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That beautiful life is in Akhira where there's neither sun to burn your head, nor cold to freeze you. A beautiful, eternal and true life is there. In all meanings. At least, you will live an eternal life with a beautiful weather, like that of spring. Here we'll have a couple of cold and a couple of hot days and pass away. Don't complain. Make shukr to Allah for having a healthy life. But our Master has an advice as well. "Don't sit much under the sun'. Our Master wouldn't advise this. Especially in such hotness, he ordered to keep away from sun. Don't listen to foolish Europeans, it's not allowed to lie under the sun naked like lizards the whole day. That will harm you. It will make you sick. Pay attention to this as well. As we said, this is the knowledge of Allah and He's saying it through the tongue of our Prophet, not to walk much under the sun. And if you walk, put something on your head. Direct sun is not good. Ordinary things you do in the morning or evening are ok, but don't believe that direct sun is good just because sun is useful everywhere you are. That's why, insha'Allah it will be healthy. It will be healthy for all of us. Allah is saying in Quran there is knowledge above, or who says, "I am a scholar, I am knowing," there is above him one who knows more than him. And Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying you only get very little bit from knowledge. From knowledge of Allah it is not like one drop, not like one atom, what we know is nothing at all. And those people, these scholars and professors they are happy "we are knowing everything." No, you don't know. If you know so much even, Allah sends one who knows better than you. This is Allah's saying and He is the Creator and He is not like ordinary people. He created us and He created those who have more knowledge than you. So don't say you are proud "I know everything." Don't think this is right. Many things they think they are knowing, they are knowing wrong. And they are happy with this. No, it is Allah what He gives to the smallest people, He can make you ashamed of yourself to say "I am knowing". Alhamdulillah, we are now in summertime and it is the middle of summer and it is hot, very hot. Many people are complaining. Scholar, or not scholar, or ordinary people. So they are thinking they know better than Allah. Allah is the Creator. He created summer, winter, autumn, spring. Everything is created by Allah. When He creates anything He creates it the best. They cannot be better because He is Ahsanu l-Khaliqin, the Best Creator. And when He does something people they are not understanding, they are complaining, "it is so hot, it is like this, like that." Allah created this summer to be hot. And specially these days it is very hot. Many people they thought it is for fruit, for wheat, for other things. No, not only for that. It is also for human beings, for the benefit of human beings.To be very hot, or to be hot, or to be cold. We are living in temporary life. It is not life forever, here. Just to make you, physically also, it is good for us, this what happened.

Spiritually also. Spiritually to tolerate and to be patient with what happens around you. And physically to give some benefit to your body because He knows best. And you must be patient, because this life is temporary. Real life cold also is good for human beings, for body, for spiritual and for physical also. Really, when it is so, so hot or so cold people are not liking this. They are getting uncomfortable so, many people they are opening air conditioning and in winter time they are putting heating to make it good for them. But it must be also, you should feel hot and you should feel cold, it is a benefit for you. And to know this temporary life, it must be like this. And it is a very short time, not so long time. Even 100 years it is quickly passing from comparing to permanent life, eternal life. And just 100 years, 80 years, 90 years, it is not so long. Some people they thought it is so long to be 100 years old. It is not so, this is very short also. In Jannat/Paradise it is opposite of this. There is no sun, no hot, no cold. Like spring, very sweet weather. Everywhere is green with fruits and trees of Paradise. And it is forever. So we must be patient in this life to get this, what Allah promised for us. And it is, Allah said in The Quran, don't say it is so hot, Hell/Jahannam, it is more hot than this. Prophet (saws) in these days, Allah ordering him to follow this army of unbelievers, they said they were coming, so they are prepare and going. It must be exactly like these days, in August I think. And where Prophet (saws) living, in Madina, it is double the heat from now. Nobody liked to go but when the order coming, Sahaba they are going. Only three they were not going and they were very regretful. After Allah forgave them after 2 or 3 months. And there is ayah for that. So it was not easy. But for order of Allah, even in this heat they were going not complaining, not saying anything. Quickly going for Allah. So you must be happy, don't complain with this weather. You must be happy all the time, you must be thankful to Allah.

There is also knowledge from Prophet (saws). Now we said Europeans they like too much to be in the sun like lizards. Taking everything off. So Prophet (saws) said, "don't go too much in the sun. The sun is not so good for people. Little bit, you must put something on you to protect yourself from the sun. Not too much. Allah showing the good way. Prophet (saws) he is showing every good thing for human beings, but human beings are not understanding. They don't want to be in right way, or to take advice. Allah makes us to listen to advice and obey, insha'Allah.

Wa min Allahi at-Tawfiq. Al Fatiha.

41.Do Not Fear Death Wednesday, August 13, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. As-salātu wa s-salāmu 'ala Rasūlinā Muhammadin Sayyidi lawwalīn wa l- ākhirīn. Madad ya RasūlAllāh, madad ya Sādāti Ashābi Rasūlillah, madad ya Mashayikhinā, madad ya Mawlānā Shaykh Abdullah Faizi d- Daghistāni, madad ya Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nāzim al-Haqqānī, dastur. Tariqatunā s-sohba, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyya.

Sohba means to say good things, In sha'Allah. As Shaykh Effendi used to say: yawmun jadīd, rizqun jadīd. With every new day Allah sends us new provision. Insha'Allah today's new sohba will provide all of us with spiritual nourishment. When a dead person is laid in his grave, there are often people present who scream and shout and cry loudly. Shouting and loud crying is not permitted. It is torment for the deceased but of course there is no objection in grieving quietly, weeping by oneself.

There is wisdom in forbidding this. A mourner's loud crying and shouting, and tearing out his hair for the person shows that he believes he himself will not die and the one deceased will never see him again. However the deceased addresses him in the speech of the dead, saying, "you are so very upset, do not be so sad. I am a traveller, and you too are a traveller". My ticket was cut a bit before yours. I was called to my destination a bit ahead of you but you will follow me. There is no need to be upset, to be so distressed. You are all heading for that destination”. Nobody will stay in this world forever. Throwing earth over the dead person who is in his grave, carries a reward. You can think of yourself at this time, as if you too are being covered with this earth since you also will go to the hereafter. Do not fear death. If you do good deeds, if you do as Allah has commanded then death should not make you afraid. The deceased was not the only one who died. No one will remain. Where you now live, many, many people lived before you. Many people lived in these places. Thousands, millions of people lived there and not one of them remains in the place he once occupied. When his power is cut off, when the Angel of Death comes to him he can no longer move his hand or foot, and all his power is gone. They lift you from your place and take you to the afterlife, and place you in your grave. Then it is the turn of the one coming after you. He lives there for a while, and then he too must die. No one can live forever. In tariqa, we practice tafakkur ul-mawt, contemplation of death. You must remember death every day, at least 7 times in order not to have the fear of death. Every day, 7 times you must think of your own death.

Death is Allah's command. Allah has made every thing good, so this too He has made good. You must accept this, to not be afraid of death. One may say "I am so strong, I am so powerful, I am a champion, I am a chief, I am a man who makes people tremble, I am one who is much loved,” all of them must go. All he could take with him was a white piece of cloth, his wrap-up sheet. Nothing else he could take along. In this shroud may be a hero, or a coward, or anything else. When he is wrapped up in his shroud it is not known who he was. Important is the memory of that person, that people might say after him that he was a good man. Most important is that Allah knows you were a good person. Yesterday has slipped from your hand, it is gone. You can do nothing about yesterday. Tomorrow has not come yet, it has not yet appeared. It is not even clear whether you will live until tomorrow. So you must make the most of today, of this present moment. You must think this way every day. People now say, let's live like this in the future, let's do this, build this road and build this city, it will be a good thing 20, 30 years from now. Who will be alive in 20 or 30 years? Don't be sad for them.

A poet said: After our time many roses and flowers will bloom, but we will not be there. Friends will commune in flower-gardens, but we will not be there. Whatever blossom, let it bloom, it’ll be not our affair. This poet had the right idea; this will be, that will be. You must give thanks for all. By Allah's wisdom we are coming to the Last Times. Each day makes us long for the one just passed. Each day makes us think of the previous day. Therefore, be content, and bow down yourhead in acceptance of Allah's decree. As we said before, we must not be afraid of death, it is Allah's command. But that is only if you keep Allah's commandments, then you will have no fear. Who will be afraid of death? Those who oppress people, who betray and deceive people, those who do evil things, they should be afraid.

Who is on the right way, no fear for them, by Allah's leave. Today we speak about: to not be afraid from death. Why? Many people, specially the nonbelievers, they are making shouting, crying with hig voice, we are losing these – our father, mother or relative. They are shouting and crying. Don't be like this, because the dead man is saying "why you are shouting and crying like this? I am travelling just before you." All of us we are travellers, we have ticket. Some of them before, some of them after. So insha'Allah, the good people will all be together. "Don't be sad," he said this,"we are going same place". If you are shouting and crying like non-believers, you will look like you believe you will not be dead also. No, you also will be dead. Everybody is going to the same place. Those who are shouting and crying they thought they will not be dying? But it looks like many people, when you are in life they cannot believe they will die. And when somebody is dying, they are crying so much. They thought they will be separate forever. No, it is for everybody. It is same way to go for everybody but some of them going before, some of them going after.

It is like this. Allah sent people for a short time. Like a school or like class, after, they will be examined and they will go where they deserve. Many people before us, they were living in this area. Many before them also, they were living in the same area. Many people before them also, they are coming and going, nobody can stay forever here. So when we throw earth when burying somebody, you must think yourself to be there. You are throwing this for yourself. You must know, you must believe. It is not bad to die. When Allah puts this order for you, you will die. But if you are in right way don't be afraid, you'll be happy, you will meet all good people because you are following them. You must be very happy, don't be worried. Many times you see in news people saying, "after 20 years it will be like this, a very good city. After 50 years it will be like this, like that." And you are thinking "after 20 years I'll be 100 years old so I cannot be there." Sometimes you feel sorry. Don't feel sorry at all! Because it is a temporary life and before you also there were people and after you there will be people.

Mawlana said now it is end of the time, it is not getting better. Every day is going to be worse and worse. Once he even said that the people who are living, sometimes coming to graves and saying to these people, "O you are lucky, you are dead before this happened. We are not so lucky like you." But you be patient and be in right way, following what Allah ordered. It is order of Allah, you have to continue your life here as He wishes and you must obey, to be happy here and hereafter, In sha'Allah.

Once one poem was saying, "O it will be after us, roses and flowers and we'll not see it. But there will be rose and flower gardens and our friends they will speak there and they'll be happy but we will not see it". No need to see it. And better is with Allah, he has better than this, insha'Allah.

Wa min Allahi at-Tawfiq. Al Fatiha.

42.The Worst of Voices (31:19) Thursday, August 14, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. As-salātu wa s-salāmu 'ala Rasūlinā Muhammadin Sayyidi lawwalīn wa l-ākhirīn. Madad ya RasūlAllāh, madad ya Sādāti Ashābi Rasūlillah, madad ya Mashayikhinā, madad ya Mawlānā Shaykh Abdullah d-Daghistāni, madad ya Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nāzim al-Haqqānī, dastur. Tariqatunā s-sohba, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyya.

We must pay attention to what we do so that it might not be in vain. You must remember Allah constantly and you must live according to how Allah wishes you to live. If you do this, all your affairs will turn out well, for when you have attained Allah's good pleasure, all your actions are considered as worship. Don't let yourself be gripped by your nafs, the greatest enemy is your nafs.

Our Master, the Holy Prophet said: If you love a person, love him, but not too much. In your love, don't go to the extreme and give him all your secrets. Don't reveal to that person all that you know. One day he may turn into your enemy, and he may then harm you. He says, don't let your guard down completely. Most of the time our Holy Prophet did not speak about certain things he was planning; for instance, if there was to be a battle, he told no one about it. Once heset out from Medina and traveled for a few days, then the Companions saw him turn around and head in the opposite direction, our Holy Prophet, so that no one might spoil his plan. When too many people share a secret it is spoilt. So, don't trust your own nafs and, as your nafs is your greatest enemy, don't follow it, and don't tell everything. Don't trust your nafs. Don't say, "I am ok, my nafs is alright, I can rely on my nafs in every matter," because as soon as you let your nafs free, it cannot resist and returns to its former state. Shaykh Efendi used to tell a good story concerning this matter. Once there lived on a farm a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster - a few animals. The owner of the farm was a bit of a tyrant, and he tormented the animals. These got together and agreed among themselves to run away one day. They would go and live on their own, they said, in a different place. There is plenty of food all around. We don't need to stay with that man. So together, they all ran away.

They went to a faraway mountain top. When the famer saw that they had gone, he wondered: Allah, Allah, where did they go? Did anyone steal them, what could have happened? While he looked for them, they passed over quite a distance. They left the

farm far behind. To begin with they said: don't make any noise. If he hears us he will come after us and take us back. So they were all very quiet. But the donkey was accustomed to shouting loudly, or braying, as it is called. The worst of all voices is that of the donkey, says the Holy Qur'an. It is similar to the voice of the mushrikin, the unbelievers. He raises his voice often and stirs things up. Once he starts braying, you can hear him over a distance of 10 km. You may think he has something very important to communicate, but it is of absolutely no importance. So they went on. The donkey said, "I want to bray just a little," "Oh no," they said, "if you start, he will find us right away. Don't do it!" So, he restrained his nafs.

They traveled on for a bit, past a few more hilltops. Then the donkey said, "I can't stand it any more, I am going to have to bray." With much pleading, they got him to keep quiet, barely. They went on for a while then he could stand it no longer, and he said, "I can't keep it any more," and he began to bray at the top of his lungs so that the hills and mountains rang. The man heard him right away, came after them, caught them and led them off. In just this way most people cannot resist their nafs. They may pray once or twice, fast a little - some people, and say, I have now repented. Then they say, let's do just a little bit and they fall back into their old ways. They must be careful. They must not rely on their nafs. The nafs always likes to bray, always likes its bad habits. Therefore, you must not indulge it too much, for you can never trust it. Be careful. Today we speak about our ego. The ego, it is enemy and you can train it to be your servant. Prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam was saying to be careful when you love somebody, normal people of course, not beloved people for Allah. If you have many friends, when they love each other, they say to them everything. Secrets and everything. Too much loving. Prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam: "Don't be like this." You must be normal, in moderation. If you hate somebody, you must also not hate them too much. Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, "maybe this, your friend sometimes he can become enemy for you, and he knowseverything about you, he is harming you more than enemy." And for enemy, "maybe you are too much enemy for him, sometimes becoming a friend to you, so you will be very sorry to make these bad things for him". You must be careful and not say your secret to everybody.

When you want to do something, only you must know this because, if it is coming out of you, becoming not-secret. Quickly spreads. Prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, when he wanted to go to war or some place he wasn't saying to Sahaba where he is going. He just say, "you prepare yourself, we are going. And after going 3 miles, 10 miles away from Madina, he was going to opposite side of where he wants to go, after turning to go where he wants. This is a teaching for us. You must be careful, especially from your ego. You must be, not too much friend with him, not too much give your secret to your ego. Must be every time.

Mawlana, he was telling one story, little bit funny. Ego, it is like a donkey. One time there was a farm and many animals inside. Especially, there was a donkey, and dog

and others, like goat, or something like this. And the farmer he was tough for them and they said, "we are fed up from this man, so we must run away from this farm. Outside, we are eating grass, we can find everything. No need to be with this man to make us tired and beat us”. So they agreed to go away. All together go away, but they said to themselves, "this man, he will know where we are, don't shout, don't make any voice." Everybody said, "yes". They were going very far from the farm and farmer was looking for them. He didn't find, because no voice, nothing. After many miles, donkey was shouting very bad, and braying. So he said, "I must bray." They said, "don't do this, it is very bad, he quickly can find us". In Quran, Allah said: "The worst voice, donkey's voice." And it is giving big voice, but only, not nice and giving bad thing. And it is like unbeliever, they making big voice but nothing good from them. He said, "ok, ok, I am happy now, no need to make this voice." After little bit, maybe 3 - 4 hours, he again said "I must bray and shout." They said, "no, please, remind you." He said "ok," but after 2 hours he said, "I cannot manage anymore”. Beginning with the highest voice. The mountain was shaking and making echo. Farm man, he come quickly, take them away again to where they were.

Many people they cannot. Once, two, three times they can stop their ego. After, little bit from here, little bit from there, finish, again. After, they regret it. After, again they say, we want to make this. Like this, but we must be careful to not give our ego this chance. You must go away from this dunya and the bad ego and shaytan. To go away from this, go to nice place, insha'Allah. When you go away from this zalim, oppressor-farmer - it is like oppressor-farmer, this shaytan. He make every time oppression for us, for people, but if you are free from him you will be happy, insha'Allah.

Wa min Allahi at-Tawfiq. Al Fatiha.

43.Addabanī Rabbī fa Ahsana Ta’dībī Friday, August 15, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashai'khina, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Daghestani, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani. Audhu Billahi min ash-shaytani rrajim. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.

Our tariqa is with sohba, goodness is with association. In-sha’Allah these are associations of goodness. Here in the house of Allah, in a place where Allah is remembered, it is association of goodness. Our Prophet, Allah taught the most beautiful adab to our Prophet. "Addabani Rabbi fa ahsana ta'dibi" it is said in a hadith through the tongue of our Prophet. Adab is a beautiful thing. Adab is good morality, beauty, delicacy. A man is a man only with adab. A man without adab is called an animal. What is adab? Adab is to show respect, to revere and to respect firstly, Allah Azza wa Jalla. With Allah, you have to show the greatest adab towards Allah.

How is adab shown towards Allah? By thankfulness for everything He gives and showing satisfaction. Second, it is to respect our Prophet. You should love him more than yourself, more than your mother and father, more than everything else. This too is adab. To whom to show adab thirdly? To all Sahabas, prophets, believers, scholars; to everyone higher than you. You should show adab to them. You should respect the deceased ones as much as the living ones, praying for them. Sending a good prayer for them is the biggest gift for them. Muslims should learn this. They should learn this. Any Muslim who doesn't show adab falls into the category of animals. Allah created everyone in ranks. There are many ayats on it. One is "Inna Allaha istafa Adama wanuhan wa aala Ibrahima wa aala Imrana 'ala al-alamina" (3:33). Allah didn't speak about the families of Adam alaihi salam, Nuh alaihi salam; He made the families of Ibrahim alaihi salam, Imran alaihi salam great. He respected them and placed them above people. He placed them in a higher rank.

This means if you show lesser respect for everyone, it won't be shirk. Allah Azza wa Jalla is showing, adab is not shirk. Adab is an attribute loved by Allah, an attribute suitable to people. A man without adab is an animal. We can say just this, we can't say more. Adab is a very beautiful thing. Among people as well, much respect is shown to a good mannered man, one with adab than a bad person, who is less loved. He is hated by everyone. Allah loves people with good manners, with soft manners and those who are merciful. Mercy is also from adab. A rude man is not loved by others.

May Allah teach Muslims this truth insha'Allah, because they want to make Muslims far from this. This is all shaitan's work. Ahl-ul Sunnah wa-l Jama'a, the 4 madhhabs are ordering what we said and, ordering this because it is the order of Allah and our Prophet. They can't order otherwise. And those ordering other than this receive their orders from shaitan. They follow him. May Allah protect us, the Muslims from them insha'Allah.

Tariqatuna al sohba wal khair fi-l jamia'. To say this is what Sheikh Bahauddin Naqshband, Imam al Tariqatu n-Naqshbandia was saying in every sohba. Our way is to make speech/sohba, good speech for advice. and the best thing is gathering with ikhwan/brothers, or with friends to be together to remember Allah and remember good things. And this is gathering for Allah, Alhamdulillah, we are happy to be with you, all coming from around the world, from near or from very far away. But all coming for Allah, gathering for Allah. And Allah He loves these meetings. And this meeting especially, is teaching good behaviour, adab.

Prophet (saws) said: "Addabani Rabbi fa ahsana ta'dibi". "Allah taught me to be good- behaved and He is the best to do it. He did the best for me. (He taught me excellently). Nobody is above Prophet (saws) in good manners. He has all the good manners. And he is teaching believers, Muslims to be good-behaved, to be good mannered. For whom first? For Allah. You must be good behaved for Allah and accept what He is giving for you, you must be happy, you must be satisfied. Don't be against Him. Second for Prophet (saws). Prophet (saws), you must respect him more than anything in this world. You must love him more than yourself, more than your children, your family, your mother and father. This is good behaviour towards Prophet (saws). To love him like this and to accept what he is ordering and he is saying. After him you must love Sahaba, all Sahaba. You cannot judge, these Sahaba good, these not good. It is not good behaviour to separate Sahaba. Just, you only look at yourself. You cannot say that he was wrong, he was right, because they are taught by Prophet (saws). And Prophet (saws) saying, "My century it is the best century from this ummah, until Khulafa' al Rashidin." This Prophet (saws) said, if you do not accept this, you are not accepting Prophet (saws). You are making very big disobedience and bad manners and are badly behaved towards Prophet (saws).

After, you must respect those who are coming after Sahaba, century by century and those who are beloved people for Allah like Awliya'Allah, scholars, 'alim, who are teachinggood things. Especially we must follow from the 4 madhhabs, one of them. And when you do this you are not making shirk, what people say. Some people are saying this is shirk. No it is not shirk because, Allah loves some people and even Quran was mentioning it. People some of them high, some of them lower. But all of them are Allah's servants.

So, you cannot say if somebody loves Prophet or loves awliya' or Sahaba, "you are in shirk". You cannot say this because even for a dead Muslim, you must be respectful. You must be respectful for all elderly people, you must be merciful for small people. Good manners are the best for human being. Allah gave this, good behaviour for mankind and not anything else. Who are animals are not behaving good. They don't have adab, they don't have manners, they are just animals. And who is not following good behaviour and manners they are like animals. And it is not good for human beings. Many people they are saying, "we are human beings," but when you are not doing like human beings, to be with good behaviour and as Allah and Prophet ordering, and love, you are not deserving to be mankind. You will be like animals.

Who likes to be like animal? Nobody. But when you don't like this you must behave like human beings. What Allah ordered and what Prophet (saws) ordered. And it is the best teaching from Prophet (saws). Insha'Allah, in Tariqa, this way is all for teaching people adab, to teach people good behaviour and good manners. Allah makes Muslims to be awake and to be good behaving through following Prophet (saws), especially following his behaviour.

Wa sallu 'ala an-Nabi, w'Alhamdulillahi Rabbi Al 'Alamin. Al Fatiha.

44.We All Follow Mawlana’s Orders Monday, August 18, 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, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Dagestani, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.

Our tariqa is with sohba, and goodness is in association. This association, our jama'a is brothers. People gathered by our Sheikh, Muslims to Muslims are brothers and brotherhood of tariqat is more important, a key matter. Shaitan is the first one between them. He envies the beloved servants of Allah and doesn't want such beautiful traits. Shaitan and those who follow him want neither Muslims, nor the brotherhood of Muslims or tariqa. They want them to be enemies of each other.

It is the order of our Prophet: a Muslim should love another Muslim. Whatever you want for yourself, you have to wish that for your brother too. You can want but your ego doesn't. Shaitan doesn't want at all because when shaitan was kicked out of heaven, he asked to be left until Qiyamah and promised to mislead all people. Shaitan tries his best to mislead those who enter the right way. Don't befriend shaitan. Your friend is Allah, the Prophet. They are the real friends. Can you be friends with a snake, with a poisonous snake? Can you be in the same place with it? No. As for your ego, even the most poisonous snake becomes weak next to your ego. There are some imposters, some people who stay with snakes now but probably they do it without sleeping day and night. That is possible not for one in a thousand, but one in a million cases. They are imposters. However saints can be amongst them. They don't care and they don't get approached, with Allah's permission. Ego is the same. Those people govern their egos. There is nothing they are scared of. They fear no one except Allah. They don't hesitate with anyone. They don't care if someone accuses them and say they did this and that because they do what Allah orders. They are the most relaxed people in the world. Shukr to Allah, Sheikh Efendi gathered these people. There are millions with Allah's permission. Certainly shaitan doesn't like it and always wants to make fitna. May Allah keep him away,

In sha’Allah. May Allah Azza wa Jalla keep shaitan far from us. Shukr to Allah, everyone obeyed the order of Sheikh Efendi so far. Who didn't obey are maybe 1 or 2. Of course

that happens too. They may be deceived by shaitan or ego, or they may have another reason. Obligation is not from us, it's a matter mentioned by Sheikh Efendi.

Shukr to Allah, with the miracle of Sheikh Efendi, everyone, young and old, whatever Sheikh Efendi ordered, they agreed because it is a matter of ego. There are old people, new people, those who are bigger than us. Even they accepted the order of Sheikh Efendi without any objection. And shaitan doesn't like it. He's trying to do some things but with Allah's permission we are not afraid and not worried. It is not an easy job. Even if Sheikh Efendi put a stone here, it would have spiritual power.

That is why, even if they complain and do other things, nothing happens. We have neither worry nor fear, thanks to Allah. Some people say they said this and that on the internet. I told them not to talk about it. It's not good. That's the new invention of shaitan. They used to fight with swords in old times. Then machine guns appeared and bravery disappeared. And now it is not like a gun, not even like a normal bomb. It's the newest nuclear bomb of shaitan. If it goes somewhere, it destroys a whole country.

That is the reason I don't want in our tariqa to hear that someone said this and that on the internet. They bring news and I said don't tell me. I don't want to hear it. Sheikh Efendi didn't like such things. One person says something and they assume that everyone is saying that. In fact, it's not true. The best thing is to not look at it, not to think badly and not to spy. There is ayat on it. You think bad and say they said this and that. You can't deal with what you must do yourself. And if you're bothered with this, you make complete harm. That's why whoever that is and whatever they say, don't answer them. Don't even look, which is better. With Allah's permission our Sheikh has a power to protect us from that nuclear bomb of shaitan. That's why, instead of looking at it, giving short replies, its better not to look at all. You'll be more secure and safe. Mind your own ego. Nothing else is required. We are all brothers - new ones and old ones. There's nothing like "you are old, I am new". That is a grace and big blessing of Allah that we are all gathered in this beautiful way. We see that people sacrifice their lives and possessions. They are going towards bad way. They are killing Muslims, doing everything to destroy Muslims and their name. Nevertheless, you can't offend your Muslim brother. We are trying to teach this in Tariqa.

Thank Allah you entered this Tariqa. It is a beautiful way of our Prophet. You are going on his true way. You are going towards him. Support is coming from him. Make shukr for this blessing given by him. There's no need to say something like "you are old, I am new". Old ones should teach the new ones. New ones should respect the old. Like this we pass it and we go just as Sheikh Efendi said because people are tired of these wild people. They want to follow a beautiful way like this. In sha’Allah with the

power/himmat of our Sheikh, we won't separate from this way even if our life reaches its end, In-sha’Allah , we'll increase.

The way of Sheikh Efendi is a way of our Prophet. May people come to the right way. May they be saved from ignorance and from harming themselves In-sha’Allah. They'll be saved both in this world and in akhira. Tariqat as-sohba is to give lessons and lecture and advice. And insha’Allah, fi-l jami'a is to be gathering. It is the best thing. This is what Sheikh Bahauddin Naqshbandi was saying in every sohba. And this, to be gathering good people was what Mawlana wanted and hetried to do all his life. With whom he was gathering? His whole life he was gathering with good people. Since his youth he was travelling everywhere and gathering with people. Good people were coming to him. But other people, those not good, bad people, they were hating him. And they were doing bad things. Sometimes swearing, sometimes standing, behaving badly. And they were not returning. Why? Because those who must gather with him, they must be good people. Bad people, they were hating him and were swearing and doing everything even accusing him to be a spy, to be like this, to accuse him of lying, many things. He still was travelling but when coming the next time to this village, bad people of course, they were not coming at all. Only good people, they were coming. And it was like this until the end of his life. Good people, they were coming to him. They loved him. Bad people were not loving him. Prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam was saying, to be Muslim one must love his brothers in Islam, like himself, at least to wish for them what he wishes for himself. This is honor of Prophet SallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. But the one who was hating all human beings, he is shaitan. Allah kicked him out from Paradise, since then he swore, he said, "Leave me until Judgment Day, I will make all these human beings to come with me to hell". Allah Azza wa Jalla said "Go, who follows you, they will be with you". He sent him but not all people will go with him. He said only those who follow shaitan, they will be in hell with him. Shaitan, he hates mankind. And he hates especially the Muslims to be together, good people to gather. It is his worst. Who can take them out of belief and to be away from Islam, he takes them. They are with their friend now. But who does not follow him, he tries to make enmity between those Muslims.

And this is what is happening now in these days in the world. But Mawlana, he was gathering all good people. Millions of these people. And he was alhamdulillah, like a magnet pulling good people to him. And when he changed for akhira, in-sha’Allah he said to be together again. Alhamdulillah his order, it was followed by everyone alhamdulillah. And this is what shaitan not like. He tries to do something here and there. But alhamdulillah all our brothers, older brothers, younger, who, they are very long with mashsha'ikh and they are more knowledgeable than me and more older, all, they are not saying anything. They accept and this was a test for them, Alhamdulillah, or by baraka of Mawlana they passed this test. It's not easy to accept because the ego and other and many things, they make people to avoid this but alhamdulillah, this is karama from Mawlana to make all these people accept and they are happy and no

objection, alhamdulillah. There is of course little bit here and there but they are not from real followers of Mawlana. There was maybe one or two, they are coming later years, maybe 5, 6 years ago. And they went again. So it's not important. The are travelling between mashsha'ikh many times and they are not responsible, they have some problem. So this is nothing. But the main followers of Mawlana from ulama, from scholars, from government people, from highest stations, and there are poor people. All they are accepting and they are happy to follow Mawlana’s order.

And this is shaitan, he will blow up from his anger. Alhamdulillah. So many people, they try to make fitna, especially from internet. I don't like this internet from beginning. Even I cannot open. Sometimes they say people, they have something, some people, they do for me. I never see it. But this internet, it is big fitna and big weapon for shaitan. Before there was fighting with sword and not firing machine gun or something. When machine gun coming, they said it finished the bravery.

Now this television and other, it was like this. But now this not like gun, it is like atom bomb, this internet. We see it. They destroy all these countries only with this internet. All Arab countries. What happened now? Once they are making one news, all people becoming crazy. They destroy everything. You cannot stop. This, shaitan help you with this. If sending this message for you, don't tell me this. I'm not looking for this and I'm not happy. And if you see something like this, don't answer. No order from me. Don't answer this message even they are swearing or what they are doing. If you like to see, you see. But, better to not see and better never accept to answer anyone. Allah Azza wa Jalla saying "Inna ba'd adh-dhanni ithm" Don't think bad for people and don't spy and this is what Allah ordered. So shaitan orders must be exactly opposite of this. So don't believe this internet news or what they write and don't answer. Especially this for ladies or girls, Don't speak in this machine. It is very bad. I hear very bad stories from this. You must keep your virtue, yes. Now the girls or others speaking everything. It is very bad thing. It is really shaitan's atom bomb these days. Allah keep us away from this. But alhamdulillah from baraka of Mawlana they accept us. Even if Mawlana puts here a stone, we must accept. They put us and we are trying to do something and we are sure and insha’Allah what Mawlana has done, it will be continued and people, they will come for hidayah, for this right way more and more. Because it is the way of Prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Coming from him. And he's showing the right way. People are not knowing what they are doing, really, they don't know. Because they are taking and killing people and being killed by people. For what? For nothing. And they will be punished. We must, we are teaching to have mercy and to follow orders of Islam and Prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam.

We are here, in our jama'a, there are many people. From long time they are following Mawlana and there are new people also. So the new people, they will learn from old people. And old people, they must take care of our people to not be saying "I am old,

you are young. You must be like this, like that." No. But by mercy and by politeness to be together insha’Allah for helping each other and following orders of Allah Azza wa Jalla, Prophet and Mawlana insha’Allah. And it will be better and better in-sha’Allah. We are accepting what Allah done. It is like this, life. Nobody living for others, Allah knows how many years we can carry this thing. As much as we are living insha’Allah, we try to follow this order insha’Allah. Allah bring together all these Muslim. And we are alhamdulillah here, all kinds of Muslim. Arab, Turk, Pakistan, Iran and many, American even, Palestinian, European. All they are here. We are not making difference. We like them to be in way of Prophet, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Real way. Not following their ego and after they say 'this is Islam'. They are liars. May Allah improve them. Al-Fatiha.

45.The Divine Trade Wednesday, August 20, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Madad ya RasūlAllah, madad ya Sādātı Ashābı Rasulillāh, madad ya Mashaykhina, madad ya Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nāzim al- Haqqāni, dastur. Tariqatuna as-sohba, wa l-khayru fī jam'iyya.

May Allah always keep us busy performing good works. May Allah keep us busy with actions He loves. May He make us love such actions. May He make us cherish the straight path, for if He does not, our nafs will never like and never want any of those things. If Allah wills a thing, man cannot do anything but that. Thanks to Allah for having created us in this way, for compelling us towards performing good works, for making us like goodness, and appreciate the company of good people. These are very good things, whic we must take good care of. These are things that we need for the afterlife; that we deposit in our storehouse for the trade of the hereafter, as supplies, transport and so on. They serve as trading goods in the afterlife. Do not miss out on any opportunity that presents itself. Even the slightest bit of good, try to do it. Every act that you perform, do it for Allah's sake.

Even animals, if you feed an animal living in the streets, feed it for the sake of Allah's good pleasure. Whatever you do, do it for the sake of gaining Allah's good pleasure. Do and collect for the afterlife. We collect good deeds, but now in the world it is not so easy to store up such goods. There are thieves, or things may rot, a mouse may get into it and eat it up, it may get damp and turn mouldy; these are things that need to be safeguarded. Once there was a man - in the old days, people here used to do their harvesting not as it is done nowadays. Now a great big machine, in a couple of hours or half a day, does the work a man would do in a month. Then he is free and can go off to do all kinds of improper things. Harm will come from lazy men. Man should not remain lazy. So this man went about his harvest, piling it up like this. It took quite some time, and when he was done he was in good spirits. "Oh," he said, he did not say thanks to Allah, he said, "now I can go and have a drink". So he took his bottle, sat down with his wine and began to drink, pondering his work. He had completed a big task, and was happy it had turned out well. "Oh, now I am rich," he said, "now I will begin to enjoy myself". By the evening he was quite drunk. Night fell and it grew cool. He said, "I'll light a little fire to keep me warm". But a drunk man doesn't know what he does. He lit his fire, as well, set his harvest ablaze. All his great harvest was destroyed.

The next day there was no harvest, and winter was coming, so he began gathering up from the ground little bits of corn that hadn't quite burnt to ash. These he tried to collect. This story is about our life in the hereafter: we go on collecting good deeds, but finally, we cannot hold out any longer and we yield to our nafs and we ruin everything. Therefore, we must be careful that everything we do, it is for Allah, that we guard it, so that it does not fall prey to our nafs. Do not fall into heedlessness. Heedlessness is not a good thing. You are on a difficult road, at the edge of a cliff. Any moment your foot may slip and you will fall and perish. You must take great care for that. Don't say: but I have done all this, I am an accomplished person. Don't say: I have spent all my life doing this. Be careful! Shaytan has many tricks. He intends to ruin you, to bring you down. If he finds even the slightest opportunity right away he will drag you down. May Allah keep us safe from them. May our good works be continuous, in-sha'Allah. May they be guarded and protected. We do not trust our nafs. All our good works we entrust to our Shaykh, in-sha'Allah, so that he may keep us safe. We are doing what Allah likes, alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah, we are following Allah's order, Prophet's way and way of Awliyaullah. We are happy because Allah, He is doing what He likes to do. And alhamdulillah, He put us in this way, He liked to put us this way. Few people, they are coming to right way, we are happy. And when you are in right way, you are going for Akhira. You must do whatever you can do. Don't be lazy. No, everything you do for Allah, with intention for Allah, Allah rewards you and makes your good-doing count more and more. A trader, he not saying this is not good, this good. When he see some benefit for him, he can put everything. Quickly, he take and make it double, or triple, more and more. Never mind. He is happy. So we are happy and Allah rewards us more than ten times, hundred times. Don't say it is enough. No, because Allah's favour is coming to you. You must be happy for everything. For spiritual favour or material, or what Allah give for you from halal and good thing. You must be happy, you must accept. Don't say it is too much, it is enough, no. What you can do, do, because we are going to a place, there is nothing you can do there, only what you bring from this side. It is big favour. So you must take this to other side. But in this dunya also, you must keep this in right place. Don't destroy it, because in dunya, when somebody bringing goods he must be careful. When you put it in some place, it must be strong place. To be away from fire, to be away from thieves, away from insect or from mouse, rat. Everything you must keep carefully. This trader, he puts it very carefully, keeps it very carefully.

We also, we must keep our doing from thieves. Thief, he is shaitan and ego and other things. They are all trying to take this, what you have, to leave you without anything. There is one story about farmer. Old time farmers, they were cutting wheat by their hand. And to cut one field, maybe, he need one month to cut it. Not like these days, nowadays, in 2 hours you can cut for one month. What they were doing? Cutting first by hand, after, they dried it, they crush it and take from inside. So it was long and heavy work but it was good because Allah gave baraka for them. Mawlana Sheikh saying after reaping, ploughing earth with cows. More baraka, more better, it was.

And it was to keep people busy. Now they do what they do in one month, in 2 hours. After they are empty, they are going to make every bad thing. But this man, also he was happy. That year it was too much, so much wheat. And he was making like small hill and he was looking, and he was very happy. And he said "I'm very happy today," he bring one bottle alcohol. He was drinking. He drink and drink and become drunk. And it was little bit cold. And he said "I must make fire because too cold, I will be more enjoying myself." And when he made fire, it was all firing this wheat. All hill, it was finished, at once. And next, when he woke up, he said, "What we will do? We must look for something for winter". Bringing one small bag and looking for no burning thing. Putting, to collect for his winter. So we are also like this. We are doing very good thing, we are filling our whole depot. After we doing something wrong, all going away. But this man, only for one winter maybe, he will be half hungry. But for us, we are going to Akhira, it will be too bad for us. When you are going with all good things, Allah rewards you, but when you finish everything, there's many thing to finish everything also, so it will be terrible for people.

For this, you must be careful from our ego and from shaitan, to not follow them and destroy what we are doing. Allah keep us away from our ego and our shaitan. Don't say: I have too much thing. Allah, He can do everything. All at once you may not have even one gram from good things. Allah keep us and we are doing this and In-sha’Allah, we are not happy about ourselves, our egos. What we are doing, we are just trying to put in another place, safer place. We are putting with Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, with Awliya In-sha’Allah to keep this for us because we are weak, we cannot keep it. Allah accept this from us, In-sha’Allah .

Wa min Allahi tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.

46.Purely For Allah Sunday, September 28, 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 Mashaykhina, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim alHaqqani dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.

Our tariqa exists with sohba, and goodness is with association. Sohbas are knowledge. To ask for knowledge is fard. It is fard for everyone. And these assemblies of sohba are the assemblies of knowledge. Scholars, the scholars among the umma/nation of our Prophet, the pious good scholars, are similar to the Prophets of Bani Israil. Of course, they can't reach the level of Prophets, but they nearly reach their level. Our Prophet says they are similar to them. Scholars are people on a very high level in the presence of Allah. And they should be true scholars in order to reach that level. Because scholars are of two kinds: One is beloved by Allah, they keep Islam as pure as in "ala lillahi d-dinu l-khalis"(39:3), scholars who teach people Islam and religion for Allah without adding anything to it. Nothing. The most important is that they don't expect anything in return from others. They shouldn't expect material reward. But they can expect spiritual reward. We do this for Allah, Allah will reward. We ask from Allah, we ask for our reward from Allah. Who give knowledge for money, for financial benefit, their knowledge is useless. They are not scholars. Those people are ignorant. Because you teach about Allah, while you yourself are not for Allah. You entered this path for money and benefit. That means the biggest foolishness. It means your knowledge is useless to you.

A scholar means he knows the reward that is given by Allah; he knows that Allah gives and what happens. Allah is certainly there and He gives everything. Otherwise, when you expect from people, you are not scholar but ignorant instead. The benefit of this world is temporary, it has no value. In the presence of Allah, a scholar is on the highest level for Him. The difference between a servant and a scholar, the difference between a person who worships all his life and a person who shows the right way is like the difference between our Prophet and his umma, says our Prophet. There is such a difference. The level of scholars is much higher. Why is this matter being given so much importance? Because if most of the people go after an ignorantman called a scholar, all of them will confuse their way. They'll perish. But those who follow a true scholar, even those who lost their ways will find it back and earn their akhira. They will rescue themselves. It's not important to be rescued in this world. One can live with little as well. But in akhira it's not like this. If you are destroyed, you'll end up in

a terrible place. Allah ordered scholars to teach people their knowledge as their zakat. Zakat of knowledge is to teach it. Therefore, it's not acceptable to avoid teaching when you know. It's your duty, the duty of a scholar. If you are a scholar, you should do it.

If an ignorant man who's not a scholar says "I want this much money for teaching people", he's not a scholar at all. But if a scholar is favoured by Allah, then it comes from Allah. It's ok and not binding. But if he teaches only for benefit, neither his knowledge is useful, nor of use for him either. Neither beneficial for people, nor for himself. May true scholars increase In-sha’Allah . Everywhere is full with ignorant people. They say ignorant is brave. A brave ignorant man calls himself a scholar and makes fatwa. What fatwa can you give? He is truly brave. Brave against Allah, not against people, but brave against Allah. Allah will question. He will question you.

You don't see but you promise too much and make fatwa, as you are ignorant and don't believe. You confuse people from their right way. But the true scholar is ahl-ul taqwa. What is taqwa? It is to fear Allah. Fearing like "Am I far from the orders of Allah? Am I doing what Allah ordered, or am I doing it wrong?" It is being in continuous fear of Allah. They fear Allah and show mercy to people, teach them good things. Others don't fear Allah, they fear people. The taqwa scholar fears Allah, therefore, he's not afraid of anyone else and doesn't hesitate. He says Allah, and carries out Allah's orders, he doesn't care about others. A true scholar is like this. As we said, people "la yakhafuna lawmata la'im"(5:54) people can blame as much as they want, be angry as much as they can, insult as much they want, he won't get frustrated. He says "I'm with Allah. Allah is my witness, Allah is with me".

The other one's not afraid of Allah, he's afraid of everyone. He says "I should do what they want. I should give fatwa on what they say". May Allah protect us from such people. Tariqatuna s-sohba wa-l khairu fi jamia. This Sayyidina Shah Naqshband al- Bukhari saying, and it is sohba to... Sohba, what is sohba? Ilim, ilim - knowledge. Knowledge, it is obligatory for every Muslim and Muslima to learn it. And it is from childhood until end of life. We must follow sohba. When you are in sohba, following sohba, or you read sohba, or you read good book, you are taking the knowledge, and you are doing the order of Allah's Prophet (saw). And who teaching this good knowledge, ulama, scholars of umma of Prophet (saw), Prophet he said "They are like prophets of Bani Israil." Same high station, level. Of course, prophets, they have, because they are prophets, they have highest levels but normally it is like same level for ulama of Prophet (saw), umma of Muhammad (saw). And it is very important to find good alim. Because when you follow real alim, he'll take you to pure Islam and "ala Lillahi d-din-ul khalis" (39:3), this is from Qur'an, to be pure religion for Allah. These alim, they are teaching this. And they are very valuable present of Allah Azza wa Jalla and Prophet (saw) because they are saving people from bad end, and take them to high station. Even in dunya also, they are teaching them the best way to live. They give them good advice for everything; for drinking, for eating, for sleeping, for

what they are doing. These scholars, they can give you the best advice. And these scholars, they are only pure for benefit... They don't want benefit from people. Pure benefit they accept from Allah Azza wa Jalla.

Who accepting something, read to be scholar and to be rich or to be, get benefit from people because speaking very well or looking good, it is not good scholars. There are two kinds of scholars - These who want something from people, they are not pure for Allah. And when it is mixed, it is very bad. The first condition for alim, the basic and the very important thing before knowledge or everything - only to be forAllah. Pure for Allah everything. Nothing for benefit from people. When you want benefit from people, it is your waste of your years what you study, what you are doing. For this one they must begin from first day of school for knowledge to teach this student who wants to be alim, scholar to be for Allah only. And when you want from Allah, Allah give you. He is more generous one. Only generous. Real generous. Because He has everything. And He said "My servant, he don't want from anybody, only from Me". So He gives without... you don't know from where coming. And it's acceptable. But to say for people "You must pay for me because I'm coming to teach you this. And you must give me money... Give me something other." or you want benefit, it is not acceptable at all for alim and it is very important to know this. And who is not doing this, they are not scholar, not alim. They are jahl, meaning ignorant. Ignorant. Why they are ignorant? Because they are not believing what they teaching. They teaching something, they say "You must", Allah create everything, and you go to people to help you. Allah, He helps you. They don't know this and there is a saying "al-jahl jasoor" - ignorant is brave. Because for money or for benefit they can give you any advice you want or give you what fatwa you like. Everything they can give you. And it is brave because the end of this, what they are doing - big punishment. And they don't believe this. For this, they are ignorant. But real scholars, they are afraid from Allah. They are ahl-ul taqwa. And they cannot do anything against Allah order or what Prophet (saw) showing. They are looking very carefully.

But others, they are brave. And really it is not brave. Brave all against Allah but they are afraid of people, from what these people will say, "What I will lose? What benefit I can lose? It will be, maybe I get poor and I cannot get married. I cannot do anything so I must make these people happy to help me". But the real scholar, they are afraid from Allah but they are not afraid from people. Real brave these people. Because when Allah saying something, even whole world, they will be against these scholars, they are not afraid. They are afraid only from, real afraid from Him. Because everything in His hand, He's doing. But other people, if Allah protect you, whole world, they cannot do anything for you. This is real brave and this is what must scholar teach people. And we are in need for these real scholars. And they have very high station. Sahabas asking Prophet (saw) difference between worship, whole life they are worshipping and for scholars. He said "It looks like between Prophet and like umma. It is so big difference".

The scholar has very high station. And to sit one hour with real alim, there's some hadith, it's like acceptable hajj, and there're many many hadith about this, what Allah give for people who are sitting in knowledge sohba majlis. Allah make our people and In-sha’Allah many scholars, many alims, real alims coming from Mawlana baraka all around the world. I've been in Bashkiriya in Russia. Many people there in madrasa for teaching ilim. Alhamdulillah they are good. Everywhere we are going, they are many alhamdulillah. In-sha’Allah this will be the seed for this In-sha’Allah , for teaching real Islam. This is our intention, In-sha’Allah Allah accept and make it acceptable for everyone.

Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

47.Allah Likes the Truthful Monday, September 29, 2014.

As-Salamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuhu Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Madad ya RasulAllah, as-salatu wa s-salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammad Sayyidi lawwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Mashayikhana, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, Dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.

Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. "Mina l- Mu'uminina Rijalun Sadaqu Ma 'Ahadu Allaha 'Alayhi Faminhum Man Qada Nahbahu Wa Minhum Man Yantaziru Wa Ma Baddalu Tabdila" (33:23) This holy verse is describing mu'min/believers. They are the ones who are "men". Who is a "man"? He is trustworthy. He is truthful. If he gives a promise, he does not go back on his word. To whom did they promise? To Allah. They did not change. They don't run away from their word. Men don't change their word. They did not change. And like this they are waiting for Allah's order. Some of them passed away, some of them are waiting, but there is no change. This is the attribute Allah loves. That is why they are called "man". Who is not like that is not a man. The characteristic that Allah does not like, that awliya/saints and prophets do not have, is lying. Allah never likes lying. A mu'min/believer cannot be a liar, does not say lies. There is a Hadith Sharif that if a person always says truth, and never lies, that person will be written as sadiq/trustworthy in Allah's Divine Presence. If another person does the opposite, always lying, always lying, then what happens in the end? He will be written as "liar" in Allah's Divine Presence. Lying is not a good characteristic, not an acceptable characteristic. And people don't like liars also. A believer never says lies but a person whose faith is not complete, will lie of course. To lie is not good of course. Only in a few situations there is permission to lie and that is during war. If you are fighting with enemy, you can't say where you are. You must trick them. That is something else. Also if two people are not talking to each other, you will say, "he loves you", although it is not true. Even if he doesn't like him, that is okay. That lying is acceptable. But if you use religion to lie, and say - I am this, I am that, that is very dangerous. You might win in this worthless dunya, but in akhira you will go to hell.

Because Prophet said - my whole nation will go to paradise. The nations of other Prophets(AS), some will go heaven, some hell. Who is the nation of our Prophet? The ones who accept our Prophet. Those who say, "I am not from his nation", then they will not be counted as his nation. Then they are either from the nation of Isa or Musa and Allah knows what will happen to them. If you don't accept, you can do as you like.

But if the nation of our Prophet do sins, they will go to hell and be cleaned then go to paradise. But to keep yourself from sins is better than to burn thousands of years in hell just because of this short dunya. Make some effort in this short dunya so you will be accepted in Allah's Divine Presence. And you will be beloved in dunya also. Otherwise, you will not be liked by anyone. You will be cheating everyone. That is why lying is not liked by anyone.

Because our Prophet was called - Amin/honest, Sadiq/trustworthy. Our Prophet never had that bad characteristic. Everyone accepts this. Since he was young, he was called - Muhammad al-Amin. And we are the nation of our Prophet. That means we must follow him. We must not do the things he dislikes. We must try to have the attributes that he likes and accepts. We must be like that. These attributes are loved by everyone. Whether you accept or not, these characteristics are loved. Our Prophet shows the right way. Be true and don't lie.

We read this ayah/verse – “Minal Mu'minina Rijalun Sadaqu Ma Ahadu Allaha Alayhi Faminhum Man Qada Nahbahu Wa MinhumMan Yantaziru Wama Baddalu Tabdila” (33:23) Allah praises these men whoare sadaqu...truthful. Truthful and they are behind what they promised. And some of them passed away and some of them still waiting, never changing, never turning back. This is the attribute of 'man'. To say 'man', it is highest station for human being. Rijalullah - the men of Allah. These men, they are not afraid from anything. Not afraid from anyone. This is what Allah's Prophet salla Allahu
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