Maulana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani 2000 Sohbats 1979-2013 (528/777)
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In the Name of Allah Almighty, the Most Merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent. There is Reality and there is Imagination. Imagination can never be Reality and we find that man lives mostly in imagination, for it is so easy, so beautiful and so peaceful for a person to live his life though his imagination. However, our lives are important and they cannot be built on imagination. Yes, you can’t base your life on imagination. Therefore it is necessary for Mankind to look for Reality. Perhaps, at the beginning of our lives, we let our egos lead us through imagination. Later on, as we progress through our life, we begin to understand that we cannot build our life on this foundation of imagination. Therefore, at the beginning of one’ s life, one may be excused, but it is not for ever that we can follow our imagination. Sometimes, we can say that women are excused. So many people are following imagination. Buddhists, Christians, Jews all of them, they have now left Reality and are following a way to do as they like. Is this not true? The Lord says, “As you like”, but we must say, “O People, believe in Reality, even if you live in imagination, for that is best for you”. You are insisting to keep to your imagination, yes, even if you keep to your imagination, one day, when your eyes open you will find that Reality
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is the opposite of your imagination and you will find a way and path that you can never imagine. Therefore our brothers and sisters are all asking for Reality. Yes, we may ask for Reality because everything must carry Reality in the end. Even, for Buddhism there must be a Reality, because there are so many millions of people who are inquiring and going about and following it. But they are not asking as to what is the Reality in Religion, because there are so many imaginations, for example, like beating a drum which makes that Reality disappear. However, through Buddhism there must be a Reality. Imagination is only a cover, it is like a person who comes to search for a treasure and some people in the locality divert the treasure hunter with his map, to various other points, so that he does not find the treasure. The people of the locality cover this place and show the wrong place and as a result, that treasure hunter never finds it. However the people of the locality know that the treasure is somewhere and are waiting for this person to go away so that they may look for it later on. This is what has happened for over three thousand years because Shaithan was misleading millions and billions of people about Lord Buddha, by never letting people find out the Reality in Buddhism and the Reality of its teachings. These teachings are there, but they are covered with imagination. If the lock is shown to you, the key is not given. If the key is given, the lock is not shown. Such things are done to misguide people who look for the Reality of Buddhism. Yes, as I said earlier, there is a Reality in Buddhism. There is Reality in all ancient beliefs, because man was created and beliefs were planted in their hearts. They must believe in something because without beliefs, no one can live. There are so many people who believe in non-belief. They are unbelievers and they believe in non-belief. This is also a kind of belief. They say, “We do not believe in anything, our belief is not to believe in anything.” Yes, atheism is their type of belief, for they do believe in that. So I say that everyone has to have a belief in something or another. It may be right belief or wrong belief. The personality of the Buddha has disappeared through perplexity and mystification. Shaitan is mystifying his personality and after three thousand years, you can’t make out a clear personality as to when and where it ends. This is because it is Shaitan’s target to make
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confusion by way of mystification and for its true teachings to lose its Reality. Therefore Buddha was a real personality. He gave his teachings to people but he never told people to worship him. He was not a foolish one to say that, “I am the one who created the Worlds”, or “I am that Supreme Power, who is governing Universes”, and he was not such a one to claim his power from super galaxies upto the creation of atoms. He never claimed to command or look after anything. No person, unless he has a small mentality, will agree with such wisdoms. It is impossible for Buddha, being a man of food and drink, of breath and sleep, of growth and death, to claim to be such a Supreme, Great Power. How can he claim such a thing? How is it possible for such an ordinary person to have such Supreme Power? In the first instance, such Supreme Power will destroy his own body, as the body cannot take such a Supreme Power in itself. If that power comes externally, the body will vanish and be destroyed. It must mean that the body is under the control of a Supreme Power and that Supreme Power is covering him from every direction both outside and inside. It should command him, control him and cover him from every side and every direction. What is that power? If that power is controlling him, only then can he be a representative of that Supreme Power. Today, they will not accept that Buddha was a representative of that Supreme Power. Buddhiest people do not accept the fact that Buddha was a representative of that Supreme Power. They are only claiming that Buddha was the Supreme Power in himself. If he was a source of all Supreme Power, then that is imagination. It is against the Spirit of Reality and when we speak of Reality, some Buddhist brothers may or may not accept this Reality. Everyone has freedom in accepting Reality. Their acceptance or refusal is never going to change this Reality. They can never be able to make the Buddha the main source of Supreme Power. If he was the source of Supreme Power, he should be able to make the many status of his image to move, to look and to see. If he was the source of Supreme Power he should be able to put power through his statues and there will be no need to put a lamp or light in front of these images. It should be, by itself at least, able to give a glow of light to all his statues. However, this is imagination. There is a Supreme Power commanding and controlling everything and that Supreme Power must be above our imagination.
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Even Christians are falling into Iconoclastic Imagination. They imagine so many images of Jesus Christ and of his Mother. Today, in the West, you do not have the image of the unclothed, crucified Christ on a cross, outside their churches. Their statues have changed to more attractive personality symbols for Christianity. They feel ashamed to make people to believe in a person who has been crucified on a cross. Therefore even in Sri Lanka, in the new churches, we may never find images of Christ on a cross. They are changing their imagination to portray the image of Christ to be a representative of Supreme Power. They now want to show Christ in perhaps more magnificent forms. They put a crown on his head and put the world or a globe in his hands to make it more attractive to people. In Sri Lanka, perhaps they may try to attract Buddhist people by saying that all the images of the Buddha are always sleeping, but look at our King, he is King of the world. Look at his new image! Therefore Christians have also been living in imagination for over two thousand years. They are not able to separate Reality from Christianity. Real Christians know that they are following imagination today and this imagination is creating the rituals that they follow. They seem to be happy for the present, but as Seyyedina Ali (may Allah bless him) once said, “Mostly people are sleeping throughout their lives in this world, and they only wake up when they are dying”. What he means to say is that most people are sleeping in this life with their imagination and are not searching for Truth or Reality. They like to live with their imagination and try to be happy in this life, but this situation cannot go on for ever. When death comes, they must open their eyes and when they open their eyes, they will see something else. Then they should see Reality, and only at that time will they be surprised to look at the truth of Reality. Therefore, temporarily, people seem to be happy today, practicing their imagination, making statues, icons, and statues and performing rituals in front of them. Islam is a ‘Reality Seller.’ We Muslims are not imagination Salesmen. We say, “La ilaha Illallah: There is no God but Allah, the Only Supreme Power”. We say that all people were created from one source, from One Supreme Power. Science, Knowledge and Astronomy are committed to reveal this Reality. Knowledge has come to us that the whole structure of this Universe is of the same structure that you find in
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every atom. The first creation of the Universe is the same structure that you find through the atom. It is the main source for the structure of this huge Universe and other Universes. It is the same for the gigantic Galaxies, upto the smallest thing in creation, the main building source is the minute atom. Who is commanding the atom or commanding the gigantic Galaxies? By the way of knowledge and Science, you can see that ultimately all of them are controlled by just One Supreme Power. It is impossible to have two Supreme Powers. When you say Supreme Power, it cannot share that power with any other power. If any other power is sharing that power, it cannot and will not be a Supreme Power. It is our belief that the Supreme Power is controlling everything, but it is never controlled. We say that Allah Almighty is that Supreme Power and that there is no one else controlling Him. This is Reality and we are asking people through their positive Science and Knowledge to believe in this important point, that everything is controlled by a Supreme Power. Even when you look at the more than ten billion huge galaxies moving in one direction, you cannot find any galaxies moving against each other and all of them are moving in the same direction and not one is moving against another so as to collide with each other. You can find an excellent, most perfect traffic throughout the galaxies. When the Seal of Prophets (Sal) was on his night journey of Mihraj and watching the parade of the angels in the Heavens, he asked Archangel Jibreel (alai) “From where they are coming and to where they are going.” Archangel Jibreel (alai) replied that from the time he was created, he has seen this huge row of Angels passing like lightning and that he does not know when they began or when they will end or finish. Allah Almighty says, “They are My soldiers and no one knows the number of my servants or Angels and no one knows the limits of My territory. I am that One who has Supreme Power and I am that One who creates and governs the movements of all Galaxies, to follow a direction, and in My Hands is that Real Supreme Power”. Nothing can be against that direction and here, even on Earth, there is a direction to follow. No one can go against the Supreme Power that controls the Earth and everything that is out of Earth and throughout Space. This is Reality. We in Islam are not calling people to believe in imagination. Whoever, who
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wants to be happy with Reality may come to us and understand. If not, they may play like small children with their imaginations and wait until death opens their eyes to Reality. We cannot accept that Buddha claimed that Supreme Power was in his hands. He could not have said this. If he had said this, we must ask the Buddha as to whom he was concentrating on, meditating and worshipping. Where was he really running to and how was he reaching to that Supreme Power’s Divine Presence? He was asking for this Supreme Power’s Divine Presence, but people of wrong understanding make the Buddha their target. People became narrow in understanding through this very short area of the understanding and they should come out and see what is the Reality in the Buddha. Buddha was only a servant of his Lord, Allah Almighty. Buddha was always meditating and asking to guide people towards this Divine Presence of Allah Almighty – the controller of Supreme Power. However, today we only see followers making it a business of making statues in this short life and wasting their precious lives on the rituals of imagination. We are sorry that even today people are still insisting on their wrong imagination. If they ask for Reality, they must leave all their images and must ask to find through their hearts, the representatives of the Supreme Power. If they can really find in their hearts that representative they can reach out of time and space. The reality of Buddha was to teach people to get out of this time and space and when he was meditating, closing his eyes he was teaching people by saying, “O people, you must try to get out from the prison of this life, from the prison of your physical bodies and you must try to reach the Supreme Power’s Divine Presence”. If you can do that, you should be happy and when you are in real happiness, you are going to be free. Free from all the heavy burdens of this life and only then will you reach out of time and space. You must follow the way of Reality because you cannot be free from time and space when you follow the way of imagination. You will carry the heavy burdens of life as long as you are not out of time and space. The Lord, Allah Almighty wants to make your burdens of life lighter for He never likes to place heavy burdens on His servants. He wants to make His servants’ burdens more and more light, like the soul, without weight. When you are going to be as light as your soul, He will carry
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you from your physical bodies to Divine Territories. He may take you to the real target of the purpose of this life and that is to be taken to the presence of the Supreme Power and Divinity and from Divinity to his Endless Kingdom and to find yourself in His Divine – His Supreme Presence. That was and that is the real target of the Buddha. He was asking people not to make themselves imprisoned with the status of imagination. Masha Allah, I am asking forgiveness for me and for you from all types of wrong-thinking people and asking for Divine Lights to make it easy for His servants to find Reality and to leave imagination. Bi Hurmatil Habeeb, Bi Hurmatil Fathiha.
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Renew Yourself for Your Lord
(Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Astaghfirullah, dastoor Ya Sayyidi, madad. As-salamu `alaykum, O our listeners. Don’t listen to me, I know nothing, but you must try to hear, listen and obey the One who is granting us an understanding from His endless Mercy Oceans and asking us to be obedient servants. We may stand up for His glory and say, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar wa lillahi ‘l-hamd! We are giving our most high respects to that most honored one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad (s.) Alfu salaat, alfu salaam alayka yaa Sayyidi ‘l-awwaleen wa ‘l-akhireen (master of the earliest and latest creations). You are Nabee, Prophet from pre-Eternal up to Eternal. All creations are giving you their salutes and most high respects. Please, yaa Sayyidi ‘l awwaleen wa ‘l-akhireen, O our most beloved Rasool, give us from your intercession! That gives us honor here and Hereafter, forever. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) O People! I am hearing and also you try to hear heavenly addressing to make you an honored one. Who is asking to be an honored servant must try to hear, listen and obey. That gives you an honor that is going to be more and more and never coming down and giving you honor forever. We are asking from our master, the
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master of this planet, dunya, to look after us. We are asking the heavenly support of the grandmaster of this planet. There are so many masters on this planet, but only one is the most high and reaching to a heavenly level. He is the only one in the heavenly presence of the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s.) We are saying, along with other people, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. All the time Shaytan is trying to harm Mankind and his mission is to give trouble to people. Those who listen to him are always falling in Trouble Oceans; always falling through oceans of miseries and suffering. We are therefore saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. O our Lord, please give us Your protection, not to fall through Shaytan’s traps; if they catch someone it is so difficult to save himself! Therefore, don’t forget to say, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem, to run away from Shaytan and shaytanic actings, efforts, and works. What is the sign of Shaytanic traps? First, Shaytan is showing you that it is a best being for Mankind and calling you, “Come here and you will be happy forever and find endless enjoyment.” This is the first trap of Shaytan to catch people. Shaytan has countless traps, because there are now seven billion people. How many traps Shaytan is using? First Shaytan says, “O People you must leave old things. You must “renew” your minds, your way of thinking. You must leave everything that you were doing.” “Therefore, O Mr. John, what do you think? New Year coming and bringing so many new things; so many new fashions, and you should look after new fashionable things. You must now change everything that you are using from clothes, eating, living, housewares; you must change your cars, your minds, and everything that belongs to Year 2009. You must renew yourselves.” That is the first teaching. Therefore, you think, “Yes, a new year is coming and we must renew ourselves in every way of living, and every sulook, maslak.” If you are going on this highway, you must change direction along another one, for example, “If you like to be free ones and become most understanding ones about your life … you must change everything from the beginning up to end, from A to Z.” In cars they have a book, A to Z. Shaytan is urging, “O People! First you must try to change your understanding (of) the way you look at everything, as new circumstances coming. You must try to arrange your lives in a different fashion.” O People! all those living on this planet; from small ones up to old ones, you are all thinking now and saying “a New Year”, but it is really not going to be new; it is going to be old, not new. Why saying new? You must be happy like me, a person who is going to turn ninety this year. What happiness it brings me because I am now
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going to be a new one! Our lives on this planet going to be new. 2009 will become an old year, and 2010 the new year, which means we are also going to be new ones. (Mawlana Shaykh imitates a conversation.) “O my darling, what do you think of my thinking?” “O my darling, I never understood what you are saying. Each year we are coming down and you are saying to me you are getting younger.” “O my darling, don’t make (fun of) my pleasure! New year is coming and I am going to be younger, and you are saying the opposite—that I am getting older! No older, you must say always New Year is coming and a ‘renewment’ coming to ourselves.” “You are believing in this?” Another old one saying, “O my friend, what is your darling saying?” “My darling is saying that when New Year comes, we are getting younger because we are getting new.” It is the worst Shaytanic teaching for Mankind, that you are getting younger and younger! Every year whatever is new is going to be old, and when another year comes, it is a new year! “O my darling, a happy New Year to you.” “Oh, this is what it means?” “Yes, I am very happy that I am reaching a new life through this old year. I am becoming new, a new man to me.” “I am looking at you as you are using two sticks, yet you are saying, ‘I am getting younger.’ What is that, O my darling?” “My darling, leave that and look now, there is show. When I am dressing like this, new fashion clothes, I am getting new and fresh.” ‘‘Which one you are saying I must use? (Mawlana looks through a monocle.) “Which one? This one?” Until he sees this one, ten ones going and coming. His darling is saying, “New year and new fashion, I am getting to be like a pretty, eighteen-year-old girl that night.” “I think that you have something wrong in your mind!”
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“You can never, never say this to me! I believe that the New Year is bringing a new man to me.” “If you are not happy with me, I am going to look for another one - for new marriage.” “Hah! New marriage? If you are asking a new marriage because you are getting younger, what about for me? I am also going to look another one. But I must use another perspective to look which one is suitable for me. They are running so quickly, I can’t catch one of them to say that I am asking marriage from you.” “Don’t say this. They may come to you, when you are showing your golden chains. When you are showing this diamond worth $100,000 they should run to you and should say, ‘O my darling I love you. Please give this ring.’ I think that is worth ten dollars!” “Hah! Ten dollars? I am not a worker to use ten dollar diamond. This is $100,000.” “Please, O my darling, give this to me, because you are getting younger and it is suitable for us as our new marriage gift.” “Yes sir, I may do this. When the year is okay, I shall give you, raghman `ala anfiha, inspite of her wish.” Apes can be cheated quickly and Shaytan is making people (to be) like apes, cheating them, saying, “You are getting ‘renewing’; the New Year gives you a ‘renewment’.” First teaching of Shaytan for Mankind, cheating them, “You are getting younger. It is New Year, therefore, you must not use old-fashion things.” Everything inside, we may put outside, and we must bring new furniture, (then thinking,) “Oh, I am getting younger.” O People! Beware of Shaytan, cheating you in everything and making you not to think of dying and of death. Once upon a time your fathers and mothers were... (Mawlana coughs.) Shaytan is not happy with me, making me to not say what he is doing with people! They are thinking that a ’renewment’ coming. They are never thinking that their last day is coming, because for everyone, there is a last day. There is no more life after that last day for them on this planet, and they should be taken by force or by surrendering. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem, is a holy command from heavens to all nations through every prophet. It was sent as a warning, “O People! Don’t listen to Shaytan, it is cheating you and you will regret it.” A` oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. You must beware of Shaytan, it’s orders and ideas; changing every year, but bringing the same point, that takes Man into darkness. Shaytan’s thinking and main point is
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to take people from enlightened worlds to dark worlds. As mentioned through heavenly knowledge in holy books, the Lord of Heavens sent every prophet as a warner. All prophets were warners bringing 124,000 reminders to all Mankind, because biggest harm coming to people from shaytanic cheating. O People! Now after fifteen days a new year is coming. Don’t be cheated! Look at what your Creator, the Lord of Heavens, is saying and what He is asking from you: to be new always for His heavenly service. O my listeners! Don’t listen to me but listen to His holy and heavenly messages through prophets. What He is saying, “O My servants, don’t forget that you are My servants, and I am asking best servanthood from you. O My servants, you are refusing to be My servants and occupying yourselves with nonsense through this life. What is that ‘renewment’? How you are asking ‘renewment’ when you see daily, thousands, millions of people running away from this life to other, unknown territories? Why are you not thinking on it? O my listeners! Make your ego believe in holy commands of the Lord of Heavens, and follow these commands: you will be honored. As long as you are hearing and obeying Shaytan, you are losing your honor and you are going to be dishonored. As long as you are trying to follow His heavenly services, you should reach a position that gives you honor-over-honor, life-over-life, lights-over-lights, happiness-on-happiness. You should find the best from everything! That is the honor of being from Mankind. The Lord of Heavens granting them that honor, because He is saying, “You are My servants. I am accepting you to be My servants through My heavenly levels, through My heavens.” People now are only hearing and asking to follow the shaytanic teachings that are coming through PhD people, doctors and professors. All of them first in line, listening to Shaytan, saying, “You are true.” If someone is saying to them, “Listen to what the Lord of Heavens is saying,” they are never happy, instead when hearing Shaytan and shaytanic nonsense and dirty things, they are very happy! The holy command from Allah Almighty is, “Don’t eat dirty things! O People! You are created clean and I am granting to you clean foods for your physical being. Keep my enjoyful grants, it is for your honor. I am forbidding you to eat and drink dirty things, because only pigs eating dirtiness, even their dirt they are eating. Don’t eat pigs, because they are dirty.” The Lord of Heavens is saying to human nature, “I am creating you clean and offering you clean things and I
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am ordering you to use clean things. Don’t eat and drink dirty things. I made for you clean food and clean drinks. If you are not listening to Me and eating and drinking dirty things, you are losing your heavenly appearance on the Day of Resurrection and are coming like dogs and pigs, that are eating their dirtiness also.” You should come like this, but where are people, (are they) ever hearing or listening or asking to keep that order? When they are passing away, they will find themselves through dirty sewage channels saying, “What is that?!!” That is what you were eating through your life: sleep in it, eat and drink it. Allah (swt) protects us! O People! Use your minds and try to hear, to listen and to obey your Lord’s holy commands. You will be best ones in Divine Presence! You will be rewarded such grants that no one before is seeing, hearing or knowing! O People! Be patient. Be patient against your egos, be patient against the demands of Shaytan and you will be happy here and Hereafter. This is well-known knowledge. People just caught through shaytanic tricks and traps that are ready and you can find them everywhere. Tricks that are catching people and putting through traps. (Shaytan says,) “Be free ones!” Everywhere people are saying, “We need freedom.” Freedom for what? Real freedom is to be free from Shaytan and from your ego and it’s demands. Leave them, so that you will be (truly) free ones! If not, ‘freedom’ has no meaning and you are being ridden by Shaytan, like a man riding his donkey. Shaytan is
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In the Name of Allah Almighty, the Most Merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent. There is Reality and there is Imagination. Imagination can never be Reality and we find that man lives mostly in imagination, for it is so easy, so beautiful and so peaceful for a person to live his life though his imagination. However, our lives are important and they cannot be built on imagination. Yes, you can’t base your life on imagination. Therefore it is necessary for Mankind to look for Reality. Perhaps, at the beginning of our lives, we let our egos lead us through imagination. Later on, as we progress through our life, we begin to understand that we cannot build our life on this foundation of imagination. Therefore, at the beginning of one’ s life, one may be excused, but it is not for ever that we can follow our imagination. Sometimes, we can say that women are excused. So many people are following imagination. Buddhists, Christians, Jews all of them, they have now left Reality and are following a way to do as they like. Is this not true? The Lord says, “As you like”, but we must say, “O People, believe in Reality, even if you live in imagination, for that is best for you”. You are insisting to keep to your imagination, yes, even if you keep to your imagination, one day, when your eyes open you will find that Reality
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is the opposite of your imagination and you will find a way and path that you can never imagine. Therefore our brothers and sisters are all asking for Reality. Yes, we may ask for Reality because everything must carry Reality in the end. Even, for Buddhism there must be a Reality, because there are so many millions of people who are inquiring and going about and following it. But they are not asking as to what is the Reality in Religion, because there are so many imaginations, for example, like beating a drum which makes that Reality disappear. However, through Buddhism there must be a Reality. Imagination is only a cover, it is like a person who comes to search for a treasure and some people in the locality divert the treasure hunter with his map, to various other points, so that he does not find the treasure. The people of the locality cover this place and show the wrong place and as a result, that treasure hunter never finds it. However the people of the locality know that the treasure is somewhere and are waiting for this person to go away so that they may look for it later on. This is what has happened for over three thousand years because Shaithan was misleading millions and billions of people about Lord Buddha, by never letting people find out the Reality in Buddhism and the Reality of its teachings. These teachings are there, but they are covered with imagination. If the lock is shown to you, the key is not given. If the key is given, the lock is not shown. Such things are done to misguide people who look for the Reality of Buddhism. Yes, as I said earlier, there is a Reality in Buddhism. There is Reality in all ancient beliefs, because man was created and beliefs were planted in their hearts. They must believe in something because without beliefs, no one can live. There are so many people who believe in non-belief. They are unbelievers and they believe in non-belief. This is also a kind of belief. They say, “We do not believe in anything, our belief is not to believe in anything.” Yes, atheism is their type of belief, for they do believe in that. So I say that everyone has to have a belief in something or another. It may be right belief or wrong belief. The personality of the Buddha has disappeared through perplexity and mystification. Shaitan is mystifying his personality and after three thousand years, you can’t make out a clear personality as to when and where it ends. This is because it is Shaitan’s target to make
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confusion by way of mystification and for its true teachings to lose its Reality. Therefore Buddha was a real personality. He gave his teachings to people but he never told people to worship him. He was not a foolish one to say that, “I am the one who created the Worlds”, or “I am that Supreme Power, who is governing Universes”, and he was not such a one to claim his power from super galaxies upto the creation of atoms. He never claimed to command or look after anything. No person, unless he has a small mentality, will agree with such wisdoms. It is impossible for Buddha, being a man of food and drink, of breath and sleep, of growth and death, to claim to be such a Supreme, Great Power. How can he claim such a thing? How is it possible for such an ordinary person to have such Supreme Power? In the first instance, such Supreme Power will destroy his own body, as the body cannot take such a Supreme Power in itself. If that power comes externally, the body will vanish and be destroyed. It must mean that the body is under the control of a Supreme Power and that Supreme Power is covering him from every direction both outside and inside. It should command him, control him and cover him from every side and every direction. What is that power? If that power is controlling him, only then can he be a representative of that Supreme Power. Today, they will not accept that Buddha was a representative of that Supreme Power. Buddhiest people do not accept the fact that Buddha was a representative of that Supreme Power. They are only claiming that Buddha was the Supreme Power in himself. If he was a source of all Supreme Power, then that is imagination. It is against the Spirit of Reality and when we speak of Reality, some Buddhist brothers may or may not accept this Reality. Everyone has freedom in accepting Reality. Their acceptance or refusal is never going to change this Reality. They can never be able to make the Buddha the main source of Supreme Power. If he was the source of Supreme Power, he should be able to make the many status of his image to move, to look and to see. If he was the source of Supreme Power he should be able to put power through his statues and there will be no need to put a lamp or light in front of these images. It should be, by itself at least, able to give a glow of light to all his statues. However, this is imagination. There is a Supreme Power commanding and controlling everything and that Supreme Power must be above our imagination.
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Even Christians are falling into Iconoclastic Imagination. They imagine so many images of Jesus Christ and of his Mother. Today, in the West, you do not have the image of the unclothed, crucified Christ on a cross, outside their churches. Their statues have changed to more attractive personality symbols for Christianity. They feel ashamed to make people to believe in a person who has been crucified on a cross. Therefore even in Sri Lanka, in the new churches, we may never find images of Christ on a cross. They are changing their imagination to portray the image of Christ to be a representative of Supreme Power. They now want to show Christ in perhaps more magnificent forms. They put a crown on his head and put the world or a globe in his hands to make it more attractive to people. In Sri Lanka, perhaps they may try to attract Buddhist people by saying that all the images of the Buddha are always sleeping, but look at our King, he is King of the world. Look at his new image! Therefore Christians have also been living in imagination for over two thousand years. They are not able to separate Reality from Christianity. Real Christians know that they are following imagination today and this imagination is creating the rituals that they follow. They seem to be happy for the present, but as Seyyedina Ali (may Allah bless him) once said, “Mostly people are sleeping throughout their lives in this world, and they only wake up when they are dying”. What he means to say is that most people are sleeping in this life with their imagination and are not searching for Truth or Reality. They like to live with their imagination and try to be happy in this life, but this situation cannot go on for ever. When death comes, they must open their eyes and when they open their eyes, they will see something else. Then they should see Reality, and only at that time will they be surprised to look at the truth of Reality. Therefore, temporarily, people seem to be happy today, practicing their imagination, making statues, icons, and statues and performing rituals in front of them. Islam is a ‘Reality Seller.’ We Muslims are not imagination Salesmen. We say, “La ilaha Illallah: There is no God but Allah, the Only Supreme Power”. We say that all people were created from one source, from One Supreme Power. Science, Knowledge and Astronomy are committed to reveal this Reality. Knowledge has come to us that the whole structure of this Universe is of the same structure that you find in
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every atom. The first creation of the Universe is the same structure that you find through the atom. It is the main source for the structure of this huge Universe and other Universes. It is the same for the gigantic Galaxies, upto the smallest thing in creation, the main building source is the minute atom. Who is commanding the atom or commanding the gigantic Galaxies? By the way of knowledge and Science, you can see that ultimately all of them are controlled by just One Supreme Power. It is impossible to have two Supreme Powers. When you say Supreme Power, it cannot share that power with any other power. If any other power is sharing that power, it cannot and will not be a Supreme Power. It is our belief that the Supreme Power is controlling everything, but it is never controlled. We say that Allah Almighty is that Supreme Power and that there is no one else controlling Him. This is Reality and we are asking people through their positive Science and Knowledge to believe in this important point, that everything is controlled by a Supreme Power. Even when you look at the more than ten billion huge galaxies moving in one direction, you cannot find any galaxies moving against each other and all of them are moving in the same direction and not one is moving against another so as to collide with each other. You can find an excellent, most perfect traffic throughout the galaxies. When the Seal of Prophets (Sal) was on his night journey of Mihraj and watching the parade of the angels in the Heavens, he asked Archangel Jibreel (alai) “From where they are coming and to where they are going.” Archangel Jibreel (alai) replied that from the time he was created, he has seen this huge row of Angels passing like lightning and that he does not know when they began or when they will end or finish. Allah Almighty says, “They are My soldiers and no one knows the number of my servants or Angels and no one knows the limits of My territory. I am that One who has Supreme Power and I am that One who creates and governs the movements of all Galaxies, to follow a direction, and in My Hands is that Real Supreme Power”. Nothing can be against that direction and here, even on Earth, there is a direction to follow. No one can go against the Supreme Power that controls the Earth and everything that is out of Earth and throughout Space. This is Reality. We in Islam are not calling people to believe in imagination. Whoever, who
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wants to be happy with Reality may come to us and understand. If not, they may play like small children with their imaginations and wait until death opens their eyes to Reality. We cannot accept that Buddha claimed that Supreme Power was in his hands. He could not have said this. If he had said this, we must ask the Buddha as to whom he was concentrating on, meditating and worshipping. Where was he really running to and how was he reaching to that Supreme Power’s Divine Presence? He was asking for this Supreme Power’s Divine Presence, but people of wrong understanding make the Buddha their target. People became narrow in understanding through this very short area of the understanding and they should come out and see what is the Reality in the Buddha. Buddha was only a servant of his Lord, Allah Almighty. Buddha was always meditating and asking to guide people towards this Divine Presence of Allah Almighty – the controller of Supreme Power. However, today we only see followers making it a business of making statues in this short life and wasting their precious lives on the rituals of imagination. We are sorry that even today people are still insisting on their wrong imagination. If they ask for Reality, they must leave all their images and must ask to find through their hearts, the representatives of the Supreme Power. If they can really find in their hearts that representative they can reach out of time and space. The reality of Buddha was to teach people to get out of this time and space and when he was meditating, closing his eyes he was teaching people by saying, “O people, you must try to get out from the prison of this life, from the prison of your physical bodies and you must try to reach the Supreme Power’s Divine Presence”. If you can do that, you should be happy and when you are in real happiness, you are going to be free. Free from all the heavy burdens of this life and only then will you reach out of time and space. You must follow the way of Reality because you cannot be free from time and space when you follow the way of imagination. You will carry the heavy burdens of life as long as you are not out of time and space. The Lord, Allah Almighty wants to make your burdens of life lighter for He never likes to place heavy burdens on His servants. He wants to make His servants’ burdens more and more light, like the soul, without weight. When you are going to be as light as your soul, He will carry
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you from your physical bodies to Divine Territories. He may take you to the real target of the purpose of this life and that is to be taken to the presence of the Supreme Power and Divinity and from Divinity to his Endless Kingdom and to find yourself in His Divine – His Supreme Presence. That was and that is the real target of the Buddha. He was asking people not to make themselves imprisoned with the status of imagination. Masha Allah, I am asking forgiveness for me and for you from all types of wrong-thinking people and asking for Divine Lights to make it easy for His servants to find Reality and to leave imagination. Bi Hurmatil Habeeb, Bi Hurmatil Fathiha.
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(Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Astaghfirullah, dastoor Ya Sayyidi, madad. As-salamu `alaykum, O our listeners. Don’t listen to me, I know nothing, but you must try to hear, listen and obey the One who is granting us an understanding from His endless Mercy Oceans and asking us to be obedient servants. We may stand up for His glory and say, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar wa lillahi ‘l-hamd! We are giving our most high respects to that most honored one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad (s.) Alfu salaat, alfu salaam alayka yaa Sayyidi ‘l-awwaleen wa ‘l-akhireen (master of the earliest and latest creations). You are Nabee, Prophet from pre-Eternal up to Eternal. All creations are giving you their salutes and most high respects. Please, yaa Sayyidi ‘l awwaleen wa ‘l-akhireen, O our most beloved Rasool, give us from your intercession! That gives us honor here and Hereafter, forever. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) O People! I am hearing and also you try to hear heavenly addressing to make you an honored one. Who is asking to be an honored servant must try to hear, listen and obey. That gives you an honor that is going to be more and more and never coming down and giving you honor forever. We are asking from our master, the
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master of this planet, dunya, to look after us. We are asking the heavenly support of the grandmaster of this planet. There are so many masters on this planet, but only one is the most high and reaching to a heavenly level. He is the only one in the heavenly presence of the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s.) We are saying, along with other people, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. All the time Shaytan is trying to harm Mankind and his mission is to give trouble to people. Those who listen to him are always falling in Trouble Oceans; always falling through oceans of miseries and suffering. We are therefore saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. O our Lord, please give us Your protection, not to fall through Shaytan’s traps; if they catch someone it is so difficult to save himself! Therefore, don’t forget to say, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem, to run away from Shaytan and shaytanic actings, efforts, and works. What is the sign of Shaytanic traps? First, Shaytan is showing you that it is a best being for Mankind and calling you, “Come here and you will be happy forever and find endless enjoyment.” This is the first trap of Shaytan to catch people. Shaytan has countless traps, because there are now seven billion people. How many traps Shaytan is using? First Shaytan says, “O People you must leave old things. You must “renew” your minds, your way of thinking. You must leave everything that you were doing.” “Therefore, O Mr. John, what do you think? New Year coming and bringing so many new things; so many new fashions, and you should look after new fashionable things. You must now change everything that you are using from clothes, eating, living, housewares; you must change your cars, your minds, and everything that belongs to Year 2009. You must renew yourselves.” That is the first teaching. Therefore, you think, “Yes, a new year is coming and we must renew ourselves in every way of living, and every sulook, maslak.” If you are going on this highway, you must change direction along another one, for example, “If you like to be free ones and become most understanding ones about your life … you must change everything from the beginning up to end, from A to Z.” In cars they have a book, A to Z. Shaytan is urging, “O People! First you must try to change your understanding (of) the way you look at everything, as new circumstances coming. You must try to arrange your lives in a different fashion.” O People! all those living on this planet; from small ones up to old ones, you are all thinking now and saying “a New Year”, but it is really not going to be new; it is going to be old, not new. Why saying new? You must be happy like me, a person who is going to turn ninety this year. What happiness it brings me because I am now
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going to be a new one! Our lives on this planet going to be new. 2009 will become an old year, and 2010 the new year, which means we are also going to be new ones. (Mawlana Shaykh imitates a conversation.) “O my darling, what do you think of my thinking?” “O my darling, I never understood what you are saying. Each year we are coming down and you are saying to me you are getting younger.” “O my darling, don’t make (fun of) my pleasure! New year is coming and I am going to be younger, and you are saying the opposite—that I am getting older! No older, you must say always New Year is coming and a ‘renewment’ coming to ourselves.” “You are believing in this?” Another old one saying, “O my friend, what is your darling saying?” “My darling is saying that when New Year comes, we are getting younger because we are getting new.” It is the worst Shaytanic teaching for Mankind, that you are getting younger and younger! Every year whatever is new is going to be old, and when another year comes, it is a new year! “O my darling, a happy New Year to you.” “Oh, this is what it means?” “Yes, I am very happy that I am reaching a new life through this old year. I am becoming new, a new man to me.” “I am looking at you as you are using two sticks, yet you are saying, ‘I am getting younger.’ What is that, O my darling?” “My darling, leave that and look now, there is show. When I am dressing like this, new fashion clothes, I am getting new and fresh.” ‘‘Which one you are saying I must use? (Mawlana looks through a monocle.) “Which one? This one?” Until he sees this one, ten ones going and coming. His darling is saying, “New year and new fashion, I am getting to be like a pretty, eighteen-year-old girl that night.” “I think that you have something wrong in your mind!”
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“You can never, never say this to me! I believe that the New Year is bringing a new man to me.” “If you are not happy with me, I am going to look for another one - for new marriage.” “Hah! New marriage? If you are asking a new marriage because you are getting younger, what about for me? I am also going to look another one. But I must use another perspective to look which one is suitable for me. They are running so quickly, I can’t catch one of them to say that I am asking marriage from you.” “Don’t say this. They may come to you, when you are showing your golden chains. When you are showing this diamond worth $100,000 they should run to you and should say, ‘O my darling I love you. Please give this ring.’ I think that is worth ten dollars!” “Hah! Ten dollars? I am not a worker to use ten dollar diamond. This is $100,000.” “Please, O my darling, give this to me, because you are getting younger and it is suitable for us as our new marriage gift.” “Yes sir, I may do this. When the year is okay, I shall give you, raghman `ala anfiha, inspite of her wish.” Apes can be cheated quickly and Shaytan is making people (to be) like apes, cheating them, saying, “You are getting ‘renewing’; the New Year gives you a ‘renewment’.” First teaching of Shaytan for Mankind, cheating them, “You are getting younger. It is New Year, therefore, you must not use old-fashion things.” Everything inside, we may put outside, and we must bring new furniture, (then thinking,) “Oh, I am getting younger.” O People! Beware of Shaytan, cheating you in everything and making you not to think of dying and of death. Once upon a time your fathers and mothers were... (Mawlana coughs.) Shaytan is not happy with me, making me to not say what he is doing with people! They are thinking that a ’renewment’ coming. They are never thinking that their last day is coming, because for everyone, there is a last day. There is no more life after that last day for them on this planet, and they should be taken by force or by surrendering. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem, is a holy command from heavens to all nations through every prophet. It was sent as a warning, “O People! Don’t listen to Shaytan, it is cheating you and you will regret it.” A` oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. You must beware of Shaytan, it’s orders and ideas; changing every year, but bringing the same point, that takes Man into darkness. Shaytan’s thinking and main point is
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to take people from enlightened worlds to dark worlds. As mentioned through heavenly knowledge in holy books, the Lord of Heavens sent every prophet as a warner. All prophets were warners bringing 124,000 reminders to all Mankind, because biggest harm coming to people from shaytanic cheating. O People! Now after fifteen days a new year is coming. Don’t be cheated! Look at what your Creator, the Lord of Heavens, is saying and what He is asking from you: to be new always for His heavenly service. O my listeners! Don’t listen to me but listen to His holy and heavenly messages through prophets. What He is saying, “O My servants, don’t forget that you are My servants, and I am asking best servanthood from you. O My servants, you are refusing to be My servants and occupying yourselves with nonsense through this life. What is that ‘renewment’? How you are asking ‘renewment’ when you see daily, thousands, millions of people running away from this life to other, unknown territories? Why are you not thinking on it? O my listeners! Make your ego believe in holy commands of the Lord of Heavens, and follow these commands: you will be honored. As long as you are hearing and obeying Shaytan, you are losing your honor and you are going to be dishonored. As long as you are trying to follow His heavenly services, you should reach a position that gives you honor-over-honor, life-over-life, lights-over-lights, happiness-on-happiness. You should find the best from everything! That is the honor of being from Mankind. The Lord of Heavens granting them that honor, because He is saying, “You are My servants. I am accepting you to be My servants through My heavenly levels, through My heavens.” People now are only hearing and asking to follow the shaytanic teachings that are coming through PhD people, doctors and professors. All of them first in line, listening to Shaytan, saying, “You are true.” If someone is saying to them, “Listen to what the Lord of Heavens is saying,” they are never happy, instead when hearing Shaytan and shaytanic nonsense and dirty things, they are very happy! The holy command from Allah Almighty is, “Don’t eat dirty things! O People! You are created clean and I am granting to you clean foods for your physical being. Keep my enjoyful grants, it is for your honor. I am forbidding you to eat and drink dirty things, because only pigs eating dirtiness, even their dirt they are eating. Don’t eat pigs, because they are dirty.” The Lord of Heavens is saying to human nature, “I am creating you clean and offering you clean things and I
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am ordering you to use clean things. Don’t eat and drink dirty things. I made for you clean food and clean drinks. If you are not listening to Me and eating and drinking dirty things, you are losing your heavenly appearance on the Day of Resurrection and are coming like dogs and pigs, that are eating their dirtiness also.” You should come like this, but where are people, (are they) ever hearing or listening or asking to keep that order? When they are passing away, they will find themselves through dirty sewage channels saying, “What is that?!!” That is what you were eating through your life: sleep in it, eat and drink it. Allah (swt) protects us! O People! Use your minds and try to hear, to listen and to obey your Lord’s holy commands. You will be best ones in Divine Presence! You will be rewarded such grants that no one before is seeing, hearing or knowing! O People! Be patient. Be patient against your egos, be patient against the demands of Shaytan and you will be happy here and Hereafter. This is well-known knowledge. People just caught through shaytanic tricks and traps that are ready and you can find them everywhere. Tricks that are catching people and putting through traps. (Shaytan says,) “Be free ones!” Everywhere people are saying, “We need freedom.” Freedom for what? Real freedom is to be free from Shaytan and from your ego and it’s demands. Leave them, so that you will be (truly) free ones! If not, ‘freedom’ has no meaning and you are being ridden by Shaytan, like a man riding his donkey. Shaytan is
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