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taking care of their Lord's obedi ence, they are not taking care to be good servants of Allah Almighty, and therefore curses are coming on them.
Every time you look at this TV, you see explosion, ex plosion, explosion; people dying; earthquakes, floods, storms and fires; and also countless illnesses coming on people. One finishes and another unknown curse comes on them. Therefore, the way for mankind to be saved from heavenly curses and to reach heavenly blessings is that they must say, "Our way now is the wrong way. We must change this wrong way to the right way." Otherwise, all of them are going to finish.
And now there has begun a cleaning. It just began, and everyone who does not take care that their souls are clean should be taken away, not only a few. "Oh-h, ten people died, fifteen people died, a hundred people died."
Leave that! Even millions is not going to be a correct count of the people who are going to die when curses come now. I am runnin to Allah, to His shelter, to be sheltered because billions of people are going to die now-billions, not millions! Out of six, one will remain and five are going
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May Allah forgive us and give us a good understanding heavenly messages. It is also written in the Old Testathe New Testament, the Psalms, and finally in the last Message from Heavens, the Holy Qur'an, telling the same £4 point to people: to be good servants, not to be Shay tan's followers.
May Allah forgive us so we may be in safety! For the honour of the most honoured one in the Divine Presence, SayyidinaMuhammad^—Fateha! A
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% Concerning ‘ Modernized Islam" A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahm ani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyi-l- 'Azheem. Allahumma, alhimna rushdana wa a'idhna min shururi anfusina) May Allah Almighty protect us from the tricks and traps of Shay tan. The biggest danger a for a person is to be heedless because a heedless person may be caught by a trap or may be cheated by the tricks of Shaytan. And we are in need, because Shaytan always wants to cheat us and steal our faith, our iman.
The Seal of the Prophets, the most honoured prophet in the Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammed & was saying that Shaytan has just muqatti'u-l-amal.2 No hope remains with Shaytan that the people living in Mecca and Medina,
idols—finished! But Shaytan is happy if he makes their people do some other bad things besides worshipping idols.4 Even though it is not like worshipping idols, he is happy if he can make people walk on the wrong way, as now people are cheated. The Islamic world is just cheated. Muslims are not say ing, "We are Christians or Jews or some other religion," but they are followers of the Western lifestyle. Shaytan is cheat ing them and insisting that Muslims must try to be "west ernized Muslims." Otherwise, Western people may say to you, "You people are not on our level. Your level is always under our level. You should always be muta'akhir5 You can't be like us, and we represent modern civilization. You will never reach it as long as ..." They do not say, "As long as you are Muslims," but they say, "As long as you do not follow us, you are not going to be on our level."
"What can we do?" our first-class square-headed lead ersanddoctors are asking. "What can we do?"
They are saying, "You must reform, you must examine jour religion because your religion belongs to fourteen cen turies ago, but now we are living fourteen centuries after Sayyidina Muhammed Therefore, you must think about itif you want to come to our level. You must try to leave your religion's principles," and Islam brought some princi ples that are unchangeable. But they are saying,/ "You must
sharafahum Allah Jallahu 'Ala,3 will come back to worshipping Smilar to the Prophet's saying in his last sermon, "O people, Satan des pan of ever being worshipped in this land of yours, but if he is obeyed in ’Our Lord, inspire our guidance and we seek refuge in You from the evil
of our selves.
matters short of that, which you consider of little account, he will be
pleased. So beware of him in your religion." (Muslim, Tirmidhi and Ibn
2Cut off his hope.
Hisham)
3May Allah, exalted be His majesty, honour them [the holy cities].
Mind, backward, underdeveloped.
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change it, you must change it! You must take away Sonie pillars. Pillars that are principles, you must take them awa and then you should be like us, on our level."
Last 'Eid6 in Turkey, in Konya, on the first day of al-Adha, a building eleven stories high, in seconds, all of it came down. How did it happen? They are saying that the first floor was a big gallery, to be used as a showroom or a big store or something like that, and they were renting that place fo a company. That company saw that it was a large area, an eight hundred meter sized place. What did they say? This is something that happened to put in front of the eyes of Muslims what they are doing, subhanallah! "Faqsusil-qasasa la'allahum yatafakkarun,"7 Allah Almighty is saying,
"You must relate some happenings, some events, so that people may think about it." And They are just giving me this to speak to you about.
It was an eight hundred meter hall, and there were so many columns or pillars. The one who was renting it said, "These columns are no good. We must take them away to make a big, big store so that when people come, these col umns will not cause any trouble for looking right and left’ And they took away all the columns that that building was standing on, and suddenly, after that—no pillars, oo-h-h!that big building, eleven stories, came down, eleven stories becoming five, one coming on top of the other.
6One of Islam's two major festivals.
7"So relate the stories, that perhaps they may reflect." (7:176)
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Europeans are saying, "You must leave some things from your religion. Take away some columns, to be mod ernized Muslims, like us. You must take some pillars from it As they came, we shall take them away."
Europeans are saying, "One of the pillars is to pray. Leave it! The second pillar, fasting, no need. Another, zaM’-everyone is working; no need. Hajj9—for what, Hajj? Take a holiday, going and coming. Why are you going to go? That, people's going to Hijaz, it was for a holiday,. And then you should be modernized Muslims. "And instead of what you are saying, 'La ilaha illa-Llah, Mukammadu Rasul-Allah' say, 'Father and Son and Holy Ghost.' Come and say it! We can draw and also paint their imaginary pictures. Look! That is the Father, that is the Son, that is the Holy Ghost. Look! You are saying'Allah'. Where is Allah? Show me Allah! Look, we can show you. Look!*
And our heedless people are saying, "Oh, we'd better look and do like this, like that; like this, like that; like this, like that." And now they are making a drama about Jesus Christ, and the whole world going up and coming down And it is far from Reality, imagination! Those who are goinga to Western countries, their system of education is based on that falsehood. And it is also com ing to the Islamic world, and saying, "You people are still living fifteen centuries earlier. You must change everything, you must be modemized-headed people." And they are taking away the pillars one after another, one after another.
The third pillar of Islam, the prescribed poor-due or charity. The fifth pillar, pilgrimage to Mecca.
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That is Shaytan. Shaytan is saying, I am very cheat people and they become outwardly Muslims." C non. "What are your beliefs?" ■
They may say, "Islam." "What are your prayers?"
"No prayers."' "What is your way? The Islamic way?"
"No, the modem way." "Now you are getting to be like us. If you do not do this, you will always be below our level." This is a big cheating of Shaytan's, and I am sorry to say that the Islamic world is just falling into such a terrible position. They are destroying themselves by themselves!
Everywhere, first in Arab countries, they are enemies to each other, and inside, Shaytan is making them to be shi'ah, so many parties, and to fight each other. Here, there is the Cypriot Turkish government. We are only a handful of people, but they are saying ten parties, fighting each other. And making them worship idols, also.10 >=4
O people, you must be awake! Wake up, 0 Muslims, wake up, because dangerous and very terrible and horrible events are facing you, and you see what is happening in the Islamic world, everywhere killing each other, explosions. If
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I they ^eTe real Muslims or real followers of Islam, Allah I ^Id never send Christians, non-Muslims, on them. Don't I think that non-Muslims can be supporters for you—no!
I Don't be heedless! That heedlessness is bringing every I kind of trouble on Muslims and Muslim countries and the Muslim world. When they are going to put back Islam's pil;arS/ to make its pillars stronger, then they should be shelI Kred by Allah Almighty. If they do not take care, Shay tan Kill take them under that columnless building and the idiole building will come on them, and then they will dis appear. We believe that Islam will be renewed because Allah Almighty promised that to His most beloved one and most honoured servant. He promised, and also gave basharat, good tidings, about the future of Islam. Allah Almighty is saying, "I am the protector of Islam.” I am keeping it, and no one can destroy its structure. What they are doing, they may do. Wa makaru wa makarullah. '12 They are trying to lake Islam away, using every kind of trick and trap, but 1 am keeping Islam because Islam belongs to Me, and I am the Protector, the Shelter. I am sheltering." What is this that soldiers hold?
A shield for Islam.
Everything that comes on the shield never touches real Is1®. "I am the Protector, I am the Guarantor of the Holy Qur'an, I am the Guarantor of Islam. They can't touch it.
No, no! They may do everything but finally it will all come °nthem and they will regret."
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They are destroying themselves, like the Egyptian peopie. They built a big dam to prevent the Nile from running freely, wanting to make it under their control—a big dam, a high dam, sadda-l-'Aliyi. Nil mubarak13 did not say anything. "Doesn't matter, put your barrier on me. I am looking for the holy command of my Lord to take away the high dam and those who built it, and their cities, also—to carry them to the sea, as Allah Almighty carried Pharaoh and his sol diers into the Red Sea."
Leave them! They may do. Their 'dams' are so weak now that they are trying to stop Islam, and the power of Is lam is so great. They are trying to stop it, and Islam is sakin, keeping quiet, never objecting to it. Let them build! Let Eu ropeans, let Christians, let Jewish, let meza kurto14 people do what they can. They may build anything; they are trying to stop Islam. Build! Now there is coming such a power that, if there were not one Christian world but seventy Christian worlds were building, in one minute they should be taken away—whoo-oo!
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! 'alakulluman
Therefore, heedless Muslim people, now they are on the side of Christians, min taraf alChristians??/16 They are looking and claiming that their takabbbar wa tajabbar.™
and their success and their mustaqbalat, future, is to be the Christian world. They should be taken away, with ^Christian world; those people who are running with Eu^ans and non-Muslims and the Christian world, they ^yld be taken away. And a handful people here, on this is saying, "We are not following Christianity, we are pet modernized Muslims. That is only a deceptive word ^tthey are using, 'modernized Muslim.'" "Modernized Muslim"—that means "Christian Mus lim," But the same person can't be Christian and Muslim. Ho, they are lying, and they have been cheated and they are althe same time cheating the Muslim world. But the Lord of Heavens is looking. There is coming such a power that, in a minute, their barriers to prevent Islam from going to Eastand West, to North and South should be taken away.
Don't look at what is happening now. Everything that is happening and that you are seeing is against Muslims. If they were real Muslims, never would such mu'sif, sorrowful, events hap pen. Couldn't be! We must ask forgiveness from Allah and we must come to the safe side, the Islamic side, not to be Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!
cheated.
May Allah forgive me and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad 1-Fatdia/ ▲
,3The blessed Nile. }4"Meza kurto, a Greek word, means "not belonging either to Islam or to
Christianity.
You can't say whether this is a Christian or a Muslim,"
Shaykh Nazim explains.
,5Allah is greater than all who are arrogant and tyrannical. ,6On the side of Christians
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| lion because they feel safety and protection from Allah Al
21 The Source of Pleasure and Peace is CObTTENTMENT A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyi-l- 'Azheem.
We are keeping the way of the Masters, may Allah bless them, and through their blessings His mercy may reach us, also. We are in need of blessings from Allah Almighty, When He is happy with His servant, He sends His blessings on him. If He is not happy with His servant, He does not send His blessings. And if blessings do not come, curses come. When curses come, that person never going to be successful here and Hereafter, and he can't be in safety here or Hereafter.
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Therefore, we have a saying in Islam from our tradiI (jonal knowledge, "Al-kha'inu khaifun. That means that I when a person keeps what he promised to Allah Almighty on the Day of Promises,2 he feels satisfaction within himself, and when satisfaction comes, fear leaves. But those who are I not keeping their promises, kha 'in, they are going to be in fear and they can't feel contentment in their hearts. They are always full of fear. I
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And when fear runs through the heart of a servant, his life is going to be bitter—bitter, no taste. A fearful person may eat something but he can't get pleasure from eating be cause there is fear in him. And those who do not keep their promises in the Divine Presence, fear must be in their hearts and their lives are never going to be safe lives, no. Always they are afraid. He may be a president, he may be a king, he may be a prime minister, he may be the richest one, the big gest businessman, but fear is always hurting him and never letting him taste the pleasure of this life.
Don't say, "No pleasure in this life," no. There is pleas ure here and Hereafter for those who keep their promises and their Lord is pleased with them. When their Lord is pleased with them, their life here should be a peaceful life and they must be in pleasure. A person may even eat only dry bread, may even drink salty water, may even live in a small hut, may even live under a tent, may live in a desert,
Safety is the most important factor in our lives. If a per son is in fear, that means he is not in safety. If a person is in safety, there is going to be satisfaction in his heart and fear can't be. Fear can't be for those people who are in satisfac-
Thedisloyal/false/faithless/treacherous [kha'inujone is afraid/' Miring to 7:172.
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but even if he is in prison, he tastes pleasure. He never to be displeased, even in prison, jail. Sayyidina Jacob's son, Joseph, Sayyidina Yusuf Mu ** dS in prison for so many years, but, because he was pleased with his Lord, Allah Almighty granted him pleasure even though he was in a terrible jail. Sayyidina Yusuf was in prison but he was with Allah, he was with his Lord.3 If you are with your beloved one, with your darling; it is not im portant whether you are in a palace or in a jail because important for a person is that he is with his darling. He wants his darling. "O my darling!" Yes? Eh! If no darling with you, if I put you in Buckingham Palace, you will say, "lam asking for my darling, but she or he is not here. What am I going to do with this palace and its furniture? No!"
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In that moment when there was no clock or any measme for measuring that unit of time, Allah Almighty created oUf grandmother Eve. Then Adam opened his eyes and looked, and he was full of pleasure. He felt that he had just cached the pleasure and satisfaction that he had been want ing. A hundred per cent contentment came to him, and he did not look at any other beauty in Paradise, no. His eyes only went to her, saying "That one, that one, is now filling my heart with pleasure." And he said, "Come!" ►34
And our grandmother said . . . [Body language; laugh ter.] Yes. Paradise was full. Even if there had been nothing of Paradise, his heart was just full of our grandmother's beauty, making him so pleased, so full of pleasure. If they had been in a prison, they would not have cared whether
they were in jail or in a palace.
The first man, our grandfather Adam was in Para dise, and he was going around. Everything, every beauty, was in Paradise, but the Lord knew that he was unhappy, no pleasure in his heart. He was not pleased to be in Para dise. He was looking at palaces, looking at trees, looking at jewels, looking at such beauty in Paradise, but it did not give him full pleasure. Then, for some seconds, even for one second, even for one-third of a second, there came to Adam, from Allah Al mighty, not sleep but being absent from himself. If a person is asleep, he is not in himself, with himself, leaving himself and sleeping. And during a very short time, a kind of sleep came to Adam and then he awoke.
Now, this is a world to which Allah Almighty sent our first grandfather and grandmother. And Adam and Eve were happy, even to be on earth; and this is the world of troubles, the world of problems, the world of evil, the world of devils, but they were happy. In spite of everything that hurts people, they were happy with each other. They felt that now we are in Paradise, real Paradise, because our hearts are just in contentment and full of love, and her beau ty is enough, more than enough, in place of the beauty of all the gardens and palaces of Paradise. Therefore, this is a tamthil, an illustration, to people that ifa person is with his beloved one, he may be anywhere and he should be happy and in pleasure. If he loses his beloved one, if you put him in palaces—not here, even in Paradise — he is not going to take any pleasure. Therefore, Allah Al mighty gives pleasure to His servants here and Hereafter. The pleasure that Allah Almighty's beloved servants are
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finding here makes them be in Paradise here; but those are not happy with their Lord, with their Creator, evejy thing gives them trouble, makes them displeased, and hearts are full of fear. And therefore, there is pleasure in this life, not for those
people who have billions of dollars or pounds or euros. Those millions or billions never give pleasure or make them pleased here. But even if they eat broken and dry bread, they may be like the Companions of Sayyidina Muhammad
who ate only one or two dates in twenty-four hours and
no bread, even dry bread, and they were happy people, they were pleased, and they felt that they were in safety because they were with their beloved one.
O people, try to understand the message, heavenly message. Try to understand the meaning of prophethood. You must try to understand for what prophets came or for what they were sent. Then you should find a new atmos phere. When you go in it, you can be pleased, you can be in pleasure; you should be happy, you should be in peace.
If you understand what was the main purpose of send ing messengers from Heavens to those who are following heavenly people—those who are always connected from earth to Heavens—you will enter a new atmosphere in which you will feel the taste of life with pleasure and with being pleased. If not, there is another atmosphere. If people
uasure of life. Unbelievers, they taste the difficulty and I Httemess of life. They are always in troubles, sufferings
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0people, look again! Your life is going to reach an end. I Before your life comes to an end, see which atmosphere you
I & living in. If you are not happy, that means you are on (he wrong way and in a poisoned atmosphere. Change your atmosphere! At any step you take, if you Kant to change from a bad and poisoned atmosphere to a good atmosphere, you may change, you may find an exit. For reaching the best atmosphere, Allah Almighty makes an exit at every step. In only one step, you can change your itmosphere to a good atmosphere. You should be happy, throughout your life you should be happy! When you leave this temporary life, you should be pleased. When you are buried, you should be pleased. When your soul is taken from you and sent to the Divine Presence, you should be happy.
May Allah bless you and forgive me! For the honour of
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He creates something, He gives to His creatures from His Essence, no. If He gave, He would be like us. We can take, ive can give.
The most difficult thing is to think about His One ness, the Oneness of His varlik, existence. To think about it
‘ ‘Don’t Ponder Over Allah but Ponder Over His Creation” A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyi-l- 'Azheem.
We are nothing. Allah—glory be to Allah!-is Powerful and there is no limit for His power, never giving anything of Himself and never taking anything from Himself.
If He were to give something, that would mean that He can be in pieces,1 He is not something whose existence has pieces, no; He is One. He is One, Number One-among numbers, Number One. If you give something to One, it changes; it is no longer One. If you take something from One, also, One disappears. Therefore, One never accepts to give or to take. His existence, His personality, can't be like any other thing. Impossible!
And from pre-eternity to post-eternity, Allah Al mighty is the Creator. He creates. Don't think that when
is the most difficult. As an example, no matter how much a man may think, he can never understand about the being, the real being, of a female, and also a female can never un derstand about the real being of a male. It is impossible for a man to understand the situation or position of a woman, and also for a woman, it is impossible to understand the real being of a man. If you want a female to understand the sit uation of being a man one hundred per cent, that woman must be a man, or otherwise it is impossible. And a man, if he wants to understand the situation of a woman one hun dred per cent, that one must be a woman.
And this is true for everything. That is a palm tree, never understanding a kayisi, mt§mi§, apricot tree. If under standing, it must be an apricot tree. This an apricot tree, that is another apricot tree, but they are not completely alike, the same, no. This is one, that is another one. Yes. That is a plum tree, that is an apricot tree. A banana tree can't be an avocado. If anyone asks, "Who is 'AbdulKarim?" he must be 'Abdul-Karim to understand who 'Ab dul-Karim is. All things that He created are creations, creatures. For creatures, it is impossible to understand how the Creator is—impossible! To understand the Creator, you must be the Creator, and it is impossible because this universe can't have two Creators, it can have only one Creator.
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What is creation and what are creatures? You may think about that but you aren't able to think about the Crea tor. He is the Creator, creating, and His creation is neverending. Leave off thinking about the Creator. You may think about creation, not creation as a whole but the creation of creatures that are in existence. He is the Creator. He can fill this universe or other universes like this universe. Hun dreds or billions or trillions or quadrillions of times He can create and this space is never going to be full. This is space. If our Lord, the Creator, wants to bring into existence, to create, a universe quadrillions and quadrillions of times this size, this space is never going to be full, "full house." And if He likes, He is able to put all of them, billions and trillions =4
of universes like this universe, into the space of an atom. Don't use your balance2 for Allah, O heedless people! Don't show me icons! People are painting and saying "This is God," ostaghfirulloh! Yes; He may create billions and tril lions and quadrillions and quintillions like this universe and order them to be in an atom's space, Allah Allah! There must come a crack in people's heads if they think about it.3 Don't think! "Tafakkaru fi alai-l-Lah wa la tafakkaru fi dhati-Llah."4 You may think about creatures but not about the Creator. Don't try to think about Him, no. How can you put your mind on that when such a universe, millions and millions, may be in an atom's space? It is easy for the Lord of Heavens to say "Be!" in that space. Finished, and they
ite ready in an atom's space, and no ziham, no crowding. Everyone may freely take their places, and they should be so
happy. They may say, "Oh-h-h, such a big space! Oh-h!" Therefore, think about creation or about all creatures. And He is the Creator. You may look at creatures, and through His creatures you may understand something about their Creator. •54
Therefore, we are saying that He does not give or take even atoms' existence.5 When He creates, He does not tike anything—His creation!—and also He does not give anything. It is only His order, "Be!"—-"Be!" and it is going O
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taking care of their Lord's obedi ence, they are not taking care to be good servants of Allah Almighty, and therefore curses are coming on them.
Every time you look at this TV, you see explosion, ex plosion, explosion; people dying; earthquakes, floods, storms and fires; and also countless illnesses coming on people. One finishes and another unknown curse comes on them. Therefore, the way for mankind to be saved from heavenly curses and to reach heavenly blessings is that they must say, "Our way now is the wrong way. We must change this wrong way to the right way." Otherwise, all of them are going to finish.
And now there has begun a cleaning. It just began, and everyone who does not take care that their souls are clean should be taken away, not only a few. "Oh-h, ten people died, fifteen people died, a hundred people died."
Leave that! Even millions is not going to be a correct count of the people who are going to die when curses come now. I am runnin to Allah, to His shelter, to be sheltered because billions of people are going to die now-billions, not millions! Out of six, one will remain and five are going
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May Allah forgive us and give us a good understanding heavenly messages. It is also written in the Old Testathe New Testament, the Psalms, and finally in the last Message from Heavens, the Holy Qur'an, telling the same £4 point to people: to be good servants, not to be Shay tan's followers.
May Allah forgive us so we may be in safety! For the honour of the most honoured one in the Divine Presence, SayyidinaMuhammad^—Fateha! A
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% Concerning ‘ Modernized Islam" A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahm ani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyi-l- 'Azheem. Allahumma, alhimna rushdana wa a'idhna min shururi anfusina) May Allah Almighty protect us from the tricks and traps of Shay tan. The biggest danger a for a person is to be heedless because a heedless person may be caught by a trap or may be cheated by the tricks of Shaytan. And we are in need, because Shaytan always wants to cheat us and steal our faith, our iman.
The Seal of the Prophets, the most honoured prophet in the Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammed & was saying that Shaytan has just muqatti'u-l-amal.2 No hope remains with Shaytan that the people living in Mecca and Medina,
idols—finished! But Shaytan is happy if he makes their people do some other bad things besides worshipping idols.4 Even though it is not like worshipping idols, he is happy if he can make people walk on the wrong way, as now people are cheated. The Islamic world is just cheated. Muslims are not say ing, "We are Christians or Jews or some other religion," but they are followers of the Western lifestyle. Shaytan is cheat ing them and insisting that Muslims must try to be "west ernized Muslims." Otherwise, Western people may say to you, "You people are not on our level. Your level is always under our level. You should always be muta'akhir5 You can't be like us, and we represent modern civilization. You will never reach it as long as ..." They do not say, "As long as you are Muslims," but they say, "As long as you do not follow us, you are not going to be on our level."
"What can we do?" our first-class square-headed lead ersanddoctors are asking. "What can we do?"
They are saying, "You must reform, you must examine jour religion because your religion belongs to fourteen cen turies ago, but now we are living fourteen centuries after Sayyidina Muhammed Therefore, you must think about itif you want to come to our level. You must try to leave your religion's principles," and Islam brought some princi ples that are unchangeable. But they are saying,/ "You must
sharafahum Allah Jallahu 'Ala,3 will come back to worshipping Smilar to the Prophet's saying in his last sermon, "O people, Satan des pan of ever being worshipped in this land of yours, but if he is obeyed in ’Our Lord, inspire our guidance and we seek refuge in You from the evil
of our selves.
matters short of that, which you consider of little account, he will be
pleased. So beware of him in your religion." (Muslim, Tirmidhi and Ibn
2Cut off his hope.
Hisham)
3May Allah, exalted be His majesty, honour them [the holy cities].
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change it, you must change it! You must take away Sonie pillars. Pillars that are principles, you must take them awa and then you should be like us, on our level."
Last 'Eid6 in Turkey, in Konya, on the first day of al-Adha, a building eleven stories high, in seconds, all of it came down. How did it happen? They are saying that the first floor was a big gallery, to be used as a showroom or a big store or something like that, and they were renting that place fo a company. That company saw that it was a large area, an eight hundred meter sized place. What did they say? This is something that happened to put in front of the eyes of Muslims what they are doing, subhanallah! "Faqsusil-qasasa la'allahum yatafakkarun,"7 Allah Almighty is saying,
"You must relate some happenings, some events, so that people may think about it." And They are just giving me this to speak to you about.
It was an eight hundred meter hall, and there were so many columns or pillars. The one who was renting it said, "These columns are no good. We must take them away to make a big, big store so that when people come, these col umns will not cause any trouble for looking right and left’ And they took away all the columns that that building was standing on, and suddenly, after that—no pillars, oo-h-h!that big building, eleven stories, came down, eleven stories becoming five, one coming on top of the other.
6One of Islam's two major festivals.
7"So relate the stories, that perhaps they may reflect." (7:176)
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Europeans are saying, "You must leave some things from your religion. Take away some columns, to be mod ernized Muslims, like us. You must take some pillars from it As they came, we shall take them away."
Europeans are saying, "One of the pillars is to pray. Leave it! The second pillar, fasting, no need. Another, zaM’-everyone is working; no need. Hajj9—for what, Hajj? Take a holiday, going and coming. Why are you going to go? That, people's going to Hijaz, it was for a holiday,. And then you should be modernized Muslims. "And instead of what you are saying, 'La ilaha illa-Llah, Mukammadu Rasul-Allah' say, 'Father and Son and Holy Ghost.' Come and say it! We can draw and also paint their imaginary pictures. Look! That is the Father, that is the Son, that is the Holy Ghost. Look! You are saying'Allah'. Where is Allah? Show me Allah! Look, we can show you. Look!*
And our heedless people are saying, "Oh, we'd better look and do like this, like that; like this, like that; like this, like that." And now they are making a drama about Jesus Christ, and the whole world going up and coming down And it is far from Reality, imagination! Those who are goinga to Western countries, their system of education is based on that falsehood. And it is also com ing to the Islamic world, and saying, "You people are still living fifteen centuries earlier. You must change everything, you must be modemized-headed people." And they are taking away the pillars one after another, one after another.
The third pillar of Islam, the prescribed poor-due or charity. The fifth pillar, pilgrimage to Mecca.
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That is Shaytan. Shaytan is saying, I am very cheat people and they become outwardly Muslims." C non. "What are your beliefs?" ■
They may say, "Islam." "What are your prayers?"
"No prayers."' "What is your way? The Islamic way?"
"No, the modem way." "Now you are getting to be like us. If you do not do this, you will always be below our level." This is a big cheating of Shaytan's, and I am sorry to say that the Islamic world is just falling into such a terrible position. They are destroying themselves by themselves!
Everywhere, first in Arab countries, they are enemies to each other, and inside, Shaytan is making them to be shi'ah, so many parties, and to fight each other. Here, there is the Cypriot Turkish government. We are only a handful of people, but they are saying ten parties, fighting each other. And making them worship idols, also.10 >=4
O people, you must be awake! Wake up, 0 Muslims, wake up, because dangerous and very terrible and horrible events are facing you, and you see what is happening in the Islamic world, everywhere killing each other, explosions. If
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I they ^eTe real Muslims or real followers of Islam, Allah I ^Id never send Christians, non-Muslims, on them. Don't I think that non-Muslims can be supporters for you—no!
I Don't be heedless! That heedlessness is bringing every I kind of trouble on Muslims and Muslim countries and the Muslim world. When they are going to put back Islam's pil;arS/ to make its pillars stronger, then they should be shelI Kred by Allah Almighty. If they do not take care, Shay tan Kill take them under that columnless building and the idiole building will come on them, and then they will dis appear. We believe that Islam will be renewed because Allah Almighty promised that to His most beloved one and most honoured servant. He promised, and also gave basharat, good tidings, about the future of Islam. Allah Almighty is saying, "I am the protector of Islam.” I am keeping it, and no one can destroy its structure. What they are doing, they may do. Wa makaru wa makarullah. '12 They are trying to lake Islam away, using every kind of trick and trap, but 1 am keeping Islam because Islam belongs to Me, and I am the Protector, the Shelter. I am sheltering." What is this that soldiers hold?
A shield for Islam.
Everything that comes on the shield never touches real Is1®. "I am the Protector, I am the Guarantor of the Holy Qur'an, I am the Guarantor of Islam. They can't touch it.
No, no! They may do everything but finally it will all come °nthem and they will regret."
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They are destroying themselves, like the Egyptian peopie. They built a big dam to prevent the Nile from running freely, wanting to make it under their control—a big dam, a high dam, sadda-l-'Aliyi. Nil mubarak13 did not say anything. "Doesn't matter, put your barrier on me. I am looking for the holy command of my Lord to take away the high dam and those who built it, and their cities, also—to carry them to the sea, as Allah Almighty carried Pharaoh and his sol diers into the Red Sea."
Leave them! They may do. Their 'dams' are so weak now that they are trying to stop Islam, and the power of Is lam is so great. They are trying to stop it, and Islam is sakin, keeping quiet, never objecting to it. Let them build! Let Eu ropeans, let Christians, let Jewish, let meza kurto14 people do what they can. They may build anything; they are trying to stop Islam. Build! Now there is coming such a power that, if there were not one Christian world but seventy Christian worlds were building, in one minute they should be taken away—whoo-oo!
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! 'alakulluman
Therefore, heedless Muslim people, now they are on the side of Christians, min taraf alChristians??/16 They are looking and claiming that their takabbbar wa tajabbar.™
and their success and their mustaqbalat, future, is to be the Christian world. They should be taken away, with ^Christian world; those people who are running with Eu^ans and non-Muslims and the Christian world, they ^yld be taken away. And a handful people here, on this is saying, "We are not following Christianity, we are pet modernized Muslims. That is only a deceptive word ^tthey are using, 'modernized Muslim.'" "Modernized Muslim"—that means "Christian Mus lim," But the same person can't be Christian and Muslim. Ho, they are lying, and they have been cheated and they are althe same time cheating the Muslim world. But the Lord of Heavens is looking. There is coming such a power that, in a minute, their barriers to prevent Islam from going to Eastand West, to North and South should be taken away.
Don't look at what is happening now. Everything that is happening and that you are seeing is against Muslims. If they were real Muslims, never would such mu'sif, sorrowful, events hap pen. Couldn't be! We must ask forgiveness from Allah and we must come to the safe side, the Islamic side, not to be Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!
cheated.
May Allah forgive me and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad 1-Fatdia/ ▲
,3The blessed Nile. }4"Meza kurto, a Greek word, means "not belonging either to Islam or to
Christianity.
You can't say whether this is a Christian or a Muslim,"
Shaykh Nazim explains.
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21 The Source of Pleasure and Peace is CObTTENTMENT A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyi-l- 'Azheem.
We are keeping the way of the Masters, may Allah bless them, and through their blessings His mercy may reach us, also. We are in need of blessings from Allah Almighty, When He is happy with His servant, He sends His blessings on him. If He is not happy with His servant, He does not send His blessings. And if blessings do not come, curses come. When curses come, that person never going to be successful here and Hereafter, and he can't be in safety here or Hereafter.
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Therefore, we have a saying in Islam from our tradiI (jonal knowledge, "Al-kha'inu khaifun. That means that I when a person keeps what he promised to Allah Almighty on the Day of Promises,2 he feels satisfaction within himself, and when satisfaction comes, fear leaves. But those who are I not keeping their promises, kha 'in, they are going to be in fear and they can't feel contentment in their hearts. They are always full of fear. I
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And when fear runs through the heart of a servant, his life is going to be bitter—bitter, no taste. A fearful person may eat something but he can't get pleasure from eating be cause there is fear in him. And those who do not keep their promises in the Divine Presence, fear must be in their hearts and their lives are never going to be safe lives, no. Always they are afraid. He may be a president, he may be a king, he may be a prime minister, he may be the richest one, the big gest businessman, but fear is always hurting him and never letting him taste the pleasure of this life.
Don't say, "No pleasure in this life," no. There is pleas ure here and Hereafter for those who keep their promises and their Lord is pleased with them. When their Lord is pleased with them, their life here should be a peaceful life and they must be in pleasure. A person may even eat only dry bread, may even drink salty water, may even live in a small hut, may even live under a tent, may live in a desert,
Safety is the most important factor in our lives. If a per son is in fear, that means he is not in safety. If a person is in safety, there is going to be satisfaction in his heart and fear can't be. Fear can't be for those people who are in satisfac-
Thedisloyal/false/faithless/treacherous [kha'inujone is afraid/' Miring to 7:172.
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but even if he is in prison, he tastes pleasure. He never to be displeased, even in prison, jail. Sayyidina Jacob's son, Joseph, Sayyidina Yusuf Mu ** dS in prison for so many years, but, because he was pleased with his Lord, Allah Almighty granted him pleasure even though he was in a terrible jail. Sayyidina Yusuf was in prison but he was with Allah, he was with his Lord.3 If you are with your beloved one, with your darling; it is not im portant whether you are in a palace or in a jail because important for a person is that he is with his darling. He wants his darling. "O my darling!" Yes? Eh! If no darling with you, if I put you in Buckingham Palace, you will say, "lam asking for my darling, but she or he is not here. What am I going to do with this palace and its furniture? No!"
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In that moment when there was no clock or any measme for measuring that unit of time, Allah Almighty created oUf grandmother Eve. Then Adam opened his eyes and looked, and he was full of pleasure. He felt that he had just cached the pleasure and satisfaction that he had been want ing. A hundred per cent contentment came to him, and he did not look at any other beauty in Paradise, no. His eyes only went to her, saying "That one, that one, is now filling my heart with pleasure." And he said, "Come!" ►34
And our grandmother said . . . [Body language; laugh ter.] Yes. Paradise was full. Even if there had been nothing of Paradise, his heart was just full of our grandmother's beauty, making him so pleased, so full of pleasure. If they had been in a prison, they would not have cared whether
they were in jail or in a palace.
The first man, our grandfather Adam was in Para dise, and he was going around. Everything, every beauty, was in Paradise, but the Lord knew that he was unhappy, no pleasure in his heart. He was not pleased to be in Para dise. He was looking at palaces, looking at trees, looking at jewels, looking at such beauty in Paradise, but it did not give him full pleasure. Then, for some seconds, even for one second, even for one-third of a second, there came to Adam, from Allah Al mighty, not sleep but being absent from himself. If a person is asleep, he is not in himself, with himself, leaving himself and sleeping. And during a very short time, a kind of sleep came to Adam and then he awoke.
Now, this is a world to which Allah Almighty sent our first grandfather and grandmother. And Adam and Eve were happy, even to be on earth; and this is the world of troubles, the world of problems, the world of evil, the world of devils, but they were happy. In spite of everything that hurts people, they were happy with each other. They felt that now we are in Paradise, real Paradise, because our hearts are just in contentment and full of love, and her beau ty is enough, more than enough, in place of the beauty of all the gardens and palaces of Paradise. Therefore, this is a tamthil, an illustration, to people that ifa person is with his beloved one, he may be anywhere and he should be happy and in pleasure. If he loses his beloved one, if you put him in palaces—not here, even in Paradise — he is not going to take any pleasure. Therefore, Allah Al mighty gives pleasure to His servants here and Hereafter. The pleasure that Allah Almighty's beloved servants are
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finding here makes them be in Paradise here; but those are not happy with their Lord, with their Creator, evejy thing gives them trouble, makes them displeased, and hearts are full of fear. And therefore, there is pleasure in this life, not for those
people who have billions of dollars or pounds or euros. Those millions or billions never give pleasure or make them pleased here. But even if they eat broken and dry bread, they may be like the Companions of Sayyidina Muhammad
who ate only one or two dates in twenty-four hours and
no bread, even dry bread, and they were happy people, they were pleased, and they felt that they were in safety because they were with their beloved one.
O people, try to understand the message, heavenly message. Try to understand the meaning of prophethood. You must try to understand for what prophets came or for what they were sent. Then you should find a new atmos phere. When you go in it, you can be pleased, you can be in pleasure; you should be happy, you should be in peace.
If you understand what was the main purpose of send ing messengers from Heavens to those who are following heavenly people—those who are always connected from earth to Heavens—you will enter a new atmosphere in which you will feel the taste of life with pleasure and with being pleased. If not, there is another atmosphere. If people
uasure of life. Unbelievers, they taste the difficulty and I Httemess of life. They are always in troubles, sufferings
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I & living in. If you are not happy, that means you are on (he wrong way and in a poisoned atmosphere. Change your atmosphere! At any step you take, if you Kant to change from a bad and poisoned atmosphere to a good atmosphere, you may change, you may find an exit. For reaching the best atmosphere, Allah Almighty makes an exit at every step. In only one step, you can change your itmosphere to a good atmosphere. You should be happy, throughout your life you should be happy! When you leave this temporary life, you should be pleased. When you are buried, you should be pleased. When your soul is taken from you and sent to the Divine Presence, you should be happy.
May Allah bless you and forgive me! For the honour of
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He creates something, He gives to His creatures from His Essence, no. If He gave, He would be like us. We can take, ive can give.
The most difficult thing is to think about His One ness, the Oneness of His varlik, existence. To think about it
‘ ‘Don’t Ponder Over Allah but Ponder Over His Creation” A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-l'Aliyi-l- 'Azheem.
We are nothing. Allah—glory be to Allah!-is Powerful and there is no limit for His power, never giving anything of Himself and never taking anything from Himself.
If He were to give something, that would mean that He can be in pieces,1 He is not something whose existence has pieces, no; He is One. He is One, Number One-among numbers, Number One. If you give something to One, it changes; it is no longer One. If you take something from One, also, One disappears. Therefore, One never accepts to give or to take. His existence, His personality, can't be like any other thing. Impossible!
And from pre-eternity to post-eternity, Allah Al mighty is the Creator. He creates. Don't think that when
is the most difficult. As an example, no matter how much a man may think, he can never understand about the being, the real being, of a female, and also a female can never un derstand about the real being of a male. It is impossible for a man to understand the situation or position of a woman, and also for a woman, it is impossible to understand the real being of a man. If you want a female to understand the sit uation of being a man one hundred per cent, that woman must be a man, or otherwise it is impossible. And a man, if he wants to understand the situation of a woman one hun dred per cent, that one must be a woman.
And this is true for everything. That is a palm tree, never understanding a kayisi, mt§mi§, apricot tree. If under standing, it must be an apricot tree. This an apricot tree, that is another apricot tree, but they are not completely alike, the same, no. This is one, that is another one. Yes. That is a plum tree, that is an apricot tree. A banana tree can't be an avocado. If anyone asks, "Who is 'AbdulKarim?" he must be 'Abdul-Karim to understand who 'Ab dul-Karim is. All things that He created are creations, creatures. For creatures, it is impossible to understand how the Creator is—impossible! To understand the Creator, you must be the Creator, and it is impossible because this universe can't have two Creators, it can have only one Creator.
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What is creation and what are creatures? You may think about that but you aren't able to think about the Crea tor. He is the Creator, creating, and His creation is neverending. Leave off thinking about the Creator. You may think about creation, not creation as a whole but the creation of creatures that are in existence. He is the Creator. He can fill this universe or other universes like this universe. Hun dreds or billions or trillions or quadrillions of times He can create and this space is never going to be full. This is space. If our Lord, the Creator, wants to bring into existence, to create, a universe quadrillions and quadrillions of times this size, this space is never going to be full, "full house." And if He likes, He is able to put all of them, billions and trillions =4
of universes like this universe, into the space of an atom. Don't use your balance2 for Allah, O heedless people! Don't show me icons! People are painting and saying "This is God," ostaghfirulloh! Yes; He may create billions and tril lions and quadrillions and quintillions like this universe and order them to be in an atom's space, Allah Allah! There must come a crack in people's heads if they think about it.3 Don't think! "Tafakkaru fi alai-l-Lah wa la tafakkaru fi dhati-Llah."4 You may think about creatures but not about the Creator. Don't try to think about Him, no. How can you put your mind on that when such a universe, millions and millions, may be in an atom's space? It is easy for the Lord of Heavens to say "Be!" in that space. Finished, and they
ite ready in an atom's space, and no ziham, no crowding. Everyone may freely take their places, and they should be so
happy. They may say, "Oh-h-h, such a big space! Oh-h!" Therefore, think about creation or about all creatures. And He is the Creator. You may look at creatures, and through His creatures you may understand something about their Creator. •54
Therefore, we are saying that He does not give or take even atoms' existence.5 When He creates, He does not tike anything—His creation!—and also He does not give anything. It is only His order, "Be!"—-"Be!" and it is going O
to be, to appear and to take its place in that are
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