We Have honored the Children of Adam (Shaykh Nazim, 110 pages, 1/10)
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We Have honored the Children of Adam
Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil alHaqqani, world leader of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order.
Support for Our Souls Against Our Egos ---
Bring Sultans, Leave Tyranny ---
Concerning the Evils of this Time ---
Alive Hearts, Dead Heart --- 23
The Importance of Learning Good Servanthood --- 32
Keeping Respect for All of Allah s Servants --- 41
Heavenly Patronage, Satanic Patronag -—— 49
The Fallacy of "Economic Crisis Causing the People Misery --- 57
In Yesterday, Out Tomorrow ---- 63
The High Honor of Addressing Our Lord by His Holy Name "Allah” --- 7O
The Power of Working for Allah --- 76
Concerning Slavery to Satan and Ego --- 84
Guarding Our Most Valuable Treasure --- .91
The Main Characteristic of Egos is Pride --- 98
Training Our Anger --- 104
Concerning Spirituality and Materiality ---- 110
“Nothing Can Go Out of Its Private Line to Its Destiny --- 117
"Contentment Is a Treasure that Is not Exhausted --- 125
Avoiding Heavenly Anger Through Good Servanthood --- 129
Concerning "Modernized Islam ---- 138
The Source of Pleasure and Peace is Contentment --- 146
"Don t Ponder Over Allah but Ponder Over His Creation” --- 152
The Greatness of the Grant of Our Creation --— 160
The Endless Honor Allah Gave to the Children of Adam ---
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Support for Our Souls Against Our Egos
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shay tani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'A liyi-l- 'Azheem.
It is an Association, maybe a short meeting, a little bit more than a quarter of an hour, or half-an-hour or one hour. Ac cording to our deep desire, what we may be in need of, They are giving.1
A small motorcycle may come to a petrof station and say, "Fill it." Its capacity is only one liter, taking it away. Sometimes there comes a forty-wheel lorry, from here up to my home. Forty wheels is going to take two barrels of pet rol. According to their work, they may take.
Now we are here. What you are in need of, They may give; and we are only a mediator. That means a pipe com
We are in need. As each day our physical being needs eating and drinking, our spiritualiing from Them and giving.
’The departed grandshaykhs of the Naqshbandi Tariqah, from whom in spirations come to Shaykh Nazim's heart.
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ty is also in need of power. It is powerful enough, but it is in most need to take away our ego's pressure. Our egos are making a wall around our spirituality, never letting it show its mission and its power. Always
coming, our egos, and saying, "I am here, I am here. First I must be satisfied, and then you may come and do as you like." And our ego is never going to finish. Up to the last moment when we leave this life, it wants to continue its con trol, its power over us, wanting not to give any chance to our spirituality, saying, "I am first here. When I am fin ished, you may come and act." And till we pass away, our physical desires or needs are never-ending.
And we are trying to advise, as all prophets advised mankind. It is only to give support to our souls, to defeat our ego's pressure on our souls. Commonly, people are un der the pressure of their egos, and as long as people under their egos' pressure, no way for souls to do anything or to show their power. As an example, we may say that a person is in prison and surrounded by guards, never letting that person out, and sometimes people try to make a way to save that one from prison. And all the prophets, and particularly the Seal of the Prophets &2 just came to make a way for our im prisoned souls to take their freedom, to be free. When your souls are going to be free, quickly you are going to be in re lationship with Heavens-quickly, and you are free.
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But people are understanding freedom in another way: freedom for our physical desires. They want freedom such that no hindrance should be put in front of them for reach ing their physical desires and enjoyments. That is their freedom! And then they are first breaking religious re 3 straints that do not give a chance to ego to be free; because & when you give freedom to your ego, it quickly runs to Shay tan3 and says, "I am with you. I am a volunteer. Whatever
you say, I will do. I am free!" Therefore, shaytanic groups, Shaytan's representatives, are first attacking beliefs so that no one should believe in anything. They are using so many wrong ways, and they want to teach and to make people believe that we are mate rial beings, and that beyond materiality and materialism there is nothing. And they are putting that as a base for their teaching, for their lives, for their civilization, for every thing. They are building on materiality and materialism, and materialism makes people say, "No God," makes people not believe in anything beyond materiality. They are saying, "We must see a thing. If we do not see and touch a thing, we do not accept it—no, no!" And up to today they are do ing this. They are not taking any care now.
That is their theory, their aim—to make people not say that there is anything beyond materiality, to make people free from beliefs, free from religions, and to make the value of prophets at the lowest level. And they are saying, "Those people never existed on earth. All of them are fictions. Don't believe!"
This Arabic logo stands for "Sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, may Allah's peace
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The main aim of all teaching in the twenty-first century is to teach youngsters not to believe. "If you want freedom, you must not believe in anything! Then you are free. Be liefs are the biggest hindrance for you to reach your aims, your physical desires-the biggest hindrance. Destroy them, and you should reach freedom." It is one hundred per cent wrong because that kind of freedom is destroying generations physically, mentally, spiritually. The real freedom that prophets brought from Heavens is to make a person free from his or her physical desires. And the first step for that purpose is that you must use materiality only to stand on, not to be under its com mand, using materiality only for certain purposes, to sup port your physical being within its limits.4 But when people go beyond the limits for their physical being's desires, they should be asir, captured, captured by devils. They want un limited fulfillment for their physical desires, and it is impos sible; a Therefore, every religion brings orders about things that should be done and some other orders about forbidden things that you must not approach. Otherwise, you are been caught, you are captured. Keep yourself on this side. On the other side is Shaytan, saying, "This side is absolute free dom for you." But it is never going to be freedom for you. It may destroy your physical being, and you may lose every chance for your spirituality.
And we are advising. It is a humble meeting, but what we are saying is important for all mankind, because realities
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can't be changed by the passing of centuries or by peoples' imagination, no. Reality is not imaginary; it is fixed. Reality is fixed, but imagination is never going to be fixed. There fore, prophets were sent to teach people.
0 people, ask for Reality for your lives. What is the re ality of being a human being, what is the reality of your hav ing been put on this planet? Ask for Reality regarding it; don't use nadhariyah, theories—no. All theories are imagina tion, not Reality.
Ask for Reality—why you are in existence, why you are on this planet Unchanged Reality, you can find there. And prophets came to say this, to make people understand this point. If understanding, they are going to reach to Reality. Otherwise, they will be with their imaginings, and imagin ing never give anything to them. And they are going to be destroyed and disappear. ■a
Shaytan, shaytanic teachings, are calling people to an imagined life. And youngsters, particularly, are always im agining something like freedom for every desire, and it is impossible. It is not Reality to reach a point at which you can be free and taste something with your physical being each time, and without its getting less but getting more. That is all imagination. Each day's advice, the biggest ad vice, is to call people to Reality. And shaytanic advice is to call people to imagination.
Heavenly teachings are calling people to Reality, but •a first and wanting to impose its our ego is always coming authority and power on your real being, your soul, because souls' being is Reality, and Reality is never going to be changed. But our physical being, it is only an appearance,
To fulfill their legitimate physical needs.
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an imagination, because it is going to be finished and van ish, nothing more.
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After one hundred years, no one here should be in existence-finished! If our physical being were real being, it would not disappear, it would be continuous. But it is only an imaginary figure, to be used for a short life, for some wisdoms, for some reasons that people are informed about in heavenly books.5 And our real being that gives our per sonality, that is our soul. Souls are real beings, never going to disappear. Their being, their existence, is continuous.
May Allah save us from being cheated by Satanic teachings! But I am sorry to say that everywhere people are call ing to shaytanic ways and making life a charming image for people, and people are running after it. And finally, they are going to look to find something. But they will never find anything, and they will say, "Oh-h, it was a mirage! We ran after it throughout our whole lives, and now we are here and we are finding nothing. It was a mirage." Before repenting for such a mistake, try to accept Reali ty, what is real of your being. You should be happy here and Hereafter, and make your Lord, Almighty Allah, happy with you and pleased with you.
May Allah forgive us! For the honour of the most hon oured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad %-Fateha! A
Bring Sultans, Leave Tyranny
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
'Aliyi-l-'Azheem. We are asking for protection from evil and from devils. And when a person asks for protection, that means that he is
y'atiraf, admitting, that he is weak and helpless. Admitting is the sign of servanthood. A servant knows that he is weak and that his Owner is powerful.
Our Grandshaykh, Shaykh 'Abdullah ad-Dhagestani, Sultan ul-Awliya,1 was always saying that the loveliest char acteristic that Allah Almighty likes to see in His servant is admitting his weakness. A weak person says that I can't do anything because I am weak. Those people who claim, "I am powerful," are showing their power, and because of their power most of them have pride. To be proud is the characteristic of Shaytan because Shaytan was claiming, "I am such-and-such a one. I am a
The sacred scriptures of the three monotheistic, revelation-based faiths,
'Shaykh Nazim's predecessor and shaykh, who passed away in 1973. Sultan ul-Awliya: the Sultan of [Muslim] Saints.
Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
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more powerful, more honourable, more respected one.2
not as honourable a one as I am. I was created before him, and for hundreds and thousands of years I have been giving my servanthood, my worship. That one is a new creature, not yet making even one sajdah,3 but he has been granted that honour. Why? I am the honourable one, but he is not honourable!"
He was thinking that honour is granted according to a person's works or efforts. If it were according to our works that we are granted honour, a worker would be much more honoured than the sultan. The sultan does not work. The sultan sits on his throne, but his workers—in his palace, in his kitchens, in his gardens, and for this and that purpose— work hard, while the sultan only sits. If, we might say, the sultan's throne was empty and Shaytan was a worker, he would think that that throne should be for him. He would image or he would look at himself and say, "Oh! That throne is so suitable for me. Must be for me," because he would look around himself and say, "No one is like me for worshipping and knowing. Oh-h, that throne is so suitable for me, and the honour of that most honourable throne should be given to me!" Yes.
When a sultan passes away, someone from his line comes to that throne because his level is not the level of common people, and common people must have someone above their level. If you do not bring a king or su/tan and
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put him on that throne, people are going to fight each other to reach that honour. Everyone may say, "I am suitable for that." But their level is the common level. No one is going to be happy for someone from their level or from their line to be on that throne, saying, "Why? You are like me, also." But when a sultan passes away and the crown prince comes from his line, people say, "Yes, he is all right, this one. That honour is for him because he comes from the line of his fa ther, from the king's line, not from the common line." But now you are seeing those satanic traps and tricks, making people believe that there is no need for the line of kings, the line of sultans. "That honour must be also for you. There fore, take them away!"
It began from 1789, the great French Revolution, that opened the door for tyrants. And people are in a poisoned atmosphere that they are not finding a way to get out of, to breathe clean air and to learn servanthood, mu'amalah4— how to be a servant; because the way of being a servant, servanthood, can be learned when they keep their sultan and the sultan's honour and respect, and they learn that they must be respectful, also, to their Creator, to Allah Almighty.
Therefore, Shaytan is coming and taking away every thing by which people can learn how they should be re spectful servants to their Lord. They learned that when they had kings or sultans. Now, after they took that away, they are saying, "You and I are equal. You have a chance to be president, I have a chance to be president; you have a chance to be sultan, I have a chance to be sultan."
’Qur'an, 2:34,7:12,1531-33,17:61,18:50,20:11,38:76. 4Behavior, conduct, treatment, mutual relations.
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Then, finished! Fasad, corruption, just began from that
time. They killed their king and queen and their descend ants, asilzade, nobility. They killed everyone, even little ones, under the guillotine, the French people who claim that they are the most civilized people, first class. They de stroyed respect and they lost the respect of the common people for their kings or sultans. And after that, all nations learned from the French Revolution, and one after another they also fought their kings and sultans, taking them away, and then they came in power.
from beating, from bad treatment of them. Every kind of punishment is giving trouble to those people in jails; they are finishing and no one is asking. Tyrants, no mercy in their hearts, no justice, no respect for people, nothing of good characteristics among tyrants. You must not ask!
Therefore, now people are running in the streets. They are asking for someone, someone like before, to be re
spected. But they are going to have at least two parties, one bringing their chief ones, their heads, for a short time, and after that, the other group grows and comes, taking them away. Then they get up and say, "Why? This is a bad one. ►24
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We must have a new election!"
Now the whole world is full of unsolved problems, never-ending troubles and unbearable sufferings. People have fallen into it. Therefore, now this world can't have peace till they bring to power mediators, who are their kings and sultans, so that they may respect their Lord because they have learned how they should give respect. Now, children, are not giving respect to their parents; students are not giving any respect to their teachers; com mon people are not giving any respect to their M.P.s or gov ernments. They are fighting; each day now you see the streets full of disobedient servants. No respect! People are running like rivers in the streets and fighting governments and killing, and they are going to be killed. No respect; fin ished! This is the time of tyrants. Tyrants, no mercy in their hearts; they may kill, they may do any kind of bad thing to common people. You see that they are hitting them, they are putting them in jails and giving so many punishments b that the bodies of people can't bear. They may die but they never take any responsibility. They just say, "He died" —
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other saying, "He is not doing good; we must bring our side, and this and that, this and that"—this fighting will
continue. Shaytan has been working on it from the beginning of history. That history, they are say, began in Egypt. Their heads had kingdoms. The king, pharaoh, was able to make people respect him. No one was able to stand up against him; if standing up, he was quickly taken away. Always power was with the rulers, up to the beginning of the nine teenth century. And Shaytan was working on it, especially on that point of taking away the heads of nations, their kings and su/tans, to make people come and fight among themselves. ►34
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Now we are saying this about shaytanic teachings: Shaytan was expecting that that throne must be for me. And he was thinking of having democracy in the Divine
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Presence, thinking of making an election, of asking the an gels [chuckles], "Who is suitable for this throne?" And all the angels would say, "You are our teacher and you are such a person. We think that you are suitable for that throne." He was thinking of having democracy in the Heav ens [laughs]. But Allah Almighty was saying, ordering, "I am bringing a noble one among creation and I am dressing him from My honour. In divine honour I am dressing him, making him My deputy, and for that reason I am putting
him on that throne, not you.
"I am dressing that honour on him, not on you. And that dress does not need too many things to work. No, no need. I am that One who puts an honourable dress on any one I please-finished! I am not looking at their works, I am looking at who is suitable to be dressed in that dress of di vine honour.
"Adam, you sit there, and you [Iblis] make sajdah to him. Prostrate to him because I honoured him, and you must give your honour to him because I honoured him to be My deputy. Prostrate to him!" All of the angels prostrated. But Satan said, "No. I like democracy" [laughs]. "This is not justice!" shouting at Allah. Utanmaz, fyytan, namussuz pesavel* Not accepting, saying, "No, this is not right! We must have an election, we must use democracy. Must be democracy! Democracy— you don't know democracy? That we must do! Bring boxes to put everyone's votes. Then I will come to be on that throne."
Then Allah Almighty said, "Demon, go away! You are Shaytan. In front of My Divine Presence, from where are you getting the courage to say to Me, 'You are wrong'? You are cursed! Go away, demon!"6 At that time, he was asking for democracy. Now, eve rywhere [parodies], "Democracy is best, democracy is best!"
This is an analysis of democracy that no one knows. Yes? Americans, Germans and Cypriots, Turks, Arabs. "Wailu lil-'Arab,"7 never understanding anything about the Holy Qur'an. All of them, Arabs, are running after democ racy, democratic nizam, system, and they are saying, "We
are Muslims." And also Iranians. They are claiming, "We are first class Muslims," making a parliament because a par liament must be in democratic countries—those Shi'ah, who are claiming, "We would die for Ahl al-Bait, the holy family of Rasul-Allah."8 The holy family of Rasul-Allah is calling you to democracy, to parliament? And Pakistani people,
also, they are saying, "No one can be Muslims like us." They have lost the way, while they are claiming to have a democratic system. Where is it written in holy books? In the Old Testament or New Testament or Holy Qur'an, where is it written? The Old Testament, New Testament—
all are saying "kings, kings, kings." They have lost it, and their claims are false.
62:30-34,7:13,15:34-35,38:77-78.
Woe to the Arabs! 5[Tr.,J Shameless Satan, dishonourable scoundrel.
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Therefore, this world can't reach a good end till they
bring their sultans, their kings, and kick out tyrants and de mocracy. Monarchy must come, must come! If not, they will kill each other till this world goes from six billion to one billion. Democracy is bringing that big punishment to them. Those who quickly come to Allah Almighty's way, they should be saved. Others are going to finish and vanish. May Allah forgive us! Correct your minds, O people, all the world's people! This is not addressed only to the handful people in front of me, but I am calling all people to think about it deeply, to know Reality and to accept Reality, and to come the way of Allah Almighty.
3 Concerning the Evils of this Time
May Allah forgive me and bless those who accept truth. For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina. Muhammad Fateha! ▲
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shay tani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyi-l-'Azheem.
We are asking from our Lord, the Lord of Heavens, our Cre ator, Allah Almighty, for the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad to
give us good understanding. Good understanding brings peace, but misunderstandings bring troubles because misunderstandings make people do wrong things. ’=4
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If you let your donkey,1 it will never go on the road, al ways wanting to run on the land. Its happiness is to be on the land, in meadows. But if you train your donkey, it may follow your way. If not, it will always leave the right way and run to wrong ways.
And if you leave people without guidance, they will always follow the wrong way. Therefore, Allah Almighty is
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people. When they leave the right way, you must look and and democratic rules have no value. Therefore, democracy is a wholly wrong way. control what they do-whether they are doing good things, And Satan is doing the biggest advertising and saying, saying, "You must have a control system for controlling following a good way, or following a wrong way."
"You must use democracy."
For what?
Now the whole
Don't leave people
world is falling into bottomless troubles, unlimited, unsolv-
without control! You must control them. That must be! But
able problems, and governments don't know how they can
now that mu'assasah, foundation, has gone. Governments
deal with people, or people, how they are going to deal with
are not taking care of their people, saying, "Everyone is
governments. And each day I am hearing that there is inti-
free." Yes, everyone is free! Then, if anyone does some
khab, election: election in Turkey; election in Germany; elec
thing wrong, taking him, putting him in court and punish
tion in France; election in Italy; election ...
That must be, a heavenly order:
ing him, sending him to jail.
Whom are you electing?
The same people, the same
That is not a correct way. It is nonsense, it is ignorance,
quality of people. A hundred times you are bringing the
to leave people till they do a wrong thing and then take
same heads to be in power, nothing changing. And they are
them away. Governments' rules allow people to do every thing wrong and then catch them. No! That is our mind
saying, "0 people, look! You are governing your country because you have elected and brought these people from
product. The Lord of Heavens wants to prevent people
among yourselves." And people are saying, "We are never
from doing wrong things, but governments, no.
happy with such people," but by force they are putting
Govern
ments are saying, "We make so many rules. If anyone does
any wrong thing, we will punish him."
No. That is the difference between heavenly rules and people's rules. Democracy, that we are calling "pocracy,is the dirtiest system, giving people unlimited freedom. You can do anything! But heavenly rules, the alternative to de
mocracy, is theocracy. Those heavenly rules teach people
and control their actions, not leaving them to do a wrong thing or go on the wrong way.3 Those are heavenly rules,
them. Allah Almighty closes the doors of wrong ways, putting
barriers, saying, "Stop! You can't go from this way." Others are saying, "No, no barrier."
A barrier keeps
people from falling down. The government says, democra
cy says, "No, no barrier. You can go." And perhaps that bridge is broken. "Doesn't matter. Let them fall! They are free." But Allah Almighty says, "No. There is danger and
you must keep yourself away.
literally "ruling system of manure". That is, a divine system of rules preventing offenses or harm in contrast to a man-made system that leaves people free to offend or experience
harm and then punishes them or tries too late to mend the situation.
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Therefore, this is now the time of tyrants, as the Prophet
ft was saying-the period of tyrants, everywhere tyrants.4 They are not looking at holy books, they are not obeying heavenly orders and commands. All of them are on the wrong way, and daily more curses are coming on them, till you ask, "0 our Lord, take them away! Send from your sin cere, good servants to take them away, those deceivers, those tyrants, and to save Your servants." They are taking over everything, never leaving. But the time is over now! Now, because governments are not taking any care of heavenly rules, wanting to make rules by themselves, trou bles are increasing. And we are trying to make people keep heavenly rules by themselves because everywhere, the peo ple who should be responsible, as a shepherd protects his flocks from wolves, from violent wild animals, have been lost. No shepherds now. Without a shepherd, people are running like this, like that, and falling into the hands of wolves, and they are suffering, suffering. Everywhere peo ple are suffering, and that is the sign of the Last Days. And Shaytan is urging people to run in wrong direc tions. They are saying,5 "You must learn
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We Have honored the Children of Adam
Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil alHaqqani, world leader of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order.
Support for Our Souls Against Our Egos ---
Bring Sultans, Leave Tyranny ---
Concerning the Evils of this Time ---
Alive Hearts, Dead Heart --- 23
The Importance of Learning Good Servanthood --- 32
Keeping Respect for All of Allah s Servants --- 41
Heavenly Patronage, Satanic Patronag -—— 49
The Fallacy of "Economic Crisis Causing the People Misery --- 57
In Yesterday, Out Tomorrow ---- 63
The High Honor of Addressing Our Lord by His Holy Name "Allah” --- 7O
The Power of Working for Allah --- 76
Concerning Slavery to Satan and Ego --- 84
Guarding Our Most Valuable Treasure --- .91
The Main Characteristic of Egos is Pride --- 98
Training Our Anger --- 104
Concerning Spirituality and Materiality ---- 110
“Nothing Can Go Out of Its Private Line to Its Destiny --- 117
"Contentment Is a Treasure that Is not Exhausted --- 125
Avoiding Heavenly Anger Through Good Servanthood --- 129
Concerning "Modernized Islam ---- 138
The Source of Pleasure and Peace is Contentment --- 146
"Don t Ponder Over Allah but Ponder Over His Creation” --- 152
The Greatness of the Grant of Our Creation --— 160
The Endless Honor Allah Gave to the Children of Adam ---
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Support for Our Souls Against Our Egos
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shay tani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'A liyi-l- 'Azheem.
It is an Association, maybe a short meeting, a little bit more than a quarter of an hour, or half-an-hour or one hour. Ac cording to our deep desire, what we may be in need of, They are giving.1
A small motorcycle may come to a petrof station and say, "Fill it." Its capacity is only one liter, taking it away. Sometimes there comes a forty-wheel lorry, from here up to my home. Forty wheels is going to take two barrels of pet rol. According to their work, they may take.
Now we are here. What you are in need of, They may give; and we are only a mediator. That means a pipe com
We are in need. As each day our physical being needs eating and drinking, our spiritualiing from Them and giving.
’The departed grandshaykhs of the Naqshbandi Tariqah, from whom in spirations come to Shaykh Nazim's heart.
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ty is also in need of power. It is powerful enough, but it is in most need to take away our ego's pressure. Our egos are making a wall around our spirituality, never letting it show its mission and its power. Always
coming, our egos, and saying, "I am here, I am here. First I must be satisfied, and then you may come and do as you like." And our ego is never going to finish. Up to the last moment when we leave this life, it wants to continue its con trol, its power over us, wanting not to give any chance to our spirituality, saying, "I am first here. When I am fin ished, you may come and act." And till we pass away, our physical desires or needs are never-ending.
And we are trying to advise, as all prophets advised mankind. It is only to give support to our souls, to defeat our ego's pressure on our souls. Commonly, people are un der the pressure of their egos, and as long as people under their egos' pressure, no way for souls to do anything or to show their power. As an example, we may say that a person is in prison and surrounded by guards, never letting that person out, and sometimes people try to make a way to save that one from prison. And all the prophets, and particularly the Seal of the Prophets &2 just came to make a way for our im prisoned souls to take their freedom, to be free. When your souls are going to be free, quickly you are going to be in re lationship with Heavens-quickly, and you are free.
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But people are understanding freedom in another way: freedom for our physical desires. They want freedom such that no hindrance should be put in front of them for reach ing their physical desires and enjoyments. That is their freedom! And then they are first breaking religious re 3 straints that do not give a chance to ego to be free; because & when you give freedom to your ego, it quickly runs to Shay tan3 and says, "I am with you. I am a volunteer. Whatever
you say, I will do. I am free!" Therefore, shaytanic groups, Shaytan's representatives, are first attacking beliefs so that no one should believe in anything. They are using so many wrong ways, and they want to teach and to make people believe that we are mate rial beings, and that beyond materiality and materialism there is nothing. And they are putting that as a base for their teaching, for their lives, for their civilization, for every thing. They are building on materiality and materialism, and materialism makes people say, "No God," makes people not believe in anything beyond materiality. They are saying, "We must see a thing. If we do not see and touch a thing, we do not accept it—no, no!" And up to today they are do ing this. They are not taking any care now.
That is their theory, their aim—to make people not say that there is anything beyond materiality, to make people free from beliefs, free from religions, and to make the value of prophets at the lowest level. And they are saying, "Those people never existed on earth. All of them are fictions. Don't believe!"
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The main aim of all teaching in the twenty-first century is to teach youngsters not to believe. "If you want freedom, you must not believe in anything! Then you are free. Be liefs are the biggest hindrance for you to reach your aims, your physical desires-the biggest hindrance. Destroy them, and you should reach freedom." It is one hundred per cent wrong because that kind of freedom is destroying generations physically, mentally, spiritually. The real freedom that prophets brought from Heavens is to make a person free from his or her physical desires. And the first step for that purpose is that you must use materiality only to stand on, not to be under its com mand, using materiality only for certain purposes, to sup port your physical being within its limits.4 But when people go beyond the limits for their physical being's desires, they should be asir, captured, captured by devils. They want un limited fulfillment for their physical desires, and it is impos sible; a Therefore, every religion brings orders about things that should be done and some other orders about forbidden things that you must not approach. Otherwise, you are been caught, you are captured. Keep yourself on this side. On the other side is Shaytan, saying, "This side is absolute free dom for you." But it is never going to be freedom for you. It may destroy your physical being, and you may lose every chance for your spirituality.
And we are advising. It is a humble meeting, but what we are saying is important for all mankind, because realities
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can't be changed by the passing of centuries or by peoples' imagination, no. Reality is not imaginary; it is fixed. Reality is fixed, but imagination is never going to be fixed. There fore, prophets were sent to teach people.
0 people, ask for Reality for your lives. What is the re ality of being a human being, what is the reality of your hav ing been put on this planet? Ask for Reality regarding it; don't use nadhariyah, theories—no. All theories are imagina tion, not Reality.
Ask for Reality—why you are in existence, why you are on this planet Unchanged Reality, you can find there. And prophets came to say this, to make people understand this point. If understanding, they are going to reach to Reality. Otherwise, they will be with their imaginings, and imagin ing never give anything to them. And they are going to be destroyed and disappear. ■a
Shaytan, shaytanic teachings, are calling people to an imagined life. And youngsters, particularly, are always im agining something like freedom for every desire, and it is impossible. It is not Reality to reach a point at which you can be free and taste something with your physical being each time, and without its getting less but getting more. That is all imagination. Each day's advice, the biggest ad vice, is to call people to Reality. And shaytanic advice is to call people to imagination.
Heavenly teachings are calling people to Reality, but •a first and wanting to impose its our ego is always coming authority and power on your real being, your soul, because souls' being is Reality, and Reality is never going to be changed. But our physical being, it is only an appearance,
To fulfill their legitimate physical needs.
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an imagination, because it is going to be finished and van ish, nothing more.
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After one hundred years, no one here should be in existence-finished! If our physical being were real being, it would not disappear, it would be continuous. But it is only an imaginary figure, to be used for a short life, for some wisdoms, for some reasons that people are informed about in heavenly books.5 And our real being that gives our per sonality, that is our soul. Souls are real beings, never going to disappear. Their being, their existence, is continuous.
May Allah save us from being cheated by Satanic teachings! But I am sorry to say that everywhere people are call ing to shaytanic ways and making life a charming image for people, and people are running after it. And finally, they are going to look to find something. But they will never find anything, and they will say, "Oh-h, it was a mirage! We ran after it throughout our whole lives, and now we are here and we are finding nothing. It was a mirage." Before repenting for such a mistake, try to accept Reali ty, what is real of your being. You should be happy here and Hereafter, and make your Lord, Almighty Allah, happy with you and pleased with you.
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Bring Sultans, Leave Tyranny
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
'Aliyi-l-'Azheem. We are asking for protection from evil and from devils. And when a person asks for protection, that means that he is
y'atiraf, admitting, that he is weak and helpless. Admitting is the sign of servanthood. A servant knows that he is weak and that his Owner is powerful.
Our Grandshaykh, Shaykh 'Abdullah ad-Dhagestani, Sultan ul-Awliya,1 was always saying that the loveliest char acteristic that Allah Almighty likes to see in His servant is admitting his weakness. A weak person says that I can't do anything because I am weak. Those people who claim, "I am powerful," are showing their power, and because of their power most of them have pride. To be proud is the characteristic of Shaytan because Shaytan was claiming, "I am such-and-such a one. I am a
The sacred scriptures of the three monotheistic, revelation-based faiths,
'Shaykh Nazim's predecessor and shaykh, who passed away in 1973. Sultan ul-Awliya: the Sultan of [Muslim] Saints.
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more powerful, more honourable, more respected one.2
not as honourable a one as I am. I was created before him, and for hundreds and thousands of years I have been giving my servanthood, my worship. That one is a new creature, not yet making even one sajdah,3 but he has been granted that honour. Why? I am the honourable one, but he is not honourable!"
He was thinking that honour is granted according to a person's works or efforts. If it were according to our works that we are granted honour, a worker would be much more honoured than the sultan. The sultan does not work. The sultan sits on his throne, but his workers—in his palace, in his kitchens, in his gardens, and for this and that purpose— work hard, while the sultan only sits. If, we might say, the sultan's throne was empty and Shaytan was a worker, he would think that that throne should be for him. He would image or he would look at himself and say, "Oh! That throne is so suitable for me. Must be for me," because he would look around himself and say, "No one is like me for worshipping and knowing. Oh-h, that throne is so suitable for me, and the honour of that most honourable throne should be given to me!" Yes.
When a sultan passes away, someone from his line comes to that throne because his level is not the level of common people, and common people must have someone above their level. If you do not bring a king or su/tan and
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put him on that throne, people are going to fight each other to reach that honour. Everyone may say, "I am suitable for that." But their level is the common level. No one is going to be happy for someone from their level or from their line to be on that throne, saying, "Why? You are like me, also." But when a sultan passes away and the crown prince comes from his line, people say, "Yes, he is all right, this one. That honour is for him because he comes from the line of his fa ther, from the king's line, not from the common line." But now you are seeing those satanic traps and tricks, making people believe that there is no need for the line of kings, the line of sultans. "That honour must be also for you. There fore, take them away!"
It began from 1789, the great French Revolution, that opened the door for tyrants. And people are in a poisoned atmosphere that they are not finding a way to get out of, to breathe clean air and to learn servanthood, mu'amalah4— how to be a servant; because the way of being a servant, servanthood, can be learned when they keep their sultan and the sultan's honour and respect, and they learn that they must be respectful, also, to their Creator, to Allah Almighty.
Therefore, Shaytan is coming and taking away every thing by which people can learn how they should be re spectful servants to their Lord. They learned that when they had kings or sultans. Now, after they took that away, they are saying, "You and I are equal. You have a chance to be president, I have a chance to be president; you have a chance to be sultan, I have a chance to be sultan."
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Then, finished! Fasad, corruption, just began from that
time. They killed their king and queen and their descend ants, asilzade, nobility. They killed everyone, even little ones, under the guillotine, the French people who claim that they are the most civilized people, first class. They de stroyed respect and they lost the respect of the common people for their kings or sultans. And after that, all nations learned from the French Revolution, and one after another they also fought their kings and sultans, taking them away, and then they came in power.
from beating, from bad treatment of them. Every kind of punishment is giving trouble to those people in jails; they are finishing and no one is asking. Tyrants, no mercy in their hearts, no justice, no respect for people, nothing of good characteristics among tyrants. You must not ask!
Therefore, now people are running in the streets. They are asking for someone, someone like before, to be re
spected. But they are going to have at least two parties, one bringing their chief ones, their heads, for a short time, and after that, the other group grows and comes, taking them away. Then they get up and say, "Why? This is a bad one. ►24
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We must have a new election!"
Now the whole world is full of unsolved problems, never-ending troubles and unbearable sufferings. People have fallen into it. Therefore, now this world can't have peace till they bring to power mediators, who are their kings and sultans, so that they may respect their Lord because they have learned how they should give respect. Now, children, are not giving respect to their parents; students are not giving any respect to their teachers; com mon people are not giving any respect to their M.P.s or gov ernments. They are fighting; each day now you see the streets full of disobedient servants. No respect! People are running like rivers in the streets and fighting governments and killing, and they are going to be killed. No respect; fin ished! This is the time of tyrants. Tyrants, no mercy in their hearts; they may kill, they may do any kind of bad thing to common people. You see that they are hitting them, they are putting them in jails and giving so many punishments b that the bodies of people can't bear. They may die but they never take any responsibility. They just say, "He died" —
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other saying, "He is not doing good; we must bring our side, and this and that, this and that"—this fighting will
continue. Shaytan has been working on it from the beginning of history. That history, they are say, began in Egypt. Their heads had kingdoms. The king, pharaoh, was able to make people respect him. No one was able to stand up against him; if standing up, he was quickly taken away. Always power was with the rulers, up to the beginning of the nine teenth century. And Shaytan was working on it, especially on that point of taking away the heads of nations, their kings and su/tans, to make people come and fight among themselves. ►34
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Presence, thinking of making an election, of asking the an gels [chuckles], "Who is suitable for this throne?" And all the angels would say, "You are our teacher and you are such a person. We think that you are suitable for that throne." He was thinking of having democracy in the Heav ens [laughs]. But Allah Almighty was saying, ordering, "I am bringing a noble one among creation and I am dressing him from My honour. In divine honour I am dressing him, making him My deputy, and for that reason I am putting
him on that throne, not you.
"I am dressing that honour on him, not on you. And that dress does not need too many things to work. No, no need. I am that One who puts an honourable dress on any one I please-finished! I am not looking at their works, I am looking at who is suitable to be dressed in that dress of di vine honour.
"Adam, you sit there, and you [Iblis] make sajdah to him. Prostrate to him because I honoured him, and you must give your honour to him because I honoured him to be My deputy. Prostrate to him!" All of the angels prostrated. But Satan said, "No. I like democracy" [laughs]. "This is not justice!" shouting at Allah. Utanmaz, fyytan, namussuz pesavel* Not accepting, saying, "No, this is not right! We must have an election, we must use democracy. Must be democracy! Democracy— you don't know democracy? That we must do! Bring boxes to put everyone's votes. Then I will come to be on that throne."
Then Allah Almighty said, "Demon, go away! You are Shaytan. In front of My Divine Presence, from where are you getting the courage to say to Me, 'You are wrong'? You are cursed! Go away, demon!"6 At that time, he was asking for democracy. Now, eve rywhere [parodies], "Democracy is best, democracy is best!"
This is an analysis of democracy that no one knows. Yes? Americans, Germans and Cypriots, Turks, Arabs. "Wailu lil-'Arab,"7 never understanding anything about the Holy Qur'an. All of them, Arabs, are running after democ racy, democratic nizam, system, and they are saying, "We
are Muslims." And also Iranians. They are claiming, "We are first class Muslims," making a parliament because a par liament must be in democratic countries—those Shi'ah, who are claiming, "We would die for Ahl al-Bait, the holy family of Rasul-Allah."8 The holy family of Rasul-Allah is calling you to democracy, to parliament? And Pakistani people,
also, they are saying, "No one can be Muslims like us." They have lost the way, while they are claiming to have a democratic system. Where is it written in holy books? In the Old Testament or New Testament or Holy Qur'an, where is it written? The Old Testament, New Testament—
all are saying "kings, kings, kings." They have lost it, and their claims are false.
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Therefore, this world can't reach a good end till they
bring their sultans, their kings, and kick out tyrants and de mocracy. Monarchy must come, must come! If not, they will kill each other till this world goes from six billion to one billion. Democracy is bringing that big punishment to them. Those who quickly come to Allah Almighty's way, they should be saved. Others are going to finish and vanish. May Allah forgive us! Correct your minds, O people, all the world's people! This is not addressed only to the handful people in front of me, but I am calling all people to think about it deeply, to know Reality and to accept Reality, and to come the way of Allah Almighty.
3 Concerning the Evils of this Time
May Allah forgive me and bless those who accept truth. For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina. Muhammad Fateha! ▲
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shay tani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyi-l-'Azheem.
We are asking from our Lord, the Lord of Heavens, our Cre ator, Allah Almighty, for the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad to
give us good understanding. Good understanding brings peace, but misunderstandings bring troubles because misunderstandings make people do wrong things. ’=4
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If you let your donkey,1 it will never go on the road, al ways wanting to run on the land. Its happiness is to be on the land, in meadows. But if you train your donkey, it may follow your way. If not, it will always leave the right way and run to wrong ways.
And if you leave people without guidance, they will always follow the wrong way. Therefore, Allah Almighty is
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people. When they leave the right way, you must look and and democratic rules have no value. Therefore, democracy is a wholly wrong way. control what they do-whether they are doing good things, And Satan is doing the biggest advertising and saying, saying, "You must have a control system for controlling following a good way, or following a wrong way."
"You must use democracy."
For what?
Now the whole
Don't leave people
world is falling into bottomless troubles, unlimited, unsolv-
without control! You must control them. That must be! But
able problems, and governments don't know how they can
now that mu'assasah, foundation, has gone. Governments
deal with people, or people, how they are going to deal with
are not taking care of their people, saying, "Everyone is
governments. And each day I am hearing that there is inti-
free." Yes, everyone is free! Then, if anyone does some
khab, election: election in Turkey; election in Germany; elec
thing wrong, taking him, putting him in court and punish
tion in France; election in Italy; election ...
That must be, a heavenly order:
ing him, sending him to jail.
Whom are you electing?
The same people, the same
That is not a correct way. It is nonsense, it is ignorance,
quality of people. A hundred times you are bringing the
to leave people till they do a wrong thing and then take
same heads to be in power, nothing changing. And they are
them away. Governments' rules allow people to do every thing wrong and then catch them. No! That is our mind
saying, "0 people, look! You are governing your country because you have elected and brought these people from
product. The Lord of Heavens wants to prevent people
among yourselves." And people are saying, "We are never
from doing wrong things, but governments, no.
happy with such people," but by force they are putting
Govern
ments are saying, "We make so many rules. If anyone does
any wrong thing, we will punish him."
No. That is the difference between heavenly rules and people's rules. Democracy, that we are calling "pocracy,is the dirtiest system, giving people unlimited freedom. You can do anything! But heavenly rules, the alternative to de
mocracy, is theocracy. Those heavenly rules teach people
and control their actions, not leaving them to do a wrong thing or go on the wrong way.3 Those are heavenly rules,
them. Allah Almighty closes the doors of wrong ways, putting
barriers, saying, "Stop! You can't go from this way." Others are saying, "No, no barrier."
A barrier keeps
people from falling down. The government says, democra
cy says, "No, no barrier. You can go." And perhaps that bridge is broken. "Doesn't matter. Let them fall! They are free." But Allah Almighty says, "No. There is danger and
you must keep yourself away.
literally "ruling system of manure". That is, a divine system of rules preventing offenses or harm in contrast to a man-made system that leaves people free to offend or experience
harm and then punishes them or tries too late to mend the situation.
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Therefore, this is now the time of tyrants, as the Prophet
ft was saying-the period of tyrants, everywhere tyrants.4 They are not looking at holy books, they are not obeying heavenly orders and commands. All of them are on the wrong way, and daily more curses are coming on them, till you ask, "0 our Lord, take them away! Send from your sin cere, good servants to take them away, those deceivers, those tyrants, and to save Your servants." They are taking over everything, never leaving. But the time is over now! Now, because governments are not taking any care of heavenly rules, wanting to make rules by themselves, trou bles are increasing. And we are trying to make people keep heavenly rules by themselves because everywhere, the peo ple who should be responsible, as a shepherd protects his flocks from wolves, from violent wild animals, have been lost. No shepherds now. Without a shepherd, people are running like this, like that, and falling into the hands of wolves, and they are suffering, suffering. Everywhere peo ple are suffering, and that is the sign of the Last Days. And Shaytan is urging people to run in wrong direc tions. They are saying,5 "You must learn
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