Heavenly Wisdom (Shaykh Nāzim, 185 pages, 1/11)
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Shaykh Nāzim, Heavenly Wisdom
Mawlānā Shaykh Nāzim ق, Contemporary Teachings of a Sufi Master
Shaykh Mukammad Nāzim ‘Âdil al-Óaqqānî an-Naqshband
Summer 1997; Rama¡ān 1997/98 Compiled by Hanā’ Horack
The Cyprus Library, Centre for the Registration of Books and Serials documents the following edition
ISBN 978–9963–40–103–1, 2017
Compiled and edited by Hanâ Horack
Calligraphy on the cover page: “[Those who believe, and whose hearts find satisfaction in the remembrance of God:] for without doubt in the remembrance of God do hearts find satisfaction.” [Qur’ān, 13:28]
(transl. A. Yusuf Ali)
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 7
Part One, Summer 1997
MELTING 11
ONLY DRY BREAD 15
BE OF THE RIGHT HAND WAY! 19
RAINDROPS, SNOWFLAKES AND ANGELS 19
SHAItÂN’S STATION 21
EXPENSIVE COFFINS 24
THE PERFECTION OF PERFECTION 27
BE HAPPY YOU ARE NOT DONKEYS 28
SPIRITUAL TRUTH 32
UPHOLD YOUR HONOUR 34
HUMILITY 36
TRY TO BE PURE 41
TODAY THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT 47
A TREE IN THE SEVENTH HEAVEN 54
PRECIOUS MINDS 56
CONSEQUENCES 59
ASK FOR MERCY 60
TAKE CARE OF YOUR SOUL 61
HE IS PRESENT 62
DO NOT BE CHEATED! 67
CIVILISED ECONOMY? 70
Part Two, Rama¡ān 1997/98
COME OUT OF TIME AND SPACE 77
THE VALUE OF MANKIND 79
ENDLESS ENLIGHTENED HEAVENS. 83
MOVE INTO LIGHTS. 89
STAND IN HIS DIVINE PRESENCE 95
EVERYTHING IS PERFECT 101
ONLY ISLÂM PROTECTS HUMANITY 105
SEVEN NAMES – SEVEN HEAVENS 106
UNIMAGINABLE EVENTS 111
ISLÂM IS REALITY 116
THE SUN OF ISLÂM 117
HEAVENLY WHIRLING 123
FLOWERS IN THE DESERT 130
BE MERCIFUL TO EVERYONE 140
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL 141
THE FRIENDS OF ALLÂH ARE THE AWLIYÂ’ ALLÂH 148
REVOLUTION – RENEWAL 149
RÂBI‘AH SULtÂN 154
WE BRING TROUBLE ON OURSELVES 159
TURN YOUR HEARTS TO ALLÂH 161
NATURAL HEALTH. 162
THE MOST VALUABLE JEWEL 166
APHORISMS 171
GLOSSARY OF TERMS 173
INTRODUCTION
Whatis Sufism? Shaykh Nāzim has told us it is the rocket to our heavenly stations, the way to open the secret of our hearts, to find the jewel of our selves. The practice is based on love and discipline, and the guidance of a master (shaykh). The master is one who has already travelled the way and is authorised to bring us to the level which he has himself attained. To reach to the highest stations in Absolute Unity Oceans of Allāh Almighty, we require a shaykh, a master, who has reached and tasted these himself, who has, “one face here and one face there”. An important part of the method involves
sukbah, association – coming together for the sake of Allāh, being with the shaykh and his followers for the sake of praising and remem- bering Him; for the sake of coming to know Him.
This book contains a collection of sukbahs given by the Shaykh of The Way, Shaykh Nāzim al-Óaqqānî, to some of his murîds, seekers, in two visits to England – Summer 1997 and Rama¡ān 1997/98. They are presented in chronological order (but not all dated while it was not my intention to make a book at that time). The chronological order is given particular relevancy by the death of Princess Diana – her death brings the subject matter of the talks preceding it starkly home. I also hoped that it would help to draw the reader into the atmosphere of beauty and mercy which bathes all those who are pre- sent when Shaykh Nāzim speaks, for the sukbah is a holy meeting in the Divine Presence of Allāh Almighty. He has told us, “When My servants meet for My sake, I am with them,” and even one who is just passing through is blessed by the Mercy of Allāh Almighty.
This collection has been presented with the shaykh’s permission and his instruction to, “finish it,” when asked about how far one should edit the talks to conform to normal English usage. My in- tention was still to adhere, as far as possible, to Shaykh’s own words
while making grammatical and vocabulary corrections to clarify the confusing idiosyncracies of his English without altering, or imposing my interpretation on the meaning of what has been said. For the sake of easy reading Arabic terms and names are translated or explained in the glossary. There must be errors, but I have done my best to double check my hand written notes with cassette or video recordings.
The moment has passed. The days are gone. Can this compilation capture anything, can the reader enter anything of that time and space, when we were taken into realms that we barely recognise, except through the Grace and Mercy of Allāh and His messengers?
Herein is truly “Heavenly Wisdom”, and may Allāh give us the opening to hear it with our hearts, that we may take the jewel and travel on the Way. May He make us truly grateful to have been hon- oured to know His Friends; to have been honoured to be His servants. O Allāh, by Your Mercy, we are asking to follow in the footsteps of the Most Honoured of all Creation, the Best of all Creation, Sayyidinā Mukammad, peace be upon him. O Allāh, by Your Mercy make us dissolve into unity with our Shaykh, that we may dissolve into unity with Your Prophet, O Allāh, that it may be unity with You, each one a drop, vanishing into Your Endless Unity Oceans! Âmîn.
Thanks to Marwan Khalaf, my father, and Soreya Gramy for proof- reading, Umm Hanie’ Rebler for her advice, and Haºar Spohr for her tireless assistance!
And all success is from Allâh.
London, Rajab 1438 / April 2017 H a nâ’ Horack
Part One Summer 1997
The MELTING
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Aim of our association is for you to melt into your shaykh,
to melt into the reality of your shaykh, to join in unity with your shaykh. This unity with your shaykh leads you to unity with the Prophet, salla llâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and he leads you to the Unity Oceans of Allāh Almighty, through him you finally leave your per- sonality in His Unity Oceans, then you have finally accepted to be nothing. That is the real aim of sufi ways.
But these days everyone misunderstands. People think that being in the †arîqah will make them more and more important, more and more powerful. They want to prove their own existence, but †arîqah is really here to take everything from you, to bring you to the point of accepting that you are nothing. None of us were in existence here a hundred years ago, and in a hundred years from now none of us will still be in this form.
We are nothing. From one moment to another, we are nothing. This is because Allāh Almighty is continually recreating His Creation. Nothing exists uninterruptedly except Him. You must accept that you are nothing, you must accept the reality, you must not live in imagina- tion, you must accept that you are nothing. But your ego never accepts that it is nothing, it fights from the beginning to the end, insistently desiring to be something. You never let yourself disappear into His Unity Oceans, you never allow yourself to be like a drop of rain falling from the sky which vanishes when reaching the ocean. It disappears but becomes an ocean. It belongs to the ocean – it has disappeared, but has now reached endless existence through His Unity Oceans.
This is the hardest step for human nature to take. Most of our difficulties arise because we insist that we are something, someone, we exist, we do not want to disappear. Therefore, you are quarrel- ling, quarrelling, quarrelling and then reaching your end. You do not even accept that you are like this tape machine with its battery
– the battery is not going to last forever, it must finish, it must get weaker, and weaker, and weaker; then you throw it away. You too were granted, when you were in your mother’s womb, you were granted a ‘battery’, that powers your physical body. It helps you be visible on this earthly plane.
The lucky ones, who reach the source of their battery’s power before death, have reached heavenly powers and they never become dust in the tomb – prophets or awliyā’ never become dust. If you came and touched them you would see they are as fresh as you. They are the lucky ones who have reached these currents of endless power. You too will be truly lucky if you reach and melt into that power and disap- pear. That is the reason that Allāh Almighty sent heavenly beings to Mankind: they are the prophets’ inheritors – all of them are heavenly power stations, running to people offering them their heavenly con- nection, they are calling anyone who is seeking that power.
Some people ask about payment, “What must we pay?” – “You must give what you say belongs to you.” Then they say, “Okay, I will give everything – except my soul.” “No, you must also give your soul, then I can operate.” Rasûl Allāh’s, salla llâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, operation took seven/eight years, then he made the mi‘rāj, only then did he rise to the Divine Presence, to the Heavens. So you see, Rasûl Allāh is an example that everyone who desires to reach real powers must have their hearts operated on. And as you progress on the way, it becomes more disciplined, until reaching the point that you may never refuse anything that you find in sharî‘ah (the law).
In comparison, the surgeon’s operation is butchery, but if you have the operation that the Prophet, salla llâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, had, you will become an inheritor of the Prophet, ‘alayhi salâm. However, only one who has already had this operation is authorised to perform it for others – real heart surgeons are therefore very rare people. Real
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heart surgeons are very rare. Yet if you are sincerely asking for this operation, you may reach them and then they may operate on you. It is a little bit difficult for people, but the way is open. Heart surgeons welcome everyone from all stations in life, if they are asking for this operation and surrendering themselves.
There was a grandshaykh ... those people they drink water and we drink water, but what they take from water, we do not reach, everything is prepared for them on a perfect level. Bismi llāh, is the beginnning of perfection and it is a first step towards forcing your ego to surrender. If your ego does not surrender, you can never reach anything. And people are afraid of surrendering, to be in ‘Islām’, to surrender. Europeans tremble, western people tremble at the thought of surrendering their egos. But if you do not surrender to the surgeon, what can he do for you? People are asking to reach to the Heavens, but they are not surrendering their egos! They are asking to be taken up without boarding the aeroplane! “We don’t want to board the plane but you must still take us up to the Heavens!”
You must come to Islām. You must say, “Do as you like, just save me!” Like a terminally ill person comes and says, “Save my life!” Ah, save your life – a terminally ill person is prepared to take drastic steps, he is prepared to, ‘sign this paper’: I surrender to the hands of the surgeon, and in the small print it says that you accept responsibility if anything goes wrong, because this is a new, little tested, last hope remedy. But they will not accept a safe and sure way to Heavens because they have to abandon their ego!
The Sul†ān had promised this grandshaykh that he would never take any of his murîds into the army for national service. One day, however, the Sul†ān was in need of soldiers but everyone said: We are murîds of shaykh! So the Sul†ān wrote to the shaykh, “I am worrying about what will befall us, enemies are preparing to attack Islām and I am wondering where to find soldiers! Please send me some of your people!” “Don’t worry,” he replied, “I will send a big army to you!” He prepared two tents on a hill, and told his murîds that there would be a large gathering and they must all be present. Everyone arrived, and then the shaykh came out of his tent and called, “O my
murîds!” They replied,”O my shaykh!” “I have just been ordered to sacrifice my murîds for the sake of Allāh. Whoever is ready to sacrifice his soul, come and surrender to me!” One person jumped through the crowded people, “I am sacrificing my soul to Allāh, you may cut me, you may burn me, you may do as you like with me!”
Two persons with swords took him to a tent with a sheep in it, where they slaughtered the sheep and let its blood run out of the tent, while the murîd kicked his feet outside. The rest of the murîds looked at each other, horrified. Then one woman jumped up, “I am also sacri- ficing my soul! Into your hands I surrender my soul!” The rest of the murîds ran away to the other tent! The shaykh wrote a letter to the Sul†ān, “You may take your army, I have only two murîds.”
That is surrendering to your shaykh, that is surrendering to prophets and surrendering to Allāh Almighty. Then Allāh Almighty dresses you in wujud kaqqānî, a real body. This is an imitation body, He takes this and gives you a real body. Real – without end, eternal – kaqqānî.
Allâh Allâh, ‘Azîz Allâh – the Precious One Allâh Allâh, Karîm Allâh – the Generous One Allâh Allâh, Subªân Allâh – the Glorious One Allâh Allâh, Sul†ân Allâh – the Sultan
Think, if you had been called by the Grand Sul†ān, and had entered His Majesty’s presence and he had looked at you, in your old clothes, and had ordered, “Take these clothes from him, and clothe him from my royal robes!” Would you say, “No!”, or would you be happy? Yet these ones are asking for an imitation existence. He is saying, “I shall dress you in My Honour!”, and they are running away! They are leaving the worship of Allāh Almighty, who is offering divine robes, and they are asking for such ugly clothing! Day by day it is becom- ing uglier. He is calling you, “Come to Me, I shall dress you in My heavenly robes, that you may enter My Divine Presence!”
Heedless, twentieth century people ... Perhaps you have heard so many things over twenty years, but this association is clarify- ing millions of people’s real situation, it is making clear the ways
of Mankind! It is not something I have prepared, it is directly from our Grandshaykh, and it is a gift to you to be here and listen. We are asking you to hear and obey and to act. When you act, it means you have begun to step towards Him.
You will be happy to attain ... there is one maqām (spiritual sta- tion) which is for the prophet ‘alayhi s-salâm alone, maqām makmûd
–that only one person should reach – but everyone will reach the station prepared for them in the Divine Presence. May Allāh forgive me, and grant good understanding to you, and grant His Endless Blessings to you. Âmîn.
Perfection comes to people according to their capacities – and we ask for heavenly perfection, that may be forever. The imaginary perfection of dunyā gives nothing to people, it is of no benefit.
Everyone
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must give shukr, thanks. Everyone must try to be happy. Madad yâ sul†ân al-awliyâ’ ...
So many people are in existence – in the East, in the West, in the North, in the South, and you can find millions, even billions of people, with a similar appearance, but it is impossible to find two on an identical inner path, no-one’s desires run on the same track. There are millions of people, and everyone has been created unique, everyone in their own fashion. Not like cars – Mercedes or Ford or Fiat or Toyotas or tomatoes, white cars, red cars, Toyotas, tomatoes
... Car factories, they produce a new line every year, every year they bring out a new fashion – the ‘96 model’ has just passed away, and now we are presented with the ‘97 model’. They design all these new kinds of car, and change them once a year, we have the ‘97 model’, the ‘98 model’ and then ... I hope that by 1999, or in perhaps another year, I hope that there will be no more cars being designed. Then we will be very happy riding on donkeys.
Allāh Almighty designs and creates everyone uniquely. You cannot find identical people, not even twins are identical. And here is now a gathering of a handful of people, fifty, maybe a hundred people, and everyone is thinking something about their present life and their future – but most people are interested in their future in this life. Therefore, when we address people it needs some spiritual power to satisfy some of their desires, to give something to them, and to arrange their future. I like to invite everyone to ask questions if they wish, but sometimes what they ask is too personal, it is of no interest to everyone, and it is therefore inappropriate to occupy everyone with something that is not relevant. So, they come and ask privately – and they may reach something of their questions, but it is better to understand and take what you need in the group association with your shaykh, to be able to take what you need from these gatherings.
Who has been in an airport, returning from abroad? Yes ... and when you leave the plane and enter the terminal you see a sign. What is on that sign? What is written there? ... (No-one replies) No-one knows? You must pay attention to where you are! ... Baggage claim!... So you enter the Baggage Hall and wait for the belt to start. Now, when you are standing there and looking, and waiting, do you just take any bag or do you wait for your own? And in this way, you must also pay attention when you are in our association, particular atten- tion to take what is meant for you, because there is something in our association that is just for you and not for anyone else.
This time, in Heathrow, I was standing and looking for my bag for perhaps twenty minutes, a boy came along and offered to help look for it, “My bag is just a small one ...” But he did not find it. So I was still standing there, when suddenly a Sudanese man, with curly hair, appeared, “What are you looking for, shaykh?” I am looking for my luggage.” Can you describe it to me? Is there a label tied to it, how may I recognise it?”
Then he stopped and thought and said, “Are you sure that it is still on the belt? Perhaps someone has already taken it off?” I looked behind me, and standing there was my luggage! For half an hour I
had been looking at that belt, and there it was, just behind me! He smiled and disappeared. So, when you come and ask to take what is for you, we give it, as they send your luggage from the plane, we send you your luggage. You must try to take what is meant for you. But if you are ‘first-class stupid,’ like me, then you must wait until the end! This is good advice for everyone and it means that you must not waste your energy running after everything from this life.
Before Allāh Almighty created man, He created our provision, our rizq, 60,000 years ago, it was prepared. Then Allāh Almighty sent His servants to Earth, to take their provision here, and you must realise that no-one can take another’s provision, he may only take his own. The Chinese use chopsticks, eating grain after grain – we use spoons, taking more in one go, and everyone may eat from the same pot but he can still only eat what was granted to him on the ‘Day of Granting’. He must eat what was written for him, but he cannot take one grain of rice more from that pot, it is impossible to take what has not been granted to you. You cannot even drink more water than what has been written for you.
Therefore, you must try to be happy with what you have been granted of provision in your life. You must be happy with every- thing that Allāh Almighty granted. When you are happy with Allāh Almighty’s grant – then through His grant comes blessing. If you are not happy with what He granted to you it is not blessed food. Food is blessed when you are happy and pleased with what Allāh Almighty gave to you. Do not be envious of what other people are eating or wasting. If your lot is only dry bread – you should be happy with that. And know that Allāh Almighty tests His servants.
Servants. He does not say, “My slaves,” He honours you by say- ing, “Servants in My Divine Presence, servants in My Divine Serv- ice.” Look at people in royal service – you can see how happy and proud they are, serving the King or the Queen. And that service is nothing compared to when He grants you real life in Divine Service. Yet people are running away from a station of honour and chasing after a dishonourable life, only interested in satisfying their physical desires. People, ninety-nine point nine per cent, are bound by their
animalistic desires, happily enslaved by their egos. They think they are free but they are the slaves of their egos, slaves of Shay†ān, slaves of dunyā, slaves of their abnormal desires. Therefore, you must be happy that you have been chosen, that you have been asked to enter His Divine Service.
Most people choose to live like animals, like cattle in the fields, and that is the reason for all the disorder and accursed events that plague our times. Day by day problems are increasing – fighting and misery, illness and sickness, every negative thing is increasing without limit. No-one can stop it. Governments are powerless. Doctors are helpless, they cannot help their patients. Businessmen will never taste satis- faction, even if they make millions, or billions, of pounds, marks, or dollars. All because people are asking for something foolish.
Those people, who are happy with unlimited desires, think that they are going to live forever, that through their huge collections of money they will never die, that it will make them live forever. This is what they think. Shay†ān leads them to this, he says, “If you col- lect enough power, you will never die.”
Allāh Almighty says, “This is an illness of Mankind, that they like to take and not to give.” Everyone who likes to collect and not to give, is loading burdens on their shoulders. May Allāh save us from this burden, because when you are set on this path it is so difficult to save yourself. They are collecting money, collecting diamonds and precious things; collecting pounds, houses, palaces, collecting ships, yet they are really achieving nothing. They never ask to collect some- thing for their eternal life. And then they pass away.
Allāh Almighty, jalla jallâlahu, save us from this illness, and make us be happy with our lot and say,
Ash-shukru li-llâh, ash-shukru li-llâh – Thanks be to Allāh
Al-ªamdu li-llâh, at-tawbah li-llâh –
Praise be to Allāh, repentance be to Allāh
Astaghfiru llâh! – O Allāh forgive us!
He is the only Sul†ān, King of kings, and we are weak servants, and it is the highest honour that our Lord says to us, “My servants.”
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Do not ask for any more honour than that that He calls you: “O My servant! O My servants!”
BE OF THE RIGHT HAND WAY!
KHUtBAH *
O m y people! First I must speak to my people, who claim they
are Muslim through their parents and their ancestors, but if I spoke to them for twenty-four hours they and others of Muslim descend- ance would not really listen to me because they have lost their way. You must try to be first class Muslims, in real, not just in words. Ask to please Allāh Almighty, ask that He is pleased with you – that will make you happy, here and hereafter, and it makes your Lord pleased with you.
We are saying that this dunyā is reaching the end of the line. So be careful because this dunyā is approaching the last stop. Some people are going the right hand way, and it is the way of the righteous. Some people are going the left hand way, and it is the way of Hells. O people, ask to be of the right hand way! O people, be careful to be of the right hand way!
RAINDROPS, SNOWFLAKES AND ANGELS
(Written from memory, they were rhetorical questions with poetic an- swers.)
What does science know? What does science know?
* Khu†bah, special address given at the Friday Prayers, at Shacklewell Lane, London. At this mosque Shaykh Nāzim always gives a khu†bah in Turkish first.
How can the rain reach the earth?
How can each drop of rain reach the earth?
How can one drop of rain, each one such a small spot, come from 10,000 meters and reach the earth?
How? When the sewage from planes never reaches?
How can the cloud stay in the sky? How can it be water and not ice? How does the sky end?
What is the end of blue? What comes after blue?
What is there that science can tell you? ...
Every drop of rain is brought by an angel, and when that drop reaches to the earth, that angel goes away. Every snowflake is brought by an angel, and when that snowflake reaches the earth, that angel stays with it, that is why it is much more barakah (blessing) for the earth when it snows.
(Someone asks Shaykh about the comet that is known to be ap- proaching this planet): Yes, there is a comet now approaching the Earth, and when it comes there will be two suns in the sky, it is a sign of the coming of Gog and Magog. And when they come they will eat everything softer than a stone.
(Gog and Magog were imprisoned behind a wall of ice by Dhu l-Qarnayn, Two Horns, and they have been trying to eat their way out ever since.)
Two suns – Gog and Magog, Two suns – Melting the ice, Two suns – Gog and Magog, Two Horns –
Eating their way, Two horns – Gog and Magog.
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Allâh Allâh, ‘Azîz Allâh, Allâh Allâh, Karîm Allâh, Allâh Allâh, Subªân Allâh, Allâh Allâh, Sul†ân Allâh!
Yo u ar e Sultân, we are slaves ... Allāh Almighty made the day for work, and the night for rest, and that is to the benefit of Mankind. On this occasion, we have been invited by Dr Ó. and his wife. They have invited so many of my Lord’s servants – some of them have been with us before, and some of them not – and it is good, even for a short time, to make an association, khitāb, a speech, an address, to you.
We have had a delicious dinner from our ‘landlady’ and everyone is happy, but we are in need of a spiritual feeling. I do not claim to be a person of high rank. No, you must be happy with a weak servant to address you – if you do not reach the supermarket, you must be happy with what is in the boot sale. Yes, if we do not find new things, we must be happy with second hand, third hand, fourth hand, one hundredth hand! You do not always find first class things so then you must be happy with second hand furniture, second hand flowers, sec- ond hand cars, second hand food. You do not have a Mercedes? Then a lorry is okay, even if it only goes twenty kilometers an hour!
Everyone is thinking about something. Everyone is thinking about yesterday. So many people are thinking, but very few people are think- ing about Rama¡ān, and very, very few people are thinking about ākhirah (the hereafter). Everyone is running after a ‘Layla’, they are all occupied by someone or something. People’s minds are occupied, and people’s hearts are occupied, and, on the whole, what occupies them is thinking about someone else! Is that ‘someone else’ their Lord? Only a few people occupy their hearts with their Lord. Those who are
with their Lord, yearning for closeness to Him, those who are wishing to be close to Allāh Almighty are very rare people.
Most people are yearning to be closer to dunyā and its pleasures. That means most people are running to fulfill their physical body’s desires, and very few people are asking satisfaction for their spiritual beings. Do you think you could find a million mosques full of people, in London, at night? Only a handful of mosques are open at night, no churches are open at night, cathedrals have limited services, maybe only once a year, maybe ten times, but on normal nights you cannot find anyone going to churches intending to be with their Lord. Most people are running to the houses of Shay†ān. Shay†ān’s headquarters. Shay†ān’s station.
Where is the station of Shay†ān? If anyone asks you this, what are you going to say? If anyone asks you where are Shay†ān’s headquarters you must know an answer – in the pubs! Second – hospitals. Third – courts. Fourth – prisons. Fifth – banks. Sixth – banks. Seventh – the City. Eighth – Picadilly Circus. Ninth – Oxford Street. Tenth – Parliament. Every street, everywhere, is under their command, except in front of Buckingham Palace. You cannot find a spiritual center open at this time (around 11.00 pm) in the whole of London – do you think you can? No! You may run around the whole of London, and if you find a spiritual meeting I will shave off my beard, like Doctor Ó.! Finished – people have no interest, no desire. They are so far from their spiritual desires, from their spirituality ... so fed up, it holds no attraction for them, they have no wish for spirituality, they are closed. Their hearts are locked.
They never try to connect to their spirituality and that is ter- rible. It is very terrible for the future of Mankind on Earth because, as a result, people have no more control over their desires. No-one ever reaches satisfaction through unlimited freedom, but everyone is asking for unlimited freedom, and unlimited freedom imprisons everyone! When everyone is asking for unlimited freedom, it means you cannot find the space to take even one step.
Shay†ān is leading people to this idea, Shay†ān is working on youngster’s minds and saying to them, “You must try to live in ab- solute freedom, you must ask for absolute freedom! You must not
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accept any discipline!” And that is what they are running after: a life without discipline. No-one in western countries accepts heaven- ly discipline; western Muslims do not accept any more heavenly discipline. People are asking to have no more government, rules, or legal restrictions preventing them from doing this or that. Shay†ān and his human representatives are telling youngsters to run in that direction, to ask for freedom from rules, to be without rules, “Ask to live without rulers and without rules!”
The aim of these devils is to make the twenty-first century abso- lutely for themselves. That is why they are urging people to follow this way and not to accept any discipline at all. “Freedom to do what we want!” They want to make this world free, without discipline, a jungle. But even in the jungle they live under hidden discipline. Al- lāh Almighty has established that only a hungry lion may hunt and then it may kill only one, even if it meets hundreds of deer, or cows, or zebras, goats and other animals. Divine Discipline prevents then taking more, “Only hunt one, do not touch more, you must limit yourself to only what you can eat, and you must lie there, and you must say, Subkān Allāh! Subkān Allāh! Subkān Allāh!“
But ‘two legs’ is aiming for a jungle lifestyle without the discipline that even animals obey! If they go to the jungle they are not only going to hunt one, ‘two legs’ wants to hunt everything in the jungle! Mankind is the most violent, the wildest of creatures. Man is the most violent creature. When he goes hunting he hunts everything; he never says, “Enough.” If they could find a way, they would hunt everything in the jungle, aiming not to leave anything alive. Those devils and the Antichrist, Dajjāl, who will appear later, are telling people to run wild; they are intending to take the second millenium for themselves. That is finished! None of them are going to reach their target; these violent ones are now reaching their limits!
May Allāh forgive us, and grant us good understanding, and deliver us from Hells, punishment and miseries, here and hereafter.
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One day will come to everyone ...
Madad yâ sul†ân al-awliyâ’,
A‘ûdhu bi-llâhi mina sh-shay†âni r-rajîm, Bismi llâhi r-raªmâni r-raªîm.
O ur lives are rushing past, it seems as though they are standing still, but they are flying by. This meeting will come to an end, after a while this assembly is going to change. There will be another mee- ting, another act. We will move on to other events. No moment is continuous, every moment, every hour, every day, every point in time is constantly changing. We are changing, every moment we change. And finally after so much, or so little, running, running, running, living, living, living – they end. Our lives stop.
Our physical lives end, because the engine that empowers us leaves this body. When that engine stops and leaves, our body is finished. It is useless. You may put it in a very expensive coffin and you can be sure that that coffin is much more expensive than your body be- cause you have to pay for your coffin, but no-one paid for their body. Then they put your body in its expensive box and take it away to a deep hole in the ground. That coffin is buried in the graveyard and is covered with earth, even though it was expensive, so that no-one will see it and no-one will smell anything.
Everyone will end up in a cemetery. You may try everything to prevent it. You may be someone ‘important’, but your life is going to end in the graveyard. Is there anyone who never came to rest in a grave? Kings? Ministers? Lords, MPs, archbishops, popes, bishops, reverends and business men, big business men, rich ones, shaykhs, doctors, magistrates, graduates from Oxford, from Cambridge, from
expen siv e coff i n s
London, from the moon, from the sun, from Pakistan. All of them come to an end in a graveyard. So why are we quarrelling? It is fool- ish! Foolishness. Mankind is foolish! From your palaces, from your castles, from your high buildings – Come down to earth! Why are you quarrelling? Millionaires or billionaires – all of them will be buried in a graveyard. Hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, billions of people – daily! “O ‘Umar, you are asking for an adviser,
Death is enough, he is a first class adviser to you!” (From a saying of the Prophet k, addressed to ‘Umar ibn al-Kha††āb.)
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Shaykh Nāzim, Heavenly Wisdom
Mawlānā Shaykh Nāzim ق, Contemporary Teachings of a Sufi Master
Shaykh Mukammad Nāzim ‘Âdil al-Óaqqānî an-Naqshband
Summer 1997; Rama¡ān 1997/98 Compiled by Hanā’ Horack
The Cyprus Library, Centre for the Registration of Books and Serials documents the following edition
ISBN 978–9963–40–103–1, 2017
Compiled and edited by Hanâ Horack
Calligraphy on the cover page: “[Those who believe, and whose hearts find satisfaction in the remembrance of God:] for without doubt in the remembrance of God do hearts find satisfaction.” [Qur’ān, 13:28]
(transl. A. Yusuf Ali)
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION 7
Part One, Summer 1997
MELTING 11
ONLY DRY BREAD 15
BE OF THE RIGHT HAND WAY! 19
RAINDROPS, SNOWFLAKES AND ANGELS 19
SHAItÂN’S STATION 21
EXPENSIVE COFFINS 24
THE PERFECTION OF PERFECTION 27
BE HAPPY YOU ARE NOT DONKEYS 28
SPIRITUAL TRUTH 32
UPHOLD YOUR HONOUR 34
HUMILITY 36
TRY TO BE PURE 41
TODAY THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT 47
A TREE IN THE SEVENTH HEAVEN 54
PRECIOUS MINDS 56
CONSEQUENCES 59
ASK FOR MERCY 60
TAKE CARE OF YOUR SOUL 61
HE IS PRESENT 62
DO NOT BE CHEATED! 67
CIVILISED ECONOMY? 70
Part Two, Rama¡ān 1997/98
COME OUT OF TIME AND SPACE 77
THE VALUE OF MANKIND 79
ENDLESS ENLIGHTENED HEAVENS. 83
MOVE INTO LIGHTS. 89
STAND IN HIS DIVINE PRESENCE 95
EVERYTHING IS PERFECT 101
ONLY ISLÂM PROTECTS HUMANITY 105
SEVEN NAMES – SEVEN HEAVENS 106
UNIMAGINABLE EVENTS 111
ISLÂM IS REALITY 116
THE SUN OF ISLÂM 117
HEAVENLY WHIRLING 123
FLOWERS IN THE DESERT 130
BE MERCIFUL TO EVERYONE 140
ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL 141
THE FRIENDS OF ALLÂH ARE THE AWLIYÂ’ ALLÂH 148
REVOLUTION – RENEWAL 149
RÂBI‘AH SULtÂN 154
WE BRING TROUBLE ON OURSELVES 159
TURN YOUR HEARTS TO ALLÂH 161
NATURAL HEALTH. 162
THE MOST VALUABLE JEWEL 166
APHORISMS 171
GLOSSARY OF TERMS 173
INTRODUCTION
Whatis Sufism? Shaykh Nāzim has told us it is the rocket to our heavenly stations, the way to open the secret of our hearts, to find the jewel of our selves. The practice is based on love and discipline, and the guidance of a master (shaykh). The master is one who has already travelled the way and is authorised to bring us to the level which he has himself attained. To reach to the highest stations in Absolute Unity Oceans of Allāh Almighty, we require a shaykh, a master, who has reached and tasted these himself, who has, “one face here and one face there”. An important part of the method involves
sukbah, association – coming together for the sake of Allāh, being with the shaykh and his followers for the sake of praising and remem- bering Him; for the sake of coming to know Him.
This book contains a collection of sukbahs given by the Shaykh of The Way, Shaykh Nāzim al-Óaqqānî, to some of his murîds, seekers, in two visits to England – Summer 1997 and Rama¡ān 1997/98. They are presented in chronological order (but not all dated while it was not my intention to make a book at that time). The chronological order is given particular relevancy by the death of Princess Diana – her death brings the subject matter of the talks preceding it starkly home. I also hoped that it would help to draw the reader into the atmosphere of beauty and mercy which bathes all those who are pre- sent when Shaykh Nāzim speaks, for the sukbah is a holy meeting in the Divine Presence of Allāh Almighty. He has told us, “When My servants meet for My sake, I am with them,” and even one who is just passing through is blessed by the Mercy of Allāh Almighty.
This collection has been presented with the shaykh’s permission and his instruction to, “finish it,” when asked about how far one should edit the talks to conform to normal English usage. My in- tention was still to adhere, as far as possible, to Shaykh’s own words
while making grammatical and vocabulary corrections to clarify the confusing idiosyncracies of his English without altering, or imposing my interpretation on the meaning of what has been said. For the sake of easy reading Arabic terms and names are translated or explained in the glossary. There must be errors, but I have done my best to double check my hand written notes with cassette or video recordings.
The moment has passed. The days are gone. Can this compilation capture anything, can the reader enter anything of that time and space, when we were taken into realms that we barely recognise, except through the Grace and Mercy of Allāh and His messengers?
Herein is truly “Heavenly Wisdom”, and may Allāh give us the opening to hear it with our hearts, that we may take the jewel and travel on the Way. May He make us truly grateful to have been hon- oured to know His Friends; to have been honoured to be His servants. O Allāh, by Your Mercy, we are asking to follow in the footsteps of the Most Honoured of all Creation, the Best of all Creation, Sayyidinā Mukammad, peace be upon him. O Allāh, by Your Mercy make us dissolve into unity with our Shaykh, that we may dissolve into unity with Your Prophet, O Allāh, that it may be unity with You, each one a drop, vanishing into Your Endless Unity Oceans! Âmîn.
Thanks to Marwan Khalaf, my father, and Soreya Gramy for proof- reading, Umm Hanie’ Rebler for her advice, and Haºar Spohr for her tireless assistance!
And all success is from Allâh.
London, Rajab 1438 / April 2017 H a nâ’ Horack
Part One Summer 1997
The MELTING
ST ANNE’S, LONDON
Aim of our association is for you to melt into your shaykh,
to melt into the reality of your shaykh, to join in unity with your shaykh. This unity with your shaykh leads you to unity with the Prophet, salla llâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and he leads you to the Unity Oceans of Allāh Almighty, through him you finally leave your per- sonality in His Unity Oceans, then you have finally accepted to be nothing. That is the real aim of sufi ways.
But these days everyone misunderstands. People think that being in the †arîqah will make them more and more important, more and more powerful. They want to prove their own existence, but †arîqah is really here to take everything from you, to bring you to the point of accepting that you are nothing. None of us were in existence here a hundred years ago, and in a hundred years from now none of us will still be in this form.
We are nothing. From one moment to another, we are nothing. This is because Allāh Almighty is continually recreating His Creation. Nothing exists uninterruptedly except Him. You must accept that you are nothing, you must accept the reality, you must not live in imagina- tion, you must accept that you are nothing. But your ego never accepts that it is nothing, it fights from the beginning to the end, insistently desiring to be something. You never let yourself disappear into His Unity Oceans, you never allow yourself to be like a drop of rain falling from the sky which vanishes when reaching the ocean. It disappears but becomes an ocean. It belongs to the ocean – it has disappeared, but has now reached endless existence through His Unity Oceans.
This is the hardest step for human nature to take. Most of our difficulties arise because we insist that we are something, someone, we exist, we do not want to disappear. Therefore, you are quarrel- ling, quarrelling, quarrelling and then reaching your end. You do not even accept that you are like this tape machine with its battery
– the battery is not going to last forever, it must finish, it must get weaker, and weaker, and weaker; then you throw it away. You too were granted, when you were in your mother’s womb, you were granted a ‘battery’, that powers your physical body. It helps you be visible on this earthly plane.
The lucky ones, who reach the source of their battery’s power before death, have reached heavenly powers and they never become dust in the tomb – prophets or awliyā’ never become dust. If you came and touched them you would see they are as fresh as you. They are the lucky ones who have reached these currents of endless power. You too will be truly lucky if you reach and melt into that power and disap- pear. That is the reason that Allāh Almighty sent heavenly beings to Mankind: they are the prophets’ inheritors – all of them are heavenly power stations, running to people offering them their heavenly con- nection, they are calling anyone who is seeking that power.
Some people ask about payment, “What must we pay?” – “You must give what you say belongs to you.” Then they say, “Okay, I will give everything – except my soul.” “No, you must also give your soul, then I can operate.” Rasûl Allāh’s, salla llâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, operation took seven/eight years, then he made the mi‘rāj, only then did he rise to the Divine Presence, to the Heavens. So you see, Rasûl Allāh is an example that everyone who desires to reach real powers must have their hearts operated on. And as you progress on the way, it becomes more disciplined, until reaching the point that you may never refuse anything that you find in sharî‘ah (the law).
In comparison, the surgeon’s operation is butchery, but if you have the operation that the Prophet, salla llâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, had, you will become an inheritor of the Prophet, ‘alayhi salâm. However, only one who has already had this operation is authorised to perform it for others – real heart surgeons are therefore very rare people. Real
m el ti n g
heart surgeons are very rare. Yet if you are sincerely asking for this operation, you may reach them and then they may operate on you. It is a little bit difficult for people, but the way is open. Heart surgeons welcome everyone from all stations in life, if they are asking for this operation and surrendering themselves.
There was a grandshaykh ... those people they drink water and we drink water, but what they take from water, we do not reach, everything is prepared for them on a perfect level. Bismi llāh, is the beginnning of perfection and it is a first step towards forcing your ego to surrender. If your ego does not surrender, you can never reach anything. And people are afraid of surrendering, to be in ‘Islām’, to surrender. Europeans tremble, western people tremble at the thought of surrendering their egos. But if you do not surrender to the surgeon, what can he do for you? People are asking to reach to the Heavens, but they are not surrendering their egos! They are asking to be taken up without boarding the aeroplane! “We don’t want to board the plane but you must still take us up to the Heavens!”
You must come to Islām. You must say, “Do as you like, just save me!” Like a terminally ill person comes and says, “Save my life!” Ah, save your life – a terminally ill person is prepared to take drastic steps, he is prepared to, ‘sign this paper’: I surrender to the hands of the surgeon, and in the small print it says that you accept responsibility if anything goes wrong, because this is a new, little tested, last hope remedy. But they will not accept a safe and sure way to Heavens because they have to abandon their ego!
The Sul†ān had promised this grandshaykh that he would never take any of his murîds into the army for national service. One day, however, the Sul†ān was in need of soldiers but everyone said: We are murîds of shaykh! So the Sul†ān wrote to the shaykh, “I am worrying about what will befall us, enemies are preparing to attack Islām and I am wondering where to find soldiers! Please send me some of your people!” “Don’t worry,” he replied, “I will send a big army to you!” He prepared two tents on a hill, and told his murîds that there would be a large gathering and they must all be present. Everyone arrived, and then the shaykh came out of his tent and called, “O my
murîds!” They replied,”O my shaykh!” “I have just been ordered to sacrifice my murîds for the sake of Allāh. Whoever is ready to sacrifice his soul, come and surrender to me!” One person jumped through the crowded people, “I am sacrificing my soul to Allāh, you may cut me, you may burn me, you may do as you like with me!”
Two persons with swords took him to a tent with a sheep in it, where they slaughtered the sheep and let its blood run out of the tent, while the murîd kicked his feet outside. The rest of the murîds looked at each other, horrified. Then one woman jumped up, “I am also sacri- ficing my soul! Into your hands I surrender my soul!” The rest of the murîds ran away to the other tent! The shaykh wrote a letter to the Sul†ān, “You may take your army, I have only two murîds.”
That is surrendering to your shaykh, that is surrendering to prophets and surrendering to Allāh Almighty. Then Allāh Almighty dresses you in wujud kaqqānî, a real body. This is an imitation body, He takes this and gives you a real body. Real – without end, eternal – kaqqānî.
Allâh Allâh, ‘Azîz Allâh – the Precious One Allâh Allâh, Karîm Allâh – the Generous One Allâh Allâh, Subªân Allâh – the Glorious One Allâh Allâh, Sul†ân Allâh – the Sultan
Think, if you had been called by the Grand Sul†ān, and had entered His Majesty’s presence and he had looked at you, in your old clothes, and had ordered, “Take these clothes from him, and clothe him from my royal robes!” Would you say, “No!”, or would you be happy? Yet these ones are asking for an imitation existence. He is saying, “I shall dress you in My Honour!”, and they are running away! They are leaving the worship of Allāh Almighty, who is offering divine robes, and they are asking for such ugly clothing! Day by day it is becom- ing uglier. He is calling you, “Come to Me, I shall dress you in My heavenly robes, that you may enter My Divine Presence!”
Heedless, twentieth century people ... Perhaps you have heard so many things over twenty years, but this association is clarify- ing millions of people’s real situation, it is making clear the ways
of Mankind! It is not something I have prepared, it is directly from our Grandshaykh, and it is a gift to you to be here and listen. We are asking you to hear and obey and to act. When you act, it means you have begun to step towards Him.
You will be happy to attain ... there is one maqām (spiritual sta- tion) which is for the prophet ‘alayhi s-salâm alone, maqām makmûd
–that only one person should reach – but everyone will reach the station prepared for them in the Divine Presence. May Allāh forgive me, and grant good understanding to you, and grant His Endless Blessings to you. Âmîn.
Perfection comes to people according to their capacities – and we ask for heavenly perfection, that may be forever. The imaginary perfection of dunyā gives nothing to people, it is of no benefit.
Everyone
ONLY DRY BREAD
ST ANNE’S, LONDON
must give shukr, thanks. Everyone must try to be happy. Madad yâ sul†ân al-awliyâ’ ...
So many people are in existence – in the East, in the West, in the North, in the South, and you can find millions, even billions of people, with a similar appearance, but it is impossible to find two on an identical inner path, no-one’s desires run on the same track. There are millions of people, and everyone has been created unique, everyone in their own fashion. Not like cars – Mercedes or Ford or Fiat or Toyotas or tomatoes, white cars, red cars, Toyotas, tomatoes
... Car factories, they produce a new line every year, every year they bring out a new fashion – the ‘96 model’ has just passed away, and now we are presented with the ‘97 model’. They design all these new kinds of car, and change them once a year, we have the ‘97 model’, the ‘98 model’ and then ... I hope that by 1999, or in perhaps another year, I hope that there will be no more cars being designed. Then we will be very happy riding on donkeys.
Allāh Almighty designs and creates everyone uniquely. You cannot find identical people, not even twins are identical. And here is now a gathering of a handful of people, fifty, maybe a hundred people, and everyone is thinking something about their present life and their future – but most people are interested in their future in this life. Therefore, when we address people it needs some spiritual power to satisfy some of their desires, to give something to them, and to arrange their future. I like to invite everyone to ask questions if they wish, but sometimes what they ask is too personal, it is of no interest to everyone, and it is therefore inappropriate to occupy everyone with something that is not relevant. So, they come and ask privately – and they may reach something of their questions, but it is better to understand and take what you need in the group association with your shaykh, to be able to take what you need from these gatherings.
Who has been in an airport, returning from abroad? Yes ... and when you leave the plane and enter the terminal you see a sign. What is on that sign? What is written there? ... (No-one replies) No-one knows? You must pay attention to where you are! ... Baggage claim!... So you enter the Baggage Hall and wait for the belt to start. Now, when you are standing there and looking, and waiting, do you just take any bag or do you wait for your own? And in this way, you must also pay attention when you are in our association, particular atten- tion to take what is meant for you, because there is something in our association that is just for you and not for anyone else.
This time, in Heathrow, I was standing and looking for my bag for perhaps twenty minutes, a boy came along and offered to help look for it, “My bag is just a small one ...” But he did not find it. So I was still standing there, when suddenly a Sudanese man, with curly hair, appeared, “What are you looking for, shaykh?” I am looking for my luggage.” Can you describe it to me? Is there a label tied to it, how may I recognise it?”
Then he stopped and thought and said, “Are you sure that it is still on the belt? Perhaps someone has already taken it off?” I looked behind me, and standing there was my luggage! For half an hour I
had been looking at that belt, and there it was, just behind me! He smiled and disappeared. So, when you come and ask to take what is for you, we give it, as they send your luggage from the plane, we send you your luggage. You must try to take what is meant for you. But if you are ‘first-class stupid,’ like me, then you must wait until the end! This is good advice for everyone and it means that you must not waste your energy running after everything from this life.
Before Allāh Almighty created man, He created our provision, our rizq, 60,000 years ago, it was prepared. Then Allāh Almighty sent His servants to Earth, to take their provision here, and you must realise that no-one can take another’s provision, he may only take his own. The Chinese use chopsticks, eating grain after grain – we use spoons, taking more in one go, and everyone may eat from the same pot but he can still only eat what was granted to him on the ‘Day of Granting’. He must eat what was written for him, but he cannot take one grain of rice more from that pot, it is impossible to take what has not been granted to you. You cannot even drink more water than what has been written for you.
Therefore, you must try to be happy with what you have been granted of provision in your life. You must be happy with every- thing that Allāh Almighty granted. When you are happy with Allāh Almighty’s grant – then through His grant comes blessing. If you are not happy with what He granted to you it is not blessed food. Food is blessed when you are happy and pleased with what Allāh Almighty gave to you. Do not be envious of what other people are eating or wasting. If your lot is only dry bread – you should be happy with that. And know that Allāh Almighty tests His servants.
Servants. He does not say, “My slaves,” He honours you by say- ing, “Servants in My Divine Presence, servants in My Divine Serv- ice.” Look at people in royal service – you can see how happy and proud they are, serving the King or the Queen. And that service is nothing compared to when He grants you real life in Divine Service. Yet people are running away from a station of honour and chasing after a dishonourable life, only interested in satisfying their physical desires. People, ninety-nine point nine per cent, are bound by their
animalistic desires, happily enslaved by their egos. They think they are free but they are the slaves of their egos, slaves of Shay†ān, slaves of dunyā, slaves of their abnormal desires. Therefore, you must be happy that you have been chosen, that you have been asked to enter His Divine Service.
Most people choose to live like animals, like cattle in the fields, and that is the reason for all the disorder and accursed events that plague our times. Day by day problems are increasing – fighting and misery, illness and sickness, every negative thing is increasing without limit. No-one can stop it. Governments are powerless. Doctors are helpless, they cannot help their patients. Businessmen will never taste satis- faction, even if they make millions, or billions, of pounds, marks, or dollars. All because people are asking for something foolish.
Those people, who are happy with unlimited desires, think that they are going to live forever, that through their huge collections of money they will never die, that it will make them live forever. This is what they think. Shay†ān leads them to this, he says, “If you col- lect enough power, you will never die.”
Allāh Almighty says, “This is an illness of Mankind, that they like to take and not to give.” Everyone who likes to collect and not to give, is loading burdens on their shoulders. May Allāh save us from this burden, because when you are set on this path it is so difficult to save yourself. They are collecting money, collecting diamonds and precious things; collecting pounds, houses, palaces, collecting ships, yet they are really achieving nothing. They never ask to collect some- thing for their eternal life. And then they pass away.
Allāh Almighty, jalla jallâlahu, save us from this illness, and make us be happy with our lot and say,
Ash-shukru li-llâh, ash-shukru li-llâh – Thanks be to Allāh
Al-ªamdu li-llâh, at-tawbah li-llâh –
Praise be to Allāh, repentance be to Allāh
Astaghfiru llâh! – O Allāh forgive us!
He is the only Sul†ān, King of kings, and we are weak servants, and it is the highest honour that our Lord says to us, “My servants.”
b e of th e right ha n d wa y
Do not ask for any more honour than that that He calls you: “O My servant! O My servants!”
BE OF THE RIGHT HAND WAY!
KHUtBAH *
O m y people! First I must speak to my people, who claim they
are Muslim through their parents and their ancestors, but if I spoke to them for twenty-four hours they and others of Muslim descend- ance would not really listen to me because they have lost their way. You must try to be first class Muslims, in real, not just in words. Ask to please Allāh Almighty, ask that He is pleased with you – that will make you happy, here and hereafter, and it makes your Lord pleased with you.
We are saying that this dunyā is reaching the end of the line. So be careful because this dunyā is approaching the last stop. Some people are going the right hand way, and it is the way of the righteous. Some people are going the left hand way, and it is the way of Hells. O people, ask to be of the right hand way! O people, be careful to be of the right hand way!
RAINDROPS, SNOWFLAKES AND ANGELS
(Written from memory, they were rhetorical questions with poetic an- swers.)
What does science know? What does science know?
* Khu†bah, special address given at the Friday Prayers, at Shacklewell Lane, London. At this mosque Shaykh Nāzim always gives a khu†bah in Turkish first.
How can the rain reach the earth?
How can each drop of rain reach the earth?
How can one drop of rain, each one such a small spot, come from 10,000 meters and reach the earth?
How? When the sewage from planes never reaches?
How can the cloud stay in the sky? How can it be water and not ice? How does the sky end?
What is the end of blue? What comes after blue?
What is there that science can tell you? ...
Every drop of rain is brought by an angel, and when that drop reaches to the earth, that angel goes away. Every snowflake is brought by an angel, and when that snowflake reaches the earth, that angel stays with it, that is why it is much more barakah (blessing) for the earth when it snows.
(Someone asks Shaykh about the comet that is known to be ap- proaching this planet): Yes, there is a comet now approaching the Earth, and when it comes there will be two suns in the sky, it is a sign of the coming of Gog and Magog. And when they come they will eat everything softer than a stone.
(Gog and Magog were imprisoned behind a wall of ice by Dhu l-Qarnayn, Two Horns, and they have been trying to eat their way out ever since.)
Two suns – Gog and Magog, Two suns – Melting the ice, Two suns – Gog and Magog, Two Horns –
Eating their way, Two horns – Gog and Magog.
SHAYtÂN’S STATION
ST ANNE’S, LONDON
Allâh Allâh, ‘Azîz Allâh, Allâh Allâh, Karîm Allâh, Allâh Allâh, Subªân Allâh, Allâh Allâh, Sul†ân Allâh!
Yo u ar e Sultân, we are slaves ... Allāh Almighty made the day for work, and the night for rest, and that is to the benefit of Mankind. On this occasion, we have been invited by Dr Ó. and his wife. They have invited so many of my Lord’s servants – some of them have been with us before, and some of them not – and it is good, even for a short time, to make an association, khitāb, a speech, an address, to you.
We have had a delicious dinner from our ‘landlady’ and everyone is happy, but we are in need of a spiritual feeling. I do not claim to be a person of high rank. No, you must be happy with a weak servant to address you – if you do not reach the supermarket, you must be happy with what is in the boot sale. Yes, if we do not find new things, we must be happy with second hand, third hand, fourth hand, one hundredth hand! You do not always find first class things so then you must be happy with second hand furniture, second hand flowers, sec- ond hand cars, second hand food. You do not have a Mercedes? Then a lorry is okay, even if it only goes twenty kilometers an hour!
Everyone is thinking about something. Everyone is thinking about yesterday. So many people are thinking, but very few people are think- ing about Rama¡ān, and very, very few people are thinking about ākhirah (the hereafter). Everyone is running after a ‘Layla’, they are all occupied by someone or something. People’s minds are occupied, and people’s hearts are occupied, and, on the whole, what occupies them is thinking about someone else! Is that ‘someone else’ their Lord? Only a few people occupy their hearts with their Lord. Those who are
with their Lord, yearning for closeness to Him, those who are wishing to be close to Allāh Almighty are very rare people.
Most people are yearning to be closer to dunyā and its pleasures. That means most people are running to fulfill their physical body’s desires, and very few people are asking satisfaction for their spiritual beings. Do you think you could find a million mosques full of people, in London, at night? Only a handful of mosques are open at night, no churches are open at night, cathedrals have limited services, maybe only once a year, maybe ten times, but on normal nights you cannot find anyone going to churches intending to be with their Lord. Most people are running to the houses of Shay†ān. Shay†ān’s headquarters. Shay†ān’s station.
Where is the station of Shay†ān? If anyone asks you this, what are you going to say? If anyone asks you where are Shay†ān’s headquarters you must know an answer – in the pubs! Second – hospitals. Third – courts. Fourth – prisons. Fifth – banks. Sixth – banks. Seventh – the City. Eighth – Picadilly Circus. Ninth – Oxford Street. Tenth – Parliament. Every street, everywhere, is under their command, except in front of Buckingham Palace. You cannot find a spiritual center open at this time (around 11.00 pm) in the whole of London – do you think you can? No! You may run around the whole of London, and if you find a spiritual meeting I will shave off my beard, like Doctor Ó.! Finished – people have no interest, no desire. They are so far from their spiritual desires, from their spirituality ... so fed up, it holds no attraction for them, they have no wish for spirituality, they are closed. Their hearts are locked.
They never try to connect to their spirituality and that is ter- rible. It is very terrible for the future of Mankind on Earth because, as a result, people have no more control over their desires. No-one ever reaches satisfaction through unlimited freedom, but everyone is asking for unlimited freedom, and unlimited freedom imprisons everyone! When everyone is asking for unlimited freedom, it means you cannot find the space to take even one step.
Shay†ān is leading people to this idea, Shay†ān is working on youngster’s minds and saying to them, “You must try to live in ab- solute freedom, you must ask for absolute freedom! You must not
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accept any discipline!” And that is what they are running after: a life without discipline. No-one in western countries accepts heaven- ly discipline; western Muslims do not accept any more heavenly discipline. People are asking to have no more government, rules, or legal restrictions preventing them from doing this or that. Shay†ān and his human representatives are telling youngsters to run in that direction, to ask for freedom from rules, to be without rules, “Ask to live without rulers and without rules!”
The aim of these devils is to make the twenty-first century abso- lutely for themselves. That is why they are urging people to follow this way and not to accept any discipline at all. “Freedom to do what we want!” They want to make this world free, without discipline, a jungle. But even in the jungle they live under hidden discipline. Al- lāh Almighty has established that only a hungry lion may hunt and then it may kill only one, even if it meets hundreds of deer, or cows, or zebras, goats and other animals. Divine Discipline prevents then taking more, “Only hunt one, do not touch more, you must limit yourself to only what you can eat, and you must lie there, and you must say, Subkān Allāh! Subkān Allāh! Subkān Allāh!“
But ‘two legs’ is aiming for a jungle lifestyle without the discipline that even animals obey! If they go to the jungle they are not only going to hunt one, ‘two legs’ wants to hunt everything in the jungle! Mankind is the most violent, the wildest of creatures. Man is the most violent creature. When he goes hunting he hunts everything; he never says, “Enough.” If they could find a way, they would hunt everything in the jungle, aiming not to leave anything alive. Those devils and the Antichrist, Dajjāl, who will appear later, are telling people to run wild; they are intending to take the second millenium for themselves. That is finished! None of them are going to reach their target; these violent ones are now reaching their limits!
May Allāh forgive us, and grant us good understanding, and deliver us from Hells, punishment and miseries, here and hereafter.
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Madad yâ sul†ân al-awliyâ’.
One day will come to everyone ...
Madad yâ sul†ân al-awliyâ’,
A‘ûdhu bi-llâhi mina sh-shay†âni r-rajîm, Bismi llâhi r-raªmâni r-raªîm.
O ur lives are rushing past, it seems as though they are standing still, but they are flying by. This meeting will come to an end, after a while this assembly is going to change. There will be another mee- ting, another act. We will move on to other events. No moment is continuous, every moment, every hour, every day, every point in time is constantly changing. We are changing, every moment we change. And finally after so much, or so little, running, running, running, living, living, living – they end. Our lives stop.
Our physical lives end, because the engine that empowers us leaves this body. When that engine stops and leaves, our body is finished. It is useless. You may put it in a very expensive coffin and you can be sure that that coffin is much more expensive than your body be- cause you have to pay for your coffin, but no-one paid for their body. Then they put your body in its expensive box and take it away to a deep hole in the ground. That coffin is buried in the graveyard and is covered with earth, even though it was expensive, so that no-one will see it and no-one will smell anything.
Everyone will end up in a cemetery. You may try everything to prevent it. You may be someone ‘important’, but your life is going to end in the graveyard. Is there anyone who never came to rest in a grave? Kings? Ministers? Lords, MPs, archbishops, popes, bishops, reverends and business men, big business men, rich ones, shaykhs, doctors, magistrates, graduates from Oxford, from Cambridge, from
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London, from the moon, from the sun, from Pakistan. All of them come to an end in a graveyard. So why are we quarrelling? It is fool- ish! Foolishness. Mankind is foolish! From your palaces, from your castles, from your high buildings – Come down to earth! Why are you quarrelling? Millionaires or billionaires – all of them will be buried in a graveyard. Hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, billions of people – daily! “O ‘Umar, you are asking for an adviser,
Death is enough, he is a first class adviser to you!” (From a saying of the Prophet k, addressed to ‘Umar ibn al-Kha††āb.)
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