Maulana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani 2000 Sohbats 1979-2013 (386/777)
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aking noor, lights from them. Everyone is reaching them, or one of them; they are like magnets. Every prophet and saint is carrying their ummah or carrying their followers. All Grandshaykhs have that; people running after them to reach to those lights. Therefore, the most important mission of prophets is to give Divine Love. When divine love comes, they will be happy (to fulfill) any order. They will be happy! Orders are never going to be a burden on them. Who loves, never feels a difficulty when he has been ordered by his Beloved one. When a person is in love with
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their Lord and with the Lord's beloved servant, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), they are happy and are in enjoyment with the Lord's orders. Rab`ia al-`Adawiyya (q), one woman, one lady, was from 1300 years ago. Her name is always being remembered. Her name is very well known and has been spoken of her. So many emperors and sultans died and are now finished but her name is still living; and she was a lady. And through the Islamic world, through Muslims, I don't think that whoever is interested in their religion, has not heard about her. Everyone from east and west, now and before, is mentioning her. She is saying, "O my Lord, I am not that one who is worshiping You fearing from Hells or for Your Paradise, but I am worshiping You for Your love. For Your love! I love You, O my Lord! And I am full with love and I am worshiping and (still) I am not getting satisfied by worshiping." She was saying this to her Lord, even though she was praying 1,000 raka`at every night from sunset to sunrise. She could do it every month. She was so conscious, looking and praying. And every night in her cell where she was praying, there was a light coming from the Heavens, Allah blessing her. Try to worship Allah Almighty with love; that is living worship! I have seen in some places written "live music". What does it mean? It is not recorded, it is happening now. I like it. And people come through live broadcasts on television also, which means it is not from a cassette. In the same way, Allah Almighty is asking you to worship from your soul, not from a cassette. Our minds are running from east to west, but like a cassette, we are praying and reciting without meaning and awareness. When you worship Allah Almighty with awareness and intention, that will give you light, but you can't do that if there is no love from yourself. Why are people escaping worship? Because there is no love. If there is no love, how they can worship? Allah Almighty is saying, "O People! I like you to worship Me from your love, not by force, no. I am not in need. But I like to be worshiped from love." And when you do it from love, that is the real taste and real sweetness of worship. Without that, it is tasteless. We do not like to drink tea without sugar. Therefore, without love it is tasteless. Allah is not accepting from Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Without that love you are eating each other, killing and destroying! You are only in the appearance of a human, but in reality you are a beast! Be from human nature, don't be a beast. You may be English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Turkish, Polish, Spanish... Switzerlandish! (laughter). It is not important. You must have that divine love in your heart! Allah Almighty is not looking at your colors, your
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length or your weight, no. Allah Almighty is only looking to your heart to see, "Is My love there, or not? Is respect there, or not?" That is important! Now we are trying to make worldwide teachings! Sayyidina Imam al-Mahdi (a) is there; we are small ones and he is a king-size one! Grandshaykh (q) will also plant love of the Lord through the hearts with his dhikr. May Allah bless you and forgive me. Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Wadood Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah Fatihah. London, 25.03.1991
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5395 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveIsLifeAndLight
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Love is Life and Light
Try to give more time every day to prayers and Dhikr. Angels glorify their Lord without tiring- it is their food. So the power of one angel is more than the power of all mankind. It is a special power... spiritual people, Prophets and Saints, have it... Glorifying the Lord gives you energy and peace, more power and support, and more love for Allah. Real life comes from that Divine Love. When there is no Love, there is no life. The Awliya say that whoever doesn't have that Love is like a dead body walking on earth. Love is life and light, and the more we have of it, the more our life will be complete and full of pleasure. 01.04.1999
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5396 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveIsTheMortarOfAllPrayer
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Love is the Mortar of all Prayer
As we were coming to the mosque today I saw a billboard that read: “Everyone Needs Standards”. I didn’t understand what this could mean, but just then the traffic light turned red, so that we stopped right in front of the sign. Then I looked more closely and noticed that someone had vandalised the sign, and with a pen had crossed out “Standards”, and written instead: “Love not Standards”, so that the billboard now read: “Everyone needs Love, not Standards”. If one is open to wisdom he may take wisdom from every side, and so, Glory to Allah, this bit of vandalism has given me a topic for this lecture. Yes, that person was right, and this recalls to mind a saying of the Prophet Muhammad, upon whom be peace, in which he prayed to God : “Oh Allah, I ask you to grant me the love of You and the love of those whom You love, and grant me, Oh my Lord, the love of those actions which lead me to the love of You”. To ask our Lord to open up our hearts to His Divine Love is the most important request we can make of Him in our prayers, as nothing can take the place of love. The Holy Prophet, who is called the Beloved of Allah, whom Allah created with the yeast of love, and whom Allah loved some such He dedicated the creation to him, even this beloved Prophet asked Allah for Divine Love – why? Because who tastes of that love asks for
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more. Whose heart is like a rock will not ask God for this love, but those who have had the slightest taste of that love know that it is the key to all spiritual progress, to mercy, beauty, wisdom, to all favours that God may bestow upon His servants. Therefore, the Holy Prophet taught all mankind what is precious in this life. And then his prayer continued: “And grant me the love of those who love You”. The first level, “Love of God”, is that Station of the Prophets, and you can’t step from the bottom of the stairway to the top in one step. Allah Almighty is the Transcendent Being – you can’t even begin to fathom anything about Him Almighty – but it is easy to love those who represent His Love among mankind, for it is much easier for us to begin to understand and love human beings like ourselves. You will find nothing in their hearts but the Love of God; therefore, loving them is a means to approach the Divine Love. Lastly, the Holy Prophet asks for the love of those actions which lead to the love of God, actions which carry blessings with them, which soften our hearts and weaken our greed and selfishness. These are the actions encouraged by our Lord through the example of His Prophets, actions ordered and recommended in His Holy Books. And, although in the beginning our inner state may not correspond to these saintly actions, by engaging our limbs in what pleases our Lord, He will strengthen our hearts thereby. These are the three levels of love for which the Holy Prophet prayed, and the wisdom reflected in this prayer is proof enough of the veracity of Muhammad, peace be upon him. While Believers must always ask for that love, Satan is ever at war with such a notion, for he knows that once love has entered the heart of one of his slaves, that slave is lost to him, for he will not be able to snare him anymore with this world’s pleasures. He who has tasted that love may not even notice those pleasures, or may regard them as only a drop in an ocean. Once, as Moses, upon whom be peace, was headed toward Mount Sinai, he passed the cave of a hermit. The hermit emerged and called after Moses: “Oh Moses, please ask our Lord to bestow upon me just an atom’s weight of His Divine Love”. Moses agreed to do this, then continued on his way. Later, when Moses was addressing his Lord, he petitioned on behalf of that hermit. The Lord replied: “I will grant that servant of My Divine Love, but not in the amount he requested. I will only grant him the tiniest fraction of an atom’s weight of that love”. When Moses returned from the mountain, he quickly went to see what was happening to the hermit, to see what effect such a tiny dose of Divine Love might have had on him. When he arrived he was startled to see
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that where the cave had been a part of the mountain was blown away, and in place of that cave there was a deep chasm in the Earth. “Oh servant of my Lord”, he cried out, “What has happened, where are you?” Then Moses looked down the chasm and saw the hermit sitting down there as if in another world, completely overwhelmed by that love. Why did that hermit ask for a portion of Divine Love? Because he was worshipping but feeling nothing; he felt an emptiness in his heart that could only be filled by that love. Without love, worship is tasteless and useless; therefore, we must be sure to build our worship upon a strong foundation of love and to bake love into the bricks of the building of our devotional practice. This is more than an analogy, for even physical buildings are either alive with the love of their builders, or dead from their hard-heartedness. Therefore, old buildings often emanate a good feeling because of the love and goodness of those who built them. This is especially true of old mosques and churches, for their original congregations built them for the same of their Lord’s love and in an attitude of sincere piety. There is often a very strong feeling of the Divine Presence in old mosques, but have you ever felt such an atmosphere in the new showpiece – of – sterile – architecture – mosques? No, it is impossible, you may feel only an inner contraction side of such concrete hills. They have left the love out of the mortar: the most important ingredient is missing. 01.07.1985
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5399 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveIsTheWaterOfLife
Maulana Sheikh Nazim : LoveIsTheWaterOfLife
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Love is the Water of Life
Everything pertaining to this world is impermanent, constantly in a state of transition. Therefore, it is only natural that I am here addressing you today and elsewhere tomorrow. Don't let this condition sadden you, for, in reality, transition is God's mercy to man. Don't wish even for good times to last forever, for you wouldn't be able to bear permanence - you would just get fed up. Know that the discontinuation of any desirable state or condition is the catalyst for gaining an even deeper appreciation of what is good. Longing for the attainment of the spiritual realities of which you have caught a glimpse is the means to their attainment. Is there any morsel tastier than that upon which the fast is broken? This is the reason that Allah Almighty created the world as it is. The signs of the heavens take their turns inspiring our souls. The rising sun brightens our day, but just when we would start to get fed up with it, lo and behold, it bows out and the soft light of the moon enchants us with its many forms: appearing first as a delicate crescent, then waxing gradually to its full and waning. If it never waned no one would be able to appreciate the awe inspiring immensity of the starlit heavens. A Visit to God's Holy House The threadbare pilgrim may cross snowy mountain passes and sun-scorched deserts barefoot, or even on his
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hands and knees in order to reach Mecca. When he finally arrives he is struck dumb by the awesome majesty of the Holy Kaaba. Tears stream down his face as he clings to its door, pouring out his heart and soul to his Lord-- and the Lord fulfills his heart's innermost desire in accordance with the longing that drove him to suffer freezing wind and scorching sun. Longing brought him to the house of the Lord, but the pilgrim's dedication to his Lord will not be served by his staying in Mecca on and on, but by returning to his country with the cherished memories of his pilgrimage inspiring his faith. Should he choose to remain in Mecca he runs the risks of gradually becoming callous and hardened to the sight of the Kaaba like the inhabitants, who never had a Mecca as their distant sought-after goal, who crossed no deserts to attain it, but who may, rather, cross through the holy Mosque as a shortcut to get from one part of the market to another, barely casting a glance at the magnificent Kaaba. Once a disciple used to attend his Shaykh's discourses only occasionally, although he lived in the vicinity of the Shaykh's Dergah (Sufi School). The Shaykh asked him: "Why do you attend so infrequently?" The clever disciple answered: "Because I don't like being asked to attend less frequently". The sun, the moon, the stars, the Holy Kaaba, the beauty of nature or architecture, or the face of a beloved person: all these sights may inspire us, may remind us of a great truth that is alive in our hearts, but of which we are yet heedless. But don't become enamoured of the signs to such an extent that they become ends in themselves, and you cease to follow the directions they seek to impart to you. The object is not a heavenly body that will set, a symbol which may become commonplace nor a face that will age or turn away from you. When Abraham was yet a seeker of truth, at a stage of bewilderment on his road to truth, he became enamoured of the sun, moon and stars, but as each set he said: "My love is not for those that disappear". Love is eternal, and the transitory nature of all things pertaining to this world is a sign of truth, a sign that shows us by means of contrast. Real spiritual love, love of God and love of mankind for the sake of God is the only truth, the only thing in this world that is permanently and constantly sweet. Physical separation from someone you love, in accordance with the rule that pertains to the physical, may create a longing that will cause love to increase, may augment the bliss of reunion. But on the spiritual level that love is constant, is never interrupted by distance nor by time. Your beloved may be on the moon and you may be in bliss at the thought of reunion, but if love is unrequited, that is not sweet separation but a bitter pill. The extinction of love is pitch darkness. You may regard the sunset as beautiful, but how would you feel if it were setting
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forever? Love is the water of life. God created Adam from clay and water. If it were not for water the clay would hold no shape. Divine Love is what binds our souls together. That is why people become so miserable when they feel unloved. It is a feeling that something essential is missing from one's life, that life itself is incomplete, and in the face of this ache people set out in search of love with the desperation of a man dying of thirst. Lesson in a Bumper Sticker Yesterday, as we were driving back from Sheffield I noticed a bumper sticker that read: "God is Love". That is a statement that accords with a common level of understanding; in reality such a description can never do justice to the Almighty; never can a single word or emotion, nor even all words and all emotions come close to describing His splendour, what to speak of "being" Him. However, the saying: "God is Love" can be called a common wisdom, as the intention is to accord the highest degree of veneration and devotion to love-- that is correct-- but to say it is God is, let us say, an oversimplification. Love is an attribute of God Almighty which binds His servants to Him eternally. If God were to hate mankind it would be so easy for Him to bring about an abrupt and terrible end to our follies-- but He loves us and therefore shows us so much tolerance. If you are a parent, consider your love for your children. If your son grew up to be a criminal, would you not love him still? Would you not maintain that despite his bad actions he still had good in him, his essential character is known to you as good, not evil. Noah's Forty Clay Jugs Everyone knows the story of Noah, peace be upon him. He is one of the five greatest prophets of God. He called on his people day and night for years, asking them to leave their evildoing, to repent and return to love of God and His worship and to abstain from wrong. His people rejected him repeatedly and scoffed at him. As much as he preached they rejected his teachings. However he was patient and continued to preach to them. They never let up in their mockery of him. So it continued for years and years, and Noah was persistent and patient. He did not tire of calling his people to
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truth and goodness, and they in turn did not tire of scoffing at him. This continued for decades, a century, two centuries, and Noah was patient and persistent. Three centuries, four, five... After nine centuries of non-stop preaching accompanied by endless mockery and rejection, Noah reached his limit. Finally he asked God to punish his people and to send a flood upon them and not leave a single one of them alive. As he was a prophet of God, God was obliged to answer his prayer. We know what came to pass. Once some time after having been saved from the flood, the Lord addressed Noah saying, "O my servant, I am asking you to go and with your utmost care make for Me forty clay jugs." As he was an obedient servant and a great prophet, Noah immediately went about complying with this order. He gathered the finest clay he could find and spent days and nights laboring with love to create 40 beautiful clay jugs. After so much effort, the Lord then addressed Noah again saying: "O my servant, now that you have made these forty jugs, go outside and take each one and throw it down upon the rocks." Noah, an obedient servant, had no choice but to obey. He took the jugs which he had spent so much effort in making, and one-by-one smashed them against the rocks. Then the Lord addressed Noah, saying: "Oh Noah, you made forty clay jugs, and it was odious to you to break them. Do you think that it was a pleasure for Me to kill all of My servants, even though they were unbelievers?" Then Noah began to cry and wail. So proverbial was his wailing that "Nuh" came to mean "wail" in Arabic. Moses and Korah Do you know the story of Moses and Korah? Among the Children of Israel at the time of the exodus from Egypt Korah was the richest man. Korah carried a large part of that wealth into the Sinai with him, and with that wealth a great deal of influence over the Children of Israel. Unfortunately for Korah he used his influence to stir up rebellion and discontent with the leadership of Moses. In order to discredit Moses once and for all Korah bribed a dishonourable woman to claim that Moses had committed adultery with her and that the child in her womb was his. As he was of course innocent, Moses was livid with rage, as he could only deny the accusation but could do nothing to prove it false. How could he lead the Children of Israel when they would hold doubts in their hearts regarding his morals and veracity?
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So Moses turned to his Lord, saying: "Oh my Lord, vindicate me!" The Lord replied: "I have granted you the power to command the Earth. You may use it to vindicate yourself and prove your innocence to the Children of Israel". Then Moses announced to all the people: "All who are with me come to my side and those who adhere to Korah stay by his side". Then Moses said: "Oh Earth, catch him and swallow him up!" Responding to this command the Earth caught Korah, laying firm hold of his feet and ankles. Korah cried: "Oh my dear cousin Moses, for the sake of our kinship please forgive me!" But Moses was very angry and determined to punish Korah for all of his crimes: "Oh Earth, swallow him!" Then the Earth grabbed a little more of his legs, and he again cried out to Moses for forgiveness-- and so it went on, a full seventy times: Korah asking for pardon and Moses refusing and demanding retribution. Finally the earth had completely swallowed Korah. Then the Lord addressed Moses: "Korah begged you for forgiveness seventy times, but you had no mercy for him in your heart. I swear by My Might and Glory, had he even once addressed himself to Me, saying: 'Oh my Lord, I repent, please forgive me', I would have rescued him. You had no mercy for him because you didn't create him. I am the Creator and I have boundless mercy for My repentant servants". The Lord created us and loves us; that is why everyone loves love. No one complains of love or wants it to be taken from him, but all want to be loved more. Where are you seeking love? Are you taking pure water from the gushing source, or muddy, slimy water from the ditch? You love people, but they will die. Perhaps your love will be unrequited, or because of a small error or indiscretion on your part that person's heart will harden to you and love will be no more. You say that you love him or her, but do you love him or her unconditionally? Is your love permanent-love for the real immaculate divine essence living in that person, or temporary, as a result of some desirable attributes: beauty, youth, wealth, station or wit? When that beautiful, young, wealthy, clever, amiable socialite becomes an ugly, old, penniless, senile, grumpy outcast will you still love her? Is your love of the spirit or of the world? Oh people, seek real love, a love that cannot go astray. That love is the love of God and the love of his creatures for the sake of his love for them. That love emanation may bind all receptive hearts. There is a common saying: "The friend of a friend is a friend", so love people if you love God, for you must know that He loves them. It is not always easy to love people, even good people, so what about the Korahs of this world?
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Love pertaining to the ego is not love, as all the ego knows is to love itself, and what is commonly called love is but a mutual understanding to support each other's egoism. Don't trust your ego, nor anyone else's, for the ego is disloyal by nature. When the spirit gains ascendancy the ego may be harnessed and put to good use, as the Holy Prophet said: "Your ego is your mount", but left to its whims it will take you many miles from your path in search of herbage. This discourse is an Ocean, its summary is: what is of the world beware of, and pay attention to the dose. When crossing that ocean embark on a sturdy ship with well maintained lifeboats and life-preservers, and if you swim in it keep your head above water! 01.01.1987
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5405 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveOfAllah
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The Love of Allah
Fatiha. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Wa Lillahi l Hamd. Allahumma Salli wa Sallim wa Barik 'Ala Habibika Sayidi Al Awwalin wa Al Akhirin, Sayidina Muhammad (saws). O Prophets (as) Allah's (swt) salams are on all of you. O Awliya', O Asfiya' Allah's (swt) salams are on you. We ask from you support or anything to destroy the sultanate of shaytan. This addressing... and I am a weak servant, I have no power to speak to people. But, it was inspired to my heart because of something that upset me, which people are heedless about it. O people listen & take wisdom & if you do you will benefit. O people, Our wazifa/duty is to follow the steps of the Prophets (as) and specially the steps of the Master of the beginning & end, Sayidina Muhammad (saws). This is our way to success & goodness for mankind in this world & in the Hereafter. Haqq (swt) made everything clear, and.... you O Muslims, especially Arab Muslims, you read the Great Quran, but you have no good consideration /tadabbur and no deep understanding/tafakkur of the words of the Magnificent Quran. Allah (swt) sent the Holy Verses & the addressing to the Prophet (saws), saying to His Beloved, tell them. O people, first of all " Fa Attabi`uni Yuhbibkumu Allahu"(3:30) Clear, clarity is there.
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Allah (swt) sent the Holy Verses with Truth, to follow His Holy Prophet (saws). "Say, If you love Allah (swt) then follow me, Allah (swt) will love you." (3:30) True? Yes Haqq. Haqq (jwa) says "Ya Ayyuha Alladhina Amanu, Allah (swt) ordered "Qul In Kuntum Tuhibbuna Allaha Fa Attabi`uni." (3:30) This is the teaching of Allah (swt) to His Prophet (sas) for him to teach people The one who taught goodness to people is the Prophet (saws) of Allah. O people! Listen... Listen & take wisdom, If you take wisdom then follow. These words are words of Haqq/Truth."Qul In Kuntum Tuhibbuna Allaha Fa Attabi`uni Yuhbibkumu Allahu." (3:30) Then O believers, listen & take wisdom from what our Lord (jwa) says "Say, If you love Allah (swt) then follow me." (3:30) The Prophet (saws). To follow the Prophet (saws) is the reason for Allah (swt) to love His servant, His servants. "Yuhbibkumu Allahu Wa Yaghfir Lakum Dhunubakum." (3:30) What do we want? What else do we want other than this request? This is the highest thing to ask for, to look for. How we can reach the Love of Allah (swt). The Love of Allah (swt) is the greatest most magnificent thing for the servants. Allah (swt) loves His servant. Once a man came to me, long time ago, maybe since 50 years. A strange looking servant, he seemed to be looking for knowledge. I asked him, "what have you learned?" He said "O Shaykh I was steadfast... and was a student in the University of Sharia in Damascus." "What did you
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aking noor, lights from them. Everyone is reaching them, or one of them; they are like magnets. Every prophet and saint is carrying their ummah or carrying their followers. All Grandshaykhs have that; people running after them to reach to those lights. Therefore, the most important mission of prophets is to give Divine Love. When divine love comes, they will be happy (to fulfill) any order. They will be happy! Orders are never going to be a burden on them. Who loves, never feels a difficulty when he has been ordered by his Beloved one. When a person is in love with
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their Lord and with the Lord's beloved servant, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), they are happy and are in enjoyment with the Lord's orders. Rab`ia al-`Adawiyya (q), one woman, one lady, was from 1300 years ago. Her name is always being remembered. Her name is very well known and has been spoken of her. So many emperors and sultans died and are now finished but her name is still living; and she was a lady. And through the Islamic world, through Muslims, I don't think that whoever is interested in their religion, has not heard about her. Everyone from east and west, now and before, is mentioning her. She is saying, "O my Lord, I am not that one who is worshiping You fearing from Hells or for Your Paradise, but I am worshiping You for Your love. For Your love! I love You, O my Lord! And I am full with love and I am worshiping and (still) I am not getting satisfied by worshiping." She was saying this to her Lord, even though she was praying 1,000 raka`at every night from sunset to sunrise. She could do it every month. She was so conscious, looking and praying. And every night in her cell where she was praying, there was a light coming from the Heavens, Allah blessing her. Try to worship Allah Almighty with love; that is living worship! I have seen in some places written "live music". What does it mean? It is not recorded, it is happening now. I like it. And people come through live broadcasts on television also, which means it is not from a cassette. In the same way, Allah Almighty is asking you to worship from your soul, not from a cassette. Our minds are running from east to west, but like a cassette, we are praying and reciting without meaning and awareness. When you worship Allah Almighty with awareness and intention, that will give you light, but you can't do that if there is no love from yourself. Why are people escaping worship? Because there is no love. If there is no love, how they can worship? Allah Almighty is saying, "O People! I like you to worship Me from your love, not by force, no. I am not in need. But I like to be worshiped from love." And when you do it from love, that is the real taste and real sweetness of worship. Without that, it is tasteless. We do not like to drink tea without sugar. Therefore, without love it is tasteless. Allah is not accepting from Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Without that love you are eating each other, killing and destroying! You are only in the appearance of a human, but in reality you are a beast! Be from human nature, don't be a beast. You may be English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Turkish, Polish, Spanish... Switzerlandish! (laughter). It is not important. You must have that divine love in your heart! Allah Almighty is not looking at your colors, your
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length or your weight, no. Allah Almighty is only looking to your heart to see, "Is My love there, or not? Is respect there, or not?" That is important! Now we are trying to make worldwide teachings! Sayyidina Imam al-Mahdi (a) is there; we are small ones and he is a king-size one! Grandshaykh (q) will also plant love of the Lord through the hearts with his dhikr. May Allah bless you and forgive me. Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Wadood Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah Fatihah. London, 25.03.1991
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5395 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveIsLifeAndLight
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Love is Life and Light
Try to give more time every day to prayers and Dhikr. Angels glorify their Lord without tiring- it is their food. So the power of one angel is more than the power of all mankind. It is a special power... spiritual people, Prophets and Saints, have it... Glorifying the Lord gives you energy and peace, more power and support, and more love for Allah. Real life comes from that Divine Love. When there is no Love, there is no life. The Awliya say that whoever doesn't have that Love is like a dead body walking on earth. Love is life and light, and the more we have of it, the more our life will be complete and full of pleasure. 01.04.1999
BookOnthebridgetoEternity, CategoryAngel, CategoryLove
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5396 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveIsTheMortarOfAllPrayer
Maulana Sheikh Nazim : LoveIsTheMortarOfAllPrayer
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Love is the Mortar of all Prayer
As we were coming to the mosque today I saw a billboard that read: “Everyone Needs Standards”. I didn’t understand what this could mean, but just then the traffic light turned red, so that we stopped right in front of the sign. Then I looked more closely and noticed that someone had vandalised the sign, and with a pen had crossed out “Standards”, and written instead: “Love not Standards”, so that the billboard now read: “Everyone needs Love, not Standards”. If one is open to wisdom he may take wisdom from every side, and so, Glory to Allah, this bit of vandalism has given me a topic for this lecture. Yes, that person was right, and this recalls to mind a saying of the Prophet Muhammad, upon whom be peace, in which he prayed to God : “Oh Allah, I ask you to grant me the love of You and the love of those whom You love, and grant me, Oh my Lord, the love of those actions which lead me to the love of You”. To ask our Lord to open up our hearts to His Divine Love is the most important request we can make of Him in our prayers, as nothing can take the place of love. The Holy Prophet, who is called the Beloved of Allah, whom Allah created with the yeast of love, and whom Allah loved some such He dedicated the creation to him, even this beloved Prophet asked Allah for Divine Love – why? Because who tastes of that love asks for
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more. Whose heart is like a rock will not ask God for this love, but those who have had the slightest taste of that love know that it is the key to all spiritual progress, to mercy, beauty, wisdom, to all favours that God may bestow upon His servants. Therefore, the Holy Prophet taught all mankind what is precious in this life. And then his prayer continued: “And grant me the love of those who love You”. The first level, “Love of God”, is that Station of the Prophets, and you can’t step from the bottom of the stairway to the top in one step. Allah Almighty is the Transcendent Being – you can’t even begin to fathom anything about Him Almighty – but it is easy to love those who represent His Love among mankind, for it is much easier for us to begin to understand and love human beings like ourselves. You will find nothing in their hearts but the Love of God; therefore, loving them is a means to approach the Divine Love. Lastly, the Holy Prophet asks for the love of those actions which lead to the love of God, actions which carry blessings with them, which soften our hearts and weaken our greed and selfishness. These are the actions encouraged by our Lord through the example of His Prophets, actions ordered and recommended in His Holy Books. And, although in the beginning our inner state may not correspond to these saintly actions, by engaging our limbs in what pleases our Lord, He will strengthen our hearts thereby. These are the three levels of love for which the Holy Prophet prayed, and the wisdom reflected in this prayer is proof enough of the veracity of Muhammad, peace be upon him. While Believers must always ask for that love, Satan is ever at war with such a notion, for he knows that once love has entered the heart of one of his slaves, that slave is lost to him, for he will not be able to snare him anymore with this world’s pleasures. He who has tasted that love may not even notice those pleasures, or may regard them as only a drop in an ocean. Once, as Moses, upon whom be peace, was headed toward Mount Sinai, he passed the cave of a hermit. The hermit emerged and called after Moses: “Oh Moses, please ask our Lord to bestow upon me just an atom’s weight of His Divine Love”. Moses agreed to do this, then continued on his way. Later, when Moses was addressing his Lord, he petitioned on behalf of that hermit. The Lord replied: “I will grant that servant of My Divine Love, but not in the amount he requested. I will only grant him the tiniest fraction of an atom’s weight of that love”. When Moses returned from the mountain, he quickly went to see what was happening to the hermit, to see what effect such a tiny dose of Divine Love might have had on him. When he arrived he was startled to see
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that where the cave had been a part of the mountain was blown away, and in place of that cave there was a deep chasm in the Earth. “Oh servant of my Lord”, he cried out, “What has happened, where are you?” Then Moses looked down the chasm and saw the hermit sitting down there as if in another world, completely overwhelmed by that love. Why did that hermit ask for a portion of Divine Love? Because he was worshipping but feeling nothing; he felt an emptiness in his heart that could only be filled by that love. Without love, worship is tasteless and useless; therefore, we must be sure to build our worship upon a strong foundation of love and to bake love into the bricks of the building of our devotional practice. This is more than an analogy, for even physical buildings are either alive with the love of their builders, or dead from their hard-heartedness. Therefore, old buildings often emanate a good feeling because of the love and goodness of those who built them. This is especially true of old mosques and churches, for their original congregations built them for the same of their Lord’s love and in an attitude of sincere piety. There is often a very strong feeling of the Divine Presence in old mosques, but have you ever felt such an atmosphere in the new showpiece – of – sterile – architecture – mosques? No, it is impossible, you may feel only an inner contraction side of such concrete hills. They have left the love out of the mortar: the most important ingredient is missing. 01.07.1985
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5399 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveIsTheWaterOfLife
Maulana Sheikh Nazim : LoveIsTheWaterOfLife
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Love is the Water of Life
Everything pertaining to this world is impermanent, constantly in a state of transition. Therefore, it is only natural that I am here addressing you today and elsewhere tomorrow. Don't let this condition sadden you, for, in reality, transition is God's mercy to man. Don't wish even for good times to last forever, for you wouldn't be able to bear permanence - you would just get fed up. Know that the discontinuation of any desirable state or condition is the catalyst for gaining an even deeper appreciation of what is good. Longing for the attainment of the spiritual realities of which you have caught a glimpse is the means to their attainment. Is there any morsel tastier than that upon which the fast is broken? This is the reason that Allah Almighty created the world as it is. The signs of the heavens take their turns inspiring our souls. The rising sun brightens our day, but just when we would start to get fed up with it, lo and behold, it bows out and the soft light of the moon enchants us with its many forms: appearing first as a delicate crescent, then waxing gradually to its full and waning. If it never waned no one would be able to appreciate the awe inspiring immensity of the starlit heavens. A Visit to God's Holy House The threadbare pilgrim may cross snowy mountain passes and sun-scorched deserts barefoot, or even on his
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hands and knees in order to reach Mecca. When he finally arrives he is struck dumb by the awesome majesty of the Holy Kaaba. Tears stream down his face as he clings to its door, pouring out his heart and soul to his Lord-- and the Lord fulfills his heart's innermost desire in accordance with the longing that drove him to suffer freezing wind and scorching sun. Longing brought him to the house of the Lord, but the pilgrim's dedication to his Lord will not be served by his staying in Mecca on and on, but by returning to his country with the cherished memories of his pilgrimage inspiring his faith. Should he choose to remain in Mecca he runs the risks of gradually becoming callous and hardened to the sight of the Kaaba like the inhabitants, who never had a Mecca as their distant sought-after goal, who crossed no deserts to attain it, but who may, rather, cross through the holy Mosque as a shortcut to get from one part of the market to another, barely casting a glance at the magnificent Kaaba. Once a disciple used to attend his Shaykh's discourses only occasionally, although he lived in the vicinity of the Shaykh's Dergah (Sufi School). The Shaykh asked him: "Why do you attend so infrequently?" The clever disciple answered: "Because I don't like being asked to attend less frequently". The sun, the moon, the stars, the Holy Kaaba, the beauty of nature or architecture, or the face of a beloved person: all these sights may inspire us, may remind us of a great truth that is alive in our hearts, but of which we are yet heedless. But don't become enamoured of the signs to such an extent that they become ends in themselves, and you cease to follow the directions they seek to impart to you. The object is not a heavenly body that will set, a symbol which may become commonplace nor a face that will age or turn away from you. When Abraham was yet a seeker of truth, at a stage of bewilderment on his road to truth, he became enamoured of the sun, moon and stars, but as each set he said: "My love is not for those that disappear". Love is eternal, and the transitory nature of all things pertaining to this world is a sign of truth, a sign that shows us by means of contrast. Real spiritual love, love of God and love of mankind for the sake of God is the only truth, the only thing in this world that is permanently and constantly sweet. Physical separation from someone you love, in accordance with the rule that pertains to the physical, may create a longing that will cause love to increase, may augment the bliss of reunion. But on the spiritual level that love is constant, is never interrupted by distance nor by time. Your beloved may be on the moon and you may be in bliss at the thought of reunion, but if love is unrequited, that is not sweet separation but a bitter pill. The extinction of love is pitch darkness. You may regard the sunset as beautiful, but how would you feel if it were setting
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forever? Love is the water of life. God created Adam from clay and water. If it were not for water the clay would hold no shape. Divine Love is what binds our souls together. That is why people become so miserable when they feel unloved. It is a feeling that something essential is missing from one's life, that life itself is incomplete, and in the face of this ache people set out in search of love with the desperation of a man dying of thirst. Lesson in a Bumper Sticker Yesterday, as we were driving back from Sheffield I noticed a bumper sticker that read: "God is Love". That is a statement that accords with a common level of understanding; in reality such a description can never do justice to the Almighty; never can a single word or emotion, nor even all words and all emotions come close to describing His splendour, what to speak of "being" Him. However, the saying: "God is Love" can be called a common wisdom, as the intention is to accord the highest degree of veneration and devotion to love-- that is correct-- but to say it is God is, let us say, an oversimplification. Love is an attribute of God Almighty which binds His servants to Him eternally. If God were to hate mankind it would be so easy for Him to bring about an abrupt and terrible end to our follies-- but He loves us and therefore shows us so much tolerance. If you are a parent, consider your love for your children. If your son grew up to be a criminal, would you not love him still? Would you not maintain that despite his bad actions he still had good in him, his essential character is known to you as good, not evil. Noah's Forty Clay Jugs Everyone knows the story of Noah, peace be upon him. He is one of the five greatest prophets of God. He called on his people day and night for years, asking them to leave their evildoing, to repent and return to love of God and His worship and to abstain from wrong. His people rejected him repeatedly and scoffed at him. As much as he preached they rejected his teachings. However he was patient and continued to preach to them. They never let up in their mockery of him. So it continued for years and years, and Noah was persistent and patient. He did not tire of calling his people to
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truth and goodness, and they in turn did not tire of scoffing at him. This continued for decades, a century, two centuries, and Noah was patient and persistent. Three centuries, four, five... After nine centuries of non-stop preaching accompanied by endless mockery and rejection, Noah reached his limit. Finally he asked God to punish his people and to send a flood upon them and not leave a single one of them alive. As he was a prophet of God, God was obliged to answer his prayer. We know what came to pass. Once some time after having been saved from the flood, the Lord addressed Noah saying, "O my servant, I am asking you to go and with your utmost care make for Me forty clay jugs." As he was an obedient servant and a great prophet, Noah immediately went about complying with this order. He gathered the finest clay he could find and spent days and nights laboring with love to create 40 beautiful clay jugs. After so much effort, the Lord then addressed Noah again saying: "O my servant, now that you have made these forty jugs, go outside and take each one and throw it down upon the rocks." Noah, an obedient servant, had no choice but to obey. He took the jugs which he had spent so much effort in making, and one-by-one smashed them against the rocks. Then the Lord addressed Noah, saying: "Oh Noah, you made forty clay jugs, and it was odious to you to break them. Do you think that it was a pleasure for Me to kill all of My servants, even though they were unbelievers?" Then Noah began to cry and wail. So proverbial was his wailing that "Nuh" came to mean "wail" in Arabic. Moses and Korah Do you know the story of Moses and Korah? Among the Children of Israel at the time of the exodus from Egypt Korah was the richest man. Korah carried a large part of that wealth into the Sinai with him, and with that wealth a great deal of influence over the Children of Israel. Unfortunately for Korah he used his influence to stir up rebellion and discontent with the leadership of Moses. In order to discredit Moses once and for all Korah bribed a dishonourable woman to claim that Moses had committed adultery with her and that the child in her womb was his. As he was of course innocent, Moses was livid with rage, as he could only deny the accusation but could do nothing to prove it false. How could he lead the Children of Israel when they would hold doubts in their hearts regarding his morals and veracity?
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5403 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveIsTheWaterOfLife
So Moses turned to his Lord, saying: "Oh my Lord, vindicate me!" The Lord replied: "I have granted you the power to command the Earth. You may use it to vindicate yourself and prove your innocence to the Children of Israel". Then Moses announced to all the people: "All who are with me come to my side and those who adhere to Korah stay by his side". Then Moses said: "Oh Earth, catch him and swallow him up!" Responding to this command the Earth caught Korah, laying firm hold of his feet and ankles. Korah cried: "Oh my dear cousin Moses, for the sake of our kinship please forgive me!" But Moses was very angry and determined to punish Korah for all of his crimes: "Oh Earth, swallow him!" Then the Earth grabbed a little more of his legs, and he again cried out to Moses for forgiveness-- and so it went on, a full seventy times: Korah asking for pardon and Moses refusing and demanding retribution. Finally the earth had completely swallowed Korah. Then the Lord addressed Moses: "Korah begged you for forgiveness seventy times, but you had no mercy for him in your heart. I swear by My Might and Glory, had he even once addressed himself to Me, saying: 'Oh my Lord, I repent, please forgive me', I would have rescued him. You had no mercy for him because you didn't create him. I am the Creator and I have boundless mercy for My repentant servants". The Lord created us and loves us; that is why everyone loves love. No one complains of love or wants it to be taken from him, but all want to be loved more. Where are you seeking love? Are you taking pure water from the gushing source, or muddy, slimy water from the ditch? You love people, but they will die. Perhaps your love will be unrequited, or because of a small error or indiscretion on your part that person's heart will harden to you and love will be no more. You say that you love him or her, but do you love him or her unconditionally? Is your love permanent-love for the real immaculate divine essence living in that person, or temporary, as a result of some desirable attributes: beauty, youth, wealth, station or wit? When that beautiful, young, wealthy, clever, amiable socialite becomes an ugly, old, penniless, senile, grumpy outcast will you still love her? Is your love of the spirit or of the world? Oh people, seek real love, a love that cannot go astray. That love is the love of God and the love of his creatures for the sake of his love for them. That love emanation may bind all receptive hearts. There is a common saying: "The friend of a friend is a friend", so love people if you love God, for you must know that He loves them. It is not always easy to love people, even good people, so what about the Korahs of this world?
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5404 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveIsTheWaterOfLife
Love pertaining to the ego is not love, as all the ego knows is to love itself, and what is commonly called love is but a mutual understanding to support each other's egoism. Don't trust your ego, nor anyone else's, for the ego is disloyal by nature. When the spirit gains ascendancy the ego may be harnessed and put to good use, as the Holy Prophet said: "Your ego is your mount", but left to its whims it will take you many miles from your path in search of herbage. This discourse is an Ocean, its summary is: what is of the world beware of, and pay attention to the dose. When crossing that ocean embark on a sturdy ship with well maintained lifeboats and life-preservers, and if you swim in it keep your head above water! 01.01.1987
BookOceanofUnity, CategoryLove, CategoryNoah, CategoryMoses
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5405 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveOfAllah
Maulana Sheikh Nazim : LoveOfAllah
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The Love of Allah
Fatiha. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Wa Lillahi l Hamd. Allahumma Salli wa Sallim wa Barik 'Ala Habibika Sayidi Al Awwalin wa Al Akhirin, Sayidina Muhammad (saws). O Prophets (as) Allah's (swt) salams are on all of you. O Awliya', O Asfiya' Allah's (swt) salams are on you. We ask from you support or anything to destroy the sultanate of shaytan. This addressing... and I am a weak servant, I have no power to speak to people. But, it was inspired to my heart because of something that upset me, which people are heedless about it. O people listen & take wisdom & if you do you will benefit. O people, Our wazifa/duty is to follow the steps of the Prophets (as) and specially the steps of the Master of the beginning & end, Sayidina Muhammad (saws). This is our way to success & goodness for mankind in this world & in the Hereafter. Haqq (swt) made everything clear, and.... you O Muslims, especially Arab Muslims, you read the Great Quran, but you have no good consideration /tadabbur and no deep understanding/tafakkur of the words of the Magnificent Quran. Allah (swt) sent the Holy Verses & the addressing to the Prophet (saws), saying to His Beloved, tell them. O people, first of all " Fa Attabi`uni Yuhbibkumu Allahu"(3:30) Clear, clarity is there.
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5406 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: LoveOfAllah
Allah (swt) sent the Holy Verses with Truth, to follow His Holy Prophet (saws). "Say, If you love Allah (swt) then follow me, Allah (swt) will love you." (3:30) True? Yes Haqq. Haqq (jwa) says "Ya Ayyuha Alladhina Amanu, Allah (swt) ordered "Qul In Kuntum Tuhibbuna Allaha Fa Attabi`uni." (3:30) This is the teaching of Allah (swt) to His Prophet (sas) for him to teach people The one who taught goodness to people is the Prophet (saws) of Allah. O people! Listen... Listen & take wisdom, If you take wisdom then follow. These words are words of Haqq/Truth."Qul In Kuntum Tuhibbuna Allaha Fa Attabi`uni Yuhbibkumu Allahu." (3:30) Then O believers, listen & take wisdom from what our Lord (jwa) says "Say, If you love Allah (swt) then follow me." (3:30) The Prophet (saws). To follow the Prophet (saws) is the reason for Allah (swt) to love His servant, His servants. "Yuhbibkumu Allahu Wa Yaghfir Lakum Dhunubakum." (3:30) What do we want? What else do we want other than this request? This is the highest thing to ask for, to look for. How we can reach the Love of Allah (swt). The Love of Allah (swt) is the greatest most magnificent thing for the servants. Allah (swt) loves His servant. Once a man came to me, long time ago, maybe since 50 years. A strange looking servant, he seemed to be looking for knowledge. I asked him, "what have you learned?" He said "O Shaykh I was steadfast... and was a student in the University of Sharia in Damascus." "What did you
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