Breaths from beyond the Curtain (Shaykh Nazim, 135 pages, 8/13)
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are leaving insha‘Allah'?' to Turkey.
Turks were for IsI am like feet for a body, and Arabs were like the head. But a head without feet can’t move. Therefore, for Muslim Arabs, Allah Almighty appointed Turkish people in Central Asia, and He prepared them for Islam. They accepted IsI am and they did their best for Islam.
Up to 1924, Turks were Ottomans;'” their real identity was Ottoman. Then the name of Ottomans was changed to
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turkey’ and “Turkish”. Up to that time we were Otto- mans, and the Ottoman Empire carried the holy flag of Say- yidina Muhammad #.'° Then the Young Turks, who were called Jinttirk,'*" a new Turkish movement, caused the Ot- toman Empire to finish, destroying the Empire and giving animitation title, “Turkish Republic,” to the Ottomans. !*
And they accepted a secular system and put IsI am aside. Since eighty years, they have cut their relationship with IsI am a hundred per cent. Up to that time, IsI am and itsholy flag was carried by the Ottomans, who were Muslim Turks. Now Turkey is not saying, “We are a Muslim coun-
“That is, belonging to the Ottoman Empire, so named for Sultan Osman (athirteenth century Central Asian Turk.
“Referring to the Prophet's flag, which, together with other sacred relics of the Prophet %, is housed in Topkap: Museum in Istanbul.
“A group of Turkish ‘progressives’ of the early twentieth century who atolled nationalism and espoused the democratization and seculariza- ton of Turkey.
“Prior to 1924, there was no country known as Turkey. Anatolia, the Asian wing of what is now Turkey, and the European wing (Trakia or Thrace) were part of the Ottoman Empire, which included parts of the falkans, Egypt, most of North Africa, Palestine, Iraq, and the Arabian peninsula. The Empire's sultan (ruler), headquartered in Istanbul, was at the same time its caliph (head of the Muslim wmmah), and the Islamic Sunioh, Islamic law, was the law of the Empire. However, after the end of World War I, under the influence of the forces of Turkish nationalism, the attraction of Europeanization and the desire for ‘progress,’ the caliph- ateand sultanate were abolished. The former Ottoman Empire was parti- tioned among the victorious allies of World War I and replaced by the present-day Republic of Turkey, together with the nation-states of Egypt, litya, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Arab Emirates.
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try,” but it is saying, “We have a secular system." We no longer use the Shari‘ah. We have a parliament now, and par- liament makes the rules. We make those rules for our people.”
This is really a kluruj, departure, from Islam, and they are sailing in an unknown direction. They do not know where they will end. Now, as the Turkish Republic, they are astonished. “Where is our destination?” They have de- parted from the Islamic territory and they are saying, “We are now sailing freely. We are now free from the Shari‘ah, free from religious rules, free from the rules of the Holy Qur’an, free from the rules of Heavens. Now we are freely going across this ocean, anywhere we like.” And now they do not know where they are going. What is their destina- tion, they do not know.
Therefore, we are looking, and looking with wisdom, ‘ibret.7 You must see where they are going, they do not know. Every year or two, or every month, they are chang- ing their rulers, so that we may say their rulers are the new captains of their sailing vessel. Some people are saying, “We must go in this direction.” And at the same time they are keeping the opposition people on that sailing boat, and they are saying, “No. We must move in that direction.” Another party is saying, “No, this is the direction.”
They haven't any compass, they haven’t any map, they haven't any idea about any direction. They can just sail. They said only, “We must leave the harbour of Islam, we
"A clause in the constitution of Turkey states that secularism is the relig-
ion of the Turkish State,
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must go freely through this ocean. As we like, we may try any direction. Whatever we find, it is all right for us.” And now they are turning around in that ocean. They do not know in which direction they will go or what is their desti- nation. That is a big, big lesson for Turkish people, as well asforevery nation that follows them.
IsI am is stable. It has a stable base, a strong base. IsI am isbased on a heavenly base, but the new generations have rected it, and they are now looking for a base and not find- ingit. And itis impossible to find. Finished!
Weare saying that Allah Almighty just granted IsI am to our ancestors in ma wara‘u-n-nahar,?® Central Asia. They axepted IsI am with love and utmost respect. Perhaps no other nation respected and carried the holy flag of the Prophet # as they did. Those, our ancestors from Central Asia, carried it for one thousand years because Allah Al- mighty just appointed those Asian people, the ancestors of these Turkish people, as the ‘feet’ for Islam. And Islam spread and went on.
Those people who come from Anatolia now,'* they know nothing because it is prohibited for them to know Is- im, Itis banned. IsI am has been banned in Turkey since '%4. For sixty, seventy, eighty years, IsI am has been “Licrily, “What is beyond the (Oxus) river,” i.e., the Central Asian re- Bens, known as Transoxiana. “The Turkish mainland.
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banned, and everything in the name of IsI am is banned, also. And they did their worst for Islam.™
Now punishment is coming on them. Those who did that should be punished; they should be punished! Now the time is coming. And every nation among the Islamic na- tions, also.
First, Arabs are going to be punished because they first did thanet,'"' putting IsI am down and asking for another sys- tem. And Arabs know, through their language, that Allah Almighty is saying, “Wa man I am yahkum bima anzala-Llahu, fa-ula’‘ika hhumu-l-kafirun’?—those who change Shariat- Allah, the holy rules that Allah sent to them from Heavens, they are unbelievers.” Arabs know. They recite the Holy Qur'an,
The first believers were Arabs. The first unbelievers now are Arabs. It is not permissible for them to follow Europeans or Western people, and to change Shari‘at-Allah, the holy commands and holy rules from Heavens, and to bring parliaments and elections —to do such foolishness.
Europeans and Western people can do that because in Christianity there are no rules for dunya, worldly affairs, and "While a formal, limited version of IsI am authorized by the Turkish gov- ernment exists in Turkey, the expression of Islam's beliefs and the obser- vance of its practices is surrounded by official limitations and prohibi- tions, "Ar, Khiyana, treachery, betrayal.
"And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, then it is those who are the unbelievers,” (5:44)
Mshart‘ah/Shari‘at, the sacred law of Islam, derived primarily from the Holy Qur'an and the Prophet's Sunnah (practice),
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sorules for governments. But Allah Almighty sent to Mus- lims to wmmati-Muhammad, the nation of Sayyidina Mu- hummad #, such rules that no one can remove them from their centers. But first Arabs and then Turks removed them and brought a parliamentary system from the Europeans.
They are saying “Democracy!” No democracy in Islam! Democracy means that power should be in the hands of the people,"* while IsI am says that all power is in the hands of Allah Almighty. How can you do this?
Only Allah can do this! You are not allowed, you can’t make laws, rules for people, no.* Only Allah Almighty can snd them. He sent His Shari‘ah, ruling His servants up to Yom ul-Qiyamah, the Day of Resurrection.
‘Turks are saying, “Turkish Republic, secular system.” Gut what about Iranian people? They are saying, “Iranian \lamic Republic.” How can it be—how? Parliament means that people put the rules.
No rights for servants to make rules! Making rules is only for Allah. He can make rules for His servants; servants cnt make their rules for themselves. What is this foolish- ws? And they are saying, “O-oh, Iranian Islamic Repub- lic’ Masha'Allah! Which book is writing this? How can that be?
“That is legislating and judging according to the man-made notions of Peple rather than by the sacred laws revealed in the Qur’an by the di- ‘ee Law-Giver and Ruler of the universe, and proclaimed and exempli- {udby His Last Prophet %.
"Ye, res governing principles, values, morals, famly life, interpersonal ‘© intemational relations, what is permissible and prohibited, etc.
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And Arabs—so many republics and dictators among Arabs. How are they understanding? They are understand- ing that the feet are the head and the head is the feet. What is this foolishness, what is this kufr,! while Allah is saying, “Wa man I am yahkun bima anzala-Llalu fa-ula‘ika hiumu-l- kafirun; those who do not obey heavenly rules, they are kuf- far, They are not Muslims, they are not believers. I am not accepting anything from them till they leave that wrong way. Poor Pakistani people, what should they say? [Chuckles.] Pakistani people are saying, “We do not understand Arabic, and we have brought Musharraf Khan or another Khan or another general to power.” A general, what does he understand of the Holy Qur'an, what does he understand of the Shari‘ah? He is a soldier, a general. What is this?
And so many ‘ulama'” in Pakistan; so many groups— Minhaj al-Islam, Tablighi Jama‘at and other groups, Muslim jama‘ats,"* so many tariqahs—all of them saying nothing, and a general comes and sits? What is this? What is the place of a general to come and be President? How can it be? They have an excuse because they are not Arabs. They do not know. But what about Egyptians, what about Libyans, what about so many Arab countries?
And foolish Pakistanis and other groups that are claim- ing, “We are Muslims,” are defending the Dictator of Baghdad, Iraq, saying he is mazhlum, oppressed. How are you saying this? What is your proof? That person is also a gen-
“*Unbelief, denial of truth. Kuffar—unbelievers. Islamic scholars, "Groups, associations,
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eal. What is his position in front of the Shari‘ah? If the Suriait brought a case against them, calling them for judg- ment, all of them should be killed, should be thrown into Hells,
But this is the time of fasad.'° The khalifah, caliph, has gone, and now they are asking Allah Almighty to help them. But Allah never helps a zhalim, an oppressor. “In tan- sirt-Llah, yansurkum.”" Therefore, if other Muslims’ pun- shment is one, Arabs’ punishment is seven times, and nar, fire, is beginning to burn the kufr of Arabs, from Baghdad.
All awliya, saints, are against them, and now everywhere there is coming the end of their periods, one by one. One by one they should be burned, till the Mehdi" #£! comes.
American Muslims are saying, “We can never reach any power.” Spanish people are saying that, also; Germans are sying it, also. No. They haven’t any responsibility, but re- sponsibility is, first of all, on Turks or Arabs, or on Arabs, then Turks, both of them. Nationalism has made them go qtof islam. IsI am gathers, while nationalism parcels and sparates. Yes.
Therefore, now, first the Islamic world is not going, to find a way. They are still asking for salvation, to bring a so- ‘uton for their problems through Western rules. It is im- posible! An axe is just coming on all Arabs, all Muslim Countries.
“Comuption, depravity, wickedness, immorality.
“ypu [believers] support Allah, He will support you.” (47:7)
“The divinely-appointed leader whose coming, at the End-Time of this “orld prior to the second coming of Jesus 6! is mentioned in numerous
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And also for the global problems of this world, if people do not come to Islam, they are never going to find solutions, whether Germans, English, French, Italians, Americans, Chinese, Japanese. They have money but they haven't any solution for their problems. And they understand now that it is not enough only to have a thousand tons of gold reserves or to change their monies into another name, euros or pounds or dollars. They may have trillions, but trillions of dollars can’t bring a solution to their problems.
They must understand! Now they are finished. Impos- sible, till they say, “O our Lord, You are our Lord. We are asking to follow Your rules.” If not, they should be ground up, they should be taken away, and dunya should be cleaned.
May Allah forgive us and send us, from His powers, au- thorized lions, who, if you look at them, your heart will tremble, your feet can’t stand up. I am asking from the Lord of Heavens to send them to us, to show those foolish people what is the power of iman,'? what is the power of believing in Allah Almighty, what is the honour and power of those who are servants of the Lord of Heavens—to tremble, to come and say, “You must be our rulers, according the rules of our Lord.”
No way now for all the world. Globally; it is closed down, locked. May Allah forgive us and send us Mehdi #! Fateha, for the honour of the most honoured one!
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Heh! I was asking to speak to our Turkish people in Turkish. This is for Arabs and all the world’s people —for thewhole world, I am here, insha‘allah; 1am here. What I am saying, is the truth; this is the truth. And we are asking for a truth de- fender and we are asking for true ones to be sent, to take the rinsof everything on earth. Otherwise, people are rubbish now; those who do not use heavenly rules; they are rubbish inthe Divine Presence. No value for them. They should be armed to the dustbin.
Beware, O people! You must understand. And ask from Allah Almighty to send us quickly His lions. When lions come, jackals quickly run away. Bismillahi-r-Ralimani-r-Raheem, If they do not believe, I amhere, looking at them, what they can do.
Oh, UN, U.N., United Nations! [Chuckles.] Each day Shaytan is coming, and they are making Shaytan the chairman inthe U.N. His title is “Doctor Shaytan, Ph.D.” [laugh- fer), the Chairman of U.N., sitting. Others are sitting down. They are not looking and see- inghim, sitting above them and saying, “I am the Chairman, the real Chairman, not An-am Man-am.'** No; I am here! What Isay in his ear, he must say, he must say. He can’t say anything else!”
tary-General of
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May Allah forgive us and bless you! You understand, Pakistani people? Pakistani people, 125 million. And Bang- ladesh is also 150 million, and they used a lady to be imam, masha’Allah! For so many years they were ‘praying’ behind a lady."® [Laughter.]
Pakistan, also—Benazir, a lady. “It is good to get up and make a khufbah.”"* [Laughter.] How many ‘ulama do they claim, while putting Benazir to be their imam and she was ruling them? A woman can’t be the imam of a masjid.'® Then how can she be imam for 125 million Pakistani people?
Then they were fed-up with her and brought a soldier. Because their ‘ulama, half of them, are in love with money, from wherever money comes, it is all right. Some of them are also heedless; they do not know what they are doing what should be. And Indian Muslims are in another situa- tion, everywhere. There are 150 millions Muslims in India, but many of them are either ignorant or heedless people. Like a flock, whereever shepherds send them, they go. Alla Allah Allah! Fateha."*
"Leader; specifically, the leader of a congregational prayer. 6A subtle comment on the fact that, although women may not lead a congregational prayer in which men are present, both Bangladesh and Pakistan, preominantly Muslim nations, have been ruled by female heads-of-state.
‘Sermon. Mosque.
“For the honor of [Surat-] al-Fateha.
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‘OMANKIND, YOU HAVE BEEN HONOURED!”
Avdhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajim. Bismillahi-r-Rehmani-r-Raheem.
As He likes. We are living under His Mercy Oceans. Weare humble servants to the Lord of Heavens, the Lord of Adam, the Lord of Abraham, the Lord of Moses, the Lord of \esus Christ, the Lord of Muhammad, peace be upon them, and the Lord of all prophets and saints and all creation.
We are created to be His servants, and the Lord of mankind who created us and honoured us to be His deputes on earth, He is asking from us, from the children of Adam, to be His loyal servants.
He, Almighty, honoured them to be His honourable servants, not ordinary servants, and those who are His ser- vants, no doubt they are honourable servants, not ordinary ones, Servanthood to the Lord of Heavens, that is the high servanthood for everyone, and every creature wants to reach that most honoured servanthood. But that highest honour of being servants to the Lord of Heavens is granted nly to the children of Adam.
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Angels are honourable servants, but their levels are dif- ferent from the levels of the Children of Adam. We are be- lievers in holy books and in all the prophets who have been sent by Heavens. Some of them we may know and some others we do not know, also, And we have been ordered by the Lord of Heavens to believe in Him, in His existence, in His dominions, and no one can imagine the greatness of His Dominion Oceans. Everything that is in existence, beside the Lord’s Dominion Oceans, is nothing.
You may imagine there to be a universe millions and trillions of times [bigger], but it is going to be only a very small point. It is not a real thing because real existence is only for Allah. Everything is in His magnificent and glori- ous Dominion Oceans. No one can imagine His greatness— impossible! As much as you may think about His Great- ness, our imagination is only imagination, and imagination is not Reality. Therefore, mankind will always remains at their imagination level. What they are imagining about His Greatness is only imagination; it is not Reality.
Therefore, we have been honoured to know about His existence and to believe in His Unity, in His Oneness, in His unlimited Power Oceans and unlimited Dominion Oceans. No one can think about it or imagine it! As we said, every- thing that we know about Him is according to our imagination power, and imagination is never going to be real exis- tence.
He is the Creator. He is the Creator and we are crea- tures. As much as He grants to us, even through our imagi- nation, it is enough for us to be happy, to be lighted, to be honoured, to be glorious in His divine servanthood, so that the highest honour is granted to those who accept His servanthood.
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Each prophet and each messenger who came called people to accept that honourable servanthood to their Lord. The entire world is nothing, and all prophets warned man- kind not to be cheated by the tricks of Shaytan. If anyone acepts prophets’ invitation to their Lord, the Lord of Heav- es promises them to be with His endless dominions for eemity, for eternal honour in thee eternal life. Therefore, to te Muslim means surrendering and accepting the honour- able servanthood to the Lord of Heavens, whose Names are countless. And we know that His most honoured Name is ‘Allah’,
We are asking from Allah to be as He likes—as we said, fo accept to be His servants, honoured servants. But Shay- fanis cheating people and taking them away from His ser- vanthood to the dirtiest slavery to this life. For a very short fime [of temporary freedom and enjoyment], people are los- ing that endless honour and honourable servanthood to the Divine Presence.
I am sorry to say that people now are not looking at the ral mission of all the prophets. They think that the Last Message coming from Heavens is different from others. No! \tisa continuous message from the beginning, from Adam upto the end, up to Sayyidina Muhammad, peace be upon himand upon them. But they think that the mission of the Sal of the Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad 35, was another mission.
No. Adam called people, his children, to Allah. And then Noah called people to their Lord, to Allah, but they es- ted. Abraham, also, he called people to their Lord, to heir Lord's honourable servanthood, but they refused. And
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Moses called Pharaoh and his nation to accept the most honoured and honourable servanthood, but they escaped. Jesus Christ’s mission was also to call people to his Lord and to their Lord’s most honoured and honourable ser- vanthood,'” but they escaped and wanted to kill him, and his Lord saved him.'™ And Sayyidina Muhammed, the Seal of Prophets, was on the same line, no difference.
I am speaking to those people who have never heard about the mission of Sayyidina Muhammad %. Therefore, | am making clear for everyone that each prophet’s mission was to call people to the most honoured and honourable servanthood in their Lord’s Divine Presence, and to be granted eternal life, eternal honour, eternal light forever, Therefore | am, as a humble servant, calling now to all the world’s people, who are fighting among themselves for nothing.
Nations are making wars for nothing, and true relig- ion, the mission of prophets, never accepted wars or fight ing. Even if it is necessary, wars are only against devils, against Shaytan, whom they are opposing —the most terrible and dangerous enemies of the children of Adam, who want to cheat them, to keep them from reaching that endless hon- our, wanting people to be thrown into Hells as they are going to be thrown.
Therefore, now I am sorry to say that people, like Christians, Jews, even Muslims, are forgetting the real mis-
"Indeed, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. This is a straight path,” (3:51, 19:36, 43:64) These and numerous other verses make it clear that Jesus was a prophet like others, who never claimed divinity for him- self,
1993;54-55; 4:157-158, 5:117/120 in Yusuf Ali’s translation.
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sion of their prophets and fighting each other. We are not happy with them; the Lord of Heavens is also not happy with them. The Lord of Heavens is saying, “O mankind, to bein peace is the greatest honour,'*! here and Hereafter. Keep peace among yourselves. Don’t call for dunya, for this world, because this world and everything on it or under is nol for anyone.”
Everyone leaves it and goes. Don’t quarrel, don’t fight other nations and one another because it is foolishness. ltisnot going to be for anyone. You must try to reach the pleasure of your Lord. That is the whole mission of proph- ets.
Thank you for attending , for your attention to these fw words. We may speak about it for hours and days, but ilisenough. If we give a small message to all people, we are thankful to our Lord, Almighty Allah. As-salamu ‘alaikwm,'*? greetings to every believer! Thank you.
““Assilt Ihair, peace/reconciliation is best.” (4:128) “Pea be upon you,” the Islamic greeting.
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THE OTTOMAN ISLAMIC LEGACY
Yaumun mubarak!" It is a holy day in the holy month, Muharram, Muharram ul-Haram.'* Today is the ninth of Muharram, tomorrow the tenth. May Allah open from His endless Mercy Oceans and endless Blessing Oceans for His most beloved servant's ummah,'* ummata Muhammad #.
May Allah forgive us and send His heavenly support for His weak servants. The weakest servants, as we are see- ing, are Muslims. Everywhere, unbelievers; everywhere, atheist people; everywhere, satanic trips and traps are filling East and West. And Muslims are bewildered, confused about what they can do because there is no help for them.
'SA blessed day. ‘Holy Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. The tenth of Muharram is especially sacred for Muslims, Faith community, nation.
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Since eighty years, no help for Islam—finished! It is re- corded that on this day, the last khalifa’s Jum“ah'* ceremony look place in Asithane in Istanbul in 1924. This day was the list Friday ceremony, that had continued for six hundred years—finished. And look what was the situation when they left the Ottomans’ way and said, “We are Turks”? — what happened to them, going up or going down? Since eighty years, they have never gone up but have gone down.
And the Islamic world, also, when the Joéntirks threw cut the caliph of the Islamic world, no Islamic country —not even Hijaz or Egypt or Damascus or Baghdad or India or any other Islamic country —welcomed the last khalifa, and he was obliged to go to Europe as a multaji, refugee, going and waiting for them to help him and support him.
When the caliph passed away, he was madyun.'* He fad taken a loan from someone in Europe and he wasn’t able to pay back his debt; and that person said, “I will hold thecaliph’s body till you pay his debt.” So they fell down, those Turks, Young Turks. And someone collected and gave back that debt and took his body, and he is buried in Friday, the day of obligatory congregational worship in Islam. The last ‘ullan-caliph was Abdel-Mecid???.
"Tor centuries, the Ottoman Empire had been the home, and even a ha- ven, for people of many different ethnicities and religions, whose rights Were honoured and guaranteed by the Islamic Shari‘ah. But when the Enpire was abolished and the nation of Turkey (Tiirkiye) established, the ‘ator, its policies and national interests replaced God as the ultimate
Sure of authority and object of loyalty. “deb
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Damascus in the mosque of Sultan Selim,'® the caliph’s an. cestor who had conquered Damascus and Egypt.
Six hundred years earlier, Sultan Selim had reached Cairo. And he had with him the Shareef!® of Makkatu-l- Mukarramah,'*' who brought the hol
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are leaving insha‘Allah'?' to Turkey.
Turks were for IsI am like feet for a body, and Arabs were like the head. But a head without feet can’t move. Therefore, for Muslim Arabs, Allah Almighty appointed Turkish people in Central Asia, and He prepared them for Islam. They accepted IsI am and they did their best for Islam.
Up to 1924, Turks were Ottomans;'” their real identity was Ottoman. Then the name of Ottomans was changed to
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turkey’ and “Turkish”. Up to that time we were Otto- mans, and the Ottoman Empire carried the holy flag of Say- yidina Muhammad #.'° Then the Young Turks, who were called Jinttirk,'*" a new Turkish movement, caused the Ot- toman Empire to finish, destroying the Empire and giving animitation title, “Turkish Republic,” to the Ottomans. !*
And they accepted a secular system and put IsI am aside. Since eighty years, they have cut their relationship with IsI am a hundred per cent. Up to that time, IsI am and itsholy flag was carried by the Ottomans, who were Muslim Turks. Now Turkey is not saying, “We are a Muslim coun-
“That is, belonging to the Ottoman Empire, so named for Sultan Osman (athirteenth century Central Asian Turk.
“Referring to the Prophet's flag, which, together with other sacred relics of the Prophet %, is housed in Topkap: Museum in Istanbul.
“A group of Turkish ‘progressives’ of the early twentieth century who atolled nationalism and espoused the democratization and seculariza- ton of Turkey.
“Prior to 1924, there was no country known as Turkey. Anatolia, the Asian wing of what is now Turkey, and the European wing (Trakia or Thrace) were part of the Ottoman Empire, which included parts of the falkans, Egypt, most of North Africa, Palestine, Iraq, and the Arabian peninsula. The Empire's sultan (ruler), headquartered in Istanbul, was at the same time its caliph (head of the Muslim wmmah), and the Islamic Sunioh, Islamic law, was the law of the Empire. However, after the end of World War I, under the influence of the forces of Turkish nationalism, the attraction of Europeanization and the desire for ‘progress,’ the caliph- ateand sultanate were abolished. The former Ottoman Empire was parti- tioned among the victorious allies of World War I and replaced by the present-day Republic of Turkey, together with the nation-states of Egypt, litya, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Arab Emirates.
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try,” but it is saying, “We have a secular system." We no longer use the Shari‘ah. We have a parliament now, and par- liament makes the rules. We make those rules for our people.”
This is really a kluruj, departure, from Islam, and they are sailing in an unknown direction. They do not know where they will end. Now, as the Turkish Republic, they are astonished. “Where is our destination?” They have de- parted from the Islamic territory and they are saying, “We are now sailing freely. We are now free from the Shari‘ah, free from religious rules, free from the rules of the Holy Qur’an, free from the rules of Heavens. Now we are freely going across this ocean, anywhere we like.” And now they do not know where they are going. What is their destina- tion, they do not know.
Therefore, we are looking, and looking with wisdom, ‘ibret.7 You must see where they are going, they do not know. Every year or two, or every month, they are chang- ing their rulers, so that we may say their rulers are the new captains of their sailing vessel. Some people are saying, “We must go in this direction.” And at the same time they are keeping the opposition people on that sailing boat, and they are saying, “No. We must move in that direction.” Another party is saying, “No, this is the direction.”
They haven't any compass, they haven’t any map, they haven't any idea about any direction. They can just sail. They said only, “We must leave the harbour of Islam, we
"A clause in the constitution of Turkey states that secularism is the relig-
ion of the Turkish State,
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must go freely through this ocean. As we like, we may try any direction. Whatever we find, it is all right for us.” And now they are turning around in that ocean. They do not know in which direction they will go or what is their desti- nation. That is a big, big lesson for Turkish people, as well asforevery nation that follows them.
IsI am is stable. It has a stable base, a strong base. IsI am isbased on a heavenly base, but the new generations have rected it, and they are now looking for a base and not find- ingit. And itis impossible to find. Finished!
Weare saying that Allah Almighty just granted IsI am to our ancestors in ma wara‘u-n-nahar,?® Central Asia. They axepted IsI am with love and utmost respect. Perhaps no other nation respected and carried the holy flag of the Prophet # as they did. Those, our ancestors from Central Asia, carried it for one thousand years because Allah Al- mighty just appointed those Asian people, the ancestors of these Turkish people, as the ‘feet’ for Islam. And Islam spread and went on.
Those people who come from Anatolia now,'* they know nothing because it is prohibited for them to know Is- im, Itis banned. IsI am has been banned in Turkey since '%4. For sixty, seventy, eighty years, IsI am has been “Licrily, “What is beyond the (Oxus) river,” i.e., the Central Asian re- Bens, known as Transoxiana. “The Turkish mainland.
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banned, and everything in the name of IsI am is banned, also. And they did their worst for Islam.™
Now punishment is coming on them. Those who did that should be punished; they should be punished! Now the time is coming. And every nation among the Islamic na- tions, also.
First, Arabs are going to be punished because they first did thanet,'"' putting IsI am down and asking for another sys- tem. And Arabs know, through their language, that Allah Almighty is saying, “Wa man I am yahkum bima anzala-Llahu, fa-ula’‘ika hhumu-l-kafirun’?—those who change Shariat- Allah, the holy rules that Allah sent to them from Heavens, they are unbelievers.” Arabs know. They recite the Holy Qur'an,
The first believers were Arabs. The first unbelievers now are Arabs. It is not permissible for them to follow Europeans or Western people, and to change Shari‘at-Allah, the holy commands and holy rules from Heavens, and to bring parliaments and elections —to do such foolishness.
Europeans and Western people can do that because in Christianity there are no rules for dunya, worldly affairs, and "While a formal, limited version of IsI am authorized by the Turkish gov- ernment exists in Turkey, the expression of Islam's beliefs and the obser- vance of its practices is surrounded by official limitations and prohibi- tions, "Ar, Khiyana, treachery, betrayal.
"And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, then it is those who are the unbelievers,” (5:44)
Mshart‘ah/Shari‘at, the sacred law of Islam, derived primarily from the Holy Qur'an and the Prophet's Sunnah (practice),
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sorules for governments. But Allah Almighty sent to Mus- lims to wmmati-Muhammad, the nation of Sayyidina Mu- hummad #, such rules that no one can remove them from their centers. But first Arabs and then Turks removed them and brought a parliamentary system from the Europeans.
They are saying “Democracy!” No democracy in Islam! Democracy means that power should be in the hands of the people,"* while IsI am says that all power is in the hands of Allah Almighty. How can you do this?
Only Allah can do this! You are not allowed, you can’t make laws, rules for people, no.* Only Allah Almighty can snd them. He sent His Shari‘ah, ruling His servants up to Yom ul-Qiyamah, the Day of Resurrection.
‘Turks are saying, “Turkish Republic, secular system.” Gut what about Iranian people? They are saying, “Iranian \lamic Republic.” How can it be—how? Parliament means that people put the rules.
No rights for servants to make rules! Making rules is only for Allah. He can make rules for His servants; servants cnt make their rules for themselves. What is this foolish- ws? And they are saying, “O-oh, Iranian Islamic Repub- lic’ Masha'Allah! Which book is writing this? How can that be?
“That is legislating and judging according to the man-made notions of Peple rather than by the sacred laws revealed in the Qur’an by the di- ‘ee Law-Giver and Ruler of the universe, and proclaimed and exempli- {udby His Last Prophet %.
"Ye, res governing principles, values, morals, famly life, interpersonal ‘© intemational relations, what is permissible and prohibited, etc.
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And Arabs—so many republics and dictators among Arabs. How are they understanding? They are understand- ing that the feet are the head and the head is the feet. What is this foolishness, what is this kufr,! while Allah is saying, “Wa man I am yahkun bima anzala-Llalu fa-ula‘ika hiumu-l- kafirun; those who do not obey heavenly rules, they are kuf- far, They are not Muslims, they are not believers. I am not accepting anything from them till they leave that wrong way. Poor Pakistani people, what should they say? [Chuckles.] Pakistani people are saying, “We do not understand Arabic, and we have brought Musharraf Khan or another Khan or another general to power.” A general, what does he understand of the Holy Qur'an, what does he understand of the Shari‘ah? He is a soldier, a general. What is this?
And so many ‘ulama'” in Pakistan; so many groups— Minhaj al-Islam, Tablighi Jama‘at and other groups, Muslim jama‘ats,"* so many tariqahs—all of them saying nothing, and a general comes and sits? What is this? What is the place of a general to come and be President? How can it be? They have an excuse because they are not Arabs. They do not know. But what about Egyptians, what about Libyans, what about so many Arab countries?
And foolish Pakistanis and other groups that are claim- ing, “We are Muslims,” are defending the Dictator of Baghdad, Iraq, saying he is mazhlum, oppressed. How are you saying this? What is your proof? That person is also a gen-
“*Unbelief, denial of truth. Kuffar—unbelievers. Islamic scholars, "Groups, associations,
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eal. What is his position in front of the Shari‘ah? If the Suriait brought a case against them, calling them for judg- ment, all of them should be killed, should be thrown into Hells,
But this is the time of fasad.'° The khalifah, caliph, has gone, and now they are asking Allah Almighty to help them. But Allah never helps a zhalim, an oppressor. “In tan- sirt-Llah, yansurkum.”" Therefore, if other Muslims’ pun- shment is one, Arabs’ punishment is seven times, and nar, fire, is beginning to burn the kufr of Arabs, from Baghdad.
All awliya, saints, are against them, and now everywhere there is coming the end of their periods, one by one. One by one they should be burned, till the Mehdi" #£! comes.
American Muslims are saying, “We can never reach any power.” Spanish people are saying that, also; Germans are sying it, also. No. They haven’t any responsibility, but re- sponsibility is, first of all, on Turks or Arabs, or on Arabs, then Turks, both of them. Nationalism has made them go qtof islam. IsI am gathers, while nationalism parcels and sparates. Yes.
Therefore, now, first the Islamic world is not going, to find a way. They are still asking for salvation, to bring a so- ‘uton for their problems through Western rules. It is im- posible! An axe is just coming on all Arabs, all Muslim Countries.
“Comuption, depravity, wickedness, immorality.
“ypu [believers] support Allah, He will support you.” (47:7)
“The divinely-appointed leader whose coming, at the End-Time of this “orld prior to the second coming of Jesus 6! is mentioned in numerous
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And also for the global problems of this world, if people do not come to Islam, they are never going to find solutions, whether Germans, English, French, Italians, Americans, Chinese, Japanese. They have money but they haven't any solution for their problems. And they understand now that it is not enough only to have a thousand tons of gold reserves or to change their monies into another name, euros or pounds or dollars. They may have trillions, but trillions of dollars can’t bring a solution to their problems.
They must understand! Now they are finished. Impos- sible, till they say, “O our Lord, You are our Lord. We are asking to follow Your rules.” If not, they should be ground up, they should be taken away, and dunya should be cleaned.
May Allah forgive us and send us, from His powers, au- thorized lions, who, if you look at them, your heart will tremble, your feet can’t stand up. I am asking from the Lord of Heavens to send them to us, to show those foolish people what is the power of iman,'? what is the power of believing in Allah Almighty, what is the honour and power of those who are servants of the Lord of Heavens—to tremble, to come and say, “You must be our rulers, according the rules of our Lord.”
No way now for all the world. Globally; it is closed down, locked. May Allah forgive us and send us Mehdi #! Fateha, for the honour of the most honoured one!
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Heh! I was asking to speak to our Turkish people in Turkish. This is for Arabs and all the world’s people —for thewhole world, I am here, insha‘allah; 1am here. What I am saying, is the truth; this is the truth. And we are asking for a truth de- fender and we are asking for true ones to be sent, to take the rinsof everything on earth. Otherwise, people are rubbish now; those who do not use heavenly rules; they are rubbish inthe Divine Presence. No value for them. They should be armed to the dustbin.
Beware, O people! You must understand. And ask from Allah Almighty to send us quickly His lions. When lions come, jackals quickly run away. Bismillahi-r-Ralimani-r-Raheem, If they do not believe, I amhere, looking at them, what they can do.
Oh, UN, U.N., United Nations! [Chuckles.] Each day Shaytan is coming, and they are making Shaytan the chairman inthe U.N. His title is “Doctor Shaytan, Ph.D.” [laugh- fer), the Chairman of U.N., sitting. Others are sitting down. They are not looking and see- inghim, sitting above them and saying, “I am the Chairman, the real Chairman, not An-am Man-am.'** No; I am here! What Isay in his ear, he must say, he must say. He can’t say anything else!”
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May Allah forgive us and bless you! You understand, Pakistani people? Pakistani people, 125 million. And Bang- ladesh is also 150 million, and they used a lady to be imam, masha’Allah! For so many years they were ‘praying’ behind a lady."® [Laughter.]
Pakistan, also—Benazir, a lady. “It is good to get up and make a khufbah.”"* [Laughter.] How many ‘ulama do they claim, while putting Benazir to be their imam and she was ruling them? A woman can’t be the imam of a masjid.'® Then how can she be imam for 125 million Pakistani people?
Then they were fed-up with her and brought a soldier. Because their ‘ulama, half of them, are in love with money, from wherever money comes, it is all right. Some of them are also heedless; they do not know what they are doing what should be. And Indian Muslims are in another situa- tion, everywhere. There are 150 millions Muslims in India, but many of them are either ignorant or heedless people. Like a flock, whereever shepherds send them, they go. Alla Allah Allah! Fateha."*
"Leader; specifically, the leader of a congregational prayer. 6A subtle comment on the fact that, although women may not lead a congregational prayer in which men are present, both Bangladesh and Pakistan, preominantly Muslim nations, have been ruled by female heads-of-state.
‘Sermon. Mosque.
“For the honor of [Surat-] al-Fateha.
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‘OMANKIND, YOU HAVE BEEN HONOURED!”
Avdhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajim. Bismillahi-r-Rehmani-r-Raheem.
As He likes. We are living under His Mercy Oceans. Weare humble servants to the Lord of Heavens, the Lord of Adam, the Lord of Abraham, the Lord of Moses, the Lord of \esus Christ, the Lord of Muhammad, peace be upon them, and the Lord of all prophets and saints and all creation.
We are created to be His servants, and the Lord of mankind who created us and honoured us to be His deputes on earth, He is asking from us, from the children of Adam, to be His loyal servants.
He, Almighty, honoured them to be His honourable servants, not ordinary servants, and those who are His ser- vants, no doubt they are honourable servants, not ordinary ones, Servanthood to the Lord of Heavens, that is the high servanthood for everyone, and every creature wants to reach that most honoured servanthood. But that highest honour of being servants to the Lord of Heavens is granted nly to the children of Adam.
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Angels are honourable servants, but their levels are dif- ferent from the levels of the Children of Adam. We are be- lievers in holy books and in all the prophets who have been sent by Heavens. Some of them we may know and some others we do not know, also, And we have been ordered by the Lord of Heavens to believe in Him, in His existence, in His dominions, and no one can imagine the greatness of His Dominion Oceans. Everything that is in existence, beside the Lord’s Dominion Oceans, is nothing.
You may imagine there to be a universe millions and trillions of times [bigger], but it is going to be only a very small point. It is not a real thing because real existence is only for Allah. Everything is in His magnificent and glori- ous Dominion Oceans. No one can imagine His greatness— impossible! As much as you may think about His Great- ness, our imagination is only imagination, and imagination is not Reality. Therefore, mankind will always remains at their imagination level. What they are imagining about His Greatness is only imagination; it is not Reality.
Therefore, we have been honoured to know about His existence and to believe in His Unity, in His Oneness, in His unlimited Power Oceans and unlimited Dominion Oceans. No one can think about it or imagine it! As we said, every- thing that we know about Him is according to our imagination power, and imagination is never going to be real exis- tence.
He is the Creator. He is the Creator and we are crea- tures. As much as He grants to us, even through our imagi- nation, it is enough for us to be happy, to be lighted, to be honoured, to be glorious in His divine servanthood, so that the highest honour is granted to those who accept His servanthood.
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Each prophet and each messenger who came called people to accept that honourable servanthood to their Lord. The entire world is nothing, and all prophets warned man- kind not to be cheated by the tricks of Shaytan. If anyone acepts prophets’ invitation to their Lord, the Lord of Heav- es promises them to be with His endless dominions for eemity, for eternal honour in thee eternal life. Therefore, to te Muslim means surrendering and accepting the honour- able servanthood to the Lord of Heavens, whose Names are countless. And we know that His most honoured Name is ‘Allah’,
We are asking from Allah to be as He likes—as we said, fo accept to be His servants, honoured servants. But Shay- fanis cheating people and taking them away from His ser- vanthood to the dirtiest slavery to this life. For a very short fime [of temporary freedom and enjoyment], people are los- ing that endless honour and honourable servanthood to the Divine Presence.
I am sorry to say that people now are not looking at the ral mission of all the prophets. They think that the Last Message coming from Heavens is different from others. No! \tisa continuous message from the beginning, from Adam upto the end, up to Sayyidina Muhammad, peace be upon himand upon them. But they think that the mission of the Sal of the Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad 35, was another mission.
No. Adam called people, his children, to Allah. And then Noah called people to their Lord, to Allah, but they es- ted. Abraham, also, he called people to their Lord, to heir Lord's honourable servanthood, but they refused. And
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Moses called Pharaoh and his nation to accept the most honoured and honourable servanthood, but they escaped. Jesus Christ’s mission was also to call people to his Lord and to their Lord’s most honoured and honourable ser- vanthood,'” but they escaped and wanted to kill him, and his Lord saved him.'™ And Sayyidina Muhammed, the Seal of Prophets, was on the same line, no difference.
I am speaking to those people who have never heard about the mission of Sayyidina Muhammad %. Therefore, | am making clear for everyone that each prophet’s mission was to call people to the most honoured and honourable servanthood in their Lord’s Divine Presence, and to be granted eternal life, eternal honour, eternal light forever, Therefore | am, as a humble servant, calling now to all the world’s people, who are fighting among themselves for nothing.
Nations are making wars for nothing, and true relig- ion, the mission of prophets, never accepted wars or fight ing. Even if it is necessary, wars are only against devils, against Shaytan, whom they are opposing —the most terrible and dangerous enemies of the children of Adam, who want to cheat them, to keep them from reaching that endless hon- our, wanting people to be thrown into Hells as they are going to be thrown.
Therefore, now I am sorry to say that people, like Christians, Jews, even Muslims, are forgetting the real mis-
"Indeed, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. This is a straight path,” (3:51, 19:36, 43:64) These and numerous other verses make it clear that Jesus was a prophet like others, who never claimed divinity for him- self,
1993;54-55; 4:157-158, 5:117/120 in Yusuf Ali’s translation.
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sion of their prophets and fighting each other. We are not happy with them; the Lord of Heavens is also not happy with them. The Lord of Heavens is saying, “O mankind, to bein peace is the greatest honour,'*! here and Hereafter. Keep peace among yourselves. Don’t call for dunya, for this world, because this world and everything on it or under is nol for anyone.”
Everyone leaves it and goes. Don’t quarrel, don’t fight other nations and one another because it is foolishness. ltisnot going to be for anyone. You must try to reach the pleasure of your Lord. That is the whole mission of proph- ets.
Thank you for attending , for your attention to these fw words. We may speak about it for hours and days, but ilisenough. If we give a small message to all people, we are thankful to our Lord, Almighty Allah. As-salamu ‘alaikwm,'*? greetings to every believer! Thank you.
““Assilt Ihair, peace/reconciliation is best.” (4:128) “Pea be upon you,” the Islamic greeting.
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Yaumun mubarak!" It is a holy day in the holy month, Muharram, Muharram ul-Haram.'* Today is the ninth of Muharram, tomorrow the tenth. May Allah open from His endless Mercy Oceans and endless Blessing Oceans for His most beloved servant's ummah,'* ummata Muhammad #.
May Allah forgive us and send His heavenly support for His weak servants. The weakest servants, as we are see- ing, are Muslims. Everywhere, unbelievers; everywhere, atheist people; everywhere, satanic trips and traps are filling East and West. And Muslims are bewildered, confused about what they can do because there is no help for them.
'SA blessed day. ‘Holy Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. The tenth of Muharram is especially sacred for Muslims, Faith community, nation.
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Since eighty years, no help for Islam—finished! It is re- corded that on this day, the last khalifa’s Jum“ah'* ceremony look place in Asithane in Istanbul in 1924. This day was the list Friday ceremony, that had continued for six hundred years—finished. And look what was the situation when they left the Ottomans’ way and said, “We are Turks”? — what happened to them, going up or going down? Since eighty years, they have never gone up but have gone down.
And the Islamic world, also, when the Joéntirks threw cut the caliph of the Islamic world, no Islamic country —not even Hijaz or Egypt or Damascus or Baghdad or India or any other Islamic country —welcomed the last khalifa, and he was obliged to go to Europe as a multaji, refugee, going and waiting for them to help him and support him.
When the caliph passed away, he was madyun.'* He fad taken a loan from someone in Europe and he wasn’t able to pay back his debt; and that person said, “I will hold thecaliph’s body till you pay his debt.” So they fell down, those Turks, Young Turks. And someone collected and gave back that debt and took his body, and he is buried in Friday, the day of obligatory congregational worship in Islam. The last ‘ullan-caliph was Abdel-Mecid???.
"Tor centuries, the Ottoman Empire had been the home, and even a ha- ven, for people of many different ethnicities and religions, whose rights Were honoured and guaranteed by the Islamic Shari‘ah. But when the Enpire was abolished and the nation of Turkey (Tiirkiye) established, the ‘ator, its policies and national interests replaced God as the ultimate
Sure of authority and object of loyalty. “deb
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Damascus in the mosque of Sultan Selim,'® the caliph’s an. cestor who had conquered Damascus and Egypt.
Six hundred years earlier, Sultan Selim had reached Cairo. And he had with him the Shareef!® of Makkatu-l- Mukarramah,'*' who brought the hol
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