Bridge To Eternity (Shaykh Nazim, 104 pages, 1/10)
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Bridge To Eternity, SHAYKH MUHAMMAD NAZIM ADIL HAQQANI
NAQSHBANDI-MUHAMMADI SOUTH AFRICA
(AS COMPILED BY KHAIRIYYAH SIEGEL, 1999)
Table of Contents
Foreword
1- ON AOCIATIONS WITH THE SHAYKH
Move Towards Your Private Ocean in the Divine Presence........
“ASK and | Shall Give YOU...“ ..
You Must be Powerful for [Slay ......
The Spiritual Power of the Heart .........
Ask to be Closer to Alla oo...
2 - TRAVELLING TOWARDS ETERNITY
"Coming from Allah and Going to Allah...” .......
Our Last Destination is the Divine PreS@ nce... .
Ask Perfection from a Perfect OG ....
Knowledge of the Heart is Never LOSt ..........
Mankind has been Honoured with a Divine Trust .........
Depend on Allah .......
3 - NEWS FOR THE FUTURE OF MANKIND
Run to Find Your Real Identity ..........
The TUNnMel to Pa ......
“There is no Compulsion in Religion...” .......
Shaitanic Teachings .........
Adab is the Soul of KnOWledge ..........
"Lakum DinUkUmM Wa Liya-Din..." ......
Springtime fOr [SIAM ........
On the Bridge to Another Kind Of Lif@...........
Be True and then don’t Fear .....
Come Back to Nature .....
Heavenly Bleings Of MUNarram .........
‘Ashura — The 10" of Muharram ...
4 - ISLAM IS ORIGINAL AND SPIRITUAL
Ask for Honour and Respect in the Divine Presence ......... 36
Heavenly Religions have Spirituality ............ 37
Islam can’t De CHAN ged ......... 40
“The Sultan is the Shadow of Allah on Earth’ oo... . 41
"Tie Your Camel First..." oe. 43
If Somebody haS to Die ......... 44
5 - HAJJ AL AKBAR 1999
"Labbaik, AllahUmmah Labbaik...” ...... 46
"Oh My Servant, Come and Visit Me..." ..... 50
“Keep Allah and Allah Keeps You...” (14.4.1999) ...... 51
The News About Mahdi AS. .... 52
"Caliphatullah...” ..... 54
Not Only a Hope, but a R@ality.......... 56
6 - HEALING AND PURIFICATION OF HEARTS
The Prophet- Healer Of H@arts ......... 58
Real COCtOIS .... 58
Signs Of a MULSHIC.......... 59
"AS You Like, Oh My Lord!" 0... . 59
7 - ON SINCERITY
‘Ihsan Maqam’- The Station of SInCerity........... 62
Our Conscience is from H@aVvens ...... 62
REACHING tO UN ty ....... 62
The Heart’s DAI i oe. cece 62
8 - BE WITH YOUR SHEIKH
Allah is the Main Power Station ...... 64
The Power of the Shaykh ......... 64
Heart COMME CtION «0.0... 65
The Secret Power of the ‘Bismillah’ oo... 65
9 - DIVINE GUIDANCE
‘Istikhara’- Asking for GUIdaNCe ........ 66
Real INSPirationS.......... 66
From Heart to H@art...... 66
The Ears Of the H@art......... 66
Meetings for the Sake of Allah ......... 67
10 - REAL LIFE COMES FROM DIVINE LOVE
G.0.S.- Save Our SOUS! oo. 68
The Soul’s Food is Divine Light...........: 68
Love is Life And Light .......... 68
The Power Of Divine LOVE ooo... 68
The Heart is for Allah Alone... 69
11 - ‘JIHAD-UL-AKBAR’ - THE BIGGEST FIGHT
The Base Of Faith... 70
The 6th Pillar Of Faiths... 70
“Oh my Lord, | am in Need of Your Mercy!” ....... 71
The Station of Contentment- How to Control ANger......... 71
“With Pleasure, Oh My Lord!” ....... 71
There is No ‘Empty Time’ ........ 72
12 - THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SERVANT OF ALLAH
‘Taubah’- REP@ntance ....... 73
How to be Aptable in the Divine Presence......... 73
The 12 Good Characters in DOgS......... 73
Allah Tries His SQrvants ....... 73
“WN IIL You be Patient?” 74
The Sign of Spiritual Health ......... 74
The Secret Katine... 74
‘Malayani’- That Which Doesn’t Concern YOU ....... 75
Are We Building or Destroying? ......... 75
First Fight Your Own Self ....... 75
13 - THE BOND OF DIVINE LOVE
Levels Of LOVG .o.. 76
"Ya Wadud..." - The Fountain of Divine LOVG ooo... 76
14 - THE NEED OF A DIVINE MIRROR TO ONESELF
APPENDIX: NAQSHBANDI ENTIALS
The Golden Chain of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Ordel........... 79
‘Bay’ah’ — The Pledge of Allegiance, The Initiation .......... 80
‘Rabita-tu-Sharifa — The Connection with the Shaykh ..........: 81
The ‘Nash’ ....... 82
The Strong INC@NtiON .......... 83
‘Khalwat’ and ‘Itikaf’ — Seclusion and Retreat ........ 84
The Main Rules of the Naqshbandi Order ...........:: 85
The Naqshbandi ‘Wazifa’- The Basic Exercise of the Naqshbandi Order........... 87
‘Salatun Tunjina- The Prayer of Relief, The Dua for all Kinds of GOOdNEG .......... 89
GLOARY .......... 91
CONCIUSIONL........ 94
FOREWORD
First Edition 2012
Bissmillahir Rahmanir Rahim
This is a good collection of our Sohbets, associations which were held in various places for different occasions and for different purposes. They are inspirations to a servant of our Lord Allah Almighty, coming from our heavenly headquarters, from the spiritual center. I hope that they are suitable for curing egos from their illnesses and bad manners, for training and preparing them for the Divine Presence here and hereafter.
My English is not perfect, but I hope that through the meanings of my words a perfect way of training and teaching is shown. The perfection of people is going to be according to the state of their hearts; like the perfection or quality of water depends on its source or origin. Water for drinking may come out of pipes or out of the earth, and spring water is much more attractive for people to run to and drink from than water that runs out of a tap. Therefore I am trying to take only living words from spiritually authorized people who are in connection with Heavens here and hereafter.
I hope that the effort of our sister (Khairiyyah Siegel) should be blessed and rewarded by her Lord Allah Almighty here and hereafter.
ON ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE SHAYKH
Move Towards Your Private Ocean in the Divine Presence
Who understands, may try to translate to who doesn’t understand... Audhu bi’llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim... | am intending a short association, but | am not in control. My GrandShaykh is over my position, and he is the commander and controller over me. So | may say to you that | am going to make a short association, but it may continue up until morning, it doesn’t matter. But, because we are weak people- | am asking forgiveness from our GrandShaykh for me and you- it should be a short address to you.
Association with the Shaykh is one of the most important pillars of the most distinguished Naqshbandi Order; it must be. It is like petrol for the car, and man, or believers; they are in need to move towards Allah, towards the Heavens. We have been ordered and offered, as well as we have been called, to move towards the Heavens, not to stay on this wild world, asking to live on this earth for a hundred years and more, no. It is not a real target to live longer; but our aim must be to worship as much as possible, more and more. If we are asking for a long life, we are asking only for that purpose: to pray and worship and to obey the Lord of the Heavens’ commands and to ask from His endless mercy oceans.
This is a true aim for everyone, a true target for the followers of all religions. If you ask a Christian: “Would you like to live a long life?”, he may say: “Yes.” Then we may ask: “Why are you asking for a long life?” “To eat and drink more...” That is the life of animals. It is not an aim to say: “I am asking for a long life for my ego to enjoy this life.” Cattle and sheep- what are they asking to 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 | am asking you and you are answering: “I am asking for a long life in my Lord’s service, for His worship, because it gives me honour. As long as | 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.
And in Islam it is the most distinguished Nagshbandi 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... anything wrong?
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 Shaykh. 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, 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 Naqshbandi Order.
11Bridge to Eternity Even if only two or three brothers or sisters, followers of this Tariqah, are together, one of them must say something in their association, and the others must listen and follow.
And 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...
And 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.
As a man running 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 no mind people now are leaving the ocean. They are going to the desert and, seeing a Mi raj on the horizon, they run to reach it to find something, but nothing is there, and they are finished. Oh people, leave the Mi‘raj in the desert and come to your ocean that is for you forever, your last destination in the Divine Presence: Love oceans, Beauty oceans, endless, tasteful, 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 who is running 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 GrandShaykh 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... Wa min Allah at Taufiq... Fatiha.
“Ask and | Shall Give 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 NAQSHBANDI Order and its main pillar is Sohbet, association with the Shaykh. We are asking, and they are giving. If we don’t ask, they will not give...
21Bridge to Eternity Allah Almighty is saying: “Ask, and | 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: “! am pleased with you. Ask, and whatever you ask for, | will grant to you. Immediately | will give it to you.” So that person was thinking: What may | ask for? My donkey is very hungry, and | 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 mind? ” Give him, what he is asking for. Give him 10 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 nonsense things. So many people come to me and say: “Tomorrow | 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 and saying: “Oh Sheikh, pray for my shop, no one is coming.” Another one is asking: “Look for a good job for me, | 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.”
“Hallo, Shaykh, please pray for me, because there is an election. | 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 Shaykh, pray for me to be closer to Allah Almighty’s most Beloved Servant Sayyidina Muhammad sws, 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: | 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... Such a sweet word- eternity. Even in your language | 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 | am ashamed to recite Fatiha only for one person’s demand and wish, and | am saying: “Oh my Lord, | 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.” | don’t like to stop and make one Fatiha for one person only, no. Then it would be like a person asking to hunt,
31Bridge to Eternity carrying a gun and finding a fly and saying: “| 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 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 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.
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 sws was saying: “A powerful person in Islam is better than a weak person.”...
Audhu bi’llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim... We are in need of powerful Muslims, not weak Muslims. If we are powerful then Shaitan should run away, because he fears from 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 Rasulu’llah sws. 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... No part of this life, no piece of material can make His power less...
You must ask for much more power from Allah Almighty to be strong believers, Mu’mins. It is important to be powerful. But don’t try to be strong by eating and drinking- cows and
4|Bridge to Eternity 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 from 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 in 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 travellers to Allah Almighty’s Divine Presence.”... Hasbi Allahu wa niamal Wakil, la haula wa la quwatta illa bi’llahi’l ‘Aliyu’l ‘Azim.
The Spiritual Power of the Heart
‘Tariqatuna as-sohbet wa khairu fi jamiat’- The way of our Tariqah is association with the Sheikh and goodness lies in the congregation... This is the root of our Tariqah. Allah Almighty made Shah-u-Naqshbandi the main pillar of the most distinguished Naqshbandi Order, and one of the guides that take people on their way to the Divine Presence, so that they are never going to lose their direction towards Allah Almighty or His teaching. He was saying: “We are teaching people, so that they never lose their way, and their efforts never go without benefit.”
It is a short way, a safe way, a happy way. Everyone is walking, moving by themselves, or time makes them move. So many people are not moving, only time makes them move. And any moment they may reach to an end, as every beginning must have an end. The movement of people must stop one day, and then they will find themselves in front of two entrances. On one of them is written: ‘The Way of Paradise’, or the way on which people reach to the Divine Presence. On the second entrance is written: ‘The Way of
S5|Bridge to Eternity Hell’, who steps through that entrance should be taken to Hell. There is no safety on that way. It is a terrible end.
Day by day we are approaching that... One more day has passed. It is going to be one day less, and the day will come when we reach to that entrance. The Nagqshbandi Order is taking people in a direction, where their destination in the end will be Paradise. It is the way of the Prophets and the Saints, and their inheritors, the Sahabas. It is difficult for our egos, but happiness for our souls. Everything that is going to be difficult for our egos finally should give us an enjoyment, a pleasure.
Most people are carried on the second way, and Shaitan is walking ahead of them with his devils and soldiers. Who follows them, finally should reach the entrance to Hell... Why are they going on that way? They are running after it, because their egos are enjoying that Way...
If you are not using your will-power, your ego will take you in that dangerous direction... Every association in our Tariqat makes people to pay attention, so they don’t follow their ego, but follow the way of the Saints and Prophets. Every association with the Sheikh gives a spiritual power to our soul, so that we may be able to use our will-power against our ego’s will. If you are not taking power, spiritual power, it is difficult to prevent yourself from following your ego.
Therefore we are in need of those people who have spiritual power and who may also give support to our spirituality, so that we can be able to say to our physical demands, to our ego: “No, | am not following you, | am following the way of the Saints and Prophets!”
Every association gives that power secretly through your soul. Whether you know it or not, feel it or not, doesn’t matter. But this power must be given through every association. And it is not important, what we say, or what we hear. What are we saying here? If | am reading a newspaper, it doesn’t matter... You are in the operation-room, and you are covered... What is important is to attend the association of the Shaykh, and his spiritual power is going through everyone... When you are sitting here, blessings are coming from Heavens, coming from Allah Almighty, and those blessings make you powerful. We may say anything through our associations, it doesn’t matter. You heard it or not, you make yourself keep those orders or not. But to be here, to attend the association of the Naqshbandi Order, gives you that spiritual power, making your soul to be stronger than your ego. Your spiritual power is increasing, so that you can use your will-power against your ego.
And you may say: “What Sheikh is saying, | can never remember.”... Shaykh’s address is not to your minds. Ulema, scholars, are addressing your mind; Awliya, Saints, are addressing your souls. Therefore, anytime when you are facing something, what your soul caught and kept reaches you at that time and gives you that power...
Therefore association with the Sheikh is a most important pillar in the Naqshbandi Order. Always we are under the spiritual supervision of the Sheikh. But our physical body also has a right to visit him at least once a year... It may be every week, or every month, or once in 40 days, but don’t make it longer than 40 days not to come for an association. This period will keep a person going towards his destination, Paradise.
6| Bridge to Eternity Now, in our days, there are going to be less and less people, who have been authorized in such a way. If they are not authorized and they are only imitating it gives power also, but when authorized people make association their full power comes through your hearts, and the heart is the station of the Sultan, the Throne of the Sultan. The Sultan’s power runs around your physical body to take it towards its direction and destination.
If you are not finding anyone for association, even two Mureeds can come and sit together. They may say: “Audhu bi’llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim’, and then one of them can say: “La ilaha ill’ Allah” , and the other one: “Muhammad Rasulu’llah sws”- asking: “Oh our Lord, keep us on Your right path, the way of Your Anbiya and Awliya. Keep us and prevent Shaitan and devils from affecting us, protect us against their tricks and traps!”... A few minutes is enough, and that mercy may cover them and protect them.
May Allah bless you and shelter your physical body and protect our souls from falling into the hands of devils. May He make a way for those who fall into their hands to save themselves... And we are asking for real power for our Naqshband
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Bridge To Eternity, SHAYKH MUHAMMAD NAZIM ADIL HAQQANI
NAQSHBANDI-MUHAMMADI SOUTH AFRICA
(AS COMPILED BY KHAIRIYYAH SIEGEL, 1999)
Table of Contents
Foreword
1- ON AOCIATIONS WITH THE SHAYKH
Move Towards Your Private Ocean in the Divine Presence........
“ASK and | Shall Give YOU...“ ..
You Must be Powerful for [Slay ......
The Spiritual Power of the Heart .........
Ask to be Closer to Alla oo...
2 - TRAVELLING TOWARDS ETERNITY
"Coming from Allah and Going to Allah...” .......
Our Last Destination is the Divine PreS@ nce... .
Ask Perfection from a Perfect OG ....
Knowledge of the Heart is Never LOSt ..........
Mankind has been Honoured with a Divine Trust .........
Depend on Allah .......
3 - NEWS FOR THE FUTURE OF MANKIND
Run to Find Your Real Identity ..........
The TUNnMel to Pa ......
“There is no Compulsion in Religion...” .......
Shaitanic Teachings .........
Adab is the Soul of KnOWledge ..........
"Lakum DinUkUmM Wa Liya-Din..." ......
Springtime fOr [SIAM ........
On the Bridge to Another Kind Of Lif@...........
Be True and then don’t Fear .....
Come Back to Nature .....
Heavenly Bleings Of MUNarram .........
‘Ashura — The 10" of Muharram ...
4 - ISLAM IS ORIGINAL AND SPIRITUAL
Ask for Honour and Respect in the Divine Presence ......... 36
Heavenly Religions have Spirituality ............ 37
Islam can’t De CHAN ged ......... 40
“The Sultan is the Shadow of Allah on Earth’ oo... . 41
"Tie Your Camel First..." oe. 43
If Somebody haS to Die ......... 44
5 - HAJJ AL AKBAR 1999
"Labbaik, AllahUmmah Labbaik...” ...... 46
"Oh My Servant, Come and Visit Me..." ..... 50
“Keep Allah and Allah Keeps You...” (14.4.1999) ...... 51
The News About Mahdi AS. .... 52
"Caliphatullah...” ..... 54
Not Only a Hope, but a R@ality.......... 56
6 - HEALING AND PURIFICATION OF HEARTS
The Prophet- Healer Of H@arts ......... 58
Real COCtOIS .... 58
Signs Of a MULSHIC.......... 59
"AS You Like, Oh My Lord!" 0... . 59
7 - ON SINCERITY
‘Ihsan Maqam’- The Station of SInCerity........... 62
Our Conscience is from H@aVvens ...... 62
REACHING tO UN ty ....... 62
The Heart’s DAI i oe. cece 62
8 - BE WITH YOUR SHEIKH
Allah is the Main Power Station ...... 64
The Power of the Shaykh ......... 64
Heart COMME CtION «0.0... 65
The Secret Power of the ‘Bismillah’ oo... 65
9 - DIVINE GUIDANCE
‘Istikhara’- Asking for GUIdaNCe ........ 66
Real INSPirationS.......... 66
From Heart to H@art...... 66
The Ears Of the H@art......... 66
Meetings for the Sake of Allah ......... 67
10 - REAL LIFE COMES FROM DIVINE LOVE
G.0.S.- Save Our SOUS! oo. 68
The Soul’s Food is Divine Light...........: 68
Love is Life And Light .......... 68
The Power Of Divine LOVE ooo... 68
The Heart is for Allah Alone... 69
11 - ‘JIHAD-UL-AKBAR’ - THE BIGGEST FIGHT
The Base Of Faith... 70
The 6th Pillar Of Faiths... 70
“Oh my Lord, | am in Need of Your Mercy!” ....... 71
The Station of Contentment- How to Control ANger......... 71
“With Pleasure, Oh My Lord!” ....... 71
There is No ‘Empty Time’ ........ 72
12 - THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SERVANT OF ALLAH
‘Taubah’- REP@ntance ....... 73
How to be Aptable in the Divine Presence......... 73
The 12 Good Characters in DOgS......... 73
Allah Tries His SQrvants ....... 73
“WN IIL You be Patient?” 74
The Sign of Spiritual Health ......... 74
The Secret Katine... 74
‘Malayani’- That Which Doesn’t Concern YOU ....... 75
Are We Building or Destroying? ......... 75
First Fight Your Own Self ....... 75
13 - THE BOND OF DIVINE LOVE
Levels Of LOVG .o.. 76
"Ya Wadud..." - The Fountain of Divine LOVG ooo... 76
14 - THE NEED OF A DIVINE MIRROR TO ONESELF
APPENDIX: NAQSHBANDI ENTIALS
The Golden Chain of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Ordel........... 79
‘Bay’ah’ — The Pledge of Allegiance, The Initiation .......... 80
‘Rabita-tu-Sharifa — The Connection with the Shaykh ..........: 81
The ‘Nash’ ....... 82
The Strong INC@NtiON .......... 83
‘Khalwat’ and ‘Itikaf’ — Seclusion and Retreat ........ 84
The Main Rules of the Naqshbandi Order ...........:: 85
The Naqshbandi ‘Wazifa’- The Basic Exercise of the Naqshbandi Order........... 87
‘Salatun Tunjina- The Prayer of Relief, The Dua for all Kinds of GOOdNEG .......... 89
GLOARY .......... 91
CONCIUSIONL........ 94
FOREWORD
First Edition 2012
Bissmillahir Rahmanir Rahim
This is a good collection of our Sohbets, associations which were held in various places for different occasions and for different purposes. They are inspirations to a servant of our Lord Allah Almighty, coming from our heavenly headquarters, from the spiritual center. I hope that they are suitable for curing egos from their illnesses and bad manners, for training and preparing them for the Divine Presence here and hereafter.
My English is not perfect, but I hope that through the meanings of my words a perfect way of training and teaching is shown. The perfection of people is going to be according to the state of their hearts; like the perfection or quality of water depends on its source or origin. Water for drinking may come out of pipes or out of the earth, and spring water is much more attractive for people to run to and drink from than water that runs out of a tap. Therefore I am trying to take only living words from spiritually authorized people who are in connection with Heavens here and hereafter.
I hope that the effort of our sister (Khairiyyah Siegel) should be blessed and rewarded by her Lord Allah Almighty here and hereafter.
ON ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE SHAYKH
Move Towards Your Private Ocean in the Divine Presence
Who understands, may try to translate to who doesn’t understand... Audhu bi’llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim... | am intending a short association, but | am not in control. My GrandShaykh is over my position, and he is the commander and controller over me. So | may say to you that | am going to make a short association, but it may continue up until morning, it doesn’t matter. But, because we are weak people- | am asking forgiveness from our GrandShaykh for me and you- it should be a short address to you.
Association with the Shaykh is one of the most important pillars of the most distinguished Naqshbandi Order; it must be. It is like petrol for the car, and man, or believers; they are in need to move towards Allah, towards the Heavens. We have been ordered and offered, as well as we have been called, to move towards the Heavens, not to stay on this wild world, asking to live on this earth for a hundred years and more, no. It is not a real target to live longer; but our aim must be to worship as much as possible, more and more. If we are asking for a long life, we are asking only for that purpose: to pray and worship and to obey the Lord of the Heavens’ commands and to ask from His endless mercy oceans.
This is a true aim for everyone, a true target for the followers of all religions. If you ask a Christian: “Would you like to live a long life?”, he may say: “Yes.” Then we may ask: “Why are you asking for a long life?” “To eat and drink more...” That is the life of animals. It is not an aim to say: “I am asking for a long life for my ego to enjoy this life.” Cattle and sheep- what are they asking to 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 | am asking you and you are answering: “I am asking for a long life in my Lord’s service, for His worship, because it gives me honour. As long as | 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.
And in Islam it is the most distinguished Nagshbandi 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... anything wrong?
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 Shaykh. 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, 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 Naqshbandi Order.
11Bridge to Eternity Even if only two or three brothers or sisters, followers of this Tariqah, are together, one of them must say something in their association, and the others must listen and follow.
And 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...
And 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.
As a man running 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 no mind people now are leaving the ocean. They are going to the desert and, seeing a Mi raj on the horizon, they run to reach it to find something, but nothing is there, and they are finished. Oh people, leave the Mi‘raj in the desert and come to your ocean that is for you forever, your last destination in the Divine Presence: Love oceans, Beauty oceans, endless, tasteful, 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 who is running 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 GrandShaykh 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... Wa min Allah at Taufiq... Fatiha.
“Ask and | Shall Give 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 NAQSHBANDI Order and its main pillar is Sohbet, association with the Shaykh. We are asking, and they are giving. If we don’t ask, they will not give...
21Bridge to Eternity Allah Almighty is saying: “Ask, and | 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: “! am pleased with you. Ask, and whatever you ask for, | will grant to you. Immediately | will give it to you.” So that person was thinking: What may | ask for? My donkey is very hungry, and | 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 mind? ” Give him, what he is asking for. Give him 10 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 nonsense things. So many people come to me and say: “Tomorrow | 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 and saying: “Oh Sheikh, pray for my shop, no one is coming.” Another one is asking: “Look for a good job for me, | 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.”
“Hallo, Shaykh, please pray for me, because there is an election. | 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 Shaykh, pray for me to be closer to Allah Almighty’s most Beloved Servant Sayyidina Muhammad sws, 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: | 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... Such a sweet word- eternity. Even in your language | 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 | am ashamed to recite Fatiha only for one person’s demand and wish, and | am saying: “Oh my Lord, | 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.” | don’t like to stop and make one Fatiha for one person only, no. Then it would be like a person asking to hunt,
31Bridge to Eternity carrying a gun and finding a fly and saying: “| 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 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 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.
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 sws was saying: “A powerful person in Islam is better than a weak person.”...
Audhu bi’llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim... We are in need of powerful Muslims, not weak Muslims. If we are powerful then Shaitan should run away, because he fears from 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 Rasulu’llah sws. 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... No part of this life, no piece of material can make His power less...
You must ask for much more power from Allah Almighty to be strong believers, Mu’mins. It is important to be powerful. But don’t try to be strong by eating and drinking- cows and
4|Bridge to Eternity 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 from 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 in 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 travellers to Allah Almighty’s Divine Presence.”... Hasbi Allahu wa niamal Wakil, la haula wa la quwatta illa bi’llahi’l ‘Aliyu’l ‘Azim.
The Spiritual Power of the Heart
‘Tariqatuna as-sohbet wa khairu fi jamiat’- The way of our Tariqah is association with the Sheikh and goodness lies in the congregation... This is the root of our Tariqah. Allah Almighty made Shah-u-Naqshbandi the main pillar of the most distinguished Naqshbandi Order, and one of the guides that take people on their way to the Divine Presence, so that they are never going to lose their direction towards Allah Almighty or His teaching. He was saying: “We are teaching people, so that they never lose their way, and their efforts never go without benefit.”
It is a short way, a safe way, a happy way. Everyone is walking, moving by themselves, or time makes them move. So many people are not moving, only time makes them move. And any moment they may reach to an end, as every beginning must have an end. The movement of people must stop one day, and then they will find themselves in front of two entrances. On one of them is written: ‘The Way of Paradise’, or the way on which people reach to the Divine Presence. On the second entrance is written: ‘The Way of
S5|Bridge to Eternity Hell’, who steps through that entrance should be taken to Hell. There is no safety on that way. It is a terrible end.
Day by day we are approaching that... One more day has passed. It is going to be one day less, and the day will come when we reach to that entrance. The Nagqshbandi Order is taking people in a direction, where their destination in the end will be Paradise. It is the way of the Prophets and the Saints, and their inheritors, the Sahabas. It is difficult for our egos, but happiness for our souls. Everything that is going to be difficult for our egos finally should give us an enjoyment, a pleasure.
Most people are carried on the second way, and Shaitan is walking ahead of them with his devils and soldiers. Who follows them, finally should reach the entrance to Hell... Why are they going on that way? They are running after it, because their egos are enjoying that Way...
If you are not using your will-power, your ego will take you in that dangerous direction... Every association in our Tariqat makes people to pay attention, so they don’t follow their ego, but follow the way of the Saints and Prophets. Every association with the Sheikh gives a spiritual power to our soul, so that we may be able to use our will-power against our ego’s will. If you are not taking power, spiritual power, it is difficult to prevent yourself from following your ego.
Therefore we are in need of those people who have spiritual power and who may also give support to our spirituality, so that we can be able to say to our physical demands, to our ego: “No, | am not following you, | am following the way of the Saints and Prophets!”
Every association gives that power secretly through your soul. Whether you know it or not, feel it or not, doesn’t matter. But this power must be given through every association. And it is not important, what we say, or what we hear. What are we saying here? If | am reading a newspaper, it doesn’t matter... You are in the operation-room, and you are covered... What is important is to attend the association of the Shaykh, and his spiritual power is going through everyone... When you are sitting here, blessings are coming from Heavens, coming from Allah Almighty, and those blessings make you powerful. We may say anything through our associations, it doesn’t matter. You heard it or not, you make yourself keep those orders or not. But to be here, to attend the association of the Naqshbandi Order, gives you that spiritual power, making your soul to be stronger than your ego. Your spiritual power is increasing, so that you can use your will-power against your ego.
And you may say: “What Sheikh is saying, | can never remember.”... Shaykh’s address is not to your minds. Ulema, scholars, are addressing your mind; Awliya, Saints, are addressing your souls. Therefore, anytime when you are facing something, what your soul caught and kept reaches you at that time and gives you that power...
Therefore association with the Sheikh is a most important pillar in the Naqshbandi Order. Always we are under the spiritual supervision of the Sheikh. But our physical body also has a right to visit him at least once a year... It may be every week, or every month, or once in 40 days, but don’t make it longer than 40 days not to come for an association. This period will keep a person going towards his destination, Paradise.
6| Bridge to Eternity Now, in our days, there are going to be less and less people, who have been authorized in such a way. If they are not authorized and they are only imitating it gives power also, but when authorized people make association their full power comes through your hearts, and the heart is the station of the Sultan, the Throne of the Sultan. The Sultan’s power runs around your physical body to take it towards its direction and destination.
If you are not finding anyone for association, even two Mureeds can come and sit together. They may say: “Audhu bi’llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim’, and then one of them can say: “La ilaha ill’ Allah” , and the other one: “Muhammad Rasulu’llah sws”- asking: “Oh our Lord, keep us on Your right path, the way of Your Anbiya and Awliya. Keep us and prevent Shaitan and devils from affecting us, protect us against their tricks and traps!”... A few minutes is enough, and that mercy may cover them and protect them.
May Allah bless you and shelter your physical body and protect our souls from falling into the hands of devils. May He make a way for those who fall into their hands to save themselves... And we are asking for real power for our Naqshband
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