Suhbah 2017: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (19/25)
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M OF ALLAH Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Today is the eighth day of Dhū l-Ḥijjah, a blessed day. It is called Yawmu t-Tarwiyah. Today ḥujjāj (pilgrims) start heading towards ‘Arafāt leaving from Makkah according to the sunnah. Of course, sometimes people cannot keep the sunnah. Because if everyone keeps it, there will be disorder. Who wants can go to ‘Arafāt on foot. They wake up this morning, stay in Minā and reach ‘Arafa tomorrow from there. They will make waqfah. This is sunnah. Who is on ḥajj does this. Who is not on ḥajj, they have today's thawāb too. When worship is made, Allah̄ calculate as I like", says is generous. "I gives thousand, ten thousand for one. Allāh Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and gives as much as He likes.
Fasting today has virtue, a lot of virtue. Tomorrow, the Day of ‘Arafah has even more virtue. Ḥujjāj become ḥajjī there. When present in that place, in that hour, they become ḥajji.̄ If outside that place, out of that time, they don't become ḥajji.̄ Allah's order is so. Once a year you have to be in that place within that certain time to become ḥajjī. This is the wisdom of Alla . It is a good worship, we cannot question Allah's wisdom. It is a virtue. A person leaves all his sins and starts over as absolutely clean.
As we said, there is a different duty for those who are here. Starting from the morning prayer tomorrow, it is wājib to make takbīr. Up until the afternoon of the 4th day of ‘Īd we will make takbīr 23 times, in shā’a Llāh. And there is qurba (sacrifice). A person with a certain amount of money, with enough money to pay zakāt, it is wājib for him to slaughter qurbān. That is waj̄ ib. And when paying zakāt, your zakāt is not ḥalāl for you to use but qurban̄ is ḥalāl for you. You can keep all of it for yourself or give it away, or you can leave some and give some. You can give to your friends as a gift even if they are not in need. You can give one part to the poor. It is wājib. And as we said, it is ḥalāl for you. It is ḥalal̄ if you take from it. Therefore, who can afford should not ignore it. Allāh will write thawa for you for every hair of the animal. That will become your ride on the Day of Judgment. You will pass the Ṣirat̄ ̣ bridge riding on it. It brings both great virtue and thawāb to you. And you can use it. It is a very good thing. It is a big misfortune
for a person to be able to slaughter and not do it. It is a lost opportunity. Who ignores will regret it in ākhirah. They will say, "If only I had done it." But it will be too late. These days are virtuous days. Whatever Allāh orders, that becomes happiness for us. It becomes a means to happiness. Our ranks increase near Allāh. And as tomorrow is ‘arafah, recite 1000 Ikhlāṣ as waẓīfah. Read Qur’a , give sạ daqah, do all kinds of charity
and Allah̄ goodness.
will write thawāb not seven or ten for one, but 700 and more for every
May Allāh bless these days. May Allāh bring it again for us, in sha’̄ Allah̄ . We hope it will be next year, the victory of Islām with Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām.
Today eight of Dhū l-Ḥijjah, the holy month of Allah̄ ten days - ten nights, nine days. Very holy this. This is the eight also name, they have name yawm, day of tarwiyah. For ḥajji,̄ pilgrimage people, today they are moving from Makkah toward jabal ‘Arafāt, montain ‘Arafat. This is sunnah of Prophet of, today going, tonight sleeping in Minā. Tomorrow, Minā near ‘Arafāt they are going to ‘Arafat. This is sunnah but nowadays very few people they can do this. Because they forget and they not doing and now become more difficult to do. If they was doing whole time same sunnah it will be not problem. But when they cut they do problem, it is problem so it will be difficult. Only very few people they are doing. This is sunnah. Who they make sunnah Allāh reward him. But other people they are following their group, their ima , say they cannot leave and go by themself. They will lost. After they will be maybe not reach to ‘Arafa or they will go another place and it is important time for ‘Arafāt. It is only one day and in one place, limited place. If you are going outside of this limit, you cannot be ḥajji No, you not doing your pilgrimage. You must be that time, in that place. For this you must be careful and it is wisdom of our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
Turkish they say, "Hikmetinden sual olmaz." You cannot ask for [about] His wisdom. What is wisdom for this, Allāh He know. He do what He like. He just what it is, very perfect. Only once a year and the one place you must be there. So this is for ḥajjī, for pilgrimage, very important days, today and tomorrow. For other people also important reward hundred time for until seven[th day]. For eight, today, He because Allāh [reward] thousand time. He reward, who pray, who fast. Tomorrow two thousand time rewarding. So it is for whole believer for whole mu’min, Muslim who are believe in Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla it is very important, very nice days this.
Today who fast, Allāh reward him as he free thousand of slave, thousand [sacrifices] cutting camel and thousand as he prepare horseman for jihād for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Tomorrow two thousand. So today, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are happy. We must be do every good thing, in shā’Allāh. Tomorrow also there is beginning to make takbīr from tomorrow until forth of ‘Īd, forth ‘Īd. Until ‘aṣr you make takbīr. Every praying, after every praying we must do it. This is waj̄ ib, we must do it. Not forget this. By the
Jamā‘ah, by yourself, you must do it. Alla also reward for this. And other thing who are living in place they must cut sheep who have enough money to give zaka . And it is good for who cutting, this is not like zakāh. Zakāh you cannot take from what you give. If give Zakāh you cannot take back from this money. But this sheep you cut, it is also wājib for you. But if you like you can take all of this sheep. You can eat for maybe one, two month, three months. You can eat by yourself without giving anybody. If you like, you can give for charity whole of it. If you like, you can make it little bit for you, little bit for present for your friend and other. You can give for poor people.
This is and Allāh reward you for this. For each hair of sheep, reward you ten reward. And this is it will be your riding [animal] in Qiyāmah to go across the ṣirāṭ, - ne derler? -bridge of for Jannah, you ride and go, not waiting on Judgement Day. It will be shafī‘ (intercessor) for you. So it is all with what you, anybody have to do it he must do it because all this for you, only for you. You take it, you cut for yourself, you eat for yourself. And Alla reward you for each hair like this and you, it will be your ride this also. So it is completely good for you. But people, some people make it, say, said, "No! Too much to this year it is very expensive we cannot do." But you have enough money you must do.
And tomorrow, for tomorrow also we have waẓīfah. Who can fast, he can fast. Allāh reward him. As we said two thousand free as he free slave; two thousand as he cut camel; and two thousand as he prepare for horseman. It is big because for Allāh He is generous and He like for us to take this.
In shā’Allāh, Alla accept our ‘ibādah and help us to do more and more, in shā’Allāh. And He help for to be many year to do this. And hope next year to be glory of Islām with Sayyidinā Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
180.HAJI NAZIM AKSAR EFENDI Thursday, 7 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He sent humankind to this world as a trial. He says, “Liyabluakum ayyukum ahsanu ‘amala.” (Sura Mulk:2) “To test you as to which of you is best in deed.” Allah created life and death. He sent us to this world as a test for who is good and who is evil. We need to do good in this world so people talk good after us.
Every time we remember the late Nazim Efendi, he was truly a gentleman and a kind person. He passed through this world trusting in Allah as a person who was bound by his religion and his family. He is Allah willing one of those people Allah loves. Allah gave people’s hearts affection towards him. What can you do? What Allah says happens. His state was beautiful due to this illness and he has reached a beautiful station, the presence of Shaykh Mawlana too InshaAllah.
Therefore, may Allah grant it to everybody and may people have such a lifestyle. Let there not be a shemozzle and may people talk as “A good person,” behind you. May others not come saying, “I claim rights.” May it not be so. Many people infringe upon the rights of others just so they can make two pennies. These people are both fools and liars. They are the type of people others do not like. We need to be careful of this.
Why are we calling them fools? Because that money is forbidden (haram) and it does not benefit those people. You are wasting yourself for useless matters, and you would be infringing on the rights of others in the hereafter. This is also dangerous. Allah would forgive Allah’s rights, but you will certainly be questioned when it is the rights of other servants.
“Kafaa bilmawti wa’ithan ya Umar.” “Death is enough of an advice for you O Omar,” said our Holy Prophet to Hazrat Omar. The same also applies to everybody. May Allah keep us safe and not deviate us from the right path InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
181.SILENCE IS THE ANSWER TO AN IGNORAMUS Friday, 8 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
There are some people who are trouble. These people bother you even if you are right. They are not a trouble to you but to everyone. Therefore, we need to not give them the time of day. They can be found everywhere. There is no need to deal with them and get upset. They are enough for themselves anyway. If you deal with them, you will get more upset and it will be no use.
Leave them be. There is no need to answer them. It says, “Silence is the answer of the ignoramus.” Or you take no account of them, you do not take them into consideration. At least say, “It’s not to me. It’s for someone else.” Or if they say something, you need to say, “This has no value,” and not torment yourself.
Because it gets worse when you deal with these ones. More filth would be smeared on you. They are like a bag that is dirty all over. It gets on your hands if you think about picking it up and throwing it away. It gets on your clothes and all over you if you try a little more. It gets worse as you try. So you need to stay away from them. They are not people to be taken into consideration. It will be useful when you stay away from them. It would also benefit the person such that he might say, “People are not taking me into consideration much. Let me look at myself a little and at the mistakes I’m making.” However, most do not say this and think the fault is always with others.
Because it gets worse when you deal with these ones. More filth would be smeared on you. They are like a bag that is dirty all over. It gets on your hands if you think about picking it up and throwing it away. It gets on your clothes and all over you if you try a little more. It gets worse as you try. So you need to stay away from them. They are not people to be taken into consideration. It will be useful when you stay away from them. It would also benefit the person such that he might say, “People are not taking me into consideration much. Let me look at myself a little and at the mistakes I’m making.” However, most do not say this and think the fault is always with others.
So we need to gain a benefit and a reward in everything so nothing goes to waste in this world, and so it does not end as Shaitan wants.
“Yuridush Shaytanu ayyuqi’a baynakum.” (Sura Maida:91) It says, “Shaitan’s aim is to cause mischief between you.” He would not reach his aim and you would gain rewards. You would gain rewards from so many sides. May Allah grant us all to take control of our ego. May our ego not be occupied with such unnecessary things InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
182.EVERYTHING WILL BE ACCOUNTED FOR Friday, 8 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He showed these people the right path. Heaven is real, hell is real, Allah is real, and the Prophet is real. People who deserve it will go to hell. Allah does not oppress anybody. However many people of faith there is in the world, Shaitan is certainly their enemy and he will not quit until he finishes them. Allah Azza wa Jalla gave him a certain time. Not everyone will follow him. Those who follow him will certainly go to hell and stay in hell for eternity.
It is End Times now and all kufr (disbelief) is attacking. They are attacking those who believe in Allah and those who belong to the religion of Allah. They are attacking all the way and in every way. Their biggest weapon is lies. Now, media is everywhere and it is in the hands of Shaitan. They make a fuss in a place where nothing is happening: “There is oppression here. People are dying. People are suffering.” The same also happened during Sultan Abdul Hamid’s time. That time there was admiration for Europe. People of those times did not know how dirty Europe was. They fell for it. They fell so much for them. The ones who fell for it the most were the educated ones. They fooled them saying, “Civilization. Civilization. Civilization.” Whereas ignorance, dirt, savagery, selfishness, and whatever you are looking for of base attributes is all with them.
We see now, in front of the eyes of the whole world, the events that Allah mentioned 1400 years ago in the Koran are happening. They dug trenches and are throwing babies in them. These are vile creatures and people without belief. And people do not like their own religion but are obsessed with their religion. They are showing these people as people who are peaceful, peace-loving, and trying to do all kinds of acts of kindness to people. Now we see that let alone peacefulness, they are burning people alive. As if that was not enough, they dug trenches and they are throwing babies and children in first. So it is happening exactly as Allah plainly described it in the Koran.
These are all happening but this shaitan (devil) called the media is not showing it. It is shutting it to people, hiding it, and broadcasting what it wants. Wherever we go, we went to Europe, they insist everywhere saying, “There is oppression in Turkey,” and not saying anything else. They completely covered what happened a year ago (July
15th Coup Attempt) and nobody has an idea about the matter. So we are at war with such a devil. However, Allah helps and it will also be defeated. Those who are with Allah are always in gain.
Allah is also describing it in the Koran: they dug trenches and are throwing people in the fire. What is the fault and crime of these people? They believe in Allah. This is their only crime. They have no other crime. The man lives in a hut. We see. We go to those countries. It is not like ours. A handful of rice suffices a day for the man and his family. They are such poor people, such abstemious people, and people who keep to themselves. They neither have guns nor weapons. Nor can they attack anybody. Their biggest crime is believing in Allah. Those dishonest people are not alone. Shaitan, Shaitan’s soldiers, all of Europe, all of America, and kufr and whatever there is are behind them. What they cannot stand is belief in Allah. You do all kinds of filth and they are happy. They give you a medal and you become their best friend. But if you do nothing and only believe in Allah, there is nobody worse than you. You have no right to live in this world. If they could, they would root us all away.
Of course, Allah Azza wa Jalla says: “They are such savagery causing people, and as long as they do not repent and turn to Allah, they will be deserving eternal hell in the hereafter.” The people here burn once, become a martyr, and reach the highest stations. However, they will be in the fire every day and every instant. These people will suffer 100,000 times more for the cruelty they did. They will say they want to die but they will not be able to die. There is no death! On the Day of Resurrection, once the judgment is over they bring a ram on the Sirat Bridge and they slaughter it. This is death and there is no other death. Allah Azza wa Jalla will say: “You are in eternal hell, and you are in eternal heaven.” Therefore, these things that are being done will not be left unaccounted.
The Islamic world is unable to do anything now, and whatever it does they do to our detriment. We are unable to be successful anywhere. They are not allowing us to succeed. It has a time too. When the time comes Inshallah it will also be accounted for. However, the real accounting is on the Day of Judgment. Everything will be accounted for. There, the oppressed will get their due from the oppressors. Justice belongs to Allah and Allah Azza wa Jalla will rule with justice. As we said, we cannot do anything either. We can only make dua. May Allah make Mahdi Alayhis Salam appear as soon as possible and get rid of this tyranny.
As Shaykh Mawlana said, technology is for oppression, mischief, and destruction in these times. This technology is not for good. All evil is in it. Therefore, with Allah’s wisdom this technology will be cancelled that time. Just as these matters did not come to the minds of humans for thousands of years and Allah gave it to the minds of so many people, Allah is capable of everything. People are baffled what to do. As we said, there is no need to baffled. Let as make dua to Allah. May Allah, InshaAllah, keep Muslims
safe. May Allah not misguide us. May we stay on the true path Inshallah. It is better to be the oppressed rather than the oppressor. Do not ever oppress. You can be oppressed but do not oppress. May Allah give victory to Islam. May kufr (disbelief) ebb down and be ruined, and those who follow it the same way. They will not do good unless they repent. The door of repentance is open and it possible after repentance. However, Shaitan does not allow them. They are getting wilder and attacking more. May Allah take care of them InshaAllah. May the station of the people there and the martyrs be raised. May Allah also protect the people who are being oppressed there. May Allah help them InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
183.TYRANTS ARE WITH SHAITAN Saturday, 9 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
“Wala tarkanu ilallathena thalamu fatamassakum annar.” (Sura Hud:113) Allah Exalted and Glorious be He says, “Do not be with the tyrants.” If you are with them, that fire will touch you too, that punishment will reach you too. Tyranny is simmering all over the world. Tyrants have surrounded everywhere. Do not be with them because they are powerful and rich. Do not be with them for worldly benefit. Stay away from them as much as possible. Do not acknowledge the things they do. Prohibit them as much as you can.
Now, we cannot do much because tyranny is all over the world. A person needs to oppose them with the tongue and the heart. You cannot face tyranny with your hand because it is so much. These are End Times. If you say you want to oppose it, they do worse to you. Tyrants find an opportunity to increase their tyranny. Therefore, we need to oppose them with the tongue or the heart. We are not with them. We are not with what they do. We are distant from them. May Allah not make any of us be with the tyrants InshaAllah.
All types of oppression occur. The tyrants are obvious. Shaitan and his helpers are tyrants. Those who are with Allah do not become tyrants as long as they do not do like them and do not support them. Some people are fooled and are with the oppressor instead of being with the oppressed. They say, “This one is a tyrant,” when on the contrary they are the tyrants. May Allah keep us safe. May Allah open our eyes so we are not with the tyrants InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
184.YOU ARE LUCKY IF YOU CAN GO TO HAJJ Sunday, 10 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Hajis are preparing to return these days. They have done their hajj duty and started returning. We say to them, “May Allah make it mubarak (blessed).” Many were able to go this year thank Allah. Hajj is an important fard (obligation). If Allah has made it kismet, how lucky is that person! That is a lucky person.
Most people do not go even though they have the means, or something happens and they are unable to go. Because only those whom Allah Azza wa Jalla has predestined it for can go. They are, as we said, lucky people. Now, what they call games of chance are not games of chance. They are things that deviate people from the right path. That is why they are not acceptable. They are considered within the chapter of gambling. It is not lucky but unlucky. From amongst all these people, a person who was predestined on the path of Allah is a lucky person. To be a beautiful servant of Allah, this is to be lucky. We need to know its value.
Do not say, “We are poor, sick, and this and that.” People who are on the path of Allah are lucky. A rich person cannot eat a meal for 10 people. He also eats like a normal person. Say he eats twice as much as a normal person or three times as much. He cannot eat 10 times as much. Because they pay attention to themselves, and want to be handsome and want to be beautiful. They do not like it when they are overweight.
Therefore, the lucky servants of Allah are those who are on His path. And amongst them, those people who had the kismet for hajj are luckier. Because everybody can do the prayer and the fasting, but everybody cannot do the hajj worship. Therefore, may Allah make it kismet for everybody. May Allah destine it and make it kismet for those who want InshaAllah. InshaAllah may they go even if once in a lifetime InshaAllah. May He InshaAllah destine for us and make kismet for us all to see those places again InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
185.NATURAL DISASTERS ARE A LESSON Monday, 11 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He offers various types of means for people to know and appreciate His grandness. When humankind gets arrogant and says, “There is none greater than I!” He troubles them with some of His creation and they search for a place to escape. These typhoons, winds, and all are Allah’s creation. While humankind asserts itself saying, “I am in control of the whole world,” then they look for a place to run.
This is a big lesson. It is a means for people to strengthen their faith. However, humankind says something else and calls it a natural disaster. It is not natural, it is an act of Allah. Nature is also a servant of Allah. He subjects them as He wills. It is said that it came with a speed of 300 km/h. This is the greatest but there are greater ones. If it is 400-500 km/h it would not leave a building either. It would not listen to neither cement nor steel and it would just blow it away. Allah is capable of everything. Fear Allah. Appreciate Allah. Where are you going to run? Allah Azza wa Jalla says in the Koran: “Fafirroo ilallah.” (Sura Zariyat:50) Run to Allah, go to Allah. They are trying to move millions of people from there. Whereas there is an easier way. He says, “Seek refuge in Allah, run to Allah.” What is also interesting is they said it was coming three days before or a week before. When an earthquake occurs, it is Allah’s wisdom that it hits immediately. They can only get a minute or two’s notice and that is not enough for them to save people. However, with this they make people live in fear slowly, slowly, and gradually saying, “It is about to be here. It is about to be here.”
Allah is great. Fear Allah. Allah is merciful on those who fear Him. He is not merciful on those who oppose Him and makes them “rub their nose on the floor”. May Allah keep us safe. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
186.WE NEED TO REPENT Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He orders us to repent. The benefit is for the people themselves when they repent. Allah does not need our repentance. Whether we do good or bad, none of it affects Allah Azza wa Jalla. People have an effect on people, but Allah Azza wa Jalla is the one who created us so He does not need us. We are in need of Him. Because we are in need of Him, He accepts it when we repent, ask, and make dua. If not, if you say you will not repent and you do not make dua either then you are at loss. Why do you get harmed? Nothing goes well for you. Even if it is going good for you it is of no use.
Following youth, even if you have money or the world is your, humankind is either losing health or does not have strength left due to old age. Humankind did not come for this world but came for the hereafter. So that our hereafter is built, Allah tells us to repent due to our mistakes and faults. He says, “Allah is the one who accepts repentance.” Whatever you do, Allah is the one who accepts your repentance and is even happy about it: “They have repented. I accept their repentance.”
The door of repentance is open util a little before Doomsday. The door of repentance is shut afterwards. That time repentance is not accepted. Therefore, we need to repent and ask for forgiveness everyday while the door is open and the opportunity is in front of us. Of course, some people see themselves as faultless and blameless. As if all the fault and blame is on others and they are clean. Let us not be one of those people InshaAllah. We all have defects, we have faults, and we have sins. Therefore, let us repent to Allah from them InshaAllah. May Allah forgive us. May our repentance be accepted.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
187.RECITING SALAWAT IS BENEFICIAL Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Azza wa Jalla commands us to make salat and salam on our Holy Prophet and to love our Holy Prophet. It is fard (obligatory). When it is fard and you do it, you gain rewards and gain benefits. Reciting salat and salam on our Holy Prophet brings baraka (blessings) on a person. For prayers to be answered, we recite salat and salam in the beginning before making dua, and we recite salat and salam after the dua. So Allah certainly answers the dua when it is in between two salat and salams.
Reciting salat and salam on our Holy Prophet is the light of our eyes and the beauty of a person. Reciting salawat is beneficial for people. Some people say they are forgetful. So recite a salat and salam, salawat, when you forget and you will immediately remember what you forgot. Some people cannot stand this. They are with Shaitan. Those who do not love the Prophet are shaitans. Those who do not respect him and do not recite salawat are also amongst them. They do not recite it themselves and cannot bare others reciting salawat, salat and salam, either.
It is a benefit, blessing, and light for us. Reciting salawat is everything that is beautiful. Loving our Holy Prophet and especially loving his companions (sahaba) is a great reward, benediction (nima), and benefit. May Allah increase his love in all of us Inshallah. Our respect is little so may He increase it more. Because the more you respect and love our Holy Prophet the more Allah will love you. Our Holy Prophet is His beloved. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He also loves those who love him. May Allah make us amongst those who love him.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
188.THE SUNNA PROTECTS THE FORT OF FAITH Thursday, 14 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We need to strengthen our faith. We need to protect our faith. Faith is strengthened by obeying Allah’s commands, performing the fard (obligatory), the wajib (necessary), and the sunna. A new trend is out now: “Sir, we are going to hajj and umra.” Good, the hajj is fard of course, but instead of going to umra and learning good things, they learn other things. They say, “People there are next to the Kaaba. Their faith is stronger.” What are they doing? They are not praying the sunna. They pray the fard and run off. That is due to week faith. The person with strong faith fulfills all the worships and tries to do more.
It is not good to neglect the sunna (traditions of the Prophet). Later you cannot look at the face of our Holy Prophet on the Day of Judgment. The sunna protects the fort, and acts as the first line of defense. When the first is gone the others weaken further and further, and in the end the last fort is left. This makes it easy for faith (iman) to be taken, since our faith is very week that time. They are also neglecting these sunnas during Friday prayers. Some hodjas and even muftis say, “Two rakats. No need for more.” The imam sits there and when people see this they do not pray the sunna.
The sunna is pretty important. In order to keep our faith safe, we need to pay attention to the sunnas and to everything our Holy Prophet did. We need to do the sunna and even what is beyond the sunna, the mustahab (beloved). This is not something to be taken lightly. They run after unnecessary things the whole day, and do not think about doing five more minutes of worship but try to trim it. Our way is correct. There is no need to look at others.
It could be that the mazhabs of others could be more forgiving in this matter of sunna. However, we need to protect what we have learned. Our Holy Prophet says, “Grab on to this religion ever so tightly, even with your teeth and your nails, and hold on. Not just with your hands but bite on even with your teeth so it does not slip your hands.” This is an important thing because people loosen up. They say, “We went to umra and saw this and that there.” It is the wisdom of Allah that people do not learn good things, but Shaitan immediately shows bad things as beautiful. May Allah tie us to the sunna, the sunna of our Holy Prophet InshaAllah. He says, “The Ahl-e Sunnat wal Jamaat is the
faction that will be saved among the 73 factions.” The others are those who have deviated from the sunna and it will be hard for them. May Allah give us all guidance and keep us firm on the right path InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
189.A PERSON WHO ENTERS THE WAY OF TARIQA IS LUCKY Friday, 15 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our Holy Prophet states: “Surat Hud turned my hair gray.” There is a verse in it: “Fastaqim kama umirt.” (Sura Hud:112) The order, “So remain on a right course as you have been commanded,” came to our Holy Prophet. This is a heavy command. People think it is easy and say, “So what if we were to be true?” There, they cannot. Humankind cannot hold true. As they are going straight, Shaitan does something and they deviate from the right path. They get on another path, the bad way, the path that Allah does not want. Not on the right course, but they go out of the right course.
Our tariqa is InshaAllah upon the right course. Just as it came from our Holy Prophet we will continue successfully like that InshaAllah. This way is the way of Allah. Those who follow this way need to follow the shaykh and follow the tariqa, its manners, and its methods. Tariqa is not going to follow them. Tariqa does not follow anybody as it follows Allah and the Prophet. Common people follow the tariqa, clean their ego, purify it, and become a better human. They become better amongst people of the world and are held in esteem, and become acceptable in the sight of Allah.
This person becomes acceptable amongst people too because his being on the path of our Holy Prophet makes our Holy Prophet content with him, makes Allah content with him, his light increases, and his amiability amongst people increases. If not, if he says, “This tariqa is not like I want it. I am leaving,” of course there is no obligation. There is no such rule as you absolutely must follow a tariqa. It is not fard (obligatory). What is fard is clear and what is not fard is clear. Allah says: “La yukallifullahu nafsan illa wus’aha.” (Sura Baqara:286) “Allah does not charge a soul except with that within its capacity.” Therefore, it is not an obligation. However, those who can do it reach higher stations: from the level of common people to the level of the elite. The person rises to be amongst more quality people.
Now some people work so hard just to be a member of the council of a village. They try so hard to become a member of the neighborhood representative’s (mukhtar) council. Whereas it is something that is not worth much in this world, but humankind still shows an effort. Whereas the real thing that needs to be shown an effort is the hereafter. Tariqa
is not like being a member of the neighborhood council. It is much higher. So the difference between a regular person and oneself is like the distance between the ground and the sky. His level is so high. However, as we said, he needs to follow the tariqa. The tariqa will not follow him.
Tariqa shows the way as, “You will do this and you will do that.” You could be a garbage man, you could be a farmer, you could be a shepherd, you could be a professor, you could be a doctor, or you could be the person in the highest post and nothing changes for the tariqa. These are shells. Worldly positions have no value whatsoever. In tariqa, no position as, “I am this and I am that,” makes a difference. If you have joined a tariqa you have done well. You are a clever person. If not, it does not matter if you say, “I left and went.” This is a kismet, a chance, granted to people by Allah. If you like you can stay and if you like you can go. If a shaykh or a tariqa were to be sorry for those who leave, he is neither a shaykh nor a tariqa. All the murids can leave if they like. He would not have the slightest sorrow in his heart. They can come if they like and again it is the same way. He is with Allah. What is beside Him (Masiwa) is empty.
Therefore, the person who enters this way is lucky. How happy is he (lucky him). You cannot say “how happy” for a person who owns worldly possessions and positions because it will be accounted for. They will ask, “You were their head. Did you show them the way? Did you eat from the halal (permissible)? What did you do?” Therefore, do not attach much importance to worldly positions but attach importance to the hereafter.
In tariqa, you do not go to someone to ask for something worldly. You cannot say, “We are from this community. Give us money. Give us jobs.” People of tariqa ask from Allah. Allah has it brought to you and takes care of your work. If not, the other way you would be disgraced and your work would not get done. That is why may Allah protect us and may Allah grant us all to know this tariqa’s worth. These times are End Times anyway. Those who are lucky enter tariqa. And when they enter there are 1001 shaitans (devils). They attack tariqa from all sides saying, “Tariqa is like this and tariqa is like that.”
A person who is one of the true people of tariqa does not care at all. Because he is with Allah, whether they know or not is not important as long as Allah knows. They can attack as much as they want. Those people whom Allah wants devote their lives to this way. It says, “Those who have a heart enter this arena.” They say, “So many lives are lost on this way but nobody cares to ask.” That is why a person who enters tariqa is a person who is spiritually strong.
People of strong spirituality should not feel sorrow for the words of others. Oh, one should not be sad because someone said this and another said that. They should never think, “What will become of us?” That time suspicion would fall in the heart of the person. Suspicion is not good in tariqa. Tariqa is to strengthen our faith (iman). That is
why a person of tariqa should not lend an ear to anything. He should only be with Allah. His heart should always be with Allah, with the Prophet, and with the shaykhs (mashayikh). Those who are like this are at ease. They do not care even if the world falls apart or the world ruins.
They should not care because the world has been created to be devastated and the hereafter has been created to be built. The world will be devastated in the end so there is no need to be sad. This should be in the minds of people: this world is not lasting and our real abode is the hereafter. May Allah build our hereafter InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
190.WASTING IS FORBIDDEN Friday, 15 September 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. “Kulu washrabu wala tusrifu.” (Sura Araf:31) Allah has given a command: “Eat, drink, and do not waste.” Wasting is forbidden (haram). We need to recognize a benediction (nima) as a benediction and respect it. This becomes a blessing (baraka) for people. If you do not recognize it as a blessing, disrespect it, and say, “What? What is this?” then Allah would take away that baraka from it and that time you would gain nothing.
Hajis have returned now. Unfortunately, they disrespect and show ingratitude to food there the most. It occurs because they think they are hajis. These people are cleaned of all sins in hajj, and Shaitan immediately tries for new sins to be written on them. Disrespecting food like this, not looking at food as good, and not looking at it as a grace and favor of Allah is a great sin.
We see that they throw food and bread on the floor everywhere. Let that aside, let alone stepping on that nima, they even break ablution on it. This is a great sin. It cannot be! You see things there that you would not see here. And this is due to people not having manners. They say according to their own heads, “I read the Koran and do not want anything else.” You are committing the greatest insult and the greatest sin: you are holding food in contempt, stepping on it, and passing by.
Allah forbid, if food is taken away, it is hard for you to see it again. Allah would make you in need of it for the rest of your life. He would make you in need of it in every way. You could have money but you would not be able to place that morsel in your mouth. We need to respect nima. We need to be thankful to Allah for the food He has provided. We need to be hundreds of thousands of times thankful for the smallest nima. May Allah make us amongst people who honor food and respect it. May those nimas be constantly upon our heads InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
191.MANNERS ARE REQUIRED BEFORE KNOWLEDGE Saturday, 16 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
The companions (sahaba) of our Holy Prophet, may Allah be content with them, Allah raised them as people faithful to our Holy Prophet and who show us the way. The situation was not easy in those times. There were no schools, no madrasas, and no universities, but MashaAllah to those men. May Allah be content with them, Radiyallahu Anhum. When the names of the sahaba are mentioned, “May Allah be content with them,” “Radiyallahu Anhum,” is said. It means Allah is content with them. How beautiful. There was no madrasa, as we said, no school, and no university, but our Holy Prophet says, “Each one is like a star.” People of today are going pretty astray. Universities have become like grocery stores. There is a university in every neighborhood, but manners and morals are not left where a university opens. It has come to such a state. They have books, they have notebooks, and they have everything, but as we said there are none to mainly teach humanity.
If humanity is to be learnt, the first thing that needs to be learnt is knowing Allah and obeying Allah. When this is missing, when they do not teach this, everything they teach becomes harmful. People who know Allah are raised as beautiful people. The others are raised as rebels. They teach them rebellion. They think, “When we do this, these things we learn will be enough for us,” but none of it is enough when they do not recognize Allah. People cannot do anything as long as Allah does not give them success. They can finish all the universities they like they will keep moaning, “There is no work, no jobs, and what not.” As we said, trust in Allah. Universities will start now, schools will start, and vacation is over. Recognizing Allah is the most important thing before giving training. Once Allah is recognized, there would be training, there would be manners, and there would be knowledge. May Allah help us. These are Muslim children, and our hearts do not consent to them being raised badly like this. You see them: they need to learn discipline and manners. What is important before knowledge is manners. May Allah help them all. May Allah keep them all safe from Shaitan, the evils of Shaitan, human devils (shaitans), and jinn devils.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
192.THE HIJRI YEAR IS A BARAKA Sunday, 17 September 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
The Hijri New Year will Inshallah arrive in two to three days. May 1439 Inshallah be good for the world of Islam. We are approaching Doomsday more and more every year as we are getting closer this year. The Hijri year is the year of the Islamic world. It is our year. Every year is blessed (mubarak). All holy days are calculated according to it. Therefore, we should not forget it.
Now, people in Europe start preparing 2-3 months in advance in the fake year called the Gregorian saying, “The New Year is coming. Christmas is coming,” and make a fuss. Our people also comply with them, and accordingly prepare for entertainment and dancing. It does not give benefit to people. What is beneficial is this Hijri, lunar year of ours. It will arrive in 2-3 days. Fasting the last day of the year and the first day of the New Year is like fasting the whole year.
We wanted to say it now because we are travelling tomorrow and will not be seeing you (Shaykh Effendi is travelling to Alanya). We will be fasting when we return the day after. We are saying it so you do not forget. So do not forget. Whoever is able to can fast, and it counts as a year in the sight of Allah. The month of Muharram is also one of the holy (haram) months. There is Ashura and the ten days in it. This was the fast before Ramadan. Fasting was done in Muharram before it became obligatory (fard) on the Prophet. Fasting was done more in Muharram. Once it became Ramadan, the obligatory was Ramadan.
Therefore, it is a holy month and we need to pay attention to it. There are blessed days in it. There is the day of Ashura. We will fast those too InshaAllah. Those who are able can fast till the tenth. Those who are unable can fast the day of Ashura and the day before or the day after. As we said, let us Inshallah fast the last day and the first day so it is like a year. May Allah bless it (mubarak). May it be with blessings (baraka).
“Waman yu’athim sha’irallah fa innaha min taqwal qulub.” “And whoever honors the symbols of Allah - indeed, it is from the piety of hearts.” (Sura Hajj:32) There are some days and places Allah honors. It is a sign of cleanliness of the heart for those who honor
them. The heart is cleaned. So it is a command of Allah to honor some places and some people. We need to act accordingly. Now, a new fashion is out. They say, “This looks like something else.” No, it does not. This is a saying of Allah. Allah says to honor and we are honoring accordingly.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
193.DAY OF ASHURA AND ITS BLESSING Friday, 22 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
MashaAllah we have entered a new year tonight and gathered for a beautiful occasion. With this occasion his holiness haji, shaykh, what does he call himself, Nimatullah Hodja Efendi came (Shaykh Mehmet is laughing). His holiness came. Pretty holy ones came. (“I am your murid sir. I was also your father’s murid, Allah willing,” says Nimatullah Hodja Efendi). We are grateful to Allah. InshaAllah this year passes in baraka (blessing).
Muharram ul-Haram is a holy month. We need to welcome it with fasting and duas in the beginning. Inshallah we have done as much as we could, we have tried to do. The recommendation of our Holy Prophet for Ashura is to fast the ninth and tenth days. Fasting it is of great benefit and great nima (benediction) to a person. Allah would give baraka and relief physically, spiritually, and in terms of sustenance.
Everything is available Alhamdulillah. These are End Times. Allah has provided all sorts of benedictions to people, but people are misusing them, they are not being grateful for the benedictions, and are going wild with attainment. They are not being grateful to Allah and are not recognizing its value. The poor, the rich, Muslims, and non-Muslims have become so self-indulgent, that they do not want the slightest hardship or the slightest discomfort and regard with disfavor what is given to them.
There are lots of people who come with complaints. Whereas not too long ago, twenty years ago, people were not in such nima. There was not even one-fourth of this nima but there was not so much complaining. When people are free, Shaykh Mawlana called them idle ones, their complaints increase. We have no void in our life. Our life is short. It is shameful for a person to get bored and stay idle. Complaining is never a good thing. If you spend your time with Allah and on things Allah commands, you would not know how time passed and it would fall short. However, people, as we say, do not recognize the nima, do not know its worth, and have complaint upon complaint.
Allah Azza wa Jalla created us in the best image. If Allah willed, He could have created us as a creature with four legs, a creature of six legs, or worse if He wanted. He still created you
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M OF ALLAH Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Today is the eighth day of Dhū l-Ḥijjah, a blessed day. It is called Yawmu t-Tarwiyah. Today ḥujjāj (pilgrims) start heading towards ‘Arafāt leaving from Makkah according to the sunnah. Of course, sometimes people cannot keep the sunnah. Because if everyone keeps it, there will be disorder. Who wants can go to ‘Arafāt on foot. They wake up this morning, stay in Minā and reach ‘Arafa tomorrow from there. They will make waqfah. This is sunnah. Who is on ḥajj does this. Who is not on ḥajj, they have today's thawāb too. When worship is made, Allah̄ calculate as I like", says is generous. "I gives thousand, ten thousand for one. Allāh Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and gives as much as He likes.
Fasting today has virtue, a lot of virtue. Tomorrow, the Day of ‘Arafah has even more virtue. Ḥujjāj become ḥajjī there. When present in that place, in that hour, they become ḥajji.̄ If outside that place, out of that time, they don't become ḥajji.̄ Allah's order is so. Once a year you have to be in that place within that certain time to become ḥajjī. This is the wisdom of Alla . It is a good worship, we cannot question Allah's wisdom. It is a virtue. A person leaves all his sins and starts over as absolutely clean.
As we said, there is a different duty for those who are here. Starting from the morning prayer tomorrow, it is wājib to make takbīr. Up until the afternoon of the 4th day of ‘Īd we will make takbīr 23 times, in shā’a Llāh. And there is qurba (sacrifice). A person with a certain amount of money, with enough money to pay zakāt, it is wājib for him to slaughter qurbān. That is waj̄ ib. And when paying zakāt, your zakāt is not ḥalāl for you to use but qurban̄ is ḥalāl for you. You can keep all of it for yourself or give it away, or you can leave some and give some. You can give to your friends as a gift even if they are not in need. You can give one part to the poor. It is wājib. And as we said, it is ḥalāl for you. It is ḥalal̄ if you take from it. Therefore, who can afford should not ignore it. Allāh will write thawa for you for every hair of the animal. That will become your ride on the Day of Judgment. You will pass the Ṣirat̄ ̣ bridge riding on it. It brings both great virtue and thawāb to you. And you can use it. It is a very good thing. It is a big misfortune
for a person to be able to slaughter and not do it. It is a lost opportunity. Who ignores will regret it in ākhirah. They will say, "If only I had done it." But it will be too late. These days are virtuous days. Whatever Allāh orders, that becomes happiness for us. It becomes a means to happiness. Our ranks increase near Allāh. And as tomorrow is ‘arafah, recite 1000 Ikhlāṣ as waẓīfah. Read Qur’a , give sạ daqah, do all kinds of charity
and Allah̄ goodness.
will write thawāb not seven or ten for one, but 700 and more for every
May Allāh bless these days. May Allāh bring it again for us, in sha’̄ Allah̄ . We hope it will be next year, the victory of Islām with Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām.
Today eight of Dhū l-Ḥijjah, the holy month of Allah̄ ten days - ten nights, nine days. Very holy this. This is the eight also name, they have name yawm, day of tarwiyah. For ḥajji,̄ pilgrimage people, today they are moving from Makkah toward jabal ‘Arafāt, montain ‘Arafat. This is sunnah of Prophet of, today going, tonight sleeping in Minā. Tomorrow, Minā near ‘Arafāt they are going to ‘Arafat. This is sunnah but nowadays very few people they can do this. Because they forget and they not doing and now become more difficult to do. If they was doing whole time same sunnah it will be not problem. But when they cut they do problem, it is problem so it will be difficult. Only very few people they are doing. This is sunnah. Who they make sunnah Allāh reward him. But other people they are following their group, their ima , say they cannot leave and go by themself. They will lost. After they will be maybe not reach to ‘Arafa or they will go another place and it is important time for ‘Arafāt. It is only one day and in one place, limited place. If you are going outside of this limit, you cannot be ḥajji No, you not doing your pilgrimage. You must be that time, in that place. For this you must be careful and it is wisdom of our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
Turkish they say, "Hikmetinden sual olmaz." You cannot ask for [about] His wisdom. What is wisdom for this, Allāh He know. He do what He like. He just what it is, very perfect. Only once a year and the one place you must be there. So this is for ḥajjī, for pilgrimage, very important days, today and tomorrow. For other people also important reward hundred time for until seven[th day]. For eight, today, He because Allāh [reward] thousand time. He reward, who pray, who fast. Tomorrow two thousand time rewarding. So it is for whole believer for whole mu’min, Muslim who are believe in Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla it is very important, very nice days this.
Today who fast, Allāh reward him as he free thousand of slave, thousand [sacrifices] cutting camel and thousand as he prepare horseman for jihād for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Tomorrow two thousand. So today, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are happy. We must be do every good thing, in shā’Allāh. Tomorrow also there is beginning to make takbīr from tomorrow until forth of ‘Īd, forth ‘Īd. Until ‘aṣr you make takbīr. Every praying, after every praying we must do it. This is waj̄ ib, we must do it. Not forget this. By the
Jamā‘ah, by yourself, you must do it. Alla also reward for this. And other thing who are living in place they must cut sheep who have enough money to give zaka . And it is good for who cutting, this is not like zakāh. Zakāh you cannot take from what you give. If give Zakāh you cannot take back from this money. But this sheep you cut, it is also wājib for you. But if you like you can take all of this sheep. You can eat for maybe one, two month, three months. You can eat by yourself without giving anybody. If you like, you can give for charity whole of it. If you like, you can make it little bit for you, little bit for present for your friend and other. You can give for poor people.
This is and Allāh reward you for this. For each hair of sheep, reward you ten reward. And this is it will be your riding [animal] in Qiyāmah to go across the ṣirāṭ, - ne derler? -bridge of for Jannah, you ride and go, not waiting on Judgement Day. It will be shafī‘ (intercessor) for you. So it is all with what you, anybody have to do it he must do it because all this for you, only for you. You take it, you cut for yourself, you eat for yourself. And Alla reward you for each hair like this and you, it will be your ride this also. So it is completely good for you. But people, some people make it, say, said, "No! Too much to this year it is very expensive we cannot do." But you have enough money you must do.
And tomorrow, for tomorrow also we have waẓīfah. Who can fast, he can fast. Allāh reward him. As we said two thousand free as he free slave; two thousand as he cut camel; and two thousand as he prepare for horseman. It is big because for Allāh He is generous and He like for us to take this.
In shā’Allāh, Alla accept our ‘ibādah and help us to do more and more, in shā’Allāh. And He help for to be many year to do this. And hope next year to be glory of Islām with Sayyidinā Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
180.HAJI NAZIM AKSAR EFENDI Thursday, 7 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He sent humankind to this world as a trial. He says, “Liyabluakum ayyukum ahsanu ‘amala.” (Sura Mulk:2) “To test you as to which of you is best in deed.” Allah created life and death. He sent us to this world as a test for who is good and who is evil. We need to do good in this world so people talk good after us.
Every time we remember the late Nazim Efendi, he was truly a gentleman and a kind person. He passed through this world trusting in Allah as a person who was bound by his religion and his family. He is Allah willing one of those people Allah loves. Allah gave people’s hearts affection towards him. What can you do? What Allah says happens. His state was beautiful due to this illness and he has reached a beautiful station, the presence of Shaykh Mawlana too InshaAllah.
Therefore, may Allah grant it to everybody and may people have such a lifestyle. Let there not be a shemozzle and may people talk as “A good person,” behind you. May others not come saying, “I claim rights.” May it not be so. Many people infringe upon the rights of others just so they can make two pennies. These people are both fools and liars. They are the type of people others do not like. We need to be careful of this.
Why are we calling them fools? Because that money is forbidden (haram) and it does not benefit those people. You are wasting yourself for useless matters, and you would be infringing on the rights of others in the hereafter. This is also dangerous. Allah would forgive Allah’s rights, but you will certainly be questioned when it is the rights of other servants.
“Kafaa bilmawti wa’ithan ya Umar.” “Death is enough of an advice for you O Omar,” said our Holy Prophet to Hazrat Omar. The same also applies to everybody. May Allah keep us safe and not deviate us from the right path InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
181.SILENCE IS THE ANSWER TO AN IGNORAMUS Friday, 8 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
There are some people who are trouble. These people bother you even if you are right. They are not a trouble to you but to everyone. Therefore, we need to not give them the time of day. They can be found everywhere. There is no need to deal with them and get upset. They are enough for themselves anyway. If you deal with them, you will get more upset and it will be no use.
Leave them be. There is no need to answer them. It says, “Silence is the answer of the ignoramus.” Or you take no account of them, you do not take them into consideration. At least say, “It’s not to me. It’s for someone else.” Or if they say something, you need to say, “This has no value,” and not torment yourself.
Because it gets worse when you deal with these ones. More filth would be smeared on you. They are like a bag that is dirty all over. It gets on your hands if you think about picking it up and throwing it away. It gets on your clothes and all over you if you try a little more. It gets worse as you try. So you need to stay away from them. They are not people to be taken into consideration. It will be useful when you stay away from them. It would also benefit the person such that he might say, “People are not taking me into consideration much. Let me look at myself a little and at the mistakes I’m making.” However, most do not say this and think the fault is always with others.
Because it gets worse when you deal with these ones. More filth would be smeared on you. They are like a bag that is dirty all over. It gets on your hands if you think about picking it up and throwing it away. It gets on your clothes and all over you if you try a little more. It gets worse as you try. So you need to stay away from them. They are not people to be taken into consideration. It will be useful when you stay away from them. It would also benefit the person such that he might say, “People are not taking me into consideration much. Let me look at myself a little and at the mistakes I’m making.” However, most do not say this and think the fault is always with others.
So we need to gain a benefit and a reward in everything so nothing goes to waste in this world, and so it does not end as Shaitan wants.
“Yuridush Shaytanu ayyuqi’a baynakum.” (Sura Maida:91) It says, “Shaitan’s aim is to cause mischief between you.” He would not reach his aim and you would gain rewards. You would gain rewards from so many sides. May Allah grant us all to take control of our ego. May our ego not be occupied with such unnecessary things InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
182.EVERYTHING WILL BE ACCOUNTED FOR Friday, 8 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He showed these people the right path. Heaven is real, hell is real, Allah is real, and the Prophet is real. People who deserve it will go to hell. Allah does not oppress anybody. However many people of faith there is in the world, Shaitan is certainly their enemy and he will not quit until he finishes them. Allah Azza wa Jalla gave him a certain time. Not everyone will follow him. Those who follow him will certainly go to hell and stay in hell for eternity.
It is End Times now and all kufr (disbelief) is attacking. They are attacking those who believe in Allah and those who belong to the religion of Allah. They are attacking all the way and in every way. Their biggest weapon is lies. Now, media is everywhere and it is in the hands of Shaitan. They make a fuss in a place where nothing is happening: “There is oppression here. People are dying. People are suffering.” The same also happened during Sultan Abdul Hamid’s time. That time there was admiration for Europe. People of those times did not know how dirty Europe was. They fell for it. They fell so much for them. The ones who fell for it the most were the educated ones. They fooled them saying, “Civilization. Civilization. Civilization.” Whereas ignorance, dirt, savagery, selfishness, and whatever you are looking for of base attributes is all with them.
We see now, in front of the eyes of the whole world, the events that Allah mentioned 1400 years ago in the Koran are happening. They dug trenches and are throwing babies in them. These are vile creatures and people without belief. And people do not like their own religion but are obsessed with their religion. They are showing these people as people who are peaceful, peace-loving, and trying to do all kinds of acts of kindness to people. Now we see that let alone peacefulness, they are burning people alive. As if that was not enough, they dug trenches and they are throwing babies and children in first. So it is happening exactly as Allah plainly described it in the Koran.
These are all happening but this shaitan (devil) called the media is not showing it. It is shutting it to people, hiding it, and broadcasting what it wants. Wherever we go, we went to Europe, they insist everywhere saying, “There is oppression in Turkey,” and not saying anything else. They completely covered what happened a year ago (July
15th Coup Attempt) and nobody has an idea about the matter. So we are at war with such a devil. However, Allah helps and it will also be defeated. Those who are with Allah are always in gain.
Allah is also describing it in the Koran: they dug trenches and are throwing people in the fire. What is the fault and crime of these people? They believe in Allah. This is their only crime. They have no other crime. The man lives in a hut. We see. We go to those countries. It is not like ours. A handful of rice suffices a day for the man and his family. They are such poor people, such abstemious people, and people who keep to themselves. They neither have guns nor weapons. Nor can they attack anybody. Their biggest crime is believing in Allah. Those dishonest people are not alone. Shaitan, Shaitan’s soldiers, all of Europe, all of America, and kufr and whatever there is are behind them. What they cannot stand is belief in Allah. You do all kinds of filth and they are happy. They give you a medal and you become their best friend. But if you do nothing and only believe in Allah, there is nobody worse than you. You have no right to live in this world. If they could, they would root us all away.
Of course, Allah Azza wa Jalla says: “They are such savagery causing people, and as long as they do not repent and turn to Allah, they will be deserving eternal hell in the hereafter.” The people here burn once, become a martyr, and reach the highest stations. However, they will be in the fire every day and every instant. These people will suffer 100,000 times more for the cruelty they did. They will say they want to die but they will not be able to die. There is no death! On the Day of Resurrection, once the judgment is over they bring a ram on the Sirat Bridge and they slaughter it. This is death and there is no other death. Allah Azza wa Jalla will say: “You are in eternal hell, and you are in eternal heaven.” Therefore, these things that are being done will not be left unaccounted.
The Islamic world is unable to do anything now, and whatever it does they do to our detriment. We are unable to be successful anywhere. They are not allowing us to succeed. It has a time too. When the time comes Inshallah it will also be accounted for. However, the real accounting is on the Day of Judgment. Everything will be accounted for. There, the oppressed will get their due from the oppressors. Justice belongs to Allah and Allah Azza wa Jalla will rule with justice. As we said, we cannot do anything either. We can only make dua. May Allah make Mahdi Alayhis Salam appear as soon as possible and get rid of this tyranny.
As Shaykh Mawlana said, technology is for oppression, mischief, and destruction in these times. This technology is not for good. All evil is in it. Therefore, with Allah’s wisdom this technology will be cancelled that time. Just as these matters did not come to the minds of humans for thousands of years and Allah gave it to the minds of so many people, Allah is capable of everything. People are baffled what to do. As we said, there is no need to baffled. Let as make dua to Allah. May Allah, InshaAllah, keep Muslims
safe. May Allah not misguide us. May we stay on the true path Inshallah. It is better to be the oppressed rather than the oppressor. Do not ever oppress. You can be oppressed but do not oppress. May Allah give victory to Islam. May kufr (disbelief) ebb down and be ruined, and those who follow it the same way. They will not do good unless they repent. The door of repentance is open and it possible after repentance. However, Shaitan does not allow them. They are getting wilder and attacking more. May Allah take care of them InshaAllah. May the station of the people there and the martyrs be raised. May Allah also protect the people who are being oppressed there. May Allah help them InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
183.TYRANTS ARE WITH SHAITAN Saturday, 9 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
“Wala tarkanu ilallathena thalamu fatamassakum annar.” (Sura Hud:113) Allah Exalted and Glorious be He says, “Do not be with the tyrants.” If you are with them, that fire will touch you too, that punishment will reach you too. Tyranny is simmering all over the world. Tyrants have surrounded everywhere. Do not be with them because they are powerful and rich. Do not be with them for worldly benefit. Stay away from them as much as possible. Do not acknowledge the things they do. Prohibit them as much as you can.
Now, we cannot do much because tyranny is all over the world. A person needs to oppose them with the tongue and the heart. You cannot face tyranny with your hand because it is so much. These are End Times. If you say you want to oppose it, they do worse to you. Tyrants find an opportunity to increase their tyranny. Therefore, we need to oppose them with the tongue or the heart. We are not with them. We are not with what they do. We are distant from them. May Allah not make any of us be with the tyrants InshaAllah.
All types of oppression occur. The tyrants are obvious. Shaitan and his helpers are tyrants. Those who are with Allah do not become tyrants as long as they do not do like them and do not support them. Some people are fooled and are with the oppressor instead of being with the oppressed. They say, “This one is a tyrant,” when on the contrary they are the tyrants. May Allah keep us safe. May Allah open our eyes so we are not with the tyrants InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
184.YOU ARE LUCKY IF YOU CAN GO TO HAJJ Sunday, 10 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Hajis are preparing to return these days. They have done their hajj duty and started returning. We say to them, “May Allah make it mubarak (blessed).” Many were able to go this year thank Allah. Hajj is an important fard (obligation). If Allah has made it kismet, how lucky is that person! That is a lucky person.
Most people do not go even though they have the means, or something happens and they are unable to go. Because only those whom Allah Azza wa Jalla has predestined it for can go. They are, as we said, lucky people. Now, what they call games of chance are not games of chance. They are things that deviate people from the right path. That is why they are not acceptable. They are considered within the chapter of gambling. It is not lucky but unlucky. From amongst all these people, a person who was predestined on the path of Allah is a lucky person. To be a beautiful servant of Allah, this is to be lucky. We need to know its value.
Do not say, “We are poor, sick, and this and that.” People who are on the path of Allah are lucky. A rich person cannot eat a meal for 10 people. He also eats like a normal person. Say he eats twice as much as a normal person or three times as much. He cannot eat 10 times as much. Because they pay attention to themselves, and want to be handsome and want to be beautiful. They do not like it when they are overweight.
Therefore, the lucky servants of Allah are those who are on His path. And amongst them, those people who had the kismet for hajj are luckier. Because everybody can do the prayer and the fasting, but everybody cannot do the hajj worship. Therefore, may Allah make it kismet for everybody. May Allah destine it and make it kismet for those who want InshaAllah. InshaAllah may they go even if once in a lifetime InshaAllah. May He InshaAllah destine for us and make kismet for us all to see those places again InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
185.NATURAL DISASTERS ARE A LESSON Monday, 11 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He offers various types of means for people to know and appreciate His grandness. When humankind gets arrogant and says, “There is none greater than I!” He troubles them with some of His creation and they search for a place to escape. These typhoons, winds, and all are Allah’s creation. While humankind asserts itself saying, “I am in control of the whole world,” then they look for a place to run.
This is a big lesson. It is a means for people to strengthen their faith. However, humankind says something else and calls it a natural disaster. It is not natural, it is an act of Allah. Nature is also a servant of Allah. He subjects them as He wills. It is said that it came with a speed of 300 km/h. This is the greatest but there are greater ones. If it is 400-500 km/h it would not leave a building either. It would not listen to neither cement nor steel and it would just blow it away. Allah is capable of everything. Fear Allah. Appreciate Allah. Where are you going to run? Allah Azza wa Jalla says in the Koran: “Fafirroo ilallah.” (Sura Zariyat:50) Run to Allah, go to Allah. They are trying to move millions of people from there. Whereas there is an easier way. He says, “Seek refuge in Allah, run to Allah.” What is also interesting is they said it was coming three days before or a week before. When an earthquake occurs, it is Allah’s wisdom that it hits immediately. They can only get a minute or two’s notice and that is not enough for them to save people. However, with this they make people live in fear slowly, slowly, and gradually saying, “It is about to be here. It is about to be here.”
Allah is great. Fear Allah. Allah is merciful on those who fear Him. He is not merciful on those who oppose Him and makes them “rub their nose on the floor”. May Allah keep us safe. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
186.WE NEED TO REPENT Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He orders us to repent. The benefit is for the people themselves when they repent. Allah does not need our repentance. Whether we do good or bad, none of it affects Allah Azza wa Jalla. People have an effect on people, but Allah Azza wa Jalla is the one who created us so He does not need us. We are in need of Him. Because we are in need of Him, He accepts it when we repent, ask, and make dua. If not, if you say you will not repent and you do not make dua either then you are at loss. Why do you get harmed? Nothing goes well for you. Even if it is going good for you it is of no use.
Following youth, even if you have money or the world is your, humankind is either losing health or does not have strength left due to old age. Humankind did not come for this world but came for the hereafter. So that our hereafter is built, Allah tells us to repent due to our mistakes and faults. He says, “Allah is the one who accepts repentance.” Whatever you do, Allah is the one who accepts your repentance and is even happy about it: “They have repented. I accept their repentance.”
The door of repentance is open util a little before Doomsday. The door of repentance is shut afterwards. That time repentance is not accepted. Therefore, we need to repent and ask for forgiveness everyday while the door is open and the opportunity is in front of us. Of course, some people see themselves as faultless and blameless. As if all the fault and blame is on others and they are clean. Let us not be one of those people InshaAllah. We all have defects, we have faults, and we have sins. Therefore, let us repent to Allah from them InshaAllah. May Allah forgive us. May our repentance be accepted.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
187.RECITING SALAWAT IS BENEFICIAL Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah Azza wa Jalla commands us to make salat and salam on our Holy Prophet and to love our Holy Prophet. It is fard (obligatory). When it is fard and you do it, you gain rewards and gain benefits. Reciting salat and salam on our Holy Prophet brings baraka (blessings) on a person. For prayers to be answered, we recite salat and salam in the beginning before making dua, and we recite salat and salam after the dua. So Allah certainly answers the dua when it is in between two salat and salams.
Reciting salat and salam on our Holy Prophet is the light of our eyes and the beauty of a person. Reciting salawat is beneficial for people. Some people say they are forgetful. So recite a salat and salam, salawat, when you forget and you will immediately remember what you forgot. Some people cannot stand this. They are with Shaitan. Those who do not love the Prophet are shaitans. Those who do not respect him and do not recite salawat are also amongst them. They do not recite it themselves and cannot bare others reciting salawat, salat and salam, either.
It is a benefit, blessing, and light for us. Reciting salawat is everything that is beautiful. Loving our Holy Prophet and especially loving his companions (sahaba) is a great reward, benediction (nima), and benefit. May Allah increase his love in all of us Inshallah. Our respect is little so may He increase it more. Because the more you respect and love our Holy Prophet the more Allah will love you. Our Holy Prophet is His beloved. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He also loves those who love him. May Allah make us amongst those who love him.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
188.THE SUNNA PROTECTS THE FORT OF FAITH Thursday, 14 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We need to strengthen our faith. We need to protect our faith. Faith is strengthened by obeying Allah’s commands, performing the fard (obligatory), the wajib (necessary), and the sunna. A new trend is out now: “Sir, we are going to hajj and umra.” Good, the hajj is fard of course, but instead of going to umra and learning good things, they learn other things. They say, “People there are next to the Kaaba. Their faith is stronger.” What are they doing? They are not praying the sunna. They pray the fard and run off. That is due to week faith. The person with strong faith fulfills all the worships and tries to do more.
It is not good to neglect the sunna (traditions of the Prophet). Later you cannot look at the face of our Holy Prophet on the Day of Judgment. The sunna protects the fort, and acts as the first line of defense. When the first is gone the others weaken further and further, and in the end the last fort is left. This makes it easy for faith (iman) to be taken, since our faith is very week that time. They are also neglecting these sunnas during Friday prayers. Some hodjas and even muftis say, “Two rakats. No need for more.” The imam sits there and when people see this they do not pray the sunna.
The sunna is pretty important. In order to keep our faith safe, we need to pay attention to the sunnas and to everything our Holy Prophet did. We need to do the sunna and even what is beyond the sunna, the mustahab (beloved). This is not something to be taken lightly. They run after unnecessary things the whole day, and do not think about doing five more minutes of worship but try to trim it. Our way is correct. There is no need to look at others.
It could be that the mazhabs of others could be more forgiving in this matter of sunna. However, we need to protect what we have learned. Our Holy Prophet says, “Grab on to this religion ever so tightly, even with your teeth and your nails, and hold on. Not just with your hands but bite on even with your teeth so it does not slip your hands.” This is an important thing because people loosen up. They say, “We went to umra and saw this and that there.” It is the wisdom of Allah that people do not learn good things, but Shaitan immediately shows bad things as beautiful. May Allah tie us to the sunna, the sunna of our Holy Prophet InshaAllah. He says, “The Ahl-e Sunnat wal Jamaat is the
faction that will be saved among the 73 factions.” The others are those who have deviated from the sunna and it will be hard for them. May Allah give us all guidance and keep us firm on the right path InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
189.A PERSON WHO ENTERS THE WAY OF TARIQA IS LUCKY Friday, 15 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our Holy Prophet states: “Surat Hud turned my hair gray.” There is a verse in it: “Fastaqim kama umirt.” (Sura Hud:112) The order, “So remain on a right course as you have been commanded,” came to our Holy Prophet. This is a heavy command. People think it is easy and say, “So what if we were to be true?” There, they cannot. Humankind cannot hold true. As they are going straight, Shaitan does something and they deviate from the right path. They get on another path, the bad way, the path that Allah does not want. Not on the right course, but they go out of the right course.
Our tariqa is InshaAllah upon the right course. Just as it came from our Holy Prophet we will continue successfully like that InshaAllah. This way is the way of Allah. Those who follow this way need to follow the shaykh and follow the tariqa, its manners, and its methods. Tariqa is not going to follow them. Tariqa does not follow anybody as it follows Allah and the Prophet. Common people follow the tariqa, clean their ego, purify it, and become a better human. They become better amongst people of the world and are held in esteem, and become acceptable in the sight of Allah.
This person becomes acceptable amongst people too because his being on the path of our Holy Prophet makes our Holy Prophet content with him, makes Allah content with him, his light increases, and his amiability amongst people increases. If not, if he says, “This tariqa is not like I want it. I am leaving,” of course there is no obligation. There is no such rule as you absolutely must follow a tariqa. It is not fard (obligatory). What is fard is clear and what is not fard is clear. Allah says: “La yukallifullahu nafsan illa wus’aha.” (Sura Baqara:286) “Allah does not charge a soul except with that within its capacity.” Therefore, it is not an obligation. However, those who can do it reach higher stations: from the level of common people to the level of the elite. The person rises to be amongst more quality people.
Now some people work so hard just to be a member of the council of a village. They try so hard to become a member of the neighborhood representative’s (mukhtar) council. Whereas it is something that is not worth much in this world, but humankind still shows an effort. Whereas the real thing that needs to be shown an effort is the hereafter. Tariqa
is not like being a member of the neighborhood council. It is much higher. So the difference between a regular person and oneself is like the distance between the ground and the sky. His level is so high. However, as we said, he needs to follow the tariqa. The tariqa will not follow him.
Tariqa shows the way as, “You will do this and you will do that.” You could be a garbage man, you could be a farmer, you could be a shepherd, you could be a professor, you could be a doctor, or you could be the person in the highest post and nothing changes for the tariqa. These are shells. Worldly positions have no value whatsoever. In tariqa, no position as, “I am this and I am that,” makes a difference. If you have joined a tariqa you have done well. You are a clever person. If not, it does not matter if you say, “I left and went.” This is a kismet, a chance, granted to people by Allah. If you like you can stay and if you like you can go. If a shaykh or a tariqa were to be sorry for those who leave, he is neither a shaykh nor a tariqa. All the murids can leave if they like. He would not have the slightest sorrow in his heart. They can come if they like and again it is the same way. He is with Allah. What is beside Him (Masiwa) is empty.
Therefore, the person who enters this way is lucky. How happy is he (lucky him). You cannot say “how happy” for a person who owns worldly possessions and positions because it will be accounted for. They will ask, “You were their head. Did you show them the way? Did you eat from the halal (permissible)? What did you do?” Therefore, do not attach much importance to worldly positions but attach importance to the hereafter.
In tariqa, you do not go to someone to ask for something worldly. You cannot say, “We are from this community. Give us money. Give us jobs.” People of tariqa ask from Allah. Allah has it brought to you and takes care of your work. If not, the other way you would be disgraced and your work would not get done. That is why may Allah protect us and may Allah grant us all to know this tariqa’s worth. These times are End Times anyway. Those who are lucky enter tariqa. And when they enter there are 1001 shaitans (devils). They attack tariqa from all sides saying, “Tariqa is like this and tariqa is like that.”
A person who is one of the true people of tariqa does not care at all. Because he is with Allah, whether they know or not is not important as long as Allah knows. They can attack as much as they want. Those people whom Allah wants devote their lives to this way. It says, “Those who have a heart enter this arena.” They say, “So many lives are lost on this way but nobody cares to ask.” That is why a person who enters tariqa is a person who is spiritually strong.
People of strong spirituality should not feel sorrow for the words of others. Oh, one should not be sad because someone said this and another said that. They should never think, “What will become of us?” That time suspicion would fall in the heart of the person. Suspicion is not good in tariqa. Tariqa is to strengthen our faith (iman). That is
why a person of tariqa should not lend an ear to anything. He should only be with Allah. His heart should always be with Allah, with the Prophet, and with the shaykhs (mashayikh). Those who are like this are at ease. They do not care even if the world falls apart or the world ruins.
They should not care because the world has been created to be devastated and the hereafter has been created to be built. The world will be devastated in the end so there is no need to be sad. This should be in the minds of people: this world is not lasting and our real abode is the hereafter. May Allah build our hereafter InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
190.WASTING IS FORBIDDEN Friday, 15 September 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. “Kulu washrabu wala tusrifu.” (Sura Araf:31) Allah has given a command: “Eat, drink, and do not waste.” Wasting is forbidden (haram). We need to recognize a benediction (nima) as a benediction and respect it. This becomes a blessing (baraka) for people. If you do not recognize it as a blessing, disrespect it, and say, “What? What is this?” then Allah would take away that baraka from it and that time you would gain nothing.
Hajis have returned now. Unfortunately, they disrespect and show ingratitude to food there the most. It occurs because they think they are hajis. These people are cleaned of all sins in hajj, and Shaitan immediately tries for new sins to be written on them. Disrespecting food like this, not looking at food as good, and not looking at it as a grace and favor of Allah is a great sin.
We see that they throw food and bread on the floor everywhere. Let that aside, let alone stepping on that nima, they even break ablution on it. This is a great sin. It cannot be! You see things there that you would not see here. And this is due to people not having manners. They say according to their own heads, “I read the Koran and do not want anything else.” You are committing the greatest insult and the greatest sin: you are holding food in contempt, stepping on it, and passing by.
Allah forbid, if food is taken away, it is hard for you to see it again. Allah would make you in need of it for the rest of your life. He would make you in need of it in every way. You could have money but you would not be able to place that morsel in your mouth. We need to respect nima. We need to be thankful to Allah for the food He has provided. We need to be hundreds of thousands of times thankful for the smallest nima. May Allah make us amongst people who honor food and respect it. May those nimas be constantly upon our heads InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
191.MANNERS ARE REQUIRED BEFORE KNOWLEDGE Saturday, 16 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
The companions (sahaba) of our Holy Prophet, may Allah be content with them, Allah raised them as people faithful to our Holy Prophet and who show us the way. The situation was not easy in those times. There were no schools, no madrasas, and no universities, but MashaAllah to those men. May Allah be content with them, Radiyallahu Anhum. When the names of the sahaba are mentioned, “May Allah be content with them,” “Radiyallahu Anhum,” is said. It means Allah is content with them. How beautiful. There was no madrasa, as we said, no school, and no university, but our Holy Prophet says, “Each one is like a star.” People of today are going pretty astray. Universities have become like grocery stores. There is a university in every neighborhood, but manners and morals are not left where a university opens. It has come to such a state. They have books, they have notebooks, and they have everything, but as we said there are none to mainly teach humanity.
If humanity is to be learnt, the first thing that needs to be learnt is knowing Allah and obeying Allah. When this is missing, when they do not teach this, everything they teach becomes harmful. People who know Allah are raised as beautiful people. The others are raised as rebels. They teach them rebellion. They think, “When we do this, these things we learn will be enough for us,” but none of it is enough when they do not recognize Allah. People cannot do anything as long as Allah does not give them success. They can finish all the universities they like they will keep moaning, “There is no work, no jobs, and what not.” As we said, trust in Allah. Universities will start now, schools will start, and vacation is over. Recognizing Allah is the most important thing before giving training. Once Allah is recognized, there would be training, there would be manners, and there would be knowledge. May Allah help us. These are Muslim children, and our hearts do not consent to them being raised badly like this. You see them: they need to learn discipline and manners. What is important before knowledge is manners. May Allah help them all. May Allah keep them all safe from Shaitan, the evils of Shaitan, human devils (shaitans), and jinn devils.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
192.THE HIJRI YEAR IS A BARAKA Sunday, 17 September 2016
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
The Hijri New Year will Inshallah arrive in two to three days. May 1439 Inshallah be good for the world of Islam. We are approaching Doomsday more and more every year as we are getting closer this year. The Hijri year is the year of the Islamic world. It is our year. Every year is blessed (mubarak). All holy days are calculated according to it. Therefore, we should not forget it.
Now, people in Europe start preparing 2-3 months in advance in the fake year called the Gregorian saying, “The New Year is coming. Christmas is coming,” and make a fuss. Our people also comply with them, and accordingly prepare for entertainment and dancing. It does not give benefit to people. What is beneficial is this Hijri, lunar year of ours. It will arrive in 2-3 days. Fasting the last day of the year and the first day of the New Year is like fasting the whole year.
We wanted to say it now because we are travelling tomorrow and will not be seeing you (Shaykh Effendi is travelling to Alanya). We will be fasting when we return the day after. We are saying it so you do not forget. So do not forget. Whoever is able to can fast, and it counts as a year in the sight of Allah. The month of Muharram is also one of the holy (haram) months. There is Ashura and the ten days in it. This was the fast before Ramadan. Fasting was done in Muharram before it became obligatory (fard) on the Prophet. Fasting was done more in Muharram. Once it became Ramadan, the obligatory was Ramadan.
Therefore, it is a holy month and we need to pay attention to it. There are blessed days in it. There is the day of Ashura. We will fast those too InshaAllah. Those who are able can fast till the tenth. Those who are unable can fast the day of Ashura and the day before or the day after. As we said, let us Inshallah fast the last day and the first day so it is like a year. May Allah bless it (mubarak). May it be with blessings (baraka).
“Waman yu’athim sha’irallah fa innaha min taqwal qulub.” “And whoever honors the symbols of Allah - indeed, it is from the piety of hearts.” (Sura Hajj:32) There are some days and places Allah honors. It is a sign of cleanliness of the heart for those who honor
them. The heart is cleaned. So it is a command of Allah to honor some places and some people. We need to act accordingly. Now, a new fashion is out. They say, “This looks like something else.” No, it does not. This is a saying of Allah. Allah says to honor and we are honoring accordingly.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
193.DAY OF ASHURA AND ITS BLESSING Friday, 22 September 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
MashaAllah we have entered a new year tonight and gathered for a beautiful occasion. With this occasion his holiness haji, shaykh, what does he call himself, Nimatullah Hodja Efendi came (Shaykh Mehmet is laughing). His holiness came. Pretty holy ones came. (“I am your murid sir. I was also your father’s murid, Allah willing,” says Nimatullah Hodja Efendi). We are grateful to Allah. InshaAllah this year passes in baraka (blessing).
Muharram ul-Haram is a holy month. We need to welcome it with fasting and duas in the beginning. Inshallah we have done as much as we could, we have tried to do. The recommendation of our Holy Prophet for Ashura is to fast the ninth and tenth days. Fasting it is of great benefit and great nima (benediction) to a person. Allah would give baraka and relief physically, spiritually, and in terms of sustenance.
Everything is available Alhamdulillah. These are End Times. Allah has provided all sorts of benedictions to people, but people are misusing them, they are not being grateful for the benedictions, and are going wild with attainment. They are not being grateful to Allah and are not recognizing its value. The poor, the rich, Muslims, and non-Muslims have become so self-indulgent, that they do not want the slightest hardship or the slightest discomfort and regard with disfavor what is given to them.
There are lots of people who come with complaints. Whereas not too long ago, twenty years ago, people were not in such nima. There was not even one-fourth of this nima but there was not so much complaining. When people are free, Shaykh Mawlana called them idle ones, their complaints increase. We have no void in our life. Our life is short. It is shameful for a person to get bored and stay idle. Complaining is never a good thing. If you spend your time with Allah and on things Allah commands, you would not know how time passed and it would fall short. However, people, as we say, do not recognize the nima, do not know its worth, and have complaint upon complaint.
Allah Azza wa Jalla created us in the best image. If Allah willed, He could have created us as a creature with four legs, a creature of six legs, or worse if He wanted. He still created you
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