Suhbah 2018: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (19/25)
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hemselves. Therefore, we need to be careful. Let us be always clean, so that we are with the clean ones.
If you have committed a sin in the past, Allah forgives you as long as it does not involve another one’s right. Those who consume haram [thereby] also encroach upon the right (haqq) of [Allah’s] servant, and so they should ask their brother or sister to forgive them so that they are cleansed from the sin. Islam is the religion of cleanliness, cleanliness is the first sine qua non of Islam.
Without cleanliness, no work is beneficial; it has no value. Just as if you stood for the salāt while dirty head to toe, your soul dirty, without ablution, without ghusl, your prayer would be useless—other things are the same.
May Allah have us amongst the clean ones. May He have us avoid what is unlawful (haram). Wherever the unlawful is, whoever it is with, may Allah have us avoid it. May He give us what lawful [instead]. Allah is able to do everything. May Allah give us the lawful (halāl) things always, [and] may He never make us needy of anyone.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
131.THE STRAIGHT PATH Saturday, 28 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.
Our Prophet says, “Surat Hud turned my hair grey. ” “Shayyabatnī Hud.” which sura, which ayah, is this? Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem; “Fa-s’taqim kamā umirta wa man tāba ma’ak.” (Qur’ān 11:112).
Only a few words are here, but people do not give any attention to the meaning. Without being bothered, they ask what is required. Here the requirement is being on the straight path. This is the path of our prophet Muhammad, because this was not only required of the Prophet but also of all those who are with him. They too should be on the straight path. They should not distort the path according to their desires.
The path is straight, you will follow accordingly. Do not deviate to the right or left. It is what is required. To make yourself liked by your in-group, going according to which way they want, or according to your desire—if you follow your desires, you will deviate. Even if people like you, what you do is not the right thing. In the end, you might find yourself completely out of the path, and at that time everything you do will be vain.
Uprightness is the most important thing. Even if you do not much, as long as you are on the path is sufficient. Do not do things according to your self. There are a lot people, at a first glance they look good, for a year, two years, five years, twenty years, after twenty years—if you get out of path and do not repent, you become completely out of path, and all you have done comes to nothing. May Allah protect. Stay on the straight path, even if doing just a little. May we be on the straight path, In Sha Allah. May Allah protect us from following our desires.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
132.RETURNS TO ITSELF Sunday, 29 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.
Allah ‘azza wa jalla says “the desire of doing wrong to others returns to its owner.” A believer (mu’min) does not wish for bad, but rather wishes goodness for everyone, gets along well with everyone. On the other hand, one with bad intention is not counted as a believer (mu’min), because this does not fit what our Prophet requires.
Our Prophet Muhammad asks us believers to be like brothers and sisters. If a person desires evil, the evil returns to himself. Some people always think evil. They think that if they cause evil to others, goodness will come to them. Because faith is absent, one fears everything. He thinks that when someone in front of him is good, his own affairs will not work out, he will be in a bad situation. Therefore he envies, curses, he tries everything he can. However Allah ‘azza wa jalla gave the believer (mu’min) the glad tiding that what evil others do is returned to themselves. He [the one doing evil] falls into his own trap.
Therefore a Muslim should do good. “Do good. Do not be afraid of doing good.” Fear doing evil. A person’s evil returns to himself. One who does good is always good. The Next Life (ahiret) will also be good, his end will also be good, everything will be comfortable.
May Allah protect us. Always be with those are good. Do good, insha’Allah. When we obey our bad desire, and then try to fix it, it gets worse, and a person does something else wrong. While trying to correct, he does worse and humiliates himself; he does not gain anything, he loses. May Allah protect.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
133.THE FRIENDS OF ALLAH Monday, 30 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.
Insha’Allah, once again with the permission of Allah we are going for a visit. The Friends of Allah are alive with the permission of Allah. Those who visit them know. They [the Friends of Allah] do go other places as well, but visiting their actual place means showing more respect to them, [and] therefore Allah writes a reward (thawāb) for every step, raises your station, forgives your sins.
Awliyā' means Allah’s beloved servants. One’s loving them means loving Allah. Honoring them means honoring Allah. To make people deviate people, Satan on the contrary causes delusion. To create delusion he whispers that to honor the friends of Allah is polytheism. In fact, the Friends of Allah are loved for Allah’s sake, not for anything else. A friend of Allah is loved due to being Allah’s friend. For this reason, they are shown respect and loved.
This is something our Prophet taught us. What those others teach is from Satan. To ask for help is a great grace. With their help, with their love, our faith becomes stronger. Otherwise, there is no such thing as faith in them [i.e., in those disbelieving in Awliyā’], it is weak in them. They are Muslims, but with no faith. Faith means believing in Allah and trusting Him—this they do not possess. They do not even understand what is in the book. This is written in all the holy books. Though it is written that otherwise is not true, they do not comprehend it. He says you ought to look in the book. But by gradually reducing things, they have left nothing in the books!
Therefore, visiting the Friends of Allah is from His provision. It is a good deed, removes also a load off our shoulders, strengthens our spirituality. May Allah make their help readily available. They can go everywhere, their souls travel from East to West. When you ask for help, it comes, but visiting is a greater veneration. Allah ‘azza wa jalla rewards the goodness of the visit. May Allah not deprives us of their help. In Sha Allah, we will be with them in Next Life as we were with them here. Amin.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
134.KEEP YOUR MIND SAFE Wednesday, 1 August 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.
We make du'ā'. One du'ā' says: "Allāhumma thabbit ‘alayna l-‘aqli wa d-dīn." We make a prayer asking Allāh to make our mind and religion firm. The mind... An intelligent person finds religion and Allāh. Mind is important. Therefore, first they say, "May Allāh not take our mind." Our Prophet says in one ḥadīth: "If Allāh wants a person to do something which is not right, He takes his mind first." And then a person does something. Turkish people have a saying, "One's mind has come back." He had lost his mind. When it is back, he feels regret and thinks how did he do it? Mind is important. Therefore, everything that can take mind away is ḥarām, says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
That is also alcohol and whatever makes someone drunk. A drunk man is someone without mind, someone who doesn't know what he's doing. You can get drunk with things other than alcohol. It can be with other things too. You take drugs, you inject them and get high. You smoke or sniff and get high. All of them are same. In terms of sin, they are same. Drinking alcohol, not only alcohol, everything that makes you high. Shayṭān has thousands of types of poison. When using them, one's mind is lost. So in order not to lose your mind, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave orders. Don't come close to things that make you high. Stay away from them. They harm you. They don't benefit you. In this end of times it is so widespread. Moreover, they say, with some of them, when their effect is gone, the mind comes back and some make people lose their mind completely. They are like crazy all their lives. What is the benefit? No benefit at all.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla created you perfectly and you walk around showing yourself to be an idiot and stupid. May Allāh protect us. Doing these things is a sin, and apart from sin, it is harm for yourself. Harm for yourself, people around you, to everyone. It harms your family, the Muslim community, all mankind. Those who do this get punished both in dunyā and even more in ākhirah. Who repents, Allāh accepts their repentance. Allāh will
help them get rid of this illness. Who doesn't repent lives as a person not respected by anyone, hated by everyone and ashamed. And he'll be punished in ākhirah. May Allāh protect us. Because shayṭān is stalking people. He is stalking everyone. May Allāh protect everyone, In Sha Allah.
People should pay attention to their families, because these things start when they are kids. You should watch them. You should make sure they avoid it.
Today we are praying, make du‘ā’, asking, "Allāhumma thabbit ‘alayna l-‘aqli wa d-dīn." Meaning, first Allāh keep our mind and our belief. Mind is very important thing because who have mind, he must be believer. Who are not believer they are mindless. They don't have any, they even they thought they are clever, they are intelligent – they are nothing at all. Animal they are better than them. But it is you must keep your mind, you must keep your to be keep it safe. Because many people they are doing something – after they be regret, "What I done?" For this Prophet what saying? "If Allāh want something for not good for one, He take his mind before." And he do nonsense thing, he do bad thing. After when come back to his mind, to his head, he said, "What I done? How I done this? If I have mind I would not do this." But it is, it is example for people to keep their mind, not to lose their mind.
And people now, especially in this, from old time they doing something to take their mind out. The first thing they can do for this – drinking. Alcohol making drunk and it is taking your mind and you will not know what you done. After you wake up, you surprised what you done. This is one of them. But in Islām it is to be drunk – it is forbidden. It is sin, big sin to be drunk – like to steal, to kill people, to do thing is big sin, to be drunk. And to be drunk, not only if you can, can be drunk for one bottle, if you drink one cup also sin, not acceptable. It is you cannot put in your mouth. But to be drunk it is sin. But there is also another thing same. Who make you drunk, it is also forbidden. Many thing they can make you drunk. Even one pill, if you take you become drunk. If you inject yourself, you become drunk. You smell something, you become drunk. You smoke something, you become drunk. All this forbidden. It is not not allowed because maybe they said for drink you drunk – this is drunk from drink coming. So it is only what if you drink. But if you take injection, you take put smoke and other thing it will be not sin, ḥarām. No. It's all. Because making you drunk, all of them forbidden and all of them sin, all of them ḥarām.
But there is now in these days also something make you, if you drink, you become sinner
but when you wake up your mind is still there. But now there is making something and when you take this, you be whole life like drunk, like crazy. You cannot finish this. Go doctor, go here, go there. No. This man become crazy, he become mad, something broke his mind, damage his mind. And this damaging, what they have they done for people, there is damage also and this punishment for them for whole life and in ākhirah also they will be punished. But others also, if they not regret and ask for forgiveness from Allāh, Allāh will punish them also. But Allāh is most Merciful. If you intention to finish from this illness, from this bad habit, to be good person, Allāh will help you and He will forgive you also what you done from whole your life. Allāh forgive you because He is the most Merciful and you will be in high degree. But if you insist you will be miserable and you will be, everybody avoid you, everybody hate you. Nobody can love drunk people or this people who are there is people afraid from this people. They running away when they saw them. There is, as we said, the many bad thing they cannot – like thinner or other chemical thing. They, when they take, they finish, they become like zombie and people they are all afraid from them to not come near them because they quickly can kill people. This people will be hated for whole life and be look like worst than animal. Nobody like them. But Allāh, if they accept and to make their intention to be good people, Allāh will accept them and help them.
But it is intention very important because many of them they making, they are cheating people. They said, "Oh we are becoming good and we need this money." And when you they give money, quickly they go and take from this. Allāh save us from shayṭān and his follower. This is real shayṭān and it is real terrible thing for whole world, for believer, for not believer, for everybody. But shayṭān he make this for whole people to destroy belief. We must be, In Sha Allah, careful for our family, for children. You look after them because family they are looking for children what they like. Only they give them good food, nice clothes, everything they like. "Quickly, my son he want this. Take. Come. Come you my son, come take this. My daughter she want this." But they are not looking for if they are praying, if they are asking for religion or for other. They are not important. For important for them, it is must be. We must be more careful for children, in shā’a Llāh. Allāh save them from shayṭān and his followers, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
135.LIFE IS MOST PRECIOUS Thursday, 2 August 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.
"I‘lamū annamā l-ḥayātu d-dunyā la‘ibun wa lahwun wa zīnatun" (57:20). Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur’ān: the life of this world is entertainment in order for people to show off to each other. Everyone is like this. But important is to think about Ākhirah. A person who thinks about Ākhirah and acts upon it will have benefit. Because this world becomes a partner to everyone who comes here. It remains here, doesn't go to Ākhirah. Whatever you do in dunyā you get benefit. If you do goodness, you'll get its benefit. If you obey and follow your ego, you'll be in loss.
Days are passing. Days are passing one after another. Days are passing, weeks are passing, months are passing. People's lives are passing. People don't realize it. The older they get, they think they will come back. They finish primary school, then middle school, high school. Some go to university. Who don't go see it's over. They look and see they got older. They marry and have children. They look and see their children reaching the same age. And they go on the same way. These passing days don't come back. Time doesn't return. We should be careful about it. People should wake up not to lose these things. We should try to become beloved people of Allāh by doing things beloved to Allah.
Don't be lazy and delay something for later. Allāh doesn't like that. This time and life are the most precious things Allāh gave us. If a person puts something above his life, when death comes, then he realizes how precious his life was. But while in dunyā, he doesn't know it. He doesn't try to use it for benefit. Allāh gave us all beauties. And He told us to use them – "Kulū ḥalālan ṭayyiban wa tamatta‘ū" – and make shukr to Allāh for them.
Worship Allāh. Don't forget Allāh. When you do this, you'll be in peace in dunyā and your Ākhirah will prosper. You'll be happier. People have forgotten this. They are just
running after dunyā. They are looking for something here and there. Whereas what they are looking for... As Allāh has put something in a man for which he is searching. When he contemplates and believes in Allāh, then he finds peace. But when he jumps from place to place thinking this is it, his life passes by and his Ākhirah gets worse.
May Allāh protect us. May Allāh give us a good life so that we spend it in worshiping Him. May we be on the right way, the way of our Prophet, the beloved way of Allāh. In Sha Allah.
Our life it is very interesting because day going after days, month, weeks, months, years going very quickly and people they thought it is they are still same. Everything changing. If you, when you are small boy, after you finish your school, finish your university, and beginning and you say, "Oh I finish from this." But in your heart you said maybe it will be come back because they not understanding this finish the time. What you finish from time, cannot be come back again. It is very precious thing. You must be careful what you are doing, what with who you are with, who following. Many people, the most of people, they are running from place to place to enjoy themself. Some of them they are searching for something for reality but searching in wrong way.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla give us everything. He said you can be enjoy yourself with what is, there is permission to do. It is more [than] enough for human being to be happy here and hereafter. But shayṭān making to not be satisfied with this. They are looking for more and more and every time they are looking, doing bad thing. It is, they become more thirsty to take more to eat, more to do this bad thing, more. Maybe they will be satisfied but no, it is like fire – every time you petrol in it, it's becoming bigger and bigger. And your life going without any meaning and you going with bad life, no happiness, nothing at all. This is for this dunyā.
For Ākhirah it is worse because Allāh give you this life, the most precious thing – your life. Many time we see they say, "Your life or your money." They even this people, they give their money to not be killed or... So life it's very precious and it is like sand coming from in your hand, quickly going from your hand. So you must be careful. You must be accepting reality. Not to look for people who are following their ego and when there somebody following ego they are taking you to good place. Taking you to bad end and bad life also, miserable life.
So, In Sha Allah, so we are hoping everybody from... even some of them seventy year
old, also they remember their childhood and remember quickly this years. When you say 70, 80, 90 – like this quickly going your mind to that year what it was how, you was and how was it is not so far. So we must be careful and ask for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla to keep us in way of Prophet, way of happiness, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
136.SERVANT OF ISLAM Friday, 3 August 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.
Shukr to Allāh for this honoured religion of Islām, shukr that we are in it. The highest stations both in dunyā and in Ākhirah belong to those who follow the religion of Islām. Who follow this religion have found happiness. Nations chosen for this religion are beloved by Allāh, they are beloved nations. Because Allāh created many nations different in races, tribes and people. Not all of them could reach this honour. Serving Allāh and serving Islām are the biggest honour. And this honour, shukr to Allāh, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave to our nation.
Since the 11th century, after the years 900-1,000, this honour was given to this nation. It came from Central Asia. There were three waves from there. By the wisdom of Allāh they had lived there. Afterwards Allāh put something in them. One part conquered India as Ghaznawīs and spread Islām there. All Muslims we see today have become Muslims from their barakah. There are billions of Muslims on that side. All of them want servanthood. "We didn't come to rule over you. We conquered this place to serve you, to serve Islām. We came here so that it prospers on the way of Allāh," they said. To serve Allāh, to serve the way of our Prophet, Allāh let them conquer that place. It was crowded in old times too. They had kings, all kinds of strong soldiers. But by the will of Allāh, they couldn't stand against these few people and they were destroyed. They opened the way for Islām and though not all of them, people became Muslim.
They ruled with justice over those who didn't Up until this fitnah came through the enemies of Allāh who serve shayṭān. Who serve Allāh, shukr to Allāh are sulṭāns of Islām. Who serve shayṭān are those who are against them. They fought them slowly, killed and removed all of them. They oppressed Muslims very much. At last, they brought up some fitnah and divided enormous India into three and made the Muslims a minority. They made them fight each other. And stupid Muslims were happy to build
a Muslim state. All India was Muslim anyway. What did you do? May Allāh give understanding to these people. They can't tell their friends and enemies apart.
That's not important. Important, as we said is that those who brought Islām there, this one part of the Islāmic army from Central Asia was honoured with Islām and Allāh had granted them that service. The second part consisted of those who came to Anatolia. The part that came to Anatolia under the rule of Sulṭān Muḥammad Alp Arslan and with 40,000 soldiers conquered Anatolia from the Byzantine army of 200,000 soldiers. They made Anatolia their homeland. Then they went further and conquered more places. They did it as servants of Islām. They didn't see themselves superior in Islām. They were people who wanted to serve Islām and were ready to sacrifice themselves on the way of our Prophet. So many Crusaders tried to throw them out of Anatolia but they couldn't. They are still trying. They won't be able to do it, by permission of Allāh, unless we leave Islām.
Therefore, all their efforts are to destroy Islām, to make these people lose their faith. Because when there is faith, we are here. Without faith we disappear. The third part is the Hungarians. They migrated from the northern Black Sea to Europe. As they were not Muslims there, they lost their identity. They lost everything and weakened. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is showing this to people as an example. If you serve Islām, Allāh raises and increases you. If you leave Islām and look at what Europe is doing, Europe won't look at you. It will finish you there. But when you are in Islām with Allāh, no one can stand against you. You should stand firmly. This is the main goal. Like here in dunyā, our main aim is in ākhirah. If it's finished, you will go to hell like those people. And if you serve Islām, you will have high stations in Paradise.
May Allāh give strong faith to all of us. Because there are traitors everywhere. There are many people without adab who swear at Islām. They should have their mouths washed, as their mouths are full of dirt. It doesn't suit their mouths. They should mind their own business and then make judgment. We get honour from Islām. Our nation is serving Islām for more than a thousand years. Who want to divide it, people who think they'll be better if they're separate, are mistaken. They are used as bait. When it's over, shayṭān will say, "I don't care. Whatever you did, you had a mind. Why did you follow me?" But a person who stands with Islām will always win here and hereafter. Shayṭān is one to deceive these people. But as we said, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur’ān, when they arrive in hell after being cheated, shayṭān will say, "You shouldn't have followed me. Why did you?" That's it. What will you do? You can't do anything. Regret doesn't help
there. Therefore, be careful. Don't be cheated by unbelievers. Don't be cheated by sinners. Don't be cheated by people out of Allāh's way. Be on the right way. Be with Allāh. Don't be an enemy of Allāh. Don't be with shayṭān.
May Allāh protect us.
Alḥamdulilah, we are thanking Allāh again for making us Muslim. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, also for His generosity and His mercy for our nation to make them servants for Islām not Sulṭān for Islām. All they are saying: "We are servants for Islām," because in Qur’ān Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying: "If you are not serving and ruling good for Islām, Allāh will change you, send people He love them and they love Him." Alhamdulilah, this nation, they are serving, they are giving everything for Islām. They giving the most precious thing. They are sacrifice themself to spread Islām, to prevent oppression, to prevent oppression from people and they Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla making example for people from this.
They was from Central Asia, beginning of tenth century. They three waves, they come out from them. One of them Ghaznawī going to India. They conquered India and spread Islām there. There was not so many people, small group with Sulṭān, and they went with brave. Why? Because they want to spread Islām in this big subcontinent and, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, Allāh help them and all this million, hundred millions of people, they become Muslim with them. They was real good people. They was ruling with justice and leaving everybody for to live as they was living – not forcing people to be Muslim. But Muslim, by themself they was running, thousand, millions people to Islām. And it was like this, ruling by justice until this shayṭān army coming from abroad and slowly slowly destroying, stealing, making fitnah everywhere and to finish this good kingdom. They make oppression. They kill people, millions of people, and after when they want to went out from there, from subcontinent of India, they making also big fitnah cheating Muslims there.
India was majority Muslim. The majority was Muslim and say, "No, no we like to make you special Muslim they can live in their country. So we must divide this." And they make this fitnah and now Muslim they are minority and they are suffering. And other also suffering. They fighting since sixty years, still fighting all together and no peace in this area even this. But Muslim time, was everybody living with freedom to practice their religion, to do what they like, and who like to be Muslim can be. Who he like to be in his religion – no problem. And they was happy and they was the most richest country in the
world. But when they follow shayṭān, they are now, they have miserable life all of them. And this is what, when Islām, people serving Islām, Allāh make them up. When not serving, they are becoming nothing.
Second wave coming from Central Asia was going to Anatolia through Iran and they was that time, crusader time, and Sulṭān Muḥāmmad Alp Arslan, his name, he was with forty thousand army fighting against Byzantine two hundred thousand army and they destroy them and open, conquered Anatolia. From that time, this people they are saying, "Go back to your place, to Central Asia." But, alḥamdulilah, with belief of Islām, Allāh help them. Allāh make them higher and higher and higher and they was the very humble and they saying all time: "We are servant for Islām. We are under shoes of our Prophet, our head under his shoes." This is when they make, become humble for Allāh, Allāh make them higher. And nobody take them from where they are. They are still but they are trying to destroy their belief. Many, whole world, shayṭān, world against them and saying, lying, and giving bad news; teaching people to make their belief to be weaker and weaker. And because, they are knowing the biggest weapon for Muslim – their belief, no need for other weapon.
And third one who come from Central Asia, they was going through north of Black sea, going to Europe, to Hungary, Bulgaria and other place. All this also was nation from Turk but they are, they cannot because they are not Muslim. They melt and they are nothing now. Nobody care for them, no value for them. But who with Islām whole coming higher and higher. In dunyā like this. In Ākhirah it will be more higher, in the real thing because other they will be with shayṭān and his group in hell because they are against every order of Allāh and they are fighting against Allāh and they are oppression and they are liar. They are have every bad thing. Allāh help us to save ourself, in shā’a Llāh, with Sayyidinā Mahdī ‘alayhi s- salām will make all world to be Muslim, In Sha Allah.
But what we are saying, alḥamdulilah, there is, we are lucky to be honoured by Islām. It is the most highest honour for human being, nothing else. All everything they saying – they are like shayṭān. When shayṭān and human being be in hell, they will be shouting on him, "You bring us here. You bring us here. What you done?" He will say, "Oh why you follow me? You have your mind, you follow, you was happy with me. Now you are saying this. Go away from me." This is who are not realising Islām and to be happy with this honour, the biggest honour the biggest benefit for human being. Because to be benefit in dunyā maybe somebody give you money, somebody give you something,
cheating you and you are going out of way. But in, for Ākhirah it will be nothing for you, no benefit. But when you are serving Islām and you are happy with Islām, you are honoured by Islām, you will be winner, In Sha Allah, here and hereafter, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
137.IN OUR TARIQAH EVERYTHING IS IN THE HEART Saturday, 4 August 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.
Our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, and our Mashāyikh spread blessings and virtue with the permission of Allāh. Who walks on their way gets benefit. Walking on that way is to leave this dunyā and to follow our Prophet. What we mean by leaving this dunyā is not to keep it in your heart. You are in dunyā, you must deal with dunyā. Laziness is not good. To get livlihood is an important order of Allāh. He says you should get ḥalāl provision. Don't be lazy. Laziness is from shayṭān. Shayṭān teaches laziness. And also keep your prayers, pay attention to your worship. These are the orders of our ṭarīqah.
Attend ṣuḥbah and dhikr. When they go to ṣuḥbah or dhikr, sometimes people get into some state. When such a state occurs, they show it outwardly by screaming and shouting. This is disliked in our ṭarīqah. Mashāyikh don't like it. There are 41 ṭuruq. Some of them accept this as good but the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah says that state is like showing off to people. Afterwards they cannot control it also. When they can't, there start to be problems in their normal life. Therefore, Mashāyikh don't like it. Mawlānā was saying that he was in one ṣuḥbah of Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh ad-Dāghistānī. He said, "He gave ṣuḥbah from such high level that I said 'Allāh' involuntarily. He didn't want even that. He said, 'You shouldn't have done it. Be careful said Grandshaykh."
So our Naqshbandī ṭarīqah is for the heart. Everything is in the heart. Even our dhikr is made in the heart. Silent dhikr is the dhikr of the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. We should make it in our hearts. However, we imitate other ṭuruq by making loud dhikr, in our dhikr and ḥaḍrah. Most of our people criticize even that. We do it not as Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, but imitating the methods of other ṭuruq so that we have the barakah from them as well. Otherwise, the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah makes dhikr khafī, silent dhikr. Everything should be silent. It should be between the heart and Allāh And as we said, we shouldn't put dunyā in our hearts. Dunyā should remain outside. Its border is outside the heart. We
should never let it in our hearts. Some people think when they join this ṭarīqah, they think they get better by being in that state. No. Better not do it. Because as we said, it is something Mashāyikh don't like. You should keep it to yourself and keep it in your heart, in shā'a Llāh. Let there be strength in your heart.
Our ṭarīqah, alḥamdulilah, we are in Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. It is different from other forty ṭarīqah because our ṭarīqah making mentioning Allāh whole time in heart and our ṭarīqah to make prevent people from material world. How? We not doing anything, not working? No. You must work. To be lazy not good. It is order Allāh to look after your provision with ḥalāl and bring thing for your family. Don't be lazy. But when you do this, don't put this material world in your heart. Its limit under, after, outside heart. Heart only for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, no need for other thing.
And many times other ṭarīqah also they have, when something happening, they said become doing some movement or shouting or something doing. When they are becoming, come some spiritual thing, they are shouting. They are shouting or someone throwing himself, shaking himself. This is in our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, it is not good. Ṭarīqah, all our ṭarīqah it is in heart. Everything you must put it in your heart, don't appear it outside. Because even when we doing dhikr, our dhikr in heart. When make dhikr, we imitate other forty ṭarīqah. It is allowed for them to do this. Making ḥaḍrah also not from Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. All this to imitate other ṭarīqah for barakah from other mashāyikh. Because all ṭarīqah they are right but our ṭarīqah, each ṭarīqah they have a special rule, special teaching.
So our ṭarīqah it is heart the most important thing, to be in your heart everything – your happiness, your sadness, your everything. It must be in your heart, not appear. Other ṭarīqah they can do this. For our ṭarīqah to make shouting, to do this, it is not looking good for this Mashāyikh. Even once Mawlānā, he was saying, Mawlānā Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh al-Fā’iz ad- Dāghistānī he was making ṣuḥbah and Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim he was there. And he was very high ṣuḥbah and without knowing, he said only "Allāh". Grandshaykh said, "Don't say this also. Keep it in your heart." No, not even this word. Now many people they are shouting they are shaking themself because this from – not good for our ṭarīqah. And to after this, slowly, slowly this people they cannot control themself and people around they will be disturbed from them. For disturbing people – not important. For disturbing Mashāyikh – is important.
We must be careful not to follow our ego even for good thing. It is order to not do this
from Mashāyikh. We will not do this even it is permitted from other ṭarīqah. Our Mashāyikh they are not allowing anything, not... What they are saying, we must follow. Not to say, "We can do this by ourself." We see Mashāyikh doing dhikr with imitate other ṭarīqah, we follow. If they are not saying, we not follow. Because our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah way, it is same everywhere from beginning until end. So no any... Many people they criticise, "You are not doing what ṭarīqah saying." No. We are knowing and we are knowing what we do – following our Mashāyikh. And there is, we separate between Naqshbandī ṭarīqah and other ṭarīqah also. Allāh make our heart all time with Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha
138.THE TIME OF HAJJ Sunday, 5 August 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.
Shukr to Allāh we are reaching the season of ḥajj again. Every believer likes and wants in their heart to go to ḥajj. People with faith ask for it. Who's not aware of religion doesn't know even what it is and that it is obligatory. He doesn't know what he must do. He lives just like that. But this ḥajj has great virtue and beauty. Who is able should do it without delay when they have a chance. When they can't do it, Allāh didn't make it farḍ for people who can't afford it. In terms of health as well. A person who cannot go because of his health can send someone else if he can cover the expenses. And that person will receive its benefit. He will have made his farḍ. But people with no financial means, Allāh didn't make it farḍ for them. It is farḍ for those who can afford it and have good health, it is made farḍ for them.
To do it once in your life is enough. Who wants to do more, can do if he has the means. Because ḥajj cleans people from their sins. But it is difficult in these times. People wait in queues. That's why, they can't go. Even if they go just once, it is a huge favour. Mawlānā used to go every year. When he made ḥajj, there were lots of difficulties. Now it is even more. It was difficult before. They are doing so many things to make it more comfortable but it is causing more hardship. By the wisdom of Allāh ḥajj should be difficult. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla made it so for everyone. Make it luxury as much as you can, it still has problems. Of course when Mawlānā was going, it was much more difficult. Maa shaa Allah Ḥājjah Anne counted that Mawlānā went to ḥajj 22 times. He went 22 times physically. Allāh knows about the spiritual. Holy people are always there. Their presence is seen by some people, and it happens without being seen.
Sometimes people intend for ḥajj, some problems occur. When problems occur, our Prophet says when a person intends and cannot go, his ḥajj is accepted and he receives the thawāb (reward) of ḥajj. Mawlānā once told us like our Prophet said, Allāh ‘Azza wa
Jalla creates an angel with his appearance and it makes waqfah on ‘Arafāt, makes ṭawāf and ḥajju l-nisā’. And that ḥajj is counted for him. Some people get very upset for not being able to go. And that is also a favour from Allāh. They are written one ḥajj. And when they go afterwards, one more ḥajj is written then. There is nothing like – the first is annulled when you go next year. Until Qiyāmah that angel asks forgiveness for him. This is a sort of patience. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying, "Innamā yuwaffā ṣ-ṣābirūna ajrahum bighayri ḥisāb" (39:10). He couldn't go, got upset but remained patient as it is the will of Allāh. But of course, that person tried hard, so his efforts won't be wasted. Allāh doesn't let any goodness be wasted. Moreover, as our Prophet said, He creates an angel which makes waqfah, ṭawāf and ḥajj better than we do and a perfect ḥajj is given to that person.
Therefore, shukr to Allāh. May Allāh let everyone carry out this beautiful duty. It is difficult but that's nothing. No problem if there is a difficulty on the way of Allāh. And when you go there, I should say it to everyone, don't think that when you buy a trip for 100,000-200,000 TL, you will have a relaxed tour. Certainly there will be some hardship on ḥajj. And that hardship is on the way of Allāh. Allāh will give its reward hundredfold. Because there, for everything a person gets 100,000 more thawāb than normally. May Allāh accept the ḥajj of the ḥujjāj and let those, who've not gone, go. In Sha Allah they should make intention to get equal thawāb.
Alḥamdulilah, we are now coming to Dhū l-Ḥijjah, to ḥajj time. Ḥajj it is a very important worship. It is obligatory for people but not for all people. Who has health, good health, and he has enough money to go there, it is obligatory for him to make this. But if they don't have, he have, they have money but they don't have health – they can send somebody to do ḥajj for them. This is Prophet saying for people and teaching us. And when this people going make ḥajj for this people they become reward as ḥajjī and this obligatory become done for them. But for normal people, if they don't have enough money it is not obligatory. Only for people who are, they have enough money and enough strong health also to go and come.
And it is real cleaning people from sin – as day of they birth from their mother and baby he was innocent, no sin for him. People who going to ḥajj and doing exactly what Prophet saying without making now like nowadays – cutting, cutting from everything – they will become clean from every sin. Allāh forgive for everybody for sin. But for right of people sometime you must ask forgiveness from people. If they not forgive you, it is problem but when you go to ḥajj this also Allāh said, when you stand on waqfah of Muzdalifah
Allāh take this from people and they who, if you have something against people and people not forgive you, Allāh make this reward this people to forgive you. So you even from this also you will be clean. For this ḥajj it is real big benefit for people.
And Mawlānā Shaykh he was taking every year people from here to ḥajj and it was difficult that time especially for Mawlānā also carrying people they are not knowing anything, they are not going anywhere. Even for city, from village to city, they never go in their life. He was take them and he was suffering too much but he was, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, for Allāh. He is happy and Ḥajji Anne our mother she said she count twenty-two times Mawlānā he went to ḥajj. Twenty-two times, maa shaa Allah, in bodily but for spiritually every year he was there. Because many people also seeing him when he is going there.
And many people nowadays they want to go, they cannot go. Every year they said there is lottery. They waiting. "This year, In Sha Allah, we will go." And looking. No not yet. Next year also not. They prepare, they have everything and there to go also no. We know some people since ten years they are applying and waiting. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this year many of them after ten years they go, In Sha Allah, with us. And Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, Prophet saying and Mawlānā Shaykh was saying, mentioning in Khuṭbah also – this people who are intentioning and to go and they cannot go, Allāh create one angel for them and they make their ḥajj. He [angel] stop in ‘Arafāt, make ṭawāf, make sa‘ī, make everything perfect and he stand in until Qiyāmah asking forgiveness for you. So this every year, this people, ten year they couldn't go, so Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla accept for them as ten years of ḥajj and reward them. And Prophet was saying this, saying even this people they can go later, this ḥajj will be not be canceled because he went to ḥajj. No it is plus three times, ten times, five times they couldn't go – all this Allāh accept and reward for them. And Prophet saying, who going to intention and try to go and Allāh make this angel, if he couldn't go and pass away, through this he also as ḥajj. Allāh will accept this obligatory to be done because he tried and he couldn't. But Allāh make this angel to make ḥajj for him so
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hemselves. Therefore, we need to be careful. Let us be always clean, so that we are with the clean ones.
If you have committed a sin in the past, Allah forgives you as long as it does not involve another one’s right. Those who consume haram [thereby] also encroach upon the right (haqq) of [Allah’s] servant, and so they should ask their brother or sister to forgive them so that they are cleansed from the sin. Islam is the religion of cleanliness, cleanliness is the first sine qua non of Islam.
Without cleanliness, no work is beneficial; it has no value. Just as if you stood for the salāt while dirty head to toe, your soul dirty, without ablution, without ghusl, your prayer would be useless—other things are the same.
May Allah have us amongst the clean ones. May He have us avoid what is unlawful (haram). Wherever the unlawful is, whoever it is with, may Allah have us avoid it. May He give us what lawful [instead]. Allah is able to do everything. May Allah give us the lawful (halāl) things always, [and] may He never make us needy of anyone.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
131.THE STRAIGHT PATH Saturday, 28 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.
Our Prophet says, “Surat Hud turned my hair grey. ” “Shayyabatnī Hud.” which sura, which ayah, is this? Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem; “Fa-s’taqim kamā umirta wa man tāba ma’ak.” (Qur’ān 11:112).
Only a few words are here, but people do not give any attention to the meaning. Without being bothered, they ask what is required. Here the requirement is being on the straight path. This is the path of our prophet Muhammad, because this was not only required of the Prophet but also of all those who are with him. They too should be on the straight path. They should not distort the path according to their desires.
The path is straight, you will follow accordingly. Do not deviate to the right or left. It is what is required. To make yourself liked by your in-group, going according to which way they want, or according to your desire—if you follow your desires, you will deviate. Even if people like you, what you do is not the right thing. In the end, you might find yourself completely out of the path, and at that time everything you do will be vain.
Uprightness is the most important thing. Even if you do not much, as long as you are on the path is sufficient. Do not do things according to your self. There are a lot people, at a first glance they look good, for a year, two years, five years, twenty years, after twenty years—if you get out of path and do not repent, you become completely out of path, and all you have done comes to nothing. May Allah protect. Stay on the straight path, even if doing just a little. May we be on the straight path, In Sha Allah. May Allah protect us from following our desires.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
132.RETURNS TO ITSELF Sunday, 29 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.
Allah ‘azza wa jalla says “the desire of doing wrong to others returns to its owner.” A believer (mu’min) does not wish for bad, but rather wishes goodness for everyone, gets along well with everyone. On the other hand, one with bad intention is not counted as a believer (mu’min), because this does not fit what our Prophet requires.
Our Prophet Muhammad asks us believers to be like brothers and sisters. If a person desires evil, the evil returns to himself. Some people always think evil. They think that if they cause evil to others, goodness will come to them. Because faith is absent, one fears everything. He thinks that when someone in front of him is good, his own affairs will not work out, he will be in a bad situation. Therefore he envies, curses, he tries everything he can. However Allah ‘azza wa jalla gave the believer (mu’min) the glad tiding that what evil others do is returned to themselves. He [the one doing evil] falls into his own trap.
Therefore a Muslim should do good. “Do good. Do not be afraid of doing good.” Fear doing evil. A person’s evil returns to himself. One who does good is always good. The Next Life (ahiret) will also be good, his end will also be good, everything will be comfortable.
May Allah protect us. Always be with those are good. Do good, insha’Allah. When we obey our bad desire, and then try to fix it, it gets worse, and a person does something else wrong. While trying to correct, he does worse and humiliates himself; he does not gain anything, he loses. May Allah protect.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
133.THE FRIENDS OF ALLAH Monday, 30 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.
Insha’Allah, once again with the permission of Allah we are going for a visit. The Friends of Allah are alive with the permission of Allah. Those who visit them know. They [the Friends of Allah] do go other places as well, but visiting their actual place means showing more respect to them, [and] therefore Allah writes a reward (thawāb) for every step, raises your station, forgives your sins.
Awliyā' means Allah’s beloved servants. One’s loving them means loving Allah. Honoring them means honoring Allah. To make people deviate people, Satan on the contrary causes delusion. To create delusion he whispers that to honor the friends of Allah is polytheism. In fact, the Friends of Allah are loved for Allah’s sake, not for anything else. A friend of Allah is loved due to being Allah’s friend. For this reason, they are shown respect and loved.
This is something our Prophet taught us. What those others teach is from Satan. To ask for help is a great grace. With their help, with their love, our faith becomes stronger. Otherwise, there is no such thing as faith in them [i.e., in those disbelieving in Awliyā’], it is weak in them. They are Muslims, but with no faith. Faith means believing in Allah and trusting Him—this they do not possess. They do not even understand what is in the book. This is written in all the holy books. Though it is written that otherwise is not true, they do not comprehend it. He says you ought to look in the book. But by gradually reducing things, they have left nothing in the books!
Therefore, visiting the Friends of Allah is from His provision. It is a good deed, removes also a load off our shoulders, strengthens our spirituality. May Allah make their help readily available. They can go everywhere, their souls travel from East to West. When you ask for help, it comes, but visiting is a greater veneration. Allah ‘azza wa jalla rewards the goodness of the visit. May Allah not deprives us of their help. In Sha Allah, we will be with them in Next Life as we were with them here. Amin.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
134.KEEP YOUR MIND SAFE Wednesday, 1 August 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.
We make du'ā'. One du'ā' says: "Allāhumma thabbit ‘alayna l-‘aqli wa d-dīn." We make a prayer asking Allāh to make our mind and religion firm. The mind... An intelligent person finds religion and Allāh. Mind is important. Therefore, first they say, "May Allāh not take our mind." Our Prophet says in one ḥadīth: "If Allāh wants a person to do something which is not right, He takes his mind first." And then a person does something. Turkish people have a saying, "One's mind has come back." He had lost his mind. When it is back, he feels regret and thinks how did he do it? Mind is important. Therefore, everything that can take mind away is ḥarām, says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
That is also alcohol and whatever makes someone drunk. A drunk man is someone without mind, someone who doesn't know what he's doing. You can get drunk with things other than alcohol. It can be with other things too. You take drugs, you inject them and get high. You smoke or sniff and get high. All of them are same. In terms of sin, they are same. Drinking alcohol, not only alcohol, everything that makes you high. Shayṭān has thousands of types of poison. When using them, one's mind is lost. So in order not to lose your mind, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave orders. Don't come close to things that make you high. Stay away from them. They harm you. They don't benefit you. In this end of times it is so widespread. Moreover, they say, with some of them, when their effect is gone, the mind comes back and some make people lose their mind completely. They are like crazy all their lives. What is the benefit? No benefit at all.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla created you perfectly and you walk around showing yourself to be an idiot and stupid. May Allāh protect us. Doing these things is a sin, and apart from sin, it is harm for yourself. Harm for yourself, people around you, to everyone. It harms your family, the Muslim community, all mankind. Those who do this get punished both in dunyā and even more in ākhirah. Who repents, Allāh accepts their repentance. Allāh will
help them get rid of this illness. Who doesn't repent lives as a person not respected by anyone, hated by everyone and ashamed. And he'll be punished in ākhirah. May Allāh protect us. Because shayṭān is stalking people. He is stalking everyone. May Allāh protect everyone, In Sha Allah.
People should pay attention to their families, because these things start when they are kids. You should watch them. You should make sure they avoid it.
Today we are praying, make du‘ā’, asking, "Allāhumma thabbit ‘alayna l-‘aqli wa d-dīn." Meaning, first Allāh keep our mind and our belief. Mind is very important thing because who have mind, he must be believer. Who are not believer they are mindless. They don't have any, they even they thought they are clever, they are intelligent – they are nothing at all. Animal they are better than them. But it is you must keep your mind, you must keep your to be keep it safe. Because many people they are doing something – after they be regret, "What I done?" For this Prophet what saying? "If Allāh want something for not good for one, He take his mind before." And he do nonsense thing, he do bad thing. After when come back to his mind, to his head, he said, "What I done? How I done this? If I have mind I would not do this." But it is, it is example for people to keep their mind, not to lose their mind.
And people now, especially in this, from old time they doing something to take their mind out. The first thing they can do for this – drinking. Alcohol making drunk and it is taking your mind and you will not know what you done. After you wake up, you surprised what you done. This is one of them. But in Islām it is to be drunk – it is forbidden. It is sin, big sin to be drunk – like to steal, to kill people, to do thing is big sin, to be drunk. And to be drunk, not only if you can, can be drunk for one bottle, if you drink one cup also sin, not acceptable. It is you cannot put in your mouth. But to be drunk it is sin. But there is also another thing same. Who make you drunk, it is also forbidden. Many thing they can make you drunk. Even one pill, if you take you become drunk. If you inject yourself, you become drunk. You smell something, you become drunk. You smoke something, you become drunk. All this forbidden. It is not not allowed because maybe they said for drink you drunk – this is drunk from drink coming. So it is only what if you drink. But if you take injection, you take put smoke and other thing it will be not sin, ḥarām. No. It's all. Because making you drunk, all of them forbidden and all of them sin, all of them ḥarām.
But there is now in these days also something make you, if you drink, you become sinner
but when you wake up your mind is still there. But now there is making something and when you take this, you be whole life like drunk, like crazy. You cannot finish this. Go doctor, go here, go there. No. This man become crazy, he become mad, something broke his mind, damage his mind. And this damaging, what they have they done for people, there is damage also and this punishment for them for whole life and in ākhirah also they will be punished. But others also, if they not regret and ask for forgiveness from Allāh, Allāh will punish them also. But Allāh is most Merciful. If you intention to finish from this illness, from this bad habit, to be good person, Allāh will help you and He will forgive you also what you done from whole your life. Allāh forgive you because He is the most Merciful and you will be in high degree. But if you insist you will be miserable and you will be, everybody avoid you, everybody hate you. Nobody can love drunk people or this people who are there is people afraid from this people. They running away when they saw them. There is, as we said, the many bad thing they cannot – like thinner or other chemical thing. They, when they take, they finish, they become like zombie and people they are all afraid from them to not come near them because they quickly can kill people. This people will be hated for whole life and be look like worst than animal. Nobody like them. But Allāh, if they accept and to make their intention to be good people, Allāh will accept them and help them.
But it is intention very important because many of them they making, they are cheating people. They said, "Oh we are becoming good and we need this money." And when you they give money, quickly they go and take from this. Allāh save us from shayṭān and his follower. This is real shayṭān and it is real terrible thing for whole world, for believer, for not believer, for everybody. But shayṭān he make this for whole people to destroy belief. We must be, In Sha Allah, careful for our family, for children. You look after them because family they are looking for children what they like. Only they give them good food, nice clothes, everything they like. "Quickly, my son he want this. Take. Come. Come you my son, come take this. My daughter she want this." But they are not looking for if they are praying, if they are asking for religion or for other. They are not important. For important for them, it is must be. We must be more careful for children, in shā’a Llāh. Allāh save them from shayṭān and his followers, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
135.LIFE IS MOST PRECIOUS Thursday, 2 August 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.
"I‘lamū annamā l-ḥayātu d-dunyā la‘ibun wa lahwun wa zīnatun" (57:20). Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur’ān: the life of this world is entertainment in order for people to show off to each other. Everyone is like this. But important is to think about Ākhirah. A person who thinks about Ākhirah and acts upon it will have benefit. Because this world becomes a partner to everyone who comes here. It remains here, doesn't go to Ākhirah. Whatever you do in dunyā you get benefit. If you do goodness, you'll get its benefit. If you obey and follow your ego, you'll be in loss.
Days are passing. Days are passing one after another. Days are passing, weeks are passing, months are passing. People's lives are passing. People don't realize it. The older they get, they think they will come back. They finish primary school, then middle school, high school. Some go to university. Who don't go see it's over. They look and see they got older. They marry and have children. They look and see their children reaching the same age. And they go on the same way. These passing days don't come back. Time doesn't return. We should be careful about it. People should wake up not to lose these things. We should try to become beloved people of Allāh by doing things beloved to Allah.
Don't be lazy and delay something for later. Allāh doesn't like that. This time and life are the most precious things Allāh gave us. If a person puts something above his life, when death comes, then he realizes how precious his life was. But while in dunyā, he doesn't know it. He doesn't try to use it for benefit. Allāh gave us all beauties. And He told us to use them – "Kulū ḥalālan ṭayyiban wa tamatta‘ū" – and make shukr to Allāh for them.
Worship Allāh. Don't forget Allāh. When you do this, you'll be in peace in dunyā and your Ākhirah will prosper. You'll be happier. People have forgotten this. They are just
running after dunyā. They are looking for something here and there. Whereas what they are looking for... As Allāh has put something in a man for which he is searching. When he contemplates and believes in Allāh, then he finds peace. But when he jumps from place to place thinking this is it, his life passes by and his Ākhirah gets worse.
May Allāh protect us. May Allāh give us a good life so that we spend it in worshiping Him. May we be on the right way, the way of our Prophet, the beloved way of Allāh. In Sha Allah.
Our life it is very interesting because day going after days, month, weeks, months, years going very quickly and people they thought it is they are still same. Everything changing. If you, when you are small boy, after you finish your school, finish your university, and beginning and you say, "Oh I finish from this." But in your heart you said maybe it will be come back because they not understanding this finish the time. What you finish from time, cannot be come back again. It is very precious thing. You must be careful what you are doing, what with who you are with, who following. Many people, the most of people, they are running from place to place to enjoy themself. Some of them they are searching for something for reality but searching in wrong way.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla give us everything. He said you can be enjoy yourself with what is, there is permission to do. It is more [than] enough for human being to be happy here and hereafter. But shayṭān making to not be satisfied with this. They are looking for more and more and every time they are looking, doing bad thing. It is, they become more thirsty to take more to eat, more to do this bad thing, more. Maybe they will be satisfied but no, it is like fire – every time you petrol in it, it's becoming bigger and bigger. And your life going without any meaning and you going with bad life, no happiness, nothing at all. This is for this dunyā.
For Ākhirah it is worse because Allāh give you this life, the most precious thing – your life. Many time we see they say, "Your life or your money." They even this people, they give their money to not be killed or... So life it's very precious and it is like sand coming from in your hand, quickly going from your hand. So you must be careful. You must be accepting reality. Not to look for people who are following their ego and when there somebody following ego they are taking you to good place. Taking you to bad end and bad life also, miserable life.
So, In Sha Allah, so we are hoping everybody from... even some of them seventy year
old, also they remember their childhood and remember quickly this years. When you say 70, 80, 90 – like this quickly going your mind to that year what it was how, you was and how was it is not so far. So we must be careful and ask for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla to keep us in way of Prophet, way of happiness, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
136.SERVANT OF ISLAM Friday, 3 August 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.
Shukr to Allāh for this honoured religion of Islām, shukr that we are in it. The highest stations both in dunyā and in Ākhirah belong to those who follow the religion of Islām. Who follow this religion have found happiness. Nations chosen for this religion are beloved by Allāh, they are beloved nations. Because Allāh created many nations different in races, tribes and people. Not all of them could reach this honour. Serving Allāh and serving Islām are the biggest honour. And this honour, shukr to Allāh, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave to our nation.
Since the 11th century, after the years 900-1,000, this honour was given to this nation. It came from Central Asia. There were three waves from there. By the wisdom of Allāh they had lived there. Afterwards Allāh put something in them. One part conquered India as Ghaznawīs and spread Islām there. All Muslims we see today have become Muslims from their barakah. There are billions of Muslims on that side. All of them want servanthood. "We didn't come to rule over you. We conquered this place to serve you, to serve Islām. We came here so that it prospers on the way of Allāh," they said. To serve Allāh, to serve the way of our Prophet, Allāh let them conquer that place. It was crowded in old times too. They had kings, all kinds of strong soldiers. But by the will of Allāh, they couldn't stand against these few people and they were destroyed. They opened the way for Islām and though not all of them, people became Muslim.
They ruled with justice over those who didn't Up until this fitnah came through the enemies of Allāh who serve shayṭān. Who serve Allāh, shukr to Allāh are sulṭāns of Islām. Who serve shayṭān are those who are against them. They fought them slowly, killed and removed all of them. They oppressed Muslims very much. At last, they brought up some fitnah and divided enormous India into three and made the Muslims a minority. They made them fight each other. And stupid Muslims were happy to build
a Muslim state. All India was Muslim anyway. What did you do? May Allāh give understanding to these people. They can't tell their friends and enemies apart.
That's not important. Important, as we said is that those who brought Islām there, this one part of the Islāmic army from Central Asia was honoured with Islām and Allāh had granted them that service. The second part consisted of those who came to Anatolia. The part that came to Anatolia under the rule of Sulṭān Muḥammad Alp Arslan and with 40,000 soldiers conquered Anatolia from the Byzantine army of 200,000 soldiers. They made Anatolia their homeland. Then they went further and conquered more places. They did it as servants of Islām. They didn't see themselves superior in Islām. They were people who wanted to serve Islām and were ready to sacrifice themselves on the way of our Prophet. So many Crusaders tried to throw them out of Anatolia but they couldn't. They are still trying. They won't be able to do it, by permission of Allāh, unless we leave Islām.
Therefore, all their efforts are to destroy Islām, to make these people lose their faith. Because when there is faith, we are here. Without faith we disappear. The third part is the Hungarians. They migrated from the northern Black Sea to Europe. As they were not Muslims there, they lost their identity. They lost everything and weakened. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is showing this to people as an example. If you serve Islām, Allāh raises and increases you. If you leave Islām and look at what Europe is doing, Europe won't look at you. It will finish you there. But when you are in Islām with Allāh, no one can stand against you. You should stand firmly. This is the main goal. Like here in dunyā, our main aim is in ākhirah. If it's finished, you will go to hell like those people. And if you serve Islām, you will have high stations in Paradise.
May Allāh give strong faith to all of us. Because there are traitors everywhere. There are many people without adab who swear at Islām. They should have their mouths washed, as their mouths are full of dirt. It doesn't suit their mouths. They should mind their own business and then make judgment. We get honour from Islām. Our nation is serving Islām for more than a thousand years. Who want to divide it, people who think they'll be better if they're separate, are mistaken. They are used as bait. When it's over, shayṭān will say, "I don't care. Whatever you did, you had a mind. Why did you follow me?" But a person who stands with Islām will always win here and hereafter. Shayṭān is one to deceive these people. But as we said, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying in Qur’ān, when they arrive in hell after being cheated, shayṭān will say, "You shouldn't have followed me. Why did you?" That's it. What will you do? You can't do anything. Regret doesn't help
there. Therefore, be careful. Don't be cheated by unbelievers. Don't be cheated by sinners. Don't be cheated by people out of Allāh's way. Be on the right way. Be with Allāh. Don't be an enemy of Allāh. Don't be with shayṭān.
May Allāh protect us.
Alḥamdulilah, we are thanking Allāh again for making us Muslim. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, also for His generosity and His mercy for our nation to make them servants for Islām not Sulṭān for Islām. All they are saying: "We are servants for Islām," because in Qur’ān Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying: "If you are not serving and ruling good for Islām, Allāh will change you, send people He love them and they love Him." Alhamdulilah, this nation, they are serving, they are giving everything for Islām. They giving the most precious thing. They are sacrifice themself to spread Islām, to prevent oppression, to prevent oppression from people and they Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla making example for people from this.
They was from Central Asia, beginning of tenth century. They three waves, they come out from them. One of them Ghaznawī going to India. They conquered India and spread Islām there. There was not so many people, small group with Sulṭān, and they went with brave. Why? Because they want to spread Islām in this big subcontinent and, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, Allāh help them and all this million, hundred millions of people, they become Muslim with them. They was real good people. They was ruling with justice and leaving everybody for to live as they was living – not forcing people to be Muslim. But Muslim, by themself they was running, thousand, millions people to Islām. And it was like this, ruling by justice until this shayṭān army coming from abroad and slowly slowly destroying, stealing, making fitnah everywhere and to finish this good kingdom. They make oppression. They kill people, millions of people, and after when they want to went out from there, from subcontinent of India, they making also big fitnah cheating Muslims there.
India was majority Muslim. The majority was Muslim and say, "No, no we like to make you special Muslim they can live in their country. So we must divide this." And they make this fitnah and now Muslim they are minority and they are suffering. And other also suffering. They fighting since sixty years, still fighting all together and no peace in this area even this. But Muslim time, was everybody living with freedom to practice their religion, to do what they like, and who like to be Muslim can be. Who he like to be in his religion – no problem. And they was happy and they was the most richest country in the
world. But when they follow shayṭān, they are now, they have miserable life all of them. And this is what, when Islām, people serving Islām, Allāh make them up. When not serving, they are becoming nothing.
Second wave coming from Central Asia was going to Anatolia through Iran and they was that time, crusader time, and Sulṭān Muḥāmmad Alp Arslan, his name, he was with forty thousand army fighting against Byzantine two hundred thousand army and they destroy them and open, conquered Anatolia. From that time, this people they are saying, "Go back to your place, to Central Asia." But, alḥamdulilah, with belief of Islām, Allāh help them. Allāh make them higher and higher and higher and they was the very humble and they saying all time: "We are servant for Islām. We are under shoes of our Prophet, our head under his shoes." This is when they make, become humble for Allāh, Allāh make them higher. And nobody take them from where they are. They are still but they are trying to destroy their belief. Many, whole world, shayṭān, world against them and saying, lying, and giving bad news; teaching people to make their belief to be weaker and weaker. And because, they are knowing the biggest weapon for Muslim – their belief, no need for other weapon.
And third one who come from Central Asia, they was going through north of Black sea, going to Europe, to Hungary, Bulgaria and other place. All this also was nation from Turk but they are, they cannot because they are not Muslim. They melt and they are nothing now. Nobody care for them, no value for them. But who with Islām whole coming higher and higher. In dunyā like this. In Ākhirah it will be more higher, in the real thing because other they will be with shayṭān and his group in hell because they are against every order of Allāh and they are fighting against Allāh and they are oppression and they are liar. They are have every bad thing. Allāh help us to save ourself, in shā’a Llāh, with Sayyidinā Mahdī ‘alayhi s- salām will make all world to be Muslim, In Sha Allah.
But what we are saying, alḥamdulilah, there is, we are lucky to be honoured by Islām. It is the most highest honour for human being, nothing else. All everything they saying – they are like shayṭān. When shayṭān and human being be in hell, they will be shouting on him, "You bring us here. You bring us here. What you done?" He will say, "Oh why you follow me? You have your mind, you follow, you was happy with me. Now you are saying this. Go away from me." This is who are not realising Islām and to be happy with this honour, the biggest honour the biggest benefit for human being. Because to be benefit in dunyā maybe somebody give you money, somebody give you something,
cheating you and you are going out of way. But in, for Ākhirah it will be nothing for you, no benefit. But when you are serving Islām and you are happy with Islām, you are honoured by Islām, you will be winner, In Sha Allah, here and hereafter, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
137.IN OUR TARIQAH EVERYTHING IS IN THE HEART Saturday, 4 August 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.
Our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, and our Mashāyikh spread blessings and virtue with the permission of Allāh. Who walks on their way gets benefit. Walking on that way is to leave this dunyā and to follow our Prophet. What we mean by leaving this dunyā is not to keep it in your heart. You are in dunyā, you must deal with dunyā. Laziness is not good. To get livlihood is an important order of Allāh. He says you should get ḥalāl provision. Don't be lazy. Laziness is from shayṭān. Shayṭān teaches laziness. And also keep your prayers, pay attention to your worship. These are the orders of our ṭarīqah.
Attend ṣuḥbah and dhikr. When they go to ṣuḥbah or dhikr, sometimes people get into some state. When such a state occurs, they show it outwardly by screaming and shouting. This is disliked in our ṭarīqah. Mashāyikh don't like it. There are 41 ṭuruq. Some of them accept this as good but the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah says that state is like showing off to people. Afterwards they cannot control it also. When they can't, there start to be problems in their normal life. Therefore, Mashāyikh don't like it. Mawlānā was saying that he was in one ṣuḥbah of Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh ad-Dāghistānī. He said, "He gave ṣuḥbah from such high level that I said 'Allāh' involuntarily. He didn't want even that. He said, 'You shouldn't have done it. Be careful said Grandshaykh."
So our Naqshbandī ṭarīqah is for the heart. Everything is in the heart. Even our dhikr is made in the heart. Silent dhikr is the dhikr of the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. We should make it in our hearts. However, we imitate other ṭuruq by making loud dhikr, in our dhikr and ḥaḍrah. Most of our people criticize even that. We do it not as Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, but imitating the methods of other ṭuruq so that we have the barakah from them as well. Otherwise, the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah makes dhikr khafī, silent dhikr. Everything should be silent. It should be between the heart and Allāh And as we said, we shouldn't put dunyā in our hearts. Dunyā should remain outside. Its border is outside the heart. We
should never let it in our hearts. Some people think when they join this ṭarīqah, they think they get better by being in that state. No. Better not do it. Because as we said, it is something Mashāyikh don't like. You should keep it to yourself and keep it in your heart, in shā'a Llāh. Let there be strength in your heart.
Our ṭarīqah, alḥamdulilah, we are in Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. It is different from other forty ṭarīqah because our ṭarīqah making mentioning Allāh whole time in heart and our ṭarīqah to make prevent people from material world. How? We not doing anything, not working? No. You must work. To be lazy not good. It is order Allāh to look after your provision with ḥalāl and bring thing for your family. Don't be lazy. But when you do this, don't put this material world in your heart. Its limit under, after, outside heart. Heart only for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, no need for other thing.
And many times other ṭarīqah also they have, when something happening, they said become doing some movement or shouting or something doing. When they are becoming, come some spiritual thing, they are shouting. They are shouting or someone throwing himself, shaking himself. This is in our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, it is not good. Ṭarīqah, all our ṭarīqah it is in heart. Everything you must put it in your heart, don't appear it outside. Because even when we doing dhikr, our dhikr in heart. When make dhikr, we imitate other forty ṭarīqah. It is allowed for them to do this. Making ḥaḍrah also not from Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. All this to imitate other ṭarīqah for barakah from other mashāyikh. Because all ṭarīqah they are right but our ṭarīqah, each ṭarīqah they have a special rule, special teaching.
So our ṭarīqah it is heart the most important thing, to be in your heart everything – your happiness, your sadness, your everything. It must be in your heart, not appear. Other ṭarīqah they can do this. For our ṭarīqah to make shouting, to do this, it is not looking good for this Mashāyikh. Even once Mawlānā, he was saying, Mawlānā Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh al-Fā’iz ad- Dāghistānī he was making ṣuḥbah and Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim he was there. And he was very high ṣuḥbah and without knowing, he said only "Allāh". Grandshaykh said, "Don't say this also. Keep it in your heart." No, not even this word. Now many people they are shouting they are shaking themself because this from – not good for our ṭarīqah. And to after this, slowly, slowly this people they cannot control themself and people around they will be disturbed from them. For disturbing people – not important. For disturbing Mashāyikh – is important.
We must be careful not to follow our ego even for good thing. It is order to not do this
from Mashāyikh. We will not do this even it is permitted from other ṭarīqah. Our Mashāyikh they are not allowing anything, not... What they are saying, we must follow. Not to say, "We can do this by ourself." We see Mashāyikh doing dhikr with imitate other ṭarīqah, we follow. If they are not saying, we not follow. Because our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah way, it is same everywhere from beginning until end. So no any... Many people they criticise, "You are not doing what ṭarīqah saying." No. We are knowing and we are knowing what we do – following our Mashāyikh. And there is, we separate between Naqshbandī ṭarīqah and other ṭarīqah also. Allāh make our heart all time with Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha
138.THE TIME OF HAJJ Sunday, 5 August 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.
Shukr to Allāh we are reaching the season of ḥajj again. Every believer likes and wants in their heart to go to ḥajj. People with faith ask for it. Who's not aware of religion doesn't know even what it is and that it is obligatory. He doesn't know what he must do. He lives just like that. But this ḥajj has great virtue and beauty. Who is able should do it without delay when they have a chance. When they can't do it, Allāh didn't make it farḍ for people who can't afford it. In terms of health as well. A person who cannot go because of his health can send someone else if he can cover the expenses. And that person will receive its benefit. He will have made his farḍ. But people with no financial means, Allāh didn't make it farḍ for them. It is farḍ for those who can afford it and have good health, it is made farḍ for them.
To do it once in your life is enough. Who wants to do more, can do if he has the means. Because ḥajj cleans people from their sins. But it is difficult in these times. People wait in queues. That's why, they can't go. Even if they go just once, it is a huge favour. Mawlānā used to go every year. When he made ḥajj, there were lots of difficulties. Now it is even more. It was difficult before. They are doing so many things to make it more comfortable but it is causing more hardship. By the wisdom of Allāh ḥajj should be difficult. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla made it so for everyone. Make it luxury as much as you can, it still has problems. Of course when Mawlānā was going, it was much more difficult. Maa shaa Allah Ḥājjah Anne counted that Mawlānā went to ḥajj 22 times. He went 22 times physically. Allāh knows about the spiritual. Holy people are always there. Their presence is seen by some people, and it happens without being seen.
Sometimes people intend for ḥajj, some problems occur. When problems occur, our Prophet says when a person intends and cannot go, his ḥajj is accepted and he receives the thawāb (reward) of ḥajj. Mawlānā once told us like our Prophet said, Allāh ‘Azza wa
Jalla creates an angel with his appearance and it makes waqfah on ‘Arafāt, makes ṭawāf and ḥajju l-nisā’. And that ḥajj is counted for him. Some people get very upset for not being able to go. And that is also a favour from Allāh. They are written one ḥajj. And when they go afterwards, one more ḥajj is written then. There is nothing like – the first is annulled when you go next year. Until Qiyāmah that angel asks forgiveness for him. This is a sort of patience. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying, "Innamā yuwaffā ṣ-ṣābirūna ajrahum bighayri ḥisāb" (39:10). He couldn't go, got upset but remained patient as it is the will of Allāh. But of course, that person tried hard, so his efforts won't be wasted. Allāh doesn't let any goodness be wasted. Moreover, as our Prophet said, He creates an angel which makes waqfah, ṭawāf and ḥajj better than we do and a perfect ḥajj is given to that person.
Therefore, shukr to Allāh. May Allāh let everyone carry out this beautiful duty. It is difficult but that's nothing. No problem if there is a difficulty on the way of Allāh. And when you go there, I should say it to everyone, don't think that when you buy a trip for 100,000-200,000 TL, you will have a relaxed tour. Certainly there will be some hardship on ḥajj. And that hardship is on the way of Allāh. Allāh will give its reward hundredfold. Because there, for everything a person gets 100,000 more thawāb than normally. May Allāh accept the ḥajj of the ḥujjāj and let those, who've not gone, go. In Sha Allah they should make intention to get equal thawāb.
Alḥamdulilah, we are now coming to Dhū l-Ḥijjah, to ḥajj time. Ḥajj it is a very important worship. It is obligatory for people but not for all people. Who has health, good health, and he has enough money to go there, it is obligatory for him to make this. But if they don't have, he have, they have money but they don't have health – they can send somebody to do ḥajj for them. This is Prophet saying for people and teaching us. And when this people going make ḥajj for this people they become reward as ḥajjī and this obligatory become done for them. But for normal people, if they don't have enough money it is not obligatory. Only for people who are, they have enough money and enough strong health also to go and come.
And it is real cleaning people from sin – as day of they birth from their mother and baby he was innocent, no sin for him. People who going to ḥajj and doing exactly what Prophet saying without making now like nowadays – cutting, cutting from everything – they will become clean from every sin. Allāh forgive for everybody for sin. But for right of people sometime you must ask forgiveness from people. If they not forgive you, it is problem but when you go to ḥajj this also Allāh said, when you stand on waqfah of Muzdalifah
Allāh take this from people and they who, if you have something against people and people not forgive you, Allāh make this reward this people to forgive you. So you even from this also you will be clean. For this ḥajj it is real big benefit for people.
And Mawlānā Shaykh he was taking every year people from here to ḥajj and it was difficult that time especially for Mawlānā also carrying people they are not knowing anything, they are not going anywhere. Even for city, from village to city, they never go in their life. He was take them and he was suffering too much but he was, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, for Allāh. He is happy and Ḥajji Anne our mother she said she count twenty-two times Mawlānā he went to ḥajj. Twenty-two times, maa shaa Allah, in bodily but for spiritually every year he was there. Because many people also seeing him when he is going there.
And many people nowadays they want to go, they cannot go. Every year they said there is lottery. They waiting. "This year, In Sha Allah, we will go." And looking. No not yet. Next year also not. They prepare, they have everything and there to go also no. We know some people since ten years they are applying and waiting. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this year many of them after ten years they go, In Sha Allah, with us. And Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, Prophet saying and Mawlānā Shaykh was saying, mentioning in Khuṭbah also – this people who are intentioning and to go and they cannot go, Allāh create one angel for them and they make their ḥajj. He [angel] stop in ‘Arafāt, make ṭawāf, make sa‘ī, make everything perfect and he stand in until Qiyāmah asking forgiveness for you. So this every year, this people, ten year they couldn't go, so Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla accept for them as ten years of ḥajj and reward them. And Prophet was saying this, saying even this people they can go later, this ḥajj will be not be canceled because he went to ḥajj. No it is plus three times, ten times, five times they couldn't go – all this Allāh accept and reward for them. And Prophet saying, who going to intention and try to go and Allāh make this angel, if he couldn't go and pass away, through this he also as ḥajj. Allāh will accept this obligatory to be done because he tried and he couldn't. But Allāh make this angel to make ḥajj for him so
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