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Friends of Allah, nor any sorrow. Allah does not cause them to be distressed, nor does He cause them to be fearful. Nothing else matters to them except to be with Allah Almighty. They fear only Allah and the Holy Prophet. Besides this they fear nothing. What causes them sorrow is when people are carried away by shaytan, when they are caught by the devil. Nothing else causes them sadness, no personal concern is distressing to these people. Not illness, nor hunger or thirst. They do not grieve about themselves. However, these days there are many who spread false teachings. This happens in every age, of course as shaytan keeps changing his appearance. If it always stayed the same, everyone would know it. But nowadays philosophy is gaining strength and disputation, and what is called theology; shaytan engages in those things and manages to destroy people's belief.

Those are their means, therefore we warn our people that murshids are beloved servants of Allah and His Prophet. From the time of the Holy Prophet to this day, they have passed on from one shaykh to the next, from one murshid to the next. What they took from that ocean they distributed it step by step to this present day. They are not the kind of people who come across a handful of water and then dry up. So, you must know their value. You must know the value of these saintly people.

Do not be cheated by those people who nowadays have no murshid. In any case, it is clear who is the true murshid, who is the false one, who is shaytan's friend and who is Allah's friend. May Allah not part us from this path. May Allah guide those leaving this way. Let them come to this way, insha'Allah He sorts out their minds. We are speaking about Awliya'Allah. One of their sifat, attributes, it is said, 'murshid', who gives irshad. Meaning who is showing you the right way. Who is showing you the right way, these people they are servants of Allah, Allah loves them.

They are coming continuously from Prophet (saws) because Allah sent Prophets and Companions and Awliya'Allah and real mashsha'ikh from Allah since the beginning, from Adam (as). And these people, what they want is only to take people to right way, to not let them go with shaytan, with satan. These people, they are since Prophet (saws) millions, because at any time we have 124.000 Awliya'Allah. Any minute when somebody passing, again another one coming behind him. So, since Prophet (saws) there's millions, they came and passed away. These people, who they are? How you can describe these people? Shaytan was loving them? No, shaytan was hating them and who hates these people and speaks against them are friends of shaytan, nobody else. Billions of mu'mins and Muslims are coming through Prophet (saws) until now, maybe more than billions, they came and passed away. The old ones loving them and they were showing people the right way. For this, shaytan was hating them and his followers also hating. Allah loves them, Prophet (saws) also loves them. They are loved by Allah and by Prophet (saws). And they are not saying anything for themselves (nothing matters to them) and they are not afraid from anything and they are not sorry for anything, for themselves.

They are only afraid from Allah, and if Allah is with them, they are happy and not sorry or anxious to be hungry or ill or anything else for themselves, no. They don't care about themselves. Only they care for ummah, Prophet's (saws) nation, to not let them to go the wrong way, behind shaytan and his followers. This makes them sad. Other things, no, nothing for themselves. So they are not like what they, these mushriks say, no! Because they are not even wanting anything for themselves. Only for dua, they are making dua for Muslimeen, nation of Prophet (saws). And how these people these days making bad advising and cheating people. "Who cheats us they are not from us," said Prophet (saws). So these people, they are cheating people and you cannot take advise from books or from these people who don't have roots.Only they come like mushroom and they will go again. So be very careful, these days this poison is around

the world. Shaytan and his followers are trying to destroy the right way of Islam. Alhamdulillah, Allah is with us. We are not afraid because He Is Malik al-Mulk! He is the Owner of this whole universe.

Nothing can be done without Him. Alhamdulillah, we are happy we are with Him, not against Him, not with shaytan. And we are advising our people who are away from this road to come to find a real murshid / guide, to keep away from shaytan and his followers and to save themselves for Akhira, for eternal life.

This life it is either, whatever happens it will be only short period and after, the real life, is forever. We will be insha'Allah, happy. Insha'Allah with Prophet (saws), with Awliya'Allah, with beloved people for Allah in Jannah and with others insha'Allah.

Wa min Allahi t-Tawfiq Al Fatiha.

34.The Real Belief Tuesday, August 5, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaikhina fi t-tariqati n-Naqshbandiyya, madad ya Mawlana Sh. Abdullah Dagestani, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna assohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyya.

May our gatherings, these good gatherings, be everlasting insha Allah. These s ohbats are for strenghtening faith for all of us, insha Allah, rather than empty speech and as Sheikh Efendi ordered. If the intention is sincere, it will certainly give benefit. Sohbat is Sheikh Efendi's order to give people advice about Allah. May it be good, In sha Allah. Faith,What is faith? Faith has conditions; faith in the existence of Allah and the prophets. People are saying they are believers. Believing is one thing, being a Muslim is another thing. One who says shahada becomes Muslim, that is a big favour of Allah. Of course, there are conditions in Islam. There are obligations and duties to perform. If you perform fard (obligtory worship) Allah gives very big favours, He grants the reward for it. The gifts, rewards, levels and stations that He gives for fard are not attained by other worship like nafl (extra) prayers.

How shall we explain fard? Fard is like a real big-carat diamond. Others are like silver or low carat gold. But the main is fard with which you receive greater reward. Doing fard is a condition of Islam. First fard is shahada. When you say it, you are done with first condition of Islam. What is second? Iqamatu s-salah, praying. Praying is fard. Praying is a pillar of religion. As we said, rewards and favour that Allah gives are from His greatness and generosity. He gives without decreasing because everything is in Allah's hands. If He gives the world, Allah Azza wa Jalla doesn't make anything decrease, hasha. Such is Allah's favour. Everything in His hands, as we said. Should it decrease as much as atom, it won't work. Hasha. It doesn't fit Allah's attributes. Impossible. Among impossible things is to believe in the decreasing of Allah. It's impossible. But when fard is not done, it has its punishment. It is seen as a sin. Allah gives punishment according to it. When fard is done, Allah Azza wa Jalla gives unlimited favours, and a man earns them. But if not done, then there is punishment for it. The third is fasting. Fasting of Ramadan is fard. All others are optional. It is fard to fast in Ramadan only. It is 30 or sometimes 29 days. 29 or 30 days a year in 360 days as a lunar month is shorter. It is not even 1/10 of a year that you fast. And Allah

Azza wa Jalla says, "Fasting is Mine. I know the favours I grant for fasting". There is also punishment for a man when he doesn't fast. Besides punishment there is penance, when you feel regret. If you don't fast one day, you have to fast 60 days for penance.

Moreover, our Prophet says if a man breaks even one of his fasts in Ramadan on purpose he can't reach its goodness even if he fasts up to the end of his life. This is something else. These are all wisdoms of Allah. You should do what Allah orders and these are the conditions of faith. Faith means belief. If Allah ordered it, you should do so. Then paying zakat is also fard. When you give it, you earn the biggest reward. Then your possessions increase with Allah's permission. If you don't give, it's like theft and subject to punishment by Allah. The fifth of course, is pilgrimage. Zakat and hajj are not fard for the poor. If Allah doesn't give, Allah doesn't oblige. And praying is not fard for the mad, "idha akhadha ma awhab asqata ma awjab." If one does something imperfectly, he is absolved from fasting and praying, if he is insane or a small child, or not in sane mind. The rest, zakat and hajj are not fard for a man without money. But for the one with money, they are fard. They too have to do this. If they don't, they'll be punished and lose a great reward. So we explained one part of faith here. Faith includes these, but of course faith is a very big matter. Bit by bit we will explain more In sha Allah. Today we speak about Iman (faith), what is Iman and what is Islam. To have Iman is to believe real belief. But when do you believe? When you say: ash'hadu an la Ilaha illa Allah wa ash'hadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa Rasuluhu, you are Muslim. Iman, it is more strong, it is to be a more strong believer. But until you do this, you must follow what Allah ordered. There is Iman, to believe in Allah, Prophets, His books, His angels and qadar (destiny). And to believe that you will come again.

After your death Allah will make you bring your whole body again, and you will be again alive. No reincarnation. This is what you must know, in Islam there is no reincarnation. Allah, not poor one to make only five souls, coming from one to one to one, no! This is ridiculous. When you say this, you are out of Iman, you are out of Islam. So this is Iman, but when you believe in this, of course this is only very small part of Iman. But to make Iman more strong you must first accept all the pillars of Islam.

First one you say ash'hadu an la Ilaha illa Allah wa ash'hadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa Rasuluhu and you are Muslim. This is one. Second one is praying, salat. This also is obligatory for a Muslim. Obligatory, what we must do. Allah gives to pray 5 times a day. When you pray obligatory prayers it is very precious. There are many types of worshipping but the highest one is fard, meaning obligatory. To pray 5 times a day is obligatory. If you pray this, Allah, He rewards you from His endless treasures and He will be happy with you and give you all the baraka and satisfaction. This is what awliyaullah say, what Prophet (saws) was saying.

Specially Mawlana, he was asking people "are you praying?" If he is not praying, "You must pray," he told them. Even when they ask for dua for themselves, for praying, he said, "You are praying?" If he said, "no," he said "you must pray, if you are not praying even the most holy awliya, Allah is not accepting from them dua." If you are asking for dua, if not praying He is not accepting. It is very important, praying. If you pray obligatory prayer He gives like diamond. Other worshipping, sunnah or nafila, it is less, like gold or like silver. But the most precious is to make obligatory. If you don't do this, Allah, He said He will punish you. So you lose things. You lose all these gifts from Allah, from the Most Generous Creator. He is the only Creator and you will be punished. Allah He knows how He will punish. Second obligatory one is to fast Ramadan. And Allah, He said, "It is for Me and only I reward for fasting. Nobody knows how much I can give." And it is only obligatory for Ramadan. We fast many times in the year, but the obligatory (fast) it is one month.

Sometimes it is 30 days, sometimes it is 29 days. So in days, it is very short. And it is nice when you make it. And Allah He rewards from His endless treasures. Prophet (saw) saying if you missed one day knowingly, not fasting one day in Ramadan, and if after you regret it and say "I must fast," then you must fast one day, and 60 days for penance. Even for this, Prophet (saws) he is saying "if this man is fasting from this day until he is dying, he cannot reach what Allah gives him for fasting one day in Ramadan. So it is very precious thing Allah gives to people, but people they don't know the wisdom. This is the wisdom.

What is after this? There is zakat. Zakat and Hajj are only for rich people. For poor people they don't have, they cannot give. Even no need for praying or fasting for children, or for mad people because Allah didn't give mind to mad people and small children before they are teenagers they don't have responsibility. So Allah when He gives something He rewards for it. Allah He gave this wisdom and people they must know. What is this wisdom? This is Iman. They must not question it and when they do this their Iman, their belief becomes more strong. And this is little bit to describe about belief, Iman. Insha'Allah it is not ocean, it is oceans. But now just a little bit we can say, in this short time.

Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq. Al Fatiha.

35.The Good Advice Wednesday, August 6, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi lAwwalina wa l- akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Mashayikhına fi t- Tariqati nNaqshibandiyya, madad ya Mawlana Shaykh Abdullah Faizi d- Dağıstani, madad ya Shaykh Muhammed Nazım el-Haqqani, dastoor. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.

This is a prayer of our Prophet (sas): Allahumma inna naudhu bika min shururi anfusina wa min sayyiati a'malina. It is a beautiful prayer, a very beautiful prayer. May Allah protect us from the badness of our ego, may Allah protect us from bad deeds. We should not do bad actions. A person believes something is good but if he listens to his ego and acts according to his ego it ends badly. But when he acts according to Allah's will, he fights against his ego then it becomes good. We do something and think we did something good. No, it is not goodness, you did it to satisfy your ego. That becomes a bad deed, when you think you did good. It means, if you did someone a favour, do not rub it in, do not remind him. Do not spoil your good deeds. "Do not invalidate your charity by reminders" (2:264). You both remind him and poke him. "I did this, I did that" That poor man cannot say anything so he keeps silent, but Allah sees everything. That deed will not be accepted by Allah Azza wa Jalla. Of course whoever you are, doesn't matter, whether you say "I'm a scholar, I'm an awliya," you have to accept advice. Advice is for Allah. The person who is giving advice, may Allah be pleased with him, he also gives advice for the sake of Allah. He has to be careful about the advice he gives, whether it is in keeping with Islam or not. You may say something from your own mind, you might say it will be better this way. Ok, what you say may be very nice, but, it does not fit with Islam. If it does not suit the situation it will not be accepted. May Allah be pleased wit them.

Everytime someone hears advice he must not be offended. Most people do not like taking advice. Normally a believer should not offend or be offended by advice. If it is suitable, if what he says is right, then we respect it, if not, Allah bless him, you can say it's his opinion, in his mind it was better. There is no need to be angry with that man. He gave an advice for Allah, he thought this way is better. For this reason, on such issues it is not good to get angry or keep a grudge. Allah knows.

It is a test from Allah Azza wa Jalla, He made the man speak to train your ego. So do not be offended. You can say may Allah bless you, you are right. You say ok, you will check the situation. If he accepts you can say, the situation is like this, that. But some people who give advice, they don't accept taking advice themselves. You say ok, let it pass to not break his heart. So this way, you crush your ego and you will gain goodness. As we said everybody needs advice. In the past, people used to take advice, nowadays nobody takes any advice. Like we said before, most of the advice comes from theirown opinions. Such advice is not acceptable. There is Prophet's (sas) hadith, praying "Allahumma inna na'udhu bika min shururi anfusina wa sayyi'ati a'malina". We are getting afraid from our ego. Allah keep our ego and our bad actions away from us. This is very good, very nice saying from Prophet's (sas) praying. Alhamdulillah, because the ego does every bad thing, every time we must obey advice from people, from big, from old, from young. Who gives advice for us, we can accept and we must be happy. Don't say, "I am scholar, I am sheikh, I am doctor, I am engineer, this man, he is not understanding." No, you must look because they give precious things; advice. Before,in old times they were saying for an advice, you can give 1000 camels. It is an Arabic saying, but I think it was for making people accept advice. Don't be proud, when somebody is saying something to you, you must look at it. Many times they say, Alhamdulillah if you accept, you'll be good in front of Allah and Pro phet (sas) and Awliya. But some of them of course, they give advice, but it's not advice, it is a bad thing, rubbish thing. How is this advice? They say, "Why are you fasting in summertime? It's too hot, and you are ill, you are like this, like that. It will make problems for your health, for your body, for your mind". This is not advice. What they say is advice for ego, not against ego. Or if they see you giving sadaqa or zakat, "Why you give these people? You are better to keep for you, yourself, for your children. No need to give this." This is also not advice. Many people, specially dunya people, materialist people, what they give is not advice. This is only rubbish, they have millions of advices like this to keep you away from right way, to make your ego bigger and bigger.

Some people, they are also giving good advice, sometimes they can have wrong ideas, but even this, because they have good intention, Allah rewards them for this. But you know their situation of Islam is not with your opinion but even this, when you do this with good intention Allah rewards you for this. And to be listening to this and saying, "ok, Alhamdulillah, thank you, you gave me good advice, you make your ego down and you'll be happy with this one who gave advice and you'll be happy.

On the other side, if you are very proud and say "what are you doing, why are you saying this?" So you become angry and this man also will become angry. So it will be your ego, your shaytan and everything bad, it will be happy, and you will not be happy. So you must accept from our brother, from our relative, or who are in right way and

you know them, they have good intention when they say something. You must be happy with it, even if it is right or wrong, it is ok, because all is coming by good intention not with something under it, no, it is just a pure thing. Many people they have everything, these material people, you can see they come for benefit of dunya and benefit for their self and their ego. Alhamdulillah, Mawlana many years he was speaking against ego, to be in adab, good manners.This is good manners and this is what Mawlana he was teaching us. So you must be careful for this. Don't mix- up materialist people with the pure people.

Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

36.Object and Be Thrown Out Thursday, August 7, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. As-salātu wa s-salāmu ‘ala Rasūlina Muhammadin Sayyidi lawwalīna wa l-ākhirīn. Madad ya RasūlAllāh, madad ya Sādātı Ashābı Rasūlillah, madad ya Mashaykhina, madad ya Shaykh Abdullah Daghistāni, madad ya Shaykh Muhammad Nāzim al- Haqqāni, Dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyya.

May Allah protect us from the evil of our nafs, In sha Allah. The nafs of man is constantly bringing him down causing him dishonour if he follows it. The nafs, should follow you, and you should do what Allah has commanded. You must leave what shaytan orders you to do. What is shaytan's command? He is commanding you to be proud and arrogant, saying, no one else is better than you, no one more beautiful or more clever than you. In this way he tricks people. Allah has created mankind to be as He wishes them to be. There is no interfering with His acts. If Allah has willed something, it will be. If your nafs or shaytan wants something, it does not happen. Allah created Adam, alayhi s-salām. Shaytan did not like this. Even before the soul entered his body, when he was just a shape of clay, shaytan came by to look at him and was annoyed by what he saw of Adam, alayhi s-salām. When Allah commanded him to prostrate (make sajda) before Adam, he left all the many blessings granted to him by Allah Almighty and just followed his nafs and became deserving of hell and a cursed creature till the Day of Resurrection. Shaytan did not create himself, Allah created him, but he did not obey what Allah destined for him. He overstepped Allah's command. He said, "I am better than him." He said to Allah, Azza wa Jalla, "You created me from fire while You created him from clay".

Allah, Azza wa Jalla, is the Creator of all things, and you are not ashamed to offer him your advice? Astaghfirullah. It is the degree of extreme ignorance, stupidity and idiocy. If Allah has decreed something you must submit to it, comply with it. Do not object. They say: Do not object, you will be thrown out. If you object, you will be thrown out. This is a very big lesson; this happened even before mankind came into being, when Adam alayhi s-salām was the only one and before anyone else was with him. It is a very big warning and a strong advice for mankind that this shaytan was more knowledgeable than all who claim to have knowledge, who is a million times more knowledgeable than they, who knew everything. Talk about worship and piety, not an inch of ground was left where he had not made sajda. Shaytan was such a creature. May he get what he deserves,“alayhi ma yastahaq”. Shaykh Efendi did not

like to say "may he be cursed" in case aheaviness came upon the assembly. Instead he would say: "alayhi ma yastahaq", he should receive his just desserts.

Therefore this is a strong warning to everybody. When Allah, Azza wa Jalla, has decreed a matter, when our Holy Prophet has spoken, "wa mā kāna li-mu'minin wa lā mu'minatin idhā qađá Allahu wa rasūluhu amrān 'an yakūna lahum al-khiyaratu min amrihim" (33:36) There is a verse that if Allah and His Prophet have spoken, beware of opening your mouth, don't talk back. This is a mercy from Allah to those companions or whoever was present,that they should not become like shaytan, not voice any objection. Many things happen, man, normal people can manage with their minds, more or less. Most people can't even manage their daily affairs, their livelihood, this, that or other thing. They can't manage themselves properly. They will say one thing and then, Oh, I forgot! Allah, Allah, how could you forget? You promised. We told you this, we entrusted this to you, you were going to do this or that. I forgot, he says. You forget everything you are to do. So is there any sense in you opposing what Allah has commanded or decreed? Submit to it and follow. In submission, in following there is salvation. If you obey, not your nafs but Allah and His Prophet you will be liberated, feel ease. You will become untroubled. But no, now they talk of democracy. Each one will voice his own opinion, his own thoughts. Nothing comes of it but the usual chaos. You are a shepherd, you are a farmer, you are a grocer, you work in a factory, you make shoes, you shine shoes, you are a taximan - go attend to your own work. Look to what you are doing and pay attention. Do your work well. Allah loves a man who does his work well. "Inna Allaha ta‘ala yuhibbu idha ‘amila ahadukum ‘amalan an yutqinahu."If a person does something, he should do it with care, he should do it well. If he shines shoes, let him do it well, if he does it well, people will come to him and ask him to shine their shoes. If he is a taxi driver and he drives well, everyone will call for him to drive them. If he is a doctor or a dentist or whatever. If everyone looks after his own line of work, and performs well whatever work Allah has given him to do, he will be at ease in this world and in the world to come.

You firstly follow our Holy Prophet. Then you follow those who came after him, his Companions. You follow the mashsha’ikh and your own shaykh, whatever he s ays. Follow whoever he has appointed, relax. Don't go developing ideas. No, it was like this, and like that. Does Allah Almighty not know about these things? Does He ask you about it? This is a matter, may Allah prevent it, by which man may fall into great sinfulness.

Give thanks to Allah and accept. Don't object to anyone. Do your own work. Allah grants you great gifts on account of your obedience, and gives you a great reward as obedience is very important. So many verses stress this: "Aţī`ū Allaha wa aţī`ū ar- rasūla". There are dozens of such verses. Obedience is very important. People who are obedient are people who are acceptable. But of course, you must be obedient in Allah's way. You are not expected to be obedient in the way of evil. "Lā ta‘ata li

makhlūqin fī ma'siyati l-Khāliq". We are all creation, we are all created beings. Our Creator is Allah Almighty, Allah Azza wa Jalla. We have no right to object to Him. To obey His commands carries great reward. It is our most important duty to obey His commands. If you do not obey His command, you are rebellious and have left the way. Allah give us good understanding to keep our ego away from us, not to follow ego. Insha'Allah ego must follow us. Ego, it is not easy. Every time it is like water, when you hold in your hand it quickly likes to go from here and there. It is good to make it follow you.

If following, Alhamdulillah, you will be safe from shaytan and its followers. First, many things Allah ordered, but ego does not obey. Specially, to follow what Prophet (saws) saying, what Allah ordered. Ego and shaytan, make many tricks to go away from these orders and to show people another way. Allah Azza wa Jalla, when He created Adam (as), shaytan, was not happy with this, even when his soul not coming yet in Paradise, mud brick, clay, he was coming and lookingand he was not happy. Every time looking, looking. After when Allah Azza wa Jalla ordered him to make sajda, prostrate for Adam, he was very angry. He even was so angry he destroyed everything. Allah gave him from His favours, the highest position. Before becoming shaytan he was named Azazil. He was like Gabriel, like Mika'il, big angel and the highest station he had in Divine Presence of Allah but when Allah ordering him, from his jealousy, from his proudness he said, "You created me from fire and you created this from mud, clay. I am better than him." And what this is, is bad behaviour for Allah. Allah doesn't know what He is doing? When he said this, like objecting for Allah's doing and astaghfirullah, Allah not knowing and he is knowing. What this is, is bad behaviour. And he was very big scholar, he knew everything. All knowledge Allah gave, he was knowing it. And, he was worshipping. You cannot find even one 10 cm, he did not bow in it, pray there. But this is not enough.

What is more important? More important is to obey. If you obey, you will be successful but if you are not obeying what Allah Azza wa Jalla saying and Prophet (saws) ordering, and Awliya, you will be in trouble. You will be in trouble and not happy because you are following your ego, you are following shaytan. You don't know what you are doing when you say, "Don't order me something like this, I know better than you." And when you say this you can be exactly like shaytan.

So, don't object. There is in Arabic, words, "la ta'tarid, tan'tarid." Don't object, you will be thrown out. It is very big example even before all human beings coming to this world, only Adam (as) he was, this happened. But it is the first lesson for people, for human beings to not object to Allah and Prophet (saws) and Awliya, the beloved people for Allah. Don't object tothem. You can object for other things, but this what Allah ordered, if you object you will b thrown out and forever you will lose. It is dangerous. Allah He created many people and these days people have this expression

through democracy. Everybody must say his opinion. You can say your opinion, but you don't know. You are shepherd, you are driver, you are like a hairdresser, or doctor, others. We have thousands of jobs. Even your job, you are not doing well. How you are coming to say something you don't know and you give ideas for everything? Allah created every person for special mission. Allah gave them special jobs. Who is following what he is doing and try to make it good, Allah is happy with him even. Prophet (saws) saying, "If you do something you must do it perfect, the best. Don't do it without (it being) good. It must be excellent. But people now, they are not looking after what they are doing in their jobs, just giving ideas "this must like this, this must be like that." Even if you give them job or something like this, because of many things they have, they forget to do what you ordered them.

They are not doing what they must do, many of them they forget, but when coming something important, they must give their ideas. This, your idea is not necessary for this good and important matter. You must only listen and obey for Allah, for Prophet (saws) and for His beloved people. This is the important thing, you mustn't obey what is against Allah and Prophet (saws). This is important. Not obeying these people (awliya) and objecting for Allah, most people, they are doing this.

So be careful and if you "Isma'u wa'u (ismallahu) wa idha ra'aytu fa antafi'u". And to obey in many verses in Quran, the most important thing is to obey. Ati'ullaha wa Rasula. If you are not obeying what Allah ordered so nothing for you, you are obeying shaytan. There are 2 kinds, you must obey Allah or you obey shaytan. And for this you be careful, don't obey your ego, don't obey shaytan, obey Allah. "Ati'ullaha wa Rasula Fa'in Tawallaw Fa'inna Allaha La Yuhibbu AlKafirina" (3:32). Allah ordered you to obey Allah and Prophet (saws) but if you go away Allah He does not like, not love non-believers. So, it is dangerous. Be careful.

Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq. Al Fatiha.

37.The Time Comes Near Friday, August 8, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. As salatu wa s-salamu 'ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi lAwwalina wa l- Akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaikhina, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Faiz Dagestani, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi l-jam'iyyah.

Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. "Iqtarabati as-saatu"(54:1) Ayat-ul karima says Judgement Day is approaching. Many people now say that Judgement Day is still far. Well, common people can say that but learned people shouldn't oppose what is said in Qur'an. Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying that Judgement Day is close. Don't say "No, it's yet far". The Day of Judgement is indeed close. It doesn't matter if Judgement Day is near or not, it is important for a man to know about Judgement Day and Allah, to believe in Allah.

The Day of Judgement is certainly near. All of its signs have appeared. Allah Azza wa Jalla set a timeframe for everything in this world. There is a plan for everything and everyone. Years, months, days, all of them have been calculated. Everyone's breath has been calculated also. Every bite of food is calculated; how much will be eaten, how much will be drunk. All of it is calculated. You can't take more by force even, it won't go. It will go until some limit, but then, itwon't take anymore. A man will just die at that time. So everything has a calculation. And Judgement Day for this world has come near. Everything, all of what is happening now are signs of the end. A Muslim shouldn't be scared of it, he shouln't be afraid. Things foretold by Allah are appearing. Although some things are shown bad as long as a man believes in Allah and does what He orders, no harm will touch a Muslim. As we said, Muslims are of two kinds. First, the followers of sunnah of our Prophet, following his actions and words; followers of teachings of the saints and scholars of Ahl-ul Sunnah wa-l Jama'a. These are going to be saved. No matter how much trouble there is, by Allah's permission they'll have neither fear, nor sadness. And the second type, all Muslims who are outside this description. They are doing things according to their minds and desires. That's not important. They're always around. They're around since the beginning of Islam to its end because shaytan is never unoccupied. He never leaves people at ease. There is ayat about it; they assume they are doing good, they assume they're earning rewards but they are losing the most.

As our Prophet said, they are a minority. Ahl-ul Sunnah wa-l Jama'a is always in the majority. Because a Muslim is gentle and pure. A gentle and pure man keeps quiet. Some people make noise and raise trouble. All the country becomes bothered. If you gather them, they won't add up to even 1% of population but they appear like 99%, they seem a lot. They are not important. Don't believe them or follow their way. Don't like what they do, it doesn't fit with Islam. Who is out of Ahl-ul Sunnah wa-l jama'a has strayed from the way. Our Prophet says: man shazza faqad shazza fi n-nari abada. Who loses or confuses his way will find himself in hell. He will go to eternal hell. That's why, don't follow them, don't trust them. Don't lean towards them saying they are Muslim. Whoever they are, as we said, they don't accept our four madhhabs. Whoever is out of these four madhhabs, he is out of Ahl-ul Sunnah. Don't lean towards them, don't be fond of them. Stay away from them because Muslims are gentle and pure, easily deceived.

If they don't go with them, they incline towards them and say they're doing right. Don't say that, then it will happen to you. This world is going towards Judgement Day. Since recent days it became a big mess. It's the same in terms of fighting and even worse in terms of economy. And this is bigger than the biggest thing; they are fighting with each other more than with unbelievers. Allah's wisdom, one of the signs is that when great saints change their realm, something happens for sure. Sheikh Abdullah Daghestani passed away on the 3rd of October, 1973. Either a week or 3 days later a big war started in Middle East between Arabs and Palestinians. That shook the world very much. Big things happened. And after Sheikh Efendi, it became a mess. People are confused what's happening, they don't have a clue. But everything is in the hands of Allah. That's why, don't say it will be or not by comparing it in your mind. This world is a world of probabilities. Everything is possible. It can't be that nothing happens. That's why, don't say it will happen to us or it won't. Allah shows mercy to merciful people. That's why don't be merciless to others. Allah will protect you when you are merciful, when you help others. You'll be saved only by this. It is a great goodness to help all Muslim people, brothers, all those who have a loss. Shukr to Allah, being merciful has remained from the Ottomans. An attribute of Ahl-ul Sunnah wa-l Jama'a is kept in Anatolia.

They are helping everywhere, but people who are helped are being ungrateful. We're hearing this too. They say they are helping for a reason. Let them say so. Allah knows. As long as Allah knows, no harm will come with Allah's permission. We expect neither gratefulness, nor something else from you. We ask from Allah. May Allah protect us. May Ottomans become the head for Muslims. Mahdi alaihi salam will receive the amanat from them. Insha'Allah it's near. Since Sheikh Efendi's passing away, everywhere became a mess.

As we said, no need for being sad. This is a sign. Insha'Allah the time is near. May Allah send a head for Muslims soon. May we get rid of these confused people. May we get

rid of the world of unbelief. There's no other escape from it because there are many traps, they are ready to kill Muslims. But Allah is with Muslims, especially with Ahl-ul Sunnah wa-l Jama'a, that's why, we have no fear, we have no sadness. Everything is going to be fine with Allah's permission. It will be like Allah commands. Allah helps those who are with Him. Audhu Billah min al shaytan al rajim Bismillahi r-Rahman r- Rahim "Aqtarabati As-Sa`atu" (54:1) Allah is telling in this verse, "Time it is approaching." What is time? Time of Judgement Day. He said this in Quran, since Prophet (saws) more than 14 centuries. Now many people they said "no, no Judgement Day is very far. It is not so close." When somebody, Mawlana or another saying it is the end of time, many people who they think they are clever are saying, "no, there is long time, maybe 10.000 years, 100.000, 1.000.000 years after maybe will come Judgement Day." No, no, Allah the Creator, Who created this world, this universe, everything, now there is no other creator, He put a calculation and He put years, months, days, seconds and He just knows what is time and He said, "it is near," so, you don't know better than Him. When you see somebody, Muslim scholars also, they said "maybe it is not so near. It is more, we can make it 1000 years, 2000 years after". No, because everything He, Allah Azza wa Jalla said, some signs for Judgement Day.

Many times they were asking Prophet (saws) about Judgement Day. He didn't say, he was just giving signs. Because if you tell it nobody will work, nobody will do anything I think. So Prophet (saws) was saying "if you know tomorrow is Judgement Day if you have work to do, even you plan something you must do, don't stop, don't be lazy because when you do this, for Allah also. You do this, Allah rewards you for this, not only for worshipping. But it is a secret, when the time is, but it is near. It is near because you see all what Prophet (saws) was telling will happen. Nearly most of them happened. Very few things still, the big signs, especially for Isa (as) to come from Heaven and Sayyidina al Mahdi (as). And there is big sign, it will be when coming one of them, all of them, quickly in few years will come after this, it's only half a century maybe, for Qiyamah. But many signs for this, and there is one sign they are not telling but, it happened when one of our Mashshayikh passing away, every time something happens.

When Mawlana Shaykh Abdullah Daghastani changed his world for Akhira, it was 3rd of October 1973. After 3 days began a big war in Syria and Egypt with Israel. And it was really affecting the whole world. Making many crises, but it was not time for Mahdi (as) I think there was still time, but this time, when Mawlana passing away and many big things happened. Many troubles happened now, also around us in this area. All the world here is fighting, but there is also big economic crisis and everywhere with the countries they are fighting between themselves or with neighbours. It will be more and more than this. But we are not afraid, because this is what Allah Azza wa Jalla was telling. When the time approaches, it will be many troubles, many things, until Mahdi (as) coming and Isa (as) comes from Heaven. But Alhamdulillah, don't worry

because we are following Prophet (saws), and we are happy with his teachings, we are following his sunnah and his teachings. We are Ahl-l Sunnah wa-l Jama'a, we are following 4 maz'habs. Ahl-l Sunnah wa-l Jama'a they are the majority.

Prophet (saws) was mentioning this in Hadith, "You must be with majority." The majority is with Ahl-l Sunnah wa-l Jama'a because they are peaceful people, quiet people. You thought those who are out of Ahl-l Sunnah wa-l Jama'a are too many people? No they are not many people but they are making too much voice but Allah is with Ahl-l Sunnah wa-l Jama'a. Peaceful and not harming anybody.Sometimes the people they said, "not even harming an ant". When an ant is coming they like not to pass on them, they are looking out for them. How can they harm people? No, this is Ahl-l Sunnah wa-l Jama'a. Allah gave them in their heart marhama, mercy, compassion and love. Others, there's 2 kinds of Muslim: Ahl al Sunnah and out of Ahl al Sunnah. The others since their childhood they are feeding them envy, hatred and to be cruel. Who is outside of Ahl-l Sunnah, they are teaching this to them. For who? For Ahl-l Sunnah and for other people also. This is what they teach. Alhamdulillah, we don't have this. We only love for Allah. Prophet (saws) he said in many Hadith "no, you cannot be believer if you don't love your brother like yourself." How is the teaching and others from where did they bring this hate for Muslims, for mu'min? I don't know.

So don't be worried Alhamdulillah. And many things happened around us, but Alhamdulillah, our ancestors are Ottomans and they were helping, but they were not getting any thanks from the people whom they were ruling, even until now they are swearing on them. Now also, this Alhamdulillah, Anatolian government they also are helping, but also I hear from many people, these people they said they are making this especially for their benefit. No matter, Allah He knows, no need for all these people to know. Allah when He knows, He keeps our country safe because it must be head for Islam. And this is the capital for Ottomans and it must be in safety so Allah He put good people these days for this. Allah keeps them away from every badness insha'Allah, because many things, it is not easy. Like fire everywhere, coming from inside, from outside, just to destroy the head. It is head. Mawlana was saying they don't want to let themcome up, when they come up, nobody can stop them. For this they are trying their best to finish. Allah He knows best and He's promised. Insha'Allah Mahdi (as) comes and takes his amanah from Istanbul and saves the Muslims. And I think it is very near time insha'Allah. Allah makes us to help him. To take all these people, to make Muslims, pure Islam insha'Allah.

Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq. Al Fatiha.

38.Be Young Sunday, August 10, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi lawwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadatı Ashabı Rasulillah, madad ya Mashaikhına, madad ya Mawlana Shaykh Abdullah Faizi d-Daghıstani, madad ya Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazım al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.

Anyone can attend our sohbahs. In-sha’Allah everyone gets benefit, especially the young ones. Young age is such a big favour, a big favour that Allah gives to people. Youth is power, benefaction, abundance. You should not use it for bad ways. Young people are loved by Allah. Muslims, servants, young people on the way of truth, are the ones most loved by Allah. The old ones are also like that, but the old ones, who were not on the right way and then turned to the right way, it is different. The ones on Allah's way when they are young, who do what Allah tells them to do, they follow Allah's orders, they are the beloved servants of Allah. These people are the most beloved to Allah. Young age is a big blessing. You appreciate it when you get older. Some people may die before getting old. It is never certain if one will get old. Even when they are young, before they get old, they leave this world, they die and go. For this reason, we have to know its value, we have value each moment.

We have to obey Allah, have love for Allah. I mean we must not forget Allah. If you are constantly with Allah, all your actions, everything you do is counted as a good deed. It is not a difficult thing to do. But shaitan makes it look difficult. Shaitan's actions are more difficult. Running after money, cheating people, killing someone, stealing something, these are not easy things. But shaitan makes them appear as if they are attractive things. People think doing bad is easy. Actually it is difficult. For a normal person, for a believer it is very difficult to do badness. Not easy at all. Sometimes you see nonsense news in the papers. You see a man and say, 'Allah Allah, how difficult this man's situation is'. But he is used to it, he doesn't care. He does a lot of bad actions, he doesn't care. But for a normal person it is such a difficult thing. A normal person cannot live with that shame but the followers of shaitan, they don't care, they just satisfy their ego, doesn't matter where it leads. They don't care if it is halal (allowed) or haram (forbidden).

So as we say, to be on Allah's way is not a difficult thing. Shaitan makes it look difficult, but it is the easiest. The most appropriate thing for human nature is to follow Allah's orders, and obey the orders of religion. When you obey, you benefit both materially and spiritually. You find peace. When we say peace, it means, you are peaceful inside. This is something that people nowadays cannot find. They say they are not peaceful, troubled. Feeling troubled comes of course from disobedience to Allah's orders. When you disobey

you will have difficulty. For example, take a car. There are thousands of parts inside. If you remove one of them, just one part, look and see if the car will work. How is it going to work? Maybe it works in a funny way. It may move pushing and pulling it. It may run, shaking, stopping. But if you put that part in, it's flawless, it moves easily without any problems.

Nowadays people are troubled. Are you strict about keeping Allah’s orders? 'Ah, we do it, our hearts are clean, I make dua, I make dua a lot'. No praying, no namaz. Fasting, 'this year it's very hot, it is difficult'. No fasting. Anything else? Well, 'we are pure, clean inside'. It is like a car with 4 wheels and no engine. You have to push it by hand, that way it can move. But if you do what Allah tells you, the car runs perfectly, you can easily go in all directions. That's the way it is. For this reason, everyone should learn Allah's orders from a young age so that they find a place in your heart.

That's why Allah blesses the young ones. In order to attract them to the good way, He gives them more rewards. The reward given to a young one is greater than what an old one gets because with becoming old, he doesn't have anything else to do. Most people when they retire, they go to mosque, to Juma. But young ones, they pass a thousand evils before standing up for salat. He can only come after defeating all the evil. That one is the actual hero, the brave person. So that is how Allah rewards.

He makes all this war against his ego, against his desires. He does as Allah orders, in return, Allah rewards him. He gives from His endless treasures. He is generous. The most Generous of the generous, Allah Azza wa Jall gives. May Allah count us all among the young ones. If you are 100 years old, you say 'I'm young', with Allah's permission you are counted as young. If you say 'I'm old, I can't stand up, I can't go,' and such, you become old. But if you say 'I'm young,' with Allah's permission you get its virtue. Really nobody should let themselves go. If you say, 'I'm old, I'm sick,' you really get sick. Sheikh Efendi used to say all the time to people 'you are young'. He asked a 50 year old man how old he was and said, 'you're not 50, you're 30, 35 years old, maximum.' He used to make such jokes up to the end. 'I'm 60 years old, how can you be this age?' he used to say. This of course is a joke. But there is always a wisdom, in what the awliya say. I mean, don't count yourself as old. Always keep moving, make an effort, act as if you are young. Don't be lazy.

Today we speak about being young. Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and Allah, Azza wa Jalla praised young believers. They are most precious for them. To be young and to be worshipping and following what Allah ordered, it is not easy because, when young, everything is strong and the ego is big and everything is like fire. He can do anything, but when just following what Allah ordered, then they are precious for Him. To follow their ego, shaitan and ego make it easy but really, it is not easy. If you cheat people, if you lie, if you kill people, if you steal from people and do bad things, it is not easy. It is very difficult for normal people to do it but those who are following their ego and shaitan, it is very easy for them to do what they are doing. Cheating people and stealing and making every bad thing, it is very easy for them. But for real good people it is not easy. Even when you se in the newspaper or TV, some people are doing something bad and sometime you feel

very bad, you put yourself in support of them, but they are not caring, they are doing this normally. If they are caught they are sorry to be caught, but not because they are doing this wrong thing. It is not easy for normal people, for good people to do what they are doing. For normal people it is easy to follow what Allah orders. Allah is ordering every good thing for benefit of human beings.

When you do good things, it is good for you spiritually and physically and psychologically, because if you do this, you are happy. Maybe it is difficult for your ego. For those who are following their egos, it is difficult to pray all their life. To fast, it is also difficult for them. You must do this. Allah Who is creating you and put this order for you, if you do it, you will be satisfied and happy your whole life. But some people they say 'we're doing, but we are not so good.’ Something is wrong with you. You are not doing all that Allah is ordering. You are doing something and leaving something, it is not like this. It must be complete.

Like example of a car. There is the engine and many things inside. If you take one of these cars, maybe it can run, still running, but how it is running? Stopping and going or shaking and doing something wrong. Even, if you take out one part, 'its small, no need for it, why all this inside engine? This is too much, we can throw it out.' So, something will be wrong there. Sometimes maybe stops completely, sometimes it is shaking, sometimes it is making funny noises. So even for an engine it is like this. How you are not even making 5% from what Allah is ordering and you are saying 'it is not good.' Even Allah He does not want 100%, if do 20% it is enough for you even, but people they are not doing 1% from this and saying ‘we are not good.' We ask what are you doing? They say, 'we are praying but not praying 5 times, just making dua and reading some ayah without praying and our heart it is clean.' If it's clean, only, to have a clean heart it is like a 4-wheel car without engine. By your hand you can push it. It is like this. It is important, to do what Allah is saying and ordering, you will be happy. Happy here and happy hereafter also. In real life, in Paradise, In sha'Allah. And for this you must teach from young age, our children. Even young people to come to right way because Allah Azza wa Jalla, He likes young ones. So, we insha'Allah all our life, we must be young. You must be following as if we are young and do what Allah ordered without stopping or saying 'we are tired, we are old people, we are sick people, we are ill'. No, it is not good.

Mawlana, all the time he was joking when asking somebody 'how old are you?' and when he said ’57,’ 'no, no! I am 60,' he would say, 'you must be 30'. Wisdom in this joke even, to feel you are young and you must follow what young people are doing, without being tired. And it is really, many people now we see who are not in Islam, they said, 'we are feeling and doing like we are young', even after 60 years they become strong people also. So it is a wisdom. And Allah accept us as if we are doing as young people, insha'Allah.

Wa min Allahi at-Tawfiq. Al Fatiha.

39.Be Awake for Akhirat Monday, August 11, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadatı Ashabı Rasulillah, madad ya Mashayikhina, madad ya Mawlana Shaykh Abdullah Faizi d-Daghıstani, madad ya Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna as-sohba, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyya.

Do not keep away from the jama‘at, from the community. Yadu-llahi ma'a l-jama'a, Allah's Hand, His Strength is with the community, Allah's support is over the community. Do not stay all by yourself. Do not stray far from the caravan. The caravan crossing the desert goes as a group. In the old days a caravan would set out and whoever intended to travel would join the group. There were camel drivers, there were servants and guards, because in the old days it was not so easy. There were many bandits and robbers about.

The caravan could be travelling for the sake of trade or for other purposes. The people travelling with it were certain to carry money or precious objects with them. That is why sometimes 300, 500, even 1000 people travelled in one caravan. They were accompanied by guards with weapons and defended by an armed escort. After all they were travelling mostly through the desert, although part of their journey passed through non-desert areas. It was dangerous for a caravan to cross the desert. If left behind there, certainly, bandits would find you, and if they didn't, you would die from hunger and thirst. If separated from the caravan, you would be lost. Therefore, this caravan is the caravan of Allah's beloved servants, the caravan of our Holy Prophet. Don't stay away from it, catch up with them. Be together with them. They will bring you to salvation. Yunus Emre, the holy one, expresses this very nicely: Days and nights have come, are passing, do not stray far from the caravan, he says. For this journey is the journey of life, just like you will suffer harm if you separate from the caravan passing through the desert. The best you can hope for is to stay alive, that is enough for you. Whoever strays from the caravan will lose his life and his belongings. Therefore, take care, so that you may not end up in a state of regret. Do not be heedless because man sometimes is heedless and falls asleep. The caravan is crowded, how should they know you fell asleep and got left behind? They may pass on and you will die. That is how it is in this world. If you fall asleep and are heedless of Allah, if you neglect what Allah has commanded you to do, suddenly you will look around and find that death has come upon you without warning, and then you wake up. But it is too late to do anything at this point. No use. Always pay attention, don't be

heedless, neglectful. Heedlessness is not a good thing. In the Qur'an heedlessness, ghaflah, is mentioned in several verses. In none of these, is heedlessness described as a good thing and people in heedlessness, they will come to a harmful end, will suffer loss. Don't be heedless. Be mindful. Regret at the very end is of no benefit. Now you move about here in heedlessness, death comes and you go. But you will find nothing in the hereafter except regret. They say, there is no benefit in regret at the very end. In the hereafter, be as regretful as you like, it will do you no good.

Be awake in this world. By being awake we don't mean the watchfulness of the captain saving his ship that is not what we mean here. Save your soul and go in faith. People give this phrase another meaning. Be watchful, they think it means one who is sharp and alert, and cheats people in order to pass his time in this temporary world in comfort. That is not being watchful. But being awake is for the hereafter. We must pay attention to that, insha'Allah. Allah ordering, saying Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Especially we say: Tariqatuna al sohba wa-l khairu fi-l jam'iya, to keep together as jama'a. "Yadullah ma' al jama'a." Allah, His Power, Hand, is with gathering people, jama'a, company. Company, it is for Allah. It is to be with Prophet and his followers and the Awliya' Allah, the mashsha'ikh, murshids. They are beloved people of Allah. This is company. They save you from bad things especially a bad end. In old times, there was caravan going by desert, or going by many places because it was not regular travelling. Road and cars, no. They were going by camel, by horse, by donkey, walking. They are gathering and they are going, maybe 100 people, 200 people by camel. Even sometimes 1000 people, they are going together. And they are going by desert. And if they were alone, they were attacked by thieves and by robbers. So they were going a thousand people and they have guards with them, and they have this man who has camels to show them the road.

Every person, they were knowing when someone will travel so, they said "On this day this caravan will be leaving for Damascus, this coming to Mecca this day, this going for Yemen.” So every person who wants to go, preparing, he say, 'I'm going with them'. And he will be safe because, all together. But if somebody going by himself, it will be very dangerous. Many times not coming back at all because it was old times, everywhere, there was somebody cutting the road and robbing people. Some of the robbers would steal them, some of them would steal and kill them also. Even sometimes, they take them and sell them as slaves. So it was so dangerous to go by self.

This, our travelling, we are travelling for life. We are all not stopping, like Yunus Emre, he has a good poem in Turkish, he is very famous. He said "we are travelling day and night, day and night, so you think you are sitting but you are also travelling for Akhirah. For eternal life. We are in big travel and we are in good, strong caravan with Awliya' Allah and with Prophet (saws). We are travelling with them, so don't be heedless. Heedless people when caravan is going, some of them maybe are asleep in the desert.

Of course it is very huge, sometimes they are not knowing this, they forget the one out there. So if you would be heedless and sleeping they are going without you and not looking. And maybe 99% chance, he will be finished. So you must be awake. Don't be heedless because if you don't look after yourself other people, it is difficult for them to look after you. You must be awake to continue this travelling to eternal life because many people they are heedless and when they are dying, awakening,"What were we doing? We have good chance, we have good thing but we were heedless and we didn't do anything. We are very sorry."If you are sorry now, no benefit for your sorry. After that you will see and you will regret it, because you didn't do what you can do in your life. And you were with a good caravan but you were heedless and you destroyed yourself, by not being awake.

Many times after this caravan also there is one coming behind them, to look if anybody there. Saying to them, "Go, for what you are waiting, quickly go there." Sometimes they say, "yes I am coming" after, again sleeping and finished. Good example for our life. We are in a very good caravan, Alhamdulillah, but we mustn't be heedless because heedlessness is not good attribute. Many places in Quran, Allah was saying "Wa Hum Fi Ghaflatin Mu`riduna" (21:1) Many timesthey are heedless and they are deep (in heedlessness). So many places you must be awake. Awake for Akhirah, because there is a saying also in Turkish and Arabic, to be awake is to be very clever. But clever for dunya. No, never. This is not so good thing for dunya, you must be awake for Akhirah, because you must awaken before death because everybody awakens when they are dead. When they are waking, some of them happy, many of them not happy because they lost good opportunity to do good thing. And Allah was giving them every opportunity to do.

Allah makes us awake all time, insha'Allah, to not follow our ego, to be heedless and to sleep and be with shaytan. Insha'Allah, Allah keep us away from these people, to be with Awliya' Allah, mashsha'ikh In sha Allah.

Wa min Allahi at-Tawfiq. Al Fatiha.

40.Above Every Knower is One More Knowing (12:76) Tuesday, August 12, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammadin Sayyidi lAwwalina wa l- Akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaikhina, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Daghestani, dastur, madad y a Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. "wafawqa kulli dhi ilmin alimun" (12:76). Knowledge has no end. From the knowledge of Allah, "wama uteetum mina al `ilmi illa qaleela" (17:85). Of knowledge you learned very little. Knowledge is the knowledge of Allah. Knowledge given to mankind is not even a spot; it is so little that it can't be seen next to the knowledge of Allah. Yet people boast, claiming they are scholars saying, "We know this, we do that". They always speak about it. In fact, they know nothing. They learned very little from what Allah taught. So don't get proud, the more you talk about your learning so others should not boast, the more are there people, more educated and more knowledgeable than you. No need to boast like this. It is not reasonable, arrogance. It is very big foolishness to say "I know this, I do this," because there is certainly someone who has far better knowledge, and there's someone who knows far more than that. Allah created everything beautiful. Allah Azza wa Jalla created the best, in the best form. We are in the middle of summer now. We are in the hottest days. There are many smart, and foolish people who complain about hot weather. Allah Azza wa Jalla made these days the hottest. He made the hotter days of the year. It may please you or not, be enjoyable or not, but what Allah says, happens. Allah created it so. This has wisdom in it. Nothing was created without wisdom. People say fruit will appear, this and that. Allah's creature is useful for everything. It's useful not only for the trees, soil and grass, but also for people. This season, the season created by Allah is useful for the body of man. You complain about it being too hot, but certainly, Allah created it considering your need. If there was no need, He would make it always cool. And it is to remind about something. During our Master's time it wasn't like now. You are sitting here in your house, complaining about hotness. Think about our Master. It's twice as hot where they lived. That aside, an order came for our Prophet to go to war, an order to fight against unbelievers. It was hot like this, even hotter. All of the Sahaba got ready and went, some of them said it was too hot. If that's too hot, think about hell. Hell is much hotter than this. All of them went, but some people felt lazy. Afterwards they regretted it. Then an ayat came down for them revealing their regret in not going. An ayat came down about them, (Tawba:112).

Truly, the repentance of thosepeople, Sahaba, was accepted. And this hotness has its benefit. Coldness has benefits too. If you live in this world, your ego should suffer a bit. You should be patient and tolerant. Otherwise, it's neither hot, nor cold. Only in Paradise, in Akhira. This world we live in, is short time. And when it's hot for few days you should be patient. When it's cold, you should bear it. You should be patien
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