Love (Shaykh Nazim, 57 pages, 2/4)
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possible to come out whole after tasting all that crushing, if my love for you changes, it is not real love.
“Who is in love for the sake of Allah, will be on Minbars of light on the Last Day”, says the Prophet.
All people will ask:
“Who are these? Prophets?”
Angels will answer:
“No, they are lovers for the sake of Allah,”
If love is for this life and the egos enjoyment, then it is no real love. An important characteristic for believers is to love for the sake of Allah, even to love one person.
“A Love Story” Our GrandSheikh said to me:
There were two murids (disciples) in his homeland that would sometimes meet and assault one another with
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he cursing, but no change. Next, with a erst ee ae ane each other until tiring, en down and blowing on their hands. Still, not ee she love, Finally they would beat each other with s = oe ‘falling down, then laughing together. Here sata
and run away. me tote like this is the highest degree of love, and for
Awliya (Saints); not changing in love, whatever is coming from people.
i Heart ry, No Real Love in Your aes teaches us to “—S oat ile — e in your heart. We must ac Se a all have so many. We must be tolerant and
compassionate. An Open Door Allah’s Mercy has left a door open, one door. This
i i ked and without i e who, without having as lela ‘on seized by the Love of God a We oth fa know Him, although it is like trying to
glowing coal in your hand.
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Divine Count enance After this life’s “tastele: SS pleas ie i
really no pleasures at all, we turn is oEe es wa real pleasure. ee
The more we can be with H.
im, the more certai = fe Vee band mi but if we leave She yen we hav aetna. = into hellish existence. Once anything in this life nor in the n i b ext. We will ask
Allah's love and to gaze upon His Divine ee =
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Precious Love
Once, archangel Jibril (Gab: ae riel) cam e Prophets, Sayyidina Mutarmmsaip e ion e to fon Seal eavenly news and saying: 4 was bringing
“Ye Lord sends reeting Muhammadé and says eho si ane like from this life.” i ai
Anything. You may I
; may love a woman, you
a girl, you may love children, you may ies wank. you may love your farm, you may love y site
) ‘our Car, yo love your job, you may love your horse. You le ie
s or that, anything. You may even love what is through ur pocket (brings out a tasbih).
But you must know that what you love, either you going to leave it, or it is going to leave you.
You may love your wife, your darling. Perhaps e is leaving you with some reason, or by death, or you going to leave her with some reason or by death.
You may love your children, your sons, your ughters; but they may leave you with some reason or death, or you are going to leave them with some reason or by death.
You love your home, but perhaps that home may be sold and you must leave it, or you are going to die and leave it.
Your car, your horse, everything that you are going to love; you must know that in the end you shall be Separated from it.
i So, it is not from wisdom that man should make his love for something that should be a temporary love, to lose his precious love by giving it where it will be lost.
This is a big lesson for mankind.
The Lord of Heavens means to say:
If you are giving your love, you must give your love to that one that you are not going to leave forever, or who is not going to leave you forever. And that is only your Lord. He is never going to leave you, and you are never going to leave Him. Any other things that you are giving your precious love to, it is going to be useless, it is going to be worthless; it is going to be finally nothing.
To Be We are small ones, and our love is very simple. But the Lord’s love, His love is like oceans. And He grants to
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you to be through His endless love oceans.
Only one drop from His love oceans fell down on earth and divided through everything on earth, through creatures, from that one spot, a very small drop from love oceans just spread through mankind.
Then through other animals, then through that little spot of love oceans of the Lord, taking their shares, nature.
From that love, nature is coming green, coming in flowers, coming in trees, coming in fruits. That is from that spot of love from the oceans of love of Allah Almighty.
Everything that is going to be in existence is taking their shares from that spot of love from that drop of love oceans.
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Allah Almighty is Preparing man with an ability, or capability, or capacity, to drink endlessly from the love oceans of Allah Almighty, never saying that it should be enough.
Every time that he is drinking from the love oceans of the Lord Almighty Allah, he is getting much thirstier, never getting to be satisfied. But his thirst is not like our thirst for water, because when we are thirsty, we are going to be in a kind of misery. A kind of unrest comes over us until we drink, our feeling is difficult we are asking to drink. But those who are drinking from the oceans of love of Allah Almighty, they are growing up with full taste and full enjoyment, and are asking for much more enjoyment,
Glorify i ind dhikr. Try to give more time every day to prayers an: Angels ane their Lord without tiring: it is their iar Sethe power of one Angel is more than the power oa mankind. It is a special power: spiritual people, Prophe ints, have it. wg Dichlonitying the Lord gives you energy and ae more power and support, and more love for Allah. Real life
comes from that Divine Love. When there is no Love, there
is no life. The Awliya (Saints) say that whoever ee that Love is like a dead body walking on earth. Lo’ te and light, and the more we have of it, the more 01
will be complete and full of pleasure.
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Fervor sulk Rabia al Adawiyya, who was one of Islam
Saints, once said: ; . mee let my ego believe that it would live
another day. - uld say to it: a ae haoen sat a know that this is the last
i the sunset, but you i f your life: you have seen en aa see sunrise; therefore, you must be i. serious about tonight's devotions and prayers, and try r Lord pleased with you. ' nets i was I able to get myself to pray
strations every night.” i . See te was praying so fervently in her dark
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Wil night. And when she found hae oe a ee
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fo Worship; for although
won't live until sunset.’
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Love your Lord Don’t pray to ask your Lord for more paradise and favours. No. Try to free yourself from that desire. Love your Lord, and ask only for His please-ment.
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ZamZam
’t wait until nigh i ghtfall in order you Saw the sunrise, for sure you
| The | ne Power of Faith Have you heard about the well of Zamzam?
“ie love of God is the power of our fait! pe Even if all nations were to use its water, it would of our faith. If you haven’t any love for Ail ie ad not be empty. It is impossible. Likewise for hearts which is cannot have any faith, It is impossible, ane TER, Yori even more important. The Divine Love that runs through the hearts of believers is more than enough for the hearts
of the people of all nations. If Allah is willing -we hope that through this grant from Allah Almighty- Divine Love will reach the whole of
mankind and make people truly alive.
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| The Taste of Faith | Without love there is no taste within faith, In
every religion love is the first power. When you love you
will respect and you wi [ wire you will follow. You cannot follow anyone
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Divine Lights
Souls can only be fed by Nur, Divine Lights. There is no need for eating and drinking; their food is Lights. Everyone's soul is in need of Light. If they are not asking for Light today, they will ask for it tomorrow, or next month, next year or on their last day in dunya (world). This is important: Souls are thirsty for the stream of Divine Lights.
If there are no Lights, there is no Love. If Allah's Beauty Oceans can’t be seen, no Love comes to His servants. Souls know that, and therefore they are asking for those Divine Lights. Through them, those Oceans become visible, and souls should be satisfied.
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The Love of Those
Whom You Love
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The Nature of Love
Sweetness What is the way to make the life of mankind
_ Sweet?
Sweetness comes from love. The more love you use in your life, the sweeter it will be. If you don’t use it, your life will be tough and rough. Tough means tasteless and difficult. It will be like wood and have no taste. Someone who never tastes love is like dried wood.
When love comes to nature, nature turns green and gets its colors. Love goes through flowers, it goes through fruits. When love reaches them in springtime, they start to laugh. So when they take love, they give love. That is why mankind runs to the greeneries of nature, to look and to smell it. Nature gives mankind love and mankind gives nature love. They take this love from their Creator. He gives His Divine Love to nature and nature gives it to you and you love to get it.
You are the most important creature. You must respect Divine Love more than any other creature. You
eh must give love to your surroundings. Everything around Divine Love ; i .
you is asking for your love, Masidad is the ste aera A holy man said to the Sultan (king) of ince
representative of Heavenly Love. You must be fountains of “I drank a cup of Divine Love and I lost myself.
love, or springs of love, or taps of love, or rivers of love, or Nothing else has a taste for me anymore. I’m drunk with
seas of love, or oceans of love. he taste of love for Allah and the taste is never ending Can a person be an ocean of love? Why not? me”.
" So Abu Yazid al Bistami, the King of Saints, heard his and said: -
“I'm also drinking, but I’m never getting enough. asking for more and more and more. I'm never satisfied
Temporary Love Jesus Christ brought Divine Love. Many people have some of this love, but they are not increasing it.
Those distinguished ones who came from heaven have Erm in endless sweetness and refreshment of the been forgotten by mankind. Instead
people are running lovestreams. It gives me more refreshment ea 7. i! after nonsense love, temporary love, zoo-love, animal ‘Is getting younger and fresher and more alive. min —_ maine older, but younger. I’m not eenvoresing at a
The animal level love brings darkness, sadness, refuse to die. My body does not accept eh paints envy, jealousy, bad feelings and hell to mankind. We escaping from me. Death runs afer peop le hs hho must improve and try to leave the love of animal level by tasted the real love of the Lord Almighty. Ne reaching a noble, distinguished and Heavenly Love which tasted and reached the lovestreams, never an ao belongs to the Divine Presence: They have an everlasting life. They pe Pe ee the One they are in love with. He is preparing ss - : world for them, a private life. There you will . . shadow amongst people while your real being will be ina distinguished private world of your own. No ee can come inside. There are no partners in that world ° oe Everything there gives you true love and everything t es true love through you. You will be like a spring of love in that world.
Then your love will be sweeter than honey. You may be fed up when you eat a bottle of honey. You will say: “I am fed up with honey!” If I say to you, “Eat one more bottle!” you might be able to eat it.
But if I then say, “Eat a third one!” It will be tasteless, That is not the kind of love that we are asking
for, the kind which when you taste it a second or a third All Prophets are bringing streams of love, but time its taste will decrease. We are asking for a love which
mostly people are running away from them. It is 1. _— when you drink from its stream you will ask for more and story today: that people are running away from i as ers more and more. That makes your life sweet. running away from lovestreams. They are running
The Mission of the Masters
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miserable lives. Everything around you can give you a temporary love, but it will end quickly and leave you like dry wood.
So the mission of all holy people, of all Masters of sufi heavenly ways, is to give lovestreams to anyone who asks for it.
If a person eats something salty, he will want to drink water. He will be a lover of water. If someone lives in a desert, he will ask for water to drink. If he goes to sleep, he will dream about water. He will run from one spring to the next to drink.
If we feel Divine Love within ourselves, we will reach the stream of love and He will make you drink from His Divine Presence. Your life will be the sweetest life. Nothing from the miseries of people will touch you or take away the enjoyment and pleasure in which you will be. Nothing will take you away from your sweet world. This is a bitter world. Only the love of heavens: eternal life
and love will give you a sweet private world without any partner, a world full of enjoyment, a beautiful world in which nothing can harm you.
“How can we Reach this World?”
I'm asking you to secretly ask the flowers, the trees and plants from where they are taking the love which makes them green. They will speak to you and say:
“We have Masters who are blowing it into us during holy months, holy nights and holy periods of day and night. It is a Divine Breath that makes us reach such Sweetness, a Divine Love”.
Every flower, every tree is awake the whole night, especially the third part of night, which is the most precious part of night: dawn. In this time a secret wind comes which
! angels and holy people. They blow their love ene Mord. All aun a the forest are opening their rts to that holy wind which reaches around the world ry night. They take their love from there. Heavenly e, Divine Love comes through that wind. os Oh mankind! You are enjoying your physica dy until the time of dawn, and then you are sleeping. four tired body is like dead while you are sleeping. You ire not opening your heart to that holy wind which panes ry night. You are drunk. You are tired. You are finishe = o the heavenly love does not have any effect on you. It mes to you. re it you fte really asking, this is the answer of me Jove of that wind which is blown by the Holy Ones an comes from the heavenly lovestreams through their hearts to us. That is why we are so lovely.
Hearts in Love
India is a continent full of wonders. I heard from Masters that there is a flower there, and if you reach pen carry it with you, people's hearts will run after you ne oe Even if you are 80 or 90 years old, people will give their love you carry the flower. That is in India. It is so difficult to reac that flower because under it terrible creatures and cobras are on alert. They never want anyone to take that flower. ‘
Masters told me about this, and they also informe that if a person is present at the time of dawn, oo ie prepared himself for Divine Presence, that Holy Breat oe will come to him, surround him and dress him = streams of love, so that anyone who looks at him will love
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ie ro acd of running after that flower, you can reach the lovestreams. If you do it for 40 nights, people’s hearts
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will start Tunning to you in love an and sweeter and sweeter. It will b
ae, rahe get sweeter Perfect love results in looking to a person and
; eeing all perfection. For a lover, nothing can be disliked n his beloved. If seeing people in perfection, we will like What is the medicine? . Because everyone is unique in His creation, there is
What is the way of : omplete and special perfection with him. Even physically, I think it is oleae teaching the medicine? ach one is an individual. This is from Allah’s endless Try it. So m power, to make everyone on the top. that it is correct. any People have tried it and found Looking with. these eyes, hearts come down to at As long as you h least be friends with everybody. Then everybody also come and Hist $0, heed pee at valuable time to comes to us with friendship, and friendship leads to love. some of that Divine Love into i it with my authority ‘As much as we are loving people, we are strong in love for that love, so that it doesn’t disa bates ead teling sda the Lord. Look every time to people's perfection and search Ppear. Look after it like you for their good actions. Allah orders, don’t look at people’s faults, it brings you to hate and enmity. You will come love streams here and hereafter, down to these same faults. You must keep your eyes.
Even more than love stre
“What is the Reason of Suffering?”
‘ams you will reach oceans
The Beckoning of Allah Allah Almighty is calling His creatures to His Divine Love, and He uses those who have been touched
that love as a means for His taking the hearts of others back towards Himself. When that love has touched you, you will feel compassion stirring in your heart, a
The E yes of Love compassionate love that is contagious.
Ifa man loves a 1 lov Person, he never sees q aaa nee na ie perfect, his features, his ae ig, th i i Layla and Majnun, he loved i eet ie nun, eve b i her dogs, her village, including elie mao ae G
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The Awakening of Love
Love is lovely to the Lord and to His servants. If you do anything with love it should be accepted by your Lord, and He should make it tasteful for you. If you love
your work it will be easy for you to do, if not, it will only be a burden,
The Lord says: “Tam not in need of your worship,
I am only seeking the love with which it is offered.”
Oh servants of the Lord! Oh believers! You must not overlook this point. Don't be like slaves rowing in the galley of a ship. If you pray, you must pray with love not by force, as if a slave driver were standing over you with a whip! Allah never appreciates such forced devotions.
Allah has asked us to engage our bodies in His worship and in service to His creation through charity and good deeds, but:
What must be the fruit of those actions? If the fruit is not love it is a bitter fruit and is
if we are keeping the company of a spiritual teacher, and find that through keeping his company love of God is awakening in our hearts, then we must follow him closely,
The love of God is not easy to attain, for we cannot imagine Him; therefore, He Almighty has made the Prophets apostles of His Love,
Who represented the Prophets after their lives on Earth?
Those who evoked such love.
The Prophet described them: , “Those aii see them are reminded of God : ae He who thirsts for Divine Love must seek out s
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Day Seek to Improve Every L Our Lord has given us an instrument as ures not your blood pressure but our love ws our goal is to make it high! Yes, seek to improve wi new day, for the Holy Prophet said: oro “Whoever does not improve with each day sing ground.” :
t does this mean? a What is intended is that you fill your worship with r more love of your Lord, so that He will observe: than
“My servant has sent Me more love today tha BE one of our GrandSheikhs summarized perfectly
ing to say: a Ses ctomn's etait of love is worth more than ty years’ worship without love”.
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ter The Benefit of a Mas In their inner life, people are in need, and ae souls they are in contact with on soul, 7 ao in ing nothing with my fo owers, I ¢ Re Powe: to them without their knowing, eee works
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through their personalities without harming them.
The benefit of a Master is that he takes away bad characteristics in order to give good attributes to people. It needs a gardener to look after fruit trees and make them perfect.
Masters give perfection to murids (disciples). To be like the Master is the perfection of a murid. As much as you imitate your Master, following him step by step, you are going to be on the same level, but you are an imitation of him. Iam making murids follow me through their hearts, with love. I am not using force, but the power of Love.
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The Task of the Masters
My task and the task of all those who are on my level is to make you believe. This is the task of the Masters. It is not possible to believe in something without believing in someone. For, in order to listen the heart must be open.
Whoever listens believes in someone and believes that this person can teach him what he cannot know, see, Teach or be by himself. Such belief brings you the love of the one to whom you are listening,
By believing, you learn how to love.
By believing, you learn to obey.
By loving, you are on the way to obedience. For true obedience is not Possible without love, Whoever is
forced to obey will never obey, and true obedience leads to the Divine Presence.
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Love and Obedience _ The love’ of the believers, of the Saints, Soe Prophets, comes from the love of God. At first Go them, then His servants love Him. ‘ When does this love come to us? [ aoe When we begin to obey; you will not be
r beginning to obey. / a ie find water. It is the same with
| obedience; it is like digging in the heart.
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With each meeting we a be ors e
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him this love, even if he does not listen to , a ue 7 even if he does not keep to it, even if he does
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— ee Feast ur GrandSheikh used to a He i —— loved ones is a great ae lectins . * in the is is @ Divine Feast, and all thos ; i: : e prese oo mtiine from pre-eternity when the souls a oie aes a Presence to pledge their eternal worship and me 0 their Lord. At that time those who were destined et in love in this World were gathered near to one
another, and it is for thi 1 S reason th i drawn together in this world aah ialaae
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i Divine Love iver Runs to an Oce The Lord is One. He cre — ; i ; ated all of us and Love in the very yeast of our being. aT tales must know that: although that love may be oe rarily covered, it is running through our Aaa a si a : an ocean. It may manifest only as temporary aha . it may even seem to disappear completel oo ge at flows under a mountain, only to re-eme a oe ie cme near can be no doubt that our ed 1 art a current that fl irresisti to His Love Oceans in the Divi a ivin Allah says: e Presence. “Oh My servants, as I have gi € given you of i on so have I given it to all creation; ome love Tyone, that you may be in harmony with My will.
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To perceive the beauty in all creation you must scend outward forms and shapes and pass to gs, eternal spiritual realities, as forms are limited id limiting, whereas spiritual realities are Oceans, less Oceans of Contentment. To arrive at those Oceans bring you inner peace.
The Levels of Love
There are levels of love along the way. Their quality different, according to their nearness to the goal, the solute Love Oceans of our Lord. When one has reached t goal he may take any amount of harm from others d still love. He may say: “I love you for the sake of my rd, not for any other reason. That love will never change or diminish, as no matter what you do your Lord’s love is with you, and therefore I love you, too.” r We are trying to reach that point, but it is difficult. We are tested, and that is an opportunity for us to advance. ‘Holy people have advised us that rather than avoiding ‘all ill-emannered and badly educated people, we should mix with them and establish contact with them, that they may benefit and that we may test ourselves and gain
thereby.
Hearts Open to Divine Love
The Holy Masters have promised me that whoever sits with us and listens with his heart full of love, being receptive to Divine Love, must come to the same level: their hearts must open to Divine Love.
The Masters are not going to abandon us, and we are not going to turn from them, as our hearts have been bound with the strongest bond: the bond of Divine Love, that strongest relationship that exists between the Creator
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with an answer, as only He kno Saying: “Ask him what he did in
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Is Only Love Enough? 9 this hadith: giving a sermon or of the mosque and ‘Oh Prophet, when is the Last Day coming?” So he called out again and
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Th 5 e Prophet was waiting for Allah to provide him ws when the Las
Th en the Angel Jibril (Gabriel) came to him
Preparation for the Last Day.”
T love nothing else, only this,” You and I love your Lord, Then Jibril told, Muhammad.
“Answer him that he will be with you and your d like two fingers together. Everyone who loves another be with him on the Last Day.” On hearing this, Abu Bakr asked: “Oh Prophet@is not action a necessary condition, s only love enough?” ' He answered: “No, ya Abu Bakr! Actions are not a condition, ant is love. Everyone will be with his beloved
If one is conquered by his nafs and his actions are bad, but he loves good people, not loving bad people or his own bad actions, then he will benefit from his love.
When Abu Bakr heard this answer, he prayed two rakaats in thanks to his Lord, and said:
“Oh Prophet, I never heard such good news as this till now.”
Look at the humbleness of Abu Bakr, no one can reach to his station.
“Until now my heart was in knots which I could not untie. Your hadith untied them just now. I am Satisfied, absolutely at peace in my heart. In this life I _ ¢an’t be patient one moment without your presence. I was thinking, if actions are a condition to be together in Paradise, how could I be with you? Where are my actions compared with yours?”
And where are our actions compared with Abu Bakr’s? Therefore the Prophet has given sweet words to people. In Islam there is no higher thing than love.
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possible to come out whole after tasting all that crushing, if my love for you changes, it is not real love.
“Who is in love for the sake of Allah, will be on Minbars of light on the Last Day”, says the Prophet.
All people will ask:
“Who are these? Prophets?”
Angels will answer:
“No, they are lovers for the sake of Allah,”
If love is for this life and the egos enjoyment, then it is no real love. An important characteristic for believers is to love for the sake of Allah, even to love one person.
“A Love Story” Our GrandSheikh said to me:
There were two murids (disciples) in his homeland that would sometimes meet and assault one another with
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he cursing, but no change. Next, with a erst ee ae ane each other until tiring, en down and blowing on their hands. Still, not ee she love, Finally they would beat each other with s = oe ‘falling down, then laughing together. Here sata
and run away. me tote like this is the highest degree of love, and for
Awliya (Saints); not changing in love, whatever is coming from people.
i Heart ry, No Real Love in Your aes teaches us to “—S oat ile — e in your heart. We must ac Se a all have so many. We must be tolerant and
compassionate. An Open Door Allah’s Mercy has left a door open, one door. This
i i ked and without i e who, without having as lela ‘on seized by the Love of God a We oth fa know Him, although it is like trying to
glowing coal in your hand.
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Divine Count enance After this life’s “tastele: SS pleas ie i
really no pleasures at all, we turn is oEe es wa real pleasure. ee
The more we can be with H.
im, the more certai = fe Vee band mi but if we leave She yen we hav aetna. = into hellish existence. Once anything in this life nor in the n i b ext. We will ask
Allah's love and to gaze upon His Divine ee =
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Pee ae Pee of the Beloved
; on€ Who loves someone is going to b
pa eae his or hername. We love Allah; - enter oe ; Saying His holy name, by Saying, “Allah, Allah.” 2
Precious Love
Once, archangel Jibril (Gab: ae riel) cam e Prophets, Sayyidina Mutarmmsaip e ion e to fon Seal eavenly news and saying: 4 was bringing
“Ye Lord sends reeting Muhammadé and says eho si ane like from this life.” i ai
Anything. You may I
; may love a woman, you
a girl, you may love children, you may ies wank. you may love your farm, you may love y site
) ‘our Car, yo love your job, you may love your horse. You le ie
s or that, anything. You may even love what is through ur pocket (brings out a tasbih).
But you must know that what you love, either you going to leave it, or it is going to leave you.
You may love your wife, your darling. Perhaps e is leaving you with some reason, or by death, or you going to leave her with some reason or by death.
You may love your children, your sons, your ughters; but they may leave you with some reason or death, or you are going to leave them with some reason or by death.
You love your home, but perhaps that home may be sold and you must leave it, or you are going to die and leave it.
Your car, your horse, everything that you are going to love; you must know that in the end you shall be Separated from it.
i So, it is not from wisdom that man should make his love for something that should be a temporary love, to lose his precious love by giving it where it will be lost.
This is a big lesson for mankind.
The Lord of Heavens means to say:
If you are giving your love, you must give your love to that one that you are not going to leave forever, or who is not going to leave you forever. And that is only your Lord. He is never going to leave you, and you are never going to leave Him. Any other things that you are giving your precious love to, it is going to be useless, it is going to be worthless; it is going to be finally nothing.
To Be We are small ones, and our love is very simple. But the Lord’s love, His love is like oceans. And He grants to
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you to be through His endless love oceans.
Only one drop from His love oceans fell down on earth and divided through everything on earth, through creatures, from that one spot, a very small drop from love oceans just spread through mankind.
Then through other animals, then through that little spot of love oceans of the Lord, taking their shares, nature.
From that love, nature is coming green, coming in flowers, coming in trees, coming in fruits. That is from that spot of love from the oceans of love of Allah Almighty.
Everything that is going to be in existence is taking their shares from that spot of love from that drop of love oceans.
Thirst
Allah Almighty is Preparing man with an ability, or capability, or capacity, to drink endlessly from the love oceans of Allah Almighty, never saying that it should be enough.
Every time that he is drinking from the love oceans of the Lord Almighty Allah, he is getting much thirstier, never getting to be satisfied. But his thirst is not like our thirst for water, because when we are thirsty, we are going to be in a kind of misery. A kind of unrest comes over us until we drink, our feeling is difficult we are asking to drink. But those who are drinking from the oceans of love of Allah Almighty, they are growing up with full taste and full enjoyment, and are asking for much more enjoyment,
Glorify i ind dhikr. Try to give more time every day to prayers an: Angels ane their Lord without tiring: it is their iar Sethe power of one Angel is more than the power oa mankind. It is a special power: spiritual people, Prophe ints, have it. wg Dichlonitying the Lord gives you energy and ae more power and support, and more love for Allah. Real life
comes from that Divine Love. When there is no Love, there
is no life. The Awliya (Saints) say that whoever ee that Love is like a dead body walking on earth. Lo’ te and light, and the more we have of it, the more 01
will be complete and full of pleasure.
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Fervor sulk Rabia al Adawiyya, who was one of Islam
Saints, once said: ; . mee let my ego believe that it would live
another day. - uld say to it: a ae haoen sat a know that this is the last
i the sunset, but you i f your life: you have seen en aa see sunrise; therefore, you must be i. serious about tonight's devotions and prayers, and try r Lord pleased with you. ' nets i was I able to get myself to pray
strations every night.” i . See te was praying so fervently in her dark
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Love your Lord Don’t pray to ask your Lord for more paradise and favours. No. Try to free yourself from that desire. Love your Lord, and ask only for His please-ment.
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| The | ne Power of Faith Have you heard about the well of Zamzam?
“ie love of God is the power of our fait! pe Even if all nations were to use its water, it would of our faith. If you haven’t any love for Ail ie ad not be empty. It is impossible. Likewise for hearts which is cannot have any faith, It is impossible, ane TER, Yori even more important. The Divine Love that runs through the hearts of believers is more than enough for the hearts
of the people of all nations. If Allah is willing -we hope that through this grant from Allah Almighty- Divine Love will reach the whole of
mankind and make people truly alive.
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| The Taste of Faith | Without love there is no taste within faith, In
every religion love is the first power. When you love you
will respect and you wi [ wire you will follow. You cannot follow anyone
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Divine Lights
Souls can only be fed by Nur, Divine Lights. There is no need for eating and drinking; their food is Lights. Everyone's soul is in need of Light. If they are not asking for Light today, they will ask for it tomorrow, or next month, next year or on their last day in dunya (world). This is important: Souls are thirsty for the stream of Divine Lights.
If there are no Lights, there is no Love. If Allah's Beauty Oceans can’t be seen, no Love comes to His servants. Souls know that, and therefore they are asking for those Divine Lights. Through them, those Oceans become visible, and souls should be satisfied.
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The Love of Those
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The Nature of Love
Sweetness What is the way to make the life of mankind
_ Sweet?
Sweetness comes from love. The more love you use in your life, the sweeter it will be. If you don’t use it, your life will be tough and rough. Tough means tasteless and difficult. It will be like wood and have no taste. Someone who never tastes love is like dried wood.
When love comes to nature, nature turns green and gets its colors. Love goes through flowers, it goes through fruits. When love reaches them in springtime, they start to laugh. So when they take love, they give love. That is why mankind runs to the greeneries of nature, to look and to smell it. Nature gives mankind love and mankind gives nature love. They take this love from their Creator. He gives His Divine Love to nature and nature gives it to you and you love to get it.
You are the most important creature. You must respect Divine Love more than any other creature. You
eh must give love to your surroundings. Everything around Divine Love ; i .
you is asking for your love, Masidad is the ste aera A holy man said to the Sultan (king) of ince
representative of Heavenly Love. You must be fountains of “I drank a cup of Divine Love and I lost myself.
love, or springs of love, or taps of love, or rivers of love, or Nothing else has a taste for me anymore. I’m drunk with
seas of love, or oceans of love. he taste of love for Allah and the taste is never ending Can a person be an ocean of love? Why not? me”.
" So Abu Yazid al Bistami, the King of Saints, heard his and said: -
“I'm also drinking, but I’m never getting enough. asking for more and more and more. I'm never satisfied
Temporary Love Jesus Christ brought Divine Love. Many people have some of this love, but they are not increasing it.
Those distinguished ones who came from heaven have Erm in endless sweetness and refreshment of the been forgotten by mankind. Instead
people are running lovestreams. It gives me more refreshment ea 7. i! after nonsense love, temporary love, zoo-love, animal ‘Is getting younger and fresher and more alive. min —_ maine older, but younger. I’m not eenvoresing at a
The animal level love brings darkness, sadness, refuse to die. My body does not accept eh paints envy, jealousy, bad feelings and hell to mankind. We escaping from me. Death runs afer peop le hs hho must improve and try to leave the love of animal level by tasted the real love of the Lord Almighty. Ne reaching a noble, distinguished and Heavenly Love which tasted and reached the lovestreams, never an ao belongs to the Divine Presence: They have an everlasting life. They pe Pe ee the One they are in love with. He is preparing ss - : world for them, a private life. There you will . . shadow amongst people while your real being will be ina distinguished private world of your own. No ee can come inside. There are no partners in that world ° oe Everything there gives you true love and everything t es true love through you. You will be like a spring of love in that world.
Then your love will be sweeter than honey. You may be fed up when you eat a bottle of honey. You will say: “I am fed up with honey!” If I say to you, “Eat one more bottle!” you might be able to eat it.
But if I then say, “Eat a third one!” It will be tasteless, That is not the kind of love that we are asking
for, the kind which when you taste it a second or a third All Prophets are bringing streams of love, but time its taste will decrease. We are asking for a love which
mostly people are running away from them. It is 1. _— when you drink from its stream you will ask for more and story today: that people are running away from i as ers more and more. That makes your life sweet. running away from lovestreams. They are running
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miserable lives. Everything around you can give you a temporary love, but it will end quickly and leave you like dry wood.
So the mission of all holy people, of all Masters of sufi heavenly ways, is to give lovestreams to anyone who asks for it.
If a person eats something salty, he will want to drink water. He will be a lover of water. If someone lives in a desert, he will ask for water to drink. If he goes to sleep, he will dream about water. He will run from one spring to the next to drink.
If we feel Divine Love within ourselves, we will reach the stream of love and He will make you drink from His Divine Presence. Your life will be the sweetest life. Nothing from the miseries of people will touch you or take away the enjoyment and pleasure in which you will be. Nothing will take you away from your sweet world. This is a bitter world. Only the love of heavens: eternal life
and love will give you a sweet private world without any partner, a world full of enjoyment, a beautiful world in which nothing can harm you.
“How can we Reach this World?”
I'm asking you to secretly ask the flowers, the trees and plants from where they are taking the love which makes them green. They will speak to you and say:
“We have Masters who are blowing it into us during holy months, holy nights and holy periods of day and night. It is a Divine Breath that makes us reach such Sweetness, a Divine Love”.
Every flower, every tree is awake the whole night, especially the third part of night, which is the most precious part of night: dawn. In this time a secret wind comes which
! angels and holy people. They blow their love ene Mord. All aun a the forest are opening their rts to that holy wind which reaches around the world ry night. They take their love from there. Heavenly e, Divine Love comes through that wind. os Oh mankind! You are enjoying your physica dy until the time of dawn, and then you are sleeping. four tired body is like dead while you are sleeping. You ire not opening your heart to that holy wind which panes ry night. You are drunk. You are tired. You are finishe = o the heavenly love does not have any effect on you. It mes to you. re it you fte really asking, this is the answer of me Jove of that wind which is blown by the Holy Ones an comes from the heavenly lovestreams through their hearts to us. That is why we are so lovely.
Hearts in Love
India is a continent full of wonders. I heard from Masters that there is a flower there, and if you reach pen carry it with you, people's hearts will run after you ne oe Even if you are 80 or 90 years old, people will give their love you carry the flower. That is in India. It is so difficult to reac that flower because under it terrible creatures and cobras are on alert. They never want anyone to take that flower. ‘
Masters told me about this, and they also informe that if a person is present at the time of dawn, oo ie prepared himself for Divine Presence, that Holy Breat oe will come to him, surround him and dress him = streams of love, so that anyone who looks at him will love
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will start Tunning to you in love an and sweeter and sweeter. It will b
ae, rahe get sweeter Perfect love results in looking to a person and
; eeing all perfection. For a lover, nothing can be disliked n his beloved. If seeing people in perfection, we will like What is the medicine? . Because everyone is unique in His creation, there is
What is the way of : omplete and special perfection with him. Even physically, I think it is oleae teaching the medicine? ach one is an individual. This is from Allah’s endless Try it. So m power, to make everyone on the top. that it is correct. any People have tried it and found Looking with. these eyes, hearts come down to at As long as you h least be friends with everybody. Then everybody also come and Hist $0, heed pee at valuable time to comes to us with friendship, and friendship leads to love. some of that Divine Love into i it with my authority ‘As much as we are loving people, we are strong in love for that love, so that it doesn’t disa bates ead teling sda the Lord. Look every time to people's perfection and search Ppear. Look after it like you for their good actions. Allah orders, don’t look at people’s faults, it brings you to hate and enmity. You will come love streams here and hereafter, down to these same faults. You must keep your eyes.
Even more than love stre
“What is the Reason of Suffering?”
‘ams you will reach oceans
The Beckoning of Allah Allah Almighty is calling His creatures to His Divine Love, and He uses those who have been touched
that love as a means for His taking the hearts of others back towards Himself. When that love has touched you, you will feel compassion stirring in your heart, a
The E yes of Love compassionate love that is contagious.
Ifa man loves a 1 lov Person, he never sees q aaa nee na ie perfect, his features, his ae ig, th i i Layla and Majnun, he loved i eet ie nun, eve b i her dogs, her village, including elie mao ae G
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The Awakening of Love
Love is lovely to the Lord and to His servants. If you do anything with love it should be accepted by your Lord, and He should make it tasteful for you. If you love
your work it will be easy for you to do, if not, it will only be a burden,
The Lord says: “Tam not in need of your worship,
I am only seeking the love with which it is offered.”
Oh servants of the Lord! Oh believers! You must not overlook this point. Don't be like slaves rowing in the galley of a ship. If you pray, you must pray with love not by force, as if a slave driver were standing over you with a whip! Allah never appreciates such forced devotions.
Allah has asked us to engage our bodies in His worship and in service to His creation through charity and good deeds, but:
What must be the fruit of those actions? If the fruit is not love it is a bitter fruit and is
if we are keeping the company of a spiritual teacher, and find that through keeping his company love of God is awakening in our hearts, then we must follow him closely,
The love of God is not easy to attain, for we cannot imagine Him; therefore, He Almighty has made the Prophets apostles of His Love,
Who represented the Prophets after their lives on Earth?
Those who evoked such love.
The Prophet described them: , “Those aii see them are reminded of God : ae He who thirsts for Divine Love must seek out s
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Day Seek to Improve Every L Our Lord has given us an instrument as ures not your blood pressure but our love ws our goal is to make it high! Yes, seek to improve wi new day, for the Holy Prophet said: oro “Whoever does not improve with each day sing ground.” :
t does this mean? a What is intended is that you fill your worship with r more love of your Lord, so that He will observe: than
“My servant has sent Me more love today tha BE one of our GrandSheikhs summarized perfectly
ing to say: a Ses ctomn's etait of love is worth more than ty years’ worship without love”.
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through their personalities without harming them.
The benefit of a Master is that he takes away bad characteristics in order to give good attributes to people. It needs a gardener to look after fruit trees and make them perfect.
Masters give perfection to murids (disciples). To be like the Master is the perfection of a murid. As much as you imitate your Master, following him step by step, you are going to be on the same level, but you are an imitation of him. Iam making murids follow me through their hearts, with love. I am not using force, but the power of Love.
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The Task of the Masters
My task and the task of all those who are on my level is to make you believe. This is the task of the Masters. It is not possible to believe in something without believing in someone. For, in order to listen the heart must be open.
Whoever listens believes in someone and believes that this person can teach him what he cannot know, see, Teach or be by himself. Such belief brings you the love of the one to whom you are listening,
By believing, you learn how to love.
By believing, you learn to obey.
By loving, you are on the way to obedience. For true obedience is not Possible without love, Whoever is
forced to obey will never obey, and true obedience leads to the Divine Presence.
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Love and Obedience _ The love’ of the believers, of the Saints, Soe Prophets, comes from the love of God. At first Go them, then His servants love Him. ‘ When does this love come to us? [ aoe When we begin to obey; you will not be
r beginning to obey. / a ie find water. It is the same with
| obedience; it is like digging in the heart.
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With each meeting we a be ors e
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him this love, even if he does not listen to , a ue 7 even if he does not keep to it, even if he does
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— ee Feast ur GrandSheikh used to a He i —— loved ones is a great ae lectins . * in the is is @ Divine Feast, and all thos ; i: : e prese oo mtiine from pre-eternity when the souls a oie aes a Presence to pledge their eternal worship and me 0 their Lord. At that time those who were destined et in love in this World were gathered near to one
another, and it is for thi 1 S reason th i drawn together in this world aah ialaae
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i Divine Love iver Runs to an Oce The Lord is One. He cre — ; i ; ated all of us and Love in the very yeast of our being. aT tales must know that: although that love may be oe rarily covered, it is running through our Aaa a si a : an ocean. It may manifest only as temporary aha . it may even seem to disappear completel oo ge at flows under a mountain, only to re-eme a oe ie cme near can be no doubt that our ed 1 art a current that fl irresisti to His Love Oceans in the Divi a ivin Allah says: e Presence. “Oh My servants, as I have gi € given you of i on so have I given it to all creation; ome love Tyone, that you may be in harmony with My will.
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To perceive the beauty in all creation you must scend outward forms and shapes and pass to gs, eternal spiritual realities, as forms are limited id limiting, whereas spiritual realities are Oceans, less Oceans of Contentment. To arrive at those Oceans bring you inner peace.
The Levels of Love
There are levels of love along the way. Their quality different, according to their nearness to the goal, the solute Love Oceans of our Lord. When one has reached t goal he may take any amount of harm from others d still love. He may say: “I love you for the sake of my rd, not for any other reason. That love will never change or diminish, as no matter what you do your Lord’s love is with you, and therefore I love you, too.” r We are trying to reach that point, but it is difficult. We are tested, and that is an opportunity for us to advance. ‘Holy people have advised us that rather than avoiding ‘all ill-emannered and badly educated people, we should mix with them and establish contact with them, that they may benefit and that we may test ourselves and gain
thereby.
Hearts Open to Divine Love
The Holy Masters have promised me that whoever sits with us and listens with his heart full of love, being receptive to Divine Love, must come to the same level: their hearts must open to Divine Love.
The Masters are not going to abandon us, and we are not going to turn from them, as our hearts have been bound with the strongest bond: the bond of Divine Love, that strongest relationship that exists between the Creator
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Is Only Love Enough? 9 this hadith: giving a sermon or of the mosque and ‘Oh Prophet, when is the Last Day coming?” So he called out again and
was
Th 5 e Prophet was waiting for Allah to provide him ws when the Las
Th en the Angel Jibril (Gabriel) came to him
Preparation for the Last Day.”
T love nothing else, only this,” You and I love your Lord, Then Jibril told, Muhammad.
“Answer him that he will be with you and your d like two fingers together. Everyone who loves another be with him on the Last Day.” On hearing this, Abu Bakr asked: “Oh Prophet@is not action a necessary condition, s only love enough?” ' He answered: “No, ya Abu Bakr! Actions are not a condition, ant is love. Everyone will be with his beloved
If one is conquered by his nafs and his actions are bad, but he loves good people, not loving bad people or his own bad actions, then he will benefit from his love.
When Abu Bakr heard this answer, he prayed two rakaats in thanks to his Lord, and said:
“Oh Prophet, I never heard such good news as this till now.”
Look at the humbleness of Abu Bakr, no one can reach to his station.
“Until now my heart was in knots which I could not untie. Your hadith untied them just now. I am Satisfied, absolutely at peace in my heart. In this life I _ ¢an’t be patient one moment without your presence. I was thinking, if actions are a condition to be together in Paradise, how could I be with you? Where are my actions compared with yours?”
And where are our actions compared with Abu Bakr’s? Therefore the Prophet has given sweet words to people. In Islam there is no higher thing than love.
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be wasted ees yy Put your love in this dunya, it will
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