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A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Rahmani-r-Raheem.
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Bismillahi-r-
sis-no! That is a shaytanic teaching to cover up the im
La haula wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
portant points that are making people unhappy, saying,
'Aliyi-l-'Azheem. Shaytan is very angry with you. Allah is happy, Shay
tan unhappy. Try every time to make Satan unhappy, try
every moment to make your Lord happy with you.
Two ways only, no another way. Two ways, like a magnet; two poles, positive, negative. This side is positive, to be with Allah; that side is negative, to be with Shaytan.
"Because of the economic crisis people are unhappy." The biggest liar and most cursed one is Shay tan and those who are following Shaytan! No. They have enough money, more than enough money. They are iddikhir, saving, saving billions and trillions. Why would they not be happy? Eh, ya Rabbi, ya Allah, Allah! Ar-Rahman 'allam alQur'an-Allah, Allah—khalaq al-insan, 'allamu al-bayan. Allahu Akbar! Ar-Rahman,4 He is Almighty Allah, proclaiming ►a
Every, every action that we do either takes us to this side, making Allah happy, or carries us to Shaytan's side, to be unhappy.
I am asking people, "O people, what do you think
about the inhabitants, the people now living on earth perhaps they are six billion or reaching seven billion? Are
they making their Lord happy or making Shaytan happy?"
His endless Mercy Oceans.
"0 people, I am covering with you with My blessings, with My Mercy Oceans. But you are drunk, not understand ing, running away from Me, and I am that One whose bless ings reach from thara to sidrat al-muntaha.5 I am that One, your Lord, the Lord of all creation. You can't find any unit of creation-you may say an atom or less than an atom— without My blessings or without being surrounded by My blessings.
Your answer must be to say that the people living on
earth, ninety-nine per cent of them, are making Shaytan happy, not trying to make Allah Almighty happy with them. You think that Bangladeshi people are happy people now? You think that Arabs are happy people now? Can you think that Russians are happy people now? Do you think that Turks are happy people now? No, because they are not trying to make their Lord happy, and it is written for them not to be happy, to be unhappy. [Parodies:] "Economic crisis!"3 It is the biggest lie, big gest lie, that they are saying this. It is not an economic cri-
"My blessings are given to you for being in existence and My blessings are running after you to reach you, but you are escaping, O foolish ones. And I am giving you minds to think, but you are not thinking; giving you intel lect for balancing everything, but you are not using your
4Eh,0my Lord, 0 Allah, Allah. "The Most Merciful taught the Qu’ran"—
Allah, Allah-"created the human being [and] taught him exposition" [55:1-4]. Allah is Most Great! The Most Merciful, He is Almighty Allah ...
51W soil, earth; Sidrat al-Muntaha: the Tree in the seventh (i.e., highest) Heaven beyond which no human or angel has ever passed besides the
’This talk was given in early 2004.
Holy Prophet during his Me'raj (Ascension) to the Divine Presence.
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intellect and falling into troubles, and you are running into Hells. I am preventing you, but you are running to them." Wrong direction! The wrong direction brings every trouble. Those who do not keeping warnings from Heavens must fall into troubles, no doubt That is the real reason, not, as Shaytan and his representatives are claiming, that the cri sis on earth is the result of economic aspects. They are liars!
I heard today in that Shaytan's box, TV, that the richest
one among Turkish people just passed away in the moming-Sabanci, they were saying.
He was a boy from a poor family, but he was such an active person, and he was trying and working, working, and
making a good business, and they were saying that he was the richest one in Turkey. He passed away, subhanallah. Yesterday he became ill; in intensive care for one day only (some people, for weeks or months, even years, are in such a situation). That person was doing charity, also, and subha nallah, only lying down for one day and the second morn
ing finished. That one, 1 never saw him when he was happy. Always he was sad, always he was unhappy, perhaps not for him self but for his people that he was living with, their situa tions giving him sadness, and he was the richest one but unhappy. He was unhappy and passed away unhappy; his richness never giving him happiness, no; he was sad and passed away in such a way. His Creator, the Lord of the Heavens, Allah Almighty, He knows about him, and He is dealing with that servant as He likes.
I mean to say, don't think that happiness is with mate
rial aspects; no. He was a billionaire, not with Turkish mon
ey [laughter]—a billionaire of dollars, green, green paper. And he always lived sad and he passed away sad.
Therefore, I mean to say that what Shaytan is saying to people about the crisis and sufferings that they are in — that it is only for economic reasons because everyone's salaries are coming down and so many businesses are shut down — no! I am saying, as an example, that that person was sad although he had a billion dollars and big areas for factories, everything. He had a gallery of antique pieces, perhaps ten million or more dollars, but he was sad, he was unhappy. Shaytan is teaching people that your sadness is because you don't have money. And I am saying to Shaytan, "What about that person? Why are you lying to people, why are you trying to deceive people? That was such a person."
And before that one, a very rich person, richer than him-they are saying the Datsun or Nissan or such a factory owner in Japan, whose wealth may have reached a hundred times more than Sabanci, the Turkish one—he was unhap py, and unhappiness made him open the balcony of the highest floor of his apartment building and throw himself down. You heard about it? What was the name of this factory? No Japanese people here? [Suggestion: Korea.] What was
his factory ? Hyundai, the famous. [Someone else tells about an American tycoon killed himself.] Shuf, look! Bringing another example,
who Spit-
ling on Shaytan [laughter], cheating people and saying that money gives happiness. Therefore, spitting again! afcain, spitting on Shaytan, cheating people!
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Look, he is such a liar, ghashash, cheat! The biggest cheat is Shaytan, and people are running after him. They
are saying "Yes, for economic reasons we are unhappy," and I am showing them such people. And____ is saying also, that one of the biggest businessmen shot himself.
Allah, Allah! Ya Rabbi, ya Allah!6 We are asking for for giveness. Keep our minds, keep our faith, O our Lord, not to lose our minds and do something against ourselves When a person loses his intellect and his mind, he does use less things and harms himself and harms others—and harms creation, also. Whoever does harm, whoever does unsuitable things, he harms, gives trouble, to everything in existence. Beware of Satan! Guard yourself! It is something else that is making people unhappy. Those who are worship ping dunya, they are unhappy. Whoever is worshipping Al lah, they are happy ones. May Allah forgive us and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad—Fateha! ▲
In Yesterday, Out Tomorrow A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-lAliyi-l-'Azheem.
Sayyidina Nuh, Noah, Allah bless him, reached the oldest age. Perhaps no one except him lived one thousand years. It was a long life, perhaps the longest life among prophets. And the people who were with Nuh s&si when he was leav ing this life and going on, were asking, "How did you find this life? What do you think? What is your intibah, your ob servation? What is your view? You are surely more than one thousand years old. What are your thoughts about your long life? Tell!" And he was saying "I am now just in the position of a person, who, during his travels, reaches a inn, a karavan-
saray.} I see that yesterday I came in and today I am going out Even though I was here one thousand years and more,
"Old-time people were resting at rest houses or guest houses. Now, at so many places, big buildings, 8°vernment buildings, there are signs, "IN ■►—OUT that ok, arrow, 'Here, Sheikh Nazim adds parenthetically:
6*O my Lord, 0 Allah."
*l*ing*IN*-OUT*."
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now finally I am like such a person coming to an inn, going in and finishing his job and getting out."
happened of badness; what happened to nations or to kings, to sultans, to emperors, to padishahs,* to high level people or
first level people, because people are not on the same level, Allah Almighty is saying, "Faqsusi-l-qasasa la'allhum yatafakarun."2 He is ordering His prophets, and particularly the Seal of the Prophets, the last one, to tell the stories of na tions, and also what happened to them and what is going to happen like a story, because everything that happened yes terday is written as a story. We have left it behind.
no. It is a wrong idea to see people on the same level. No; that is a wrong idea that socialism brought, saying "No dif ference." But do you look the same as him? Does he look the same as that one? No! How you are saying that every
one is on the same level? So many days, weeks, months, years, even centuries,
have passed. Where are they? Anything you have kept from that time has only become like a story, a tale. Perhaps you may say, and living people may say, "You are telling fairy tales. You can't bring any evidence about the lives of so many nations." What happened, it is only in our imagination. We may imagine, we may read about their lives, but it is only what
we think about their lives, trying to make it up in our imagi nation. Everything that happened, everything past, so many countless actions, countless events, countless happen ings, just took place and passed away, with nothing to touch them now. And that heavenly order to the Seal of the Prophets3 is an order to everyone, also, to read or to hear what happened in past days, the passing centuries of man
Do you think that Allah Almighty produces as factories produce, everything the same model? No! Those foolish
people think that Allah Almighty gives everyone the same size, the same outward appearance and the same inner life. No! That is foolishness and that is from satanic teachings, Shaytan claiming that mankind, all of them, are the same — the same, no difference among them. That is the biggest wrong. How? Do you think that He has a man factory, men getting out from this side, women from that side? Therefore, sometimes I get angry with some girls.
If
someone asks them for marriage, they bring so many quali fications, saying [parodies], "I would like my husband not to be too ktsa, short. I don't like him, also, to be three meters tall, like Americans." (Any American here? No.) "Andi
kind.
don't like my husband to be so fat. I don't like his mouth to be up to his ears. 1 don't like my husband's ears to be like
For what? Allah is making clear the purpose of that or der: to think about it, what happened of goodness; what
elephants' ears." [Laughter.]
2"So narrate the stories [of prophets in the Qur'an], that perhaps they may re
Important points, these, very important, for marriage! Ehl If young ones ask [parodies], "I am interested that my wife should be like a stick." [Laughter.]
flect: (7:176)
’The order addressed to the Prophet in 7:176 cited above to narrate the stories of prophets..
’Ruler, king, sultan.
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"Take two sticks, do like this and rest. Take!" "I don't like my wife to be more than forty kilograms because if I need to carry her, I can put her on my shoulder.
..* [Laughter.] And I am saying, "Up to today, I never found an ilan, advertisment, that says, 'O people, the twenty-first century's technicians, technologists, are building a made-to-order fac tory for girls." And I have never heard that anyone has built a factory for foolish young ones who make a descrip tion of a wife and give it to them, and then what he likes comes out-their colors, their height, their eyes. "I don't like her eyes. Very small."
"Eh! Take and put another eye."
What are we saying? We are saying that Allah Al mighty gives everyone a speciality. From the beginning up to the end, perhaps ummata Muhammad % the nation of Mu hammad £ may reach 124 billion. If you do not believe me, add them, count them. You have so many computers. Ask a computer, "What do you think about Shaykh's words, what he is claiming about the number of Muslims?" What does the answer come to, what does that computer's shay tan say?
Saying, "All computers are under the control of shay tans, to make your heads another head, a satanic head." Eh! I am saying, "What are you doing?"
"There is a mouse running on this screen." "Bring my eyeglasses to look.
Is there a
mouse of such a size?" "Yes, and it is running, going, coming, and giving news
And I am saying, "You are taking news from a mouse, not taking it from Heavens? What is your honor, following a mouse, not following heavenly orders? La haula wa la quwwata...I" Everyone has a special destiny. You can't find two per sons with the same destiny, muqaddarat,5 their private life lines that they must be on. They can't get out from that. "IVfl kullun ft falaqin yasbahun,"6 each one has a special orbit. Everyone must move on his orbit, can't be outside it. Therefore, you may find your position when you hear what happened to men in past times, and you may take a lesson that may correct your steps—who was walking in a correct direction and what happened to them, and who was walking on the wrong way and what happened to them; to
learn something; to use your minds and to reach safety. You may choose the Safe Way.
I was in London, and I saw, written on a big building,
I am trying to show people the Safe Way. I must go in to ask what is their Safe Way." "Safeway." I asked, "Oh, Safeway!
"1 am touching this." "What is happening?"
Very small.
’decreed, preordained.
tach one is swimming in an orbit.* (36:40)
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I entered and asked, but they said, "No, O Shaykh. This is a big market."
"What is written there?" "Safeway."
People, not to be cheated, must come to the Safe Way. Safe Way, the real Safe Way, is the way of Heavens, and the dangerous, un-safe way, it is the way of shaytans and devils.
Now people are running on the wrong way, with wrong steps, and every time they are touching a dangerous happening and they are suffering. Yes. Through historical periods, through traditional knowledge, we are looking and seeing. And what Noah said is true. Maybe if Noah W, instead of living one thousand years, had lived 100,000 years, his statement would finally have been as he said before, at the time when he lived 1000 years. Maybe if he had lived for one million years, he would finally have said,"I just entered from the "IN" direc tion and now I am going from the "OUT" direction." Even if it was billions, trillions, quadrillions of years, you would finally say, "Just yesterday I entered and today I am going out"
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The fortunate one or clever one, or those whose hearts are opened with divine lights, are looking and seeing. They are looking as a person taking a train always looks when the train stops, looking at the writing of the name of the station because he knows his station and he is waiting. He does not sleep; he is awake not to pass it, looking. And man must look each day and see if this is my station where I am going to disembark, where I will get down—looking, because one day he must get down, we must get down. 4
We will not always go with that train, no. Wherever is written on our ticket, we must get down. We must prepare ourselves for our heavenly journey. The earthly journey is going to finish, ending, and the heavenly journey will begin. If you do not take care about your heavenly journey, you should be thrown there, and you may lose your chance to reach to your heavenly station in the Divine Presence.
May Allah forgive us and grant us, through His divine representatives, to reach people who are now living on earth but do not know anything about their heavenly stations, to save people and guide them to their divine stations in the Heavens. For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina. Muhammad —Fa teha! ▲
0 people, the most dangerous thing for mankind which is making them fall into bottomless troubles and unsolved problems, is to think that they are living a never-ending life. And they are cheating themselves, you are cheating your self. Therefore, those who are ignorant of heavenly teach ings are always falling into troubles and problems and mis eries, here and Hereafter.
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His Holy Name.
Allah never accepts "God, Theos, Deo,
KJioda,Gott"-no.
Io
The Arabic language is a big ocean. We are not saying
an endless ocean, but the biggest ocean among languages is
Arabic. The mufradat, terms, that other languages use can't give the meanings that a single word can give in Arabic. 3
You may say "Subhan Allah," but you can't find any religion,
The High Honor of Addressing Our Lord by His Holy Name ‘ ‘Allah”
any language, that can bring the meaning of "subhan" in a single word, no. And there are hundreds and thousands of examples. Therefore, Allah Almighty used the Arabic lan guage for the Holy Qur'an, the most important heavenly Message.
Bismillahi-r-
And in the Arabic language there is "ilah," god,2 and
Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
'“uluhiya," to be god.3 "Ilah" is a common noun, not a prop er noun. "God" is only muradif* a meaning similar to the
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. 'Aln/i-l-'Azheem.
words"ilah, Gott, Theos, Deo, Khoda," and "Tann" in Turkish.
Through "Bism-illahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim," He, Almighty, is
giving "Allah," His greatest Name that includes all His Holy Names in itself. When we say "Allah," we are making dhikr with all His Holy Names.
"Allah" is the most renowned Name on earth and in Heavens. But His Holy Name is now used only among
"IM" is a common noun but "Allah" is isim khass, a proper noun. "Tann" in Turkish—that is a common noun, not a proper noun; no. And you can't find in any other lan
guage a proper noun about which Allah Almighty says, "I am that One." He does not accept to be addressed as, "O my God"; no.
Muslims, and people of other nations and other religions are
not saying it, they are not mentioning that His name is "Al lah". English people, what do they say?
"God."
"I am your Lord. My name is Allah. My name is not 'God'. 'God' is a word for understanding that servanthood is the sifa, characteristic, of servants. Lordship is for Me—
French,
Lordship, 'uluhiya. And My name is Allah," He is saying. It
what do they say? "Dieu." Greeks, what do they say? "The
is His proper Name, His proper noun, for everyone that is
os" ‘Ajam,] what do they say? "Khoda;" Farsi. Germans, what do they say? "Gott." Italians? "Deo." None of them is ’Deity.
^Divinity, Lordship, Godhood. ’Equivalent, corresponding in meaning.
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living on earth and for heavenly beings. They are saying, "Ya Huwa, ya Allah!"5 Therefore, people are not reaching honour when they
do not address the Lord of Heavens as "O Allah." "O my
God"-no! I am saying that it is impossible to bring a word that is similar to His well-known Name, " Allah"—"Allah" to every creature on earth, in Heavens. And He is looking for His servant to say, "Ya Allah," not to say, "O my God!" "What is this? My name is not 'God.' My name is 'Al
lah.'"
"A man!' "'Aman*. No name?" Saying, "God." Without a name, God? Therefore, eve ryone who does not reach that level, his level is the lowest level, the lowest level.6 We are trying to know Him, and if you are want to
know someone, first you ask his name.
"His name is His
Majesty King George the Fifth." Then, when you go into his
majestic presence, you may address to him as, "O Your Maj
esty, King of England and Emperor of India, King George
English people, for every occasion, are saying, "O my
the Fifth." And when you come to address Allah Almighty,
God!" Whom are you addressing? Who is that, your god?
don't say, "0 my God," because the word "god" [ilah] may
Without a name, your god? Oh-oh! Do you think that say
be singular and may be plural, also. Plural, "gods".
ing "0 my son" or "0 my donkey" is enough? What is this?
may say "gods," their gods, but there is no plural for "Al
"What do you mean? No name for Me? You even give a name to your horse!" Say, "His Name is Allah!" Why,
why are you not saying His proper Name? Allahu Akbar! Can you translate "Allahu Akbar" into your language?"
[A German murid suggests, "Allah ist ein grossen," and ends by saying, "It is impossible. It doesn't say anything."
Shaykh laughs.]
They
lah". For everything you may find a plural except for His Holy Name, "Allah".
And people are mahrum, deprived. They have lost the
chance throughout their lives to say His holy Name, "Al
lah". Millions of people go away from this life like this, not saying "Allah."
For what reason? "Because Muslims say 'Allah,' we must not say 'Allah.'" But if you do not say His Holy
"Who is that one?"
"A man." No name?"
That is, the Creator is not an abstraction, a concept, or a thing.
Rather,
He is the Divine Being whose Holy Name is above all other names.
"No. Only 'a man.'"
"Al
lah" is the unique, sacred Name by which He refers to Himself in verse
"What is his name? Who is that?"
after verse of the Qur'an, informing mankind of His identity so that we nuy have the privilege of addressing Him by that sacred Name which
Mongs uniquely to Him. .
5"0 He [who is Allah], 0 Allah!"
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Name, He does not accept your addressing Him as "O my God," saying, "Go and look for your god."
sands of years. How should they reach peace? Their gods or their goddess will give them peace, they think.7
On the Day of Resurrection, people will come with their idols and with the names that the nations that lived in past times used for their idols. For example, the Greek people a believed in polytheism, and the head god, chief god, was Zeus. "Zeus" then came to be "Theos". Now, Greek people use "Theos," and the name Theos comes from Zeus, the chief of their gods during the time before Christ.
Yesterday I was at the monastery. They were showing
They had so many. Therefore, on the Day of Resurrec
tion everyone will bring their gods with them, in front of them, inscribed "Our god". Only Muslims will say "Allah". Allah Almighty will send each group of people with their gods-and also, they have goddess. Allahu Akbar, there are goddesses, also! Do you also have "goddess" in your language? Must be; tann, god, tannga, goddess. Yes. Venus or Aphrodite, they are goddesses. They have gods and also goddesses; they have plurals and they have female goddesses, male gods. Still they use that, still they have not come to pro claim that the Name of the Lord of Heavens is "Allah," no plural, no similar for Him.
Their heads are like rocks! They have reached the twenty-first century but they are not looking at such a reali ty. Still they are using their imagination, throughout thou-
still underground, the lowest, lowest level. They think that icons give them something, running after them.
Yes; imagination! From East to West, from North to South, until mankind is going to say "Allah," no way for them to be saved, here and Hereafter. You understand? His Name, our Lord's Name, is "Allah." Ya Allah, ya Allah!. An ti Allah, Huwa Allah. Allahu, Allahu. Hasbun Allah wa ni'am il-wahV Kfl/a hrw sharafan9 It is more than enough, that honour of saying "Allah"! To Europeans, Americans, who say that
we are at the top point of honour because we are Western people, I am saying, "You are at the lowest point because you do not say, "Ya Allah!" That honour is enough. To say
"Allah" gives honour to us. We are such fortunate people that we have been honoured to say and to address our Lord, "Ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Allah!"
May Allah forgive us! For the honour of the Seal of the Prophets, the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Riisul-Allah %-Fateha! A
In a modem context, this refers to icons, statues, paintings and other
graphic objects of veneration in various faiths. 5 0 Allah, 0 Allah! You are Allah, He is Allah. Allah suffices for us, and how excellent a Protector. ’ll is sufficient honour for us.
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44 waiting from morn That person went and sat, waiting,
ing up to midday before Dhuhr}.
Most people looked for
workers early in the morning, and no one asked him.
And
he said, "Today, no one is asking me to work for him. I can work for my Lord. I am going to the mosque."
Making wudu1 2 and entering, sitting, praying, reciting Holy Qur'an, making tasabih3 up to evening. Then in the evening, he went home. And his wife asked, "O my hus
band, did you bring something? Did you work today?"
And he said, "Yes, I worked today." A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem.
Rahmatii-r-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
"What you bring?" And he said, "My employer said, 'Not today.
Tomor
'Aln/i-l-'Azheem.
row I am going to pay you.' We can be patient today, we
The best work for people, what is that? To work for Allah is
can drink water."
the best work. You know another work, another patron or 1
ss, who pays you?
And the second day, he was early, taking his tools, going to the same workers' market, sitting there, looking,
No
one asked, "Come and work for me." And he said, "Today,
also, if no one employs me, I must go to my Lord's work. I Once there was a person, and everything he had was
can work for Him."
finished. Nothing remained at his home to eat. His family
was hungry and there was nothing to eat, and he wanted to go and work. And at that time, most people were workers or laborers. He took his axe and shovel, and went to the market, sit ting and waiting for someone to call him, "Come and work for me." The workers were sitting there. If anyone came for
Making wudu, sitting, up to evening.
When he came
home in the evening, his wife asked, "O my husband, O my man, did you work
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A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Rahmani-r-Raheem.
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Bismillahi-r-
sis-no! That is a shaytanic teaching to cover up the im
La haula wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
portant points that are making people unhappy, saying,
'Aliyi-l-'Azheem. Shaytan is very angry with you. Allah is happy, Shay
tan unhappy. Try every time to make Satan unhappy, try
every moment to make your Lord happy with you.
Two ways only, no another way. Two ways, like a magnet; two poles, positive, negative. This side is positive, to be with Allah; that side is negative, to be with Shaytan.
"Because of the economic crisis people are unhappy." The biggest liar and most cursed one is Shay tan and those who are following Shaytan! No. They have enough money, more than enough money. They are iddikhir, saving, saving billions and trillions. Why would they not be happy? Eh, ya Rabbi, ya Allah, Allah! Ar-Rahman 'allam alQur'an-Allah, Allah—khalaq al-insan, 'allamu al-bayan. Allahu Akbar! Ar-Rahman,4 He is Almighty Allah, proclaiming ►a
Every, every action that we do either takes us to this side, making Allah happy, or carries us to Shaytan's side, to be unhappy.
I am asking people, "O people, what do you think
about the inhabitants, the people now living on earth perhaps they are six billion or reaching seven billion? Are
they making their Lord happy or making Shaytan happy?"
His endless Mercy Oceans.
"0 people, I am covering with you with My blessings, with My Mercy Oceans. But you are drunk, not understand ing, running away from Me, and I am that One whose bless ings reach from thara to sidrat al-muntaha.5 I am that One, your Lord, the Lord of all creation. You can't find any unit of creation-you may say an atom or less than an atom— without My blessings or without being surrounded by My blessings.
Your answer must be to say that the people living on
earth, ninety-nine per cent of them, are making Shaytan happy, not trying to make Allah Almighty happy with them. You think that Bangladeshi people are happy people now? You think that Arabs are happy people now? Can you think that Russians are happy people now? Do you think that Turks are happy people now? No, because they are not trying to make their Lord happy, and it is written for them not to be happy, to be unhappy. [Parodies:] "Economic crisis!"3 It is the biggest lie, big gest lie, that they are saying this. It is not an economic cri-
"My blessings are given to you for being in existence and My blessings are running after you to reach you, but you are escaping, O foolish ones. And I am giving you minds to think, but you are not thinking; giving you intel lect for balancing everything, but you are not using your
4Eh,0my Lord, 0 Allah, Allah. "The Most Merciful taught the Qu’ran"—
Allah, Allah-"created the human being [and] taught him exposition" [55:1-4]. Allah is Most Great! The Most Merciful, He is Almighty Allah ...
51W soil, earth; Sidrat al-Muntaha: the Tree in the seventh (i.e., highest) Heaven beyond which no human or angel has ever passed besides the
’This talk was given in early 2004.
Holy Prophet during his Me'raj (Ascension) to the Divine Presence.
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intellect and falling into troubles, and you are running into Hells. I am preventing you, but you are running to them." Wrong direction! The wrong direction brings every trouble. Those who do not keeping warnings from Heavens must fall into troubles, no doubt That is the real reason, not, as Shaytan and his representatives are claiming, that the cri sis on earth is the result of economic aspects. They are liars!
I heard today in that Shaytan's box, TV, that the richest
one among Turkish people just passed away in the moming-Sabanci, they were saying.
He was a boy from a poor family, but he was such an active person, and he was trying and working, working, and
making a good business, and they were saying that he was the richest one in Turkey. He passed away, subhanallah. Yesterday he became ill; in intensive care for one day only (some people, for weeks or months, even years, are in such a situation). That person was doing charity, also, and subha nallah, only lying down for one day and the second morn
ing finished. That one, 1 never saw him when he was happy. Always he was sad, always he was unhappy, perhaps not for him self but for his people that he was living with, their situa tions giving him sadness, and he was the richest one but unhappy. He was unhappy and passed away unhappy; his richness never giving him happiness, no; he was sad and passed away in such a way. His Creator, the Lord of the Heavens, Allah Almighty, He knows about him, and He is dealing with that servant as He likes.
I mean to say, don't think that happiness is with mate
rial aspects; no. He was a billionaire, not with Turkish mon
ey [laughter]—a billionaire of dollars, green, green paper. And he always lived sad and he passed away sad.
Therefore, I mean to say that what Shaytan is saying to people about the crisis and sufferings that they are in — that it is only for economic reasons because everyone's salaries are coming down and so many businesses are shut down — no! I am saying, as an example, that that person was sad although he had a billion dollars and big areas for factories, everything. He had a gallery of antique pieces, perhaps ten million or more dollars, but he was sad, he was unhappy. Shaytan is teaching people that your sadness is because you don't have money. And I am saying to Shaytan, "What about that person? Why are you lying to people, why are you trying to deceive people? That was such a person."
And before that one, a very rich person, richer than him-they are saying the Datsun or Nissan or such a factory owner in Japan, whose wealth may have reached a hundred times more than Sabanci, the Turkish one—he was unhap py, and unhappiness made him open the balcony of the highest floor of his apartment building and throw himself down. You heard about it? What was the name of this factory? No Japanese people here? [Suggestion: Korea.] What was
his factory ? Hyundai, the famous. [Someone else tells about an American tycoon killed himself.] Shuf, look! Bringing another example,
who Spit-
ling on Shaytan [laughter], cheating people and saying that money gives happiness. Therefore, spitting again! afcain, spitting on Shaytan, cheating people!
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Look, he is such a liar, ghashash, cheat! The biggest cheat is Shaytan, and people are running after him. They
are saying "Yes, for economic reasons we are unhappy," and I am showing them such people. And____ is saying also, that one of the biggest businessmen shot himself.
Allah, Allah! Ya Rabbi, ya Allah!6 We are asking for for giveness. Keep our minds, keep our faith, O our Lord, not to lose our minds and do something against ourselves When a person loses his intellect and his mind, he does use less things and harms himself and harms others—and harms creation, also. Whoever does harm, whoever does unsuitable things, he harms, gives trouble, to everything in existence. Beware of Satan! Guard yourself! It is something else that is making people unhappy. Those who are worship ping dunya, they are unhappy. Whoever is worshipping Al lah, they are happy ones. May Allah forgive us and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad—Fateha! ▲
In Yesterday, Out Tomorrow A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-lAliyi-l-'Azheem.
Sayyidina Nuh, Noah, Allah bless him, reached the oldest age. Perhaps no one except him lived one thousand years. It was a long life, perhaps the longest life among prophets. And the people who were with Nuh s&si when he was leav ing this life and going on, were asking, "How did you find this life? What do you think? What is your intibah, your ob servation? What is your view? You are surely more than one thousand years old. What are your thoughts about your long life? Tell!" And he was saying "I am now just in the position of a person, who, during his travels, reaches a inn, a karavan-
saray.} I see that yesterday I came in and today I am going out Even though I was here one thousand years and more,
"Old-time people were resting at rest houses or guest houses. Now, at so many places, big buildings, 8°vernment buildings, there are signs, "IN ■►—OUT that ok, arrow, 'Here, Sheikh Nazim adds parenthetically:
6*O my Lord, 0 Allah."
*l*ing*IN*-OUT*."
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now finally I am like such a person coming to an inn, going in and finishing his job and getting out."
happened of badness; what happened to nations or to kings, to sultans, to emperors, to padishahs,* to high level people or
first level people, because people are not on the same level, Allah Almighty is saying, "Faqsusi-l-qasasa la'allhum yatafakarun."2 He is ordering His prophets, and particularly the Seal of the Prophets, the last one, to tell the stories of na tions, and also what happened to them and what is going to happen like a story, because everything that happened yes terday is written as a story. We have left it behind.
no. It is a wrong idea to see people on the same level. No; that is a wrong idea that socialism brought, saying "No dif ference." But do you look the same as him? Does he look the same as that one? No! How you are saying that every
one is on the same level? So many days, weeks, months, years, even centuries,
have passed. Where are they? Anything you have kept from that time has only become like a story, a tale. Perhaps you may say, and living people may say, "You are telling fairy tales. You can't bring any evidence about the lives of so many nations." What happened, it is only in our imagination. We may imagine, we may read about their lives, but it is only what
we think about their lives, trying to make it up in our imagi nation. Everything that happened, everything past, so many countless actions, countless events, countless happen ings, just took place and passed away, with nothing to touch them now. And that heavenly order to the Seal of the Prophets3 is an order to everyone, also, to read or to hear what happened in past days, the passing centuries of man
Do you think that Allah Almighty produces as factories produce, everything the same model? No! Those foolish
people think that Allah Almighty gives everyone the same size, the same outward appearance and the same inner life. No! That is foolishness and that is from satanic teachings, Shaytan claiming that mankind, all of them, are the same — the same, no difference among them. That is the biggest wrong. How? Do you think that He has a man factory, men getting out from this side, women from that side? Therefore, sometimes I get angry with some girls.
If
someone asks them for marriage, they bring so many quali fications, saying [parodies], "I would like my husband not to be too ktsa, short. I don't like him, also, to be three meters tall, like Americans." (Any American here? No.) "Andi
kind.
don't like my husband to be so fat. I don't like his mouth to be up to his ears. 1 don't like my husband's ears to be like
For what? Allah is making clear the purpose of that or der: to think about it, what happened of goodness; what
elephants' ears." [Laughter.]
2"So narrate the stories [of prophets in the Qur'an], that perhaps they may re
Important points, these, very important, for marriage! Ehl If young ones ask [parodies], "I am interested that my wife should be like a stick." [Laughter.]
flect: (7:176)
’The order addressed to the Prophet in 7:176 cited above to narrate the stories of prophets..
’Ruler, king, sultan.
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"Take two sticks, do like this and rest. Take!" "I don't like my wife to be more than forty kilograms because if I need to carry her, I can put her on my shoulder.
..* [Laughter.] And I am saying, "Up to today, I never found an ilan, advertisment, that says, 'O people, the twenty-first century's technicians, technologists, are building a made-to-order fac tory for girls." And I have never heard that anyone has built a factory for foolish young ones who make a descrip tion of a wife and give it to them, and then what he likes comes out-their colors, their height, their eyes. "I don't like her eyes. Very small."
"Eh! Take and put another eye."
What are we saying? We are saying that Allah Al mighty gives everyone a speciality. From the beginning up to the end, perhaps ummata Muhammad % the nation of Mu hammad £ may reach 124 billion. If you do not believe me, add them, count them. You have so many computers. Ask a computer, "What do you think about Shaykh's words, what he is claiming about the number of Muslims?" What does the answer come to, what does that computer's shay tan say?
Saying, "All computers are under the control of shay tans, to make your heads another head, a satanic head." Eh! I am saying, "What are you doing?"
"There is a mouse running on this screen." "Bring my eyeglasses to look.
Is there a
mouse of such a size?" "Yes, and it is running, going, coming, and giving news
And I am saying, "You are taking news from a mouse, not taking it from Heavens? What is your honor, following a mouse, not following heavenly orders? La haula wa la quwwata...I" Everyone has a special destiny. You can't find two per sons with the same destiny, muqaddarat,5 their private life lines that they must be on. They can't get out from that. "IVfl kullun ft falaqin yasbahun,"6 each one has a special orbit. Everyone must move on his orbit, can't be outside it. Therefore, you may find your position when you hear what happened to men in past times, and you may take a lesson that may correct your steps—who was walking in a correct direction and what happened to them, and who was walking on the wrong way and what happened to them; to
learn something; to use your minds and to reach safety. You may choose the Safe Way.
I was in London, and I saw, written on a big building,
I am trying to show people the Safe Way. I must go in to ask what is their Safe Way." "Safeway." I asked, "Oh, Safeway!
"1 am touching this." "What is happening?"
Very small.
’decreed, preordained.
tach one is swimming in an orbit.* (36:40)
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I entered and asked, but they said, "No, O Shaykh. This is a big market."
"What is written there?" "Safeway."
People, not to be cheated, must come to the Safe Way. Safe Way, the real Safe Way, is the way of Heavens, and the dangerous, un-safe way, it is the way of shaytans and devils.
Now people are running on the wrong way, with wrong steps, and every time they are touching a dangerous happening and they are suffering. Yes. Through historical periods, through traditional knowledge, we are looking and seeing. And what Noah said is true. Maybe if Noah W, instead of living one thousand years, had lived 100,000 years, his statement would finally have been as he said before, at the time when he lived 1000 years. Maybe if he had lived for one million years, he would finally have said,"I just entered from the "IN" direc tion and now I am going from the "OUT" direction." Even if it was billions, trillions, quadrillions of years, you would finally say, "Just yesterday I entered and today I am going out"
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The fortunate one or clever one, or those whose hearts are opened with divine lights, are looking and seeing. They are looking as a person taking a train always looks when the train stops, looking at the writing of the name of the station because he knows his station and he is waiting. He does not sleep; he is awake not to pass it, looking. And man must look each day and see if this is my station where I am going to disembark, where I will get down—looking, because one day he must get down, we must get down. 4
We will not always go with that train, no. Wherever is written on our ticket, we must get down. We must prepare ourselves for our heavenly journey. The earthly journey is going to finish, ending, and the heavenly journey will begin. If you do not take care about your heavenly journey, you should be thrown there, and you may lose your chance to reach to your heavenly station in the Divine Presence.
May Allah forgive us and grant us, through His divine representatives, to reach people who are now living on earth but do not know anything about their heavenly stations, to save people and guide them to their divine stations in the Heavens. For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina. Muhammad —Fa teha! ▲
0 people, the most dangerous thing for mankind which is making them fall into bottomless troubles and unsolved problems, is to think that they are living a never-ending life. And they are cheating themselves, you are cheating your self. Therefore, those who are ignorant of heavenly teach ings are always falling into troubles and problems and mis eries, here and Hereafter.
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His Holy Name.
Allah never accepts "God, Theos, Deo,
KJioda,Gott"-no.
Io
The Arabic language is a big ocean. We are not saying
an endless ocean, but the biggest ocean among languages is
Arabic. The mufradat, terms, that other languages use can't give the meanings that a single word can give in Arabic. 3
You may say "Subhan Allah," but you can't find any religion,
The High Honor of Addressing Our Lord by His Holy Name ‘ ‘Allah”
any language, that can bring the meaning of "subhan" in a single word, no. And there are hundreds and thousands of examples. Therefore, Allah Almighty used the Arabic lan guage for the Holy Qur'an, the most important heavenly Message.
Bismillahi-r-
And in the Arabic language there is "ilah," god,2 and
Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
'“uluhiya," to be god.3 "Ilah" is a common noun, not a prop er noun. "God" is only muradif* a meaning similar to the
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. 'Aln/i-l-'Azheem.
words"ilah, Gott, Theos, Deo, Khoda," and "Tann" in Turkish.
Through "Bism-illahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim," He, Almighty, is
giving "Allah," His greatest Name that includes all His Holy Names in itself. When we say "Allah," we are making dhikr with all His Holy Names.
"Allah" is the most renowned Name on earth and in Heavens. But His Holy Name is now used only among
"IM" is a common noun but "Allah" is isim khass, a proper noun. "Tann" in Turkish—that is a common noun, not a proper noun; no. And you can't find in any other lan
guage a proper noun about which Allah Almighty says, "I am that One." He does not accept to be addressed as, "O my God"; no.
Muslims, and people of other nations and other religions are
not saying it, they are not mentioning that His name is "Al lah". English people, what do they say?
"God."
"I am your Lord. My name is Allah. My name is not 'God'. 'God' is a word for understanding that servanthood is the sifa, characteristic, of servants. Lordship is for Me—
French,
Lordship, 'uluhiya. And My name is Allah," He is saying. It
what do they say? "Dieu." Greeks, what do they say? "The
is His proper Name, His proper noun, for everyone that is
os" ‘Ajam,] what do they say? "Khoda;" Farsi. Germans, what do they say? "Gott." Italians? "Deo." None of them is ’Deity.
^Divinity, Lordship, Godhood. ’Equivalent, corresponding in meaning.
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living on earth and for heavenly beings. They are saying, "Ya Huwa, ya Allah!"5 Therefore, people are not reaching honour when they
do not address the Lord of Heavens as "O Allah." "O my
God"-no! I am saying that it is impossible to bring a word that is similar to His well-known Name, " Allah"—"Allah" to every creature on earth, in Heavens. And He is looking for His servant to say, "Ya Allah," not to say, "O my God!" "What is this? My name is not 'God.' My name is 'Al
lah.'"
"A man!' "'Aman*. No name?" Saying, "God." Without a name, God? Therefore, eve ryone who does not reach that level, his level is the lowest level, the lowest level.6 We are trying to know Him, and if you are want to
know someone, first you ask his name.
"His name is His
Majesty King George the Fifth." Then, when you go into his
majestic presence, you may address to him as, "O Your Maj
esty, King of England and Emperor of India, King George
English people, for every occasion, are saying, "O my
the Fifth." And when you come to address Allah Almighty,
God!" Whom are you addressing? Who is that, your god?
don't say, "0 my God," because the word "god" [ilah] may
Without a name, your god? Oh-oh! Do you think that say
be singular and may be plural, also. Plural, "gods".
ing "0 my son" or "0 my donkey" is enough? What is this?
may say "gods," their gods, but there is no plural for "Al
"What do you mean? No name for Me? You even give a name to your horse!" Say, "His Name is Allah!" Why,
why are you not saying His proper Name? Allahu Akbar! Can you translate "Allahu Akbar" into your language?"
[A German murid suggests, "Allah ist ein grossen," and ends by saying, "It is impossible. It doesn't say anything."
Shaykh laughs.]
They
lah". For everything you may find a plural except for His Holy Name, "Allah".
And people are mahrum, deprived. They have lost the
chance throughout their lives to say His holy Name, "Al
lah". Millions of people go away from this life like this, not saying "Allah."
For what reason? "Because Muslims say 'Allah,' we must not say 'Allah.'" But if you do not say His Holy
"Who is that one?"
"A man." No name?"
That is, the Creator is not an abstraction, a concept, or a thing.
Rather,
He is the Divine Being whose Holy Name is above all other names.
"No. Only 'a man.'"
"Al
lah" is the unique, sacred Name by which He refers to Himself in verse
"What is his name? Who is that?"
after verse of the Qur'an, informing mankind of His identity so that we nuy have the privilege of addressing Him by that sacred Name which
Mongs uniquely to Him. .
5"0 He [who is Allah], 0 Allah!"
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Name, He does not accept your addressing Him as "O my God," saying, "Go and look for your god."
sands of years. How should they reach peace? Their gods or their goddess will give them peace, they think.7
On the Day of Resurrection, people will come with their idols and with the names that the nations that lived in past times used for their idols. For example, the Greek people a believed in polytheism, and the head god, chief god, was Zeus. "Zeus" then came to be "Theos". Now, Greek people use "Theos," and the name Theos comes from Zeus, the chief of their gods during the time before Christ.
Yesterday I was at the monastery. They were showing
They had so many. Therefore, on the Day of Resurrec
tion everyone will bring their gods with them, in front of them, inscribed "Our god". Only Muslims will say "Allah". Allah Almighty will send each group of people with their gods-and also, they have goddess. Allahu Akbar, there are goddesses, also! Do you also have "goddess" in your language? Must be; tann, god, tannga, goddess. Yes. Venus or Aphrodite, they are goddesses. They have gods and also goddesses; they have plurals and they have female goddesses, male gods. Still they use that, still they have not come to pro claim that the Name of the Lord of Heavens is "Allah," no plural, no similar for Him.
Their heads are like rocks! They have reached the twenty-first century but they are not looking at such a reali ty. Still they are using their imagination, throughout thou-
still underground, the lowest, lowest level. They think that icons give them something, running after them.
Yes; imagination! From East to West, from North to South, until mankind is going to say "Allah," no way for them to be saved, here and Hereafter. You understand? His Name, our Lord's Name, is "Allah." Ya Allah, ya Allah!. An ti Allah, Huwa Allah. Allahu, Allahu. Hasbun Allah wa ni'am il-wahV Kfl/a hrw sharafan9 It is more than enough, that honour of saying "Allah"! To Europeans, Americans, who say that
we are at the top point of honour because we are Western people, I am saying, "You are at the lowest point because you do not say, "Ya Allah!" That honour is enough. To say
"Allah" gives honour to us. We are such fortunate people that we have been honoured to say and to address our Lord, "Ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Allah!"
May Allah forgive us! For the honour of the Seal of the Prophets, the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Riisul-Allah %-Fateha! A
In a modem context, this refers to icons, statues, paintings and other
graphic objects of veneration in various faiths. 5 0 Allah, 0 Allah! You are Allah, He is Allah. Allah suffices for us, and how excellent a Protector. ’ll is sufficient honour for us.
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44 waiting from morn That person went and sat, waiting,
ing up to midday before Dhuhr}.
Most people looked for
workers early in the morning, and no one asked him.
And
he said, "Today, no one is asking me to work for him. I can work for my Lord. I am going to the mosque."
Making wudu1 2 and entering, sitting, praying, reciting Holy Qur'an, making tasabih3 up to evening. Then in the evening, he went home. And his wife asked, "O my hus
band, did you bring something? Did you work today?"
And he said, "Yes, I worked today." A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem.
Rahmatii-r-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
"What you bring?" And he said, "My employer said, 'Not today.
Tomor
'Aln/i-l-'Azheem.
row I am going to pay you.' We can be patient today, we
The best work for people, what is that? To work for Allah is
can drink water."
the best work. You know another work, another patron or 1
ss, who pays you?
And the second day, he was early, taking his tools, going to the same workers' market, sitting there, looking,
No
one asked, "Come and work for me." And he said, "Today,
also, if no one employs me, I must go to my Lord's work. I Once there was a person, and everything he had was
can work for Him."
finished. Nothing remained at his home to eat. His family
was hungry and there was nothing to eat, and he wanted to go and work. And at that time, most people were workers or laborers. He took his axe and shovel, and went to the market, sit ting and waiting for someone to call him, "Come and work for me." The workers were sitting there. If anyone came for
Making wudu, sitting, up to evening.
When he came
home in the evening, his wife asked, "O my husband, O my man, did you work
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