Maulana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani 2000 Sohbats 1979-2013 (296/777)
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ible. Neither the worlds nor the heaven can contain your Lord Almighty, only your heart, the hearts of the children of Adam contain it. This means there is no limit to your heart. Yet you are running after this temporary life's pleasures and you do not reach any of them because when you reach one, your eyes go to the second one. No time to take pleasure, enough pleasure, from this because the second one appears. When you move to reach the second, then a third one appears, saying, "Come to me. Leave that one and come to me." Then you put this one in your mouth but another says, "No, leave this and take that." And this is our life. You are tiring yourself to catch a pleasure but it is impossible to enjoy anything
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because so many are calling you, "Leave that one and come to me," and when you reach that, then another calls, "Come to me." No one is going to be in a state of enjoyment throughout his whole life, even if he may live eighty years, ninety years or more, particularly as each time he becomes more tired, and when your age increases your taste goes down, also, little-by-little. In this way you are leaving the true tastes which you can end within yourself, leaving them and running after something which is just an illusion. Now we are here. Where did all our life's pleasures go up to this day? All of them are finished. Nothing is left with us. Therefore, if we can use wisdom - not knowledge - if we can use wisdom - we must look to ourselves. When we look within ourselves, then we may look at the whole universe. Then you may look at, you may know about yourself. When you know about yourself, you are going to know about everyone else, also. When you are pleased with yourself, at the same time you are going to be pleased with everyone else. When your true personality appears, you will take care to respect yourself. We have also been commanded to respect ourselves because we have been honored by Divine Honors. Therefore you must respect yourself. How can you respect yourself? We say, 'We bear witness that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is the Servant and Messenger of God" (ash-shadu an la ilaha ill-Allah. wa ash-shadu anna Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasulahu). The Prophet (saws) also must bear witness to himself. He also said, "I bear witness that Muhammad is His Servant and His Messenger" (wa ana ashhadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasulahu). He had to proclaim the honor that he had been given by his Lord and say, "The Servant of God and His Messenger" (abd Allah wa rasulihi). Everyone of the children of Adam has to pro-claim that he has been honored by his Lord, Almighty God. That is one meaning that God Almighty commanded by saying, "And proclaim the favor of your Lord" (93:11) (wa ammo bi-ni'mati Rabbika fa- haddith). You must know what God Almighty gave you endless honors and glory. You must know this and you must respect yourself. There is a good saying among Arabs. when they are angry with someone or someone makes them angry, they say, "Maintain your honor!" (yahtanll nafu). What does that mean? When you are angry then I may do something that is against your honor. When two people are quarreling and insulting each other, the saying goes, "Maintain your honor," because if I begin, your honor goes down. "Maintain your honor." Everyone must keep respect for himself because he has been honored by his Lord, God Almighty.
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Then when he respects himself, he is going to keep respect for everyone else. That makes our Lord pleased with us. If you keep respect, everyone must keep respect for you, also. And if everyone keeps respect for you, you will keep respect for them, as well. Then all problems will find a solution among people. Everyone is going to be in satisfaction within himself. A sister was asking me today, "If we face a tyrannical person, doing so many cruelties, what are we going to do?" Yes, if you face Pharaoh - and you can find a lot of pharaohs in our time, I mean to say tyrants, because our time is the period of tyrants, and tyrants are worse than dictators. Tyrants are like Nero. He gave the order to burn Rome so that he could see the city burn and take pleasure in it. The Prophet (saws) described our time as the time of tyrants - not dictators, but tyrants like Nero saying, "Tyrants and after monarchy will come the tyrants" (Jababirah. Wa mirl ba'd al-muluk al-jababimttm). They have fallen into the dirt and as long as their bad actions remain, they must be in dirtiness. God Almighty created seven hells for purifying every impurity that comes upon the children of Adam. That cleaning, that purification, may be during his life. God Almighty Purifies His servants through every means - every suffering, misery, every trouble - purifies them. Then if that is not enough for them, there will be further purification in the grave. If that is not enough, it will be on the Day of Resurrection. If it is still not enough, they will go into hellfire to be purified. And if it is all right, they may come out. If not yet enough, they may stay more and more and more, up to eternity. And for eternity - He knows about the people of hellfire. When God Almighty orders, purification ends. No one may object. Hujjaj was a well known tyrant who made hills out of the heads of people. He died, and then he was seen in a dream, saying, "For each one of the people I killed, I have been killed, also, this for this, and for just one Companion, Ibn Zubayr, may God be pleased with him, for that one alone, seventy times."6 Yes. God Almighty will never leave him alone. There must be purification, according to our impure actions. Now, every night in our countries there are advertisements for washing powders; Every night I look. This one is the best. That one is the best, making dirty clothes very clean, Yes, big machines in hellfire to make you clean, very pure. Therefore, you may do everything. You are free. But you must know that at some time you will be caught. No one can escape. Everyone must come to that door to pass through it. Then, "Come here, come here!" Hujjaj thought it was alright to order, "Cut off his head! cut off that other head!" But then he
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said, "For each of them, my head has been cut off once, and for that one Companion alone, seventy times." Yes. Therefore you are free to do everything, but He says, "I will give you free will. Do everything, but if you make yourselves dirty, there will be washing." Now, no one enters paradise except clean people - the pure. They will be bought from hellfire, burned bodies. There are two oceans, springs, at the entrance of paradise. Burned people will come from hellfire and be thrown into one of those springs. They will come out with beauty like that of Prophet Joseph (as). Then they will come and drink from the second spring, and every dirty characteristic of their egos, envy and others, will go away, and the Prophet's (saws ) good attributes will replace them. They will become perfect in beauty and character. Then paradise will open to them and say, "Welcome." Up to that point, too much washing; no one can enter paradise if they have not been purified. Therefore, the one who has been given wisdom looks at people and respects them and feels pity for them, because they are in need of purification. He feels respect and pity towards everyone, particularly sinners. The eyes of knowledge, however, look at them in a different way. They curse them and if they can they take revenge on them, they do so. Therefore, wisdom cares more about everyone and wants to bring them under Mercy Oceans, while knowledge's eyes sees them as sinners and wants to punish them. Divine punishment is also a mercy for sinners, to clean them, to purify them. Thus Islam, true faith, looks at all people and sees them as respectable and honored creatures and as candidates to be vicegerents of God Almighty. If they are clean, pure human beings, then God Almighty crowns them with His Divine crowns, and no one except the children of Adam have been given that honor. You must respect yourself and keep respect for everyone. Don't say, "That is a sinner, that is an unbeliever, that is a Christian, that is a Jew, that is a Buddhist, that is anything else." Their actions may be of any kind but they have been honored and their Lord wants to purify them. God Almighty never leaves His servants permanently in the hands of their egos or in the hands of Satan. Haqq, Truth, Reality is going to destroy the kingdom of Satan. It must be destroyed, finished and vanish. 03.06.1985
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4188 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: HowICanMakeMyLordHappyWithMe
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“How can I make my Lord to be happy with me?”
Oh, ya Rabbi! Tauba, ya Rabbi, Tauba, ya Rabbi Tauba, ya Rabbi, Astaghfirullah! Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, ya Rabbi, Alhamdulillah! As-salamu alaikum! May Allah forgive you, forgive me! Ask forgiveness, because forgiveness (is) carrying blessings. If you are not going to be forgiven, no blessings (is) coming. As-salamu alaikum! Don’t forget Salam. People they forget it and then coming that violence. (For the) violence on people, that is the reason: that they forget to say ‘As-salamu alaikum’. Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim. Shaitan (is) making people not to use ‘As-salamu alaikum’. They are using so many nonsense addressing to people, (but the) most valuable addressing, if two believers (are) coming together, (is) to say: “As-salamu alaikum” and coming blessings, when we are saying ‘As-salamu alaikum’. Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim. Allah Almighty protects you and
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makes (us not) to fall into (the) traps of Shaitan. Shaitan (is) putting everywhere a trap and its main target (is) to make people to fall in (its) trap. And we are saying, not to fall in it: “Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim! O our Lord, You know, what he is doing!” and Allah Almighty (is) addressing to His servants: “O My servants, don’t sleep, don’t be heedless, don’t forget that Shaitan your most dangerous enemy for you, trying to make it (‘As-salamu alaikum’) to be forgetting, to be forgotten!” Shaitan (is) making his last effort, ‘jah’, to make people to forget his traps and Shaitan (is) using thousands of tricks to make the Children of Adam to fall in (its) trap. Bismillahir Rahmani Rahim. When you are saying ‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim’, then you should be under heavenly Protection. ‘Bismillahir Rahmani Rahim’ (is) protecting you! Destur, ya Sayyidi, ya Sultanu-l Awliya! Don’t forget (the) beloved servants of Allah! Run after them, to find them!... Ceylon people, they are here, some of them… and it is (a) famous place for precious stones, but I don’t think that that precious stones (are) so easily found, no, (it is) so difficult to find a piece of Ruby or Sapphire, so many kinds of valuable stones. Perhaps they are digging such a big place and asking, asking to find a small stone- it is so difficult, yes? Easily you can find it? Easily you can find (a) shell, but (it is) so difficult to find (a) pearl in (a) shell. Therefore- those people, whom they are for Allah, whom they are working for Allah, their only main target or their main thinking (is): “How I can do my Lord to be happy with me?” You may do so many movements every day. Grandsheikh- Allah bless him- was saying that a person (is) going to be under 24.000 different
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appearances; (they are) just appearing from him. This is for everyone and you must try to catch, which one of that appearances (are) making you to be closer to (the) divinely Presence or you must think that which effort should be much more precious in (the) divinely Presence. Those precious people, whom they are living for Allah- they are working for Allah, and they are passing away for Allah, their full efforts (are) for Allah- those people, they are under divinely Protection; they are pearls, they are diamonds, they are rubies, they are emeralds, but (it is) so difficult to find them, to find such a people. People now they are not servants, but slaves for their physical being desires. They are thinking nothing else, they are trying to fulfill their physical desires as much as possible, forever. They like to give their whole efforts and whole their physical being to ask a pleasure for their physical being. One day people (are) going to be reached to their last day; that day is (an) important day, because you are leaving this life for another life, unknown. You may know about that through (the) Prophets declarations, you may know something, but “…laysa-l khabar ka-l ayam (?)…”- don’t think that to hear something is going to be like you are seeing something! You may hear for example (about the) Raudatu-n Nabi sws, you may hear about the House of Lord, Baitullah, (and) you may be in such a deeply desire to see it and to kiss it and to be there, but you are here! You have such a deeply desire, but when you are going and reaching there, you should find another atmosphere, because you are looking, seeing: that is (the) House of Lord and this is a building (that) just (has been) built by Abraham and Ismail a.s. That is (the) Holy Kaaba, the House of Lord, that whole Prophets they were going around it and our Prophet, S.Muhammad sws, he was making Tawaf, going around (it), and
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saying: “O our Lord, forgive us! O our Lord, give to us from Your endless Blessings Oceans!” When you are looking, it is not (the) same that you are hearing. And everyone now they are hearing that there is a Last Day coming, but don’t think that… what you are going to see (at your) last breathing that your breathing (is) finishing, should be your view, your understanding and looking, so… some… a new creation that you never had been through that unknown territories. Should be for some people so big happiness and for some others big grief… sorry, they should be so sorry. Some people should be happy and so many people they are going to be unhappy. Therefore, o people, now you are doing something, you are running after something, but you must try to know, after which thing you are running, if it is valuable or not. Even if (it) may be valuable treasures, countless treasures, but it is going to be nothing, when you are reaching to the entrance of Eternity. Eternity! So beautiful world for mankind, to see, to hear- eternity! Oh, so refreshment coming to the hearts of people, to know that they are going to reach to eternity! Everending Life, everending Beauty Oceans, everending Life Oceans, everending Kemal, Perfection Oceans, everending Blessings Oceans! What is here? Nothing! Therefore we are saying: Ask blessings here; if blessings (are) reaching to you, (they are) making you happy here and Hereafter! When you are reaching (the) last breath of your life, you should find another opening that you never touched it, you never see it, you (were) never tasting from it! O people, look! Here so many coming to me ill people. Now perhaps you saw someone outside… and he was so strong person and good looking person, but today it is so difficult to recognize him and to be with
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him. He is going to finish... May be that person millionaire or billionaire or trillionaire- now you are looking he is going to finish, finish… melting, melting… Step by step, breathing after breathing he is coming down… May be for him here treasures, never (they are) giving to him anything, because his body (is) just getting older, his physical being (is) going to finish. And he was not at the beginning in such a way, he was (a) fresh one, now he is (an) old one, asking to leave and to go… O people, coming for everyone one day, one hour, that he is going to ask: “O my Lord, not yet I am going to carry this heavy burden of my physical being, take my soul!” Should ask people finally to say: “Take from me that physical heaviness, physical being, o my Lord! I am asking to reach to my spiritual being”, but if a person (is) not preparing himself through this life, it is not going to be easy to leave this old building and to run into another, (an) everending being, no, it is not going to be easy! Now such a person (is) asking to be much more to be here, not to die. But if a person may know what it is prepared for him after this life, if his life was (a) so suitable life for respecting (the) Holy Orders of Heavens, he is not going to be in such a way, no, it is not going to be trouble for him, when he is leaving his physical being. It is going to be such a person (that) his clothes (are) just becoming old and someone (is) coming and taking from him that old suits and bringing to him (new clothes, saying): “Leave this and dress this!” That is happiness for mankind and that is honour that he should be dressed (a) dress of honour, when he is passing away from (the) material life to their spiritual world, (the) spiritual life. But people now they are drunk; even Muslims they are leaving (the) good understanding of (the) Prophets speeches and what (the) Holy Quran (is)
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teaching them and giving them and they are running for (their) physical beings’ desires. It is a blame for Muslims to run after their physical desires that (are) giving (you pleasure) only, when you are eating, when you are drinking… (Then) you are feeling something, you are tasting something, but it is in a very short time, (in a) short time, (it) can’t be forever. And therefore, if a person (is) not asking for his spiritual being and its tasting, he should be (in his) last moment, when he is passing from this temporary life to permanent life, those people whom they were occupied themselves only for tasting foods that make their physical being happy, when they are reaching last moment of their life, they should ask eating. Asking: “Eat eat eat!”… and some of them asking: “Water, water, water!”… and (the) doctors (are) saying: “Don’t give to him water!” “Ya Hu, that person (is) dying”, (but the) doctor (is) saying: “No, even (he is) dying, don’t give water”, and he is passing away hungry and thirsty. Because he (is) accustomed through his life to taste their lives pleasure through eating and drinking, when it is cut off, they should feel or they should fall in such a terrible position that (even) when you are giving to them big rivers (of) water to run through their mouth, they yet should ask: “Oh, I am thirsty, I am thirsty!” “Ya Hu, (a) river (is) running through your mouth!” That taste finished and (they are) asking something for eternal. O people, run after eternity! Through eternity you should find everending pleasure; without eating, without drinking, you should reach eternal pleasure. That, your physical being, (is) just getting older and finishing; when (it is) finishing, (they are) taking your physical being to (the) graveyard, putting (it) in it. That you may put on it rivers, yet he is asking: “I am thirsty, I am thirsty… or: “I am hungry, I am hungry… I (am) never getting satisfied with such a things, I am asking something else!” Yes, something else means, you are asking eternal
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pleasure for eating and drinking, when you lost it, finished… May Allah forgive us! O people, this is only an advice for every living creature, particularly for man that they are understanding about death, but they are running against their desires, leaving (the) real satisfaction and running in another way. Some knowledge that (is) reaching from (the) Prophets to me also, (is), that if animals (were) knowing about death, you are going not find anything on their bones; they should keep themselves from eating and drinking. (But) they are not knowing, therefore they are eating and drinking, even they are going to be carried for slaughtering… If (they were) knowing, they are keeping themselves not to drink not to eat. But mankind they are knowing, but they are eating and drinking. May Allah forgive us! O people, ask forgiveness and ask Allah Almighty’s Grant from His endless Mercy Oceans to reach to you or you to reach to that oceans to be in endless pleasure, endless blessings. May Allah forgive us and give to you good understanding and good working, good service for Allah Almighty. Don’t forget Him! Don’t forget Him, but try to remind (remember) Allah Almighty. Therefore Tariqats (are) urging people to say as much as more: Allah Allah Allah… Allah Allah Allah… Allah Allah Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… Subhan Allah, Sultan Allah… Subhan Allah, Sultan Allah… Subhan Sensin, Sultan Sensin…, Subhan Sensin, Sultan Sensin, ya Allah! For the honor of most honored most praised servant in His divinely Presence, S.Muhammad sws, Fatiha. Lefke, 19.08.2007
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4196 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: HowNotToBehurtInWar
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HOW NOT TO BE HURT IN THE WAR
Do you think that the photograph of a person is the same as the person? Do you think that if you are married and someone gives you a poster of your wife and locks her away, that it will make you happy? Can a photograph ever be a substitute for a human being? Never! In the same way, whenever you are translating into another language it is like a photograph from one side. Don't think that it is like, "Bismillah irachman irachim..." even if it looks like it. Still it is not, "Bismillah irachman irachim". We are only people who are here to remind. The Holy Quran includes everything. For every occasion and for every difficult situation, the Holy Quran has a treatment and a solution. It is coming to my heart to speak about what is happening to the Muslims in Serendib, Ceylon, Sri Lanka. We must believe that even the fly cannot move its wing without Allah Almighty knowing it and wanting it. Do you believe that? The Creator knows where it is going, because He is sending it. That means that every movement is known by Allah Almighty. He has exact knowledge of every direction. You only know one direction, Allah knows every direction. Perfect knowledge belongs to Allah Almighty. Do you think that anything happens without a reason? No! Do you think that Allah doesn't know those people who are claiming to be Tigers? Insha'allah the Tigers will eat them. Sometimes the dua of one person can save a country from the beginning to the end. Do you think that Allah Almighty doesn't know what is
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happening in the north of Ceylon? He knows. If He did not let it happen, those Tigers would not be able to attack. It means, when they are chased away from their homes, that there is a punishment coming on them. They have fallen from the station of honour to the station of dishonour. Allah Almighty warns with two verses in the Holy Quran, "This world can be for us today and for someone else tomorrow. Nothing is fixed for anyone or any nation." Maybe you know the history of India and Ceylon. So many Sultans, Emperors and Kings came and changed it into so many nations and then went again. Now you are here, you are not people from the outside. You are either Tamils or Sengalese. Muslims are living together. What is the reason that those Sengalese people are chased away? It can be one or another, it doesn't matter. What is important is to find a safe way and a protection for our Muslim brothers in that area. I don't like to take weapons and to kill people, because we don't like to be killed! Because we are peaceful people. Muslims must be peaceful and we are citizens of a government and officially it is forbidden to carry weapons. That is why I don't advice you to carry weapons. Mostly weapons bring worst results for people. The Holy Quran says that Allah Almighty never will punish a community as long as they are with the Prophet sws. Just like He will never punish a nation as long as they are asking for forgiveness. The meaning of those verses is now becoming clear. The Prophet sws. has now passed away, but every meeting which is being held for the honour of the Prophet sws. will have his spiritual body present with them. If people are not on that level, then one holy person, as a representative of the Prophet sws. must be there and he will take that curse away. It means that if those people would make a short maulid for the honour of the Prophet sws., even if it is just for 10 minutes, and they will sleep in safety. After each of the 5 prayers they should make salawat and they would be protected. If they are not believing in this, if they are Wahabis or Tabliq Jamat, they can end up in the Indian Ocean. That is the method without weapons, because Allah Almighty says that if you are with the Prophet, no harm can come on you. You will be sheltered. You must give respect to the Prophet. Only He can change the hearts of the Tigers from one side to another. Believe and you will be in safety. If you don't believe, then try as best as you can to save yourself. May Allah give us strong faith to believe and to understand to follow the Prophet sws.
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ible. Neither the worlds nor the heaven can contain your Lord Almighty, only your heart, the hearts of the children of Adam contain it. This means there is no limit to your heart. Yet you are running after this temporary life's pleasures and you do not reach any of them because when you reach one, your eyes go to the second one. No time to take pleasure, enough pleasure, from this because the second one appears. When you move to reach the second, then a third one appears, saying, "Come to me. Leave that one and come to me." Then you put this one in your mouth but another says, "No, leave this and take that." And this is our life. You are tiring yourself to catch a pleasure but it is impossible to enjoy anything
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because so many are calling you, "Leave that one and come to me," and when you reach that, then another calls, "Come to me." No one is going to be in a state of enjoyment throughout his whole life, even if he may live eighty years, ninety years or more, particularly as each time he becomes more tired, and when your age increases your taste goes down, also, little-by-little. In this way you are leaving the true tastes which you can end within yourself, leaving them and running after something which is just an illusion. Now we are here. Where did all our life's pleasures go up to this day? All of them are finished. Nothing is left with us. Therefore, if we can use wisdom - not knowledge - if we can use wisdom - we must look to ourselves. When we look within ourselves, then we may look at the whole universe. Then you may look at, you may know about yourself. When you know about yourself, you are going to know about everyone else, also. When you are pleased with yourself, at the same time you are going to be pleased with everyone else. When your true personality appears, you will take care to respect yourself. We have also been commanded to respect ourselves because we have been honored by Divine Honors. Therefore you must respect yourself. How can you respect yourself? We say, 'We bear witness that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is the Servant and Messenger of God" (ash-shadu an la ilaha ill-Allah. wa ash-shadu anna Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasulahu). The Prophet (saws) also must bear witness to himself. He also said, "I bear witness that Muhammad is His Servant and His Messenger" (wa ana ashhadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasulahu). He had to proclaim the honor that he had been given by his Lord and say, "The Servant of God and His Messenger" (abd Allah wa rasulihi). Everyone of the children of Adam has to pro-claim that he has been honored by his Lord, Almighty God. That is one meaning that God Almighty commanded by saying, "And proclaim the favor of your Lord" (93:11) (wa ammo bi-ni'mati Rabbika fa- haddith). You must know what God Almighty gave you endless honors and glory. You must know this and you must respect yourself. There is a good saying among Arabs. when they are angry with someone or someone makes them angry, they say, "Maintain your honor!" (yahtanll nafu). What does that mean? When you are angry then I may do something that is against your honor. When two people are quarreling and insulting each other, the saying goes, "Maintain your honor," because if I begin, your honor goes down. "Maintain your honor." Everyone must keep respect for himself because he has been honored by his Lord, God Almighty.
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Then when he respects himself, he is going to keep respect for everyone else. That makes our Lord pleased with us. If you keep respect, everyone must keep respect for you, also. And if everyone keeps respect for you, you will keep respect for them, as well. Then all problems will find a solution among people. Everyone is going to be in satisfaction within himself. A sister was asking me today, "If we face a tyrannical person, doing so many cruelties, what are we going to do?" Yes, if you face Pharaoh - and you can find a lot of pharaohs in our time, I mean to say tyrants, because our time is the period of tyrants, and tyrants are worse than dictators. Tyrants are like Nero. He gave the order to burn Rome so that he could see the city burn and take pleasure in it. The Prophet (saws) described our time as the time of tyrants - not dictators, but tyrants like Nero saying, "Tyrants and after monarchy will come the tyrants" (Jababirah. Wa mirl ba'd al-muluk al-jababimttm). They have fallen into the dirt and as long as their bad actions remain, they must be in dirtiness. God Almighty created seven hells for purifying every impurity that comes upon the children of Adam. That cleaning, that purification, may be during his life. God Almighty Purifies His servants through every means - every suffering, misery, every trouble - purifies them. Then if that is not enough for them, there will be further purification in the grave. If that is not enough, it will be on the Day of Resurrection. If it is still not enough, they will go into hellfire to be purified. And if it is all right, they may come out. If not yet enough, they may stay more and more and more, up to eternity. And for eternity - He knows about the people of hellfire. When God Almighty orders, purification ends. No one may object. Hujjaj was a well known tyrant who made hills out of the heads of people. He died, and then he was seen in a dream, saying, "For each one of the people I killed, I have been killed, also, this for this, and for just one Companion, Ibn Zubayr, may God be pleased with him, for that one alone, seventy times."6 Yes. God Almighty will never leave him alone. There must be purification, according to our impure actions. Now, every night in our countries there are advertisements for washing powders; Every night I look. This one is the best. That one is the best, making dirty clothes very clean, Yes, big machines in hellfire to make you clean, very pure. Therefore, you may do everything. You are free. But you must know that at some time you will be caught. No one can escape. Everyone must come to that door to pass through it. Then, "Come here, come here!" Hujjaj thought it was alright to order, "Cut off his head! cut off that other head!" But then he
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said, "For each of them, my head has been cut off once, and for that one Companion alone, seventy times." Yes. Therefore you are free to do everything, but He says, "I will give you free will. Do everything, but if you make yourselves dirty, there will be washing." Now, no one enters paradise except clean people - the pure. They will be bought from hellfire, burned bodies. There are two oceans, springs, at the entrance of paradise. Burned people will come from hellfire and be thrown into one of those springs. They will come out with beauty like that of Prophet Joseph (as). Then they will come and drink from the second spring, and every dirty characteristic of their egos, envy and others, will go away, and the Prophet's (saws ) good attributes will replace them. They will become perfect in beauty and character. Then paradise will open to them and say, "Welcome." Up to that point, too much washing; no one can enter paradise if they have not been purified. Therefore, the one who has been given wisdom looks at people and respects them and feels pity for them, because they are in need of purification. He feels respect and pity towards everyone, particularly sinners. The eyes of knowledge, however, look at them in a different way. They curse them and if they can they take revenge on them, they do so. Therefore, wisdom cares more about everyone and wants to bring them under Mercy Oceans, while knowledge's eyes sees them as sinners and wants to punish them. Divine punishment is also a mercy for sinners, to clean them, to purify them. Thus Islam, true faith, looks at all people and sees them as respectable and honored creatures and as candidates to be vicegerents of God Almighty. If they are clean, pure human beings, then God Almighty crowns them with His Divine crowns, and no one except the children of Adam have been given that honor. You must respect yourself and keep respect for everyone. Don't say, "That is a sinner, that is an unbeliever, that is a Christian, that is a Jew, that is a Buddhist, that is anything else." Their actions may be of any kind but they have been honored and their Lord wants to purify them. God Almighty never leaves His servants permanently in the hands of their egos or in the hands of Satan. Haqq, Truth, Reality is going to destroy the kingdom of Satan. It must be destroyed, finished and vanish. 03.06.1985
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BookTheDivineKingdomVolume1, CategoryOppression, CategoryPurification, CategoryParadise
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4188 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: HowICanMakeMyLordHappyWithMe
Maulana Sheikh Nazim : HowICanMakeMyLordHappyWithMe
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“How can I make my Lord to be happy with me?”
Oh, ya Rabbi! Tauba, ya Rabbi, Tauba, ya Rabbi Tauba, ya Rabbi, Astaghfirullah! Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, ya Rabbi, Alhamdulillah! As-salamu alaikum! May Allah forgive you, forgive me! Ask forgiveness, because forgiveness (is) carrying blessings. If you are not going to be forgiven, no blessings (is) coming. As-salamu alaikum! Don’t forget Salam. People they forget it and then coming that violence. (For the) violence on people, that is the reason: that they forget to say ‘As-salamu alaikum’. Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim. Shaitan (is) making people not to use ‘As-salamu alaikum’. They are using so many nonsense addressing to people, (but the) most valuable addressing, if two believers (are) coming together, (is) to say: “As-salamu alaikum” and coming blessings, when we are saying ‘As-salamu alaikum’. Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim. Allah Almighty protects you and
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makes (us not) to fall into (the) traps of Shaitan. Shaitan (is) putting everywhere a trap and its main target (is) to make people to fall in (its) trap. And we are saying, not to fall in it: “Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim! O our Lord, You know, what he is doing!” and Allah Almighty (is) addressing to His servants: “O My servants, don’t sleep, don’t be heedless, don’t forget that Shaitan your most dangerous enemy for you, trying to make it (‘As-salamu alaikum’) to be forgetting, to be forgotten!” Shaitan (is) making his last effort, ‘jah’, to make people to forget his traps and Shaitan (is) using thousands of tricks to make the Children of Adam to fall in (its) trap. Bismillahir Rahmani Rahim. When you are saying ‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim’, then you should be under heavenly Protection. ‘Bismillahir Rahmani Rahim’ (is) protecting you! Destur, ya Sayyidi, ya Sultanu-l Awliya! Don’t forget (the) beloved servants of Allah! Run after them, to find them!... Ceylon people, they are here, some of them… and it is (a) famous place for precious stones, but I don’t think that that precious stones (are) so easily found, no, (it is) so difficult to find a piece of Ruby or Sapphire, so many kinds of valuable stones. Perhaps they are digging such a big place and asking, asking to find a small stone- it is so difficult, yes? Easily you can find it? Easily you can find (a) shell, but (it is) so difficult to find (a) pearl in (a) shell. Therefore- those people, whom they are for Allah, whom they are working for Allah, their only main target or their main thinking (is): “How I can do my Lord to be happy with me?” You may do so many movements every day. Grandsheikh- Allah bless him- was saying that a person (is) going to be under 24.000 different
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appearances; (they are) just appearing from him. This is for everyone and you must try to catch, which one of that appearances (are) making you to be closer to (the) divinely Presence or you must think that which effort should be much more precious in (the) divinely Presence. Those precious people, whom they are living for Allah- they are working for Allah, and they are passing away for Allah, their full efforts (are) for Allah- those people, they are under divinely Protection; they are pearls, they are diamonds, they are rubies, they are emeralds, but (it is) so difficult to find them, to find such a people. People now they are not servants, but slaves for their physical being desires. They are thinking nothing else, they are trying to fulfill their physical desires as much as possible, forever. They like to give their whole efforts and whole their physical being to ask a pleasure for their physical being. One day people (are) going to be reached to their last day; that day is (an) important day, because you are leaving this life for another life, unknown. You may know about that through (the) Prophets declarations, you may know something, but “…laysa-l khabar ka-l ayam (?)…”- don’t think that to hear something is going to be like you are seeing something! You may hear for example (about the) Raudatu-n Nabi sws, you may hear about the House of Lord, Baitullah, (and) you may be in such a deeply desire to see it and to kiss it and to be there, but you are here! You have such a deeply desire, but when you are going and reaching there, you should find another atmosphere, because you are looking, seeing: that is (the) House of Lord and this is a building (that) just (has been) built by Abraham and Ismail a.s. That is (the) Holy Kaaba, the House of Lord, that whole Prophets they were going around it and our Prophet, S.Muhammad sws, he was making Tawaf, going around (it), and
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saying: “O our Lord, forgive us! O our Lord, give to us from Your endless Blessings Oceans!” When you are looking, it is not (the) same that you are hearing. And everyone now they are hearing that there is a Last Day coming, but don’t think that… what you are going to see (at your) last breathing that your breathing (is) finishing, should be your view, your understanding and looking, so… some… a new creation that you never had been through that unknown territories. Should be for some people so big happiness and for some others big grief… sorry, they should be so sorry. Some people should be happy and so many people they are going to be unhappy. Therefore, o people, now you are doing something, you are running after something, but you must try to know, after which thing you are running, if it is valuable or not. Even if (it) may be valuable treasures, countless treasures, but it is going to be nothing, when you are reaching to the entrance of Eternity. Eternity! So beautiful world for mankind, to see, to hear- eternity! Oh, so refreshment coming to the hearts of people, to know that they are going to reach to eternity! Everending Life, everending Beauty Oceans, everending Life Oceans, everending Kemal, Perfection Oceans, everending Blessings Oceans! What is here? Nothing! Therefore we are saying: Ask blessings here; if blessings (are) reaching to you, (they are) making you happy here and Hereafter! When you are reaching (the) last breath of your life, you should find another opening that you never touched it, you never see it, you (were) never tasting from it! O people, look! Here so many coming to me ill people. Now perhaps you saw someone outside… and he was so strong person and good looking person, but today it is so difficult to recognize him and to be with
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him. He is going to finish... May be that person millionaire or billionaire or trillionaire- now you are looking he is going to finish, finish… melting, melting… Step by step, breathing after breathing he is coming down… May be for him here treasures, never (they are) giving to him anything, because his body (is) just getting older, his physical being (is) going to finish. And he was not at the beginning in such a way, he was (a) fresh one, now he is (an) old one, asking to leave and to go… O people, coming for everyone one day, one hour, that he is going to ask: “O my Lord, not yet I am going to carry this heavy burden of my physical being, take my soul!” Should ask people finally to say: “Take from me that physical heaviness, physical being, o my Lord! I am asking to reach to my spiritual being”, but if a person (is) not preparing himself through this life, it is not going to be easy to leave this old building and to run into another, (an) everending being, no, it is not going to be easy! Now such a person (is) asking to be much more to be here, not to die. But if a person may know what it is prepared for him after this life, if his life was (a) so suitable life for respecting (the) Holy Orders of Heavens, he is not going to be in such a way, no, it is not going to be trouble for him, when he is leaving his physical being. It is going to be such a person (that) his clothes (are) just becoming old and someone (is) coming and taking from him that old suits and bringing to him (new clothes, saying): “Leave this and dress this!” That is happiness for mankind and that is honour that he should be dressed (a) dress of honour, when he is passing away from (the) material life to their spiritual world, (the) spiritual life. But people now they are drunk; even Muslims they are leaving (the) good understanding of (the) Prophets speeches and what (the) Holy Quran (is)
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teaching them and giving them and they are running for (their) physical beings’ desires. It is a blame for Muslims to run after their physical desires that (are) giving (you pleasure) only, when you are eating, when you are drinking… (Then) you are feeling something, you are tasting something, but it is in a very short time, (in a) short time, (it) can’t be forever. And therefore, if a person (is) not asking for his spiritual being and its tasting, he should be (in his) last moment, when he is passing from this temporary life to permanent life, those people whom they were occupied themselves only for tasting foods that make their physical being happy, when they are reaching last moment of their life, they should ask eating. Asking: “Eat eat eat!”… and some of them asking: “Water, water, water!”… and (the) doctors (are) saying: “Don’t give to him water!” “Ya Hu, that person (is) dying”, (but the) doctor (is) saying: “No, even (he is) dying, don’t give water”, and he is passing away hungry and thirsty. Because he (is) accustomed through his life to taste their lives pleasure through eating and drinking, when it is cut off, they should feel or they should fall in such a terrible position that (even) when you are giving to them big rivers (of) water to run through their mouth, they yet should ask: “Oh, I am thirsty, I am thirsty!” “Ya Hu, (a) river (is) running through your mouth!” That taste finished and (they are) asking something for eternal. O people, run after eternity! Through eternity you should find everending pleasure; without eating, without drinking, you should reach eternal pleasure. That, your physical being, (is) just getting older and finishing; when (it is) finishing, (they are) taking your physical being to (the) graveyard, putting (it) in it. That you may put on it rivers, yet he is asking: “I am thirsty, I am thirsty… or: “I am hungry, I am hungry… I (am) never getting satisfied with such a things, I am asking something else!” Yes, something else means, you are asking eternal
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pleasure for eating and drinking, when you lost it, finished… May Allah forgive us! O people, this is only an advice for every living creature, particularly for man that they are understanding about death, but they are running against their desires, leaving (the) real satisfaction and running in another way. Some knowledge that (is) reaching from (the) Prophets to me also, (is), that if animals (were) knowing about death, you are going not find anything on their bones; they should keep themselves from eating and drinking. (But) they are not knowing, therefore they are eating and drinking, even they are going to be carried for slaughtering… If (they were) knowing, they are keeping themselves not to drink not to eat. But mankind they are knowing, but they are eating and drinking. May Allah forgive us! O people, ask forgiveness and ask Allah Almighty’s Grant from His endless Mercy Oceans to reach to you or you to reach to that oceans to be in endless pleasure, endless blessings. May Allah forgive us and give to you good understanding and good working, good service for Allah Almighty. Don’t forget Him! Don’t forget Him, but try to remind (remember) Allah Almighty. Therefore Tariqats (are) urging people to say as much as more: Allah Allah Allah… Allah Allah Allah… Allah Allah Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… La ilaha ill-Allah… Subhan Allah, Sultan Allah… Subhan Allah, Sultan Allah… Subhan Sensin, Sultan Sensin…, Subhan Sensin, Sultan Sensin, ya Allah! For the honor of most honored most praised servant in His divinely Presence, S.Muhammad sws, Fatiha. Lefke, 19.08.2007
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Transcribed by Khairiyah Siegel
BookKhairiyahSiegel, CategoryFood
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4196 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: HowNotToBehurtInWar
Maulana Sheikh Nazim : HowNotToBehurtInWar
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HOW NOT TO BE HURT IN THE WAR
Do you think that the photograph of a person is the same as the person? Do you think that if you are married and someone gives you a poster of your wife and locks her away, that it will make you happy? Can a photograph ever be a substitute for a human being? Never! In the same way, whenever you are translating into another language it is like a photograph from one side. Don't think that it is like, "Bismillah irachman irachim..." even if it looks like it. Still it is not, "Bismillah irachman irachim". We are only people who are here to remind. The Holy Quran includes everything. For every occasion and for every difficult situation, the Holy Quran has a treatment and a solution. It is coming to my heart to speak about what is happening to the Muslims in Serendib, Ceylon, Sri Lanka. We must believe that even the fly cannot move its wing without Allah Almighty knowing it and wanting it. Do you believe that? The Creator knows where it is going, because He is sending it. That means that every movement is known by Allah Almighty. He has exact knowledge of every direction. You only know one direction, Allah knows every direction. Perfect knowledge belongs to Allah Almighty. Do you think that anything happens without a reason? No! Do you think that Allah doesn't know those people who are claiming to be Tigers? Insha'allah the Tigers will eat them. Sometimes the dua of one person can save a country from the beginning to the end. Do you think that Allah Almighty doesn't know what is
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happening in the north of Ceylon? He knows. If He did not let it happen, those Tigers would not be able to attack. It means, when they are chased away from their homes, that there is a punishment coming on them. They have fallen from the station of honour to the station of dishonour. Allah Almighty warns with two verses in the Holy Quran, "This world can be for us today and for someone else tomorrow. Nothing is fixed for anyone or any nation." Maybe you know the history of India and Ceylon. So many Sultans, Emperors and Kings came and changed it into so many nations and then went again. Now you are here, you are not people from the outside. You are either Tamils or Sengalese. Muslims are living together. What is the reason that those Sengalese people are chased away? It can be one or another, it doesn't matter. What is important is to find a safe way and a protection for our Muslim brothers in that area. I don't like to take weapons and to kill people, because we don't like to be killed! Because we are peaceful people. Muslims must be peaceful and we are citizens of a government and officially it is forbidden to carry weapons. That is why I don't advice you to carry weapons. Mostly weapons bring worst results for people. The Holy Quran says that Allah Almighty never will punish a community as long as they are with the Prophet sws. Just like He will never punish a nation as long as they are asking for forgiveness. The meaning of those verses is now becoming clear. The Prophet sws. has now passed away, but every meeting which is being held for the honour of the Prophet sws. will have his spiritual body present with them. If people are not on that level, then one holy person, as a representative of the Prophet sws. must be there and he will take that curse away. It means that if those people would make a short maulid for the honour of the Prophet sws., even if it is just for 10 minutes, and they will sleep in safety. After each of the 5 prayers they should make salawat and they would be protected. If they are not believing in this, if they are Wahabis or Tabliq Jamat, they can end up in the Indian Ocean. That is the method without weapons, because Allah Almighty says that if you are with the Prophet, no harm can come on you. You will be sheltered. You must give respect to the Prophet. Only He can change the hearts of the Tigers from one side to another. Believe and you will be in safety. If you don't believe, then try as best as you can to save yourself. May Allah give us strong faith to believe and to understand to follow the Prophet sws.
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