Breaths from beyond the Curtain (Shaykh Nazim, 135 pages, 12/13)
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aid, “ I will make you full.”
And ‘Uj brought a big amount of wood from the forest, putting it there. “Eh! Come!” And Sayyidina Nuh # put three loaves of bread in front of ‘Uj and he said, “Say ‘Bis- millahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem’ and eat!”
And ‘Uj looked. “I eat all day from all the bakeries but! do not get full. What are you doing?”
“I am saying, ‘Say “Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem" and on eat But ‘Uj said, “I will not say it, 1 am not going to say it.”
A prophet’s power must be above those ignorant ones. “O'Uj, what are you not going to say?”
“In Islam, these five—Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, Allah’s peace and blessings be upon them all—are considered the greatest prophets, as mentioned in 33:7 and 42:13,
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And ‘Uj said, “I am not going to say ‘Bismillaht-r- Rahmani-r-Raheem.‘“
“Now eat!”
And ‘Uj ate one bread and half of the second, saying, “I mfull. You are a great wizard. You played a trick on me! fut! am full. You did something of wizardry that, even though I eat from bakeries every day, I do not get full.
“One bread I ate; the second I can’t finish. No! I will ake back all this!” He was very angry, taking away the yood he had brought and throwing it away. And from whatever remained that he did not take care of, Sayyidina Nuh # built the Ark.
Now each day, black holes are going to work to swal- low each day’s people with their everything, till the Lord of Heavens orders that black hole, “Now, say ‘Bismillahi-r- Ralimani-r-Raheem’ and finish.” No more sun rising, no more sun setting, finishing. At that time, the black hole that s appointed by divine order to swallow everything each day from the earth is going to be full, and it will say, “Enough for me now! I am full.”
That is our black hole which is working each day now and taking everything from the earth, and never getting full till the last moment when Allah Almighty orders the Arch- angel Israfil to blow the trumpet, and then time will stop, finishing.
O people, use your minds! Each day has just been swal- lowed for thousands of years; daily, black holes are swal- lowing them. And now today, you are here, and everyone
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is awaiting his or her fixed time to be swallowed. You should be swallowed, also, you and whatever you have.
Before a black hole swallows you, try to be for the Lord’s servanthood in His Divine Presence and to be saved; because some people are going to be ground up and disap- pear in black holes, and they are going to be in Hells. But some of them who are servants of their Lord, the black hole will take them, swallowing, but it will be a lighted hole. The black hole will make them reach a lighted hole, and they should find the way through lighted worlds, they should find themselves in the Divine Presence forever, for eternity, for eternal life.
May Allah bless you and forgive me! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina
Muhammad #—Fatelta! &
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CONCERNING THE NEED FOR A TRAINER AND GUIDE
A‘dhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. — Bismillahi-r- fahimani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- ‘Aliyi--“Azheem.
Ask forgiveness, every time. At every time we are in ed to ask forgiveness. And the Prophet % is the teacher brhis wmmah, for his nation. And from his time up to end ofthe world, all nations are from his umtmah, No more na- tion for Jesus Christ, no more ummah, nation, for Moses, peace be on them, Now only 1anmatu Muhammad, the nation ofSayyidina Muhammad %.
He is teaching mankind because we are in need to learn. Weare like wild trees that, when growing, need pruning. The root is a wild tree, and when pruning, good quality fits are coming. Therefore, mankind, when they follow their prophets, are changinh. Their wildness goes and good characteristics come.
Rasul-Allah % was teaching his Sahabah, his Compan- ‘ns, and through his Companions, teaching his entire na-
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tion up to the Day of Resurrection, the end of the world saying, “I ask my Lord's forgiveness seventy times daily,’*"
Allah Almighty never ordered any wrong thing to be written for him,?" because, since he is the qudwa, leader or guide of all nations, all mankind, everything he did had to be correct so that anyone who wants to follow him may find an example in the Prophet and may say, “I am following him.” Can‘t be wrong steps for prophets, particularly for the Seal of Prophets, and he was teaching, he was saying, “! am asking forgivenesss seventy times.”
What was the wisdom in his saying this? Must be some wisdoms. On every level, people must ask for a higher level. You must not say that this level is enough for me; no need to improve to another level higher than this, it is okay for me. No! Allah Almighty wants His servants to come closer and to reach higher and higher levels, to enjoy them- selves more because a higher level means much more pleas- ure and happiness and peace and enjoyment and enlight- enment for servants, each time becoming higher, becoming more. Therefore, Allah Almighty wants His servants to ask for a higher level. Even though the Seal of the Prophets, Sayyidina Mu- hammad # did not do anything wrong, he was also always evolving and approaching the Divine Presence more and more and more. And, if coming to a higher level, he asked forgiveness because he saw the level where he had been be- fore, according to his understanding and glorifying when they
"Bukhari, 8:319. 21°That is, there were no sins to be inscribed in the record of his deeds.
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went up, a5 a nagsan,?* something not suitable to be given to Allah Almighty on that level. When he went up, he was sying, “Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah that before I was at a wer level, Now I am looking and I am sorry that I was on that level.”
But for other people, like the ordinary people of the na- tion of Sayyidina Muhammad 3, I think they are not doing inhing in the right way. Everything that we are doing is in the wrong way, because if a person goes on the wrong way, wery step is wrong till he changes his way from the wrong yay to the right way. And Shaytan is cheating people. When they step on the right path, he says, “Come to this side to enjoy more,” cheating them, and people are running tthe wrong way. And for the wrong way, at every step jou must ask forgiveness, you must stop your steps on the wong way, and you must turn back to the right way, the right path. “Thumma amanu, thumma kafaru”;?5 as Allah Al- nighty says, So many believers are not fixing themselves in their faith, on the right path, sometimes leaving their steps m the right way and coming and walking on the wrong nay, “Thimma amanu, thumma kafaru.” Sometimes you may find a servant walking on the right path; then after a while jou may see that he has changed his position, coming to wrong way, following Shaytan.
Therefore, we are in need of training. If we are alone, by ourselves, we can’t correct our steps. We are in need of fuidance under the control of a trainer, murabbi, of a teacher, ofa guide. If you do not have a guide, you can’t know on "A deficiency or defect. “Then they believe, then disbelieve” (4:137), part of a verse referring to those
‘ho continue to alternate between belief and disbelief.
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which way you are walking. Therefore, it is obligatory for every believer to have an antrendr.?*
People playing football, football teams, have a trainer to teach them. If for playing you need a trainer, what about for those who want to reach Heavens, to reach their Lord’s Di- vine Presence? How, without a guide, can you know what is true, correct, of your steps and what is wrong?
If it was as Wahhabi people are saying, “No need!” why did Allah Almighty send prophets? Wahhabi people are saying, “You can read, you can teach yourself by yourself,” and that is batil, that is wrong, the wrong direction. If it were enough for a person to find his way without a guide only by looking through books, Allah Almighty would have sent suhkuf, pages, from Heavens.*!”
Why, why did He send prophets? They can’t under- stand! They can’t understand what was the mission of the Prophet #, because they are square-headed people, and their square is only a millimeter square, no more. The mis- sion of the Prophet was to be trainer, teacher and guide be- cause we do not know anything, We must learn from our teacher. They are saying now, “Oh, so many universities, and we are printing hundreds, thousands, of books. Take them 2*Tr., trainer, coach. "Here, Shaykh Nazim adds parenthetically: “Sometimes planes throw down papers from above and people are running. Fifty years ago, the first planes would sometimes come to Cyprus, They threw papers, also, for the first time after the First War. I remember those first planes coming to Cyprus. They threw down printed pages, and we looked for them to come on us, also, and we ran to them,”
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ind learn! Why are you following shaykhs, why are you bllowing tarigahs. No need! Take! We are also giving you fee books!” But some people are understanding what it is writen in them as “head” while they are saying “feet,” and hey may understand “feet” as “head,” such wrong understanding people.
Therefore, we are in need of a guide. And the Prophet 4 isthe guide, and at every time we are in need. If no ne- esity for teachers, why are you establishing so many uni- renities and bringing so many professors? Why? Let stu- dents learn by themselves! Make libraries (they have so many libraries); everyone can bring a book and can look, can teach himself. Why bring teachers, professors? No an- syer, because they are a millimeter-square headed people. They can’t be outside the square. Allah Allah!
This fine point makes IsI am to be elevated or to disap- peat, Those people who are claiming that we are the guides oflslam, they are not accepting our way, the way of Alila ‘s- Sinnat wa T-ama‘ah?"* They are saying, “We are Salafi pople,""” and they are claiming that there is no need for guides, Itis only a very fine difference. This side is the cor- mtside, that side is the wrong side. And for that purpose, for that reason, we must follow guides; we must ask for
“The People of the Prophet's Sunnah [Practice] and Congregation, i.e., ‘wai Muslims, whom the Prophet 3% mentioned as being that group tnong Muslims who would be saved on the Last Day,
“strc, puritanical group who follow literal interpretations, reject spiritual understandings, awliya, Sufism, and the four schools of Sunni juris- ~ idence (madhdhatib.
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teachers, and they may show us the wrong steps or the correct steps.
If you lose your correct steps, you will fall down, fin- ished; no chance to go up. And we seeing that now in our days, the twenty-first century, the Muslim world is running to be on the Salafis’ wrong way because Salafi people are working on our egoistic characteristic. They are defending they are taking the side of egos’ characteristic, yushaji'a alli- L-hawa, going with people‘s egoistic characteristic.
Ego’s characteristic is that it never likes to follow any- one. To justify this bad characteristic, they are saying, “No! We are not in need of any trainer.” That means of a shaykh or ‘alim.??' “No need! We are doctors. You can teach your- self and you can find your way.”
Yahu! A sail boat, if it does not have a compass and map, can’t move through the ocean. How are you saying that only a sail boat is enough for you? Take your sail boat and hold on to this wheel! In every direction, you are free in that ocean, so why are you taking a compass and a map? No; you must be free everywhere in this ocean, in any direc- tion you go. And you will never reach your goal. You are in need of a compass and a map, and now radar, also, to show. They are denying everything about training mu ‘assasa,™
training foundation, while Allah Almighty is saying, “Wal- takun minkwn ummatun yad‘una tla-l-khairt wa yamuruna br-l-
2°That is, the four imams who founded the four schools of Sunni jurispru- dence, plus the true shaykhs of tarigalts.
“Islamic scholar. 22Training foundation, base.
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winifi wa yanhawna ‘ant-l-munkar. “> That is, you must keep same learned people to teach you what are correct steps and shitare wrong steps, But now they are the first deniers of utverse, and saying, “People can learn by themselves and fey can use their safinalt, sail boats, throughout this life. In oety direction they may move. Doesn‘t matter!” And they aedoing the worst, worst thing; they are doing their worst bam. Even the non-Muslim world is not doing that to kam. May Allah forgive us! Therefore we are asking forgive- sss because, mostly, if we sail through this ocean by our- vies it is so difficult if we do not use a compass and mp-so difficult to find where you are going, on the wrong ay or the right way. We must know if we are on the cor- ist steps. You must ask someone if they are true, right seps or Wrong steps. And we are in need also to ask forgiveness. That is the ran. If, each day, the Prophet was saying seventy times ‘Asaphfirullah!” what about for you, for me, for others? ‘wenty million times is even a small amount! Say “Astagh- wnilldi!” at least seventy times each day and keep a guide fr yourself. Beware of being without a guide—beware! ‘uu may be lost, you may just lose everything here and feeafter. Keep to the right path. You should be in safety few and Hereafter.
But, as we said, Salafi people are addressing our egos inl making egos to be proud. You see that all of them, if !uwant to speak to them about their religion, about their
td et there be among you a community summoning to the good, enjoining Seni and forbidding the wrong,” (3:104)
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beliefs, are saying, “I know! I am not in need of listening or learning from you,” because the heaviest position for ego is to be under someone's control. Ego never accepts to be a student, a learner—no; always asking to be a learned one. “I know. I am not in need of listening to you.”
And that is the position, the general view of the whole world. Everyone is doing their worst, giving the wrong or- ders to people. And the blame is coming on Islam, and they are saying “Fundamentalist,” but it does not concern Islam. Fundamentalism concerns a group of people who are under the control of Shaytan and devils. A person can’t be a fun- damentalist if he is not a devil. Devils they are fundamen- talists but Muslims are not fundamentalists. It is a big lie that people want to blame Islam. No, it is not for true Islam. No fundamentalism in Islam!
May Allah send us a true guide to save us from the hands of devils who are the representatives of Shaytan. May Allah forgive me and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #—Fateha! A
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HUMANKIND WANTS TO REACH SOMEWHERE
Anda bil-Lahit min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bistnillahi-r- ishmant-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- Aiyil‘Azheem,
What is servanthood? Servanthood is for a servant to declare, to say to his Lord, “O my Lord, You are my Lord, Yoare my Creator. You have brought me from nothing- res to be visible in existence,” because there is no place in aisence to be independent with your being. Where can jugo? You may go with your physical being, or, if you are prepared to use it and to move, with you spiritual power.
Man has been granted two powers. One is our physical beng and whatever power belongs to our physical being. We use that power of your physical being that develops. feginning with our coming from our mother’s womb, that shysical power begins to increase. And when we reach our maturity, we see that we are now powerful, we may move.
And after that, people think that it is going to continue br years and years, and to keep increasing as our age in- teases, but it is not so. We reach a limit of growing, and
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when we reach that point, our growth and development stops, and our power reaches its last point.
Going up, up, up is not unending, no, When we reacha certain level, our physical being’s power begins to reduce, to be less and less and less, and we reach a point when we feel that our physical power is not going to carry us, not going to be enough for our movements. We say, “Come and hold my hand,” or, “Bring my stick,” or, “Hold me from this side, also.” What has happened to you? Your physical being is going down. Its power getting less and less and less,
This momentum belongs to our physical being, making us move throughout East and West, from North to South, through continents, through oceans, to climb mountains, and to reach the Poles. We want to reach somewhere. And that is a secret desire; its seeds are planted in our physical being. We have a habit of liking to see what is behind this wall or what is in each continent—what is there. If we reach a place, we say, “We must go to Africa, also, to see what is there.” Our physical being wants to know. And we arent able to explain this habit. Why? That secret desire always wants to do some research, looking at what is there, asking to find something. That is our physical being's momentum.
And they are looking and they are not finding any place empty. They are finding every place full, full of some- thing —full of unknown creatures, full of unknown things. We want to find, and Shaytan is making man to search, to look for an empty place. What is the real aim? To find an empty place where we can be in safety from death, to find a place where death can’t reach us. We want to be free in that place. But every- where men are going and reaching, death also reaches,
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Ithas come to us through traditional knowledge that we in the time of prophets, King Solomon, Prophet Suleiman #4 was sitting on his throne, where people could cane and look at him; they could ask, they could visit him. Aophets’ doors are never locked. It is a divine attribute.*
People are asking to find an open place where there is mone who can control them, asking to be free there from teirreal aspects being taken by death, to be free there from te Angel of Death's reaching them. That is the real, deep nnd secret desire of people—to move like this, like that. But wen though they are going everywhere, wherever they go, ey are finding that it is same. An empty place, no—no empty place where they do not find there the Angel of Death everywhere finding that divine power. That means fut everywhere that mankind moves across this earth, cinbing mountains, going through deserts, sailing on ears, going through jungles, they will not find a place empty or not controlled by someone. This our physical being' smomentum.
“tee, Mawlana adds; “Therefore, the Holy Ka’bah in Makkatu-I-
\blaramah traditionally has forty entrances, with no doors—no. At any one anyone should enter without being asked, “Why are you coming, what are you doing?” But now Wahhabi people are making every trouble frvisting people, pilgrims. They are searching them to enter.
sopen because that is the House of the Lord, and the House of the lord should never be closed by doors, They built a huge building and Putbig entrances, big [elosable] doors, and that is against heavenly rules. éod at the beginning of the fifteenth century Hijra,?4 on the first day of 4) some rebels entered it, and the government authorities closed the tons and killed all of them2* They did that against heavenly rules, put- edoors to close. And those rebel people never expecting that someone 0a) come inside, and close the doors and shoot them. Therefore, to be in this Allah Almighty’s Divine attribute.
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Everywhere He is present; His Presence fills every place. “That is My own territory,” Allah Almighty is saying. “O mankind and jinn, I see that you are looking for some crack, some exit to get out.” You are looking in space, if you can find some ways to escape, and looking through cracks in the earth, to go into those cracks and to disappear, so that the Angel of Death can’t reach you.”
They are not finding it. They are looking up to get out. Our material being moves within a very small distance, ask- ing for an empty space to get out, not to be controlled, not to be reached by death. But they will never find a space, a place on earth or a space in the skies, where the Angel of Death’s control does not reach.
King Solomon’s doors were open, couldn't be closed. And there was one person who frequently came and visited him.
One day he was sitting with King Solomon, and the Lord of Heavens, the Lord of Creation, sent the Archangel of Death, Archangel ‘Izra‘il, to take back that one's soul. Archangel ‘Izra’il reached there, and he also sat next to King Solomon, and he was looking at that one. And that person said to King Solomon, “O my Lord's prophet, that one is looking at me too seriously, in astonishment.”
And King Solomon asked, “Do you know who that one is?”
“I don’t know.”
“He is Archangel ‘Izra’il, come to take your soul.”
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“O my Lord’s prophet, please send me to India! Save me from his hands!”
“| will,” King Solomon said, and he ordered the air to tae that one to India, In just a moment, he stepped into In- dia, but the archangel had reached there before him and he book his soul,
Then Archangel ‘Izra‘il came again to King Solomon, nd King Solomon asked, “Why were you looking so keenly itthal servant of the Lord? “
“O Nabi-Allali,° O Solomon, I was ordered to take his sul in India and 1 was surprised that he was sitting with ju. How could it be? And then you ordered him to be in india. I was there to take his soul.”
Therefore, no one can escape. Men want to escape. Really, that is the secret desire of every living one, not to de. But they are searching, looking around everywhere to indadoor, an entrance to go into and close it on Archangel inl so that he will not reach them. But they can never find such a place. Spiritually there is movement for ourselves, but it is not reveryone. Everyone is not prepared to go around in the tiavens, If they are prepared and move, they will reach fom one heaven to another heaven. But they will never ind any space where there is not the power of the Lord of thavens, no empty place that Allah Almighty does not controL Nothing can be out of His control.
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O people, leave that ignorance! Come and say, “La ilaha illa-Llah. O our Lord, we are Your servants.” Surrender to Him, to put you in His divine safety and to be eternal ones for eternity. Why are you not saying it? You should be taken, as that person was taken from the presence of King Solomon to India. Therefore, you can’t find any place, any- where, that is not under the control of the Lord of Heavens or not under His hegemony or out of His dominion, divine dominion.
May Allah forgive me! Therefore, you must try as much as you can to be a good servant. Don’t waste your life. Don’t waste your very valuable breath and life, and lose everything. Look after your life! Mankind must change their life routines now for their safety, for their happiness here and Hereafter.
May Allah send us some of His lions from His Divine Presence, to take away from the earth wolves, bears, foxes, jackals, scorpions and dragons, and to kill devils and defeat and destroy the sultanat of Satan, to make world clean for His servants. May Allah grant us that, for the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence—Fateha! &
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THEIMPORTANCE OF SEEKING SPIRITUAL PERFECTION
Auudhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem, Bismillahi-r- laimani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l-
A teacher doesn’t get to be tired when he teaches little ones, Yes; ifhe gets tired, he isn’t able to teach anyone.
You may repeat something that is necessary to be lamed, but the important point in learning is practicing what you learn. You must try to practice it, not to keep it in jour mind. It is not enough. Learning, what you have tamed, must come to an acting level. If you get medicine ‘om a physician but do not use it, putting it on the table ind looking at it, you can’t get any benefit. You may say, ‘This is so bitter. That is such a bad-smelling one, I can’t uke it, That is an injection. I never use it, it gives me trou- de’ What is the benefit of having medicines and not using them?
All prophets came to teach people the ways of perfec- ‘vn, We come with a perfect material or physical being. but "Snot enough to be perfect in our physical being. What
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Almighty Allah wants for everyone is perfection in their spiritual position. Therefore, He ent prophets to teach man the ways of perfection.
As grandshaykhs” say, as well as knowledgeable people, a person’s outward appearance or physical being is going to be clear after forty days in the womb. That perfec- tion grows, grows, and then our mother gives birth, and day by day, year by year, we grow up. But the real perfection that we have been asked to reach, it is not easy to reach that level. The level of spiritual perfection is difficult. Perhaps it needs forty years, thirty years, twenty years or ten years.
If you do not ask for that perfection, your level is the level of animals, the lowest level of creation. No difference between that one and that ox, between that one or that dog—no, because every creature has material or physical perfection. A cat is in its perfection as a cat; an ox is perfect among its kind as an ox, and in their physical being, men are in perfection at the same level as other creatures. But we have been asked to reach spiritual perfection, while other creatures are only created for mankind during this life so
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aid, “ I will make you full.”
And ‘Uj brought a big amount of wood from the forest, putting it there. “Eh! Come!” And Sayyidina Nuh # put three loaves of bread in front of ‘Uj and he said, “Say ‘Bis- millahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem’ and eat!”
And ‘Uj looked. “I eat all day from all the bakeries but! do not get full. What are you doing?”
“I am saying, ‘Say “Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem" and on eat But ‘Uj said, “I will not say it, 1 am not going to say it.”
A prophet’s power must be above those ignorant ones. “O'Uj, what are you not going to say?”
“In Islam, these five—Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, Allah’s peace and blessings be upon them all—are considered the greatest prophets, as mentioned in 33:7 and 42:13,
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And ‘Uj said, “I am not going to say ‘Bismillaht-r- Rahmani-r-Raheem.‘“
“Now eat!”
And ‘Uj ate one bread and half of the second, saying, “I mfull. You are a great wizard. You played a trick on me! fut! am full. You did something of wizardry that, even though I eat from bakeries every day, I do not get full.
“One bread I ate; the second I can’t finish. No! I will ake back all this!” He was very angry, taking away the yood he had brought and throwing it away. And from whatever remained that he did not take care of, Sayyidina Nuh # built the Ark.
Now each day, black holes are going to work to swal- low each day’s people with their everything, till the Lord of Heavens orders that black hole, “Now, say ‘Bismillahi-r- Ralimani-r-Raheem’ and finish.” No more sun rising, no more sun setting, finishing. At that time, the black hole that s appointed by divine order to swallow everything each day from the earth is going to be full, and it will say, “Enough for me now! I am full.”
That is our black hole which is working each day now and taking everything from the earth, and never getting full till the last moment when Allah Almighty orders the Arch- angel Israfil to blow the trumpet, and then time will stop, finishing.
O people, use your minds! Each day has just been swal- lowed for thousands of years; daily, black holes are swal- lowing them. And now today, you are here, and everyone
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is awaiting his or her fixed time to be swallowed. You should be swallowed, also, you and whatever you have.
Before a black hole swallows you, try to be for the Lord’s servanthood in His Divine Presence and to be saved; because some people are going to be ground up and disap- pear in black holes, and they are going to be in Hells. But some of them who are servants of their Lord, the black hole will take them, swallowing, but it will be a lighted hole. The black hole will make them reach a lighted hole, and they should find the way through lighted worlds, they should find themselves in the Divine Presence forever, for eternity, for eternal life.
May Allah bless you and forgive me! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina
Muhammad #—Fatelta! &
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CONCERNING THE NEED FOR A TRAINER AND GUIDE
A‘dhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. — Bismillahi-r- fahimani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- ‘Aliyi--“Azheem.
Ask forgiveness, every time. At every time we are in ed to ask forgiveness. And the Prophet % is the teacher brhis wmmah, for his nation. And from his time up to end ofthe world, all nations are from his umtmah, No more na- tion for Jesus Christ, no more ummah, nation, for Moses, peace be on them, Now only 1anmatu Muhammad, the nation ofSayyidina Muhammad %.
He is teaching mankind because we are in need to learn. Weare like wild trees that, when growing, need pruning. The root is a wild tree, and when pruning, good quality fits are coming. Therefore, mankind, when they follow their prophets, are changinh. Their wildness goes and good characteristics come.
Rasul-Allah % was teaching his Sahabah, his Compan- ‘ns, and through his Companions, teaching his entire na-
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tion up to the Day of Resurrection, the end of the world saying, “I ask my Lord's forgiveness seventy times daily,’*"
Allah Almighty never ordered any wrong thing to be written for him,?" because, since he is the qudwa, leader or guide of all nations, all mankind, everything he did had to be correct so that anyone who wants to follow him may find an example in the Prophet and may say, “I am following him.” Can‘t be wrong steps for prophets, particularly for the Seal of Prophets, and he was teaching, he was saying, “! am asking forgivenesss seventy times.”
What was the wisdom in his saying this? Must be some wisdoms. On every level, people must ask for a higher level. You must not say that this level is enough for me; no need to improve to another level higher than this, it is okay for me. No! Allah Almighty wants His servants to come closer and to reach higher and higher levels, to enjoy them- selves more because a higher level means much more pleas- ure and happiness and peace and enjoyment and enlight- enment for servants, each time becoming higher, becoming more. Therefore, Allah Almighty wants His servants to ask for a higher level. Even though the Seal of the Prophets, Sayyidina Mu- hammad # did not do anything wrong, he was also always evolving and approaching the Divine Presence more and more and more. And, if coming to a higher level, he asked forgiveness because he saw the level where he had been be- fore, according to his understanding and glorifying when they
"Bukhari, 8:319. 21°That is, there were no sins to be inscribed in the record of his deeds.
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went up, a5 a nagsan,?* something not suitable to be given to Allah Almighty on that level. When he went up, he was sying, “Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah that before I was at a wer level, Now I am looking and I am sorry that I was on that level.”
But for other people, like the ordinary people of the na- tion of Sayyidina Muhammad 3, I think they are not doing inhing in the right way. Everything that we are doing is in the wrong way, because if a person goes on the wrong way, wery step is wrong till he changes his way from the wrong yay to the right way. And Shaytan is cheating people. When they step on the right path, he says, “Come to this side to enjoy more,” cheating them, and people are running tthe wrong way. And for the wrong way, at every step jou must ask forgiveness, you must stop your steps on the wong way, and you must turn back to the right way, the right path. “Thumma amanu, thumma kafaru”;?5 as Allah Al- nighty says, So many believers are not fixing themselves in their faith, on the right path, sometimes leaving their steps m the right way and coming and walking on the wrong nay, “Thimma amanu, thumma kafaru.” Sometimes you may find a servant walking on the right path; then after a while jou may see that he has changed his position, coming to wrong way, following Shaytan.
Therefore, we are in need of training. If we are alone, by ourselves, we can’t correct our steps. We are in need of fuidance under the control of a trainer, murabbi, of a teacher, ofa guide. If you do not have a guide, you can’t know on "A deficiency or defect. “Then they believe, then disbelieve” (4:137), part of a verse referring to those
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which way you are walking. Therefore, it is obligatory for every believer to have an antrendr.?*
People playing football, football teams, have a trainer to teach them. If for playing you need a trainer, what about for those who want to reach Heavens, to reach their Lord’s Di- vine Presence? How, without a guide, can you know what is true, correct, of your steps and what is wrong?
If it was as Wahhabi people are saying, “No need!” why did Allah Almighty send prophets? Wahhabi people are saying, “You can read, you can teach yourself by yourself,” and that is batil, that is wrong, the wrong direction. If it were enough for a person to find his way without a guide only by looking through books, Allah Almighty would have sent suhkuf, pages, from Heavens.*!”
Why, why did He send prophets? They can’t under- stand! They can’t understand what was the mission of the Prophet #, because they are square-headed people, and their square is only a millimeter square, no more. The mis- sion of the Prophet was to be trainer, teacher and guide be- cause we do not know anything, We must learn from our teacher. They are saying now, “Oh, so many universities, and we are printing hundreds, thousands, of books. Take them 2*Tr., trainer, coach. "Here, Shaykh Nazim adds parenthetically: “Sometimes planes throw down papers from above and people are running. Fifty years ago, the first planes would sometimes come to Cyprus, They threw papers, also, for the first time after the First War. I remember those first planes coming to Cyprus. They threw down printed pages, and we looked for them to come on us, also, and we ran to them,”
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ind learn! Why are you following shaykhs, why are you bllowing tarigahs. No need! Take! We are also giving you fee books!” But some people are understanding what it is writen in them as “head” while they are saying “feet,” and hey may understand “feet” as “head,” such wrong understanding people.
Therefore, we are in need of a guide. And the Prophet 4 isthe guide, and at every time we are in need. If no ne- esity for teachers, why are you establishing so many uni- renities and bringing so many professors? Why? Let stu- dents learn by themselves! Make libraries (they have so many libraries); everyone can bring a book and can look, can teach himself. Why bring teachers, professors? No an- syer, because they are a millimeter-square headed people. They can’t be outside the square. Allah Allah!
This fine point makes IsI am to be elevated or to disap- peat, Those people who are claiming that we are the guides oflslam, they are not accepting our way, the way of Alila ‘s- Sinnat wa T-ama‘ah?"* They are saying, “We are Salafi pople,""” and they are claiming that there is no need for guides, Itis only a very fine difference. This side is the cor- mtside, that side is the wrong side. And for that purpose, for that reason, we must follow guides; we must ask for
“The People of the Prophet's Sunnah [Practice] and Congregation, i.e., ‘wai Muslims, whom the Prophet 3% mentioned as being that group tnong Muslims who would be saved on the Last Day,
“strc, puritanical group who follow literal interpretations, reject spiritual understandings, awliya, Sufism, and the four schools of Sunni juris- ~ idence (madhdhatib.
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teachers, and they may show us the wrong steps or the correct steps.
If you lose your correct steps, you will fall down, fin- ished; no chance to go up. And we seeing that now in our days, the twenty-first century, the Muslim world is running to be on the Salafis’ wrong way because Salafi people are working on our egoistic characteristic. They are defending they are taking the side of egos’ characteristic, yushaji'a alli- L-hawa, going with people‘s egoistic characteristic.
Ego’s characteristic is that it never likes to follow any- one. To justify this bad characteristic, they are saying, “No! We are not in need of any trainer.” That means of a shaykh or ‘alim.??' “No need! We are doctors. You can teach your- self and you can find your way.”
Yahu! A sail boat, if it does not have a compass and map, can’t move through the ocean. How are you saying that only a sail boat is enough for you? Take your sail boat and hold on to this wheel! In every direction, you are free in that ocean, so why are you taking a compass and a map? No; you must be free everywhere in this ocean, in any direc- tion you go. And you will never reach your goal. You are in need of a compass and a map, and now radar, also, to show. They are denying everything about training mu ‘assasa,™
training foundation, while Allah Almighty is saying, “Wal- takun minkwn ummatun yad‘una tla-l-khairt wa yamuruna br-l-
2°That is, the four imams who founded the four schools of Sunni jurispru- dence, plus the true shaykhs of tarigalts.
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winifi wa yanhawna ‘ant-l-munkar. “> That is, you must keep same learned people to teach you what are correct steps and shitare wrong steps, But now they are the first deniers of utverse, and saying, “People can learn by themselves and fey can use their safinalt, sail boats, throughout this life. In oety direction they may move. Doesn‘t matter!” And they aedoing the worst, worst thing; they are doing their worst bam. Even the non-Muslim world is not doing that to kam. May Allah forgive us! Therefore we are asking forgive- sss because, mostly, if we sail through this ocean by our- vies it is so difficult if we do not use a compass and mp-so difficult to find where you are going, on the wrong ay or the right way. We must know if we are on the cor- ist steps. You must ask someone if they are true, right seps or Wrong steps. And we are in need also to ask forgiveness. That is the ran. If, each day, the Prophet was saying seventy times ‘Asaphfirullah!” what about for you, for me, for others? ‘wenty million times is even a small amount! Say “Astagh- wnilldi!” at least seventy times each day and keep a guide fr yourself. Beware of being without a guide—beware! ‘uu may be lost, you may just lose everything here and feeafter. Keep to the right path. You should be in safety few and Hereafter.
But, as we said, Salafi people are addressing our egos inl making egos to be proud. You see that all of them, if !uwant to speak to them about their religion, about their
td et there be among you a community summoning to the good, enjoining Seni and forbidding the wrong,” (3:104)
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beliefs, are saying, “I know! I am not in need of listening or learning from you,” because the heaviest position for ego is to be under someone's control. Ego never accepts to be a student, a learner—no; always asking to be a learned one. “I know. I am not in need of listening to you.”
And that is the position, the general view of the whole world. Everyone is doing their worst, giving the wrong or- ders to people. And the blame is coming on Islam, and they are saying “Fundamentalist,” but it does not concern Islam. Fundamentalism concerns a group of people who are under the control of Shaytan and devils. A person can’t be a fun- damentalist if he is not a devil. Devils they are fundamen- talists but Muslims are not fundamentalists. It is a big lie that people want to blame Islam. No, it is not for true Islam. No fundamentalism in Islam!
May Allah send us a true guide to save us from the hands of devils who are the representatives of Shaytan. May Allah forgive me and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad #—Fateha! A
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HUMANKIND WANTS TO REACH SOMEWHERE
Anda bil-Lahit min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem. Bistnillahi-r- ishmant-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l- Aiyil‘Azheem,
What is servanthood? Servanthood is for a servant to declare, to say to his Lord, “O my Lord, You are my Lord, Yoare my Creator. You have brought me from nothing- res to be visible in existence,” because there is no place in aisence to be independent with your being. Where can jugo? You may go with your physical being, or, if you are prepared to use it and to move, with you spiritual power.
Man has been granted two powers. One is our physical beng and whatever power belongs to our physical being. We use that power of your physical being that develops. feginning with our coming from our mother’s womb, that shysical power begins to increase. And when we reach our maturity, we see that we are now powerful, we may move.
And after that, people think that it is going to continue br years and years, and to keep increasing as our age in- teases, but it is not so. We reach a limit of growing, and
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when we reach that point, our growth and development stops, and our power reaches its last point.
Going up, up, up is not unending, no, When we reacha certain level, our physical being’s power begins to reduce, to be less and less and less, and we reach a point when we feel that our physical power is not going to carry us, not going to be enough for our movements. We say, “Come and hold my hand,” or, “Bring my stick,” or, “Hold me from this side, also.” What has happened to you? Your physical being is going down. Its power getting less and less and less,
This momentum belongs to our physical being, making us move throughout East and West, from North to South, through continents, through oceans, to climb mountains, and to reach the Poles. We want to reach somewhere. And that is a secret desire; its seeds are planted in our physical being. We have a habit of liking to see what is behind this wall or what is in each continent—what is there. If we reach a place, we say, “We must go to Africa, also, to see what is there.” Our physical being wants to know. And we arent able to explain this habit. Why? That secret desire always wants to do some research, looking at what is there, asking to find something. That is our physical being's momentum.
And they are looking and they are not finding any place empty. They are finding every place full, full of some- thing —full of unknown creatures, full of unknown things. We want to find, and Shaytan is making man to search, to look for an empty place. What is the real aim? To find an empty place where we can be in safety from death, to find a place where death can’t reach us. We want to be free in that place. But every- where men are going and reaching, death also reaches,
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Ithas come to us through traditional knowledge that we in the time of prophets, King Solomon, Prophet Suleiman #4 was sitting on his throne, where people could cane and look at him; they could ask, they could visit him. Aophets’ doors are never locked. It is a divine attribute.*
People are asking to find an open place where there is mone who can control them, asking to be free there from teirreal aspects being taken by death, to be free there from te Angel of Death's reaching them. That is the real, deep nnd secret desire of people—to move like this, like that. But wen though they are going everywhere, wherever they go, ey are finding that it is same. An empty place, no—no empty place where they do not find there the Angel of Death everywhere finding that divine power. That means fut everywhere that mankind moves across this earth, cinbing mountains, going through deserts, sailing on ears, going through jungles, they will not find a place empty or not controlled by someone. This our physical being' smomentum.
“tee, Mawlana adds; “Therefore, the Holy Ka’bah in Makkatu-I-
\blaramah traditionally has forty entrances, with no doors—no. At any one anyone should enter without being asked, “Why are you coming, what are you doing?” But now Wahhabi people are making every trouble frvisting people, pilgrims. They are searching them to enter.
sopen because that is the House of the Lord, and the House of the lord should never be closed by doors, They built a huge building and Putbig entrances, big [elosable] doors, and that is against heavenly rules. éod at the beginning of the fifteenth century Hijra,?4 on the first day of 4) some rebels entered it, and the government authorities closed the tons and killed all of them2* They did that against heavenly rules, put- edoors to close. And those rebel people never expecting that someone 0a) come inside, and close the doors and shoot them. Therefore, to be in this Allah Almighty’s Divine attribute.
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Everywhere He is present; His Presence fills every place. “That is My own territory,” Allah Almighty is saying. “O mankind and jinn, I see that you are looking for some crack, some exit to get out.” You are looking in space, if you can find some ways to escape, and looking through cracks in the earth, to go into those cracks and to disappear, so that the Angel of Death can’t reach you.”
They are not finding it. They are looking up to get out. Our material being moves within a very small distance, ask- ing for an empty space to get out, not to be controlled, not to be reached by death. But they will never find a space, a place on earth or a space in the skies, where the Angel of Death’s control does not reach.
King Solomon’s doors were open, couldn't be closed. And there was one person who frequently came and visited him.
One day he was sitting with King Solomon, and the Lord of Heavens, the Lord of Creation, sent the Archangel of Death, Archangel ‘Izra‘il, to take back that one's soul. Archangel ‘Izra’il reached there, and he also sat next to King Solomon, and he was looking at that one. And that person said to King Solomon, “O my Lord's prophet, that one is looking at me too seriously, in astonishment.”
And King Solomon asked, “Do you know who that one is?”
“I don’t know.”
“He is Archangel ‘Izra’il, come to take your soul.”
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“O my Lord’s prophet, please send me to India! Save me from his hands!”
“| will,” King Solomon said, and he ordered the air to tae that one to India, In just a moment, he stepped into In- dia, but the archangel had reached there before him and he book his soul,
Then Archangel ‘Izra‘il came again to King Solomon, nd King Solomon asked, “Why were you looking so keenly itthal servant of the Lord? “
“O Nabi-Allali,° O Solomon, I was ordered to take his sul in India and 1 was surprised that he was sitting with ju. How could it be? And then you ordered him to be in india. I was there to take his soul.”
Therefore, no one can escape. Men want to escape. Really, that is the secret desire of every living one, not to de. But they are searching, looking around everywhere to indadoor, an entrance to go into and close it on Archangel inl so that he will not reach them. But they can never find such a place. Spiritually there is movement for ourselves, but it is not reveryone. Everyone is not prepared to go around in the tiavens, If they are prepared and move, they will reach fom one heaven to another heaven. But they will never ind any space where there is not the power of the Lord of thavens, no empty place that Allah Almighty does not controL Nothing can be out of His control.
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O people, leave that ignorance! Come and say, “La ilaha illa-Llah. O our Lord, we are Your servants.” Surrender to Him, to put you in His divine safety and to be eternal ones for eternity. Why are you not saying it? You should be taken, as that person was taken from the presence of King Solomon to India. Therefore, you can’t find any place, any- where, that is not under the control of the Lord of Heavens or not under His hegemony or out of His dominion, divine dominion.
May Allah forgive me! Therefore, you must try as much as you can to be a good servant. Don’t waste your life. Don’t waste your very valuable breath and life, and lose everything. Look after your life! Mankind must change their life routines now for their safety, for their happiness here and Hereafter.
May Allah send us some of His lions from His Divine Presence, to take away from the earth wolves, bears, foxes, jackals, scorpions and dragons, and to kill devils and defeat and destroy the sultanat of Satan, to make world clean for His servants. May Allah grant us that, for the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence—Fateha! &
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THEIMPORTANCE OF SEEKING SPIRITUAL PERFECTION
Auudhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-rajeem, Bismillahi-r- laimani-r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lahi-l-
A teacher doesn’t get to be tired when he teaches little ones, Yes; ifhe gets tired, he isn’t able to teach anyone.
You may repeat something that is necessary to be lamed, but the important point in learning is practicing what you learn. You must try to practice it, not to keep it in jour mind. It is not enough. Learning, what you have tamed, must come to an acting level. If you get medicine ‘om a physician but do not use it, putting it on the table ind looking at it, you can’t get any benefit. You may say, ‘This is so bitter. That is such a bad-smelling one, I can’t uke it, That is an injection. I never use it, it gives me trou- de’ What is the benefit of having medicines and not using them?
All prophets came to teach people the ways of perfec- ‘vn, We come with a perfect material or physical being. but "Snot enough to be perfect in our physical being. What
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Almighty Allah wants for everyone is perfection in their spiritual position. Therefore, He ent prophets to teach man the ways of perfection.
As grandshaykhs” say, as well as knowledgeable people, a person’s outward appearance or physical being is going to be clear after forty days in the womb. That perfec- tion grows, grows, and then our mother gives birth, and day by day, year by year, we grow up. But the real perfection that we have been asked to reach, it is not easy to reach that level. The level of spiritual perfection is difficult. Perhaps it needs forty years, thirty years, twenty years or ten years.
If you do not ask for that perfection, your level is the level of animals, the lowest level of creation. No difference between that one and that ox, between that one or that dog—no, because every creature has material or physical perfection. A cat is in its perfection as a cat; an ox is perfect among its kind as an ox, and in their physical being, men are in perfection at the same level as other creatures. But we have been asked to reach spiritual perfection, while other creatures are only created for mankind during this life so
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