Breaths from beyond the Curtain (Shaykh Nazim, 135 pages, 6/13)
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he whole world. I may carry them into a situation in which itisimpossible to arrange their affairs, to bring solutions for their problems or to take away their troubles or miseries or sulferings”” He knew this, Therefore, Shaytan did his worst, not his best, for mankind, and he stood up to take away emperors and kings, deceiving people, saying, “You must take them away. Kill them and shut that door so there will no longer come kings or queens or emperors. And you must be kings and emperors!”
king oremperor. And they said, “We are only servants.” lt was good manners for those people who believed in God Almighty and were asking to be His servants.
When the big and most foolish, most crazy French revo- lution came, it finished those good manners, good teachings. Itwas such a big teaching to all mankind or to all their citi- zens that our king is accept servanthood to his Lord and coming on his knees with the crown on his head. It also | BREATHS FROM BEYOND THE CURTAIN
They did that, and one of the most important supports against falling into a bottomless crisis in our days, it is only for that reason—that people followed Satan and took away their kings, queens, emperors and sultans, and they fell down, because to be sultan, to be king, to be emperor, that is a lablisis, specialty, from the Lord of Heavens. And you can now find some countries that are kingdoms, but those squareheaded, no-mind people have just left kings or queens as a symbol, taking away every power from them.
When the big revolution, the French Revolution, came, it killed everyone from the line of those who were coming on their knees and saying, “O our Lord, this is Your grant on my head. And | am promising to keep myself as You like, to be a servant to You, O my Lord, and to keep Your orders a5 long as this crown is on my head.” After that, do you think or do you know that any presidents or democratic leaders have come to a church and knelt down and taken that oath to their Lord? No. They are saying, “No”; they are saying, “No God! We are gods on earth.”"
No! You are not gods but you are Nimrods. You are Nimrods! Therefore, this is the age of Nimrods, who say, “I am the Lord of the lands. O Abraham, where is your Lord about whom you say, ‘He is in the skies’? Let Him come and fight me! 1am ready to fight Him.” In such a way now, everywhere, whoever comes to power thinks that he is a Nimrod.
Therefore, it is a point that is so important to be known. No way for humanity to bring real solutions to their prob-
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lems until those foolish people stop saying “Democracy, democracy!” and making elections.
They are bringing a person from the mountains, from the jungles, and saying, “Sit down in the place of power. Use it as you like because so many million people are sup- porting you.” What is this foolishness? That is a wrong sys- tem! Yet people are making elections in England, elections in Germany, elections in Sweden, elections in Italy, elections in Greece, elections in Turkey, elections in Cyprus, elections in Egypt.
Which elections? Look for the one elected by Heavens! Don’t ask from the earth. Don’t ask people to see, as they like, some person and give the center of power to him; no. You must look for the one who is elected by Heavens.
Therefore, finished! Now the whole world is full with wrong ideas, Satan dirtying their minds, also, and giving them this bad characteristic and saying to them, “You must be proud!” making their minds dirty. And dunya, the world, is just full of rubbish and it needs a cleaning. And now the cleaning is coming.
Keep yourself with truth. Therefore, we are saying, we are haggani. That means truth supporters, truth seekers, truth defenders. That is our way. Those who are truth de- fenders, they are clean ones. If not, they are dirty people, mbbish; they should be taken away. We are asking for true ones who support truth, and truth comes from Heavens.
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You can't know what is truth, O people, common people.* Be defenders of truth and look for true ones if you would like to be in an honoured station here and Hereafter.
May Allah forgive me and bless you with good under- standing. For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #%—Fateha! &
“That is, those who have not reached the rank of “true ones” —that is iva, holy people or saints,
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CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE NOTHING
Avudhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. — Bismiullahi-r- Rabmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l-‘Aliyi-t-“Azheem.
Yattabir nafsik;® consider yourself nothing. Lafiz nafsi consider, you must consider. This is a very simple,very simple claim. Actually, we are nothing. La mahala I1l-‘trad.’ Really, we are nothing—not “to consider” but really, actually, we are nothing.
Yesterday we were nothing. Tomorrow we are going to be nothing. Between two nothings, how are we going to caim “I am here”? You understand?
How? Is it true or not? Yes, between two nothings, everything must be nothing. From nothing to nothing, if you make a bridge, that bridge is also nothing. That is a re- ality, a reality that perhaps a hundred per cent of people do "Regard, consider, account yourself as nothing.
“Same as the preceding. “There is no room for objection |to this statement].
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not care about, rejecting it. And they are saying, “We are Shaytan was first teaching mankind and saying, “You not nothing. We are sometlting! are something,” beginning to teach them, from the first | level, that you are something. Then, “You are something, Sometimes, from time to time, I go to the cemetery for a funeral. [am asking people buried there, “Oh! What about you? Where are you? If you were claiming, ‘We are here, we are here,’ where are you now? Where is your existence?
“Yesterday you were claiming that we are in existence, we are something. Now where are you? You were claiming this, but today, where are you, O people? You are now really nothing! Why were you claiming, when you walked on earth, that you were something? ‘We are in existence. We are not accepting to be nothing.’ But today you are nothing.
“Only one stone or some structure on your grave; but that is not your existence, that does not prove your exis- tence. No; it is written on it ‘John,’ ‘Jane,’ ‘Mary,’ or this or that, she or he—so many words, but where is your existence? It isa label that is written on that stone, but that is not your existence, no. You have disappeared, you have finished. Now you are nothing. Why were you claiming that you had existence on earth?”
O people, why do you say this to others, because to claim that you are in existence is the source, the main source of troubles, main source of crises, main source of problems. It is a troublemaker, your ego, and your ego claims that it has existence. And as long as men claim that they are some- thing, that trouble is never going to finish, wars are never going to finish, fighting is never going to finish, crises are never going to finish. more. You are something more than others.”
Up to where does that reach? Up to the level at which Pharaoh, the Egyptian king, was saying, “I am your Lord,” not being happy to be ‘something.’ “Something” is for ordi- nary people, but we are not ‘something’ like others. I am your Lord,” he was saying, “the top, top level. Ana Rabbu-
him al~ala.8 I am everything; only | am in existence. All of you are under my feet, and whoever is under my feet, no existence for him.”
Therefore, Nimrod was arguing with Sayyidina Ibrahim
#2 when Sayyidina Ibrahim said, “The Lord of Heavens gives life and takes life.”“*” And Nimrod said, “Oh, I can do that, also, Bring me two slaves. One, I am now ordering his head to be cut off, killing him, and the second, I will not cut off his head, giving him life,” reaching the point of saying, “Everything is under my control. I am your Lord and eve- ryone is under my feet. You are my slaves. I may kill you, I may let you live.”
The first lesson to mankind from satanic teachings is to ‘ilga, throw, into their minds, “You are something. You must know that common people are rubbish. You must try to get out of being from common people, out of being rub- bish, Then you should be something. Stand up and claim that!”
“How can I claim it?”
“Tam your most exalted Lord.” (79:24; also 26:28, 28:38) *2058,
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“{ will teach you, I will teach you!”
And Shaytan is teaching mankind. He has so many sci- ences. All sciences, he has been teaching, showing people. Inventions, they are all shaytanic, to make peoplefind a rea- son to say, “I am something.” And today, Shaytan’s domin-
ion is over the whole world, everywhere, saying, “You must study because by the way of studying you can be some- thing, and more and more and more.” Therefore, people are asking to reach a level at which they can say, “This is a de- gree.’ And asa rider hits his horse with his whip to reach its goal, Shaytan is urging people and hitting them with his whip to run after studying, saying, “You must try to study and to learn.”
What are they learning? I am asking, “What have you learned?” Even graduated people are saying, “Nothing, but Thave a degree, a Ph.D. I have a degree, but I never learned anything else. I only learned that I have a degree that yu- mayiz, distinguishes me from common people. With this diploma I have been distinguished from common people because common people are like herds. But we have gradu- ated, we have degrees; we are not common people. We are no longer flocks, we are trying to be shepherds,”
These comments relate primarily to higher studies in the Muslim world and other developing nations, where admission to universities depart- ments is based on competitive entrance exams, those who score highest going to prestigious and lucrative fields such as medicine, engineering and law without regard for their suitability, interest or aptitude for such subjects,
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Therefore, everywhere, everywhere—even my grand- sons, from a young age—they are being made to go to school to learn. “They must learn.”
I am asking, “What are they learning.” [Chuckles.] They are learning nothing, but getting a degree. Degree people, what have you learned? They are saying, “Nothing, but we have a degree.” Ah! Shaytanic teachings, every- where!
This country, Cyprus, Turkish Cyprus, Northern Cy- prus, has a handful of people. How many universities are there here? In a country with a handful of people, I think they are saying seven universities or ten higher education- schools and universities, and I heard that there are 20,000 students in those universities.
And universities, from the outside, you see them like a dty, such big and attractive buildings, as churches are so beautiful, with such attractive architecture. You are look- ing—“Oh!” When you enter, you find nothing; coming, en- tering, going out, taking nothing. The outside attracts you, but inside, when you enter, you find nothing, only finding some candles and so many statues or paintings. And you lose yourself in looking at such beautiful paintings, like a person entering a museum, looking like this, like that, for- getting for what he has come in for. And finally they put a wax candle there and do like this, signing the cross on them- selves, and going out but taking nothing. Their spirituality does not receive anything —no, nothing.
All universities now, everywhere they are building huge buildings so that if anyone looks from outside, he feels fear. “Such a university, how I can study in it?” giving a
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sense of fear and istahiya,”" shyness. “How can I be here?” And when they open their books to learn, they learn noth- ing. Those are shaytanic tricks and shaytanic traps.
Oh, to study! For what? To reach a degree? For what? To prove their existence among his or her community; yes. “So-and-so, he is a Doctor of Architecture! So-and-so, he has a doctoral degree!” And foolish and heedless Muslims, they are also trying to reach a title, to be doctors from Sor- bonne, They are not looking at Ahzar ash-Shareef,” that is really Islamic, with ‘nlama” there. They are going to Sor- bonne or Cambridge or Oxford to get the title of ‘Doctor, and that proves to themselves that they are something in the community. And Shaytan is very happy.
First, Shaytan is doing like this for them [clapping], and this, at the level of studying, occupies young people in such away. And then he is reaching people with a ¢engel, hook, to take them as supporters,
Shaytan wants to take supporters from top level people, also, and during thousands of years, he has worked on such a point that has opened for common people to be able to reach the power of a sultan, the power of a president, the power of a king. And they are teaching all people that these kingdoms, monarchies, are keeping you from the top level of proving that you are something.
“Only kings are saying, ‘We are everything,’ and you can't even say, ‘We are something.’ Why are you their ser- vants? Why do you go down on your knees to them? Why
“Shame, shyness. “Azhar University, Cairo,
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do you give your respect to them? You must also reach that point.” “What shall we do?” people are asking. Shaytan is saying, “You must remove kingdoms and empires and sultans. Then the whole country is going to be with you through election.”
Election; yes. In olden times, sometimes they made an election; it is written about in books. Sometimes, when such funny people were running for election, they sent up a pi- geon or a dove. If it came and landed on someone’s head, they made him king or sultan over themselves. It was so much more honourable than these elections because a dove or pigeon did not make a hile, trick, no. But in their elec- tions, they are making thousands and thousands of tricks and traps for people.”
Elections—very good! You can bring a person from the mountains, also. He has a chance to be President. Bring someone from the desert; he has a chance to be Prime Minis- ter Bring a market person, shouting “Potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage! Cheaper!” In England, yes? “Cheap! Finishing!”
“Come!”
“Here Shaykh Nazim adds facetiously: “I am suggesting to all nations to do this, ti use a pigeon. On whichever one it comes, finished. In Ireland, troubles should finish. When | was a young one they were fighting. Now [have become an old one and asking to leave this life, and they are still lighting Why? Usea pigeon, Gather the people. On whomever it comes,
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“For what shall I come?”
“Come! You may write your name to be an M.P.” “Can it be?”
“Why not? You have that chance, also.”
These are such nonsensical things that are just making all countries fall into bottomless problems and troubles. In Iraq now, clever ones want to make a federal system, with appointed ones. People are fighting now; they are saying, “No. We want elections.” They learned that from Shaytan, because elections never bring suitable ones, always bringing unsuitable ones, always no-mind people, always square- headed people, always heedless people, always ignorant people, And Shaytan likes to make such troubles continue. If a federal system comes, it is stable. Everything is in its place, can’t move, on a strong foundation, and people never like Shaytan and Shaytan’s followers.
And in Islam, there are never going to be elections, never going to be democracy, never going to be a republic. They are all batil® in Islam. But our people, Muslims, they are also deceived by shaytanic teachings; shaytanic ideas are just running through the Muslim world, also. May Allah forgive us!
Therefore, we began today by saying that at least some- times consider yourself to be nothing. If you do not really mean it, still say, “I am nothing.” Don’t trust degrees and don’t trust common people's support. Don’t believe com-
"Arabic: batil, False, baseless, vain, futile.
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mon people. At any time they may take their support from you and you will fall down, never getting up, standing up— finished, so many people.
That is the main treatment for all people on earth now—for everyone to say, “I am nothing.” When everyone accepts to say “I am nothing,” they can improve and they are going to be supported by heavenly support. They are not in need of the support of people on earth. No; support from Heavens, no one can take it away. But people are de- ceived and they are asking for support from people. Sup- port from people is like a candy cane for a building. A tuilding can stand with it? Never! So many people are just falling down in such a way, deceived by Shaytan.
Therefore, O people, come and say, “I am nothing. I am only a servant created by the Lord of Heavens. I am His servant and my honour is to be His servant. His ser- vanthood is my highest degree, highest honour.” That will clean the whole world and make them victorious over evil and devils. If not, they are going to be ground up and fin- ish.
May Allah forgive us and send His blessings for all na- tions to come and “itiraf, admit, truth and ask for true ones. for the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #%—Fateha! &
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OURSTOLEN DIAMONDS
Avudhw bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. — Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la guwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- ‘Altyi-l-“Azheem.
This is an Association. It is not a lecture, it is not a uni- versity classroom. This place is a free place. We are trying to reach people's hearts, and that is the most important point—to reach people's hearts.
The most important point—and the mission of all the prophets concerned that point—is to reach to people's hearts and carry them to their Lord. As a mithal, example, if a thief steals something and runs away, the owner runs after him to save what he has taken and run away with.
Now, at the beginning of mankind, when Adam and Eve were sent down from Paradise to earth, Shaytan was also kicked down. And a warning came to Adam and Eve: “Beware of your enemy because he is running after you to
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steal what you have been granted from My Divine Presence,"™
From that day on, Shaytan has been running after the children of Adam to steal what they were granted by their Lord, while he was prevented, he was not granted that hon- out. Then Shaytan was thinking and reaching everywhere todestroy everything for Bani Adam, the Children of Adam.
He wanted that honour to be granted to him, and when Allah Almighty did not grant it to him, he was very angry and began to argue in the Divine Presence. And Allah Al- mighty said, “Go away, demon!” You are not one to argue inMy Divine Presence. Kick him down, O angels!”
Falling down, falling down. And as a cat always lands on four feet, never upright, he turned like this and stood on the earth, and said, “I am here, also. O Adam, I will not let you and your children be at rest to taste that honour here, andl am going to try to take that honour from you. As I have been mahrum, deprived, of that honour, I will not let you taste that honour, either in this life or the next life.”
Therefore, at his first step on earth, he declared war on Adam and his descendants. “I am that one who has come to steal that most precious grant from your Lord” — edepsiz,% not saying “my Lord”! “Your Lord’s grant, I am going to
"See 2:36, 38; 7:11-27; 20:117, 123; 28:15; 35:6; 36:60; 43:62. Also see 2:168- 109 208; 6:142; 12:5; 17:53, 17:53; 18:50
"73, 18. “Mannerless. This refers to 7:20, in which Shaytan, while urging Adam and Eve to eat from the forbidden tree, cunningly refers to Allah Almighty as “your Lord,“ instead of “my Lord” or “our Lord.”
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steal it from you. I tried and I made it so that you were thrown down from Paradise to earth, also.
“Now you are innocent.” I can’t do anything to you, But your children will not be innocent. Therefore, I shall try todo my worst to you and to your children, to make your heart drip blood from sorrow. I shall do this.” And from that day up to today, he has never tired or gotten fed-up, always with us everywhere.
I am asking so many people, Wahhabi people, also, “Do you think that the Prophet % is everywhere” “O Shaykh, don’t say that! Shirk!'®' If you are saying that, itis shirk.”
Another question to Wahhabi people: “What do you think about Shaytan? Do you think that there is any place where he is not present?”
They are surprised, astonished. “How can you ask this? He is everywhere!”
“Ah! For Shaytan to be everywhere is not shirk. But if the Prophet # is everywhere, siirk.” [Laughter.] In sucha way, you have been deceived by Shaytan.
“Meaning that Adam and Eve had repented and were forgiven. More- over, their sin was one of forgetfulness, not of deliberate disobedience, '4:118-120; 7:16-17; 15:39-40; 17:53, 62, 64; 18:50; 38:82-83.
Arabic: Shirk, the greatest sin in Islam, that of ascribing divinity or its attributes to other than Allah. But according to Islamic belief, while prophets experience bodily death like all human beings, they are alive with Allah in the spiritual world.
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Such wrong things from Arabs! IsI am began with them, and then they became destroyers of IsI am as the Last Days approached,. They are blaming us because of our beliefs, and] am saying to them, “We are ‘ajam,""? we are not Arabs. You are Arabs, from around the Seal of the Prophets *, and faking from him and bringing to our places those books from which we are learning about beliefs. They are not from ourselves, Why are you now blaming Pakistani peo- ple, Afghan people, Turkish people and foreign people who are Muslims, and saying, ‘All of you are on the wrong way’?
Did we bring IsI am or take it from you?”
In such a way, during the twentieth century, Arabs did their worst for Islam, and every curse that is now coming on them and from them to the whole Islamic world, they are responsible for it. We are not responsible, no. We are Alilus Sunnah wal-Jama‘ah,! never changing, but they are bringing accusations of “Bid‘a, bid‘a.”"'"™
“O Shaykh, if you say salat wa salam” —giving your best respect to the Prophet # by saying, “As-salat wa-s-salaim ‘aliyka, ya Rasul-Allah,” after the adhan '°—they they are say- ing, “Bid‘a, bid‘a!”
“This adhan is just called for the honour of that Prophet! What does it do to you if I say, ‘As-salat wa-s-saI am ‘alayka, ya "Arabic: ‘ajam , non-Arabs,
"Arabic: Ahlus Sunnah wal-Jama‘ah, the people of the Prophet's Sicnal and Congregation, Le, Sunni Muslims.
“Arabic: Bid’a, an innovation or something unprecedented in religion, a heretical doctrine or practice.
“That is, to observe the tradition of saying, “Peace and blessings be upon you, O Messenger of Allah,” after the call to prayer.
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Rasul-Allak’? Where do you find that it is haramt' or bid‘a?’ They are allu-l-bid‘al” But now they have reached ripeness, finished!" If com grows and gives ears, no matter how much water you give it, itdoes not grow more. Its final goal is the ear’s coming into existence, and if you cut that ear, it will not grow again and bring another ear. That is their method. They are ablu-l- bid‘a!
But IsI am is like a tree. Y‘uti ukulaha kulla hin? At every time, you can find fruits on that tree. If cutting the fruits, the tree is not going to go. The tree will live for the next year, to bring other fruits, more and more.
Then, Shaytan is reaching everywhere, and never get- ting fed-up and never getting to be tired, to steal what man- kind have been granted by their Lord—the most precious jewel, diamond. And he is making thousands and thov- sands of tricks and putting thousand and thousand of traps for mankind to fall into and to steal it, subhanallah! And A\- lah Almighty sent the first man, Adam, as the first prophet, as the first advisor and nadhir, warner, to mankind, to say, “Beware of Shaytan!”
People are writing on their doors, “Beware of the dog.” I am saying, “What is this? Why do you not write ‘Beware
"Arabic: haram, prohibited, forbidden.
Arabic: ahlu--bid’a , people of innovation. Those who create new forms of worship which have no bases in Islam.
“Meaning that such accusations cannot grow past the present level. "It produces its fruit all the time.” (14:25)
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of Shaytan’?” Always after dogs, “Beware of dogs, beware
of dogs!" This miskin, poor, dog —what is it doing? And it is tied up, threatening people and sometimes attacking them, but people can defend themselves and escape. But I have never seen anyone writing, “Beware of Shaytan, be- ware of Diablo!”
That is the most important aspect, the most important point in the lives of mankind to know, to learn, and to try to protect themselves from Shaytan because Shaytan is run- ning after everyone to steal his most precious diamond. Do you think that if thieves find a special and very expensive ring on a hand, they will leave it on that hand?
Satan is running behind, to steal everyone’s diamond. And the Lord of Heavens sent to the children of Adam spe- cial people who are in connection with Heavens to save what has been stolen from them, their most precious dia- monds That is the mission of all prophets, nothing else. Everything that prophets brought is a prevention or a pro- tection for mankind so that their most precious jewel that is granted to them by Allah Almighty may not be st
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he whole world. I may carry them into a situation in which itisimpossible to arrange their affairs, to bring solutions for their problems or to take away their troubles or miseries or sulferings”” He knew this, Therefore, Shaytan did his worst, not his best, for mankind, and he stood up to take away emperors and kings, deceiving people, saying, “You must take them away. Kill them and shut that door so there will no longer come kings or queens or emperors. And you must be kings and emperors!”
king oremperor. And they said, “We are only servants.” lt was good manners for those people who believed in God Almighty and were asking to be His servants.
When the big and most foolish, most crazy French revo- lution came, it finished those good manners, good teachings. Itwas such a big teaching to all mankind or to all their citi- zens that our king is accept servanthood to his Lord and coming on his knees with the crown on his head. It also | BREATHS FROM BEYOND THE CURTAIN
They did that, and one of the most important supports against falling into a bottomless crisis in our days, it is only for that reason—that people followed Satan and took away their kings, queens, emperors and sultans, and they fell down, because to be sultan, to be king, to be emperor, that is a lablisis, specialty, from the Lord of Heavens. And you can now find some countries that are kingdoms, but those squareheaded, no-mind people have just left kings or queens as a symbol, taking away every power from them.
When the big revolution, the French Revolution, came, it killed everyone from the line of those who were coming on their knees and saying, “O our Lord, this is Your grant on my head. And | am promising to keep myself as You like, to be a servant to You, O my Lord, and to keep Your orders a5 long as this crown is on my head.” After that, do you think or do you know that any presidents or democratic leaders have come to a church and knelt down and taken that oath to their Lord? No. They are saying, “No”; they are saying, “No God! We are gods on earth.”"
No! You are not gods but you are Nimrods. You are Nimrods! Therefore, this is the age of Nimrods, who say, “I am the Lord of the lands. O Abraham, where is your Lord about whom you say, ‘He is in the skies’? Let Him come and fight me! 1am ready to fight Him.” In such a way now, everywhere, whoever comes to power thinks that he is a Nimrod.
Therefore, it is a point that is so important to be known. No way for humanity to bring real solutions to their prob-
“While in some nations the presidential oath of office is sworn on the Bible the essence of democratic ruling systems is secular and is not administered by a cleric but rather by a judge or other non-religious official |
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lems until those foolish people stop saying “Democracy, democracy!” and making elections.
They are bringing a person from the mountains, from the jungles, and saying, “Sit down in the place of power. Use it as you like because so many million people are sup- porting you.” What is this foolishness? That is a wrong sys- tem! Yet people are making elections in England, elections in Germany, elections in Sweden, elections in Italy, elections in Greece, elections in Turkey, elections in Cyprus, elections in Egypt.
Which elections? Look for the one elected by Heavens! Don’t ask from the earth. Don’t ask people to see, as they like, some person and give the center of power to him; no. You must look for the one who is elected by Heavens.
Therefore, finished! Now the whole world is full with wrong ideas, Satan dirtying their minds, also, and giving them this bad characteristic and saying to them, “You must be proud!” making their minds dirty. And dunya, the world, is just full of rubbish and it needs a cleaning. And now the cleaning is coming.
Keep yourself with truth. Therefore, we are saying, we are haggani. That means truth supporters, truth seekers, truth defenders. That is our way. Those who are truth de- fenders, they are clean ones. If not, they are dirty people, mbbish; they should be taken away. We are asking for true ones who support truth, and truth comes from Heavens.
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You can't know what is truth, O people, common people.* Be defenders of truth and look for true ones if you would like to be in an honoured station here and Hereafter.
May Allah forgive me and bless you with good under- standing. For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #%—Fateha! &
“That is, those who have not reached the rank of “true ones” —that is iva, holy people or saints,
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CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE NOTHING
Avudhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. — Bismiullahi-r- Rabmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l-‘Aliyi-t-“Azheem.
Yattabir nafsik;® consider yourself nothing. Lafiz nafsi consider, you must consider. This is a very simple,very simple claim. Actually, we are nothing. La mahala I1l-‘trad.’ Really, we are nothing—not “to consider” but really, actually, we are nothing.
Yesterday we were nothing. Tomorrow we are going to be nothing. Between two nothings, how are we going to caim “I am here”? You understand?
How? Is it true or not? Yes, between two nothings, everything must be nothing. From nothing to nothing, if you make a bridge, that bridge is also nothing. That is a re- ality, a reality that perhaps a hundred per cent of people do "Regard, consider, account yourself as nothing.
“Same as the preceding. “There is no room for objection |to this statement].
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not care about, rejecting it. And they are saying, “We are Shaytan was first teaching mankind and saying, “You not nothing. We are sometlting! are something,” beginning to teach them, from the first | level, that you are something. Then, “You are something, Sometimes, from time to time, I go to the cemetery for a funeral. [am asking people buried there, “Oh! What about you? Where are you? If you were claiming, ‘We are here, we are here,’ where are you now? Where is your existence?
“Yesterday you were claiming that we are in existence, we are something. Now where are you? You were claiming this, but today, where are you, O people? You are now really nothing! Why were you claiming, when you walked on earth, that you were something? ‘We are in existence. We are not accepting to be nothing.’ But today you are nothing.
“Only one stone or some structure on your grave; but that is not your existence, that does not prove your exis- tence. No; it is written on it ‘John,’ ‘Jane,’ ‘Mary,’ or this or that, she or he—so many words, but where is your existence? It isa label that is written on that stone, but that is not your existence, no. You have disappeared, you have finished. Now you are nothing. Why were you claiming that you had existence on earth?”
O people, why do you say this to others, because to claim that you are in existence is the source, the main source of troubles, main source of crises, main source of problems. It is a troublemaker, your ego, and your ego claims that it has existence. And as long as men claim that they are some- thing, that trouble is never going to finish, wars are never going to finish, fighting is never going to finish, crises are never going to finish. more. You are something more than others.”
Up to where does that reach? Up to the level at which Pharaoh, the Egyptian king, was saying, “I am your Lord,” not being happy to be ‘something.’ “Something” is for ordi- nary people, but we are not ‘something’ like others. I am your Lord,” he was saying, “the top, top level. Ana Rabbu-
him al~ala.8 I am everything; only | am in existence. All of you are under my feet, and whoever is under my feet, no existence for him.”
Therefore, Nimrod was arguing with Sayyidina Ibrahim
#2 when Sayyidina Ibrahim said, “The Lord of Heavens gives life and takes life.”“*” And Nimrod said, “Oh, I can do that, also, Bring me two slaves. One, I am now ordering his head to be cut off, killing him, and the second, I will not cut off his head, giving him life,” reaching the point of saying, “Everything is under my control. I am your Lord and eve- ryone is under my feet. You are my slaves. I may kill you, I may let you live.”
The first lesson to mankind from satanic teachings is to ‘ilga, throw, into their minds, “You are something. You must know that common people are rubbish. You must try to get out of being from common people, out of being rub- bish, Then you should be something. Stand up and claim that!”
“How can I claim it?”
“Tam your most exalted Lord.” (79:24; also 26:28, 28:38) *2058,
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“{ will teach you, I will teach you!”
And Shaytan is teaching mankind. He has so many sci- ences. All sciences, he has been teaching, showing people. Inventions, they are all shaytanic, to make peoplefind a rea- son to say, “I am something.” And today, Shaytan’s domin-
ion is over the whole world, everywhere, saying, “You must study because by the way of studying you can be some- thing, and more and more and more.” Therefore, people are asking to reach a level at which they can say, “This is a de- gree.’ And asa rider hits his horse with his whip to reach its goal, Shaytan is urging people and hitting them with his whip to run after studying, saying, “You must try to study and to learn.”
What are they learning? I am asking, “What have you learned?” Even graduated people are saying, “Nothing, but Thave a degree, a Ph.D. I have a degree, but I never learned anything else. I only learned that I have a degree that yu- mayiz, distinguishes me from common people. With this diploma I have been distinguished from common people because common people are like herds. But we have gradu- ated, we have degrees; we are not common people. We are no longer flocks, we are trying to be shepherds,”
These comments relate primarily to higher studies in the Muslim world and other developing nations, where admission to universities depart- ments is based on competitive entrance exams, those who score highest going to prestigious and lucrative fields such as medicine, engineering and law without regard for their suitability, interest or aptitude for such subjects,
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Therefore, everywhere, everywhere—even my grand- sons, from a young age—they are being made to go to school to learn. “They must learn.”
I am asking, “What are they learning.” [Chuckles.] They are learning nothing, but getting a degree. Degree people, what have you learned? They are saying, “Nothing, but we have a degree.” Ah! Shaytanic teachings, every- where!
This country, Cyprus, Turkish Cyprus, Northern Cy- prus, has a handful of people. How many universities are there here? In a country with a handful of people, I think they are saying seven universities or ten higher education- schools and universities, and I heard that there are 20,000 students in those universities.
And universities, from the outside, you see them like a dty, such big and attractive buildings, as churches are so beautiful, with such attractive architecture. You are look- ing—“Oh!” When you enter, you find nothing; coming, en- tering, going out, taking nothing. The outside attracts you, but inside, when you enter, you find nothing, only finding some candles and so many statues or paintings. And you lose yourself in looking at such beautiful paintings, like a person entering a museum, looking like this, like that, for- getting for what he has come in for. And finally they put a wax candle there and do like this, signing the cross on them- selves, and going out but taking nothing. Their spirituality does not receive anything —no, nothing.
All universities now, everywhere they are building huge buildings so that if anyone looks from outside, he feels fear. “Such a university, how I can study in it?” giving a
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sense of fear and istahiya,”" shyness. “How can I be here?” And when they open their books to learn, they learn noth- ing. Those are shaytanic tricks and shaytanic traps.
Oh, to study! For what? To reach a degree? For what? To prove their existence among his or her community; yes. “So-and-so, he is a Doctor of Architecture! So-and-so, he has a doctoral degree!” And foolish and heedless Muslims, they are also trying to reach a title, to be doctors from Sor- bonne, They are not looking at Ahzar ash-Shareef,” that is really Islamic, with ‘nlama” there. They are going to Sor- bonne or Cambridge or Oxford to get the title of ‘Doctor, and that proves to themselves that they are something in the community. And Shaytan is very happy.
First, Shaytan is doing like this for them [clapping], and this, at the level of studying, occupies young people in such away. And then he is reaching people with a ¢engel, hook, to take them as supporters,
Shaytan wants to take supporters from top level people, also, and during thousands of years, he has worked on such a point that has opened for common people to be able to reach the power of a sultan, the power of a president, the power of a king. And they are teaching all people that these kingdoms, monarchies, are keeping you from the top level of proving that you are something.
“Only kings are saying, ‘We are everything,’ and you can't even say, ‘We are something.’ Why are you their ser- vants? Why do you go down on your knees to them? Why
“Shame, shyness. “Azhar University, Cairo,
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do you give your respect to them? You must also reach that point.” “What shall we do?” people are asking. Shaytan is saying, “You must remove kingdoms and empires and sultans. Then the whole country is going to be with you through election.”
Election; yes. In olden times, sometimes they made an election; it is written about in books. Sometimes, when such funny people were running for election, they sent up a pi- geon or a dove. If it came and landed on someone’s head, they made him king or sultan over themselves. It was so much more honourable than these elections because a dove or pigeon did not make a hile, trick, no. But in their elec- tions, they are making thousands and thousands of tricks and traps for people.”
Elections—very good! You can bring a person from the mountains, also. He has a chance to be President. Bring someone from the desert; he has a chance to be Prime Minis- ter Bring a market person, shouting “Potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage! Cheaper!” In England, yes? “Cheap! Finishing!”
“Come!”
“Here Shaykh Nazim adds facetiously: “I am suggesting to all nations to do this, ti use a pigeon. On whichever one it comes, finished. In Ireland, troubles should finish. When | was a young one they were fighting. Now [have become an old one and asking to leave this life, and they are still lighting Why? Usea pigeon, Gather the people. On whomever it comes,
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“For what shall I come?”
“Come! You may write your name to be an M.P.” “Can it be?”
“Why not? You have that chance, also.”
These are such nonsensical things that are just making all countries fall into bottomless problems and troubles. In Iraq now, clever ones want to make a federal system, with appointed ones. People are fighting now; they are saying, “No. We want elections.” They learned that from Shaytan, because elections never bring suitable ones, always bringing unsuitable ones, always no-mind people, always square- headed people, always heedless people, always ignorant people, And Shaytan likes to make such troubles continue. If a federal system comes, it is stable. Everything is in its place, can’t move, on a strong foundation, and people never like Shaytan and Shaytan’s followers.
And in Islam, there are never going to be elections, never going to be democracy, never going to be a republic. They are all batil® in Islam. But our people, Muslims, they are also deceived by shaytanic teachings; shaytanic ideas are just running through the Muslim world, also. May Allah forgive us!
Therefore, we began today by saying that at least some- times consider yourself to be nothing. If you do not really mean it, still say, “I am nothing.” Don’t trust degrees and don’t trust common people's support. Don’t believe com-
"Arabic: batil, False, baseless, vain, futile.
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mon people. At any time they may take their support from you and you will fall down, never getting up, standing up— finished, so many people.
That is the main treatment for all people on earth now—for everyone to say, “I am nothing.” When everyone accepts to say “I am nothing,” they can improve and they are going to be supported by heavenly support. They are not in need of the support of people on earth. No; support from Heavens, no one can take it away. But people are de- ceived and they are asking for support from people. Sup- port from people is like a candy cane for a building. A tuilding can stand with it? Never! So many people are just falling down in such a way, deceived by Shaytan.
Therefore, O people, come and say, “I am nothing. I am only a servant created by the Lord of Heavens. I am His servant and my honour is to be His servant. His ser- vanthood is my highest degree, highest honour.” That will clean the whole world and make them victorious over evil and devils. If not, they are going to be ground up and fin- ish.
May Allah forgive us and send His blessings for all na- tions to come and “itiraf, admit, truth and ask for true ones. for the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #%—Fateha! &
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Avudhw bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. — Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la guwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- ‘Altyi-l-“Azheem.
This is an Association. It is not a lecture, it is not a uni- versity classroom. This place is a free place. We are trying to reach people's hearts, and that is the most important point—to reach people's hearts.
The most important point—and the mission of all the prophets concerned that point—is to reach to people's hearts and carry them to their Lord. As a mithal, example, if a thief steals something and runs away, the owner runs after him to save what he has taken and run away with.
Now, at the beginning of mankind, when Adam and Eve were sent down from Paradise to earth, Shaytan was also kicked down. And a warning came to Adam and Eve: “Beware of your enemy because he is running after you to
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steal what you have been granted from My Divine Presence,"™
From that day on, Shaytan has been running after the children of Adam to steal what they were granted by their Lord, while he was prevented, he was not granted that hon- out. Then Shaytan was thinking and reaching everywhere todestroy everything for Bani Adam, the Children of Adam.
He wanted that honour to be granted to him, and when Allah Almighty did not grant it to him, he was very angry and began to argue in the Divine Presence. And Allah Al- mighty said, “Go away, demon!” You are not one to argue inMy Divine Presence. Kick him down, O angels!”
Falling down, falling down. And as a cat always lands on four feet, never upright, he turned like this and stood on the earth, and said, “I am here, also. O Adam, I will not let you and your children be at rest to taste that honour here, andl am going to try to take that honour from you. As I have been mahrum, deprived, of that honour, I will not let you taste that honour, either in this life or the next life.”
Therefore, at his first step on earth, he declared war on Adam and his descendants. “I am that one who has come to steal that most precious grant from your Lord” — edepsiz,% not saying “my Lord”! “Your Lord’s grant, I am going to
"See 2:36, 38; 7:11-27; 20:117, 123; 28:15; 35:6; 36:60; 43:62. Also see 2:168- 109 208; 6:142; 12:5; 17:53, 17:53; 18:50
"73, 18. “Mannerless. This refers to 7:20, in which Shaytan, while urging Adam and Eve to eat from the forbidden tree, cunningly refers to Allah Almighty as “your Lord,“ instead of “my Lord” or “our Lord.”
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steal it from you. I tried and I made it so that you were thrown down from Paradise to earth, also.
“Now you are innocent.” I can’t do anything to you, But your children will not be innocent. Therefore, I shall try todo my worst to you and to your children, to make your heart drip blood from sorrow. I shall do this.” And from that day up to today, he has never tired or gotten fed-up, always with us everywhere.
I am asking so many people, Wahhabi people, also, “Do you think that the Prophet % is everywhere” “O Shaykh, don’t say that! Shirk!'®' If you are saying that, itis shirk.”
Another question to Wahhabi people: “What do you think about Shaytan? Do you think that there is any place where he is not present?”
They are surprised, astonished. “How can you ask this? He is everywhere!”
“Ah! For Shaytan to be everywhere is not shirk. But if the Prophet # is everywhere, siirk.” [Laughter.] In sucha way, you have been deceived by Shaytan.
“Meaning that Adam and Eve had repented and were forgiven. More- over, their sin was one of forgetfulness, not of deliberate disobedience, '4:118-120; 7:16-17; 15:39-40; 17:53, 62, 64; 18:50; 38:82-83.
Arabic: Shirk, the greatest sin in Islam, that of ascribing divinity or its attributes to other than Allah. But according to Islamic belief, while prophets experience bodily death like all human beings, they are alive with Allah in the spiritual world.
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Such wrong things from Arabs! IsI am began with them, and then they became destroyers of IsI am as the Last Days approached,. They are blaming us because of our beliefs, and] am saying to them, “We are ‘ajam,""? we are not Arabs. You are Arabs, from around the Seal of the Prophets *, and faking from him and bringing to our places those books from which we are learning about beliefs. They are not from ourselves, Why are you now blaming Pakistani peo- ple, Afghan people, Turkish people and foreign people who are Muslims, and saying, ‘All of you are on the wrong way’?
Did we bring IsI am or take it from you?”
In such a way, during the twentieth century, Arabs did their worst for Islam, and every curse that is now coming on them and from them to the whole Islamic world, they are responsible for it. We are not responsible, no. We are Alilus Sunnah wal-Jama‘ah,! never changing, but they are bringing accusations of “Bid‘a, bid‘a.”"'"™
“O Shaykh, if you say salat wa salam” —giving your best respect to the Prophet # by saying, “As-salat wa-s-salaim ‘aliyka, ya Rasul-Allah,” after the adhan '°—they they are say- ing, “Bid‘a, bid‘a!”
“This adhan is just called for the honour of that Prophet! What does it do to you if I say, ‘As-salat wa-s-saI am ‘alayka, ya "Arabic: ‘ajam , non-Arabs,
"Arabic: Ahlus Sunnah wal-Jama‘ah, the people of the Prophet's Sicnal and Congregation, Le, Sunni Muslims.
“Arabic: Bid’a, an innovation or something unprecedented in religion, a heretical doctrine or practice.
“That is, to observe the tradition of saying, “Peace and blessings be upon you, O Messenger of Allah,” after the call to prayer.
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Rasul-Allak’? Where do you find that it is haramt' or bid‘a?’ They are allu-l-bid‘al” But now they have reached ripeness, finished!" If com grows and gives ears, no matter how much water you give it, itdoes not grow more. Its final goal is the ear’s coming into existence, and if you cut that ear, it will not grow again and bring another ear. That is their method. They are ablu-l- bid‘a!
But IsI am is like a tree. Y‘uti ukulaha kulla hin? At every time, you can find fruits on that tree. If cutting the fruits, the tree is not going to go. The tree will live for the next year, to bring other fruits, more and more.
Then, Shaytan is reaching everywhere, and never get- ting fed-up and never getting to be tired, to steal what man- kind have been granted by their Lord—the most precious jewel, diamond. And he is making thousands and thov- sands of tricks and putting thousand and thousand of traps for mankind to fall into and to steal it, subhanallah! And A\- lah Almighty sent the first man, Adam, as the first prophet, as the first advisor and nadhir, warner, to mankind, to say, “Beware of Shaytan!”
People are writing on their doors, “Beware of the dog.” I am saying, “What is this? Why do you not write ‘Beware
"Arabic: haram, prohibited, forbidden.
Arabic: ahlu--bid’a , people of innovation. Those who create new forms of worship which have no bases in Islam.
“Meaning that such accusations cannot grow past the present level. "It produces its fruit all the time.” (14:25)
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of Shaytan’?” Always after dogs, “Beware of dogs, beware
of dogs!" This miskin, poor, dog —what is it doing? And it is tied up, threatening people and sometimes attacking them, but people can defend themselves and escape. But I have never seen anyone writing, “Beware of Shaytan, be- ware of Diablo!”
That is the most important aspect, the most important point in the lives of mankind to know, to learn, and to try to protect themselves from Shaytan because Shaytan is run- ning after everyone to steal his most precious diamond. Do you think that if thieves find a special and very expensive ring on a hand, they will leave it on that hand?
Satan is running behind, to steal everyone’s diamond. And the Lord of Heavens sent to the children of Adam spe- cial people who are in connection with Heavens to save what has been stolen from them, their most precious dia- monds That is the mission of all prophets, nothing else. Everything that prophets brought is a prevention or a pro- tection for mankind so that their most precious jewel that is granted to them by Allah Almighty may not be st
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