99 Drops From Endless Mercy Oceans (11/25)
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o live for? To eat as much green grass as possible, and that is their only aim. So if you are asking for a long life to enjoy eating and drinking, you have the same aim, and you are going to be on the same level as animals.
But if I am asking you and you are answering: “I am asking for a long life for my Lord’s service, for His worship, because it gives me honour. As long as I am alive, my honour is increasing. That is my aim.” Which of these positions is excellent? Do you think any religion may refuse what Islam is saying? They can’t. Therefore excellency is for Islam. The other religions are finishing, because they can’t give their followers that aim. No one can, except in Islam. In Islam it is the most distinguished Naqshibandi Order which is saying clearly and freely that we are asking for a long life to reach more honour in the Divine Presence through our divine service, serving our Lord. Is anything wrong with that? Therefore this is a helpful association that is giving to people new refreshment and power to continue with their Lord’s divine service. Cars never run without petrol, and believers can’t move without association with the Sheikh. Association, or an associated person, means someone joining with another person to be carried by his power from the earth to the heavens. This is one meaning of association: that you may join the caravan of Prophets and Saints moving towards their Lord’s divine service, towards the Divine Presence. Association is like a hook carrying people from the lowest to the highest life. It is a very important pillar of the most distinguished Naqshibandi Order. Even if only two or three brothers or sisters, followers of this Tariqat, are together, one of them must say something in their association, and the others must listen and follow. Our direction, our last destination, is the Divine Presence. Up to there we must move, as rivers run through the land without stopping, until they reach the ocean. So many rivers run in different directions to the ocean. When they reach to the ocean their waters don’t run anymore, there is no more movement, finished. Allah Almighty is saying: “Oh My servants, you are moving, you are running, doing this, doing that, until you reach My Divine Presence.” What you are doing is making the waters to approach the ocean. Lakes are not running, but rivers are, and when they reach the ocean, they reach to their aim... Our aim, everyone’s aim, is only to reach the Divine Oceans in the Divine Presence, and there are endless kinds of oceans. There is not only one ocean, no, there may be one for everyone, and he or she must run to reach his or her own ocean; then they will be in confidence.
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As a man runs after a beautiful lady, when he reaches to her, finished. Women are oceans for men. Men run after them, and when they reach them, they are in their oceans. It is important. Everyone is running to his ocean, and it is only one drop from your ocean that you have been granted in this life, a little bit. That one drop is enough to give you confidence to come to the ocean. What about when you are reaching that drop’s ocean in the Divine Presence, that you have been granted? You are swimming in it. Good tidings! Run to reach your ocean, your last destination in this life. But those without minds are now are leaving the ocean. They are going to the desert and, seeing a mirage on the horizon, they run to reach it and to find something, but nothing is there, and they are finished. Oh people, leave the mirage in the desert and come to your ocean, that is for you forever, your last destination in the Divine Presence: Love oceans, Beauty oceans which are endless, tasteful and sweet oceans, that you have been granted from your Lord Allah Almighty. Whoever runs after grass and meadows are like cattle, the butcher’s knife is waiting for them. But as for him who runs after those oceans in the Divine Presence, endless enjoyments are waiting for them, endless tastes, endless blessings, endless favours. You must decide which one is good for you. May Allah give us a mind to think about it. What Grandsheikh is giving to us here is not written in books. It is from the pearls of the Divine Oceans of Reality and Wisdom, take it and keep it carefully.
33- AL-GHAFUR: The Forgiving one "He is the most forgiving one, hiding our faults and treating them as if they had never existed. If He didn't hide our faults, adverse opinions, ugly thoughts and hateful feelings, everyone would run away from everyone else."
33- “ASK AND I SHALL GIVE TO YOU” “Subhanaka, la ‘ilma lana illa ma ‘alamtana, innaka Anta’l’Alimu’l Hakim...” (Sura 2:32) Allahu akbar... Ya ‘Alimu, ya Hakim, ‘alimna ma yanfa’una wa zidna ‘ilman! (And the Angels said:) “Praise be to You, we have no knowledge except that which you taught us- You are the Knowing, the Wise One.” Allahu Akbar. Oh Knowing One, oh Wise One, teach us what is beneficial for us and increase our knowledge always!) This is the most distinguished Naqshibandi Order and its main pillar is Sohbet, association with the Sheikh. We are asking, and they are giving. If we don’t ask, they will not give. Allah Almighty is saying: “Ask, and I shall give to you. “ First you must know what you are asking for. There was one person that Allah sent to a big Sultan, a great Sultan, and he came to him and brought something so that the Sultan was very happy with him and he said: “I am pleased with you. Ask, and whatever you ask for, I will grant to you. Immediately I will give it to you.” So that person was thinking: What may I ask for? My donkey is very hungry, and I have no straw. “Oh Sultan, give me a big bag of straw.” Allah, Allah, such a clever one. Do you understand the foolishness of that person? The Sultan was wondering: “That person, is he crazy, mad, no intelligence?” “Give him, what he is asking for. Give him ten bags of straw, and let him go.” The Lord of the Heavens, Allah Almighty, He is watching you when you are asking for something from Him, and most people ask for such like nonsense things. So many people come to me and say: “Tomorrow I am going for an exam, pray for me to pass.” Or: “I am going to graduate, please pray for my graduation” Every day so many people are coming to me and saying: “Oh Sheikh, pray for my shop, no one is coming.” Another one is asking: “Look for a good job for me,
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I have no job.” Or: “Oh Sheikh, ask for me from Allah Almighty a little bit more money.” Every day one brother is coming and asking me: “Sheikh, pray for me to have 4 legs.” Which means: he wants to get married. Asking me from the beginning of the day until sleeping time. So many people come and ask me to pray for this and that- all of it is nonsense. No one is coming and saying: “Oh Sheikh, please make Dua for me to be an accepted servant in the Divine Presence.” “Hello, Sheikh, please pray for me, because there is an election. I am putting my name down also, let peoples’ hearts awake to give their vote to support me, Oh Sheikh!” No one is coming and saying: “Oh Sheikh, pray for me to be closer to Allah Almighty’s most Beloved Servant Seyyedina Muhammad (sal), to be his neighbour in Paradise.” No one is coming and asking: “Oh my Master, pray for me to be closer to Allah Almighty.” Therefore, you must ask. But you must know what you are asking for, and from whom you are asking. If you are going to a village, you may ask for straw there, but it is not right, reaching a Sultan’s Palace, to ask straw from him. If you are using your mind it should show you what is true. If you are asking in your heart, your heart may accuse you and say: I am ashamed in front of the Lord of Heavens, that you are asking for something that has no value for Him. Oh people, you must know about the life on this planet, and you must know about the next life of endless eternity. He likes His servants to ask for eternity. It is such a sweet word- eternity. Even in your language I like it... Sermedi, endless eternity. Ask your Lord Allah Almighty for eternity. Never ending favours come from Him. Why are you not asking? What you are asking for? You are asking for something less than straw, much less. Therefore sometimes I am ashamed to recite Fatiha only for one person’s demand and wish, and I am saying: “Oh my Lord, I am reciting Fatiha on behalf of him, and for what everyone of Your Habib’s Nation is asking for with this Fatiha, grant it to them.” I don’t like to stop and make one Fatiha for one person only, no. Then it would be like a person asking to hunt, carrying a gun and finding a fly and saying: “I must shoot it!” “What are you shooting ? A fly... and it is a shame to shoot a fly and then try to find it. The fly either flew away or it is destroyed and finished.”
You are making this temporary life your target, asking to reach to something and shooting without reaching that target and you are getting old, before you are granted from Allah Almighty what you were asking for: towers of Nimrod, one hundred houses, shops, businesses, companies... Finally, at the final point of your life, what you were shooting at is going to disappear, and you run to look at what you were shooting- looking and finding nothing. “Oh, my shooting was so powerful that the target was finished- no sign of it!” Therefore it is important for everyone to ask something of value from Allah Almighty which He may grant to you. You must make Him pleased, and when He is pleased with you, He will say: “Oh My servant, everything is for you.” Why you are not trying to make Allah Almighty pleased with you? Try to make Him pleased, and then He will make you pleased. For every purpose you should be pleased.
“No God but Allah, Muhammad is His Messenger”
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34-ASH-SHAKUR: The Thankful, The Benefactor, The Appreciative "He is the one who repays a good deed with a much greater reward. Thankfulness is to return good with good. The thankful one knows that all he is and all he has is from Allah."
34- YOU MUST BE POWERFUL FOR ISLAM May Allah bless you and give you strong Iman and powerful actions, so that you are powerful members of Islam. This is important, as the Holy Prophet (sal) was saying: “A powerful person in Islam is better than a weak person.”. We are in need of powerful Muslims, not weak Muslims. If we are powerful then Shaitan should run away, because he fears powerful people in Islam. And there are two kinds of powerful people: according to their belief, and according to their physical body. So many physically powerful people fall down quickly and never give any benefit to Islam. And sometimes you may see a weak person, but he is powerful in his faith, not in his physical body. Power comes from the Heavens, and Heavens grant you as much power from the Power Oceans as you need. Spirituality is much more powerful than your physical body. The physical being has a temporary existence and you may ask: “How old are you?” But for the spiritual being no one can speak about it, or ask how old it is, no. No one knows the age of our souls except the One who created them. To be powerful is an order from the Saints, and particularly from Rasulullah (sal). They are asking for powerful Muslims, and the most powerful Muslim is the one who can catch the reigns of his ego. Who is not able to keep the reigns of his ego, his ego will throw him away. Therefore every association gives a kind of power to the attenders - whether they know it or not. That power is running, but you can’t see it and you can’t hear it. Allah, the Creator; Allah, the Great One- supreme Power Oceans are for Him, and eternity is for Him! Everything is
coming from Allah into existence, from pre-eternity up to endless eternity. Allah Almighty and no part of this life, no piece of material can make His power become less. You must ask for much more power from Allah Almighty to be strong believers, It is important to be powerful. But don’t try to be strong by eating and drinking- cows and oxen are much more powerful than you! If you want to plough, you need ten people on the right hand and ten people on the left to carry the plough through your land. Another point is to keep the power that you have been granted. A power from Allah Almighty may reach you and you become powerful, but for some reason you may lose it. And this means there is something wrong on your side, something wrong in the sight of the Divine Presence of Allah. And then even the smallest one of His creatures will make your power under zero. Keep yourself with power! It is not easy, because Shaitan is always attacking you in order to make you weak in front of your ego. Don’t listen to Kafir Shaitans - they may carry you to a bad place, and all your power may be taken in one or two minutes, and you will be left with nothing. Therefore sometimes doctors put a patient who is in a very dangerous situation in a room by himself. He may be very ill and weak. If someone comes in without permission he may catch what that person is carrying. Therefore always keep yourself strongly, so that Shaitan and shaitanic orders can’t affect you, and you should be free. May Allah bless you. You are coming to me from the furthest place on earth, Argentina. Even Australia is not so far, and Allah rewards you for every step, with so many rewards in Paradise. And for your honour, because you have been on Hajj visiting the House of the Lord, Allah rewards you double more than born Muslims. And also because you have been here in this holy month, Muharram, He will reward you with much more, and will open for you the doors of Islam. If you can call, ten, one hundred, or thousands and thousands of people may run after you...Keep yourself from Shaitan, be careful of his traps or tricks, so that you don?t fall into them. If you feel that you have been caught by Shaitan, quickly take a shower and pray 2 Rakaats. Ask
Allah Almighty for much more power, so that those black and narrow, terrible and nonsense thoughts, coming to your heart, should be taken away from you. Then that bad situation will leave you, and you may continue on your way to Allah Almighty. If anyone asks you what you are doing, you may say: ”We are travelers to Allah Almightys Divine Presence.’” . Hasbi Allahu wa niamal Wakil, la haula wa la quwatta illa bi’llahi’l ‘Aliyu’l ‘Azim.
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35-AL-ALI: The Highest One "His being high cannot be measured by the limited human intellect or imagined. Nothing is like Him."
35- ASK TO BE CLOSER TO ALLAH Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, Alhamdulillah, Tauba, ya Rabbi, Tauba, ya Rabbi, Tauba, Astaghfirullah... Tariqatuna as-sohbet wa khairu fi jamiat... Meded, Meded, ya Sahibu’l Meded... This is a new association with Sheikh which makes our friends or our followers improve; and improvement means to be closer to the Divine Presence. This is what we are asking. Only nomind people are asking to be closer to Dunya, and no one is going to take any benefit from that. But those who are asking to be closer to Maula, Allah Almighty, are reaching what they are asking for from His goodness and blessings. This is a humble meeting. What we are saying is going to be easily understood. You must ask from Allah Almighty to be closer to His Divine Presence. No matter how close you get to Dunya and its treasures, one day you are going to be far away from them- finally you are going to finish. And even if you carry all the keys to those treasures with you, you are not going to look at them. And if they bring the most beautiful lady to you, you are not going to look at her. This means that when you are going to get ready to leave this life and to go back to where you just came from, you are never going to look or to ask for those treasures of Dunya that you were trying and working so hard to reach. You are going to forget them. Therefore every Prophet and every Saint, particularly Sufi Orders, and among them the most distinguished Naqshabandi Order, are asking to make you run to your Lord and to get closer to Him, even if only by one foot. If you get the chance to come even one foot closer, you must take it. This is the main teaching of the Naqshabandi Order: to make people try and come closer to their Maula, the Lord of the Heavens.
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When the physical body is becoming weaker and you are losing your physical senses, your spiritual being is becoming much more powerful, asking to be closer and to reach to the Divine Presence. But now people are heedless, out of balance. There is a scale: on one side you have a pearl or diamond, and on the other dung, dirt from animals. And people leave the diamond and run to take the dirt. That is heedlessness. Why are you trying to reach so much from Dunya, and not asking to be closer to the Divine Presence and to take much more from there? They have no sense of balance; people have just lost their balance. Anyone who prefers his temporary life, leaving permanent blessings, is a mindless person. Therefore Allah Almighty says that these people are like animals. Not only like animals, but below animals. What is your judgment of a person who chooses this temporary life and its pleasures instead of permanent life and its enjoyments? It means that he has no mind. He is like an animal. And Allah Almighty even says: “Their level is under the level of animals”. We don’t know which day is going to be our last day. And it is enough for a person to know that for everyone there is going to be a last day in Dunya. On that day you are going to leave everything that you collected from the beginning up until that day, and you are have to get out. As a person loading a huge lorry, putting everything on it, and driving to the border. And there is a stop sign, and the guards come and say: “ From here onwards only you may pass.” He may say:”What about my lorry?” But the guards say: “There is no possibility for your lorry to move forward, no. You must come down and pass through. Leave everything there and you come.” How did you come to this world? You came naked from your mother’s womb, and quickly they covered your naked body with something from Dunya, wrapping you up in clothes. When you are leaving, the guards of the border between Dunya and Akhirat should say to you: “Leave everything there and you come.” And you are coming with your white clothes only. You must leave everything there, and you should look: “Oh... - how can I bring this lorry? What did I do? My whole life I was running, I didn’t rest or sleep, I gathered so many things and now they say that I can’t take it. How can I come without them?” But the guards would say: “Come, come, it is finished. These things are for those people in that area. You can’t bring them to this area.” Ya Latifu, lam tazzal. The last day is already appointed. Everyone has an appointment with the postman, the Angel of Death, who takes your soul to its Lord. He is looking in his diary, to see
with whom his appointment is. When your name is appearing, your appointment with him should be on that day, in such and such a place, at such and such a time. And he is coming quickly, carrying a big, big book, in which is written the appointments for all mankind. He is looking and saying: “Now I am coming to you, it is our appointment.” “How? I don’t know about this appointment, I thought there was some more time.” “No, it is written here. I am not coming one hour before or one hour after, I am so punctual, I come on time. It is finished, I am taking you now.” “What about my Dunya, my lorry, so many things, what I shall do?” “Leave that and you come alone.” Oh people, who are closer to Allah Almighty, will be dressed in heavenly dressings, to be taken to the Divine Presence of the Lord, Allah Almighty. But those who didn’t prepare themselves for that heavenly dress should be taken away- they can’t be taken to their Lord’s Divine Presence. Everyone is waiting for their last day, looking for their last moment, their journey from this temporary life to a permanent life. Oh people, take much more care for your eternal life. Try to be welcomed in a good way at the last moment when you are leaving this life. May Allah bless you and forgive us.
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36-AL-KABIR: The Most Great "His greatness stretches from before the beginning.......................... un
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o live for? To eat as much green grass as possible, and that is their only aim. So if you are asking for a long life to enjoy eating and drinking, you have the same aim, and you are going to be on the same level as animals.
But if I am asking you and you are answering: “I am asking for a long life for my Lord’s service, for His worship, because it gives me honour. As long as I am alive, my honour is increasing. That is my aim.” Which of these positions is excellent? Do you think any religion may refuse what Islam is saying? They can’t. Therefore excellency is for Islam. The other religions are finishing, because they can’t give their followers that aim. No one can, except in Islam. In Islam it is the most distinguished Naqshibandi Order which is saying clearly and freely that we are asking for a long life to reach more honour in the Divine Presence through our divine service, serving our Lord. Is anything wrong with that? Therefore this is a helpful association that is giving to people new refreshment and power to continue with their Lord’s divine service. Cars never run without petrol, and believers can’t move without association with the Sheikh. Association, or an associated person, means someone joining with another person to be carried by his power from the earth to the heavens. This is one meaning of association: that you may join the caravan of Prophets and Saints moving towards their Lord’s divine service, towards the Divine Presence. Association is like a hook carrying people from the lowest to the highest life. It is a very important pillar of the most distinguished Naqshibandi Order. Even if only two or three brothers or sisters, followers of this Tariqat, are together, one of them must say something in their association, and the others must listen and follow. Our direction, our last destination, is the Divine Presence. Up to there we must move, as rivers run through the land without stopping, until they reach the ocean. So many rivers run in different directions to the ocean. When they reach to the ocean their waters don’t run anymore, there is no more movement, finished. Allah Almighty is saying: “Oh My servants, you are moving, you are running, doing this, doing that, until you reach My Divine Presence.” What you are doing is making the waters to approach the ocean. Lakes are not running, but rivers are, and when they reach the ocean, they reach to their aim... Our aim, everyone’s aim, is only to reach the Divine Oceans in the Divine Presence, and there are endless kinds of oceans. There is not only one ocean, no, there may be one for everyone, and he or she must run to reach his or her own ocean; then they will be in confidence.
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As a man runs after a beautiful lady, when he reaches to her, finished. Women are oceans for men. Men run after them, and when they reach them, they are in their oceans. It is important. Everyone is running to his ocean, and it is only one drop from your ocean that you have been granted in this life, a little bit. That one drop is enough to give you confidence to come to the ocean. What about when you are reaching that drop’s ocean in the Divine Presence, that you have been granted? You are swimming in it. Good tidings! Run to reach your ocean, your last destination in this life. But those without minds are now are leaving the ocean. They are going to the desert and, seeing a mirage on the horizon, they run to reach it and to find something, but nothing is there, and they are finished. Oh people, leave the mirage in the desert and come to your ocean, that is for you forever, your last destination in the Divine Presence: Love oceans, Beauty oceans which are endless, tasteful and sweet oceans, that you have been granted from your Lord Allah Almighty. Whoever runs after grass and meadows are like cattle, the butcher’s knife is waiting for them. But as for him who runs after those oceans in the Divine Presence, endless enjoyments are waiting for them, endless tastes, endless blessings, endless favours. You must decide which one is good for you. May Allah give us a mind to think about it. What Grandsheikh is giving to us here is not written in books. It is from the pearls of the Divine Oceans of Reality and Wisdom, take it and keep it carefully.
33- AL-GHAFUR: The Forgiving one "He is the most forgiving one, hiding our faults and treating them as if they had never existed. If He didn't hide our faults, adverse opinions, ugly thoughts and hateful feelings, everyone would run away from everyone else."
33- “ASK AND I SHALL GIVE TO YOU” “Subhanaka, la ‘ilma lana illa ma ‘alamtana, innaka Anta’l’Alimu’l Hakim...” (Sura 2:32) Allahu akbar... Ya ‘Alimu, ya Hakim, ‘alimna ma yanfa’una wa zidna ‘ilman! (And the Angels said:) “Praise be to You, we have no knowledge except that which you taught us- You are the Knowing, the Wise One.” Allahu Akbar. Oh Knowing One, oh Wise One, teach us what is beneficial for us and increase our knowledge always!) This is the most distinguished Naqshibandi Order and its main pillar is Sohbet, association with the Sheikh. We are asking, and they are giving. If we don’t ask, they will not give. Allah Almighty is saying: “Ask, and I shall give to you. “ First you must know what you are asking for. There was one person that Allah sent to a big Sultan, a great Sultan, and he came to him and brought something so that the Sultan was very happy with him and he said: “I am pleased with you. Ask, and whatever you ask for, I will grant to you. Immediately I will give it to you.” So that person was thinking: What may I ask for? My donkey is very hungry, and I have no straw. “Oh Sultan, give me a big bag of straw.” Allah, Allah, such a clever one. Do you understand the foolishness of that person? The Sultan was wondering: “That person, is he crazy, mad, no intelligence?” “Give him, what he is asking for. Give him ten bags of straw, and let him go.” The Lord of the Heavens, Allah Almighty, He is watching you when you are asking for something from Him, and most people ask for such like nonsense things. So many people come to me and say: “Tomorrow I am going for an exam, pray for me to pass.” Or: “I am going to graduate, please pray for my graduation” Every day so many people are coming to me and saying: “Oh Sheikh, pray for my shop, no one is coming.” Another one is asking: “Look for a good job for me,
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I have no job.” Or: “Oh Sheikh, ask for me from Allah Almighty a little bit more money.” Every day one brother is coming and asking me: “Sheikh, pray for me to have 4 legs.” Which means: he wants to get married. Asking me from the beginning of the day until sleeping time. So many people come and ask me to pray for this and that- all of it is nonsense. No one is coming and saying: “Oh Sheikh, please make Dua for me to be an accepted servant in the Divine Presence.” “Hello, Sheikh, please pray for me, because there is an election. I am putting my name down also, let peoples’ hearts awake to give their vote to support me, Oh Sheikh!” No one is coming and saying: “Oh Sheikh, pray for me to be closer to Allah Almighty’s most Beloved Servant Seyyedina Muhammad (sal), to be his neighbour in Paradise.” No one is coming and asking: “Oh my Master, pray for me to be closer to Allah Almighty.” Therefore, you must ask. But you must know what you are asking for, and from whom you are asking. If you are going to a village, you may ask for straw there, but it is not right, reaching a Sultan’s Palace, to ask straw from him. If you are using your mind it should show you what is true. If you are asking in your heart, your heart may accuse you and say: I am ashamed in front of the Lord of Heavens, that you are asking for something that has no value for Him. Oh people, you must know about the life on this planet, and you must know about the next life of endless eternity. He likes His servants to ask for eternity. It is such a sweet word- eternity. Even in your language I like it... Sermedi, endless eternity. Ask your Lord Allah Almighty for eternity. Never ending favours come from Him. Why are you not asking? What you are asking for? You are asking for something less than straw, much less. Therefore sometimes I am ashamed to recite Fatiha only for one person’s demand and wish, and I am saying: “Oh my Lord, I am reciting Fatiha on behalf of him, and for what everyone of Your Habib’s Nation is asking for with this Fatiha, grant it to them.” I don’t like to stop and make one Fatiha for one person only, no. Then it would be like a person asking to hunt, carrying a gun and finding a fly and saying: “I must shoot it!” “What are you shooting ? A fly... and it is a shame to shoot a fly and then try to find it. The fly either flew away or it is destroyed and finished.”
You are making this temporary life your target, asking to reach to something and shooting without reaching that target and you are getting old, before you are granted from Allah Almighty what you were asking for: towers of Nimrod, one hundred houses, shops, businesses, companies... Finally, at the final point of your life, what you were shooting at is going to disappear, and you run to look at what you were shooting- looking and finding nothing. “Oh, my shooting was so powerful that the target was finished- no sign of it!” Therefore it is important for everyone to ask something of value from Allah Almighty which He may grant to you. You must make Him pleased, and when He is pleased with you, He will say: “Oh My servant, everything is for you.” Why you are not trying to make Allah Almighty pleased with you? Try to make Him pleased, and then He will make you pleased. For every purpose you should be pleased.
“No God but Allah, Muhammad is His Messenger”
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34-ASH-SHAKUR: The Thankful, The Benefactor, The Appreciative "He is the one who repays a good deed with a much greater reward. Thankfulness is to return good with good. The thankful one knows that all he is and all he has is from Allah."
34- YOU MUST BE POWERFUL FOR ISLAM May Allah bless you and give you strong Iman and powerful actions, so that you are powerful members of Islam. This is important, as the Holy Prophet (sal) was saying: “A powerful person in Islam is better than a weak person.”. We are in need of powerful Muslims, not weak Muslims. If we are powerful then Shaitan should run away, because he fears powerful people in Islam. And there are two kinds of powerful people: according to their belief, and according to their physical body. So many physically powerful people fall down quickly and never give any benefit to Islam. And sometimes you may see a weak person, but he is powerful in his faith, not in his physical body. Power comes from the Heavens, and Heavens grant you as much power from the Power Oceans as you need. Spirituality is much more powerful than your physical body. The physical being has a temporary existence and you may ask: “How old are you?” But for the spiritual being no one can speak about it, or ask how old it is, no. No one knows the age of our souls except the One who created them. To be powerful is an order from the Saints, and particularly from Rasulullah (sal). They are asking for powerful Muslims, and the most powerful Muslim is the one who can catch the reigns of his ego. Who is not able to keep the reigns of his ego, his ego will throw him away. Therefore every association gives a kind of power to the attenders - whether they know it or not. That power is running, but you can’t see it and you can’t hear it. Allah, the Creator; Allah, the Great One- supreme Power Oceans are for Him, and eternity is for Him! Everything is
coming from Allah into existence, from pre-eternity up to endless eternity. Allah Almighty and no part of this life, no piece of material can make His power become less. You must ask for much more power from Allah Almighty to be strong believers, It is important to be powerful. But don’t try to be strong by eating and drinking- cows and oxen are much more powerful than you! If you want to plough, you need ten people on the right hand and ten people on the left to carry the plough through your land. Another point is to keep the power that you have been granted. A power from Allah Almighty may reach you and you become powerful, but for some reason you may lose it. And this means there is something wrong on your side, something wrong in the sight of the Divine Presence of Allah. And then even the smallest one of His creatures will make your power under zero. Keep yourself with power! It is not easy, because Shaitan is always attacking you in order to make you weak in front of your ego. Don’t listen to Kafir Shaitans - they may carry you to a bad place, and all your power may be taken in one or two minutes, and you will be left with nothing. Therefore sometimes doctors put a patient who is in a very dangerous situation in a room by himself. He may be very ill and weak. If someone comes in without permission he may catch what that person is carrying. Therefore always keep yourself strongly, so that Shaitan and shaitanic orders can’t affect you, and you should be free. May Allah bless you. You are coming to me from the furthest place on earth, Argentina. Even Australia is not so far, and Allah rewards you for every step, with so many rewards in Paradise. And for your honour, because you have been on Hajj visiting the House of the Lord, Allah rewards you double more than born Muslims. And also because you have been here in this holy month, Muharram, He will reward you with much more, and will open for you the doors of Islam. If you can call, ten, one hundred, or thousands and thousands of people may run after you...Keep yourself from Shaitan, be careful of his traps or tricks, so that you don?t fall into them. If you feel that you have been caught by Shaitan, quickly take a shower and pray 2 Rakaats. Ask
Allah Almighty for much more power, so that those black and narrow, terrible and nonsense thoughts, coming to your heart, should be taken away from you. Then that bad situation will leave you, and you may continue on your way to Allah Almighty. If anyone asks you what you are doing, you may say: ”We are travelers to Allah Almightys Divine Presence.’” . Hasbi Allahu wa niamal Wakil, la haula wa la quwatta illa bi’llahi’l ‘Aliyu’l ‘Azim.
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35-AL-ALI: The Highest One "His being high cannot be measured by the limited human intellect or imagined. Nothing is like Him."
35- ASK TO BE CLOSER TO ALLAH Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, Alhamdulillah, Tauba, ya Rabbi, Tauba, ya Rabbi, Tauba, Astaghfirullah... Tariqatuna as-sohbet wa khairu fi jamiat... Meded, Meded, ya Sahibu’l Meded... This is a new association with Sheikh which makes our friends or our followers improve; and improvement means to be closer to the Divine Presence. This is what we are asking. Only nomind people are asking to be closer to Dunya, and no one is going to take any benefit from that. But those who are asking to be closer to Maula, Allah Almighty, are reaching what they are asking for from His goodness and blessings. This is a humble meeting. What we are saying is going to be easily understood. You must ask from Allah Almighty to be closer to His Divine Presence. No matter how close you get to Dunya and its treasures, one day you are going to be far away from them- finally you are going to finish. And even if you carry all the keys to those treasures with you, you are not going to look at them. And if they bring the most beautiful lady to you, you are not going to look at her. This means that when you are going to get ready to leave this life and to go back to where you just came from, you are never going to look or to ask for those treasures of Dunya that you were trying and working so hard to reach. You are going to forget them. Therefore every Prophet and every Saint, particularly Sufi Orders, and among them the most distinguished Naqshabandi Order, are asking to make you run to your Lord and to get closer to Him, even if only by one foot. If you get the chance to come even one foot closer, you must take it. This is the main teaching of the Naqshabandi Order: to make people try and come closer to their Maula, the Lord of the Heavens.
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When the physical body is becoming weaker and you are losing your physical senses, your spiritual being is becoming much more powerful, asking to be closer and to reach to the Divine Presence. But now people are heedless, out of balance. There is a scale: on one side you have a pearl or diamond, and on the other dung, dirt from animals. And people leave the diamond and run to take the dirt. That is heedlessness. Why are you trying to reach so much from Dunya, and not asking to be closer to the Divine Presence and to take much more from there? They have no sense of balance; people have just lost their balance. Anyone who prefers his temporary life, leaving permanent blessings, is a mindless person. Therefore Allah Almighty says that these people are like animals. Not only like animals, but below animals. What is your judgment of a person who chooses this temporary life and its pleasures instead of permanent life and its enjoyments? It means that he has no mind. He is like an animal. And Allah Almighty even says: “Their level is under the level of animals”. We don’t know which day is going to be our last day. And it is enough for a person to know that for everyone there is going to be a last day in Dunya. On that day you are going to leave everything that you collected from the beginning up until that day, and you are have to get out. As a person loading a huge lorry, putting everything on it, and driving to the border. And there is a stop sign, and the guards come and say: “ From here onwards only you may pass.” He may say:”What about my lorry?” But the guards say: “There is no possibility for your lorry to move forward, no. You must come down and pass through. Leave everything there and you come.” How did you come to this world? You came naked from your mother’s womb, and quickly they covered your naked body with something from Dunya, wrapping you up in clothes. When you are leaving, the guards of the border between Dunya and Akhirat should say to you: “Leave everything there and you come.” And you are coming with your white clothes only. You must leave everything there, and you should look: “Oh... - how can I bring this lorry? What did I do? My whole life I was running, I didn’t rest or sleep, I gathered so many things and now they say that I can’t take it. How can I come without them?” But the guards would say: “Come, come, it is finished. These things are for those people in that area. You can’t bring them to this area.” Ya Latifu, lam tazzal. The last day is already appointed. Everyone has an appointment with the postman, the Angel of Death, who takes your soul to its Lord. He is looking in his diary, to see
with whom his appointment is. When your name is appearing, your appointment with him should be on that day, in such and such a place, at such and such a time. And he is coming quickly, carrying a big, big book, in which is written the appointments for all mankind. He is looking and saying: “Now I am coming to you, it is our appointment.” “How? I don’t know about this appointment, I thought there was some more time.” “No, it is written here. I am not coming one hour before or one hour after, I am so punctual, I come on time. It is finished, I am taking you now.” “What about my Dunya, my lorry, so many things, what I shall do?” “Leave that and you come alone.” Oh people, who are closer to Allah Almighty, will be dressed in heavenly dressings, to be taken to the Divine Presence of the Lord, Allah Almighty. But those who didn’t prepare themselves for that heavenly dress should be taken away- they can’t be taken to their Lord’s Divine Presence. Everyone is waiting for their last day, looking for their last moment, their journey from this temporary life to a permanent life. Oh people, take much more care for your eternal life. Try to be welcomed in a good way at the last moment when you are leaving this life. May Allah bless you and forgive us.
“No God but Allah, Muhammad is His Messenger”
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36-AL-KABIR: The Most Great "His greatness stretches from before the beginning.......................... un
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