We Have honored the Children of Adam (Shaykh Nazim, 110 pages, 6/10)
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and send us what we are hoping for from Heavens, a heavenly person, to gather our hearts on Haqq. If hearts do not come to Haqq, our physical being can't come. Therefore, we are asking for someone whose
6Reality, truth.
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pever grows. But if you plant it in the earth, then it grows, growing/ growing, growing, and becomes a big tree. There
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fore, that dharra, smallest piece of matter or material, if it is
dosed, it doesn't give harm, but Shaytan wants to make it to grow. If it remains without planting, it may finally be de
stroyed, but if you plant it in a field, it will grow. Shaytan wants to plant his worst characteristic that he
The Main Characteristic of Egos is Pride
used against mankind. He is trying to plant it in everyone's existence. Then, if it grows, it prevents you from entering
Paradise, guardians saying, "Oh, who is this? This dirtiness, you can't put it here. This is a dirty person!"
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-r-
Rahmani-r-Raheem. 'Aliyi-l-'AzheemA
La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
The characteristic of egos is to be proud. Everyone likes to be proud, and pride is the main characteristic of egos. And
it is biggest hindrance in front of mankind for entering Par adise.
Now there are x-rays, showing. When a person comes
to Paradise, they look at him. If clean, he enters; if showing that there is pride in that person, even a little, throwing him out. A person may be a simple one, having simplicity. Simplicity is the way to reach humbleness, humility. A humble person, really humble, he is saved, he is clean from pride. But if a person is not simple, he can't be humble.
Pride can't enter Paradise, as the Prophet ® was warn ing his nation, his ummah, and saying, "If anyone has even
ic teachings, making so many titles, degrees, to make people
less than an atom of pride in his heart, he can't enter Para
go up from the first level's simplicity, from humbleness. At
dise," because pride is dirtiness. And Satan, Sadanas, Shay
the first step, that person begins to say, "Oh, I am someone!"
tan symbolizes pride.
Then humbleness is going to melt.
Therefore Shaytan was thrown out of Heavens. Heav
ens never accept a proud one; no. That is dirtiness, and Par
adise is only for clean people. Pride is the main characteris
tic of Shaytan, and he wants to give it to everyone. Other-
To take people to Hells, Shaytan is teaching them satan
After the first level,
humbleness goes away, and Shaytan is trying to do that. Therefore, he is ordering his representatives
and all na-
Sons' governments, their leaders, all of them represent Shaytan-asking his representatives to make laws, rules, i that everyone must leam.
trying to make it open and row and cover our existence. You may plant a small seed, and if it opens, it becomes
What do they learn? Through their learning, they learn
to be proud. First step, primary school, first class, second
a big tree. That seed, if it is in a store, doesn't matter. It
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class, third, fourth, fifth. When primary finishes, giving a certificate.1 You have any certificate, Professor____ ? You have a primary certificate? O-oh! More than that, secondary? You have a secondary certificate? Oh-h! You, Shaykh____ooh-h! "I have a medal, also, from an architect, ba$ muhendis, chief architect." Doctor, you? "I never leave out any letter of the alphabet on my card."
•tation titles you may reach, never changes your real posi ts never lets You c^ange from the level of servanthood, gut Shaytan is trying to make people cut out servanthood
jpd reach Lordship. And Lordship is only for the Creator. Shaytan was the first one fighting Allah and wanting to
jeach Lordship, and he was so eager to reach that point. He knew holy books but he never understood that a person is jnahjuz.3 No matter how much someone may learn, it is im
possible to reach the final level of servanthood and move to Eh! Taking up, taking up, taking up, saying "Oh-h!" Then saying, "Who are you? Where are you, that you are saying that we must follow your rules and your orders? We do not see you. No! We are the only powerful ones on earth and authority is in our hands. We do not recognize you and we do not acknowledge your existence. We are in existence!"
They2 are making me attack their foolish systems of teaching, every time bombarding their false and foolish sys tem, to put it down, to awaken people. Simplicity brings humbleness, humility, and humbleness brings peace to peo ple. But proud ones are increasing. Oh, no more peace, no more peace—Allah Allah Allah! Wrong way!
% to teach people Islam is a religion of Heavens, coming that they are in existence through the Lord of Heavens. You are only creatures and imitation titles will never give you any other position. Any other identity, no matter how many
lordship. Shaytan never learned that, and he is trying to make man not to say that there is only one Lord, one Lord ship, for all creation, but trying to make people say that we
want Lordship.
What is that foolishness? Who are you to claim this, while you are so weak? Wa khuliqa-l-insanu da'ifa.4 How are you claiming this, while you are so weak a servant? Don't think that having nuclear bombs or rockets makes you powerful—no! Still you are weak ones. You may use them, your nuclear bombs and rockets, for the seen targets of ene mies, but there are some enemies that Allah may send to you through your body. You can't see them even under the most powerful microscopes; you can't see and you can't use your rockets on them. "Da'ufa-l-talibu wa-l-matlubu5 Talib means insan, man; matlubu means those viruses or bacteria. You can't see them because they are so small. And from where can you find out their weakness, because those al'ab,6 very da'if, most weak, creatures are threatening you, and
’Confined, limited.
AM created the human being weak." (4:28) ’This refers to the educational systems in Turkey, Cyprus and other parts
of the Muslim world.
W is the pursuer and the pursued." (22:73)
2See footnote 1.
‘Microscopic organisms.
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you can't catch them or put them in prison or kill them? They are so weak, and you, who are claiming "I am power ful," you are also becoming so weak in front of those weak
est creatures.
Only one Sultan, and He has absolute sultanate, author.|y (rom pre-etemity to post-eternity, and there is no one e|se in existence to claim that he is sultan. Divine sultanate, eternal sultanate, is only for the Lord of Heavens, the Lord 0imankind,ourGod. And we are His servants.
Why are you claiming Lord ship? What is that foolish
ness? But all educational systems are based on it, to make people proud, and pride is not suitable for weak ones. To be proud is only for One, for the Sultan. The Sultan is proud,
No, He is proud. His divine attribute is to be proud of everything of
must be proud; He can't be weak or humble.
which He is Sultan.
May Allah forgive us and send us some ones to take people from the wrong way to the right way. For the hon our of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Say kina Muhammad Fateha!
But don't think that, because He is
proud, He comes and destroys weak ones. Men are foolishly claiming that they are sultans, and through that title they are running to disturb or to kill weak
ones. That is not the attribute of a real sultan, and the real
sultanate is only for the Lord of Heavens. And He is asking from His servants only to be humble.
Humbleness is the
most lovely characteristic for weak servants—to say, "0 our
Lord, we are weak ones. You are Most High, Most Power ful, our Lord." But people, with their diplomas, certificates,
think that they have become something. They are only learn ing ignorance, nothing else. You can't find such knowledge being taught in univer sities, even in the Islamic world, and more blame for the Is lamic world than on others. May Allah save us from follow ing Shaytan, shaytanic teachings, and from following our egos because our egos never want to be humble ones, al ways asking to be sultan, and, shattana ma baynahuma;7 it is so remote for our egos to be sultan—impossible!
The most cheating people are commanders, generals of armies. Therefore, they are using the most important looking clothes, making so many designs on themselves to show their power, some ones putting swords on their shoulders, some of them putting eagles on their shoulders, some of them putting dragons [laughter], some of them put ting crowns, and putting here, also, so many medals, and putting swords, a grand uniform, to make people think that they have become someone powerful. And on the Last Day ... [laughter]. I don't know if Christians tie their open mouths or perhaps put cotton in them. Muslims are doing like this [tying shut the mouth of a dead body] not to be open, and their eyes, also, doing like this. ▲
TWhat a difference there is between the two of them.
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We have been ordered to control these two powers, not IP go over their limit or to go over what is necessary for us. Ifwe go further, it will destroy the person physically as well js spiritually. Must be under control!
15 Training Our Anger A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem.
Rahmani-r-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
And the second power, the sexual power that a person must have in himself, it is a grant, also, and we have been ordered to take control of it, as well. If you aren't able to control it, that power will also take you to dangerous areas and big accidents. Then that person is going to be finished. They must be under control, these two powers, the two that are the real sources of our physical being's life. Without one of them, our life is finished. That person is dead.
La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
'Aliyi-l-'Azheem.
Ghadab means anger. Anger must be. Anger is pressure, blood pressure. When anger comes, blood pressure goes up, and if it is too high, that person going to die. •a
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. We are run ning to Allah from Shaytan. Shaytan is full of anger. His
anger never settles down.
From the day that Allah Al
mighty ordered the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," he was like
He was angry with Allah Almighty, astaghfirullah! When he was angry with his Lord, Almighty Allah, that fire
Allah is ordering us to be in balance. You must use that power of anger within its limits, not to go high because it is a dangerous area, as well as not to come down too far. That is M,1 to be unable to do anything, to be under the feet of someone.
Defense, for everyone, passes through that power. Above its normal level, we may use it for certain purposes, but it is a dangerous area. And to use that power at the lowest level and below it, it is also dangerous for everyone, killing us physically and spiritually. You must use anger in that balance.2
covered him, and from that time he has been burning, burn
ing and representing fire, and it is continuing. And anger, which we have been given as a grant because we can't live without those powers; anger and sexual power, shahwah,
must be with a person. When it goes down to the level of
'Meekness, submissiveness, insignificance, lowliness, humiliation.
zero, that person is finished.
Thai is, not to leave its expression uncontrolled so that it produces vio lence or cruelty, nor to stamp it out so entirely that one accepts oppres
sion and victimization of oneself and others.
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And that is the reason why, when a person came to the Seal of the Prophets, the most honoured one in the Divine Presence, Sayyidina Rasul-Allah asking, "O our Lord's representative, Rasul-Allah, ausini3 Tell me something to hold on to for my safety, for my benefit, to be in safety, here and Hereafter, not to be harmed and punished," the Prophet « said, "La taghdab—don't be angry."4 "Don't be angry" means "control your anger." If you leave a horse without reins, that means no control. It may take you into dangerous areas, since normally the reins con trof your mount. And if you leave your ego, whose creation is just similar to Shaytan's—fire—it may take you to a dan gerous area.
Therefore, the Prophet was saying, "Don't be angry." That means, "Try to be able to control your anger or you will finish." As many times as the man said, "Ausini, ya Rasul-Allah," asking for advice, he repeated it, saying, "Con •J
trof your anger." With what may you be able control it? What are the reins of ego? The Shari'ah, heavenly orders, is the reins of your ego. If you do not use that rein, your ego will kill you, destroying your personality physically and spiritually. Ego never knows joking; it never makes a joke with you, no. No mercy from your ego to you, and no respect, also. Don't ex pect respect from your ego to your real being.
Therefore, you must keep the Shari'ah as reins and tariqah's orders as a whip. If not understanding with reins, you must use the whip of tariqah. If not, finishing-
ically destroyed, then spiritually making you less than ' ^Ulaikakal-an'am";5 those people who do not take care leave their egos without reins, they are like animals. Ijul hurt no theY are worse /z they leave it without ^g either heavenly orders or tariqah orders, they will nevleave the level of animals, making that person come
down. Therefore, the Shari'ah keeps us from coming down to level of animals, keeping men's level above the level of juimals. If you use the Shari'ah, you keep the reins on the I level of mankind. If not using it, falling down, and at the same time, if you do not take care about tariqah orders, you I d go down still more to the lowest level, below the level I of animals.
Therefore, anger is from Shaytan, a satanic characteris tic. The same characteristic is with your ego, and you are in need of someone to train it. If you want to ride on a horse butyou aren't able, you find someone who trains horses. By yourself, you can't learn it. That one will teach you. Therefore, every Muslim, every believer, must have at least one trainer, training him how to ride his horse. But Shaytan is playing with the minds of Muslims now, first of al Arabs, and among Arabs, Wahhabi people are rejecting i ihe most simple thing. If you want to ride on a horse, you are in need of a trainer. What about if you want to ride on your ego, not to have your ego riding on you? But they are I saying, "No need!"
’Direction, instruction, order, advice, admonition.
Tty arc like caM; nay they are worse." (7:179)
4Bukhari.
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How can it be? And I am seeing on roads, here and in
London, in Europe, many cars with "L" written on them. What does it mean? "Learner." For a car, you need a teach
er to teach you, to leam how to drive it—a car, such a simple
thing and you need someone. What about for guiding your
Allah forgive me. Therefore, this important point ■ v are giving me permission to speak about is anger, that makes people be in existence, in real existP tfith the honour of mankind, with the honour of being human nature, for the honour and respect of being ^es, representatives, of the Lord of Heavens on earth,
ego? But they are saying, "No need, no need. Shirk!"
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From where are they bringing that "shirk"? Which book is writing this? If I want to learn from someone how I can ride my horse and make my horse go, run, towards the real goal of our lives, how is respecting my teacher and obeying him going to be shirk? What is this foolishness, what is that? Really they are such foolish people, destroying Islam, with money opening so many centers, Wahhabi centers, "d'awa" centers.6 They are only destroying Islam. May Allah change theirhearts! You need a mu'allim, a teacher or trainer. Also, I see that even football players have trainers to teach them how to play. What about for you? You are not in need? Why do you open schools and appoint teachers, professors—why? They are teachers. Why do you not make an objection to that?—"O people, you are doing shirk because you are lis
tening to that one. No need! Leave him! You can leam by yourself."
Who leams by himself, without going to high schoof or university, only looking at their books and learning—who is
that? But Wahhabi people think that people can leam eve rything through their books. Can't be!
‘Centers for the propagation of Islam.
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small ones. Let alone a person of one-and-a-half or two me ters height—if the figures of any or every one of mankind «tfere to be as big as this huge universe, not two meters tall, but anyone, everyone, of such hugeness, still their minds could never carry the greatness of the universe.
16 Concerning Spirituality and Materiality A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Rahmani-r-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
'Aliyi-l-'Azheem.
Each day comes "kal-fulki-lmashun. "2 Each day comes with new things, each day comes with unexpected events. No one can know what tomorrow will bring, and today, also, we do not know now how this day is going to end. From now up to evening, there are still four or five hours. Yauman jadid, rizqun jadid.1
Countless events are comm individually and collec tively. That shows the greatness of Allah Almighty, because each one has a private destiny. Never are two destinies go ing to be the same. Can't be! And that is the reason why the Creator, the Lord of Heavens, our Lord, Allah Almighty, is impossible to be un derstood — impossible! We are such weak ones, we are such
He, Almighty, can create everyone in such a way. He is able, and He is not in need to use material, no. Material is for you, for your understanding, but in the Divine Presence there is no material and no existence for anything. He can create millions or billions and trillions and quadrillions like this huge universe by an order. He would only say, "Be!"3 which means, "Come into existence!" and it would be ready.
It would be ready, and for its existence, in our sight, in our knowledge, there would be material, but in front of Him, nothing. It is only an order—an order; no need to use material for creating. He never uses material for universes, for Heavens, no. If using material, that material must be from Him, and He is never in need of material because His existence does not depend on material. But the beings of everything in existence depend on material. Therefore, material is for creatures, but the Creator nev er uses any material for creating. He only uses an order. No material, no projects [chuckles]—no projects for making the Heavens, for making something with projects and using ma terial. He, Almighty, only uses His order, saying "Be! Come into existence!" and finished! That order, according to His Will, just comes into being and appears. But you can't touch it.
’New day, new provision.
’Kun! Be!"The divine Word of command, mentioned in 2:117; 3:47, 59;
2"Like the laden ship." (36:41)
6^16;40; 19:35; 36:82; 40:68.
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Sughuri Hazretleri,4 one of our Golden Chain's grandshaykhs,5 Abu Ahmad 'Abdur-Rahman al-Sughuri, was saying, "I have been in Hijaz for Hajj6 thirty-seven times. Seven times I was there with my physical being, material existence, and thirty times I was present at 'Arafat7*with my spiritual being." And in that spiritual being there is no material.
People think that this physical being is most important No! Important is your spiritual being. It is important, not this material being; no. Your spirituality has no material, no. And he was saying, "Sometimes people met me in Makkatu-l-Mukarramah or in 'Arafat and said, '0 Shaykh, welcome to you! How is it? You were making making duV [in Daghestan] with us for the Hajj pilgrims when we want ed to leave for the Ka'bah, the House of the Lord-you were making du'a and sending us off. We left you in Daghestan. How are you here?' And he was saying, "O my sons, after you, another car avan came and called me, also, 'Come with us,' and I came with them."
Wazretleri: a Turkish honorific title for individuals of high spiritual rank, such as Sahabah and awliya.
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When they were trying to take, to kiss his hand, he did not give it, saying, "I have 'udhr, an excuse, for my wudu.9 pon't touch to my hand," because, if they did like this, they & would find nothing. People might be frightened, and there fore he did like this and did not give his hand to them be cause it was only an appearance without material. There fore, "Yas'alunaka 'ani-l-ruh. Quli-r-ruhu min amri Rabbi. "10 When people asked the Seal of Prophets to tell about our spirituality, our souls, Allah Almighty was saying, "O my beloved one, say to them that it is an order from my Lord. It is an order, and you can't understand."11 You can understand only material beings, but beyond that, you are never going to understand. It is only an order for your physical being. All worlds and creations, all of them, have material, different material, for their creation, for their phys a ical beings, but for their souls, no. Allah Almighty does not use material for our souls.
Therefore, souls and our physical being are never going to be same, and the jaddal,12 arguing, is never going to be ended between soul and material being. Material being wants to be the boss, and spiritual being says, "No, you can't be. You can't be my boss because what I am carrying of divine power, you don't have. You don't have that pow er because the material world, everything that belongs to
HTie chain of the grandshaykhs or awliya of the Most Distinguished
Naqshbandi Sufi Order, going back to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and through him to the Holy Prophet.. 6Hijaz: the province of Saudi Arabia in which Mecca and Medina are lo
To avoid breaking wudu, for as a follower of the Shafi'ii madhhab a woman's kissing the hand will break a man's wudu.
cated. Hajj: the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, one of Islam's five "pillars"
*1ky ask you [Muhammad] about the soul.
or obligatory acts of worship.
7A vast plain some miles outside Mecca which is the site of one of the
Oder." (17:85)
principal rites of Hajj.
11A paraphrase of 17:85 above.
Supplication.
“Argument, dispute, debate, quarrel.
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materiality, is in limits, but what we have been granted through our souls is not in limits."
stands. It is impossible; no. This is something, that is some
Therefore, our power through our souls reaches to the ends of creation. And the power of our souls in such a state may be present everywhere because souls are never limited by material being. Souls' area, their fields, are unlimited, but our physical beings' fields are only within a very short and small area.
With your material being, you can't understand your spiritual being. Therefore, you must try to melt it, to de stroy your material being, either here or after death. Then you should find yourself in an ocean of spirituality that be longs to Allah Almighty's Will. When He is going to say, *Come into existence!" it will come, and that existence of our souls may be understood by our spiritual being. And your spiritual being, as our Grandshaykh was saying, is go ing to be like a drop coming from the clouds and reaching the ocean. It becomes an ocean. You can't find it, you can't bring a limit for it. It has just reached an Ocean that never can be known.
That makes people lose the essence of their real being, They do not understand that we have a physical being that is never going to be in existence without material. And there is another existence within ourselves that is our spir itual being, and that is never in need of material and never going to be in limits because it is an order from Allah Al mighty. Therefore, no one can reach real knowledge about the Lord of Heavens till they reach the real understanding of their spirituality. Through spirituality, you can touch ("touch" means you can reach some knowledge about the Creator), but don't think that your material being can think about it and be able to bring true information about the Cre ator. Therefore, people now are asking, "How is Allah? Where is He and where was He, and up to where is He go ing to be?"
Those are nonsensical questions because it is not your area of responsibility to ask as long as you are imprisoned in the material world. You must cut it. When you cut this prison, you may find yourself in a world where there is no materiality, only spirituality; and you can't bring any de scription of spirituality, no. Anything you can bring for the understanding of spirituality, material being never under-
thing else.
Therefore, men, when trying to reach Allah Almighty's Divine Presence, are in need of some training,/ some practicI ing to break down their material being and for that drop that is in your material being to be free. As that drop comes and enters the Ocean, it is going to be Ocean. But you need to break down that material being. Material being, no room I for it in existence. It is an imitation existence, but the soul I that comes, reaches the Oceans of Unity of Allah Almighty I without hindrance and disappears.
May Allah give us good understanding for His knowledge, to be able to understand. As long as you are surrounded by materiality, it is impossible to approach the understanding of our Lord's divine position. Therefore, we are asking and trying to reach that point and to save our selves from the heaviness and darkness of materiality, to
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reach peace and contentment, and the oceans of u , oceans of power, in His Unity Oceans.
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May Allah grant it to us, and bless you and forgive For the honour of the Seal of the Prophets, Sayyidina
hammad
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“Nothing Can Go Out of Its Private Line to Its Destiny” A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem.
Bismillahi-r-
Rflhani-r-Raheem. Kullu amrin bi-waqtihi
marhun;'
time and its space or place.
everything
appears
in
its
Nothing £4 happens in this world
£4 each day but that for every happening there is a private
time. It must come in that line, and it is either going to fin ish or to begin. In twenty-four hours, each day 24,000 appearances2 are
coming, and from among
24,000
appearances
everyone
takes his share. And each appearance comes in its private
line and time. Noone gets involved or comes and makes an accident; no. Everything is in it
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and send us what we are hoping for from Heavens, a heavenly person, to gather our hearts on Haqq. If hearts do not come to Haqq, our physical being can't come. Therefore, we are asking for someone whose
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pever grows. But if you plant it in the earth, then it grows, growing/ growing, growing, and becomes a big tree. There
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fore, that dharra, smallest piece of matter or material, if it is
dosed, it doesn't give harm, but Shaytan wants to make it to grow. If it remains without planting, it may finally be de
stroyed, but if you plant it in a field, it will grow. Shaytan wants to plant his worst characteristic that he
The Main Characteristic of Egos is Pride
used against mankind. He is trying to plant it in everyone's existence. Then, if it grows, it prevents you from entering
Paradise, guardians saying, "Oh, who is this? This dirtiness, you can't put it here. This is a dirty person!"
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-r-
Rahmani-r-Raheem. 'Aliyi-l-'AzheemA
La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
The characteristic of egos is to be proud. Everyone likes to be proud, and pride is the main characteristic of egos. And
it is biggest hindrance in front of mankind for entering Par adise.
Now there are x-rays, showing. When a person comes
to Paradise, they look at him. If clean, he enters; if showing that there is pride in that person, even a little, throwing him out. A person may be a simple one, having simplicity. Simplicity is the way to reach humbleness, humility. A humble person, really humble, he is saved, he is clean from pride. But if a person is not simple, he can't be humble.
Pride can't enter Paradise, as the Prophet ® was warn ing his nation, his ummah, and saying, "If anyone has even
ic teachings, making so many titles, degrees, to make people
less than an atom of pride in his heart, he can't enter Para
go up from the first level's simplicity, from humbleness. At
dise," because pride is dirtiness. And Satan, Sadanas, Shay
the first step, that person begins to say, "Oh, I am someone!"
tan symbolizes pride.
Then humbleness is going to melt.
Therefore Shaytan was thrown out of Heavens. Heav
ens never accept a proud one; no. That is dirtiness, and Par
adise is only for clean people. Pride is the main characteris
tic of Shaytan, and he wants to give it to everyone. Other-
To take people to Hells, Shaytan is teaching them satan
After the first level,
humbleness goes away, and Shaytan is trying to do that. Therefore, he is ordering his representatives
and all na-
Sons' governments, their leaders, all of them represent Shaytan-asking his representatives to make laws, rules, i that everyone must leam.
trying to make it open and row and cover our existence. You may plant a small seed, and if it opens, it becomes
What do they learn? Through their learning, they learn
to be proud. First step, primary school, first class, second
a big tree. That seed, if it is in a store, doesn't matter. It
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class, third, fourth, fifth. When primary finishes, giving a certificate.1 You have any certificate, Professor____ ? You have a primary certificate? O-oh! More than that, secondary? You have a secondary certificate? Oh-h! You, Shaykh____ooh-h! "I have a medal, also, from an architect, ba$ muhendis, chief architect." Doctor, you? "I never leave out any letter of the alphabet on my card."
•tation titles you may reach, never changes your real posi ts never lets You c^ange from the level of servanthood, gut Shaytan is trying to make people cut out servanthood
jpd reach Lordship. And Lordship is only for the Creator. Shaytan was the first one fighting Allah and wanting to
jeach Lordship, and he was so eager to reach that point. He knew holy books but he never understood that a person is jnahjuz.3 No matter how much someone may learn, it is im
possible to reach the final level of servanthood and move to Eh! Taking up, taking up, taking up, saying "Oh-h!" Then saying, "Who are you? Where are you, that you are saying that we must follow your rules and your orders? We do not see you. No! We are the only powerful ones on earth and authority is in our hands. We do not recognize you and we do not acknowledge your existence. We are in existence!"
They2 are making me attack their foolish systems of teaching, every time bombarding their false and foolish sys tem, to put it down, to awaken people. Simplicity brings humbleness, humility, and humbleness brings peace to peo ple. But proud ones are increasing. Oh, no more peace, no more peace—Allah Allah Allah! Wrong way!
% to teach people Islam is a religion of Heavens, coming that they are in existence through the Lord of Heavens. You are only creatures and imitation titles will never give you any other position. Any other identity, no matter how many
lordship. Shaytan never learned that, and he is trying to make man not to say that there is only one Lord, one Lord ship, for all creation, but trying to make people say that we
want Lordship.
What is that foolishness? Who are you to claim this, while you are so weak? Wa khuliqa-l-insanu da'ifa.4 How are you claiming this, while you are so weak a servant? Don't think that having nuclear bombs or rockets makes you powerful—no! Still you are weak ones. You may use them, your nuclear bombs and rockets, for the seen targets of ene mies, but there are some enemies that Allah may send to you through your body. You can't see them even under the most powerful microscopes; you can't see and you can't use your rockets on them. "Da'ufa-l-talibu wa-l-matlubu5 Talib means insan, man; matlubu means those viruses or bacteria. You can't see them because they are so small. And from where can you find out their weakness, because those al'ab,6 very da'if, most weak, creatures are threatening you, and
’Confined, limited.
AM created the human being weak." (4:28) ’This refers to the educational systems in Turkey, Cyprus and other parts
of the Muslim world.
W is the pursuer and the pursued." (22:73)
2See footnote 1.
‘Microscopic organisms.
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you can't catch them or put them in prison or kill them? They are so weak, and you, who are claiming "I am power ful," you are also becoming so weak in front of those weak
est creatures.
Only one Sultan, and He has absolute sultanate, author.|y (rom pre-etemity to post-eternity, and there is no one e|se in existence to claim that he is sultan. Divine sultanate, eternal sultanate, is only for the Lord of Heavens, the Lord 0imankind,ourGod. And we are His servants.
Why are you claiming Lord ship? What is that foolish
ness? But all educational systems are based on it, to make people proud, and pride is not suitable for weak ones. To be proud is only for One, for the Sultan. The Sultan is proud,
No, He is proud. His divine attribute is to be proud of everything of
must be proud; He can't be weak or humble.
which He is Sultan.
May Allah forgive us and send us some ones to take people from the wrong way to the right way. For the hon our of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Say kina Muhammad Fateha!
But don't think that, because He is
proud, He comes and destroys weak ones. Men are foolishly claiming that they are sultans, and through that title they are running to disturb or to kill weak
ones. That is not the attribute of a real sultan, and the real
sultanate is only for the Lord of Heavens. And He is asking from His servants only to be humble.
Humbleness is the
most lovely characteristic for weak servants—to say, "0 our
Lord, we are weak ones. You are Most High, Most Power ful, our Lord." But people, with their diplomas, certificates,
think that they have become something. They are only learn ing ignorance, nothing else. You can't find such knowledge being taught in univer sities, even in the Islamic world, and more blame for the Is lamic world than on others. May Allah save us from follow ing Shaytan, shaytanic teachings, and from following our egos because our egos never want to be humble ones, al ways asking to be sultan, and, shattana ma baynahuma;7 it is so remote for our egos to be sultan—impossible!
The most cheating people are commanders, generals of armies. Therefore, they are using the most important looking clothes, making so many designs on themselves to show their power, some ones putting swords on their shoulders, some of them putting eagles on their shoulders, some of them putting dragons [laughter], some of them put ting crowns, and putting here, also, so many medals, and putting swords, a grand uniform, to make people think that they have become someone powerful. And on the Last Day ... [laughter]. I don't know if Christians tie their open mouths or perhaps put cotton in them. Muslims are doing like this [tying shut the mouth of a dead body] not to be open, and their eyes, also, doing like this. ▲
TWhat a difference there is between the two of them.
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We have been ordered to control these two powers, not IP go over their limit or to go over what is necessary for us. Ifwe go further, it will destroy the person physically as well js spiritually. Must be under control!
15 Training Our Anger A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem.
Rahmani-r-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
And the second power, the sexual power that a person must have in himself, it is a grant, also, and we have been ordered to take control of it, as well. If you aren't able to control it, that power will also take you to dangerous areas and big accidents. Then that person is going to be finished. They must be under control, these two powers, the two that are the real sources of our physical being's life. Without one of them, our life is finished. That person is dead.
La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
'Aliyi-l-'Azheem.
Ghadab means anger. Anger must be. Anger is pressure, blood pressure. When anger comes, blood pressure goes up, and if it is too high, that person going to die. •a
A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. We are run ning to Allah from Shaytan. Shaytan is full of anger. His
anger never settles down.
From the day that Allah Al
mighty ordered the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," he was like
He was angry with Allah Almighty, astaghfirullah! When he was angry with his Lord, Almighty Allah, that fire
Allah is ordering us to be in balance. You must use that power of anger within its limits, not to go high because it is a dangerous area, as well as not to come down too far. That is M,1 to be unable to do anything, to be under the feet of someone.
Defense, for everyone, passes through that power. Above its normal level, we may use it for certain purposes, but it is a dangerous area. And to use that power at the lowest level and below it, it is also dangerous for everyone, killing us physically and spiritually. You must use anger in that balance.2
covered him, and from that time he has been burning, burn
ing and representing fire, and it is continuing. And anger, which we have been given as a grant because we can't live without those powers; anger and sexual power, shahwah,
must be with a person. When it goes down to the level of
'Meekness, submissiveness, insignificance, lowliness, humiliation.
zero, that person is finished.
Thai is, not to leave its expression uncontrolled so that it produces vio lence or cruelty, nor to stamp it out so entirely that one accepts oppres
sion and victimization of oneself and others.
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And that is the reason why, when a person came to the Seal of the Prophets, the most honoured one in the Divine Presence, Sayyidina Rasul-Allah asking, "O our Lord's representative, Rasul-Allah, ausini3 Tell me something to hold on to for my safety, for my benefit, to be in safety, here and Hereafter, not to be harmed and punished," the Prophet « said, "La taghdab—don't be angry."4 "Don't be angry" means "control your anger." If you leave a horse without reins, that means no control. It may take you into dangerous areas, since normally the reins con trof your mount. And if you leave your ego, whose creation is just similar to Shaytan's—fire—it may take you to a dan gerous area.
Therefore, the Prophet was saying, "Don't be angry." That means, "Try to be able to control your anger or you will finish." As many times as the man said, "Ausini, ya Rasul-Allah," asking for advice, he repeated it, saying, "Con •J
trof your anger." With what may you be able control it? What are the reins of ego? The Shari'ah, heavenly orders, is the reins of your ego. If you do not use that rein, your ego will kill you, destroying your personality physically and spiritually. Ego never knows joking; it never makes a joke with you, no. No mercy from your ego to you, and no respect, also. Don't ex pect respect from your ego to your real being.
Therefore, you must keep the Shari'ah as reins and tariqah's orders as a whip. If not understanding with reins, you must use the whip of tariqah. If not, finishing-
ically destroyed, then spiritually making you less than ' ^Ulaikakal-an'am";5 those people who do not take care leave their egos without reins, they are like animals. Ijul hurt no theY are worse /z they leave it without ^g either heavenly orders or tariqah orders, they will nevleave the level of animals, making that person come
down. Therefore, the Shari'ah keeps us from coming down to level of animals, keeping men's level above the level of juimals. If you use the Shari'ah, you keep the reins on the I level of mankind. If not using it, falling down, and at the same time, if you do not take care about tariqah orders, you I d go down still more to the lowest level, below the level I of animals.
Therefore, anger is from Shaytan, a satanic characteris tic. The same characteristic is with your ego, and you are in need of someone to train it. If you want to ride on a horse butyou aren't able, you find someone who trains horses. By yourself, you can't learn it. That one will teach you. Therefore, every Muslim, every believer, must have at least one trainer, training him how to ride his horse. But Shaytan is playing with the minds of Muslims now, first of al Arabs, and among Arabs, Wahhabi people are rejecting i ihe most simple thing. If you want to ride on a horse, you are in need of a trainer. What about if you want to ride on your ego, not to have your ego riding on you? But they are I saying, "No need!"
’Direction, instruction, order, advice, admonition.
Tty arc like caM; nay they are worse." (7:179)
4Bukhari.
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How can it be? And I am seeing on roads, here and in
London, in Europe, many cars with "L" written on them. What does it mean? "Learner." For a car, you need a teach
er to teach you, to leam how to drive it—a car, such a simple
thing and you need someone. What about for guiding your
Allah forgive me. Therefore, this important point ■ v are giving me permission to speak about is anger, that makes people be in existence, in real existP tfith the honour of mankind, with the honour of being human nature, for the honour and respect of being ^es, representatives, of the Lord of Heavens on earth,
ego? But they are saying, "No need, no need. Shirk!"
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From where are they bringing that "shirk"? Which book is writing this? If I want to learn from someone how I can ride my horse and make my horse go, run, towards the real goal of our lives, how is respecting my teacher and obeying him going to be shirk? What is this foolishness, what is that? Really they are such foolish people, destroying Islam, with money opening so many centers, Wahhabi centers, "d'awa" centers.6 They are only destroying Islam. May Allah change theirhearts! You need a mu'allim, a teacher or trainer. Also, I see that even football players have trainers to teach them how to play. What about for you? You are not in need? Why do you open schools and appoint teachers, professors—why? They are teachers. Why do you not make an objection to that?—"O people, you are doing shirk because you are lis
tening to that one. No need! Leave him! You can leam by yourself."
Who leams by himself, without going to high schoof or university, only looking at their books and learning—who is
that? But Wahhabi people think that people can leam eve rything through their books. Can't be!
‘Centers for the propagation of Islam.
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small ones. Let alone a person of one-and-a-half or two me ters height—if the figures of any or every one of mankind «tfere to be as big as this huge universe, not two meters tall, but anyone, everyone, of such hugeness, still their minds could never carry the greatness of the universe.
16 Concerning Spirituality and Materiality A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Rahmani-r-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l-
'Aliyi-l-'Azheem.
Each day comes "kal-fulki-lmashun. "2 Each day comes with new things, each day comes with unexpected events. No one can know what tomorrow will bring, and today, also, we do not know now how this day is going to end. From now up to evening, there are still four or five hours. Yauman jadid, rizqun jadid.1
Countless events are comm individually and collec tively. That shows the greatness of Allah Almighty, because each one has a private destiny. Never are two destinies go ing to be the same. Can't be! And that is the reason why the Creator, the Lord of Heavens, our Lord, Allah Almighty, is impossible to be un derstood — impossible! We are such weak ones, we are such
He, Almighty, can create everyone in such a way. He is able, and He is not in need to use material, no. Material is for you, for your understanding, but in the Divine Presence there is no material and no existence for anything. He can create millions or billions and trillions and quadrillions like this huge universe by an order. He would only say, "Be!"3 which means, "Come into existence!" and it would be ready.
It would be ready, and for its existence, in our sight, in our knowledge, there would be material, but in front of Him, nothing. It is only an order—an order; no need to use material for creating. He never uses material for universes, for Heavens, no. If using material, that material must be from Him, and He is never in need of material because His existence does not depend on material. But the beings of everything in existence depend on material. Therefore, material is for creatures, but the Creator nev er uses any material for creating. He only uses an order. No material, no projects [chuckles]—no projects for making the Heavens, for making something with projects and using ma terial. He, Almighty, only uses His order, saying "Be! Come into existence!" and finished! That order, according to His Will, just comes into being and appears. But you can't touch it.
’New day, new provision.
’Kun! Be!"The divine Word of command, mentioned in 2:117; 3:47, 59;
2"Like the laden ship." (36:41)
6^16;40; 19:35; 36:82; 40:68.
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Sughuri Hazretleri,4 one of our Golden Chain's grandshaykhs,5 Abu Ahmad 'Abdur-Rahman al-Sughuri, was saying, "I have been in Hijaz for Hajj6 thirty-seven times. Seven times I was there with my physical being, material existence, and thirty times I was present at 'Arafat7*with my spiritual being." And in that spiritual being there is no material.
People think that this physical being is most important No! Important is your spiritual being. It is important, not this material being; no. Your spirituality has no material, no. And he was saying, "Sometimes people met me in Makkatu-l-Mukarramah or in 'Arafat and said, '0 Shaykh, welcome to you! How is it? You were making making duV [in Daghestan] with us for the Hajj pilgrims when we want ed to leave for the Ka'bah, the House of the Lord-you were making du'a and sending us off. We left you in Daghestan. How are you here?' And he was saying, "O my sons, after you, another car avan came and called me, also, 'Come with us,' and I came with them."
Wazretleri: a Turkish honorific title for individuals of high spiritual rank, such as Sahabah and awliya.
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When they were trying to take, to kiss his hand, he did not give it, saying, "I have 'udhr, an excuse, for my wudu.9 pon't touch to my hand," because, if they did like this, they & would find nothing. People might be frightened, and there fore he did like this and did not give his hand to them be cause it was only an appearance without material. There fore, "Yas'alunaka 'ani-l-ruh. Quli-r-ruhu min amri Rabbi. "10 When people asked the Seal of Prophets to tell about our spirituality, our souls, Allah Almighty was saying, "O my beloved one, say to them that it is an order from my Lord. It is an order, and you can't understand."11 You can understand only material beings, but beyond that, you are never going to understand. It is only an order for your physical being. All worlds and creations, all of them, have material, different material, for their creation, for their phys a ical beings, but for their souls, no. Allah Almighty does not use material for our souls.
Therefore, souls and our physical being are never going to be same, and the jaddal,12 arguing, is never going to be ended between soul and material being. Material being wants to be the boss, and spiritual being says, "No, you can't be. You can't be my boss because what I am carrying of divine power, you don't have. You don't have that pow er because the material world, everything that belongs to
HTie chain of the grandshaykhs or awliya of the Most Distinguished
Naqshbandi Sufi Order, going back to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and through him to the Holy Prophet.. 6Hijaz: the province of Saudi Arabia in which Mecca and Medina are lo
To avoid breaking wudu, for as a follower of the Shafi'ii madhhab a woman's kissing the hand will break a man's wudu.
cated. Hajj: the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, one of Islam's five "pillars"
*1ky ask you [Muhammad] about the soul.
or obligatory acts of worship.
7A vast plain some miles outside Mecca which is the site of one of the
Oder." (17:85)
principal rites of Hajj.
11A paraphrase of 17:85 above.
Supplication.
“Argument, dispute, debate, quarrel.
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materiality, is in limits, but what we have been granted through our souls is not in limits."
stands. It is impossible; no. This is something, that is some
Therefore, our power through our souls reaches to the ends of creation. And the power of our souls in such a state may be present everywhere because souls are never limited by material being. Souls' area, their fields, are unlimited, but our physical beings' fields are only within a very short and small area.
With your material being, you can't understand your spiritual being. Therefore, you must try to melt it, to de stroy your material being, either here or after death. Then you should find yourself in an ocean of spirituality that be longs to Allah Almighty's Will. When He is going to say, *Come into existence!" it will come, and that existence of our souls may be understood by our spiritual being. And your spiritual being, as our Grandshaykh was saying, is go ing to be like a drop coming from the clouds and reaching the ocean. It becomes an ocean. You can't find it, you can't bring a limit for it. It has just reached an Ocean that never can be known.
That makes people lose the essence of their real being, They do not understand that we have a physical being that is never going to be in existence without material. And there is another existence within ourselves that is our spir itual being, and that is never in need of material and never going to be in limits because it is an order from Allah Al mighty. Therefore, no one can reach real knowledge about the Lord of Heavens till they reach the real understanding of their spirituality. Through spirituality, you can touch ("touch" means you can reach some knowledge about the Creator), but don't think that your material being can think about it and be able to bring true information about the Cre ator. Therefore, people now are asking, "How is Allah? Where is He and where was He, and up to where is He go ing to be?"
Those are nonsensical questions because it is not your area of responsibility to ask as long as you are imprisoned in the material world. You must cut it. When you cut this prison, you may find yourself in a world where there is no materiality, only spirituality; and you can't bring any de scription of spirituality, no. Anything you can bring for the understanding of spirituality, material being never under-
thing else.
Therefore, men, when trying to reach Allah Almighty's Divine Presence, are in need of some training,/ some practicI ing to break down their material being and for that drop that is in your material being to be free. As that drop comes and enters the Ocean, it is going to be Ocean. But you need to break down that material being. Material being, no room I for it in existence. It is an imitation existence, but the soul I that comes, reaches the Oceans of Unity of Allah Almighty I without hindrance and disappears.
May Allah give us good understanding for His knowledge, to be able to understand. As long as you are surrounded by materiality, it is impossible to approach the understanding of our Lord's divine position. Therefore, we are asking and trying to reach that point and to save our selves from the heaviness and darkness of materiality, to
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reach peace and contentment, and the oceans of u , oceans of power, in His Unity Oceans.
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May Allah grant it to us, and bless you and forgive For the honour of the Seal of the Prophets, Sayyidina
hammad
Fateha! ▲
“Nothing Can Go Out of Its Private Line to Its Destiny” A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem.
Bismillahi-r-
Rflhani-r-Raheem. Kullu amrin bi-waqtihi
marhun;'
time and its space or place.
everything
appears
in
its
Nothing £4 happens in this world
£4 each day but that for every happening there is a private
time. It must come in that line, and it is either going to fin ish or to begin. In twenty-four hours, each day 24,000 appearances2 are
coming, and from among
24,000
appearances
everyone
takes his share. And each appearance comes in its private
line and time. Noone gets involved or comes and makes an accident; no. Everything is in it
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