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!" What are they learning? The ways of Shaytan. Everywhere, educational systems are calling people to leam the ways of Shaytan and to fall into troubles, and problems are increasing and no so lutions for problems, countless problems.
First of all, people must leam and must take care of the command of the Lord of Heavens. You must take it and you must look, you must understand. But first, democratic edu cational systems are teaching people not to say there is a Lord, there is a Creator, there is God, there is Allah Al mighty. They are first denying God, and they are establish ing their teaching systems on atheistic theories.
On every product there is written,, "Made in England" or "Made in Germa ny," "Made in Holland," "Made in Italy." "Made in Argen tina—no. Something, "Made in Turkey," "Made in Greece"? "Made in Arabia"? No, I don't know. "Made in China." They are saying China is like a big dragon, wanting to eat, to swallow Western countries, and they are trembling From where is that terrorism coming?
now.
Hah-hah! Like Yajuj-Majuj.6 One kind of them are Chinese people, Mongof people, and most Asian people and Turkish people. Yajuj-Majuj, Gog-Magog are the sons of Yapheth.7 Hami, Sami and Yapheth: Sami, Arabs; Hami, Europeans; and Yapheth's children are Turks, Chinese, Mongols, Japanese, and also Malaysians and such people — Gog-Magog, all of them. I don't know about Americans; they are new ones. Who is their father? I don't know. But they are a combination of some of Ham's and Yapheth's children. They are very happy. Yes? Any American here?
4The Prophet (s) said, "After me come caliphs, and after the caliphs come princes, and after princes there will be kings and after the kings, there
6Yajuj wa Ma'juj, an unidentified race of people mentioned in the Qur'an
will be tyrants." (Na 'im bin Hamad)
18:94,97-98; 21:95-96.
’Governments arid educational systems.
Yapeth=Jafeth; Hami=Ham; Sami=Shem.
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And now all these nations aren't able to do anything, and they are falling into bottomless darkness. They aren't able to find the way. Even if they have a compass, maps, it is darkness. People need a light. And the light that they are
the light of beliefs. Belief in Allah makes their way clear to move, to go on.
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But now the whole world has just extinguished the lights of religions. People do not believe in anything and they are in darkness. That is the problem, the biggest prob lem. Everywhere, that darkness of ignorance is rejecting everything that belongs to Heavens. And we are asking from Allah Almighty to send us, from His Divine Presence, those who will bring lights (and their lights are much more powerful than the light of the sun), to show people what is wrong and what is right. Otherwise, people now aren't able
to see, to know, what is wrong, what is true, what is right. Only ahad un-nass8 certain people, are trying to find a way with their candles. Candles are so weak for finding a way but still they are helping people a little bit. But the ma jority is in dark darkness. It is out of our capacity to stop it; ordinary people aren't able to stop it. It needs heavenly in tervention to come on earth and make people see and know what | right, what is wrong. Individually, some people are trying to do that. They are doing it only in their homes, but when they go out it is so difficult What their, our, children are taking from their parents in their homes, that small candle, when they go out, windy storms are extinguishing and they are falling into
darkness. And the Prophet @ was saying, "O people, guard your youngsters." It is only one sentence, but it may change the lives of people if they follow it. He was saying, "O mankind, O people, O servants of the Lord, keep your youngsters at home after sunset. Don't let them go out side."9 It is enough to change the whole world, this command only: "Don't let them go out after sunset. Keep them in your homes." Finished, because after sunset it is the time of intisharu-l-jinn;w the time of jinn and shaytans. They are free, running in the streets, everywhere. Therefore, keep your children from going out. Otherwise, they may fall into the hands of shaytans and jinns; finished. Look! No need for
anything else. At nighttime, keep them at home. Leave the streets empty. Night clubs, casinos, eglence yeri,u playing places or enjoyment places that draw youngsters to them—finished! They should be shut down. Finished, finished! Then the whole world may be in silence, in good condition, so that every one may feel satisfaction at that time. Only one com mand from the Seal of the Prophets, and it right, just giving proof of that command. Holy books, the Old Testament, New Testament and Psalms, also, they are saying don't leave your youngsters outside after sunset. Keep them at home-finished!
9 Altaqitoo subyanikum awwal al-'isha fa innahu waqt intishar ash-shayatin.
"The spreading out or diffusion of jinn.
’Certain, special people.
”[Tr.z] places of entertainment.
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And another command: Don't bring what is happening outside into your homes. It is also a big fitna,12 a big trouble, coming now from that shaytanic box, TV, bringing every thing happening outside into your home, and they are learn ing everything through that, even if they do not go out.
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Close it down, also. But Shaytan is keeping it;, and he is also making some foolish people to destroy, to make bombs and kill innocent people, so that Allah curses them. They should find their punishment before they leave this life!
Alive Hearts, Dead Hearts
Close down TVs after Maghrib, after sunset. And use it
for some useful purpose. Don't bring what is happening outside into your home to teach your youngsters every bad, every satanic thing. The biggest satanic school, that is the
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwatta ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyyi-l-'Azheem.'
TV studios. May Allah take them away! We are asking forgiveness from Allah Almighty, because I For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine
Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad %—Fateha! ▲
am looking at myself and at all people, and I am not seeing a person walking on the right way.
It is a pity that people are going in a dangerous direc tion, although it is written, "Paradise Way, Hells Way." But
people are running on the wrong way, in a dangerous direc tion, heedlessly, and to be heedless brings every trouble to
people. Wrong step, and after it there is going to be a pun ishment.
With every step that a person takes on the wrong way, there quickly reaches him a punishment. They may say, "I
do not feel anything."
That is an admission that they are
heedless, not understanding what is happening to them
'T take refuge with Allah from Satan, the rejected.
the Beneficent, the Merciful. 'Trial, enticement, temptation, fascination.
In the name of Allah,
There is no might nor power except with
Allah, the Most High, the Almighty."
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when they walk on the wrong way. At the least, the Proph
lights, that is dhikr,2 the remembrance of Allah, to be with
et % was saying, any wrong step, wrong action, makes a
Allah. Those who are making dhikr, they are with Allah,
black spot on our hearts till our hearts are going to die.
and Allah gives power to their hearts.
When it is completely black, black spots coming, coming,
hearts, and those who never make dhikr in their hearts, they
coming, then our hearts are going to die, finished.
have died.
That is real life for
our
Those who are with Allah are never going to die. Allah
hearts, and the life of our hearts is heavenly lights. Heaven
Almighty's existence is never-ending; His existence is from
ly lights are making your heart be alive. And the Prophet
pre-eternity to post-eternity.
was also saying that if a person keeps his steps on the right
come into the hearts of servants, servants are also going to
path, in the right direction, a safe direction, when other
reach that real life because when those divine lights, come,
people's hearts are dying, his heart is never going to die be
you will become hayy, living ones forever.
"Dying" means that no more lights are reachin;
And when His divine lights
cause lights are coming to those who walk on the right path,
and lights make our hearts alive. When lights are cut off,
we are going to die.
Once a shaykh passed away from this temporary life. Everyone is going to pass.
"0 Shaykh, we see so many billions of people, running, going and coming, going and coming. They say that they
are alive." No, no. Really, they have died. It is not a real life when divine lights never enter and every wrong step makes a
black spot on their hearts, their hearts becoming a black piece. Finished-that is hearts' "dying". And when people
fall into darkness, fear comes on them. They are afraid, as a person in darkness never feels safe, never sees what is com
ing on him in the dark, and he is afraid. When lights are on,
that fear leaves him.
And they buried the shaykh.
And his murid3 was inside the grave to arrange the shaykh's
position, and he was thinking that the shaykh was like an ordinary person. No! A real shaykh must be extraordinary, as prophets
are from mankind but they are extraordinary beings, and their inheritors, also, are not like ordinary or common peo ple. No; must be higher. They may be at the same level in
their physical being but their spiritual being is above the
level of common people. If not, a person can't be a shaykh, he can't be a guide. A guide must look, must see [the needs and inner being of] common people.
Therefore, those whose hearts are alive, they are in sat
isfaction and contentment. And the engine that gives hearts
2Dhikr-Allah, zikr, the remembrance or mention of Allah through audible
or silent recitation of Qufanic verses, His Holy Names, and well-known litanies of glorification.
The disciple or follower of a shaykh.
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* you say 'Allah!' you are with Me. But when you forget Me,
That murid knew that the Shari'ah4 says that when a per son is buried in his grave, you must turn his face towards
qiblah, towards the House of the Lord, the Ka'bah,5 and he
was trying to do that. But the shaykh opened his eyes and
you are not with Me, no. You are thrown away, you are go ing to be dust. You have lost those lights, you have lost that honour of being with Me."
said, "0 waladi,6 0 my murid, no need for you to turn my
No honour can be above that honour of being with Al
face towards qiblah. He has turned my face to Himself. No
lah; no honour can be given to servants more than being
need!"
with their Lord. But most people have lost it because they
And that murid was so frightened, and he said, "O our
master, you are not dead! How are we burying you?" He said, "0 my son, those who are with Allah, they do
not die. Our lives are continuous. You are only making a veil that we have passed away. When our time in this life is over, we pass behind the veil and leave you, and we are now behind the veil. In only one step, we have passed there. You finish your job. Cover me; don't talk too much. Make my grave like other people's and go."
Yes, those people's hearts are alive! If hearts are alive, their lives have just passed from the imitation, temporary
are giving importance only their temporary life and physical desires that are going to finish and vanish.
They are not
running after real life, to reach divine lights.
When people go on the right path, at every moment di vine lights reach them, and at every moment their hope,
their satisfaction, their pleasure, their enjoyment increases, becoming more and more. Fear leaves them and they are
full of hope, and their hope is real hope. Their hope is to reach more and more in the Divine Presence, Allah Al mighty's never-ending favours and never-ending pleasures
from Him to His servants. Then their hearts are alive, with
no black spot on them.
life to the permanent life, to infinity. Their lives are contin And try—try! Don't sleep! Try to reach real life here.
uous, nothing causing them to be broken.
But you can't walk with wrong steps to real life. You need
Therefore, guard your heart. Allah Almighty says, "Ala
correct steps to reach such favors, the endless Favors
bi dhikri-Allahi tatmainu-l-qulub.7 Your hearts may reach real
Oceans, endless Pleasure Oceans, endless enjoyments, end
satisfaction and contentment when you are with Me. When
less Mercy Oceans, endless Blessing Oceans of Allah Al mighty, never becoming less but "Win ladayna niazid 8 always
more and more, never less. The sacred Law of Islam, derived primarily from the Holy Qur'an and
But those who are running after their physical being's
the Prophet's practice (Sunnah).
Ka'bah, the
enjoyments, day by day they become less, less, less, and fin
Sacred House in Mecca that all Muslims face during their prayers, built in
ishing. When their hearts are completely black, they are fin-
5QibIah: the direction of Mecca from any part of the globe.
antiquity by the prophet Abraham and his son, the prophet Ishmael,. **0 my son."
^Unquestionably, by the remembrance ofAllah hearts are assured." (13:28)
with Us there is more." (50:35)
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ished. They may walk, they may eat, they may see but en
joyment has just finished, no more taste. They may eat but no taste; they may look but they can't enjoy through their looking; they may go and come but they never reach any good feeling of pleasure. Their lives' pleasures are just fin
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is to be with Allah Almighty. Shaytan is preventing them and saying it is something forbidden.10 Dhikr forbidden? They are saying, "Yes!"
Go to Makkatu-l-Mukarramah11 now and say "La ilaha illa-Llah"12 with
ten people, and police will come and take you away.
ished. They are really dead.
"What are you doing? When you look at them, you think that that is an ordi nary person, but they are finished. They are finished, every thing becoming less, less, less; no taste, no enjoyment, no more response from their physical being for enjoying them
selves-finished! They are living dead people; they are waiting for the time to be taken away from their physical being and be buried-finished! But those whose hearts are alive, their physical being is
also enjoying. They never lose their taste. Eating, drinking, looking, going, coming-their enjoyment never goes away because of their spiritual power, and their enjoyment is more than young people's. Young people think their en joyment is at the top level. No! They may be ninety years old, those people who are with Allah, but what they taste,
"No, you can't say it!"
People now are in such a way, even in Makkat-1-
Mukarramah, Madinatu-l-Munawwarah.13
If you say, "As-
10That is, by the Wahabi religious authorities, who emphasize a rationalist understanding of Islam. ’’Mecca the Honoured/Venerated.
,2The first clause of the Islamic Declaration of Faith, "There is no deity except Allah." Repeating it in a group is falsely regarded as being a Sufi
practice, and hence it is frowned upon by the Wahabi religious authori
ties, despite the fact that it was done by the Prophet and his Sahabah, as
also, through their physical being, young people can't reach. And till they leave this life, jumping to real life from this
reported in the following hadith, narrated by Ya'la bin Shaddad:
My father reported and said, while 'Ubada bin Samit
was
temporary life, they never lose anything of physical powers,
present and confirmed it: We were with the Prophet
and
also.
he asked, "Is there any stranger among you."
We said, "No,
0 Messenger of Allah." He ordered us to close the door and
If people knew that secret of tariqats,9 all of them would run to tariqats. But Shaytan is making them not to believe
and to deny tariqats, the way of dhikr—and the way of dhikr
said, "Raise your hands and say 'La ilaha illa-Llah,'" where
upon we raised our hands, [doing so] for an hour. said, "Alhamdulillah!
Then he
O Allah, You have sent me with this
word and have empowered me thereby, and have promised me Paradise because of it, and You never fail in Your prom
ise." He then said, "Shall I not give you the good tidings that indeed Allah has forgiven you?" (Ahmad)
’’Medina the Radiant, the city that was the Prophet's home during the last ’Sufi orders.
period of his life and in which he is buried..
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salat was-salam 'alaika, ya Rasul-Allah, "14 police will come and
say, "You can't say this. He is dead."
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destroying my place on my head!" Allah take them away, quickly! Yes.
That is respect?
May
How, "dead"? The Prophet went and visited shuhada Uhud, the martyrs of Uhud,15 and said, "As-salamu 'alaikum, ya shuhada', ya ghuraba', wa rahmat-Allahi wa barakatuhu. "16 He gave salamV But now people in Madinatu-1Munawwarah are saying, "You can't say this to the Proph et," although the Prophet himself said it while visiting Jannat al-Baqi, Jannat al-Mu'alla.18
Try to follow the steps of awliya as much as you can. Walk in their steps and you should be happy here and Hereafter, and no fear for you here or Hereafter. May Allah forgive us! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad ^—Fateha!
How, from where, did you bring this barrier? How are you banning people from visiting the graves of awliya, of Sahabah,™ and destroying their graves? What is this foolish ness and disrespect? "I am here and you are coming and
If awliya's pleasure were given to all people, they would be drunk. Their enjoyment is material, but awliya's pleasure is spiritual. Materiality will finish, but spirituality is neverending, every time, every time. They are not in need of us ing anything to eat, to drink. ▲
’^"Blessings and peace be on you, 0 Messenger of Allah." According to the Wahhabi understanding, greeting the Prophet at his grave in Medina
constitutes shirk (attributing divinity to other than Allah) because, accord
ing to their understanding, the Prophet is dead, despite the fact that it is stated in a hadith that Allah has prohibited the earth from consuming the bodies of prophets. Traditional Islamic belief, on the other hand, holds
that Muhammad and all the prophets are alive in their graves, separated from the 'living' by a spiritual veil. Moreover, as taught by the Prophet
himself, Muslims throughout the world send this greeting to the Prophet multiple times a day during their prayers (salat), and, according to his own words, he hears and responds.
,5The second battle between the polytheists of Mecca and the Muslims, which took place near Medina. •ft ,6"Peace be upon you, 0 martyrs, 0 departed ones, and the mercy of Al
lah and His blessings." 17The Islamic greeting of peace. ,BThe burial places of the martyrs of the Prophet's time
,9The Companions of the Prophet, including the martyrs who died in bat
tie against the idolaters.
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without a reason. Allah Almighty says, "Rabbana. ma khalaqta hadha batilan,"2 teaching us. You must say, "O my
Lord, this was not created without a purpose." And when it is created with some purpose, Allah creating and giving that speciality to all things, some benefit must be granted to
mankind. Everything is created with some wisdoms and purpos es. For what, for what? Did Allah create creation the earth, planets, galaxies, countless, unlimited spaces for Himself? If you think in such a way, that is the biggest mis
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take in your beliefs.
Allah, the Lord of Heavens, the Creator of everything, 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. By the name of Allah, All-Mighty, All-Merciful, Most Benef
icent and Most Munificent. It is an Association1 with the shaykh, and we are in need to listen and to obey. And, as we have been created, we have been given responsibility for certain important things.
is not in need of anything. If He were in need of something, He couldn't be the Creator, He couldn't be the Lord of Heavens; no. He created everything, but He is not in need, even of such huge spaces and distances in space as astro nauts are seeing, and they are saying, O' "Space—we can't measure it, even with as many numbers as possible. We may put a huge number, but it is not enough to measure distances in space." We may say that maybe you can find a number to reach the farthest galaxy, but you can't reach
deeper into space. Space is unlimited, but everything in it is within limits. Nothing is created without a wisdom or without a pur pose or without a benefit. Everything, from the smallest
particle of creation-an atom, you may say—is created for
Therefore, He is not the Creator to be needy. He creat ed; He gives existence to creation. How can He be in need of
what He created? He gives creation whatever zf may be in need of. How can you think that He may be in need of these
some purpose. An atom can be divided into smaller particles.
You
can't say that even the smallest particle of matter is created
huge universes? No! It is outside of intellect; mind and mental faculties can never accept that. "I bring that into ex-
’Ar., swWi; Tr., sohbet, meaning a time of gathering and association of the
2'Our Lord, You did not create this in vain." (3:191)
shaykh with his followers (murids).
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istence and I expect some benefit from it for Myself"—how can it be? Wrong way, wrong idea, wrong thinking about
to reach beyond that, beyond that, and then reaching empty space and going in it, to finish? You can't finish space.
the Lord of Heavens!
But people now in the twenty-first century are not thinking about it. They are trying to make the Creator ac cording to their imagination. If you say, "Allah is the Crea tor," they ask, "How—how is He?" And this question that they are asking "How is He?" is a nonsensical question be cause, if you want to put that question, it means that you
want to bring Him into your area of imagination, that you think the Creator's identity is like our identities. Therefore, asking "How is Allah, how is God? Where is He? How is He?" is the biggest mistake because they want to put Him in their area of imagination, like a person want ing to see a ceremony that is taking place in London or in America or in Germany, and he is looking at the TV screen. Yes; he wants to look at that thirty or forty centimeters' space, saying "Oh, this is the Queen, this is the King, this is the parade. This is a gigantic aircraft, this is the battlefield. This is Baghdad, this is London."
Where is He, where is He? Where? There is a tamthil, an example. Some small fishes are saying to their mother, "We hear that there is an ocean. O mother, show us where it is." And the mother is saying, "O my little ones, show me any where that there is not ocean" That is an ocean, and billions and billions of galaxies are swimming in it. No one knows from where they have come, no one knows to where they reach. But foolishness has just reached the top point in the twenty-first century because they want to deny, and they are never using their minds or
mental faculties, asking to bring Allah on the TV screen. Allohu Akbar! He created everything! He is the Creator and He is not in need of anything. And He is only one. Can't be a second one; no room for another Creator. Two creators can't be.
One must be a creature. One, only one Creator, but count
less creations and creatures. You may bring that on that TV screen and say such foolish things, such as, "We must see Him." Where? On the
TV screen? What is that foolishness? Where can you see
Him? I may say to that person, "What you are asking for, if you can reach beyond space, you may find Him there. Try to reach!" Mars is the nearest planet to our earth. What about be yond that? You can't reach the nearest planet in our solar
Foolishness from people concerning
their
Creator!
They are taking it as istikhfaf,3 making it not important. "It is
not important to ask about the Creator."
"Why?"
"Because we are busy on earth, we are busy! No time for us to think about the Creator. We are so busy! Twenty-
system, and our solar system is only one star in our And they say that in 120,000 light years you may reach the edge of this galaxy. And beyond that—how are you asking ’Lightly, frivolously, as if unimportant.
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four hours is not enough for our works, for our business, for
occupied." And that brings them endless troubles and un
our job. We are so busy. No time!"
solved problems because they are not thinking about their
[Chuckles.]
Sometimes they put watches one hour
ahead. I am saying, "People want to make the day twenty-
five hours?" They are thinking about it. They are saying, "Twenty-four hours is not enough for our works. What can we do? In summertime, we can put it one hour forward. And when we are tired of summertime, twenty-five hours. In wintertime, take it back one hour, twenty-three hours." [Laughter.] They are really asking to make a longer day, to make our day forty-eight hours. And if it were to be forty eight hours, we would say, "Oh! We are fed up with long days, long nights. We must bring it back as it was"—yes. Twenty four hours is just suitable but people think that they have such big activities, big business and big works that they are in. "We see that there is not enough time to think beyond our works about Allah. No time for us to ask about the Creator because we are so busy. Twenty-four hours we are busy with dunya* No time to ask for Maula, •^4
When are you going to be free, unoccupied, or when are you going to be retired? I am asking. "Are you retired or tired?" Tired, because if not tired, no one would be retired. Retired means finished, finished. "I am tired. I ran so quickly that now I need to rest." Yes; after a while you can find your rest in the grave, full rest there.
The twenty-first century's people, they are busy. They are saying, "No time for praying, no time to think about Heavens or heavenly beings. No time! We are, all of us, just
Creator, the Lord of Heavens. "Twenty-four hours," they are saying, "it is not enough for our business, and we have no time."
And everywhere from East to West, from North to South, that you are finding troubles and problems, that is the reason. If sitting and saying, "Oh, alhamdulillah!5 Now, Oour Lord, I am asking to be with You. If I am with You, I
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!" What are they learning? The ways of Shaytan. Everywhere, educational systems are calling people to leam the ways of Shaytan and to fall into troubles, and problems are increasing and no so lutions for problems, countless problems.
First of all, people must leam and must take care of the command of the Lord of Heavens. You must take it and you must look, you must understand. But first, democratic edu cational systems are teaching people not to say there is a Lord, there is a Creator, there is God, there is Allah Al mighty. They are first denying God, and they are establish ing their teaching systems on atheistic theories.
On every product there is written,, "Made in England" or "Made in Germa ny," "Made in Holland," "Made in Italy." "Made in Argen tina—no. Something, "Made in Turkey," "Made in Greece"? "Made in Arabia"? No, I don't know. "Made in China." They are saying China is like a big dragon, wanting to eat, to swallow Western countries, and they are trembling From where is that terrorism coming?
now.
Hah-hah! Like Yajuj-Majuj.6 One kind of them are Chinese people, Mongof people, and most Asian people and Turkish people. Yajuj-Majuj, Gog-Magog are the sons of Yapheth.7 Hami, Sami and Yapheth: Sami, Arabs; Hami, Europeans; and Yapheth's children are Turks, Chinese, Mongols, Japanese, and also Malaysians and such people — Gog-Magog, all of them. I don't know about Americans; they are new ones. Who is their father? I don't know. But they are a combination of some of Ham's and Yapheth's children. They are very happy. Yes? Any American here?
4The Prophet (s) said, "After me come caliphs, and after the caliphs come princes, and after princes there will be kings and after the kings, there
6Yajuj wa Ma'juj, an unidentified race of people mentioned in the Qur'an
will be tyrants." (Na 'im bin Hamad)
18:94,97-98; 21:95-96.
’Governments arid educational systems.
Yapeth=Jafeth; Hami=Ham; Sami=Shem.
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And now all these nations aren't able to do anything, and they are falling into bottomless darkness. They aren't able to find the way. Even if they have a compass, maps, it is darkness. People need a light. And the light that they are
the light of beliefs. Belief in Allah makes their way clear to move, to go on.
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But now the whole world has just extinguished the lights of religions. People do not believe in anything and they are in darkness. That is the problem, the biggest prob lem. Everywhere, that darkness of ignorance is rejecting everything that belongs to Heavens. And we are asking from Allah Almighty to send us, from His Divine Presence, those who will bring lights (and their lights are much more powerful than the light of the sun), to show people what is wrong and what is right. Otherwise, people now aren't able
to see, to know, what is wrong, what is true, what is right. Only ahad un-nass8 certain people, are trying to find a way with their candles. Candles are so weak for finding a way but still they are helping people a little bit. But the ma jority is in dark darkness. It is out of our capacity to stop it; ordinary people aren't able to stop it. It needs heavenly in tervention to come on earth and make people see and know what | right, what is wrong. Individually, some people are trying to do that. They are doing it only in their homes, but when they go out it is so difficult What their, our, children are taking from their parents in their homes, that small candle, when they go out, windy storms are extinguishing and they are falling into
darkness. And the Prophet @ was saying, "O people, guard your youngsters." It is only one sentence, but it may change the lives of people if they follow it. He was saying, "O mankind, O people, O servants of the Lord, keep your youngsters at home after sunset. Don't let them go out side."9 It is enough to change the whole world, this command only: "Don't let them go out after sunset. Keep them in your homes." Finished, because after sunset it is the time of intisharu-l-jinn;w the time of jinn and shaytans. They are free, running in the streets, everywhere. Therefore, keep your children from going out. Otherwise, they may fall into the hands of shaytans and jinns; finished. Look! No need for
anything else. At nighttime, keep them at home. Leave the streets empty. Night clubs, casinos, eglence yeri,u playing places or enjoyment places that draw youngsters to them—finished! They should be shut down. Finished, finished! Then the whole world may be in silence, in good condition, so that every one may feel satisfaction at that time. Only one com mand from the Seal of the Prophets, and it right, just giving proof of that command. Holy books, the Old Testament, New Testament and Psalms, also, they are saying don't leave your youngsters outside after sunset. Keep them at home-finished!
9 Altaqitoo subyanikum awwal al-'isha fa innahu waqt intishar ash-shayatin.
"The spreading out or diffusion of jinn.
’Certain, special people.
”[Tr.z] places of entertainment.
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And another command: Don't bring what is happening outside into your homes. It is also a big fitna,12 a big trouble, coming now from that shaytanic box, TV, bringing every thing happening outside into your home, and they are learn ing everything through that, even if they do not go out.
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Close it down, also. But Shaytan is keeping it;, and he is also making some foolish people to destroy, to make bombs and kill innocent people, so that Allah curses them. They should find their punishment before they leave this life!
Alive Hearts, Dead Hearts
Close down TVs after Maghrib, after sunset. And use it
for some useful purpose. Don't bring what is happening outside into your home to teach your youngsters every bad, every satanic thing. The biggest satanic school, that is the
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwatta ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyyi-l-'Azheem.'
TV studios. May Allah take them away! We are asking forgiveness from Allah Almighty, because I For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine
Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad %—Fateha! ▲
am looking at myself and at all people, and I am not seeing a person walking on the right way.
It is a pity that people are going in a dangerous direc tion, although it is written, "Paradise Way, Hells Way." But
people are running on the wrong way, in a dangerous direc tion, heedlessly, and to be heedless brings every trouble to
people. Wrong step, and after it there is going to be a pun ishment.
With every step that a person takes on the wrong way, there quickly reaches him a punishment. They may say, "I
do not feel anything."
That is an admission that they are
heedless, not understanding what is happening to them
'T take refuge with Allah from Satan, the rejected.
the Beneficent, the Merciful. 'Trial, enticement, temptation, fascination.
In the name of Allah,
There is no might nor power except with
Allah, the Most High, the Almighty."
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when they walk on the wrong way. At the least, the Proph
lights, that is dhikr,2 the remembrance of Allah, to be with
et % was saying, any wrong step, wrong action, makes a
Allah. Those who are making dhikr, they are with Allah,
black spot on our hearts till our hearts are going to die.
and Allah gives power to their hearts.
When it is completely black, black spots coming, coming,
hearts, and those who never make dhikr in their hearts, they
coming, then our hearts are going to die, finished.
have died.
That is real life for
our
Those who are with Allah are never going to die. Allah
hearts, and the life of our hearts is heavenly lights. Heaven
Almighty's existence is never-ending; His existence is from
ly lights are making your heart be alive. And the Prophet
pre-eternity to post-eternity.
was also saying that if a person keeps his steps on the right
come into the hearts of servants, servants are also going to
path, in the right direction, a safe direction, when other
reach that real life because when those divine lights, come,
people's hearts are dying, his heart is never going to die be
you will become hayy, living ones forever.
"Dying" means that no more lights are reachin;
And when His divine lights
cause lights are coming to those who walk on the right path,
and lights make our hearts alive. When lights are cut off,
we are going to die.
Once a shaykh passed away from this temporary life. Everyone is going to pass.
"0 Shaykh, we see so many billions of people, running, going and coming, going and coming. They say that they
are alive." No, no. Really, they have died. It is not a real life when divine lights never enter and every wrong step makes a
black spot on their hearts, their hearts becoming a black piece. Finished-that is hearts' "dying". And when people
fall into darkness, fear comes on them. They are afraid, as a person in darkness never feels safe, never sees what is com
ing on him in the dark, and he is afraid. When lights are on,
that fear leaves him.
And they buried the shaykh.
And his murid3 was inside the grave to arrange the shaykh's
position, and he was thinking that the shaykh was like an ordinary person. No! A real shaykh must be extraordinary, as prophets
are from mankind but they are extraordinary beings, and their inheritors, also, are not like ordinary or common peo ple. No; must be higher. They may be at the same level in
their physical being but their spiritual being is above the
level of common people. If not, a person can't be a shaykh, he can't be a guide. A guide must look, must see [the needs and inner being of] common people.
Therefore, those whose hearts are alive, they are in sat
isfaction and contentment. And the engine that gives hearts
2Dhikr-Allah, zikr, the remembrance or mention of Allah through audible
or silent recitation of Qufanic verses, His Holy Names, and well-known litanies of glorification.
The disciple or follower of a shaykh.
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* you say 'Allah!' you are with Me. But when you forget Me,
That murid knew that the Shari'ah4 says that when a per son is buried in his grave, you must turn his face towards
qiblah, towards the House of the Lord, the Ka'bah,5 and he
was trying to do that. But the shaykh opened his eyes and
you are not with Me, no. You are thrown away, you are go ing to be dust. You have lost those lights, you have lost that honour of being with Me."
said, "0 waladi,6 0 my murid, no need for you to turn my
No honour can be above that honour of being with Al
face towards qiblah. He has turned my face to Himself. No
lah; no honour can be given to servants more than being
need!"
with their Lord. But most people have lost it because they
And that murid was so frightened, and he said, "O our
master, you are not dead! How are we burying you?" He said, "0 my son, those who are with Allah, they do
not die. Our lives are continuous. You are only making a veil that we have passed away. When our time in this life is over, we pass behind the veil and leave you, and we are now behind the veil. In only one step, we have passed there. You finish your job. Cover me; don't talk too much. Make my grave like other people's and go."
Yes, those people's hearts are alive! If hearts are alive, their lives have just passed from the imitation, temporary
are giving importance only their temporary life and physical desires that are going to finish and vanish.
They are not
running after real life, to reach divine lights.
When people go on the right path, at every moment di vine lights reach them, and at every moment their hope,
their satisfaction, their pleasure, their enjoyment increases, becoming more and more. Fear leaves them and they are
full of hope, and their hope is real hope. Their hope is to reach more and more in the Divine Presence, Allah Al mighty's never-ending favours and never-ending pleasures
from Him to His servants. Then their hearts are alive, with
no black spot on them.
life to the permanent life, to infinity. Their lives are contin And try—try! Don't sleep! Try to reach real life here.
uous, nothing causing them to be broken.
But you can't walk with wrong steps to real life. You need
Therefore, guard your heart. Allah Almighty says, "Ala
correct steps to reach such favors, the endless Favors
bi dhikri-Allahi tatmainu-l-qulub.7 Your hearts may reach real
Oceans, endless Pleasure Oceans, endless enjoyments, end
satisfaction and contentment when you are with Me. When
less Mercy Oceans, endless Blessing Oceans of Allah Al mighty, never becoming less but "Win ladayna niazid 8 always
more and more, never less. The sacred Law of Islam, derived primarily from the Holy Qur'an and
But those who are running after their physical being's
the Prophet's practice (Sunnah).
Ka'bah, the
enjoyments, day by day they become less, less, less, and fin
Sacred House in Mecca that all Muslims face during their prayers, built in
ishing. When their hearts are completely black, they are fin-
5QibIah: the direction of Mecca from any part of the globe.
antiquity by the prophet Abraham and his son, the prophet Ishmael,. **0 my son."
^Unquestionably, by the remembrance ofAllah hearts are assured." (13:28)
with Us there is more." (50:35)
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ished. They may walk, they may eat, they may see but en
joyment has just finished, no more taste. They may eat but no taste; they may look but they can't enjoy through their looking; they may go and come but they never reach any good feeling of pleasure. Their lives' pleasures are just fin
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is to be with Allah Almighty. Shaytan is preventing them and saying it is something forbidden.10 Dhikr forbidden? They are saying, "Yes!"
Go to Makkatu-l-Mukarramah11 now and say "La ilaha illa-Llah"12 with
ten people, and police will come and take you away.
ished. They are really dead.
"What are you doing? When you look at them, you think that that is an ordi nary person, but they are finished. They are finished, every thing becoming less, less, less; no taste, no enjoyment, no more response from their physical being for enjoying them
selves-finished! They are living dead people; they are waiting for the time to be taken away from their physical being and be buried-finished! But those whose hearts are alive, their physical being is
also enjoying. They never lose their taste. Eating, drinking, looking, going, coming-their enjoyment never goes away because of their spiritual power, and their enjoyment is more than young people's. Young people think their en joyment is at the top level. No! They may be ninety years old, those people who are with Allah, but what they taste,
"No, you can't say it!"
People now are in such a way, even in Makkat-1-
Mukarramah, Madinatu-l-Munawwarah.13
If you say, "As-
10That is, by the Wahabi religious authorities, who emphasize a rationalist understanding of Islam. ’’Mecca the Honoured/Venerated.
,2The first clause of the Islamic Declaration of Faith, "There is no deity except Allah." Repeating it in a group is falsely regarded as being a Sufi
practice, and hence it is frowned upon by the Wahabi religious authori
ties, despite the fact that it was done by the Prophet and his Sahabah, as
also, through their physical being, young people can't reach. And till they leave this life, jumping to real life from this
reported in the following hadith, narrated by Ya'la bin Shaddad:
My father reported and said, while 'Ubada bin Samit
was
temporary life, they never lose anything of physical powers,
present and confirmed it: We were with the Prophet
and
also.
he asked, "Is there any stranger among you."
We said, "No,
0 Messenger of Allah." He ordered us to close the door and
If people knew that secret of tariqats,9 all of them would run to tariqats. But Shaytan is making them not to believe
and to deny tariqats, the way of dhikr—and the way of dhikr
said, "Raise your hands and say 'La ilaha illa-Llah,'" where
upon we raised our hands, [doing so] for an hour. said, "Alhamdulillah!
Then he
O Allah, You have sent me with this
word and have empowered me thereby, and have promised me Paradise because of it, and You never fail in Your prom
ise." He then said, "Shall I not give you the good tidings that indeed Allah has forgiven you?" (Ahmad)
’’Medina the Radiant, the city that was the Prophet's home during the last ’Sufi orders.
period of his life and in which he is buried..
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salat was-salam 'alaika, ya Rasul-Allah, "14 police will come and
say, "You can't say this. He is dead."
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destroying my place on my head!" Allah take them away, quickly! Yes.
That is respect?
May
How, "dead"? The Prophet went and visited shuhada Uhud, the martyrs of Uhud,15 and said, "As-salamu 'alaikum, ya shuhada', ya ghuraba', wa rahmat-Allahi wa barakatuhu. "16 He gave salamV But now people in Madinatu-1Munawwarah are saying, "You can't say this to the Proph et," although the Prophet himself said it while visiting Jannat al-Baqi, Jannat al-Mu'alla.18
Try to follow the steps of awliya as much as you can. Walk in their steps and you should be happy here and Hereafter, and no fear for you here or Hereafter. May Allah forgive us! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad ^—Fateha!
How, from where, did you bring this barrier? How are you banning people from visiting the graves of awliya, of Sahabah,™ and destroying their graves? What is this foolish ness and disrespect? "I am here and you are coming and
If awliya's pleasure were given to all people, they would be drunk. Their enjoyment is material, but awliya's pleasure is spiritual. Materiality will finish, but spirituality is neverending, every time, every time. They are not in need of us ing anything to eat, to drink. ▲
’^"Blessings and peace be on you, 0 Messenger of Allah." According to the Wahhabi understanding, greeting the Prophet at his grave in Medina
constitutes shirk (attributing divinity to other than Allah) because, accord
ing to their understanding, the Prophet is dead, despite the fact that it is stated in a hadith that Allah has prohibited the earth from consuming the bodies of prophets. Traditional Islamic belief, on the other hand, holds
that Muhammad and all the prophets are alive in their graves, separated from the 'living' by a spiritual veil. Moreover, as taught by the Prophet
himself, Muslims throughout the world send this greeting to the Prophet multiple times a day during their prayers (salat), and, according to his own words, he hears and responds.
,5The second battle between the polytheists of Mecca and the Muslims, which took place near Medina. •ft ,6"Peace be upon you, 0 martyrs, 0 departed ones, and the mercy of Al
lah and His blessings." 17The Islamic greeting of peace. ,BThe burial places of the martyrs of the Prophet's time
,9The Companions of the Prophet, including the martyrs who died in bat
tie against the idolaters.
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without a reason. Allah Almighty says, "Rabbana. ma khalaqta hadha batilan,"2 teaching us. You must say, "O my
Lord, this was not created without a purpose." And when it is created with some purpose, Allah creating and giving that speciality to all things, some benefit must be granted to
mankind. Everything is created with some wisdoms and purpos es. For what, for what? Did Allah create creation the earth, planets, galaxies, countless, unlimited spaces for Himself? If you think in such a way, that is the biggest mis
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take in your beliefs.
Allah, the Lord of Heavens, the Creator of everything, 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. By the name of Allah, All-Mighty, All-Merciful, Most Benef
icent and Most Munificent. It is an Association1 with the shaykh, and we are in need to listen and to obey. And, as we have been created, we have been given responsibility for certain important things.
is not in need of anything. If He were in need of something, He couldn't be the Creator, He couldn't be the Lord of Heavens; no. He created everything, but He is not in need, even of such huge spaces and distances in space as astro nauts are seeing, and they are saying, O' "Space—we can't measure it, even with as many numbers as possible. We may put a huge number, but it is not enough to measure distances in space." We may say that maybe you can find a number to reach the farthest galaxy, but you can't reach
deeper into space. Space is unlimited, but everything in it is within limits. Nothing is created without a wisdom or without a pur pose or without a benefit. Everything, from the smallest
particle of creation-an atom, you may say—is created for
Therefore, He is not the Creator to be needy. He creat ed; He gives existence to creation. How can He be in need of
what He created? He gives creation whatever zf may be in need of. How can you think that He may be in need of these
some purpose. An atom can be divided into smaller particles.
You
can't say that even the smallest particle of matter is created
huge universes? No! It is outside of intellect; mind and mental faculties can never accept that. "I bring that into ex-
’Ar., swWi; Tr., sohbet, meaning a time of gathering and association of the
2'Our Lord, You did not create this in vain." (3:191)
shaykh with his followers (murids).
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istence and I expect some benefit from it for Myself"—how can it be? Wrong way, wrong idea, wrong thinking about
to reach beyond that, beyond that, and then reaching empty space and going in it, to finish? You can't finish space.
the Lord of Heavens!
But people now in the twenty-first century are not thinking about it. They are trying to make the Creator ac cording to their imagination. If you say, "Allah is the Crea tor," they ask, "How—how is He?" And this question that they are asking "How is He?" is a nonsensical question be cause, if you want to put that question, it means that you
want to bring Him into your area of imagination, that you think the Creator's identity is like our identities. Therefore, asking "How is Allah, how is God? Where is He? How is He?" is the biggest mistake because they want to put Him in their area of imagination, like a person want ing to see a ceremony that is taking place in London or in America or in Germany, and he is looking at the TV screen. Yes; he wants to look at that thirty or forty centimeters' space, saying "Oh, this is the Queen, this is the King, this is the parade. This is a gigantic aircraft, this is the battlefield. This is Baghdad, this is London."
Where is He, where is He? Where? There is a tamthil, an example. Some small fishes are saying to their mother, "We hear that there is an ocean. O mother, show us where it is." And the mother is saying, "O my little ones, show me any where that there is not ocean" That is an ocean, and billions and billions of galaxies are swimming in it. No one knows from where they have come, no one knows to where they reach. But foolishness has just reached the top point in the twenty-first century because they want to deny, and they are never using their minds or
mental faculties, asking to bring Allah on the TV screen. Allohu Akbar! He created everything! He is the Creator and He is not in need of anything. And He is only one. Can't be a second one; no room for another Creator. Two creators can't be.
One must be a creature. One, only one Creator, but count
less creations and creatures. You may bring that on that TV screen and say such foolish things, such as, "We must see Him." Where? On the
TV screen? What is that foolishness? Where can you see
Him? I may say to that person, "What you are asking for, if you can reach beyond space, you may find Him there. Try to reach!" Mars is the nearest planet to our earth. What about be yond that? You can't reach the nearest planet in our solar
Foolishness from people concerning
their
Creator!
They are taking it as istikhfaf,3 making it not important. "It is
not important to ask about the Creator."
"Why?"
"Because we are busy on earth, we are busy! No time for us to think about the Creator. We are so busy! Twenty-
system, and our solar system is only one star in our And they say that in 120,000 light years you may reach the edge of this galaxy. And beyond that—how are you asking ’Lightly, frivolously, as if unimportant.
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four hours is not enough for our works, for our business, for
occupied." And that brings them endless troubles and un
our job. We are so busy. No time!"
solved problems because they are not thinking about their
[Chuckles.]
Sometimes they put watches one hour
ahead. I am saying, "People want to make the day twenty-
five hours?" They are thinking about it. They are saying, "Twenty-four hours is not enough for our works. What can we do? In summertime, we can put it one hour forward. And when we are tired of summertime, twenty-five hours. In wintertime, take it back one hour, twenty-three hours." [Laughter.] They are really asking to make a longer day, to make our day forty-eight hours. And if it were to be forty eight hours, we would say, "Oh! We are fed up with long days, long nights. We must bring it back as it was"—yes. Twenty four hours is just suitable but people think that they have such big activities, big business and big works that they are in. "We see that there is not enough time to think beyond our works about Allah. No time for us to ask about the Creator because we are so busy. Twenty-four hours we are busy with dunya* No time to ask for Maula, •^4
When are you going to be free, unoccupied, or when are you going to be retired? I am asking. "Are you retired or tired?" Tired, because if not tired, no one would be retired. Retired means finished, finished. "I am tired. I ran so quickly that now I need to rest." Yes; after a while you can find your rest in the grave, full rest there.
The twenty-first century's people, they are busy. They are saying, "No time for praying, no time to think about Heavens or heavenly beings. No time! We are, all of us, just
Creator, the Lord of Heavens. "Twenty-four hours," they are saying, "it is not enough for our business, and we have no time."
And everywhere from East to West, from North to South, that you are finding troubles and problems, that is the reason. If sitting and saying, "Oh, alhamdulillah!5 Now, Oour Lord, I am asking to be with You. If I am with You, I
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