We Have honored the Children of Adam (Shaykh Nazim, 110 pages, 9/10)
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a, and to say, Tam here, Omy Lord. Glory be to my Lord!" Everything is glorifying Allah. Such countless uni verses and creatures, all of them are calling out, shouting and saying "Glory be to our Lord!" They are shouting, they are shouting their praise! •54
It is only an order. An order is not a material thing. Your mind is never going to understand how that order is, how that order brings billions, trillions, quadrillions of units of space, universes, into being.
Your imagination can never reach it—impossible! And everything that you think about to understand our Lord's order and command, His saying "Be!"—that is all imagination and Reality is beyond that. Therefore, you can't understand ‘alamu-l-amr.6 His dominion of power or the
2Measure, scale. 3That is, people's brains will crack from the futile effort of thinking and
trying to understand Allah's Essence, Power, Knowledge, skill and His
’Neither putting anything of His Essence into creatures nor taking any
thing of them into Himself, but simply creating by the divine word of
divine workings.
command, "Be!"
4"Think about Allah's favors/blessings/benefits but don't think about Al ‘The sphere or domain of Command.
lah's Essence."
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dominions of His Power Oceans are impossible to be under stood. You can never move more than an atom's distance.. You aren't able. You understand? Our souls can understand, and whatever thing our Masters are saying, don't think that they are addressing your physical being. Physical being under stands nothing, but They are aiming at our spirituality, and our souls are swimming in those unknown Power Oceans' dominions.
That is our limit, and beyond that limit you can't reach. Even your imagination can't reach past that limit. Each time you move towards real Power Oceans' domin ions, you should find yourself moving with that atom as a vessel moves through an ocean. Although it cuts distances, it is always in that Ocean because you are in a ship, and that ship is always moving through those countless Power Oceans' dominions. No matter how much you may move, you can't reach beyond that ship, always in it. It is impossi ble to leave that ship and enter into Power Oceans' domin ions.
This is addressed to the 21st century's people who think that they have reached the top limit of understanding of this world and they want to reach beyond this planet They are never satisfied now to be only on this planet. They have some deep desires, strongly wanting to move beyond this planet, to know what is there, but they can't reach. By themselves, they can reach from one distance to another on ly on this planet.
point of zero, no more existence in this universe. They want io move and to understand, but they can only use this plan et, and they can look at where this planet is going. But they can't see; they can't see because materiality never lets man kind move from this planet to beyond this kehke$an,7 galaxy. You must try to reach another distance while you are
on this planet. If this planet were to move beyond the solar system, then the solar system would move beyond our gal axy, and when leaving this galaxy, you would look and see billionsand billions of galaxies.
How can they reach the end of galaxies? That means that it is impossible to reach beyond our imagination. All of them remain in our imagination. And Reality is the same as that wali, saint was saying: "Allah Almighty, Allah—He is Allah. Hua al-an kama kan. "8 The Lord of Heavens, He is as He was from pre-etemity up to post-eternity, and you can't find a way to reach that manzar9 view—to reach beyond this creation and look.
You can't cut that distance to reach the end of crea tion and see who is Allah. It is impossible. But this desire, deep desire, teaches men to ask for what is beyond their lev el and to move through countless distances, through count less levels, through countless horizons, to find the last horizonand to reach Reality. And it is impossible.
Therefore, now, mankind are falling into trouble be cause they are not thinking about such huge subjects, and they are coming, turning to themselves. They should find
K4 Milky Way.
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everything within themselves, but they are running to find everything outside of their existence. And it is impossible.
Your existence is not a real existence. You must turn back to the One who gives you that existence by His com mand and makes you appear in an atmosphere whose ends you can't reach because it is also swimming in the countless Power Oceans of divine dominions.
deputies and created to be, on behalf of their Lord,
patrons earth, gives us countless pleasure. If those dominions Fere to be in limits, men would disappear or finish under die darkness of sadness. They would never taste anything, the Lord of the Heavens has countless dominions of IRiver Oceans, as well as countless dominions of His Divine ^tributes.
May Allah
^pleasure here and Hereafter. For the honour of the ^honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Mu^ad^-Fateha! ▲
May Allah forgive us and make us think about such high matters, and leave useless things, not wasting our val uable lives that we have been granted as a chance from Him to think about it and to move into those areas that no one is going to understand. But their understanding is constantly continuing from their distance, and then they should be happy with that movement, through their creation, from level to level. "La-tarkabunna tabaqan 'an tabaq. "10
You should reach, through your creation, from one horizon to another, from that horizon to another,11 and your pleasure, your lights, are going to be more and more and more. You should be with your Lord's Divine Presence as it is appointed for you even through an atom's space.
The dominions of the Lord of the Heavens are, alhamdulillah, we are saying, unlimited. If they were within limits, men would always be in sadness because one day that would finish; but real pleasure for mankind, who are
l0~You will surely travel from level to level.” (84:19) 1l”We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it
becomes clear to them that it is the truth.” (41:53)
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amount or qadr2 of that grant, but you must see from
25 The Greatness of the GrantofOur Creation A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lohi-l'A liyi-l- 'Azheem.
By the name of Allah, All-Mighty, All-Merciful, Most Benef icent and Most Munificent, the Creator, giving all things their creation. If He does not give them creation, nothing is going to appear in existence. From the smallest particle of matter, its existence is a grant from the Creator. Its creation is a grant, a grant whose greatness you can't imagine. If the imaginations of all people came together, they wouldn't be able to imagine it.
whom it is coming to you.
The sultan may send one cent, one piastre, one pence,
one penny to you. If you have perfect understanding, you are not going to look at what has been sent to you, but you must be happy because it is a grant from Allah Almighty to you, and you must make its value like the value of a Paradise, if you were to be granted a Paradise. Because we are always naqsan, imperfect, imperfec
tion in mankind makes man look at the size or look at the value, miqdar, the amount of the grant. That is imperfection in man. Perfect people never look at that gift and its amount, but they see from whom it is coming. From Allah Almighty it is coming, and the receiver should be so happy. That is perfection in a person, to see from whom that grant is coming to me. Allah Allah, Allah Allah! It is not the same, if some person gives you an orange, as a sultan's giv ing you an orange. No; can't be. It is the same — one orange, one orange - but its value is according to who sent it to you, from whom it is coming to you.
An orange is coming to you from the Lord of Heavens, or I may give one to you. I am putting boxes there. If any one comes, I give everyone oranges, but because I am noth
The greatness of that grant is according to the great ness of the Creator, not looking at the smallness of creatures, no. "Al-hadiya bi-miqdar muhdiya."} You must not look at that gift, that grant. It may be just an atom. Don't look at
ing it has no value. But He is our Lord. If He sends it, its value is another thing. The same orange that was sent by
’The gift corresponds to the measure of the giver.
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IheLord, by the sultan, its value is so high, but if an orange
comes from a common person, its value is something else.
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We, mankind, are heedless creatures, not thinking
I was in Turkey in 1940, sixty-four or sixty-five years ago. I went to a shop where they sold some drinks, old-style (at that time, no Coca-Cola, Such-a-Ma-Cola). I saw in that shop a glass, written on it—now there are people making his statue and worshipping him—that once he3 came there and drank a drink from that glass. Therefore, they put that glass on a golden maq'ad, pedestal. And I was surprised. That was an ordinary glass but it was valuable among people be cause that one had drunk from it, giving such value to that glass, and they were eagerly trying to keep it, to protect it.
^ut our Creator. Particularly in our time, we are the most ^jess ones in all historical periods. From the beginning I to today, there has not been any nation, any people, like
ones living now because they never give any time to think about their existence and to say, "Thanks be to our fieator, Allah, the Lord of Heavens!"
They are such heedless ones! From the beginning up to today, every nation took a little bit or more or the utmost cjre to give their highest respects and highest glorifying to lheir Lord. But in the twentieth century, and now in the ^enty-first century, people are so far from thinking about it They are such heedless, such ignorant ones, and such dark-hearted people. Perhaps their levels are going to be below the levels of rocks.
Therefore, anything coming from the sultan is valua ble, and, according to the sultan's rank, it becomes more valuable. A big sultan's grant is more valuable. Something may be given by a high-titled person, but a king's grant is something else.
Rocks know, and they say, "Subhanallah, glory be to Allah!" but people living in the twenty-first century do not say this. They do not take any take care or say, "Thanks be Io our Lord, glory be to our Lord! And this existence is a grant from the Lord of Heavens to us, and our being is the most perfect in creation among creatures."
Creation is a grant from the Lord of Heavens. Even if that creature is only one atom, it can't be in existence by itself. Creation causes things to come into existence. There fore, existence is really a grant from the Creator. All things know this and they are glorifying, and their glorifying never stops. "Wa in min shayin ilia yusabbihu bi-hamdih."4 All things are glorifying Allah Almighty be cause He granted them to be in existence, and existence can't be given by anyone except Him. Only He grants it And they know this and they give their highest glorifying to their Creator, Allah Almighty.
They do not even think about it. They are running after computers, they are asking to leave their abilities, to be mu'fltal.5 They are trying to make every ability that Allah granted them not to work, and they are trying to make some instruments to give every ability, which is a big grant to mankind from Allah Almighty, computers, Internet, FAX.
3Kemal Ataturk.
4 "And there is not a thing except it exalts [its Lord] with His praise." (17:44)
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"We have so many computers! We can count how many galaxies, how many stars, how many suns, how much distance." They are all lying; it is all imagination! "Wal^n shubihi lahumhalouhu; "6 they are imagining. They are frying to make themselves only for their egos, to feed their don keys. They do not want to give their donkeys straw, instead, they are trying to give them baklava.
Baklava, you know baklava?—a sweet, that famous sweet coming from Aleppo, from Beirut, from Damascus, from Egypt. But if you bring and put in front of a donkey a sini, tray, full of the best sweets and also put there straw, the donkey will come and look [laughter], never eating the sweets but eating the straw. And particularly for old don keys that have no more teeth for straw, their owners are making soup from straw and ground barley and a little bit of flour, and putting it. If you put good kebap here [laugh ter], it will come and drink that soup, very happy!
Now people, the twenty-first century's people, are feeding their donkeys with soup, never tasting from this best, best food. Therefore, the twenty-first century people's level is going to be below the level of animals. Animals do not change their nature. They do not eat sweets but they want to drink soup of barley with water, without cooking, even. If you put salt, also, they should be very happy.7
"It was made to appear so to them." (4:157) 7Herez Maulana adds facetiously: "If you want to come to look, it may
Yes, sir. These people, the twenty-first century's people, are foolish ones. There is a university. University students have no money, no food, no place to sleep, and they are coming to leam at the university. And I am saying, What are you doing? Finally, if you finish, what yOu are going to get?"
The university should give them a black hat and fi nally a paper, saying, "This is a diploma for you. Take it! you learned something." I am asking, "What did you learn?" He is saying, "Nothing," putting on the hat and taking a photograph.
"Do you know Allah?" "No"
"No rights for Allah?" "No." "Do you know what are the rights of people?" "No."
"What is the aim and goal of mankind?"
you cornel They think that you are coming to be a partner with them, to
share, and then they kick you."
kick you with two legs because you are rahatsiz ediyor, disturbing it when
it is drinking and you comr. Two legs—trak! I heard that it was written
Turkish expression, meaning approximately "See here!"
in a newspaper that a person disturbed his donkey, and the donkey bit his hand and broke three bones.
Very angry when they are eating and
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Knowing nothing. "What is the benefit of this world, this universe? From where did it begin, where will it end?" Not knowing. "And who is its Owner?" ►=4
If you ask, he will say, "We don't know."
May Allah forgive us! O people, give more glory! Glorify your Lord, Almighty Allah! He is not in need of your glorifying but you are in need. You must give high re spect, the highest respect, to your Lord, to make Him pleased with you that He granted you to be in existencethe biggest, biggest grant from Allah Almighty because His ►=4
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kingdom is endless, His dominions are countless, His Power Oceans are without end. Try to gain His pleasure, to say to you, "O My servant, come! I am accepting you for My di vine service in My Divine Presence. I am accepting you. Come!"
Where are these people going? The twenty-first cen ► -<
tury's people are the most heedless people, most ignorant people. May Allah take that ignorance away, because igno rant ones are in darkness, and whoever is in darkness is full of fear, and if a person is full of fear, he or she is never going to taste the good and pleasure and peace of this life or after
I A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rI Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-lI AHyi-l-1Azheem.
Il is an Association. Allah Almighaty addressed the Seal of Prophets, the most honoured servant in the Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad From the Heavens, the Holy Qur'an came to his heart and the divine addressing came through him to his nation. Allah Almighty addressed him for his nation and for all mankind in his time and up to the Last Day, the Day of Judgment, Resurrection Day, and he spoke in His words to all mankind. ► ^4
this life. May Allah forgive us and bless you! For the honour
of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina
Muhammad %—Fateha! ▲
A sultan addresses one person with his royal com mand, royal order or royal rules. He tells the grand wazir, and the grand wazir tells it to all the citizens of the sultanate. There is no need for the sultan to call everyone and to speak Io them one by one; no. One person is enough; from one to all. If that one is not there, then it can't be. The sultan is never going to address anyone individuallybecause his posi-
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tion is not suitable for coming to the level of his citizens and to speaking to them; no. Therefore, sultans kept to themselves, not going among common people, because they had a glory and greatness that belonged only to themselves. If coming to the level of common people, they would lose their greatness and glory. Common people would say, "Oh, this one is also like us. Why? What is his position, to be over us, and why are we under his command? Why are we bowing to him?"
You are not bowing to the sultan but you are bowing to the position, to his royal existence. You are not bowing to that man, but what he represents, you are bowing to that. He represents the real Royal One, he represents the Lord of Heavens, His representative. Therefore, ignorant people were saying to each one of the prophets, and saying to the Last Prophet, also, "Oh, that one is like us. He goes through the streets, through the markets;1 he does what we do. How can he be above our rank?" They did not look at what that Last Prophet repre sented, the rank in which the Lord of Heavens had dressed him of His greatness and glory. You must prostrate to him, s as when Allah Almighty created Adam and ordered all the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," and the angels immediate ly prostrated. They understood the rank in which Allah Almighty had dressed Adam and they knew that he had been dressed in Allah Almighty's glory. They looked, saw, and quickly ran and prostrated. They never looked at his physical being, no. ■Si
"Adam, I created him. I am that One who created
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Adam with My Hands."2 That must be well-known. Minong all creation, Allah Almighty never gave that honour of making a being by His Divine Hands except to the father 0(mankind. Angels, no. Angels were created by His order, Allah created Adam's being by His Divine Hands. That is glory, and that was only given to Adam. And afterwards, all his descendants are taking their share of that honour. Angels know that they are created by divine com mand, Allah saying "Be!" and they come into existence. They belong to light worlds, coming from lights, divine lights. In seconds, millions, trillions are coming; no need for
Allah Almighty to make them, their being, with His Divine Hands. That was granted only to Adam. And He dressed him from His glory and put from His divine crown on his head. And the angels were looking when Allah Almighty said, "Prostrate to Adam," immediately falling down and making sajdah, prostrating to him.3
See 234;7:ll-12;15:3O-33; 17:61; 18:50; 20:116; 38:73, 75 for the story of
Allah's command to prostrate to Adam and Satan's rebellion.
Here,
Shaykh Nazim adds: "Sayyidina Yusuf 88M, Joseph, had a dream when
he was a young boy, and in his dream he saw that his twelve brothers, his lather and mother, were prostrating to him. Why?
At that time, that di
vinecrown [of prophethood] was just put on Yusuf's head. Therefore, all the others looked and fell down prostrating to Yusuf
not to his phys-
d being, but he represented the Lord of Heavens' glory. That glory was
psi dressed on turn." The story of the prophet Joseph is narrated in enfety m the twelfth surah. Surah Yusuf, one of the most fascinating chap-
taof the Qur'an. Joseph's dream is mentioned in 12:4, while his parents' [ aibrothers' prostration to him is reported in 12:100.
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Shaytan was looking, also. "Oh! What is this?" ob jecting. And the first rebel against his Lord, the first trouble maker in creation, was Shaytan because he was looking and saying, "Oh! This is just a person created from clay. But I am created from fire, flames of fire!
"Look—flames of fire! How can it be? How it can be for me to prostrate to a creation that is just created from clay?" That was his mentality, "E$ek mantigi, donkey's men tality," we say. He was saying, "I must be the one whois prostrated to. I am above his creation." He was looking at the material being of Adam, and at himself, also, not seeing in what glory Adam had been dressed and the divine crown put on his head. And then he was thrown out.
Therefore, the sultan is that one who is crowned and given glory, and sultans are only a few, selected ones. Like prophets, they were elected and selected and chosen. Prophets were chosen ones, but yet people were objecting and saying, "Why? This person is like us, going, coming, s What is the difference between eating, drinking, marrying. us? Why is he going to be prostrated to and obeyed-for what?" not looking the reason that he was granted that by the Lord of Heavens.
Now people in the twenty-first century, all people, are looking at everyone based on their outward appearance. Shay tan has just made people not to believe in any other as pect, any other title for mankind, and people are saying, "We are all the same."
No! You are all the same in your physical being, but what you represent is not the same. Chosen people, proph ets, were dressed in glory from Heavens, but you are not
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jressed in it. You must look at his position that he is coming ivith, and people have been ordered to be obedient to that
one.
Before, up to the end of the nineteenth century, the line of kings and sultans was continuing, but Shay tan was working to make a false picture, to make kingdoms seem like something not good, and he was trying to take away that line of kings and to teach people, "All of you, you can dress as kings and sultans dressed."
No! They were dressed from Heavens, and even if you could dress in their clothes, you are not like kings or sultans who have been dressed in glory from Heavens. That is the main source of the troubles of mankind in the twentyfirst century, because everyone is trying to show that they are something. "We are kings, we are queens, we are sui tins.'
No. Men can't give honour to a man. It is impossi ble. Honour, real honour, is a grant from the Lord of Heav ens, coming from Heavens, not from people. Don't think that "President" or "Prime Minister" or "Minister" or such titles give a person real honour. No. When you take away their special clothing, they are going to be nothing. When they dress in such clothes, they think they are something. When they are taken from them, they see, "Oh, we are noth ing."
People can't give you a title because those who give you a title expect that one day, maybe we will also be given a title by people. "We must try to get more votes. Bring so many peasants—doesn't matter! They do not need to be educated people. This is democracy! No need for clever ones; no-mind people will do, also. Important is to bring
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"I am the representative of the Lord of Heavens.
thousands and thousands. Even if people don't understand anything, doesn't matter. It is written that, 'Oh-h! One mil lion people voted for that person. This one must be dressed according to his new title.'"
A million people can't give anything to you! A real title is the one that Allah Almighty gives. Shaytan was look ing and asking to be honoured or to be granted that honour. And now people are working on that point.
What we are saying is, "0 people! The honour of mankind, that is important. And Allah Almighty chose one among mankind to be on behalf of Him, Almighty, to ad dress people through a person. And he, the chosen one, is only one."
Allah Almighty is not calling everyone to be granted a book, as ignorant people were saying, "Why was this holy book just given to him? Why is it not coming to us, also?"4
That is their ignorance. Allah called one and clothed him and sent to him, saying, "Tell My commands, My or ders, to My servants. If they accept, I will make everything prostrate to them because they represent Me."
Once the Prophet was going. He met a badu, and he said to him, "O 'abd-ullah, O servant of my Lord, would you like to believe in Allah and in me, and to be Muslim?"
And he said, "Who are you?"
SaY' '^a
dla-Lah, Muhammdu Rasul-
"Have you any evidence?" that badu asked.
And the Prophet said, "I have. O tree, come to me!" Then that tree walked and came in front of the Prophet and ^desajdah to him. Then it stood up, and the Prophet said, "Go back to your place," and it went back and stood there. That badu said, "Now I believe that you are the rep resentative of the Lord of Heavens. I am saying, 'La ilaha illa-Lah, Muhammdu Rasul-Allah. Yes, evidence. There must be evidence. If you have been given an order by Allah Almighty, you must be grant ed such power. Trees were prostrating; animals were com ing and prostrating in front of the Seal of Prophets. Other wise, no. Common people are asking to see such evidence. But those who work through their minds, if reciting one verse, "Alif lam mim,"6 it is enough.
No one can say any thing like this. You can't find it in any book. Haybat, the greatness of the Lord's heavenly Book, heavenly address, in saying "Alif lam mim," makes a man come and prostrate to the one who brought that holy book, holy address. If the Prophet had not been like that, how, for fifteen centuries, would Islam have stood up, in spite of all the shaytans, all
’’lam Muhammad." These Arabic letters occur at the beginning of the second surah of the
Qur'an, and other such letters occur at the beginning of several other su-
nfe. Their meaning is known to Allah Almighty, His Prophet, and the
select among the holy people of Islam.
46:157, 74:52,
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a, and to say, Tam here, Omy Lord. Glory be to my Lord!" Everything is glorifying Allah. Such countless uni verses and creatures, all of them are calling out, shouting and saying "Glory be to our Lord!" They are shouting, they are shouting their praise! •54
It is only an order. An order is not a material thing. Your mind is never going to understand how that order is, how that order brings billions, trillions, quadrillions of units of space, universes, into being.
Your imagination can never reach it—impossible! And everything that you think about to understand our Lord's order and command, His saying "Be!"—that is all imagination and Reality is beyond that. Therefore, you can't understand ‘alamu-l-amr.6 His dominion of power or the
2Measure, scale. 3That is, people's brains will crack from the futile effort of thinking and
trying to understand Allah's Essence, Power, Knowledge, skill and His
’Neither putting anything of His Essence into creatures nor taking any
thing of them into Himself, but simply creating by the divine word of
divine workings.
command, "Be!"
4"Think about Allah's favors/blessings/benefits but don't think about Al ‘The sphere or domain of Command.
lah's Essence."
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dominions of His Power Oceans are impossible to be under stood. You can never move more than an atom's distance.. You aren't able. You understand? Our souls can understand, and whatever thing our Masters are saying, don't think that they are addressing your physical being. Physical being under stands nothing, but They are aiming at our spirituality, and our souls are swimming in those unknown Power Oceans' dominions.
That is our limit, and beyond that limit you can't reach. Even your imagination can't reach past that limit. Each time you move towards real Power Oceans' domin ions, you should find yourself moving with that atom as a vessel moves through an ocean. Although it cuts distances, it is always in that Ocean because you are in a ship, and that ship is always moving through those countless Power Oceans' dominions. No matter how much you may move, you can't reach beyond that ship, always in it. It is impossi ble to leave that ship and enter into Power Oceans' domin ions.
This is addressed to the 21st century's people who think that they have reached the top limit of understanding of this world and they want to reach beyond this planet They are never satisfied now to be only on this planet. They have some deep desires, strongly wanting to move beyond this planet, to know what is there, but they can't reach. By themselves, they can reach from one distance to another on ly on this planet.
point of zero, no more existence in this universe. They want io move and to understand, but they can only use this plan et, and they can look at where this planet is going. But they can't see; they can't see because materiality never lets man kind move from this planet to beyond this kehke$an,7 galaxy. You must try to reach another distance while you are
on this planet. If this planet were to move beyond the solar system, then the solar system would move beyond our gal axy, and when leaving this galaxy, you would look and see billionsand billions of galaxies.
How can they reach the end of galaxies? That means that it is impossible to reach beyond our imagination. All of them remain in our imagination. And Reality is the same as that wali, saint was saying: "Allah Almighty, Allah—He is Allah. Hua al-an kama kan. "8 The Lord of Heavens, He is as He was from pre-etemity up to post-eternity, and you can't find a way to reach that manzar9 view—to reach beyond this creation and look.
You can't cut that distance to reach the end of crea tion and see who is Allah. It is impossible. But this desire, deep desire, teaches men to ask for what is beyond their lev el and to move through countless distances, through count less levels, through countless horizons, to find the last horizonand to reach Reality. And it is impossible.
Therefore, now, mankind are falling into trouble be cause they are not thinking about such huge subjects, and they are coming, turning to themselves. They should find
K4 Milky Way.
They want to move beyond this planet, but they are going to be finished. Their existence is going to be at the
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everything within themselves, but they are running to find everything outside of their existence. And it is impossible.
Your existence is not a real existence. You must turn back to the One who gives you that existence by His com mand and makes you appear in an atmosphere whose ends you can't reach because it is also swimming in the countless Power Oceans of divine dominions.
deputies and created to be, on behalf of their Lord,
patrons earth, gives us countless pleasure. If those dominions Fere to be in limits, men would disappear or finish under die darkness of sadness. They would never taste anything, the Lord of the Heavens has countless dominions of IRiver Oceans, as well as countless dominions of His Divine ^tributes.
May Allah
^pleasure here and Hereafter. For the honour of the ^honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Mu^ad^-Fateha! ▲
May Allah forgive us and make us think about such high matters, and leave useless things, not wasting our val uable lives that we have been granted as a chance from Him to think about it and to move into those areas that no one is going to understand. But their understanding is constantly continuing from their distance, and then they should be happy with that movement, through their creation, from level to level. "La-tarkabunna tabaqan 'an tabaq. "10
You should reach, through your creation, from one horizon to another, from that horizon to another,11 and your pleasure, your lights, are going to be more and more and more. You should be with your Lord's Divine Presence as it is appointed for you even through an atom's space.
The dominions of the Lord of the Heavens are, alhamdulillah, we are saying, unlimited. If they were within limits, men would always be in sadness because one day that would finish; but real pleasure for mankind, who are
l0~You will surely travel from level to level.” (84:19) 1l”We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it
becomes clear to them that it is the truth.” (41:53)
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amount or qadr2 of that grant, but you must see from
25 The Greatness of the GrantofOur Creation A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rRahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lohi-l'A liyi-l- 'Azheem.
By the name of Allah, All-Mighty, All-Merciful, Most Benef icent and Most Munificent, the Creator, giving all things their creation. If He does not give them creation, nothing is going to appear in existence. From the smallest particle of matter, its existence is a grant from the Creator. Its creation is a grant, a grant whose greatness you can't imagine. If the imaginations of all people came together, they wouldn't be able to imagine it.
whom it is coming to you.
The sultan may send one cent, one piastre, one pence,
one penny to you. If you have perfect understanding, you are not going to look at what has been sent to you, but you must be happy because it is a grant from Allah Almighty to you, and you must make its value like the value of a Paradise, if you were to be granted a Paradise. Because we are always naqsan, imperfect, imperfec
tion in mankind makes man look at the size or look at the value, miqdar, the amount of the grant. That is imperfection in man. Perfect people never look at that gift and its amount, but they see from whom it is coming. From Allah Almighty it is coming, and the receiver should be so happy. That is perfection in a person, to see from whom that grant is coming to me. Allah Allah, Allah Allah! It is not the same, if some person gives you an orange, as a sultan's giv ing you an orange. No; can't be. It is the same — one orange, one orange - but its value is according to who sent it to you, from whom it is coming to you.
An orange is coming to you from the Lord of Heavens, or I may give one to you. I am putting boxes there. If any one comes, I give everyone oranges, but because I am noth
The greatness of that grant is according to the great ness of the Creator, not looking at the smallness of creatures, no. "Al-hadiya bi-miqdar muhdiya."} You must not look at that gift, that grant. It may be just an atom. Don't look at
ing it has no value. But He is our Lord. If He sends it, its value is another thing. The same orange that was sent by
’The gift corresponds to the measure of the giver.
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IheLord, by the sultan, its value is so high, but if an orange
comes from a common person, its value is something else.
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We, mankind, are heedless creatures, not thinking
I was in Turkey in 1940, sixty-four or sixty-five years ago. I went to a shop where they sold some drinks, old-style (at that time, no Coca-Cola, Such-a-Ma-Cola). I saw in that shop a glass, written on it—now there are people making his statue and worshipping him—that once he3 came there and drank a drink from that glass. Therefore, they put that glass on a golden maq'ad, pedestal. And I was surprised. That was an ordinary glass but it was valuable among people be cause that one had drunk from it, giving such value to that glass, and they were eagerly trying to keep it, to protect it.
^ut our Creator. Particularly in our time, we are the most ^jess ones in all historical periods. From the beginning I to today, there has not been any nation, any people, like
ones living now because they never give any time to think about their existence and to say, "Thanks be to our fieator, Allah, the Lord of Heavens!"
They are such heedless ones! From the beginning up to today, every nation took a little bit or more or the utmost cjre to give their highest respects and highest glorifying to lheir Lord. But in the twentieth century, and now in the ^enty-first century, people are so far from thinking about it They are such heedless, such ignorant ones, and such dark-hearted people. Perhaps their levels are going to be below the levels of rocks.
Therefore, anything coming from the sultan is valua ble, and, according to the sultan's rank, it becomes more valuable. A big sultan's grant is more valuable. Something may be given by a high-titled person, but a king's grant is something else.
Rocks know, and they say, "Subhanallah, glory be to Allah!" but people living in the twenty-first century do not say this. They do not take any take care or say, "Thanks be Io our Lord, glory be to our Lord! And this existence is a grant from the Lord of Heavens to us, and our being is the most perfect in creation among creatures."
Creation is a grant from the Lord of Heavens. Even if that creature is only one atom, it can't be in existence by itself. Creation causes things to come into existence. There fore, existence is really a grant from the Creator. All things know this and they are glorifying, and their glorifying never stops. "Wa in min shayin ilia yusabbihu bi-hamdih."4 All things are glorifying Allah Almighty be cause He granted them to be in existence, and existence can't be given by anyone except Him. Only He grants it And they know this and they give their highest glorifying to their Creator, Allah Almighty.
They do not even think about it. They are running after computers, they are asking to leave their abilities, to be mu'fltal.5 They are trying to make every ability that Allah granted them not to work, and they are trying to make some instruments to give every ability, which is a big grant to mankind from Allah Almighty, computers, Internet, FAX.
3Kemal Ataturk.
4 "And there is not a thing except it exalts [its Lord] with His praise." (17:44)
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"We have so many computers! We can count how many galaxies, how many stars, how many suns, how much distance." They are all lying; it is all imagination! "Wal^n shubihi lahumhalouhu; "6 they are imagining. They are frying to make themselves only for their egos, to feed their don keys. They do not want to give their donkeys straw, instead, they are trying to give them baklava.
Baklava, you know baklava?—a sweet, that famous sweet coming from Aleppo, from Beirut, from Damascus, from Egypt. But if you bring and put in front of a donkey a sini, tray, full of the best sweets and also put there straw, the donkey will come and look [laughter], never eating the sweets but eating the straw. And particularly for old don keys that have no more teeth for straw, their owners are making soup from straw and ground barley and a little bit of flour, and putting it. If you put good kebap here [laugh ter], it will come and drink that soup, very happy!
Now people, the twenty-first century's people, are feeding their donkeys with soup, never tasting from this best, best food. Therefore, the twenty-first century people's level is going to be below the level of animals. Animals do not change their nature. They do not eat sweets but they want to drink soup of barley with water, without cooking, even. If you put salt, also, they should be very happy.7
"It was made to appear so to them." (4:157) 7Herez Maulana adds facetiously: "If you want to come to look, it may
Yes, sir. These people, the twenty-first century's people, are foolish ones. There is a university. University students have no money, no food, no place to sleep, and they are coming to leam at the university. And I am saying, What are you doing? Finally, if you finish, what yOu are going to get?"
The university should give them a black hat and fi nally a paper, saying, "This is a diploma for you. Take it! you learned something." I am asking, "What did you learn?" He is saying, "Nothing," putting on the hat and taking a photograph.
"Do you know Allah?" "No"
"No rights for Allah?" "No." "Do you know what are the rights of people?" "No."
"What is the aim and goal of mankind?"
you cornel They think that you are coming to be a partner with them, to
share, and then they kick you."
kick you with two legs because you are rahatsiz ediyor, disturbing it when
it is drinking and you comr. Two legs—trak! I heard that it was written
Turkish expression, meaning approximately "See here!"
in a newspaper that a person disturbed his donkey, and the donkey bit his hand and broke three bones.
Very angry when they are eating and
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Knowing nothing. "What is the benefit of this world, this universe? From where did it begin, where will it end?" Not knowing. "And who is its Owner?" ►=4
If you ask, he will say, "We don't know."
May Allah forgive us! O people, give more glory! Glorify your Lord, Almighty Allah! He is not in need of your glorifying but you are in need. You must give high re spect, the highest respect, to your Lord, to make Him pleased with you that He granted you to be in existencethe biggest, biggest grant from Allah Almighty because His ►=4
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kingdom is endless, His dominions are countless, His Power Oceans are without end. Try to gain His pleasure, to say to you, "O My servant, come! I am accepting you for My di vine service in My Divine Presence. I am accepting you. Come!"
Where are these people going? The twenty-first cen ► -<
tury's people are the most heedless people, most ignorant people. May Allah take that ignorance away, because igno rant ones are in darkness, and whoever is in darkness is full of fear, and if a person is full of fear, he or she is never going to taste the good and pleasure and peace of this life or after
I A'udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-rI Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata ilia bil-Lahi-lI AHyi-l-1Azheem.
Il is an Association. Allah Almighaty addressed the Seal of Prophets, the most honoured servant in the Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad From the Heavens, the Holy Qur'an came to his heart and the divine addressing came through him to his nation. Allah Almighty addressed him for his nation and for all mankind in his time and up to the Last Day, the Day of Judgment, Resurrection Day, and he spoke in His words to all mankind. ► ^4
this life. May Allah forgive us and bless you! For the honour
of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina
Muhammad %—Fateha! ▲
A sultan addresses one person with his royal com mand, royal order or royal rules. He tells the grand wazir, and the grand wazir tells it to all the citizens of the sultanate. There is no need for the sultan to call everyone and to speak Io them one by one; no. One person is enough; from one to all. If that one is not there, then it can't be. The sultan is never going to address anyone individuallybecause his posi-
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tion is not suitable for coming to the level of his citizens and to speaking to them; no. Therefore, sultans kept to themselves, not going among common people, because they had a glory and greatness that belonged only to themselves. If coming to the level of common people, they would lose their greatness and glory. Common people would say, "Oh, this one is also like us. Why? What is his position, to be over us, and why are we under his command? Why are we bowing to him?"
You are not bowing to the sultan but you are bowing to the position, to his royal existence. You are not bowing to that man, but what he represents, you are bowing to that. He represents the real Royal One, he represents the Lord of Heavens, His representative. Therefore, ignorant people were saying to each one of the prophets, and saying to the Last Prophet, also, "Oh, that one is like us. He goes through the streets, through the markets;1 he does what we do. How can he be above our rank?" They did not look at what that Last Prophet repre sented, the rank in which the Lord of Heavens had dressed him of His greatness and glory. You must prostrate to him, s as when Allah Almighty created Adam and ordered all the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," and the angels immediate ly prostrated. They understood the rank in which Allah Almighty had dressed Adam and they knew that he had been dressed in Allah Almighty's glory. They looked, saw, and quickly ran and prostrated. They never looked at his physical being, no. ■Si
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Adam with My Hands."2 That must be well-known. Minong all creation, Allah Almighty never gave that honour of making a being by His Divine Hands except to the father 0(mankind. Angels, no. Angels were created by His order, Allah created Adam's being by His Divine Hands. That is glory, and that was only given to Adam. And afterwards, all his descendants are taking their share of that honour. Angels know that they are created by divine com mand, Allah saying "Be!" and they come into existence. They belong to light worlds, coming from lights, divine lights. In seconds, millions, trillions are coming; no need for
Allah Almighty to make them, their being, with His Divine Hands. That was granted only to Adam. And He dressed him from His glory and put from His divine crown on his head. And the angels were looking when Allah Almighty said, "Prostrate to Adam," immediately falling down and making sajdah, prostrating to him.3
See 234;7:ll-12;15:3O-33; 17:61; 18:50; 20:116; 38:73, 75 for the story of
Allah's command to prostrate to Adam and Satan's rebellion.
Here,
Shaykh Nazim adds: "Sayyidina Yusuf 88M, Joseph, had a dream when
he was a young boy, and in his dream he saw that his twelve brothers, his lather and mother, were prostrating to him. Why?
At that time, that di
vinecrown [of prophethood] was just put on Yusuf's head. Therefore, all the others looked and fell down prostrating to Yusuf
not to his phys-
d being, but he represented the Lord of Heavens' glory. That glory was
psi dressed on turn." The story of the prophet Joseph is narrated in enfety m the twelfth surah. Surah Yusuf, one of the most fascinating chap-
taof the Qur'an. Joseph's dream is mentioned in 12:4, while his parents' [ aibrothers' prostration to him is reported in 12:100.
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Shaytan was looking, also. "Oh! What is this?" ob jecting. And the first rebel against his Lord, the first trouble maker in creation, was Shaytan because he was looking and saying, "Oh! This is just a person created from clay. But I am created from fire, flames of fire!
"Look—flames of fire! How can it be? How it can be for me to prostrate to a creation that is just created from clay?" That was his mentality, "E$ek mantigi, donkey's men tality," we say. He was saying, "I must be the one whois prostrated to. I am above his creation." He was looking at the material being of Adam, and at himself, also, not seeing in what glory Adam had been dressed and the divine crown put on his head. And then he was thrown out.
Therefore, the sultan is that one who is crowned and given glory, and sultans are only a few, selected ones. Like prophets, they were elected and selected and chosen. Prophets were chosen ones, but yet people were objecting and saying, "Why? This person is like us, going, coming, s What is the difference between eating, drinking, marrying. us? Why is he going to be prostrated to and obeyed-for what?" not looking the reason that he was granted that by the Lord of Heavens.
Now people in the twenty-first century, all people, are looking at everyone based on their outward appearance. Shay tan has just made people not to believe in any other as pect, any other title for mankind, and people are saying, "We are all the same."
No! You are all the same in your physical being, but what you represent is not the same. Chosen people, proph ets, were dressed in glory from Heavens, but you are not
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one.
Before, up to the end of the nineteenth century, the line of kings and sultans was continuing, but Shay tan was working to make a false picture, to make kingdoms seem like something not good, and he was trying to take away that line of kings and to teach people, "All of you, you can dress as kings and sultans dressed."
No! They were dressed from Heavens, and even if you could dress in their clothes, you are not like kings or sultans who have been dressed in glory from Heavens. That is the main source of the troubles of mankind in the twentyfirst century, because everyone is trying to show that they are something. "We are kings, we are queens, we are sui tins.'
No. Men can't give honour to a man. It is impossi ble. Honour, real honour, is a grant from the Lord of Heav ens, coming from Heavens, not from people. Don't think that "President" or "Prime Minister" or "Minister" or such titles give a person real honour. No. When you take away their special clothing, they are going to be nothing. When they dress in such clothes, they think they are something. When they are taken from them, they see, "Oh, we are noth ing."
People can't give you a title because those who give you a title expect that one day, maybe we will also be given a title by people. "We must try to get more votes. Bring so many peasants—doesn't matter! They do not need to be educated people. This is democracy! No need for clever ones; no-mind people will do, also. Important is to bring
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"I am the representative of the Lord of Heavens.
thousands and thousands. Even if people don't understand anything, doesn't matter. It is written that, 'Oh-h! One mil lion people voted for that person. This one must be dressed according to his new title.'"
A million people can't give anything to you! A real title is the one that Allah Almighty gives. Shaytan was look ing and asking to be honoured or to be granted that honour. And now people are working on that point.
What we are saying is, "0 people! The honour of mankind, that is important. And Allah Almighty chose one among mankind to be on behalf of Him, Almighty, to ad dress people through a person. And he, the chosen one, is only one."
Allah Almighty is not calling everyone to be granted a book, as ignorant people were saying, "Why was this holy book just given to him? Why is it not coming to us, also?"4
That is their ignorance. Allah called one and clothed him and sent to him, saying, "Tell My commands, My or ders, to My servants. If they accept, I will make everything prostrate to them because they represent Me."
Once the Prophet was going. He met a badu, and he said to him, "O 'abd-ullah, O servant of my Lord, would you like to believe in Allah and in me, and to be Muslim?"
And he said, "Who are you?"
SaY' '^a
dla-Lah, Muhammdu Rasul-
"Have you any evidence?" that badu asked.
And the Prophet said, "I have. O tree, come to me!" Then that tree walked and came in front of the Prophet and ^desajdah to him. Then it stood up, and the Prophet said, "Go back to your place," and it went back and stood there. That badu said, "Now I believe that you are the rep resentative of the Lord of Heavens. I am saying, 'La ilaha illa-Lah, Muhammdu Rasul-Allah. Yes, evidence. There must be evidence. If you have been given an order by Allah Almighty, you must be grant ed such power. Trees were prostrating; animals were com ing and prostrating in front of the Seal of Prophets. Other wise, no. Common people are asking to see such evidence. But those who work through their minds, if reciting one verse, "Alif lam mim,"6 it is enough.
No one can say any thing like this. You can't find it in any book. Haybat, the greatness of the Lord's heavenly Book, heavenly address, in saying "Alif lam mim," makes a man come and prostrate to the one who brought that holy book, holy address. If the Prophet had not been like that, how, for fifteen centuries, would Islam have stood up, in spite of all the shaytans, all
’’lam Muhammad." These Arabic letters occur at the beginning of the second surah of the
Qur'an, and other such letters occur at the beginning of several other su-
nfe. Their meaning is known to Allah Almighty, His Prophet, and the
select among the holy people of Islam.
46:157, 74:52,
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the devils, who wanted to take it away? They are going to be taken away, but Islam will stand from earth to H
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