Breaths from beyond the Curtain (Shaykh Nazim, 135 pages, 9/13)
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y keys of the Holy Ka‘bah and gave them to the sultan. And the Shareef said, “You are now the /iakim'® of the holy land.”
But when the khatib gave the klutbah'® in front of Sultan Selim and said, “Hakim al-Haramayn ash-Shareefayn,™ Sul- tan Selim said, “No!” And the Sultan stood up and said, “Correct your kKitutbah. Don't say ‘Hakim!’ Al-Hakim huwa Allah."© Instead, say, ‘The servant of the two holy mosques.’ Then I will accept.”
Sultan Selim was granted the holy amanat' from Mak- katu-l-Mukarramah that belonged to Rasul-Allah #—his flag, his sword, his turban and his clothes, several holy things. They were brought to Istanbul and put as amanat Yavuz Sultan Selim (1465-1520) was the first Ottoman caliph, who ex tended Ottoman rule to Mecca and Medina.
“The governor of Hijaz and its two holy mosques (al-Haramayn asl Shareefayn), Masjid al-Haram in Mecea and the Prophet's Mosque in Me dina, "Mecca the Honoured. ‘Ruler.
“Khatib: prayer leader; khutbah: sermon.
‘Ruler of the two sacred mosques,
"Don't say ‘Ruler. The Ruler is Allah,”
“Trust; that is, the sacred relics of the Prophet %, which are kept in Top:
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migdddisah.'” And when those holy things that had been jept in Makkatu-l-Mukarramah were brought, the sultans {in stanbul] looked after those holy things. And the su/tans ippointed twenty-four garis." For six hundred years, night ind day in that place, each one sat and recited the Holy Quran for one hour, not stopping it for six hundred years. Then those Jontiirks came and it finished.
Therefore, now, Muslims are repenting. But our ancesosdid this. They took the wrong way, wrong way. To fol- low Western countries is the wrong way. No; we have eve- ything, we have been granted everything. We are not in need to follow Western people.
What happened when we followed Western people?
We left everything that belonged to our culture, the Islamic tunth, heritage. And everything we left, they are taking. They are saying, “Westernized Muslims.” Western coun- tres are in kufr and we are Muslims. How are we putting fur with tman?™ Can‘t!
{Shaykh Nazim addresses converts:]| You are Muslim nw. Do you now accept the culture you had before Islam, that you grew up in, keeping it? No. You left it and came folslamic culture. But our foolish leaders who are destroy- ing IsI am and ghafil, heedless, Muslims are saying, “We must be like the West.”
"A sacred trust, “Reciters of the Qur’an, "Unbeliof with faith?
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Say, “We are not Muslim” —finished! Why are you car- tying IsI am with you? No! Change your name because you have changed everything else in your life, finished. No not leaving IsI am and saying, “We are Western people, like Western people.” No, can’t be!
Therefore | am saying that the weakest people are Mus- lims, who want to be free to keep their Lord’s commands, heavenly orders, but they are not given a chance, also. And Jam asking from Allah Almighty, who always helps during this holy month, Muharram.
On the tenth of Muharram, Adam = landed on earth from Paradise and Allah Almighty accepted his taubah, re- pentance, and forgave him. And on that day, Noah ® was saved from the Flood; Ibrahim 4!) was saved from fire of Nimrod; Sulaiman #4! was granted his sultanat; Moses #8 was saved from Pharaoh and passed through the sea; and Yunus, Jonah, ## got out of the /uit, whale. Each prophet was granted something on the day that is coming tomorrow, the tenth of Muharram. Divine power came to all the proph- ets and heavenly support came for Muslims. Therefore | am asking, “O our Lord, grant us a little bit of that support in order that we may lift up our heads.”
We are not walking on earth only like this [heads down], Everywhere they are accusing us. If they look and see a Muslim, they accuse him, saying, “That is a fundamen- talist, that is a terrorist.”
May Allah take them away and clean the world from satanic people, from devils and from evil! That is our only prayer, nothing else; nothing else. This only must be your goal. It is not a goal to reach the imitation titles of this life.
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finally, everything is going to be nothing. Millions of peo- peare under our feet. They are buried in cemeteries in so many places that are now fields, gardens, jungles or build- ings-finished!
A person's relative died and he was so sorry. And in his heart he asked Bahlul Dana—Bahlul Dana, a beloved me, a friend of the Prophet #—for the love of Allah Al- nighty and His Prophet and His friends, not for any love of tis life, this dirty life, saying, “O Bahlul, | am burying my moved one now. I am putting a stone. What do you think should be written on it?”
And Bahlul, that servant of Allah Almighty, laughed and id, “Oh! Write on it, ‘I am that one who yesterday vas walking on grass, and now grass is growing on me.’” Understand? “Yesterday I stepping on green grass but to- diy green prass is growing on me.”
O people, awliyas’ words are so sweet and full of wis- doms, That should be; that should be, finally. Therefore, tile more care of servanthood. Put servanthood first. Fulflit Then see what is written for you to do for getting /alal ‘iy, lawful provision.
Don't do anything at nighttime. Those people must kwe nighttime activities. Nighttime, after ‘Isha,'" the stole world must be in darkness, people asleep. As long as pple are living night life, finished. They are just in the "Te ith prayer of the day, observed at night.
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hands of devils. No peace for them, no happiness for them, here or under the earth or on the Day of Resurrection.
O people, we are calling you to the right way. Leave the wrong way! Those whom you see that are outside at nighttime are on the wrong way and they are followers of Shaytan.
May Allah forgive me! Perhaps now for fifteen days— no, no; perhaps for one month—I have not been able to ad- dress you, but during this holy month, our Grandshaykh is granting me a little bit of power to address you about what you are in need of. And you must try to ask for something that belongs to your eternal life. Don’t waste your time with such things that are going to finish today or tomorrow. Death is waiting for everyone. We don’t know when it will reach us, but we must try to reach Allah and He is happy with us.
May Allah forgive us! For the honour of the most hon- oured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad %—Fateha! &
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KNOWING YOURSELF
Audhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-r- Ratmani-r-Raheem.
Fora long time I have not come here, and I am in need ofarest. Today our South African brothers and sisters are coming and respected Professsor D’Costa is coming from theend of Africa, its farthest point.
Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem. Our imam, who is the mst important pillar in the Most Distinguished Nagshbandi Order, Shaykh Bahauddin Nagqshbandi, was sying that our tariqah is just built on association with the saykh, And if the shaykh is not ready to speak to people, tho who have been authorized by the shaykh to speak, to mile Association with people, that must be, even for a short time. If you can find the time in which you can milk two seep (that may take five minutes), you must not leave off Association, Iftwo brothers or sisters come together and they aren’t eto do anything else, one of them may say, “Ashhadu an
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la ilaha illa-Llah,”””! and the second may say, “Wa ana ashhadu anna Muhammadan ‘abduliu was rasulihu, salla-Lahu ‘alayht wa salam.”"7?
Ya Rabb, keep us on this true belief, so that, whoever keeps this, he may open his entrance to Paradise. No one can enter Paradise without using that key, the key of Heav- ens, the key of Paradises. What is that? “La ilaha illa-Llah, Muhammdan Rasul-Allah,”" and to say, “I am witnessing to the mawjudiyat, existence, and the Oneness of Allah Al- mighty who created everything and gives all things what they need.”
Nothing can be hidden from Allah Almighty— impossible, because He created everything. If He created, how is He not going to know? Nothing can be in existence if Allah Almighty does not put it in existence. Therefore, you may say, “Oh-ho! This atmosphere is full of atoms. Yes, we are breathing. How can He know what is coming in and what is going out?”
He must know, must know. Can't be hidden! If it is hidden, it means it has not come into existence. Don’t use your balance for Allah; no.'* He is the Creator, He is the Lord of everyone, of everything in existence. And every-
"I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah.”
'2"And I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His messenger, peace and blessings be on him.”
'50) Lord.
'“"There is no deity except Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” '"That is, an infinitesimal, human-sized scale of measurement or evalua- tion.
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hing is saying, “O my Lord, glory be to You!” Everything goniies Allah, and He knows, subhanallah! Don’t use you mesure to understand Allah Almighty. No, leave Him. joucan‘t understand the real being of an ant. Leave it!
Do you know yourself, who you are? You may say, “I am Shaykh Hasan.”
‘From where?” “From Germany.” That is your identity, yes? You know nothing else but yourself? Who are you? You are different from that wg and he is different from that one. Everyone has a spe- aalsiuation, special foundation, special identity. You are ont. There can’t be another one like you.
Who are you? How did you come? How do you live? tow will you leave this life? From where did you come? Do you think that you came from the womb of your miher? How did you enter in it, how did you come out?
Who are you? Today you are here. Tomorrow someone else will one you will disappear. A hundred years ago, no one ‘er was in existence. Now we are in existence. Tomorow that means in the coming fifty or sixty or one hundred /ats—none of us is going to be.
How did it happen? So many millions of people, they biedin the same area. Where are they? They have become ®aination, no reality. But there must be something of Real- "that comes, lives here, and leaves this life and goes away.
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There must be something in that imagination, there must be one point that belongs to Reality. What is that?
Men, in the twenty-first century, they do not leave the way of heedless people, letting themselves do as they like and going in nature or in space, and spending huge amounts of money and energy and effort. They want to go into space, making such instruments, rockets. They are say- ing, “We are going to go, to reach to a comet.”
“Which comet?”
“Any comet. Eh! We want to reach there.”
“Will you reach with your eyes?”
“No. We have put some instruments to look on our be- half.”
“Your eyes are much more important than that instru- ment’s looking, What is it that you want?”
They are saying, “We are trying to know the beginning of space, the beginning of our earth.” Such foolish people! What are you going to know? And everything has been sent from Heavens. Why are you not looking in the messages that the Creator of space and the universe sent to you, to look and to learn? What are you going to say? They are saying [parodies:] “The Big Bang theory is just getting old and getting to be out of date, going to be useless.
We must try to occupy the minds of people with another theory.” They are saying, “Oh, we looked at those comets
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that make up such planets. They go everywhere and they make up new-born worlds’ planets.”
What happened? Are you riding on a comet to take these new planets for yourself, registering them for the Americans or the Russians? The Americans’ rockets are going straight, Russians’ going like this and coming on tem. Therefore, the Russians are very unhappy. “Why this” And after a while, the Americans’ rockets are also going to disappear.
Look at yourself; ask about yourself! Why are you oc- cupying yourself with nonsensical things? “Who are you?” lamasking, “and what is your mission? Do you know it now, after sending those rockets up?” No. Look at yourself, io kam your identity and your mission. But people are working for Shaytan!
Professor D'Costa: Almost a hundred per cent of peo- pleare working for Shaytan now. Perhaps among one mil- lion, you may find ten or you may find one hundred, but ofers are all working for Shaytan. That is the source of troubles on earth, because Shaytan is trying to give trouble. And the first trouble-maker was Shaytan.
When Allah Almighty ordered him to make sajdah to Adam and he refused, he caused the first trouble in the heavenly existence, making angels and every creature there inhappy because he made trouble. And he is continuing up today, and he is going to make that trouble up to the end this life, Therefore, every trouble comes from Shaytan, Every touble that people are falling into, unsolved problems, are
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from Shaytan, Shaytan’s teaching. And as long as people are working for Shaytan, they are not going to reach peace on earth till the earth is destroyed with those people. As Allah destroyed the nation of Noah through the Flood, He is going to destroy all of Shaytan’s workers. When they are destroyed, our planet is going to be clean.
“When it is clean” means that the people on earth will work for Allah because our oath on the Day of Promises was, “O our Lord, we are going to work for Your ser- vanthood. We are not going to work for anyone else. That is our oath.” Now, everyone is forgetting that, and they are changing and saying, “We are working for Shaytan.”
May Allah forgive us!
O people, try to save yourself from the hands of devils, who are all representatives of Shaytan. Leave them; don’t give them any support. If you give your support, you will fall into sufferings and miseries.
Come to the friends of Allah.'” Try to be with them, to save yourself, to be clean, and try to clean from East to West, from North to South. Allah Almighty is promising whoever tries to do this, “I am is his supporter.” Don’t worry that you are only a handful of people. Doesn’t matter! If Allah is with you, you are victorious.
The Titanic, ma maghloub,'7* was never going to be de- feated; always a winner. Those who are with Allah are al- ways winners and victorious. We are asking humbly from our Lord, Almighty Allah, for the honour of the most hon-
Referring to 7:172. See footnote
'7 Awliya. 'Not defeated, vanquished, beaten.
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KEEPING ISLAMIC ORDERS
A‘udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-r- Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- ‘Altyi-l-‘Azheem.
As-salamu ‘alaykum! [Mureeds respond.] When saI am stopped, troubles came.'” IsI am came with its perfection, and every command is a way to perfection, Commands are for doing something or for leaving off something. Every command makes a way to perfection.
From the outside, it appears that servanthood is for our Lord. But really, the benefit of servanthood is for ourselves because Allah Almighty is not in need of any benefit. When He creates, He does not ask for any benefit from His crea- tures, Creatures expect from Him; He does not expect any- thing. If anyone glorifies Allah Almighty, He is in any case glorified from eternity to eternity; glory is among His divine siffat, attributes. All creatures’ glorifying is only such a small dot in His Glory Oceans.
'*That is, due to anti-Islamic propaganda, the Islamic greeting, ordered by Allah, has fallen into disuse among many Muslims as being backward, antiquated and foreign.
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Everything that you do is within limits, but what is withHim is unlimited. You may imagine all creatures’ glo- flying as bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger. But even if you megine that spot to be ten times bigger, a hundred times bgger, a thousand times bigger, millions, trillions, quadril- imsof times bigger, bigger, bigger, what is in it is this spot swithin limits. But around it there are unlimited oceans.
Therefore, every command that orders you, “Do this,” ty keep it. Don’t be lazy! Don’t follow your ego because wild, laziness, is the unchangeable characteristic of our g0s—uunchangeable!
Our ego wants to eat and to sleep. Always, [parodies], ‘Give fo me to eat and cover me to sleep”—the new
nalthib,"" new tariqah of egos that our youngsters are gowing up with, the new generation’s new lifestyle that feylike. “Oh! No work, but give us something to eat and ink Then put something on me to sleep.” And third Mawlana claps in rhythm], music, music.
Shaytan is asking for himself, “You, our Lord, You, the lord of the Heavens—You have given to Your prophets, sading them holy books, and they are singing with Your holy books. am asking for myself, also, for my followers, bhehappy with me,”
And the Lord of Heavens is saying, “I have just given wall the singers, musical people, who are making egos aiken, to get up and play, to dance and .. . [laughter].
Yes, everywhere! Look at that ‘Shaytan-box’! For iyenty-four hours young people are jumping, playing,
"“Shool of thought or jurisprudence.
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dancing, and those horns and drums are making Shaytan very happy, the Lord of Heavens saying, “All for you!” This is the new life-style that makes Shaytan very happy, getting the majority of people to follow him in such a way.
Those who are happy in such a way, they should be underground, and for their following shaytanic singing and playing, finally their tears are going to be blood and their teeth are going to be amr, fire, na‘udhu bil-Lah!'"
Atalet! Nafs, ego, never wants get up, only because laziness it is its real characteristic, real characteristic. And now that bad characteristic is finding a very suitable atmos- phere for itself everywhere.
People are free. They like to be, more lazy, and they are waiting, without doing anything, for everything to come to them for eating, drinking and dressing. That is their new way. They are not going to carry anything of their respon- sibility.
Therefore, you are seeing, in every country, young peo- ple running in the streets and asking for more freedom (what is ‘more freedom’?),or more money, more money, yaurmiya,"? a salary, saying, “It is very little. We want more!” They are asking only for their egos—to work fora short time and to be paid more. This is their idea: to work as short a time as possible but with a high, the highest salary. That is a trick of Shaytan’s.
"We seek refuge in Allah.
"Daily wages,
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All the world is running in the streets. They are saying, ‘Wedon't like this prime minister. Change him!” Running inanother country, saying, “I don’t like this president. Take him down!” In another country, “We must elect another on fo give us more freedom and the highest salaries.” And many of Shaytan’s representatives are saying, “Yes, I am thatone, Come to me! I shall give you the highest salary and the shortest working time.” And people are running iter him. “Oh, this is the best one, that is the best one.”
But that person, when sitting at his table after election, finds a book in front of him, saying, “Oh, please don’t give what you promised to your electors. Don’t give! If you gue, you will make them happy. Then there should be peace in your country. It is not our way to make peace among people. What you promised, don’t look after it! You continue like your salaf, predecessors. The one who was here before, he did the same thing. You must follow his way, not what you promised people, no!”
Then [chuckles], beginning after one day, one week, one month, they are waiting. When his promise is not fulfilled, then people are going to be very angry, saying, “Next elec- tion, we will take that one down and bring another one” —in suhaway. That is the shaytanic way.
The democratic system is just built on incorrect, wrong prociples; can’t be changed. Shaytan is trying not to give people peace, not just in Cyprus. No, everywhere. Shaytan fever wants peace to come to countries, to people. No, no!
Don't believe it! Therefore we are saying that every heavenly command
Srelly for your benefit, bringing, you to a peaceful area, to ‘peaceful life, to. an enjoyable life, to a lighted life, to an ex-
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cellent life standard; but people are not patient and they do not believe. That is their punishment. Every command brings you satisfaction, brings you lights, brings you peace. And also, everything from which the Lord of the Heavens prevents you, every forbidden thing, is contrary to your peaceful life. If you go into it, you will lose that peaceful atmosphere, personally and collectively.
O people, try to keep heavenly orders, either commands or prohibitions. You should find yourself in a Paradise-like atmosphere here. Nothing of this life’s troubles can reach you. You will be on the safe side, and you will have saved yourself from Trouble Oceans and have been taken out of them. But people are getting troubles, endless sufferings, in Trouble and Suffering Oceans.
For the sake of the most beloved one in the Divine Pres- ence, Sayyidina Muhammad 3%, keep his way and keep the way of Paradise. Those who are following the Paradise way never face anything that hurts them physically or spiritu- ally; but those who leave the Paradise way and come to the satanic way, there is no moment when they should be free from facing bad things. Always they should encounter bad things; troubles, sufferings, problems, miseries. Everything that is going to be for Hells’ people, they should find on that way.
Don’t come and ask me. So many people are coming and complaining. I am asking, “On which way are you going? Do you pray?” “No.”
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finished! Ido not ask anything else. Ask him! If he is prying, don’t say anything. You are on the wrong way indy must carry this! If you want to save yourself, come jie Paradise way and everything will be all right for you.
May Allah forgive us and send us, from His lions, ewenly lions, to take away jackals, wolves, bears and ines fo fake away dragons and devils, and to destroy the alma of Satan! For the honour of the most honoured one Hs Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #— Fateha! keep it! This is enough for all nations, for all the chil- ienof Adam, not any other way. No one can say what we iesying now. It is the summary of all holy books. May Allah forgive me! A
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SEEKING KNOWLEDGE THAT BENEFITS
A‘udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. — Bismillahi-r- Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- ‘Aliyi-l-‘Azheem.
It is an Association. Professor D’Costa: Who is a pro- fessor? He is that one who, if he is asked, may answer about everything. If not, he is not a professor. Ya Allah, ya Allah! ‘Alim, ya Rabbi! Subhanak! Subhanak!'™
‘Ilm, knowledge—if Allah Almighty grants it to His ser- vant, he may know. That is ‘ilmu-n-nafiy’a, knowledge that gives benefit. ‘Ilm must give benefit. It is not a zeena, deco- ration, ornament; no. ‘Ilm, knowledge, is a grant from Allah Almighty, to make a way to His Divine Presence. That is the real purpose of knowledge.
Why do we learn? For everything that you study and learn, what is your goal? Now people are learning only for dunya."™ And you are in dunya but you are still asking for 'Allah, O Allah! Teach, O my Lord! Glory be to You! Glory be te You!
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more dunya, much more. “If I have ten dollars today, to- morrow I must get a hundred. What is the way to reach a jundred dollars? I must see. I am trying to learn the way tatlcan get a thousand dollars.”
Then Shaytan is saying, “No! You must try to reach ten thousand. See what is the way.”
Everything, every knowledge that is not good knowl- edge, is from Shaytan. Shaytan is teaching people to reach more of dunya, and urging them and whipping them. As a ndet whips horses, Shaytan whips people to reach more of dont
Therefore, the Prophet # was saying, “Allahumma, innee woluka ‘ilma-n-nafiy‘an,”"* asking from Allah Almighty, “O my Lord 1am asking from You real knowledge that make necloser to Your Divine Presence.” And another prayer of fasul-Allah % says, “Allahumma, innee a’udhu bika min ‘ilm la ynir.® O my Lord I take refuge in You from learning that makes me run away from You, to run after dunya.”
Where are our people now? All the world is listening to Allah asking for Allah, or asking for dunya? “Innahum la juin” If they continue on that way, they will never rach anything good for themselves here or Hereafter; they willose everything that Allah Almighty is promising. He is pomising His servants eternal life, but Shaytan is calling pople to something that is only going to be imaginary.
"“Ollah, indeed I ask You for beneficial knowledge.” (Hadith)
“O Allah, indeed I seek refuge with You from knowledge that does not benefit.” Pitt)
cn they [the wrong-doers] will not be successful,” a paraphrase of
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Now today, so many people here may be of different ages. They may be ten years old, twelve years, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety. What, so many years have passed? Now what remains with you of so many years? You are just living in this moment now, and after a while that will also be taken to a non-existent world. And non-existent means imagination.
You can make a fire and you can put so many things on the fire—of wood, of furniture; so many things you may put on it and leave. After one hour, come and see what remains there. Ashes. Yes, finished. Where is what you put on it? And now time is taking everything from you, burning, mak- ing ashes, and there is coming a storm and ashes. [Mawlana claps his hands to indicate “fin
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y keys of the Holy Ka‘bah and gave them to the sultan. And the Shareef said, “You are now the /iakim'® of the holy land.”
But when the khatib gave the klutbah'® in front of Sultan Selim and said, “Hakim al-Haramayn ash-Shareefayn,™ Sul- tan Selim said, “No!” And the Sultan stood up and said, “Correct your kKitutbah. Don't say ‘Hakim!’ Al-Hakim huwa Allah."© Instead, say, ‘The servant of the two holy mosques.’ Then I will accept.”
Sultan Selim was granted the holy amanat' from Mak- katu-l-Mukarramah that belonged to Rasul-Allah #—his flag, his sword, his turban and his clothes, several holy things. They were brought to Istanbul and put as amanat Yavuz Sultan Selim (1465-1520) was the first Ottoman caliph, who ex tended Ottoman rule to Mecca and Medina.
“The governor of Hijaz and its two holy mosques (al-Haramayn asl Shareefayn), Masjid al-Haram in Mecea and the Prophet's Mosque in Me dina, "Mecca the Honoured. ‘Ruler.
“Khatib: prayer leader; khutbah: sermon.
‘Ruler of the two sacred mosques,
"Don't say ‘Ruler. The Ruler is Allah,”
“Trust; that is, the sacred relics of the Prophet %, which are kept in Top:
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migdddisah.'” And when those holy things that had been jept in Makkatu-l-Mukarramah were brought, the sultans {in stanbul] looked after those holy things. And the su/tans ippointed twenty-four garis." For six hundred years, night ind day in that place, each one sat and recited the Holy Quran for one hour, not stopping it for six hundred years. Then those Jontiirks came and it finished.
Therefore, now, Muslims are repenting. But our ancesosdid this. They took the wrong way, wrong way. To fol- low Western countries is the wrong way. No; we have eve- ything, we have been granted everything. We are not in need to follow Western people.
What happened when we followed Western people?
We left everything that belonged to our culture, the Islamic tunth, heritage. And everything we left, they are taking. They are saying, “Westernized Muslims.” Western coun- tres are in kufr and we are Muslims. How are we putting fur with tman?™ Can‘t!
{Shaykh Nazim addresses converts:]| You are Muslim nw. Do you now accept the culture you had before Islam, that you grew up in, keeping it? No. You left it and came folslamic culture. But our foolish leaders who are destroy- ing IsI am and ghafil, heedless, Muslims are saying, “We must be like the West.”
"A sacred trust, “Reciters of the Qur’an, "Unbeliof with faith?
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Say, “We are not Muslim” —finished! Why are you car- tying IsI am with you? No! Change your name because you have changed everything else in your life, finished. No not leaving IsI am and saying, “We are Western people, like Western people.” No, can’t be!
Therefore | am saying that the weakest people are Mus- lims, who want to be free to keep their Lord’s commands, heavenly orders, but they are not given a chance, also. And Jam asking from Allah Almighty, who always helps during this holy month, Muharram.
On the tenth of Muharram, Adam = landed on earth from Paradise and Allah Almighty accepted his taubah, re- pentance, and forgave him. And on that day, Noah ® was saved from the Flood; Ibrahim 4!) was saved from fire of Nimrod; Sulaiman #4! was granted his sultanat; Moses #8 was saved from Pharaoh and passed through the sea; and Yunus, Jonah, ## got out of the /uit, whale. Each prophet was granted something on the day that is coming tomorrow, the tenth of Muharram. Divine power came to all the proph- ets and heavenly support came for Muslims. Therefore | am asking, “O our Lord, grant us a little bit of that support in order that we may lift up our heads.”
We are not walking on earth only like this [heads down], Everywhere they are accusing us. If they look and see a Muslim, they accuse him, saying, “That is a fundamen- talist, that is a terrorist.”
May Allah take them away and clean the world from satanic people, from devils and from evil! That is our only prayer, nothing else; nothing else. This only must be your goal. It is not a goal to reach the imitation titles of this life.
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finally, everything is going to be nothing. Millions of peo- peare under our feet. They are buried in cemeteries in so many places that are now fields, gardens, jungles or build- ings-finished!
A person's relative died and he was so sorry. And in his heart he asked Bahlul Dana—Bahlul Dana, a beloved me, a friend of the Prophet #—for the love of Allah Al- nighty and His Prophet and His friends, not for any love of tis life, this dirty life, saying, “O Bahlul, | am burying my moved one now. I am putting a stone. What do you think should be written on it?”
And Bahlul, that servant of Allah Almighty, laughed and id, “Oh! Write on it, ‘I am that one who yesterday vas walking on grass, and now grass is growing on me.’” Understand? “Yesterday I stepping on green grass but to- diy green prass is growing on me.”
O people, awliyas’ words are so sweet and full of wis- doms, That should be; that should be, finally. Therefore, tile more care of servanthood. Put servanthood first. Fulflit Then see what is written for you to do for getting /alal ‘iy, lawful provision.
Don't do anything at nighttime. Those people must kwe nighttime activities. Nighttime, after ‘Isha,'" the stole world must be in darkness, people asleep. As long as pple are living night life, finished. They are just in the "Te ith prayer of the day, observed at night.
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hands of devils. No peace for them, no happiness for them, here or under the earth or on the Day of Resurrection.
O people, we are calling you to the right way. Leave the wrong way! Those whom you see that are outside at nighttime are on the wrong way and they are followers of Shaytan.
May Allah forgive me! Perhaps now for fifteen days— no, no; perhaps for one month—I have not been able to ad- dress you, but during this holy month, our Grandshaykh is granting me a little bit of power to address you about what you are in need of. And you must try to ask for something that belongs to your eternal life. Don’t waste your time with such things that are going to finish today or tomorrow. Death is waiting for everyone. We don’t know when it will reach us, but we must try to reach Allah and He is happy with us.
May Allah forgive us! For the honour of the most hon- oured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad %—Fateha! &
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KNOWING YOURSELF
Audhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-r- Ratmani-r-Raheem.
Fora long time I have not come here, and I am in need ofarest. Today our South African brothers and sisters are coming and respected Professsor D’Costa is coming from theend of Africa, its farthest point.
Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem. Our imam, who is the mst important pillar in the Most Distinguished Nagshbandi Order, Shaykh Bahauddin Nagqshbandi, was sying that our tariqah is just built on association with the saykh, And if the shaykh is not ready to speak to people, tho who have been authorized by the shaykh to speak, to mile Association with people, that must be, even for a short time. If you can find the time in which you can milk two seep (that may take five minutes), you must not leave off Association, Iftwo brothers or sisters come together and they aren’t eto do anything else, one of them may say, “Ashhadu an
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la ilaha illa-Llah,”””! and the second may say, “Wa ana ashhadu anna Muhammadan ‘abduliu was rasulihu, salla-Lahu ‘alayht wa salam.”"7?
Ya Rabb, keep us on this true belief, so that, whoever keeps this, he may open his entrance to Paradise. No one can enter Paradise without using that key, the key of Heav- ens, the key of Paradises. What is that? “La ilaha illa-Llah, Muhammdan Rasul-Allah,”" and to say, “I am witnessing to the mawjudiyat, existence, and the Oneness of Allah Al- mighty who created everything and gives all things what they need.”
Nothing can be hidden from Allah Almighty— impossible, because He created everything. If He created, how is He not going to know? Nothing can be in existence if Allah Almighty does not put it in existence. Therefore, you may say, “Oh-ho! This atmosphere is full of atoms. Yes, we are breathing. How can He know what is coming in and what is going out?”
He must know, must know. Can't be hidden! If it is hidden, it means it has not come into existence. Don’t use your balance for Allah; no.'* He is the Creator, He is the Lord of everyone, of everything in existence. And every-
"I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah.”
'2"And I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His messenger, peace and blessings be on him.”
'50) Lord.
'“"There is no deity except Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” '"That is, an infinitesimal, human-sized scale of measurement or evalua- tion.
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hing is saying, “O my Lord, glory be to You!” Everything goniies Allah, and He knows, subhanallah! Don’t use you mesure to understand Allah Almighty. No, leave Him. joucan‘t understand the real being of an ant. Leave it!
Do you know yourself, who you are? You may say, “I am Shaykh Hasan.”
‘From where?” “From Germany.” That is your identity, yes? You know nothing else but yourself? Who are you? You are different from that wg and he is different from that one. Everyone has a spe- aalsiuation, special foundation, special identity. You are ont. There can’t be another one like you.
Who are you? How did you come? How do you live? tow will you leave this life? From where did you come? Do you think that you came from the womb of your miher? How did you enter in it, how did you come out?
Who are you? Today you are here. Tomorrow someone else will one you will disappear. A hundred years ago, no one ‘er was in existence. Now we are in existence. Tomorow that means in the coming fifty or sixty or one hundred /ats—none of us is going to be.
How did it happen? So many millions of people, they biedin the same area. Where are they? They have become ®aination, no reality. But there must be something of Real- "that comes, lives here, and leaves this life and goes away.
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There must be something in that imagination, there must be one point that belongs to Reality. What is that?
Men, in the twenty-first century, they do not leave the way of heedless people, letting themselves do as they like and going in nature or in space, and spending huge amounts of money and energy and effort. They want to go into space, making such instruments, rockets. They are say- ing, “We are going to go, to reach to a comet.”
“Which comet?”
“Any comet. Eh! We want to reach there.”
“Will you reach with your eyes?”
“No. We have put some instruments to look on our be- half.”
“Your eyes are much more important than that instru- ment’s looking, What is it that you want?”
They are saying, “We are trying to know the beginning of space, the beginning of our earth.” Such foolish people! What are you going to know? And everything has been sent from Heavens. Why are you not looking in the messages that the Creator of space and the universe sent to you, to look and to learn? What are you going to say? They are saying [parodies:] “The Big Bang theory is just getting old and getting to be out of date, going to be useless.
We must try to occupy the minds of people with another theory.” They are saying, “Oh, we looked at those comets
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that make up such planets. They go everywhere and they make up new-born worlds’ planets.”
What happened? Are you riding on a comet to take these new planets for yourself, registering them for the Americans or the Russians? The Americans’ rockets are going straight, Russians’ going like this and coming on tem. Therefore, the Russians are very unhappy. “Why this” And after a while, the Americans’ rockets are also going to disappear.
Look at yourself; ask about yourself! Why are you oc- cupying yourself with nonsensical things? “Who are you?” lamasking, “and what is your mission? Do you know it now, after sending those rockets up?” No. Look at yourself, io kam your identity and your mission. But people are working for Shaytan!
Professor D'Costa: Almost a hundred per cent of peo- pleare working for Shaytan now. Perhaps among one mil- lion, you may find ten or you may find one hundred, but ofers are all working for Shaytan. That is the source of troubles on earth, because Shaytan is trying to give trouble. And the first trouble-maker was Shaytan.
When Allah Almighty ordered him to make sajdah to Adam and he refused, he caused the first trouble in the heavenly existence, making angels and every creature there inhappy because he made trouble. And he is continuing up today, and he is going to make that trouble up to the end this life, Therefore, every trouble comes from Shaytan, Every touble that people are falling into, unsolved problems, are
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from Shaytan, Shaytan’s teaching. And as long as people are working for Shaytan, they are not going to reach peace on earth till the earth is destroyed with those people. As Allah destroyed the nation of Noah through the Flood, He is going to destroy all of Shaytan’s workers. When they are destroyed, our planet is going to be clean.
“When it is clean” means that the people on earth will work for Allah because our oath on the Day of Promises was, “O our Lord, we are going to work for Your ser- vanthood. We are not going to work for anyone else. That is our oath.” Now, everyone is forgetting that, and they are changing and saying, “We are working for Shaytan.”
May Allah forgive us!
O people, try to save yourself from the hands of devils, who are all representatives of Shaytan. Leave them; don’t give them any support. If you give your support, you will fall into sufferings and miseries.
Come to the friends of Allah.'” Try to be with them, to save yourself, to be clean, and try to clean from East to West, from North to South. Allah Almighty is promising whoever tries to do this, “I am is his supporter.” Don’t worry that you are only a handful of people. Doesn’t matter! If Allah is with you, you are victorious.
The Titanic, ma maghloub,'7* was never going to be de- feated; always a winner. Those who are with Allah are al- ways winners and victorious. We are asking humbly from our Lord, Almighty Allah, for the honour of the most hon-
Referring to 7:172. See footnote
'7 Awliya. 'Not defeated, vanquished, beaten.
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KEEPING ISLAMIC ORDERS
A‘udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bismillahi-r- Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- ‘Altyi-l-‘Azheem.
As-salamu ‘alaykum! [Mureeds respond.] When saI am stopped, troubles came.'” IsI am came with its perfection, and every command is a way to perfection, Commands are for doing something or for leaving off something. Every command makes a way to perfection.
From the outside, it appears that servanthood is for our Lord. But really, the benefit of servanthood is for ourselves because Allah Almighty is not in need of any benefit. When He creates, He does not ask for any benefit from His crea- tures, Creatures expect from Him; He does not expect any- thing. If anyone glorifies Allah Almighty, He is in any case glorified from eternity to eternity; glory is among His divine siffat, attributes. All creatures’ glorifying is only such a small dot in His Glory Oceans.
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Everything that you do is within limits, but what is withHim is unlimited. You may imagine all creatures’ glo- flying as bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger. But even if you megine that spot to be ten times bigger, a hundred times bgger, a thousand times bigger, millions, trillions, quadril- imsof times bigger, bigger, bigger, what is in it is this spot swithin limits. But around it there are unlimited oceans.
Therefore, every command that orders you, “Do this,” ty keep it. Don’t be lazy! Don’t follow your ego because wild, laziness, is the unchangeable characteristic of our g0s—uunchangeable!
Our ego wants to eat and to sleep. Always, [parodies], ‘Give fo me to eat and cover me to sleep”—the new
nalthib,"" new tariqah of egos that our youngsters are gowing up with, the new generation’s new lifestyle that feylike. “Oh! No work, but give us something to eat and ink Then put something on me to sleep.” And third Mawlana claps in rhythm], music, music.
Shaytan is asking for himself, “You, our Lord, You, the lord of the Heavens—You have given to Your prophets, sading them holy books, and they are singing with Your holy books. am asking for myself, also, for my followers, bhehappy with me,”
And the Lord of Heavens is saying, “I have just given wall the singers, musical people, who are making egos aiken, to get up and play, to dance and .. . [laughter].
Yes, everywhere! Look at that ‘Shaytan-box’! For iyenty-four hours young people are jumping, playing,
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dancing, and those horns and drums are making Shaytan very happy, the Lord of Heavens saying, “All for you!” This is the new life-style that makes Shaytan very happy, getting the majority of people to follow him in such a way.
Those who are happy in such a way, they should be underground, and for their following shaytanic singing and playing, finally their tears are going to be blood and their teeth are going to be amr, fire, na‘udhu bil-Lah!'"
Atalet! Nafs, ego, never wants get up, only because laziness it is its real characteristic, real characteristic. And now that bad characteristic is finding a very suitable atmos- phere for itself everywhere.
People are free. They like to be, more lazy, and they are waiting, without doing anything, for everything to come to them for eating, drinking and dressing. That is their new way. They are not going to carry anything of their respon- sibility.
Therefore, you are seeing, in every country, young peo- ple running in the streets and asking for more freedom (what is ‘more freedom’?),or more money, more money, yaurmiya,"? a salary, saying, “It is very little. We want more!” They are asking only for their egos—to work fora short time and to be paid more. This is their idea: to work as short a time as possible but with a high, the highest salary. That is a trick of Shaytan’s.
"We seek refuge in Allah.
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All the world is running in the streets. They are saying, ‘Wedon't like this prime minister. Change him!” Running inanother country, saying, “I don’t like this president. Take him down!” In another country, “We must elect another on fo give us more freedom and the highest salaries.” And many of Shaytan’s representatives are saying, “Yes, I am thatone, Come to me! I shall give you the highest salary and the shortest working time.” And people are running iter him. “Oh, this is the best one, that is the best one.”
But that person, when sitting at his table after election, finds a book in front of him, saying, “Oh, please don’t give what you promised to your electors. Don’t give! If you gue, you will make them happy. Then there should be peace in your country. It is not our way to make peace among people. What you promised, don’t look after it! You continue like your salaf, predecessors. The one who was here before, he did the same thing. You must follow his way, not what you promised people, no!”
Then [chuckles], beginning after one day, one week, one month, they are waiting. When his promise is not fulfilled, then people are going to be very angry, saying, “Next elec- tion, we will take that one down and bring another one” —in suhaway. That is the shaytanic way.
The democratic system is just built on incorrect, wrong prociples; can’t be changed. Shaytan is trying not to give people peace, not just in Cyprus. No, everywhere. Shaytan fever wants peace to come to countries, to people. No, no!
Don't believe it! Therefore we are saying that every heavenly command
Srelly for your benefit, bringing, you to a peaceful area, to ‘peaceful life, to. an enjoyable life, to a lighted life, to an ex-
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cellent life standard; but people are not patient and they do not believe. That is their punishment. Every command brings you satisfaction, brings you lights, brings you peace. And also, everything from which the Lord of the Heavens prevents you, every forbidden thing, is contrary to your peaceful life. If you go into it, you will lose that peaceful atmosphere, personally and collectively.
O people, try to keep heavenly orders, either commands or prohibitions. You should find yourself in a Paradise-like atmosphere here. Nothing of this life’s troubles can reach you. You will be on the safe side, and you will have saved yourself from Trouble Oceans and have been taken out of them. But people are getting troubles, endless sufferings, in Trouble and Suffering Oceans.
For the sake of the most beloved one in the Divine Pres- ence, Sayyidina Muhammad 3%, keep his way and keep the way of Paradise. Those who are following the Paradise way never face anything that hurts them physically or spiritu- ally; but those who leave the Paradise way and come to the satanic way, there is no moment when they should be free from facing bad things. Always they should encounter bad things; troubles, sufferings, problems, miseries. Everything that is going to be for Hells’ people, they should find on that way.
Don’t come and ask me. So many people are coming and complaining. I am asking, “On which way are you going? Do you pray?” “No.”
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finished! Ido not ask anything else. Ask him! If he is prying, don’t say anything. You are on the wrong way indy must carry this! If you want to save yourself, come jie Paradise way and everything will be all right for you.
May Allah forgive us and send us, from His lions, ewenly lions, to take away jackals, wolves, bears and ines fo fake away dragons and devils, and to destroy the alma of Satan! For the honour of the most honoured one Hs Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #— Fateha! keep it! This is enough for all nations, for all the chil- ienof Adam, not any other way. No one can say what we iesying now. It is the summary of all holy books. May Allah forgive me! A
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SEEKING KNOWLEDGE THAT BENEFITS
A‘udhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. — Bismillahi-r- Rahmani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- ‘Aliyi-l-‘Azheem.
It is an Association. Professor D’Costa: Who is a pro- fessor? He is that one who, if he is asked, may answer about everything. If not, he is not a professor. Ya Allah, ya Allah! ‘Alim, ya Rabbi! Subhanak! Subhanak!'™
‘Ilm, knowledge—if Allah Almighty grants it to His ser- vant, he may know. That is ‘ilmu-n-nafiy’a, knowledge that gives benefit. ‘Ilm must give benefit. It is not a zeena, deco- ration, ornament; no. ‘Ilm, knowledge, is a grant from Allah Almighty, to make a way to His Divine Presence. That is the real purpose of knowledge.
Why do we learn? For everything that you study and learn, what is your goal? Now people are learning only for dunya."™ And you are in dunya but you are still asking for 'Allah, O Allah! Teach, O my Lord! Glory be to You! Glory be te You!
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more dunya, much more. “If I have ten dollars today, to- morrow I must get a hundred. What is the way to reach a jundred dollars? I must see. I am trying to learn the way tatlcan get a thousand dollars.”
Then Shaytan is saying, “No! You must try to reach ten thousand. See what is the way.”
Everything, every knowledge that is not good knowl- edge, is from Shaytan. Shaytan is teaching people to reach more of dunya, and urging them and whipping them. As a ndet whips horses, Shaytan whips people to reach more of dont
Therefore, the Prophet # was saying, “Allahumma, innee woluka ‘ilma-n-nafiy‘an,”"* asking from Allah Almighty, “O my Lord 1am asking from You real knowledge that make necloser to Your Divine Presence.” And another prayer of fasul-Allah % says, “Allahumma, innee a’udhu bika min ‘ilm la ynir.® O my Lord I take refuge in You from learning that makes me run away from You, to run after dunya.”
Where are our people now? All the world is listening to Allah asking for Allah, or asking for dunya? “Innahum la juin” If they continue on that way, they will never rach anything good for themselves here or Hereafter; they willose everything that Allah Almighty is promising. He is pomising His servants eternal life, but Shaytan is calling pople to something that is only going to be imaginary.
"“Ollah, indeed I ask You for beneficial knowledge.” (Hadith)
“O Allah, indeed I seek refuge with You from knowledge that does not benefit.” Pitt)
cn they [the wrong-doers] will not be successful,” a paraphrase of
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Now today, so many people here may be of different ages. They may be ten years old, twelve years, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety. What, so many years have passed? Now what remains with you of so many years? You are just living in this moment now, and after a while that will also be taken to a non-existent world. And non-existent means imagination.
You can make a fire and you can put so many things on the fire—of wood, of furniture; so many things you may put on it and leave. After one hour, come and see what remains there. Ashes. Yes, finished. Where is what you put on it? And now time is taking everything from you, burning, mak- ing ashes, and there is coming a storm and ashes. [Mawlana claps his hands to indicate “fin
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