LIBERATING THE SOUL, Book 5 (Shaykh Nazim, 199 pages, 4/13)
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ind must reach the Divine Presence here or Hereafter, but it is the most honor if they reach it during this short life. Through Allah’s messengers, we are asked to try to reach that Divine Presence during our life.
That is the summary of mankind and of existence. Today They granted us brief wisdoms to understand that you are the greatest one among creatures. You must know that, and you must try to be a humble servant to that One who granted you the greatest honor.
My Allah bless you and forgive us. Beyond these limits, there are unlimited wisdoms. I hope we will reach to Sayyidina Mahdi (A). Whoever can reach to his light-filled time, they may understand more and more.
We hope to be among his humble servants. His time is approaching, day by day. I see that that distance is going to be one or two or at most three years. At the longest, there are not more than three years; must be. He knows best.
That whole time will be lighted from this darkness. Nights will be lighter than sunny days; people will wait for nighttime to come quickly. Now, when night comes, some load comes on our hearts, but at that time, people will wait for nighttime because miraculous divine lights will appear in unimaginable, unknown colors. People at that time will fly through the earth and skies like angels by the power of their dhikr, no need for wings.
We are expecting to reach that time. But, O my Lord’s servants, you must try to prepare yourselves with pure hearts. ▲
12: THE IMPORTANCE OF AGREEING WITH ALLAH’S WILL
The Lord of the Universes, His attribute is to gather people, and, ac- cording to His Divine Will, all things are running to their destiny. It is im- portant for everyone who is asking to be happy in this and the eternal life to know that everything, every event, happens by the Divine Will, divine rules. Nothing is going to be as everyone wants it to be.
Allah sent, through His messengers, several messages to inform people that there is Someone beyond your vision, knowledge, mind, imagination. Don’t be a foolish one who thinks that there is only something that can be touched and seen, nothing beyond our vision. That is the ultimate igno- rance imaginable!
It is mentioned in all traditions that the first man was Adam; in every message from the Lord of the heavens, we have been informed that that was Adam, the first man. But about two hundred years ago, someone spoke in the name of science (which is not science) and said that mankind has come from apes (maybe only that one came from apes). But every kind of creature must reproduce from its own kind; according to rules, inscribed by divine inscription, each one must bring forth the same kind of creature.
That first man, Adam, informed his children, “O my children, this universe is not only what you can see and touch.” Beyond enormous dis- tances, or closer than our looking, there may be huge universes.
Thousands and thousands of prophets were in touch with the unseen worlds that we call the Heavens and they were informing people. “You must believe that beyond that universe is Someone, and it is impossible for there to be two or three or four. Must be only One.”
We are looking at the universes and seeing only One’s Will and One’s rules commanding and arranging everything. If there were more than One, one might say for fire not to burn and another might say to burn. We can’t see two wills in one thing at the same time, and that is evidence that there is only One’s Will.
Those who are looking at space, at stars and galaxies, astronomers, say that millions of galaxies are, all of them, moving in the same direction. None goes against it; all of them, like a river, are running towards the same direction, some quickly, some slowly. That is a great evidence that One beyond those galaxies is ordering them to run. Do they have motors or machines pushing them? Here, they are saying ‘Nature.’ Is there ‘Nature’ there, also?
You can look at trees in summer. Two or three months earlier, all trees were dry wood. Who gave them all the order to be green at the same time, none delayed? We must believe and know with certainty that there is One Will commanding everything; impossible for there to be anything con- trary to that One’s Will.
The most perfect ones among creatures are mankind. Allah Almighty authorizes us to do things and gives us free will, but that is also controlled by the absolute Will of the Creator. Don’t be cheated and think you can do everything. His Will is controlling our will. He gave us free will for simple things, but don’t think that your will affects your destiny. Your destiny is according to His Divine Will; you can’t do anything.
And you must not be like a person who has been given a power and then claims to be the Lord of mankind, like Nimrod and Pharaoh. They were given power and then they said, “Oh, we are powerful! We are the Lord of people!”
When Abraham ¡ said, “My Lord gives life and kills,” Nimrod said, “I can do that, also.” Empty head—he ordered two slaves to be brought, one to be killed and the other to be let free. Abraham ¡ didn’t argue but said, “My Lord brings out the sun from the East and sets it in the West. You
put it down in the East if you are the Lord!” And then Nimrod was sur- prised and astonished.57
Most people think that happiness for a person is to do everything as he likes. (Ladies more than men want everything as they like, even chang- ing their noses and everything. Devils are making so many pictures, and they think that if they dress like them, they are going to be like them.) But it is not happiness if everything is suited to your will. If you can put your will in agreement with the Divine Will, that is happiness. To agree with that One’s Will gives you happiness.
That is the most important practice in every religion and in Islam: to submit to the Will of the Lord, Almighty Allah, and the goal of the Naqshbandi Order is to make people in agreement with the Divine Will. Fasting, praying, washing for prayers is easy, but most important is to be pleased and to agree with the Divine Will. That is, to be pleased with the Lord, Almighty Allah, and that makes your Lord pleased with you.
Moses ¡ was that one among all the prophets who was appointed to speak with the Lord, Almighty Allah. He was greatly honored, but he spoke to Him on Mount Sinai. But our Prophet saw spoke with the Lord Almighty on His Divine Throne. And we are all from his nation, believers or unbelievers.58
And Moses ¡ asked, “O my Lord, when are You pleased with me?” Allah Almighty answered, “O Moses, make yourself pleased with Me.
Then I am pleased with you.”
We must try to agree with Allah’s Will. So many times our wills are contrary to His Will; we want to stop His Will and let our will go on, so many times. But the Prophet says, “The one who is against Our Will, he
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58Because Muhammad saw is the last in the line of prophets beginning with Adam and there will be no prophet after him, everyone who has lived after his time belongs to his nation (ummah)
is not of Us, he is not of haqq, truth.” We must try to be suited to the Lord Almighty’s Will. ▲
13: CONCERNING PRIDE AND DIVINE LOVE
The weakest creature is man. But he looks around and is proud, and fights with himself and with others and with everything, and even with his Creator, although he is the weakest creature. And he has been created to live peacefully and happily here and Hereafter. But we are choosing the way of fighting; we aren’t choosing the way that reaches to peace and satis- faction and happiness.
Therefore, there is some sickness with people, a wrong vision. They may look with sickness in their eyes and may see green and say “Red,” see blue and say “White.” They have been shown the way leading to peace and eternal life, eternal happiness, eternal pleasure, but they are saying that that way is the wrong way, no good; looking at that side with all its fighting, troubles, wars, diseases, miseries, evils and devils, and saying, “Oh, that is a very good way!”
For fifty years I have been looking from East to West, and it is the same view: people running after evils and supporting the kingdom of dev- ils. Still they are not becoming less in supporting the Devil, day after day giving more support to him.
Fifty years ago Satan was a king. Now he is an emperor, no square foot where his kingdom is not present. And who ever comes proudly to a place of worship is bringing the Devil on his shoulders—in churches and synagogues, and mosques, also.
Once a wali was praying outside the door of a mosque, and when he was asked why he was outside, he said, “I am rebellious. How can I pray in the Lord’s house?”
Some people come after everyone else and leave first. Such a person, when he was asked why, said, “I fear that my Lord may tell one of His sin- cere servants to inform people about my badness. Therefore, I fear that they may kick me out, and so I leave quickly.” But we are coming, too proud of our worshipping to places of worship, not thinking that our wor- shipping is to give highest respects to our Lord.
As much as you are able to make yourself smaller, the lowest one among creatures, the smallest one of all mankind, you may give the highest respect to Allah Almighty. If you are coming proud, you are giving respect to yourself only.
We are following the ways of devils. First those people who were sent prophets and messengers, lost their way and Allah sent them away from their homeland. They were servants honored for holy lands. Then Allah cast them out; they were not suitable. And for thousands of years they were scattered all around the world because they were proud.
Christians also are proud, not following the teachings of their proph- ets. Jesus Christ ¡ was keeping himself from this life’s ornaments and pleasures. [They are saying that he was killed upon the cross, but actually] Jesus Christ ¡ went up to the Heavens;59 no one could touch him. People are thinking that he was the holy Word of Allah but yet it was easy to arrest him and to put the cross on his shoulders to carry. No! He was sur- rounded by divine lights. If anyone had touched him, he would have been thrown from East to West, into oceans!
All Naqshbandi shaykhs were witnesses, also, that night, seeing him going up [to Heaven]. He was carrying a needle and the angels asked about it. He said, “I used it, on earth, for sewing patches.” Jesus Christ ¡ used needles, but we are never using such a thing, too proud!
And now we are living in the last quarter of the twentieth century. People are more proud day by day, everyone wanting to be more proud individually, and nations, also, are saying, “We are a superpower.” The
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function of religion is finished, devils going on. People are sick with a sick- ness, making all people crazy ones. If no divine help comes from the Heavens to this earth before the end of this century, no divine cure, then all the world will be a mental hospital, from East to West.
No laws, people eating each other, destroying humanity. We have just reached the most terrible days of mankind; terrible days are approaching. But we hope that some heavenly events will appear. Each time that man- kind fell into a well of darkness, divine help came.
No more prophets will come, but we have been informed that holy ones will come. Otherwise, no effect from those claiming to be religious ones; they are useless. We need holy men whose hearts are full of divine love, heavenly beings, whose love belongs to the Lord.
We only need divine love to be put into our hearts. Otherwise, we can’t stop fighting, the endless desires of our egos, enmity, envy and jeal- ousy till divine love enters our hearts. Then everything else is going to be cheap and of no value.
One of the most bright stars in the skies of divine love was Jalaluddin Rumi, a very shining star in that sky. He was one of divine love’s stations; his heart was full. Up to today, Western people are running to his tomb, visiting. No one goes there and takes nothing. Everyone takes something.
Once he was going around Konya. He had come from Central Asia, from sun-rising countries,60 and he was going around that city. The way of prophets and saints is to get in touch from time to time with people. They must go around and look after the Lord’s servants, to help them, because they are divine love power centers. They can transfer love. You can’t feel it, you are still sleeping. When you awaken, you will know.
60Here, Shaykh Nazim adds parenthetically: “Europeans are fortunate people because their hearts are dreaming of being in oriental, eastern, countries. A misfortune for oriental people dreaming of being in the darkness of sun-setting countries. Good fortune for your looking to the East!”
There was a goldsmith in the market, and he took Maulana’s [Jalalud- din Rumi’s] heart to the Divine Presence. When Maulana began to turn, he went up.61 And also in the goldsmith’s heart came the love of the Divine Presence, and he fell at the feet of Maulana, asking to be his murid. Then Maulana shouted, “O people, take everything! I have just taken my slave,” making a bargain.
We aren’t asking for animals’ love; you can find that anywhere. We are asking for divine love. Mankind needs those holy people to come and give divine love. They are prepared to come and pass among people, to give them love divine; they are holy ones, hiding, but they are prepared to give from divine Love Oceans. If only one drop falls on mankind, they [man- kind] can give away everything [else].
When Maulana whirled, he was flying. That period is approaching— one year, two, or at most three years. From its roots, everything is going to be changed.
Advice for you: Keep your hearts away from this world’s temporary pleasures. Don’t keep envy in your heart. Envious people never reach the Divine Pres- ence; jealousy makes people lower than the level of animals. Be careful: don’t be envious of anyone. Try to make yourself belong only to your Lord, Al- mighty Allah. If you do, He will grant from His favors the drop of divine love. ▲
14: ABOUT RESTRAINING OUR EGOS
May Allah bless you to be supporters of prophets and holy people. People are in two parties, one coming with prophets and their inheri-
tors, the other group going against prophets and against awliya. And ac- cording on their enemies, prophets and their inheritors reach high ranks in the Divine Presence.
The father of mankind, Adam, when his descendants increased, called them to believe in Almighty Allah, but the majority of them became a big group of unbelievers. And when they became unbelievers and Adam called them to believe in his Lord, they were not pleased with him.
Unbelievers are never happy to be within limits. If anyone orders them, “Don’t do that, do this,” they are not happy and feel enmity in their hearts towards those people who tell them to do or not to do something. Therefore, many of Adam’s descendants disliked Adam (A) and felt enmity towards him. They were thinking to do something bad against him, and they gathered in a big meeting to decide how they might kill Adam.
When they met, one of them came forward to address them. Then Al- lah changed everyone’s language. Everyone spoke a different language and no one understood the other; they were quarreling, cursing each other, but no one was understanding. From that time, all those languages came, Allah protecting Sayyidina Adam from those unbelievers.
Anyone who comes to advise good things and prevent bad things gets enemies, fighting against laws, police. “No courts! We must be free!” Like in jungles, the most powerful ones can be the rulers.
Now people are asking to have such freedom, because we have egos. The Creator is saying, “O people, your ego always orders you the worst things.”62
“Beware of dogs!” they are writing. You can control dogs but you never write, “Beware of egos!” We are feeding them, and still they are com- ing against us. The Prophet said, “A friend who, as long as you give fa- vors to him, comes against you; as much as you respect him, he comes against you. If you put him down, he becomes respectful to you.”
“Who can such a stupid one be?” the sahabah asked. “Your ego.”
As much as you respect it, it kicks you and harms you. Now you are fasting and your ego is unhappy, hungry, but when you give it what it asks for, it shows too much disrespect to you, disturbing you .
The characteristic of our ego is always the same, from beginning up to end, and all the prophets came to say to people, “Beware of your ego!” Fasting puts it down, under control, a little bit. This holy month is a very good opportunity for anyone who is asking to get control of his ego.
So many people are coming and crying, “O Shaykh Efendi, my hus- band or my wife is doing something with drugs. He or she wants to stop but isn’t able. What can we do?”
No control on themselves! You may control London, but it is not easy to control your ego; you may be the conqueror of countries, but for egos it is difficult. The most powerful, terrible, tricky enemy is ego! Don’t think it is easy to take control of it.
The People of the Book, all of them, were ordered to fast; Moses ¡ and Jesus ¡ also brought fasting. But they changed fasting, their egos cheating them. They said, “It is difficult to fast. We only won’t eat animal
food, just eating grains and vegetable food,” their egos cheating them and taking their fasting away.
You can’t make your ego agree with divine rules. In the holiest month, Ramadan, whoever can keep fasting as Allah orders, it is from this moment up to that moment; we are even looking at only one minute.63 That trains egos and gives Allah’s support, His divine help, to be able to control our egos.
Uncontrolled people are always disturbed by controlled people. For that reason, they came against prophets and awliya. ▲
63That is, in Islamic fasting, the period of fasting is very strictly prescribed. Muslims watch the clock to determine the exact minute when eating and drinking must stop for the pre- dawn meal, suhur, and when eating and drinking can resume again at sunset.
15: ABOUT ACCEPTING MUHAMMAD AS A PROPHET
For 950 years Noah was preaching, and people beat him with sticks till they thought he had died. But the Seal of the Prophets bore more than anyone else; during the twenty-three years [of his prophethood], he bore more than anyone. His Companions, the sahabah, also bore [so much]. And Allah honored him and his Companions, and gave him higher ranks than anyone else, here and Hereafter.
Still his followers are bearing, because unbelievers are fighting them and saying, “You are not good people.” The People of the Book are also enemies, although we believe in Moses ¡ and the Torah, and we highly re- spect Jesus Christ ¡, and we haven’t any bad intentions against them. But still they are not proclaiming the Seal of the Prophets as a prophet.
How do they know that Moses ¡ was a prophet? How do they know that Jesus Christ ¡ was more than a prophet, and they accept Abraham, David, John, Lot, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, peace be upon them all? What is wrong in the prophethood of Muhammad ? Tell! How do you know that the miracles of Moses ¡ are true and Muhammad’s false—what proof? Yet they are denying it.
Through their books, they know. Moses ¡, in books, was informing that another prophet like himself should come. And they asked Jesus Christ ¡, “Are you that one?” He said, “No. He will come after me.” But the envy of people is preventing them, because Muhammad saw is not from their lineage. And he is Sayyidu-l-Awwalin wal-Akhirin.64
64The Master of the Earlier and Later Times.
And Sayyidina Mahdi will come, and Jesus Christ ¡ will pray behind him to our Lord, Almighty Allah.65 Soon, Jesus Christ ¡ will come, and before him, Sayyidina Mahdi ¡ will come to make everything clear. With him, 124,000 prophets will appear to make haqq, truth, clear—one or two or three years. May Allah make us to be with them! ▲
65The praying of Jesus saw behind the Mahdi saw during Jesus’ second coming at the end-time of this world is mentioned in a number of ahadith reported in the compilations of Bukhari, Muslim and Abu Dawud.
16: CHANGING OURSELVES, THE CONDITION FOR RECEIVING DIVINE HELP
Muslim jinn can only be in contact and under the command of awliya, authorized people. Others [non-Muslim jinn] are like the terrorist people of mankind, hiding themselves; now non-Muslims among jinn are also escap- ing, hiding from others. First, all the jinn will give bayah66 to Sayyidina Ma- hdi; second, he should appear.
Those terrorist jinn, unbelievers, non-Muslims, are afraid to be in con- tact with anyone from mankind. Here in this country [England], no one is to be found who is in contact with jinn, but they are claiming that.
If a person is in the sea, not knowing how to swim, he may catch at a snake without knowing. People, if in difficulty, if physicians and psychia- trists and courts are not giving benefit, are going to those people67 and hop- ing they can do something, read something. That line of ‘business’ is now in every kind of religion—business, but it is useless, because the one who falls into difficulties must first look to himself for the reason for his difficul- ties and problems.
There should be so many reasons in his life’s conditions. Without go- ing to ask such things from such strange people who are claiming that they have extraordinary powers or control on people, better for them to go and change their life’s conditions, because all traditions are saying that condi- tions appear according to a person’s actions and characteristics and attrib- utes.
66Pledge of commitment.
67Mediums, astrologers, palm readers, diviners and others who claim to have to have special knowledge of the Unseen or dealings with spirits.
You can’t stop that river, everyone coming to such people who are do- ing business with such things, and they are happy with people’s continuing with their problems. But in reality, they [those who are in trouble] need something from those people who have been appointed by the Lord, Al- mighty Allah, awliya. They never ask for profit; they get their payment from their Lord, free workers for the sake of Allah. And first they say, “Go. First you must try to change your conditions. Otherwise we can’t help you.”
We are now seeing people increasing in troubles. Fifteen days ago, a famous doctor gave a lecture about that terrible sickness coming on people, and everyone is asking what is the way of cure for the virus of that terrible sickness.
Every wise one would be surprised that people are asking for a cure. They are not thinking of leaving that abnormal behavior, that dirty, abnor- mal connection; they don’t think of leaving that, insisting on it and asking for a cure, then coming to the shaykh and asking help. And I am like a per- son standing on a bank and a person is saying, “Save me!” I am reaching to him with my hand but he is not reaching with his hand. So many people are coming to me!
A person asked Rasul-AIlah for his intercession. He said, “You must help me to help you by making so many sajdahs, prostrations.” You must help, also; your hands are full but still you are asking to be given. Leave what you are holding and I may give you something else!
As long as people do not intend to change their life conditions, even prophets can’t help them. People now need spiritual support, but it needs a support from your side, also. A ladder can’t stand alone; the two sides hold up each other. People now need thousands and thousands of physicians and psychiatrists, but such people [awliya] are very rare, as Allah is mention- ing. They are rare people; you must look for them and intend to practice through changing yourself.
I am addressing all suffering people who have never followed any prophet. The first condition is that they must proclaim the existence of the One Lord and Creator. If they do not proclaim it, nothing can be done for them. I am not speaking at the first step about prophets, but before wasting time and money and themselves, they must accept the Lord as their Creator and Master. That is the most important condition for suffering people.
Therefore, we must try to give something to people to make them be- lieve in One God, the Lord and Creator—that He is in existence and looks after His creatures, and that he [the suffering one] is a creature and humble servant to Allah Almighty. That makes troubles come down.
Second step: When a person came to the Prophet to declare his Shahadah,68 the first thing he or she had to do was to take a bath. Cleanli- ness is the second step after Shahadah; everyone must use it when they are in need. After sexual connection or dreams, men and women m
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ind must reach the Divine Presence here or Hereafter, but it is the most honor if they reach it during this short life. Through Allah’s messengers, we are asked to try to reach that Divine Presence during our life.
That is the summary of mankind and of existence. Today They granted us brief wisdoms to understand that you are the greatest one among creatures. You must know that, and you must try to be a humble servant to that One who granted you the greatest honor.
My Allah bless you and forgive us. Beyond these limits, there are unlimited wisdoms. I hope we will reach to Sayyidina Mahdi (A). Whoever can reach to his light-filled time, they may understand more and more.
We hope to be among his humble servants. His time is approaching, day by day. I see that that distance is going to be one or two or at most three years. At the longest, there are not more than three years; must be. He knows best.
That whole time will be lighted from this darkness. Nights will be lighter than sunny days; people will wait for nighttime to come quickly. Now, when night comes, some load comes on our hearts, but at that time, people will wait for nighttime because miraculous divine lights will appear in unimaginable, unknown colors. People at that time will fly through the earth and skies like angels by the power of their dhikr, no need for wings.
We are expecting to reach that time. But, O my Lord’s servants, you must try to prepare yourselves with pure hearts. ▲
12: THE IMPORTANCE OF AGREEING WITH ALLAH’S WILL
The Lord of the Universes, His attribute is to gather people, and, ac- cording to His Divine Will, all things are running to their destiny. It is im- portant for everyone who is asking to be happy in this and the eternal life to know that everything, every event, happens by the Divine Will, divine rules. Nothing is going to be as everyone wants it to be.
Allah sent, through His messengers, several messages to inform people that there is Someone beyond your vision, knowledge, mind, imagination. Don’t be a foolish one who thinks that there is only something that can be touched and seen, nothing beyond our vision. That is the ultimate igno- rance imaginable!
It is mentioned in all traditions that the first man was Adam; in every message from the Lord of the heavens, we have been informed that that was Adam, the first man. But about two hundred years ago, someone spoke in the name of science (which is not science) and said that mankind has come from apes (maybe only that one came from apes). But every kind of creature must reproduce from its own kind; according to rules, inscribed by divine inscription, each one must bring forth the same kind of creature.
That first man, Adam, informed his children, “O my children, this universe is not only what you can see and touch.” Beyond enormous dis- tances, or closer than our looking, there may be huge universes.
Thousands and thousands of prophets were in touch with the unseen worlds that we call the Heavens and they were informing people. “You must believe that beyond that universe is Someone, and it is impossible for there to be two or three or four. Must be only One.”
We are looking at the universes and seeing only One’s Will and One’s rules commanding and arranging everything. If there were more than One, one might say for fire not to burn and another might say to burn. We can’t see two wills in one thing at the same time, and that is evidence that there is only One’s Will.
Those who are looking at space, at stars and galaxies, astronomers, say that millions of galaxies are, all of them, moving in the same direction. None goes against it; all of them, like a river, are running towards the same direction, some quickly, some slowly. That is a great evidence that One beyond those galaxies is ordering them to run. Do they have motors or machines pushing them? Here, they are saying ‘Nature.’ Is there ‘Nature’ there, also?
You can look at trees in summer. Two or three months earlier, all trees were dry wood. Who gave them all the order to be green at the same time, none delayed? We must believe and know with certainty that there is One Will commanding everything; impossible for there to be anything con- trary to that One’s Will.
The most perfect ones among creatures are mankind. Allah Almighty authorizes us to do things and gives us free will, but that is also controlled by the absolute Will of the Creator. Don’t be cheated and think you can do everything. His Will is controlling our will. He gave us free will for simple things, but don’t think that your will affects your destiny. Your destiny is according to His Divine Will; you can’t do anything.
And you must not be like a person who has been given a power and then claims to be the Lord of mankind, like Nimrod and Pharaoh. They were given power and then they said, “Oh, we are powerful! We are the Lord of people!”
When Abraham ¡ said, “My Lord gives life and kills,” Nimrod said, “I can do that, also.” Empty head—he ordered two slaves to be brought, one to be killed and the other to be let free. Abraham ¡ didn’t argue but said, “My Lord brings out the sun from the East and sets it in the West. You
put it down in the East if you are the Lord!” And then Nimrod was sur- prised and astonished.57
Most people think that happiness for a person is to do everything as he likes. (Ladies more than men want everything as they like, even chang- ing their noses and everything. Devils are making so many pictures, and they think that if they dress like them, they are going to be like them.) But it is not happiness if everything is suited to your will. If you can put your will in agreement with the Divine Will, that is happiness. To agree with that One’s Will gives you happiness.
That is the most important practice in every religion and in Islam: to submit to the Will of the Lord, Almighty Allah, and the goal of the Naqshbandi Order is to make people in agreement with the Divine Will. Fasting, praying, washing for prayers is easy, but most important is to be pleased and to agree with the Divine Will. That is, to be pleased with the Lord, Almighty Allah, and that makes your Lord pleased with you.
Moses ¡ was that one among all the prophets who was appointed to speak with the Lord, Almighty Allah. He was greatly honored, but he spoke to Him on Mount Sinai. But our Prophet saw spoke with the Lord Almighty on His Divine Throne. And we are all from his nation, believers or unbelievers.58
And Moses ¡ asked, “O my Lord, when are You pleased with me?” Allah Almighty answered, “O Moses, make yourself pleased with Me.
Then I am pleased with you.”
We must try to agree with Allah’s Will. So many times our wills are contrary to His Will; we want to stop His Will and let our will go on, so many times. But the Prophet says, “The one who is against Our Will, he
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58Because Muhammad saw is the last in the line of prophets beginning with Adam and there will be no prophet after him, everyone who has lived after his time belongs to his nation (ummah)
is not of Us, he is not of haqq, truth.” We must try to be suited to the Lord Almighty’s Will. ▲
13: CONCERNING PRIDE AND DIVINE LOVE
The weakest creature is man. But he looks around and is proud, and fights with himself and with others and with everything, and even with his Creator, although he is the weakest creature. And he has been created to live peacefully and happily here and Hereafter. But we are choosing the way of fighting; we aren’t choosing the way that reaches to peace and satis- faction and happiness.
Therefore, there is some sickness with people, a wrong vision. They may look with sickness in their eyes and may see green and say “Red,” see blue and say “White.” They have been shown the way leading to peace and eternal life, eternal happiness, eternal pleasure, but they are saying that that way is the wrong way, no good; looking at that side with all its fighting, troubles, wars, diseases, miseries, evils and devils, and saying, “Oh, that is a very good way!”
For fifty years I have been looking from East to West, and it is the same view: people running after evils and supporting the kingdom of dev- ils. Still they are not becoming less in supporting the Devil, day after day giving more support to him.
Fifty years ago Satan was a king. Now he is an emperor, no square foot where his kingdom is not present. And who ever comes proudly to a place of worship is bringing the Devil on his shoulders—in churches and synagogues, and mosques, also.
Once a wali was praying outside the door of a mosque, and when he was asked why he was outside, he said, “I am rebellious. How can I pray in the Lord’s house?”
Some people come after everyone else and leave first. Such a person, when he was asked why, said, “I fear that my Lord may tell one of His sin- cere servants to inform people about my badness. Therefore, I fear that they may kick me out, and so I leave quickly.” But we are coming, too proud of our worshipping to places of worship, not thinking that our wor- shipping is to give highest respects to our Lord.
As much as you are able to make yourself smaller, the lowest one among creatures, the smallest one of all mankind, you may give the highest respect to Allah Almighty. If you are coming proud, you are giving respect to yourself only.
We are following the ways of devils. First those people who were sent prophets and messengers, lost their way and Allah sent them away from their homeland. They were servants honored for holy lands. Then Allah cast them out; they were not suitable. And for thousands of years they were scattered all around the world because they were proud.
Christians also are proud, not following the teachings of their proph- ets. Jesus Christ ¡ was keeping himself from this life’s ornaments and pleasures. [They are saying that he was killed upon the cross, but actually] Jesus Christ ¡ went up to the Heavens;59 no one could touch him. People are thinking that he was the holy Word of Allah but yet it was easy to arrest him and to put the cross on his shoulders to carry. No! He was sur- rounded by divine lights. If anyone had touched him, he would have been thrown from East to West, into oceans!
All Naqshbandi shaykhs were witnesses, also, that night, seeing him going up [to Heaven]. He was carrying a needle and the angels asked about it. He said, “I used it, on earth, for sewing patches.” Jesus Christ ¡ used needles, but we are never using such a thing, too proud!
And now we are living in the last quarter of the twentieth century. People are more proud day by day, everyone wanting to be more proud individually, and nations, also, are saying, “We are a superpower.” The
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function of religion is finished, devils going on. People are sick with a sick- ness, making all people crazy ones. If no divine help comes from the Heavens to this earth before the end of this century, no divine cure, then all the world will be a mental hospital, from East to West.
No laws, people eating each other, destroying humanity. We have just reached the most terrible days of mankind; terrible days are approaching. But we hope that some heavenly events will appear. Each time that man- kind fell into a well of darkness, divine help came.
No more prophets will come, but we have been informed that holy ones will come. Otherwise, no effect from those claiming to be religious ones; they are useless. We need holy men whose hearts are full of divine love, heavenly beings, whose love belongs to the Lord.
We only need divine love to be put into our hearts. Otherwise, we can’t stop fighting, the endless desires of our egos, enmity, envy and jeal- ousy till divine love enters our hearts. Then everything else is going to be cheap and of no value.
One of the most bright stars in the skies of divine love was Jalaluddin Rumi, a very shining star in that sky. He was one of divine love’s stations; his heart was full. Up to today, Western people are running to his tomb, visiting. No one goes there and takes nothing. Everyone takes something.
Once he was going around Konya. He had come from Central Asia, from sun-rising countries,60 and he was going around that city. The way of prophets and saints is to get in touch from time to time with people. They must go around and look after the Lord’s servants, to help them, because they are divine love power centers. They can transfer love. You can’t feel it, you are still sleeping. When you awaken, you will know.
60Here, Shaykh Nazim adds parenthetically: “Europeans are fortunate people because their hearts are dreaming of being in oriental, eastern, countries. A misfortune for oriental people dreaming of being in the darkness of sun-setting countries. Good fortune for your looking to the East!”
There was a goldsmith in the market, and he took Maulana’s [Jalalud- din Rumi’s] heart to the Divine Presence. When Maulana began to turn, he went up.61 And also in the goldsmith’s heart came the love of the Divine Presence, and he fell at the feet of Maulana, asking to be his murid. Then Maulana shouted, “O people, take everything! I have just taken my slave,” making a bargain.
We aren’t asking for animals’ love; you can find that anywhere. We are asking for divine love. Mankind needs those holy people to come and give divine love. They are prepared to come and pass among people, to give them love divine; they are holy ones, hiding, but they are prepared to give from divine Love Oceans. If only one drop falls on mankind, they [man- kind] can give away everything [else].
When Maulana whirled, he was flying. That period is approaching— one year, two, or at most three years. From its roots, everything is going to be changed.
Advice for you: Keep your hearts away from this world’s temporary pleasures. Don’t keep envy in your heart. Envious people never reach the Divine Pres- ence; jealousy makes people lower than the level of animals. Be careful: don’t be envious of anyone. Try to make yourself belong only to your Lord, Al- mighty Allah. If you do, He will grant from His favors the drop of divine love. ▲
14: ABOUT RESTRAINING OUR EGOS
May Allah bless you to be supporters of prophets and holy people. People are in two parties, one coming with prophets and their inheri-
tors, the other group going against prophets and against awliya. And ac- cording on their enemies, prophets and their inheritors reach high ranks in the Divine Presence.
The father of mankind, Adam, when his descendants increased, called them to believe in Almighty Allah, but the majority of them became a big group of unbelievers. And when they became unbelievers and Adam called them to believe in his Lord, they were not pleased with him.
Unbelievers are never happy to be within limits. If anyone orders them, “Don’t do that, do this,” they are not happy and feel enmity in their hearts towards those people who tell them to do or not to do something. Therefore, many of Adam’s descendants disliked Adam (A) and felt enmity towards him. They were thinking to do something bad against him, and they gathered in a big meeting to decide how they might kill Adam.
When they met, one of them came forward to address them. Then Al- lah changed everyone’s language. Everyone spoke a different language and no one understood the other; they were quarreling, cursing each other, but no one was understanding. From that time, all those languages came, Allah protecting Sayyidina Adam from those unbelievers.
Anyone who comes to advise good things and prevent bad things gets enemies, fighting against laws, police. “No courts! We must be free!” Like in jungles, the most powerful ones can be the rulers.
Now people are asking to have such freedom, because we have egos. The Creator is saying, “O people, your ego always orders you the worst things.”62
“Beware of dogs!” they are writing. You can control dogs but you never write, “Beware of egos!” We are feeding them, and still they are com- ing against us. The Prophet said, “A friend who, as long as you give fa- vors to him, comes against you; as much as you respect him, he comes against you. If you put him down, he becomes respectful to you.”
“Who can such a stupid one be?” the sahabah asked. “Your ego.”
As much as you respect it, it kicks you and harms you. Now you are fasting and your ego is unhappy, hungry, but when you give it what it asks for, it shows too much disrespect to you, disturbing you .
The characteristic of our ego is always the same, from beginning up to end, and all the prophets came to say to people, “Beware of your ego!” Fasting puts it down, under control, a little bit. This holy month is a very good opportunity for anyone who is asking to get control of his ego.
So many people are coming and crying, “O Shaykh Efendi, my hus- band or my wife is doing something with drugs. He or she wants to stop but isn’t able. What can we do?”
No control on themselves! You may control London, but it is not easy to control your ego; you may be the conqueror of countries, but for egos it is difficult. The most powerful, terrible, tricky enemy is ego! Don’t think it is easy to take control of it.
The People of the Book, all of them, were ordered to fast; Moses ¡ and Jesus ¡ also brought fasting. But they changed fasting, their egos cheating them. They said, “It is difficult to fast. We only won’t eat animal
food, just eating grains and vegetable food,” their egos cheating them and taking their fasting away.
You can’t make your ego agree with divine rules. In the holiest month, Ramadan, whoever can keep fasting as Allah orders, it is from this moment up to that moment; we are even looking at only one minute.63 That trains egos and gives Allah’s support, His divine help, to be able to control our egos.
Uncontrolled people are always disturbed by controlled people. For that reason, they came against prophets and awliya. ▲
63That is, in Islamic fasting, the period of fasting is very strictly prescribed. Muslims watch the clock to determine the exact minute when eating and drinking must stop for the pre- dawn meal, suhur, and when eating and drinking can resume again at sunset.
15: ABOUT ACCEPTING MUHAMMAD AS A PROPHET
For 950 years Noah was preaching, and people beat him with sticks till they thought he had died. But the Seal of the Prophets bore more than anyone else; during the twenty-three years [of his prophethood], he bore more than anyone. His Companions, the sahabah, also bore [so much]. And Allah honored him and his Companions, and gave him higher ranks than anyone else, here and Hereafter.
Still his followers are bearing, because unbelievers are fighting them and saying, “You are not good people.” The People of the Book are also enemies, although we believe in Moses ¡ and the Torah, and we highly re- spect Jesus Christ ¡, and we haven’t any bad intentions against them. But still they are not proclaiming the Seal of the Prophets as a prophet.
How do they know that Moses ¡ was a prophet? How do they know that Jesus Christ ¡ was more than a prophet, and they accept Abraham, David, John, Lot, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, peace be upon them all? What is wrong in the prophethood of Muhammad ? Tell! How do you know that the miracles of Moses ¡ are true and Muhammad’s false—what proof? Yet they are denying it.
Through their books, they know. Moses ¡, in books, was informing that another prophet like himself should come. And they asked Jesus Christ ¡, “Are you that one?” He said, “No. He will come after me.” But the envy of people is preventing them, because Muhammad saw is not from their lineage. And he is Sayyidu-l-Awwalin wal-Akhirin.64
64The Master of the Earlier and Later Times.
And Sayyidina Mahdi will come, and Jesus Christ ¡ will pray behind him to our Lord, Almighty Allah.65 Soon, Jesus Christ ¡ will come, and before him, Sayyidina Mahdi ¡ will come to make everything clear. With him, 124,000 prophets will appear to make haqq, truth, clear—one or two or three years. May Allah make us to be with them! ▲
65The praying of Jesus saw behind the Mahdi saw during Jesus’ second coming at the end-time of this world is mentioned in a number of ahadith reported in the compilations of Bukhari, Muslim and Abu Dawud.
16: CHANGING OURSELVES, THE CONDITION FOR RECEIVING DIVINE HELP
Muslim jinn can only be in contact and under the command of awliya, authorized people. Others [non-Muslim jinn] are like the terrorist people of mankind, hiding themselves; now non-Muslims among jinn are also escap- ing, hiding from others. First, all the jinn will give bayah66 to Sayyidina Ma- hdi; second, he should appear.
Those terrorist jinn, unbelievers, non-Muslims, are afraid to be in con- tact with anyone from mankind. Here in this country [England], no one is to be found who is in contact with jinn, but they are claiming that.
If a person is in the sea, not knowing how to swim, he may catch at a snake without knowing. People, if in difficulty, if physicians and psychia- trists and courts are not giving benefit, are going to those people67 and hop- ing they can do something, read something. That line of ‘business’ is now in every kind of religion—business, but it is useless, because the one who falls into difficulties must first look to himself for the reason for his difficul- ties and problems.
There should be so many reasons in his life’s conditions. Without go- ing to ask such things from such strange people who are claiming that they have extraordinary powers or control on people, better for them to go and change their life’s conditions, because all traditions are saying that condi- tions appear according to a person’s actions and characteristics and attrib- utes.
66Pledge of commitment.
67Mediums, astrologers, palm readers, diviners and others who claim to have to have special knowledge of the Unseen or dealings with spirits.
You can’t stop that river, everyone coming to such people who are do- ing business with such things, and they are happy with people’s continuing with their problems. But in reality, they [those who are in trouble] need something from those people who have been appointed by the Lord, Al- mighty Allah, awliya. They never ask for profit; they get their payment from their Lord, free workers for the sake of Allah. And first they say, “Go. First you must try to change your conditions. Otherwise we can’t help you.”
We are now seeing people increasing in troubles. Fifteen days ago, a famous doctor gave a lecture about that terrible sickness coming on people, and everyone is asking what is the way of cure for the virus of that terrible sickness.
Every wise one would be surprised that people are asking for a cure. They are not thinking of leaving that abnormal behavior, that dirty, abnor- mal connection; they don’t think of leaving that, insisting on it and asking for a cure, then coming to the shaykh and asking help. And I am like a per- son standing on a bank and a person is saying, “Save me!” I am reaching to him with my hand but he is not reaching with his hand. So many people are coming to me!
A person asked Rasul-AIlah for his intercession. He said, “You must help me to help you by making so many sajdahs, prostrations.” You must help, also; your hands are full but still you are asking to be given. Leave what you are holding and I may give you something else!
As long as people do not intend to change their life conditions, even prophets can’t help them. People now need spiritual support, but it needs a support from your side, also. A ladder can’t stand alone; the two sides hold up each other. People now need thousands and thousands of physicians and psychiatrists, but such people [awliya] are very rare, as Allah is mention- ing. They are rare people; you must look for them and intend to practice through changing yourself.
I am addressing all suffering people who have never followed any prophet. The first condition is that they must proclaim the existence of the One Lord and Creator. If they do not proclaim it, nothing can be done for them. I am not speaking at the first step about prophets, but before wasting time and money and themselves, they must accept the Lord as their Creator and Master. That is the most important condition for suffering people.
Therefore, we must try to give something to people to make them be- lieve in One God, the Lord and Creator—that He is in existence and looks after His creatures, and that he [the suffering one] is a creature and humble servant to Allah Almighty. That makes troubles come down.
Second step: When a person came to the Prophet to declare his Shahadah,68 the first thing he or she had to do was to take a bath. Cleanli- ness is the second step after Shahadah; everyone must use it when they are in need. After sexual connection or dreams, men and women m
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