Suhbah 2016: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (9/25)
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th a great blessing while in the world and remember Allah. Otherwise, Allah forbid, it would be quite empty. They have no idea why they came and why they are going. They did not come to the world to eat and drink and live like animals. Animals did, yet they still recognize Allah and glorify Him. Again they do not rebel and do not do evil. Neither rebellion nor evil do any harm to Allah. The harm is to people who do it, they are in harm. Therefore, let us thank Allah that He created us as those who recognize Allah (JJ). Then we were made those who remember Him and make use of His blessings. Thank Allah, this night was Inshallah blessed for all of us since Allah Azza wa Jalla said, “Make dua and I will accept your dua.” Inshallah our prayers were answered for the honor of this night and we were rewarded. More than our body, our soul drew great inspiration4. May Allah also guide people who do not know these things. We also need to wish well for those who do not know. We need to make dua for goodness so that Inshallah they also get kismet. Rebellion is not good and it is not good to be with those who rebel against Allah. Therefore, Inshallah may all of us reach guidance. May Allah be content with you.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
1. Khayr 2. Baraka 3. Nimat 4. Fayd
85. DO NOT DEFEND YOUR EGO Monday, May 23, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Just as you like the good, just as you like it when someone says something good about you, you should not get upset when someone says something bad about you. You should accept it as advice for yourself. You should say, “My ego is worse than this. What this man is saying is even little.” Do not defend your ego. Your ego needs to constantly be in pain, constantly be in torment so that your habits become good. Otherwise, if you act according to your own ego, if you want what your ego wants, you can never grow into a man!
Just as a baby does not want to leave suckling, the ego is the same way. They wean babies when they are two years old, sometimes when they are one or one and a half years old. If you do not wean them, some of them suckle until they are five or six years old. In fact if, you leave them they will still continue suckling.
However, it does not work. Everything has a time, everything has a set time. Never defend your ego. But people are not like that. They get mad at anybody that says something to them. They get off and raise hell when someone says something to their ego, and they do not listen to advice from anybody. This is how the ego is. Whether it is a shaykh or it is a saint1, whoever it may be: oh never touch their ego. They only find themselves right, they do not see anybody else right, and there are none that are right other than themselves. Our tariqa is to train the ego. In the smallest matter, even if they do not say it with their mouth, they do not accept it in their heart. Do not give heed to your ego. Accept advice. As we said, when someone says something, let us try to say that person is right, our ego is worse, and work to fix our ego. Religion is advice. What your ego likes is not advice. What it does not like is advice. Pay attention to this. May Allah protect us all from our ego, and make us amongst those who accept the truth Inshallah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al - Fatiha
1. Wali
86. MOROCCO AND THE BLESSING OF TARIQAS Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Thank Allah, last week Allah has helped us with a trip, we went to Morocco and then to Germany. We went to Morocco for the first time. We went to many countries. It is a sultanate there, so they have a sultan ruling over them. We went to many places, all over, including places with a sultan. Countries with a sultan are more tranquil and more peaceful.
The holy ones in this place we went to are a sultanate, they are people of taqwa1, and come from the lineage of the Prophet (SAW). They are people who raise the honor of our Holy Prophet (SAW). We are going first time to such a place where there is no Wahabi or Salafi. It is banned there. Why is it banned? They are a fitna2.
They are people who cause fitna and Shaitan enters from everywhere. The men say Allah and they misguides you. They deviate you from Allah’s way and they deviate you from the Prophet’s (SAW) way. They cause enmity amongst Islam and cause fitna. They know this there, they have realized it, and it is banned. There is only Ahl-e Sunnat wal Jamaat and tariqas Mashallah. There are quite many tariqas. Of course there are 41 tariqas. There are all tariqas. From the Shadhili to the Samman and Tijani, there are all kinds of tariqa. Only the Naqshbandi does not exist there. Why not? Since Mashallah there are lots of tariqas, there was no need for it there.
What did tariqas do there? What the tariqas did was to make all of that Black Africa Muslim. While there was fatih3 in the North, sometimes North Africa was opened by war, but the rest, all of it, entered Muslimism with tariqa. A part of North Africa was opened with the sword, the rest was continued by tariqa. Tariqa spread Islam and it made those people love Islam.
They were all idolators and gradually it made them all Muslim. It made millions, hundreds of thousands of people Muslim. There, that is the baraka4 of it, that is the blessing of tariqa. And the others make people leave the religion. They either forcefully expel or accuse people, “You are not Muslim, you are mushrik.” So there is such a clear thing, and the person with a mind can see it. A person with a mind can see that these
type of people called Salafi or Wahabi are not on the right path. This is a clear matter. Tariqa calls people to Muslimism and makes them Muslim. While they expel people from the religion calling them kafir5 and mushrik6.
May Allah (JJ) protect from such people Inshallah. However, as we said, there should be someone to tell them to stop. May they increase Inshallah. May there be countries like Morocco. As we said, We went to many countries with a sultan. Wahabis are more than people of tariqa in most of them. It spread everywhere like cancer.
Of course, they cannot do anything either. This one Mashallah holds rule in his hand, unlike other places. Sultans in other places are sultans but they cannot rule. The government rules there. When speaking of sultan, he should rule himself and he should say the orders of Islam because he is responsible. Every ruler and every sultan is responsible. May Allah increase the number of good people. May Allah keep people, especially Muslims, safe from the evils of the other people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
1.Fear of Allah 2.Dissension 3.Opening to Islam by conquest 4.Blessing 5.Unbeliever 6.Polytheist
87.DO NOT BE A SERVANT OF THE WORLD Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
May Allah (JJ) not misguide us from this beuatiful way. All prophets notified people of the world being vain. What all the prophets said and taught people is that the hereafter is important. However people, Subhanallah (it’s amazing), never listen. Even though they are holding with their hand, they think we came to this life to honor the world, to glorify the world.
No, you can glorify the world as much as you want: it is no use, you are leaving it and going. What is important is the hereafter. You need to be with Allah (JJ) so that your hereafter gets fixed, otherwise the world is of no use. Once people are with Allah and trust in Allah, Allah would make the world their servant. If on the contrary they leave Allah and want the world, He leaves them to be servants of the world.
We see it a lot: now new people, modern people keep dogs. They need to take the dog out for a walk a couple of hours everyday and serve it at home. So people have become servants of dogs in the world! They have become servants of the world the same way. Whereas if you leave the dog, the dog would come after you by itself. There is no need for you to serve it. A normal dog does not want anything. But if you glorfiy it and do many things for it you get attached to it. It is the wisdom of Allah (JJ) that it makes you the servant of the dog. The world is the same way. It makes you a servant of the world.
Let it come after you, let it serve you, and let it serve whatever needs you might have. Once you are with Allah (JJ), Allah willing everything follows your command. May Allah make us all in this way and make us able to understand this. May we understand Inshallah. Because people do not understand. Then they have steered a road for themselves according to their own minds and they are going. It is of no use if that is not the way Allah told us. May Allah not deviate us from the right way Inshallah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
88.FOLLOW THE SUNNATS Thursday, June 2, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
People of tariqa are those who follow the way of our Holy Prophet (SAW). Because mashayikh1 come from them. It is an absolute must for people of tariqa to do the sunnats2 that our Holy Prophet (SAW) did. People of tariqa need to follow the sharia3 and the sunnat of our Holy Prophet (SAW).
Let them do whatever the sunna is, whatever they know. For example, not praying4 bareheaded. Now a new fashion emerged amongst the ladies: there are those who pray bareheaded. That is never acceptable for ladies anyway, but if men pray bareheaded they would be leaving the sunna. There are many kinds of skullcaps5. Let them at least put on a skullcap and not be bareheaded.
There are many sunnats like this. Our Holy Prophet (SAW) has thousands of sunnas. It is not possible for everybody to know them all. Let them do the sunnats of our Holy Prophet (SAW) as they learn them, since every sunnat done in End Times is a means of attaining the rewards of a hundred martyrs. Our Holy Prophet (SAW) says this. Meaning it is not a small thing, martyrdom is not an easy thing. You think about it now: you will do a little sunna and gain so much rewards. We are giving examples such as the skullcap. In fact, wearing a silver ring is a sunnat too. Let alone, combing your beard and combing your hair are sunna. There are thousands of sunnats like these. People who make the intention for the sake of Allah (JJ) to follow the sunna of our Holy Prophet (SAW) and do the sunnat come out ahead.
There is no hardship for people who do everything according to our Holy Prophet (SAW). People think it is hard to follow the sunna. No, if you gradually do the things you know, you would gain its good deeds and rewards. You would not be deprived of that reward. May Allah make us succeed in doing all the sunnats Inshallah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
1. Shaykhs 2. Traditions 3. The law 4. Namaz/Salat 5. Taqiyah
89. THE MANIFESTATION OF RAMADAN Friday, June 3, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Two of the Three Months are almost over. We have also prayed the last Juma of Shaban Sharif. It is Monday in two days. One day is left for Shaban Sharif to end. The holy month of Ramazan is about to start. May Allah make it bring good luck Inshallah.
People of course do not stay the same. They get older and change as days pass. They lack the previous strength and zeal1. May Allah grant us to hold on to Ramazan and the fast of Ramazan till the last breath Inshallah. May Allah grant us to pray our namaz/salat and all of the tarawih2, and may He give us strength. It was the dua of our Holy Prophet (SAW). Vision, hearing, and strength: may they be with us so we can leave them as inheritance when we leave the world. “May they not leave before we do. May we leave before them,” says our Holy Prophet (SAW). This is an important matter. “Ask Allah for health, appetite, and forgiveness,” says our Holy Prophet (SAW). We also Inshallah ask for these so we are not deprived of our worships.
Once Allah (JJ) wills, you can do your fast when you are 100 too and you can perform your prayer, but it is a different matter not being able to do it if you are tired. May Allah, Inshallah, not deprive us from this blessing3 of His. This is a great nimat. For people who do not understand, no matter how much you try to explain it they will not understand. Saving your presence, the donkey likes hay and barley, and eats them like they were baklava. Place kebab in front of it, place other things, and it does not even look at them because it does not understand. People who taste the flavor of iman4 and the flavor of worship cannot leave them. May Allah grant us all this taste Inshallah. Why are we saying this? Because a lot of times people who fast the Three Months cannot even fast Ramazan, unwillingly due to an illness. Because as we said, different states occur in people. In those states, there is a ransom against which they did not fast, worships they could not do. Allah Azza wa Jalla does not hold anybody responsible for things beyond what they can endure.
Yet again, those people are grieved because they could not do it. People who were able to do this worship and cannot do it later grieve for it. Whereas Allah Azza wa Jalla is
Arhamur-Rahimin (the Most Merciful) and Akramul-Akramin (the Most Generous). People who cannot do it are not deprived of the reward and receive the reward. Because they are not doing it intentionally but unintentionally. They leave these worships in grievance. Allah would accept its reward as if they had done it. This beautiful month is arriving. It is truely the sultan of the 12 months. Wherever you might be, even if you are in the most contemptible place in the world, it is still beautiful for people who fast Ramazan. Wherever you may be, even if you are in the most beautiful place, whether in Mecca, Medina, or sacred places. Even if the person is, as we said, in the most faithless place in the world, Allah Azza wa Jalla still sends down the manifestation meant for that person, He sends down the manifestation of Ramazan and the person is happy.
Of course people become sad but there is no need for sadness. You have been honored with Allah’s nimat. You are one of the servants Allah has chosen. Therefore there is no need to be sad. Do your Ramazan [duties] and may the manifestation of that blessing5 be upon you and it is enough. May Allah make us reach many more Ramazans Inshallah. May Mahdi Alayhis Salam also appear as soon as possible so the whole world becomes the same with this manifestation of Ramazan Inshallah. May Allah be content with us all. May it be mubarak6.
Al-Fatiha.
1.Himmat 2.Evening prayers during Ramazan 3.Nimat 4.Faith 5.Baraka 6.Blessed
90. ARGENTINA AND MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE Saturday, June 4, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Azza wa Jalla did not create us for this world. People sometimes give away their hereafter for the world, but still what Allah Azza wa Jalla wills occurs.
100-150 years ago, during Ottoman times, people left these countires for a better place. How they fooled them? What they did is not hegira, leaving the country is not hegira. Hegira means a good thing. There were some that went ahead to America, some went to South America, and others went here and there. What happened to them? They melted away. If they stayed Muslim themselves, their children were not saved, and if their children were saved, their grandchildren were not saved and they lost their religion. However, thank Allah instead of them Allah is making people there come to Islam through the mashayikh2, through tariqas. People there are gradually coming to Islam. Many of them came to guidance. Our brothers and sisters3 came too, and they have been here for a couple of days. They came from Argentina and now they are leaving again. They gathered a community there, formed a village according to their own means, and are asking for madad4. They are asking for help, for spiritual help. Inshallah may their visit be accepted and may our Shaykh Mawlana’s himmat5 be upon them. May they be a means for the salvation of people there Inshallah.
May their numbers increase. May Allah be content with them. They came all the way here and Inshallah they go back with himmat. Whatever distress they may have there, may it be removed Inshallah. It is important for people to think more about the end of what they are about to do. Shaitan deceived past people, but Inshallah the opposite occurs from now on. May the light of Islam come here from there Inshallah. It can come from everywhere when there are sincere people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha
1. Migration to conserve religion 2. Shaykhs 3. Ikhwan 3. Support 4. Help
91. VIRTUES OF RAMADAN FASTING Sunday, June 5, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Inshallah we are starting Tarawih tonight, and tomorrow is Ramazan. Thanks be to Allah (JJ) we have reached a beautiful month again. This month is blessed1 and good Inshallah. May it be good for Islam and Muslims Inshallah.
Of course, whether you like it or not it is obligatory2 to fast during this month. People should not see it as hard. You find a lot of people who are strong and healthy but do not fast. Let them not think it is a gain for them, it is a loss for them. Every morsel is poison for people who do not fast during Ramazan. It becomes a sin. They should not think it is to their advantage.
Of course, what we are saying pertains to those who are healthy. But for sick people, they are already considered excused in the sight of Allah (JJ). They have a ransom3 due. People with a permanent disease give their ransom. Some people are sick for a certain period and they can make it up later. Our Holy Prophet (SAW) says about people who break fast without an excuse, “People who intentionally break one day of fasting and later regret it, they cannot reach the rewards and virtues of that day, even if they do not spend a day without fasting for the rest of their life.”
People should be careful and realize the value of the jewels they lose, the valuable things they lose. People who do it on time and obey Allah are very profitable. If not, if they rebel and oppose Allah (JJ), even if they regret it later again they cannot reach the virtue of one day. So nobody can reach the virtue of that one day even if they fast for 80 years. These worships are very valuable things. Wealth is not valuable: the valuable are performed worships. These are a great blessing4. May Allah be our helper. Moreover, hodjas5 who deal with jinns tell everybody they see, “Magic was done on you,” and doctors say, “You are sick. Do not ever fast.” No, fasting is good sometimes.
“Fast and you shall find health,” says in the noble hadith. People should look at their situation, try it for a couple of days, and continue fasting if they are able to do so. However, if their body cannot withstand it and they get worse, then they can give the
ransom. They should pay attention to this too. Meaning what every doctor says is not the truth. It changes according to the body of the person.
Therefore, we are not saying do not listen to the doctor either, but people should consider their own body. They should try for one day, two days, and if it is managable let them continue. If not, if they are getting very ill then they have an excuse, and Allah (JJ) would accept their excuse. In fact, they can fast them later during short days if they are able to do so. If not, if they cannot they would have paid its ransom anyway, and Alah would forgive them. Allah would count it as if it was done. May Allah accept all of our fasts and worships. May He make us all reach the rewards, spiritual rewards, in this beautiful month Inshallah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
1.Baraka 2.Fard 3.Fidya 4.Nimat 5.Preacher-scholar-clergyman
92.THE SULTĀN OF MONTHS Monday, June 6, 2016.
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Shukur Allāh we reached Ramaḍān again. Two of the three holy months passed, we reached the third. We couldn't be here this Rajab and Sha‘bān because of the seclusion. Allāh, may it be blessed inshā’ Allāh. We reached a beautiful month, Ramaḍān is the month of the ummah. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla gives us blessings, rewards in this month. Allāh treats people with His generosity so that everyone benefits. He (jj) did it so that everyone gets rewards, gets benefit from His (jj) gifts. Ramaḍān is one of these beautiful months. It is the sulṭān of the 11 months.
Fasting during the day, tarāwīḥ at night, saḥūr, they are all counted as worshipping. So don't think that there is no reward for saḥūr. There is a big reward for it. Our Prophet (sas) told us to do saḥūr. When he (sas) says "Do saḥūr" it is an order. When it is an order, you both eat the food, and drink also you are rewarded in return. If you are smart you'll take advantage of it. But what can we do for mindless people, they know better. Someone, who prefers his own mind, is responsible for himself. He says he is smart, doesn't fast, doesn't respect Ramaḍān, it will be the worse for him. Because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave the honor of this month, in this month, not at another time.
Our Prophet's (sas) hadith says: "If you break fast one day on purpose, in the Ramaḍān, then you'll regret it". There are some people, who regret and some, who don't. If you broke fast and regret it what will you do first? You'll fast for 60 days expiation. The punishment for one day is 60 days, 60 days of expiation. Then when you fast that one day your punishment is done. But even if you fasted your whole life, you couldn't reach that one day's worth." says our Prophet (sas). So, these gifts aren't small, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gives reward in this month. Happy are the people, who benefit from it, who do those worshippings, the gifts, rewards, good deeds that they will receive are with Allāh. Do everything on time. May Allāh make this month blessed inshā’ Allāh. Insha’ Allāh we will do muqābalah (meeting) after 4 o'clock again this year like every year. Don't forget that, don't be late.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh we have reached the month of Ramaḍān These three months, [are] holy months. But this year, we cannot reach Rajab, Sha‘bān, we have been in khalwa and only
Ramaḍān al-ḥamdu liLlāh we reached here [Lefke]. Ramaḍān [is] the occasion for people from Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla to get blessed, to get from His generous gifts. It is very holy month, it is sulṭān of other months. [Of the] 12 months the sulṭān is Ramaḍān because it is daytime fasting, nighttime praying tarāwīḥ and after tarāwīḥ wake up for saḥūr also. All this, you [get] reward for them, even [for] saḥūr you are going [to get].
Suḥūr - what meaning? - to wake up for eating something before fasting. It is saḥūr, it is order also. Sunnah to make saḥūr. Who make saḥūr, Prophet (sas) say gets barakah. "Don't fast without saḥūr" he said. But people they are sometimes they are not, eating too much at nighttime. For saḥūr, become difficult for them to wake up. But when you wake up for saḥūr, even you drink one water, after you will stay [up] for praying fajr and sleeping, this is also benefit for you. Everything Allāh gives for us from His Generosity.
This your month. He is not in need to anything. But only from His Generosity, He likes everybody to take. He is not angry, He is not afraid it will be less if you take, no. He is happy to people to ask from Him, to take blessings from this month. And it is very holy. Who has good thinking, he has good mind, he must be happy and follow this. There is many people not fasting, not doing anything. These people, mindless people, no mind for them. If they thinking for why, what Allāh create us they must be happy for something, for an occasion like this. Because, fasting [is] obligatory for us. And many people not fasting. What happen? They will be asked for what they are not doing.
But there is sometimes, people they get -pişman ne idi? - regret they are not fasting. Say after they can fast and to be this obligatory [obligation] get off from them. Because if not doing here, they will be doing in ākhirah. But before even [if] you are not fasting one day and you are knowing this is not good, and not fasting - what must you do? First you must fast two months. This is punishment for who are not fasting. First this is - but not for every day, once only for whole life. If you not fasting - 60 days you must fast. After this you will fast what you are not fasting, one day, two days, 7 days 17 days, 70 days, 700 days. You must fast one each after. When you do this, what will happen? Alḥamdu liLlāh you will be safe from punishment for this obligatory you didn't do. Even you do this, Prophet (saws) he say in ḥadīth: Who not fast - after[wards] they make all this thing for one day. 60, 61 days it is, you cannot reach what Allāh was blessed in that day. Even you fast whole your life for [that] one day you are not fasting, you will not get this blessing for [the] one day in Ramaḍān.
It is not easy and it is not joke. You must be careful, you must be happy to do this. Sometimes they are saying, it is difficult. For sick people, ill or something in their health not good, it is OK. If not fasting, Allāh reward them as if they fasted. But who from tiredness, from other things, not fasting, it is not özür not excused. Excused only for who travelling or his health not enough for him. For other people, they must fast. And Allāh,
as much as they are hard for them to fast, Allāh reward them more and more. And Allāh He is not in need for us, only for us, for our benefit giving us this obligatory to do. Allāh make it inshā’ Allāh for whole our life, Allāh give us health. It is very important, until end of our life inshā’ Allāh we fast. Because many people we see when from their health not good and not enough they were very sad. They are crying 'We didn't, we couldn't fast this year.' It is not easy.
Alḥamdu liLlāh, inshā’ Allāh Allāh gives us health and long life for fasting all time. And inshā’ Allāh after 4 o'clock we will read Qur’ān like every year. Inshā’ Allāh you will be ready here for Qur’ān inshā’ Allāh.
Wa min Allāhi t-tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥah
93.DON’T BE AFRAID OF FASTING Tuesday, June 7, 2016.
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Belief of our ṭarīqah is Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah. There are 73 sects, 72 of them are out of this group. Firqah nājiyah (saved group) is Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah. And they are trying to destroy it too. Someone appears who claims he is from Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah, then he says something that confuses people. When they are confused, doubt appears, their faith becomes weaker. The rest, the other groups, are weak in faith completely. They are using religion as they like. They are capable of doing completely the opposite of what Allāh shows clearly in Qur'an and they claim it is Islām. But Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah are not like this. They continue the way shown by Allāh and our Prophet in the right way because they are connected to our Prophet. They follow his sunnah and don't do makrūh (disapproved acts) and manhiyy (forbidden) he didn't do.
Now they made up a new thing in Ramaḍān which hasn't been known before. They put doubt in people's minds saying saḥūr can be done until a certain time - "You make saḥūr too early. You can make it longer so that your fast is better." Ḥadīth sharīf of our Prophet says you make ifṭār as soon as adhān is called without waiting much. You can delay saḥūr. Delaying it is sunnah but it has its time too. Diyanat (religious affairs of Turkey) made time very well known. Its time is determined. Some people wake up very early. Some say you can eat until the sunrise. The situation is like this. And people are eating without knowing. However, fasting has its time, as worship. If you miss this time, you break your fast without knowing. You pass the whole day without knowing it. The time of fasting and saḥūr is from the start of adhān. You have to wash your mouth before the adhān ends. After that, it's finished.
But this person, we can't call him a scholar, he came on television and said this and that. They come and ask. We reached this age and never heard such a thing. Saḥūr is not something to make bargain about. Saḥūr is saḥūr. It's written when saḥūr is made. At the time of imsāk the adhān is called and you must stop. There is nothing saying you can eat half an hour or an hour more. As we said, before adhān is over you must clean your mouth, make intention, and keep going. It gives no benefit if you eat 5 minutes longer or half an hour more. Even if you eat two bites of saḥur it gives baraka and health to your
body. But if you eat more than saḥūr, then you destroy everything. You won't get any benefit. As we said, these are people of shayṭān, who are out of Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l- Jamāʻah. Don't listen to them.
Follow the timetable we've been using since old times. Make and break your fast according to it. Some people are asking how they knew the timing during our Prophet's time. They knew much better than we know. They didn't have watches but they were so sensitive to time that since then until now the same timetable is being used. When it comes to hours, as it was during the time of our Prophet, Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah makes it in same manner. We don't interfere with others. Everyone does what he wants. Our religion gives advice. It is an advice. We are warning so that our worship does not become makrūh or broken.
Alḥamdu liLlāh our ṭarīqah there is... Prophet (sas) said 73 parts will be ummah [divided into]. And all, they will go to hell, only one will survive. They asked "Who is that?" He said "The majority who following what I bring" and this meaning Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l- Jamāʻah because they continue from Prophet (sas) through mashāyikh until now, same way. It is alive and it is pure. But people, even in this Ahl s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah they are trying to make something to spoil your worship, your sincerity, and saying "You must do this you must not do that, this is good, this is not." But since 1400 years it is same, continue. If you will change you will be out of this Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah. You will be like other 72 parts because they are doing what they like. Even in Qur’ān clearly writing what Allāh order, they can make opposite exactly and they said: "This is from, this is Islām." They use Islām as they like.
But Ahl s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah you must be follow Prophet (sas), what he was doing, what he ordering, what his sunnah, what he is forbidding - this we must follow. And it is not difficult. Everybody can follow. Who like Prophet (sas), like Allāh - he can follow him. But if he like his ego, he like shayṭān, he is not happy with this. He trying every time to find a new thing to change. This, you cannot change. Allāh say by Prophet (saws) al-yawma akmaltu lakum dīnakum wa-atmamtu ‘alaykum ni‘matī waraḍītu lakumu l- islāma dīnan (5:3) I complete this religion. You cannot change. And now for new thing - one or two years beginning - They are saying about fasting.
You must fast since Prophet (sas) what he said, and order of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, to fast from imsāk until maghrib. imsāk meaning saḥūr time -when it finish beginning to make adhān, fajr adhān and from when you hear adhān of fajr. Now in our country only in Ramaḍān they are doing it exactly [on] time because other days in other months in Cyprus or in Turkey they are using Ḥanafī madhhab, they make it little bit later. So if you are fasting out of Ramaḍān, you must be careful for this also. But in Ramaḍān, when you hear adhān you must quickly clean your mouth and make niyyah and continue. So
there is people in this country, this side of - they are saying, "this imsāk it is very early. You can eat until, some of them, until sunrise, some of them it is little bit better after fajr half an hour you can eat" they said. No, you cannot do this.
And it is not benefit for you to do this. if you eat, and drink little bit before imsāk and make your intention to fast Allāh make this, what you eat, what you drink, barakah for you. And they will be blessed because saḥūr barakah and blessed. You will get reward for this.
But if you try to do like these people who are saying "no, you can eat more" - It is, you spoil your fasting because you eat after when time is forbidden to eat. This is... Now, every people here sending for them, they have now message by telephone, by internet, making people to confuse.
This is also little bit, maybe not so bad like what people they are doing I hear in Europe. They are, the Arab people, they make fatwá who they have day more than 18 hour daytime they can follow Mecca for fasting. They, when Mecca opening, break fast [at] maghrib time, they can open. And this is the real ridiculous and this is completely take your, make your worshipping, fasting, finished. What Prophet (sas) only for people who they are very north of Earth, because its time so short, maybe 22 hours they have, or 23 hours daylight. So, they cannot, they must open their fast. But they are open until the nearest city - not Mecca. The nearest city, maybe 22 hours or 21 hours. Who are fasting they can open like this. Not for London, for Germany, for other. Afternoon they all people they must open their fasting. This is making big fitnah.
And but I heard I was laughing for this I thought it is joke! But I met some people they were real scholars and they have good knowledge and they were happy with this! I am surprised. And so for this, we try to say to tell people - Don't follow people who are following ego. Only follow the Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah, ṭarīqah people especially, Naqshbandi people especially. We are created for worshipping. Allāh say "I created human beings and jinn to worship", not to work or to other things. So we must be patient. You must be, not be complain. As much as it is difficult, as much Allāh help us and reward us. Not only leave you. You will not die with fasting. Allāh help you and make you healthy, more healthy and more light, belief give, He will give you, inshā’ Allāh, with this big worshiping, fasting. Don't afraid from fasting!
Wa min Allāhi t-tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥah
94.NEVER ALONE Wednesday, June 8, 2016.
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh we are Muslims. This world is a difficult place. The world isn't easy, it is a testing place. Allāh created human beings for testing. But He (jj) also shows the easy side. "Don't forget Me, then everything will be easier." "Whoever remembers Allāh - remembers Me, loves Me, I will be the eyes with which he sees, I will be the feet with which he walks, I will be his hand. He will be with Me" - says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. This is a ḥadīth qudsī. He won't have difficulty. Whatever happens, even if the world is destroyed, he won't care because the purpose isn't this world. This world is temporary. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is the Everlasting.
If you think you are alone in this world, you have no support, the world is a very bad place, it is a scary place. But when you are with Allāh you aren't alone, helpless, or solitary. Allāh supports you. Allāh always helps you. There is no fear or worries. Fear and worry is for whom? For people, who say "I have no Allāh", who don't believe. They are alone. Even if the whole world is with them, they have nobody, they have no helpers. Because people can't help each other. Only Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla helps. If Allāh is with you, don't care about anything else. Don't say "I have nobody". Even if the whole world is against you, if you are with Allāh, you are in a good place, you are in safety. Otherwise, like we said, there is no safety. There is no safety, if you aren't with Allāh. There is no safety.
Every hour, every second you are worried, you fear. No peace. They ask "Why is it so?" Because you are alone, there is nobody to help you. People's help is nothing, they can't help. For this reason, in this beautiful month, we remember Allāh more. We mention Him (jj) more. Dhikr, means mentioning His (jj) name, to remember Him (jj). Dhikr means remembrance. 'Fadhakkir' (88:21) means "remind". Whenever you have difficulty, say "There is Allāh, there is no fear".
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh we are create[d] Muslim, Muslim meaning who, person in peace. There are many people in this world most of [the] people - because Allāh say very little people they are believers - the most people they are in very bad condition, condition of life. No, they have everything. Inside, inner life [is] very bad. Who is miserable one,
who is alone, nobody around him, he feels bad, nobody can help him, nobody want him. He is alone. This is an example for people who not believe in God. They are alone, even [if] they have a thousand friends around them, it is not important. They feel lonely, they feel sad, they are all time anxious, afraid [and] stressed. Why? Because nothing supports them.
And even who [is a] believer, nobody around him, only he is alone, but Allāh Almighty He is with him. [Then] everything [is] enough for him, supporting him, no sadness, no misery, no fear.
Because sometimes, if you feel nothing around you, you come in panic. It is so difficult how these unbeliever people. We are maybe one second, [or] two seconds, sometimes coming this thought for you, you become very afraid. How these people, whole life they are like this? It is punishment, they are punishing themselves.
And Allāh Almighty calling all people - "You are created for Me, not for this world, this dunyā to go after this' - because this dunyā or world they have a time and it will be finished. And after this, nobody support you. But Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla every time He is existing, not changing, nothing happening for Him. And He is saying "Remember Me! I am with you" (2:152) "Don't be afraid I am with you." (20:46) It is a big favour. Even some people sometimes happen something, they are renting body guards for themselves from afraid [fear]. And this is not, they become more afraid. If you are with Allāh Almighty He is with you, He support you from every badness and you feel as satisfied and rest.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying in His holy verses, not Qur’ān, in ḥadīth qudsī - "Who are following and remembering Me, I am... I will be his eye, his mouth, his hand who are walking, who was looking I am with him, and he, nothing affect him." This [is] for everybody. Allāh calls people. This dunyā, this world [is] for exam for people. But He is saying also how to make it easy: "Be with me! Don't be afraid from anything. You are safe from everything." But people, following other way the hard way. Allāh give us to understand this and to follow Allāh, the easy and the most mercy and the most beautiful way. This is advice for everybody. Inshā’ Allāh they accept.
Wa min Allāhi t-tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥah
95.BE FROM THE SPECIAL PEOPLE Thursday, June 9, 2016.
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Our father Shaykh, may Allāh sanctify his secret and increase his rank, sometimes used to tell jokingly and seriously what ordinary people do. Common people are those people, who have no interest in ākhirah. They say "al-‘awām kāl-hawām" Common people are hawām meaning mindless creatures. They are from the group of animals. Allāh 'Azza wa Jalla created mankind and granted them a special characteristic. A man who loses that characteristic throws himself down from his rank.
There are ordinary ones and there are special ones. "Khawās" means special. People now are doing everything for this world to become special, but they don't know that whatever they do, they can't get out of the ordinary level. Sometimes they go out and join the caste of the mindless creatures. They enter the caste of animals. Allāh 'Azza wa Jalla created mankind and He opened their way so that they may rise. How can they rise? They become more special people by obeying Allāh's commands. They become more accepted. Their ranks will be raised. The more you are obedient and closer to Allāh, the more special and higher you are.
We look at the people now. They know nothing about religion and faith. Ramaḍān has come and they have no idea about Ramaḍān. Sometimes Sheikh Efendi would say "ghayri mukallaf". What he meant by "ghayri mukallaf" is the one without mind because there are no obligations for a crazy man - neither prayers, nor fasting, nor ḥajj is farḍ for him. Zakāt is valid because it's different. His parents can pay zakāt for him but he is not responsible for the worship to be done by him because he has no mind. Also those from the animal group - fasting is not farḍ for them. Ḥajj is not farḍ and praying is not farḍ. However, those people who are in the special caste, are granted by Allāh to do these things with pleasure. They clean us and put in the caste of honorable people. If you have money, rank and fame, these things won't raise you from the ordinary caste. Of course, this is a possibility given by Allāh to everyone to be in the higher caste as Allāh likes and wants this.
Now people have made nonsense religions for themselves. These people have castes. A caste you live and die in. They have 5-6 castes. The highest caste is the one no one can
reach. There is one below it and there is one below that also. Then there is 5th caste, which is worse than animals. But these are castes made up by people, not what Allāh decreed. Allāh says you don't have to remain in a lower caste. You can rise. Allāh doesn't oppress anyone. Allāh invites everyone to goodness.
"Wa-Llāhu yad‘ū ilá dāri s-salām." (10:25) He invites into paradise, into the high. Therefore, In shā’ Allāh may this favour be always upon us In shā’ Allāh.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla created people and [He] give them honour. Mawlānā sometimes saying something but in Turkish and Arabic: the level of the people, what he said in Turkish and Arabic it is different but for English maybe, they're ordinary people, like castes. The people they make castes, but these castes [are] made by human beings. And it is not fair and it is oppressed only, for human beings. There is five castes There is highest, after, after and the lowest caste they have. But you are saying "this caste", but this caste [is] not from our, from Lord Allāh. Allāh make castes high. He wants everybody to be in this caste. But people, they are [in] ordinary- people-caste. And these people, what they are doing? They’re trying to be special people. To be special people, but they are doing wrong thing. They are saying, they thought: "We are VIP, we are good, we are rich, we have good position." But they are not looking for order of Allāh and not thinking at all about this.
This is what Mawlānā was saying - ordinary people, ordinary caste. They have special thinking. It is very different from what Prophet (sas) [and] Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla ordering people to do. They have only thinking for dunyā, to be high in dunyā. But as much as they try to be high they are going lower and lower. And this caste like "al-‘awām kāl- hawām" he said. This caste like animals, they cannot be more. And Allāh opening for people to be VIP by following His order, to be near. When coming near for [to] Lord of Allāh this makes people not ordinary people, special people, VIP people. And it is open for whole human beings. Don't go after your desire. Go only after what Allāh order And it makes you high[er] and high[er]. But when following your ego, what shayṭān ordering, it is not taking you at all, one millimeter up, only going down and down. And it is like shayṭān make it opposite. When you seeing somebody near to Allāh making him not understanding anything.
No, the real high, to be high, to be, get big higher position to be with Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Because what he ordering, people to praying, to fasting, to make ḥajj, it is for people who are obligated to do this. Sometimes Mawlānā was looking for these people when he is very angry he says "This is not responsible." What [is] not responsible people? Everybody knows - who is crazy, no mind maybe for mental house people. This is also Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He not ordering them. Not obligatory for praying, not obligatory for fasting Not for ḥajj, nothing. They are free from this. Other kinds a
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th a great blessing while in the world and remember Allah. Otherwise, Allah forbid, it would be quite empty. They have no idea why they came and why they are going. They did not come to the world to eat and drink and live like animals. Animals did, yet they still recognize Allah and glorify Him. Again they do not rebel and do not do evil. Neither rebellion nor evil do any harm to Allah. The harm is to people who do it, they are in harm. Therefore, let us thank Allah that He created us as those who recognize Allah (JJ). Then we were made those who remember Him and make use of His blessings. Thank Allah, this night was Inshallah blessed for all of us since Allah Azza wa Jalla said, “Make dua and I will accept your dua.” Inshallah our prayers were answered for the honor of this night and we were rewarded. More than our body, our soul drew great inspiration4. May Allah also guide people who do not know these things. We also need to wish well for those who do not know. We need to make dua for goodness so that Inshallah they also get kismet. Rebellion is not good and it is not good to be with those who rebel against Allah. Therefore, Inshallah may all of us reach guidance. May Allah be content with you.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
1. Khayr 2. Baraka 3. Nimat 4. Fayd
85. DO NOT DEFEND YOUR EGO Monday, May 23, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Just as you like the good, just as you like it when someone says something good about you, you should not get upset when someone says something bad about you. You should accept it as advice for yourself. You should say, “My ego is worse than this. What this man is saying is even little.” Do not defend your ego. Your ego needs to constantly be in pain, constantly be in torment so that your habits become good. Otherwise, if you act according to your own ego, if you want what your ego wants, you can never grow into a man!
Just as a baby does not want to leave suckling, the ego is the same way. They wean babies when they are two years old, sometimes when they are one or one and a half years old. If you do not wean them, some of them suckle until they are five or six years old. In fact if, you leave them they will still continue suckling.
However, it does not work. Everything has a time, everything has a set time. Never defend your ego. But people are not like that. They get mad at anybody that says something to them. They get off and raise hell when someone says something to their ego, and they do not listen to advice from anybody. This is how the ego is. Whether it is a shaykh or it is a saint1, whoever it may be: oh never touch their ego. They only find themselves right, they do not see anybody else right, and there are none that are right other than themselves. Our tariqa is to train the ego. In the smallest matter, even if they do not say it with their mouth, they do not accept it in their heart. Do not give heed to your ego. Accept advice. As we said, when someone says something, let us try to say that person is right, our ego is worse, and work to fix our ego. Religion is advice. What your ego likes is not advice. What it does not like is advice. Pay attention to this. May Allah protect us all from our ego, and make us amongst those who accept the truth Inshallah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al - Fatiha
1. Wali
86. MOROCCO AND THE BLESSING OF TARIQAS Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Thank Allah, last week Allah has helped us with a trip, we went to Morocco and then to Germany. We went to Morocco for the first time. We went to many countries. It is a sultanate there, so they have a sultan ruling over them. We went to many places, all over, including places with a sultan. Countries with a sultan are more tranquil and more peaceful.
The holy ones in this place we went to are a sultanate, they are people of taqwa1, and come from the lineage of the Prophet (SAW). They are people who raise the honor of our Holy Prophet (SAW). We are going first time to such a place where there is no Wahabi or Salafi. It is banned there. Why is it banned? They are a fitna2.
They are people who cause fitna and Shaitan enters from everywhere. The men say Allah and they misguides you. They deviate you from Allah’s way and they deviate you from the Prophet’s (SAW) way. They cause enmity amongst Islam and cause fitna. They know this there, they have realized it, and it is banned. There is only Ahl-e Sunnat wal Jamaat and tariqas Mashallah. There are quite many tariqas. Of course there are 41 tariqas. There are all tariqas. From the Shadhili to the Samman and Tijani, there are all kinds of tariqa. Only the Naqshbandi does not exist there. Why not? Since Mashallah there are lots of tariqas, there was no need for it there.
What did tariqas do there? What the tariqas did was to make all of that Black Africa Muslim. While there was fatih3 in the North, sometimes North Africa was opened by war, but the rest, all of it, entered Muslimism with tariqa. A part of North Africa was opened with the sword, the rest was continued by tariqa. Tariqa spread Islam and it made those people love Islam.
They were all idolators and gradually it made them all Muslim. It made millions, hundreds of thousands of people Muslim. There, that is the baraka4 of it, that is the blessing of tariqa. And the others make people leave the religion. They either forcefully expel or accuse people, “You are not Muslim, you are mushrik.” So there is such a clear thing, and the person with a mind can see it. A person with a mind can see that these
type of people called Salafi or Wahabi are not on the right path. This is a clear matter. Tariqa calls people to Muslimism and makes them Muslim. While they expel people from the religion calling them kafir5 and mushrik6.
May Allah (JJ) protect from such people Inshallah. However, as we said, there should be someone to tell them to stop. May they increase Inshallah. May there be countries like Morocco. As we said, We went to many countries with a sultan. Wahabis are more than people of tariqa in most of them. It spread everywhere like cancer.
Of course, they cannot do anything either. This one Mashallah holds rule in his hand, unlike other places. Sultans in other places are sultans but they cannot rule. The government rules there. When speaking of sultan, he should rule himself and he should say the orders of Islam because he is responsible. Every ruler and every sultan is responsible. May Allah increase the number of good people. May Allah keep people, especially Muslims, safe from the evils of the other people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
1.Fear of Allah 2.Dissension 3.Opening to Islam by conquest 4.Blessing 5.Unbeliever 6.Polytheist
87.DO NOT BE A SERVANT OF THE WORLD Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
May Allah (JJ) not misguide us from this beuatiful way. All prophets notified people of the world being vain. What all the prophets said and taught people is that the hereafter is important. However people, Subhanallah (it’s amazing), never listen. Even though they are holding with their hand, they think we came to this life to honor the world, to glorify the world.
No, you can glorify the world as much as you want: it is no use, you are leaving it and going. What is important is the hereafter. You need to be with Allah (JJ) so that your hereafter gets fixed, otherwise the world is of no use. Once people are with Allah and trust in Allah, Allah would make the world their servant. If on the contrary they leave Allah and want the world, He leaves them to be servants of the world.
We see it a lot: now new people, modern people keep dogs. They need to take the dog out for a walk a couple of hours everyday and serve it at home. So people have become servants of dogs in the world! They have become servants of the world the same way. Whereas if you leave the dog, the dog would come after you by itself. There is no need for you to serve it. A normal dog does not want anything. But if you glorfiy it and do many things for it you get attached to it. It is the wisdom of Allah (JJ) that it makes you the servant of the dog. The world is the same way. It makes you a servant of the world.
Let it come after you, let it serve you, and let it serve whatever needs you might have. Once you are with Allah (JJ), Allah willing everything follows your command. May Allah make us all in this way and make us able to understand this. May we understand Inshallah. Because people do not understand. Then they have steered a road for themselves according to their own minds and they are going. It is of no use if that is not the way Allah told us. May Allah not deviate us from the right way Inshallah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
88.FOLLOW THE SUNNATS Thursday, June 2, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
People of tariqa are those who follow the way of our Holy Prophet (SAW). Because mashayikh1 come from them. It is an absolute must for people of tariqa to do the sunnats2 that our Holy Prophet (SAW) did. People of tariqa need to follow the sharia3 and the sunnat of our Holy Prophet (SAW).
Let them do whatever the sunna is, whatever they know. For example, not praying4 bareheaded. Now a new fashion emerged amongst the ladies: there are those who pray bareheaded. That is never acceptable for ladies anyway, but if men pray bareheaded they would be leaving the sunna. There are many kinds of skullcaps5. Let them at least put on a skullcap and not be bareheaded.
There are many sunnats like this. Our Holy Prophet (SAW) has thousands of sunnas. It is not possible for everybody to know them all. Let them do the sunnats of our Holy Prophet (SAW) as they learn them, since every sunnat done in End Times is a means of attaining the rewards of a hundred martyrs. Our Holy Prophet (SAW) says this. Meaning it is not a small thing, martyrdom is not an easy thing. You think about it now: you will do a little sunna and gain so much rewards. We are giving examples such as the skullcap. In fact, wearing a silver ring is a sunnat too. Let alone, combing your beard and combing your hair are sunna. There are thousands of sunnats like these. People who make the intention for the sake of Allah (JJ) to follow the sunna of our Holy Prophet (SAW) and do the sunnat come out ahead.
There is no hardship for people who do everything according to our Holy Prophet (SAW). People think it is hard to follow the sunna. No, if you gradually do the things you know, you would gain its good deeds and rewards. You would not be deprived of that reward. May Allah make us succeed in doing all the sunnats Inshallah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
1. Shaykhs 2. Traditions 3. The law 4. Namaz/Salat 5. Taqiyah
89. THE MANIFESTATION OF RAMADAN Friday, June 3, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Two of the Three Months are almost over. We have also prayed the last Juma of Shaban Sharif. It is Monday in two days. One day is left for Shaban Sharif to end. The holy month of Ramazan is about to start. May Allah make it bring good luck Inshallah.
People of course do not stay the same. They get older and change as days pass. They lack the previous strength and zeal1. May Allah grant us to hold on to Ramazan and the fast of Ramazan till the last breath Inshallah. May Allah grant us to pray our namaz/salat and all of the tarawih2, and may He give us strength. It was the dua of our Holy Prophet (SAW). Vision, hearing, and strength: may they be with us so we can leave them as inheritance when we leave the world. “May they not leave before we do. May we leave before them,” says our Holy Prophet (SAW). This is an important matter. “Ask Allah for health, appetite, and forgiveness,” says our Holy Prophet (SAW). We also Inshallah ask for these so we are not deprived of our worships.
Once Allah (JJ) wills, you can do your fast when you are 100 too and you can perform your prayer, but it is a different matter not being able to do it if you are tired. May Allah, Inshallah, not deprive us from this blessing3 of His. This is a great nimat. For people who do not understand, no matter how much you try to explain it they will not understand. Saving your presence, the donkey likes hay and barley, and eats them like they were baklava. Place kebab in front of it, place other things, and it does not even look at them because it does not understand. People who taste the flavor of iman4 and the flavor of worship cannot leave them. May Allah grant us all this taste Inshallah. Why are we saying this? Because a lot of times people who fast the Three Months cannot even fast Ramazan, unwillingly due to an illness. Because as we said, different states occur in people. In those states, there is a ransom against which they did not fast, worships they could not do. Allah Azza wa Jalla does not hold anybody responsible for things beyond what they can endure.
Yet again, those people are grieved because they could not do it. People who were able to do this worship and cannot do it later grieve for it. Whereas Allah Azza wa Jalla is
Arhamur-Rahimin (the Most Merciful) and Akramul-Akramin (the Most Generous). People who cannot do it are not deprived of the reward and receive the reward. Because they are not doing it intentionally but unintentionally. They leave these worships in grievance. Allah would accept its reward as if they had done it. This beautiful month is arriving. It is truely the sultan of the 12 months. Wherever you might be, even if you are in the most contemptible place in the world, it is still beautiful for people who fast Ramazan. Wherever you may be, even if you are in the most beautiful place, whether in Mecca, Medina, or sacred places. Even if the person is, as we said, in the most faithless place in the world, Allah Azza wa Jalla still sends down the manifestation meant for that person, He sends down the manifestation of Ramazan and the person is happy.
Of course people become sad but there is no need for sadness. You have been honored with Allah’s nimat. You are one of the servants Allah has chosen. Therefore there is no need to be sad. Do your Ramazan [duties] and may the manifestation of that blessing5 be upon you and it is enough. May Allah make us reach many more Ramazans Inshallah. May Mahdi Alayhis Salam also appear as soon as possible so the whole world becomes the same with this manifestation of Ramazan Inshallah. May Allah be content with us all. May it be mubarak6.
Al-Fatiha.
1.Himmat 2.Evening prayers during Ramazan 3.Nimat 4.Faith 5.Baraka 6.Blessed
90. ARGENTINA AND MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE Saturday, June 4, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Azza wa Jalla did not create us for this world. People sometimes give away their hereafter for the world, but still what Allah Azza wa Jalla wills occurs.
100-150 years ago, during Ottoman times, people left these countires for a better place. How they fooled them? What they did is not hegira, leaving the country is not hegira. Hegira means a good thing. There were some that went ahead to America, some went to South America, and others went here and there. What happened to them? They melted away. If they stayed Muslim themselves, their children were not saved, and if their children were saved, their grandchildren were not saved and they lost their religion. However, thank Allah instead of them Allah is making people there come to Islam through the mashayikh2, through tariqas. People there are gradually coming to Islam. Many of them came to guidance. Our brothers and sisters3 came too, and they have been here for a couple of days. They came from Argentina and now they are leaving again. They gathered a community there, formed a village according to their own means, and are asking for madad4. They are asking for help, for spiritual help. Inshallah may their visit be accepted and may our Shaykh Mawlana’s himmat5 be upon them. May they be a means for the salvation of people there Inshallah.
May their numbers increase. May Allah be content with them. They came all the way here and Inshallah they go back with himmat. Whatever distress they may have there, may it be removed Inshallah. It is important for people to think more about the end of what they are about to do. Shaitan deceived past people, but Inshallah the opposite occurs from now on. May the light of Islam come here from there Inshallah. It can come from everywhere when there are sincere people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha
1. Migration to conserve religion 2. Shaykhs 3. Ikhwan 3. Support 4. Help
91. VIRTUES OF RAMADAN FASTING Sunday, June 5, 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Inshallah we are starting Tarawih tonight, and tomorrow is Ramazan. Thanks be to Allah (JJ) we have reached a beautiful month again. This month is blessed1 and good Inshallah. May it be good for Islam and Muslims Inshallah.
Of course, whether you like it or not it is obligatory2 to fast during this month. People should not see it as hard. You find a lot of people who are strong and healthy but do not fast. Let them not think it is a gain for them, it is a loss for them. Every morsel is poison for people who do not fast during Ramazan. It becomes a sin. They should not think it is to their advantage.
Of course, what we are saying pertains to those who are healthy. But for sick people, they are already considered excused in the sight of Allah (JJ). They have a ransom3 due. People with a permanent disease give their ransom. Some people are sick for a certain period and they can make it up later. Our Holy Prophet (SAW) says about people who break fast without an excuse, “People who intentionally break one day of fasting and later regret it, they cannot reach the rewards and virtues of that day, even if they do not spend a day without fasting for the rest of their life.”
People should be careful and realize the value of the jewels they lose, the valuable things they lose. People who do it on time and obey Allah are very profitable. If not, if they rebel and oppose Allah (JJ), even if they regret it later again they cannot reach the virtue of one day. So nobody can reach the virtue of that one day even if they fast for 80 years. These worships are very valuable things. Wealth is not valuable: the valuable are performed worships. These are a great blessing4. May Allah be our helper. Moreover, hodjas5 who deal with jinns tell everybody they see, “Magic was done on you,” and doctors say, “You are sick. Do not ever fast.” No, fasting is good sometimes.
“Fast and you shall find health,” says in the noble hadith. People should look at their situation, try it for a couple of days, and continue fasting if they are able to do so. However, if their body cannot withstand it and they get worse, then they can give the
ransom. They should pay attention to this too. Meaning what every doctor says is not the truth. It changes according to the body of the person.
Therefore, we are not saying do not listen to the doctor either, but people should consider their own body. They should try for one day, two days, and if it is managable let them continue. If not, if they are getting very ill then they have an excuse, and Allah (JJ) would accept their excuse. In fact, they can fast them later during short days if they are able to do so. If not, if they cannot they would have paid its ransom anyway, and Alah would forgive them. Allah would count it as if it was done. May Allah accept all of our fasts and worships. May He make us all reach the rewards, spiritual rewards, in this beautiful month Inshallah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
1.Baraka 2.Fard 3.Fidya 4.Nimat 5.Preacher-scholar-clergyman
92.THE SULTĀN OF MONTHS Monday, June 6, 2016.
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Shukur Allāh we reached Ramaḍān again. Two of the three holy months passed, we reached the third. We couldn't be here this Rajab and Sha‘bān because of the seclusion. Allāh, may it be blessed inshā’ Allāh. We reached a beautiful month, Ramaḍān is the month of the ummah. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla gives us blessings, rewards in this month. Allāh treats people with His generosity so that everyone benefits. He (jj) did it so that everyone gets rewards, gets benefit from His (jj) gifts. Ramaḍān is one of these beautiful months. It is the sulṭān of the 11 months.
Fasting during the day, tarāwīḥ at night, saḥūr, they are all counted as worshipping. So don't think that there is no reward for saḥūr. There is a big reward for it. Our Prophet (sas) told us to do saḥūr. When he (sas) says "Do saḥūr" it is an order. When it is an order, you both eat the food, and drink also you are rewarded in return. If you are smart you'll take advantage of it. But what can we do for mindless people, they know better. Someone, who prefers his own mind, is responsible for himself. He says he is smart, doesn't fast, doesn't respect Ramaḍān, it will be the worse for him. Because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave the honor of this month, in this month, not at another time.
Our Prophet's (sas) hadith says: "If you break fast one day on purpose, in the Ramaḍān, then you'll regret it". There are some people, who regret and some, who don't. If you broke fast and regret it what will you do first? You'll fast for 60 days expiation. The punishment for one day is 60 days, 60 days of expiation. Then when you fast that one day your punishment is done. But even if you fasted your whole life, you couldn't reach that one day's worth." says our Prophet (sas). So, these gifts aren't small, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gives reward in this month. Happy are the people, who benefit from it, who do those worshippings, the gifts, rewards, good deeds that they will receive are with Allāh. Do everything on time. May Allāh make this month blessed inshā’ Allāh. Insha’ Allāh we will do muqābalah (meeting) after 4 o'clock again this year like every year. Don't forget that, don't be late.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh we have reached the month of Ramaḍān These three months, [are] holy months. But this year, we cannot reach Rajab, Sha‘bān, we have been in khalwa and only
Ramaḍān al-ḥamdu liLlāh we reached here [Lefke]. Ramaḍān [is] the occasion for people from Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla to get blessed, to get from His generous gifts. It is very holy month, it is sulṭān of other months. [Of the] 12 months the sulṭān is Ramaḍān because it is daytime fasting, nighttime praying tarāwīḥ and after tarāwīḥ wake up for saḥūr also. All this, you [get] reward for them, even [for] saḥūr you are going [to get].
Suḥūr - what meaning? - to wake up for eating something before fasting. It is saḥūr, it is order also. Sunnah to make saḥūr. Who make saḥūr, Prophet (sas) say gets barakah. "Don't fast without saḥūr" he said. But people they are sometimes they are not, eating too much at nighttime. For saḥūr, become difficult for them to wake up. But when you wake up for saḥūr, even you drink one water, after you will stay [up] for praying fajr and sleeping, this is also benefit for you. Everything Allāh gives for us from His Generosity.
This your month. He is not in need to anything. But only from His Generosity, He likes everybody to take. He is not angry, He is not afraid it will be less if you take, no. He is happy to people to ask from Him, to take blessings from this month. And it is very holy. Who has good thinking, he has good mind, he must be happy and follow this. There is many people not fasting, not doing anything. These people, mindless people, no mind for them. If they thinking for why, what Allāh create us they must be happy for something, for an occasion like this. Because, fasting [is] obligatory for us. And many people not fasting. What happen? They will be asked for what they are not doing.
But there is sometimes, people they get -pişman ne idi? - regret they are not fasting. Say after they can fast and to be this obligatory [obligation] get off from them. Because if not doing here, they will be doing in ākhirah. But before even [if] you are not fasting one day and you are knowing this is not good, and not fasting - what must you do? First you must fast two months. This is punishment for who are not fasting. First this is - but not for every day, once only for whole life. If you not fasting - 60 days you must fast. After this you will fast what you are not fasting, one day, two days, 7 days 17 days, 70 days, 700 days. You must fast one each after. When you do this, what will happen? Alḥamdu liLlāh you will be safe from punishment for this obligatory you didn't do. Even you do this, Prophet (saws) he say in ḥadīth: Who not fast - after[wards] they make all this thing for one day. 60, 61 days it is, you cannot reach what Allāh was blessed in that day. Even you fast whole your life for [that] one day you are not fasting, you will not get this blessing for [the] one day in Ramaḍān.
It is not easy and it is not joke. You must be careful, you must be happy to do this. Sometimes they are saying, it is difficult. For sick people, ill or something in their health not good, it is OK. If not fasting, Allāh reward them as if they fasted. But who from tiredness, from other things, not fasting, it is not özür not excused. Excused only for who travelling or his health not enough for him. For other people, they must fast. And Allāh,
as much as they are hard for them to fast, Allāh reward them more and more. And Allāh He is not in need for us, only for us, for our benefit giving us this obligatory to do. Allāh make it inshā’ Allāh for whole our life, Allāh give us health. It is very important, until end of our life inshā’ Allāh we fast. Because many people we see when from their health not good and not enough they were very sad. They are crying 'We didn't, we couldn't fast this year.' It is not easy.
Alḥamdu liLlāh, inshā’ Allāh Allāh gives us health and long life for fasting all time. And inshā’ Allāh after 4 o'clock we will read Qur’ān like every year. Inshā’ Allāh you will be ready here for Qur’ān inshā’ Allāh.
Wa min Allāhi t-tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥah
93.DON’T BE AFRAID OF FASTING Tuesday, June 7, 2016.
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Belief of our ṭarīqah is Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah. There are 73 sects, 72 of them are out of this group. Firqah nājiyah (saved group) is Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah. And they are trying to destroy it too. Someone appears who claims he is from Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah, then he says something that confuses people. When they are confused, doubt appears, their faith becomes weaker. The rest, the other groups, are weak in faith completely. They are using religion as they like. They are capable of doing completely the opposite of what Allāh shows clearly in Qur'an and they claim it is Islām. But Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah are not like this. They continue the way shown by Allāh and our Prophet in the right way because they are connected to our Prophet. They follow his sunnah and don't do makrūh (disapproved acts) and manhiyy (forbidden) he didn't do.
Now they made up a new thing in Ramaḍān which hasn't been known before. They put doubt in people's minds saying saḥūr can be done until a certain time - "You make saḥūr too early. You can make it longer so that your fast is better." Ḥadīth sharīf of our Prophet says you make ifṭār as soon as adhān is called without waiting much. You can delay saḥūr. Delaying it is sunnah but it has its time too. Diyanat (religious affairs of Turkey) made time very well known. Its time is determined. Some people wake up very early. Some say you can eat until the sunrise. The situation is like this. And people are eating without knowing. However, fasting has its time, as worship. If you miss this time, you break your fast without knowing. You pass the whole day without knowing it. The time of fasting and saḥūr is from the start of adhān. You have to wash your mouth before the adhān ends. After that, it's finished.
But this person, we can't call him a scholar, he came on television and said this and that. They come and ask. We reached this age and never heard such a thing. Saḥūr is not something to make bargain about. Saḥūr is saḥūr. It's written when saḥūr is made. At the time of imsāk the adhān is called and you must stop. There is nothing saying you can eat half an hour or an hour more. As we said, before adhān is over you must clean your mouth, make intention, and keep going. It gives no benefit if you eat 5 minutes longer or half an hour more. Even if you eat two bites of saḥur it gives baraka and health to your
body. But if you eat more than saḥūr, then you destroy everything. You won't get any benefit. As we said, these are people of shayṭān, who are out of Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l- Jamāʻah. Don't listen to them.
Follow the timetable we've been using since old times. Make and break your fast according to it. Some people are asking how they knew the timing during our Prophet's time. They knew much better than we know. They didn't have watches but they were so sensitive to time that since then until now the same timetable is being used. When it comes to hours, as it was during the time of our Prophet, Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah makes it in same manner. We don't interfere with others. Everyone does what he wants. Our religion gives advice. It is an advice. We are warning so that our worship does not become makrūh or broken.
Alḥamdu liLlāh our ṭarīqah there is... Prophet (sas) said 73 parts will be ummah [divided into]. And all, they will go to hell, only one will survive. They asked "Who is that?" He said "The majority who following what I bring" and this meaning Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l- Jamāʻah because they continue from Prophet (sas) through mashāyikh until now, same way. It is alive and it is pure. But people, even in this Ahl s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah they are trying to make something to spoil your worship, your sincerity, and saying "You must do this you must not do that, this is good, this is not." But since 1400 years it is same, continue. If you will change you will be out of this Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah. You will be like other 72 parts because they are doing what they like. Even in Qur’ān clearly writing what Allāh order, they can make opposite exactly and they said: "This is from, this is Islām." They use Islām as they like.
But Ahl s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah you must be follow Prophet (sas), what he was doing, what he ordering, what his sunnah, what he is forbidding - this we must follow. And it is not difficult. Everybody can follow. Who like Prophet (sas), like Allāh - he can follow him. But if he like his ego, he like shayṭān, he is not happy with this. He trying every time to find a new thing to change. This, you cannot change. Allāh say by Prophet (saws) al-yawma akmaltu lakum dīnakum wa-atmamtu ‘alaykum ni‘matī waraḍītu lakumu l- islāma dīnan (5:3) I complete this religion. You cannot change. And now for new thing - one or two years beginning - They are saying about fasting.
You must fast since Prophet (sas) what he said, and order of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, to fast from imsāk until maghrib. imsāk meaning saḥūr time -when it finish beginning to make adhān, fajr adhān and from when you hear adhān of fajr. Now in our country only in Ramaḍān they are doing it exactly [on] time because other days in other months in Cyprus or in Turkey they are using Ḥanafī madhhab, they make it little bit later. So if you are fasting out of Ramaḍān, you must be careful for this also. But in Ramaḍān, when you hear adhān you must quickly clean your mouth and make niyyah and continue. So
there is people in this country, this side of - they are saying, "this imsāk it is very early. You can eat until, some of them, until sunrise, some of them it is little bit better after fajr half an hour you can eat" they said. No, you cannot do this.
And it is not benefit for you to do this. if you eat, and drink little bit before imsāk and make your intention to fast Allāh make this, what you eat, what you drink, barakah for you. And they will be blessed because saḥūr barakah and blessed. You will get reward for this.
But if you try to do like these people who are saying "no, you can eat more" - It is, you spoil your fasting because you eat after when time is forbidden to eat. This is... Now, every people here sending for them, they have now message by telephone, by internet, making people to confuse.
This is also little bit, maybe not so bad like what people they are doing I hear in Europe. They are, the Arab people, they make fatwá who they have day more than 18 hour daytime they can follow Mecca for fasting. They, when Mecca opening, break fast [at] maghrib time, they can open. And this is the real ridiculous and this is completely take your, make your worshipping, fasting, finished. What Prophet (sas) only for people who they are very north of Earth, because its time so short, maybe 22 hours they have, or 23 hours daylight. So, they cannot, they must open their fast. But they are open until the nearest city - not Mecca. The nearest city, maybe 22 hours or 21 hours. Who are fasting they can open like this. Not for London, for Germany, for other. Afternoon they all people they must open their fasting. This is making big fitnah.
And but I heard I was laughing for this I thought it is joke! But I met some people they were real scholars and they have good knowledge and they were happy with this! I am surprised. And so for this, we try to say to tell people - Don't follow people who are following ego. Only follow the Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʻah, ṭarīqah people especially, Naqshbandi people especially. We are created for worshipping. Allāh say "I created human beings and jinn to worship", not to work or to other things. So we must be patient. You must be, not be complain. As much as it is difficult, as much Allāh help us and reward us. Not only leave you. You will not die with fasting. Allāh help you and make you healthy, more healthy and more light, belief give, He will give you, inshā’ Allāh, with this big worshiping, fasting. Don't afraid from fasting!
Wa min Allāhi t-tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥah
94.NEVER ALONE Wednesday, June 8, 2016.
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh we are Muslims. This world is a difficult place. The world isn't easy, it is a testing place. Allāh created human beings for testing. But He (jj) also shows the easy side. "Don't forget Me, then everything will be easier." "Whoever remembers Allāh - remembers Me, loves Me, I will be the eyes with which he sees, I will be the feet with which he walks, I will be his hand. He will be with Me" - says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. This is a ḥadīth qudsī. He won't have difficulty. Whatever happens, even if the world is destroyed, he won't care because the purpose isn't this world. This world is temporary. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is the Everlasting.
If you think you are alone in this world, you have no support, the world is a very bad place, it is a scary place. But when you are with Allāh you aren't alone, helpless, or solitary. Allāh supports you. Allāh always helps you. There is no fear or worries. Fear and worry is for whom? For people, who say "I have no Allāh", who don't believe. They are alone. Even if the whole world is with them, they have nobody, they have no helpers. Because people can't help each other. Only Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla helps. If Allāh is with you, don't care about anything else. Don't say "I have nobody". Even if the whole world is against you, if you are with Allāh, you are in a good place, you are in safety. Otherwise, like we said, there is no safety. There is no safety, if you aren't with Allāh. There is no safety.
Every hour, every second you are worried, you fear. No peace. They ask "Why is it so?" Because you are alone, there is nobody to help you. People's help is nothing, they can't help. For this reason, in this beautiful month, we remember Allāh more. We mention Him (jj) more. Dhikr, means mentioning His (jj) name, to remember Him (jj). Dhikr means remembrance. 'Fadhakkir' (88:21) means "remind". Whenever you have difficulty, say "There is Allāh, there is no fear".
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh we are create[d] Muslim, Muslim meaning who, person in peace. There are many people in this world most of [the] people - because Allāh say very little people they are believers - the most people they are in very bad condition, condition of life. No, they have everything. Inside, inner life [is] very bad. Who is miserable one,
who is alone, nobody around him, he feels bad, nobody can help him, nobody want him. He is alone. This is an example for people who not believe in God. They are alone, even [if] they have a thousand friends around them, it is not important. They feel lonely, they feel sad, they are all time anxious, afraid [and] stressed. Why? Because nothing supports them.
And even who [is a] believer, nobody around him, only he is alone, but Allāh Almighty He is with him. [Then] everything [is] enough for him, supporting him, no sadness, no misery, no fear.
Because sometimes, if you feel nothing around you, you come in panic. It is so difficult how these unbeliever people. We are maybe one second, [or] two seconds, sometimes coming this thought for you, you become very afraid. How these people, whole life they are like this? It is punishment, they are punishing themselves.
And Allāh Almighty calling all people - "You are created for Me, not for this world, this dunyā to go after this' - because this dunyā or world they have a time and it will be finished. And after this, nobody support you. But Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla every time He is existing, not changing, nothing happening for Him. And He is saying "Remember Me! I am with you" (2:152) "Don't be afraid I am with you." (20:46) It is a big favour. Even some people sometimes happen something, they are renting body guards for themselves from afraid [fear]. And this is not, they become more afraid. If you are with Allāh Almighty He is with you, He support you from every badness and you feel as satisfied and rest.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying in His holy verses, not Qur’ān, in ḥadīth qudsī - "Who are following and remembering Me, I am... I will be his eye, his mouth, his hand who are walking, who was looking I am with him, and he, nothing affect him." This [is] for everybody. Allāh calls people. This dunyā, this world [is] for exam for people. But He is saying also how to make it easy: "Be with me! Don't be afraid from anything. You are safe from everything." But people, following other way the hard way. Allāh give us to understand this and to follow Allāh, the easy and the most mercy and the most beautiful way. This is advice for everybody. Inshā’ Allāh they accept.
Wa min Allāhi t-tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥah
95.BE FROM THE SPECIAL PEOPLE Thursday, June 9, 2016.
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.
Our father Shaykh, may Allāh sanctify his secret and increase his rank, sometimes used to tell jokingly and seriously what ordinary people do. Common people are those people, who have no interest in ākhirah. They say "al-‘awām kāl-hawām" Common people are hawām meaning mindless creatures. They are from the group of animals. Allāh 'Azza wa Jalla created mankind and granted them a special characteristic. A man who loses that characteristic throws himself down from his rank.
There are ordinary ones and there are special ones. "Khawās" means special. People now are doing everything for this world to become special, but they don't know that whatever they do, they can't get out of the ordinary level. Sometimes they go out and join the caste of the mindless creatures. They enter the caste of animals. Allāh 'Azza wa Jalla created mankind and He opened their way so that they may rise. How can they rise? They become more special people by obeying Allāh's commands. They become more accepted. Their ranks will be raised. The more you are obedient and closer to Allāh, the more special and higher you are.
We look at the people now. They know nothing about religion and faith. Ramaḍān has come and they have no idea about Ramaḍān. Sometimes Sheikh Efendi would say "ghayri mukallaf". What he meant by "ghayri mukallaf" is the one without mind because there are no obligations for a crazy man - neither prayers, nor fasting, nor ḥajj is farḍ for him. Zakāt is valid because it's different. His parents can pay zakāt for him but he is not responsible for the worship to be done by him because he has no mind. Also those from the animal group - fasting is not farḍ for them. Ḥajj is not farḍ and praying is not farḍ. However, those people who are in the special caste, are granted by Allāh to do these things with pleasure. They clean us and put in the caste of honorable people. If you have money, rank and fame, these things won't raise you from the ordinary caste. Of course, this is a possibility given by Allāh to everyone to be in the higher caste as Allāh likes and wants this.
Now people have made nonsense religions for themselves. These people have castes. A caste you live and die in. They have 5-6 castes. The highest caste is the one no one can
reach. There is one below it and there is one below that also. Then there is 5th caste, which is worse than animals. But these are castes made up by people, not what Allāh decreed. Allāh says you don't have to remain in a lower caste. You can rise. Allāh doesn't oppress anyone. Allāh invites everyone to goodness.
"Wa-Llāhu yad‘ū ilá dāri s-salām." (10:25) He invites into paradise, into the high. Therefore, In shā’ Allāh may this favour be always upon us In shā’ Allāh.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla created people and [He] give them honour. Mawlānā sometimes saying something but in Turkish and Arabic: the level of the people, what he said in Turkish and Arabic it is different but for English maybe, they're ordinary people, like castes. The people they make castes, but these castes [are] made by human beings. And it is not fair and it is oppressed only, for human beings. There is five castes There is highest, after, after and the lowest caste they have. But you are saying "this caste", but this caste [is] not from our, from Lord Allāh. Allāh make castes high. He wants everybody to be in this caste. But people, they are [in] ordinary- people-caste. And these people, what they are doing? They’re trying to be special people. To be special people, but they are doing wrong thing. They are saying, they thought: "We are VIP, we are good, we are rich, we have good position." But they are not looking for order of Allāh and not thinking at all about this.
This is what Mawlānā was saying - ordinary people, ordinary caste. They have special thinking. It is very different from what Prophet (sas) [and] Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla ordering people to do. They have only thinking for dunyā, to be high in dunyā. But as much as they try to be high they are going lower and lower. And this caste like "al-‘awām kāl- hawām" he said. This caste like animals, they cannot be more. And Allāh opening for people to be VIP by following His order, to be near. When coming near for [to] Lord of Allāh this makes people not ordinary people, special people, VIP people. And it is open for whole human beings. Don't go after your desire. Go only after what Allāh order And it makes you high[er] and high[er]. But when following your ego, what shayṭān ordering, it is not taking you at all, one millimeter up, only going down and down. And it is like shayṭān make it opposite. When you seeing somebody near to Allāh making him not understanding anything.
No, the real high, to be high, to be, get big higher position to be with Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Because what he ordering, people to praying, to fasting, to make ḥajj, it is for people who are obligated to do this. Sometimes Mawlānā was looking for these people when he is very angry he says "This is not responsible." What [is] not responsible people? Everybody knows - who is crazy, no mind maybe for mental house people. This is also Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He not ordering them. Not obligatory for praying, not obligatory for fasting Not for ḥajj, nothing. They are free from this. Other kinds a
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