Maulana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani 2000 Sohbats 1979-2013 (629/777)
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as people make material their main target and run to reach more, they come under a heavy burden, and there is no way for the people in the 21st century to be saved. The economy is finished; there is no way to save people with material aspects. All prophets and saints were trying to make people disinterested in Dunya. The medicine for all mankind is to try as much as possible to be far away from material aspects. Material is like a peak, but you may take from it only what is necessary for you. If there is a peak of gold, you have been offered, or Allah
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Almighty is granting to you to take from it only what is necessary for you. One piece you may take. When you take a second one, you will be questioned about it: ‘Why do you take two? One is enough for you.’ You should be asked and you must answer. And Allah is going to say: ’If it is for My sake, you may take as much as possible. If it is not for Me, and you take a second piece, it is going to be a burden for you, and it may carry you from My divine Presence. It is going to harm you and make you a slave, because if you are not taking for Me you take for your ego. You are trying to feed your ego, to fulfil your egoistic pleasures, but it is not for you, but against you. I am making it free, but I am going to ask you.’ Therefore take from Dunya what is necessary for you to stand up for the divine service and to support your religion, ‘dinallah’. If you say: ’I am using this second one to support Islam’, you may take one hundred, or one thousand. If you take for defeating Shaitan and his armies, it is okay, but for your ego, you can’t. Therefore we have been granted to speak on our mission: every day support ‘Din-ul-haqq’, Islam, and Allah’s orders, to establish His heavenly Kingdom and to destroy the satanic kingdom on earth. Day by day you must try to take away even one stone from the way that reaches to the divine Presence, to make it clear, so that people may walk on it to Allah. Everything must be for Allah. When you pass from here there is a soldier’s camp with a flag. It is written on it: ‘Everything for the homeland’. They say this, they are not going to say: ‘Everything for Allah’. That is heedlessness, big heedlessness everywhere. Every country is saying: ‘Everything for our country, our homeland only’. Nowhere on earth they say: ‘Everything for Allah!’ Look East and West. Which country is saying: ‘Everything for Allah?’ Blame on mankind 1000 times, and 1000 x 1000 times, that they say like this and don’t remember their Lord Allah. May Allah forgive us and send His guidance, to take away wrong people and to bring true ones, to lead His servants unto truth. O Allah, You know… Lefke - 16.01.2002
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8686 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: Tariqat Heisst Nichts Zu Sein
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TARIQAT HEIßT, NICHTS ZU SEIN
Ich bitte Allah um Vergebung für jene, die versuchen, berühmt zu werden oder Scheichs oder etwas besonderes zu sein. Es ist schade um jene, die behaupten, einer Tariqat zu folgen und die nicht für Allah, sondern um ihrer Begierden willen handeln, oder nur, um spirituelle Stationen zu erreichen. Es gibt 41 Tariqats. Bei 40 ist es so, daß, wenn sie ihre oberste Grenze erreichen, sie beim Naqshibandi-Orden angelangt sind. Wenn sie Naqshibandi-Muride werden, ist die erste Bedingung, alles zu verlassen, was sie bis dahin erreicht oder bekommen haben. Jede Station, die ihnen gegeben wurde, zu verlassen und ihre gesamte Existenz aufzugeben. Das müssen sie akzeptieren am Ende aller Tariqats, es wird ihnen angeboten, alles von sich zu lassen und ihr Dasein aufzugeben, so daß sie ohne etwas sind, um 'Nichts' zu werden. Dann erreichen sie den Punkt, den ein Naqshibandi-Murid erreicht, und niemand außer einem Naqshibandi-Murid kann dorthin gelangen. So viele Leute mögen am Tassawwuf interessiert sein und so viele mögen mit tausenden der Namen Allahs Dhikr machen, wobei jeder der Namen eine Wirkung hat, aber wir vom Naqshibandi- Orden nehmen euch all das weg, selbst eure zeitliche Existenz, um euch zu Nichts zu machen. Andere Orden mögen euch himmlische Stationen geben, und die Muride mögen Gefallen daran finden. Doch für Naqshibandis ist es nur wichtig, die Leute zu Nichts zu machen, wie ein Tropfen, der auf einen Ozean zufällt, und wenn er ihn erreicht, ist er kein Tropfen mehr, sondern wird zum Ozean. Wenn jemand an den Freuden von spirituellen Stationen und Kräften interessiert ist, soll er irgendeinen Sufi-Weg gehen und viele, viele
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tausende von schönen Namen rezitieren und viele Stationen erreichen. Doch letztlich wird er sagen, oh mein Herr, ich habe meine Zeit mit etwas anderem als dir vergeudet. Unsere Pflicht und Autorität ist es, die Schüler als Nichts unserem Herrn zu übergeben. Andere Orden mögen so viele seltsame Dinge sehen, doch das wirkliche Ziel ist Er selbst. Das ist das Hauptziel der Tariqats. Deshalb akzeptieren wir jeden, der das Nichts-Sein akzeptiert. Es ist ganz einfach zu praktizieren, denn wir wollen nichts außer Ihm. Der Prophet (FSmi) ist unser Führer und unser Beispiel und unser Vorbild. Am Tag der Himmelfahrt durchquerte er das ganze Universum, doch er schaute nichts an, er war an nichts interessiert, an nichts als Allah. Wenn er etwas interessant gefunden hätte, hätte er nicht das Ziel erreicht. Denn der Naqshibandi-Orden ist nicht interessiert an irgendetwas anderem als Ihm selbst. Sie mögen viele tausende von Anrufungen machen, doch wenn sie mehr tun, als ihnen aufgegeben wurde, wenn sie ihren Scheich überholen, entfernen sie sich aus der Kontrolle ihres Scheichs und werden verrückt. Nur Großscheich kann die Erlaubnis geben, so viel wie man will zu machen, denn er weiß, wo jeder ist, und er ist schneller und stärker als alle Muride. Wir sind nicht in Gefahr. Selbst bei Millionen von Muriden ist Großscheich immer vorne. Weil dies in den anderen Tariqats nicht so ist, gibt es so viele Halbverrückte. Deshalb müssen die Scheichs jener Orden die Zahl ihrer Muride konstant halten und für mehr um Erlaubnis fragen oder, um sie tragen zu können, einen Naqshibandi- Scheich aufsuchen. Großscheich sagte immer, zwischen uns und den himmlischen Stationen sind so viele Schleier, und der Naqshibandi-Murshid zerschneidet diese Schleier von oben nach unten, bis vielleicht nur noch ein Schleier übrig bleibt, der Schleier des Menschseins, bis zum letzten Atemzug. Doch andere Tariqats fangen von unten an zu schneiden, deshalb öffnet sich ihren Schülern schon bald die innere Schau, und sie schauen eine Station nach der anderen. Von jedem dieser vierzig Orden kann man kommen und sich mit einem Nasqhibandi-Scheich verbinden, und so lange ein Schüler sein Versprechen hält, ist alles gut. Wenn er aber Übungen einer anderen Tariqat praktiziert, mag unsere Unterstützung für ihn abgeschnitten werden. So lange er mit uns in Verbindung ist, können ihm keine schwarzen Magier etwas anhaben. Wenn er sein Versprechen hält, ist er beschützt, wenn nicht, wird er in Schwierigkeiten und Elend geraten, und alles kann ihn verletzen. Wir haben es nicht nötig, berühmt zu sein, so wie auch die Jungfrau Maria vergessen und unbekannt sein wollte. Sie sagte: "Oh mein Herr, ich möchte nur vergessen sein." Welch gute Lektion für berühmte Leute, zu versuchen, unbekannt und vergessen zu sein, denn der Ruhm ist die schwerste Last auf den Schultern der Menschen. Versuche, in den Ozeanen der Einheit mit Allah dem Allmächtigen ein Vergessener zu sein und sein bescheidener Diener.
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- 01.01.1987
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8689 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: TariqatIsBuildOnAssociation
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Tariqat is just built on association with Sheikh Destur, ya Sayyidi, Meded, Meded ya Sultanu-l Awliya…Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, la haula wa la quwatta illa bi-llahi-l ‘Aliyu-l ‘Azim… Long time I am not coming here ( to the Dergah) and I am in need for a rest, (but) today our South African brothers and sisters (are) coming from the end of Africa, last point… Our Imam that he is the most important pillar through (the) most distinguished Naqshbandi Order, Shah Bahaudin Naqshband, he was saying that our Tariqat is just built on association with Sheikh. And if (the) Sheikh is not ready, (then with those) whom they have been authorized through (the) Sheikh to speak (to) people, to make association with people. (Association) must be, even (for) a short time. If you can find a (period of) time (as long as) that (in it) you can be able to milk two sheep- that make take 5 minutes- you must not leave association. If two brothers or sisters are coming together and (they) can’t do anything, but (they) may say, one of them: “Ashadu an la ilaha ill-Allah”, and (the) second (one) may say: “wa ashadu ana S.Muhammadun Rasulullah sws. Ya Rabb, keep us on this real belief”, that (for) who (is) keeping this He (Almighty) may open His Paradise entrance. No one can be able to enter Paradise without using that key, the key of Heavens. The key of Paradise- what is that? “La ilaha ill-Allah, Muhammadun Rasulullah”, and to say: “I am witnessing the Oneness and the Existence of Allah Almighty, Who created everything and (Who is) giving to everything what they may be in need. Nothing can be hidden from Allah, impossible, because everything He created. If He created (everything), how He is not going to know? No one can be in existence, if Allah Almighty (is) not putting that one in existence.
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Therefore we may say: “Oh, this atmosphere is full with atoms. We are breathing- what (is) coming in it and what (is) coming out, how we can know?” Must know! (It) can’t be hidden. If it is hidden (it) means (It is) not coming in existence. Don’t use your balance (material measures) for Allah, no! He is the Creator, He is the Lord of everyone, (of) everything in existence, and everything (is) saying: “O my Lord, glory to You!” Everything (is) glorifying Allah and He is knowing. Subhanallah! Don’t use your balance for understanding Allah Almighty, no! Leave Him- even you can’t understand a real being from an ant. (And) leave it- you are knowing yourself? You are knowing yourself, who are you? You may say: “I am Sheikh X..” “From where?” “From Germany.” That is your identity! You know nothing else about yourself? Who are you? You are different from that one, and he is different from that one- everyone has a special condition, a special foundation, a special identity. You are one, (there) can’t be (a) second one as you. Who are you? How you came? How you are living? How you are living this life? From where you came? You think from the womb of your mother (you are) coming? How you entered in it and coming out? Who are you?! Today you are here, (but) tomorrow coming someone else, you are disappearing. 1oo years ago no one from here (was) in appearance, in existence here. Now we are in existence, (but) tomorrow, that means (in the) coming 5o years, or 6o years, or 1oo years no one (is) going to be…How (it) happened? So many millions of people lived on (the) same area- where they are? They are becoming imagination, no reality (for them). But (there) must be something from reality that (they are) coming and living here and (then) leaving this life and going away. Must be something! Through that imagination (there) must be one point that belongs to reality. What is that? Man through (the) 21st century (they) are not leaving the way of heedless people! They are leaving themselves and (they are) running through nature or through space and spend huge amounts of money and energy and effort asking to go to space. They are making such instruments, rockets, saying: “We are going to reach to (the) comet.” “Which comet?” “Any comet. We are asking to reach there.” “You are reaching through your eyes?” “No, we are putting some instruments to look on behalf of ourselves.” “Your eyes (are) much more important or your instruments? What you are asking?” “We are trying to reach know the beginning of space, of our earth.”
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Ma sha Allah! So foolish people! “What you are going to know? And everything had been sent from Heavens to know it! Why not looking through the messages that the Creator of space and universe sent to you to look and to learn? What you are going to say?” They say: “(The) Big-Bang(-theory) (is) just getting older and (it is) getting to be out of time, going to be useless. We must try to occupy (the) minds of people with another theory! (So) we are saying: Oh, we looked (and saw) that comets that they are making such planets everywhere they are going, and they are bringing new born world planets.” What happened? We are riding on camel to take this new planets for yourself? Registering on Americans or Russians? American rockets (are) going straight, Russian (rockets are) going like this and coming on them… therefore (the) Russians (are) very unhappy, (wondering): “Why (this happened)?” After a while also American rockets (are) going to disappear… Look through yourself! Ask yourself! Why occupying yourself with nonsense things? “Who are you?” I am asking, (and): “What is your mission?” You know it or now when sending this rocket up? No! Look after yourself to learn your identity and mission! But people (are) working for Shaitan! 1oo % people (are) working for Shaitan now! You can’t find a person working for Allah. Perhaps through one million you may find 1o or 1oo, but others are all working for Shaitan. That is the source of troubles on earth, because Shaitan (is) trying to give trouble and (the) first trouble- maker (ever) was Shaitan. When Allah Almighty (was) ordering for Sajdah and he was refusing, (he was) making (the) first trouble through (the) heavenly existence, making angels and every creature there not to be happy, because he did a trouble. And he continues up today (to make trouble) and he is going to make that trouble up to the end of this life (on earth). Therefore every trouble (is) coming from Shaitan and every trouble that people fall in it (and all) unsolved problems (come) after Shaitan. Shaitan (is) teaching (people) and as long as people (are) working for Shaitan they are not reaching a peace on earth until (the) earth (is) going to be destroyed with these people. As Allah destroyed the nation of Noah with (the) flood, (He is) going to destroy whole Shaitan’s workers. When they
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are destroyed our planet is going to be clean. Then, when (it is) clean, (it) means (that) people on earth should work for Allah, because (that was) our oath (on) the Day of Promises: “O our Lord, we are going to work for Your servanthood. We are not going to work for anyone else.” That is our oath! Now everyone (is) forgetting this and (they are) changing and saying: “We are working for Shaitan.” May Allah forgive us! O people! Save yourself from the hands of devils that (they) are all representatives of Shaitan. Leave them; don’t give (them) any support! Don’t give your support! If you give, you fall in sufferings and miseries! Come to the friends of Allah! Try to be with them to save yourself, to be clean and to try to clean (everywhere) from East to West, from North to South. Allah Almighty (is) promising: “Who is trying to do this, I am his Supporter!” Don’t worry that you are (only a) handful (of) people. (It) doesn’t matter! If Allah (is) with you, you are victorious, (you are) never going to be defeated, always (you are a) winner. Who is with Allah (is) always (a) winner and victorious! We are humbly asking (this) from our Lord Almighty Allah! For the honour of the most honoured one His divine Presence, S.Muhammad sws, Fatiha…It is difficult, but it is the best way for our lives… 03.03.2004, Transcribed by Khairiya Siegel
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8693 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: TasawwufSufism
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Tasawwuf (Sufism)
Bismillahi-Rahmani-Rahim Unser erhabener Lehrer sagte, als er nach der Bedeutung von Tasawwuf (Sufismus)gefragt wurde: „Ein jeder definierte es entsprechend seiner Erfahrung und seiner Zeit. Schâh Naqschband sagte – möge Allah sein Geheimnis heiligen: ‚Unser Weg ist Zusammenkunft und das Gute liegt in der Gemeinschaft!’ Unser Meister Abû Yazîd al-Bistâmî sagte: ‚Es besteht darin, Widrigkeiten zu ertragen!’ Unser erhabener Meister, Maulânâ Scheikh,`Abd Allah ad-Daghastânî – möge Allah sein Geheimnis heiligen – sagte: ‚Es besteht darin, seinen Zorn hinter sich zu lassen!’ und in Bezug auf den Anfänger sagte er auch: ‚Es besteht darin das ‚Warum?’ gegenüber seinem Meister aufzugeben!’“ Dann fragte jemand Maulânâ nach seiner eigenen Definition, doch aus Bescheidenheit und Adab gab er keine sondern sagte stattdessen: „Wir sind Diener und Nachfolger dieser Männer und hoffen, daß sie uns als solche akzeptieren!“ Maulânâ, so berichtete einer meiner Reisegefährten, definierte Tasawwuf einmal bei einer anderen Gelegenheit als: „Fuß im Schuh“. Das heißt, ein jedes Ding in völliger Demut und Einfachheit an genau den ihm gebührenden Platz zu stellen. Und in diesem Zusammenhang definierte Maulânâ Ungerechtigkeit als: „eine Sache an einen anderen als den
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ihr gebührenden Platz zu stellen.“ Demnach beinhaltet Tasawwuf den eigentlichen Kern und die höchste Stufe von Gerechtigkeit. Imâm al-Quschayrî sagt in seinem Tafsîr (Qur’ânkommentar) Latâ’if al-Ma`ârif: „Wer seinen Blick am
rechten Orte übt, wird zur Erkenntnis Allahs des Erhabenen gelangen!“ Damaskus, 01.10.2001
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8695 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: TaskofSufiCentres
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The Task of Sufi Centres
"You should not waste your time by fighting with other Naqshbandis. That is one of the tricks Satan uses to make you weak, I want you to direct your strength outwardly toward other people. You should not accuse each other of things and cause unrest. That is foolishness. People want to be led to the right path by you, to truth and reality - they are thirsty for that. You should not be sitting together telling each other what others should do - or not do. That is not what we want. I am happy when my followers gather crowds who feel attracted to them, also when they do it in their own home. You can tie on after the next - collect them. Look at Burhanadin - he is catching so many with his hook, that is what is important. It is not important if five people are sitting somewhere and making dhikr (remembrance) there, just to spend their time. Go and hunt! That is what is important, to be a hunter. I want everyone to be a hunter, not to fight between yourselves. No, go and hunt. Gather more and more people. Save the souls of people! Help and support each other for this purpose. Make tea parties or meals. Picnics, lectures, seminars from time to time. Direct your energies to the outside world, not against each other, wasting them. Don't make a 'religious' centre, make a social centre for social functions of every kind. Make everything which is not haram and what people like to do. Keep horses, many people like to ride. Set up libraries so that people can come and look. Don't charge any entrance fee, set up tea gardens where people can come and listen. Organise exhibitions for people to come and look. Give a free meal every week or every month to make people used to coming regularly. Organise car boot sales to attract
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people. Make exhibitions about different subjects to attract people, you have to use your mind a bit. You have enough of it to be able to attract people. You could set up a kindergarten where working mothers could leave their children. Organise a meeting place for old people where thy can come together during the day time and relax. The state would even pay you for that. There are so many activities like that. Make a collection of beautiful birds. Make a collection of flowers, plants for sale or like a park or garden in which people can sit to look after them. There are so many possibilities, hundreds of things. Make evening classes for sewing. make oriental exhibitions, Indian, Turkish, Christian... These are the things you should be doing, not sit (in Berlin) and quarrel with each other. Organise a sale every week where people can buy things from warehouses. Advertise, put signs on the streets, so that people who are driving by will stop and buy something. It can be a very beautiful place. Make stamp collections, photo exhibitions, book collections. Bring all kinds of skins, wooden and handmade objects. Tell people that you have a temple, synagogue and a mosque. Who wants, can come. They will come. People need so little to be pleased nowadays. If it is free, so many will be interested. Keep sheep in their enclosures and bring donkeys on which the young ones can ride. You must work out these things I am telling you in detail and you must look who is an expert for what. Don't look if people are Muslims or not. Just see if they are interested, then they are welcome. It should be a place for the good of mankind without making a difference of religious beliefs or race, but it should be mainly for people from this country. Use the good old customs of the English; their costumes, their houses. With everything you do - try to make young people interested in their history, their old customs and good traditions so that these don't get lost in bad times. Make a peaceful centre for young and old, for every kind of people. And whichever means you need, Allah will send to you. He will send you so many helpers. If you start looking more and more, doors will open. Make a scrapyard: rent or buy a big piece of land where you can put everything which people don't need anymore; lorries, cars, furniture, just write;" We are prepared to pick up anything for free." Then so many doors will open up. You can say that it is a charity which is helping poor people all over the world. Like Father Pierre in Paris - he is even more well known than the president. He is more than 90 years old but he is so eagerly busy to help people that everyone knows him in France. Everyone who wants to get rid of something calls him and he picks it up. Start by making a room for something like that in your basement, bring everything which people throw away and it will regain some value. Sell healthfood products, everything which is good for people and which interests them. You can do so many things here. Allah will give you
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success. Make camping for the children. You must say to people that you must not allow anything on the land which will harm them, physically or spiritually. We don't want that. We will do our best to make drug addicts stop, we cannot make them stop at once, but they can come and gradually we will bring them away from it. I do not like it when someone comes and complains about someone else. Grandsheikh is just transmitting; out of respect for a sheikh you should never bring him any bad news. You should never come to him and make him worried about anything. That is bad behaviour. You must always try to bring him good news to make him happy so that he will pray for you, because if your Sheikh is happy with you then your Grandsheikh is happy with you too. Which means that the Prophet, peace be upon him, is happy and then Allah is happy with us too. That is why you should never bring any bad news to your Sheikh, this is very important, you need this advice a lot. You can come and tell me that someone new has taken shahada. That someone has come to see you and was happy with you. That you have made a teaparty and the people were happy. We have given this or that to someone. He was very happy. We have given charity, food, tea. We have met a bishop, a priest, we have shown respect to the official people of this town and they are happy with us for helping them to uphold the respect in this town. We are visiting hospitals, prisons, psychiatric institutions to give people hope for the future in there. We have married so and so. we have collected old clothes and organised a flea market. We have made an arrangement with this or that restaurant to pick up all the leftovers to give to poor people. We serve soup to poor people everyday. Just don't let there be any dirt there. People who come and want to stay for a few days must be clean as much as possible. At least to a degree that other people will not be put off. Don't let mad people come, or people who will harm others with their actions and their looks. If someone insists in behaving in such a way that people will hate our centre, you have to inform the police to take such a person away. Only allow clean people, who look tidy. No dirty, drunk, nasty people with bad looks. Send all those away. We do not accept abnormal creatures. Normal people must come, people with normal behaviour. Those who disturb others are excluded. And give people the respect they deserve according to their level. Whoever comes to spend three days or more should pay a reasonable sum because they will get breakfast, tea and meals. You can combine breakfast and lunch and then serve food again after the evening meal. You must look at what is cheap but suitable for the guests. Especially when you organise seminars you must see what is appropriate. You must see that they are at ease and keep everything clean. Even the poorest of us should pay something
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when they come into the centre. Four or eight pounds to support the centre in the name of belief and in the name of truth to train a good generation with good manners. Everyone, especially my followers, must try to give some financial support for this place. Not just expect something from it, but at least make a small contribution. They should not come and show their empty pockets. Whoever comes must give something for the centre, for the holy place. It is not important how much poor people give, even if they just chop some wood, look after the plants, clean up...but they must do something, not just put their feet up and hang around. They can do that in their spare time, but whoever lives there must do at least two hours of physical work for the centre daily. And they have to take part in the communa
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as people make material their main target and run to reach more, they come under a heavy burden, and there is no way for the people in the 21st century to be saved. The economy is finished; there is no way to save people with material aspects. All prophets and saints were trying to make people disinterested in Dunya. The medicine for all mankind is to try as much as possible to be far away from material aspects. Material is like a peak, but you may take from it only what is necessary for you. If there is a peak of gold, you have been offered, or Allah
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Almighty is granting to you to take from it only what is necessary for you. One piece you may take. When you take a second one, you will be questioned about it: ‘Why do you take two? One is enough for you.’ You should be asked and you must answer. And Allah is going to say: ’If it is for My sake, you may take as much as possible. If it is not for Me, and you take a second piece, it is going to be a burden for you, and it may carry you from My divine Presence. It is going to harm you and make you a slave, because if you are not taking for Me you take for your ego. You are trying to feed your ego, to fulfil your egoistic pleasures, but it is not for you, but against you. I am making it free, but I am going to ask you.’ Therefore take from Dunya what is necessary for you to stand up for the divine service and to support your religion, ‘dinallah’. If you say: ’I am using this second one to support Islam’, you may take one hundred, or one thousand. If you take for defeating Shaitan and his armies, it is okay, but for your ego, you can’t. Therefore we have been granted to speak on our mission: every day support ‘Din-ul-haqq’, Islam, and Allah’s orders, to establish His heavenly Kingdom and to destroy the satanic kingdom on earth. Day by day you must try to take away even one stone from the way that reaches to the divine Presence, to make it clear, so that people may walk on it to Allah. Everything must be for Allah. When you pass from here there is a soldier’s camp with a flag. It is written on it: ‘Everything for the homeland’. They say this, they are not going to say: ‘Everything for Allah’. That is heedlessness, big heedlessness everywhere. Every country is saying: ‘Everything for our country, our homeland only’. Nowhere on earth they say: ‘Everything for Allah!’ Look East and West. Which country is saying: ‘Everything for Allah?’ Blame on mankind 1000 times, and 1000 x 1000 times, that they say like this and don’t remember their Lord Allah. May Allah forgive us and send His guidance, to take away wrong people and to bring true ones, to lead His servants unto truth. O Allah, You know… Lefke - 16.01.2002
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8686 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: Tariqat Heisst Nichts Zu Sein
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TARIQAT HEIßT, NICHTS ZU SEIN
Ich bitte Allah um Vergebung für jene, die versuchen, berühmt zu werden oder Scheichs oder etwas besonderes zu sein. Es ist schade um jene, die behaupten, einer Tariqat zu folgen und die nicht für Allah, sondern um ihrer Begierden willen handeln, oder nur, um spirituelle Stationen zu erreichen. Es gibt 41 Tariqats. Bei 40 ist es so, daß, wenn sie ihre oberste Grenze erreichen, sie beim Naqshibandi-Orden angelangt sind. Wenn sie Naqshibandi-Muride werden, ist die erste Bedingung, alles zu verlassen, was sie bis dahin erreicht oder bekommen haben. Jede Station, die ihnen gegeben wurde, zu verlassen und ihre gesamte Existenz aufzugeben. Das müssen sie akzeptieren am Ende aller Tariqats, es wird ihnen angeboten, alles von sich zu lassen und ihr Dasein aufzugeben, so daß sie ohne etwas sind, um 'Nichts' zu werden. Dann erreichen sie den Punkt, den ein Naqshibandi-Murid erreicht, und niemand außer einem Naqshibandi-Murid kann dorthin gelangen. So viele Leute mögen am Tassawwuf interessiert sein und so viele mögen mit tausenden der Namen Allahs Dhikr machen, wobei jeder der Namen eine Wirkung hat, aber wir vom Naqshibandi- Orden nehmen euch all das weg, selbst eure zeitliche Existenz, um euch zu Nichts zu machen. Andere Orden mögen euch himmlische Stationen geben, und die Muride mögen Gefallen daran finden. Doch für Naqshibandis ist es nur wichtig, die Leute zu Nichts zu machen, wie ein Tropfen, der auf einen Ozean zufällt, und wenn er ihn erreicht, ist er kein Tropfen mehr, sondern wird zum Ozean. Wenn jemand an den Freuden von spirituellen Stationen und Kräften interessiert ist, soll er irgendeinen Sufi-Weg gehen und viele, viele
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tausende von schönen Namen rezitieren und viele Stationen erreichen. Doch letztlich wird er sagen, oh mein Herr, ich habe meine Zeit mit etwas anderem als dir vergeudet. Unsere Pflicht und Autorität ist es, die Schüler als Nichts unserem Herrn zu übergeben. Andere Orden mögen so viele seltsame Dinge sehen, doch das wirkliche Ziel ist Er selbst. Das ist das Hauptziel der Tariqats. Deshalb akzeptieren wir jeden, der das Nichts-Sein akzeptiert. Es ist ganz einfach zu praktizieren, denn wir wollen nichts außer Ihm. Der Prophet (FSmi) ist unser Führer und unser Beispiel und unser Vorbild. Am Tag der Himmelfahrt durchquerte er das ganze Universum, doch er schaute nichts an, er war an nichts interessiert, an nichts als Allah. Wenn er etwas interessant gefunden hätte, hätte er nicht das Ziel erreicht. Denn der Naqshibandi-Orden ist nicht interessiert an irgendetwas anderem als Ihm selbst. Sie mögen viele tausende von Anrufungen machen, doch wenn sie mehr tun, als ihnen aufgegeben wurde, wenn sie ihren Scheich überholen, entfernen sie sich aus der Kontrolle ihres Scheichs und werden verrückt. Nur Großscheich kann die Erlaubnis geben, so viel wie man will zu machen, denn er weiß, wo jeder ist, und er ist schneller und stärker als alle Muride. Wir sind nicht in Gefahr. Selbst bei Millionen von Muriden ist Großscheich immer vorne. Weil dies in den anderen Tariqats nicht so ist, gibt es so viele Halbverrückte. Deshalb müssen die Scheichs jener Orden die Zahl ihrer Muride konstant halten und für mehr um Erlaubnis fragen oder, um sie tragen zu können, einen Naqshibandi- Scheich aufsuchen. Großscheich sagte immer, zwischen uns und den himmlischen Stationen sind so viele Schleier, und der Naqshibandi-Murshid zerschneidet diese Schleier von oben nach unten, bis vielleicht nur noch ein Schleier übrig bleibt, der Schleier des Menschseins, bis zum letzten Atemzug. Doch andere Tariqats fangen von unten an zu schneiden, deshalb öffnet sich ihren Schülern schon bald die innere Schau, und sie schauen eine Station nach der anderen. Von jedem dieser vierzig Orden kann man kommen und sich mit einem Nasqhibandi-Scheich verbinden, und so lange ein Schüler sein Versprechen hält, ist alles gut. Wenn er aber Übungen einer anderen Tariqat praktiziert, mag unsere Unterstützung für ihn abgeschnitten werden. So lange er mit uns in Verbindung ist, können ihm keine schwarzen Magier etwas anhaben. Wenn er sein Versprechen hält, ist er beschützt, wenn nicht, wird er in Schwierigkeiten und Elend geraten, und alles kann ihn verletzen. Wir haben es nicht nötig, berühmt zu sein, so wie auch die Jungfrau Maria vergessen und unbekannt sein wollte. Sie sagte: "Oh mein Herr, ich möchte nur vergessen sein." Welch gute Lektion für berühmte Leute, zu versuchen, unbekannt und vergessen zu sein, denn der Ruhm ist die schwerste Last auf den Schultern der Menschen. Versuche, in den Ozeanen der Einheit mit Allah dem Allmächtigen ein Vergessener zu sein und sein bescheidener Diener.
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8688 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: Tariqat Heisst Nichts Zu Sein
- 01.01.1987
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8689 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: TariqatIsBuildOnAssociation
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Tariqat is just built on association with Sheikh Destur, ya Sayyidi, Meded, Meded ya Sultanu-l Awliya…Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, la haula wa la quwatta illa bi-llahi-l ‘Aliyu-l ‘Azim… Long time I am not coming here ( to the Dergah) and I am in need for a rest, (but) today our South African brothers and sisters (are) coming from the end of Africa, last point… Our Imam that he is the most important pillar through (the) most distinguished Naqshbandi Order, Shah Bahaudin Naqshband, he was saying that our Tariqat is just built on association with Sheikh. And if (the) Sheikh is not ready, (then with those) whom they have been authorized through (the) Sheikh to speak (to) people, to make association with people. (Association) must be, even (for) a short time. If you can find a (period of) time (as long as) that (in it) you can be able to milk two sheep- that make take 5 minutes- you must not leave association. If two brothers or sisters are coming together and (they) can’t do anything, but (they) may say, one of them: “Ashadu an la ilaha ill-Allah”, and (the) second (one) may say: “wa ashadu ana S.Muhammadun Rasulullah sws. Ya Rabb, keep us on this real belief”, that (for) who (is) keeping this He (Almighty) may open His Paradise entrance. No one can be able to enter Paradise without using that key, the key of Heavens. The key of Paradise- what is that? “La ilaha ill-Allah, Muhammadun Rasulullah”, and to say: “I am witnessing the Oneness and the Existence of Allah Almighty, Who created everything and (Who is) giving to everything what they may be in need. Nothing can be hidden from Allah, impossible, because everything He created. If He created (everything), how He is not going to know? No one can be in existence, if Allah Almighty (is) not putting that one in existence.
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Therefore we may say: “Oh, this atmosphere is full with atoms. We are breathing- what (is) coming in it and what (is) coming out, how we can know?” Must know! (It) can’t be hidden. If it is hidden (it) means (It is) not coming in existence. Don’t use your balance (material measures) for Allah, no! He is the Creator, He is the Lord of everyone, (of) everything in existence, and everything (is) saying: “O my Lord, glory to You!” Everything (is) glorifying Allah and He is knowing. Subhanallah! Don’t use your balance for understanding Allah Almighty, no! Leave Him- even you can’t understand a real being from an ant. (And) leave it- you are knowing yourself? You are knowing yourself, who are you? You may say: “I am Sheikh X..” “From where?” “From Germany.” That is your identity! You know nothing else about yourself? Who are you? You are different from that one, and he is different from that one- everyone has a special condition, a special foundation, a special identity. You are one, (there) can’t be (a) second one as you. Who are you? How you came? How you are living? How you are living this life? From where you came? You think from the womb of your mother (you are) coming? How you entered in it and coming out? Who are you?! Today you are here, (but) tomorrow coming someone else, you are disappearing. 1oo years ago no one from here (was) in appearance, in existence here. Now we are in existence, (but) tomorrow, that means (in the) coming 5o years, or 6o years, or 1oo years no one (is) going to be…How (it) happened? So many millions of people lived on (the) same area- where they are? They are becoming imagination, no reality (for them). But (there) must be something from reality that (they are) coming and living here and (then) leaving this life and going away. Must be something! Through that imagination (there) must be one point that belongs to reality. What is that? Man through (the) 21st century (they) are not leaving the way of heedless people! They are leaving themselves and (they are) running through nature or through space and spend huge amounts of money and energy and effort asking to go to space. They are making such instruments, rockets, saying: “We are going to reach to (the) comet.” “Which comet?” “Any comet. We are asking to reach there.” “You are reaching through your eyes?” “No, we are putting some instruments to look on behalf of ourselves.” “Your eyes (are) much more important or your instruments? What you are asking?” “We are trying to reach know the beginning of space, of our earth.”
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8691 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: TariqatIsBuildOnAssociation
Ma sha Allah! So foolish people! “What you are going to know? And everything had been sent from Heavens to know it! Why not looking through the messages that the Creator of space and universe sent to you to look and to learn? What you are going to say?” They say: “(The) Big-Bang(-theory) (is) just getting older and (it is) getting to be out of time, going to be useless. We must try to occupy (the) minds of people with another theory! (So) we are saying: Oh, we looked (and saw) that comets that they are making such planets everywhere they are going, and they are bringing new born world planets.” What happened? We are riding on camel to take this new planets for yourself? Registering on Americans or Russians? American rockets (are) going straight, Russian (rockets are) going like this and coming on them… therefore (the) Russians (are) very unhappy, (wondering): “Why (this happened)?” After a while also American rockets (are) going to disappear… Look through yourself! Ask yourself! Why occupying yourself with nonsense things? “Who are you?” I am asking, (and): “What is your mission?” You know it or now when sending this rocket up? No! Look after yourself to learn your identity and mission! But people (are) working for Shaitan! 1oo % people (are) working for Shaitan now! You can’t find a person working for Allah. Perhaps through one million you may find 1o or 1oo, but others are all working for Shaitan. That is the source of troubles on earth, because Shaitan (is) trying to give trouble and (the) first trouble- maker (ever) was Shaitan. When Allah Almighty (was) ordering for Sajdah and he was refusing, (he was) making (the) first trouble through (the) heavenly existence, making angels and every creature there not to be happy, because he did a trouble. And he continues up today (to make trouble) and he is going to make that trouble up to the end of this life (on earth). Therefore every trouble (is) coming from Shaitan and every trouble that people fall in it (and all) unsolved problems (come) after Shaitan. Shaitan (is) teaching (people) and as long as people (are) working for Shaitan they are not reaching a peace on earth until (the) earth (is) going to be destroyed with these people. As Allah destroyed the nation of Noah with (the) flood, (He is) going to destroy whole Shaitan’s workers. When they
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are destroyed our planet is going to be clean. Then, when (it is) clean, (it) means (that) people on earth should work for Allah, because (that was) our oath (on) the Day of Promises: “O our Lord, we are going to work for Your servanthood. We are not going to work for anyone else.” That is our oath! Now everyone (is) forgetting this and (they are) changing and saying: “We are working for Shaitan.” May Allah forgive us! O people! Save yourself from the hands of devils that (they) are all representatives of Shaitan. Leave them; don’t give (them) any support! Don’t give your support! If you give, you fall in sufferings and miseries! Come to the friends of Allah! Try to be with them to save yourself, to be clean and to try to clean (everywhere) from East to West, from North to South. Allah Almighty (is) promising: “Who is trying to do this, I am his Supporter!” Don’t worry that you are (only a) handful (of) people. (It) doesn’t matter! If Allah (is) with you, you are victorious, (you are) never going to be defeated, always (you are a) winner. Who is with Allah (is) always (a) winner and victorious! We are humbly asking (this) from our Lord Almighty Allah! For the honour of the most honoured one His divine Presence, S.Muhammad sws, Fatiha…It is difficult, but it is the best way for our lives… 03.03.2004, Transcribed by Khairiya Siegel
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8693 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: TasawwufSufism
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Tasawwuf (Sufism)
Bismillahi-Rahmani-Rahim Unser erhabener Lehrer sagte, als er nach der Bedeutung von Tasawwuf (Sufismus)gefragt wurde: „Ein jeder definierte es entsprechend seiner Erfahrung und seiner Zeit. Schâh Naqschband sagte – möge Allah sein Geheimnis heiligen: ‚Unser Weg ist Zusammenkunft und das Gute liegt in der Gemeinschaft!’ Unser Meister Abû Yazîd al-Bistâmî sagte: ‚Es besteht darin, Widrigkeiten zu ertragen!’ Unser erhabener Meister, Maulânâ Scheikh,`Abd Allah ad-Daghastânî – möge Allah sein Geheimnis heiligen – sagte: ‚Es besteht darin, seinen Zorn hinter sich zu lassen!’ und in Bezug auf den Anfänger sagte er auch: ‚Es besteht darin das ‚Warum?’ gegenüber seinem Meister aufzugeben!’“ Dann fragte jemand Maulânâ nach seiner eigenen Definition, doch aus Bescheidenheit und Adab gab er keine sondern sagte stattdessen: „Wir sind Diener und Nachfolger dieser Männer und hoffen, daß sie uns als solche akzeptieren!“ Maulânâ, so berichtete einer meiner Reisegefährten, definierte Tasawwuf einmal bei einer anderen Gelegenheit als: „Fuß im Schuh“. Das heißt, ein jedes Ding in völliger Demut und Einfachheit an genau den ihm gebührenden Platz zu stellen. Und in diesem Zusammenhang definierte Maulânâ Ungerechtigkeit als: „eine Sache an einen anderen als den
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ihr gebührenden Platz zu stellen.“ Demnach beinhaltet Tasawwuf den eigentlichen Kern und die höchste Stufe von Gerechtigkeit. Imâm al-Quschayrî sagt in seinem Tafsîr (Qur’ânkommentar) Latâ’if al-Ma`ârif: „Wer seinen Blick am
rechten Orte übt, wird zur Erkenntnis Allahs des Erhabenen gelangen!“ Damaskus, 01.10.2001
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8695 Maulana Sheikh Nazim: TaskofSufiCentres
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The Task of Sufi Centres
"You should not waste your time by fighting with other Naqshbandis. That is one of the tricks Satan uses to make you weak, I want you to direct your strength outwardly toward other people. You should not accuse each other of things and cause unrest. That is foolishness. People want to be led to the right path by you, to truth and reality - they are thirsty for that. You should not be sitting together telling each other what others should do - or not do. That is not what we want. I am happy when my followers gather crowds who feel attracted to them, also when they do it in their own home. You can tie on after the next - collect them. Look at Burhanadin - he is catching so many with his hook, that is what is important. It is not important if five people are sitting somewhere and making dhikr (remembrance) there, just to spend their time. Go and hunt! That is what is important, to be a hunter. I want everyone to be a hunter, not to fight between yourselves. No, go and hunt. Gather more and more people. Save the souls of people! Help and support each other for this purpose. Make tea parties or meals. Picnics, lectures, seminars from time to time. Direct your energies to the outside world, not against each other, wasting them. Don't make a 'religious' centre, make a social centre for social functions of every kind. Make everything which is not haram and what people like to do. Keep horses, many people like to ride. Set up libraries so that people can come and look. Don't charge any entrance fee, set up tea gardens where people can come and listen. Organise exhibitions for people to come and look. Give a free meal every week or every month to make people used to coming regularly. Organise car boot sales to attract
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people. Make exhibitions about different subjects to attract people, you have to use your mind a bit. You have enough of it to be able to attract people. You could set up a kindergarten where working mothers could leave their children. Organise a meeting place for old people where thy can come together during the day time and relax. The state would even pay you for that. There are so many activities like that. Make a collection of beautiful birds. Make a collection of flowers, plants for sale or like a park or garden in which people can sit to look after them. There are so many possibilities, hundreds of things. Make evening classes for sewing. make oriental exhibitions, Indian, Turkish, Christian... These are the things you should be doing, not sit (in Berlin) and quarrel with each other. Organise a sale every week where people can buy things from warehouses. Advertise, put signs on the streets, so that people who are driving by will stop and buy something. It can be a very beautiful place. Make stamp collections, photo exhibitions, book collections. Bring all kinds of skins, wooden and handmade objects. Tell people that you have a temple, synagogue and a mosque. Who wants, can come. They will come. People need so little to be pleased nowadays. If it is free, so many will be interested. Keep sheep in their enclosures and bring donkeys on which the young ones can ride. You must work out these things I am telling you in detail and you must look who is an expert for what. Don't look if people are Muslims or not. Just see if they are interested, then they are welcome. It should be a place for the good of mankind without making a difference of religious beliefs or race, but it should be mainly for people from this country. Use the good old customs of the English; their costumes, their houses. With everything you do - try to make young people interested in their history, their old customs and good traditions so that these don't get lost in bad times. Make a peaceful centre for young and old, for every kind of people. And whichever means you need, Allah will send to you. He will send you so many helpers. If you start looking more and more, doors will open. Make a scrapyard: rent or buy a big piece of land where you can put everything which people don't need anymore; lorries, cars, furniture, just write;" We are prepared to pick up anything for free." Then so many doors will open up. You can say that it is a charity which is helping poor people all over the world. Like Father Pierre in Paris - he is even more well known than the president. He is more than 90 years old but he is so eagerly busy to help people that everyone knows him in France. Everyone who wants to get rid of something calls him and he picks it up. Start by making a room for something like that in your basement, bring everything which people throw away and it will regain some value. Sell healthfood products, everything which is good for people and which interests them. You can do so many things here. Allah will give you
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success. Make camping for the children. You must say to people that you must not allow anything on the land which will harm them, physically or spiritually. We don't want that. We will do our best to make drug addicts stop, we cannot make them stop at once, but they can come and gradually we will bring them away from it. I do not like it when someone comes and complains about someone else. Grandsheikh is just transmitting; out of respect for a sheikh you should never bring him any bad news. You should never come to him and make him worried about anything. That is bad behaviour. You must always try to bring him good news to make him happy so that he will pray for you, because if your Sheikh is happy with you then your Grandsheikh is happy with you too. Which means that the Prophet, peace be upon him, is happy and then Allah is happy with us too. That is why you should never bring any bad news to your Sheikh, this is very important, you need this advice a lot. You can come and tell me that someone new has taken shahada. That someone has come to see you and was happy with you. That you have made a teaparty and the people were happy. We have given this or that to someone. He was very happy. We have given charity, food, tea. We have met a bishop, a priest, we have shown respect to the official people of this town and they are happy with us for helping them to uphold the respect in this town. We are visiting hospitals, prisons, psychiatric institutions to give people hope for the future in there. We have married so and so. we have collected old clothes and organised a flea market. We have made an arrangement with this or that restaurant to pick up all the leftovers to give to poor people. We serve soup to poor people everyday. Just don't let there be any dirt there. People who come and want to stay for a few days must be clean as much as possible. At least to a degree that other people will not be put off. Don't let mad people come, or people who will harm others with their actions and their looks. If someone insists in behaving in such a way that people will hate our centre, you have to inform the police to take such a person away. Only allow clean people, who look tidy. No dirty, drunk, nasty people with bad looks. Send all those away. We do not accept abnormal creatures. Normal people must come, people with normal behaviour. Those who disturb others are excluded. And give people the respect they deserve according to their level. Whoever comes to spend three days or more should pay a reasonable sum because they will get breakfast, tea and meals. You can combine breakfast and lunch and then serve food again after the evening meal. You must look at what is cheap but suitable for the guests. Especially when you organise seminars you must see what is appropriate. You must see that they are at ease and keep everything clean. Even the poorest of us should pay something
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when they come into the centre. Four or eight pounds to support the centre in the name of belief and in the name of truth to train a good generation with good manners. Everyone, especially my followers, must try to give some financial support for this place. Not just expect something from it, but at least make a small contribution. They should not come and show their empty pockets. Whoever comes must give something for the centre, for the holy place. It is not important how much poor people give, even if they just chop some wood, look after the plants, clean up...but they must do something, not just put their feet up and hang around. They can do that in their spare time, but whoever lives there must do at least two hours of physical work for the centre daily. And they have to take part in the communa
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