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s private path and appointed I time, and must appear in its prepared space or place and
must go on it. And when it finishes, a second happening I must take its dawr, turn. Therefore, everything, under heavI
enly control, appears or disappears.
In, out; during units of
’literally, Everything depends upon the time [that Allah] decreed for it.
'‘Divine manifestation.
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time, billions of happenings go in, billions of happenings go
you can't understand anything about darkness be muse darkness means you can't see.
out. But our world is seen as if it was as before, unchanged.. Never, never! It has changed. It changes, also, because it
has been used by this world, something taken and some
thing given. At every time there is a change, and nothing is
going to happen before its time or to be delayed.
"La yastakhiruna sa'ata wa la yastaqdimun"3—everyth^ that we are saying is in this holy verse. It is not only for our ajal* our last moment, last breath; no. It is for everything.
"La yastakhiruna sa'ata wa la yastaqdimun." Nothing is going to get out of its private line that is its destiny. For everything there is a destiny. Must be a beginning,
must be an end, and that beginning,/ la yastakhiruna sa'ata wa la yastaqdimun. You can't reach it beforehand and you can't expect it after its appointed time. That is Allah Almighty's
greatness, that you can't reach to understand anything about, and this that we are speaking about belongs to afal-
Allah, the Essence of Allah Almighty. It is in deep darkness.
No one knows the real being of Allah Almighty's Essence, so that for His Name, in that position, we are saying only "Huwa".
"Huwa" means unknown—unknown.
If there are no
stars in the sky at nighttime, you couldn't understand the
skies or space.
When these lights appear as lights in the
darkness, you understand about that darkness.
Without
3"[And when their term arrives], they will not remain behind an hour nor will they precede [it]. (7:34,10:49,16:61)
'Appointed time, moment of death.
You can see in the daytime by the sun. If no sun, you didn't see anything of the sky, and at nighttime, when the 0 has set, you can't see anything. These artificial lights never give you anything. Only by the lights of stars in the can you understand, can you know that something is Here. You can understand that there is deep darkness, and those are signs. If not, you couldn't see anything, and if you couldn't see, that means you couldn't know anything, couldn't understand anything—no understanding, finished. Therefore, in the daytime and at nighttime, you need lights from Heavens to see. Think about it. These artificial lights give nothing to you. If in the daytime there were no sun | and at nighttime no moon or stars, you wouldn't see. And if you didn't see, you could never understand the existence of I anything. ■SJ
I Therefore, Allah Almighty, for His Essence, manifested I on His deputies Divine Attributes that belong to Him. I Those Divine Attributes make you understand the existence I of that One, Huwa. If Allah Almighty did not show or send I information about His Divine Attributes, His Essence would I be unknown. His Divine Essence can be known only acI cording to His Divine Attributes. The Divine Attributes are I lights that make you understand that their lights come from I somewhere.
A candle without wax, a lamp without oil is not going to shine. No; it is dark. When putting wax or oil, those candles or lamps show you something. And Allah Almighty puts some signs of His real Essence that are seen as lights. Those lights signal the existence of Someone who is unknown.
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ie wh° have inherited heavenly knowledge through the Plenty, chosen servants of Allah Almighty, prophets, •4
You may see a lighted candle, nothing more. You can't see how it is in existence or how it gets to be lighted. Those
attributes are indicating, and they are signs, also, of the real existence of the Lord of Creation, the real existence of the Lord of Heavens, the real existence of Allah Almighty-only
and bringing aj‘al, actions. Everything of actions c°. ngS to them. Never-ending, those actions coming from flames that belong to the Divine Attributes, which are of the unknown Essence of the Lord of Heavens.
signs. From those Divine Attributes come His Holy Names,
written on them Names, appearing Names. And we are the first level. Selected or chosen ones, they know the names of lights, as everyone looks at the nighttime skies but they do not all know the names of stars. Only chosen people know
that that is the Pole Star, that is the Bear Star, that is Scorpi on, that is the Bull, Taurus, that is the Scale, that is the Fish,
that is Aries. Only twelve buruj,5 twelve main signs for un derstanding our sky, sama', twelve, dhati-l-buruj.
"Wa-s-
sama'i dhati-l-buruj."6
This is for description. And you do not know, but spe cial people who know about it, only they can tell their names. And the Divine Attributes, also, not everyone knows. Chosen people from among mankind who have a relationship to Heavens, one foot on earth, one foot in
Heavens may understand, may read it, "That is this," and
they can tell us. Therefore, not everyone knows about Di vine Attributes, and they may say "Hayy". That is the di
vine attribute, hayat, life—His divine attribute, Hayy, means alive. They may say the Name to you. The Holy Names have come as a description of the holy Divine Attributes. Those Names are understood by chosen
What we are saying now is that all things, even every atoflVare the actions of those Holy Names of Allah ^nighty. Holy Names are arranging the actions of all Ijiings, of everything that appears here: when it is going to appear and when its period is going to finish, showing the ^1 beginnings of everything and the real point of endings; in which area it is going to happen, at what time they are going to appear.
Therefore, we must know that sometimes—not some times; every time-" Wa kana-l-insanu 'ajula,"7 we want eveI rvthing to be quick. No. It must wait for its time, the beI ginning and ending. When coming to an end, no one will I get it back-no, finished. But man wants everything to be I so quick, and "so quick" can't be. Therefore, the most imI portant sign of servanthood is to be patient: to be with Al lah and His divine Will, not to put our will into it but to fol low His Will. That is real respect for the holy commands of I Allah Alighty. "Be patient," He is saying. He knows when it is going I to finish. He knows when it is going to begin because every I finishing brings a new beginning. Ending and beginning, | leave it to the Lord of Heavens. That is the real sign of serv-
’Constellations, signs of the zodiac. 6 "By the sky, having constellations." (85:1)
7*Mman is ever hasty." (17:11)
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anthood, that you are giving a perfect kind of servanthood to your Lord, to your Creator, Allah Almighty.
Therefore, Islam came to teach people their relationship as servants towards their Lord—as He is the Creator, how our relationship as servants to our Lord is going to be. That is all. All holy books are only bringing that essence, but people have lost it and they are running in nonsensical di rections. They have lost the way, and when they lose the way, they are falling into troubles and problems, and they are punishing themselves through themselves. May Allah forgive me and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad—Fatehal ▲
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Exhausted” A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Uimani-r-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
ft is an Association. We are coming here, asking to be good
That is our goal, and everyone's goal must be that—to be a good servant to his Lord and to be a good one for people on earth. All holy books have come with the same point that I am speaking about now, and the summary of all holy books is what I am saying now: to make people I good servants to their Lord, Almighty Allah, and to do their best for each other. That is all. servants.
But as long as Shaytan is alive and he is not retired, he never gets to be tired and he runs after people to make them enemies to one another. Now people are not looking if they ire from the same nation, from the same religion, from the same beliefs. They are only thinking about themselves, how I they are going to enjoy themselves with their physical deI sires. The entire or main aim for them is to fulfill their physI sal desires, that is all. And they know that fulfilling physiI cal desires is with money, with material things.
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Material things are one thing, but enjoyment is nm material aspect, a material thing—no. A person may I*, billionaire (not with Turkish liras, no; may be a billion^ with dollars, riyals, euros, eeee-euros, pounds), buthenever enjoys himself because so many reasons are making peop]e not to be in pleasure, not to enjoy themselves—so manyrea. sons. What I am saying is that a person may be a trillion, aire—not with Turkish money, with their money-andhe may do everything for his pleasure, but there is some thing that is a reason for his not reaching full pleasure.
A person passed away last week in Turkey. He was a billionaire in dollars, also, and he had every fursa, every chance, to enjoy himself. But there is a bad characteristic of people, a bad characteristic of our egos. What is it? Envy; envy, hasad or being jealous. A man may be a bil lionaire but he sees that there is another person who is also a trillionaire. "Why is he a trillionaire? Why? I think he has more than me. How can I get that person to be taken away? I must think about it. I must prepare some tricks to make that person come down." Each day the borsa, stock market, shows that one's lahwil, exchanges. "His shares are going up, my shares are coming down!" Cursing, cursing; "May Allah take that per son from our line!" So many; it is not only one. So many 4 people I am seeing. That was enough to make that person unhappy, and at nighttime thinking about it, during the daytime always thinking about it. "What is happening to my stocks? .My shares are coming down and his shares... ? What is happening?" ¥
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That is enough. A person is a trillionaire but he is never happy because so many people are in the market, money market, business market, stock market—so many people, finished! Trillions never give any pleasure to that person, finished.
Therefore we are saying, contentment, satisfaction and enjoyment, and pleasure and peace in the hearts is some thing else. It is not a material aspect, and material aspects never bring a person to that point, no. Rather, people think that if they have more money they should reach the top lev el of enjoyment. That is Shaytan's influence on them, fin ished! That is the main aspect for these people now living everywhere on earth, and shaytanic teachings are cheating them and they are never going to be happy and in peace and enjoyment-finished! Maybe a person who has only daily wages gets little money but he is working, he is happy. But billionaires are not happy. Therefore, religions that have come from Heavens1 are teaching people true ways, but people are rejecting them and coming to the wrong way—the wrong way. The Prophet was saying, "Al-qana'at kanzun la yafna."2 "La yafiw,’-to be satisfied with a small amount gives people peace, and it is also a never-ending, never-finishing treas ure. It is a real treasure, qanu'a, to be satisfied within a per son's self with what he has been given or C/ granted,' because C-z there is no meaning in collecting billions or trillions—no meaning, never giving any enjoyment and never giving any benefit to people here or Hereafter. >34
'Meaning the three faiths based on divine revelation through prophets,
Judaism, Christianity and Islam. ^'Contentment is a treasure that is not exhausted." (Hadith)
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That is an important point, but people now have left the real aspects, real goals of their creation. Therefore, we are saying that the best thing is what prophets brought, teach ing people or calling people to be good servants. Run after servanthood, not after dunya! No; try to be a good servant an excellent servant, in the Divine Presence. That gives you contentment and peace. "Ala bi-dhikri-Llahi tatma'ina-lqulub.Allah .Almighty is saying, "Everyone who is with Me, never forgetting Me, keeping Me in his memory, I am giving him refreshment of life, and peace and contentment and enjoyment." They are such happy people. Even though they may wear only one shirt with a sharwal,34 trousers, they are happy—they are happy.
Once our Grandshaykh was in Damascus, Sham ashSharif. I was with him and we were passing through a mar ket. So many people were selling and buying. There was a kaldirim, pedestrian's walkway, on this side, and a person was sitting there He was sitting on the ground, on stone, nothing under him, on the pedestrian walkway. In front of him there was a karton, newspaper or such a thing, on which he had put his wares, what he was selling and buying for his provision,, making a display, like this. And I saw what was on it, also.
If I gave you one hundred dollars or one hundred pounds or one hundred euros, you would not take out of the dustbin those pieces that he was selling. [Laughter.] Old nails, old jilets, razors, and ilac kutusu, medicine boxes;
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then, for coloring shoes, empty bottles of shoe polish, and
oldkeys-so many things. . $eyh Efendi5 was asking, "Nasil ticaret? business going today?" He was sitting like this. Then standing up, saying, "Oh-
ho, excellent, Shaykh, excellent!" [La ugh ter.] "Anyone coming and looking?"
No one could! If Doctor____ were there, he would use one bottle of alcohof to wash his hands because of so many bacteria on them. If I gave you one hundred pounds, you would not take it. Doctor, if I gave him two hundred, he would never take it to take them to the dustbin! "All mi crobes, bacteria; leave it! Put some alcohof on it!"
"What alcohol? I am a tajir, I am a merchant. How is it? Oh, first class!" That person had contentment. Those billionaires, trillionaires, no contentment!
Subhanallahu-l-'Aliyu-l-'Azheem! People are never listen ing to heavenly advice but listening to Shay tan, and Shay tan is never going to make people happy or in contentment. And we are looking, and people are running to kill them
selves, to finish. All jdhd, efforts, are to invent new types of weapons to kill people. And Allah Almighty is saying, Don’tkill, don't kill! Don't injure! Don't do harm." Allah is saying this, and Shaytan is saying, "No, don't listen. Kill,
injure, harm people, so that no peace comes on earth!"
3 "Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured.” (13:28) 4Arabic for shalwar.
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May Allah forgive me and bless you, and give us a good understanding so that we may put a limit on our de sires. Desires are always going, running in front of a person and the person is running after them. And his ajal, his death, is always near him but he is running, wanting to jump over the death-line to reach such nonsensical goals. May Allah give us good understanding so that we may be good for His servanthood and good for mankind, for creatures and for creation. For the honour of the most hon oured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad
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A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Umm-f-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
By the name of Allah, All Mighty, All Merciful, Most Beneficentand Most Munificent. Glory be to Allah! Subhart Allah, Allah! Real sultanate is for Allah only, and He is Sul fa Everything belongs to Him, everything is from His cre ating. He creates, bringing
from unknown worlds and send
ing to other unknown worlds, and those worlds also belong toHim. You have only an appearance in a mirror, or, better than a mirror, we may say the screen of a TV. You may see on the screen of a TV from East to West, from North to South, so many countries, oceans, mountains, jungles, ani mals and unknown areas, different colours of people, and everyone is appearing in his private or special appearance.
You can't find a person exactly like another one. For everyone, Allah Almighty uses two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two ears, one head, one face, and these elements that He uses—eyes, nose, mouth and ears—have countless ap-
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Today, the design, with its countless activities, ac-
pearances. No matter how many people there may be, their noses are going to be different, their eyes are different, their ears are different, their mouths are different, and then yOu see that it is a different face, Allahu Akbar! Do you think that a painter, an artist who paints, may be able to paint more than, we may say, seventy different faces? Seventy different faces, do you think he can paint? It is difficult. Perhaps he may paint seven faces. Then he is going to wonder about the eighth face or to wonder how he can do another painting for ten different faces or more, so difficult. That is the meaning—-that man's capacity, ability, is going to be nothing, but Allah Almighty's Power makes millions and billions of' people not to be alike. Each one is in another shape, form or design. He is al-Musaiowir. That means "Designer". He is the % Designer, and He can make endless, countless designs, Al lahu Akbar! For the Power of Allah Almighty and His ability or capacity to do everything, He is not in need of thinking in order to design, no. You must think and then you can draw, you can make a design, but He, Almighty Allah, does every thing by His Order. What is His Order? To say "Be!" When He orders some thing to be and says "Be!" that must appear. If He says "Don't be!" then everything is going to disappear. And He is the Designer with His unlimited Power. Daily, He de signs the lives of people. However many billions of people are living on earth now, on the world—worldwide conti nents, worldwide oceans, and countless creatures on it—the design of this world today is not the same as it was yester day. No, that design has finished, and today another design has come.
wo^, appearances is not going to be like yesterday's n0, Today's works are just one hundred per cent 2erent. No way to keep something from yesterday as it is no. It has just passed away, and tomorrow there will ■so come another appearance of creation or design on earth is n°18°'n§ *° same as today's, no. Everything has Ranged. And you are seeing on TV so many things pass im going; passing, going; coming and going.
The first time I looked at TV when it first came to Cy prus, some people were looking at that big box and so many things were appearing. And a peasant got up and went to the back and looked to see if anyone was behind it.
"Where is that person? Not inside?"
"Yes, inside."
"But I do not see him." I said, "It is closed."
People thought that someone was inside. Now every one knows that that screen brings so many, countless ap pearances, and when you are turn it off, nothing appears. And, subhanallah, Allah Almighty gives authority to man to use one power, electricity. If that does not run into it, noth ing is going to appear.
But we-we have much more perfection [than any technological invention??]. This TV is a man-made instru ct, and Allah Almighty gives man the capability to use a power from nature, which is electricity. The twenty-first century's technology, its life is with this electricity, that no
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one knows what it is. What is running through these wires they do not know. If they say, "These ions are moving," jf not moving, these technologies never work. This neverending something running in it, that is a secret power that Allah Almighty just granted man to use for his benefit. But Shaytan is making men not to use it for their benefit but instead to use it to harm others. All technology is only used for shaytanic purposes. Everywhere, technology is ;etting more power from electricity to destroy and to kill and to do to harm to people because Shaytan is teaching them, "You must harm people. Don't give your benefit to people but harm them as much as possible." That is the shaytanic way. And Allah Almighty is say ing, "O My servants, try as much as possible to give your best, to do your best in everything." That is the heavenly teaching, but Shaytan is saying, "No, try to do everything to harm people, to destroy everything on earth, not to give peace to people. Make them be in fear!" That is shaytanic, and all religions have come to make people be good serv ants to Allah and good ones to one another. >34
This is the summary of heavenly messages in which the Lord of Heavens is saying, "O My servants whose servant hood I am accepting in My Divine Presence, try to be excel lent servants to Me!" How? What do you think? If a per son is employed by a sultan or a king, do you think that that person does not try to do his best for the sultan or that he never takes any care? He tries to make the sultan or king more pleased with him. &
That is what our intellect says. Then what about for Al lah? To be the servant, obedient servant of a king, those
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le want to continue to do their best for their king or sulr make him pleased with them. I never heard that a does the contrary of that and does his worst, because Ae is does his worst, he is going to be kicked out. "Be the -orstone for his service" is not what our intellect or our ind says to us, never saying that. Rather, our intellect ^ys, "Try to be most obedient and trustworthy in his royal presence." So what about for Allah, who created you? Why areyou not taking care of His servanthood?
Do you think that the twenty-first century's people are obedient servants to their Lord, or even thinking about it? Never! You can find only a handful of people on that way, and others are saying, "I don't care! I don't care about ser vice, about divine service." "What
do
you care about?"
"I care about my teacher who is giving me a Ph.D., Doc tor Shaytan."
Shaytan is becoming "Doctor" now, Ph.D. In the twen ty-first century, Sadanas is becoming "Doctor". Ph.D., Mas ter's, he is giving now. Whoever follows him, he gives them that diploma, that honour, the honour of being his best em ployees, of being his best servants. But really they are not his servants, they are his slaves. Slavery is something and servanthood is something else. Servanthood gives honour to a person, slavery takes away honour. And Shaytan has just made the whole nation of
Muhammad
in the twenty-first century his slaves, and
there is slavery everywhere. What Shaytan is saying they
follow. They never keep any respect for their Creator, the
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Lord of Heavens. What do you think is going to be the ture for these people?
And we are speaking on an important point-that fro^ the beginning of prophethood, prophets' teaching has rested on only two pillars. The first is that they called people to try to be the best servants to their Lord, and the second is that they called people to be good ones to each other and to g|Ve their best to everyone. As much as possible, you must give your best to every creature and you must not harm any. thine.
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That is the shaytanic teaching that is bringing the whole ^rld now to the edge of Hells. O people! You have been ordered to be from mankind! Keep you honour, and your lionour is to be the best servants in the Divine Presence. And when you are the best servants of the Lord of Heavens, blessings come on you, and those blessings give life to this earth and everything on it. But if you do not give your servanthood to your Lord, curses come, and curses give harm to everything on earth. May Allah forgive us!
We are looking at an ant. If you want to kill it, it runs away, afraid of being killed. Without its harming you, you are going to kill it, while He created it and it has a private position in creation.
* through a vil Once Sayyidina Musa && was passing lage. And he entered and found a spring running with such cold and sweet water. He drank and made ablution, and he was so happy to be there and passing through.
Nothing is created for nothing. Everything is created for something, for some purpose. You can't say, "Why was this created?" No. You don't know, but the Creator knows, and therefore He created that.
Everything was green—the land, the meadows. Peo ple's faces were shining; their animals, cattle, were so hap py, so healthy, and they were breathing such clean air. Eve rything was good and he was so happy. And he went on.
People are on the wrong way. They are following shay tanic teachings that say, " As much as possible, harm people, ;ive trouble to them, be trouble makers," because the first troublemaker, who was it?
After a time he was thinking to come and see that vil lage again. And he came and looked. "Where is that vil lage? Have I come to the wrong place? But I know that I came through that same way, and there is no other village in this area. But what has happened? The spring is no longer running; there is no more water here, no more people; and thetrees are dried up and everything is in ruins."
The first troublemaker was Shaytan, Sadanas. When Allah Almighty ordered, "Prosrate to Adam," he said, "No!* making trouble among all the angels. The angels were ashamed of what he did in the Divine Presence, saying "No!" The first troublemaker was Shaytan, and every kind of troublemaker is a shaytan, sadanas.
And he said, "O my Lord, what happened? You know what happened to these people here, where they went, how their village was destroyed."
And Allah Almighty answered, "O Musa, it is the same village. But once there came a person who did not take any
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care of My obedience and servanthood. He came, through, and he drank from this water. "My divine anger and curses came on that person and on the people who welcomed such a person, and I made that spring dry and everything to be dried up. I took away My blessings from them and curses came on them. This is the same village where you were before." And now, what are you saying? People are not taking any care of their Lord's obedience; everyone is running away, everyone is thinking only about their dunya, this life, nothing else. They are not
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s private path and appointed I time, and must appear in its prepared space or place and
must go on it. And when it finishes, a second happening I must take its dawr, turn. Therefore, everything, under heavI
enly control, appears or disappears.
In, out; during units of
’literally, Everything depends upon the time [that Allah] decreed for it.
'‘Divine manifestation.
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time, billions of happenings go in, billions of happenings go
you can't understand anything about darkness be muse darkness means you can't see.
out. But our world is seen as if it was as before, unchanged.. Never, never! It has changed. It changes, also, because it
has been used by this world, something taken and some
thing given. At every time there is a change, and nothing is
going to happen before its time or to be delayed.
"La yastakhiruna sa'ata wa la yastaqdimun"3—everyth^ that we are saying is in this holy verse. It is not only for our ajal* our last moment, last breath; no. It is for everything.
"La yastakhiruna sa'ata wa la yastaqdimun." Nothing is going to get out of its private line that is its destiny. For everything there is a destiny. Must be a beginning,
must be an end, and that beginning,/ la yastakhiruna sa'ata wa la yastaqdimun. You can't reach it beforehand and you can't expect it after its appointed time. That is Allah Almighty's
greatness, that you can't reach to understand anything about, and this that we are speaking about belongs to afal-
Allah, the Essence of Allah Almighty. It is in deep darkness.
No one knows the real being of Allah Almighty's Essence, so that for His Name, in that position, we are saying only "Huwa".
"Huwa" means unknown—unknown.
If there are no
stars in the sky at nighttime, you couldn't understand the
skies or space.
When these lights appear as lights in the
darkness, you understand about that darkness.
Without
3"[And when their term arrives], they will not remain behind an hour nor will they precede [it]. (7:34,10:49,16:61)
'Appointed time, moment of death.
You can see in the daytime by the sun. If no sun, you didn't see anything of the sky, and at nighttime, when the 0 has set, you can't see anything. These artificial lights never give you anything. Only by the lights of stars in the can you understand, can you know that something is Here. You can understand that there is deep darkness, and those are signs. If not, you couldn't see anything, and if you couldn't see, that means you couldn't know anything, couldn't understand anything—no understanding, finished. Therefore, in the daytime and at nighttime, you need lights from Heavens to see. Think about it. These artificial lights give nothing to you. If in the daytime there were no sun | and at nighttime no moon or stars, you wouldn't see. And if you didn't see, you could never understand the existence of I anything. ■SJ
I Therefore, Allah Almighty, for His Essence, manifested I on His deputies Divine Attributes that belong to Him. I Those Divine Attributes make you understand the existence I of that One, Huwa. If Allah Almighty did not show or send I information about His Divine Attributes, His Essence would I be unknown. His Divine Essence can be known only acI cording to His Divine Attributes. The Divine Attributes are I lights that make you understand that their lights come from I somewhere.
A candle without wax, a lamp without oil is not going to shine. No; it is dark. When putting wax or oil, those candles or lamps show you something. And Allah Almighty puts some signs of His real Essence that are seen as lights. Those lights signal the existence of Someone who is unknown.
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ie wh° have inherited heavenly knowledge through the Plenty, chosen servants of Allah Almighty, prophets, •4
You may see a lighted candle, nothing more. You can't see how it is in existence or how it gets to be lighted. Those
attributes are indicating, and they are signs, also, of the real existence of the Lord of Creation, the real existence of the Lord of Heavens, the real existence of Allah Almighty-only
and bringing aj‘al, actions. Everything of actions c°. ngS to them. Never-ending, those actions coming from flames that belong to the Divine Attributes, which are of the unknown Essence of the Lord of Heavens.
signs. From those Divine Attributes come His Holy Names,
written on them Names, appearing Names. And we are the first level. Selected or chosen ones, they know the names of lights, as everyone looks at the nighttime skies but they do not all know the names of stars. Only chosen people know
that that is the Pole Star, that is the Bear Star, that is Scorpi on, that is the Bull, Taurus, that is the Scale, that is the Fish,
that is Aries. Only twelve buruj,5 twelve main signs for un derstanding our sky, sama', twelve, dhati-l-buruj.
"Wa-s-
sama'i dhati-l-buruj."6
This is for description. And you do not know, but spe cial people who know about it, only they can tell their names. And the Divine Attributes, also, not everyone knows. Chosen people from among mankind who have a relationship to Heavens, one foot on earth, one foot in
Heavens may understand, may read it, "That is this," and
they can tell us. Therefore, not everyone knows about Di vine Attributes, and they may say "Hayy". That is the di
vine attribute, hayat, life—His divine attribute, Hayy, means alive. They may say the Name to you. The Holy Names have come as a description of the holy Divine Attributes. Those Names are understood by chosen
What we are saying now is that all things, even every atoflVare the actions of those Holy Names of Allah ^nighty. Holy Names are arranging the actions of all Ijiings, of everything that appears here: when it is going to appear and when its period is going to finish, showing the ^1 beginnings of everything and the real point of endings; in which area it is going to happen, at what time they are going to appear.
Therefore, we must know that sometimes—not some times; every time-" Wa kana-l-insanu 'ajula,"7 we want eveI rvthing to be quick. No. It must wait for its time, the beI ginning and ending. When coming to an end, no one will I get it back-no, finished. But man wants everything to be I so quick, and "so quick" can't be. Therefore, the most imI portant sign of servanthood is to be patient: to be with Al lah and His divine Will, not to put our will into it but to fol low His Will. That is real respect for the holy commands of I Allah Alighty. "Be patient," He is saying. He knows when it is going I to finish. He knows when it is going to begin because every I finishing brings a new beginning. Ending and beginning, | leave it to the Lord of Heavens. That is the real sign of serv-
’Constellations, signs of the zodiac. 6 "By the sky, having constellations." (85:1)
7*Mman is ever hasty." (17:11)
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anthood, that you are giving a perfect kind of servanthood to your Lord, to your Creator, Allah Almighty.
Therefore, Islam came to teach people their relationship as servants towards their Lord—as He is the Creator, how our relationship as servants to our Lord is going to be. That is all. All holy books are only bringing that essence, but people have lost it and they are running in nonsensical di rections. They have lost the way, and when they lose the way, they are falling into troubles and problems, and they are punishing themselves through themselves. May Allah forgive me and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad—Fatehal ▲
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Exhausted” A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Uimani-r-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
ft is an Association. We are coming here, asking to be good
That is our goal, and everyone's goal must be that—to be a good servant to his Lord and to be a good one for people on earth. All holy books have come with the same point that I am speaking about now, and the summary of all holy books is what I am saying now: to make people I good servants to their Lord, Almighty Allah, and to do their best for each other. That is all. servants.
But as long as Shaytan is alive and he is not retired, he never gets to be tired and he runs after people to make them enemies to one another. Now people are not looking if they ire from the same nation, from the same religion, from the same beliefs. They are only thinking about themselves, how I they are going to enjoy themselves with their physical deI sires. The entire or main aim for them is to fulfill their physI sal desires, that is all. And they know that fulfilling physiI cal desires is with money, with material things.
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Material things are one thing, but enjoyment is nm material aspect, a material thing—no. A person may I*, billionaire (not with Turkish liras, no; may be a billion^ with dollars, riyals, euros, eeee-euros, pounds), buthenever enjoys himself because so many reasons are making peop]e not to be in pleasure, not to enjoy themselves—so manyrea. sons. What I am saying is that a person may be a trillion, aire—not with Turkish money, with their money-andhe may do everything for his pleasure, but there is some thing that is a reason for his not reaching full pleasure.
A person passed away last week in Turkey. He was a billionaire in dollars, also, and he had every fursa, every chance, to enjoy himself. But there is a bad characteristic of people, a bad characteristic of our egos. What is it? Envy; envy, hasad or being jealous. A man may be a bil lionaire but he sees that there is another person who is also a trillionaire. "Why is he a trillionaire? Why? I think he has more than me. How can I get that person to be taken away? I must think about it. I must prepare some tricks to make that person come down." Each day the borsa, stock market, shows that one's lahwil, exchanges. "His shares are going up, my shares are coming down!" Cursing, cursing; "May Allah take that per son from our line!" So many; it is not only one. So many 4 people I am seeing. That was enough to make that person unhappy, and at nighttime thinking about it, during the daytime always thinking about it. "What is happening to my stocks? .My shares are coming down and his shares... ? What is happening?" ¥
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That is enough. A person is a trillionaire but he is never happy because so many people are in the market, money market, business market, stock market—so many people, finished! Trillions never give any pleasure to that person, finished.
Therefore we are saying, contentment, satisfaction and enjoyment, and pleasure and peace in the hearts is some thing else. It is not a material aspect, and material aspects never bring a person to that point, no. Rather, people think that if they have more money they should reach the top lev el of enjoyment. That is Shaytan's influence on them, fin ished! That is the main aspect for these people now living everywhere on earth, and shaytanic teachings are cheating them and they are never going to be happy and in peace and enjoyment-finished! Maybe a person who has only daily wages gets little money but he is working, he is happy. But billionaires are not happy. Therefore, religions that have come from Heavens1 are teaching people true ways, but people are rejecting them and coming to the wrong way—the wrong way. The Prophet was saying, "Al-qana'at kanzun la yafna."2 "La yafiw,’-to be satisfied with a small amount gives people peace, and it is also a never-ending, never-finishing treas ure. It is a real treasure, qanu'a, to be satisfied within a per son's self with what he has been given or C/ granted,' because C-z there is no meaning in collecting billions or trillions—no meaning, never giving any enjoyment and never giving any benefit to people here or Hereafter. >34
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Judaism, Christianity and Islam. ^'Contentment is a treasure that is not exhausted." (Hadith)
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That is an important point, but people now have left the real aspects, real goals of their creation. Therefore, we are saying that the best thing is what prophets brought, teach ing people or calling people to be good servants. Run after servanthood, not after dunya! No; try to be a good servant an excellent servant, in the Divine Presence. That gives you contentment and peace. "Ala bi-dhikri-Llahi tatma'ina-lqulub.Allah .Almighty is saying, "Everyone who is with Me, never forgetting Me, keeping Me in his memory, I am giving him refreshment of life, and peace and contentment and enjoyment." They are such happy people. Even though they may wear only one shirt with a sharwal,34 trousers, they are happy—they are happy.
Once our Grandshaykh was in Damascus, Sham ashSharif. I was with him and we were passing through a mar ket. So many people were selling and buying. There was a kaldirim, pedestrian's walkway, on this side, and a person was sitting there He was sitting on the ground, on stone, nothing under him, on the pedestrian walkway. In front of him there was a karton, newspaper or such a thing, on which he had put his wares, what he was selling and buying for his provision,, making a display, like this. And I saw what was on it, also.
If I gave you one hundred dollars or one hundred pounds or one hundred euros, you would not take out of the dustbin those pieces that he was selling. [Laughter.] Old nails, old jilets, razors, and ilac kutusu, medicine boxes;
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oldkeys-so many things. . $eyh Efendi5 was asking, "Nasil ticaret? business going today?" He was sitting like this. Then standing up, saying, "Oh-
ho, excellent, Shaykh, excellent!" [La ugh ter.] "Anyone coming and looking?"
No one could! If Doctor____ were there, he would use one bottle of alcohof to wash his hands because of so many bacteria on them. If I gave you one hundred pounds, you would not take it. Doctor, if I gave him two hundred, he would never take it to take them to the dustbin! "All mi crobes, bacteria; leave it! Put some alcohof on it!"
"What alcohol? I am a tajir, I am a merchant. How is it? Oh, first class!" That person had contentment. Those billionaires, trillionaires, no contentment!
Subhanallahu-l-'Aliyu-l-'Azheem! People are never listen ing to heavenly advice but listening to Shay tan, and Shay tan is never going to make people happy or in contentment. And we are looking, and people are running to kill them
selves, to finish. All jdhd, efforts, are to invent new types of weapons to kill people. And Allah Almighty is saying, Don’tkill, don't kill! Don't injure! Don't do harm." Allah is saying this, and Shaytan is saying, "No, don't listen. Kill,
injure, harm people, so that no peace comes on earth!"
3 "Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured.” (13:28) 4Arabic for shalwar.
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May Allah forgive me and bless you, and give us a good understanding so that we may put a limit on our de sires. Desires are always going, running in front of a person and the person is running after them. And his ajal, his death, is always near him but he is running, wanting to jump over the death-line to reach such nonsensical goals. May Allah give us good understanding so that we may be good for His servanthood and good for mankind, for creatures and for creation. For the honour of the most hon oured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad
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A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Umm-f-Raheem.
Bismillahi-r-
By the name of Allah, All Mighty, All Merciful, Most Beneficentand Most Munificent. Glory be to Allah! Subhart Allah, Allah! Real sultanate is for Allah only, and He is Sul fa Everything belongs to Him, everything is from His cre ating. He creates, bringing
from unknown worlds and send
ing to other unknown worlds, and those worlds also belong toHim. You have only an appearance in a mirror, or, better than a mirror, we may say the screen of a TV. You may see on the screen of a TV from East to West, from North to South, so many countries, oceans, mountains, jungles, ani mals and unknown areas, different colours of people, and everyone is appearing in his private or special appearance.
You can't find a person exactly like another one. For everyone, Allah Almighty uses two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two ears, one head, one face, and these elements that He uses—eyes, nose, mouth and ears—have countless ap-
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pearances. No matter how many people there may be, their noses are going to be different, their eyes are different, their ears are different, their mouths are different, and then yOu see that it is a different face, Allahu Akbar! Do you think that a painter, an artist who paints, may be able to paint more than, we may say, seventy different faces? Seventy different faces, do you think he can paint? It is difficult. Perhaps he may paint seven faces. Then he is going to wonder about the eighth face or to wonder how he can do another painting for ten different faces or more, so difficult. That is the meaning—-that man's capacity, ability, is going to be nothing, but Allah Almighty's Power makes millions and billions of' people not to be alike. Each one is in another shape, form or design. He is al-Musaiowir. That means "Designer". He is the % Designer, and He can make endless, countless designs, Al lahu Akbar! For the Power of Allah Almighty and His ability or capacity to do everything, He is not in need of thinking in order to design, no. You must think and then you can draw, you can make a design, but He, Almighty Allah, does every thing by His Order. What is His Order? To say "Be!" When He orders some thing to be and says "Be!" that must appear. If He says "Don't be!" then everything is going to disappear. And He is the Designer with His unlimited Power. Daily, He de signs the lives of people. However many billions of people are living on earth now, on the world—worldwide conti nents, worldwide oceans, and countless creatures on it—the design of this world today is not the same as it was yester day. No, that design has finished, and today another design has come.
wo^, appearances is not going to be like yesterday's n0, Today's works are just one hundred per cent 2erent. No way to keep something from yesterday as it is no. It has just passed away, and tomorrow there will ■so come another appearance of creation or design on earth is n°18°'n§ *° same as today's, no. Everything has Ranged. And you are seeing on TV so many things pass im going; passing, going; coming and going.
The first time I looked at TV when it first came to Cy prus, some people were looking at that big box and so many things were appearing. And a peasant got up and went to the back and looked to see if anyone was behind it.
"Where is that person? Not inside?"
"Yes, inside."
"But I do not see him." I said, "It is closed."
People thought that someone was inside. Now every one knows that that screen brings so many, countless ap pearances, and when you are turn it off, nothing appears. And, subhanallah, Allah Almighty gives authority to man to use one power, electricity. If that does not run into it, noth ing is going to appear.
But we-we have much more perfection [than any technological invention??]. This TV is a man-made instru ct, and Allah Almighty gives man the capability to use a power from nature, which is electricity. The twenty-first century's technology, its life is with this electricity, that no
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one knows what it is. What is running through these wires they do not know. If they say, "These ions are moving," jf not moving, these technologies never work. This neverending something running in it, that is a secret power that Allah Almighty just granted man to use for his benefit. But Shaytan is making men not to use it for their benefit but instead to use it to harm others. All technology is only used for shaytanic purposes. Everywhere, technology is ;etting more power from electricity to destroy and to kill and to do to harm to people because Shaytan is teaching them, "You must harm people. Don't give your benefit to people but harm them as much as possible." That is the shaytanic way. And Allah Almighty is say ing, "O My servants, try as much as possible to give your best, to do your best in everything." That is the heavenly teaching, but Shaytan is saying, "No, try to do everything to harm people, to destroy everything on earth, not to give peace to people. Make them be in fear!" That is shaytanic, and all religions have come to make people be good serv ants to Allah and good ones to one another. >34
This is the summary of heavenly messages in which the Lord of Heavens is saying, "O My servants whose servant hood I am accepting in My Divine Presence, try to be excel lent servants to Me!" How? What do you think? If a per son is employed by a sultan or a king, do you think that that person does not try to do his best for the sultan or that he never takes any care? He tries to make the sultan or king more pleased with him. &
That is what our intellect says. Then what about for Al lah? To be the servant, obedient servant of a king, those
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Do you think that the twenty-first century's people are obedient servants to their Lord, or even thinking about it? Never! You can find only a handful of people on that way, and others are saying, "I don't care! I don't care about ser vice, about divine service." "What
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"I care about my teacher who is giving me a Ph.D., Doc tor Shaytan."
Shaytan is becoming "Doctor" now, Ph.D. In the twen ty-first century, Sadanas is becoming "Doctor". Ph.D., Mas ter's, he is giving now. Whoever follows him, he gives them that diploma, that honour, the honour of being his best em ployees, of being his best servants. But really they are not his servants, they are his slaves. Slavery is something and servanthood is something else. Servanthood gives honour to a person, slavery takes away honour. And Shaytan has just made the whole nation of
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there is slavery everywhere. What Shaytan is saying they
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Lord of Heavens. What do you think is going to be the ture for these people?
And we are speaking on an important point-that fro^ the beginning of prophethood, prophets' teaching has rested on only two pillars. The first is that they called people to try to be the best servants to their Lord, and the second is that they called people to be good ones to each other and to g|Ve their best to everyone. As much as possible, you must give your best to every creature and you must not harm any. thine.
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That is the shaytanic teaching that is bringing the whole ^rld now to the edge of Hells. O people! You have been ordered to be from mankind! Keep you honour, and your lionour is to be the best servants in the Divine Presence. And when you are the best servants of the Lord of Heavens, blessings come on you, and those blessings give life to this earth and everything on it. But if you do not give your servanthood to your Lord, curses come, and curses give harm to everything on earth. May Allah forgive us!
We are looking at an ant. If you want to kill it, it runs away, afraid of being killed. Without its harming you, you are going to kill it, while He created it and it has a private position in creation.
* through a vil Once Sayyidina Musa && was passing lage. And he entered and found a spring running with such cold and sweet water. He drank and made ablution, and he was so happy to be there and passing through.
Nothing is created for nothing. Everything is created for something, for some purpose. You can't say, "Why was this created?" No. You don't know, but the Creator knows, and therefore He created that.
Everything was green—the land, the meadows. Peo ple's faces were shining; their animals, cattle, were so hap py, so healthy, and they were breathing such clean air. Eve rything was good and he was so happy. And he went on.
People are on the wrong way. They are following shay tanic teachings that say, " As much as possible, harm people, ;ive trouble to them, be trouble makers," because the first troublemaker, who was it?
After a time he was thinking to come and see that vil lage again. And he came and looked. "Where is that vil lage? Have I come to the wrong place? But I know that I came through that same way, and there is no other village in this area. But what has happened? The spring is no longer running; there is no more water here, no more people; and thetrees are dried up and everything is in ruins."
The first troublemaker was Shaytan, Sadanas. When Allah Almighty ordered, "Prosrate to Adam," he said, "No!* making trouble among all the angels. The angels were ashamed of what he did in the Divine Presence, saying "No!" The first troublemaker was Shaytan, and every kind of troublemaker is a shaytan, sadanas.
And he said, "O my Lord, what happened? You know what happened to these people here, where they went, how their village was destroyed."
And Allah Almighty answered, "O Musa, it is the same village. But once there came a person who did not take any
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care of My obedience and servanthood. He came, through, and he drank from this water. "My divine anger and curses came on that person and on the people who welcomed such a person, and I made that spring dry and everything to be dried up. I took away My blessings from them and curses came on them. This is the same village where you were before." And now, what are you saying? People are not taking any care of their Lord's obedience; everyone is running away, everyone is thinking only about their dunya, this life, nothing else. They are not
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