Maulana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani 2000 Sohbats 1979-2013 (492/777)
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from technologia; it will be removed. O People! Come to spirituality! If not coming, you are going to be like material matters, and you will be underground, only dust! O our Lord! Give us, and grant us something from heavenly understanding! And coming an answer now, "O My weak servant, you are asking to be given to all people a heavenly understanding, but all people are not even looking up. If they are not asking, for what am I giving? Anyone asking, I am giving, but they are not asking! They are asking everything from Shaytan and shaytanic representatives. All trouble here and all hells in the Hereafter are behind Shaytan!” Why? Why are you refusing holy inabiyal hikmah, springs of wisdom? If anyone speaks (about spirituality), people make fun of them, saying, “What are you doing?" Shaytan is always against spirituality. Therefore, anyone against spiritually is a representative of Shaytan. Therefore, wa yuhadhikumullah, Allah Almighty is warning everyone! Therefore, I am saying there is a group of learned people who are naming themselves "Salafi `ulamas," are they only thirty people, or thirty-thousand people? What about us? These Salafi `ulamas are not knowing that Shari'atullah, that Allah Almighty is Guarantor for His holy books and Holy Qur'an and everything in it? But they are not making Holy Qur'an first and Akhirah, Day of Resurrection second. Holy Qur'an puts first what is your destination, opening ways to people to reach their destination! But people are not believing in their heavenly destinations. If not believing, their levels drop to levels of animals' world. We are not animals, we are Mankind! We have a special being. Our creation is a super creation granted to Mankind! In the Qur'an-i-Kareem, Allah Almighty is saying to angels, "I am creating new creatures." Here "creating" means their beings are really in Allah Almighty's Power Oceans and Creation Oceans that were hidden. It means Allah Almighty is asking to bring them into existence, and angels are not knowing what it is, because no one knows what is hidden in Allah Almighty's Creation Oceans! He Almighty is saying, "I am sending, creating a new Creation that will be My deputies.” There is no rank over deputies! Deputy means khalifah, or
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crown prince. Allah is `azaaliyoon, `abaadiyoon, from pre-Eternal to Eternal; there is no beginning and no end for Him, but He is granting such an honor for that new creation, Mankind. They were created and the Lord of Heavens said, "O My servants! I am creating you and sending you to dunya, beware! You have been created for your Lord. I created you for Me and created the world for you!" O Salafi `ulamas! Is it not true? Are you saying such things? Are you not reading? Are you not knowing about such things? Why did Allah create Mankind, for dunya or for Himself? O People! What are you doing? Everything you are doing is for dunya, nothing for your Lord, and Allah Almighty created you for His divinely service! Every Jumu`ah why are you not saying to the Muslim world first and then other nations, "O People! You are never created for dunya, but the Creator, the Lord of Heavens, created you for His divinely service.” What are you doing? What is that foolishness? Why are you not taking care? And you know the hadith, ad-deenu naseeha, “Religion is advice!” Where is your naseeha, advice? Every week you are saying something that is not necessary! And the most important point is: wa dhakkir fa inna 'dh-dhikra tanfa`u'l-mumineen, But teach (thy Message), for teaching benefits the Believers. (51:55) Always insaan, Man, is forgetting, so remind them that they are not created for this world, but for their Creator, Allah Almighty! No greater honor can be imagined for a person than to be in Allah Almighty's service! We have been created for heavenly service, but we are leaving that and running to be servants for dunya, not only servants, but slaves! O People! As-salaamu `alaykum! This is a heavenly grant for all nations from east and west, from north to south, to know about for what they have been created. First of all, it must be taught to people and their children for what they have been created and Who created them. May Allah forgive me. Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah
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Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah Sultan sensin, Sultan sensin. Yaa Rabbee, send us a heavenly one to collect our hearts on Your love and obedience to You! We are looking for a sultan to come and defeat Shaytan and shaytanic groups from this world. O our Lord! Send us a sultan to raise the flags of Islam, heavenly flags on this planet, and to be under those flags here and to be under the holy flag on the Day of Resurrection, for the honor of Your most honored one in Your Divinely Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) Allahumma salli wa sallim `ala Nabiyyina Muhammad `alayhi 's-salaam (O Allah pray and send peace on our Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace) Salaatan tadoomu wahtoohda `ilayh ma marra 'l-layaali wa toola 'd-dawaam (praises everlasting to which all are guided, as long as the nights and as long as the days) (Du`a) Fatihah. Lefke, 09.04.2010
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THE POWER OF CERTAINTY versus BOOK-LEARNED KNOWLEDGE
It is impossible for a person to leave evil and to take the right path unless his Lord helps him. Therefore, we must ask help, divine help, for everything. You can’t take yourself away from evil if you do not ask for your Lord’s help, and you can’t put your step on a good way without asking help from your Lord. Therefore, when you are in need of leaving evil, you must ask divine help by saying, “A’udhu bil-Lahi min ash- Shaytannir-Rajim.” That makes a protection, a fortress, for you. Any time you feel that Satan is approaching you, you must say, “O my Lord, Satan wants to make me his servant, to make me his follower. O my Lord, keep me away from him” – that sort of a meaning. Even if we say it only with our tongues, it gives benefit, if you say it with your hearts, it is so strong. When you are asking to put your feet on the right path, you must say “Bismillah irRahman irRahim.” In our time, if a person is asking to walk on the right path, one hundred Satans rush at him to catch his feet so that he cannot move them forward, and when you say “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim,” it takes them away and gives you power to walk on that straight path. Yes, that is true; “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim”
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is so powerful. That is the key to every miraculous power. To the extent that you may be certain of that, if you put your feet on water, you can walk on it. It is only certainty which can achieve that. Everyone knows something, but only a few people have certainty; knowledge may be for everyone but certainty is not. Hasan al Basri, may Allah bless him, was a famous Imam and during his time there was Habib al Ajami. He was not an Arab: from Persia or from Bukhara, such a person, and he recited the Qur’an as we recite, not as Arabs recite. Habib al Ajami was an illiterate person also. Once Imam Hasan al Basri came and saw Habib al Ajami praying the Maghrib prayer. When Hasan al Basri heard that that Sheikh was unable to say “Al-hamdu” but pronounced it “Elhemdu”, he thought, “His recitation is not correct,” and did not pray behind him; he prayed alone. Then Allah Almighty’s Hatif ar Rabbani, divine voice, came (Allah Almighty sometimes “phones” some of His beloved people and they listen to what their Lord says) “Apart from that prayer which you did not pray behind Habib, I was going to accept all your prayers,” Allah Almighty said through ilham, inspiration, and Hasan al Basri listened. “But you left that prayer. You are still looking at the words, not looking at the heart of the Imam, as to with whom his heart is. I look at the one who is Imam but I do not look at his recitation; I look at his heart. If his heart is with Me, that Imam is all right. If his heart is not with Me but is occupied with making his voice and his recitation beautiful, engaged with that and permitting his heart not be with Me, angels take that prayer to Me, But for the one whose heart is with Me when he prays, I accept his prayers directly without any intermediary”. Therefore, all prayers are of two kinds. One, of that sort of a person who is going to pray and when he says “Allahu Akbar,” he casts everything aside and is with his Lord; Allah Almighty directly takes his prayers to his Divine Presence. But for the one who says “Allahu Akbar” and through his prayer, is traveling, selling and buying, going and coming, sleeping and awaking, eating and drinking, running after this and that, angels take his prayer to Allah, But Allah Almighty directly takes the prayers of those who are
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with Him. “O Hasan al Basri, I would have accepted all of your prayers for the sake of the prayer that you left because of the way in which it was recited.” And Imam Hasan al Basri wept so much. Once Imam Hasan al Basri was sitting near the Tigris River in Baghdad, waiting for the boat to come so as to cross over to the other side. Then Habib al Ajami came, saying, “O Ustad, my master, what are you waiting here for?” Hasan al Basri said, “I am waiting for the ferry boat, to cross from one side to the other.” “You are the Imam even so you sitting here waiting for that raft? Come and say ‘Bismillah’ and walk”. Then Habib said “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim” and walked on the Tigris and passed over. It was then that Hasan al Basri cried, “This ‘Ajami, this foreigner, an illiterate person, is crossing the Tigris and I am sitting here!” Yes. Hasan “knew” what the power of “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim” is, but that foreign person had certainty; Hasan didn’t have enough certainty to say “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim” and to step on the water. Therefore, we are in need of more certainty, more than knowledge. That is important. But in our time people always run after learning so much. What is the benefit? You may learn so much and you forget so much. But certainty never leaves you. Certainty is the seed of knowledge; you can plant it and it grows up. Once when Habib-al’Ajami was sitting in front of his khaneqah, his takkiyah. Hasan al- Basri came running. Hasan said, “O Habib, hide me, because Hajjaj, the Calipha’s governor, is sending his soldiers to catch me. Hide me!” And Habib said. “Go inside and hide yourself”. Hasan went in and finding a place, hid himself. Then afterwards, soldiers came running, asking Habib, “Have you seen Hasan al-Basri?” “Yes, I saw him inside, He is inside.” They went in and looked around, looking everywhere, everywhere, even going and peeping on Hasan al Basri’s head. He looked around in fear. Then the soldiers went out, saying to Habib, “Now aren’t you ashamed, telling a lie? Where is he? Hajjaj will
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deal with the one who cooperates with Hasan al Basri, and that will be appropriate for you. You said that he was inside, are you not ashamed of lying!” “Inside, I am not lying. He is inside.” Once again they searched; they couldn’t find him, then, very angry, the solders went away. Then Hasan al Basri came out. “O Sheikh, what is this? I came to you asking you to help me and you told the soldiers, ‘Inside’.” “Yes Hasan, ya Imam najaut min sidq il-kalam – you were saved by my truth I told the truth and Allah protected you because I spoke truthfully. I said, “O my Lord, this Hasan al Basri, Your servant, came to me and said, “Hide me, keep me!” I can’t protect him. I entrust him to You, giving him to You as my trust. You Protect him.” I only said that and recited Ayat al-Kursi. For that reason the soldiers could not see him even (if they stood just in front of him). Yes. If Allah Almighty protects His servant, it is all right. Awliya are deputies of our Lord Almighty. If a person runs to a wali and asks for protection, they may protect him, here and hereafter. Those are miracles for the awliya – miracles for anbiya. We are in need of some certainty. Once again, Hasan al-Basri came to visit that Sheikh. When he arrived, Habib al Ajami, may Allah bless him, brought two loaves of bread, putting them in front of him as a courtesy to his guest. Just as he was beginning to eat, someone who was hungry came and asked for something for the sake of Allah. Then that Sheikh, Habib al-‘Ajami, took back the loaves from Hasan al Basri and gave them to that person. Then the Imam, Hasan al-Basri, said, “O Sheikh, you are a good person, but if you had some more knowledge of the Shari’ah it would have been better for you. You should know a little about the Shari’ah: you are in need of that.” He meant to say, “One loaf for me and one for that person, not taking the two and giving them away”. The Sheikh did not say anything. After awhile someone came to the door. The Sheikh
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ordered, “See who is there.” A murid went and looked, saying, “A person has brought a tray full of plates.” Then the Sheikh said, “Bring the tray here. Now Imam, eat.” “You know so much,” the Sheikh said to Hasan al Basri, “but have little certainty. You must try to have more certainty.” Because he had certainty, that Sheikh knew that if he gave this for the sake of Allah, more than this must certainly come. “You were angry with me when I took the two leaves, giving them to that person. Look! If I had not given both of them, this would not have come. I am certain that when I give, Allah Almighty will return it at least tenfold. Yes. Therefore, certainty gives more benefit to everyone, and we are in need of that. If there is no certainty, knowledge can never give benefit but is only like an ornament to enable people to say: “We are doctors and we are scholars”. What is certainty? Someone said, “If I put my hand in the mouth of a dragon and my heart is all right, it is never going to be afraid that this dragon will bite my hand, no. I know with certainty that only if my Lord gives the order will it bite. Therefore, without doubt, if I were to put my hand there, I would not be afraid.” Imam Sha’rani – he is of the people of tawwakul, those who trust in their Lord totally – said, “Once I was traveling and it was near Maghrib time. I saw a dome and walked toward it. When I entered it, I saw that there was a tomb in it, under the dome, in ruins. “After a short while peasants came running, saying, “O Sheikh, you must not stay here but must come with us. Our village is nearby. This is a terrible place, particularly at night-time. So many snakes, big snakes, come out and if anyone sleeps here, in the morning we find only his bones, nothing else. They eat him; only bones are left. Therefore we are warning you not to sleep here”. Then Imam Sh’arani, may Allah bless him, said to the peasants, “O my brothers, when you tell me that, I can’t move, I can’t take even one step out of this place. Because when you warned me about those big snakes, my ego was very afraid of them, and I
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was so ashamed in front of my Lord because my nafs was so frightened of snakes and not fearing Allah Almighty but fearing snakes. Therefore I am not going with you. I can never accept your invitation. I must sleep here this night; it is better for such a ego that I be eaten by snakes. Therefore, it is impossible that I should leave this place.” Eh! The peasants said. “You know best, Sheikh, you are the Sheikh. We don’t know. We are inviting you and we are also warning you about the snakes.” “Yes. Thank you very much. You go and I will be here this night. If, without saying anything about snakes, you had come and invited me officially, “Come with us.” It would have been all right, I might have come. But since you say, “There are snakes, there is danger, this is a terrible place,” I can’t move even one step from here. So go away.” They went, and in the morning they hurried back with shovels to bury shat Sheikh’s bones. And they saw that the Sheikh was sitting and making dhikr, and the snakes were, like wooden beams, beside him. When he lay down, they went around him; in that sandy place they made tracks, traveling around and hissing. And he was at rest. Yes; if you know your Lord and trust in Him, He protects you. If you are familiar with your Lord, everything is going to be familiar with you. That is certainty. Important! And we must try to improve in certainty, not trying to retain so many verses of the Qur’an and so many hadiths; but if we can acquire the secret power in them, that will be certainty for us. Whoever has it, may give it. The one who has something, may give it, if he doesn’t have it, how can he give? You ask bread from a person, for example. If he has it, he will give it to you; if not, he cannot give it. Certainty is with the prophets; their certainty brought Gabriel to them from Heaven. And awliya, also; certainty is with them. You can acquire certainty from those people. All awliya have certainty; you can’t find a wali without certainty. Therefore we are
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asking our Lord to enable us to find one of them so that we can acquire certainty from them; they give certainty. There are some lamps of only five watts, and some others of one thousand or maybe even ten thousand watts. As much as a person needs, they give, as much as you ask, they give certainty. We are in need of that. May Allah bless you and forgive you, and grant us certainty from His beloved people.
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The power of Divine Love
In their inner life, people are in need, and with their souls they are in contact with my soul, so they come to me. I am doing nothing with my followers. I am only sending Divine Power to them without their knowing, which works through their personalities without harming them. The benefit of a Master is that he takes away bad characteristics in order to give good attributes to people. It needs a gardener to look after fruit trees and make them perfect. Masters give perfection to Murids. To be like the Master is the perfection of a Murid. As much as you imitate your Master, following him step by step, you are going to be on the same level, but you are an imitation of him. I am making Murids follow me through their hearts, with love. I am not using force, but the power of Love. 01.04.1999
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The Power of Love
(Sheikh Nazim led the assembly in calling on the Holy Name of Allah - ya Wadud – a Divine Name signifying God’s all embracing Love) There is nothing in all creation that the Creator, Allah Almighty, hates. Indeed it is impossible to be hated by Allah and to be in existence; one absolutely precludes the other. All creation appeared through His Divine Love. He loved them and they appeared; therefore everything in existence carries its share of Divine Love in it. When I say “everything”, I mean everything from atoms and their parts – the very building- blocks of the universe – up to mankind. Yes, everything, even the smallest particles of matter, carry that Divine gift. As you know, the electrons of atoms revolve around the nuclei, and at enormous velocity. Someone told me that the famous scientist Albert Einstein once declared; “I have come to understand so much, but what I have never been able to fathom is what power gives the electrons the energy to orbit nuclei at such a speed. From where does such power come to them?” We believe, and furthermore, have been granted certainty in our belief, that everything in existence has life, is living. For the sake of everyday reckoning we classify certain things, such as rocks, as inanimate objects, and recognise life only in plants, animals and human beings. But we believe that beyond these outward distinctions everything has life. Therefore, atoms, and their electrons that turn around the nuclei with such
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speed as to baffle even the renowned Mr Einstein, are, in reality, alive. They are alive with the Divine Love Power that their Lord has granted them. That’s what makes them spin at the speed of light. It is for those who have access to a realm of knowledge beyond science to say with certainty, that it is Allah Almighty, the Lord of the universe, who through His Holy Name “Al Wadud” ( the All-loving ) gives His Divine Love to everything in the universe. Those electrons, drunken with Divine Love, spin at such velocity around the nuclei. That is how the influence of Divine Love is manifested by them. Science can neither prove nor deny this explanation, as this phenomenon is beyond their realm, and they cannot as much as offer a theory. But our hearts may be content with this explanation, as each and every one of us may try it himself within himself; for we all have the power of that Divine Love in our hearts ready to be contacted. There is no one word in western languages that gives the full meaning of “Al Wadud”. And even explanations don’t do it justice, even though the west claims its knowledge to be superior and looks down disdainfully on every religious experience. And this Holy Name, the meaning of which cannot even be adequately expressed in advanced western languages, is the most suitable “Dhikr”, the most suitable of all the Divine Names to repeat and meditate upon for people who see themselves as superior beings and as being above normal standards. “Love,” it is certainly not a concept that western culture is unfamiliar with, and undoubtedly most people lay claim to loving and being loved, to knowing the meaning of love, and to it being an important aspect of their lives, indeed the most important. But the love we refer to in connection with the Divine Name “al Wadud” is not the physical transitory love that is rapidly becoming the only meaning of love applicable to modern man; the love that one may find in the zoo. If you can’t imagine a love other that what is on the level of animals, then you belong in the zoo. There is a real love, never changing, never dying love, and then there is temporary animal love. Both are in man through the wisdom of the Creator, but the permanent Love is the love given to man through the Divine Name “Al Wadud”. To realise that love is the challenge and fulfilment of human existence - to come in contact with those love oceans, for He has given His Divine Love to His most honoured representatives in creation, mankind. You may love a young lady for her youth, and when that youth departs you love her no more. That is false
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love. Sometimes we may have both kinds of love simultaneously, but usually the physical overpowers the spiritual, so that it is never allowed to appear. But to reach the ultimate goal of human life we are in need of permanent love, and it is only the Lord of the universe who can grant it. Therefore, when we say “Ya Wadud” we are opening ourselves up to that Divine Love, asking our Lord to awaken that Love that knows no limitation, that is eternal and extends to all creation. I have been ordered to teach and advise people to call on our Lord, saying “Ya Wadud”, as this will enable the sincere to attain real love of their Lord Almighty and to love everything around themselves. We must learn to love everything for the sake of the Love the Creator has for all His creation. And we are in utmost need to pray for such love, as, although it is the essence of all success in the way of spiritual purification, it has become almost extinct in our times. Therefore, suffering, disturbances, struggle, crises and chaos are continually on the rise. What passes for human love nowadays is indeed a very far cry from real human love. Mostly people cling to it for two or three months then throw it away. You are saying “Oh my goddess”, and she is saying “Oh my god”, but look in again on them two or three months later and see what is left of that “true devotion” and “deep emotion.” That is the greatest cause of wretchedness in our times. For this reason I don’t refer to this century as a civilised one. Rather, the twentieth century is witnessing the destruction of civilisation, and every minute violence and misery are increasing. A society may be termed “civilised” when it provides the surrounding in which people may easily reach to the point of extending their permanent love to everyone. One shouldn’t be so proud of being a part of “Twentieth Century Civilisation”, for I really don’t consider such a violent and sick society to be civilised, and when I come here (London) I feel my hair standing on end from what I see. Such wildness! No familiarity! Everyone looking so suspiciously to each other! Because of this acute situation in our times we must, first and foremost, seek to awaken permanent love. Practices, prayers and rules are of no use in this time without love. For people whose hearts have not regained contact with such love, the ego easily attaches itself to practices and uses them as a means to pin empty titles onto itself. Leave every practice that serves your vanity and strive for permanent love. Where shall we start? Every person has a circle of friends, relations, acquaintances. Starting from those closest to us: wives and husbands, parents and children, brothers and sisters, we must be generous in giving
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of our permane
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from technologia; it will be removed. O People! Come to spirituality! If not coming, you are going to be like material matters, and you will be underground, only dust! O our Lord! Give us, and grant us something from heavenly understanding! And coming an answer now, "O My weak servant, you are asking to be given to all people a heavenly understanding, but all people are not even looking up. If they are not asking, for what am I giving? Anyone asking, I am giving, but they are not asking! They are asking everything from Shaytan and shaytanic representatives. All trouble here and all hells in the Hereafter are behind Shaytan!” Why? Why are you refusing holy inabiyal hikmah, springs of wisdom? If anyone speaks (about spirituality), people make fun of them, saying, “What are you doing?" Shaytan is always against spirituality. Therefore, anyone against spiritually is a representative of Shaytan. Therefore, wa yuhadhikumullah, Allah Almighty is warning everyone! Therefore, I am saying there is a group of learned people who are naming themselves "Salafi `ulamas," are they only thirty people, or thirty-thousand people? What about us? These Salafi `ulamas are not knowing that Shari'atullah, that Allah Almighty is Guarantor for His holy books and Holy Qur'an and everything in it? But they are not making Holy Qur'an first and Akhirah, Day of Resurrection second. Holy Qur'an puts first what is your destination, opening ways to people to reach their destination! But people are not believing in their heavenly destinations. If not believing, their levels drop to levels of animals' world. We are not animals, we are Mankind! We have a special being. Our creation is a super creation granted to Mankind! In the Qur'an-i-Kareem, Allah Almighty is saying to angels, "I am creating new creatures." Here "creating" means their beings are really in Allah Almighty's Power Oceans and Creation Oceans that were hidden. It means Allah Almighty is asking to bring them into existence, and angels are not knowing what it is, because no one knows what is hidden in Allah Almighty's Creation Oceans! He Almighty is saying, "I am sending, creating a new Creation that will be My deputies.” There is no rank over deputies! Deputy means khalifah, or
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crown prince. Allah is `azaaliyoon, `abaadiyoon, from pre-Eternal to Eternal; there is no beginning and no end for Him, but He is granting such an honor for that new creation, Mankind. They were created and the Lord of Heavens said, "O My servants! I am creating you and sending you to dunya, beware! You have been created for your Lord. I created you for Me and created the world for you!" O Salafi `ulamas! Is it not true? Are you saying such things? Are you not reading? Are you not knowing about such things? Why did Allah create Mankind, for dunya or for Himself? O People! What are you doing? Everything you are doing is for dunya, nothing for your Lord, and Allah Almighty created you for His divinely service! Every Jumu`ah why are you not saying to the Muslim world first and then other nations, "O People! You are never created for dunya, but the Creator, the Lord of Heavens, created you for His divinely service.” What are you doing? What is that foolishness? Why are you not taking care? And you know the hadith, ad-deenu naseeha, “Religion is advice!” Where is your naseeha, advice? Every week you are saying something that is not necessary! And the most important point is: wa dhakkir fa inna 'dh-dhikra tanfa`u'l-mumineen, But teach (thy Message), for teaching benefits the Believers. (51:55) Always insaan, Man, is forgetting, so remind them that they are not created for this world, but for their Creator, Allah Almighty! No greater honor can be imagined for a person than to be in Allah Almighty's service! We have been created for heavenly service, but we are leaving that and running to be servants for dunya, not only servants, but slaves! O People! As-salaamu `alaykum! This is a heavenly grant for all nations from east and west, from north to south, to know about for what they have been created. First of all, it must be taught to people and their children for what they have been created and Who created them. May Allah forgive me. Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah
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Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah Sultan sensin, Sultan sensin. Yaa Rabbee, send us a heavenly one to collect our hearts on Your love and obedience to You! We are looking for a sultan to come and defeat Shaytan and shaytanic groups from this world. O our Lord! Send us a sultan to raise the flags of Islam, heavenly flags on this planet, and to be under those flags here and to be under the holy flag on the Day of Resurrection, for the honor of Your most honored one in Your Divinely Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) Allahumma salli wa sallim `ala Nabiyyina Muhammad `alayhi 's-salaam (O Allah pray and send peace on our Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace) Salaatan tadoomu wahtoohda `ilayh ma marra 'l-layaali wa toola 'd-dawaam (praises everlasting to which all are guided, as long as the nights and as long as the days) (Du`a) Fatihah. Lefke, 09.04.2010
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6823 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: PowerOfCertainty
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THE POWER OF CERTAINTY versus BOOK-LEARNED KNOWLEDGE
It is impossible for a person to leave evil and to take the right path unless his Lord helps him. Therefore, we must ask help, divine help, for everything. You can’t take yourself away from evil if you do not ask for your Lord’s help, and you can’t put your step on a good way without asking help from your Lord. Therefore, when you are in need of leaving evil, you must ask divine help by saying, “A’udhu bil-Lahi min ash- Shaytannir-Rajim.” That makes a protection, a fortress, for you. Any time you feel that Satan is approaching you, you must say, “O my Lord, Satan wants to make me his servant, to make me his follower. O my Lord, keep me away from him” – that sort of a meaning. Even if we say it only with our tongues, it gives benefit, if you say it with your hearts, it is so strong. When you are asking to put your feet on the right path, you must say “Bismillah irRahman irRahim.” In our time, if a person is asking to walk on the right path, one hundred Satans rush at him to catch his feet so that he cannot move them forward, and when you say “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim,” it takes them away and gives you power to walk on that straight path. Yes, that is true; “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim”
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is so powerful. That is the key to every miraculous power. To the extent that you may be certain of that, if you put your feet on water, you can walk on it. It is only certainty which can achieve that. Everyone knows something, but only a few people have certainty; knowledge may be for everyone but certainty is not. Hasan al Basri, may Allah bless him, was a famous Imam and during his time there was Habib al Ajami. He was not an Arab: from Persia or from Bukhara, such a person, and he recited the Qur’an as we recite, not as Arabs recite. Habib al Ajami was an illiterate person also. Once Imam Hasan al Basri came and saw Habib al Ajami praying the Maghrib prayer. When Hasan al Basri heard that that Sheikh was unable to say “Al-hamdu” but pronounced it “Elhemdu”, he thought, “His recitation is not correct,” and did not pray behind him; he prayed alone. Then Allah Almighty’s Hatif ar Rabbani, divine voice, came (Allah Almighty sometimes “phones” some of His beloved people and they listen to what their Lord says) “Apart from that prayer which you did not pray behind Habib, I was going to accept all your prayers,” Allah Almighty said through ilham, inspiration, and Hasan al Basri listened. “But you left that prayer. You are still looking at the words, not looking at the heart of the Imam, as to with whom his heart is. I look at the one who is Imam but I do not look at his recitation; I look at his heart. If his heart is with Me, that Imam is all right. If his heart is not with Me but is occupied with making his voice and his recitation beautiful, engaged with that and permitting his heart not be with Me, angels take that prayer to Me, But for the one whose heart is with Me when he prays, I accept his prayers directly without any intermediary”. Therefore, all prayers are of two kinds. One, of that sort of a person who is going to pray and when he says “Allahu Akbar,” he casts everything aside and is with his Lord; Allah Almighty directly takes his prayers to his Divine Presence. But for the one who says “Allahu Akbar” and through his prayer, is traveling, selling and buying, going and coming, sleeping and awaking, eating and drinking, running after this and that, angels take his prayer to Allah, But Allah Almighty directly takes the prayers of those who are
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with Him. “O Hasan al Basri, I would have accepted all of your prayers for the sake of the prayer that you left because of the way in which it was recited.” And Imam Hasan al Basri wept so much. Once Imam Hasan al Basri was sitting near the Tigris River in Baghdad, waiting for the boat to come so as to cross over to the other side. Then Habib al Ajami came, saying, “O Ustad, my master, what are you waiting here for?” Hasan al Basri said, “I am waiting for the ferry boat, to cross from one side to the other.” “You are the Imam even so you sitting here waiting for that raft? Come and say ‘Bismillah’ and walk”. Then Habib said “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim” and walked on the Tigris and passed over. It was then that Hasan al Basri cried, “This ‘Ajami, this foreigner, an illiterate person, is crossing the Tigris and I am sitting here!” Yes. Hasan “knew” what the power of “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim” is, but that foreign person had certainty; Hasan didn’t have enough certainty to say “Bismilla hir Rahman nir Rahim” and to step on the water. Therefore, we are in need of more certainty, more than knowledge. That is important. But in our time people always run after learning so much. What is the benefit? You may learn so much and you forget so much. But certainty never leaves you. Certainty is the seed of knowledge; you can plant it and it grows up. Once when Habib-al’Ajami was sitting in front of his khaneqah, his takkiyah. Hasan al- Basri came running. Hasan said, “O Habib, hide me, because Hajjaj, the Calipha’s governor, is sending his soldiers to catch me. Hide me!” And Habib said. “Go inside and hide yourself”. Hasan went in and finding a place, hid himself. Then afterwards, soldiers came running, asking Habib, “Have you seen Hasan al-Basri?” “Yes, I saw him inside, He is inside.” They went in and looked around, looking everywhere, everywhere, even going and peeping on Hasan al Basri’s head. He looked around in fear. Then the soldiers went out, saying to Habib, “Now aren’t you ashamed, telling a lie? Where is he? Hajjaj will
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deal with the one who cooperates with Hasan al Basri, and that will be appropriate for you. You said that he was inside, are you not ashamed of lying!” “Inside, I am not lying. He is inside.” Once again they searched; they couldn’t find him, then, very angry, the solders went away. Then Hasan al Basri came out. “O Sheikh, what is this? I came to you asking you to help me and you told the soldiers, ‘Inside’.” “Yes Hasan, ya Imam najaut min sidq il-kalam – you were saved by my truth I told the truth and Allah protected you because I spoke truthfully. I said, “O my Lord, this Hasan al Basri, Your servant, came to me and said, “Hide me, keep me!” I can’t protect him. I entrust him to You, giving him to You as my trust. You Protect him.” I only said that and recited Ayat al-Kursi. For that reason the soldiers could not see him even (if they stood just in front of him). Yes. If Allah Almighty protects His servant, it is all right. Awliya are deputies of our Lord Almighty. If a person runs to a wali and asks for protection, they may protect him, here and hereafter. Those are miracles for the awliya – miracles for anbiya. We are in need of some certainty. Once again, Hasan al-Basri came to visit that Sheikh. When he arrived, Habib al Ajami, may Allah bless him, brought two loaves of bread, putting them in front of him as a courtesy to his guest. Just as he was beginning to eat, someone who was hungry came and asked for something for the sake of Allah. Then that Sheikh, Habib al-‘Ajami, took back the loaves from Hasan al Basri and gave them to that person. Then the Imam, Hasan al-Basri, said, “O Sheikh, you are a good person, but if you had some more knowledge of the Shari’ah it would have been better for you. You should know a little about the Shari’ah: you are in need of that.” He meant to say, “One loaf for me and one for that person, not taking the two and giving them away”. The Sheikh did not say anything. After awhile someone came to the door. The Sheikh
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ordered, “See who is there.” A murid went and looked, saying, “A person has brought a tray full of plates.” Then the Sheikh said, “Bring the tray here. Now Imam, eat.” “You know so much,” the Sheikh said to Hasan al Basri, “but have little certainty. You must try to have more certainty.” Because he had certainty, that Sheikh knew that if he gave this for the sake of Allah, more than this must certainly come. “You were angry with me when I took the two leaves, giving them to that person. Look! If I had not given both of them, this would not have come. I am certain that when I give, Allah Almighty will return it at least tenfold. Yes. Therefore, certainty gives more benefit to everyone, and we are in need of that. If there is no certainty, knowledge can never give benefit but is only like an ornament to enable people to say: “We are doctors and we are scholars”. What is certainty? Someone said, “If I put my hand in the mouth of a dragon and my heart is all right, it is never going to be afraid that this dragon will bite my hand, no. I know with certainty that only if my Lord gives the order will it bite. Therefore, without doubt, if I were to put my hand there, I would not be afraid.” Imam Sha’rani – he is of the people of tawwakul, those who trust in their Lord totally – said, “Once I was traveling and it was near Maghrib time. I saw a dome and walked toward it. When I entered it, I saw that there was a tomb in it, under the dome, in ruins. “After a short while peasants came running, saying, “O Sheikh, you must not stay here but must come with us. Our village is nearby. This is a terrible place, particularly at night-time. So many snakes, big snakes, come out and if anyone sleeps here, in the morning we find only his bones, nothing else. They eat him; only bones are left. Therefore we are warning you not to sleep here”. Then Imam Sh’arani, may Allah bless him, said to the peasants, “O my brothers, when you tell me that, I can’t move, I can’t take even one step out of this place. Because when you warned me about those big snakes, my ego was very afraid of them, and I
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was so ashamed in front of my Lord because my nafs was so frightened of snakes and not fearing Allah Almighty but fearing snakes. Therefore I am not going with you. I can never accept your invitation. I must sleep here this night; it is better for such a ego that I be eaten by snakes. Therefore, it is impossible that I should leave this place.” Eh! The peasants said. “You know best, Sheikh, you are the Sheikh. We don’t know. We are inviting you and we are also warning you about the snakes.” “Yes. Thank you very much. You go and I will be here this night. If, without saying anything about snakes, you had come and invited me officially, “Come with us.” It would have been all right, I might have come. But since you say, “There are snakes, there is danger, this is a terrible place,” I can’t move even one step from here. So go away.” They went, and in the morning they hurried back with shovels to bury shat Sheikh’s bones. And they saw that the Sheikh was sitting and making dhikr, and the snakes were, like wooden beams, beside him. When he lay down, they went around him; in that sandy place they made tracks, traveling around and hissing. And he was at rest. Yes; if you know your Lord and trust in Him, He protects you. If you are familiar with your Lord, everything is going to be familiar with you. That is certainty. Important! And we must try to improve in certainty, not trying to retain so many verses of the Qur’an and so many hadiths; but if we can acquire the secret power in them, that will be certainty for us. Whoever has it, may give it. The one who has something, may give it, if he doesn’t have it, how can he give? You ask bread from a person, for example. If he has it, he will give it to you; if not, he cannot give it. Certainty is with the prophets; their certainty brought Gabriel to them from Heaven. And awliya, also; certainty is with them. You can acquire certainty from those people. All awliya have certainty; you can’t find a wali without certainty. Therefore we are
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asking our Lord to enable us to find one of them so that we can acquire certainty from them; they give certainty. There are some lamps of only five watts, and some others of one thousand or maybe even ten thousand watts. As much as a person needs, they give, as much as you ask, they give certainty. We are in need of that. May Allah bless you and forgive you, and grant us certainty from His beloved people.
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The power of Divine Love
In their inner life, people are in need, and with their souls they are in contact with my soul, so they come to me. I am doing nothing with my followers. I am only sending Divine Power to them without their knowing, which works through their personalities without harming them. The benefit of a Master is that he takes away bad characteristics in order to give good attributes to people. It needs a gardener to look after fruit trees and make them perfect. Masters give perfection to Murids. To be like the Master is the perfection of a Murid. As much as you imitate your Master, following him step by step, you are going to be on the same level, but you are an imitation of him. I am making Murids follow me through their hearts, with love. I am not using force, but the power of Love. 01.04.1999
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The Power of Love
(Sheikh Nazim led the assembly in calling on the Holy Name of Allah - ya Wadud – a Divine Name signifying God’s all embracing Love) There is nothing in all creation that the Creator, Allah Almighty, hates. Indeed it is impossible to be hated by Allah and to be in existence; one absolutely precludes the other. All creation appeared through His Divine Love. He loved them and they appeared; therefore everything in existence carries its share of Divine Love in it. When I say “everything”, I mean everything from atoms and their parts – the very building- blocks of the universe – up to mankind. Yes, everything, even the smallest particles of matter, carry that Divine gift. As you know, the electrons of atoms revolve around the nuclei, and at enormous velocity. Someone told me that the famous scientist Albert Einstein once declared; “I have come to understand so much, but what I have never been able to fathom is what power gives the electrons the energy to orbit nuclei at such a speed. From where does such power come to them?” We believe, and furthermore, have been granted certainty in our belief, that everything in existence has life, is living. For the sake of everyday reckoning we classify certain things, such as rocks, as inanimate objects, and recognise life only in plants, animals and human beings. But we believe that beyond these outward distinctions everything has life. Therefore, atoms, and their electrons that turn around the nuclei with such
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speed as to baffle even the renowned Mr Einstein, are, in reality, alive. They are alive with the Divine Love Power that their Lord has granted them. That’s what makes them spin at the speed of light. It is for those who have access to a realm of knowledge beyond science to say with certainty, that it is Allah Almighty, the Lord of the universe, who through His Holy Name “Al Wadud” ( the All-loving ) gives His Divine Love to everything in the universe. Those electrons, drunken with Divine Love, spin at such velocity around the nuclei. That is how the influence of Divine Love is manifested by them. Science can neither prove nor deny this explanation, as this phenomenon is beyond their realm, and they cannot as much as offer a theory. But our hearts may be content with this explanation, as each and every one of us may try it himself within himself; for we all have the power of that Divine Love in our hearts ready to be contacted. There is no one word in western languages that gives the full meaning of “Al Wadud”. And even explanations don’t do it justice, even though the west claims its knowledge to be superior and looks down disdainfully on every religious experience. And this Holy Name, the meaning of which cannot even be adequately expressed in advanced western languages, is the most suitable “Dhikr”, the most suitable of all the Divine Names to repeat and meditate upon for people who see themselves as superior beings and as being above normal standards. “Love,” it is certainly not a concept that western culture is unfamiliar with, and undoubtedly most people lay claim to loving and being loved, to knowing the meaning of love, and to it being an important aspect of their lives, indeed the most important. But the love we refer to in connection with the Divine Name “al Wadud” is not the physical transitory love that is rapidly becoming the only meaning of love applicable to modern man; the love that one may find in the zoo. If you can’t imagine a love other that what is on the level of animals, then you belong in the zoo. There is a real love, never changing, never dying love, and then there is temporary animal love. Both are in man through the wisdom of the Creator, but the permanent Love is the love given to man through the Divine Name “Al Wadud”. To realise that love is the challenge and fulfilment of human existence - to come in contact with those love oceans, for He has given His Divine Love to His most honoured representatives in creation, mankind. You may love a young lady for her youth, and when that youth departs you love her no more. That is false
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love. Sometimes we may have both kinds of love simultaneously, but usually the physical overpowers the spiritual, so that it is never allowed to appear. But to reach the ultimate goal of human life we are in need of permanent love, and it is only the Lord of the universe who can grant it. Therefore, when we say “Ya Wadud” we are opening ourselves up to that Divine Love, asking our Lord to awaken that Love that knows no limitation, that is eternal and extends to all creation. I have been ordered to teach and advise people to call on our Lord, saying “Ya Wadud”, as this will enable the sincere to attain real love of their Lord Almighty and to love everything around themselves. We must learn to love everything for the sake of the Love the Creator has for all His creation. And we are in utmost need to pray for such love, as, although it is the essence of all success in the way of spiritual purification, it has become almost extinct in our times. Therefore, suffering, disturbances, struggle, crises and chaos are continually on the rise. What passes for human love nowadays is indeed a very far cry from real human love. Mostly people cling to it for two or three months then throw it away. You are saying “Oh my goddess”, and she is saying “Oh my god”, but look in again on them two or three months later and see what is left of that “true devotion” and “deep emotion.” That is the greatest cause of wretchedness in our times. For this reason I don’t refer to this century as a civilised one. Rather, the twentieth century is witnessing the destruction of civilisation, and every minute violence and misery are increasing. A society may be termed “civilised” when it provides the surrounding in which people may easily reach to the point of extending their permanent love to everyone. One shouldn’t be so proud of being a part of “Twentieth Century Civilisation”, for I really don’t consider such a violent and sick society to be civilised, and when I come here (London) I feel my hair standing on end from what I see. Such wildness! No familiarity! Everyone looking so suspiciously to each other! Because of this acute situation in our times we must, first and foremost, seek to awaken permanent love. Practices, prayers and rules are of no use in this time without love. For people whose hearts have not regained contact with such love, the ego easily attaches itself to practices and uses them as a means to pin empty titles onto itself. Leave every practice that serves your vanity and strive for permanent love. Where shall we start? Every person has a circle of friends, relations, acquaintances. Starting from those closest to us: wives and husbands, parents and children, brothers and sisters, we must be generous in giving
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of our permane
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