LIBERATING THE SOUL, Book 5 (Shaykh Nazim, 199 pages, 6/13)
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things, come; if you keep company with your ego, Satan comes to make a trinity. And every problem comes from that company.
You must be happy with your Lord, and when you are with Him, you should be happy here and Hereafter. When you are asking to be with the Lord, you must say “Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim,” and say, “I am asking for Your divine support.” You must try to make everything worship, to do it for His pleasure. That is our way of considering everything for the sake of Allah and not for ego’s pleasure.
This holy month is a big opportunity to reach that level. We are living in the first standard of this life, in which our ego is partner with us in every- thing; even worshipping we can’t do now without considering our ego’s pleasure. And the Prophet saw warned his ummah, his nation, “Be very care- ful not to make your ego partner with Allah Almighty,” because ego is al- ways lazy in doing any worshipping. But it is also not easy to do a worship without making one’s ego pleased.
In His Book, Allah is mentioning so many pleasures for believers. He knows our egos best. I may say something to you and you may easily obey,
but for little ones, children, we must give sweets to make them do some- thing. For every level of our ego, Allah promises to give. If a person is on the level of ego, you can’t move him for the sake of Allah, but if you say, “There are pearls,” that makes that person to move. He thinks of that beautiful life of Paradise and finds will power to pray, to fast and do chari- ties.
Allah, who makes us for the sake of Paradise, gives us Paradise as a reward. But we must try to pass that level, to do everything only for the sake of Allah, not asking for anything—to do it for Allah. That is the high level of the souls of prophets, who have perfect control on their egos; they know for which thing it is valuable to ask. Who would agree to be given a picture instead of a castle, or a picture instead of a man or a lady, or a paper that looks like gold? Anyone?
But for the eternal life, and here, also, we are asking for something for our egos. But we are not going to be pure servants without asking for any- thing except the Lord, Almighty Allah. The one who finds Him reaches every goal here and Hereafter, but the one who loses Him loses everything.
The prophets and their inheritors are not enjoying themselves with this world, and not with the next, also. They are asking for something else. Therefore, Allah will order angels to take such people to Paradise. But after a short time they will jump back to the Judgment Plain.
Each time one returns, Allah will ask, “Why don’t you accept your Paradise?”
He will say, “My paradise is with You. I was not working for Para- dise.” Then a light will come and he will disappear, joining endless Beauty Oceans.
From endless Beauty Oceans, only one drop falls into Paradise, and imagination can never reach that beauty of Paradise (and one drop from that comes to our Mother Eve; from that one drop, all ladies take their beauty). Where did he go, that one who was never satisfied with drops? They know; we don’t know, never using our faith-power to understand. He
has disappeared into endless Beauty Oceans—disappeared, swimming, drinking. And we are running after drops!
Allah is sending drops one after the other. Therefore, the beauty of Paradise-people is going to increase. Here in this dunya, it comes down. But don’t be worried. In Paradise, day after day, those drops will come to everyone’s Paradise, making them, each morning, more beautiful and hand- some.
Believe in endless happiness; don’t make anything trouble your heart. Leave that darkness out; put that freshness into your heart. But that fresh- ness can never enter your heart without the accompaniment of faith. When faith enters, pleasure appears.
We are trying here. For the barakah of this holy month, we are asking Allah to make our faith stronger so that sadness never comes inside. Try to be stronger in your faith! Look for every opportunity to make your faith stronger, every occasion for worshipping, ordered and permitted.
Secondly, try to take every forbidden thing away. The punishment for forbidden things is that sadness enters your heart; sadness is with people’s doing forbidden things. Take away forbidden things from your physical body; then light and pleasure will come on you. Smoking and drinking are never a pleasure for those who do them; that sadness never goes from them. The one who wants pleasure must keep away from forbidden things. As they say “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” take away forbidden things and it takes sadness away.
May Allah forgive us. We are asking happiness for everyone. I am sorry for people destroying themselves physically and spiritually. I can’t prevent it, I am so weak, but He may make weak servants strong. Take power over your ego and that power will come! ▲
21: GUARDING YOUR EYES
Allah Almighty is teaching His prophets, His awliya and His believers. Each group of people are students in the Divine Presence, according to their spiritual levels and according to their beliefs and according to their respect for the Lord Almighty. And we have been ordered to keep most high respect for Allah Almighty.
Perhaps a person may worship like the worshipping of all nations. If we can suppose that that one worships as all nations worship, that is respect. But to keep away from the smallest forbidden action is better than all na- tions’ worshipping. More respect, that is.85
According to your respect, He is going to teach you. To leave a for- bidden thing, even the smallest, is more valuable and lovely; that is the measure of respect. You may not be able to do all mankind’s worshipping but you can leave that smallest forbidden thing. That is going to be more heavy [in the balance] on the Day of Resurection than all mankind’s wor- shipping.
A person may go to Hijaz86 now during Rajab, Sha‘ban, Ramadan and three more holy months, praying and worshipping, and he is pleased; wor- shipping is most excellent in the holiest places. Then he may take a plane back to London, and when not guarding his eyes and looking at a hostess..!
May Allah prevent that looking! He may be there for six months or for forty years, but when going away, quickly Satan is hooking him.
85Referring to a hadith stating that to leave even the smallest part of what Allah has prohib- ited is better in the sight of Allah than the worshipping of the two species, humans and jinn.
86The area of Mecca and Medina.
That is most important for deceiving people and destroying their faith. Quickly a poisoned arrow comes into your heart and makes your faith to be poisoned. Satan and his armies are always fighting and taking your faith as a target. Keep yourself from poisoned arrows! Make a shield and protect yourself from poisoned arrows coming from ladies.
Respect is to guard against forbidden things; that is fear of God. At nighttime you are observing red lights; even though the government is not there, you must observe those green and red lights. Then, if you are ob- serving those, why are you not observing green and red lights for Allah?
Every forbidden thing wounds and destroys real faith. Therefore we are never tasting real faith; always faith is wounded. I am saying this because it is the most important hook of Satan for all Muslims and all people.
For believers who know that they will be asked one day, Satan runs af- ter them, to fix their eyes on forbidden goals. You may say, “O Satan, I now give you permission to take my eyes everywhere.” That is the reason that Allah is not letting light come on our hearts’ eyes. Impossible for a person to look at unseen worlds except through his heart’s eyes.
So many worlds! Your Lord has granted you a private universe for yourself only. No partner there, not like this world; billions of partners for this dirty world. He has granted us a private universe, wider than this uni- verse; we can enter it with one step. But it can’t be seen with these eyes; must be seen with hearts’ eyes. And if you do not guard your physical eyes, He will never give heart’s eyes’ lights. It is prevented as long as you are wasting light.
Some people are asking to be shown Paradise, like blind people asking to see the sun. If you can’t see it, must there be no Paradise? If no light in your heart, no vision, you can’t see!
Prophets are looking at unseen worlds; they are looking and seeing the Heavens, Paradise and Hells. If anyone keeps full respect for the Lord, Almighty Allah, He grants him to look and see.
But we are not looking; we are occupied by the things around our- selves, not taking care to look at our hearts, at ourselves. As long as you
don’t care to look at yourself, never is divine light granted to you. If you don’t know the value of these eyes’ lights, how can you keep those eyes’ lights? Every grandshaykh is teaching to his murids, “If you are asking for light in your heart”—and every believer is asking—“then you must guard these eyes. That is important!”
Once we were walking with Grandshaykh through Damascus’ Old City. Grandshaykh stopped and looked at the front of a shop. Too many things were there. Then he looked at another shop. He said, “This looking makes a person guilty. If looking without reason, without wisdom, why are you looking? You must ask what is the wisdom for that thing to be there.”
Allah never creates anything without wisdoms. From the smallest part of universes to gigantic ones, everything is in existence by wisdoms. With- out wisdom, even a single atom can’t be in existence. If you look at anything, you must look for a purpose. If you are in need of buying, you may look, but you must not look for anything till you are in need, and your purpose must be for the sake of Allah. If you look for the sake of your ego, it makes you blind. You must not do anything without intention, and your intention must be for the sake of Allah. That is the first level of belief.
The second category of people are always looking for wisdoms; when they look, they must look for divine wisdoms. Wisdoms make people to approach the Divine Presence. Knowledge may move you on earth; like the tires of a plane, you may run on it, but not for getting up in the skies. Knowledge disappears when wisdoms appear. A person not reaching wis- doms can’t rise to the Heavens. And the second category of people are looking and taking divine wisdoms, and trying to approach to the Divine Presence, saying, “Subhana-l-ladhi khaliqa-n-nur, khaliqa-n-nar.”87
And there is another category, also. They are looking and seeing the Lord’s existence and manifestation in every person, seeing in everyone the divine representation of the Holy Name that trains that person. They are seeing the Lord in everything, seeing that He is All-in-All. They can’t see
87“Glory be to Him who created light, created Hellfire.”
anything except His divine manifestation; they see as if they are standing with the Lord.
If no power from the Lord, there can’t be anything in existence. And if anything is by itself, it is a partner to Allah. Only He is by Himself; every- thing else is sustained by the Lord. Therefore, nothing that is sustained by Allah can be God. Jesus Christ ¡ is not God because he is in existence by his Lord. Each one of mankind is in existence by his Lord; each part of your body stands by its Lord.
That is a mistake, making Jesus as God. He is the Word of Allah, He exists by His Word. When Adam was created, He blew into Him from His Divine Soul. If taking that away, nothing would be there—finished! Every- thing is in existence by His one word, “Be!”88
The third category of people see their Lord’s manifestations. There- fore, Jalaluddin Rumi, may Allah bless his sacred soul, when he met a priest in the marketplace and the priest bowed to that grandshaykh, Maulana bowed lower than him.
Our brothers, too clever ones, are not even giving permission for kiss- ing hands! How can they give permission to bow to a non-Muslim? His murids said, “O master, that one is a priest!”
Maulana said, “We are more humble. He, that priest, does not under- stand, but I am bowing to that One who is making him be in existence.”
Therefore, there are different categories of people. Some are looking and it is haram. For some, looking is sunnah, and for some fard, obligatory. The second category are looking at wisdoms; their eyes are shielded, pro- tected. The third ones, they are prophets and saints. They can take heavy burdens from you. ▲
88The divine Word of command, mentioned in the following Qur’anic verses: 2:117; 3:47, 59; 6:73; 16:40; 19:35; 36:82; and 40:68.
22: FINDING LIGHT THROUGH THE PROPHETS AND THEIR INHERITORS
May Allah Almighty, by His endless blessings, give us from His divine lights and make our hearts to be lighted. He created the universe and the Heavens and the earth and ourselves, and He created light and darkness.
We are giving endless thanks that He created the Heavens and the earth and darkness and light. And He makes people for darkness and peo- ple for light.
Man is carrying, at the same time, darkness and light. Our bodies, without divine lights, are going to be dark. If those divine lights go away, this body is going to be in darkness, and to be destroyed and vanish.
Allah Almighty created man suitable for carrying lights. He sent His divine lights from the Heavens to people through prophets. There may be one thousand candles, but if you do not put fire, they never give lights.
Lights for mankind are coming from the Heavens. The one who reaches to that light, his heart may be the light on his candle, but if locking his heart, his heart is in darkness.
The first man and first prophet, Adam saw, came with divine lights from the Heavens to the earth. He gave lights to his sons and daughters, but some refused and remained in darkness. At every time, Allah sent prophets and messengers to bring divine lights to people.
Even in the days of the Last Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad saw, so many people were locking their hearts from taking lights from him. One group came and opened their hearts, and the Prophet gave from those
lights and they were shining. The Prophet described his Companions as shining stars in the sky.
The second group were from the same nation, the same tribe, the same city, but they were stubborn, insisting on not opening their hearts. They said, “Our hearts are locked to you. We aren’t letting our hearts listen to you.” And they passed away in darkness.
Seventy of them, who were the most stubborn, powerful people stand- ing against the Prophet saw and who never approached to listen, remained in that darkness, and their lives ended in the Battle of Badr (next Friday is its anniversary). Two groups of people came to fight in that battle: darkness people came to take away lights and lighted people came to give lights.
Allah gave victory to the Prophet , and he won and defeated dark- ness. A handful of lighted people, three hundred-and-thirteen, defeated more than one thousand armored soldiers with every kind of arms. Those seventy of the greatest enemies of light were defeated and killed and thrown into an old well without water. That was the end for those who were fight- ing against light and against being lighted. But sahabah, who opened their hearts to light, they are in light here and Hereafter.
We call them “Sultan”.89 Wherever they are, you can see their lighted graves and tombs—all sahabah’s maqams.90 You can visit them; their graves shine. Even though people of bad understanding are trying to make their graves unknown, always, daytimes or nighttimes, lights are rising. They can’t take away the lights that appear among their graves.
Darkness people think that lighted people die, that they become dead bodies. But they never die; they only make a veil. They are living; they have reached their lights, they have reached real life. Prophets are never going to be dust in their tombs. They will come on the Day of Resurrec- tion as they were on the day they were buried.
89In Turkey, the Companions of the Holy Prophet saw are referred to as “sultan/sultana”—that is, the ‘royalty’ of the Muslim ummah.
90A maqam is a tomb, grave or site dedicated to a prophet, sahabi or saint.
All inheritors who reached eternal life, who reached divine lights, are only veiling themselves and going on to eternal life. But those who refused lights, they are going to be dust, death grinding them in their graves. They are in need of a new body for the Day of Resurrection.
From the time of Sayyidina Muhammad saw, people have been in two groups. One of them accepts the light of the Seal of the Prophets , say- ing, “La ilaha illa-Llah, Muhammadu rasul-Allah.”91 That is the key for open- ing hearts to reach real lights. Don’t think that any other way can open hearts to let light enter.
So many people in the West are claiming to reach something of spiri- tual power, light, but they hate or have an ‘allergy’ to the name of Islam. They are saying, “We are reaching heavenly stations without accepting Is- lam. Leave Islam aside and give us something else!”
How should lights come without the key? They are only imagining it. If they are too proud to say Shahadah, from where are they asking lights? Shaytan is cheating them with some ‘batteries’—“Look, red lights, green lights!” They don’t know the kind with divine lights.
People are cheating themselves, saying, “Oh, very good! We have reached lights.” But how does a person ask to reach divine lights while he is denying the Lord of mankind, the Lord of the universes? If you don’t proclaim His unity and existence and submit to being His servant, how can you expect to reach to His divine lights? If they don’t say Shahadah, it means they are refusing to submit to the Lord and to be His servants; they are only accepting their egos as their Lord, asking to reach to power stations only for the sake of their egos, to be more powerful, bigger. No meaning for their worshipping; they are worshipping their egos. And they are in darkness.
You can sit with them and quickly that darkness is coming on you; you can understand. People are rejecting the Seal of the s who brought light to
91“There is no deity except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,” the Islamic Decla- ration of Faith (Shahadah).
more than one billion people. A huge crowd of people are still locking their hearts! Allah ordered the Prophet saw to give them a chance till the Day of Resurrection approaches, till their prophet, Jesus Christ ¡, comes down among people.92 “Give them a chance to think about your prophethood and let them try you.”
Any unbeliever, if trying and opening his heart, quickly takes lights. So many brothers opened their hearts and those lights quickly came. That is evidence for all Christians. We are saying, “Come!” No one comes sin- cerely, with an open heart, without taking lights. He must take.
Still two billion Christians are insisting on not proclaiming the prophethood of Sayyidina Muhammad saw, resisting. But, one after another, that resistance has begun to fall. The Prophet says, “The one who can be patient may reach victory.”
Islam is waiting patiently. They should see that for two thousand years they were on the wrong way, and they should repent and be sorry that they wasted two thousand years without reason. When the time comes, they should understand that it was just wasted.
We need, as Muslims, also, to open our hearts to more light. We don’t need knowledge now. Knowledge that has been classified in books, except that knowledge that belongs to you individually, is like old-fashioned weap- ons; it is not effective against the attacks of Satan and devils. Therefore, scholars can easily be defeated by Satan.
We are need more of knowledge through increasing the light in our hearts. Lights can show us what is true and what is false. We are living in the time of discord, fitnah, and the darkness of discord is too dark. If anyone puts his finger in front of him, he can’t see his finger.
It is so difficult to find true ones among devils. The first sign that they are devils is that they don’t say Shahadah. Shahadah gives lights to everyone; the one who does not make Shahadah never takes lights, here or Hereafter.
92Referring to Jesus’ second coming, mentioned previously and in Talk 27.
Here and in the afterlife, dark tunnels may be passed through only by the lights of Shahadah.
We are in such dark days now, and we are in need of light, we need lighted people. We may be in their Association even once in a lifetime. If you can be, once in a lifetime, they are keeping you, they are never leaving anyone who comes to them to extinguish his lights.
Don’t think that their lights are from themselves. They are from the Prophet saw, and his lights are from Allah Almighty’s divine lights. Allah supports the Prophet and says, “Don’t be worried that those people may blow out My Light.”93 Who can extinguish the sun and more than the sun?
At every time, you may find lights in holy men’s hearts. If you meet a holy one only once and your heart is not locked up, your heart must take that light. Use it! With those lights, you may save yourself from every dan- ger that is approaching mankind in our time. If no lights, your life is going to be in suffering and difficulty. Everyone must reach someone with divine lights. If not reaching, he must ask his Lord to guide him to someone with divine lights.
Now Muslims are too proud, more than anyone else; they are imitating Western people now and becoming very proud. But as much as that group may grow, it will never reach the Heavens—those people who are even de- nying the Prophet’s intermediation.94 They are saying, “The Prophet completed his prophetic word and went away, died. Now we are only with our Lord.” And if they are denying even the Prophet’s intermediation, how can they accept there to be an ordinary holy man? If they are saying, “No intermediation for the Prophet,” how can they ask a holy man to be
939:32, 61:8.
94Tawassul, mentioned in a hadith reported by ‘Uthman bin Affan , in which the Prophet saw instructed a blind man to pray for the cure of his blindness with the words, “O Allah, I make request of You and I turn toward You by means of Your Prophet Muhammad saw, the prophet of mercy. By means of him I have turned toward my Lord to accomplish for me this need of mine. O Allah, make him an intercessor for me” (Tirmidhi in Mishkat al- Masabih).
their guide? They are saying say, “No; shirk!”—big-minded people, know- ing only three words: “shirk,” “bid’ah,” “kufr”.95
They are not understanding that lights came on earth through the prophets. When the prophets went away, they had to leave someone to give those lights to people. They are making rules, saying, “Don’t accept tariqats, don’t accept Sufis, don’t accept holy men!” Whom else shall we accept, then? There is no one else in the picture but devils. Huge numbers of Muslims are under the hegemony of devils, and anti-Christs should come, thirty before the big one.96
Therefore, O brothers and sisters in Islam, such ignorance has become common among people in our days that if anyone has a little bit of light, he can understand and distinguish. For anyone who wants to reach absolute truth and to reach his Lord’s Divine Presence, it is enough. ▲
95Shirk: to ascribe divinity or its attributes to anyone other than Allah; bid’ah’: an innovation in religion; kufr: unbelief, denial of God.
96Referring to the Dajjal or False Messiah, who will come at the end-time of this world, as foretold in numerous ahadith.
23: CONCERNING ALLAH’S GREATEST NAME, THE NIGHT OF POWER, AND SAYYIDINA KHIDR
By our Lord’s endless blessings, we have reached the second part of Holy Ramadan, a mercy for believers and for everyone. Even unbelievers are reaching mercy during this holy month.
The Seal of the Prophets saw and his nation have been honored by this holy month. There is a hadith giving good tidings for the one who feels pleasure within himself when this holy month comes. Allah takes him away from Hells by being pleased with this month.
He is the Creator, and He makes times and places honored. Only He can do it; if He does not, no one can make any place sacred. Even if all people say that it is but Allah does not say so, it is not sacred. For time, also; for holy months, Allah gives that honor.
We have twelve lunar months. The most holy month is this month; you can’t change it. Allah gives every month a kind of holiness but most to Ramadan. And He gives holiness, also, to some people from among His servants. lf all people say that that person is Saint Luke, Saint Pancras and so forth, if that knowledge is given by their Lord to them, it is all right.
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things, come; if you keep company with your ego, Satan comes to make a trinity. And every problem comes from that company.
You must be happy with your Lord, and when you are with Him, you should be happy here and Hereafter. When you are asking to be with the Lord, you must say “Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim,” and say, “I am asking for Your divine support.” You must try to make everything worship, to do it for His pleasure. That is our way of considering everything for the sake of Allah and not for ego’s pleasure.
This holy month is a big opportunity to reach that level. We are living in the first standard of this life, in which our ego is partner with us in every- thing; even worshipping we can’t do now without considering our ego’s pleasure. And the Prophet saw warned his ummah, his nation, “Be very care- ful not to make your ego partner with Allah Almighty,” because ego is al- ways lazy in doing any worshipping. But it is also not easy to do a worship without making one’s ego pleased.
In His Book, Allah is mentioning so many pleasures for believers. He knows our egos best. I may say something to you and you may easily obey,
but for little ones, children, we must give sweets to make them do some- thing. For every level of our ego, Allah promises to give. If a person is on the level of ego, you can’t move him for the sake of Allah, but if you say, “There are pearls,” that makes that person to move. He thinks of that beautiful life of Paradise and finds will power to pray, to fast and do chari- ties.
Allah, who makes us for the sake of Paradise, gives us Paradise as a reward. But we must try to pass that level, to do everything only for the sake of Allah, not asking for anything—to do it for Allah. That is the high level of the souls of prophets, who have perfect control on their egos; they know for which thing it is valuable to ask. Who would agree to be given a picture instead of a castle, or a picture instead of a man or a lady, or a paper that looks like gold? Anyone?
But for the eternal life, and here, also, we are asking for something for our egos. But we are not going to be pure servants without asking for any- thing except the Lord, Almighty Allah. The one who finds Him reaches every goal here and Hereafter, but the one who loses Him loses everything.
The prophets and their inheritors are not enjoying themselves with this world, and not with the next, also. They are asking for something else. Therefore, Allah will order angels to take such people to Paradise. But after a short time they will jump back to the Judgment Plain.
Each time one returns, Allah will ask, “Why don’t you accept your Paradise?”
He will say, “My paradise is with You. I was not working for Para- dise.” Then a light will come and he will disappear, joining endless Beauty Oceans.
From endless Beauty Oceans, only one drop falls into Paradise, and imagination can never reach that beauty of Paradise (and one drop from that comes to our Mother Eve; from that one drop, all ladies take their beauty). Where did he go, that one who was never satisfied with drops? They know; we don’t know, never using our faith-power to understand. He
has disappeared into endless Beauty Oceans—disappeared, swimming, drinking. And we are running after drops!
Allah is sending drops one after the other. Therefore, the beauty of Paradise-people is going to increase. Here in this dunya, it comes down. But don’t be worried. In Paradise, day after day, those drops will come to everyone’s Paradise, making them, each morning, more beautiful and hand- some.
Believe in endless happiness; don’t make anything trouble your heart. Leave that darkness out; put that freshness into your heart. But that fresh- ness can never enter your heart without the accompaniment of faith. When faith enters, pleasure appears.
We are trying here. For the barakah of this holy month, we are asking Allah to make our faith stronger so that sadness never comes inside. Try to be stronger in your faith! Look for every opportunity to make your faith stronger, every occasion for worshipping, ordered and permitted.
Secondly, try to take every forbidden thing away. The punishment for forbidden things is that sadness enters your heart; sadness is with people’s doing forbidden things. Take away forbidden things from your physical body; then light and pleasure will come on you. Smoking and drinking are never a pleasure for those who do them; that sadness never goes from them. The one who wants pleasure must keep away from forbidden things. As they say “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” take away forbidden things and it takes sadness away.
May Allah forgive us. We are asking happiness for everyone. I am sorry for people destroying themselves physically and spiritually. I can’t prevent it, I am so weak, but He may make weak servants strong. Take power over your ego and that power will come! ▲
21: GUARDING YOUR EYES
Allah Almighty is teaching His prophets, His awliya and His believers. Each group of people are students in the Divine Presence, according to their spiritual levels and according to their beliefs and according to their respect for the Lord Almighty. And we have been ordered to keep most high respect for Allah Almighty.
Perhaps a person may worship like the worshipping of all nations. If we can suppose that that one worships as all nations worship, that is respect. But to keep away from the smallest forbidden action is better than all na- tions’ worshipping. More respect, that is.85
According to your respect, He is going to teach you. To leave a for- bidden thing, even the smallest, is more valuable and lovely; that is the measure of respect. You may not be able to do all mankind’s worshipping but you can leave that smallest forbidden thing. That is going to be more heavy [in the balance] on the Day of Resurection than all mankind’s wor- shipping.
A person may go to Hijaz86 now during Rajab, Sha‘ban, Ramadan and three more holy months, praying and worshipping, and he is pleased; wor- shipping is most excellent in the holiest places. Then he may take a plane back to London, and when not guarding his eyes and looking at a hostess..!
May Allah prevent that looking! He may be there for six months or for forty years, but when going away, quickly Satan is hooking him.
85Referring to a hadith stating that to leave even the smallest part of what Allah has prohib- ited is better in the sight of Allah than the worshipping of the two species, humans and jinn.
86The area of Mecca and Medina.
That is most important for deceiving people and destroying their faith. Quickly a poisoned arrow comes into your heart and makes your faith to be poisoned. Satan and his armies are always fighting and taking your faith as a target. Keep yourself from poisoned arrows! Make a shield and protect yourself from poisoned arrows coming from ladies.
Respect is to guard against forbidden things; that is fear of God. At nighttime you are observing red lights; even though the government is not there, you must observe those green and red lights. Then, if you are ob- serving those, why are you not observing green and red lights for Allah?
Every forbidden thing wounds and destroys real faith. Therefore we are never tasting real faith; always faith is wounded. I am saying this because it is the most important hook of Satan for all Muslims and all people.
For believers who know that they will be asked one day, Satan runs af- ter them, to fix their eyes on forbidden goals. You may say, “O Satan, I now give you permission to take my eyes everywhere.” That is the reason that Allah is not letting light come on our hearts’ eyes. Impossible for a person to look at unseen worlds except through his heart’s eyes.
So many worlds! Your Lord has granted you a private universe for yourself only. No partner there, not like this world; billions of partners for this dirty world. He has granted us a private universe, wider than this uni- verse; we can enter it with one step. But it can’t be seen with these eyes; must be seen with hearts’ eyes. And if you do not guard your physical eyes, He will never give heart’s eyes’ lights. It is prevented as long as you are wasting light.
Some people are asking to be shown Paradise, like blind people asking to see the sun. If you can’t see it, must there be no Paradise? If no light in your heart, no vision, you can’t see!
Prophets are looking at unseen worlds; they are looking and seeing the Heavens, Paradise and Hells. If anyone keeps full respect for the Lord, Almighty Allah, He grants him to look and see.
But we are not looking; we are occupied by the things around our- selves, not taking care to look at our hearts, at ourselves. As long as you
don’t care to look at yourself, never is divine light granted to you. If you don’t know the value of these eyes’ lights, how can you keep those eyes’ lights? Every grandshaykh is teaching to his murids, “If you are asking for light in your heart”—and every believer is asking—“then you must guard these eyes. That is important!”
Once we were walking with Grandshaykh through Damascus’ Old City. Grandshaykh stopped and looked at the front of a shop. Too many things were there. Then he looked at another shop. He said, “This looking makes a person guilty. If looking without reason, without wisdom, why are you looking? You must ask what is the wisdom for that thing to be there.”
Allah never creates anything without wisdoms. From the smallest part of universes to gigantic ones, everything is in existence by wisdoms. With- out wisdom, even a single atom can’t be in existence. If you look at anything, you must look for a purpose. If you are in need of buying, you may look, but you must not look for anything till you are in need, and your purpose must be for the sake of Allah. If you look for the sake of your ego, it makes you blind. You must not do anything without intention, and your intention must be for the sake of Allah. That is the first level of belief.
The second category of people are always looking for wisdoms; when they look, they must look for divine wisdoms. Wisdoms make people to approach the Divine Presence. Knowledge may move you on earth; like the tires of a plane, you may run on it, but not for getting up in the skies. Knowledge disappears when wisdoms appear. A person not reaching wis- doms can’t rise to the Heavens. And the second category of people are looking and taking divine wisdoms, and trying to approach to the Divine Presence, saying, “Subhana-l-ladhi khaliqa-n-nur, khaliqa-n-nar.”87
And there is another category, also. They are looking and seeing the Lord’s existence and manifestation in every person, seeing in everyone the divine representation of the Holy Name that trains that person. They are seeing the Lord in everything, seeing that He is All-in-All. They can’t see
87“Glory be to Him who created light, created Hellfire.”
anything except His divine manifestation; they see as if they are standing with the Lord.
If no power from the Lord, there can’t be anything in existence. And if anything is by itself, it is a partner to Allah. Only He is by Himself; every- thing else is sustained by the Lord. Therefore, nothing that is sustained by Allah can be God. Jesus Christ ¡ is not God because he is in existence by his Lord. Each one of mankind is in existence by his Lord; each part of your body stands by its Lord.
That is a mistake, making Jesus as God. He is the Word of Allah, He exists by His Word. When Adam was created, He blew into Him from His Divine Soul. If taking that away, nothing would be there—finished! Every- thing is in existence by His one word, “Be!”88
The third category of people see their Lord’s manifestations. There- fore, Jalaluddin Rumi, may Allah bless his sacred soul, when he met a priest in the marketplace and the priest bowed to that grandshaykh, Maulana bowed lower than him.
Our brothers, too clever ones, are not even giving permission for kiss- ing hands! How can they give permission to bow to a non-Muslim? His murids said, “O master, that one is a priest!”
Maulana said, “We are more humble. He, that priest, does not under- stand, but I am bowing to that One who is making him be in existence.”
Therefore, there are different categories of people. Some are looking and it is haram. For some, looking is sunnah, and for some fard, obligatory. The second category are looking at wisdoms; their eyes are shielded, pro- tected. The third ones, they are prophets and saints. They can take heavy burdens from you. ▲
88The divine Word of command, mentioned in the following Qur’anic verses: 2:117; 3:47, 59; 6:73; 16:40; 19:35; 36:82; and 40:68.
22: FINDING LIGHT THROUGH THE PROPHETS AND THEIR INHERITORS
May Allah Almighty, by His endless blessings, give us from His divine lights and make our hearts to be lighted. He created the universe and the Heavens and the earth and ourselves, and He created light and darkness.
We are giving endless thanks that He created the Heavens and the earth and darkness and light. And He makes people for darkness and peo- ple for light.
Man is carrying, at the same time, darkness and light. Our bodies, without divine lights, are going to be dark. If those divine lights go away, this body is going to be in darkness, and to be destroyed and vanish.
Allah Almighty created man suitable for carrying lights. He sent His divine lights from the Heavens to people through prophets. There may be one thousand candles, but if you do not put fire, they never give lights.
Lights for mankind are coming from the Heavens. The one who reaches to that light, his heart may be the light on his candle, but if locking his heart, his heart is in darkness.
The first man and first prophet, Adam saw, came with divine lights from the Heavens to the earth. He gave lights to his sons and daughters, but some refused and remained in darkness. At every time, Allah sent prophets and messengers to bring divine lights to people.
Even in the days of the Last Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad saw, so many people were locking their hearts from taking lights from him. One group came and opened their hearts, and the Prophet gave from those
lights and they were shining. The Prophet described his Companions as shining stars in the sky.
The second group were from the same nation, the same tribe, the same city, but they were stubborn, insisting on not opening their hearts. They said, “Our hearts are locked to you. We aren’t letting our hearts listen to you.” And they passed away in darkness.
Seventy of them, who were the most stubborn, powerful people stand- ing against the Prophet saw and who never approached to listen, remained in that darkness, and their lives ended in the Battle of Badr (next Friday is its anniversary). Two groups of people came to fight in that battle: darkness people came to take away lights and lighted people came to give lights.
Allah gave victory to the Prophet , and he won and defeated dark- ness. A handful of lighted people, three hundred-and-thirteen, defeated more than one thousand armored soldiers with every kind of arms. Those seventy of the greatest enemies of light were defeated and killed and thrown into an old well without water. That was the end for those who were fight- ing against light and against being lighted. But sahabah, who opened their hearts to light, they are in light here and Hereafter.
We call them “Sultan”.89 Wherever they are, you can see their lighted graves and tombs—all sahabah’s maqams.90 You can visit them; their graves shine. Even though people of bad understanding are trying to make their graves unknown, always, daytimes or nighttimes, lights are rising. They can’t take away the lights that appear among their graves.
Darkness people think that lighted people die, that they become dead bodies. But they never die; they only make a veil. They are living; they have reached their lights, they have reached real life. Prophets are never going to be dust in their tombs. They will come on the Day of Resurrec- tion as they were on the day they were buried.
89In Turkey, the Companions of the Holy Prophet saw are referred to as “sultan/sultana”—that is, the ‘royalty’ of the Muslim ummah.
90A maqam is a tomb, grave or site dedicated to a prophet, sahabi or saint.
All inheritors who reached eternal life, who reached divine lights, are only veiling themselves and going on to eternal life. But those who refused lights, they are going to be dust, death grinding them in their graves. They are in need of a new body for the Day of Resurrection.
From the time of Sayyidina Muhammad saw, people have been in two groups. One of them accepts the light of the Seal of the Prophets , say- ing, “La ilaha illa-Llah, Muhammadu rasul-Allah.”91 That is the key for open- ing hearts to reach real lights. Don’t think that any other way can open hearts to let light enter.
So many people in the West are claiming to reach something of spiri- tual power, light, but they hate or have an ‘allergy’ to the name of Islam. They are saying, “We are reaching heavenly stations without accepting Is- lam. Leave Islam aside and give us something else!”
How should lights come without the key? They are only imagining it. If they are too proud to say Shahadah, from where are they asking lights? Shaytan is cheating them with some ‘batteries’—“Look, red lights, green lights!” They don’t know the kind with divine lights.
People are cheating themselves, saying, “Oh, very good! We have reached lights.” But how does a person ask to reach divine lights while he is denying the Lord of mankind, the Lord of the universes? If you don’t proclaim His unity and existence and submit to being His servant, how can you expect to reach to His divine lights? If they don’t say Shahadah, it means they are refusing to submit to the Lord and to be His servants; they are only accepting their egos as their Lord, asking to reach to power stations only for the sake of their egos, to be more powerful, bigger. No meaning for their worshipping; they are worshipping their egos. And they are in darkness.
You can sit with them and quickly that darkness is coming on you; you can understand. People are rejecting the Seal of the s who brought light to
91“There is no deity except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,” the Islamic Decla- ration of Faith (Shahadah).
more than one billion people. A huge crowd of people are still locking their hearts! Allah ordered the Prophet saw to give them a chance till the Day of Resurrection approaches, till their prophet, Jesus Christ ¡, comes down among people.92 “Give them a chance to think about your prophethood and let them try you.”
Any unbeliever, if trying and opening his heart, quickly takes lights. So many brothers opened their hearts and those lights quickly came. That is evidence for all Christians. We are saying, “Come!” No one comes sin- cerely, with an open heart, without taking lights. He must take.
Still two billion Christians are insisting on not proclaiming the prophethood of Sayyidina Muhammad saw, resisting. But, one after another, that resistance has begun to fall. The Prophet says, “The one who can be patient may reach victory.”
Islam is waiting patiently. They should see that for two thousand years they were on the wrong way, and they should repent and be sorry that they wasted two thousand years without reason. When the time comes, they should understand that it was just wasted.
We need, as Muslims, also, to open our hearts to more light. We don’t need knowledge now. Knowledge that has been classified in books, except that knowledge that belongs to you individually, is like old-fashioned weap- ons; it is not effective against the attacks of Satan and devils. Therefore, scholars can easily be defeated by Satan.
We are need more of knowledge through increasing the light in our hearts. Lights can show us what is true and what is false. We are living in the time of discord, fitnah, and the darkness of discord is too dark. If anyone puts his finger in front of him, he can’t see his finger.
It is so difficult to find true ones among devils. The first sign that they are devils is that they don’t say Shahadah. Shahadah gives lights to everyone; the one who does not make Shahadah never takes lights, here or Hereafter.
92Referring to Jesus’ second coming, mentioned previously and in Talk 27.
Here and in the afterlife, dark tunnels may be passed through only by the lights of Shahadah.
We are in such dark days now, and we are in need of light, we need lighted people. We may be in their Association even once in a lifetime. If you can be, once in a lifetime, they are keeping you, they are never leaving anyone who comes to them to extinguish his lights.
Don’t think that their lights are from themselves. They are from the Prophet saw, and his lights are from Allah Almighty’s divine lights. Allah supports the Prophet and says, “Don’t be worried that those people may blow out My Light.”93 Who can extinguish the sun and more than the sun?
At every time, you may find lights in holy men’s hearts. If you meet a holy one only once and your heart is not locked up, your heart must take that light. Use it! With those lights, you may save yourself from every dan- ger that is approaching mankind in our time. If no lights, your life is going to be in suffering and difficulty. Everyone must reach someone with divine lights. If not reaching, he must ask his Lord to guide him to someone with divine lights.
Now Muslims are too proud, more than anyone else; they are imitating Western people now and becoming very proud. But as much as that group may grow, it will never reach the Heavens—those people who are even de- nying the Prophet’s intermediation.94 They are saying, “The Prophet completed his prophetic word and went away, died. Now we are only with our Lord.” And if they are denying even the Prophet’s intermediation, how can they accept there to be an ordinary holy man? If they are saying, “No intermediation for the Prophet,” how can they ask a holy man to be
939:32, 61:8.
94Tawassul, mentioned in a hadith reported by ‘Uthman bin Affan , in which the Prophet saw instructed a blind man to pray for the cure of his blindness with the words, “O Allah, I make request of You and I turn toward You by means of Your Prophet Muhammad saw, the prophet of mercy. By means of him I have turned toward my Lord to accomplish for me this need of mine. O Allah, make him an intercessor for me” (Tirmidhi in Mishkat al- Masabih).
their guide? They are saying say, “No; shirk!”—big-minded people, know- ing only three words: “shirk,” “bid’ah,” “kufr”.95
They are not understanding that lights came on earth through the prophets. When the prophets went away, they had to leave someone to give those lights to people. They are making rules, saying, “Don’t accept tariqats, don’t accept Sufis, don’t accept holy men!” Whom else shall we accept, then? There is no one else in the picture but devils. Huge numbers of Muslims are under the hegemony of devils, and anti-Christs should come, thirty before the big one.96
Therefore, O brothers and sisters in Islam, such ignorance has become common among people in our days that if anyone has a little bit of light, he can understand and distinguish. For anyone who wants to reach absolute truth and to reach his Lord’s Divine Presence, it is enough. ▲
95Shirk: to ascribe divinity or its attributes to anyone other than Allah; bid’ah’: an innovation in religion; kufr: unbelief, denial of God.
96Referring to the Dajjal or False Messiah, who will come at the end-time of this world, as foretold in numerous ahadith.
23: CONCERNING ALLAH’S GREATEST NAME, THE NIGHT OF POWER, AND SAYYIDINA KHIDR
By our Lord’s endless blessings, we have reached the second part of Holy Ramadan, a mercy for believers and for everyone. Even unbelievers are reaching mercy during this holy month.
The Seal of the Prophets saw and his nation have been honored by this holy month. There is a hadith giving good tidings for the one who feels pleasure within himself when this holy month comes. Allah takes him away from Hells by being pleased with this month.
He is the Creator, and He makes times and places honored. Only He can do it; if He does not, no one can make any place sacred. Even if all people say that it is but Allah does not say so, it is not sacred. For time, also; for holy months, Allah gives that honor.
We have twelve lunar months. The most holy month is this month; you can’t change it. Allah gives every month a kind of holiness but most to Ramadan. And He gives holiness, also, to some people from among His servants. lf all people say that that person is Saint Luke, Saint Pancras and so forth, if that knowledge is given by their Lord to them, it is all right.
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