Suhbah 2015: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (20/30)
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an's attribute. Laziness is not a good attribute for a human being. It is a disliked characteristic. Neither Allah, nor the Prophets nor the Saints like laziness.
Allah Azza wa Jalla shows us the good way but people are trying to escape from their responsibility. They are making excuses. This is, what they are doing, it is only to show they are ignorant. There was time of Prophet (sas). Prophet said this is time of first ignorance. These people, they were some of them reading, some of them... But they who are outside of belief, all they were calling ignorant people. Ignorance time. Why? Because they are not knowing Creator Allah Azza wa Jalla. And this is what is description of ignorance. If you know all university knowledge, it is not knowledge. Only if not showing you the Creator, only making you to be more ignorant.
And now second ignorance time. That time, they were, they are believing in creators. But they make many of gods. But this time they are denying the Creator. And it is worse than time of Prophet (sas). Ignorance is not knowing the reality, only looking for theory. And it is most of time, this theory cannot be right because the Creator is Allah, not these people. These people only making theory. But when Allah He not putting His will in this thing what they are thinking, this theory it will work, it never works. Just sitting there in book. And these people, they are thinking it is real and it was all false.
Only Allah, the Creator - if He said "Be" for this theory, it can work. But when these people speaking in university, in everywhere, in paper, in school, you thought it is real. It is... Maybe only from 1,000 one you can find one of this theory work. And even this, if Allah wants it to work, not these ignorant people. They are all ignorant, when they are not believing in God. And Allah show them many things. But many of them believer, but they are putting only non-believer to show, make people to follow ignorance in this time. And Allah Azza wa Jalla, He is calling people "Don't follow these. Only follow the reality, the knowledge, real knowledge. Follow Prophet. Follow way of Allah".
Even when you follow, you must pray. Even not praying, maybe you can say Allah, you can say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. But every day you don't forget the Creator. You do as much you can do. To do something, it is better from to not do anything. Even very small thing you do, it is ok also. But if you don't do anything, this is bad for you because you cannot find any excuse for you, when Allah ask you "Why you didn't obey Me? Why you didn't respect Me? And I give you all this favour, all of this n'imah. Everything I give you, even you didn't say one thank you for Me." But it is... Who cannot pray or many people they are not knowing to pray. They are not learning, they are not teaching them, not learning. They cannot pray. We are saying if you don't know anything from praying, only just make like people who are praying. Say Allah, say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim, say Allahu Akbar until you're learning. Slowly, slowly you can teach yourself. You will learn and you'll be baraka and to know why you are in this, you exist here. Many people, they are wondering why we are here, why we exist. They are wondering until they are dying they are not knowing.
We are telling them, you are here for to obey Allah, and Allah too, He is most merciful and He give you all this big favour for you.
You must know it and you must prepare yourself to not be lazy. Laziness it is the worst attribute. Allah not like it. Prophet not like it. Awliya not like it. People also not like lazy people. You must do something to be save yourself and to be under mercy of Allah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
133.DON’T ASK TOO MUCH
Monday, July 27, 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 Mashaykhina, dastur, Shaykh Abdullah Daghistani, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, madad. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Our Prophet (sas) says, the biggest sin is to tell people something is a sin when actually it is not, in order to benefit yourself. Allah showed us everything. He showed us what is Halal and what is Haram. For this reason only for your own benefit "telling people it is a sin, when it is not is the biggest sin" says our Prophet (sas). Allah Azza wa Jalla showed us the easy way. He also showed us what is forbidden, what is permissible.
What is forbidden is shown in Quran. "Other than that do not ask too much" says our Prophet (sas). Because the Bani Israel asked too much and in the end they became responsible for more than they can carry. Allah showed us. What is permissible to eat, what is forbidden to eat is clear. Forbidden is clear. When the People of The Book slaughter animals, their meat is permissible to eat because they believe in Allah. Jews, Christians, it is permissible to eat the meat of sacrificed animals. But except for them, it is not permissible to eat the animals slaughtered by those who do not believe in Allah. But if they serve other food, you can eat it. If they made yoghurt, cheese, or bread you can eat them.
But sacrificing is another issue because there you have to slaughter for Allah, in the name of Allah. There is a wisdom, there is a living being - when you slaughter you have to mention Allah's name. If you mention His name it will be clean. When you do not mention, it is dirty, you cannot eat it. You have to be careful about it. Of course the Muslims today most of them are careful about it, even the ones who stay away from religion most of them are careful about it. There are some people who do not care. May Allah correct them. Because when you slaughter an animal in the name of Allah it gives light to the body, cure, and
benefit. But the one slaughtered in another way, brings sickness and darkness.
You may eat other food. They brought cheese from Tabuk for our Prophet (sas). Our Prophet (sas) cut it and ate it. Cheese is permissible or not permissible, there are some strict people, who push the limits. We heard this argument a couple of times "Vinegar is not permissible" they said. There is a Hadith of the Prophet (sas) about vinegar. It is such a nice dressing. It is a cure and a blessing. There are such people they make permissible things forbidden. What do they say? Vinegar is made first from alcohol then they make this, that. None of your business. Look at the result. Look what the Prophet (sas) says. So, there are so many examples like this. They fall into sin by saying they know all about unnecessary things and also they give people trouble. They confuse people. You have to be careful. You can eat what Allah made permissible. By saying the Basmala, it may be healing inshaAllah. It may be light. You have to eat it with that intention so that it may help you to worship Allah - May it give power, light, and heal us.
Prophet (sas), said the most wrong thing, and it is punished, the most biggest sin, to say to people this, what is not a sin, is a sin - for their benefit. Many people do this. They can say for some halal or ok thing - it is wrong and you'll be punished for this (when) it is Allah who made it halal, nothing wrong with this. Many people, they are doing this, and it is the biggest (sin). Prophet (sas) was angry with this people, he said, it is the biggest sin because when Allah, Allah putting what is good, what is not good; what is sin, what is good. You cannot put by yourself. Everything Allah, explain for us what is we can eat, what we can drink. It is openly seen, we can, Muslim people, they can eat from all human being's food like cheese, milk, bread - but not meat.
Meat only from Christian and Jewish we can eat. Why? Because, they are believe in God and they are slaughtering by Name of God, of Allah. And why wisdom? Because, there is in this animal - soul. When they cut, it must be believer cutting, not unbeliever, who not believe in Allah. When, because it is, this soul is coming from Allah, it must give go also same to Allah, to make this animal to be eaten. Of course, we can eat, everybody can eat. But when you eat without mentioning Name of Allah, it is become dirty. When you eat dirty meat, you be ill, you be stressed, you be every badness, every darkness coming on you. But when you eat with remember, mentioning Name of Allah, this give you power, give you light, give you more happiness. The people, they are not understanding this. So, we can eat unbeliever food. We can eat
only, as we mentioned, without meat, this people's only milk, cheese or other. Because Prophet (sas), they was bringing him cheese from Tabuk near Jordan. He was eating and no problem for this. Many people (sa) this cheese like this, like that. No, cheese you can eat. Milk also, but not meat. And you must be careful because giving you heaviness, giving you worries So, many Muslim people, most of them they are careful for this, but some of them, it is not important for them. So, they can, they have their own responsibility. Allah show them the road, right way. Prophet (sas) also, showing them and after this, now, you cannot force anybody. Only, we giving advice and the right thing openly showing.
Prophet (sas) said : "Don't ask too much". Don't be very, searching too much, because sons of Israil, they were asking many questions from their prophets and they take burden. Allah not ordering them but, by themselves, they bring this heaviness for themselves. Many thing (were) not order for them but when they ask you must do this. Even this story of cow.
One of the son of Israil, they was killing someone, they find one murdered one. And after, they don't know who do this and asking their Prophet and he said: "Bring one, cut one cow and only hit by this cow. This is dead man and he will wake up and he will speak to you who kill me. They said :"Oh, it is what colour it must be this?" They said, "it must be yellow." After -"Of course, there is many yellow cows, how it must be?" "It must be like this" he said, "nice, very gentle." After, again asking. He said : "It must be never going out from their owner, and she was very spoiled" and they find after this. But first cow, they can buy maybe for one gold. When they find this one, Allah by His Wisdom tell this boy, he was orphan and he was good man, he said you must ask full of (to fill) this skin of cow, (with) gold. And they was giving this.
After, they find they was like this. They putting on themselves. For this, Prophet (sas) saying: "Don't ask too much to be, to bring your responsibility for yourself. Only take easy thing. It is, Alhamdulillah, good for us. Prophet (sas) make everything easy for Ummat Muhammad Allah make His Blessing on us inshaAllah
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
134.ALLAH GUIDES WHO HE WILLS
Wednesday, July 29, 2015.
Madad ya Mashaikhina dastur, Sheikh Abdullah Faiz Dagestani, Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani madad. Tariqatuna s-sohbah wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Our Sheikh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani left Cyprus for education. Then after his education, he went to Damascus and met his Sheikh. When he returned to Cyprus, he was probably 22-23 years old. This means Sheikh Effendi served people in Cyprus for 70 years. He served by showing the way of Allah. A lady came here the other day. She asked "Why don't these people know anything about faith and religion? All of you in the dergah know how to pray. Tell the people outside about it."
We said that Sheikh Effendi tried for 70 years. He served these people day and night. It's the wisdom of Allah. Allah writes about His wisdom in Qur'an. "Innaka la tahdi man ahbabta walakinna Allaha yahdi man yashau" (28:56) You can't guide those whom you love. Allah guides whomever He wills. Therefore, nothing can be done. As long as Allah doesn't wish it, nothing happens. So Allah didn't want these people to be guided and they strayed. Are we happy about this situation? No, we are not. If they recognize Allah, come to the way of Allah, and carry out Allah's orders, we will be much happier. But a great Sultan like Sheikh Effendi tried and he brought the world to become Muslim, Sheikh Effendi made Muslims from those whose, not 7, but 70 ancestors were unbelievers. But he couldn't make people here believe.
Allah's will happens. Nothing else. This is a manifestation of that ayah. Allah guides whom He wills and doesn't guide whom He doesn't will. The blind man cannot see the sun. What can you do with him? Sheikh Effendi was here for 70 years and went around giving talks and travelled around on foot and by car, by bus and on animals. Nothing worked. What Allah wanted happened. Sheikh Effendi could do this much. He couldn't go beyond Allah's order even if he is sultan or whatever. Therefore, may Allah not deprive us of this favour. This is the biggest favour. Because Allah gives it to whom He loves - Allah guides and gives to the one He loves, not to the one you love. May Allah give guidance to these people. There's nothing else to be said.
Once Sheikh Effendi told about the Bani Israel. Musa alaihi salam went up on Mt. Sinai. Allah told them "Go to this city, you will live in comfort there". They said "We are afraid. You go with your Lord and fight them. Then call us and we will come". When they said so, Allah left all of them in that desert. They walked around and kept coming back to the same place. After they were gone, a new generation came and they entered the city. InshaAllah we have a new generation now, and it will be a better one replacing the old one inshaAllah. This is our hope. Allah is able to do everything. He does what He wills.
Mawlana Sheikh, he beginning to travelling to Cyprus... He left Cyprus, he went to Istanbul. He study in University. After left university, coming to Damascus to his Sheikh. And when he come back to Cyprus, he was around 23 years old. So he was in Cyprus 70 years. He was calling people to the Way of Light, Way of Allah, Prophet, for Islam. 70 years he was calling them. He is like Sayyidina... Sometimes I'm thinking he's like Sayyidina Nuh, Noah. And what Sayyidina Nuh he said after? "O Allah, don't leave anybody from these people. They will not bring any good people - if they will bring - only unbeliever, not good people". But Mawlana, he was merciful, he didn't say this.
What he said: they are like Bani Isra'il who said to Sayyidina Musa, "Go you and your Lord and fight and when you are winned call us and we go to this area". And these people Mawlana was saying they... Nobody left from there, 40 years they was in desert, they cannot go out of the desert. This, morning coming, they said, "O, today we will go". Nighttime they are coming same place. Forty years until everybody was dying, even Sayyidina Musa (as) he was passed away also. New generation, they become good generation, they went to this city. Mawlana Sheikh he was saying this, in this, old generation they was really not good people. So inshaAllah, new generation will be good people, inshaAllah.
Mawlana's baraka, inshaAllah will be, because his dua, he not making dua, to not be anybody. But what is the wisdom from this? This is Allah Azza wa Jalla saying: you cannot bring people who you love them to Right Way, what you love them. Only Allah what He want, He bring them.(28:56) Mawlana he was here 70 year. He's there, people they are going worse and worse. But he's bring non-Muslim - no any ancestor they are Muslim, he bring them to Islam. 1,000, 100,000 people coming to Islam by his hand. Even more than whole Cyprus population he bring to Islam. But in Cyprus he couldn't do anything.
And there was one lady, last, before 3 days she come here, she was complaining. She said, "You are in dergah only. I saw Muslim in dergah. Outside dergah, nobody Muslim. You must try to make these people. Why you not calling to Islam?" I said, he is Sultan, Sheikh Nazim, 70 year couldn't do anything. What we can do? Allah He don't want it. When He want, they will come inshaAllah. InshaAllah, give hidayah [guidance] for every people, inshaAllah. And to be our generation on Right Way, inshaAllah. To be all, who their ancestor they was in good way, to follow their ancestor by baraka of them, dua of them inshaAllah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha
135.YOUR FUTURE THE NEXT LIFE Thursday, July 30, 2015.
Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Allah created mankind. People think they will live forever. MashAllah with our brothers they cut the grass in the garden everyday. We cleaned all the gardens of Lefke mashaAllah. We cleaned it 1 month ago, 1 month later it is the same length. You cut it, it grows again. It goes on like this until the Day of Judgment. Allah creates some people, they die. First they are young, they mature, then they get old and they die. Other people replace them. Generation after generation are coming. There should be good generations.
Do not think that we will live forever, we will do good deeds when we get old. That is in Allah's hand. You try to be a beneficial and a good one from the beginning, so that you won't regret in the future. And do not to say in the next life "I wish I had done good." It is meaningless then.
I sometimes read the books of the holy ones - there are signs for good things in everything. Even if you only read the beginning of the book, there is a lesson to learn. The other day I was reading a book of Awliya Chelebi. It was a small book, I did not find the chance to read it all. I could only look at the introduction. He was born in Unkapan in 1611 or 1612. He died around 1680. He travelled a lot, all the Islamic countries, also Europe. He went everywhere, even he died hundreds of years ago. How many generations came after him. So this world is in need of good people. Try to do good all the time.
Like we said, you are not the only one, who has been created. Allah is Khallaq, this means the Creator. It is an eternal attribute. Not only us, there were people before us and there will be people coming after us. Even after the Day of Judgment, after we go to heaven or hell - this is not going to stop. Allah is the Creator. He creates continuously. Nobody can grasp the majesty of Allah, nobody's mind can go beyond a limit. It is beyond the limits of the mind. It does not fit into limits. Your mind is not even like an atom compared to His majesty and power. So let's thank Allah. Let's continue in the right path. May Allah guide the ones, who go astray. InshaAllah they come to the right path.
We are working every day alhamdulillah with our brothers. Mawlana said too, it is for Allah work. Allah reward. And we since maybe 40 days, everybody coming here, they going, cutting grass. All garden, Lefke garden they finished, they clean from grass. Before 40 days, now
coming again. When cutting, it will come again inshaAllah. When cutting, coming again. It is continuous. This is life like this. Not only we are created and finished, and we will live forever now in this world? No. Like this grass, you will be baby boy, after you will be young, after you'll be man, after you'll be old man. And you finish, and coming again another people. Another people like this until Qiyama. So we must be appreciate the time and what we are in not to leave any minute without remembering Allah.
And there were people, they were living before us. And after us maybe. We don't know. Maybe. Because Qiyama, it is... But until that time Allah knows. Everything sometimes you find, you look some new wisdom. No time for me to read book but sometimes I look from page. And even in page you can find some wisdom. Last day I saw one... he is Awliyaullah, they call Awliya Chelebi who is traveller. He was seeing Prophet (saw) in his life, in dream and he asked him to make shafa'a. But he make it to make shafa'a sayahat (travelling) he said. So he was travelling all around countries, Europe and Ottoman Empire, other place. He went around all. And just I was looking, not reading inside. He was born in Istanbul year of 1612 or 12 I think. And he passed away 1680. Something like this. And he was travelling all these. And he had huge book about his travelling. And he was this long life and seeing everything. Also he was leaving this world. Not before nearly more than 300 years. After him coming many millions of people. Coming, going out; coming, passing away. Coming, passing away. The important here to be your future not this world. Future the next life. This is what important. And this, people not understanding this. They saw, looking very short, looking "My future here, and I must be study and get good job to get this and that." And trying to do this. Many people they cannot even do what they planned. But most important,future next life. This is showing us coming generation, going other. Coming and going. And the winner who they are accepting Allah's order. And Allah He is Creator. His name Khallaq meaning Creator. He create everything, everybody. And it is continuous. Before us also there were many Adams, Mawlana Sheikh saying. And after us, it will be also. When we going to after Judgment day we go to eternal life, Allah He continue to create another people also to make for them also Judgment day. It is like this. And the greatness of Allah nobody can reach by mind. Our mind, it is less than one atom in front of greatness of Allah. And He is doing. And His name Khallaq, He is continuous, not stopping. Until when? It is not your business. You cannot put any idea from with Allah. Only we are weak people, weak creatures. Only we are thankful for Allah He
put us in this life and He give us good guidance to be under guidance of our Prophet (saw) and accepting His order. This is very important. Alhamdulillah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
136.YOU HONOUR WHOM YOU WILL (3:26)
Friday, July 31, 2015.
Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur'an Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi rRahmani r-Rahim. "Quli llahumma malika l-mulki tu'ti l-mulka man tasha'u wa tanzi'u lmulka min man tasha'u wa tu'izzu man tasha'u wa tudhillu man tasha'u bi yadika l-khayru innaka 'ala kulli shayin qadir."(3:26) Allah is saying that sovereignty is in the hands of Allah. Allah gives to whom He wills. He can make someone Sultan or a minister. He can give to whom He likes and not give to whom He doesn't wish. There are millions of people who wished to become a president or a prime minister when they were kids. They always think like this when they are kids. But Allah Azza wa Jalla gives to whom He wishes.
Wealth is in Allah's hands. He gives to whom He likes. Allah raises up whomever He wishes. Whoever is raised and honoured by Allah, nobody can dishonour him. And nobody can make the one who is dishonoured by Him to be honourable. He can have the whole world, people will still look at him as a bad one. And this depends on the things he does. If a person is running a bad place - Sheikh Effendi used to call these people with one word - that person will never escape this dishonour in his life. But a person on the way of Allah, who works for Allah, will always walk with his head high. Even if people don't like him, they will still respect him for sticking to the right. He brings benefit to people. Even his enemies will respect him. Despite their animosity, something can happen that they respect him. What we mean by respect is those people raised by Allah.
But as we said, those not good people can have as many possessions as they want, they will still not be acceptable in the eyes of other people. Everyone can approach them for money matters. This is different. Being raised in rank by Allah is different. A person who dishonours himself for this world has no mind because he deceives himself. People deceive him too. People who seem to love him can leave him in a moment. Allah created ego and shaitan in order for people to fight them and be raised. As long as they don't follow them, they'll be raised. If they follow them, they'll fall and be dishonoured.
Most people follow their egos. Why do they do this? Because it is easier for them. It appears as if it is easy. Following the ego and its desires seems easy to people. Whereas, in fact, it is not easy. When a person wants to do goodness, his ego opposes and makes difficulties. Therefore, it's easier to do bad things for people.
There is an ayat al-karima - most people are not guided and not on the right way. Those on the way of Allah are in the minority. And that is a benefit from Allah, His gift to people who are on the right way. It's not bad to be on the right way, real best thing is that. They are chosen servants of Allah. Allah gave respect and honor to those people and raised them. As we read in the ayat al-karima, Allah gives to whom He wills, and doesn't to whom He doesn't wish. Who are on the right way have gained that honor. Shukr to Allah. May Allah not separate from the right way and give guidance to people. The more people are guided, the more blessings and mercy will come to this world.
Because for coming against Allah, even in old times Allah used to take revenge for it. He vanished some people. But after the time of our Prophet He made them disturb each other. Therefore, if a disaster happens, it means something is wrong. Disasters happen when people are not in peace. The more we are on the right way now, the more mercy and blessings will come to us inshaAllah. Allah Azza wa Jalla saying in this surah - He has everything in His Hand. The power to be in... like president, or to be king or to be what the highest place - it is by order of Allah. He, His Will make these people to come to this position. No, without His will they cannot be. We are seeing millions of people when some election coming nearly 10 million people they try to be in power. And they take down, down, down, until they maybe 5 thousand people. After they make election they very few people coming. But this also from Allah.
If He want, take you to make you high. And to make you this, not important. The most important after this - To make you honourable. Allah make people honourable, and make people not good, not honourable. This also in Allah's will. Who make you honourable? Nobody can make you honorable except Allah. He make you good man, honourable man, Allah make that. But if He make - He not happy with you and make you dishonourable people, nobody can make you high. Allah only,if He like. But people, they are not understanding this. They thought it is by themself, especially who was coming to power.
Power of course, also with Allah but there is people in power, honourable people and there is dishonourable people in power also. So must be to be loved to Allah, to be honourable one, to be obeying Him. But if you are not honourable nobody can make you honourable and acceptable. People maybe they are obliged to be with him but even this, they are not respecting him. Who he is dishonourable, no respect for him. Nobody can be respect him and he will be never respected. This is ayah, what we read, and it is very important. Because many people they trying everything to get something. The most important thing here, to be honourable and acceptable in Divine Presence. And if you are acceptable there, everybody respect you, even they are enemy, or they don't like you, they also, you be respected.
But it never mind to be not loved, but the important thing, to be respected one. When you are respected, this meaning you have good manner, good action, everything what Allah like. It is small ayah but giving what we are in this century, these days, very rare. Very rare for whole people. But there is also, but even these people they are not, no people they're knowing them. The most people they are following their ego and they are following shaitan, easy way. This is, if you follow them you will be dishonourable. And if you coming against them, you be honourable one.
Allah make us to be with these honourable people, inshaAllah; to make our sultan, our president also to be, to stay in this way, inshaAllah. Allah give them this ability. Because when people not following this, Allah not happy with them. And it is not good to be enemy of Allah because Allah, you cannot fight Him. He send for you every punishment. You don't know from where coming this punishment. It is not easy so we are happy to people to be honourable people and respected people and obeying for Allah. When they are more and more, we are more happy, inshaAllah. Baraka, rahmah, mercy coming from Allah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
137.RESPECT AND GOOD MANNERS
Saturday, August 1, 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, dastur, Shaykh Abdullah Faizi d-Daghistani, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur, madad. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Allah Azza wa Jalla, His Mightiness is beyond comprehension of course. "How did Allah do this? How did Allah do that?" asking such questions is foolishness, more than misbehaving. Because Allah is the Creator. He creates what He wills, He knows how He created. Some people, who are in Islamic Studies say that they are Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jama'a but they go in the opposite direction. They are busy with useless things, they are engaged in useless things. They are asking how is this, how is that? It is good to ask and learn. Some people ask in order to learn, may Allah bless them. May Allah make their minds clear. InshaAllah they learn.
Half of knowledge comes by asking, they say. You should ask what you don't know, in order to get benefit, not in order to object or to prove that you are more clever than the other people. Sometimes they teach for getting benefit. Most of them are from these countries - they go to Mecca & Medina to study. The teaching is different there of course. But still if Allah wills they get knowledge from there also. If your intention is to please Allah Allah opens for you. They also respect the Saints, respect the Prophets. They learn good manners. Sometimes they get knowledge, they learn Quran, Hadith. But besides these, good manners are very important.
Some people ask: "Is the Prophet created from light or clay?" Clay, take a handful of clay if Allah puts light in it, with Allah's power it also becomes holy. Our Prophet (sas) is also created from clay. "Just like you I'm also created from clay" He (sas) says. But of course Allah gave everyone a secret. Our Prophet is also light (nur). He (sas) is the light for humanity, for the universe. It is good to ask and learn about this.
Some of the things they teach are limiting Allah's greatness. That is not nice. If you limit Allah's greatness like this it is dangerous for you. "wa la ya'udduhu hifdhuhuma" (2:255) Nothing can limit Allah, He does not fit in any limits. Allah does as He likes, creates what He wills, removes what He wills.
Do not enter to inessential things. Saying "this hadith is reliable, that hadith is not reliable". No! There are obvious things. Our Prophet (sas) is the Last Prophet, Allah's beloved servant. Throughout Quran our Prophet (sas) is praised. If He is not light, is it possible? He turned darkness into light. Now they claim they teach knowledge but instead they teach ignorance. Good manners is very important besides knowledge. Good manners is learned through Tariqa. There is no other way. Otherwise "I'm this, I'm that" people say. There is no respect and no good manners. How we address each other - they address our Prophet (sas) in the same way, it occurs to them to do this. Because what Tariqa or Ahlu s-Sunnah teaches is not shirk (attributing partners to Allah). It is good manners. They mix good manners with shirk. Good manners and paying respect is not shirk. Knowing our limit is not shirk.
We are weak servants. What do we do? What is our worship? What is our submission? That's why we say "May Allah accept our prayers for the sake of the Holy ones." When we say like this, it is not shirk. It is good manners. Otherwise when you do not say it, you fall in doubt if the Prophet (sas) is created from clay or light? This is the difference. They do not understand it. If they ask they may understand. We saw young ones studying there. Thanks to Allah. They studied in Mecca and Medina. Scholars may think they taught according to their way of thinking. But if Allah wants these students will come to way of good manners. Many more good people will come. May Allah not deprive us of good manners.
Mawlana always used to say good manners, good manners. Good manners is important. When you do not have good manners it is useless. You will be small. You will get mad at people. You see everyone as an enemy We want everyone to be brothers and sisters. We want everyone to come to guidance. We do not say to Muslims or anyone - "you are unbeliever or mushrik". All are on Allah's way, they are all Allah's servants. They give their own accounting to Allah.
There are people asking and they are not understanding what they are asking. They are wondering. But there's, Alhamdulillah, some people
asking for knowledge. Some people asking to make you down too, something like this. These people also from every kind of people, especially who are studying Islamic Studies nowadays, because these days there is a separation between Tariqa and this, Islamic Study. Who are studying in Islamic high school or university or college, they are looking at Tariqa people as if they are ignorant and they are in wrong way. But some of them they are wondering and curious to know the reality. So who asking for this, Allah help him, Allah He open for him.
Some of them studying in this area, some of them studying specially in like Medina, Mecca, jami'ya ummu l-qura they saying. There is of course more tough and more against Tariqa. They are saying for themself, "Salafi" or following mazhab wahabi. These people they asking something, they thought they are very clever. They asking something it is really funny. There was asking one of them, for Prophet, is he light or he is earth? This is what they asking. It is really making, they put the Lord, Allah Azza wa Jalla in border, limit. Allah He is the Greatest. He is the Most Magnificent. He is, your mind cannot be reach any thing from HIs Might. He is able to do everything, He will not ask you "what I will do, what I will not do". If Allah want He put light in stone. Everywhere He can put light. But these people just thinking very narrow.
And this is difference between these people and Tariqa people. Tariqa people they are respecting and giving good manner, teaching good manner. These people they can teach Quran, they can teach hadith. They all, they know by heart Quran, they know 100,000 hadith by heart but they don't have respect. They don't have good manner so it is not complete. They must complete this with that manner, good manner and respect. And when we are doing respect and we are in good manner, they say "You are mushrik (idol worshipper), you are kafir." That's what they are mixing because they don't know anything for good manner or good respecting. So when you make respect Prophet (sas) or you respect Awliyaullah, they said "You are mushrik".
This is what thinking, wrong thinking. We are saying for them - we are happy with whole people and we love human being and all Muslim to become in right way. But these people who are outside of Tariqa and Ahl us-Sunnah wa l-Jama'a, they are full of hate. They hate Sahaba, some of them hate Ahl ul-Bayt. But Ahl us-Sunnah wa l-Jama'a they respect and they have good manner and they are not judge with any of this matter. And we are love whole Muslims and we accept because Prophet (sas) said: "Who said, La ilaha illa Allah Muhammad
RasulAllah, he will be come to Jannah" but these people they are not accepting this. They are saying "You are mushrik, you are in Jehannam (hell), all". No, this is difference between us and the majority in Muslim World as Prophet (sas) Ahl us-Sunnah wa l-Jama'a and many of them following Tariqa also.
Tariqa it is very important to these people who are studying, specially study Islamic Studies to be, give them what they are not have to complete their personality, to be very good alim and to be good guidance for people. Because people now, they are following very bad people and they are thinking they are doing good but they are doing bad. Allah give us this understanding, inshaAllah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
138.THE GREATEST MIRACLE Saturday, August 1, 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, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohba, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyya.
Our tariqat exists thanks to sohba, association, and goodness lies within the assembly. These people have assembled here for Allah's sake. They carry out the other demands of the tariqat, we also try to carry out what Allah has commanded. It has been quite a while since we met. I mean, we met, but we have not been able to come here to this meeting. May Allah be pleased, these meetings continue to be held, and here we are at the Haji Anne mosque. Our brothers assemble here, thanks to Allah, every week, is it, or once a month? Once a week?
M: Every week, every Saturday.
ShM: Masha'Allah, every Saturday an assembly takes place here, of Allah's very beloved servants who come here for Allah's sake. Continuity is important, Sheikh Efendi used to say. Ajallu l-karamat dawamu t-tawfiq The greatest of miracles is continuity.
Some people are described as whimsical or fickle. One day you see the guy praying day and night. You see him, day and night, bearing a burden he cannot carry, and then he drops it. That is not good. It is good to do what you are able to do, even if it is only a little, but to persevere in this. To take on a great load, to do a lot and then to suddenly dump it, is not good. This is not a matter of a day or two. Allah's way leads us all the way to our grave, to the end of our lives. We must walk in it accordingly. To do something one day, to run at top speed for not even 10 meters, and then break down in fatigue, that is no good. Go along at a slow pace, but right up to the end.
Because this path is not an easy path. There are many obstacles, many hindrances. Initially the biggest obstacle is our nafs, as the Holy Prophet has said: Your greatestenemy is your nafs, your lower soul. Sometimes you see people who are progressing nicely, but suddenly abandon all their practices. May Allah not make us to be like that. As a
man who is running in a race, and just as he is about to reach his goal he is comes to a standstill and is beaten, losing the race.
Do not say: All my life I have been good, I am all right. Man is constantly at war with his nafs. Nafs and shaytan are non-stop trying to bring man down. Therefore, continuity is important. Perseverance furthers. The services you perform, let them be constant. That will bring a whole different kind of blessing.
We have now reached a certain age and have accompanied Sheikh Efendi on many ways. So we have witnessed a great many people who lost out to their nafs. What happened? Well, he begins to make excuses, he could not say of himself: my nafs became strong and overcame me. This happened, that happened - he begins to talk of irrelevant matters. In Sheikh Efendi's presence this man says: I could not stand it because of this and that.. What do you have to endure? Sheikh Efendi endures it, does he ask you to come and tolerate this? That kind of thing he cannot bear it because he is fully under the control of his nafs; he doesn't overcome his nafs and say "my nafs overcame me", but rather he makes excuses, finds faults in other people.
Finding fault is easily done. What is important is to find the faults in your own nafs. It is not a good thing to find fault in other people. Thanks to Allah, with Sheikh Efendi's himma, with his encouragement, this happened in hundreds, even in thousands of cases. His himma continues even now. Those on the path, those who obediently carry on in the way of Allah, will come out on top, they will have won. Anywhere in the world you can find them. Wherever we go, you feel surrounded by the same atmosphere. It might be a cold place, it might be a hot place, wherever it is, whichever one of Sheikh Efendi's dergahs you happen to go to - and many people say this - you feel no strangeness, it is the same familiar thing. One resembles the other. There are differences of course, but there is no foreign feeling. That is because he addressed himself to people's souls, and brought gladness to people's souls. Otherwise, you may find wildness, brutality.
In some other places you feel fear or some kind of distress. In these dergahs there is no such thing. There is familiarity and affection. May Allah increase the number of such places, insha'Allah. This is the sign that these places are not empty. Even from the times of our Holy Prophet, these are places that have come with this training, with this blessing. The home of our Holy Prophet, sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam, when he lived in Mecca, even before his prophethood was
revealed, the house of his blessed wife Khadija, was like a dergah. People came and went, came to visit, then the children growing up within the house, for instance Hazreti Ali grew up in the house of the Holy Prophet. Khadija was as a mother to him. He grew up with that training. Later on Hazreti Zubayr, Hazreti Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, whose father died when he was two years old - his mother was Safiya Khanum, who was the Holy Prophet's paternal aunt. He also grew up in that home. He grew up in the Prophet's house.
These are heroes of Islam. Zayd, the adopted son of our Holy Prophet, he also grew up in the house and under the care of Khadija. They were trained and educated in this wonderful way. They learned from our mother Khadija good manners, morality, generosity and all manner of goodness. From our Holy Prophet they received enlightenment and spiritual bounty, heroism, bravery, to speak the truth, to accept nothing but the truth - this they learnt and employed in the service of Islam. We try to make our dergah resemble their homes. Therefore these are important places, dergahs, mosques, tariqats - they all reach back to the Holy Prophet. His blessing is upon them. Therefore, there is love and affection in these places. Their secret goes all the way back to those times. There is blessing on them, for those coming to visit as well as for the country in which they are located, there are blessings, by the leave of Allah.
May Allah be pleased with all of you. This is enough for tonight; let us do the dhikr now, there are many families here with children. May Allah protect you all. May thechildren who are here now, insha'Allah have the blessing of our Holy Prophet, and may they be as the children who grew up under his care, and become heroes of Islam, insha'Allah. May they grow to be defenders of Islam, who fear Allah and will give everything for Allah. Their souls, may they be elevated, insha'Allah. May we all have therespect and love of our Holy Prohet, insha'Allah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
139.BUT YOU FORGOT THEM (20:126)
Sunday, August 2, 2015.
Madad ya Mashaykhina, dastur. Madad ya Sheikh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur'an. Audhu billahi min ash- shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani rRahim. "Wa man a'rada 'an dhikrī fa`inna lahu ma'īshatan dankan wa nahshuruhu yawma lqiyamati a'man" (20:124)
Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying "Whoever turns away from Me, I will give him a troubled life in this life, and on the Day of Judgment I will resurrect him blind." People should ask help from Allah when they want to do something. A man should ask help from Allah when he wants to do goodness. He should start it with Bismillah and dua and ask for good prayers from other people. People nowadays have lost humanity. People in old times were respectful, even though they didn't know much about religion. They would do certain things with good prayers. And they knew what a bad deed is. When they did wrong things, they didn't ask for Allah's help. They were ignorant people but still more thoughtful.
Nowadays most people have no thinking or sensitivity. All of them became like concrete, rude and rough. They don't understand at all. Old people, as we said, didn't recite Bismillah when they were going to commit sin. We see in some things those people had weak faith but although it was very weak, it was still stronger than the faith of people now. When doing wrong, they would say "May your shaitan get plenty". They knew they did wrong and not good. That's why they said so and then asked forgiveness from Allah. Those people knew they were obeying shaitan and not Allah. That means they had a little bit of faith in their hearts. People nowadays know nothing about it. They do the best things and even when they do the best thing, marrying, alcohol flows like water. Then you hear they got divorced after a couple of months. Of course, they will because you didn't start a good thing with Bismillah. You did it with lots of shaitans.
And you don't know there's shaitan, because there is no faith, because there is no belief at all. People ask why it happens. Allah Azza wa Jalla has said "Who turns away from Me, I will make their lives a poison and
they will become blind on the Day of Judgment." Why will they be blind? Because Allah gave eyes in this world, and they didn't see. And in Akhira, He says "You didn't see, so you don't need eyes. Be blind." These people, as we said, left faith and have no comprehension. When there is faith, there is light and understanding. These people have none of it. Allah made it to remind people. Wearing Muslim clothes around could serve as a reminder to people and bring some understanding.
Otherwise, people leave not only Islam, but also humanity.
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an's attribute. Laziness is not a good attribute for a human being. It is a disliked characteristic. Neither Allah, nor the Prophets nor the Saints like laziness.
Allah Azza wa Jalla shows us the good way but people are trying to escape from their responsibility. They are making excuses. This is, what they are doing, it is only to show they are ignorant. There was time of Prophet (sas). Prophet said this is time of first ignorance. These people, they were some of them reading, some of them... But they who are outside of belief, all they were calling ignorant people. Ignorance time. Why? Because they are not knowing Creator Allah Azza wa Jalla. And this is what is description of ignorance. If you know all university knowledge, it is not knowledge. Only if not showing you the Creator, only making you to be more ignorant.
And now second ignorance time. That time, they were, they are believing in creators. But they make many of gods. But this time they are denying the Creator. And it is worse than time of Prophet (sas). Ignorance is not knowing the reality, only looking for theory. And it is most of time, this theory cannot be right because the Creator is Allah, not these people. These people only making theory. But when Allah He not putting His will in this thing what they are thinking, this theory it will work, it never works. Just sitting there in book. And these people, they are thinking it is real and it was all false.
Only Allah, the Creator - if He said "Be" for this theory, it can work. But when these people speaking in university, in everywhere, in paper, in school, you thought it is real. It is... Maybe only from 1,000 one you can find one of this theory work. And even this, if Allah wants it to work, not these ignorant people. They are all ignorant, when they are not believing in God. And Allah show them many things. But many of them believer, but they are putting only non-believer to show, make people to follow ignorance in this time. And Allah Azza wa Jalla, He is calling people "Don't follow these. Only follow the reality, the knowledge, real knowledge. Follow Prophet. Follow way of Allah".
Even when you follow, you must pray. Even not praying, maybe you can say Allah, you can say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. But every day you don't forget the Creator. You do as much you can do. To do something, it is better from to not do anything. Even very small thing you do, it is ok also. But if you don't do anything, this is bad for you because you cannot find any excuse for you, when Allah ask you "Why you didn't obey Me? Why you didn't respect Me? And I give you all this favour, all of this n'imah. Everything I give you, even you didn't say one thank you for Me." But it is... Who cannot pray or many people they are not knowing to pray. They are not learning, they are not teaching them, not learning. They cannot pray. We are saying if you don't know anything from praying, only just make like people who are praying. Say Allah, say Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim, say Allahu Akbar until you're learning. Slowly, slowly you can teach yourself. You will learn and you'll be baraka and to know why you are in this, you exist here. Many people, they are wondering why we are here, why we exist. They are wondering until they are dying they are not knowing.
We are telling them, you are here for to obey Allah, and Allah too, He is most merciful and He give you all this big favour for you.
You must know it and you must prepare yourself to not be lazy. Laziness it is the worst attribute. Allah not like it. Prophet not like it. Awliya not like it. People also not like lazy people. You must do something to be save yourself and to be under mercy of Allah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
133.DON’T ASK TOO MUCH
Monday, July 27, 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 Mashaykhina, dastur, Shaykh Abdullah Daghistani, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, madad. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Our Prophet (sas) says, the biggest sin is to tell people something is a sin when actually it is not, in order to benefit yourself. Allah showed us everything. He showed us what is Halal and what is Haram. For this reason only for your own benefit "telling people it is a sin, when it is not is the biggest sin" says our Prophet (sas). Allah Azza wa Jalla showed us the easy way. He also showed us what is forbidden, what is permissible.
What is forbidden is shown in Quran. "Other than that do not ask too much" says our Prophet (sas). Because the Bani Israel asked too much and in the end they became responsible for more than they can carry. Allah showed us. What is permissible to eat, what is forbidden to eat is clear. Forbidden is clear. When the People of The Book slaughter animals, their meat is permissible to eat because they believe in Allah. Jews, Christians, it is permissible to eat the meat of sacrificed animals. But except for them, it is not permissible to eat the animals slaughtered by those who do not believe in Allah. But if they serve other food, you can eat it. If they made yoghurt, cheese, or bread you can eat them.
But sacrificing is another issue because there you have to slaughter for Allah, in the name of Allah. There is a wisdom, there is a living being - when you slaughter you have to mention Allah's name. If you mention His name it will be clean. When you do not mention, it is dirty, you cannot eat it. You have to be careful about it. Of course the Muslims today most of them are careful about it, even the ones who stay away from religion most of them are careful about it. There are some people who do not care. May Allah correct them. Because when you slaughter an animal in the name of Allah it gives light to the body, cure, and
benefit. But the one slaughtered in another way, brings sickness and darkness.
You may eat other food. They brought cheese from Tabuk for our Prophet (sas). Our Prophet (sas) cut it and ate it. Cheese is permissible or not permissible, there are some strict people, who push the limits. We heard this argument a couple of times "Vinegar is not permissible" they said. There is a Hadith of the Prophet (sas) about vinegar. It is such a nice dressing. It is a cure and a blessing. There are such people they make permissible things forbidden. What do they say? Vinegar is made first from alcohol then they make this, that. None of your business. Look at the result. Look what the Prophet (sas) says. So, there are so many examples like this. They fall into sin by saying they know all about unnecessary things and also they give people trouble. They confuse people. You have to be careful. You can eat what Allah made permissible. By saying the Basmala, it may be healing inshaAllah. It may be light. You have to eat it with that intention so that it may help you to worship Allah - May it give power, light, and heal us.
Prophet (sas), said the most wrong thing, and it is punished, the most biggest sin, to say to people this, what is not a sin, is a sin - for their benefit. Many people do this. They can say for some halal or ok thing - it is wrong and you'll be punished for this (when) it is Allah who made it halal, nothing wrong with this. Many people, they are doing this, and it is the biggest (sin). Prophet (sas) was angry with this people, he said, it is the biggest sin because when Allah, Allah putting what is good, what is not good; what is sin, what is good. You cannot put by yourself. Everything Allah, explain for us what is we can eat, what we can drink. It is openly seen, we can, Muslim people, they can eat from all human being's food like cheese, milk, bread - but not meat.
Meat only from Christian and Jewish we can eat. Why? Because, they are believe in God and they are slaughtering by Name of God, of Allah. And why wisdom? Because, there is in this animal - soul. When they cut, it must be believer cutting, not unbeliever, who not believe in Allah. When, because it is, this soul is coming from Allah, it must give go also same to Allah, to make this animal to be eaten. Of course, we can eat, everybody can eat. But when you eat without mentioning Name of Allah, it is become dirty. When you eat dirty meat, you be ill, you be stressed, you be every badness, every darkness coming on you. But when you eat with remember, mentioning Name of Allah, this give you power, give you light, give you more happiness. The people, they are not understanding this. So, we can eat unbeliever food. We can eat
only, as we mentioned, without meat, this people's only milk, cheese or other. Because Prophet (sas), they was bringing him cheese from Tabuk near Jordan. He was eating and no problem for this. Many people (sa) this cheese like this, like that. No, cheese you can eat. Milk also, but not meat. And you must be careful because giving you heaviness, giving you worries So, many Muslim people, most of them they are careful for this, but some of them, it is not important for them. So, they can, they have their own responsibility. Allah show them the road, right way. Prophet (sas) also, showing them and after this, now, you cannot force anybody. Only, we giving advice and the right thing openly showing.
Prophet (sas) said : "Don't ask too much". Don't be very, searching too much, because sons of Israil, they were asking many questions from their prophets and they take burden. Allah not ordering them but, by themselves, they bring this heaviness for themselves. Many thing (were) not order for them but when they ask you must do this. Even this story of cow.
One of the son of Israil, they was killing someone, they find one murdered one. And after, they don't know who do this and asking their Prophet and he said: "Bring one, cut one cow and only hit by this cow. This is dead man and he will wake up and he will speak to you who kill me. They said :"Oh, it is what colour it must be this?" They said, "it must be yellow." After -"Of course, there is many yellow cows, how it must be?" "It must be like this" he said, "nice, very gentle." After, again asking. He said : "It must be never going out from their owner, and she was very spoiled" and they find after this. But first cow, they can buy maybe for one gold. When they find this one, Allah by His Wisdom tell this boy, he was orphan and he was good man, he said you must ask full of (to fill) this skin of cow, (with) gold. And they was giving this.
After, they find they was like this. They putting on themselves. For this, Prophet (sas) saying: "Don't ask too much to be, to bring your responsibility for yourself. Only take easy thing. It is, Alhamdulillah, good for us. Prophet (sas) make everything easy for Ummat Muhammad Allah make His Blessing on us inshaAllah
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
134.ALLAH GUIDES WHO HE WILLS
Wednesday, July 29, 2015.
Madad ya Mashaikhina dastur, Sheikh Abdullah Faiz Dagestani, Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani madad. Tariqatuna s-sohbah wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Our Sheikh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani left Cyprus for education. Then after his education, he went to Damascus and met his Sheikh. When he returned to Cyprus, he was probably 22-23 years old. This means Sheikh Effendi served people in Cyprus for 70 years. He served by showing the way of Allah. A lady came here the other day. She asked "Why don't these people know anything about faith and religion? All of you in the dergah know how to pray. Tell the people outside about it."
We said that Sheikh Effendi tried for 70 years. He served these people day and night. It's the wisdom of Allah. Allah writes about His wisdom in Qur'an. "Innaka la tahdi man ahbabta walakinna Allaha yahdi man yashau" (28:56) You can't guide those whom you love. Allah guides whomever He wills. Therefore, nothing can be done. As long as Allah doesn't wish it, nothing happens. So Allah didn't want these people to be guided and they strayed. Are we happy about this situation? No, we are not. If they recognize Allah, come to the way of Allah, and carry out Allah's orders, we will be much happier. But a great Sultan like Sheikh Effendi tried and he brought the world to become Muslim, Sheikh Effendi made Muslims from those whose, not 7, but 70 ancestors were unbelievers. But he couldn't make people here believe.
Allah's will happens. Nothing else. This is a manifestation of that ayah. Allah guides whom He wills and doesn't guide whom He doesn't will. The blind man cannot see the sun. What can you do with him? Sheikh Effendi was here for 70 years and went around giving talks and travelled around on foot and by car, by bus and on animals. Nothing worked. What Allah wanted happened. Sheikh Effendi could do this much. He couldn't go beyond Allah's order even if he is sultan or whatever. Therefore, may Allah not deprive us of this favour. This is the biggest favour. Because Allah gives it to whom He loves - Allah guides and gives to the one He loves, not to the one you love. May Allah give guidance to these people. There's nothing else to be said.
Once Sheikh Effendi told about the Bani Israel. Musa alaihi salam went up on Mt. Sinai. Allah told them "Go to this city, you will live in comfort there". They said "We are afraid. You go with your Lord and fight them. Then call us and we will come". When they said so, Allah left all of them in that desert. They walked around and kept coming back to the same place. After they were gone, a new generation came and they entered the city. InshaAllah we have a new generation now, and it will be a better one replacing the old one inshaAllah. This is our hope. Allah is able to do everything. He does what He wills.
Mawlana Sheikh, he beginning to travelling to Cyprus... He left Cyprus, he went to Istanbul. He study in University. After left university, coming to Damascus to his Sheikh. And when he come back to Cyprus, he was around 23 years old. So he was in Cyprus 70 years. He was calling people to the Way of Light, Way of Allah, Prophet, for Islam. 70 years he was calling them. He is like Sayyidina... Sometimes I'm thinking he's like Sayyidina Nuh, Noah. And what Sayyidina Nuh he said after? "O Allah, don't leave anybody from these people. They will not bring any good people - if they will bring - only unbeliever, not good people". But Mawlana, he was merciful, he didn't say this.
What he said: they are like Bani Isra'il who said to Sayyidina Musa, "Go you and your Lord and fight and when you are winned call us and we go to this area". And these people Mawlana was saying they... Nobody left from there, 40 years they was in desert, they cannot go out of the desert. This, morning coming, they said, "O, today we will go". Nighttime they are coming same place. Forty years until everybody was dying, even Sayyidina Musa (as) he was passed away also. New generation, they become good generation, they went to this city. Mawlana Sheikh he was saying this, in this, old generation they was really not good people. So inshaAllah, new generation will be good people, inshaAllah.
Mawlana's baraka, inshaAllah will be, because his dua, he not making dua, to not be anybody. But what is the wisdom from this? This is Allah Azza wa Jalla saying: you cannot bring people who you love them to Right Way, what you love them. Only Allah what He want, He bring them.(28:56) Mawlana he was here 70 year. He's there, people they are going worse and worse. But he's bring non-Muslim - no any ancestor they are Muslim, he bring them to Islam. 1,000, 100,000 people coming to Islam by his hand. Even more than whole Cyprus population he bring to Islam. But in Cyprus he couldn't do anything.
And there was one lady, last, before 3 days she come here, she was complaining. She said, "You are in dergah only. I saw Muslim in dergah. Outside dergah, nobody Muslim. You must try to make these people. Why you not calling to Islam?" I said, he is Sultan, Sheikh Nazim, 70 year couldn't do anything. What we can do? Allah He don't want it. When He want, they will come inshaAllah. InshaAllah, give hidayah [guidance] for every people, inshaAllah. And to be our generation on Right Way, inshaAllah. To be all, who their ancestor they was in good way, to follow their ancestor by baraka of them, dua of them inshaAllah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha
135.YOUR FUTURE THE NEXT LIFE Thursday, July 30, 2015.
Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Allah created mankind. People think they will live forever. MashAllah with our brothers they cut the grass in the garden everyday. We cleaned all the gardens of Lefke mashaAllah. We cleaned it 1 month ago, 1 month later it is the same length. You cut it, it grows again. It goes on like this until the Day of Judgment. Allah creates some people, they die. First they are young, they mature, then they get old and they die. Other people replace them. Generation after generation are coming. There should be good generations.
Do not think that we will live forever, we will do good deeds when we get old. That is in Allah's hand. You try to be a beneficial and a good one from the beginning, so that you won't regret in the future. And do not to say in the next life "I wish I had done good." It is meaningless then.
I sometimes read the books of the holy ones - there are signs for good things in everything. Even if you only read the beginning of the book, there is a lesson to learn. The other day I was reading a book of Awliya Chelebi. It was a small book, I did not find the chance to read it all. I could only look at the introduction. He was born in Unkapan in 1611 or 1612. He died around 1680. He travelled a lot, all the Islamic countries, also Europe. He went everywhere, even he died hundreds of years ago. How many generations came after him. So this world is in need of good people. Try to do good all the time.
Like we said, you are not the only one, who has been created. Allah is Khallaq, this means the Creator. It is an eternal attribute. Not only us, there were people before us and there will be people coming after us. Even after the Day of Judgment, after we go to heaven or hell - this is not going to stop. Allah is the Creator. He creates continuously. Nobody can grasp the majesty of Allah, nobody's mind can go beyond a limit. It is beyond the limits of the mind. It does not fit into limits. Your mind is not even like an atom compared to His majesty and power. So let's thank Allah. Let's continue in the right path. May Allah guide the ones, who go astray. InshaAllah they come to the right path.
We are working every day alhamdulillah with our brothers. Mawlana said too, it is for Allah work. Allah reward. And we since maybe 40 days, everybody coming here, they going, cutting grass. All garden, Lefke garden they finished, they clean from grass. Before 40 days, now
coming again. When cutting, it will come again inshaAllah. When cutting, coming again. It is continuous. This is life like this. Not only we are created and finished, and we will live forever now in this world? No. Like this grass, you will be baby boy, after you will be young, after you'll be man, after you'll be old man. And you finish, and coming again another people. Another people like this until Qiyama. So we must be appreciate the time and what we are in not to leave any minute without remembering Allah.
And there were people, they were living before us. And after us maybe. We don't know. Maybe. Because Qiyama, it is... But until that time Allah knows. Everything sometimes you find, you look some new wisdom. No time for me to read book but sometimes I look from page. And even in page you can find some wisdom. Last day I saw one... he is Awliyaullah, they call Awliya Chelebi who is traveller. He was seeing Prophet (saw) in his life, in dream and he asked him to make shafa'a. But he make it to make shafa'a sayahat (travelling) he said. So he was travelling all around countries, Europe and Ottoman Empire, other place. He went around all. And just I was looking, not reading inside. He was born in Istanbul year of 1612 or 12 I think. And he passed away 1680. Something like this. And he was travelling all these. And he had huge book about his travelling. And he was this long life and seeing everything. Also he was leaving this world. Not before nearly more than 300 years. After him coming many millions of people. Coming, going out; coming, passing away. Coming, passing away. The important here to be your future not this world. Future the next life. This is what important. And this, people not understanding this. They saw, looking very short, looking "My future here, and I must be study and get good job to get this and that." And trying to do this. Many people they cannot even do what they planned. But most important,future next life. This is showing us coming generation, going other. Coming and going. And the winner who they are accepting Allah's order. And Allah He is Creator. His name Khallaq meaning Creator. He create everything, everybody. And it is continuous. Before us also there were many Adams, Mawlana Sheikh saying. And after us, it will be also. When we going to after Judgment day we go to eternal life, Allah He continue to create another people also to make for them also Judgment day. It is like this. And the greatness of Allah nobody can reach by mind. Our mind, it is less than one atom in front of greatness of Allah. And He is doing. And His name Khallaq, He is continuous, not stopping. Until when? It is not your business. You cannot put any idea from with Allah. Only we are weak people, weak creatures. Only we are thankful for Allah He
put us in this life and He give us good guidance to be under guidance of our Prophet (saw) and accepting His order. This is very important. Alhamdulillah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
136.YOU HONOUR WHOM YOU WILL (3:26)
Friday, July 31, 2015.
Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur'an Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi rRahmani r-Rahim. "Quli llahumma malika l-mulki tu'ti l-mulka man tasha'u wa tanzi'u lmulka min man tasha'u wa tu'izzu man tasha'u wa tudhillu man tasha'u bi yadika l-khayru innaka 'ala kulli shayin qadir."(3:26) Allah is saying that sovereignty is in the hands of Allah. Allah gives to whom He wills. He can make someone Sultan or a minister. He can give to whom He likes and not give to whom He doesn't wish. There are millions of people who wished to become a president or a prime minister when they were kids. They always think like this when they are kids. But Allah Azza wa Jalla gives to whom He wishes.
Wealth is in Allah's hands. He gives to whom He likes. Allah raises up whomever He wishes. Whoever is raised and honoured by Allah, nobody can dishonour him. And nobody can make the one who is dishonoured by Him to be honourable. He can have the whole world, people will still look at him as a bad one. And this depends on the things he does. If a person is running a bad place - Sheikh Effendi used to call these people with one word - that person will never escape this dishonour in his life. But a person on the way of Allah, who works for Allah, will always walk with his head high. Even if people don't like him, they will still respect him for sticking to the right. He brings benefit to people. Even his enemies will respect him. Despite their animosity, something can happen that they respect him. What we mean by respect is those people raised by Allah.
But as we said, those not good people can have as many possessions as they want, they will still not be acceptable in the eyes of other people. Everyone can approach them for money matters. This is different. Being raised in rank by Allah is different. A person who dishonours himself for this world has no mind because he deceives himself. People deceive him too. People who seem to love him can leave him in a moment. Allah created ego and shaitan in order for people to fight them and be raised. As long as they don't follow them, they'll be raised. If they follow them, they'll fall and be dishonoured.
Most people follow their egos. Why do they do this? Because it is easier for them. It appears as if it is easy. Following the ego and its desires seems easy to people. Whereas, in fact, it is not easy. When a person wants to do goodness, his ego opposes and makes difficulties. Therefore, it's easier to do bad things for people.
There is an ayat al-karima - most people are not guided and not on the right way. Those on the way of Allah are in the minority. And that is a benefit from Allah, His gift to people who are on the right way. It's not bad to be on the right way, real best thing is that. They are chosen servants of Allah. Allah gave respect and honor to those people and raised them. As we read in the ayat al-karima, Allah gives to whom He wills, and doesn't to whom He doesn't wish. Who are on the right way have gained that honor. Shukr to Allah. May Allah not separate from the right way and give guidance to people. The more people are guided, the more blessings and mercy will come to this world.
Because for coming against Allah, even in old times Allah used to take revenge for it. He vanished some people. But after the time of our Prophet He made them disturb each other. Therefore, if a disaster happens, it means something is wrong. Disasters happen when people are not in peace. The more we are on the right way now, the more mercy and blessings will come to us inshaAllah. Allah Azza wa Jalla saying in this surah - He has everything in His Hand. The power to be in... like president, or to be king or to be what the highest place - it is by order of Allah. He, His Will make these people to come to this position. No, without His will they cannot be. We are seeing millions of people when some election coming nearly 10 million people they try to be in power. And they take down, down, down, until they maybe 5 thousand people. After they make election they very few people coming. But this also from Allah.
If He want, take you to make you high. And to make you this, not important. The most important after this - To make you honourable. Allah make people honourable, and make people not good, not honourable. This also in Allah's will. Who make you honourable? Nobody can make you honorable except Allah. He make you good man, honourable man, Allah make that. But if He make - He not happy with you and make you dishonourable people, nobody can make you high. Allah only,if He like. But people, they are not understanding this. They thought it is by themself, especially who was coming to power.
Power of course, also with Allah but there is people in power, honourable people and there is dishonourable people in power also. So must be to be loved to Allah, to be honourable one, to be obeying Him. But if you are not honourable nobody can make you honourable and acceptable. People maybe they are obliged to be with him but even this, they are not respecting him. Who he is dishonourable, no respect for him. Nobody can be respect him and he will be never respected. This is ayah, what we read, and it is very important. Because many people they trying everything to get something. The most important thing here, to be honourable and acceptable in Divine Presence. And if you are acceptable there, everybody respect you, even they are enemy, or they don't like you, they also, you be respected.
But it never mind to be not loved, but the important thing, to be respected one. When you are respected, this meaning you have good manner, good action, everything what Allah like. It is small ayah but giving what we are in this century, these days, very rare. Very rare for whole people. But there is also, but even these people they are not, no people they're knowing them. The most people they are following their ego and they are following shaitan, easy way. This is, if you follow them you will be dishonourable. And if you coming against them, you be honourable one.
Allah make us to be with these honourable people, inshaAllah; to make our sultan, our president also to be, to stay in this way, inshaAllah. Allah give them this ability. Because when people not following this, Allah not happy with them. And it is not good to be enemy of Allah because Allah, you cannot fight Him. He send for you every punishment. You don't know from where coming this punishment. It is not easy so we are happy to people to be honourable people and respected people and obeying for Allah. When they are more and more, we are more happy, inshaAllah. Baraka, rahmah, mercy coming from Allah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
137.RESPECT AND GOOD MANNERS
Saturday, August 1, 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, dastur, Shaykh Abdullah Faizi d-Daghistani, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, dastur, madad. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Allah Azza wa Jalla, His Mightiness is beyond comprehension of course. "How did Allah do this? How did Allah do that?" asking such questions is foolishness, more than misbehaving. Because Allah is the Creator. He creates what He wills, He knows how He created. Some people, who are in Islamic Studies say that they are Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jama'a but they go in the opposite direction. They are busy with useless things, they are engaged in useless things. They are asking how is this, how is that? It is good to ask and learn. Some people ask in order to learn, may Allah bless them. May Allah make their minds clear. InshaAllah they learn.
Half of knowledge comes by asking, they say. You should ask what you don't know, in order to get benefit, not in order to object or to prove that you are more clever than the other people. Sometimes they teach for getting benefit. Most of them are from these countries - they go to Mecca & Medina to study. The teaching is different there of course. But still if Allah wills they get knowledge from there also. If your intention is to please Allah Allah opens for you. They also respect the Saints, respect the Prophets. They learn good manners. Sometimes they get knowledge, they learn Quran, Hadith. But besides these, good manners are very important.
Some people ask: "Is the Prophet created from light or clay?" Clay, take a handful of clay if Allah puts light in it, with Allah's power it also becomes holy. Our Prophet (sas) is also created from clay. "Just like you I'm also created from clay" He (sas) says. But of course Allah gave everyone a secret. Our Prophet is also light (nur). He (sas) is the light for humanity, for the universe. It is good to ask and learn about this.
Some of the things they teach are limiting Allah's greatness. That is not nice. If you limit Allah's greatness like this it is dangerous for you. "wa la ya'udduhu hifdhuhuma" (2:255) Nothing can limit Allah, He does not fit in any limits. Allah does as He likes, creates what He wills, removes what He wills.
Do not enter to inessential things. Saying "this hadith is reliable, that hadith is not reliable". No! There are obvious things. Our Prophet (sas) is the Last Prophet, Allah's beloved servant. Throughout Quran our Prophet (sas) is praised. If He is not light, is it possible? He turned darkness into light. Now they claim they teach knowledge but instead they teach ignorance. Good manners is very important besides knowledge. Good manners is learned through Tariqa. There is no other way. Otherwise "I'm this, I'm that" people say. There is no respect and no good manners. How we address each other - they address our Prophet (sas) in the same way, it occurs to them to do this. Because what Tariqa or Ahlu s-Sunnah teaches is not shirk (attributing partners to Allah). It is good manners. They mix good manners with shirk. Good manners and paying respect is not shirk. Knowing our limit is not shirk.
We are weak servants. What do we do? What is our worship? What is our submission? That's why we say "May Allah accept our prayers for the sake of the Holy ones." When we say like this, it is not shirk. It is good manners. Otherwise when you do not say it, you fall in doubt if the Prophet (sas) is created from clay or light? This is the difference. They do not understand it. If they ask they may understand. We saw young ones studying there. Thanks to Allah. They studied in Mecca and Medina. Scholars may think they taught according to their way of thinking. But if Allah wants these students will come to way of good manners. Many more good people will come. May Allah not deprive us of good manners.
Mawlana always used to say good manners, good manners. Good manners is important. When you do not have good manners it is useless. You will be small. You will get mad at people. You see everyone as an enemy We want everyone to be brothers and sisters. We want everyone to come to guidance. We do not say to Muslims or anyone - "you are unbeliever or mushrik". All are on Allah's way, they are all Allah's servants. They give their own accounting to Allah.
There are people asking and they are not understanding what they are asking. They are wondering. But there's, Alhamdulillah, some people
asking for knowledge. Some people asking to make you down too, something like this. These people also from every kind of people, especially who are studying Islamic Studies nowadays, because these days there is a separation between Tariqa and this, Islamic Study. Who are studying in Islamic high school or university or college, they are looking at Tariqa people as if they are ignorant and they are in wrong way. But some of them they are wondering and curious to know the reality. So who asking for this, Allah help him, Allah He open for him.
Some of them studying in this area, some of them studying specially in like Medina, Mecca, jami'ya ummu l-qura they saying. There is of course more tough and more against Tariqa. They are saying for themself, "Salafi" or following mazhab wahabi. These people they asking something, they thought they are very clever. They asking something it is really funny. There was asking one of them, for Prophet, is he light or he is earth? This is what they asking. It is really making, they put the Lord, Allah Azza wa Jalla in border, limit. Allah He is the Greatest. He is the Most Magnificent. He is, your mind cannot be reach any thing from HIs Might. He is able to do everything, He will not ask you "what I will do, what I will not do". If Allah want He put light in stone. Everywhere He can put light. But these people just thinking very narrow.
And this is difference between these people and Tariqa people. Tariqa people they are respecting and giving good manner, teaching good manner. These people they can teach Quran, they can teach hadith. They all, they know by heart Quran, they know 100,000 hadith by heart but they don't have respect. They don't have good manner so it is not complete. They must complete this with that manner, good manner and respect. And when we are doing respect and we are in good manner, they say "You are mushrik (idol worshipper), you are kafir." That's what they are mixing because they don't know anything for good manner or good respecting. So when you make respect Prophet (sas) or you respect Awliyaullah, they said "You are mushrik".
This is what thinking, wrong thinking. We are saying for them - we are happy with whole people and we love human being and all Muslim to become in right way. But these people who are outside of Tariqa and Ahl us-Sunnah wa l-Jama'a, they are full of hate. They hate Sahaba, some of them hate Ahl ul-Bayt. But Ahl us-Sunnah wa l-Jama'a they respect and they have good manner and they are not judge with any of this matter. And we are love whole Muslims and we accept because Prophet (sas) said: "Who said, La ilaha illa Allah Muhammad
RasulAllah, he will be come to Jannah" but these people they are not accepting this. They are saying "You are mushrik, you are in Jehannam (hell), all". No, this is difference between us and the majority in Muslim World as Prophet (sas) Ahl us-Sunnah wa l-Jama'a and many of them following Tariqa also.
Tariqa it is very important to these people who are studying, specially study Islamic Studies to be, give them what they are not have to complete their personality, to be very good alim and to be good guidance for people. Because people now, they are following very bad people and they are thinking they are doing good but they are doing bad. Allah give us this understanding, inshaAllah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
138.THE GREATEST MIRACLE Saturday, August 1, 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, dastur. Tariqatuna s-sohba, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyya.
Our tariqat exists thanks to sohba, association, and goodness lies within the assembly. These people have assembled here for Allah's sake. They carry out the other demands of the tariqat, we also try to carry out what Allah has commanded. It has been quite a while since we met. I mean, we met, but we have not been able to come here to this meeting. May Allah be pleased, these meetings continue to be held, and here we are at the Haji Anne mosque. Our brothers assemble here, thanks to Allah, every week, is it, or once a month? Once a week?
M: Every week, every Saturday.
ShM: Masha'Allah, every Saturday an assembly takes place here, of Allah's very beloved servants who come here for Allah's sake. Continuity is important, Sheikh Efendi used to say. Ajallu l-karamat dawamu t-tawfiq The greatest of miracles is continuity.
Some people are described as whimsical or fickle. One day you see the guy praying day and night. You see him, day and night, bearing a burden he cannot carry, and then he drops it. That is not good. It is good to do what you are able to do, even if it is only a little, but to persevere in this. To take on a great load, to do a lot and then to suddenly dump it, is not good. This is not a matter of a day or two. Allah's way leads us all the way to our grave, to the end of our lives. We must walk in it accordingly. To do something one day, to run at top speed for not even 10 meters, and then break down in fatigue, that is no good. Go along at a slow pace, but right up to the end.
Because this path is not an easy path. There are many obstacles, many hindrances. Initially the biggest obstacle is our nafs, as the Holy Prophet has said: Your greatestenemy is your nafs, your lower soul. Sometimes you see people who are progressing nicely, but suddenly abandon all their practices. May Allah not make us to be like that. As a
man who is running in a race, and just as he is about to reach his goal he is comes to a standstill and is beaten, losing the race.
Do not say: All my life I have been good, I am all right. Man is constantly at war with his nafs. Nafs and shaytan are non-stop trying to bring man down. Therefore, continuity is important. Perseverance furthers. The services you perform, let them be constant. That will bring a whole different kind of blessing.
We have now reached a certain age and have accompanied Sheikh Efendi on many ways. So we have witnessed a great many people who lost out to their nafs. What happened? Well, he begins to make excuses, he could not say of himself: my nafs became strong and overcame me. This happened, that happened - he begins to talk of irrelevant matters. In Sheikh Efendi's presence this man says: I could not stand it because of this and that.. What do you have to endure? Sheikh Efendi endures it, does he ask you to come and tolerate this? That kind of thing he cannot bear it because he is fully under the control of his nafs; he doesn't overcome his nafs and say "my nafs overcame me", but rather he makes excuses, finds faults in other people.
Finding fault is easily done. What is important is to find the faults in your own nafs. It is not a good thing to find fault in other people. Thanks to Allah, with Sheikh Efendi's himma, with his encouragement, this happened in hundreds, even in thousands of cases. His himma continues even now. Those on the path, those who obediently carry on in the way of Allah, will come out on top, they will have won. Anywhere in the world you can find them. Wherever we go, you feel surrounded by the same atmosphere. It might be a cold place, it might be a hot place, wherever it is, whichever one of Sheikh Efendi's dergahs you happen to go to - and many people say this - you feel no strangeness, it is the same familiar thing. One resembles the other. There are differences of course, but there is no foreign feeling. That is because he addressed himself to people's souls, and brought gladness to people's souls. Otherwise, you may find wildness, brutality.
In some other places you feel fear or some kind of distress. In these dergahs there is no such thing. There is familiarity and affection. May Allah increase the number of such places, insha'Allah. This is the sign that these places are not empty. Even from the times of our Holy Prophet, these are places that have come with this training, with this blessing. The home of our Holy Prophet, sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam, when he lived in Mecca, even before his prophethood was
revealed, the house of his blessed wife Khadija, was like a dergah. People came and went, came to visit, then the children growing up within the house, for instance Hazreti Ali grew up in the house of the Holy Prophet. Khadija was as a mother to him. He grew up with that training. Later on Hazreti Zubayr, Hazreti Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, whose father died when he was two years old - his mother was Safiya Khanum, who was the Holy Prophet's paternal aunt. He also grew up in that home. He grew up in the Prophet's house.
These are heroes of Islam. Zayd, the adopted son of our Holy Prophet, he also grew up in the house and under the care of Khadija. They were trained and educated in this wonderful way. They learned from our mother Khadija good manners, morality, generosity and all manner of goodness. From our Holy Prophet they received enlightenment and spiritual bounty, heroism, bravery, to speak the truth, to accept nothing but the truth - this they learnt and employed in the service of Islam. We try to make our dergah resemble their homes. Therefore these are important places, dergahs, mosques, tariqats - they all reach back to the Holy Prophet. His blessing is upon them. Therefore, there is love and affection in these places. Their secret goes all the way back to those times. There is blessing on them, for those coming to visit as well as for the country in which they are located, there are blessings, by the leave of Allah.
May Allah be pleased with all of you. This is enough for tonight; let us do the dhikr now, there are many families here with children. May Allah protect you all. May thechildren who are here now, insha'Allah have the blessing of our Holy Prophet, and may they be as the children who grew up under his care, and become heroes of Islam, insha'Allah. May they grow to be defenders of Islam, who fear Allah and will give everything for Allah. Their souls, may they be elevated, insha'Allah. May we all have therespect and love of our Holy Prohet, insha'Allah.
Wa min Allahi t-tawfiq, Al-Fatiha.
139.BUT YOU FORGOT THEM (20:126)
Sunday, August 2, 2015.
Madad ya Mashaykhina, dastur. Madad ya Sheikh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani. Tariqatuna s-sohbah, wa l-khayru fi jam'iyyah.
Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur'an. Audhu billahi min ash- shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani rRahim. "Wa man a'rada 'an dhikrī fa`inna lahu ma'īshatan dankan wa nahshuruhu yawma lqiyamati a'man" (20:124)
Allah Azza wa Jalla is saying "Whoever turns away from Me, I will give him a troubled life in this life, and on the Day of Judgment I will resurrect him blind." People should ask help from Allah when they want to do something. A man should ask help from Allah when he wants to do goodness. He should start it with Bismillah and dua and ask for good prayers from other people. People nowadays have lost humanity. People in old times were respectful, even though they didn't know much about religion. They would do certain things with good prayers. And they knew what a bad deed is. When they did wrong things, they didn't ask for Allah's help. They were ignorant people but still more thoughtful.
Nowadays most people have no thinking or sensitivity. All of them became like concrete, rude and rough. They don't understand at all. Old people, as we said, didn't recite Bismillah when they were going to commit sin. We see in some things those people had weak faith but although it was very weak, it was still stronger than the faith of people now. When doing wrong, they would say "May your shaitan get plenty". They knew they did wrong and not good. That's why they said so and then asked forgiveness from Allah. Those people knew they were obeying shaitan and not Allah. That means they had a little bit of faith in their hearts. People nowadays know nothing about it. They do the best things and even when they do the best thing, marrying, alcohol flows like water. Then you hear they got divorced after a couple of months. Of course, they will because you didn't start a good thing with Bismillah. You did it with lots of shaitans.
And you don't know there's shaitan, because there is no faith, because there is no belief at all. People ask why it happens. Allah Azza wa Jalla has said "Who turns away from Me, I will make their lives a poison and
they will become blind on the Day of Judgment." Why will they be blind? Because Allah gave eyes in this world, and they didn't see. And in Akhira, He says "You didn't see, so you don't need eyes. Be blind." These people, as we said, left faith and have no comprehension. When there is faith, there is light and understanding. These people have none of it. Allah made it to remind people. Wearing Muslim clothes around could serve as a reminder to people and bring some understanding.
Otherwise, people leave not only Islam, but also humanity.
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