Suhbah 2015: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (15/30)
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m. That strong belief became a means to give the belief to the Ummah of Muhammad.
There are a lot of verses, "O Arabs do not say 'we are believers', say 'we became Muslims'." (49:14) Being Muslim is different, belief is different. Whoever takes shahadah is Muslim. But believer he who truly believes, he has strong belief. Muslims, Allah Azza wa Jalla gave everyone a different station. The highest station is station of belief. But the Muslim also must believe in certain things - Allah, Prophet, Angels, Day of Judgment, Resurrection, you know those things. To believe in that, is belief for everyone. But more than that you have to testify to it in
words. Real belief comes from the heart. Someone who has reached that belief, nothing affects him. His belief is strong. But the others sometimes they have belief (iman), sometimes not. Sometimes they pray, sometimes they fast, sometimes they don't fast. They are the weakest ones, they are called ad'afu l-iman.
Real belief as we said is the belief that comes from our Prophet (sas). It came from the Sahabas, then it came from mashaykhs. Mashaykhs they plant that belief in the hearts. With the power of that belief Mawlana brought hundreds of thousands and millions of people to the way of Allah. That is the power of belief. That power of belief nothing else has that power - not bombs, nor arms, nothing. When having that belief, nothing can stand in front of it. It is very important.
Allah Azza wa Jalla saying in ayat-ul karima. Audhu billahi min ash- shaitani rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. "Ya ayyuha lladhina amanu aminu"(4:136) What meaning? "O believer, believe." Because belief, it is the most high thing for human being - to believe what Allah send and what Prophet (saw) said. There is ayat also saying "O Arabs, don't say "We are believers". Only say "We are Muslim"." (49:14) Because when you are saying kalima shahada, you become Muslim. Everybody becomes Muslim. But to be, to go up high for iman, belief, it is need many things. You must fight your ego, you must fight shaitan. Every day you... One second you cannot be rest without make your ego to be not rest. If you are rest, ego coming on you, make your iman weak. But Allah Azza wa Jalla, He give rank for Islam, the high rank iman.
Prophet (saw), he is most trustful. Because how people they can trust for man? Because he was never lying, never doing wrong thing, never doing any bad thing. So people trusting and accepting what he said. And he put this iman in heart of his sahaba, and sahaba for other ummah until now coming. But it is weak and strong. And some of them by their idea they are going. This is not iman, just they are Muslim. But who are giving iman, strong iman? Mashaykh like Mawlana Sheikh. With his iman, he.. thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, they believe with him. And they become to this nice way, way of Allah. This is power of iman or belief.
Power of belief, no nothing can stop in front of it. No arm, no bomb, no weapon, nothing stronger than belief. This belief changing from bad end, miserable end, and for to be happy and blessed and lightening. By arms [weapons] you cannot do this. Only you destroy. But with belief you can give life and light and beauty for human being. And this is mission of tariqat and Mashaykh. They are not coming to make people, to kill people, to destroy anything. No, they are coming to build. What they building? The iman, belief in your heart. When it is happened this, everything it will be better for you and for your community, for your... Where you are going, coming, everybody they become benefit from this iman, belief.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.
100.LIFE IS FOR TESTING Monday, June 22, 2015.
Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa ssalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l- awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi Rasulillah, madad ya Mashaykhina, madad ya Shaykh Abdullahi Daghistani, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa lkhayru fi jam'iyyah.
Why did Allah Azza wa Jalla send people to this world? This world is a testing place. People don't understand this. They think when they come to this world, all their wishes will be fulfilled, everything will go as they like. With crying, complaining, and by force they want to turn this world into paradise. No, it does not go according to your wishes. What Allah wills, happens. Allah sent human beings into this world, so that they work for their akhirah, make their akhirah prosperous. If heaven was on earth people would not be tested.
Human beings do not want to obey Allah's orders. In the first place ego, shaitan, desires, shaitans around us hinder us. They don't let man free. People either complain about their father, their brothers, their husbands, their neighbours, so there is always a reason for complaining. It is the cause of unhappiness. But Allah Azza wa Jalla created this world like this. In this world if you are happy with your husband, you complain about your neighbour. If you are happy with your neighbour you complain about your father or brother. So, do not search for comfort in this world.
How will you be peaceful? You have to accept. There might be small things - don't complain about them. If they were gone, other things would happen, there would be another kind of unhappiness. Be happy with the small things. Say: "Thanks to Allah I have these problems. If not, there might be other things we cannot carry." So, these need to be. In this world, Allah gave Adam, alaihi s-salam, 40 years of sadness rain. Adam, alaihi s-salam, cried for 40 years, laughed for just 1 year. So, since this world was created, it is like this. But shukur liLllah if that 1 year is at ease you forget
everything. You forget sadness, you forget all. You will not object to them. The more you object, the worse it gets. The more you object, worse things are happening. For this reason, as we said, submit to small tests. Even if you have a complaint you can complain to yourself.
But there are some people, addicted people, may Allah not make us from them, troubles are attracted to them like magnets. There are such people. You see this year he broke his leg, next year he had an accident, the other year his house was burnt, this and that happened. Throughout their lives they are like this. Thank Allah you are not one of them. May Allah protect us. We carry on with small things - enough! So, as we said do not search for heaven on earth. You can change your world into heaven, if you accept the small things. If not these, we will have bigger problems. If you submit, you can find heavenly peace in this world. Otherwise complaining, leave that aside.
Now people they forget these small things. They have left their own issues and they try to rule the world, the country. They want everything according to their ambitions, according to their expectations. They can never find peace in this life. Accept everything, you will find peace.
Allah created human being and put them in earth, and not earth not paradise. It must be something not good with everybody, nobody have perfection, all what he want he got in this life or in earth. Because Allah Azza wa Jalla make this earth life for test. It must be that everybody have something he's not happy with this and this is, it is a test. But you must be, if you have small problems you must be happy with this. Because, this problem, you can deal with this. But if you don't have this, Allah give you another kind, a new thing you cannot carry. If you are not happy with that, also, they giving you another thing.
So in this life, you don't see anybody he get everything what he want. Only, who get paradise in this life, the AwliyaAllah, because also they have, they are carrying very more than other people. But
they are happy with this because it is coming from Allah and we are happy with what Allah send us. So they'll be happy. But other people, even very small thing they're crying, they are shouting, they are making trouble. You cannot change. If you change, Allah send more different problem. Each time you want to finish from problem, Allah send other, so don't complain from this small thing. Don't complain from wife, from husband, from mother, father - it is your very near people, very close, and you cannot change them. Only, you must accept people how they are. Many people, they are complaining: "My father is angry. My mother she is angry. He is doing this, doing that." You cannot change. You must be patient and you accept him as he is. If one he changing, maybe become worse.
Everything like this. Don't think in this life you will find somebody he get everything what you want. President, no. Kings, no. Queens, no. Nobody! Everybody, Allah create them in this life, they must be, have something, some problem for them. But, there is one kind of people, Allah not make us like them - we cannot carry. These people they are, "muptela", we call them - addicted. They are from beginning of their life until their death, this trouble, then that accident. Everything, you can find in these people. Like lightening, thunder, coming on this iron."Bala" (trouble) coming on them like this. This is also difficult for people. But there is people like this and we can see some of them. They are happy also but many of them of course, they cannot carry. But there is people also like this.
Allah not make us from them, we cannot carry. Only daily, small problems - enough. Without this, not life. You must be angel but when you are human being - everybody from human being have some problem and Mashayikh and tariqa, Prophet (sas), teaching us to deal with this problem. Patient and accept this coming from Allah. Allah, we are accept this, don't make it more than this. We make praying and du'a.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha .
101.KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE
Tuesday, June 23, 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 lawwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi Rasulillah, madad ya Shaykh Abdullah Daghistani, ya Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al- Haqqani, madad, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
May Allah give us an ability to understand well. Knowledge is with Allah. Real knowledge, Allah Azza wa Jalla loves real knowledge. Knowledge means to know. To know what? To know the reality, to know Allah - That is knowledge. If the result is that, then it is good knowledge. No, anything that rejects Allah is not knowledge. That is ignorance, ignorance, ignorant people.
Ignorance is the opposite of knowledge. It does not matter how educated one is, he learned ignorance. He did not study knowledge, but ignorance because he did not bring himself to a good place. Ignorance is not a good thing. An ignorant person is not someone, who did not study, who does not have knowledge. No. Even an illiterate person if he knows his Lord, Prophet and religion in Allah's presence he is not considered, to be one of those ignorant people. Ignorant, ignorance ends up in hell. As we said no matter how many books he read, which universities he attended, or if he is a professor - whatever he did, unless he knows Allah, the Prophet, his religion, the right path, he is considered ignorant. People can give you many titles, ranks - in Allah's presence your rank is the rank of ignorance. That is not even a rank. Rank means high position. Each rank must be high. It means you are falling, going down.
In Allah's presence it is like that - people who know Allah, who believe
in Allah are acceptable. Allah also showed it. When people save their iman (belief) they are not considered ignorant. But still there are different ranks. If you go to a madrasa or walk in Allah's way, you go higher up to a certain rank. After that you need support, you need a sheikh, a teacher, a murshid (guide). So, he goes higher according to that. You have to follow real sheikhs because some people they claim to be sheikhs in order to attract people. And the things they teach, what Allah and the Prophet made obligatory to teach people, you can learn those things, but if you learn from an ignorant one, you will also be ignorant.
Islam is clear, its way is clear, its place is clear. Tariqa shows the same way. When you follow it don't worry. But a few people getting together in secret here and there, according to their own ideas they make comments about religion - you can not get any benefit from them. Everything is clear, nothing is secret or hidden. The way it shows, the address is clear. Everything is clear. Some people mislead others for their own benefit. No. If you follow a tariqa, you must do what your Sheikh tells you. Other than that it is not good to walk on ways here and there, that the sheikh or the Prophet did not show. May Allah protect us from the wickedness of ignorant people. Tariqatuna s-sohba wa l-khairu fi jam'iyyah. We said sohbat to give knowledge. Allah likes knowledgeable people. There is knowledgeable and there is ignorant. Every knowledge you learn, it must be show you the right way and to be believer. It must take you to right to your Creator, your Lord Allah Azza wa Jalla. If you are like this, your knowledge... You get knowledge. Even you cannot write or read, you are not ignorant. Who is ignorant? These people who are what they are reading, what they are studying, take them to opposite side, not towards Allah, towards material and towards shaitan. These people, they are real ignorant.
Jahiliya meaning jahalat - to be not knowing anything. And it is what these people [are] because they are studying and they become PhD and doctor, professor but they are going against Allah and His will. These people, they are ignorant. They are in dark. Their level not in Divine Presence, not high. They are no value for them. They are no high station for them. They are going down and down and down. Even they
are in dunya, they have the highest between these ignorant people, they respect them, they accept them, but this is only shaitan people not acceptable people. And shaitan and his followers, no value for them in divinely presence.
Only value for knowledgeable people and knowledgeable people who are accepting Allah and His Prophet and His way as shown. And it is clear. But there is people, they are also claiming they are showing right way in Islam also. Also these people, they are showing wrong way. Because Islam, it is open, not closed. And everybody they can learn and to see how it is knowledge religion and mercy religion. Not only for few people, for whole human beings it is open. But what we say, shaitan and his followers they are making very bright thing - professor, doctor, these writers, atheist writer, this satanist writer, communist writer, salafist writer. Like this. All these not belong to Islam. They are not coming to knowledge, only to make people confusing. And they to take them from knowledge to darkness of ignorance.
But alhamdulillah Islam, it is light and it is knowledge, real knowledge and it is open for everybody. And this is month of Shahru Ramadan mubarak. InshaAllah baraka for this month to be become more and more knowledgeable inshaAllah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.
102.ALLAH’S MERCY IS MOST PRECIOUS Wedneday, June 24, 2015.
Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa ssalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina
wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaykhina, dastur, madad ya Sheikh Abdullahi d-Daghestani, Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, madad. Tariqatuna ssohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
May Allah's mercy be upon us. When Allah's mercy is upon us, every goodness is with us. "wa man taqi s-sayyi'ati yawma'idhin faqad rahimtahu"(40:9) Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur'an Karim - whoever You show mercy to You will protect from sins and badness, from that badness. The more a person is protected from sin, the more he has reached Allah's mercy. The more a person commits sins, rebellion, and kufr, the further away is Allah's mercy from him. Sometimes one cannot control it, and therefore, prayers are what man needs always.
Allah Azza wa Jalla - It is written in Qur'an to ask mercy from Allah.(23:118) Allah's mercy covers everything.(7:156) "Wa rahmati wasi'at kulli shayin" (7:156) Allah is the Possessor of mercy. He is calling people in order to show His mercy to them "Come, My door is open. Enter, come to My mercy". And people are saying "We don't want it" and run away. Allah Azza wa Jalla keeps the door open anyway. Hadith sharif is saying: whoever says "La ilaha illAllah, Muhammad RasulAllah" will enter paradise. He may worship or not. He may commit sin or not. That kalima shahada is the key to paradise. But those who enter paradise and have not made their preparation in this dunya, they will enter paradise a thousand years later because everything is counted. If Allah wishes, they will enter paradise too. It's a wish of Allah, we cannot object. And Allah knows how to treat them. It's in the hands of Allah. We can't interfere.
But in order to reach Allah's mercy, there is this beautiful kalima tayyiba, kalima shahada. You must testify that Allah is One and that the Prophet Muhammad is His true Prophet so that you get that mercy.
Allah Azza wa Jalla He is a Most Merciful and we asking for His Mercy. Who they are getting mercy from Allah they are away from to
do bad thing. This is Ayat Quran: wa man taqi s-sayyi'ati yawma'idhin faqad rahimtahu (40:9) "Who You make sins, bad things, bad action, to be away from us, we get Your Mercy." And We ask for this. We must ask for this because Mercy of Allah, when you are in good way of Allah you are blessed, you have mercy, you have the best thing human being can, or creature they can take it.
The best thing, it is Mercy of Allah. Nothing else. Everything else it is like you cannot catch them, like light. Like light. serap (mirage) , illusion. Everything like this. If you are rich, if you are healthy, everything it can be gone, you cannot catch everything. Only real thing and the best thing you will get in this, your life, to be, get Mercy of Allah, and blessing of Allah. And to get this you must make shahadah: ashhadu an la ilaha ill Allah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu After this you will be at the end in Paradise. Because if you do, you pray, you fast, you do everything, you be very easily in Paradise, no need to wait too much in Judgment Day, or to go to clean yourself from sins in fire. No. But other who saying this and they doing everything wrong except not put partner with Allah, they will be at the end in Paradise.
But why to be, get very much difficulty to be hard time for you? In dunya you can do very easily and you get the most precious thing, Mercy of Allah. So we are in this dunya you must real thinking and you must understanding and not listening to your ego, to people who are giving you wrong advice. Because in Akhirah they will say, "These people they was, we are poor people and we are following these people and they are cheating us and we are now in Hell with these people". And these people they said, "Ok, why you followed us? You mustn't follow us". So two of them loser.
But don't be ashamed from people if you do good thing. Ashamed, if you are doing bad things, but these days people they are ashamed to do good thing or follow order of Allah, or follow Islam, tariqat. Even in Muslim country many people they are ashamed to be in tariqa also. So shaitan making people, cheating people. Don't ashame from them, don't care from what they are saying. Only you follow Allah and Prophet (sas) and tariqa; who are showing you what good for you,
what not good for you. They are not looking for you as a benefit for them, no, no, only for Allah. They are showing you good way and they are happy to make as much people coming to right way - they are more happy and more blessed from Allah. That is what they are in need, for this, not you or your, anything from you. Only this what they want.
Allah give us His Mercy to be, keep us away from every bad thing, insha Allah. And to be safe until Mahdi (as) and Isa (as) come inshaAllah.
103.THE MOST PERFECT ONE Thursday, June 25, 2015.
Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa ssalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi Rasulillah, madad ya Mashaykhina, madad ya Shaykh Abdullah Daghistani, Shaykh
Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa lkhayru fi jam'iyyah.
Shukur Allah we follow our Prophet's (sas) sunnah. We want to do his sunnah, we ask. Inshallah we do as much as we can, as much as we know. All the actions, our Prophet (sas) did are sunnah. Allah created him (sas) the most perfect man. So to follow his sunnah is good both for this world, and also for the hereafter. Cannot be better than that. We are ordered to follow our Prophet's (sas) sunnah. The things we call sunnah, most of them are not difficult. They are very nice things, that are all for our benefit. But human beings do not know what benefits them. The ego wants to do whatever is harmful. Man even harms himself.
One of the sunnahs, our Prophet (sas) says: "In Ramadan or when you are fasting, take a siesta, sleep a little." Rest a little, it makes your fasting easy and helps you stay awake at night. One of these nice sunnahs is to rest a little at noon time or in the afternoon. It is a sunnah, beautiful sunnah. The body relaxes and gets strength. Because now Ramadan came with the hot weather. Shukur Allah it is beautiful anyway. You do not feel hungry when it is hot. That's why when you sleep thirst goes, it gives power.
Our Prophet (sas) wants good for us. Whatever he said, it is for the benefit of human beings. It is not only for Muslims, our Prophet (sas) was sent for the whole of humanity. So, when we rest we do it to follow the Prophet's (sas) sunnah. May Allah accept it. Some people cannot sleep but even if they lay down for 5 minutes and keep that sunnah, they they get benefit for fasting and it gets easier to wake up at night also. Just because it is an order of our Prophet (sas), if you lay down for 1 minute even, if you have things to do and you cannot rest, you lay down on your right hand side that is also receives reward, because you did sunnah. So, with this sunnah of our Prophet (sas) we have a beautiful life in this world, and in akhirah (hereafter), the most beautiful real life. We win real life, eternal life. May Allah make us to be able to follow this beautiful sunnah. There are so many sunnahs, that we know and don't know. We do what we know and we learn more, and for what we don't know we intend to do all
Sunnahs of our Prophet (sas) inshaAllah. May the reward for all of them be upon us.
Alhamdulillah, we are following Islam and following Prophet (sas) who is the chosen one. That most perfect one. Allah created him and taught him every good, every benefit, for human beings, for world, for everything. Prophet (sas), Allah create him. There is a poem in Arabic saying: 'Allah create you as you wish.' So many people they are wishing 'Oh, if I was like this, I was like that'. Many people they can wish something for themselves. But Prophet (sas) Allah He make him, create him the most perfect. Nobody can compare to him. And what he is doing, it is "Sunnah". His actions, acting, what he moving coming, going, eating, drinking, everything he do, he done, it is calling "Sunnah". And we are order[ed] to follow his sunnah and when we following his sunnah we get benefit. For physically and spiritually also. And Allah reward us for each sunnah in these last days, 100 shaheed (martyr's) reward. And there's many good sunnah, not to follow Prophet (sas), not bad, it is good, but your ego it is first enemy for you. They don't like you to be following sunnah or to get benefit, even for your body. Ego, even this not accepting. But if you are following you be physically and spiritually benefit from this sunnah. Many sunnah, how you must eat, how you must drink, how much you must sleep. How you divide day, for how many part. And for Ramadan, Prophet (sas) he was saying: to sleep little bit daytime, it is sunnah. Prophet (sas), when you sleep, he said: sleep little bit because this help you for fasting.
Fasting, these days it is hot. You cannot feel hungry but you feel thirsty. But when you sleep you get better, help you for fasting. Maybe for 5 minute, 10 minute, half-an-hour, one hour, this enough. Not like our brother in hotel, they are sleeping whole day and making Ramadan sleeping, after coming nighttime make break fast. Ok also, acceptable for Allah, Allah not saying... but better to be sleep only one hour. One- and-a-half hour, ok, 2 hours ok also, no need... For Prophet's order, it is good. Help you for fasting and to wake up nighttime for praying, for making worshipping. But you mustn't, there is also time not good for sleeping, like after asr. Before asr, it is normally for asr ath-thani 2 hours before maghrib, 'don't sleep,' he said, Prophet (sas). 'This making
you to be, your mind to not be good'. Making problem, for mental problem, for people who are sleeping before maghrib, 2 hours before. Other time you can sleep.
If some people they cannot sleep daytime, only for order of Prophet they can lie one minute saying 'we doing this for order of Prophet and for sake of Prophet accept this from us'. And there is like this thousands of sunnah, very nice sunnah, all nice, not difficult to do. Only for ego it is not so good. And we are learning slowly, slowly for this. Our intention, as much we know we like to do it. Allah accept this from us and reward us from this sunnah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al Fatiha.
104.THE WISDOM OF ZAKAT Friday, June 26, 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 lawwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaykhina, madad ya Sheikh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheikh
Muhammad Nazim alHaqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
This Friday is the second Friday of Ramadan. We should remind you about some things in this holy month. Most people know, of course. However, "Wadhakkir fa'inna dh-dhikra tanfa'u l-mu'minina"(51:55) It will be useful for those who listen and those who speak inshaAllah. This month of Ramadan we fast and pray tarawih prayers. Ramadan is also is the time for zakat. Otherwise, zakat can be made during any month of the year. But people tend to forget when they give and when they don't. Therefore, it remains in mind from Ramadan to Ramadan as one year passes. When they give like this, they don't forget. And zakat is fard/obligatory. It is fard for Muslims. It is fard for those who have money. Who don't have money, there can't be fard for something that isn't there. Zakat means to clean. Zakat is something clean. You clean your property. The remaining property becomes clean. Zakat is both cleaning and increasing. When you give a little away, your possessions increase. In the same way we work in our garden. If you leave a tree as it is, it will become wild and useless in the end. It can be a big tree but without use. You must cut it from the sides and trim it so that it gives nice [fruits]. Same with possessions. Allah has given you possessions, you must clean them and give to those people who have rights to it, according to His order. It is not your right anymore. That right belongs to the poor and needy. Zakat from your property cannot be given to people who you are already obligated to take care of - like mother, father and grandparents. You can't give zakat to your children and grandchildren. Zakat is given to needy people and relatives like siblings, uncles, because you're not responsible for them, but you must give to these people. Zakat of those others is different. Zakat can't be for them. It is counted as sadaqa for them. Zakat was ordered after the hijra (migration) of our Prophet, as was fasting. Therefore, it is recalled during this Ramadan. Because otherwise... People sometimes think zakat is not paid outside Ramadan. Many people think so. It can be paid any time. But as we said, zakat is paid according to the hijri year. It is 10 days shorter than the other calendar year. If you give zakat according to normal year, you will have skipped a year every 30 years, 35 years and 33 years. And this is the wisdom of giving in Ramadan when you give your zakat regardless
if it is summer or winter, whenever it comes. You have given it you won't go to akhira with debts. And zakat is not only for akhira. It brings baraka and light to people in this world as well. Because how much you worship, this is worship too.
Paying zakat is an obligatory worship. It's not sunnah or nafila, it is fard (obligatory). Doing fard is more required worship than doing nafila worship for hundred years. You can do or not do nafila. That is not important. Your account for it in akhira - will not be punished but will regret not doing it. But fard will be asked about. If Allah forgives or doesn't, a man has a possibility to go to hell then. Because he will not have carried out the order and will have made haram. He will have kept haram. It won't have benefit for him in dunya by being like a poison, and he will deserve hell in akhira.
This fard and worship is not a burden for us but a great favour. These are the favours given by Allah. You should do as much as you can, not only fard, but also wajib and sunnah. Try to carry out all the beautiful orders there are. Don't look at them as oppression. See them as favours. Because Allah is not in need. He doesn't need anyone's property. Allah is giving. If Allah has given you this wealth you should be thankful for it and give zakat immediately. You will be happy, not like people who need your zakat, but as the one giving. So give much. If a man gives every time with intention of zakat to people who are in need, it is counted as zakat for other days he didn't give and as sadaqa for days he gave. It won't be for nothing. Therefore, intention is important too. Give with the intention of zakat when you give. Say that you're giving it as zakat and carrying out the order of Allah. Zakat and Hajj are worship and fard for people to whom Allah gave property and wealth. Can a poor person not go to Hajj? He can. But it is not fard. If he doesn't go, he won't be asked for it. "Why didn't you go?" "I was poor, I couldn't". But there are some poor people who can go to Hajj. And for zakat, a poor is poor anyway. He can't give it unless Allah wants it and makes him rich so that he can pay zakat. We are saying here not to underestimate zakat. Many people are defeated by their ego, and the more property they have, the harder it is for them to give zakat. Who has 10,000 liras must give 250 liras. It's not much, so they won't care. Someone who has 10
million liras must give 250,000 liras. Then it appears to be a big amount for the man. If there's 100 million, a man says "I must give 2.5 million. That's too much". In fact, it's nothing. Allah is showing people how much tax should be paid and how much is enough for people. 2.5% is the right of Allah. We see in this new Europe and America, they take 70%, 80% tax from people. And it's not enough for them. And people are compelled to pay it.
But Allah is giving a burden people can carry. Therefore, pay zakat without making it late. It's not good to pay it late. But as we said, if you give continuously with the intention of zakat, that's different. Normally, it is more sawab (reward) to give zakat in Ramadan because it is a virtuous and abundant month. Allah Azza wa Jalla will give its sawab beyond the normal sawab. May Allah make it easy to pay zakat for all of us. May He let us reach that abundance inshaAllah. Who takes zakat should give to the needy too. It is not permissible to take zakat if one's not in need.
It's not zakat when you want to build a school, mosque or madrasa. It must be given to the poor. If there are students of Qur'an, you can pay to feed them. But you can't give zakat for making a Qur'an course. You can't give zakat for building a mosque. Zakat can't given for a school. These are the conditions of zakat you can learn in detail. We have short time here. Many people... May Allah protect, there were some jama'ats (congregations) who used to take people's zakat to build schools. And people were giving. We must say from here, that's not permissible. You can only give to students. Otherwise, it's not accepted. This month, Ramadan mubarak, month of worshipping. And there is many things we do in this month especially fasting after they are praying tarawih and other as much as we can - read Quran, tasbih. We must charity, to give, helping people. In this month Allah reward you by His Generosity. Nobody knows, He said. I only know how I will reward mu'min (believers) who are obeying Me and doing what I like.
And there is, zakat we call (it) this is order, one of obligations from 5 Islamic obligations - one of them zakat. Zakat meaning to pay every year what you have from money or gold or silver, 2.5% only. Not like
Europe or America 60%, 90%, 80%. Only Allah ordering 2.5%. This is obligatory for Muslim people, for believers. Who are not believer no obligatory for them. And it is meaning zakat, cleaning. And to be more, this is what the meaning and it is cleaning your money.
Every year when you pay this for poor people your money become clean and halal. Halal meaning pure. Halal meaning not dirty money. Clean, because money also important. When you take clean money it is baraka for you, for your family, for your children, for your wife, for yourself also. Make you satisfied and give you good 'huzur' (peace), satisfied and give you good feeling. Good feeling because other when you eat some dirty money... what is dirty money? Dirty money like to bring money from bad way, not halal from, you know better, many people they know everything. But halal money give you also strong spiritual and bodily also. Bad money, they give you bad spiritual and make your body also, Allah give you illness, sickness, mentally, physically, everything it is, you can get. If even you are take your money from good way, you earn, you trade, you do something good and after in one year you didn't pay this zakat, become this money dirty money because there is a part making, spoiling all this money. But still you can calculate and pay for what you didn't pay before and it will become also all good, clean money.
This is obligatory for rich people. And rich people there must be like 100 or 90 gm of gold after this you can pay. You must pay 2.5%. But if you don't have this money, no need for you. Only obligatory for these people. And it is worship. Allah give you for this worship, reward. Who you cannot take it in from another, who are not obligatory like sunnah or mustahab. You cannot take it. So we are thanking for Allah when He give us obligatory we are happy because we like to do it and He reward us from this. It is most strong thing. Obligatory - it is order of Allah to do it. If you do it you get reward, even you do thousand time more than this without obligatory you cannot reach the reward of this obligatory. But when you are doing this you get baraka and the blessing and the reward.
Especially when you are doing in Ramadan Allah give you more and more. And why we saying for Ramadan? You can do it every time of
year. Zakat not only for Ramadan. But when somebody he get some amount of money one year it must be passing on this money, after they must give zakat, but year of moon calendar not sun calendar. If you do it by sun calendar every 33 years you miss one year. So it will be trouble for you. But if you are calculating from Ramadan to Ramadan it is, you cannot miss it.
And the wisdom also to make more reward from Allah, to get more reward from Allah. And people when they are getting more rich they are afraid to pay more. Because if somebody paying from 10,000 he must pay 250. But if he has 10 million, he must pay 250,000. So it become big for him. Even this he has big amount but shaitan and his ego when something coming to pay for Allah, for good, for charity, they are making this man to feel it is too much for him. But when for his pleasure he can pay for one car, one million. Nothing. But for Allah, for charity, they are not happy to pay it.
And zakat you must pay it for poor people. You cannot pay it for who are the rich people. They cannot take zakat. Only you must pay for poor people. And it must be for relative you can pay, for brother, uncle, aunty, sister, but you cannot pay for your son, or grandson, or father, or mother because this is what is your obligatory to look for them. Only for relative or other. And you cannot pay for to make mosque or to make school. You cannot pay zakat for this. Zakat only for poor people. You can pay for students who are studying in the school, in mosque, but you cannot pay for building. This is order of Allah. It is nice, very nice worshipping because if Muslim, the richest area, and the richest people in the world, Islamic world. But they are not giving zakat and they are not looking for poor people. If they pay, nobody be in need to anything. Enough for all these Muslims and no miserable life. But they are not paying and they will be asked for this. Many people they are dying from hunger, from cold, from hot. The people who are not paying, they are responsible for this. As what we saying - when money getting bigger and bigger amount it is less amount of paying also. Look like too much for them in their eyes. But it is not bigger, only 2.5%. It is nothing.
Even when people they are looking carefully Allah He just put very
few this to not make these people saying "Oh, Allah You are oppressing us. You give us too much, we cannot pay for this". No, it is very few. Very few. And when you are making zakat you must say niyyah also: "This is zakat from me". Everything, all around year if you're paying also for poor people, you can pay zakat also, all time, not only Ramadan. All time, maybe something you missed it, you cannot, you couldn't pay it, so better to say it "this is zakat from me". And Allah reward you even sadaqa and zakat. Mawlana once he said, we pay, Allah order us to pay one part of forty but if you are knowing [its benefit] we like to pay 39 like zakat and keep one for us. For this it is everything you pay say "zakat". Allah reward you like zakat. This is also good tidings from Mawlana because we said from first of sohbah reward of zakat it is more and more from sadaqa or what you do, others. Allah make us able to pay this zakat and to not leave it in our money or our... to not leave anything haram with our body or our 'maal, mulk ya'ani' - possessions.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al Fatiha.
105.UNDER THE SHADOW OF QURAN Sunday, June 28, 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 lawwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaykhina, dastur. Madad ya Sheikh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheikh Muhammad Nazim alHaqqani. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Qur'an Karim is an ancient word of Allah. Allah sent it down to our Prophet during this month of Ramadan. It was completed in 23 years. But first as it is in general it was sent in Ramadan. And baraka of this month is Qur'an Karim. There is benefit for those who read Qur'an Karim. It will become light. A person who reads it will get light both in dunya and in the darkness in akhirah. And it will be a shade in mahshar (Judgment Day).
Our Prophet said "The best of you is the one who learns Qur'an and who teaches Qur'an". By the wisdom of Allah, it is not difficult to learn how to read Qur'an. Despite lack of knowledge and not being Arab, people learn. Some can learn to read in 3 days. They start reading Qur'an in 3 days. Some can read in a week. Many people can read it easily in a month. Therefore, it is summertime now, and may Allah be pleased, we have customs here in this country, in Turkey. As soon as summer comes, they start Qur'an courses in the mosques, and hojas give Qur'an lessons to children. Children learn within a month. That's why, they make it one month and not more. If it's more, they may get tired. Otherwise, they start again next year. But as they are children, they play and lose attention. Even if they can't learn immediately, adults as we said, they are more comfortable and can learn Qur'an Karim in 3 days, 1 week, 1 month.
It's also good to learn Qur'an Karim by heart. However, if you learn and read to yourself, it is more virtuous and more acceptable. Shaitan is bringing up various things now and says "You read it and don't understand. Leave it and read it in Turkish". No, it's not about Turkish. You must read it even though you don't understand. Its worth cannot be compared to that. Of course, it is sawab to read to get knowledge and from curiosity as well. You get knowledge when you're curious about what Qur'an says and read in Turkish to understand. This is different from reading Quran. Reading explanation of Qur'an in Turkish is different.
They read Qur'an in public during Ramadan. You gain same sawab when you follow it, as much it is read. Because when Qur'an is read, you should listen. You will gain same reward and sawab. And that is
from our beautiful customs. As we said, Arabs don't understand its Arabic too much. And they don't understand when they read in Arabic. Qur'an is an ocean. Our Prophet is saying that all created sciences and knowledge are contained in it. And everything until Judgment Day, all of it is inside it. Therefore, to say that you understand it is contrary to adab.
We read for some blessing. Whatever is inside it, we accept. Coming against it, rejecting wisdoms of Allah, is equal to leaving the religion. Therefore, don't make judgments by yourself. Everything has its master, its teacher, its hoja. Nobody is born a hoja from their mother, not born a master. Everybody knows by learning. In the matters of dunya if you do something without knowing, you will make a mess. And it's not good to say "I think so and so" about religious matters.
Pay attention to that as well. Today we say, speaking about Quran. Quran, it is the most valuable Book, from Heaven, from Allah. It is His Word and it is gift for Prophet (sas). Prophet saying, in Quran there is knowledge, all knowledge before and all knowledge after it will come - all in Quran Karim. There is knowledge and there is also light. Who reading Quran, getting light. His face become lighter and he is in Akhirah also, when it is dark it will be all shadow for him and light for him on this difficult day. And Quran it is, everything in Quran, benefit for us. When you read on ill people, they are cured. When you need baraka also there is, you can read and take baraka. Allah open for you, for your rizq (provision). And it is amazing. Quran, every people not only Arab, they can learn it very easily, very quickly. Many people they are learning in one month, they can read Quran. Even there is, in one week they can read Quran. Some of them more quickly, 3 days, they can begin to read Quran. Not only Arab, all non-Arab also who not knowing anything about Arabic alphabet, when they are coming to learn Quran, very quickly they are learning. This easiness is from Allah, Allah help them to read. Even Arab, they cannot read in one month, this also we can say here. But Allah make easy for non-Arab to read Quran to be help for them. And it is, even if you are not understanding what inside when you recite Quran it is, Allah reward you for each letter, for each word, you understand or not understanding.
But you must read Quran like what writing. But you can read, some people they're also, shaitan not quiet, making for some people "you read this, you don't understand, it is Arabic so you can read by English, by Turkish, by Urdu, by other language, what meaning Quran and it is better from reading Quran." No, not better. It is ok, you can read to know what is inside but for reward, for each letter, for each word, you must read Quran as it is mentioned and it is coming to Prophet (sas).
Alhamdulillah in our country there is also for small children they, one month after school holiday they give them Quran course, one hour a day. Many of them they are learning in one month, they're learning. If not learning, because they're children, next year. Not learning, for next year they have base. So... And they be happy. It is nice because when children reading Quran Allah reward them and reward their family, their ancestors. Because they are innocent children, they don't have any sin. So we must also encourage our children to learn Quran and to be benefit for them and for you, insha Allah.
Quran it is, all good thing in Quran. We must accept Quran as it is. Don't object to anything in Quran, you don't understanding. Because when you objecting you give your idea. Your idea it is changing from hour to hour, from day to day. But this idea, Allah Who creating and this He put rule, it is not changing. So don't be very hurry to say something. No, don't say anything and accept it. And Allah will reward you for baraka of Quran. Alhamdulillah in Ramadan also, we are making reading Quran. Somebody reading Quran in this majlis (gathering) and other listening, also Allah reward for them. Everything belong to Quran, to listening, to read, to read by heart, to read by letter, it is good. But even if somebody, he know by heart and when reading in Quran Allah give him more reward, because he reading also and he know it. Allah give barakah of Quran for all of us. Allah... it be under shadow of Quran, insha Allah, all of us,
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq Al-Fatiha.
106.LOVE EACH OTHER Monday, Ju
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m. That strong belief became a means to give the belief to the Ummah of Muhammad.
There are a lot of verses, "O Arabs do not say 'we are believers', say 'we became Muslims'." (49:14) Being Muslim is different, belief is different. Whoever takes shahadah is Muslim. But believer he who truly believes, he has strong belief. Muslims, Allah Azza wa Jalla gave everyone a different station. The highest station is station of belief. But the Muslim also must believe in certain things - Allah, Prophet, Angels, Day of Judgment, Resurrection, you know those things. To believe in that, is belief for everyone. But more than that you have to testify to it in
words. Real belief comes from the heart. Someone who has reached that belief, nothing affects him. His belief is strong. But the others sometimes they have belief (iman), sometimes not. Sometimes they pray, sometimes they fast, sometimes they don't fast. They are the weakest ones, they are called ad'afu l-iman.
Real belief as we said is the belief that comes from our Prophet (sas). It came from the Sahabas, then it came from mashaykhs. Mashaykhs they plant that belief in the hearts. With the power of that belief Mawlana brought hundreds of thousands and millions of people to the way of Allah. That is the power of belief. That power of belief nothing else has that power - not bombs, nor arms, nothing. When having that belief, nothing can stand in front of it. It is very important.
Allah Azza wa Jalla saying in ayat-ul karima. Audhu billahi min ash- shaitani rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. "Ya ayyuha lladhina amanu aminu"(4:136) What meaning? "O believer, believe." Because belief, it is the most high thing for human being - to believe what Allah send and what Prophet (saw) said. There is ayat also saying "O Arabs, don't say "We are believers". Only say "We are Muslim"." (49:14) Because when you are saying kalima shahada, you become Muslim. Everybody becomes Muslim. But to be, to go up high for iman, belief, it is need many things. You must fight your ego, you must fight shaitan. Every day you... One second you cannot be rest without make your ego to be not rest. If you are rest, ego coming on you, make your iman weak. But Allah Azza wa Jalla, He give rank for Islam, the high rank iman.
Prophet (saw), he is most trustful. Because how people they can trust for man? Because he was never lying, never doing wrong thing, never doing any bad thing. So people trusting and accepting what he said. And he put this iman in heart of his sahaba, and sahaba for other ummah until now coming. But it is weak and strong. And some of them by their idea they are going. This is not iman, just they are Muslim. But who are giving iman, strong iman? Mashaykh like Mawlana Sheikh. With his iman, he.. thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, they believe with him. And they become to this nice way, way of Allah. This is power of iman or belief.
Power of belief, no nothing can stop in front of it. No arm, no bomb, no weapon, nothing stronger than belief. This belief changing from bad end, miserable end, and for to be happy and blessed and lightening. By arms [weapons] you cannot do this. Only you destroy. But with belief you can give life and light and beauty for human being. And this is mission of tariqat and Mashaykh. They are not coming to make people, to kill people, to destroy anything. No, they are coming to build. What they building? The iman, belief in your heart. When it is happened this, everything it will be better for you and for your community, for your... Where you are going, coming, everybody they become benefit from this iman, belief.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.
100.LIFE IS FOR TESTING Monday, June 22, 2015.
Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa ssalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l- awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi Rasulillah, madad ya Mashaykhina, madad ya Shaykh Abdullahi Daghistani, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa lkhayru fi jam'iyyah.
Why did Allah Azza wa Jalla send people to this world? This world is a testing place. People don't understand this. They think when they come to this world, all their wishes will be fulfilled, everything will go as they like. With crying, complaining, and by force they want to turn this world into paradise. No, it does not go according to your wishes. What Allah wills, happens. Allah sent human beings into this world, so that they work for their akhirah, make their akhirah prosperous. If heaven was on earth people would not be tested.
Human beings do not want to obey Allah's orders. In the first place ego, shaitan, desires, shaitans around us hinder us. They don't let man free. People either complain about their father, their brothers, their husbands, their neighbours, so there is always a reason for complaining. It is the cause of unhappiness. But Allah Azza wa Jalla created this world like this. In this world if you are happy with your husband, you complain about your neighbour. If you are happy with your neighbour you complain about your father or brother. So, do not search for comfort in this world.
How will you be peaceful? You have to accept. There might be small things - don't complain about them. If they were gone, other things would happen, there would be another kind of unhappiness. Be happy with the small things. Say: "Thanks to Allah I have these problems. If not, there might be other things we cannot carry." So, these need to be. In this world, Allah gave Adam, alaihi s-salam, 40 years of sadness rain. Adam, alaihi s-salam, cried for 40 years, laughed for just 1 year. So, since this world was created, it is like this. But shukur liLllah if that 1 year is at ease you forget
everything. You forget sadness, you forget all. You will not object to them. The more you object, the worse it gets. The more you object, worse things are happening. For this reason, as we said, submit to small tests. Even if you have a complaint you can complain to yourself.
But there are some people, addicted people, may Allah not make us from them, troubles are attracted to them like magnets. There are such people. You see this year he broke his leg, next year he had an accident, the other year his house was burnt, this and that happened. Throughout their lives they are like this. Thank Allah you are not one of them. May Allah protect us. We carry on with small things - enough! So, as we said do not search for heaven on earth. You can change your world into heaven, if you accept the small things. If not these, we will have bigger problems. If you submit, you can find heavenly peace in this world. Otherwise complaining, leave that aside.
Now people they forget these small things. They have left their own issues and they try to rule the world, the country. They want everything according to their ambitions, according to their expectations. They can never find peace in this life. Accept everything, you will find peace.
Allah created human being and put them in earth, and not earth not paradise. It must be something not good with everybody, nobody have perfection, all what he want he got in this life or in earth. Because Allah Azza wa Jalla make this earth life for test. It must be that everybody have something he's not happy with this and this is, it is a test. But you must be, if you have small problems you must be happy with this. Because, this problem, you can deal with this. But if you don't have this, Allah give you another kind, a new thing you cannot carry. If you are not happy with that, also, they giving you another thing.
So in this life, you don't see anybody he get everything what he want. Only, who get paradise in this life, the AwliyaAllah, because also they have, they are carrying very more than other people. But
they are happy with this because it is coming from Allah and we are happy with what Allah send us. So they'll be happy. But other people, even very small thing they're crying, they are shouting, they are making trouble. You cannot change. If you change, Allah send more different problem. Each time you want to finish from problem, Allah send other, so don't complain from this small thing. Don't complain from wife, from husband, from mother, father - it is your very near people, very close, and you cannot change them. Only, you must accept people how they are. Many people, they are complaining: "My father is angry. My mother she is angry. He is doing this, doing that." You cannot change. You must be patient and you accept him as he is. If one he changing, maybe become worse.
Everything like this. Don't think in this life you will find somebody he get everything what you want. President, no. Kings, no. Queens, no. Nobody! Everybody, Allah create them in this life, they must be, have something, some problem for them. But, there is one kind of people, Allah not make us like them - we cannot carry. These people they are, "muptela", we call them - addicted. They are from beginning of their life until their death, this trouble, then that accident. Everything, you can find in these people. Like lightening, thunder, coming on this iron."Bala" (trouble) coming on them like this. This is also difficult for people. But there is people like this and we can see some of them. They are happy also but many of them of course, they cannot carry. But there is people also like this.
Allah not make us from them, we cannot carry. Only daily, small problems - enough. Without this, not life. You must be angel but when you are human being - everybody from human being have some problem and Mashayikh and tariqa, Prophet (sas), teaching us to deal with this problem. Patient and accept this coming from Allah. Allah, we are accept this, don't make it more than this. We make praying and du'a.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha .
101.KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE
Tuesday, June 23, 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 lawwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi Rasulillah, madad ya Shaykh Abdullah Daghistani, ya Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al- Haqqani, madad, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
May Allah give us an ability to understand well. Knowledge is with Allah. Real knowledge, Allah Azza wa Jalla loves real knowledge. Knowledge means to know. To know what? To know the reality, to know Allah - That is knowledge. If the result is that, then it is good knowledge. No, anything that rejects Allah is not knowledge. That is ignorance, ignorance, ignorant people.
Ignorance is the opposite of knowledge. It does not matter how educated one is, he learned ignorance. He did not study knowledge, but ignorance because he did not bring himself to a good place. Ignorance is not a good thing. An ignorant person is not someone, who did not study, who does not have knowledge. No. Even an illiterate person if he knows his Lord, Prophet and religion in Allah's presence he is not considered, to be one of those ignorant people. Ignorant, ignorance ends up in hell. As we said no matter how many books he read, which universities he attended, or if he is a professor - whatever he did, unless he knows Allah, the Prophet, his religion, the right path, he is considered ignorant. People can give you many titles, ranks - in Allah's presence your rank is the rank of ignorance. That is not even a rank. Rank means high position. Each rank must be high. It means you are falling, going down.
In Allah's presence it is like that - people who know Allah, who believe
in Allah are acceptable. Allah also showed it. When people save their iman (belief) they are not considered ignorant. But still there are different ranks. If you go to a madrasa or walk in Allah's way, you go higher up to a certain rank. After that you need support, you need a sheikh, a teacher, a murshid (guide). So, he goes higher according to that. You have to follow real sheikhs because some people they claim to be sheikhs in order to attract people. And the things they teach, what Allah and the Prophet made obligatory to teach people, you can learn those things, but if you learn from an ignorant one, you will also be ignorant.
Islam is clear, its way is clear, its place is clear. Tariqa shows the same way. When you follow it don't worry. But a few people getting together in secret here and there, according to their own ideas they make comments about religion - you can not get any benefit from them. Everything is clear, nothing is secret or hidden. The way it shows, the address is clear. Everything is clear. Some people mislead others for their own benefit. No. If you follow a tariqa, you must do what your Sheikh tells you. Other than that it is not good to walk on ways here and there, that the sheikh or the Prophet did not show. May Allah protect us from the wickedness of ignorant people. Tariqatuna s-sohba wa l-khairu fi jam'iyyah. We said sohbat to give knowledge. Allah likes knowledgeable people. There is knowledgeable and there is ignorant. Every knowledge you learn, it must be show you the right way and to be believer. It must take you to right to your Creator, your Lord Allah Azza wa Jalla. If you are like this, your knowledge... You get knowledge. Even you cannot write or read, you are not ignorant. Who is ignorant? These people who are what they are reading, what they are studying, take them to opposite side, not towards Allah, towards material and towards shaitan. These people, they are real ignorant.
Jahiliya meaning jahalat - to be not knowing anything. And it is what these people [are] because they are studying and they become PhD and doctor, professor but they are going against Allah and His will. These people, they are ignorant. They are in dark. Their level not in Divine Presence, not high. They are no value for them. They are no high station for them. They are going down and down and down. Even they
are in dunya, they have the highest between these ignorant people, they respect them, they accept them, but this is only shaitan people not acceptable people. And shaitan and his followers, no value for them in divinely presence.
Only value for knowledgeable people and knowledgeable people who are accepting Allah and His Prophet and His way as shown. And it is clear. But there is people, they are also claiming they are showing right way in Islam also. Also these people, they are showing wrong way. Because Islam, it is open, not closed. And everybody they can learn and to see how it is knowledge religion and mercy religion. Not only for few people, for whole human beings it is open. But what we say, shaitan and his followers they are making very bright thing - professor, doctor, these writers, atheist writer, this satanist writer, communist writer, salafist writer. Like this. All these not belong to Islam. They are not coming to knowledge, only to make people confusing. And they to take them from knowledge to darkness of ignorance.
But alhamdulillah Islam, it is light and it is knowledge, real knowledge and it is open for everybody. And this is month of Shahru Ramadan mubarak. InshaAllah baraka for this month to be become more and more knowledgeable inshaAllah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.
102.ALLAH’S MERCY IS MOST PRECIOUS Wedneday, June 24, 2015.
Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa ssalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina
wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaykhina, dastur, madad ya Sheikh Abdullahi d-Daghestani, Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, madad. Tariqatuna ssohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
May Allah's mercy be upon us. When Allah's mercy is upon us, every goodness is with us. "wa man taqi s-sayyi'ati yawma'idhin faqad rahimtahu"(40:9) Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur'an Karim - whoever You show mercy to You will protect from sins and badness, from that badness. The more a person is protected from sin, the more he has reached Allah's mercy. The more a person commits sins, rebellion, and kufr, the further away is Allah's mercy from him. Sometimes one cannot control it, and therefore, prayers are what man needs always.
Allah Azza wa Jalla - It is written in Qur'an to ask mercy from Allah.(23:118) Allah's mercy covers everything.(7:156) "Wa rahmati wasi'at kulli shayin" (7:156) Allah is the Possessor of mercy. He is calling people in order to show His mercy to them "Come, My door is open. Enter, come to My mercy". And people are saying "We don't want it" and run away. Allah Azza wa Jalla keeps the door open anyway. Hadith sharif is saying: whoever says "La ilaha illAllah, Muhammad RasulAllah" will enter paradise. He may worship or not. He may commit sin or not. That kalima shahada is the key to paradise. But those who enter paradise and have not made their preparation in this dunya, they will enter paradise a thousand years later because everything is counted. If Allah wishes, they will enter paradise too. It's a wish of Allah, we cannot object. And Allah knows how to treat them. It's in the hands of Allah. We can't interfere.
But in order to reach Allah's mercy, there is this beautiful kalima tayyiba, kalima shahada. You must testify that Allah is One and that the Prophet Muhammad is His true Prophet so that you get that mercy.
Allah Azza wa Jalla He is a Most Merciful and we asking for His Mercy. Who they are getting mercy from Allah they are away from to
do bad thing. This is Ayat Quran: wa man taqi s-sayyi'ati yawma'idhin faqad rahimtahu (40:9) "Who You make sins, bad things, bad action, to be away from us, we get Your Mercy." And We ask for this. We must ask for this because Mercy of Allah, when you are in good way of Allah you are blessed, you have mercy, you have the best thing human being can, or creature they can take it.
The best thing, it is Mercy of Allah. Nothing else. Everything else it is like you cannot catch them, like light. Like light. serap (mirage) , illusion. Everything like this. If you are rich, if you are healthy, everything it can be gone, you cannot catch everything. Only real thing and the best thing you will get in this, your life, to be, get Mercy of Allah, and blessing of Allah. And to get this you must make shahadah: ashhadu an la ilaha ill Allah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu After this you will be at the end in Paradise. Because if you do, you pray, you fast, you do everything, you be very easily in Paradise, no need to wait too much in Judgment Day, or to go to clean yourself from sins in fire. No. But other who saying this and they doing everything wrong except not put partner with Allah, they will be at the end in Paradise.
But why to be, get very much difficulty to be hard time for you? In dunya you can do very easily and you get the most precious thing, Mercy of Allah. So we are in this dunya you must real thinking and you must understanding and not listening to your ego, to people who are giving you wrong advice. Because in Akhirah they will say, "These people they was, we are poor people and we are following these people and they are cheating us and we are now in Hell with these people". And these people they said, "Ok, why you followed us? You mustn't follow us". So two of them loser.
But don't be ashamed from people if you do good thing. Ashamed, if you are doing bad things, but these days people they are ashamed to do good thing or follow order of Allah, or follow Islam, tariqat. Even in Muslim country many people they are ashamed to be in tariqa also. So shaitan making people, cheating people. Don't ashame from them, don't care from what they are saying. Only you follow Allah and Prophet (sas) and tariqa; who are showing you what good for you,
what not good for you. They are not looking for you as a benefit for them, no, no, only for Allah. They are showing you good way and they are happy to make as much people coming to right way - they are more happy and more blessed from Allah. That is what they are in need, for this, not you or your, anything from you. Only this what they want.
Allah give us His Mercy to be, keep us away from every bad thing, insha Allah. And to be safe until Mahdi (as) and Isa (as) come inshaAllah.
103.THE MOST PERFECT ONE Thursday, June 25, 2015.
Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. As-salatu wa ssalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidi l-awwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi Rasulillah, madad ya Mashaykhina, madad ya Shaykh Abdullah Daghistani, Shaykh
Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa lkhayru fi jam'iyyah.
Shukur Allah we follow our Prophet's (sas) sunnah. We want to do his sunnah, we ask. Inshallah we do as much as we can, as much as we know. All the actions, our Prophet (sas) did are sunnah. Allah created him (sas) the most perfect man. So to follow his sunnah is good both for this world, and also for the hereafter. Cannot be better than that. We are ordered to follow our Prophet's (sas) sunnah. The things we call sunnah, most of them are not difficult. They are very nice things, that are all for our benefit. But human beings do not know what benefits them. The ego wants to do whatever is harmful. Man even harms himself.
One of the sunnahs, our Prophet (sas) says: "In Ramadan or when you are fasting, take a siesta, sleep a little." Rest a little, it makes your fasting easy and helps you stay awake at night. One of these nice sunnahs is to rest a little at noon time or in the afternoon. It is a sunnah, beautiful sunnah. The body relaxes and gets strength. Because now Ramadan came with the hot weather. Shukur Allah it is beautiful anyway. You do not feel hungry when it is hot. That's why when you sleep thirst goes, it gives power.
Our Prophet (sas) wants good for us. Whatever he said, it is for the benefit of human beings. It is not only for Muslims, our Prophet (sas) was sent for the whole of humanity. So, when we rest we do it to follow the Prophet's (sas) sunnah. May Allah accept it. Some people cannot sleep but even if they lay down for 5 minutes and keep that sunnah, they they get benefit for fasting and it gets easier to wake up at night also. Just because it is an order of our Prophet (sas), if you lay down for 1 minute even, if you have things to do and you cannot rest, you lay down on your right hand side that is also receives reward, because you did sunnah. So, with this sunnah of our Prophet (sas) we have a beautiful life in this world, and in akhirah (hereafter), the most beautiful real life. We win real life, eternal life. May Allah make us to be able to follow this beautiful sunnah. There are so many sunnahs, that we know and don't know. We do what we know and we learn more, and for what we don't know we intend to do all
Sunnahs of our Prophet (sas) inshaAllah. May the reward for all of them be upon us.
Alhamdulillah, we are following Islam and following Prophet (sas) who is the chosen one. That most perfect one. Allah created him and taught him every good, every benefit, for human beings, for world, for everything. Prophet (sas), Allah create him. There is a poem in Arabic saying: 'Allah create you as you wish.' So many people they are wishing 'Oh, if I was like this, I was like that'. Many people they can wish something for themselves. But Prophet (sas) Allah He make him, create him the most perfect. Nobody can compare to him. And what he is doing, it is "Sunnah". His actions, acting, what he moving coming, going, eating, drinking, everything he do, he done, it is calling "Sunnah". And we are order[ed] to follow his sunnah and when we following his sunnah we get benefit. For physically and spiritually also. And Allah reward us for each sunnah in these last days, 100 shaheed (martyr's) reward. And there's many good sunnah, not to follow Prophet (sas), not bad, it is good, but your ego it is first enemy for you. They don't like you to be following sunnah or to get benefit, even for your body. Ego, even this not accepting. But if you are following you be physically and spiritually benefit from this sunnah. Many sunnah, how you must eat, how you must drink, how much you must sleep. How you divide day, for how many part. And for Ramadan, Prophet (sas) he was saying: to sleep little bit daytime, it is sunnah. Prophet (sas), when you sleep, he said: sleep little bit because this help you for fasting.
Fasting, these days it is hot. You cannot feel hungry but you feel thirsty. But when you sleep you get better, help you for fasting. Maybe for 5 minute, 10 minute, half-an-hour, one hour, this enough. Not like our brother in hotel, they are sleeping whole day and making Ramadan sleeping, after coming nighttime make break fast. Ok also, acceptable for Allah, Allah not saying... but better to be sleep only one hour. One- and-a-half hour, ok, 2 hours ok also, no need... For Prophet's order, it is good. Help you for fasting and to wake up nighttime for praying, for making worshipping. But you mustn't, there is also time not good for sleeping, like after asr. Before asr, it is normally for asr ath-thani 2 hours before maghrib, 'don't sleep,' he said, Prophet (sas). 'This making
you to be, your mind to not be good'. Making problem, for mental problem, for people who are sleeping before maghrib, 2 hours before. Other time you can sleep.
If some people they cannot sleep daytime, only for order of Prophet they can lie one minute saying 'we doing this for order of Prophet and for sake of Prophet accept this from us'. And there is like this thousands of sunnah, very nice sunnah, all nice, not difficult to do. Only for ego it is not so good. And we are learning slowly, slowly for this. Our intention, as much we know we like to do it. Allah accept this from us and reward us from this sunnah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al Fatiha.
104.THE WISDOM OF ZAKAT Friday, June 26, 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 lawwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaykhina, madad ya Sheikh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheikh
Muhammad Nazim alHaqqani, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
This Friday is the second Friday of Ramadan. We should remind you about some things in this holy month. Most people know, of course. However, "Wadhakkir fa'inna dh-dhikra tanfa'u l-mu'minina"(51:55) It will be useful for those who listen and those who speak inshaAllah. This month of Ramadan we fast and pray tarawih prayers. Ramadan is also is the time for zakat. Otherwise, zakat can be made during any month of the year. But people tend to forget when they give and when they don't. Therefore, it remains in mind from Ramadan to Ramadan as one year passes. When they give like this, they don't forget. And zakat is fard/obligatory. It is fard for Muslims. It is fard for those who have money. Who don't have money, there can't be fard for something that isn't there. Zakat means to clean. Zakat is something clean. You clean your property. The remaining property becomes clean. Zakat is both cleaning and increasing. When you give a little away, your possessions increase. In the same way we work in our garden. If you leave a tree as it is, it will become wild and useless in the end. It can be a big tree but without use. You must cut it from the sides and trim it so that it gives nice [fruits]. Same with possessions. Allah has given you possessions, you must clean them and give to those people who have rights to it, according to His order. It is not your right anymore. That right belongs to the poor and needy. Zakat from your property cannot be given to people who you are already obligated to take care of - like mother, father and grandparents. You can't give zakat to your children and grandchildren. Zakat is given to needy people and relatives like siblings, uncles, because you're not responsible for them, but you must give to these people. Zakat of those others is different. Zakat can't be for them. It is counted as sadaqa for them. Zakat was ordered after the hijra (migration) of our Prophet, as was fasting. Therefore, it is recalled during this Ramadan. Because otherwise... People sometimes think zakat is not paid outside Ramadan. Many people think so. It can be paid any time. But as we said, zakat is paid according to the hijri year. It is 10 days shorter than the other calendar year. If you give zakat according to normal year, you will have skipped a year every 30 years, 35 years and 33 years. And this is the wisdom of giving in Ramadan when you give your zakat regardless
if it is summer or winter, whenever it comes. You have given it you won't go to akhira with debts. And zakat is not only for akhira. It brings baraka and light to people in this world as well. Because how much you worship, this is worship too.
Paying zakat is an obligatory worship. It's not sunnah or nafila, it is fard (obligatory). Doing fard is more required worship than doing nafila worship for hundred years. You can do or not do nafila. That is not important. Your account for it in akhira - will not be punished but will regret not doing it. But fard will be asked about. If Allah forgives or doesn't, a man has a possibility to go to hell then. Because he will not have carried out the order and will have made haram. He will have kept haram. It won't have benefit for him in dunya by being like a poison, and he will deserve hell in akhira.
This fard and worship is not a burden for us but a great favour. These are the favours given by Allah. You should do as much as you can, not only fard, but also wajib and sunnah. Try to carry out all the beautiful orders there are. Don't look at them as oppression. See them as favours. Because Allah is not in need. He doesn't need anyone's property. Allah is giving. If Allah has given you this wealth you should be thankful for it and give zakat immediately. You will be happy, not like people who need your zakat, but as the one giving. So give much. If a man gives every time with intention of zakat to people who are in need, it is counted as zakat for other days he didn't give and as sadaqa for days he gave. It won't be for nothing. Therefore, intention is important too. Give with the intention of zakat when you give. Say that you're giving it as zakat and carrying out the order of Allah. Zakat and Hajj are worship and fard for people to whom Allah gave property and wealth. Can a poor person not go to Hajj? He can. But it is not fard. If he doesn't go, he won't be asked for it. "Why didn't you go?" "I was poor, I couldn't". But there are some poor people who can go to Hajj. And for zakat, a poor is poor anyway. He can't give it unless Allah wants it and makes him rich so that he can pay zakat. We are saying here not to underestimate zakat. Many people are defeated by their ego, and the more property they have, the harder it is for them to give zakat. Who has 10,000 liras must give 250 liras. It's not much, so they won't care. Someone who has 10
million liras must give 250,000 liras. Then it appears to be a big amount for the man. If there's 100 million, a man says "I must give 2.5 million. That's too much". In fact, it's nothing. Allah is showing people how much tax should be paid and how much is enough for people. 2.5% is the right of Allah. We see in this new Europe and America, they take 70%, 80% tax from people. And it's not enough for them. And people are compelled to pay it.
But Allah is giving a burden people can carry. Therefore, pay zakat without making it late. It's not good to pay it late. But as we said, if you give continuously with the intention of zakat, that's different. Normally, it is more sawab (reward) to give zakat in Ramadan because it is a virtuous and abundant month. Allah Azza wa Jalla will give its sawab beyond the normal sawab. May Allah make it easy to pay zakat for all of us. May He let us reach that abundance inshaAllah. Who takes zakat should give to the needy too. It is not permissible to take zakat if one's not in need.
It's not zakat when you want to build a school, mosque or madrasa. It must be given to the poor. If there are students of Qur'an, you can pay to feed them. But you can't give zakat for making a Qur'an course. You can't give zakat for building a mosque. Zakat can't given for a school. These are the conditions of zakat you can learn in detail. We have short time here. Many people... May Allah protect, there were some jama'ats (congregations) who used to take people's zakat to build schools. And people were giving. We must say from here, that's not permissible. You can only give to students. Otherwise, it's not accepted. This month, Ramadan mubarak, month of worshipping. And there is many things we do in this month especially fasting after they are praying tarawih and other as much as we can - read Quran, tasbih. We must charity, to give, helping people. In this month Allah reward you by His Generosity. Nobody knows, He said. I only know how I will reward mu'min (believers) who are obeying Me and doing what I like.
And there is, zakat we call (it) this is order, one of obligations from 5 Islamic obligations - one of them zakat. Zakat meaning to pay every year what you have from money or gold or silver, 2.5% only. Not like
Europe or America 60%, 90%, 80%. Only Allah ordering 2.5%. This is obligatory for Muslim people, for believers. Who are not believer no obligatory for them. And it is meaning zakat, cleaning. And to be more, this is what the meaning and it is cleaning your money.
Every year when you pay this for poor people your money become clean and halal. Halal meaning pure. Halal meaning not dirty money. Clean, because money also important. When you take clean money it is baraka for you, for your family, for your children, for your wife, for yourself also. Make you satisfied and give you good 'huzur' (peace), satisfied and give you good feeling. Good feeling because other when you eat some dirty money... what is dirty money? Dirty money like to bring money from bad way, not halal from, you know better, many people they know everything. But halal money give you also strong spiritual and bodily also. Bad money, they give you bad spiritual and make your body also, Allah give you illness, sickness, mentally, physically, everything it is, you can get. If even you are take your money from good way, you earn, you trade, you do something good and after in one year you didn't pay this zakat, become this money dirty money because there is a part making, spoiling all this money. But still you can calculate and pay for what you didn't pay before and it will become also all good, clean money.
This is obligatory for rich people. And rich people there must be like 100 or 90 gm of gold after this you can pay. You must pay 2.5%. But if you don't have this money, no need for you. Only obligatory for these people. And it is worship. Allah give you for this worship, reward. Who you cannot take it in from another, who are not obligatory like sunnah or mustahab. You cannot take it. So we are thanking for Allah when He give us obligatory we are happy because we like to do it and He reward us from this. It is most strong thing. Obligatory - it is order of Allah to do it. If you do it you get reward, even you do thousand time more than this without obligatory you cannot reach the reward of this obligatory. But when you are doing this you get baraka and the blessing and the reward.
Especially when you are doing in Ramadan Allah give you more and more. And why we saying for Ramadan? You can do it every time of
year. Zakat not only for Ramadan. But when somebody he get some amount of money one year it must be passing on this money, after they must give zakat, but year of moon calendar not sun calendar. If you do it by sun calendar every 33 years you miss one year. So it will be trouble for you. But if you are calculating from Ramadan to Ramadan it is, you cannot miss it.
And the wisdom also to make more reward from Allah, to get more reward from Allah. And people when they are getting more rich they are afraid to pay more. Because if somebody paying from 10,000 he must pay 250. But if he has 10 million, he must pay 250,000. So it become big for him. Even this he has big amount but shaitan and his ego when something coming to pay for Allah, for good, for charity, they are making this man to feel it is too much for him. But when for his pleasure he can pay for one car, one million. Nothing. But for Allah, for charity, they are not happy to pay it.
And zakat you must pay it for poor people. You cannot pay it for who are the rich people. They cannot take zakat. Only you must pay for poor people. And it must be for relative you can pay, for brother, uncle, aunty, sister, but you cannot pay for your son, or grandson, or father, or mother because this is what is your obligatory to look for them. Only for relative or other. And you cannot pay for to make mosque or to make school. You cannot pay zakat for this. Zakat only for poor people. You can pay for students who are studying in the school, in mosque, but you cannot pay for building. This is order of Allah. It is nice, very nice worshipping because if Muslim, the richest area, and the richest people in the world, Islamic world. But they are not giving zakat and they are not looking for poor people. If they pay, nobody be in need to anything. Enough for all these Muslims and no miserable life. But they are not paying and they will be asked for this. Many people they are dying from hunger, from cold, from hot. The people who are not paying, they are responsible for this. As what we saying - when money getting bigger and bigger amount it is less amount of paying also. Look like too much for them in their eyes. But it is not bigger, only 2.5%. It is nothing.
Even when people they are looking carefully Allah He just put very
few this to not make these people saying "Oh, Allah You are oppressing us. You give us too much, we cannot pay for this". No, it is very few. Very few. And when you are making zakat you must say niyyah also: "This is zakat from me". Everything, all around year if you're paying also for poor people, you can pay zakat also, all time, not only Ramadan. All time, maybe something you missed it, you cannot, you couldn't pay it, so better to say it "this is zakat from me". And Allah reward you even sadaqa and zakat. Mawlana once he said, we pay, Allah order us to pay one part of forty but if you are knowing [its benefit] we like to pay 39 like zakat and keep one for us. For this it is everything you pay say "zakat". Allah reward you like zakat. This is also good tidings from Mawlana because we said from first of sohbah reward of zakat it is more and more from sadaqa or what you do, others. Allah make us able to pay this zakat and to not leave it in our money or our... to not leave anything haram with our body or our 'maal, mulk ya'ani' - possessions.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al Fatiha.
105.UNDER THE SHADOW OF QURAN Sunday, June 28, 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 lawwalina wa l-akhirin. Madad ya RasulAllah, madad ya Sadati Ashabi RasulAllah, madad ya Mashaykhina, dastur. Madad ya Sheikh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheikh Muhammad Nazim alHaqqani. Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Qur'an Karim is an ancient word of Allah. Allah sent it down to our Prophet during this month of Ramadan. It was completed in 23 years. But first as it is in general it was sent in Ramadan. And baraka of this month is Qur'an Karim. There is benefit for those who read Qur'an Karim. It will become light. A person who reads it will get light both in dunya and in the darkness in akhirah. And it will be a shade in mahshar (Judgment Day).
Our Prophet said "The best of you is the one who learns Qur'an and who teaches Qur'an". By the wisdom of Allah, it is not difficult to learn how to read Qur'an. Despite lack of knowledge and not being Arab, people learn. Some can learn to read in 3 days. They start reading Qur'an in 3 days. Some can read in a week. Many people can read it easily in a month. Therefore, it is summertime now, and may Allah be pleased, we have customs here in this country, in Turkey. As soon as summer comes, they start Qur'an courses in the mosques, and hojas give Qur'an lessons to children. Children learn within a month. That's why, they make it one month and not more. If it's more, they may get tired. Otherwise, they start again next year. But as they are children, they play and lose attention. Even if they can't learn immediately, adults as we said, they are more comfortable and can learn Qur'an Karim in 3 days, 1 week, 1 month.
It's also good to learn Qur'an Karim by heart. However, if you learn and read to yourself, it is more virtuous and more acceptable. Shaitan is bringing up various things now and says "You read it and don't understand. Leave it and read it in Turkish". No, it's not about Turkish. You must read it even though you don't understand. Its worth cannot be compared to that. Of course, it is sawab to read to get knowledge and from curiosity as well. You get knowledge when you're curious about what Qur'an says and read in Turkish to understand. This is different from reading Quran. Reading explanation of Qur'an in Turkish is different.
They read Qur'an in public during Ramadan. You gain same sawab when you follow it, as much it is read. Because when Qur'an is read, you should listen. You will gain same reward and sawab. And that is
from our beautiful customs. As we said, Arabs don't understand its Arabic too much. And they don't understand when they read in Arabic. Qur'an is an ocean. Our Prophet is saying that all created sciences and knowledge are contained in it. And everything until Judgment Day, all of it is inside it. Therefore, to say that you understand it is contrary to adab.
We read for some blessing. Whatever is inside it, we accept. Coming against it, rejecting wisdoms of Allah, is equal to leaving the religion. Therefore, don't make judgments by yourself. Everything has its master, its teacher, its hoja. Nobody is born a hoja from their mother, not born a master. Everybody knows by learning. In the matters of dunya if you do something without knowing, you will make a mess. And it's not good to say "I think so and so" about religious matters.
Pay attention to that as well. Today we say, speaking about Quran. Quran, it is the most valuable Book, from Heaven, from Allah. It is His Word and it is gift for Prophet (sas). Prophet saying, in Quran there is knowledge, all knowledge before and all knowledge after it will come - all in Quran Karim. There is knowledge and there is also light. Who reading Quran, getting light. His face become lighter and he is in Akhirah also, when it is dark it will be all shadow for him and light for him on this difficult day. And Quran it is, everything in Quran, benefit for us. When you read on ill people, they are cured. When you need baraka also there is, you can read and take baraka. Allah open for you, for your rizq (provision). And it is amazing. Quran, every people not only Arab, they can learn it very easily, very quickly. Many people they are learning in one month, they can read Quran. Even there is, in one week they can read Quran. Some of them more quickly, 3 days, they can begin to read Quran. Not only Arab, all non-Arab also who not knowing anything about Arabic alphabet, when they are coming to learn Quran, very quickly they are learning. This easiness is from Allah, Allah help them to read. Even Arab, they cannot read in one month, this also we can say here. But Allah make easy for non-Arab to read Quran to be help for them. And it is, even if you are not understanding what inside when you recite Quran it is, Allah reward you for each letter, for each word, you understand or not understanding.
But you must read Quran like what writing. But you can read, some people they're also, shaitan not quiet, making for some people "you read this, you don't understand, it is Arabic so you can read by English, by Turkish, by Urdu, by other language, what meaning Quran and it is better from reading Quran." No, not better. It is ok, you can read to know what is inside but for reward, for each letter, for each word, you must read Quran as it is mentioned and it is coming to Prophet (sas).
Alhamdulillah in our country there is also for small children they, one month after school holiday they give them Quran course, one hour a day. Many of them they are learning in one month, they're learning. If not learning, because they're children, next year. Not learning, for next year they have base. So... And they be happy. It is nice because when children reading Quran Allah reward them and reward their family, their ancestors. Because they are innocent children, they don't have any sin. So we must also encourage our children to learn Quran and to be benefit for them and for you, insha Allah.
Quran it is, all good thing in Quran. We must accept Quran as it is. Don't object to anything in Quran, you don't understanding. Because when you objecting you give your idea. Your idea it is changing from hour to hour, from day to day. But this idea, Allah Who creating and this He put rule, it is not changing. So don't be very hurry to say something. No, don't say anything and accept it. And Allah will reward you for baraka of Quran. Alhamdulillah in Ramadan also, we are making reading Quran. Somebody reading Quran in this majlis (gathering) and other listening, also Allah reward for them. Everything belong to Quran, to listening, to read, to read by heart, to read by letter, it is good. But even if somebody, he know by heart and when reading in Quran Allah give him more reward, because he reading also and he know it. Allah give barakah of Quran for all of us. Allah... it be under shadow of Quran, insha Allah, all of us,
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq Al-Fatiha.
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