Suhbah 2015: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (6/30)
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medicine, nothing happens". So it effects. If another, you say cure only for you from this medicine, it will be nothing. Doctor, he will change this medicine for you, he give you more stronger, he say maybe this better. Also if Allah, He don't want, it also not effecting. After changing 1, 2, 3, they said "No, we must make check up, we must make looking, taking apart and cutting, looking under. And now we must make operation." All coming for bad and bad. But if you are from beginning you believe in Allah and say this even very small medicine, this effects by Allah, and you say when you swallowing Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim, ya Shafi, ya Kafi, it will be effect and you'll be cured. But don't put all, everything in this medicine, "It will cure me". No, the cure from Allah. If He wants, He can do. But for people who not believing, He make them take thousand of pills and nothings happens to them. They take one handful morning, one handful evening, before sleeping, after sleeping, so nothing happens. All life they're living with pills. It is not good. If they are believe in Allah and say "one is enough", it's ok. Maybe sometimes needed for some people. But the most important, Allah give this favour for us and it is from Him. He teaches people to do this and effect from Him. We are believe in Him, we say Bismillahi r-Rahmani rRahim and swallow it, it will be effect insha Allah. Allah make us to be away from illness
insha Allah, internal and outside. Because the inside illness, it is more difficult from outside. Allah cure these people also.
Wa min Allahi tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.
32.COME TO THE HOME OF PEACE Friday, January 30, 2015.
As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaykhina, dastur. Madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Faiz Dagestani, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
May Allah make these favours last. These are big favours, favours given to us by Allah. Even if we worship all our life without eating and drinking, we still won't be able to recompense it. Allah has created all beauties. He is inviting people for beautiful things. He is inviting for the best things, He doesn't call anyone for bad things. w'allahu yada'u ila dar as-salami (10:25) Allah is inviting to beautiful Paradise.
What He calls dar as-salam is Paradise. His invitation is to the home of peace, home of beauty, to Paradise. For Paradise in akhira, its virtues should come in dunya. And that comes with Islam. A Muslim man feels the fragrance of Paradise in this world also. Because he perceives Paradise, he will enter it in akhira. And if there is someone who is not Muslim and doesn't want to come where Allah is calling, his punishment for it is hell, of course. Allah is saying in Qur'an to do goodness. Allah loves those who do goodness, Allah loves believers. Allah loves those who help others, Allah loves those who believe in Him. He loves those who believe in Him and His Prophet. He is calling everyone to this. He says "Come to this side. The other side is dangerous. It's not good, don't go there." Many people in this world sometimes show you the bad way because of their envy. They show you the ugly way and want you to go there. They don't want you to come here because of their envy, it's for the things in this world.
But for the things of akhira, Allah is calling everyone to the right way. No matter what badness you have done, come again anyway. If you leave it and come, Allah will forgive you. The ayat we read in khutba says "Tell the unbelievers, if they leave their bad deeds, bad way, and come to the right way, whatever they've done, I will forgive them all, I will leave it in the past". This is since the time of our Prophet until now.
Of course, then. Muslims nowadays are to certain degree. Back then, RasulAllah, the Beloved servant of Allah was so oppressed by unbelievers and mushriks. Allah said He will forgive them if they leave badness.
He had shown as an example, he forgave, for accepting Islam, Wahshi, the man who had killed the dear uncle of our Prophet. So Islam... We said it in hadith sharif of our Prophet in khutba; alislam yajibbu ma qabl. If you become Muslim, everything you did before will be covered. You will start from the beginning, the rest won't be counted. If you become Muslim, whatever badness you did, it will be forgiven. If you believe in Allah and become Muslim, Allah will forgive. Allah will forgive. Muslims will forgive too. That's why, Islam is the religion of beauty, it's the religion of mercy.
There is nothing like vengeance. There is no vengeance but the punishments of Shariah. Those are different and vengeance is different. It's not like these mindless people now. If a man fights with someone and kills him, they make blood vengeance for seven generations. There's no such thing in Islam. Who does it will be punished. Others can't be held responsible. When it's done, it's outside of Islam. And Allah will punish for this. It is said several times in Qur'an, if Muslim kills another Muslim on purpose, he'll remain in hell forever.
That's why, this is so for unbelievers. And if a Muslim commits a sin and repents, at-taibu min azzanbi kaman la zanba lah. Who repents for sins is as if he's sinless. There is nothing bigger than unbelief. Allah forgives even that. And when it comes to Muslims, nowadays they say "I committed many sins. I won't be forgiven, I'll go to hell" and continue sinning. They go on with that logic. They make mistakes by doing so. Allah said inna Allaha yaghfiru aldhdhunuba jami'an (39:53) Indeed Allah forgives all sins. Allah is the Forgiver of all sins. Allah is the most forgiving. inna Allaha ghafoorun rahimun (2:182) Indeed, Allah is forgiving and merciful.
He is both forgiving and merciful. The most merciful, the most forgiving is Allah. That's why, if you have committed a sin, repent, Allah will forgive. No one should lose hope from Allah's Mercy. Even if someone has sins as big as mountains, Allah will still forgive. Just repent, turn to the right way. Allah loves beauty, He doesn't like ugliness. Allah is beautiful, He loves beauty. What we mean by beauty is not... Some people say it's sawab to look at beauty, and look at women. They call it beauty then. It's not beauty. That's ugliness what
you do. Looking at someone's honour with a bad eye is not a beautiful thing. It's bad.
Beauty is beautiful manners. The beauty which Allah loves is those beautiful manners, beautiful people. Beauty of people is not by their looks but by their manners and behaviour. Some people call such a man disgusting. What is disgusting? You can't stand him even if he's beautiful. He can embarrass you. Some people can't get along with him. He can be so beautiful and people will run away from him. Beauty is what Allah has ordered. Everything else is ugly, embarrassing and shameful. It won't give peace but disturb. May Allah not separate us from the right way insha’Allah.
Today we speak about Allah what He likes people to be. Allah likes people to be in nice, beautiful way. The beautiful, nice, sweet way, what Allah ordering for people. To be soft, to do the good thing. Bad thing it is ugly. When you do bad action, a bad thing, bad way. Allah calling people "come to place of peace." What is this? It is Paradise. Allah calling all people, come to Paradise. He never calling to hell, "come to hell", no. Who calling for hell? Shaitan calling for hell. Allah all the time ordering people to follow nice and sweet way, the way of Paradise.
Even in this world who they are worthy to go to paradise, they're feeling something from Paradise. Internal sweetness. But other people they are not feeling. Only feeling the bad feeling, not good feeling. And Allah saying for people "O people who you are not in way of Prophet, come." You come and Allah, He is forgiving what you've done before, to be Muslim. Islam forgiving everything. When you become Muslim you are like newborn baby, no sin for you.
You're beginning from that time to write for you good things. No any wrong thing, no mistake be written before this. Even you are 60 years, 90 years, even if all your life you was doing every bad action what it is ever, what you're thinking, what you imagine, what you hear this man he's done until 90 years, when he said "Ash-hadu an la Ilaha illa Allah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Rasulallah", all finish, this. And Allah, beginning from that time to write for him a new writing, to be in happy life, hayatun sa'yida. And this is for everybody. Since Prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, until now it is same, no changing. He said at that time it like this, now it must be changing. No. It's like this and it must be like this. Who doing another thing they are not in right way.
Even there is a very good example for Prophet salallahu alihi wa sallam. Allah all the time giving example from Prophet because people they thought he's a Prophet and nothing effect him. No, he was getting the most aziyat, harm. They harmed him. The most harmed Prophet, salallahu alihi wa sallam. Even all his children, daughters they died, only Hazrat Fatima be alive in his life. You can imagine this? You cannot imagine how it is bad feeling. And he was, his uncle also Hazrat Hamza when he become shaheed and this Wahshi, his name, who make him shaheed, he was named Wahshi. And even this man he come and become Muslim and it was forgiven. He was forgiven. This is example. You cannot say he didn't suffer from anything, no. It is the worst thing he was suffering. Even he was loving him too much and this after Uhud, the old people they was making something for their shaheed. They were forgetting Sayydina Hamza and Prophet was sad for this also. But after they come and make tasallih, condolence for Prophet salallahu alihi wa sallam. So it is not easy and it is like this.
Islam, it is cleaning. All what you do before it is cleaning, when you say "Ash-hadu anna la Ilaha illAllah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Rasulallah". It is cleaned. It is the religion of peace and the religion of good manner and it is the last religion and it is the only acceptable religion in Divine Presence of Allah Jalla Jalaluhu. So, it is big mercy from Allah for people. Only you come, what you do it will be forgiven when you accept. And Allah will reward you because you've become like this more than what you've done before. This is for non-believers. How for believers? The Muslim people? For Muslim people also it is like this. If you've done many wrong things and you repent Allah will forgive you. He is the most forgiving, Allah, and the most merciful. It is big bushra, good tiding. Good tiding for all human being, not only for Muslims, for all human beings. It is open, nobody can prevent you to come to Allah and His Way, it is open. Come to peace, come to dar as- salam.
Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq. Al Fatiha
33.A LITTLE OPENING FOR ALLAH’S NAME AL - QADIR Friday, January 31, 2015 With the order of Sheikh Efendi, let us say a couple of words insha Allah. May it be of benefit for both you and us, insha Allah. Allah Azza wa Jalla has many Names. 99 Names of Allah Azza wa Jalla were given to our Prophet and every prophet has been given Names of Allah Azza wa Jalla separately. Each of the Names has its own meaning and a blessing. wa lillahi al-asma al-husna fada'uhu biha (7:180) Allah's are the Beautiful Names. Pray to Him with His Names, remember Him. Each Name has its manifestation and impact. Grandsheikh Abdullah Daghestani used to make sohbats by remembering the Names. Sheikh Efendi, our father used to write them down. He used to write them one by one up to Al-Qadir, the Possessor of Power, Allah. When he reached this one, he didn't do the rest, he said nobody can explain its meaning. He came to this Name and stopped. Allah is powerful over everything. Let us say little, as much as people can understand about it. Allah is powerful over things that a man cannot think of or imagine. Allah is powerful over everything. No one can do what He can. His power doesn't have any borders. When you talk about Allah, there are no boundaries. Allah is the One Who created everything. Allah Azza wa Jalla cannot be put inside the borders of what He created. That's why, we are gathering here, shukr Allah. This place, for example, they said this place is just a field. "What are you doing here? Why are you building a mosque, nobody will come." Allah is powerful over everything. When Allah wants, everything happens. When Hz. Ibrahim alaihi salam left his wife and son Ismail in Makka Mukarrama, there was nothing there. Millions of people go there now, and millions are being rejected. They say no place for them, it is so crowded. That's why, if people just think about it, there is no need to think about anything else. If they think by believing that Allah is powerful over everything, people will have no worries. No sadness will remain for people because Allah is powerful over everything. Allah is the One who created you from nothing. Certainly He is powerful enough to remove your troubles in this world. Don't be upset over dunya. Allah is powerful, Allah is the Possessor of Great Power. If He wants, He can turn the richest, the most arrogant man into nothing in a minute. He won't leave anything. And if He wants, He can take the poorest man to the highest ranks both material and spiritual. Even the
great masha'ikh, when they came to this Name, they left its explanation because it is something which cannot be explained. It's such a great, such an amazing thing, they couldn't write anything about it. The Power Oceans. Each atom is a big lesson for people. Power is in the hands of Allah, not in someone else's hands. Allah is the Creator. Now in this new language... They left the old, beautiful Turkish and whatever useless words there are, they have put it in the new Turkish. They say ‘a creative person’. Hasha! Creative is Allah. If someone writes a book or does something, they refer to him with this word. Hasha! No one except Allah has the attribute of power. The attribute of power can only be with Allah. Everything exists based on good manners. Allah is certainly giving something to people who say this, so that they know their weakness. We are all weak servants. Allah is the Possessor of Power. We believe in Him, we ask from Him, we expect from Him so that He doesn't separate us from the right way because He is powerful over everything. May He not let us obey this shaitan. He assumes he can do something. He cannot. As long as we seek refuge in Allah, Allah will protect. The miracles of every prophet are the proof of Allah's power. Prophets had always shown miracles and that was in order to prove they were the messengers of Allah. There's nothing wrong in that. It should be something that an ordinary person cannot do so that they see. And all these miracles are not even a spot in the Power Ocean of Allah. They were such miracles, a human mind cannot comprehend. For example, Isa alaihi salam started talking when he was a baby. Leave that aside, how Isa alaihi salam was born without his mother Maryam being married. With Allah's power. When he was born people were astonished how this had happened, Allah showed them a miracle. A few days old baby started talking. He was speaking clearly the language which people understood. He was saying "I'm a messenger of Allah. I'm obedient to my mother. I'm a servant of Allah." How did this happen? Allah is powerful over everything. Allah is powerful and that happens. There were 2-3 other babies who talked. He spoke as a prophet. There was a servant called Jurayj. He was a saint as well, a saint from Bani Israel. He used to pray in a small booth built on top of a mountain. One day his mother came and called him. He heard her, but he was praying and couldn't reply. His mother called him a second time. The third time she got angry at him for not obeying her. She said "He doesn't want to see
me, so, may prostitutes see his face". So she cursed him. He couldn't leave his worship to Allah, he couldn't say while praying "Mother, I was praying and I couldn't answer you". And by the wisdom of Allah, the mother's prayers were accepted.
That's why, mothers should be careful. Don't curse your children. But a father's curse is even worse. Still, mothers' are merciful, the father's curse is more (easily) accepted. That's why, don't curse your children. If anything happens, say "May Allah correct, may Allah give a sober mind". It is better. There indeed was a bad woman, she saw the saint and decided to turn his head. But he was awliya, she couldn't succeed, she couldn't approach him. So she went to a shepherd and bore him a child. She then accused the saint of wrondoing and said the child was his. The Bani Israel were angry, they attacked and beat him and ruined his booth. The saint begged Allah to be rescued from a bad situation after being shamed. Allah is powerful over everything. He said, "Touch that child with your stick". When he touched the child, he started to talk. Awliya Jurayj asked him, "Who is your father?" He said "My father is a shepherd". Then all of them repented. They felt embarrassed and built him a new booth. Then they came to him to receive a blessing. "What do you want?" He said "I don't need anything, shukr Allah. Allah has shown my pureness with His power, that is enough for me". There are millions of examples like this because there were 124,000 prophets and each prophet showed at least a couple of miracles. These miracles are a sign of Allah's power. Because normal people now say the world is created such and such, this happened, that happened. But then, it rains in winter and it's hot in summer. This appears normal. But this is to show the power of Allah. All these are signs of Allah's power. But people were shown miracles to make clear for,them to believe. Millions of miracles. Because 124,000 prophets; if one has 10, it becomes million. Our Prophet had thousands of miracles, masha Allah. Then there are miracles of the saints. They show the power of Allah and invite people to faith to make their faith stronger. They are outside of ordinary people's experiences. If it was ordinary, it wouldn't be called a miracle. Things people cannot comprehend or imagine with their minds, miracles are the signs of Allah's power to awaken them. That's why, as we said, who believes in Allah's Power, that He is powerful over everything, won't complain. He will beg to Allah. Allah can do
things people cannot imagine. We should believe in this. People will be relaxed. Who believe in this will be relaxed. Whatever troubles there are, they will disappear if Allah wishes. There will be no need for worry and frustration. May Allah not separate us from this right way insha Allah. May He give guidance to people who are here. He has power. Nothing is hard for Allah. Don't lose hope. So much badness has happened. If Allah wishes, everything can change in a minute. People are forgetful. Things people never thought of are happening since around the last 20-25 years. Things people couldn't imagine before became big events in last 20-25 years. There will be more, of course because the Day of Resurrection is close. We too shall see it insha Allah. We will reach Mahdi alaihi salam. He too is a big miracle, an example of Allah's power. He will certainly come. It is in the belief of ahl al-sunnah wa l-jamaat. There's no mistake with Allah's permission. Who deny it are mistaken. Wa min Allahi tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
34.HONESTY Monday, February 2, 2015 Audhu Billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi Rasulillah, madad ya Meshayikhana, Ya Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Faizi d- Daghistani, Ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
The servants that Allah loves, Allah's beloved servants, are awliya (saints). They are the ones on the right way. You can find every goodness, every beauty with them. They teach us. They are the best examples for goodness and beauty. They are amin (honest). That means you can trust them. They won't put you in danger, they won't take you to bad places, and most importantly, they help you win in akhira (hereafter). The most important danger is akhira, this temporary dunya (world) is not important. But whoever follows them, they will be safe in dunya also. They protect the trust. They are very good protectors of the trust. In the past, there were many such people. As the number of people increased, it appears no more awliya are left but actually, it has never changed. Sheikh Efendi says: they are unseen, hiding, or they seem to be very few among the millions of people. In the past the population was 10 percent of today's population so it seemed that there were many more. Even if not awliya, there were many salih (good and righteous) people. We will tell the story of one of them so people can see what the awliya are. In the old days, before going to Hajj or traveling, people who had money didn't know where to keep it. There were honest/trustworthy people to whom they gave the money to keep until their return. And they did it for the sake of Allah, not like the people of today, "I want payment for keeping this." People in the past were not like this. We heard many stories like this. One man was going to Hajj, and there was a very trustworthy person in his country. Everyone knew him. I think he was Hajji Sa'id. The man had 200 gold liras. (Hajji Sa'id) had a store, so the man quickly went there to give his money as trust, but got confused and gave his money to a neighbour's store. He said 'I will take my money when I return from Hajj'. He gave the money to Haji Sa'id's neighbour, not to Hajji Sa'id. That person finished his Hajj and returned safely to his country. He went to Hajji Sa'id and said, "Give me the money that I gave you to keep for me". Sa'id Efendi was surprised.
"How much did you give me?" "I gave you 200 gold liras", he said. Hajji Sa'id said "Ok," and took 200 gold liras and gave it to the man.
The man left, but on leaving the keeper of the other store said, "Hajji, aren't you going to take your money?" "What money?" "You gave me 200 gold liras before going to Hajj and said 'I will collect on returning from Hajj' ". "Did I leave my money with you?" "Yes" he said. He went back to Hajji Sa'id saying, "I accidentally gave my money to your neighbour. Why did you give me this money without asking me anything? He said, "Allah gave me this beautiful blessing, to be amin, to be honest. If you tell everyone that you gave me 200 gold liras as a trust, and that I took it for myself, then that 200 gold lira has no value for me". That is how valuable a trust is. In that day, 200 gold liras was like 200 million liras today. Its value was 200 millions liras. It was very valuable. It had value. Now, nothing has any value. Even gold doesn't have any value now. Like we said, nothing has any value now, not just gold but honesty as well. In that time it was so valuable. That man took out 200 gold liras so that people may not say he stole the money. Without asking anything, he said, 'how much money', and gave it when he said '200'. The other Hajji also didn't take the money and run off with it. But people in this time, in the blink of an eye, 99 percent of them would take the money and run, unfortunately. There is no honesty left among people now. It is by Allah's wisdom that we are in the last days and every badness, every evil will happen in this time. We are seeing it now. May Allah protect us. May the blessings of awliya be upon us. May He keep us on the right way so we don't follow our ego. It is ego actually, what we spoke about. Since we are in the last days, there is limitless freedom for egos. If you want to do something, you are free. Everyone can do what they want but that is for dunya. Those who want akhira must train their egos. They must know good and bad. You must listen to what your murshid/sheikh says. And your sheikh will carry you. They don't teach wrong things. And our Sheikh has billions of examples, stories. We mentioned a holy person from the past but our Sheikh was in front of our eyes. Everyone knows what he did, they know his good character. We shouldn't forget that. We must follow him. Those who claim to be sheikh or murid, they must be very careful, Insha'Allah. We are speaking about good manners. How we learn good manners? We are learning by awliya'Allah, beloved servants of Allah. They are teaching the best. Best way, best thing. Not the good, the best. Every step, they are doing perfect. They are showing the clear, the purest thing to do. They are not showing any bad thing for us. They are teaching us to make our ego better, to try to make it down. When your ego under you, it is good, but when ego on top of you, it is bad.
The awliya'Allah, the masha'ikh, they are teaching this all the time. If you ask where they are, they're still same quantity as all times. But now the population is too crowded so they're not seen between people. They are rare, but normally they're still same. Some of them are hiding also but still you can find many of them. And Alhamdulillah, we are living with Mawlana long time, and he was the best example for us, to teach us about the nice, polite, sweet life. Specially they're sadiq/amin, trustworthy. You can trust on them because they take you to Paradise also. The most important thing, to trust in them and they're carrying this responsibility. From old time people, there was also the people they were more good mannered, from our times people. Because they were living in places where they're born, most of them they're living there. They are not traveling from place to place for living. Now people they're not happy where they're born, all of them they want to go from place to place. They said "this is better and that better". Why you are going? If you go, if you not go, the last trip for you is grave, so better for you to stay your country and to be in your muhit, (place of) residence. Every-people, they know each other. But these big city, Mawlana also, he was not liking that. When they are coming to big city nobody know any one, they're free, completely free. No ashamed, no afraid from anybody. But in their residence everybody knows each other, they cannot do these bad things. Old time people it was like this. There is one nice story, only for example, how old people they were living. There was one trustworthy man, everybody know him. Old times, no bank. Not in their house, maybe they're afraid to keep it in their house, money, when they went to travel. And most of them traveling for trading, or for Hajj. Not going, leaving to go for another country like now, because there was real strong relationship between people and between brothers, uncles, old people. They cannot leave and go to another place. So one of these people he was very trustworthy man. He has shop and the one want to go to Hajj, he has 200 coins of gold. So they can keep, there was people like this. When they're going, they keep with these trustworthy people and then they come and take back. So when he go to this man, he missed his shop and he give this 200 gold to his neighbour and he went to Hajj. After he come back from Hajj, he come back to this trustworthy man, his name: Hajji Sa'id. He said to him, "I'm come from Hajj so you can give me my money back." Look this man, he didn't take his money. He didn't say 'I didn't take'. He ask him, "How much you give me?" He said "I give you 200 gold coins." "Ok, wait," he said and he give him 200 gold coin. After he take and go from his shop, he was passing by neighbour shop. This man he
notice him, he said "O, you come back from Hajj?" "Yes, I come back from Hajj." "You didn't take your money, come and take." He said, "Why money? I take my money." "No," he said, "I didn't give you money. "Now I will give you." So he give him 200 coin again, the neighbour. This man he understand he was making wrong. He take from this man without knowing and he comes back to the first one. He said to him, "You give me 200 that I didn't give you." He said "Yes." "Why you didn't tell me I didn't take from you?" He said, "Because this is a trust, for the name, it is worth this. If you go and tell people 'I give this man 200 gold and he didn't give me,' it is the worse thing. This can't happen for me, for this I give you this money. It is not important, the important, my pureness, my reputation". So this man he was happy, he gave him back his money. So it was like this.
If now, I said, these days somebody doing this, he will take and he will never give back. Because these days people they are not looking anymore for honest, for good manners. Only they thought if they can take something and they get it, they will be happy. No it is not happy. The most important, the halal and haram. With halal, baraka. With haram if you take 1000 times more than from halal, haram, it has no baraka. It will be finish. It is nothing. Not good for you, not good for your children, not good for your health, not good for anything. This is what, awliya'Allah, murshid, they are teaching this. Especially for this time, the time of the end of time. Near Qiyama, all people, only they are thinking about their ego, about their enjoyment. And they are crazy, they are foolish, they have no mind. Because it is like a trap. Only you come take this, it is poison, you die from this. This is what people must think very carefully and know the good thing. It is with awliya'Allah, with murshid. Don't be stubborn. Be soft and be wanting to learn.
Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq Al-Fatiha.
35.THE BLESSED SULTANATE Tuesday, February 3, 2015.
Salam aleikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuhu Audhu Billah min as-shaytan ar-rajim Bismillahi r-Rahman r-Rahim Salat wa salam 'ala Rasulillah Muhammad Sayyid l-awwalin wal akhirin. Madad Ya Rasulallah Madad ya sadatina as'hab Rasulallah, madad ya Mashaykhina, Mawlana S. Abdullah Daghastani. Madad Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Al Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna al sohba wal khayru fi-l jamiya.
Our tariqa, Naqshbandi Tariqa. Main thing of Naqshbandi Tariqa first to do all Sharia order: from fardh, wajib, sunnah, mustahab, nawafil. All we try to do the following Sharia. And Tariqa is the heart of Sharia. It is nothing out of Sharia. And second thing, sohba, little bit making speech. Little bit insha'Allah, after zikr. This is our Tariqa. We are thanking you and we are happy to be after all these years, Allah He make us to come together to visit your blessed country, because you are lucky. And we are happy for you, because Allah send on you, Sultan. Sultan, the best system Allah likes. Because He create people different. He create them all different kind everybody, "fa-kullin muyassarun lima khuliqa lah" (Hadith). Everybody, Allah He put some speciality for him. So these Sultans, Allah He chose them to be Sultans. Alim, also coming from their generations, like this.
Normal Muslim they must not be objecting, refusing this. But of course, now shaytan teaching, they're saying different, democracy and other things. Mawlana Shaykh all time he was saying this is not good, it is from shaytan. So we are lucky also, to be your guest here. Even we take blessing from your Sultanate also, insha'Allah. Masha'Allah, this is what Allah describing: wa mimman khalaqna ummatun yahduna bil haqqi wa bihi ya'dilun (7:181). Some mufassir they said these people, one part of Bani Israil, after Sayyidina Musa and Harun (as) and Yusha they pass away, the Bani Israil they become very bad. And there was one part of them they were good people, and they were praying for Allah, "O Allah make us to run away from these people." So Allah (awj) accept their dua and He make their way sometimes underground, sometimes up. They going very far. Maybe 2 years going like this, towards East. In East they're coming to a place, nobody there, only animals. And they settle there and they're really doing what Allah ordering. And praying and they're planting, harvesting. They are not using money. Just they put when they harvest, they put on front.
Everybody who wants something he goes and takes and he only doing this. And there is no court, no judge, nothing. Because they don't have anything to do with this. Even one Hadith Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam when he come to Miraj, he wants to see them. And when he see them, they were saying, "we were waiting for you, Musa (as) was telling us you are coming and we make shahada for you." And Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam he accept shahada and they all become Muslim. Even lions and other wild animal they are going around them, nothing doing between them. Because only worshiping and they are happy with what Allah give them. Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam asking "why you don't have judge?" They said "we're not doing anything wrong". Everybody they are happy with the other. "You have riba?" They said "no, we don't use even money". He said "if anybody make zina". They thought there cannot be this. So they were like angels. And Allah give them all baraka and they're happy. Alhamdulillah I see here like this in your country, masha'Allah. So, every time you must make shukr praying, and shukr for Allah to give you more and more baraka insha'Allah. This is what shortly, I want to say. And we are making ghubta. Not envy, but we are happy for you. We are Alhamdulillah. Insha'Allah when Mahdi (as) all world it will be like this. Now you must be happy and you must be thankful Allah keep you in safety insha'Allah and Sultan insha'Allah, and give other Muslim country example from this justice Sultanate.
Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq, Al Fatiha.
I want to say very important thing here, we are very happy also to meet our uncle Behin Aziz. We love him like our uncle. And we are happy also to see his son Amin effendi. He is obeying Mawlana's order and making this zikr and sohba for you and spreading Naqshbandi Tariqa here. After Mawlana, he give us everything, so we are also authorizing him to make all Naqshbandi Tariqa order here and to be guidance for people to best thing, for Allah what He wants. So, you must be happy, Alhamdulillah he is faqih and he is in ahl at-tariqa. So he is your Sheikh, insha'Allah, Borneo Sheikh, Sheikh Amin, insha'Allah. Allah help him, long life. All Brunei coming to be insha'Allah in this way. No other Sheikh here. Nasiha for you, for us, don't complain from anything, this is Tariqa: tahammul ad-dad. Meaning, Tariqa you must not complain for anything happen for you.
You must be patient and you know it's coming from Allah. You doing this, you'll have blessed and you'll be blessed and Allah pleased with
you. Prophet also will be pleased with you. Some people make it custom, they're complaining for everything. So you must learn to not, slowly slowly, not complain and then you be happier. And Allah happy with you, Prophet happy with you. People also will be happy with you, because you're spreading good thing around people. Where you are going, you are giving people to be more happy, to be more accepting of what Allah He give them. Because it is from Allah, Allah He is giving everything. If He wants He give you what nobody can take. But if not, you cannot do anything. This is advice to be at rest and it is wisdom of our life. To accept what Allah gives us. Allah (awj) He said for Musa (as) don't want to be rich/ghani. All people they are poor, only Ghani, Allah. "I am Ghani only", He said. Don't ask for ghaib, what people cannot see. Only Me, I know ghaib.
Don't be sorry or to be angry with people what they are saying about you because I am feeding them, I am creating them, I am doing everything and still they are not happy with Me, they are complaining for Me. This, for Allah they are doing this. So for everybody it is nothing. Don't complain. Only be satisfied with what Allah gives you.
Alhamdulillah, He gives the biggest ni'ma to be human beings and the biggest to be mu'min, Muslim, Alhamdulillah, and to be practicing, this is also. Many people they said we cannot do. Sometimes we said only in a day make 2 rakaat. Of course we must pray 5 times, but even for this they said it is difficult so we try to make it easy for them. Only 2 rakaat until to make it easy. Also many of them they couldn't do this even. But Alhamdulillah, Allah give you this ni'ma, Allah make it and this ni'ma when you do it, your soul taking food from this worshiping. And without this you cannot feel any happiness. And the people, human beings, since Allah creating them, they're looking, searching about something like this, but shaytan not let them to come around, he makes something closed and their ego also not happy to come here. Only they're looking, looking until they're dead and they're finished without any happiness in this life. Alhamdulillah, we have happiness here and hereafter, insha'Allah. Insha'Allah to be in jannah also, to be together.
Here, many years we are coming, maybe now 20 years we didn't come but insha'Allah we come more insha'Allah, but even this only 1-2 days but insha'Allah in jannah to be all together with Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, Mawlana Sheikh, salihin, sahaba, tabiyin insha'Allah forever. Thank you for listening. I am happy to see all this, masha'Allah crowd and all pure heart for Allah they are coming only, we are not
giving money. You are coming, you are rich country, no need for you, but you are also only for Allah you are coming Alhamdulillah. This is a very happy majlis, Alhamdulillah, thank you.
As-salam aleikum Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq, Al Fatiha.
36.THE MOST PRECIOUS IS TIME Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Audhu Billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashayikhina, dastur, madad ya Mawlana Sheykh Abdullah Faiz Dagestani, Mawlana Sheykh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
This world is a temporary place for people. Allah Azza wa Jalla didn't send people in order to waste time and be confused about what to do, like people nowadays. He sent them in order to know the value of every minute and use it for good things. Most people, especially those who don't know the religion and faith, spend their time in coffee shops and bad places. They don't go to good places like mosques. They are spending time because they assume this time is free, "How shall we spend it?" With bad things. Our fathers used very nice words in Turkish: we're killing time. You are killing time indeed. Allah has given time for you not to kill it but make it live. Your time is limited anyway. You are not going to live forever in this world. 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, let it be 80 years, the most 90 years that you can live. And there are few people who live long. And time is precious. The most precious for human being is time. People say "There is no work, what shall we do?" They sit about and say. "Time is not passing by". It is passing quickly, they just don't see it. Time is passing like a lightning. They say, in the blink of an eye; because we open our eyes, then close it and go to the other side. You say "Allah Allah. How quickly time has passed". Sometimes someone sleeps, and the alarm rings in the morning. "Did time pass so quickly?" So life in this world is the same. One day you will go to the other side. So how shall we spend our time? By remembering Allah, by remembering the Prophet, by sitting in the beautiful assemblies. Your life will pass nicely and be full. Now there are jobless people who say, "What shall we do? Let's look for work". If they ever remember Allah, if they don't think about anything but Allah, their provisions will come. It's hadith sharif. When people believe in Allah with true faith, just like the birds that leave hungry in the morning and return full in the evening, the same for them. Allah Azza wa Jalla says "I am Razzaq. I will give their provisions in the same way." Those animals remember Allah. Everything except people, all the insects, birds, rocks, everything remembers Allah. Only the human
forgets Him, even though He created him in the highest rank. They say 'problems of livelihood, time is not passing', they kill time.
The Sahaba of our Prophet are the best examples. All of the Sahaba, masha Allah, lived during the best time, in the century of happiness of our Prophet. Shaitan bothered them too, all the time, but they were in a time of happiness. All of them worked and there was a part who were poor without jobs. They were the as'hab us-suffah and they used to live right behind the mosque. Most of them had only one garment. They had no food. Our Prophet used to send his food to them. As they were poor they couldn't go to war. During old times, it was not like now when you buy everything for the soldier. If you had a weapon, you could choose to go to war, for jihad. Because they didn't, most of the time they could not go and were distressed. Sometimes people did charity to help send them. Those people only relied on Allah. They remained there and were raised in that station. They didn't say "we are bored" or "we are killing time". They would sit in the mosque all the time waiting for our Prophet to come. Most knowledge came from them. They learnt all the hadith and ayats by heart. As we said, this life is not for sitting about jobless and killing time. Allah Azza wa Jalla has given the most precious thing, time. As much as we remember Allah, our time is precious. As much as you don't think about Allah, your time is a waste, it is not worth a penny, you can kill it as much as you want. Today we are speaking about the human being. Allah sent them to this world, why? To remember Him, to be working for Allah. There is many people now, especially in these days, before it was a little bit more better, because no machine. Everybody must work, all the time working, it is little bit better. But now, everything by machine. There is plenty of time for people. And people they are not knowing what to do with time. They boring, "I'm bored," they said, many people. "What I can do in this time?" And there is a saying in Turkish: we must kill time. What meaning? To make something, anything to just pass this time. Time it is not “ma lu qima”, it is not waste. It is very valuable, very precious. Very precious thing Allah give us. When somebody gives you some precious thing and you throw it, he will not be happy with you. Time it is the most precious for our life. It is limited. Everybody has limited time. Maybe 10 years, maybe 20 years, maybe 50 years, maybe 90 years, very few people they can live until 90 years. So it is not thing to waste it. You must be careful, you must be happy with your time, you must do things, good things in this time. Not to go to coffee shop or to bad place to finish your time, you're bored. There is many things you can do to not get bored, specially for
believer. Non-believer they all doing. What they're doing? All time you see from their young time, in same coffee shop, until after 50 years you see same, coming night, 9 o'clock morning going, 5 o'clock from this coffee shop. This is what they are doing, they're whole, not only one day wasting, whole life wasting in coffee shop. Near mosque, and 5 times calling azan, they are not going there. Only they're making dirty jokes together and they're laughing, they're doing, but nothing good for them.
The good thing to be, remember Allah and Prophet, and to do good things. When you try to do good thing, you know your time is very precious. It is very valuable, to not waste it, to make good things. There is people unemployed people they say "we don't have work, what we do?" And they're thinking. Don't think this. You be with Allah, go to mosque you make zikr, you read Quran, Allah sends for you your rizq. So, this is Prophet (saws) saying in his hadith: if you are real believer Allah can feed you like bird. They are going morning hungry, coming full, night time." Allah doing this for animal, He cannot do for you? Of course He can do. And this all animal, all creatures except human being, they're praising Allah they're making tasbih for Allah. For this Allah gives them their rizq but human being they're not doing. Just thinking and then complaining, "We are bored, we have nothing to do, and whnnn", many things to do. Prophet (saws) time there was as'hab as-suffah they were called, poor people from Companion of Prophet (saws). They were living in mosque, Prophet (saws) mosque in Madina. Still now there is a place for them, as'hab as-suffah place they call it. These people, because they are poor people - that day, that time, poorness, it was real poorness. If you find one date, you are enough for you to live one day. Even this many people they cannot, 1 in 3 days can they take it only. But they're living in the most happy century, Century of Prophet (saws). And they were happy they were not complaining, and they're not doing any work, because no work at that time and they were living 24 hours in the mosque, accompanying Prophet (saws), praying all the time with him, looking to take knowledge from him, from hadith, Quran and what he do. They're happy there. These people when they was going jihad for fighting, they don't have any money, they don't haveany weapon, so many times they cannot go to join this. They were sad. Sometimes, some people they arrange for them. They are not complaining at all. They are happy and they're example for people who said "we are unemployed and we are bored, what we do." You can do what Allah ordered. Allah not create you to work, Allah create you for worshipping but you must work, if you find work, you
ok. You don't find, you don't waste your time. You make zikr, worship for Allah, Allah send you your rizq, your provision insha'Allah.
Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq Al Fatiha.
37.THEY ARE LIVING Sunday, Febru
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medicine, nothing happens". So it effects. If another, you say cure only for you from this medicine, it will be nothing. Doctor, he will change this medicine for you, he give you more stronger, he say maybe this better. Also if Allah, He don't want, it also not effecting. After changing 1, 2, 3, they said "No, we must make check up, we must make looking, taking apart and cutting, looking under. And now we must make operation." All coming for bad and bad. But if you are from beginning you believe in Allah and say this even very small medicine, this effects by Allah, and you say when you swallowing Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim, ya Shafi, ya Kafi, it will be effect and you'll be cured. But don't put all, everything in this medicine, "It will cure me". No, the cure from Allah. If He wants, He can do. But for people who not believing, He make them take thousand of pills and nothings happens to them. They take one handful morning, one handful evening, before sleeping, after sleeping, so nothing happens. All life they're living with pills. It is not good. If they are believe in Allah and say "one is enough", it's ok. Maybe sometimes needed for some people. But the most important, Allah give this favour for us and it is from Him. He teaches people to do this and effect from Him. We are believe in Him, we say Bismillahi r-Rahmani rRahim and swallow it, it will be effect insha Allah. Allah make us to be away from illness
insha Allah, internal and outside. Because the inside illness, it is more difficult from outside. Allah cure these people also.
Wa min Allahi tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.
32.COME TO THE HOME OF PEACE Friday, January 30, 2015.
As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaykhina, dastur. Madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Faiz Dagestani, madad ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
May Allah make these favours last. These are big favours, favours given to us by Allah. Even if we worship all our life without eating and drinking, we still won't be able to recompense it. Allah has created all beauties. He is inviting people for beautiful things. He is inviting for the best things, He doesn't call anyone for bad things. w'allahu yada'u ila dar as-salami (10:25) Allah is inviting to beautiful Paradise.
What He calls dar as-salam is Paradise. His invitation is to the home of peace, home of beauty, to Paradise. For Paradise in akhira, its virtues should come in dunya. And that comes with Islam. A Muslim man feels the fragrance of Paradise in this world also. Because he perceives Paradise, he will enter it in akhira. And if there is someone who is not Muslim and doesn't want to come where Allah is calling, his punishment for it is hell, of course. Allah is saying in Qur'an to do goodness. Allah loves those who do goodness, Allah loves believers. Allah loves those who help others, Allah loves those who believe in Him. He loves those who believe in Him and His Prophet. He is calling everyone to this. He says "Come to this side. The other side is dangerous. It's not good, don't go there." Many people in this world sometimes show you the bad way because of their envy. They show you the ugly way and want you to go there. They don't want you to come here because of their envy, it's for the things in this world.
But for the things of akhira, Allah is calling everyone to the right way. No matter what badness you have done, come again anyway. If you leave it and come, Allah will forgive you. The ayat we read in khutba says "Tell the unbelievers, if they leave their bad deeds, bad way, and come to the right way, whatever they've done, I will forgive them all, I will leave it in the past". This is since the time of our Prophet until now.
Of course, then. Muslims nowadays are to certain degree. Back then, RasulAllah, the Beloved servant of Allah was so oppressed by unbelievers and mushriks. Allah said He will forgive them if they leave badness.
He had shown as an example, he forgave, for accepting Islam, Wahshi, the man who had killed the dear uncle of our Prophet. So Islam... We said it in hadith sharif of our Prophet in khutba; alislam yajibbu ma qabl. If you become Muslim, everything you did before will be covered. You will start from the beginning, the rest won't be counted. If you become Muslim, whatever badness you did, it will be forgiven. If you believe in Allah and become Muslim, Allah will forgive. Allah will forgive. Muslims will forgive too. That's why, Islam is the religion of beauty, it's the religion of mercy.
There is nothing like vengeance. There is no vengeance but the punishments of Shariah. Those are different and vengeance is different. It's not like these mindless people now. If a man fights with someone and kills him, they make blood vengeance for seven generations. There's no such thing in Islam. Who does it will be punished. Others can't be held responsible. When it's done, it's outside of Islam. And Allah will punish for this. It is said several times in Qur'an, if Muslim kills another Muslim on purpose, he'll remain in hell forever.
That's why, this is so for unbelievers. And if a Muslim commits a sin and repents, at-taibu min azzanbi kaman la zanba lah. Who repents for sins is as if he's sinless. There is nothing bigger than unbelief. Allah forgives even that. And when it comes to Muslims, nowadays they say "I committed many sins. I won't be forgiven, I'll go to hell" and continue sinning. They go on with that logic. They make mistakes by doing so. Allah said inna Allaha yaghfiru aldhdhunuba jami'an (39:53) Indeed Allah forgives all sins. Allah is the Forgiver of all sins. Allah is the most forgiving. inna Allaha ghafoorun rahimun (2:182) Indeed, Allah is forgiving and merciful.
He is both forgiving and merciful. The most merciful, the most forgiving is Allah. That's why, if you have committed a sin, repent, Allah will forgive. No one should lose hope from Allah's Mercy. Even if someone has sins as big as mountains, Allah will still forgive. Just repent, turn to the right way. Allah loves beauty, He doesn't like ugliness. Allah is beautiful, He loves beauty. What we mean by beauty is not... Some people say it's sawab to look at beauty, and look at women. They call it beauty then. It's not beauty. That's ugliness what
you do. Looking at someone's honour with a bad eye is not a beautiful thing. It's bad.
Beauty is beautiful manners. The beauty which Allah loves is those beautiful manners, beautiful people. Beauty of people is not by their looks but by their manners and behaviour. Some people call such a man disgusting. What is disgusting? You can't stand him even if he's beautiful. He can embarrass you. Some people can't get along with him. He can be so beautiful and people will run away from him. Beauty is what Allah has ordered. Everything else is ugly, embarrassing and shameful. It won't give peace but disturb. May Allah not separate us from the right way insha’Allah.
Today we speak about Allah what He likes people to be. Allah likes people to be in nice, beautiful way. The beautiful, nice, sweet way, what Allah ordering for people. To be soft, to do the good thing. Bad thing it is ugly. When you do bad action, a bad thing, bad way. Allah calling people "come to place of peace." What is this? It is Paradise. Allah calling all people, come to Paradise. He never calling to hell, "come to hell", no. Who calling for hell? Shaitan calling for hell. Allah all the time ordering people to follow nice and sweet way, the way of Paradise.
Even in this world who they are worthy to go to paradise, they're feeling something from Paradise. Internal sweetness. But other people they are not feeling. Only feeling the bad feeling, not good feeling. And Allah saying for people "O people who you are not in way of Prophet, come." You come and Allah, He is forgiving what you've done before, to be Muslim. Islam forgiving everything. When you become Muslim you are like newborn baby, no sin for you.
You're beginning from that time to write for you good things. No any wrong thing, no mistake be written before this. Even you are 60 years, 90 years, even if all your life you was doing every bad action what it is ever, what you're thinking, what you imagine, what you hear this man he's done until 90 years, when he said "Ash-hadu an la Ilaha illa Allah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Rasulallah", all finish, this. And Allah, beginning from that time to write for him a new writing, to be in happy life, hayatun sa'yida. And this is for everybody. Since Prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, until now it is same, no changing. He said at that time it like this, now it must be changing. No. It's like this and it must be like this. Who doing another thing they are not in right way.
Even there is a very good example for Prophet salallahu alihi wa sallam. Allah all the time giving example from Prophet because people they thought he's a Prophet and nothing effect him. No, he was getting the most aziyat, harm. They harmed him. The most harmed Prophet, salallahu alihi wa sallam. Even all his children, daughters they died, only Hazrat Fatima be alive in his life. You can imagine this? You cannot imagine how it is bad feeling. And he was, his uncle also Hazrat Hamza when he become shaheed and this Wahshi, his name, who make him shaheed, he was named Wahshi. And even this man he come and become Muslim and it was forgiven. He was forgiven. This is example. You cannot say he didn't suffer from anything, no. It is the worst thing he was suffering. Even he was loving him too much and this after Uhud, the old people they was making something for their shaheed. They were forgetting Sayydina Hamza and Prophet was sad for this also. But after they come and make tasallih, condolence for Prophet salallahu alihi wa sallam. So it is not easy and it is like this.
Islam, it is cleaning. All what you do before it is cleaning, when you say "Ash-hadu anna la Ilaha illAllah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Rasulallah". It is cleaned. It is the religion of peace and the religion of good manner and it is the last religion and it is the only acceptable religion in Divine Presence of Allah Jalla Jalaluhu. So, it is big mercy from Allah for people. Only you come, what you do it will be forgiven when you accept. And Allah will reward you because you've become like this more than what you've done before. This is for non-believers. How for believers? The Muslim people? For Muslim people also it is like this. If you've done many wrong things and you repent Allah will forgive you. He is the most forgiving, Allah, and the most merciful. It is big bushra, good tiding. Good tiding for all human being, not only for Muslims, for all human beings. It is open, nobody can prevent you to come to Allah and His Way, it is open. Come to peace, come to dar as- salam.
Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq. Al Fatiha
33.A LITTLE OPENING FOR ALLAH’S NAME AL - QADIR Friday, January 31, 2015 With the order of Sheikh Efendi, let us say a couple of words insha Allah. May it be of benefit for both you and us, insha Allah. Allah Azza wa Jalla has many Names. 99 Names of Allah Azza wa Jalla were given to our Prophet and every prophet has been given Names of Allah Azza wa Jalla separately. Each of the Names has its own meaning and a blessing. wa lillahi al-asma al-husna fada'uhu biha (7:180) Allah's are the Beautiful Names. Pray to Him with His Names, remember Him. Each Name has its manifestation and impact. Grandsheikh Abdullah Daghestani used to make sohbats by remembering the Names. Sheikh Efendi, our father used to write them down. He used to write them one by one up to Al-Qadir, the Possessor of Power, Allah. When he reached this one, he didn't do the rest, he said nobody can explain its meaning. He came to this Name and stopped. Allah is powerful over everything. Let us say little, as much as people can understand about it. Allah is powerful over things that a man cannot think of or imagine. Allah is powerful over everything. No one can do what He can. His power doesn't have any borders. When you talk about Allah, there are no boundaries. Allah is the One Who created everything. Allah Azza wa Jalla cannot be put inside the borders of what He created. That's why, we are gathering here, shukr Allah. This place, for example, they said this place is just a field. "What are you doing here? Why are you building a mosque, nobody will come." Allah is powerful over everything. When Allah wants, everything happens. When Hz. Ibrahim alaihi salam left his wife and son Ismail in Makka Mukarrama, there was nothing there. Millions of people go there now, and millions are being rejected. They say no place for them, it is so crowded. That's why, if people just think about it, there is no need to think about anything else. If they think by believing that Allah is powerful over everything, people will have no worries. No sadness will remain for people because Allah is powerful over everything. Allah is the One who created you from nothing. Certainly He is powerful enough to remove your troubles in this world. Don't be upset over dunya. Allah is powerful, Allah is the Possessor of Great Power. If He wants, He can turn the richest, the most arrogant man into nothing in a minute. He won't leave anything. And if He wants, He can take the poorest man to the highest ranks both material and spiritual. Even the
great masha'ikh, when they came to this Name, they left its explanation because it is something which cannot be explained. It's such a great, such an amazing thing, they couldn't write anything about it. The Power Oceans. Each atom is a big lesson for people. Power is in the hands of Allah, not in someone else's hands. Allah is the Creator. Now in this new language... They left the old, beautiful Turkish and whatever useless words there are, they have put it in the new Turkish. They say ‘a creative person’. Hasha! Creative is Allah. If someone writes a book or does something, they refer to him with this word. Hasha! No one except Allah has the attribute of power. The attribute of power can only be with Allah. Everything exists based on good manners. Allah is certainly giving something to people who say this, so that they know their weakness. We are all weak servants. Allah is the Possessor of Power. We believe in Him, we ask from Him, we expect from Him so that He doesn't separate us from the right way because He is powerful over everything. May He not let us obey this shaitan. He assumes he can do something. He cannot. As long as we seek refuge in Allah, Allah will protect. The miracles of every prophet are the proof of Allah's power. Prophets had always shown miracles and that was in order to prove they were the messengers of Allah. There's nothing wrong in that. It should be something that an ordinary person cannot do so that they see. And all these miracles are not even a spot in the Power Ocean of Allah. They were such miracles, a human mind cannot comprehend. For example, Isa alaihi salam started talking when he was a baby. Leave that aside, how Isa alaihi salam was born without his mother Maryam being married. With Allah's power. When he was born people were astonished how this had happened, Allah showed them a miracle. A few days old baby started talking. He was speaking clearly the language which people understood. He was saying "I'm a messenger of Allah. I'm obedient to my mother. I'm a servant of Allah." How did this happen? Allah is powerful over everything. Allah is powerful and that happens. There were 2-3 other babies who talked. He spoke as a prophet. There was a servant called Jurayj. He was a saint as well, a saint from Bani Israel. He used to pray in a small booth built on top of a mountain. One day his mother came and called him. He heard her, but he was praying and couldn't reply. His mother called him a second time. The third time she got angry at him for not obeying her. She said "He doesn't want to see
me, so, may prostitutes see his face". So she cursed him. He couldn't leave his worship to Allah, he couldn't say while praying "Mother, I was praying and I couldn't answer you". And by the wisdom of Allah, the mother's prayers were accepted.
That's why, mothers should be careful. Don't curse your children. But a father's curse is even worse. Still, mothers' are merciful, the father's curse is more (easily) accepted. That's why, don't curse your children. If anything happens, say "May Allah correct, may Allah give a sober mind". It is better. There indeed was a bad woman, she saw the saint and decided to turn his head. But he was awliya, she couldn't succeed, she couldn't approach him. So she went to a shepherd and bore him a child. She then accused the saint of wrondoing and said the child was his. The Bani Israel were angry, they attacked and beat him and ruined his booth. The saint begged Allah to be rescued from a bad situation after being shamed. Allah is powerful over everything. He said, "Touch that child with your stick". When he touched the child, he started to talk. Awliya Jurayj asked him, "Who is your father?" He said "My father is a shepherd". Then all of them repented. They felt embarrassed and built him a new booth. Then they came to him to receive a blessing. "What do you want?" He said "I don't need anything, shukr Allah. Allah has shown my pureness with His power, that is enough for me". There are millions of examples like this because there were 124,000 prophets and each prophet showed at least a couple of miracles. These miracles are a sign of Allah's power. Because normal people now say the world is created such and such, this happened, that happened. But then, it rains in winter and it's hot in summer. This appears normal. But this is to show the power of Allah. All these are signs of Allah's power. But people were shown miracles to make clear for,them to believe. Millions of miracles. Because 124,000 prophets; if one has 10, it becomes million. Our Prophet had thousands of miracles, masha Allah. Then there are miracles of the saints. They show the power of Allah and invite people to faith to make their faith stronger. They are outside of ordinary people's experiences. If it was ordinary, it wouldn't be called a miracle. Things people cannot comprehend or imagine with their minds, miracles are the signs of Allah's power to awaken them. That's why, as we said, who believes in Allah's Power, that He is powerful over everything, won't complain. He will beg to Allah. Allah can do
things people cannot imagine. We should believe in this. People will be relaxed. Who believe in this will be relaxed. Whatever troubles there are, they will disappear if Allah wishes. There will be no need for worry and frustration. May Allah not separate us from this right way insha Allah. May He give guidance to people who are here. He has power. Nothing is hard for Allah. Don't lose hope. So much badness has happened. If Allah wishes, everything can change in a minute. People are forgetful. Things people never thought of are happening since around the last 20-25 years. Things people couldn't imagine before became big events in last 20-25 years. There will be more, of course because the Day of Resurrection is close. We too shall see it insha Allah. We will reach Mahdi alaihi salam. He too is a big miracle, an example of Allah's power. He will certainly come. It is in the belief of ahl al-sunnah wa l-jamaat. There's no mistake with Allah's permission. Who deny it are mistaken. Wa min Allahi tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
34.HONESTY Monday, February 2, 2015 Audhu Billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi Rasulillah, madad ya Meshayikhana, Ya Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Faizi d- Daghistani, Ya Mawlana Sheikh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
The servants that Allah loves, Allah's beloved servants, are awliya (saints). They are the ones on the right way. You can find every goodness, every beauty with them. They teach us. They are the best examples for goodness and beauty. They are amin (honest). That means you can trust them. They won't put you in danger, they won't take you to bad places, and most importantly, they help you win in akhira (hereafter). The most important danger is akhira, this temporary dunya (world) is not important. But whoever follows them, they will be safe in dunya also. They protect the trust. They are very good protectors of the trust. In the past, there were many such people. As the number of people increased, it appears no more awliya are left but actually, it has never changed. Sheikh Efendi says: they are unseen, hiding, or they seem to be very few among the millions of people. In the past the population was 10 percent of today's population so it seemed that there were many more. Even if not awliya, there were many salih (good and righteous) people. We will tell the story of one of them so people can see what the awliya are. In the old days, before going to Hajj or traveling, people who had money didn't know where to keep it. There were honest/trustworthy people to whom they gave the money to keep until their return. And they did it for the sake of Allah, not like the people of today, "I want payment for keeping this." People in the past were not like this. We heard many stories like this. One man was going to Hajj, and there was a very trustworthy person in his country. Everyone knew him. I think he was Hajji Sa'id. The man had 200 gold liras. (Hajji Sa'id) had a store, so the man quickly went there to give his money as trust, but got confused and gave his money to a neighbour's store. He said 'I will take my money when I return from Hajj'. He gave the money to Haji Sa'id's neighbour, not to Hajji Sa'id. That person finished his Hajj and returned safely to his country. He went to Hajji Sa'id and said, "Give me the money that I gave you to keep for me". Sa'id Efendi was surprised.
"How much did you give me?" "I gave you 200 gold liras", he said. Hajji Sa'id said "Ok," and took 200 gold liras and gave it to the man.
The man left, but on leaving the keeper of the other store said, "Hajji, aren't you going to take your money?" "What money?" "You gave me 200 gold liras before going to Hajj and said 'I will collect on returning from Hajj' ". "Did I leave my money with you?" "Yes" he said. He went back to Hajji Sa'id saying, "I accidentally gave my money to your neighbour. Why did you give me this money without asking me anything? He said, "Allah gave me this beautiful blessing, to be amin, to be honest. If you tell everyone that you gave me 200 gold liras as a trust, and that I took it for myself, then that 200 gold lira has no value for me". That is how valuable a trust is. In that day, 200 gold liras was like 200 million liras today. Its value was 200 millions liras. It was very valuable. It had value. Now, nothing has any value. Even gold doesn't have any value now. Like we said, nothing has any value now, not just gold but honesty as well. In that time it was so valuable. That man took out 200 gold liras so that people may not say he stole the money. Without asking anything, he said, 'how much money', and gave it when he said '200'. The other Hajji also didn't take the money and run off with it. But people in this time, in the blink of an eye, 99 percent of them would take the money and run, unfortunately. There is no honesty left among people now. It is by Allah's wisdom that we are in the last days and every badness, every evil will happen in this time. We are seeing it now. May Allah protect us. May the blessings of awliya be upon us. May He keep us on the right way so we don't follow our ego. It is ego actually, what we spoke about. Since we are in the last days, there is limitless freedom for egos. If you want to do something, you are free. Everyone can do what they want but that is for dunya. Those who want akhira must train their egos. They must know good and bad. You must listen to what your murshid/sheikh says. And your sheikh will carry you. They don't teach wrong things. And our Sheikh has billions of examples, stories. We mentioned a holy person from the past but our Sheikh was in front of our eyes. Everyone knows what he did, they know his good character. We shouldn't forget that. We must follow him. Those who claim to be sheikh or murid, they must be very careful, Insha'Allah. We are speaking about good manners. How we learn good manners? We are learning by awliya'Allah, beloved servants of Allah. They are teaching the best. Best way, best thing. Not the good, the best. Every step, they are doing perfect. They are showing the clear, the purest thing to do. They are not showing any bad thing for us. They are teaching us to make our ego better, to try to make it down. When your ego under you, it is good, but when ego on top of you, it is bad.
The awliya'Allah, the masha'ikh, they are teaching this all the time. If you ask where they are, they're still same quantity as all times. But now the population is too crowded so they're not seen between people. They are rare, but normally they're still same. Some of them are hiding also but still you can find many of them. And Alhamdulillah, we are living with Mawlana long time, and he was the best example for us, to teach us about the nice, polite, sweet life. Specially they're sadiq/amin, trustworthy. You can trust on them because they take you to Paradise also. The most important thing, to trust in them and they're carrying this responsibility. From old time people, there was also the people they were more good mannered, from our times people. Because they were living in places where they're born, most of them they're living there. They are not traveling from place to place for living. Now people they're not happy where they're born, all of them they want to go from place to place. They said "this is better and that better". Why you are going? If you go, if you not go, the last trip for you is grave, so better for you to stay your country and to be in your muhit, (place of) residence. Every-people, they know each other. But these big city, Mawlana also, he was not liking that. When they are coming to big city nobody know any one, they're free, completely free. No ashamed, no afraid from anybody. But in their residence everybody knows each other, they cannot do these bad things. Old time people it was like this. There is one nice story, only for example, how old people they were living. There was one trustworthy man, everybody know him. Old times, no bank. Not in their house, maybe they're afraid to keep it in their house, money, when they went to travel. And most of them traveling for trading, or for Hajj. Not going, leaving to go for another country like now, because there was real strong relationship between people and between brothers, uncles, old people. They cannot leave and go to another place. So one of these people he was very trustworthy man. He has shop and the one want to go to Hajj, he has 200 coins of gold. So they can keep, there was people like this. When they're going, they keep with these trustworthy people and then they come and take back. So when he go to this man, he missed his shop and he give this 200 gold to his neighbour and he went to Hajj. After he come back from Hajj, he come back to this trustworthy man, his name: Hajji Sa'id. He said to him, "I'm come from Hajj so you can give me my money back." Look this man, he didn't take his money. He didn't say 'I didn't take'. He ask him, "How much you give me?" He said "I give you 200 gold coins." "Ok, wait," he said and he give him 200 gold coin. After he take and go from his shop, he was passing by neighbour shop. This man he
notice him, he said "O, you come back from Hajj?" "Yes, I come back from Hajj." "You didn't take your money, come and take." He said, "Why money? I take my money." "No," he said, "I didn't give you money. "Now I will give you." So he give him 200 coin again, the neighbour. This man he understand he was making wrong. He take from this man without knowing and he comes back to the first one. He said to him, "You give me 200 that I didn't give you." He said "Yes." "Why you didn't tell me I didn't take from you?" He said, "Because this is a trust, for the name, it is worth this. If you go and tell people 'I give this man 200 gold and he didn't give me,' it is the worse thing. This can't happen for me, for this I give you this money. It is not important, the important, my pureness, my reputation". So this man he was happy, he gave him back his money. So it was like this.
If now, I said, these days somebody doing this, he will take and he will never give back. Because these days people they are not looking anymore for honest, for good manners. Only they thought if they can take something and they get it, they will be happy. No it is not happy. The most important, the halal and haram. With halal, baraka. With haram if you take 1000 times more than from halal, haram, it has no baraka. It will be finish. It is nothing. Not good for you, not good for your children, not good for your health, not good for anything. This is what, awliya'Allah, murshid, they are teaching this. Especially for this time, the time of the end of time. Near Qiyama, all people, only they are thinking about their ego, about their enjoyment. And they are crazy, they are foolish, they have no mind. Because it is like a trap. Only you come take this, it is poison, you die from this. This is what people must think very carefully and know the good thing. It is with awliya'Allah, with murshid. Don't be stubborn. Be soft and be wanting to learn.
Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq Al-Fatiha.
35.THE BLESSED SULTANATE Tuesday, February 3, 2015.
Salam aleikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuhu Audhu Billah min as-shaytan ar-rajim Bismillahi r-Rahman r-Rahim Salat wa salam 'ala Rasulillah Muhammad Sayyid l-awwalin wal akhirin. Madad Ya Rasulallah Madad ya sadatina as'hab Rasulallah, madad ya Mashaykhina, Mawlana S. Abdullah Daghastani. Madad Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Al Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna al sohba wal khayru fi-l jamiya.
Our tariqa, Naqshbandi Tariqa. Main thing of Naqshbandi Tariqa first to do all Sharia order: from fardh, wajib, sunnah, mustahab, nawafil. All we try to do the following Sharia. And Tariqa is the heart of Sharia. It is nothing out of Sharia. And second thing, sohba, little bit making speech. Little bit insha'Allah, after zikr. This is our Tariqa. We are thanking you and we are happy to be after all these years, Allah He make us to come together to visit your blessed country, because you are lucky. And we are happy for you, because Allah send on you, Sultan. Sultan, the best system Allah likes. Because He create people different. He create them all different kind everybody, "fa-kullin muyassarun lima khuliqa lah" (Hadith). Everybody, Allah He put some speciality for him. So these Sultans, Allah He chose them to be Sultans. Alim, also coming from their generations, like this.
Normal Muslim they must not be objecting, refusing this. But of course, now shaytan teaching, they're saying different, democracy and other things. Mawlana Shaykh all time he was saying this is not good, it is from shaytan. So we are lucky also, to be your guest here. Even we take blessing from your Sultanate also, insha'Allah. Masha'Allah, this is what Allah describing: wa mimman khalaqna ummatun yahduna bil haqqi wa bihi ya'dilun (7:181). Some mufassir they said these people, one part of Bani Israil, after Sayyidina Musa and Harun (as) and Yusha they pass away, the Bani Israil they become very bad. And there was one part of them they were good people, and they were praying for Allah, "O Allah make us to run away from these people." So Allah (awj) accept their dua and He make their way sometimes underground, sometimes up. They going very far. Maybe 2 years going like this, towards East. In East they're coming to a place, nobody there, only animals. And they settle there and they're really doing what Allah ordering. And praying and they're planting, harvesting. They are not using money. Just they put when they harvest, they put on front.
Everybody who wants something he goes and takes and he only doing this. And there is no court, no judge, nothing. Because they don't have anything to do with this. Even one Hadith Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam when he come to Miraj, he wants to see them. And when he see them, they were saying, "we were waiting for you, Musa (as) was telling us you are coming and we make shahada for you." And Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam he accept shahada and they all become Muslim. Even lions and other wild animal they are going around them, nothing doing between them. Because only worshiping and they are happy with what Allah give them. Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam asking "why you don't have judge?" They said "we're not doing anything wrong". Everybody they are happy with the other. "You have riba?" They said "no, we don't use even money". He said "if anybody make zina". They thought there cannot be this. So they were like angels. And Allah give them all baraka and they're happy. Alhamdulillah I see here like this in your country, masha'Allah. So, every time you must make shukr praying, and shukr for Allah to give you more and more baraka insha'Allah. This is what shortly, I want to say. And we are making ghubta. Not envy, but we are happy for you. We are Alhamdulillah. Insha'Allah when Mahdi (as) all world it will be like this. Now you must be happy and you must be thankful Allah keep you in safety insha'Allah and Sultan insha'Allah, and give other Muslim country example from this justice Sultanate.
Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq, Al Fatiha.
I want to say very important thing here, we are very happy also to meet our uncle Behin Aziz. We love him like our uncle. And we are happy also to see his son Amin effendi. He is obeying Mawlana's order and making this zikr and sohba for you and spreading Naqshbandi Tariqa here. After Mawlana, he give us everything, so we are also authorizing him to make all Naqshbandi Tariqa order here and to be guidance for people to best thing, for Allah what He wants. So, you must be happy, Alhamdulillah he is faqih and he is in ahl at-tariqa. So he is your Sheikh, insha'Allah, Borneo Sheikh, Sheikh Amin, insha'Allah. Allah help him, long life. All Brunei coming to be insha'Allah in this way. No other Sheikh here. Nasiha for you, for us, don't complain from anything, this is Tariqa: tahammul ad-dad. Meaning, Tariqa you must not complain for anything happen for you.
You must be patient and you know it's coming from Allah. You doing this, you'll have blessed and you'll be blessed and Allah pleased with
you. Prophet also will be pleased with you. Some people make it custom, they're complaining for everything. So you must learn to not, slowly slowly, not complain and then you be happier. And Allah happy with you, Prophet happy with you. People also will be happy with you, because you're spreading good thing around people. Where you are going, you are giving people to be more happy, to be more accepting of what Allah He give them. Because it is from Allah, Allah He is giving everything. If He wants He give you what nobody can take. But if not, you cannot do anything. This is advice to be at rest and it is wisdom of our life. To accept what Allah gives us. Allah (awj) He said for Musa (as) don't want to be rich/ghani. All people they are poor, only Ghani, Allah. "I am Ghani only", He said. Don't ask for ghaib, what people cannot see. Only Me, I know ghaib.
Don't be sorry or to be angry with people what they are saying about you because I am feeding them, I am creating them, I am doing everything and still they are not happy with Me, they are complaining for Me. This, for Allah they are doing this. So for everybody it is nothing. Don't complain. Only be satisfied with what Allah gives you.
Alhamdulillah, He gives the biggest ni'ma to be human beings and the biggest to be mu'min, Muslim, Alhamdulillah, and to be practicing, this is also. Many people they said we cannot do. Sometimes we said only in a day make 2 rakaat. Of course we must pray 5 times, but even for this they said it is difficult so we try to make it easy for them. Only 2 rakaat until to make it easy. Also many of them they couldn't do this even. But Alhamdulillah, Allah give you this ni'ma, Allah make it and this ni'ma when you do it, your soul taking food from this worshiping. And without this you cannot feel any happiness. And the people, human beings, since Allah creating them, they're looking, searching about something like this, but shaytan not let them to come around, he makes something closed and their ego also not happy to come here. Only they're looking, looking until they're dead and they're finished without any happiness in this life. Alhamdulillah, we have happiness here and hereafter, insha'Allah. Insha'Allah to be in jannah also, to be together.
Here, many years we are coming, maybe now 20 years we didn't come but insha'Allah we come more insha'Allah, but even this only 1-2 days but insha'Allah in jannah to be all together with Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, Mawlana Sheikh, salihin, sahaba, tabiyin insha'Allah forever. Thank you for listening. I am happy to see all this, masha'Allah crowd and all pure heart for Allah they are coming only, we are not
giving money. You are coming, you are rich country, no need for you, but you are also only for Allah you are coming Alhamdulillah. This is a very happy majlis, Alhamdulillah, thank you.
As-salam aleikum Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq, Al Fatiha.
36.THE MOST PRECIOUS IS TIME Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Audhu Billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa s-salamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashayikhina, dastur, madad ya Mawlana Sheykh Abdullah Faiz Dagestani, Mawlana Sheykh Muhammed Nazim al-Haqqani. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
This world is a temporary place for people. Allah Azza wa Jalla didn't send people in order to waste time and be confused about what to do, like people nowadays. He sent them in order to know the value of every minute and use it for good things. Most people, especially those who don't know the religion and faith, spend their time in coffee shops and bad places. They don't go to good places like mosques. They are spending time because they assume this time is free, "How shall we spend it?" With bad things. Our fathers used very nice words in Turkish: we're killing time. You are killing time indeed. Allah has given time for you not to kill it but make it live. Your time is limited anyway. You are not going to live forever in this world. 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, let it be 80 years, the most 90 years that you can live. And there are few people who live long. And time is precious. The most precious for human being is time. People say "There is no work, what shall we do?" They sit about and say. "Time is not passing by". It is passing quickly, they just don't see it. Time is passing like a lightning. They say, in the blink of an eye; because we open our eyes, then close it and go to the other side. You say "Allah Allah. How quickly time has passed". Sometimes someone sleeps, and the alarm rings in the morning. "Did time pass so quickly?" So life in this world is the same. One day you will go to the other side. So how shall we spend our time? By remembering Allah, by remembering the Prophet, by sitting in the beautiful assemblies. Your life will pass nicely and be full. Now there are jobless people who say, "What shall we do? Let's look for work". If they ever remember Allah, if they don't think about anything but Allah, their provisions will come. It's hadith sharif. When people believe in Allah with true faith, just like the birds that leave hungry in the morning and return full in the evening, the same for them. Allah Azza wa Jalla says "I am Razzaq. I will give their provisions in the same way." Those animals remember Allah. Everything except people, all the insects, birds, rocks, everything remembers Allah. Only the human
forgets Him, even though He created him in the highest rank. They say 'problems of livelihood, time is not passing', they kill time.
The Sahaba of our Prophet are the best examples. All of the Sahaba, masha Allah, lived during the best time, in the century of happiness of our Prophet. Shaitan bothered them too, all the time, but they were in a time of happiness. All of them worked and there was a part who were poor without jobs. They were the as'hab us-suffah and they used to live right behind the mosque. Most of them had only one garment. They had no food. Our Prophet used to send his food to them. As they were poor they couldn't go to war. During old times, it was not like now when you buy everything for the soldier. If you had a weapon, you could choose to go to war, for jihad. Because they didn't, most of the time they could not go and were distressed. Sometimes people did charity to help send them. Those people only relied on Allah. They remained there and were raised in that station. They didn't say "we are bored" or "we are killing time". They would sit in the mosque all the time waiting for our Prophet to come. Most knowledge came from them. They learnt all the hadith and ayats by heart. As we said, this life is not for sitting about jobless and killing time. Allah Azza wa Jalla has given the most precious thing, time. As much as we remember Allah, our time is precious. As much as you don't think about Allah, your time is a waste, it is not worth a penny, you can kill it as much as you want. Today we are speaking about the human being. Allah sent them to this world, why? To remember Him, to be working for Allah. There is many people now, especially in these days, before it was a little bit more better, because no machine. Everybody must work, all the time working, it is little bit better. But now, everything by machine. There is plenty of time for people. And people they are not knowing what to do with time. They boring, "I'm bored," they said, many people. "What I can do in this time?" And there is a saying in Turkish: we must kill time. What meaning? To make something, anything to just pass this time. Time it is not “ma lu qima”, it is not waste. It is very valuable, very precious. Very precious thing Allah give us. When somebody gives you some precious thing and you throw it, he will not be happy with you. Time it is the most precious for our life. It is limited. Everybody has limited time. Maybe 10 years, maybe 20 years, maybe 50 years, maybe 90 years, very few people they can live until 90 years. So it is not thing to waste it. You must be careful, you must be happy with your time, you must do things, good things in this time. Not to go to coffee shop or to bad place to finish your time, you're bored. There is many things you can do to not get bored, specially for
believer. Non-believer they all doing. What they're doing? All time you see from their young time, in same coffee shop, until after 50 years you see same, coming night, 9 o'clock morning going, 5 o'clock from this coffee shop. This is what they are doing, they're whole, not only one day wasting, whole life wasting in coffee shop. Near mosque, and 5 times calling azan, they are not going there. Only they're making dirty jokes together and they're laughing, they're doing, but nothing good for them.
The good thing to be, remember Allah and Prophet, and to do good things. When you try to do good thing, you know your time is very precious. It is very valuable, to not waste it, to make good things. There is people unemployed people they say "we don't have work, what we do?" And they're thinking. Don't think this. You be with Allah, go to mosque you make zikr, you read Quran, Allah sends for you your rizq. So, this is Prophet (saws) saying in his hadith: if you are real believer Allah can feed you like bird. They are going morning hungry, coming full, night time." Allah doing this for animal, He cannot do for you? Of course He can do. And this all animal, all creatures except human being, they're praising Allah they're making tasbih for Allah. For this Allah gives them their rizq but human being they're not doing. Just thinking and then complaining, "We are bored, we have nothing to do, and whnnn", many things to do. Prophet (saws) time there was as'hab as-suffah they were called, poor people from Companion of Prophet (saws). They were living in mosque, Prophet (saws) mosque in Madina. Still now there is a place for them, as'hab as-suffah place they call it. These people, because they are poor people - that day, that time, poorness, it was real poorness. If you find one date, you are enough for you to live one day. Even this many people they cannot, 1 in 3 days can they take it only. But they're living in the most happy century, Century of Prophet (saws). And they were happy they were not complaining, and they're not doing any work, because no work at that time and they were living 24 hours in the mosque, accompanying Prophet (saws), praying all the time with him, looking to take knowledge from him, from hadith, Quran and what he do. They're happy there. These people when they was going jihad for fighting, they don't have any money, they don't haveany weapon, so many times they cannot go to join this. They were sad. Sometimes, some people they arrange for them. They are not complaining at all. They are happy and they're example for people who said "we are unemployed and we are bored, what we do." You can do what Allah ordered. Allah not create you to work, Allah create you for worshipping but you must work, if you find work, you
ok. You don't find, you don't waste your time. You make zikr, worship for Allah, Allah send you your rizq, your provision insha'Allah.
Wa min Allahi at-tawfiq Al Fatiha.
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