smiling…like me, I am also (a) very serious person, but you are making me not to be serious... You are all foolish people also, crazy ones, coming, and I must be like you, not to be serious… Sheikh Hisham Efendi, he is giving to me permission and I am speaking… under earth, over skies- speaking… May Allah give His Blessings to you! We are asking forgiveness. It is a humble meeting, people (are) coming from East, from West… Anything I am saying, you are understanding wrong, anything I am speaking wrong, you are understanding true. That is our position now- Allah forgives us, for the honour of (the) most honoured and glorious servant of Allah Almighty S.Muhammad sws… Yes. Grandsheikh, the pillar, (the) main pillar of the Naqshbandi Order, Shah-u-Naqshband, he was saying that: “Our Tariqats pillar is to be, to give people something that they may understand and (that) may be easy for them that way.” All Awlyia they are looking an easy way for people, because you are not yet reaching to (the) position of obediency. Yet we are not reaching the level of servanthood and (this) servanthood that (means) on this earth. Because servanthood it has several levels; from one to (the) second you may do your obediency, from one level to another level you may give your high respect to Allah Almighty. High respect it is a word that you can understand. High respect means glorifying, and glorifying is something that, if you are not giving whole your power to do something, you can’t reach. The levels of glorifying (are) countless, unlimited. And now we are on this earth and whole Prophets (were) coming to teach people how they should glorify their Lord Almighty Allah. But the levels of glorifying it is going to be endless, countless, or unlimited.
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We now, I (am) never saying or I can’t say that we are on (even the) first level of glorifying of our Lord, (of) glorifying the Lord of Heavens, because we are not reaching yet that level; we are on the level of obediency, the lowest level for obediency, obediency that we have been ordered to be servants, to be servants for the Lord of Universes, the Lord of whole Creation, and our unchangeable base for mankind, unchangeable position for mankind is servanthood. All if us, whole mankind, must know that our first level that we must keep it, from beginning up to end, our mission, is servanthood. You must try to teach yourself as well as for your generation. (The) first knowledge that you must teach to your children, your generation, (is) that they are servants for their Creator and (that) the Lord of Heavens just dressed them, just dressed them servanthood. No any (other) position should be for you! Perhaps you may be cheated by Shaitan. Shaitan, Satan, the point that it had been thrown away, what was the reason? The reason (is) that he was asking a level over servanthood. He was much more learned one through Heavens, even he was teaching Angels and his knowledge also was so high knowledge, and (with) his servanthood that he was doing as a servant, he was on the top level. But he was not happy to be on the level of servanthood. He was asking over that level another level. He was knowing so many things, but only he was ignorant for one point: he was on the level of servanthood, but he was asking over that servanthood another level. That (was) making him to fall down. Servanthood (is) just granted to (the) whole (of) mankind and (also to the) Angels, but Shaitan was asking (something else), he was not happy to be always servant servant, servant… and he was saying: “How I may be always a small snake? I must get bigger, bigger, bigger, so that I may
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be this serpentine! I don’t like to be always (a) small creature, no, I must grow up and I must be (a) serpentine!” Who are you to be (a) serpentine or (on) the level of serpentine? He was not happy to be small worm: “No, I never like it! I am trying to be over servanthood to be serpentine!” Therefore, when the Lord of Heavens created Adam and (He was) saying “Make Sajda, bow to Adam!” he was saying: “What is that? I am that one that (is) asking for (the) whole creation to bow, to do, and now You are ordering to me to bow to Adam? What is that!” Shaitanic teachings; that is shaitanic teaching that just covered (the) whole world now: that no one (is) accepting to be on the level of servanthood, no! “How I can be a servant and I have graduated from Boston University” or: “Just I am (a) Doctor of Philosophy from Sorbonne”… “How I can be a servant and I am just graduated from Boston? How I can be? I am trying to go up, (and) you are making me to be on the level of servanthood? No, we are not happy with that!” That is (the) illness that is making people now to fall in Hells. We have been created and we have been honoured to be on the level of servanthood. You must not consider anything among people! Who are you? You are asking to take up, to be taken away from you servanthood, never thinking that: “Just I am servant of my Creator, of my Lord, nothing else!” And who is reaching to that point, Hisham Effendi, that time he is going to reach the level of glorifying. Obediency (is) bringing him to the level of glorifying the Lord, the Creator, but Shaitan is saying: “No, I am not bowing, I must be glorified! I don’t like anyone to be glorified on me. Who is Adam and You are giving such a glory to him and
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ordering me to bow to him? I (am) never going to bow!” … Go to Hell!... Everyone (is) asking to be glorified: “I have graduated from Sorbonne University”, “I am the Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge University”, ”I am the Master of the University of Oxford”… That is… They (are) never thinking about their identity, that they are only servants. (Allah is saying:) “I am only making you to get up from one level to another level; beginning from obediency, and then I am dressing you the honor of glorifying. I am glorifying you!” But you are so high, ‘haris’, you (are) never asking (for the) real way of being (a) glorified servant. (Only) on servanthood you may find your way (to) the level of (being) glorified ones and then the levels of glorifying (are) countless! And (Allah is saying): “…wa kullun fi falakin yasbahun…- everyone (is) asking to swim through their glorifying oceans. Be patient, o My servant, I am that One who may grant to you an ocean from glorifying that (there is) no any Sharik, partner! That ocean is only for you, (there) can’t be a partner for you: ‘…kullun fi falakin yasbahun’... Everyone that I created them and giving their honours, you have been granted from the honour of glorifying and that should be an ocean and (there is) no partner for you in that ocean, it should be only for you!” But you are not understanding! You are asking to jump; (you are) leaving obediency and servanthood oceans and you are asking for that ocean, another ocean, to be for you. No! No, it is big false for you! You must look, you must try first what you have been created (for), then the Creator (is) granting to you an honour and you should be through your glorifying ocean alone. Glorifying ocean it is not only one, or it is not only for one person, (but) for everyone.” But people (are) never understand. Therefore we are here trying to do something and asking from Allah Almighty to grant us (something) for
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understanding… And He is not by Himself granting, but using someones - as Prophets and as Saints- that, if you are following them and their teachings, you can understand something, then you should be granted from (the) endless mercy oceans of glorifying. O people, Allah Almighty nothing preventing from you, but you are someone (that) your head (is) like rocks, and (you are) never understanding. May Allah forgive us!... That is something a little bit over our understanding, but for the honour of Sheikh Hisham Effendi- (a) very, very, very small thing from spirituality, granted to our friends or granted to our followers, so that they should be happy here and Hereafter. May Allah forgive us… People (are) on (the) wrong way. Try to know (the) wrong way, try to ask (the) right way, to ask how we can reach (the) right way that (is) leading ourselves to (the) divinely Presence for the Lord of Heavens, the Creator. For the honour of (the) most honoured one in His divinely Presence, S.Muhammad sws, Fatiha. Lefke, 22.7.2007 Transcribed by Khairiyah Siegel
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4077 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: HonorOfRamadan
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The Honor Of Ramadan
Marhaban, how is it in Ramadan? Wonderful. What can we do? Dastur ya Sayyidi ya Rasulullah. MashaAllah la quwwata illa billah. In the old times, meaning in the powerful times of our Ottoman Empire, it's presence would reach from East to West. No any nation could open their mouth in any assembly without mentioning the name of the Ottoman Empire. We had such an honour & power. We had majesty. Until when? Until Sultan Hamid, paradise be his abode. Treacherous Young Turks - the meaning of Young Turks is unbeliever Turks, those who reject Isla - dethroned him with cheats & tricks. However if he had wished, Sultan Hamid, paradise be his abode, for those who come to dethrone him, he would have given a sign to his guards "Catch & put them in jail". But he didn't do this, he said "Ok". He said "Ok", the great Islamic Caliph. Who did the Young Turks gather to dethrone the Sultan of Ottoman Empire? There was a Jewish man and after him people whose name & origin is not known came & dethroned him. He was Sultan. If he had wanted he could have immediately said "arrest them, put them in jail. How did they enter inside without permission?" But he didn't say this. He said, "Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. The order of Allah Almighty is like this, we do not object. We leave them and they will suffer what comes on them". He surrendered. They sent him to Salonica with many insults. These ones imprisoned the Majestic Sultan who ruled the Great
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Empire for 35 years, 40 years perfectly, in Salonica. He said "Ok. We don't go against the Divine Will" so he surrendered. And after this, this nation suffered & went through so many bad things & calamities. It has come to what it is today and now maybe Turkish Republic is a state of 90 million people but there is no alliance between them. Because there is no alliance, they can't make their presence felt against a handful of their old citizens. They beg, say "please withdraw". What does this mean? There is no begging in manliness. Manliness is to show your courage, not begging. This is the job of rijal/man. Woman begs man doesn't beg. O Turkish nation, know this! There are some who know & some who don't know, they are bewildered. May Allah protect us from the corruption of the end of times. At the time of the Ottoman Empire- a great state whose honour dominated all 3 continents, who ruled over an area of 7 million km - in their time the month of Ramadan Sharif would be welcomed with honour. Now there is no one who knows. This ministry, what was it? They removed the Mufti Office also. Instead they put head of Diyanat- chief of Religious Affairs. What does Diyanat mean? What does Religious Affairs mean? At least you could name it "The affairs of Deen", what is Diyanat? And now they are in a state of hesitation. The Republic of Turkey is now a state of 90 millions but it is not with quantity. The way a state appears & shows itself should express majesty. Ottomans were Majestic. The state which stands in the place of the Ottomans now has no majesty. If they have, they may come out & show their majesty. They may march to Syria, march to Iraq, to Hijaz, which all belonged to us in the time of Caliph. When you throw away the Caliph, who listens to you? They don't even consider you as a doorman. So in old times, when it was Ramadan "Welcome O holy Ramadan, the month of Ramadan has arrived. Marhaban, O month of Mercy" they would welcome like this. Everyone would clean, arrange & make preparations, would know & keep the barakah & manners of this holy month. Who went astray would come to repent. Our mosques would get full. Our markets would refresh. Our young ones would gather. To sum up, places of fasad/corruption would be closed. It had grandeur. Now it has no grandeur. If there is no grandeur then Allah Almighty took away from you your majestic look. Turkey is a country of 90 million people but who respects us? We are begging to Sham
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"please stop." What does this mean? Sham is ours! Why should you beg? Do you not have soldiers? You have Turkish soldiers. March to them. Why do you keep Turkish soldiers waiting? Our army is to protect our religion, chastity, honour & land. They are on the wrong way but you can't tell them this. If you do, you are the one they will hate. To sum up, now there are people to preach in the mosques. They say a few words according to the instructions given to them, "don't speak beyond this. Watch yourself, or else you know what will happen to you". So they are telling stories. What kind of stories? I say a story, the people may laugh & take a lesson from it. And our sohbat today is close to this. The one who gave ijazah to this poor servant is Alasonyali Hoja Effendi, he was in Besiktas (Istanbul). His name was Haji Jamal Effendi. He would call people to the right way by telling nice stories. One day he said in his asr time sohbat: "O Muslims, today an astonishing thing happened". "What happened Hoja Effendi?" "Don't even ask, even I myself am astonished. Today is Ramadan. Yes. While I was going out from the door my wife, that she is like your mother, like your aunt, I said to her "O wife/khatun, today is Ramadan, don't offer anyone food". She said "I won't Hoja Effendi. Your order is above my head." When he is about leave, she calls after him "Hoja Effendi?" "Yes khatun, what happened?" "I forgot to ask you something." "What were you going to ask?" You ordered me to not give anyone anything to eat. So I will not give food to cats also?" "Subhan Allah! How many times I told you, animals don't fast! It is man who fasts. How many times I told you. Why don't you get it?" "Ok, I understand but I wanted to make sure it is ok to give to cats" "No khatun, fast is for man. Animals don't fast" And with this we end our sohbat today, he said. People were all laughing. To whom do you say this now? Who fasts? Cats are to fast, or man? Why man should not fast? If you are Muslim, why are you not fasting? If you are not Muslim, why do they bring your funeral to Muslim Cemetery, to mosque? They shouldn't bring! So there are such matters. Our short sohbat of today is like this. It means, there are many things to take lesson from. And I have reached this age, they ask me "Hoja Effendi, are you 50 years old?" "What 50? There is still time for 50. I am between 40 and 50." "Are you still sane?" "Any problem with my sanity? No. I have a sound mind, I know. Haven't you heard how I lectured my wife?! It means I have a sound mind. Therefore let this sohbat of today end like this."
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We have also aged. This story that we said is something that happened 70-80 years ago. May Allah grant us guidance & make us be in safety. May Allah grant us sound mind, under- standing, faith, good manners & respect. May we recite, learn & teach the Holy Quran, the Book of Allah. May we be accepted on Allah's side on the side of inhabitants of Heavens & earth. If not, who is not accepted on their side has no value. Where does he go to? To WC. They don't end up in a good place. Allah, tawba ya Rabbi, tawba ya Rabbi, tawba Astaghfirullah.
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