Breaths from beyond the Curtain (Shaykh Nazim, 135 pages, 1/13)
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Breaths from beyond the Curtain
By Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al- Haqqani, world leader of the Most Distinguished Nagshbandi-Haqgani Sufi Order.
CONTENTS
The Importance of Beginning with God's Name 2
The Emptiness of Material Satisfactions 12
Concern ing Ego Control 19
Conceming Harmful Freedom 28
The Critical Need for a Global Change 39
Choosing Acceptable, Right Actions ma)
Today's “Top Point of Civilization” 51
Living Breaths and Poisoned Breaths 6l
Concerning Men and Women 68
Concerning Pregnancy, Childbirth and Nursing
Pride Is Only for Allah 85
Consider Yourself To Be Nothing 95
Our Stolen Diamonds 102
Seeking Limitless Levels in the Divine Presence aoe 19
About Being Truth Defenders 116
Regarding the State of the Muslim World 126
“O Mankind, You Have Been Honoured!” 17
The Ottoman Islamic Legacy 142
Kn owing, Yourself 149
Keeping Islamic Orders 156
Seeking Knowledge That Benefits
The Necessity of Believing in the Last Messenger
Opening Our Hearts to Heavenly Lights Through Faith
Imagination Versus Reality
All Things Change Except Allah Ta ala ———- 189
Concerning Black Holes 195
Concerning the Need fora Trainer and Guide 201
Humankind Wants to Reach Somewhere 209
The Importance of Seeking Spiritual Perfection 215
The Real Goal of the Naqshbandi Jarigah 222
Material Aspects Never Give Satisaction 228
In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent and The Munificent
This, my English, is strange English. Not everyone can understand because, subhanallah, meanings are coming to my heart, and when running in my heart to give to you, I am using any means - from here, from there - bringing any word which may be useful.
I am like a person waiting for water to run out from the faucet. Then, when suddenly it comes, and he knows the water is going to be turned off, stop running, he may take any container - with a no-good shape, broken on one side, or anything he may find there - quickly bringing them to take that water and store it. Therefore, when meanings are coming to my heart, | am trying to explain with any word, which you may understand or not. But you must under- stand, because we have a saying, “Listeners must be more wise than speakers.” Therefore, when inspiration comes, we must explain.
They are living words, not plastic — bananas, plastic; apples, plastic, and grapes. Even if the shapes are not much, they are living, real. When you are going to arrange them in measures, good system; when you are going to be engaged by outside forms, you are losing meanings. A BREATIS ROM BEYOND THECURTAIN
THEIMPORTANCEOF BEGINNING WITH GOD'S NAME
Auda bit-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem, Bismillahi-r- Rakmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- Aziem
Without saying Allah's Holy Name, everything that you are doing is rubbish and will be thrown away as unacceptable, When Allah Almighty created al-Qalam, the Pen,’ He first looked at it, and from the greatness of Allah Almighty’s looking, that pen was split, a cleft coming (in old-time pens, there was always a cleft at the end of the pen) And Allah Almighty ordered the Pen, the holy Pen, the first Pen, saying, "Write!"
All things hear His holy command. All things have senses, Without senses, nothing is in existence—hearing and answering and glorifying; hearing and listening and
Even obeying and glorifying, everything in existence. though we say that rocks have no life, no speaking, no look-
"The celestial Pen that writes the destinies of all things in creation on al Leach al Matfich, the Preserved Tablet of Allah's decrees for all eternity.
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ing, no answering—no. It is so to you. That is the level of creatures. For creatures, everything, is within limits, but for the Creator, they must hear, they must listen, they must obey, they must give their service, and their service is to glorify their Creator. Atoms, or smaller particles that come to- gether and become atoms, each small particle, also, must hear because He, Almighty, is calling them. When He says, “Come into existence!” they come; when ordering, “Stay here,” staying there; “Listen to Me,” listening; “Be obedient to Me,” being obedient; “Glorify Me,” glorifying.
Only heedless mankind do not look at that point, so ja- hil, so ignorant. “Innahu kana dhaluman jahula. The Lord of Heavens is mentioning the characteristic of mankind, “ja- hula”—the most ignorant ones in existence, who have been created to be patrons and deputies on earth over every crea- tion, but they are so ignorant that there is no scale for meas- uring their ignorance. And in particular, they have reached the final limit of ignorance in our days, in the twenty-first century. I am speaking according to the western calendar, because they are unbelievers. If they were believers, they would have given their respect to the Seal of the Prophets %, the honour of creation; but instead, they followed their imagination, and that calendar by which they are calling this year 2004 is just built on such fancies. The real calendar that began with the emigration of the Seal of Prophets, peace be upon him and upon every prophet, is a fixed calendar.’ No
*"He [man] was unjust and ignorant.” (33:72) ‘The Islamic (Hijri) calendar is a lunar calendar corresponding to the
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one can have any doubt that now it is the year 1424. And after one-and-half months it is going to be 1425.
There is no doubt about the Islamic calendar’s begin- ning. But Shaytan is making unbelievers, non-Muslims, not care about their calendar, And heedless Muslims, also, no- mind, no-honour Muslims, they are printing the non- Muslims calendar, together with only a few brief words about the most honoured one’s, Sayyidina Muhammad‘s calendar, the Islamic calendar. Sadly, our nation has also joined those heedless people, no one coming and saying, “Why are we not using our calendar, the Islamic calendar?”
Why? What is the honour of their calendar, the non- Muslim calendar? If the Islamic world uses the non-Muslim calendar, will westerners put crowns on Muslims? No. They are saying about Muslims, “They are our tails. We are heads and they are our tails.” No value for Muslims in the sight of Western people, the non-Muslim world. It is blameworthy for Muslims. Therefore, Muslims are in the worst situation now. We must be obedient to Allah in everything!
As we are saying now, mankind is claiming that they reached the final limit of their civilization, or they are thinking that they reached the top point of technology and that there is nothing beyond that technology for man to reach. “And we are representing it,” Western people are saying about their technology.
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gration of the Prophet % from Mecca to Medina in the year 62 C.E. (622 CE).
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And technology is nothing; material powers are noth- ing, compared to spiritual power. Technology may change. In one second, only one person who is authorized by spiri- tual power may remove all the world’s technology. No need for another second; in only one second it may finish. But They* are not using their power, They are not looking at this dirty life, dunya daniya,* which means the lowest life for creatures. But people are saying, “High life, the highest!” And heedless Muslims are following them.
Yesterday there was an accident, a plane falling down. What did their technology do? Why wasn’t it protecting it? But if one person, an authorized, spiritually powerful per- son, were to look from here and say, “Don’t fall down! Con- tinue on your way,” that plane must hear and must obey. Technology can’t do that. It is under the hegemony of mate- rial aspects; it can’t do anything contrary to natural laws. But spiritual people have been authorized by Heavens. They may do as they like, but your technology can’t do as
you like. Yes. The most disobedient, most unbelieving people are now living on earth, and such a punishment is coming on them that, if you collected all the punishments that passed away from the beginning up to today, they would be nothing compared to the punishment those foolish people should receive, because they are making themselves like ‘As noted previously, “They” refers to awliya, the holy people or saints of
Islam. *Arabic; dunya daniya, this low/ base/despicable world, BREATHSFROM BEYOND THE CURTAIN
Pharaoh or Nimrod.* They are claiming that they are crea- tors, astagfirullah” Only the Lord creates!
When Allah Almighty ordered the holy Pen, “Write,” it said, “O my Lord, what is Your order to be written on the Preserved Tablet?”
He, Almighty, was saying, in His greatness, “Write My Holy Names. Write ‘Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Ralteem.’” And the Pen wrote. Our traditional knowledge that comes from Heavens informs us that, at the time (where ‘time’ is just for our understanding) the holy Pen wrote, “Bismillahi-r- Rahmani-r-Raheem,” it took seven hundred years like our years to write it. “And under that, write everything that is going to be now and in the future up to the end, up to the Day of Resurrection.” And it was written.
That is a powerful point, and it is holy knowledge by which Allah Almighty wants to teach His servants not to be heedless. Everything that is under the ‘unwan, heading, of “Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem,” is an honoured action and that phrase gives honour to the one who does that action. The reward that you should be granted, it is only for those actions that are headed or crowned by “Bismillahi-r- Ralimani-r-Raheem.” If not, such action is rubbish. Throw it
away in the dustbin!
Nimrod and the pharaoh of Moses are mentioned in the Qur'an as proto- types of arrogant, oppressive unbelievers with temporary ranks of worldly power. "Arabic: estagfirullah, | seek Allah's forgiveness.
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Subhanallah, glory be to Allah Almighty! There is a city in England, Halifax, and they weave this famous kas/iumtr, cashmere, there in factories. Then a supervisor comes and does a control on it for flaws, defects. People will not accept a flaw; they want pure, perfect cashmere, without flaws in it. And for each ma‘moul, product, employees are looking and saying “We can’t give this to customers. They will say, ‘No, this is not good,’ and it is going to be blame on our fac- tory. We must look, we must take care.”
They are taking so much care for such a thing. Then do you think that angels do not look at your actions? Looking—“Is there ‘Bismillah’ ?” “No ‘Bismillah.””
“Throw it away, throw it away, throw it away!” For twenty-four hours that person is working, working, but Al- lah’s great Names—honoured, honourable, glorious Names—are not there, and malayka, angels, are saying, “Away, away, away!” And no value and no honour for those people who are working and not mentioning their Lord and Creator's holy Names. Allahu Akbar!
That is the essence of the global crisis, not economics; no. They have lost their honour. Mankind now are doing everything for Shaytan, not for Allah. If they were doing for Allah, dunya would quickly change to be Paradise—no troubles, no problems, no sufferings, no enmity, no envy. Everyone would be in perfection because of the holy com- mand to the earth, “Look at My servants’ actions. If they are living for Me, if they are doing for Me, if they are concerned about Me, be Paradise for them so their lives will be like in Paradise” —not the Paradise that will be in eternity, but in a BREATHS FROM BEYOND THECURTAIN
state that is going to be like Paradise." But they have forgot- ten their Creator.
Tam looking at the full moon. Since some time, perhaps from the beginning of this holy month, | am looking, par- ticularly as people are thinking that they will send some- thing to Mars. From far away, Mars is seen as a globe. And 1 am looking at the moon, also. It is, in the darkness of space, also a shining global jism, a global object.
{am thinking: They are saying that [from space] they are seeing our planet, this world, also as a globe. I am look- ing and saying, “Subhanallah! Those foolish, materialist people, those who have no belief, why do they not look and think?” And I am asking them now, “If there is no Creator, how and from where do you think these people that are on this planel came? How can they have been on this globe— how?
“If no one brought them to it and they came here by themselves, how can this world be, as Allah Almighty says, ‘Filfuli-t-mashin'?’ Other heavenly bodies are like empty vessels, but our planet is full of countless kinds of creatures; those planets, no, How, from where, did they come, these people on this planet?”
They are never thinking about it, how it can be!
And concerning those people who think that they reached Mars and are asking about life on it, Allah Almighty Qur'an 7:96; “Ifouly the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah, We would have opemed to them blessings from the heaven and earth... .”
"The laden ship” [Noahs ark), (36:41)
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mighty is saying, “Wa ja‘alna mina-l-ma’i kulla shayin hayy.”" The Lord of the universe, the Lord of Heavens, is saying, “I made every living creature from water.” Without water, no life. That One who created water from hydrogen and oxy- gen, making a marriage between two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, making water, is saying, “And from that 1 gave you life on this planet.”
Those planets at which you are looking are dry. But they {atheists and skeptics] are against holy books, always. They can’t pass beyond what is put in front of you as a limit, no; they want to pass but they can’t pass. Allah Almighty is saying, “I give life from water.” And they are looking [at Mars’ surface] and saying, “It is sand.”"'
So many times they tried the moon, to see if there are some creatures, | am saying, “When you land on it, the creatures are hiding themselves.” [Mawlana laughs.] They are hiding themselves by command of the Qutbu-| mutasar- rif”?
On every planet there is life, but not life like on this planet, our planet, no. It has a special existence. For others, Allah Almighty’s Power Oceans can’t be within limits. Li
"And We made every living thing from water.” (21:30)
''That is, although Allah says that He created every living thing from wa- ter, people are nonetheless expecting to find life as we know it on a dry planet like Mars.
“Quth—pole saint, leader of of all saints; the saint who represents the Prophet at any time who is head of four other qutbs, each with a special area of responsibility. They are: Qutb, Qutbu-] Aqtab, Qutbu-] Bilad, Qutbu-l Irshad, Qutbu-) Mutassarif. Qutbu-l-mutasarrif is the pole saint who manages all happenings in this world, through God’s creatures. Oe
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kulli makan makin.? If He created that Place, ¢ pe INAS SEALE some creatures in it; but Allah Almighty is never going to be under any natural laws cre eed to address to you, as well as to all people from East to West this—no. He is free to do anything, everythin ™ to do from North to South, & peop: st, that planet. There must be on it so many cre can’t see, you can’t know.
here must
&- He Created atures, but you
Jupiter is another; Mercury, another; Neptune: an Saturn, another; but there is nothing forcing the Gee make the same creation on Saturn or Jupiter or Neptune to Venus. No, as He likes, and no one can force Him to me them what is on them. a
Allah—you must believe in His greatness and His countless Power Oceans. And His unlimited Will, unlimited Ability, Capability and countless powers of creation are op- erating. You are so small!
O mankind, come to your real position so that you can see something. If you get so big, expanding beyond your true size, one day you are going to be nothing, disappearing.
May Allah forgive us and grant us a clear understand- ing to understand something and to be honoured by the Lord of honours. For the sake of the most honoured servant in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad — Fateha!
What we are speaking about, it is not something ea) are taking from this book or from that book, but it saehayit coming from Their spirituality, through my
"In every place, there are inhabitants.
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THEEMPTINESS OF MATERIAL SATISFACTIONS
Audiu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-r- Rakmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quewata illa bil-Lahi-l-
Who is the happiest one? The happiest one is the one who is running to find Allah—the best mashghala, work.
So many works are occupying people. Subhana man ata kulli galbin ma yushghaluhu.'’ The Lord of Heavens, our Creator, just gives to everyone's heart a different desire or different goal, and that person wants to reach that goal or to reach that desire.
There may be now five or six billion people living on earth. You cannot find two persons whose hearts are occu- pied by the same desire or the same goal that they want to reach. And what is settled in each one’s heart either belongs to material aspects or to spiritual aspects. Either a person is going to be occupied by materiality or by spirituality, and people now are just called by countless advertisements for the material aspects of life,
“Glory be to Him who gave to every heart what occupies it.
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Men are living for material aspects. Their dreams are about material aspects when they sleep. When they awaken, they are, in their imagination, imagining material aspects, but material aspects, Subhanallahi-l-‘Altyyt-l- ‘Azheem,'* can give a person very little contentment or very, very, very little pleasure. And as long as material aspects increase and become more and more, instead of giving their owner pleasure, there is going to be sadness and hopeless- ness on its owner, making a heavy burden on him, like a person reaching a heap of gold where he is free to take from it as much as he likes.
He may take from it, putting gold in his pockets but not feeling satisfied, and wanting to take more and more and more, filling every pocket; and then when he wants to stand up, he can’t because gold is the heaviest metal, and he is ina difficult position with himself. He wants to carry all of it but he can’t. And he is never happy to leave it—unhappy with carrying it, unhappy with leaving it.
That is the material aspect that all ali dunya'® people who are living in our days, the twenty-first century’s peo- ple, are asking for. All of them want to take more, more, more, but finally they are unable to carry it; so that material aspects do not give pleasure to people.
You heard about that person who had been given not millions but trillions of yens, the first manager of a Japanese car company? He threw himself off a high building and died. That is the example for all people. He had not mil-
"Arabic: Subhanallahi-l-'Aliyyi-l-Azhim, Glory be to Allah, the Most High the Almighty, oY "Arabic; alli dunya, worldly people.
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lions but trillions of yens, billions of dollars, billions of pounds, but he was not happy and in pleasure, and he threw himself down from up and died. A big lesson for people!
But everyone wants to do business, For what? To save money—money, money, money, money! And finally, what iS going to happen? Even if he has more and more billions, that person is unhappy and that materiality does not give pleasure to him.
Now we are seeing that people do not understand: Al- lah Almighty, in His kindness, in His compassion and mercy, may give everyone billions, but He knows that His servants are never going to be in pleasure when it is in unlimited amounts, Therefore, He gives, according to His wisdoms, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, But man is run- ning to reach more, more, more, and saying, “It is no good!”
“O My servant, if a person eats something and he does not know how to put a balance for his eating, he may die. Sharh” —that is a bad characteristic, perhaps the worst char- acteristic among mankind.” What is that sharh? It is not to put a limit on material desires. The same characteristic, it is for all egos, for all mankind. If you do not put a limit, it may kill you—kill you spiritually and kill you, also, materi- ally, from both sides.
Therefore, now, we may look at people, mankind, living on this planet, They are asking for pleasure in their lives, and mostly now people are looking and seeing that pleasure is through riches. They think that if they get richer, there is
"Arabic; Sharh, gluttony, greed, voraciousness. avariciousness.
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going to be more pleasure for them, and that is wrong. It is bil-‘ags, the opposite of what they are thinking, But, Subhanallahi-I-‘Aliyyi-l-‘Azheem, glory be to Allah Almighty! Everyone has lost thinking, not thinking about Reality, because material things can’t be carried indefinitely. Finished; they can be carried only up to a limit. But they are trying to make a hundred a thousand, and a thousand ten thousand, and ten thousand a hundred thousand, and a hundred thousand a million, and a million a billion, and wanting a billion to be trillions. Everyone wants to make it more, not thinking.
They are all square-headed, all people who are not in- terested in spiritual aspects, They aren't able to break down that wall and take themselves out of that prison, no. No matter how much you may talk, it has no effect on them, and that is a terrible situation for all mankind. And they reached the top point of their material pleasure on New Year's night. Before New Year's night, they blew up a bal- loon, wanting to make it bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, as much as their nafas, breath, could blow, and that night they put a needle in it. Woo-ooo! At nighttime, it was a big bal- loon, By morning, it was finished.
No pleasure. They are in a dark and sad area. They are saying, “Ohh-h! Where did my balloon go, leaving me? I tried for one year to make it bigger, bigger, and now in one moment, it has disappeared.”
This is an example of all material pleasures for man- kind. And another group of people—they are like a handful
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of people, as Sayyidina Nuh'* #4, throughout hundreds of years, found only about seventy to eighty people who were asking for real pleasure, asking for their Lord's divine pleasure. All the world’s people were not asking. They in- sisted in front of Sayyina Nuh, saying, “We do not believe in you and your pleasures and what you are promising us. No. Our interest is only material aspects, material de- sires.""
He found only eighty people to put in that Ark. And in every time, people did not welcome their prophets. No prophet was welcomed, from beginning to end—they were not welcomed; rather they assaulted, attacked and fought them, those foolish people who were slaves to their egos.
Their desire is to reach an ocean. Their egos are like a thirsty one, thirsty for physical and material desires. They are running to the ocean to take away their thirst but no matter how much they drink, they get more thirsty. Whena thirsty person drinks water, plain water, one cup is enough to take his thirst away. But an ocean can’t take it away.
Therefore, those who are interested in material aspects, they are on the wrong way, never getting to be satisfied. They are passing away while they are in the flames of thirst burning, If you put a cup to their mouths, it never takes away thirst from those people. May Allah forgive us! And those who were calling people to plain water, fresh water, sweet water, prophets, were not welcomed by such peo-
"Arabic: Nuh, the prophet Noah. "See Holy Qur'an, 7:60, 11:27-35, 21:77, 22/;42, 23:23-26, 25:37, 26;105-118 29:14-15, 56:9, 71:6-24.
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ple—never by common people, but only by a small handful of people.
We are seeing now so many anti-Christ people,” who are the representatives of Shaytan. One of them may stand up and address people, and millions of people may follow him. If even one prophet came to speak, they would hit him with stones and with dirty things, and swear at him and want to throw him out or to kill him. “Why,” they would say, “why are you preventing us from fulfilling our physical desires? Who are you? We are happy with our physical de- sires. Why are you coming and preventing us?”
From that time, from the beginning up to today, it has been the same situation. Therefore, now, the whole world is working on one thing: to be more and more and more pleased with their physical and material aspects, but they are never going to be pleased by their material possessions or material aspects. But those who are asking for pleasure in their hearts, they understand that they will find it only in the Divine Presence, and the way to the Divine Presence passes through prophets, who are on the way to Allah. Therefore, at every time, we are seeing and finding people either walking or running to find Allah, or asking for dunya, which is rubbish and is going to finish.
*Those who, like the Dajjal, the False Messiah prophesied by the Prophet % for the End-Time, are calling people to a false paradise, and make wrong seem right and right seem wrong.
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May Allah forgive us and bless us to be only for Him and for His holy ways, to follow His precious servants, our guides, prophets, particularly the most honoured and most beloved, most respected servant in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #.
That is the reason why many westerner are refusing to accept IsI am and its prophet—because they want to experi- ence New Year pleasures, and Christmas, also. But we are saying that it is prohibited; all of them are cheating you. But they are running to it. “You must do this. Our happiness is through this.”
And! am asking, “What about the next day? Your bal- loon just—ook!—finished. What are you doing now? Re- peat it once again.”
They are saying, “We can’t do that.”
May Allah keep us on His right path! &
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Breaths from beyond the Curtain
By Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al- Haqqani, world leader of the Most Distinguished Nagshbandi-Haqgani Sufi Order.
CONTENTS
The Importance of Beginning with God's Name 2
The Emptiness of Material Satisfactions 12
Concern ing Ego Control 19
Conceming Harmful Freedom 28
The Critical Need for a Global Change 39
Choosing Acceptable, Right Actions ma)
Today's “Top Point of Civilization” 51
Living Breaths and Poisoned Breaths 6l
Concerning Men and Women 68
Concerning Pregnancy, Childbirth and Nursing
Pride Is Only for Allah 85
Consider Yourself To Be Nothing 95
Our Stolen Diamonds 102
Seeking Limitless Levels in the Divine Presence aoe 19
About Being Truth Defenders 116
Regarding the State of the Muslim World 126
“O Mankind, You Have Been Honoured!” 17
The Ottoman Islamic Legacy 142
Kn owing, Yourself 149
Keeping Islamic Orders 156
Seeking Knowledge That Benefits
The Necessity of Believing in the Last Messenger
Opening Our Hearts to Heavenly Lights Through Faith
Imagination Versus Reality
All Things Change Except Allah Ta ala ———- 189
Concerning Black Holes 195
Concerning the Need fora Trainer and Guide 201
Humankind Wants to Reach Somewhere 209
The Importance of Seeking Spiritual Perfection 215
The Real Goal of the Naqshbandi Jarigah 222
Material Aspects Never Give Satisaction 228
In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent and The Munificent
This, my English, is strange English. Not everyone can understand because, subhanallah, meanings are coming to my heart, and when running in my heart to give to you, I am using any means - from here, from there - bringing any word which may be useful.
I am like a person waiting for water to run out from the faucet. Then, when suddenly it comes, and he knows the water is going to be turned off, stop running, he may take any container - with a no-good shape, broken on one side, or anything he may find there - quickly bringing them to take that water and store it. Therefore, when meanings are coming to my heart, | am trying to explain with any word, which you may understand or not. But you must under- stand, because we have a saying, “Listeners must be more wise than speakers.” Therefore, when inspiration comes, we must explain.
They are living words, not plastic — bananas, plastic; apples, plastic, and grapes. Even if the shapes are not much, they are living, real. When you are going to arrange them in measures, good system; when you are going to be engaged by outside forms, you are losing meanings. A BREATIS ROM BEYOND THECURTAIN
THEIMPORTANCEOF BEGINNING WITH GOD'S NAME
Auda bit-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem, Bismillahi-r- Rakmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- Aziem
Without saying Allah's Holy Name, everything that you are doing is rubbish and will be thrown away as unacceptable, When Allah Almighty created al-Qalam, the Pen,’ He first looked at it, and from the greatness of Allah Almighty’s looking, that pen was split, a cleft coming (in old-time pens, there was always a cleft at the end of the pen) And Allah Almighty ordered the Pen, the holy Pen, the first Pen, saying, "Write!"
All things hear His holy command. All things have senses, Without senses, nothing is in existence—hearing and answering and glorifying; hearing and listening and
Even obeying and glorifying, everything in existence. though we say that rocks have no life, no speaking, no look-
"The celestial Pen that writes the destinies of all things in creation on al Leach al Matfich, the Preserved Tablet of Allah's decrees for all eternity.
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ing, no answering—no. It is so to you. That is the level of creatures. For creatures, everything, is within limits, but for the Creator, they must hear, they must listen, they must obey, they must give their service, and their service is to glorify their Creator. Atoms, or smaller particles that come to- gether and become atoms, each small particle, also, must hear because He, Almighty, is calling them. When He says, “Come into existence!” they come; when ordering, “Stay here,” staying there; “Listen to Me,” listening; “Be obedient to Me,” being obedient; “Glorify Me,” glorifying.
Only heedless mankind do not look at that point, so ja- hil, so ignorant. “Innahu kana dhaluman jahula. The Lord of Heavens is mentioning the characteristic of mankind, “ja- hula”—the most ignorant ones in existence, who have been created to be patrons and deputies on earth over every crea- tion, but they are so ignorant that there is no scale for meas- uring their ignorance. And in particular, they have reached the final limit of ignorance in our days, in the twenty-first century. I am speaking according to the western calendar, because they are unbelievers. If they were believers, they would have given their respect to the Seal of the Prophets %, the honour of creation; but instead, they followed their imagination, and that calendar by which they are calling this year 2004 is just built on such fancies. The real calendar that began with the emigration of the Seal of Prophets, peace be upon him and upon every prophet, is a fixed calendar.’ No
*"He [man] was unjust and ignorant.” (33:72) ‘The Islamic (Hijri) calendar is a lunar calendar corresponding to the
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one can have any doubt that now it is the year 1424. And after one-and-half months it is going to be 1425.
There is no doubt about the Islamic calendar’s begin- ning. But Shaytan is making unbelievers, non-Muslims, not care about their calendar, And heedless Muslims, also, no- mind, no-honour Muslims, they are printing the non- Muslims calendar, together with only a few brief words about the most honoured one’s, Sayyidina Muhammad‘s calendar, the Islamic calendar. Sadly, our nation has also joined those heedless people, no one coming and saying, “Why are we not using our calendar, the Islamic calendar?”
Why? What is the honour of their calendar, the non- Muslim calendar? If the Islamic world uses the non-Muslim calendar, will westerners put crowns on Muslims? No. They are saying about Muslims, “They are our tails. We are heads and they are our tails.” No value for Muslims in the sight of Western people, the non-Muslim world. It is blameworthy for Muslims. Therefore, Muslims are in the worst situation now. We must be obedient to Allah in everything!
As we are saying now, mankind is claiming that they reached the final limit of their civilization, or they are thinking that they reached the top point of technology and that there is nothing beyond that technology for man to reach. “And we are representing it,” Western people are saying about their technology.
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gration of the Prophet % from Mecca to Medina in the year 62 C.E. (622 CE).
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And technology is nothing; material powers are noth- ing, compared to spiritual power. Technology may change. In one second, only one person who is authorized by spiri- tual power may remove all the world’s technology. No need for another second; in only one second it may finish. But They* are not using their power, They are not looking at this dirty life, dunya daniya,* which means the lowest life for creatures. But people are saying, “High life, the highest!” And heedless Muslims are following them.
Yesterday there was an accident, a plane falling down. What did their technology do? Why wasn’t it protecting it? But if one person, an authorized, spiritually powerful per- son, were to look from here and say, “Don’t fall down! Con- tinue on your way,” that plane must hear and must obey. Technology can’t do that. It is under the hegemony of mate- rial aspects; it can’t do anything contrary to natural laws. But spiritual people have been authorized by Heavens. They may do as they like, but your technology can’t do as
you like. Yes. The most disobedient, most unbelieving people are now living on earth, and such a punishment is coming on them that, if you collected all the punishments that passed away from the beginning up to today, they would be nothing compared to the punishment those foolish people should receive, because they are making themselves like ‘As noted previously, “They” refers to awliya, the holy people or saints of
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Pharaoh or Nimrod.* They are claiming that they are crea- tors, astagfirullah” Only the Lord creates!
When Allah Almighty ordered the holy Pen, “Write,” it said, “O my Lord, what is Your order to be written on the Preserved Tablet?”
He, Almighty, was saying, in His greatness, “Write My Holy Names. Write ‘Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Ralteem.’” And the Pen wrote. Our traditional knowledge that comes from Heavens informs us that, at the time (where ‘time’ is just for our understanding) the holy Pen wrote, “Bismillahi-r- Rahmani-r-Raheem,” it took seven hundred years like our years to write it. “And under that, write everything that is going to be now and in the future up to the end, up to the Day of Resurrection.” And it was written.
That is a powerful point, and it is holy knowledge by which Allah Almighty wants to teach His servants not to be heedless. Everything that is under the ‘unwan, heading, of “Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem,” is an honoured action and that phrase gives honour to the one who does that action. The reward that you should be granted, it is only for those actions that are headed or crowned by “Bismillahi-r- Ralimani-r-Raheem.” If not, such action is rubbish. Throw it
away in the dustbin!
Nimrod and the pharaoh of Moses are mentioned in the Qur'an as proto- types of arrogant, oppressive unbelievers with temporary ranks of worldly power. "Arabic: estagfirullah, | seek Allah's forgiveness.
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Subhanallah, glory be to Allah Almighty! There is a city in England, Halifax, and they weave this famous kas/iumtr, cashmere, there in factories. Then a supervisor comes and does a control on it for flaws, defects. People will not accept a flaw; they want pure, perfect cashmere, without flaws in it. And for each ma‘moul, product, employees are looking and saying “We can’t give this to customers. They will say, ‘No, this is not good,’ and it is going to be blame on our fac- tory. We must look, we must take care.”
They are taking so much care for such a thing. Then do you think that angels do not look at your actions? Looking—“Is there ‘Bismillah’ ?” “No ‘Bismillah.””
“Throw it away, throw it away, throw it away!” For twenty-four hours that person is working, working, but Al- lah’s great Names—honoured, honourable, glorious Names—are not there, and malayka, angels, are saying, “Away, away, away!” And no value and no honour for those people who are working and not mentioning their Lord and Creator's holy Names. Allahu Akbar!
That is the essence of the global crisis, not economics; no. They have lost their honour. Mankind now are doing everything for Shaytan, not for Allah. If they were doing for Allah, dunya would quickly change to be Paradise—no troubles, no problems, no sufferings, no enmity, no envy. Everyone would be in perfection because of the holy com- mand to the earth, “Look at My servants’ actions. If they are living for Me, if they are doing for Me, if they are concerned about Me, be Paradise for them so their lives will be like in Paradise” —not the Paradise that will be in eternity, but in a BREATHS FROM BEYOND THECURTAIN
state that is going to be like Paradise." But they have forgot- ten their Creator.
Tam looking at the full moon. Since some time, perhaps from the beginning of this holy month, | am looking, par- ticularly as people are thinking that they will send some- thing to Mars. From far away, Mars is seen as a globe. And 1 am looking at the moon, also. It is, in the darkness of space, also a shining global jism, a global object.
{am thinking: They are saying that [from space] they are seeing our planet, this world, also as a globe. I am look- ing and saying, “Subhanallah! Those foolish, materialist people, those who have no belief, why do they not look and think?” And I am asking them now, “If there is no Creator, how and from where do you think these people that are on this planel came? How can they have been on this globe— how?
“If no one brought them to it and they came here by themselves, how can this world be, as Allah Almighty says, ‘Filfuli-t-mashin'?’ Other heavenly bodies are like empty vessels, but our planet is full of countless kinds of creatures; those planets, no, How, from where, did they come, these people on this planet?”
They are never thinking about it, how it can be!
And concerning those people who think that they reached Mars and are asking about life on it, Allah Almighty Qur'an 7:96; “Ifouly the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah, We would have opemed to them blessings from the heaven and earth... .”
"The laden ship” [Noahs ark), (36:41)
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mighty is saying, “Wa ja‘alna mina-l-ma’i kulla shayin hayy.”" The Lord of the universe, the Lord of Heavens, is saying, “I made every living creature from water.” Without water, no life. That One who created water from hydrogen and oxy- gen, making a marriage between two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom, making water, is saying, “And from that 1 gave you life on this planet.”
Those planets at which you are looking are dry. But they {atheists and skeptics] are against holy books, always. They can’t pass beyond what is put in front of you as a limit, no; they want to pass but they can’t pass. Allah Almighty is saying, “I give life from water.” And they are looking [at Mars’ surface] and saying, “It is sand.”"'
So many times they tried the moon, to see if there are some creatures, | am saying, “When you land on it, the creatures are hiding themselves.” [Mawlana laughs.] They are hiding themselves by command of the Qutbu-| mutasar- rif”?
On every planet there is life, but not life like on this planet, our planet, no. It has a special existence. For others, Allah Almighty’s Power Oceans can’t be within limits. Li
"And We made every living thing from water.” (21:30)
''That is, although Allah says that He created every living thing from wa- ter, people are nonetheless expecting to find life as we know it on a dry planet like Mars.
“Quth—pole saint, leader of of all saints; the saint who represents the Prophet at any time who is head of four other qutbs, each with a special area of responsibility. They are: Qutb, Qutbu-] Aqtab, Qutbu-] Bilad, Qutbu-l Irshad, Qutbu-) Mutassarif. Qutbu-l-mutasarrif is the pole saint who manages all happenings in this world, through God’s creatures. Oe
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kulli makan makin.? If He created that Place, ¢ pe INAS SEALE some creatures in it; but Allah Almighty is never going to be under any natural laws cre eed to address to you, as well as to all people from East to West this—no. He is free to do anything, everythin ™ to do from North to South, & peop: st, that planet. There must be on it so many cre can’t see, you can’t know.
here must
&- He Created atures, but you
Jupiter is another; Mercury, another; Neptune: an Saturn, another; but there is nothing forcing the Gee make the same creation on Saturn or Jupiter or Neptune to Venus. No, as He likes, and no one can force Him to me them what is on them. a
Allah—you must believe in His greatness and His countless Power Oceans. And His unlimited Will, unlimited Ability, Capability and countless powers of creation are op- erating. You are so small!
O mankind, come to your real position so that you can see something. If you get so big, expanding beyond your true size, one day you are going to be nothing, disappearing.
May Allah forgive us and grant us a clear understand- ing to understand something and to be honoured by the Lord of honours. For the sake of the most honoured servant in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad — Fateha!
What we are speaking about, it is not something ea) are taking from this book or from that book, but it saehayit coming from Their spirituality, through my
"In every place, there are inhabitants.
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THEEMPTINESS OF MATERIAL SATISFACTIONS
Audiu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-r- Rakmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quewata illa bil-Lahi-l-
Who is the happiest one? The happiest one is the one who is running to find Allah—the best mashghala, work.
So many works are occupying people. Subhana man ata kulli galbin ma yushghaluhu.'’ The Lord of Heavens, our Creator, just gives to everyone's heart a different desire or different goal, and that person wants to reach that goal or to reach that desire.
There may be now five or six billion people living on earth. You cannot find two persons whose hearts are occu- pied by the same desire or the same goal that they want to reach. And what is settled in each one’s heart either belongs to material aspects or to spiritual aspects. Either a person is going to be occupied by materiality or by spirituality, and people now are just called by countless advertisements for the material aspects of life,
“Glory be to Him who gave to every heart what occupies it.
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Men are living for material aspects. Their dreams are about material aspects when they sleep. When they awaken, they are, in their imagination, imagining material aspects, but material aspects, Subhanallahi-l-‘Altyyt-l- ‘Azheem,'* can give a person very little contentment or very, very, very little pleasure. And as long as material aspects increase and become more and more, instead of giving their owner pleasure, there is going to be sadness and hopeless- ness on its owner, making a heavy burden on him, like a person reaching a heap of gold where he is free to take from it as much as he likes.
He may take from it, putting gold in his pockets but not feeling satisfied, and wanting to take more and more and more, filling every pocket; and then when he wants to stand up, he can’t because gold is the heaviest metal, and he is ina difficult position with himself. He wants to carry all of it but he can’t. And he is never happy to leave it—unhappy with carrying it, unhappy with leaving it.
That is the material aspect that all ali dunya'® people who are living in our days, the twenty-first century’s peo- ple, are asking for. All of them want to take more, more, more, but finally they are unable to carry it; so that material aspects do not give pleasure to people.
You heard about that person who had been given not millions but trillions of yens, the first manager of a Japanese car company? He threw himself off a high building and died. That is the example for all people. He had not mil-
"Arabic: Subhanallahi-l-'Aliyyi-l-Azhim, Glory be to Allah, the Most High the Almighty, oY "Arabic; alli dunya, worldly people.
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lions but trillions of yens, billions of dollars, billions of pounds, but he was not happy and in pleasure, and he threw himself down from up and died. A big lesson for people!
But everyone wants to do business, For what? To save money—money, money, money, money! And finally, what iS going to happen? Even if he has more and more billions, that person is unhappy and that materiality does not give pleasure to him.
Now we are seeing that people do not understand: Al- lah Almighty, in His kindness, in His compassion and mercy, may give everyone billions, but He knows that His servants are never going to be in pleasure when it is in unlimited amounts, Therefore, He gives, according to His wisdoms, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, But man is run- ning to reach more, more, more, and saying, “It is no good!”
“O My servant, if a person eats something and he does not know how to put a balance for his eating, he may die. Sharh” —that is a bad characteristic, perhaps the worst char- acteristic among mankind.” What is that sharh? It is not to put a limit on material desires. The same characteristic, it is for all egos, for all mankind. If you do not put a limit, it may kill you—kill you spiritually and kill you, also, materi- ally, from both sides.
Therefore, now, we may look at people, mankind, living on this planet, They are asking for pleasure in their lives, and mostly now people are looking and seeing that pleasure is through riches. They think that if they get richer, there is
"Arabic; Sharh, gluttony, greed, voraciousness. avariciousness.
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going to be more pleasure for them, and that is wrong. It is bil-‘ags, the opposite of what they are thinking, But, Subhanallahi-I-‘Aliyyi-l-‘Azheem, glory be to Allah Almighty! Everyone has lost thinking, not thinking about Reality, because material things can’t be carried indefinitely. Finished; they can be carried only up to a limit. But they are trying to make a hundred a thousand, and a thousand ten thousand, and ten thousand a hundred thousand, and a hundred thousand a million, and a million a billion, and wanting a billion to be trillions. Everyone wants to make it more, not thinking.
They are all square-headed, all people who are not in- terested in spiritual aspects, They aren't able to break down that wall and take themselves out of that prison, no. No matter how much you may talk, it has no effect on them, and that is a terrible situation for all mankind. And they reached the top point of their material pleasure on New Year's night. Before New Year's night, they blew up a bal- loon, wanting to make it bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, as much as their nafas, breath, could blow, and that night they put a needle in it. Woo-ooo! At nighttime, it was a big bal- loon, By morning, it was finished.
No pleasure. They are in a dark and sad area. They are saying, “Ohh-h! Where did my balloon go, leaving me? I tried for one year to make it bigger, bigger, and now in one moment, it has disappeared.”
This is an example of all material pleasures for man- kind. And another group of people—they are like a handful
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of people, as Sayyidina Nuh'* #4, throughout hundreds of years, found only about seventy to eighty people who were asking for real pleasure, asking for their Lord's divine pleasure. All the world’s people were not asking. They in- sisted in front of Sayyina Nuh, saying, “We do not believe in you and your pleasures and what you are promising us. No. Our interest is only material aspects, material de- sires.""
He found only eighty people to put in that Ark. And in every time, people did not welcome their prophets. No prophet was welcomed, from beginning to end—they were not welcomed; rather they assaulted, attacked and fought them, those foolish people who were slaves to their egos.
Their desire is to reach an ocean. Their egos are like a thirsty one, thirsty for physical and material desires. They are running to the ocean to take away their thirst but no matter how much they drink, they get more thirsty. Whena thirsty person drinks water, plain water, one cup is enough to take his thirst away. But an ocean can’t take it away.
Therefore, those who are interested in material aspects, they are on the wrong way, never getting to be satisfied. They are passing away while they are in the flames of thirst burning, If you put a cup to their mouths, it never takes away thirst from those people. May Allah forgive us! And those who were calling people to plain water, fresh water, sweet water, prophets, were not welcomed by such peo-
"Arabic: Nuh, the prophet Noah. "See Holy Qur'an, 7:60, 11:27-35, 21:77, 22/;42, 23:23-26, 25:37, 26;105-118 29:14-15, 56:9, 71:6-24.
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ple—never by common people, but only by a small handful of people.
We are seeing now so many anti-Christ people,” who are the representatives of Shaytan. One of them may stand up and address people, and millions of people may follow him. If even one prophet came to speak, they would hit him with stones and with dirty things, and swear at him and want to throw him out or to kill him. “Why,” they would say, “why are you preventing us from fulfilling our physical desires? Who are you? We are happy with our physical de- sires. Why are you coming and preventing us?”
From that time, from the beginning up to today, it has been the same situation. Therefore, now, the whole world is working on one thing: to be more and more and more pleased with their physical and material aspects, but they are never going to be pleased by their material possessions or material aspects. But those who are asking for pleasure in their hearts, they understand that they will find it only in the Divine Presence, and the way to the Divine Presence passes through prophets, who are on the way to Allah. Therefore, at every time, we are seeing and finding people either walking or running to find Allah, or asking for dunya, which is rubbish and is going to finish.
*Those who, like the Dajjal, the False Messiah prophesied by the Prophet % for the End-Time, are calling people to a false paradise, and make wrong seem right and right seem wrong.
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May Allah forgive us and bless us to be only for Him and for His holy ways, to follow His precious servants, our guides, prophets, particularly the most honoured and most beloved, most respected servant in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #.
That is the reason why many westerner are refusing to accept IsI am and its prophet—because they want to experi- ence New Year pleasures, and Christmas, also. But we are saying that it is prohibited; all of them are cheating you. But they are running to it. “You must do this. Our happiness is through this.”
And! am asking, “What about the next day? Your bal- loon just—ook!—finished. What are you doing now? Re- peat it once again.”
They are saying, “We can’t do that.”
May Allah keep us on His right path! &
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