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Suhbah 2021: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (19/25)


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ith your work and perform worship. You will have obeyed Allah and our Holy Prophet then. And you will have obeyed the government as well. But when you go against them and act with the thought that you can do better than them, it will be harmful both to you and to other people.

Regardless of the place and time, it is the same for all Muslims. Whether you are in a Muslim country or in a country of Kufr, with an oppressor or a fair man as the leader, your duty is to obey them. No need to put yourself and others in danger.

Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla created everyone for a certain duty. Our Holy Prophet says: Each person is facilitated for what he has been created.” Not everyone can be a leader or be in the government. If everyone

could, there would be what they call democracy now. Democracy means to spread Fitnah everywhere, nothing else. It is to prevent the work and doing good things. If there are 10 million people in a country, they have one person on top of them. If everyone was a leader, there would be 10 million opinions. They would remain where they are. And it wouldn’t get better, only worse.

Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla wants goodness for us. Allah doesn’t want badness to people. But people oppress themselves; they cause troubles and problems to themselves. If everyone minds his own work, there will be no harm and they will live on. They say comfort is boring. Shaytan pushes people and they start saying, “This is good, that is good.” And apart from interfering with people in their own country, they start interfering with others as well.

However it has happened, if they took over the government, you must obey them. It is foolish to go against the government. It is said in Sharīʿah as well; no matter who the leader is, you must obey him. Sharīʿah says so. Going against him is going against the ruling of Allah. They will be punished according to Sharīʿah. But there is no Sharīʿah. If people followed Sharīʿah, they think there will be oppression. There is no oppression. Oppression is from the people of Shaytan, not from others. Therefore, all the evil in the world is because of disobedience to the orders of Allah. If they obey the orders of Allah, they will be in comfort in this world and more importantly in ākhirah.

May Allah protect us. May Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla make it easy for us to obey His orders Insha Allah.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.

137.THE QUR’AN IS THE GREATEST MIRACLE Friday, 20 August 2021

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.

Our Holy Prophet “The best amongst you is the one who learns the Qur’an and teaches it.” The best among you is the one who learns and teaches Qur’an. The Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan was sent to us by Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla as the greatest miracle of our Holy Prophet. It is the descended firm word of Allah.

There is no greater, no more useful book in this world. It is a gift of Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla to us. People, Muslims should know its value. Whoever reads it receives all kinds of benefits. Thawab is written for every letter. Not for every word but for every letter. It is such a holy thing. Therefore, to read one Juz every day is a duty in our daily practice.

Normal people can read as well. However, when it is not an obligation, they don’t pursue it much. They say they don’t know how to read it. Even if not one Juz, those who are learning should read at least a page. The more you read, the more it will open for you and your heart will be opened with the permission of Allah. There is benefit for your ancestors, for you and your descendants in it both physically and spiritually. This is what our Holy Prophet teaches us.

Those who cannot read Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan, can read in its transliteration. However, it is better to read in original Arabic. Some people may be old and cannot learn. They can read the transliteration

that is in different characters which is better than nothing. They can read the Arabic text but in Latin or any other characters. There are so many languages and characters that Allah has taught people. It is allowed to read Qur’an in those characters without changing its pronunciation. But it doesn’t bring any benefit to read the translation in English, Turkish, French or Chinese. It will not be counted as reading Qur’an.

You may read to understand the word of Allah. But it won’t be equal to reading the Qur’an. You cannot pray like that as well. You must do them all in Arabic. It is best for Muslims to learn and teach. As we said, Allah doesn’t want hardship. But He created us differently. Some may not be able to learn at all. It is ok for them to read the transliteration, which is of Arabic pronunciation, in their language.

Shaytan messes with people’s minds by saying, “Why are you reading without understanding? Why are you doing that without understanding?” Subhan’Allah, even those who don’t know Arabic at all learn the Qur’an by heart and recite it fluently. Even without understanding its meaning, Allah is giving it to their hearts that they learn this vast Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan by heart and recite it without mistakes.

May Allah not lessen its blessings. May we be from the people of Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan Insha Allah. It is good to learn it by heart. When you learn by heart, do not forget it. Always keep it. Always turn back to check and repeat it in order not to forget.

May its blessings be upon us Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.

138.A VERY UPSETTING TIME Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.

The time we are living in now is the time described by our Holy Prophet. In this time, they are forbidding goodness and ordering evil. People of the present time are living in such a way as if ḥarām is very normal. They don’t know what is sin and what is ḥarām.

It is so different now that Qiyāmah is very near. But people are thinking that if they take more from dunyā, they will live eternally. Whereas, they don’t know that they will be accounted for it. It is not easy to give account when you do ḥarām consciously. Many people don’t know which things are ḥarām. But when someone does ḥarām consciously, it is very bad, for they object Allah directly and go against Allah’s orders. It is not a good thing. In this world, no one will eat something he knows is bad for him or drink poison. But sins and ḥarām are worse than poison. They won’t give you any benefit. They will only give you harm, nothing else. We should know this. We should pay attention to this.

They say “It’s a sin and ḥarām” to unrelated things. And they don’t care about the real sins and the ḥarām things, saying they are ḥalāl. They do them. They run after these things only caring about having money. When you do ḥarām consciously, it will bring no benefit to you and your children. There will be no Barakah. There will be nothing. Little ḥalāl is much better than a lot of ḥarām. The things we see every day are surprising to people. There are many ignorant people who show the European lifestyle as normal here. People say what they do very

normally. What you do is a sin, a big sin. How are you doing this? Are you not Muslim? Are your parents not Muslim? Even in Europe and non-Muslim countries, they know that the things you do are forbidden and not good. They do everything wrong and then go to the priest and have their sins forgiven by giving money. We don’t have such a thing. You must not commit sin. But they know that it is a sin. They go to churches, to the priest to have their sins forgiven. And our people don’t understand that much. They don’t even know that what they do is ḥarām. They talk about it very freely. Very strange things are happening. As our Holy Prophet said: Very strange things are happening. “It makes the forbearing one confused.” They leave people in astonishment. People are thinking “Is it ok? Did they study this?” Our people founded Imam-Hatip schools to bring up Muslims. And instead of bringing up good people, they are making their own Fatwā to use them. This is not useful to the country, and it is not useful to them. There will be benefit neither in dunyā nor in ākhirah. They need the training and education of the Mashāyikh so that they can be improved. There are thousands of Imam-Hatip schools. But people are more into sins. They have fallen in such a condition because there is no sincerity. A child who learns by himself comes clean. And with things taught there, he leaves with a confused mind. If he has ‘iman, he loses his ‘iman as well. And by teaching two words by heart, they want to get away with their salaries. If they get away with a salary, it is fine. But they lead people to commit sins instead of leading them to do goodness. May Allah protect us. May Allah protect Muslims from this time. The things that are done and the time we are living in are very upsetting. We don’t approve of them. May Allah forgive us. We can only speak this much. We cannot change them with our hands, so we try at least with the tongue. We don’t accept these sins and this injustice. We are away from that. May Allah forgive us. May Allah protect us from ḥarām. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.

139.DESTINY IS A SECRET OF ALLAH Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.

Our Holy Prophet says that to believe in destiny is to believe in the oneness of Allah. The destiny of people is written in the sight of Allah, and it is a secret of Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla, says our Holy Prophet. Our Holy Prophet says that whoever knows that it is a secret and believes in it will be in comfort.

When something happens, many people get upset and desperate trying to understand how and why that happened. But people who believe in destiny know that it came from Allah and there is no need to be sad and to change it. It happened, so we cannot change it. There is a saying – there is no cure for the dead nor for the past. The dead is dead and the past is gone. You cannot die for it.

Therefore, this matter is important. People are in sorrow and sadness all the time. Those who believe in destiny let go of sorrow and sadness. It had to happen, so it did. There is no other solution. Whether you get upset or happy, this has to happen. While Adam Efendi was walking a couple of days ago, he broke his leg. People wonder why it happened and say if only he hadn’t been there. But that had to happen, so it happened. Whatever comes after will be a reward and Thawab for him. What can you do? There is nothing else to do. May Allah protect us from bad destiny.

When you have ‘iman, it is fine. That is also in the destiny of people. And if Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla gave ‘iman or not, that is also a secret of Allah. A person who has this secret, a person with ‘iman should always make Dua to Allah and ask for steadfastness, to have a good destiny and to have a good end. This is the most important thing. Everyone should think about this. They should not be sad about other things. May Allah give us all steadfastness. May our ends be good. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.

140.THE SECOND AGE OF IGNORANCE Thursday, 26 August 2021

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.

Our Holy Prophet says that everything cuts off for a person except for three things. No goodness comes from his deeds and worship. After the soul is released, you cannot pray and you cannot fast anymore. You can only do them while alive and get benefit from them.

Only three things last, one of which is Sadaqah Jariyah (ongoing charity), another is good children and the third is knowledge you leave behind. You should leave good knowledge after you. When people get benefit from these, Allah leaves your book of good deeds open, and they are written there. The more they last, the more is written. But as we said, it should be good knowledge. Not all written knowledge is good, more often it is ignorance.

Ignorance means not to see the good. Not to see the truth is ignorance. Those who don’t see it are ignorant people. People become professors with good reputations at universities. They have no real reputation and no value at all. They are not passing knowledge but trying to mislead people from the path. And they are considered ignorant in the sight of Allah. Ignorance is of many kinds. There are some ignorant people who are illiterate; they don’t know how to read and write. You call them ignorant. Who are they? They are those who don’t know how to read and write, don’t know about the religion, don’t pray and do whatever their egos like. It doesn’t matter if they are poor or rich. A person who

follows his ego is ignorant. Even though he thinks he is knowledgeable, he is ignorant.

And then there are educated people who don’t recognize Allah. They are even more ignorant. They are both educated and ignorant. They do useful things for themselves and go against Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla at the same time. They are people who write things that are contrary to the orders of Allah and show their ignorance as something good.

There are many types of ignorance. May Allah protect us from ignorance.

There are so many Ayat which say, “Do not be with ignorant ones. Do not associate with ignorant ones”. The same is said in Hadiths. Ignorance is darkness, ‘iman is light. Our Holy Prophet came in the darkest time. He filled the world with light. Our Holy Prophet said that there will be the second age of ignorance which is even worse. It is the ignorance of our time.

During his time, people were illiterate and without knowledge, so they used to worship idols. They were ignorant. But when Haqq came, they turned to Haqq. But this time now is much worse. The second age of ignorance is much worse. May Allah protect us. We wish that Allah gives guidance to ignorant ones. What else can we do? May Allah protect us from ignorance. It is a dangerous thing. The most dangerous thing is ignorance because it takes ‘iman away. May Allah give us strong ‘iman and protect us. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.

141.TARIQAH IS THE RIGHT WAY Friday, 27 August 2021

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.

When some things happen, people want to make decisions right away. They keep asking what is right, and if it’s right or wrong. You shouldn’t hurry with it. How do we know if it’s right? Things which comply with Ahlu s-Sunnah wa l-Jama’ah, with humanity and Islam are good. But sometimes they look good, and they seem good from the outside but are bad from the inside. We should be careful about it.

Many groups have formed after our Holy Prophet. Many people left the way. Our Holy Prophet says that there will be 73 groups and only one of them will be saved. Who are they? They are the group that is on the right way, the group which follows the way of our Holy Prophet.

They are people who are together with Shari’ah and Tariqah. Only Tariqah or only Shari’ah is not enough. When there is only Shari’ah, it is without a soul, without spirituality. It is easy to use it because there is nothing to support it. The support is the love of our Holy Prophet, the love of Allah. When Shari’ah is superficial, they may accept everything. They accept everything but goodness and spirituality. They don’t accept spirituality, whereas there is nothing without a soul.

There are various people, various groups in this world. Tariqah is the right way. Tariqah is the good way. The rest is for cheating people. They are harming more than bringing benefit to people. Also, they don’t accept Tariqah and speak badly about it. Why? Because the friends of

Haqq are the true ones, and the enemies are the wrong ones. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla created people this way. It is a test. Certainly, good ones will achieve good things, and bad ones will be swept away.

Since the time of our Holy Prophet until now, many people have assumed something of themselves and have written books according to their own minds. They are bad scholars. Their Fitnah will last until Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam. And when Mahdi ‘alayhi s- salam comes, it will be over. Fitnah is something that Allah dislikes and curses.

Sometimes a book or a word is more harmful than a sword. When you hit with a sword, a man is gone. But words or ideas mislead people. They make people unhappy in this world, and instead of being in a good place, they find themselves in a bad place in ākhirah.

May Allah protect us.

We are living in a very chaotic time. People think that a scholar is good. And after some time, they see that he is different from the inside and the outside. There are many scholars who cheat people and destroy people’s lives and ākhirah. They are bad scholars. They are called ‘Bad scholar’. Scholars are of two types; good scholars and bad scholars. May Allah protect us and let us be with good ones Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.

142.ISLAM WILL ATTAIN VICTORY Tuesday, 31 August 2021

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. Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, ‘And victory is only from Allah.’ (Qur’ān 03:126). Sadaqa Allahu l- ‘Azeem. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla says that victory is from Allah جل جالله. Everyone who is against Him will be defeated eventually. Islam will attain victory.

True Islam is the way shown by our Holy Prophet. Islam is not according to time, it is according to reality. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla says that they have no value and no power, and that victory will be for Islam.

Shukr to Allah, all the summer months, July and August are the months in which there were many victories for Islam. Ottomans, Muslim Sultans who were Khalifah made Jihad for the pleasure of Allah and favored Islam. They helped all the oppressed. Wherever there were opponents of Allah who attacked and wanted to destroy Islam, they defeated them.They did so by asking help from Allah, by asking victory from Allah. With warriors as little as one fourth of the opponents, many big victories were attained against unbelievers. All of them were people who claimed the victory was from Allah and not from them.

And as they were true Muslims, Allah helped them and made Islam victorious. Always be with Islam and with Allah so that we are victorious in the end. Those who are with the unbelievers will be defeated.

May Allah increase their stations. They became Shaheeds or Ghazis (warriors) and kept Islam alive. Allah gave them this honor. This is the biggest honor. Those who are among the beloved servants of Allah, people who deserve Allah’s mercy and support are the people who attain the biggest victory. May Allah bless all their souls Insha Allah.

Islam will defeat this dark world. It will be so, as the promise of Allah is true. Allah had given good tidings to our Holy Prophet that this whole world will become Muslim. That time is near Insha Allah. The darker it is, the closer the dawn is. Insha Allah it is close. May Allah show us those beautiful days. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.

143.NO GOODNESS COMES FROM UNBELIEVERS Wednesday, 1 September 2021

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.

Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, ‘And do mischief on earth.’ (Qur’ān 02:27). Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla says that they will do evil on earth. They won’t do goodness, they will do badness. They say that they are doing goodness. They are hypocrites and liars, and who believes them is stupid. Who are they?

They are people who don’t believe in Allah and don’t recognize Allah. They do everything in order to mislead the whole world from the right way, in order to alienate people from the way of Haqq, the true way. And then they pretend to be doing goodness. All they do is make a show. “We come to this country to save it”. Wherever they go, they ruin it. And then they make a show and leave it by saying they couldn’t do it. They spread bloodshed in that country and the whole world.

Spreading bloodshed is nothing; they have made people’s jobs, belief, religion, families and morals a thousand times worse. They have disgraced people a thousand times more. And they say that they are doing goodness.

All of these filmmakers and media people keep saying “We did so much goodness. We spent so much money. We lost so many people”. They don’t care about these. All of them are fake toys they made.

Since the last times of Khilafah, they cancelled gold and replaced it with paper money. They print it as much as they like. And they give it to the world for evil. They boost badness with money. As we say, money is what people value. That’s why they are in this condition. If they valued things that Allah values, they would not fall into this condition. They don’t know who is helping them and they worship those who are spreading evil.

This is the condition and situation of this world. This is the end of times. What can we say? Everything Allah said is happening. They are given the opportunity. They think the whole world is theirs. They say they will improve there, whereas no help and no goodness comes from them. They say tears may come from the dead but no goodness comes from unbelievers. Therefore, never believe in their help. If they are helping, there is certainly some trick behind it.

Be with Allah so that Allah protects you. Nothing else can protect you. Only Allah protects. “HasbunAllah wa Ni’mal Wakeel, Ni’mal Mawla wa Ni’mal Naseer”. Allah is Sufficient for us and He is the best Disposer of affairs.

He is our best Protector. He is the One who does all kinds of goodness. Therefore, believers don’t despond over the condition of this world. A person who knows the truth doesn’t despond. As we said, Allah gave them a chance. As long as you are with Allah, there’s no need to fear.

May Allah protect us and give strength to our ‘iman. May He protect Muslims from this Fitnah. The world is ordering evil and preventing goodness now.

May Allah protect us, all Muslims and all Muslim children because we are at such point that people are sad. Make Dua that Allah protects us. Allah will save us with Dua Insha Allah.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.

144.BELIEVERS ARE BROTHERS Friday, 3 September 2021

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.

Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Allah says: ‘The believers are but brothers, so make settlement between your brothers.’ (Qur’ān 49:10).

Muslims are brothers. Make up with your brothers. You should get along well. It is the order of our Holy Prophet. It is usually difficult to carry out this order. Fitnah occurs between those on the right way. For those who are on other ways, it is easier. When something happens, we see more often that they help or support each other. There is a lot of Fitnah for those who are on the right way, who are from either of the four Maddhabs.

Whereas, just like you want goodness to yourself, it is the order of our Holy Prophet to wish the same to your Muslim brothers. It is a good thing.

Believers should wish people not to be in need of anyone, to be on the way of Allah, and be happy for them. They should be happy when something good happens to their Mu’min brothers. But unfortunately, shaytan is not happy when good things happen to people. He is happy when bad things happen. Whereas, when good things happen, they will happen to you as well. And when bad things happen, you are in the same place. You are in the same ship. If the ship sinks, all of you drown with it. If the ship is going well, everyone rich and poor live on well.

This is the beautiful disposition of Allah. But people and shaytan try to destroy it and never leave it. Bad ones stand by each other. And good ones fall into the Fitnah of shaytan and do things that Allah dislikes.

Envy is the biggest attribute of shaytan. And people are given more of this attribute. Envy means disliking and hating the good things of others. Whereas Allah has given it to them. Objecting to that is going against Allah.

There are many Hadiths of our Holy Prophet that say that a person is not a true believer unless he loves other believers. As we are in the end of times, it is more frequent these days.

Wish everyone goodness, and certainly the same goodness will come to us both physically and spiritually. If they are fine, wish that Allah makes them even better; wish them to go on the right way, earn in a permissible way and do good services.

Do not envy anyone. When you see someone well, be happy for him. It is a self-training for your ego, ruling over your ego. Otherwise, you fall after your ego. And your ego doesn’t want anything but badness.

May Allah protect us from the evils of our ego. May Allah give goodness to Muslims. Whatever good goals they have, may they reach them. There are many sick people, may they be cured insha’Allah.

Our brothers all over the world sent us their Qur’an Khatms, Ayat and Surahs, Tasbihat and Salawat, Dalail Khairat. We dedicate them first of all to the soul of our Holy Prophet, to his Ahl ul-Bayt and Sahabah, to the souls of all Prophets, souls of Imams of the four Maddhabs and the Mashayikh, souls of all our ancestors, especially Mawlana Shaykh Nazim ق, Hajjah Anna ق and Hala Sultan, to the souls of all the departed, for goodness to come and for wishes to come true.

May everything be good Insha Allah. May the sick be cured. May the sufferings end. May the good goals of everyone occur. May we be

protected from the Fitnah of the end of times. May Allah protect us from the hidden, apparent and all kinds of evil. May they be means to goodness.

May the Duas of those who come here from near and far be accepted. May our offspring be good people. Shaytan is attacking both the young and old. May Allah protect us from the evil of shaytan and the evil of bad ones. May there be happiness here and hereafter. LiLlahi Ta’ala Al-Fatiha.

145.DEEDS ARE BY INTENTIONS Saturday, 4 September 2021

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.

Our Holy Prophet says in Hadith Sharif, “Actions are but by intentions”.

Your deeds are according to your intentions. Whoever intends for Allah will be rewarded by Allah. It is the first Hadith of Al-Arba’in An- Nawawiyah - the Forty Hadiths of An-Nawawi. It is from his Hadiths. Whoever had these forty Hadiths written is rewarded. And this was the first Hadith: “Actions are but by intentions, and each person will have but that which he intended”

It was regarding Hijrah. Whoever intends Hijrah for Allah, Allah will give him its reward. There was a man who loved a woman, and he migrated in order to marry her. His intention could be for Allah or something else. Whatever his intention is, his Hijrah will be according to it. It was an obligation to make Hijrah from Makkah to Madinah in old times. But the intention was also important. They had to make Hijrah for Allah. If a man travelled for a woman, marriage or other worldly things, he made Hijrah for that; not for Allah but for Dunyā.

Why are we telling this? Very often, people do things and say, “I did it for you, I did it for him”. When you do something, you should do it for Allah. Allah is eternal, whereas a servant is temporary. He may live for 5, 10, 20 or 100 years and then he will pass away. And if you say “I did it for you”, go and ask him for a reward then. But when you do it for the

pleasure of Allah, you won’t remind anyone that you did that favor for them.

If you remind people of a favor you did for them, then your reward is not from Allah There won’t be any reward with that reminding. No reward, no Thawab, nothing. You don’t remind people of things that are done for Allah. When you say “I did for this, I did for that”, everything you did is over, it will be reset. Even if you do a whole lot, just like you press on a button on a machine and it resets, it is the same.

And when your deeds are for Allah, Allah will reward you. You will get the benefit for your deeds. If you do something to show off, to say “I did this and I did that”, everything you do will bring nothing but tiredness and waste of money. And you will put everything on reset.

Therefore, this is important. As we said, it is the first Hadith. When we started Madrasah, this was the first lesson in the first grade. Indeed, it is a very important thing. If people know it, they will know that they live for Allah and that they should do everything for the pleasure of Allah.

If they do it for the approval and appreciation of others, it will have no value. It’s enough that Allah knows. As they say, “Do goodness, for if a fish doesn’t see, the Creator sees it” [Turkish saying], “Cast your bread upon the water”, for Allah is the one who created everything. Allah is Al Khaliq, The Creator.

Muslims of the present time do everything for showing off. When a man eats something, he takes his picture and shows it to people. He does something else and shows it to people. What’s the world coming to? May Allah improve us and give us all understanding.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.

146.THE MANIFESTATION OF AS-SABUR Sunday, 5 September 2021

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.

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim used to say that there is always a manifestation of Allah’s names according to times. As it is the end of times now, the current manifestation is of As-Sabur, the Most Patient. As-Sabr means patient and As-Sabur is the Most Patient Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla. This is His manifestation of patience.

There are many names of Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla. As Qiyāmah is near, the manifestation of the name As- Sabur is prevalent in the world. He is not giving punishment for so much rebellion, so much arrogance and so many objections against Allah and humanity because of the manifestation of As-Sabur.

People ask why there is no punishment for so many evil actions. Their punishment is in ākhirah. There is no place they can escape to. They may think “We can do anything we want. No one can question us. No one can say anything to us. We are powerful” as much as they want. Let them think so. There is nowhere they can run to. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla will bring them to account here and hereafter.

If they make oppression, even though they may seem unpunished, they will carry their punishment here. This is the justice of Allah. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla will punish everyone according to their actions. It is called “Yawm ul-Hisab”; there is the Day of Reckoning.

As we said Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla will not give peace to those who do evil. No oppressor, no evil-doer can say that he is at peace in this world. Just like people say, whoever has a clear conscience is at peace. Even though they may have a troubled living, whose conscience is clear is at peace. An oppressor is never at peace.

May Allah protect us. May Allah protect us from oppressing anyone and from going against Allah. May Allah forgive and give guidance to people.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq,
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