Suhbah 2018: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (16/25)
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e using Ṭarīqah, using religion, using money, using spiritual, he is using material. Everything he can use. So be you must be careful not to fall in his trap and be thanking for Allāh He make us in way and, In Sha Allah, when somebody coming, Mashāyikh they don't let him out. Even he went without asking, at the end, they will be also find him and take him with them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
110.IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WAY Thursday, 21 June 2018
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, likes people doing their job as well as they can. In the hadith of our Prophet is said; “When one of you does a job, let him do his best, let him do the best that is possible for him.” Do not do it just any how; whatever you do, it is good to do it perfectly.
Our religion is perfect. Our Prophet is the most perfect man. They are examples to us, [and] we ought to be worthy of them. We need to be on their path. Let it be any small ordinary job, one still receives the fruit of it [only] if he does it well. He receives its benefit here and in the next world. Here on earth too, people talk about a man and say, “So-and- so is doing a good job, or is building this gadget well.” Even a painter who does his job well is in high demand. That aside, even a most disliked job receives people’s appreciation. Even devaluing little jobs brings harm to a person.
Even if it is the most trivial job, do it as well as you can, so that you receive its benefit. What is done is then appreciated. Today most people do their jobs carelessly, because others are unable to check behind them. Not that others do not know, they do know, but the one who does the job is not aware of his own work’s importance. Therefore great or small, a job must be done as well as possible. It should not be done in a hurry; it should not be done with greed, otherwise it harms [both] the one who does it and others.
Then Allah will ask, “Why did you cause this harm to these people? Why did you deceive them?” Our concern is not only this world, but also the next. May Allah let us do the best of all. Let us not follow our nafs and cause harm to ourselves and others, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
111.THE SOLDIER OF SATAN Friday, 22 June 2018
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.
Janab Allah tells us to keep away from Satan. Satan is not alone, he has soldiers, and there are those who are associated with him. There are a lot of people who obey their desires, a lot of people on earth follow their ego desires. Satan deceived those people. Allah Azra wa Jalla tells us “Be vigilant!”do not be deceived by the soldiers of Satan. They would move you from a good place to bad. It is said “Dar’ul bewar” meaning it takes one to the worst of places.
A man should be vigilant. He should check whether this thing is right or wrong. Because, once they deceive you it does not matter to them. About Hell; the inhabitants of Hell says: “show us those men so that we tread them under our feet, let’s crush them.” They say; “What is it to us. You should have been vigilant. You fell for it, which suited your needs, you obeyed your ego desires and follow them, now you are in this state.”
It needs proper care. Especially today’s people are not trustworthy. Being careful is a must. They must not obey their ego desires but be with those who are on the path of Allah. It is said to be vigilant at all times.
In the hadith of our Prophet it says; “La yuldegu'l - Mu'minu min juhrin marratayni”. A mu’min (believer) would not be bitten twice from the same hole, hole meaning a snake. If he made a mistake once, the second time he is more careful, he does not put himself in danger.
We wish vigilant from Allah, because these people without religion, faith, in ture meaning without the truth think it is a gain to divert the people from their path.
They love it when each day they put people out of path. May Allah protect us. May Allah make our end blessed. May we be amongst those who are blessed In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
112.ISLAM HAS WON Monday, 25 June 2018
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.
Thanks be to Allah, this happened to be a help of Allah to Islam. Thanks be to Allah. Allah’s manifestation is with Islam. This manifestation is the manifestation of Mahdi AS. The world of disbelievers has been defeated. Islam and the friends of Allah have won. Thanks be to Allah.
When they win, there is baraka; there is mercy; there is beauty. Oppression is [then] impossible; revenge is [then] impossible. Allah only punishes a man who causes harm. Also, the state gives punishment. Also, the law gives punishment. Allah has again allowed these righteous ones to rule to show mercy to everyone within the law. This happened by the prayers of people, by the prayers of the world’s Muslims. Thanks be to Allah. Because Muslims are in a miserable state, if it were to end here, it will be as they [i.e., the unbelievers] wish. They think they will finish the Muslims. In fact, they do not know, for had they known, they would not have been disbelievers, instead they would believe in Allah.
Because they do not believe in Allah, they are called unbelievers. The world of disbelievers does not want Islam. They cannot tolerate Islam, but only what Allah wishes happens. Thanks be to Allah that this is the blessing of Allah, His goodness to humans. Those who are followers Allah’s religion do not oppress others.
Oppression is a darkness. It means dark, evil. May Allah help. May it be a blessing. Muslims are imperturbable. None would ask, “Why did you do this this way?” “Why did you do it that way?” “Who were you with?” But Allah forbade oppression and extremism. We hear it every Friday: “Inna Llāha ya’muru bil-‘adli wal-iḥsāni wa’ītā'ī dhī qurbā wa yanhā ‘ani l-fahşâī wal-munkari wal-baghī” (16:90) “Verily Allah has enjoined justice, the doing of good, and the giving of gifts to relatives; and has forbidden indecency, impropriety, and oppression.”
This is sufficient by itself. The world of disbelievers is the opposite, with no justice. There is oppression and all sorts of evil, and therefore receiving victory by the help of Allah is better for people. It is better for the world. Of course, Satan does not want people to have
goodness. Allah wants people to have goodness. Thanks be to Allah. We need to thank, because Allah has looked at us with his mercy, looked with His favor. This has occurred thanks be to Allah. Give thanks for everything. If benefits (ni’ma) are to multiply, thanks are necessary. Thanks be to Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
113.BE AWARE OF WEAK-MINDED ONES Tuesday, 26 June 2018
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 said: “Wa lā tu’tū-s-sufahā’ amwālakumu llati ja’ala Llāhu lakum qiyāmā” (Qur’an 4:5)
And do not give the weak-minded your property, which Allah has made a means of sustenance for you, but provide for them with it and clothe them and speak to them words of appropriate kindness.
By “property” it means food, drink, and other things. It also means be careful how you treat people. He says do not give in to those who cannot manage themselves proper. Which means do not let the management of your homes, your work, be with those who are not good, because when you hand over your property, they divert from the right path and also commit sin. Allah Azza wa Jalla says it was your provision.
Watch out who you give your provision to. Watch out from whom you will take it. The sufaha’ are those who are without responsibility, irresponsible--do not give to those who do not care at all. Watch out because these are the End Days, and one must watch out for everything at all times. Be careful in the way you treat people. Those intelligent people have their money, and wait long to receive something in return. Though they have been running after this thing with records, paperwork, they run in vain. May Allah help them.
As we say, be careful when you give to other people, so that the other side does not commit sin. They should realise the value of the property, and avoid wasting it here and there, which [also] means that people should not consume forbidden things. As long as the other side consumes the forbidden, oppression increases, [and] we then are not fulfilling the order of Allah.
This is not something to be ashamed of. You should tell him, “Oh my brother you are a simple one. Please do not be offended. I cannot give it to you. First correct yourself, then I will think about it.” Even an inheritance is given slowly to these people. To make sure no one is a victim, Allah Azza wa Jalla has shown us everything. Allah does not say a thing to make one a victim. It is necessary to take care of this. With the permission of
Allah, the one who submits to Islam [and] understands it is not harmed. May Allah protect us from the harm of our desires. Let’s not be simpletons. May people be free from these things, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
114.RESPONSE TO SHAYKH HISHAM Monday, 2 July 2018
Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is the most Merciful. We are whole time making mistake, making sin and Allāh forgive us. And this is to be Rabbāniyyīn Ḥaqqāniyyīn we must imitate them, imitate Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla what He doing. Of course we are not, we cannot do what He doing but only we are... some we can imitate, Awliyā’u Llāh all of them they are looking for to be mercy for people as Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla Mercy for people.
If anybody making sin or making mistake and asking for forgiveness from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, Allāh He is forgive him – if he is not insist for what he doing. Even Allāh, Prophet say in ḥadīth, when somebody... There is, we have two angels. Everybody he have two angels, one right side, one left side. And right side one writing reward for people. Other one he is writing wrong things, faults, and sins. When somebody doing right thing, Allāh right tell this angel, he write immediately, "He done this one good thing." Allāh reward him when he do something ten times and more. And he intention to do good thing but he couldn't do, also writing one reward immediately. But for other, left side angel, when he seeing something wrong, sin, he must write but they say, "You must wait one hour, two hours, three hours, four hours." Not saying any even this for six hours, seven hours, until eight hours and left side wing angel asking the commander right side, "Am I write this?" All this time he asking, he [right side angel] said, "Wait, wait, wait until eight hour," said, "He is not asking for forgiveness, we do what we can do. Now you write for him." And they are writing. Even for this, if they are later, maybe years, months, years later asking for forgiveness for by sincerity – Allāh forgive him also. This is Allāh attribute.
And who are awliyā’u Llāh, beloved ones for Allāh, they also patient for people to come back from their wrong thing. Because people they have different kind people – there is people, sincere people, and Allāh help them. They are in way of Allāh and way of Prophet, continuing with mashāyikh, with awliyā’u Llāh, with ṭarīqah perfectly. And there is people also their intention, very good intention but sometimes they are following wrong people and this is also unlucky for them. And there is people also good people and who following them they are also good people and they have good intention and they do something but it is also what they are thinking they are doing good, sometimes the bad intention people they are using this. Allāh give for this people also for their intention because they are thinking they are right, they are good, but what result of they done it is becoming not good even for themself also. And there is people they have bad intention and bad action also. This people must ask for forgiveness from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. But if they insist, as we said, they are making bad for themself. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla
not in need for them and for they what they are doing. But unlucky people who they thought they are good and they follow them.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, in our ṭarīqah most of them good intention, good action. But as we said there was also, we must say, they make good intention – we must say it here for by name because people we obligated to say this to not make people to be in sin. Because there was big fitnah going around and, alḥamdulilah, because barakah of Mawlānā, Allāh give inspiration to what, we say by name also, to Shaykh Hisham. And he become, his humbleness he write for whole his who are following him, by most of them by good intention, and he order them, "We are following way of Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim. Some misunderstanding happening – we are doing something with good intention but people they use this to make big fitnah."
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this people they are very few people and Mawlānā enough for them to make them away with their... If they are not asking for forgiveness, Mawlānā able to take them away from ṭarīqah and people of ṭarīqah. Because after Mawlānā, immediately Mawlānā we put him in his maqām, and they was people real not practicing or they make practice against what Mawlānā was ordering, his acting, his worshipping. Everything it was, they was against. Look like by shape – they wearing like him but they was real problem. As soon we put Mawlānā in his maqām, subḥāna Llāh, they are saying, "Oh" – even they are not giving salām but for other people they said, "Here finish. You are in your way, we are in our way." And this was mercy from Mawlānā to make them away to not make fitnah inside.
But other people they use this, what Shaykh Hisham Efendi, he in good intention he like to make name for Mawlānā – but Mawlānā he has already he said about his name – like Khālidiyyah al-Mujaddidiyyah – Ḥaqqāniyyah he said. So no need for other. But he was in good intention he say this and this bad intention people they use it and they make big fitnah between ṭarīqah people. They become enemy. They become, they have... Our ṭarīqah meaning love for each other. This become hate for each other and they leave their respect. They are saying thing even who are not in, no have any belief they cannot say this.
So, alhamdulilah, today, Maa Shaa Allah with barakah of Mawlānā this fitnah finish and Allāh He will reward Shaykh Hisham for his this khidmah, for this service for ṭarīqah. This is not small thing to be in his maqām and his position to say this. It is real. Allāh will reward him, In Sha Allah. And now, after now, who are claiming, "We are this, we are that," they must take adab from him to not say anything. Because they saying this but most of them by themself they are moving and who are doing this after now, this we are accept as bad intention from him, from his ego, from his bad character. We are not accept him as ṣūfī or following mashāyikh. Because nobody be can be responsible for
him. After now If anybody say, they saying, "We are from this people, from that people," you say, "You are liar. You are nothing. Go away!"
After now, In Sha Allah, we follow, we continue with love and respect and adab, In Sha Allah. We must respect who are respecting Allāh and making be humble and they are accepting right way and make fitnah to be finish. We are thanking all of you and as Prophet saying, who your belief not be complete until you love for your brother as much you love for yourself, even more than yourself. Alhamdulilah, we are thanking Allāh and Allāh ,help us, In Sha Allah. Mashāyikh looking for us everything. We are weak people. We can , we don't know what we are doing but only with good intention, In Sha Allah, we are following Prophet and make people to come to follow and love Prophet, love awliyā’u Llāh, In Sha Allah.
Allāh help us and, In Sha Allah, to reach Sayyidinā Mahdī ‘alayhi s-Salām, In Sha Allah, soon and in Jannah to be with Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim, with mashāyikh ‘iẓām, In Sha Allah. Because they will be happy when we are following them. You are be happy but if no, in Jannah nobody can see. So for this, be careful. Keep your adab. You will be good behave after this.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
115.THE SCHOLARS OF SHAYṬĀN Wednesday, 4 July 2018
AE: Yes, upon popular demand we are gathered again in the studio for the second part of the Q&A. Again we are in the presence of the highest authority of the Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah, Ḥaḍrat Shaykh Muhammad Adil. We welcome him again: Welcome my Sulṭān.
SM: It's a pleasure to be here, may Allāh be pleased with you.
AE: You have honoured us. Our theologian, Hodja Mehmet Kucuk will be asking his questions as a specialist psychologist. In Sha Allah let us start without further delay. Please go ahead my hodja.
MK: Yes, thank you very much. It's also a pleasure for me to be in the Ludswighafen Harmonie Dargāh studio and I would like to express my utmost pleasure at the same time to be in the presence of Shaykh Mehmet Efendi. I would like to thank Ayberk Efendi again for giving us the opportunity.
AE: No, thank you.
MK: Sir, I would like to immediately get to our questions. Our questions in the studio will be a little different. We will try and analyse two fields. There will be questions related to academicians, meaning theologians, and their relationship to the areas of taṣawwuf lifestyle, and science. First, I would like to ask you. We know you are authorized in both fields. We know you are an expert in both outer and inner sciences. That is why I believe you will give very enlightening answers to us and our audience here. That's why, may Allāh Jalla Jalālahu be pleased with you.
SM: May Allāh be pleased with you too.
MK: I want to ask this first: Mawlānā Jalāluddin Rūmī's shaykh, his teacher and his pir, Ḥaḍrat Shams-i Tabrīzī is setting up a scale. He says according to this scale of his that the Qur’ān can be understood and read in four ways. The first, he says, is with external knowledge, the meaning that is written in the lines; reading what is in the lines and understanding what is in the lines. So this is more of our area, the area of academicians and theologians – to understand the outer meaning. The second, he says, is inner knowledge, meaning deep knowledge, spiritual knowledge. The third is the inner of the inner, he says. Deeper than the deep, behind the curtain, he says. The fourth knowledge, he says, is knowledge that words are unable to describe. Ḥaḍrat Shams-i Tabrīzī presents this as a scale to measure the ability of people.
After giving a lecture on this subject, highly placed academic friends of ours from the
university, friends with titles like assistant professor and professor, made the following accusation: "The person you call Shams-i Tabrīzī didn't even know how to read the Qur’ān. How can he be of help to humanity when he is presenting you with such a criteria of the Qur’ān? Do you know how harmful he has been to religion?" and made many other similar accusations. Sir, I would like to ask you. There are many academicians who make fun of, and even belittle, consider non-existent, or even falsify those in this area like Ḥaḍrat Rūmī, Ḥaḍrat Muḥyi d-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī, and Ḥaḍrat Ḥallāj-i Mansūr, the friends of Allāh, whose names until now were written in the sky with golden letters. Sir, what do you have to say about this? What can you tell our viewers?
SM: Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. How can we say it? We will say: "Lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā biLlāh." We will say: "Ḥasbuna Llāhu wa ni‘ma l-wakīl." Such that we seek refuge in Allāh from people like that with those titles and from people who give them those titles. Because what they are saying is discounting as nothing the faith of this nation which serves Allāh and those who have given their lives for the sake of Allāh. Their service continues until the Day of Judgment. Hundreds of thousands of people have been guided by means of them until today. Those who are Muslim are coming to guidance, those who are not Muslims are becoming Muslim. Well, the books the most printed and most sold in the world are those of Rūmī and Muḥyi d-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī. I guess they do not know this.
In any case the scholars have an illness: envy. They are envious. They cannot stand that they have nothing, they are empty. That is why they are jealous of others, they envy them and attack them. But only the false ones can do this, and as we said they have been trying to destroy Islām from the outside for a long time. All those Crusader armies from all over tried to destroy Islām. They have been trying since the time of our Holy Prophet and have not been able to do it. Now they have realized they can destroy it from within. This they have done unfortunately by founding these colleges, schools, and universities. The Muslims, the Muslims have sold their homes, sold their gold, sold whatever precious things they have for these to be built, in order to elevate Islām. The outsiders also used this well. All the corrupt men were put in these places. Now we see them by the thousands. In the past, there were a few academicians who did this job. Now there are thousands like them. Unfortunately, they emerge all the time.
Islām has no power if it is without spirituality. It has to be material and spiritual. As you said, they do not believe in karāmāt (miracles) either. However, karāmāt did not just appear in old times. They exist now too. There was an academician of the type you mentioned a little earlier who did this job only for profit. When he appeared on TV Mawlānā Shaykh would tell us not to watch him and to shut the TV. In the end he went crazy completely. A lady, an aunt of ours, got really upset and told Mawlānā Shaykh that this man said such and such. Mawlānā said, "This man will rot from the inside." And truly, as he said, he rotted away. So we are sad for people who believe in these people.
But our people of taṣawwuf don't expect anything from others. We are only working to help them come to the path of Allāh. We are not working for profit.
Again years ago they told Mawlānā Shaykh about a person, who it is unnecessary to name, that he was building schools, training students by the thousands, and giving hundreds of thousands of interviews. Mawlānā said, "He builds schools and such, and we sit in our dargāh and make du‘ā’ to Allāh." He said, "We raise people. Let them raise students." He said, "Our job is to raise people, our job is to raise human beings." So the job of the people of ṭarīqah is to raise humans. Those who are human accept the truth. They do not betray people. They do not sell their hereafter for a mere three to five pennies. These others are all people who have sold their hereafter because they do not have faith any more. These people do not have even the slightest faith. People who talk badly about those kinds of people [Rūmī etc] do not have the slightest faith. Amongst them are some whose own fathers have even denied relationship to them.
MK: Sir, I want to get to my next question because it is related to this subject. We have a problem. They are misinforming the Nation of Muḥammad. We have a problem here so that asking these questions to a sulṭān like yourself and getting answers for our viewers, I really believe is very important for us. Our second question is this, interpretist groups have increased in number lately. Again, leading them are academicians with titles such as professor and assistant professor who are giving talks to people every day on different TV channels and different social media and they are serving people such standards. Some of them are saying, everyone can open the Holy Qur’ān and see what is in it; read from the translation and can make commentary about what he understands. Meaning there is no need for anything more.
Of course, we are trying to warn people here about this view and are saying if you leave the Sunnah behind and try to understand the Qur’ān just with your mind and logic then you will get a philosophy derived from your ego not the Qur’ān Allāh has given us. However, because the titles of those people are higher, people are more likely to listen to them. "But he's a professor," they say, "But he's an assistant professor." They do not realize they are fooling themselves with such a perception. Sir, what do you say about this matter? Can anyone open the Qur’ān, read its translation and make commentary? Can they give a legal opinion to people, meaning can they make a judgment? This is something that really happens.
SM: Now we should not call such a person a professor but an absolute ignoramus. We should call him an absolute ignoramus because he studied and he should know. However, thanks to Allāh even though they tried so hard to ruin the study of theology all over the world, still people like you who know the truth keep appearing. There are plenty of you and you are the majority, but still there are thousands of the others too.
Hand a newspaper to a person and they will not know what they are reading about – the Qur’ān, let alone the Noble Qur’ān.
Even in regards to ḥadīth and the people who read ḥadīth – there is a muḥaddith who knows ḥadīth. There are fuqahā’, jurists. So there is no such thing as: I'm going to read ḥadīth and give fatwá. Besides this, even if a person comes and asks a hodja, a normal cleric, for a fatwá, he cannot give it. You need to go to the Muftī. So how can one be so ignorant as to open the Qur’ān and comment on it? Even though the imāms of the Madhāhib all knew ḥadīth, they all looked to the muḥaddith. Muḥaddithīn and those who give fatwá are different. The one who explains ḥadīth is different. Because you might read one ḥadīth but there is another ḥadīth that has a different view. They would ask about it: how is it so? This ḥadīth cancels that one. Now they are all ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth but one can cancel the other. It's not like we can explain the science of ḥadīth in two minutes here.
So what they are saying is impossible. We can only call the person who claims this, to be an absolute ignoramus. He should take that title of professor and throw it in the garbage. May Allāh give people sense and intelligence. We cannot say anything else.
There are many examples. Some Arabic ladies were gathering to say the Kalimatu t- Tawḥīd. They were saying La ilāha illa Llāh. We heard from an old lady suddenly that what they used to do every time they went up to the mountains was to gather and instead of talking of worldly things they would recite the Kalimatu t-Tawḥīd and read Qur’ān. It would be beautiful, once a week. Their cleric came to them and told them what they were doing was wrong. Some person came on TV and said this was bid‘ah, that it was useless. He cancelled it. He stopped thousands of recitations and the gaining of rewards. We can only call them shayṭān's scholars. They are called ‘Ulamā’u s-Sū’ (Scholars of Evil). May Allāh give people sense and intelligence so they do not give value and listen to such people. They have no knowledge whatsoever. Or even if they have knowledge, as we said, they have sold themselves for self interest.
MK: Sir, all right but we have the Diyanet foundation and establishment in Turkey. They also see these things. Why are they not clarifying things or banning things. Or instead of coming out with a refutation against Ahlu s-Sunnah clerics, which we know happens – in fact they fire them from their jobs – yet they are able to set free those who truly want to make humanity become soldiers of shayṭān. So can you tell us something here about the Diyanet? Of course it is an establishment of our state. However, if there is a mistake, we need to criticize it or we need to bring in a mannered way, some correction there however we can. What will you say about this matter? Why is the Diyanet not interfering here and calling what is wrong, wrong? SM: Because those people are the same everywhere. Wherever it may be, there are the same types of people. They are also men who are graduates of Theology. How can they do so? They are people from Theology
school. Also, it is the wisdom of Allāh that when you mention the state, they are scared out of their pants. So even if it was the truth, "Let me not touch that subject, let me not interfere. Otherwise something might happen to me. I might lose my job or position." Therefore, even though they know, they say "La Ḥawla" and sit still there.
MK: But they're hiding the truth.
SM: Well of course. They all know of the issue.
MK: Sir, another question. It has increased so much lately. We see it on the news, on social media and in people. They are attacking and insulting people of ṭarīqah, people of true ṭarīqah, murshids and shaykhs, carelessly. So Allāh forbid, if they go further and do worse things, since Allāh Jalla Jalālahu tells us in His sublime verse in the Holy Qur’ān to befriend the servant friends of Allāh like "Kūnū maʿa ṣ-ṣādiqīn" (9:119) or "Wa-btaghū ilayhi l-wasīlata" (5:35) – make them a means, use Allāh's saintly servants as a means to get closer to Allāh. There are many sublime verses. Yet there are people on the other side who want to throw mud at ṭarīqah by presenting our people with verses that were revealed about polytheists, telling us that when you follow a friend of Allāh, a servant whom Allāh has praised, then you are committing shirk. Whereas, people, the general public, do not know about the verses they present. They are verses that were revealed about the mushrik, about idol worshippers. What can you tell people here? is it right to be with a friend of Allāh, So how important is it to follow a friend of Allāh, a saintly servant praised by Allāh? Insulting and attacking a friend of Allāh when it is clear in the holy verse and even though He warns: "Whoever wages war on My saintly servant they have waged war on Me," what will you tell our viewers about this subject?
SM: Now there are two categories in this matter. There are some people who claim to be people of ṭarīqah but are not nor are they on the right way. So they are using ṭarīqah. The people of ṭarīqah are few after all. These people are few also but they make it as if all ṭuruq are like them. They exaggerate the matter. They exaggerate it very much. We are saying also, whoever you see among us who does contrary to Sharī‘ah, warn them and of course do not follow them. Ṭarīqah is the essence of Sharī‘ah, so ṭarīqah is not separate from Sharī‘ah. Ṭarīqah is the essence. It is not supposed to do evil. It helps people to save their faith. It tries to make people believe in the hereafter, to prepare them for the hereafter. The matter you speak about has been around for 1400, almost 1500 years, since the arrival of our Holy Prophet. Now just because we honour someone, does it mean we worship Ḥaḍrat Abū Bakr, or we worship Ḥaḍrat ‘Alī, or we worship Ḥaḍrat Shāh-i Naqshband, or we worship Ḥaḍrat Rūmī? We do not worship any of them. We gift it to each one's soul so their barakah will be upon us. So you are not associating partners once you worship Allāh. Shirk is what those used to do who used to directly worship by making an idol. They would get in front of it and worship it. They would hand it money. They would do all kinds of things in front of it. It has been 1500 years
now. Where do they come up with us making shirk when this is not the case? Shirk is when you worship someone else. It is directly changing your qiblah from this side and placing the idol on that side and worshipping it. So these ones have a skewed logic. In addition, they make people commit sin.
However, thanks to Allāh, the awliyā’, the friends of Allāh are merciful. They pray so may correct them. Because these people have been fooled. As the Prophet that Allāh says, they do not know. He says if they knew they would not do as they do. However sin is a burden on people. Those who take them to evil, they carry the sin.
MK: Sir, naturally there are so many questions that need to be asked. We anxiously await the answers to these questions, but we know you are very busy. Therefore, I would like to hand my right, In Sha Allah, to Ayberk Efendi. Thank you very much.
SM: Astaghfiru Llāh.
MK: You have enlightened us and our viewers with the most beautiful answers you have provided. In fact, there are many more questions. We are inviting people to this path as much as we can, with your himmah and permission. Of course, it is not possible to talk about all the subjects in a studio recording. We wish we could talk about them and explain them since unfortunately there are too many people of ours who have been fooled. We are sad about this. In this regard, we pray that, In Sha Allah, you increase us in himmah, In Sha Allah, so just as we have taken our place in your lines, just as my Lord made us together in this world, In Sha Allah, He makes us together after resurrection, hereafter, and Paradise. We ask for himmah. May Allāh be pleased with you.
SM: With you too.
MK: I want to leave the word to Ayberk Efendi.
AE: My Sulṭān, lastly I want take this point into consideration. They say about ṭarīqah, where does it say it exists? Since when does it exist? They attack saying: "It is not written in the "Qur’ān that ṭarīqah exists, and there was no such thing during the time of the Prophet. Now if you could also touch upon this subject a little, In Sha Allah, we can end our program afterwards.
SM: Ṭarīqah is written in the Qur’ān too. There is nothing that is not written in the Qur’ān anyway. "Wa lā raṭbin wa lā yābisin illā fī kitābin mubīn" (6:59), He says. For ṭarīqah He says, "Wa-allawi istaqāmū ‘alá ṭ-ṭarīqati la-asqaynāhum mā’an ghadaqa" (72:16). In Sūrah Jinn. "If they continue upon the ṭarīqah, Allāh would give them plenty of mercy." That is something else. But they ask what ṭarīqah is anyway? Ṭarīqah, firstly and most importantly is "innama ṭ-ṭarīqatu adab," it says. It is adab. Ṭarīqah teaches good manners.
All those ancestors of ours were well mannered and respectful. They were well mannered towards Allāh and towards the Prophet. This is the most important thing. Then towards their sulṭāns, their citizens, their countrymen, and towards Islām. There was adab towards everyone. This is adab.
They are unmannered now. Those academicians who are against ṭarīqah are truly ill mannered. When they talk there is no such thing as adab and no good comes from ill mannered people. They neither benefit themselves nor others. They bring only dissension and corruption.
AE: My Sulṭān, can you also describe the relationship between the murīd and the shaykh. So speaking of a murīd, people see it in easy terms: "There, I took bay‘ah with the shaykh. Now I can act as I like because the shaykh can save me anyway and send himmah. Since we are attached to the shaykh, it is easy for us now." This is how they think and take it easy. Can you tell us something about this?
SM: Well, of course rābiṭah, attaching to the shaykh is a big deal, a good thing. Even if a person thinks like that, it is still good Because he has the belief that our shaykh is showing us the way and we are with him. That is a beautiful thing. Gradually, even if he has bad habits, slowly he will be cleaned over time, Allāh willing.
AE: So what is important is being attached to the shaykh.
SM: Now, say you go and join a ṭarīqah. We are back to Rūmī here: "I was raw and I got cooked." In the end he says, "I got burned." Raw – so a person transforms gradually. One year, two years, five years and the person thinks nothing is happening, but he is transforming slowly in ṭarīqah. A person needs to transform. So once one is in ṭarīqah and it is in his mind, it is not an issue, Allāh willing. Of course, one needs to do it gradually. This depends on one's readiness. Not everyone can do everything. Some skip a class in a few years. Others are faster. But what is important is getting in and being registered.
AE: My Sulṭān, lastly, very last, I want to ask the meaning of being a dervish. Because most think that to become a dervish is to lay down, read Qur’ān, make dhikr and nothing else. Relaxed like this, without the will to work; just stand by the shaykh's door. But to read Qur’ān, make dhikr, and anything more is not being a dervish some are thinking. We used to see you my Sulṭān. Normally you would get off the plane, ride the tractor and go to the garden to work. So we witnessed this as a shaykh. However, how can one explain this thinking of a murīd about being a dervish?
SM: Well, everyone thinks something according to their own mind.
AE: So what is being a dervish?
SM: Of course being a dervish – it could be that sometimes that is also being a dervish. Some would be a new Muslim and for them to take time to learn – a year, six months, or a few months, however much time they might have to practice – that much time. Then one needs to work. When work is for the sake of Allāh that work of yours is also worship. Your taking lawful sustenance home is also worship. Everything becomes for the sake of Allāh. You become from amongst the dhākirs. "Alā bidhikri Llāhi taṭma’innu l-qulūb" (13:28). So dhikr is not only by sitting with the tasbīḥ. Dhikr means remembrance. You are remembering the whole day. "I'm here for Allāh. I'm working for Allāh. This service of mine is for Allāh It is as if you are making dhikr 24 hours. This is being " I'm doing everything for Allāh. A dervish sitting with the tasbīḥ too but not only with the tasbīḥ.
Well, some think being a dervish is being a little lazy. But prophets did not like laziness either and the [life of this] world is short, you need to take advantage of it.
AE: My Sulṭān, thank you very much. You did not let us down. We took so much of your time, of your valuable time.
SM: Astaghfiru Llāh.
AE: In Sha Allah, my Sulṭān, may Allāh not take you away from us. SM: May Allāh be pleased with you. AE: May He make us murīds worthy of you, In Sha Allah. SM: May Allāh accept your services. May they be useful. AE: Lastly, if there is something you would like to say, a message for the whole of humanity, can we have it too? We can end our program afterwards.
SM: What can you tell humanity now? The whole of humanity is in End Times. They have all fallen into the hands of shayṭān. They have become toys in the hands of their ego. They cannot even stand Allāh, the Prophet, and the Book. They come up with such dissension and corruption. What Allāh says will happen, In Sha Allah. We have nothing else to say, because the time has come In Sha Allah.
AE: Thank you very much my Sulṭān. Yes, the Q&A program in the presence of Ḥaḍrat Shaykh Muḥammad Adil ends here. We thank him very much. We say may Allāh be pleased with him and we end our program. We entrust you to Allāh.
116.THERE IS NO HARDSHIP IN TARIQAH Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Being together with the congregation, with the gathering, is being with a good gathering. This is the duty of the ṭarīqah. This is what it does. It says to be together: "Wa-‘taṣimū biḥabli Llāhi jamī‘an wa lā tafarraqū" (3:103), says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Hold on to the rope of Allāh and be in unity. It says not to scatter. Of course there is strength in unity. Spiritual strength as well. A person's īmān (faith) also gets stronger. That is why the enemy of Allāh and the enemy of people is the same. It is shayṭān. He says not to be together. "Don't be together. Everyone should do as they like. Everyone should act according to their own mind," he says. In the end, they even say there is no need for the Prophet. "Our Holy Prophet's duty is over . There is no need for him anymore “ they are saying. There is no limit to rebellion. The limit extends to disbelief.
The duty of ṭarīqah is important. It teaches manners and faith to people in the Islamic world. You can only receive faith from the one who has faith. It does not happen by studying. How can it happen with study? You follow a Shaykh and if you study, with his himmah and permission, it will be useful. It will be useful for you too. It will be useful also for those whom you teach. Nothing will happen by studying dryly. A hundred professors trying cannot bring one man to guidance. Why? Because there is no spirit. There is no faith. A holy one, never wandering around but keeping to himself, a murshid can bring thousands of people to the right way. His adab and connection to the Prophet strengthens their īmān because his īmān comes from our Holy Prophet. The chain of all the ṭarīqahs connect through either Ḥaḍrat ‘Alī or Ḥaḍrat Abū Bakr raḍī Allāhu ‘anhum to the Prophet. From them it reaches the shaykhs and from them it reaches the seekers. There is no one who is part of ṭarīqah who goes astray. So there is no ṭarīqah that goes astray.
However, immediately after our Holy Prophet, many other movements appeared and many were astray. They fell off the map – meaning nobody remembers them anymore. They are erased, gone because they had no place of support. Since it was the work of shayṭān, it was erased. Hundreds and thousands appeared and were erased. There are a few left, only a few, and most of them have nothing to do with Islām anyway. People do not look at them as Muslim. They do not look at themselves as being a part of Islām either. They are people who are always with the enemies of Islām. Ṭarīqah are the opposite. They got stronger and were continuous. They have reached until this day. The sulṭāns followed them as well. The amīrs, princes, followed them. The rich and the poor Muslims followed them. They protected Islām. They gave beauty to Islām. Of course Islām is beautiful. But there is giving it beauty something else. Because there is a great difference between the Muslims of a hundred years ago and the Muslims of today. They beautified Islām. The other ones made it ugly. They scare people away. You look at 100 or 150 years ago and you see in pictures. They call it Orientalism? A trend called
Orientalism appeared. People were admiring Muslims, Islamic countries. They would show all the beauties appearing where the Caliph was. They were curious. Many of them became Muslim themselves. There were many who were curious, who left their countries and lived in Islamic countries. But now, look at our situation now. When we arrive with our Muslim clothes from somewhere, the police stop us asking us what we are doing, why we came and what not. Now people are terrified when they see a Muslim. If they are not scared, there is hatred. Here, it is enough of an answer for the academics Mehmet Bey was talking about.
There were no Salafīs, no Wahhābīs, and no Reformists a hundred years ago. There were people of ṭarīqah. There was beauty. There was mercy in Islām. Now, they also made the ones who were never in a ṭarīqah to run away. It is all left for them. We see the situation of being Muslim now and the state they are in. We arrived at the ḥadīth of our Holy Prophet In these End Times, scholars are plenty and knowledge has disappeared," says our Holy" : Prophet. There are plenty of preachers but there is no knowledge. There are useless words. Our ancestors served Islām for a thousand years. They went on the way shown by the shaykhs. They respected and honored the Prophet his Ahlu l-Bayt, and the Companions. Was it bad? No, it was good. It was a blessing for us. It benefited us. It was an honor for us.
They say serving is an honor – this is honor, the highest honor. There is no higher honor than this. Serving our Holy Prophet and serving Islām. This is what shayṭān cannot stand. It is why he always wants
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e using Ṭarīqah, using religion, using money, using spiritual, he is using material. Everything he can use. So be you must be careful not to fall in his trap and be thanking for Allāh He make us in way and, In Sha Allah, when somebody coming, Mashāyikh they don't let him out. Even he went without asking, at the end, they will be also find him and take him with them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
110.IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WAY Thursday, 21 June 2018
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, likes people doing their job as well as they can. In the hadith of our Prophet is said; “When one of you does a job, let him do his best, let him do the best that is possible for him.” Do not do it just any how; whatever you do, it is good to do it perfectly.
Our religion is perfect. Our Prophet is the most perfect man. They are examples to us, [and] we ought to be worthy of them. We need to be on their path. Let it be any small ordinary job, one still receives the fruit of it [only] if he does it well. He receives its benefit here and in the next world. Here on earth too, people talk about a man and say, “So-and- so is doing a good job, or is building this gadget well.” Even a painter who does his job well is in high demand. That aside, even a most disliked job receives people’s appreciation. Even devaluing little jobs brings harm to a person.
Even if it is the most trivial job, do it as well as you can, so that you receive its benefit. What is done is then appreciated. Today most people do their jobs carelessly, because others are unable to check behind them. Not that others do not know, they do know, but the one who does the job is not aware of his own work’s importance. Therefore great or small, a job must be done as well as possible. It should not be done in a hurry; it should not be done with greed, otherwise it harms [both] the one who does it and others.
Then Allah will ask, “Why did you cause this harm to these people? Why did you deceive them?” Our concern is not only this world, but also the next. May Allah let us do the best of all. Let us not follow our nafs and cause harm to ourselves and others, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
111.THE SOLDIER OF SATAN Friday, 22 June 2018
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.
Janab Allah tells us to keep away from Satan. Satan is not alone, he has soldiers, and there are those who are associated with him. There are a lot of people who obey their desires, a lot of people on earth follow their ego desires. Satan deceived those people. Allah Azra wa Jalla tells us “Be vigilant!”do not be deceived by the soldiers of Satan. They would move you from a good place to bad. It is said “Dar’ul bewar” meaning it takes one to the worst of places.
A man should be vigilant. He should check whether this thing is right or wrong. Because, once they deceive you it does not matter to them. About Hell; the inhabitants of Hell says: “show us those men so that we tread them under our feet, let’s crush them.” They say; “What is it to us. You should have been vigilant. You fell for it, which suited your needs, you obeyed your ego desires and follow them, now you are in this state.”
It needs proper care. Especially today’s people are not trustworthy. Being careful is a must. They must not obey their ego desires but be with those who are on the path of Allah. It is said to be vigilant at all times.
In the hadith of our Prophet it says; “La yuldegu'l - Mu'minu min juhrin marratayni”. A mu’min (believer) would not be bitten twice from the same hole, hole meaning a snake. If he made a mistake once, the second time he is more careful, he does not put himself in danger.
We wish vigilant from Allah, because these people without religion, faith, in ture meaning without the truth think it is a gain to divert the people from their path.
They love it when each day they put people out of path. May Allah protect us. May Allah make our end blessed. May we be amongst those who are blessed In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
112.ISLAM HAS WON Monday, 25 June 2018
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.
Thanks be to Allah, this happened to be a help of Allah to Islam. Thanks be to Allah. Allah’s manifestation is with Islam. This manifestation is the manifestation of Mahdi AS. The world of disbelievers has been defeated. Islam and the friends of Allah have won. Thanks be to Allah.
When they win, there is baraka; there is mercy; there is beauty. Oppression is [then] impossible; revenge is [then] impossible. Allah only punishes a man who causes harm. Also, the state gives punishment. Also, the law gives punishment. Allah has again allowed these righteous ones to rule to show mercy to everyone within the law. This happened by the prayers of people, by the prayers of the world’s Muslims. Thanks be to Allah. Because Muslims are in a miserable state, if it were to end here, it will be as they [i.e., the unbelievers] wish. They think they will finish the Muslims. In fact, they do not know, for had they known, they would not have been disbelievers, instead they would believe in Allah.
Because they do not believe in Allah, they are called unbelievers. The world of disbelievers does not want Islam. They cannot tolerate Islam, but only what Allah wishes happens. Thanks be to Allah that this is the blessing of Allah, His goodness to humans. Those who are followers Allah’s religion do not oppress others.
Oppression is a darkness. It means dark, evil. May Allah help. May it be a blessing. Muslims are imperturbable. None would ask, “Why did you do this this way?” “Why did you do it that way?” “Who were you with?” But Allah forbade oppression and extremism. We hear it every Friday: “Inna Llāha ya’muru bil-‘adli wal-iḥsāni wa’ītā'ī dhī qurbā wa yanhā ‘ani l-fahşâī wal-munkari wal-baghī” (16:90) “Verily Allah has enjoined justice, the doing of good, and the giving of gifts to relatives; and has forbidden indecency, impropriety, and oppression.”
This is sufficient by itself. The world of disbelievers is the opposite, with no justice. There is oppression and all sorts of evil, and therefore receiving victory by the help of Allah is better for people. It is better for the world. Of course, Satan does not want people to have
goodness. Allah wants people to have goodness. Thanks be to Allah. We need to thank, because Allah has looked at us with his mercy, looked with His favor. This has occurred thanks be to Allah. Give thanks for everything. If benefits (ni’ma) are to multiply, thanks are necessary. Thanks be to Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
113.BE AWARE OF WEAK-MINDED ONES Tuesday, 26 June 2018
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 said: “Wa lā tu’tū-s-sufahā’ amwālakumu llati ja’ala Llāhu lakum qiyāmā” (Qur’an 4:5)
And do not give the weak-minded your property, which Allah has made a means of sustenance for you, but provide for them with it and clothe them and speak to them words of appropriate kindness.
By “property” it means food, drink, and other things. It also means be careful how you treat people. He says do not give in to those who cannot manage themselves proper. Which means do not let the management of your homes, your work, be with those who are not good, because when you hand over your property, they divert from the right path and also commit sin. Allah Azza wa Jalla says it was your provision.
Watch out who you give your provision to. Watch out from whom you will take it. The sufaha’ are those who are without responsibility, irresponsible--do not give to those who do not care at all. Watch out because these are the End Days, and one must watch out for everything at all times. Be careful in the way you treat people. Those intelligent people have their money, and wait long to receive something in return. Though they have been running after this thing with records, paperwork, they run in vain. May Allah help them.
As we say, be careful when you give to other people, so that the other side does not commit sin. They should realise the value of the property, and avoid wasting it here and there, which [also] means that people should not consume forbidden things. As long as the other side consumes the forbidden, oppression increases, [and] we then are not fulfilling the order of Allah.
This is not something to be ashamed of. You should tell him, “Oh my brother you are a simple one. Please do not be offended. I cannot give it to you. First correct yourself, then I will think about it.” Even an inheritance is given slowly to these people. To make sure no one is a victim, Allah Azza wa Jalla has shown us everything. Allah does not say a thing to make one a victim. It is necessary to take care of this. With the permission of
Allah, the one who submits to Islam [and] understands it is not harmed. May Allah protect us from the harm of our desires. Let’s not be simpletons. May people be free from these things, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
114.RESPONSE TO SHAYKH HISHAM Monday, 2 July 2018
Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is the most Merciful. We are whole time making mistake, making sin and Allāh forgive us. And this is to be Rabbāniyyīn Ḥaqqāniyyīn we must imitate them, imitate Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla what He doing. Of course we are not, we cannot do what He doing but only we are... some we can imitate, Awliyā’u Llāh all of them they are looking for to be mercy for people as Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla Mercy for people.
If anybody making sin or making mistake and asking for forgiveness from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, Allāh He is forgive him – if he is not insist for what he doing. Even Allāh, Prophet say in ḥadīth, when somebody... There is, we have two angels. Everybody he have two angels, one right side, one left side. And right side one writing reward for people. Other one he is writing wrong things, faults, and sins. When somebody doing right thing, Allāh right tell this angel, he write immediately, "He done this one good thing." Allāh reward him when he do something ten times and more. And he intention to do good thing but he couldn't do, also writing one reward immediately. But for other, left side angel, when he seeing something wrong, sin, he must write but they say, "You must wait one hour, two hours, three hours, four hours." Not saying any even this for six hours, seven hours, until eight hours and left side wing angel asking the commander right side, "Am I write this?" All this time he asking, he [right side angel] said, "Wait, wait, wait until eight hour," said, "He is not asking for forgiveness, we do what we can do. Now you write for him." And they are writing. Even for this, if they are later, maybe years, months, years later asking for forgiveness for by sincerity – Allāh forgive him also. This is Allāh attribute.
And who are awliyā’u Llāh, beloved ones for Allāh, they also patient for people to come back from their wrong thing. Because people they have different kind people – there is people, sincere people, and Allāh help them. They are in way of Allāh and way of Prophet, continuing with mashāyikh, with awliyā’u Llāh, with ṭarīqah perfectly. And there is people also their intention, very good intention but sometimes they are following wrong people and this is also unlucky for them. And there is people also good people and who following them they are also good people and they have good intention and they do something but it is also what they are thinking they are doing good, sometimes the bad intention people they are using this. Allāh give for this people also for their intention because they are thinking they are right, they are good, but what result of they done it is becoming not good even for themself also. And there is people they have bad intention and bad action also. This people must ask for forgiveness from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. But if they insist, as we said, they are making bad for themself. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla
not in need for them and for they what they are doing. But unlucky people who they thought they are good and they follow them.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, in our ṭarīqah most of them good intention, good action. But as we said there was also, we must say, they make good intention – we must say it here for by name because people we obligated to say this to not make people to be in sin. Because there was big fitnah going around and, alḥamdulilah, because barakah of Mawlānā, Allāh give inspiration to what, we say by name also, to Shaykh Hisham. And he become, his humbleness he write for whole his who are following him, by most of them by good intention, and he order them, "We are following way of Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim. Some misunderstanding happening – we are doing something with good intention but people they use this to make big fitnah."
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this people they are very few people and Mawlānā enough for them to make them away with their... If they are not asking for forgiveness, Mawlānā able to take them away from ṭarīqah and people of ṭarīqah. Because after Mawlānā, immediately Mawlānā we put him in his maqām, and they was people real not practicing or they make practice against what Mawlānā was ordering, his acting, his worshipping. Everything it was, they was against. Look like by shape – they wearing like him but they was real problem. As soon we put Mawlānā in his maqām, subḥāna Llāh, they are saying, "Oh" – even they are not giving salām but for other people they said, "Here finish. You are in your way, we are in our way." And this was mercy from Mawlānā to make them away to not make fitnah inside.
But other people they use this, what Shaykh Hisham Efendi, he in good intention he like to make name for Mawlānā – but Mawlānā he has already he said about his name – like Khālidiyyah al-Mujaddidiyyah – Ḥaqqāniyyah he said. So no need for other. But he was in good intention he say this and this bad intention people they use it and they make big fitnah between ṭarīqah people. They become enemy. They become, they have... Our ṭarīqah meaning love for each other. This become hate for each other and they leave their respect. They are saying thing even who are not in, no have any belief they cannot say this.
So, alhamdulilah, today, Maa Shaa Allah with barakah of Mawlānā this fitnah finish and Allāh He will reward Shaykh Hisham for his this khidmah, for this service for ṭarīqah. This is not small thing to be in his maqām and his position to say this. It is real. Allāh will reward him, In Sha Allah. And now, after now, who are claiming, "We are this, we are that," they must take adab from him to not say anything. Because they saying this but most of them by themself they are moving and who are doing this after now, this we are accept as bad intention from him, from his ego, from his bad character. We are not accept him as ṣūfī or following mashāyikh. Because nobody be can be responsible for
him. After now If anybody say, they saying, "We are from this people, from that people," you say, "You are liar. You are nothing. Go away!"
After now, In Sha Allah, we follow, we continue with love and respect and adab, In Sha Allah. We must respect who are respecting Allāh and making be humble and they are accepting right way and make fitnah to be finish. We are thanking all of you and as Prophet saying, who your belief not be complete until you love for your brother as much you love for yourself, even more than yourself. Alhamdulilah, we are thanking Allāh and Allāh ,help us, In Sha Allah. Mashāyikh looking for us everything. We are weak people. We can , we don't know what we are doing but only with good intention, In Sha Allah, we are following Prophet and make people to come to follow and love Prophet, love awliyā’u Llāh, In Sha Allah.
Allāh help us and, In Sha Allah, to reach Sayyidinā Mahdī ‘alayhi s-Salām, In Sha Allah, soon and in Jannah to be with Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim, with mashāyikh ‘iẓām, In Sha Allah. Because they will be happy when we are following them. You are be happy but if no, in Jannah nobody can see. So for this, be careful. Keep your adab. You will be good behave after this.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
115.THE SCHOLARS OF SHAYṬĀN Wednesday, 4 July 2018
AE: Yes, upon popular demand we are gathered again in the studio for the second part of the Q&A. Again we are in the presence of the highest authority of the Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah, Ḥaḍrat Shaykh Muhammad Adil. We welcome him again: Welcome my Sulṭān.
SM: It's a pleasure to be here, may Allāh be pleased with you.
AE: You have honoured us. Our theologian, Hodja Mehmet Kucuk will be asking his questions as a specialist psychologist. In Sha Allah let us start without further delay. Please go ahead my hodja.
MK: Yes, thank you very much. It's also a pleasure for me to be in the Ludswighafen Harmonie Dargāh studio and I would like to express my utmost pleasure at the same time to be in the presence of Shaykh Mehmet Efendi. I would like to thank Ayberk Efendi again for giving us the opportunity.
AE: No, thank you.
MK: Sir, I would like to immediately get to our questions. Our questions in the studio will be a little different. We will try and analyse two fields. There will be questions related to academicians, meaning theologians, and their relationship to the areas of taṣawwuf lifestyle, and science. First, I would like to ask you. We know you are authorized in both fields. We know you are an expert in both outer and inner sciences. That is why I believe you will give very enlightening answers to us and our audience here. That's why, may Allāh Jalla Jalālahu be pleased with you.
SM: May Allāh be pleased with you too.
MK: I want to ask this first: Mawlānā Jalāluddin Rūmī's shaykh, his teacher and his pir, Ḥaḍrat Shams-i Tabrīzī is setting up a scale. He says according to this scale of his that the Qur’ān can be understood and read in four ways. The first, he says, is with external knowledge, the meaning that is written in the lines; reading what is in the lines and understanding what is in the lines. So this is more of our area, the area of academicians and theologians – to understand the outer meaning. The second, he says, is inner knowledge, meaning deep knowledge, spiritual knowledge. The third is the inner of the inner, he says. Deeper than the deep, behind the curtain, he says. The fourth knowledge, he says, is knowledge that words are unable to describe. Ḥaḍrat Shams-i Tabrīzī presents this as a scale to measure the ability of people.
After giving a lecture on this subject, highly placed academic friends of ours from the
university, friends with titles like assistant professor and professor, made the following accusation: "The person you call Shams-i Tabrīzī didn't even know how to read the Qur’ān. How can he be of help to humanity when he is presenting you with such a criteria of the Qur’ān? Do you know how harmful he has been to religion?" and made many other similar accusations. Sir, I would like to ask you. There are many academicians who make fun of, and even belittle, consider non-existent, or even falsify those in this area like Ḥaḍrat Rūmī, Ḥaḍrat Muḥyi d-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī, and Ḥaḍrat Ḥallāj-i Mansūr, the friends of Allāh, whose names until now were written in the sky with golden letters. Sir, what do you have to say about this? What can you tell our viewers?
SM: Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. How can we say it? We will say: "Lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā biLlāh." We will say: "Ḥasbuna Llāhu wa ni‘ma l-wakīl." Such that we seek refuge in Allāh from people like that with those titles and from people who give them those titles. Because what they are saying is discounting as nothing the faith of this nation which serves Allāh and those who have given their lives for the sake of Allāh. Their service continues until the Day of Judgment. Hundreds of thousands of people have been guided by means of them until today. Those who are Muslim are coming to guidance, those who are not Muslims are becoming Muslim. Well, the books the most printed and most sold in the world are those of Rūmī and Muḥyi d-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī. I guess they do not know this.
In any case the scholars have an illness: envy. They are envious. They cannot stand that they have nothing, they are empty. That is why they are jealous of others, they envy them and attack them. But only the false ones can do this, and as we said they have been trying to destroy Islām from the outside for a long time. All those Crusader armies from all over tried to destroy Islām. They have been trying since the time of our Holy Prophet and have not been able to do it. Now they have realized they can destroy it from within. This they have done unfortunately by founding these colleges, schools, and universities. The Muslims, the Muslims have sold their homes, sold their gold, sold whatever precious things they have for these to be built, in order to elevate Islām. The outsiders also used this well. All the corrupt men were put in these places. Now we see them by the thousands. In the past, there were a few academicians who did this job. Now there are thousands like them. Unfortunately, they emerge all the time.
Islām has no power if it is without spirituality. It has to be material and spiritual. As you said, they do not believe in karāmāt (miracles) either. However, karāmāt did not just appear in old times. They exist now too. There was an academician of the type you mentioned a little earlier who did this job only for profit. When he appeared on TV Mawlānā Shaykh would tell us not to watch him and to shut the TV. In the end he went crazy completely. A lady, an aunt of ours, got really upset and told Mawlānā Shaykh that this man said such and such. Mawlānā said, "This man will rot from the inside." And truly, as he said, he rotted away. So we are sad for people who believe in these people.
But our people of taṣawwuf don't expect anything from others. We are only working to help them come to the path of Allāh. We are not working for profit.
Again years ago they told Mawlānā Shaykh about a person, who it is unnecessary to name, that he was building schools, training students by the thousands, and giving hundreds of thousands of interviews. Mawlānā said, "He builds schools and such, and we sit in our dargāh and make du‘ā’ to Allāh." He said, "We raise people. Let them raise students." He said, "Our job is to raise people, our job is to raise human beings." So the job of the people of ṭarīqah is to raise humans. Those who are human accept the truth. They do not betray people. They do not sell their hereafter for a mere three to five pennies. These others are all people who have sold their hereafter because they do not have faith any more. These people do not have even the slightest faith. People who talk badly about those kinds of people [Rūmī etc] do not have the slightest faith. Amongst them are some whose own fathers have even denied relationship to them.
MK: Sir, I want to get to my next question because it is related to this subject. We have a problem. They are misinforming the Nation of Muḥammad. We have a problem here so that asking these questions to a sulṭān like yourself and getting answers for our viewers, I really believe is very important for us. Our second question is this, interpretist groups have increased in number lately. Again, leading them are academicians with titles such as professor and assistant professor who are giving talks to people every day on different TV channels and different social media and they are serving people such standards. Some of them are saying, everyone can open the Holy Qur’ān and see what is in it; read from the translation and can make commentary about what he understands. Meaning there is no need for anything more.
Of course, we are trying to warn people here about this view and are saying if you leave the Sunnah behind and try to understand the Qur’ān just with your mind and logic then you will get a philosophy derived from your ego not the Qur’ān Allāh has given us. However, because the titles of those people are higher, people are more likely to listen to them. "But he's a professor," they say, "But he's an assistant professor." They do not realize they are fooling themselves with such a perception. Sir, what do you say about this matter? Can anyone open the Qur’ān, read its translation and make commentary? Can they give a legal opinion to people, meaning can they make a judgment? This is something that really happens.
SM: Now we should not call such a person a professor but an absolute ignoramus. We should call him an absolute ignoramus because he studied and he should know. However, thanks to Allāh even though they tried so hard to ruin the study of theology all over the world, still people like you who know the truth keep appearing. There are plenty of you and you are the majority, but still there are thousands of the others too.
Hand a newspaper to a person and they will not know what they are reading about – the Qur’ān, let alone the Noble Qur’ān.
Even in regards to ḥadīth and the people who read ḥadīth – there is a muḥaddith who knows ḥadīth. There are fuqahā’, jurists. So there is no such thing as: I'm going to read ḥadīth and give fatwá. Besides this, even if a person comes and asks a hodja, a normal cleric, for a fatwá, he cannot give it. You need to go to the Muftī. So how can one be so ignorant as to open the Qur’ān and comment on it? Even though the imāms of the Madhāhib all knew ḥadīth, they all looked to the muḥaddith. Muḥaddithīn and those who give fatwá are different. The one who explains ḥadīth is different. Because you might read one ḥadīth but there is another ḥadīth that has a different view. They would ask about it: how is it so? This ḥadīth cancels that one. Now they are all ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth but one can cancel the other. It's not like we can explain the science of ḥadīth in two minutes here.
So what they are saying is impossible. We can only call the person who claims this, to be an absolute ignoramus. He should take that title of professor and throw it in the garbage. May Allāh give people sense and intelligence. We cannot say anything else.
There are many examples. Some Arabic ladies were gathering to say the Kalimatu t- Tawḥīd. They were saying La ilāha illa Llāh. We heard from an old lady suddenly that what they used to do every time they went up to the mountains was to gather and instead of talking of worldly things they would recite the Kalimatu t-Tawḥīd and read Qur’ān. It would be beautiful, once a week. Their cleric came to them and told them what they were doing was wrong. Some person came on TV and said this was bid‘ah, that it was useless. He cancelled it. He stopped thousands of recitations and the gaining of rewards. We can only call them shayṭān's scholars. They are called ‘Ulamā’u s-Sū’ (Scholars of Evil). May Allāh give people sense and intelligence so they do not give value and listen to such people. They have no knowledge whatsoever. Or even if they have knowledge, as we said, they have sold themselves for self interest.
MK: Sir, all right but we have the Diyanet foundation and establishment in Turkey. They also see these things. Why are they not clarifying things or banning things. Or instead of coming out with a refutation against Ahlu s-Sunnah clerics, which we know happens – in fact they fire them from their jobs – yet they are able to set free those who truly want to make humanity become soldiers of shayṭān. So can you tell us something here about the Diyanet? Of course it is an establishment of our state. However, if there is a mistake, we need to criticize it or we need to bring in a mannered way, some correction there however we can. What will you say about this matter? Why is the Diyanet not interfering here and calling what is wrong, wrong? SM: Because those people are the same everywhere. Wherever it may be, there are the same types of people. They are also men who are graduates of Theology. How can they do so? They are people from Theology
school. Also, it is the wisdom of Allāh that when you mention the state, they are scared out of their pants. So even if it was the truth, "Let me not touch that subject, let me not interfere. Otherwise something might happen to me. I might lose my job or position." Therefore, even though they know, they say "La Ḥawla" and sit still there.
MK: But they're hiding the truth.
SM: Well of course. They all know of the issue.
MK: Sir, another question. It has increased so much lately. We see it on the news, on social media and in people. They are attacking and insulting people of ṭarīqah, people of true ṭarīqah, murshids and shaykhs, carelessly. So Allāh forbid, if they go further and do worse things, since Allāh Jalla Jalālahu tells us in His sublime verse in the Holy Qur’ān to befriend the servant friends of Allāh like "Kūnū maʿa ṣ-ṣādiqīn" (9:119) or "Wa-btaghū ilayhi l-wasīlata" (5:35) – make them a means, use Allāh's saintly servants as a means to get closer to Allāh. There are many sublime verses. Yet there are people on the other side who want to throw mud at ṭarīqah by presenting our people with verses that were revealed about polytheists, telling us that when you follow a friend of Allāh, a servant whom Allāh has praised, then you are committing shirk. Whereas, people, the general public, do not know about the verses they present. They are verses that were revealed about the mushrik, about idol worshippers. What can you tell people here? is it right to be with a friend of Allāh, So how important is it to follow a friend of Allāh, a saintly servant praised by Allāh? Insulting and attacking a friend of Allāh when it is clear in the holy verse and even though He warns: "Whoever wages war on My saintly servant they have waged war on Me," what will you tell our viewers about this subject?
SM: Now there are two categories in this matter. There are some people who claim to be people of ṭarīqah but are not nor are they on the right way. So they are using ṭarīqah. The people of ṭarīqah are few after all. These people are few also but they make it as if all ṭuruq are like them. They exaggerate the matter. They exaggerate it very much. We are saying also, whoever you see among us who does contrary to Sharī‘ah, warn them and of course do not follow them. Ṭarīqah is the essence of Sharī‘ah, so ṭarīqah is not separate from Sharī‘ah. Ṭarīqah is the essence. It is not supposed to do evil. It helps people to save their faith. It tries to make people believe in the hereafter, to prepare them for the hereafter. The matter you speak about has been around for 1400, almost 1500 years, since the arrival of our Holy Prophet. Now just because we honour someone, does it mean we worship Ḥaḍrat Abū Bakr, or we worship Ḥaḍrat ‘Alī, or we worship Ḥaḍrat Shāh-i Naqshband, or we worship Ḥaḍrat Rūmī? We do not worship any of them. We gift it to each one's soul so their barakah will be upon us. So you are not associating partners once you worship Allāh. Shirk is what those used to do who used to directly worship by making an idol. They would get in front of it and worship it. They would hand it money. They would do all kinds of things in front of it. It has been 1500 years
now. Where do they come up with us making shirk when this is not the case? Shirk is when you worship someone else. It is directly changing your qiblah from this side and placing the idol on that side and worshipping it. So these ones have a skewed logic. In addition, they make people commit sin.
However, thanks to Allāh, the awliyā’, the friends of Allāh are merciful. They pray so may correct them. Because these people have been fooled. As the Prophet that Allāh says, they do not know. He says if they knew they would not do as they do. However sin is a burden on people. Those who take them to evil, they carry the sin.
MK: Sir, naturally there are so many questions that need to be asked. We anxiously await the answers to these questions, but we know you are very busy. Therefore, I would like to hand my right, In Sha Allah, to Ayberk Efendi. Thank you very much.
SM: Astaghfiru Llāh.
MK: You have enlightened us and our viewers with the most beautiful answers you have provided. In fact, there are many more questions. We are inviting people to this path as much as we can, with your himmah and permission. Of course, it is not possible to talk about all the subjects in a studio recording. We wish we could talk about them and explain them since unfortunately there are too many people of ours who have been fooled. We are sad about this. In this regard, we pray that, In Sha Allah, you increase us in himmah, In Sha Allah, so just as we have taken our place in your lines, just as my Lord made us together in this world, In Sha Allah, He makes us together after resurrection, hereafter, and Paradise. We ask for himmah. May Allāh be pleased with you.
SM: With you too.
MK: I want to leave the word to Ayberk Efendi.
AE: My Sulṭān, lastly I want take this point into consideration. They say about ṭarīqah, where does it say it exists? Since when does it exist? They attack saying: "It is not written in the "Qur’ān that ṭarīqah exists, and there was no such thing during the time of the Prophet. Now if you could also touch upon this subject a little, In Sha Allah, we can end our program afterwards.
SM: Ṭarīqah is written in the Qur’ān too. There is nothing that is not written in the Qur’ān anyway. "Wa lā raṭbin wa lā yābisin illā fī kitābin mubīn" (6:59), He says. For ṭarīqah He says, "Wa-allawi istaqāmū ‘alá ṭ-ṭarīqati la-asqaynāhum mā’an ghadaqa" (72:16). In Sūrah Jinn. "If they continue upon the ṭarīqah, Allāh would give them plenty of mercy." That is something else. But they ask what ṭarīqah is anyway? Ṭarīqah, firstly and most importantly is "innama ṭ-ṭarīqatu adab," it says. It is adab. Ṭarīqah teaches good manners.
All those ancestors of ours were well mannered and respectful. They were well mannered towards Allāh and towards the Prophet. This is the most important thing. Then towards their sulṭāns, their citizens, their countrymen, and towards Islām. There was adab towards everyone. This is adab.
They are unmannered now. Those academicians who are against ṭarīqah are truly ill mannered. When they talk there is no such thing as adab and no good comes from ill mannered people. They neither benefit themselves nor others. They bring only dissension and corruption.
AE: My Sulṭān, can you also describe the relationship between the murīd and the shaykh. So speaking of a murīd, people see it in easy terms: "There, I took bay‘ah with the shaykh. Now I can act as I like because the shaykh can save me anyway and send himmah. Since we are attached to the shaykh, it is easy for us now." This is how they think and take it easy. Can you tell us something about this?
SM: Well, of course rābiṭah, attaching to the shaykh is a big deal, a good thing. Even if a person thinks like that, it is still good Because he has the belief that our shaykh is showing us the way and we are with him. That is a beautiful thing. Gradually, even if he has bad habits, slowly he will be cleaned over time, Allāh willing.
AE: So what is important is being attached to the shaykh.
SM: Now, say you go and join a ṭarīqah. We are back to Rūmī here: "I was raw and I got cooked." In the end he says, "I got burned." Raw – so a person transforms gradually. One year, two years, five years and the person thinks nothing is happening, but he is transforming slowly in ṭarīqah. A person needs to transform. So once one is in ṭarīqah and it is in his mind, it is not an issue, Allāh willing. Of course, one needs to do it gradually. This depends on one's readiness. Not everyone can do everything. Some skip a class in a few years. Others are faster. But what is important is getting in and being registered.
AE: My Sulṭān, lastly, very last, I want to ask the meaning of being a dervish. Because most think that to become a dervish is to lay down, read Qur’ān, make dhikr and nothing else. Relaxed like this, without the will to work; just stand by the shaykh's door. But to read Qur’ān, make dhikr, and anything more is not being a dervish some are thinking. We used to see you my Sulṭān. Normally you would get off the plane, ride the tractor and go to the garden to work. So we witnessed this as a shaykh. However, how can one explain this thinking of a murīd about being a dervish?
SM: Well, everyone thinks something according to their own mind.
AE: So what is being a dervish?
SM: Of course being a dervish – it could be that sometimes that is also being a dervish. Some would be a new Muslim and for them to take time to learn – a year, six months, or a few months, however much time they might have to practice – that much time. Then one needs to work. When work is for the sake of Allāh that work of yours is also worship. Your taking lawful sustenance home is also worship. Everything becomes for the sake of Allāh. You become from amongst the dhākirs. "Alā bidhikri Llāhi taṭma’innu l-qulūb" (13:28). So dhikr is not only by sitting with the tasbīḥ. Dhikr means remembrance. You are remembering the whole day. "I'm here for Allāh. I'm working for Allāh. This service of mine is for Allāh It is as if you are making dhikr 24 hours. This is being " I'm doing everything for Allāh. A dervish sitting with the tasbīḥ too but not only with the tasbīḥ.
Well, some think being a dervish is being a little lazy. But prophets did not like laziness either and the [life of this] world is short, you need to take advantage of it.
AE: My Sulṭān, thank you very much. You did not let us down. We took so much of your time, of your valuable time.
SM: Astaghfiru Llāh.
AE: In Sha Allah, my Sulṭān, may Allāh not take you away from us. SM: May Allāh be pleased with you. AE: May He make us murīds worthy of you, In Sha Allah. SM: May Allāh accept your services. May they be useful. AE: Lastly, if there is something you would like to say, a message for the whole of humanity, can we have it too? We can end our program afterwards.
SM: What can you tell humanity now? The whole of humanity is in End Times. They have all fallen into the hands of shayṭān. They have become toys in the hands of their ego. They cannot even stand Allāh, the Prophet, and the Book. They come up with such dissension and corruption. What Allāh says will happen, In Sha Allah. We have nothing else to say, because the time has come In Sha Allah.
AE: Thank you very much my Sulṭān. Yes, the Q&A program in the presence of Ḥaḍrat Shaykh Muḥammad Adil ends here. We thank him very much. We say may Allāh be pleased with him and we end our program. We entrust you to Allāh.
116.THERE IS NO HARDSHIP IN TARIQAH Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Being together with the congregation, with the gathering, is being with a good gathering. This is the duty of the ṭarīqah. This is what it does. It says to be together: "Wa-‘taṣimū biḥabli Llāhi jamī‘an wa lā tafarraqū" (3:103), says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Hold on to the rope of Allāh and be in unity. It says not to scatter. Of course there is strength in unity. Spiritual strength as well. A person's īmān (faith) also gets stronger. That is why the enemy of Allāh and the enemy of people is the same. It is shayṭān. He says not to be together. "Don't be together. Everyone should do as they like. Everyone should act according to their own mind," he says. In the end, they even say there is no need for the Prophet. "Our Holy Prophet's duty is over . There is no need for him anymore “ they are saying. There is no limit to rebellion. The limit extends to disbelief.
The duty of ṭarīqah is important. It teaches manners and faith to people in the Islamic world. You can only receive faith from the one who has faith. It does not happen by studying. How can it happen with study? You follow a Shaykh and if you study, with his himmah and permission, it will be useful. It will be useful for you too. It will be useful also for those whom you teach. Nothing will happen by studying dryly. A hundred professors trying cannot bring one man to guidance. Why? Because there is no spirit. There is no faith. A holy one, never wandering around but keeping to himself, a murshid can bring thousands of people to the right way. His adab and connection to the Prophet strengthens their īmān because his īmān comes from our Holy Prophet. The chain of all the ṭarīqahs connect through either Ḥaḍrat ‘Alī or Ḥaḍrat Abū Bakr raḍī Allāhu ‘anhum to the Prophet. From them it reaches the shaykhs and from them it reaches the seekers. There is no one who is part of ṭarīqah who goes astray. So there is no ṭarīqah that goes astray.
However, immediately after our Holy Prophet, many other movements appeared and many were astray. They fell off the map – meaning nobody remembers them anymore. They are erased, gone because they had no place of support. Since it was the work of shayṭān, it was erased. Hundreds and thousands appeared and were erased. There are a few left, only a few, and most of them have nothing to do with Islām anyway. People do not look at them as Muslim. They do not look at themselves as being a part of Islām either. They are people who are always with the enemies of Islām. Ṭarīqah are the opposite. They got stronger and were continuous. They have reached until this day. The sulṭāns followed them as well. The amīrs, princes, followed them. The rich and the poor Muslims followed them. They protected Islām. They gave beauty to Islām. Of course Islām is beautiful. But there is giving it beauty something else. Because there is a great difference between the Muslims of a hundred years ago and the Muslims of today. They beautified Islām. The other ones made it ugly. They scare people away. You look at 100 or 150 years ago and you see in pictures. They call it Orientalism? A trend called
Orientalism appeared. People were admiring Muslims, Islamic countries. They would show all the beauties appearing where the Caliph was. They were curious. Many of them became Muslim themselves. There were many who were curious, who left their countries and lived in Islamic countries. But now, look at our situation now. When we arrive with our Muslim clothes from somewhere, the police stop us asking us what we are doing, why we came and what not. Now people are terrified when they see a Muslim. If they are not scared, there is hatred. Here, it is enough of an answer for the academics Mehmet Bey was talking about.
There were no Salafīs, no Wahhābīs, and no Reformists a hundred years ago. There were people of ṭarīqah. There was beauty. There was mercy in Islām. Now, they also made the ones who were never in a ṭarīqah to run away. It is all left for them. We see the situation of being Muslim now and the state they are in. We arrived at the ḥadīth of our Holy Prophet In these End Times, scholars are plenty and knowledge has disappeared," says our Holy" : Prophet. There are plenty of preachers but there is no knowledge. There are useless words. Our ancestors served Islām for a thousand years. They went on the way shown by the shaykhs. They respected and honored the Prophet his Ahlu l-Bayt, and the Companions. Was it bad? No, it was good. It was a blessing for us. It benefited us. It was an honor for us.
They say serving is an honor – this is honor, the highest honor. There is no higher honor than this. Serving our Holy Prophet and serving Islām. This is what shayṭān cannot stand. It is why he always wants
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