Suhbah 2018: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (17/25)
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to destroy Islām from within. That is why there are appearing a lot here and there and speaking. However, Allāh is with us. Even if they are three to five thousand, there are plenty of scholars who are silent and there are a lot more than the others. They will not be given a chance, Allāh willing. They can yell and scream as much as they want. They have nothing. They have no value. They are misleading people by yelling and screaming, and fooling them with false and incorrect information. But they cannot stand against the Truth, Allāh willing. That is why they do not dare to come out in front of scholars and debate with them. Because when truth appears falsehood disappears. They also know this. That is why they do not want people to see them get disgraced. They run off without appearing in front of truth. Then they talk from behind and they harm people, the ignorant people.
So this is our duty, the duty of ṭarīqah – to show people the way, the beautiful way of Allāh. Our goal is to fulfill the commands of Allāh, to remind of the hereafter. Because people they think they will live without dying. In the way of ṭarīqah, there is thinking of death everyday. We are going to die. That is what we should think about. Inviting people to ṭarīqah and to the dergâh is our duty. Our door is also open to whoever comes. Ayberk Efendi asked in the morning. He had made a program and he asked. "How should a murid be? They come to ṭarīqah and say they are in ṭarīqah. Then they do not do anything, saying the shaykh does it," he says. "Ṭarīqah is open," we said, "They can just
say they are in ṭarīqah as they like." It is still accepted. So even saying that is a great blessing. There is no hardship in ṭarīqah. So when I say, "I'm in ṭarīqah," it means, "I've turned to Allāh." "No, you're in ṭarīqah so you have to do such. You have to get up for night prayer everyday. Then you have to recite so much Qur’ān and make dhikr and rābiṭah. You have to do the laṭā’if." A person who hears this says, "Oh, I cannot do this. Good bye now," and runs away.
There is an example from our Holy Prophet regarding this. A bedouin came. Of course he came from the desert. He did not know and he yelled, "How do I enter paradise?" "What do you have to enter paradise?" asked our Holy Prophet, "What do you have?" He answered, "I love you." Our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, "Al- mar’u ma‘a man aḥabb." "A person will be with whom he loves," he said. Here, they said this saying of our Holy Prophet is the essence of taṣawwuf. Therefore, let them say, "I'm in ṭarīqah," and it is still a great blessing for people.
May Allāh make us all firm-footed. May He also give guidance to people, In Sha Allah. May these kinds of places increase in number. May dergâhs, tekkes and zāwiyahs increase in number. These are places for good people to gather for the sake of Allāh In Sha Allah. These are places with no gossip, no gambling, and no bad habits. May they increase in number, In Sha Allah. May they also give guidance to the Ummah of Muḥammad here. May Allāh protect you. It is in a place with great dangers. It is not apparent yet it is spiritually worse. It is the same everywhere now. We were afraid of Europeans before, but now it is the same in Islamic countries. It is the same everywhere. May Allāh protect us from the evils of shayṭān, from these evils. May Allāh protect our children, In Sha Allah. May our visit be accepted In Sha Allah. May our du‘ā’s be answered.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
117.MAY IT LAST UNTIL THE END Wednesday, 4 July 2018
AE: As-Salāmu ‘alaykum. Today we are together again in a question and answer session. We have with us the highest authority of the Naqshbandīs, Ḥaḍrat Shaykh Muḥammad Adil. We welcome him in your presence: Welcome my Ṣultān.
SM: We're glad to be here.
AE: You're very welcome. You've honored us.
SM: Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh.
AE: We also have with us again our theologian and specialist, psychologist Mehmet Kucuk Hodja. We would like to welcome him too: Welcome Hodja.
MK: Glad to be here. AE: You've honored us. MK: Thank you. AE: We're all wondering how we will start, In Sha Allah, and what questions we'll ask today.
MK: Firstly, I would like to extend my thanks and gratitude to Shaykh Efendi. At the same time, I want to thank Ayberk Efendi for being a means for this interview and Shaykh Efendi for providing the time and opportunity to talk to us here, even though he has so much work and so much traveling to do.
SM: Astaghfiru Llāh.
MK: May Allāh be pleased with you. Thank you for coming. Welcome.
SM: Glad to be here. May Allāh be pleased with you too. Our duty is the command of Allāh. It is obligatory on us to meet whoever wants advice from us and to deliver information anywhere to anyone who wants it from us.
MK: Alhamdulilah. May Allāh be pleased with you. Yes, Ayberk Effendi I would like to ask Shaykh Efendi three questions with your permission. I think they're important questions.
So these aren't classic fiqh questions. They're questions relating more to the spiritual realm that truly concerns humanity very much and the events that will occur in the End Times. Sir, I would like to start immediately. Our first question is: As many of us are following current affairs, the news, and the world, we see that there is an Ottoman revival. I would like to ask: Will the Ottomans come back again? I want to add this too: There's a ḥadīth in Jāmi‘u ṣ- Ṣaghīr, "One Salīm will come and hand over the trust. Another Salīm, the final Salīm, will come and take the trust." Even though most of our academic friends do not accept this, what sort of information can you give us regarding this subject and ḥadīth?
SM: The state of affairs in the world is clear. Most of these academics do not accept that Qiyāmah is near either. We cannot do anything if we listen to what they say. They are people who read books and they are in doubt about the things they read in the books. The Holy Qur’ān says, "Iqtarabati s-sā‘atu" (54:1), meaning Qiyāmah is near. They're saying there's a lot more time left. So many incidents have occurred in front of us in the past 15-20 years. One could not have even imagined such things happening in the past and we're more than 60 years old now. It is occurring all at once. So it is not up to us.
Our Holy Prophet said it. He informed us of what Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla informed him that Qiyāmah will erupt and there is no law that the world will continue for millions of years like these people say. Humans were created by Allāh a few thousands of years ago anyway – some say 7,000, some 10,000, and some say more, but Allāh knows that too. It has a set time. The time is here, meaning it is near. As our Holy Prophet explained it is very near.
And as a Caliphate there are the Ottomans. The Ottomans still exist. So the Caliphate has not been taken from them yet. Because Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām will take it from the Ottoman Caliph. That is, just like the Caliph was still an Abbasid for hundreds of years after the Abbasids, and it was taken from Cairo. Here too he will take it from the Ottomans. The Ottomans. The [Abbasid] Caliph handed it over to the Ottomans himself. So it was not by force. Of course it cannot be by force. The Ottomans will certainly hand it over. Therefore it has to be the Ottomans. Thanks to Allāh the Ottomans and the House of Osman still exist. There are also plenty of princes. Whoever has been assigned among them, it will be like that, Allāh willing.
MK: Sir, the ḥadīth I mentioned to you, is it mutawātir or is it ṣaḥīḥ? Could you also give us and our viewers information on this subject?
SM: No, we cannot call it mutawātir, and this science of ḥadīth is not our field, but it was narrated. What is called mutawātir is very strong, the strongest. So even if it's not that strong, it is surely there.
MK: Of course there is truth to it. SM: Certainly there is. MK: Thank you very much. With your permission I want to go to my second question, sir. Again relating to the same topic on which we have problems here and which most of our academic friends are again denying, taking lightly or even rejecting. However because I still think it has a place determining the fate of humanity, I want to ask this question. The second coming to earth of ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām is firm, with verses in the Holy Qur’ān.
Mahdī's ‘alayhi s-salām arrival is firm with mutawātir, mutashābih ḥadīth. At the same time, great scholars of a hundred and more years ago, like Imām Rabbānī, Badiuzzaman, and other great scholars, have devoted much thought to the subject of Mahdī ‘alayhi s- salām and ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām. They have even made calculations of the time of their arrival and made it public. However, this topic has been forgotten in the past century. It was made to be forgotten or wanted to be forgotten. Sir, what will you tell us about this subject of Mahdī and ‘Īsá ‘alayhum as-salām.
SM: Now, Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, before Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām, these people called academics are even denying the coming of ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām. However, it is mentioned in the Qur’ān. So forget being mutawātir, the Qur’ān is more... Well now lately, as you said, there is an evil plan. What we mean by evil is something that makes people lose their faith in Allāh, and they first started with ṭarīqah. They started attacking by saying there is no such thing as ṭarīqah. When it was over, they had misled lots of people. They saw it and laid the foundation there. Then they started with the ḥadīth saying, "This one is weak, that one is fat..." [joke] and what not.
Then, currently they are denying the ḥadīth too, saying they can just look and take from the Qur’ān. Not possible. Taking from the Qur’ān, for you to be able to take from the Qur’ān, you need to have, not a hundred, but a thousand years of knowledge. Not even a thousand . But our Holy Prophet years are enough. Because that is the knowledge of the Prophet. But our Holy Prophet explained it. Therefore, what they say is either from bad intention or – there are two alternatives and each one is worse than the other. It is either due to bad intention or, it is the lighter one, I will say it even though it will be a little rude, due to stupidity, foolishness. So saying this is due to stupidity is a little better than the other. The other one is worse. A man would be out of the faith.
So the ḥadīth of our Holy Prophet regarding Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām are many. As you said, they are close to mutawātir as the ṣaḥīḥ are a lot. There are many. Then there are those like Imām Rabbānī, those who brought Islām new strength and demolished falsehood and innovation. Like Ḥaḍrat Imām al-Ghazālī, they all acknowledge Mahdī
‘alayhi s-salām. If the ones called academics here are not accepting, as we said, they need to either check their minds or they need to renew their faith and repent. It is not as they say it is. The problem is some people listen to them. Now, when a person appears on TV, they think he is a worldwide scholar who knows everything. There is no such thing. None of them can be an ‘allāmah-e jihān. May Allāh give them sense and intelligence. May Allāh help them. Therefore, the authenticity of Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām cannot be debated.
MK: Yes, thank you very much for giving a fine and enlightening answer to this subject. On the same subject, is there a time frame you are aware of Sir? So are we in the time frame? Are we in the time frame of Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām? Is there a little or much time left?
SM: Mawlānā Shaykh would give an analogy – as the clouds were clear like this. Then it became slightly cloudy. The clouds have gathered so it looks like it's about to rain sometime soon. It's as such, so it's near, Allāh willing. Still Allāh knows best. If you look at the state of the world, what's the world coming to? Let's give an example. Fifty years ago the seas were clean, the air was clean. Now they're saying the fish in the sea are all eating plastic. So they have even polluted the seas. So nothing is left in the world that is not polluted. If you want to talk about morals, they were at zero anyway, they have become minus 1000 now. Now if we said something here – and they claim democracy – but if we said it, they would file a lawsuit and throw us in jail due to that immorality of theirs. We cannot say anything against it. You know people understand what we mean without saying it now. They are untouchable. So what's there more than this? Nothing is left.
Speaking of tyranny, tyranny is only against Muslims, meaning against Islām. There is nothing against others. So there cannot be anything more. Allāh willing, it is very near. Tyranny is at its peak. We hear more of the tyranny that occurs every day. A man, a human, becomes sorry. Since we cannot do anything, we supplicate to Allāh so He may send Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām, a savior, as soon as possible. Because Banī Isrā’īl also told their prophets to pray so Allāh may send them a savior. This is written in the Qur’ān. So the Qur’ān is not only for them but for all humanity. It has no beginning and no end. It always shows us a way and an example.
MK: Thank you very much sir. I want to move to my third question with your permission, In Sha Allah. My third question is within the scope of my first two. I'm very curious and think this is also a question that needs to be enlightened with correct information because much false and incomplete information is being transmitted to our people here too. Here is our third question Sir: The Land of Death, Al-Malhamah Al- Kubrá, what we call Armageddon, what kind of information can you provide us about that event?
SM: Our Holy Prophet has ḥadīth about it. There is going to be a great war with armies that are non-Muslim. Of course, the judgement of today is much different than that of then. However, according to Ḥaḍrat Muḥiyu d-Dīn Ibn ‘Arabī more than half of humans will perish. In fact, according to some narratives, only one out of seven will remain. It is up to Allāh how that happens. It is within Allāh's knowledge. Because we used to think it was going to be on the Plain of Amuq before, but it so... It is probably going to be the last event. Before that, these great powers will go at each other and the weapons they use will destroy people. It can only happen that way. Otherwise, so many people are not destroyed with gun- type weapons.
MK: Sir, according to the answers you have provided, the three answers show that it is very near for these events to start. What should we do for people and for ourselves? How should we protect ourselves? What precautions do we need to take? If you can give us enlightening information we would appreciate it very much.
SM: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. What Nūḥ ‘alayhi s-salām says, again in the Qur’ān: "Lā ‘āṣima l-yawma min amri Llāhi illā man raḥim" (11:43). Today, meaning when the whole world was covered in water with the flood, his son said he could climb a mountain and be saved. He replied there was not going to be any survivors from this except whom Allāh watches and protects. Only those people who have reached Allāh's mercy, those are whom Allāh protects.
Mawlānā Shaykh also explained this so well. Because they used to say, "Let us go up on the mountain or go here and there." Then he said, "Whoever sits at home and stores their provisions – one or two months worth – at home and does not go out, nothing will happen to them Allāh willing." So if nothing will happen to them, there is no need to go here and there. As long as they don't go out, all will be safe at home. Because it will be worse if they go out. There will be no safety anywhere. For example, we used to live in Sham in the past. We lived there for years. We saw wars there. There was the War of '67 with Israel. There, it was in June, we saw Ḥājjah Anne making dhikr and the bombs started exploding. We were little then. What was going on, what was left? It turned out to be anti-aircraft guns firing. We were even scared of that. Then a few days later we saw thousands of people escaping and coming our way. There was war there as it was the border. We said nothing would happen here, it would be safe.
Now we watch and say the further you are from that border the safer you are. Yet it has been six or seven years since the war started in Syria. There is no hole that the war has not entered. It is so... What is called Armageddon is the same way. "I'm in Australia," say some, "Nothing would happen there. Let's go there." No place will be left. So things you cannot imagine will occur. Therefore, the best is, as Mawlānā Shaykh said, to stay at home and keep a two-month provision as it is sunnah anyway. It will be enough, Allāh willing.
MK: Sir, thank you very much for setting aside the time for me, for us. And I give it over, in shā’a Llāh, to Ayberk Efendi.
AE: Yes, my Sulṭān, we also thank you very much for giving us your time. SM: Astaghfiru Llāh.
AE: May Allāh be pleased with you. You have honored us.
SM: May Allāh be pleased with you. In Sha Allah, this will be of benefit since people are saying and thinking this world will go on forever. They say, "May it go on forever." That's wrong. They say, "ilā lā nihāyah". Say, "ilā nihāyah". We should say, "May it last until the end." It cannot be forever. We are only in Paradise forever.
AE: My Sulṭān, of course we want to know about one more matter here. What kind of du‘ā’ should we make while staying home with our provisions? What sort of prayers do we need to recite while waiting in our homes? Which verses? We would be happy if you could tell us this too.
SM: Recite Āyatu l-Kursī and blow around you. It is the protection verse. You will recite seven Āyatu l-Kursī.
AE: May Allāh be pleased with you my ṣulṭān. We thank you very much. SM: You too. AE: Yes, we are ending our question and answer program here. In Sha Allah, until we meet again next time. Goodbye.
SM: May Allāh be pleased with you.
118.REMEMBER THE HEREAFTER Thursday, 5 July 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.
May Allāh make this gathering of ours lasting, and may they increase in number, in shā’a Llāh. These beautiful gatherings are rare. So if we look at other gatherings, those done for worldly matters, we are few people compared to those. Because when it is less it becomes more valuable and its rewards are more REMEMBER THE HEREAFTER.
They made people forget about the hereafter. People have forgotten the hereafter. They are immersed in the world. They do not make time for the hereafter. They always look at this world and matters of this world. They are busy with this world.
Now gradually the whole world is like this. Of course it was not like this in the past. Gradually it spread to the whole world. They made people forget about the hereafter. People have become immersed in the world. However, our purpose in coming to this world is not for the world. Allāh created us for the hereafter. The person who knows he has been created for the hereafter does not get sad. He does not get sad because his situation is bad and someone else's is better. In the end, when anybody is about to go to the hereafter, everyone goes the same way, with a shroud. Everyone goes with a shroud. So whether one is rich or poor, they do not place a different shroud for them. Again they place the same shroud. They wash the person and wrap him in it, and bury him. The things that will be of benefit in this world are those done for the hereafter.
The salāṭīn and khulafā’ of Islām, most of them lived in this manner, in this way. They all became sulṭāns of the herafter too. Especially the last Ottoman sulṭāns. Their lives were dedicated to service, not to reign but to serve. One of the greatest of them is considered to be Ḥaḍrat Sulṭān Sulaymān al-Qānūnī (the Lawgiver). His milk brother is Yaḥyá Efendi in Istanbul, Shaykh Yaḥyá. Because they came into this world in Trabzon. Yaḥyá Efendi's father was the qāḍī there, and the Sulṭān's mother gave birth too there in
Trabzon. The Sulṭān's mother did not have milk. He nursed from Yaḥyá Efendi's mother and they became milk brothers. He spent his whole time serving Islām. They call him Sulaymān the Magnificent. They called him Sulṭān Sulaymān al-Qānūnī because of his justice and his law. He made Europe tremble. No country was able to stand against him – as he would conquer and enforce justice. With so much grandeur and so much power, he would institute Islamic justice with utmost care.
He respected Yaḥyá Efendi. He would take advice from Yaḥyá Efendi. He would visit his dergâh, discuss with him and take benefit from him. Yaḥyá Efendi was in a place they call Beshiktash. He served as a qāḍī and a teacher. Then when he retired, he devoted himself to seclusion there. He served educating students so they would serve Islām in the area. He was hard working and knew how to construct buildings and houses. He would always build houses, dergâhs, mosques, and baths there. They asked him why he was building so many structures. He would build with his own hands, and they were beautiful. He said, "It is written in the Qur’ān in Sūratu l-Baqarah to do good things until your end comes. We are preparing these for believers who will come after us so they will be comfortable here. They may worship Allāh here and we will gain its rewards." So they were not built for this world. That is what it shows.
The works that the saints do are not for worldly rewards but for Allāh, so the Believers coming later may be comfortable, so they may find a place to sleep, a bath, and an inn to do things. They are places for their benefit. So these places were built for the sake of Allāh Some people think these were worldly achievements but they were not for this world. They were built for Allāh. We do everything for the sake of Allāh. We need to constantly remember this. Otherwise, the pleasures and luxuries of this world are useless. Some people have a house every place in the world. They are sad that they cannot go to them. However, if it were for Allāh, he would not be sad because that service would continue.
Yaḥyá Efendi would also take care of his garden in this manner and he would raise beautiful fruits and vegetables. He would then distribute them to visitors as gifts. He was generous. He would set tables for both the poor and the rich. He would serve in this manner and everyone loved him. The Sulṭān would also come and go to his place. One day he got on his horse to go and ride around. He got on his horse and as soon as he reached the street he met a priest. The priest held the horse by its bridle. He said, "I'm going to ask you something. In this religion of yours, they collect taxes every year." Because taxes were collected from non- Muslims, there was a tax due on those that lived
in the Islamic world. When we speak of taxes, it was not like in Europe now, they collect 80% to 90%. It was not like that then. They collected around 3% to 5%. "In this justice system of yours, are you looking every year to see if these people are living or not?" Because the books, the olden books were not renewed every year. When it was not renewed, there would be those living and those who were old who were not to pay tax that time. "Is this allowed with you? Is this lawful?" asked the priest. Yaḥyá Efendi said it was not allowed, it was not lawful. The priest said it was happening and they were not looking at the names in the books for years. "They're collecting taxes from us based on old lists."
When Yaḥyá Efendi heard this, he immediately went to the madrasah. He asked for pen and paper and wrote the Sulṭān a letter. He told him he had put him in a tough situation in front of the priest, and he did not know what to say out of shame. "Your sulṭānate is not lawful. It is ḥarām. Because you are eating ḥarām money." He sent the letter and the Sulṭān received it. He did not understand what had happened. He immediately sent a letter asking for permission, he asked for permission to come and understand the matter from Shaykh Yaḥyá Efendi. He came where there is a road in Beshiktash on the coast where there was no road before as they filled it later. They slowly filled the sea and built a road. Boats would come in the past. The Sulṭān arrived with his royal boat. He asked permission and entered the dergâh. When he arrived he asked what the matter was because he did not understand why and what it was. Because sulṭāns would not eat ḥarām. They were very particular. People paid much attention to these things then, not like today. Those of today don't care about ḥarām and ḥalāl. Nobody's listening these days. They would not even eat a penny ḥarām that time.
He said, "The issue is such and such. You're not renewing the lists. That is why ḥarām is being mixed." The Sulṭān swore that he did not know. "I had no idea of this," he said. This time Yaḥyá Efendi said, "You're the Sulṭān and you are heedless. It doesn't suit you to be heedless as the sulṭān." So that is also a fault. That time the Sulṭān told the wazīr to investigate it and to give everyone back their right. "You will look at that list again every year." He also apologized to the Shaykh. The Shaykh accepted. Then the Sulṭān asked permission to go back to ruling. He asked him if he can continue because the Shaykh had told him his sulṭānate was void. His sulṭānate was void when that became ḥarām. So if he did not allow him, he would not sit in his place as sulṭān. Because he said it was a matter of the rights of others, of unbelievers, in the hereafter and that time neither the sulṭānate nor anything else has benefit. We want to say this so that even if it were Sulṭān Sulaymān, he is no different than anyone else in the hereafter. There are rights and justice
in the hereafter. The sulṭāns were careful like that. That is why Allāh helped them. They served people for so many years. That is why the Sulṭān asked permission from the Shaykh, and the Shaykh said alright now that he had left the unlawful and ḥarām did not touch him. "If there is something to do you will fix it. Then you will continue to serve as the sulṭān."
This is a great lesson for people like us. We need to forget about the world, and remember the hereafter. No matter how beautiful the world might seem, it is temporary. Great sulṭāns came and left. When the sulṭāns served Allāh and served the people, they became sulṭāns again in the hereafter. Those who come to this world for leadership and oppress people will suffer in the hereafter. Therefore, let us be thankful for our state. Let us be happy with our state. Let us spend these few days obeying Allāh and loving Allāh, In Sha Allah. Those who do this are happy, and are at peace. Those who do not, when the worldly mixes in with works then uneasiness starts. Uneasiness and fighting start. It's for people and it happens for this world. When it is for Allāh, there is beauty and tranquility.
May Allāh make us tranquil. May we live with His love. May we live with the love of the Prophet and the love of the Awliyā’, In Sha Allah. May Allāh be pleased with you all.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
119.SHAYKH SA’DU D-DIN JIBAWI (Q) Friday, 6 July 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.
Alḥamdulilah, we are in this blessed masjid. Allāh send us present from Prophet to visit his hair. Prophet... Abdu l-Karīm Efendi tafaḍḍal hunā (come here). Prophet‘ ... saying: "I left for you two things. You hold it you will be succeed whole time – al-Qur’ān wa sunnatī wa Ahlu Baytī." Qur’ān and Sunnah and his Ahla l-Bayt. Ahla l-Bayt they are in Islām there is no level but for Ahla l-Bayt only for them. Allāh and Prophet make them respected. Who respect them, he respect Prophet.
For this when beginning of, after Prophet, there was happen many thing but it was between the what Prophet saying: "The best century, my century." Meaning Prophet After me, second century also the best in ummah." In this century even there was" – happen many thing happened it is real... It was not so well for respecting Prophet's Ahla l- Bayt. It is wisdom from Allāh. We are ignorant people. We cannot judge anything for this but, nothing at all. Is because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He want them to be, make their level higher and higher. Qur’ān, there is āyat in Qur’ān saying, "Yurīdu Llāhu li- yudhhiba ‘ankumu r-rijsa Ahla l-Bayti wa yuṭahhirakum taṭhīrā" (33:33). Meaning, "To clean you [Ahla l-Bayt] from dirt and to make you pure." And this is, when you are in rest and everybody coming respect you, it cannot be. You are be only think for yourself. For this the Ahla l-Bayt in time after Prophet, they suffered too much and this disrespect make them to be more pure, more clean. And, subḥāna Llāh, there is from Ahla l-Bayt the most of them they have difficulty in their life this for dunyā. It's coming from this wisdom I think.
Our duty to respect everything what Prophet saying and what we find from Prophet thing to get barakah, to get blessed from them, In Sha Allah. Awliyā’u Llāh they are get their level higher and higher with this respect for Prophet. But this days their intention to be not respect for anyone, even for Prophet. Who make this, to be going lower and lower. Allāh order be respect, love Prophet, go after Prophet to be beloved for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
Mawlānā Shaykh every time he was saying about love of Prophet and follow Prophet. And he first when he come to Damascus, he was coming to place where is big awliyā’u
Llāh. They were was sitting with Mawlānā Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh Dāghistānī this dergāh. Sitting in dergāh of Shaykh Sa‘du d-Dīn Jibāwī, which he is coming from his ancestor – Shaykh ‘Abdu l-Karīm. And he bring, alḥamdulilah, tonight for barakah of Mawlānā, he send us this present from his, Prophet's hair and tabarrukāt and from his cover of grave Prophet. Shaykh Sa‘du d-Dīn or Shaykh Ḥasan?
Mawlānā Shaykh he was first when he come Damascus he meet Mawlānā Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh in his dergāh, Shaykh Sa‘du d-Dīn Jibāwī dergāh. After many after many years after maybe thir... thirty years, after thirty years, they was Mawlānā whole time he maybe mention this what happen more than fifty times. They was road and they will open and this dergāh. And graveyard of Shaykh was in the road. This, this one who he is Mawlānā send him, alhamdulilah, tonight. And we make it short. They wasn't able to take him out and they, they are Syrian people and tricky clever. So bring his grand-grandson and go open making one week, one week making dhikr, Qur’ān to open his grave. When he open his grave it was same, nothing happen and when he open was same. Even his grandson open, he... What happen? He slap him. Because nobody else can go there to to be open this and he was slapping him. And quickly his grandson saying, "Bismi Llāhi r- Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Aṭī‘ū Llāha wa-aṭī‘ū r-Rasūla wa-ūlī l-amri minkum" (4:59). He said this āyah to obey Allāh and Prophet and who are ruling you. So after this he not doing anything and they take him from his mubārak graveyard to maybe twenty meter place. For two hours only can take him this. And then coming smelling, very nice rose smelling. Mawlānā Shaykh he was saying, "Many times I was passing through there after this and there were children going to grave and taking earth and to give people smelling rose."
In Sha Allah, we are happy with his gift for us. In Sha Allah, Allāh forgive us, all of us and give this people coming for Allāh, Allāh reward them and give them what they need, what they ask from Allāh and for health, wealth, marriage, studying, shifā’ and keep safe from every badness. Sa‘ādat dārayn. Allāh give them, In Sha Allah. Allāh keep them safe, In Sha Allah for sake of Prophet and his Ahla l-Bayt.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
120.IMITATING SAYYIDINA IBRAHIM (AS) Saturday, 7 July 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.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Innamā ya‘muru masājida Llāhi man āmana bi-Llāhi wal- yawmi l-ākhir" (9:18). Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying who make house for Allāh, who is believer for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and the next life. "Inna awwala baytin wuḍi‘a lil-nāsi lalladhī bibakkata mubārakā" (3:96). The first house for Allāh in this earth, it was in Makkah. This is āyah also Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying this place Allāh call it "My house". Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla no limit, no any, no place, no time for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla but for to make value between human being He saying for this place "My house". In this world first house it was Allāh He's build for Allāh in Makkah. And when second time Allāh order Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm to rebuild it with Sayyidinā Ismā‘īl. And he come with his wife Hājar and his son Ismā‘īl to this place where it was nobody there. Was very dry but order from Allāh, "Go and leave your wife and your baby in this place." And it is very dry, very hot, no any plant and Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm he accept order and he went there and he left his wife and baby and he went. Nothing at all, only stone and sand and no water no nothing. But it is House of our Lord, still nothing there. So this Hājar, wife of Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm, she was going from hill to, going running from this hill to other hill, looking if anybody around. Seven times – this in Ḥajj we going between Ṣafā and Marwah with one hill calling Ṣafā, the second hill calling Marwah. And from His generous, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, His house it will be there. He give inspiration for Hājar, Sayyidatinā Hājar to dig little bit under one stone and quickly water coming from there. Middle of desert it is running. It was before maybe three, four people, maybe hundred people, thousand people they was drinking not finishing. But now millions people drinking. This miracle enough for nonbeliever to accept the being of from, because His, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, the real being. And it is not so deep but Allāh house, He giving for people and it is incredible water, no any water in this world like this. Can be twenty years, after twenty year put in some place and drink it is same like
same day. There is miracle, thousand, thousand miracle Allāh give us but people blind not seeing. So after many years Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm, Allāh order him, "Go and build this house for Me And Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām he was building this house. And there is now we see Maqām Ibrāhīm, there is one stone he was stepping on it to build. And he and his son Ismā‘īl, Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm was building, Sayyidinā Ismā‘īl giving his helping him to give stone or give another thing to build Ka‘bah. And people knowing this Ka‘bah is high when square building but it is not small. We now we are seeing very small in after this all building, huge building around but normally it is big and it is high – not you cannot reach. But because Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm was Prophet and he has miracle this now we are place call Maqām Ibrāhīm, the stone it was going like lift for him. They was building and finishing building. After Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla told Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm, "Call people to visit My house." And, Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm nobody in only desert this area, no anyone even to help him to build this. He was using his son to help him and he not saying, "What is, how I can call?" Allāh order. He said, "Call." And he was calling people. And who hear this calling, wisdom until Qiyāmah, the soul, our soul who hear calling of Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm to come to him – he will be visiting this Ka‘bah. So it is to imitate Ka‘bah we must, we also we are doing. Like Mawlānā Shaykh also he build one mosque before six year ago. We went with him. It was nothing around – empty place and people we make, Mawlānā make du‘ā’ and he put stone, first stone for mosque. And people they was looking, who will come here? It is like nowhere, it is nothing around, no building, nothing at all. So they was some people saying, "Why they do this for nothing? It will not be benefit for anybody." And after this many place, work, workshop, stores, and shops, and factories coming around this area and it is full of for Jum‘ah, for Ramaḍān it is full. Normal day it is also many people coming praying. Alḥamdulilah, here also, mā shā’a Llāh. Last year we come it was only like store place. Now, Maa Shaa Allah, big mosque. We are, in shā’a Llāh, who doing this imitate Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm and Allāh give barakah for them to full of with believer, In Sha Allah. Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm he was, he has barakah. Allāh give him barakah. In Sha Allah, Allāh give you all barakah also here. It will be hidāyah for people around and around or far from everywhere, In Sha Allah, coming. In Sha Allah, it will be barakah for our neighbour also. They are respecting and coming. Allāh make them happy here and hereafter, In Sha Allah. Thank you. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
121.ALLAH IS BEAUTIFUL Sunday, 8 July 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.
May Allāh let these gatherings continue. May they be good gatherings, In Sha Allah. Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Aṭī‘ū Llāha wa-aṭī‘ū r-Rasūla wa-ulī l-amri minkum" (4:59). The order of Allāh is to obey Allāh, obey the Prophet, and obey ūlū l-amr which means the government of the place where you are. Whatever they order, as long as it doesn't go against Allāh's order, obey them. We are living at the end of times now. This time is the time of patience. Everyone should obey ūlū l-amr of the place where they live. When they say, "Don't do this," don't come against them. It is for worldly matters. Because "wa lā tulqū bi-aydīkum ilá t-tahlukah" (2:195). Āyatu l-karīmah says don't put yourself in danger. Don't do what is dangerous. As long as they don't interfere in our worship and life, there is no harm. These other things are not farḍ or wājib for us.
When people live in a foreign country, they should get along with people there. When they get along well, no one can do anything because the other side doesn't fight back. As he doesn't fight back, they have to be on good terms. You should serve Islām. You should show Islām in a good way. Everything you do will be good. Shukr to Allāh, it is nice here. But in some places they think they're doing good for Islām, while in fact, they are doing wrong – with or without knowing. Because others are scared when they hear of Islām, thinking about those people. They have shown such a wrong picture, such an idea that Muslims are useless people, bad people. And our Muslims most of the time act in a way that confirms it. These are of course people who don't have a murshid or shaykh. Because people who have a murshid, people who have shaykh, would make them love Islām. When people see them...
There are many Muslim people. If you force someone to become Muslim, he won't
become a real man even if you keep him for a thousand years. But the beautiful character of Islām and its beautiful orders; if you show them on yourself, that will be more effective. People will become Muslim. Shukr to Allāh in this country there are places where Muslims come together. In some places it is not as good. The biggest supporter of Muslims is Allāh. No one is greater than Allāh. They should know this.
By the wisdom of Allāh, in this country and other places in Europe there was no tolerance towards Muslims in the old times. For thousands of years since our Prophet, there was no Islām here. Islām came up until one point only. The rest was not tolerated. In Islāmic states there were Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians. There was tolerance for all kinds of people. It went on like this by the wisdom of Allāh until the end of the World War II when there was need for people. They had to bring Muslims here too. When Muslims came here, of course there were no mosques. And by the wisdom of Allāh they are everywhere now. Mosques are full, madrasahs are full. Like in a Muslim country, there are mosques and gatherings everywhere here. Therefore, we have to make shukr for this. No need to force people by asking more. They don't want some things. And those are not from farḍ but some things from sunnah and mustaḥabb which are not suitable for them. We shouldn't demand more from them.
Important is to have some place. As long as there is a place and people gather there, no problem. Allāh is pleased and the Prophet is pleased. These places are places necessary for people's belief. And belief... A man without belief is useless. The whole world can be his, he can be more clever than the whole world, but if there is no belief, he is worth nothing. Just like when the soul leaves the body, they don't keep him at home. They take him and bury. If he was of use, they'd leave him at home. No soul and no belief is the same. Even if he lives, he has no value. Therefore, places which are needed are these mosques, madrasahs. There should be places for children to come and learn their religion. Money spent on it is not wasted. Money given for madrasahs, dergāhs or mosques which show the way of Allāh, the orders of Allāh, will be rewarded in the presence of Allāh. Money spent on a student learning knowledge is blessed.
Therefore, as we said, when these places are made in a way that doesn't oppose the people of this country and doesn't give a contradictory idea, it is good. Because Islām is the religion of goodness. And the ḥadīth of our Prophet says, "Allāh is beautiful, He loves beauty." And with the permission of Allāh that will be guidance for people and it will be protection for people here, their families and children.
Shukr to Allāh Muslims have this knowledge. Therefore, as we said, there was no mosque for hundreds of years in all Europe. In the last 50 years more mosques per Muslim are built here than in Muslim countries, shukr to Allāh. And all are built by Muslims without asking for help, through small contributions. They made thousands of nice mosques and madrasahs shukr to Allāh. As we said, shukr to Allāh they are built and there are no unpleasant situations with people also. We are going around in these clothes. Local people in this country, good mannered people greet us. Therefore, may Allāh protect people here and give guidance to others, In Sha Allah.
Grandshaykh used to say when the end of times comes seven nations will become Muslim. Germany, France, Spain, the UK; he counted seven countries and said they will become Muslim. Now people with bad intentions, our Muslims have no idea about it. They know different things. For people not to become Muslim, they are showing Islām to be as bad as they are able. But what Allāh says happens. When its time comes, the whole world will become Muslim, In Sha Allah. It's the end of times now. The coming of Mahdī 'alayhi s- salām is near. Because everything is spoilt. The good tidings of our Prophet will become apparent. He said, "He'll come from my descendants and fill the world with justice and beauty." Therefore, the time is near now. In shā’a Llāh, we'll see those days. The adhān will be heard from everywhere. Then it will be free. The whole world will reach peace because there will be justice. When there is justice, the most beautiful thing in the world, there is nothing better than that.
No justice is left in the world. Only Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām will bring it back. May Allāh let us reach those days. And may Allāh protect them here, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
122.ALLAH SEES ME Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Tarīqah exists for educating the ego, for bringing up the ego. Ego is a difficult thing. Every person has an ego. Our Prophet teaches every good thing. What he teaches people about are the beautiful at
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to destroy Islām from within. That is why there are appearing a lot here and there and speaking. However, Allāh is with us. Even if they are three to five thousand, there are plenty of scholars who are silent and there are a lot more than the others. They will not be given a chance, Allāh willing. They can yell and scream as much as they want. They have nothing. They have no value. They are misleading people by yelling and screaming, and fooling them with false and incorrect information. But they cannot stand against the Truth, Allāh willing. That is why they do not dare to come out in front of scholars and debate with them. Because when truth appears falsehood disappears. They also know this. That is why they do not want people to see them get disgraced. They run off without appearing in front of truth. Then they talk from behind and they harm people, the ignorant people.
So this is our duty, the duty of ṭarīqah – to show people the way, the beautiful way of Allāh. Our goal is to fulfill the commands of Allāh, to remind of the hereafter. Because people they think they will live without dying. In the way of ṭarīqah, there is thinking of death everyday. We are going to die. That is what we should think about. Inviting people to ṭarīqah and to the dergâh is our duty. Our door is also open to whoever comes. Ayberk Efendi asked in the morning. He had made a program and he asked. "How should a murid be? They come to ṭarīqah and say they are in ṭarīqah. Then they do not do anything, saying the shaykh does it," he says. "Ṭarīqah is open," we said, "They can just
say they are in ṭarīqah as they like." It is still accepted. So even saying that is a great blessing. There is no hardship in ṭarīqah. So when I say, "I'm in ṭarīqah," it means, "I've turned to Allāh." "No, you're in ṭarīqah so you have to do such. You have to get up for night prayer everyday. Then you have to recite so much Qur’ān and make dhikr and rābiṭah. You have to do the laṭā’if." A person who hears this says, "Oh, I cannot do this. Good bye now," and runs away.
There is an example from our Holy Prophet regarding this. A bedouin came. Of course he came from the desert. He did not know and he yelled, "How do I enter paradise?" "What do you have to enter paradise?" asked our Holy Prophet, "What do you have?" He answered, "I love you." Our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, "Al- mar’u ma‘a man aḥabb." "A person will be with whom he loves," he said. Here, they said this saying of our Holy Prophet is the essence of taṣawwuf. Therefore, let them say, "I'm in ṭarīqah," and it is still a great blessing for people.
May Allāh make us all firm-footed. May He also give guidance to people, In Sha Allah. May these kinds of places increase in number. May dergâhs, tekkes and zāwiyahs increase in number. These are places for good people to gather for the sake of Allāh In Sha Allah. These are places with no gossip, no gambling, and no bad habits. May they increase in number, In Sha Allah. May they also give guidance to the Ummah of Muḥammad here. May Allāh protect you. It is in a place with great dangers. It is not apparent yet it is spiritually worse. It is the same everywhere now. We were afraid of Europeans before, but now it is the same in Islamic countries. It is the same everywhere. May Allāh protect us from the evils of shayṭān, from these evils. May Allāh protect our children, In Sha Allah. May our visit be accepted In Sha Allah. May our du‘ā’s be answered.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
117.MAY IT LAST UNTIL THE END Wednesday, 4 July 2018
AE: As-Salāmu ‘alaykum. Today we are together again in a question and answer session. We have with us the highest authority of the Naqshbandīs, Ḥaḍrat Shaykh Muḥammad Adil. We welcome him in your presence: Welcome my Ṣultān.
SM: We're glad to be here.
AE: You're very welcome. You've honored us.
SM: Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh.
AE: We also have with us again our theologian and specialist, psychologist Mehmet Kucuk Hodja. We would like to welcome him too: Welcome Hodja.
MK: Glad to be here. AE: You've honored us. MK: Thank you. AE: We're all wondering how we will start, In Sha Allah, and what questions we'll ask today.
MK: Firstly, I would like to extend my thanks and gratitude to Shaykh Efendi. At the same time, I want to thank Ayberk Efendi for being a means for this interview and Shaykh Efendi for providing the time and opportunity to talk to us here, even though he has so much work and so much traveling to do.
SM: Astaghfiru Llāh.
MK: May Allāh be pleased with you. Thank you for coming. Welcome.
SM: Glad to be here. May Allāh be pleased with you too. Our duty is the command of Allāh. It is obligatory on us to meet whoever wants advice from us and to deliver information anywhere to anyone who wants it from us.
MK: Alhamdulilah. May Allāh be pleased with you. Yes, Ayberk Effendi I would like to ask Shaykh Efendi three questions with your permission. I think they're important questions.
So these aren't classic fiqh questions. They're questions relating more to the spiritual realm that truly concerns humanity very much and the events that will occur in the End Times. Sir, I would like to start immediately. Our first question is: As many of us are following current affairs, the news, and the world, we see that there is an Ottoman revival. I would like to ask: Will the Ottomans come back again? I want to add this too: There's a ḥadīth in Jāmi‘u ṣ- Ṣaghīr, "One Salīm will come and hand over the trust. Another Salīm, the final Salīm, will come and take the trust." Even though most of our academic friends do not accept this, what sort of information can you give us regarding this subject and ḥadīth?
SM: The state of affairs in the world is clear. Most of these academics do not accept that Qiyāmah is near either. We cannot do anything if we listen to what they say. They are people who read books and they are in doubt about the things they read in the books. The Holy Qur’ān says, "Iqtarabati s-sā‘atu" (54:1), meaning Qiyāmah is near. They're saying there's a lot more time left. So many incidents have occurred in front of us in the past 15-20 years. One could not have even imagined such things happening in the past and we're more than 60 years old now. It is occurring all at once. So it is not up to us.
Our Holy Prophet said it. He informed us of what Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla informed him that Qiyāmah will erupt and there is no law that the world will continue for millions of years like these people say. Humans were created by Allāh a few thousands of years ago anyway – some say 7,000, some 10,000, and some say more, but Allāh knows that too. It has a set time. The time is here, meaning it is near. As our Holy Prophet explained it is very near.
And as a Caliphate there are the Ottomans. The Ottomans still exist. So the Caliphate has not been taken from them yet. Because Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām will take it from the Ottoman Caliph. That is, just like the Caliph was still an Abbasid for hundreds of years after the Abbasids, and it was taken from Cairo. Here too he will take it from the Ottomans. The Ottomans. The [Abbasid] Caliph handed it over to the Ottomans himself. So it was not by force. Of course it cannot be by force. The Ottomans will certainly hand it over. Therefore it has to be the Ottomans. Thanks to Allāh the Ottomans and the House of Osman still exist. There are also plenty of princes. Whoever has been assigned among them, it will be like that, Allāh willing.
MK: Sir, the ḥadīth I mentioned to you, is it mutawātir or is it ṣaḥīḥ? Could you also give us and our viewers information on this subject?
SM: No, we cannot call it mutawātir, and this science of ḥadīth is not our field, but it was narrated. What is called mutawātir is very strong, the strongest. So even if it's not that strong, it is surely there.
MK: Of course there is truth to it. SM: Certainly there is. MK: Thank you very much. With your permission I want to go to my second question, sir. Again relating to the same topic on which we have problems here and which most of our academic friends are again denying, taking lightly or even rejecting. However because I still think it has a place determining the fate of humanity, I want to ask this question. The second coming to earth of ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām is firm, with verses in the Holy Qur’ān.
Mahdī's ‘alayhi s-salām arrival is firm with mutawātir, mutashābih ḥadīth. At the same time, great scholars of a hundred and more years ago, like Imām Rabbānī, Badiuzzaman, and other great scholars, have devoted much thought to the subject of Mahdī ‘alayhi s- salām and ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām. They have even made calculations of the time of their arrival and made it public. However, this topic has been forgotten in the past century. It was made to be forgotten or wanted to be forgotten. Sir, what will you tell us about this subject of Mahdī and ‘Īsá ‘alayhum as-salām.
SM: Now, Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, before Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām, these people called academics are even denying the coming of ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām. However, it is mentioned in the Qur’ān. So forget being mutawātir, the Qur’ān is more... Well now lately, as you said, there is an evil plan. What we mean by evil is something that makes people lose their faith in Allāh, and they first started with ṭarīqah. They started attacking by saying there is no such thing as ṭarīqah. When it was over, they had misled lots of people. They saw it and laid the foundation there. Then they started with the ḥadīth saying, "This one is weak, that one is fat..." [joke] and what not.
Then, currently they are denying the ḥadīth too, saying they can just look and take from the Qur’ān. Not possible. Taking from the Qur’ān, for you to be able to take from the Qur’ān, you need to have, not a hundred, but a thousand years of knowledge. Not even a thousand . But our Holy Prophet years are enough. Because that is the knowledge of the Prophet. But our Holy Prophet explained it. Therefore, what they say is either from bad intention or – there are two alternatives and each one is worse than the other. It is either due to bad intention or, it is the lighter one, I will say it even though it will be a little rude, due to stupidity, foolishness. So saying this is due to stupidity is a little better than the other. The other one is worse. A man would be out of the faith.
So the ḥadīth of our Holy Prophet regarding Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām are many. As you said, they are close to mutawātir as the ṣaḥīḥ are a lot. There are many. Then there are those like Imām Rabbānī, those who brought Islām new strength and demolished falsehood and innovation. Like Ḥaḍrat Imām al-Ghazālī, they all acknowledge Mahdī
‘alayhi s-salām. If the ones called academics here are not accepting, as we said, they need to either check their minds or they need to renew their faith and repent. It is not as they say it is. The problem is some people listen to them. Now, when a person appears on TV, they think he is a worldwide scholar who knows everything. There is no such thing. None of them can be an ‘allāmah-e jihān. May Allāh give them sense and intelligence. May Allāh help them. Therefore, the authenticity of Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām cannot be debated.
MK: Yes, thank you very much for giving a fine and enlightening answer to this subject. On the same subject, is there a time frame you are aware of Sir? So are we in the time frame? Are we in the time frame of Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām? Is there a little or much time left?
SM: Mawlānā Shaykh would give an analogy – as the clouds were clear like this. Then it became slightly cloudy. The clouds have gathered so it looks like it's about to rain sometime soon. It's as such, so it's near, Allāh willing. Still Allāh knows best. If you look at the state of the world, what's the world coming to? Let's give an example. Fifty years ago the seas were clean, the air was clean. Now they're saying the fish in the sea are all eating plastic. So they have even polluted the seas. So nothing is left in the world that is not polluted. If you want to talk about morals, they were at zero anyway, they have become minus 1000 now. Now if we said something here – and they claim democracy – but if we said it, they would file a lawsuit and throw us in jail due to that immorality of theirs. We cannot say anything against it. You know people understand what we mean without saying it now. They are untouchable. So what's there more than this? Nothing is left.
Speaking of tyranny, tyranny is only against Muslims, meaning against Islām. There is nothing against others. So there cannot be anything more. Allāh willing, it is very near. Tyranny is at its peak. We hear more of the tyranny that occurs every day. A man, a human, becomes sorry. Since we cannot do anything, we supplicate to Allāh so He may send Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām, a savior, as soon as possible. Because Banī Isrā’īl also told their prophets to pray so Allāh may send them a savior. This is written in the Qur’ān. So the Qur’ān is not only for them but for all humanity. It has no beginning and no end. It always shows us a way and an example.
MK: Thank you very much sir. I want to move to my third question with your permission, In Sha Allah. My third question is within the scope of my first two. I'm very curious and think this is also a question that needs to be enlightened with correct information because much false and incomplete information is being transmitted to our people here too. Here is our third question Sir: The Land of Death, Al-Malhamah Al- Kubrá, what we call Armageddon, what kind of information can you provide us about that event?
SM: Our Holy Prophet has ḥadīth about it. There is going to be a great war with armies that are non-Muslim. Of course, the judgement of today is much different than that of then. However, according to Ḥaḍrat Muḥiyu d-Dīn Ibn ‘Arabī more than half of humans will perish. In fact, according to some narratives, only one out of seven will remain. It is up to Allāh how that happens. It is within Allāh's knowledge. Because we used to think it was going to be on the Plain of Amuq before, but it so... It is probably going to be the last event. Before that, these great powers will go at each other and the weapons they use will destroy people. It can only happen that way. Otherwise, so many people are not destroyed with gun- type weapons.
MK: Sir, according to the answers you have provided, the three answers show that it is very near for these events to start. What should we do for people and for ourselves? How should we protect ourselves? What precautions do we need to take? If you can give us enlightening information we would appreciate it very much.
SM: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. What Nūḥ ‘alayhi s-salām says, again in the Qur’ān: "Lā ‘āṣima l-yawma min amri Llāhi illā man raḥim" (11:43). Today, meaning when the whole world was covered in water with the flood, his son said he could climb a mountain and be saved. He replied there was not going to be any survivors from this except whom Allāh watches and protects. Only those people who have reached Allāh's mercy, those are whom Allāh protects.
Mawlānā Shaykh also explained this so well. Because they used to say, "Let us go up on the mountain or go here and there." Then he said, "Whoever sits at home and stores their provisions – one or two months worth – at home and does not go out, nothing will happen to them Allāh willing." So if nothing will happen to them, there is no need to go here and there. As long as they don't go out, all will be safe at home. Because it will be worse if they go out. There will be no safety anywhere. For example, we used to live in Sham in the past. We lived there for years. We saw wars there. There was the War of '67 with Israel. There, it was in June, we saw Ḥājjah Anne making dhikr and the bombs started exploding. We were little then. What was going on, what was left? It turned out to be anti-aircraft guns firing. We were even scared of that. Then a few days later we saw thousands of people escaping and coming our way. There was war there as it was the border. We said nothing would happen here, it would be safe.
Now we watch and say the further you are from that border the safer you are. Yet it has been six or seven years since the war started in Syria. There is no hole that the war has not entered. It is so... What is called Armageddon is the same way. "I'm in Australia," say some, "Nothing would happen there. Let's go there." No place will be left. So things you cannot imagine will occur. Therefore, the best is, as Mawlānā Shaykh said, to stay at home and keep a two-month provision as it is sunnah anyway. It will be enough, Allāh willing.
MK: Sir, thank you very much for setting aside the time for me, for us. And I give it over, in shā’a Llāh, to Ayberk Efendi.
AE: Yes, my Sulṭān, we also thank you very much for giving us your time. SM: Astaghfiru Llāh.
AE: May Allāh be pleased with you. You have honored us.
SM: May Allāh be pleased with you. In Sha Allah, this will be of benefit since people are saying and thinking this world will go on forever. They say, "May it go on forever." That's wrong. They say, "ilā lā nihāyah". Say, "ilā nihāyah". We should say, "May it last until the end." It cannot be forever. We are only in Paradise forever.
AE: My Sulṭān, of course we want to know about one more matter here. What kind of du‘ā’ should we make while staying home with our provisions? What sort of prayers do we need to recite while waiting in our homes? Which verses? We would be happy if you could tell us this too.
SM: Recite Āyatu l-Kursī and blow around you. It is the protection verse. You will recite seven Āyatu l-Kursī.
AE: May Allāh be pleased with you my ṣulṭān. We thank you very much. SM: You too. AE: Yes, we are ending our question and answer program here. In Sha Allah, until we meet again next time. Goodbye.
SM: May Allāh be pleased with you.
118.REMEMBER THE HEREAFTER Thursday, 5 July 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.
May Allāh make this gathering of ours lasting, and may they increase in number, in shā’a Llāh. These beautiful gatherings are rare. So if we look at other gatherings, those done for worldly matters, we are few people compared to those. Because when it is less it becomes more valuable and its rewards are more REMEMBER THE HEREAFTER.
They made people forget about the hereafter. People have forgotten the hereafter. They are immersed in the world. They do not make time for the hereafter. They always look at this world and matters of this world. They are busy with this world.
Now gradually the whole world is like this. Of course it was not like this in the past. Gradually it spread to the whole world. They made people forget about the hereafter. People have become immersed in the world. However, our purpose in coming to this world is not for the world. Allāh created us for the hereafter. The person who knows he has been created for the hereafter does not get sad. He does not get sad because his situation is bad and someone else's is better. In the end, when anybody is about to go to the hereafter, everyone goes the same way, with a shroud. Everyone goes with a shroud. So whether one is rich or poor, they do not place a different shroud for them. Again they place the same shroud. They wash the person and wrap him in it, and bury him. The things that will be of benefit in this world are those done for the hereafter.
The salāṭīn and khulafā’ of Islām, most of them lived in this manner, in this way. They all became sulṭāns of the herafter too. Especially the last Ottoman sulṭāns. Their lives were dedicated to service, not to reign but to serve. One of the greatest of them is considered to be Ḥaḍrat Sulṭān Sulaymān al-Qānūnī (the Lawgiver). His milk brother is Yaḥyá Efendi in Istanbul, Shaykh Yaḥyá. Because they came into this world in Trabzon. Yaḥyá Efendi's father was the qāḍī there, and the Sulṭān's mother gave birth too there in
Trabzon. The Sulṭān's mother did not have milk. He nursed from Yaḥyá Efendi's mother and they became milk brothers. He spent his whole time serving Islām. They call him Sulaymān the Magnificent. They called him Sulṭān Sulaymān al-Qānūnī because of his justice and his law. He made Europe tremble. No country was able to stand against him – as he would conquer and enforce justice. With so much grandeur and so much power, he would institute Islamic justice with utmost care.
He respected Yaḥyá Efendi. He would take advice from Yaḥyá Efendi. He would visit his dergâh, discuss with him and take benefit from him. Yaḥyá Efendi was in a place they call Beshiktash. He served as a qāḍī and a teacher. Then when he retired, he devoted himself to seclusion there. He served educating students so they would serve Islām in the area. He was hard working and knew how to construct buildings and houses. He would always build houses, dergâhs, mosques, and baths there. They asked him why he was building so many structures. He would build with his own hands, and they were beautiful. He said, "It is written in the Qur’ān in Sūratu l-Baqarah to do good things until your end comes. We are preparing these for believers who will come after us so they will be comfortable here. They may worship Allāh here and we will gain its rewards." So they were not built for this world. That is what it shows.
The works that the saints do are not for worldly rewards but for Allāh, so the Believers coming later may be comfortable, so they may find a place to sleep, a bath, and an inn to do things. They are places for their benefit. So these places were built for the sake of Allāh Some people think these were worldly achievements but they were not for this world. They were built for Allāh. We do everything for the sake of Allāh. We need to constantly remember this. Otherwise, the pleasures and luxuries of this world are useless. Some people have a house every place in the world. They are sad that they cannot go to them. However, if it were for Allāh, he would not be sad because that service would continue.
Yaḥyá Efendi would also take care of his garden in this manner and he would raise beautiful fruits and vegetables. He would then distribute them to visitors as gifts. He was generous. He would set tables for both the poor and the rich. He would serve in this manner and everyone loved him. The Sulṭān would also come and go to his place. One day he got on his horse to go and ride around. He got on his horse and as soon as he reached the street he met a priest. The priest held the horse by its bridle. He said, "I'm going to ask you something. In this religion of yours, they collect taxes every year." Because taxes were collected from non- Muslims, there was a tax due on those that lived
in the Islamic world. When we speak of taxes, it was not like in Europe now, they collect 80% to 90%. It was not like that then. They collected around 3% to 5%. "In this justice system of yours, are you looking every year to see if these people are living or not?" Because the books, the olden books were not renewed every year. When it was not renewed, there would be those living and those who were old who were not to pay tax that time. "Is this allowed with you? Is this lawful?" asked the priest. Yaḥyá Efendi said it was not allowed, it was not lawful. The priest said it was happening and they were not looking at the names in the books for years. "They're collecting taxes from us based on old lists."
When Yaḥyá Efendi heard this, he immediately went to the madrasah. He asked for pen and paper and wrote the Sulṭān a letter. He told him he had put him in a tough situation in front of the priest, and he did not know what to say out of shame. "Your sulṭānate is not lawful. It is ḥarām. Because you are eating ḥarām money." He sent the letter and the Sulṭān received it. He did not understand what had happened. He immediately sent a letter asking for permission, he asked for permission to come and understand the matter from Shaykh Yaḥyá Efendi. He came where there is a road in Beshiktash on the coast where there was no road before as they filled it later. They slowly filled the sea and built a road. Boats would come in the past. The Sulṭān arrived with his royal boat. He asked permission and entered the dergâh. When he arrived he asked what the matter was because he did not understand why and what it was. Because sulṭāns would not eat ḥarām. They were very particular. People paid much attention to these things then, not like today. Those of today don't care about ḥarām and ḥalāl. Nobody's listening these days. They would not even eat a penny ḥarām that time.
He said, "The issue is such and such. You're not renewing the lists. That is why ḥarām is being mixed." The Sulṭān swore that he did not know. "I had no idea of this," he said. This time Yaḥyá Efendi said, "You're the Sulṭān and you are heedless. It doesn't suit you to be heedless as the sulṭān." So that is also a fault. That time the Sulṭān told the wazīr to investigate it and to give everyone back their right. "You will look at that list again every year." He also apologized to the Shaykh. The Shaykh accepted. Then the Sulṭān asked permission to go back to ruling. He asked him if he can continue because the Shaykh had told him his sulṭānate was void. His sulṭānate was void when that became ḥarām. So if he did not allow him, he would not sit in his place as sulṭān. Because he said it was a matter of the rights of others, of unbelievers, in the hereafter and that time neither the sulṭānate nor anything else has benefit. We want to say this so that even if it were Sulṭān Sulaymān, he is no different than anyone else in the hereafter. There are rights and justice
in the hereafter. The sulṭāns were careful like that. That is why Allāh helped them. They served people for so many years. That is why the Sulṭān asked permission from the Shaykh, and the Shaykh said alright now that he had left the unlawful and ḥarām did not touch him. "If there is something to do you will fix it. Then you will continue to serve as the sulṭān."
This is a great lesson for people like us. We need to forget about the world, and remember the hereafter. No matter how beautiful the world might seem, it is temporary. Great sulṭāns came and left. When the sulṭāns served Allāh and served the people, they became sulṭāns again in the hereafter. Those who come to this world for leadership and oppress people will suffer in the hereafter. Therefore, let us be thankful for our state. Let us be happy with our state. Let us spend these few days obeying Allāh and loving Allāh, In Sha Allah. Those who do this are happy, and are at peace. Those who do not, when the worldly mixes in with works then uneasiness starts. Uneasiness and fighting start. It's for people and it happens for this world. When it is for Allāh, there is beauty and tranquility.
May Allāh make us tranquil. May we live with His love. May we live with the love of the Prophet and the love of the Awliyā’, In Sha Allah. May Allāh be pleased with you all.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
119.SHAYKH SA’DU D-DIN JIBAWI (Q) Friday, 6 July 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.
Alḥamdulilah, we are in this blessed masjid. Allāh send us present from Prophet to visit his hair. Prophet... Abdu l-Karīm Efendi tafaḍḍal hunā (come here). Prophet‘ ... saying: "I left for you two things. You hold it you will be succeed whole time – al-Qur’ān wa sunnatī wa Ahlu Baytī." Qur’ān and Sunnah and his Ahla l-Bayt. Ahla l-Bayt they are in Islām there is no level but for Ahla l-Bayt only for them. Allāh and Prophet make them respected. Who respect them, he respect Prophet.
For this when beginning of, after Prophet, there was happen many thing but it was between the what Prophet saying: "The best century, my century." Meaning Prophet After me, second century also the best in ummah." In this century even there was" – happen many thing happened it is real... It was not so well for respecting Prophet's Ahla l- Bayt. It is wisdom from Allāh. We are ignorant people. We cannot judge anything for this but, nothing at all. Is because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He want them to be, make their level higher and higher. Qur’ān, there is āyat in Qur’ān saying, "Yurīdu Llāhu li- yudhhiba ‘ankumu r-rijsa Ahla l-Bayti wa yuṭahhirakum taṭhīrā" (33:33). Meaning, "To clean you [Ahla l-Bayt] from dirt and to make you pure." And this is, when you are in rest and everybody coming respect you, it cannot be. You are be only think for yourself. For this the Ahla l-Bayt in time after Prophet, they suffered too much and this disrespect make them to be more pure, more clean. And, subḥāna Llāh, there is from Ahla l-Bayt the most of them they have difficulty in their life this for dunyā. It's coming from this wisdom I think.
Our duty to respect everything what Prophet saying and what we find from Prophet thing to get barakah, to get blessed from them, In Sha Allah. Awliyā’u Llāh they are get their level higher and higher with this respect for Prophet. But this days their intention to be not respect for anyone, even for Prophet. Who make this, to be going lower and lower. Allāh order be respect, love Prophet, go after Prophet to be beloved for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
Mawlānā Shaykh every time he was saying about love of Prophet and follow Prophet. And he first when he come to Damascus, he was coming to place where is big awliyā’u
Llāh. They were was sitting with Mawlānā Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh Dāghistānī this dergāh. Sitting in dergāh of Shaykh Sa‘du d-Dīn Jibāwī, which he is coming from his ancestor – Shaykh ‘Abdu l-Karīm. And he bring, alḥamdulilah, tonight for barakah of Mawlānā, he send us this present from his, Prophet's hair and tabarrukāt and from his cover of grave Prophet. Shaykh Sa‘du d-Dīn or Shaykh Ḥasan?
Mawlānā Shaykh he was first when he come Damascus he meet Mawlānā Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh in his dergāh, Shaykh Sa‘du d-Dīn Jibāwī dergāh. After many after many years after maybe thir... thirty years, after thirty years, they was Mawlānā whole time he maybe mention this what happen more than fifty times. They was road and they will open and this dergāh. And graveyard of Shaykh was in the road. This, this one who he is Mawlānā send him, alhamdulilah, tonight. And we make it short. They wasn't able to take him out and they, they are Syrian people and tricky clever. So bring his grand-grandson and go open making one week, one week making dhikr, Qur’ān to open his grave. When he open his grave it was same, nothing happen and when he open was same. Even his grandson open, he... What happen? He slap him. Because nobody else can go there to to be open this and he was slapping him. And quickly his grandson saying, "Bismi Llāhi r- Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Aṭī‘ū Llāha wa-aṭī‘ū r-Rasūla wa-ūlī l-amri minkum" (4:59). He said this āyah to obey Allāh and Prophet and who are ruling you. So after this he not doing anything and they take him from his mubārak graveyard to maybe twenty meter place. For two hours only can take him this. And then coming smelling, very nice rose smelling. Mawlānā Shaykh he was saying, "Many times I was passing through there after this and there were children going to grave and taking earth and to give people smelling rose."
In Sha Allah, we are happy with his gift for us. In Sha Allah, Allāh forgive us, all of us and give this people coming for Allāh, Allāh reward them and give them what they need, what they ask from Allāh and for health, wealth, marriage, studying, shifā’ and keep safe from every badness. Sa‘ādat dārayn. Allāh give them, In Sha Allah. Allāh keep them safe, In Sha Allah for sake of Prophet and his Ahla l-Bayt.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
120.IMITATING SAYYIDINA IBRAHIM (AS) Saturday, 7 July 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.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Innamā ya‘muru masājida Llāhi man āmana bi-Llāhi wal- yawmi l-ākhir" (9:18). Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying who make house for Allāh, who is believer for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and the next life. "Inna awwala baytin wuḍi‘a lil-nāsi lalladhī bibakkata mubārakā" (3:96). The first house for Allāh in this earth, it was in Makkah. This is āyah also Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying this place Allāh call it "My house". Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla no limit, no any, no place, no time for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla but for to make value between human being He saying for this place "My house". In this world first house it was Allāh He's build for Allāh in Makkah. And when second time Allāh order Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm to rebuild it with Sayyidinā Ismā‘īl. And he come with his wife Hājar and his son Ismā‘īl to this place where it was nobody there. Was very dry but order from Allāh, "Go and leave your wife and your baby in this place." And it is very dry, very hot, no any plant and Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm he accept order and he went there and he left his wife and baby and he went. Nothing at all, only stone and sand and no water no nothing. But it is House of our Lord, still nothing there. So this Hājar, wife of Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm, she was going from hill to, going running from this hill to other hill, looking if anybody around. Seven times – this in Ḥajj we going between Ṣafā and Marwah with one hill calling Ṣafā, the second hill calling Marwah. And from His generous, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, His house it will be there. He give inspiration for Hājar, Sayyidatinā Hājar to dig little bit under one stone and quickly water coming from there. Middle of desert it is running. It was before maybe three, four people, maybe hundred people, thousand people they was drinking not finishing. But now millions people drinking. This miracle enough for nonbeliever to accept the being of from, because His, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, the real being. And it is not so deep but Allāh house, He giving for people and it is incredible water, no any water in this world like this. Can be twenty years, after twenty year put in some place and drink it is same like
same day. There is miracle, thousand, thousand miracle Allāh give us but people blind not seeing. So after many years Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm, Allāh order him, "Go and build this house for Me And Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām he was building this house. And there is now we see Maqām Ibrāhīm, there is one stone he was stepping on it to build. And he and his son Ismā‘īl, Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm was building, Sayyidinā Ismā‘īl giving his helping him to give stone or give another thing to build Ka‘bah. And people knowing this Ka‘bah is high when square building but it is not small. We now we are seeing very small in after this all building, huge building around but normally it is big and it is high – not you cannot reach. But because Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm was Prophet and he has miracle this now we are place call Maqām Ibrāhīm, the stone it was going like lift for him. They was building and finishing building. After Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla told Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm, "Call people to visit My house." And, Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm nobody in only desert this area, no anyone even to help him to build this. He was using his son to help him and he not saying, "What is, how I can call?" Allāh order. He said, "Call." And he was calling people. And who hear this calling, wisdom until Qiyāmah, the soul, our soul who hear calling of Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm to come to him – he will be visiting this Ka‘bah. So it is to imitate Ka‘bah we must, we also we are doing. Like Mawlānā Shaykh also he build one mosque before six year ago. We went with him. It was nothing around – empty place and people we make, Mawlānā make du‘ā’ and he put stone, first stone for mosque. And people they was looking, who will come here? It is like nowhere, it is nothing around, no building, nothing at all. So they was some people saying, "Why they do this for nothing? It will not be benefit for anybody." And after this many place, work, workshop, stores, and shops, and factories coming around this area and it is full of for Jum‘ah, for Ramaḍān it is full. Normal day it is also many people coming praying. Alḥamdulilah, here also, mā shā’a Llāh. Last year we come it was only like store place. Now, Maa Shaa Allah, big mosque. We are, in shā’a Llāh, who doing this imitate Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm and Allāh give barakah for them to full of with believer, In Sha Allah. Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm he was, he has barakah. Allāh give him barakah. In Sha Allah, Allāh give you all barakah also here. It will be hidāyah for people around and around or far from everywhere, In Sha Allah, coming. In Sha Allah, it will be barakah for our neighbour also. They are respecting and coming. Allāh make them happy here and hereafter, In Sha Allah. Thank you. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
121.ALLAH IS BEAUTIFUL Sunday, 8 July 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.
May Allāh let these gatherings continue. May they be good gatherings, In Sha Allah. Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Aṭī‘ū Llāha wa-aṭī‘ū r-Rasūla wa-ulī l-amri minkum" (4:59). The order of Allāh is to obey Allāh, obey the Prophet, and obey ūlū l-amr which means the government of the place where you are. Whatever they order, as long as it doesn't go against Allāh's order, obey them. We are living at the end of times now. This time is the time of patience. Everyone should obey ūlū l-amr of the place where they live. When they say, "Don't do this," don't come against them. It is for worldly matters. Because "wa lā tulqū bi-aydīkum ilá t-tahlukah" (2:195). Āyatu l-karīmah says don't put yourself in danger. Don't do what is dangerous. As long as they don't interfere in our worship and life, there is no harm. These other things are not farḍ or wājib for us.
When people live in a foreign country, they should get along with people there. When they get along well, no one can do anything because the other side doesn't fight back. As he doesn't fight back, they have to be on good terms. You should serve Islām. You should show Islām in a good way. Everything you do will be good. Shukr to Allāh, it is nice here. But in some places they think they're doing good for Islām, while in fact, they are doing wrong – with or without knowing. Because others are scared when they hear of Islām, thinking about those people. They have shown such a wrong picture, such an idea that Muslims are useless people, bad people. And our Muslims most of the time act in a way that confirms it. These are of course people who don't have a murshid or shaykh. Because people who have a murshid, people who have shaykh, would make them love Islām. When people see them...
There are many Muslim people. If you force someone to become Muslim, he won't
become a real man even if you keep him for a thousand years. But the beautiful character of Islām and its beautiful orders; if you show them on yourself, that will be more effective. People will become Muslim. Shukr to Allāh in this country there are places where Muslims come together. In some places it is not as good. The biggest supporter of Muslims is Allāh. No one is greater than Allāh. They should know this.
By the wisdom of Allāh, in this country and other places in Europe there was no tolerance towards Muslims in the old times. For thousands of years since our Prophet, there was no Islām here. Islām came up until one point only. The rest was not tolerated. In Islāmic states there were Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians. There was tolerance for all kinds of people. It went on like this by the wisdom of Allāh until the end of the World War II when there was need for people. They had to bring Muslims here too. When Muslims came here, of course there were no mosques. And by the wisdom of Allāh they are everywhere now. Mosques are full, madrasahs are full. Like in a Muslim country, there are mosques and gatherings everywhere here. Therefore, we have to make shukr for this. No need to force people by asking more. They don't want some things. And those are not from farḍ but some things from sunnah and mustaḥabb which are not suitable for them. We shouldn't demand more from them.
Important is to have some place. As long as there is a place and people gather there, no problem. Allāh is pleased and the Prophet is pleased. These places are places necessary for people's belief. And belief... A man without belief is useless. The whole world can be his, he can be more clever than the whole world, but if there is no belief, he is worth nothing. Just like when the soul leaves the body, they don't keep him at home. They take him and bury. If he was of use, they'd leave him at home. No soul and no belief is the same. Even if he lives, he has no value. Therefore, places which are needed are these mosques, madrasahs. There should be places for children to come and learn their religion. Money spent on it is not wasted. Money given for madrasahs, dergāhs or mosques which show the way of Allāh, the orders of Allāh, will be rewarded in the presence of Allāh. Money spent on a student learning knowledge is blessed.
Therefore, as we said, when these places are made in a way that doesn't oppose the people of this country and doesn't give a contradictory idea, it is good. Because Islām is the religion of goodness. And the ḥadīth of our Prophet says, "Allāh is beautiful, He loves beauty." And with the permission of Allāh that will be guidance for people and it will be protection for people here, their families and children.
Shukr to Allāh Muslims have this knowledge. Therefore, as we said, there was no mosque for hundreds of years in all Europe. In the last 50 years more mosques per Muslim are built here than in Muslim countries, shukr to Allāh. And all are built by Muslims without asking for help, through small contributions. They made thousands of nice mosques and madrasahs shukr to Allāh. As we said, shukr to Allāh they are built and there are no unpleasant situations with people also. We are going around in these clothes. Local people in this country, good mannered people greet us. Therefore, may Allāh protect people here and give guidance to others, In Sha Allah.
Grandshaykh used to say when the end of times comes seven nations will become Muslim. Germany, France, Spain, the UK; he counted seven countries and said they will become Muslim. Now people with bad intentions, our Muslims have no idea about it. They know different things. For people not to become Muslim, they are showing Islām to be as bad as they are able. But what Allāh says happens. When its time comes, the whole world will become Muslim, In Sha Allah. It's the end of times now. The coming of Mahdī 'alayhi s- salām is near. Because everything is spoilt. The good tidings of our Prophet will become apparent. He said, "He'll come from my descendants and fill the world with justice and beauty." Therefore, the time is near now. In shā’a Llāh, we'll see those days. The adhān will be heard from everywhere. Then it will be free. The whole world will reach peace because there will be justice. When there is justice, the most beautiful thing in the world, there is nothing better than that.
No justice is left in the world. Only Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām will bring it back. May Allāh let us reach those days. And may Allāh protect them here, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
122.ALLAH SEES ME Tuesday, 10 July 2018
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