99 Drops From Endless Mercy Oceans (10/25)
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SICKNESS AND HEALTH These are our Grandsheikh’s advice about sickness. Health is most important for a man’s life, as the most precious knowledge is how to keep healthy. There are two kinds of illness. One belongs to bodies, and the second belongs to souls. The result of the first may be death; but soul’s sickness, if not treated, may be dangerous for the life in the hereafter as well as for this life. We must be very careful about it. There are 80,000 kinds of spiritual sicknesses. The soul is originally pure and healthy. Sickness comes from ego. As long as a man is under anesthetic, he cannot feel the pain of illness. Similarly, the ego makes us not to feel anything of spiritual sickness. A sick man cannot distinguish the taste between sweet and bitter. One sick in his soul cannot distinguish between right and wrong. It is important now in Western countries to have a family doctor, watching over the family members for signs of disease. You may ask, why? Don’t they know if they are ill? But many illnesses cannot be recognized in ourselves until it is too late. Also there must be a doctor of souls for people, because by themselves, and under the rule of Satan and the ego, they cannot know their illness. The ego furthermore is not allowing one to go for treatment, saying: “For what going, you are alright.” A man with a mind may know if he is under the rule of his ego. Look, if the ego is asking anything and you know in your mind that it is no good, but you can’t
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leave it. Knowing this but still doing it, in spite of the reality, means that your ruler is your ego. You are a donkey for your ego when you should be riding on him. Every ill person is under the control of Satan, his ego, this world and vain desires. We may control our desires, leaving forbidden ones completely, and for permitted ones, requiring the ego to ask permission, whether for eating, sleeping, or going with wives. All times we must be the ruler. All Prophets were eating, sleeping and marrying, but those doings were under their control. Our Grandsheikh says that spiritual illness results in being away from the Divine Presence. Satan represents all spiritual illnesses as he is forever going further away. We are asking always to approach the Divine Presence, the only way to be clean and healthy from ego’s illness. There are exercises for purification of the main elements in our nature; earth, air, fire, and water. All of these are opposed to each other and therefore disliked characteristics appear from everyone. We are in need for arranging these elements and turning them into harmony with each other. Such exercises are the same in every religion, but in different forms. Every Prophet and Saint was training people to reach that harmony. When you are in arrangement of yourself, you are safe from all illness. Then you will have reached to the relationship with the heavens. This is the meaning of purifying our bodies. We have a way and this is the first step in our teaching you. Now we are only listening and learning, afterwards we will enter laboratories to make experiments and then to the factory for forty (40) days, 24 hours a day. Then we must await the call of the Prophet anytime, telling us: “Come.” Our Grandsheikh was building a house in his village and expecting to make it two storied. But after one was up, Sheikh Sharafuddin told him to put the roof on and go in for five (5) years of Seclusion (khalwa). The order may find us in a difficult position, occupied by many things in this world. At that time you may think: “My wife“” My business!” You must be ready to leave all things that they may give you your keys to your treasure. But so many things obstruct us in carrying out that order. You must not think of anything. I was once with Grandsheikh for forty (40) days and for forty (40) nights and did not speak one word during this time. This was too heavy for me. I was ready to give up the entire world if he would speak to me. Then at dawn after the fortieth night he said: “This devotion is alright. The Prophet (sal) says you may stay until the Id (festival) or return to your brothers in Cyprus. You are free.” I didn’t say anything. The permission came for returning.
“Living as a dry leaf taken by the wind of the divine inspiration which takes it anywhere it wants”
29-AL-LATIF: The Fine, Subtle One "He is the most delicate, fine, gentle, beautiful one. He is the maker of a delicate beauty hidden in the secrets of the beauties of the soul, the mind, wisdom, the divine light."
29- THE IMPORTANCE OF MARRIAGE Marriage is a most important duty for everyone and the most important reason for the settlement and happiness of people in the world. It is the loveliest halal (permissible act) that people can do for Allah Almighty. The Prophet has said: “The most disliked halal to Allah is divorce.” When two persons marry, Allah calls to the Prophet and gives him good tidings: “I am pleased with my servants, you also be pleased with them.” The Prophet then calls all the saints and orders them to also be pleased. The praising of all the seven heaven’s angels for one day is given as a gift to those people. No one can comprehend what Allah gives to His servants. The Prophets and Saints also give. These gifts will appear on the Last Day, as this world and life cannot carry this. Whoever gives a gift to a newlywed is following Allah and the Prophet. It is impossible for him to leave this life devoid of the pleasure of Allah. The most important order after Iman, faith, for women and for men is marriage, particularly in this time. If not married, it is very difficult to carry out any other orders, such as praying, fasting, or going for pilgrimage, because Satan can work so many tricks to destroy worship. Fornication is the worst enemy of faith. The Prophet says that faith is a pearl and fornication makes it worthless. Therefore, marriage is the first order and will be the first order of Sayyidina Mahdi (alai) and Jesus when they come. Now, especially young people who enter into Islam must marry quickly, or it will be easy for Satan to catch them and take them back to where they were before. The perfection of people is for man to be man and woman to be woman. The first order to Father Adam was to marry Mother Eve. Those keeping marriage are on their way to paradise. Those refusing marriage are on their way to hell. We must try to make marriage easy for
everyone. As it is easy, more blessing is coming. Married men and women must know that all others are forbidden for them, and they must keep their eyes. With this looking to each other come sweetness and the happiest family. Now western people have so many troubles because they are always looking out. In the time when Jesus Christ comes back our life will be mixed with heavenly life. He will combine it and heavenly powers will spread among all people. When he dies, Allah Almighty will send a breeze from Paradise, of indescribable fragrance, with this all believers will die with him. It is impossible to speak now about the quality of life in his time. It will be opposite of what we know now.
30-AL-KHABIR: The Aware "He is aware of the hidden inner occurrences in everything.... nothing can escape His attention. He knows your most secret needs and wishes, your thoughts and actions."
30 - LIFE'S DESIRES ARE SURROUNDED BY DISLIKED THINGS To be one of the best servants you should try to learn more. All prophets advised this to their nations. And we, who are following their path, are trying to do as they did. We want people to learn to practice serving their Lord. That is our aim. Seyyadina Muhammad (sal) used to say that if one day is like the next, you have lost. It means, you must try to improve a little bit every day. Don’t stay on the same level. Push yourself further and further and still further. When we are trying to move in the direction of Allah, He will also come closer to you. If a servant comes closer to his Creator, his Creator will come even closer to him. Allah is watching whether His servant is trying to come closer, or not. Are people nowadays trying to come closer to their Lord? No, they are trying to be closer to dunya (the material world) and its pleasures. The more people ask for more pleasures in this life, more problems will come after them and surround them. This life’s pleasures are surrounded by disliked things, so by the time you reach these pleasures you will be exhausted. Still people are running after their physical body’s desires and enjoyments! There is probably only one person amongst 100,000 who wants spiritual pleasure and the Divine Presence instead. Most people are only running after this life. But the more you run after it, the more you will be surrounded by disliked things. Beware of physical desires! Be careful! They will occupy you uselessly and waste you. Finally they are like a mirage. It is like when you see water on the horizon of the desert and you run there to end up finding nothing. In the same way we are running after this life’s pleasure and will find nothing in the end. We would have wasted it. There will be no chance to come back and start from the beginning again. You only have one chance.
That is why we must have a control on ourselves. Beware of your ego. It just asks for more and more and then runs away. In the end you will have wasted yourself. Ask yourself whether you were created for eating and drinking only. No! We have been created for something else. Our eating and drinking is only meant to strengthen our physical body, so that we can use it for serving the Lord. Nowadays in the west the presumption is, that we have only been created to eat and drink and have our sexual enjoyments. We would then be no different to cattle. People do want to eat non-stop, they are chewing all day long, like cows. They do not realize that if you eat all the time, you lose your taste. Like if you eat a spoonful of honey you will enjoy it, but if you have to eat five (5) spoons in a row, you will refuse. This happens even with honey! Satan encourages people to want to eat all the time. In the old days the Romans would eat, then go and vomit and then continue to eat. For animals it makes sense to eat as much as possible because they are producing meat and eggs and milk for us to eat. But as for us it is forbidden to do things without limits. We must follow Divine Limits and Heavenly Rules. They give us a discipline for this life. When you are disciplined, you will find peace within yourself. When that has been established, peace will come. If people haven’t found peace within themselves, even crowds of people will not be peaceful. To fast is the biggest wisdom which Allah has ordered his servants from the beginning until now. Fast and you will find health, physically and spiritually! Someone who doesn’t will be sick physically and spiritually. It is a command coming from Heavens. It is for the full benefit of mankind. Sometimes an illness will come to people and the physician will order these people not to eat and drink for several days. If people die without having fasted they will be hungry and thirsty. If we keep His Holy Orders it is like glorifying the Lord. Try to understand Islam. Try to understand the Holy Commands in Islam. Try to understand the fasting in Islam and don’t accuse Islam in a foolish way. Whoever accuses Islam does not know anything about it. Islam is full of diamonds and pearls. Try to take some for yourself.
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31-AL-HALIM: The Forbearer, or The Forbearing One "He is forbearing in the punishment of the guilty. He waits... giving time to the sinner to realize his guilt, to regret, change, repent and compensate for the harm they have done, so that he may forgive them and transform them into good servants rather than destroy them."
31- METHODS FOR CLEANING THE HEART When we clean ourselves, it is not only important to dress in clean clothes but we must clean ourselves from the inside too. Those who want to reach Heavenly Stations will not be accepted if they are not clean. It is an order from Allah to His servants to be clean when they want to come into the Divine Presence. We know that we are weak people. Our hands are able to clean our bodies, but we cannot clean our hearts with them. We need someone to help us with that. Allah has sent His special servants who are always in connection with Heavenly Stations to teach people how to clean their hearts. It is not enough to do it in a physical way; it must be done from Heavens. The last Messenger, the Seal of Prophets, the most praised and beloved servant of Allah, Seyyadina Muhammad (sal) did his best by reaching to people with his real mission: to change their bad characteristics into the best. That was his, as well as the mission of all other prophets. This was their main mission. The prophets did not come to take benefit from this world. They did not ask for any material benefits, like palaces and servants and such material things. They were happy just to be the most humble servants of all. When you become humble, it will clean you. Pride makes you like a dirty pool in which every insect and fly lives. Humbleness will clean you up, and there will be no chance for any dirt to be there. All prophets were humble. The most humble servant of them all was the Seal of Prophets, Seyyadina Muhammad (sal), even though he had the highest, most praised name. He would used the simplest things in this life and he lived in the simplest of ways. He did this to teach people that simplicity is best for them. A simple life will prevent headaches, but if you have a complicated life you will have more and more headaches everyday. This is why everyone
comes and complains to me that they have a headache. Some of them really have a normal headache, but for most people it is not that simple. They have so many problems in their hearts that cause the headache. The Prophet used to live a simple life because he knew that people would otherwise want to have more and more from this world. He kept it to a minimum. It would have been no problem for him to live like a king, but he kept to simplicity so that his nation would not collapse under the wrong habits once they expanded. When Archangel Gabriel came to him and brought the keys of the treasures of earth and Heavens to him and said, “Oh Muhammad (sal) Allah is giving you this if you want it.” He answered, “I prefer to be full one day and empty the next. On the day I am full I can be grateful to my Lord, and on the day I am fasting I can beg my Lord for my sustenance. I like to be grateful on one day and patient the next.” Whoever belongs to his holy family must try to do the same. And those who belong to his nation should not run after this temporary life’s pleasures. If you have too many things you will become proud. If you let your ego ask for more, there will be no end. It will ask for more and more and ever more. You will have time for nothing else, than to fulfill your ego’s pleasures. This is why people will only get peace if they come down to a simple life. Technology enslaves people to work for it. It needs more and more slaves. Every new thing which comes into existence will be chased by our ego as we want to have it. Then when we have it something else will appear and we will chase that. There are endless desires in this direction. Therefore, put everything into proportion! Don’t become dependant on so much as if you were a giant. Your desires will make you believe that you are an ever expanding giant. Be satisfied with less. That is the way of prophets, the way of humbleness. Every possession will give a bit more of that proud characteristic. It feeds your pride, which is the worst. It makes people dirty. Proud people are the most disliked people amongst others. They are never accepted in the Divine Presence. Traditional teachings have always aimed at training people to get rid of their bad characteristics out of which pride is the first. The only way of doing that is by living a simple life in humbleness.
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We are now in the Holy Month of Ramadan and fasting is an important means to make our egos accept its own weakness. When a person recognizes his own weakness, he will not be proud. Hunger makes egos to come down. Traditional knowledge tells us that when Allah created the ego He asked, “Who am I and who are you?” The ego answered, “I am I and you are you. Just like you are someone, I am someone too. Don’t tell me that you are my lord and I am your servant.” Allah then ordered the ego to be imprisoned in the hot fire of hell for a thousand (1000) years. He then asked it the same question again and got the same answer. So the ego was sent back for another thousand (1000) years into the cold hell. Then again He obtained the same answer. The ego still could not accept being a servant, so it was ordered to be imprisoned in the Valley of Hunger for a further hundred (100) years. That was enough for 100 years and by then the ego happily admitted that it was a servant. So for training the ego you cannot find any method more useful than hunger. When you go and see animal shows in the circus, the wildest animals are will to learn all kinds of tricks, because they know that they will be rewarded with their favorite food afterwards. There is no better method than hunger to train the ego. The Sharia has ordered us to fast as a simple training, but for the complete training we have seclusion. By the blessings of our Lord, my Grandsheikh ordered me 6 times to go into seclusion and I completed it. My ego was telling me during those forty (40) days that it would be easier to fast for forty (40) years, than to make a seclusion for forty 40 days. May Allah forgive us and give us control over our egos so that we can control it and clean it. We can only go to Him clean. I saw the video Snow-White and the seven (7) dwarfs. One of them was always dirty, even though the Princess told him again and again to clean himself. I got the message that he was symbolizing the dirtiness of the ego. The others had to catch him and clean him by force. Our ego is the same; it will only be cleaned by force. The Naqshabandi method to clean the ego is to make seclusion. There are simple seclusions in which it can be caught and controlled. But to get the full cleanliness you need the full seclusion. Insha’ Allah we hope that we will be able to do that soon, in the coming years, , to clean up our followers and through that get a Heavenly Connection.
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32-AL-AZIM: The Great One "HE is absolutely and perfectly great. He is in need of nothing. We cannot understand His greatness nor imagine it."
32 - TOWARDS YOUR PRIVATE OCEAN IN THE DIVINE PRESENCE Who understands, may try to translate to who doesn’t understand. Audhu bi’llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismilla hir Rahman ir Rahim. I am intending a short association, but I am not in control. My Grandsheikh is above my position, and he is the commander and controller over me. So I may say to you that I am going to make a short association, but it may continue up until morning, it doesn’t matter. But, because we are weak people- I am asking forgiveness from our Grandsheikh for me and you- it should be a short address to you. Association with the Sheikh is one of the most important pillars of the most distinguished Naqshibandi Order; it must be. It is like petrol for the car, and man, or believers; they are in need to move towards Allah, towards the Heavens. We have been ordered and offered, as well as we have been called, to move towards the Heavens, not to stay on this wild world, asking to live on this earth for a hundred years and more, no. It is not a real target to live longer; but our aim must be to worship as much as possible, more and more. If we are asking for a long life, we are asking only for that purpose: to pray and worship and to obey the Lord of the Heavens’ commands and to ask from His endless mercy oceans. This is a true aim for everyone, a true target for the followers of all religions. If you ask a Christian: “Would you like to live a long life?”, he may say: “Yes.” Then we may ask: “Why are you asking for a long life?” “To eat and drink more.” That is the life of animals. It is not an aim to say: “I am asking for a long life for my ego to enjoy this life.” Cattle and sheep- what are they asking t
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SICKNESS AND HEALTH These are our Grandsheikh’s advice about sickness. Health is most important for a man’s life, as the most precious knowledge is how to keep healthy. There are two kinds of illness. One belongs to bodies, and the second belongs to souls. The result of the first may be death; but soul’s sickness, if not treated, may be dangerous for the life in the hereafter as well as for this life. We must be very careful about it. There are 80,000 kinds of spiritual sicknesses. The soul is originally pure and healthy. Sickness comes from ego. As long as a man is under anesthetic, he cannot feel the pain of illness. Similarly, the ego makes us not to feel anything of spiritual sickness. A sick man cannot distinguish the taste between sweet and bitter. One sick in his soul cannot distinguish between right and wrong. It is important now in Western countries to have a family doctor, watching over the family members for signs of disease. You may ask, why? Don’t they know if they are ill? But many illnesses cannot be recognized in ourselves until it is too late. Also there must be a doctor of souls for people, because by themselves, and under the rule of Satan and the ego, they cannot know their illness. The ego furthermore is not allowing one to go for treatment, saying: “For what going, you are alright.” A man with a mind may know if he is under the rule of his ego. Look, if the ego is asking anything and you know in your mind that it is no good, but you can’t
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leave it. Knowing this but still doing it, in spite of the reality, means that your ruler is your ego. You are a donkey for your ego when you should be riding on him. Every ill person is under the control of Satan, his ego, this world and vain desires. We may control our desires, leaving forbidden ones completely, and for permitted ones, requiring the ego to ask permission, whether for eating, sleeping, or going with wives. All times we must be the ruler. All Prophets were eating, sleeping and marrying, but those doings were under their control. Our Grandsheikh says that spiritual illness results in being away from the Divine Presence. Satan represents all spiritual illnesses as he is forever going further away. We are asking always to approach the Divine Presence, the only way to be clean and healthy from ego’s illness. There are exercises for purification of the main elements in our nature; earth, air, fire, and water. All of these are opposed to each other and therefore disliked characteristics appear from everyone. We are in need for arranging these elements and turning them into harmony with each other. Such exercises are the same in every religion, but in different forms. Every Prophet and Saint was training people to reach that harmony. When you are in arrangement of yourself, you are safe from all illness. Then you will have reached to the relationship with the heavens. This is the meaning of purifying our bodies. We have a way and this is the first step in our teaching you. Now we are only listening and learning, afterwards we will enter laboratories to make experiments and then to the factory for forty (40) days, 24 hours a day. Then we must await the call of the Prophet anytime, telling us: “Come.” Our Grandsheikh was building a house in his village and expecting to make it two storied. But after one was up, Sheikh Sharafuddin told him to put the roof on and go in for five (5) years of Seclusion (khalwa). The order may find us in a difficult position, occupied by many things in this world. At that time you may think: “My wife“” My business!” You must be ready to leave all things that they may give you your keys to your treasure. But so many things obstruct us in carrying out that order. You must not think of anything. I was once with Grandsheikh for forty (40) days and for forty (40) nights and did not speak one word during this time. This was too heavy for me. I was ready to give up the entire world if he would speak to me. Then at dawn after the fortieth night he said: “This devotion is alright. The Prophet (sal) says you may stay until the Id (festival) or return to your brothers in Cyprus. You are free.” I didn’t say anything. The permission came for returning.
“Living as a dry leaf taken by the wind of the divine inspiration which takes it anywhere it wants”
29-AL-LATIF: The Fine, Subtle One "He is the most delicate, fine, gentle, beautiful one. He is the maker of a delicate beauty hidden in the secrets of the beauties of the soul, the mind, wisdom, the divine light."
29- THE IMPORTANCE OF MARRIAGE Marriage is a most important duty for everyone and the most important reason for the settlement and happiness of people in the world. It is the loveliest halal (permissible act) that people can do for Allah Almighty. The Prophet has said: “The most disliked halal to Allah is divorce.” When two persons marry, Allah calls to the Prophet and gives him good tidings: “I am pleased with my servants, you also be pleased with them.” The Prophet then calls all the saints and orders them to also be pleased. The praising of all the seven heaven’s angels for one day is given as a gift to those people. No one can comprehend what Allah gives to His servants. The Prophets and Saints also give. These gifts will appear on the Last Day, as this world and life cannot carry this. Whoever gives a gift to a newlywed is following Allah and the Prophet. It is impossible for him to leave this life devoid of the pleasure of Allah. The most important order after Iman, faith, for women and for men is marriage, particularly in this time. If not married, it is very difficult to carry out any other orders, such as praying, fasting, or going for pilgrimage, because Satan can work so many tricks to destroy worship. Fornication is the worst enemy of faith. The Prophet says that faith is a pearl and fornication makes it worthless. Therefore, marriage is the first order and will be the first order of Sayyidina Mahdi (alai) and Jesus when they come. Now, especially young people who enter into Islam must marry quickly, or it will be easy for Satan to catch them and take them back to where they were before. The perfection of people is for man to be man and woman to be woman. The first order to Father Adam was to marry Mother Eve. Those keeping marriage are on their way to paradise. Those refusing marriage are on their way to hell. We must try to make marriage easy for
everyone. As it is easy, more blessing is coming. Married men and women must know that all others are forbidden for them, and they must keep their eyes. With this looking to each other come sweetness and the happiest family. Now western people have so many troubles because they are always looking out. In the time when Jesus Christ comes back our life will be mixed with heavenly life. He will combine it and heavenly powers will spread among all people. When he dies, Allah Almighty will send a breeze from Paradise, of indescribable fragrance, with this all believers will die with him. It is impossible to speak now about the quality of life in his time. It will be opposite of what we know now.
30-AL-KHABIR: The Aware "He is aware of the hidden inner occurrences in everything.... nothing can escape His attention. He knows your most secret needs and wishes, your thoughts and actions."
30 - LIFE'S DESIRES ARE SURROUNDED BY DISLIKED THINGS To be one of the best servants you should try to learn more. All prophets advised this to their nations. And we, who are following their path, are trying to do as they did. We want people to learn to practice serving their Lord. That is our aim. Seyyadina Muhammad (sal) used to say that if one day is like the next, you have lost. It means, you must try to improve a little bit every day. Don’t stay on the same level. Push yourself further and further and still further. When we are trying to move in the direction of Allah, He will also come closer to you. If a servant comes closer to his Creator, his Creator will come even closer to him. Allah is watching whether His servant is trying to come closer, or not. Are people nowadays trying to come closer to their Lord? No, they are trying to be closer to dunya (the material world) and its pleasures. The more people ask for more pleasures in this life, more problems will come after them and surround them. This life’s pleasures are surrounded by disliked things, so by the time you reach these pleasures you will be exhausted. Still people are running after their physical body’s desires and enjoyments! There is probably only one person amongst 100,000 who wants spiritual pleasure and the Divine Presence instead. Most people are only running after this life. But the more you run after it, the more you will be surrounded by disliked things. Beware of physical desires! Be careful! They will occupy you uselessly and waste you. Finally they are like a mirage. It is like when you see water on the horizon of the desert and you run there to end up finding nothing. In the same way we are running after this life’s pleasure and will find nothing in the end. We would have wasted it. There will be no chance to come back and start from the beginning again. You only have one chance.
That is why we must have a control on ourselves. Beware of your ego. It just asks for more and more and then runs away. In the end you will have wasted yourself. Ask yourself whether you were created for eating and drinking only. No! We have been created for something else. Our eating and drinking is only meant to strengthen our physical body, so that we can use it for serving the Lord. Nowadays in the west the presumption is, that we have only been created to eat and drink and have our sexual enjoyments. We would then be no different to cattle. People do want to eat non-stop, they are chewing all day long, like cows. They do not realize that if you eat all the time, you lose your taste. Like if you eat a spoonful of honey you will enjoy it, but if you have to eat five (5) spoons in a row, you will refuse. This happens even with honey! Satan encourages people to want to eat all the time. In the old days the Romans would eat, then go and vomit and then continue to eat. For animals it makes sense to eat as much as possible because they are producing meat and eggs and milk for us to eat. But as for us it is forbidden to do things without limits. We must follow Divine Limits and Heavenly Rules. They give us a discipline for this life. When you are disciplined, you will find peace within yourself. When that has been established, peace will come. If people haven’t found peace within themselves, even crowds of people will not be peaceful. To fast is the biggest wisdom which Allah has ordered his servants from the beginning until now. Fast and you will find health, physically and spiritually! Someone who doesn’t will be sick physically and spiritually. It is a command coming from Heavens. It is for the full benefit of mankind. Sometimes an illness will come to people and the physician will order these people not to eat and drink for several days. If people die without having fasted they will be hungry and thirsty. If we keep His Holy Orders it is like glorifying the Lord. Try to understand Islam. Try to understand the Holy Commands in Islam. Try to understand the fasting in Islam and don’t accuse Islam in a foolish way. Whoever accuses Islam does not know anything about it. Islam is full of diamonds and pearls. Try to take some for yourself.
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31-AL-HALIM: The Forbearer, or The Forbearing One "He is forbearing in the punishment of the guilty. He waits... giving time to the sinner to realize his guilt, to regret, change, repent and compensate for the harm they have done, so that he may forgive them and transform them into good servants rather than destroy them."
31- METHODS FOR CLEANING THE HEART When we clean ourselves, it is not only important to dress in clean clothes but we must clean ourselves from the inside too. Those who want to reach Heavenly Stations will not be accepted if they are not clean. It is an order from Allah to His servants to be clean when they want to come into the Divine Presence. We know that we are weak people. Our hands are able to clean our bodies, but we cannot clean our hearts with them. We need someone to help us with that. Allah has sent His special servants who are always in connection with Heavenly Stations to teach people how to clean their hearts. It is not enough to do it in a physical way; it must be done from Heavens. The last Messenger, the Seal of Prophets, the most praised and beloved servant of Allah, Seyyadina Muhammad (sal) did his best by reaching to people with his real mission: to change their bad characteristics into the best. That was his, as well as the mission of all other prophets. This was their main mission. The prophets did not come to take benefit from this world. They did not ask for any material benefits, like palaces and servants and such material things. They were happy just to be the most humble servants of all. When you become humble, it will clean you. Pride makes you like a dirty pool in which every insect and fly lives. Humbleness will clean you up, and there will be no chance for any dirt to be there. All prophets were humble. The most humble servant of them all was the Seal of Prophets, Seyyadina Muhammad (sal), even though he had the highest, most praised name. He would used the simplest things in this life and he lived in the simplest of ways. He did this to teach people that simplicity is best for them. A simple life will prevent headaches, but if you have a complicated life you will have more and more headaches everyday. This is why everyone
comes and complains to me that they have a headache. Some of them really have a normal headache, but for most people it is not that simple. They have so many problems in their hearts that cause the headache. The Prophet used to live a simple life because he knew that people would otherwise want to have more and more from this world. He kept it to a minimum. It would have been no problem for him to live like a king, but he kept to simplicity so that his nation would not collapse under the wrong habits once they expanded. When Archangel Gabriel came to him and brought the keys of the treasures of earth and Heavens to him and said, “Oh Muhammad (sal) Allah is giving you this if you want it.” He answered, “I prefer to be full one day and empty the next. On the day I am full I can be grateful to my Lord, and on the day I am fasting I can beg my Lord for my sustenance. I like to be grateful on one day and patient the next.” Whoever belongs to his holy family must try to do the same. And those who belong to his nation should not run after this temporary life’s pleasures. If you have too many things you will become proud. If you let your ego ask for more, there will be no end. It will ask for more and more and ever more. You will have time for nothing else, than to fulfill your ego’s pleasures. This is why people will only get peace if they come down to a simple life. Technology enslaves people to work for it. It needs more and more slaves. Every new thing which comes into existence will be chased by our ego as we want to have it. Then when we have it something else will appear and we will chase that. There are endless desires in this direction. Therefore, put everything into proportion! Don’t become dependant on so much as if you were a giant. Your desires will make you believe that you are an ever expanding giant. Be satisfied with less. That is the way of prophets, the way of humbleness. Every possession will give a bit more of that proud characteristic. It feeds your pride, which is the worst. It makes people dirty. Proud people are the most disliked people amongst others. They are never accepted in the Divine Presence. Traditional teachings have always aimed at training people to get rid of their bad characteristics out of which pride is the first. The only way of doing that is by living a simple life in humbleness.
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We are now in the Holy Month of Ramadan and fasting is an important means to make our egos accept its own weakness. When a person recognizes his own weakness, he will not be proud. Hunger makes egos to come down. Traditional knowledge tells us that when Allah created the ego He asked, “Who am I and who are you?” The ego answered, “I am I and you are you. Just like you are someone, I am someone too. Don’t tell me that you are my lord and I am your servant.” Allah then ordered the ego to be imprisoned in the hot fire of hell for a thousand (1000) years. He then asked it the same question again and got the same answer. So the ego was sent back for another thousand (1000) years into the cold hell. Then again He obtained the same answer. The ego still could not accept being a servant, so it was ordered to be imprisoned in the Valley of Hunger for a further hundred (100) years. That was enough for 100 years and by then the ego happily admitted that it was a servant. So for training the ego you cannot find any method more useful than hunger. When you go and see animal shows in the circus, the wildest animals are will to learn all kinds of tricks, because they know that they will be rewarded with their favorite food afterwards. There is no better method than hunger to train the ego. The Sharia has ordered us to fast as a simple training, but for the complete training we have seclusion. By the blessings of our Lord, my Grandsheikh ordered me 6 times to go into seclusion and I completed it. My ego was telling me during those forty (40) days that it would be easier to fast for forty (40) years, than to make a seclusion for forty 40 days. May Allah forgive us and give us control over our egos so that we can control it and clean it. We can only go to Him clean. I saw the video Snow-White and the seven (7) dwarfs. One of them was always dirty, even though the Princess told him again and again to clean himself. I got the message that he was symbolizing the dirtiness of the ego. The others had to catch him and clean him by force. Our ego is the same; it will only be cleaned by force. The Naqshabandi method to clean the ego is to make seclusion. There are simple seclusions in which it can be caught and controlled. But to get the full cleanliness you need the full seclusion. Insha’ Allah we hope that we will be able to do that soon, in the coming years, , to clean up our followers and through that get a Heavenly Connection.
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32-AL-AZIM: The Great One "HE is absolutely and perfectly great. He is in need of nothing. We cannot understand His greatness nor imagine it."
32 - TOWARDS YOUR PRIVATE OCEAN IN THE DIVINE PRESENCE Who understands, may try to translate to who doesn’t understand. Audhu bi’llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismilla hir Rahman ir Rahim. I am intending a short association, but I am not in control. My Grandsheikh is above my position, and he is the commander and controller over me. So I may say to you that I am going to make a short association, but it may continue up until morning, it doesn’t matter. But, because we are weak people- I am asking forgiveness from our Grandsheikh for me and you- it should be a short address to you. Association with the Sheikh is one of the most important pillars of the most distinguished Naqshibandi Order; it must be. It is like petrol for the car, and man, or believers; they are in need to move towards Allah, towards the Heavens. We have been ordered and offered, as well as we have been called, to move towards the Heavens, not to stay on this wild world, asking to live on this earth for a hundred years and more, no. It is not a real target to live longer; but our aim must be to worship as much as possible, more and more. If we are asking for a long life, we are asking only for that purpose: to pray and worship and to obey the Lord of the Heavens’ commands and to ask from His endless mercy oceans. This is a true aim for everyone, a true target for the followers of all religions. If you ask a Christian: “Would you like to live a long life?”, he may say: “Yes.” Then we may ask: “Why are you asking for a long life?” “To eat and drink more.” That is the life of animals. It is not an aim to say: “I am asking for a long life for my ego to enjoy this life.” Cattle and sheep- what are they asking t
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