LIBERATING THE SOUL, Book 5 (Shaykh Nazim, 199 pages, 10/13)
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also follow. People have no minds; if they see one per- son doing something, they must do it, also.
That is a common illness. The Prophet saw informed us that when the Last Days approach, my people will follow the People of the Book step by step. Even if my people see non-Muslims entering into the narrow hole of a fox, they will try to enter also.
143This and similar tactics have been frequently used by communists, missionaries and oth- ers. People are shown something which they desire, and when they express a wish for it, they are told to ask for it from Allah. When it is not given to them in response to their prayer, the ‘trainer’ then instructs them to ask him. He gives it and then says, “You see, God is not real, does not hear you, does not respond, will not give, etc. But I”—or, in the case of missionaries, Jesus—“will give it to you.”
Once the Muslim world was stronger than Western countries. It con- tolled Western countries and Western people were trying to imitate it be- cause the weak always imitate the powerful one. The East was powerful through faith. Because of that they felt powerful, not because of weapons; through faith they saw themselves as powerful. But now in this century, Muslim peoples’ faith is becoming weaker and is going to be zero. They are saying, “We are behind, not yet advanced—backwards. We must try to do more like Western countries, to reach their technology.” But Allah’s wis- dom makes them to be down. When they reach one level, the West has al- ready reached another one.
Their faith is weak. They are asking to be servants to Western people, and Allah gave them the most precious part of the world—the most beauti- ful, rich and everything. But they are coming to the West to be street cleaners. I am always saying, “Go home!”
Allah honored us but we are not thankful. Instead, we are asking to be like Western people. No cure for that sickness till we leave those stupid ideas. They are like women, always asking for equality.
But they are never going to be equal. On the five continents, every- where, Allah is putting people to be suitable for that place. Now you can’t see anyone walking on his feet; everything is upset, upside-down. We need someone to put everything in order from A to Z; everything is upset now. Allah is saying, “O people, I gave you a mind to use it!” But they think it is most enjoyable not to carry anything in their heads, never to think. ▲
33: THE TIME OF SAYYIDINA MAHDI
When Sayyidina Mahdi ¡ comes, it is going to be a charity-less time because he will order all the treasures under the earth and under the seas to be brought out, and there will be twenty ministers from mankind over jinn. So many treasures will appear (good tidings for ladies!), so many—like hills, everywhere, Mahdi ¡ sending people everywhere to come and take.
If peoples’ egos were going to be the same as in our days, we would run to them, but at that time we will be given very powerful spiritual desires and heavenly views are going to come into our vision. Therefore, no one will be interested in such kinds of jewels, material ones. There will be an- other kind of jewels.
The Prophet saw ordered giving good tidings about Mahdi ¡: “O schol- ars and learned people, give good tidings about Mahdi!” But I don’t see anyone giving it. That is important because the ummah is in a narrow posi- tion spiritually. They need good tidings about the future; otherwise they think that there is too dark a future. But we say as the Prophet said about Sayyidina Mahdi ¡: The whole world must stop to meet him. He is coming.
It is good tidings for believers—not for unbelievers; they get angry. And each time they are get angry with Islam or tariqats or Mahdi ¡, Allah says to them, “May you die from your anger!” Unbelievers are making themselves unhappy. Happiness is for believers.
The Prophet says that Mahdi ¡ will ask whomever wants to take those jewels to come. One person will come from far away and ask to take from them before all the people rush at them, and he will go and ask, “From where can I take?”
Now, for the Government, for five pence they must sign five signa- tures. But the guardian of those treasures will say, “Get in!” taking no sig- natures, and that person will rush at them.
Shining gold! If any of our people saw that view, he would faint— twenty-two carats, not eight carats. Rushing, coming on his knees, putting them everywhere, all pockets full.
While he is on his knees he doesn’t understand about carrying all that, but gold is heavy. When he wants to get up, he isn’t able to, so heavy, and he slowly takes them out. And he looks.
Are people still sleeping, or have they died? Have they not heard that it is free today? Then he says, “What about me? If no one else is taking, for what am I so greedy?” Only you? Go and put it back! For what are you taking that metal, like a donkey?
I am giving the view from ‘Headquarters,’ as the Prophet said. Prophets have the power of vision in their eyes like television. And accord- ing to the power of their belief, everyone may see the Heavens and Paradise and Qiyamah and Hells. When Sayyidina Mahdi ¡ comes, everyone will see the seven heavens, the eight Paradises, the seven hells and Qiyamah. Man is created with such powers.
So many guardians for some papers or libraries! If there were such treasures in our time, you would have to bring nuclear weapons to guard them. But when that person wants to give back the treasures he took, that guardian says, “Go away! When We give something, we never take it back!”
At that time, no need for charity because barakah will be raining down. Allah will order the skies to give wholly barakah and will order the earth to give wholly barakah. Now people are going long distances with tractors. At that time, such places will yield hundredfold. If you plant one boxful, you will take seven hundred boxes, trees giving fruit twice each year.
Sayyidina ‘Ali said about the signs of the Last Days that there would come a day for people when they wouldn’t be able to take anything from trees without medicine [chemicals]. Now people are using too chemicals to grow fruits. Therefore, through those chemicals such strange illnesses are
coming on people that doctors are saying, “I have never seen such an ill- ness.” But when Mahdi ¡ comes and says, “Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar wa lil-Lahi-l-hamd!”144 all that will be changed.
No hypocrites will live at the time of Mahdi ¡; they must be taken away. The one who harms people spiritually or physically can’t be in that time. The people living in that time will be like the cream on milk. When the Prophet spoke about that time, the sahabah were asking to be with them, and Sayyidina ‘Umar said, “Ya Rasul-Allah, we would give every- thing to be one of them!” And the Prophet said, “Your love for those people is covering them, and you should be with them, you should be wit- nesses.”
We are hoping and asking to be with Mahdi ¡. Ask! If the Prophet says, “The lifespan of my nation’s people is mostly sixty or seventy years,” I hope that if I live normally up to seventy, I must be with him, because it is too close now, his time. No one can imagine that light, that happiness, that pleasure for people!
No one will need that electric power, all technology taken away. Allah has made those unbelievers to be happy with that technology in order to know their Lord, but they are going on their knees in front of technology instead of the Lord. Therefore, that headache should be taken away and another kind of power should come down, a part of Paradise.
At that time, you may think but your movement is going to be speed- ier than your thought, and you should be at the K‘abah or in the East or the West more quickly than your thought, Allah opening at that time something of deputy’s honors—only something, because this earth can’t carry even one person with real deputy’s honors. You can’t imagine those powers until you reach that time.
We were expecting to speak about something else today, but They are changing it, to say something about Mahdi ¡ to be happy. If someone be- lieves, he will see more and more, till his spiritual powers appear.
144“God is Most Great,” repeated three times, “and all praise is for Him.”
Charity now is more important; you may do now as much as you can. At least you may do, for supporting truth in our days—more important now!— sajdah and charities. What you are given for a simple charity, you can’t imagine. It is the time for trading for our eternal life. Good tidings for the one who believes that when he gives, it will not become less. Don’t be afraid! Allah says, “When you give for the sake of Allah, I give. I will not leave you empty, I will refill.” ▲
34: USING YOUR HEART TO UNDERSTAND
We, mankind, must know more about ourselves. That is the most im- portant thing for us: to know about ourselves. The Holy Qur’an is teach- ing us the complete knowledge about ourselves, and the Prophet saw worked to give an understanding to people about themselves. And his inheritors, awliya, are working on that point, also.
It is impossible for a person to reach a level of real faith without knowing about himself, because without knowledge about himself no one can know about Allah Almighty. Every murshid, grandshaykh, has reached to understanding about himself.
We have been honored by the Lord of the universes, the Lord of crea- tures. But although we have been honored, most of mankind is arguing with their Lord. No other creatures are arguing except mankind; it is im- possible, but they are fighting, making a discussion. And the Prophet saw gave warning and said, “The one who shoots at us, if he puts an arrow and knows it, he is not from our nation.”
Every activity, every action, that is against the Lord’s orders or His Prophet’s orders (whose orders are the same as Allah’s)—whoever rejects or does something against divine orders, it means that that person is com- ing and shooting the Prophet saw. “Whoever shoots us is not from our na- tion,” he says. If you know something that Allah or the Prophet orders and you are against it, it is dangerous. You must try not to be against it.
But we know it and we are fighting. At that time we are far from the Prophet saw. That fight continues till you reach a high level of faith where you can control your actions. Therefore, we need to know about ourselves so that we will not be against divine orders.
But our ego always likes to fight against the Lord, Almighty Allah, like Nimrod. Our ego, if not accepting divine rules, means that it wants to fight. Your ego is such an ignorant one; it never gives real value to believ- ing in the Lord, Almighty Allah. For ego, it is so simple a thing: it thinks it can easily be the sultan, the ruler, of the physical body. Always, if it finds a chance, ego is going to fight with the Lord, Almighty Allah. It is the most difficult one to agree, always against divine orders.
Most people cannot accept anyone else to be first; they must be the first. Each time prophets came, they fought against them. They looked first at what was his right to be a prophet: “What is your proof? What does it mean, revelation? Why only for you? Why not for us, also?” The most arguing ones are mankind. Even though they saw the miraculous things that prophets showed, still they did not accept and argued with them, never ending their arguments with prophets. They thought they could take them away and make truth disappear, and their falsehood would go on. For that reason they came against prophets.
Most argumentative, our egos! Mostly, people who have a [spiritual] sickness are more argumentative, and those who think that they are some- thing, not accepting to be nothing, and those who don’t want to be some- thing but to be everything. V.I.P.—if he is a V.I.P., I must be a V.V.I.P.!
The whole Shari’at, divine rules, came not to give something to ego but to take everything from ego and to make it a slave, when it is going to de- clare, “I am nothing, I am a slave.” If a person does not come down to a low level from his imagined high status, he will never reach divine stations and power; as long as you don’t accept to be nothing, we are not giving any- thing. Allah is saying, “O people, I have bought all of you, I have paid a price. I shall give you Paradise and you are all for Me.” Even if He did not buy us, we are for Him, also, but He is saying, “O My believers, I have bought you and I am paying with Paradise.”
Until you stop arguing with your Lord, you will never reach anything. Therefore, tariqat teaches people how to stop egos from claiming anything. You must leave your will in the hands of your shaykh, first of all; then you may learn how you can leave your will in the hands of the Prophet , and
then you may learn how to leave your will yourself in front of Allah. If not getting training at the first level, people are never going to be able to carry servanthood in front of Allah. If someone does not leave his ego in front of his shaykh, he will go in front of the Divine Presence with his ego and he will be thrown out.
Abu Yazid, the ‘king’ of saints, asked, “How can I come to you, O my Lord?”
He answered, “Leave your ego and come. Don’t bring ego! I don’t like partners.”
Ego says, “You like something and I like something. You must be obedient to Me, also!” But if you leave ego as it likes, it never lets you do anything for the sake of Allah. It says, “No Lord for you except Me!”
You must be obedient always, tariqats are firstly teaching people. First- standard people must follow a guide; common people’s natural characteris- tics are ordering them to follow a guide. Perhaps a scholar in Mecca may do tawaf by himself, but ordinary people need a guide for the first time until they reach the K‘abah and know in practice [how to do tawaf]. So many scholars know about hadith and Qur’an, but their knowledge can’t reach to real Islam, and Muslim scholars can’t reach to the Holy Prophet’s pres- ence. If not humble enough to take a guide, they can’t reach their destina- tions in the Divine Presence.
When you take a guide, you must say, “O my ego, I am not listening to you now. Now I have a guide” (but ego is never going to agree with that declaration). When you take a guide, it is perfect to ask about everything. At the least, you must ask about three points: about marriage, traveling and divorce; at the least, that you must ask.
Not to ask [other questions] shows that the murid is improving, be- cause when the shaykh gives Association, he gives for everyone’s needs. Even though all mankind may be in that meeting, if he is an authorized one, he must be able to give everyone his needs. But for beginners, it doesn’t matter if they ask from morning up to night.
We must be present with the shaykh, not present with body but absent with heart. If someone comes without heart, it is like barrels sitting. You must come with your heart; They know how to fill it. During that time, without questioning, everything reaches a solution.
When the Prophet saw came, people came to ask. But they were foolish ones. If a prophet comes and says, “I am a man from the Heavens, from your Lord,” don’t ask with your ego! Put your heart in front of his heart and look; quickly your heart can understand. If anything is in his heart, it willrun to your heart; if not, if empty, nothing can you take from him, even though he may speak from Jum’ah to Jum’ah.145
For new ones, it is important: Use your heart. No one can cheat you. Grandshaykhs don’t need advertising. Have you seen any jewelry shop do- ing advertising? But for soap and cheap things, too much advertisement, all London full-up! In the market I don’t expect to find jewels.
If you have a heart, look and sit down. If that shaykh is correct, it means that he has a heavenly connection. If not, go away. Those foolish people, coming and looking at whether that is a prophet, never using their hearts! ▲
145Friday to Friday.
35: CONCERNING DHIKR
Ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim—no one can be like Him. His beloved servant, Sayyidina Muhammad , represents His endless Mercy Oceans, and each one of mankind takes his station in the Divine Presence according to the mercy in his heart. Whoever wants to know his station or his rank in the Divine Presence, he must look into himself at what is the amount of mercy in his heart for creatures.
The Prophet saw is Nabi ar-Rahmah, the Prophet of Mercy . He didn’t say anything from himself, but every word he spoke was also revelation.146 We don’t take anything from his life before the age of forty as being hadith, no; from forty years on he began to speak according to the Lord’s will. Like Moses ¡, divine words were put into his mouth.
Therefore, when Gabriel ¡ first appeared to him on the Mountain of Light, he told him to read, to recite. And Muhammad saw said, “I am not a person who can read, I am illiterate.”
Gabriel ¡ embraced him. Then a second time he said, “Read!” Muhammad said, “I can’t read.”
And a third time Gabriel ¡ said, “You must read, in the name of the Lord, who created.”147 And he began to speak according to the Creator.
Meanings were given to the Prophet’s heart and he spoke; that is the way that the Lord taught His beloved Sayyidina Muhammad . And each time that Allah granted to him something from His endless favors, he
146 Meaning that nothing that he said came from his mind or ego but was divinely revealed or inspired.
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always asked it for his nation, also, and Allah promised to give it also to his nation. But He put one condition: if anyone wants to learn something of divine knowledges and Allah teaches him, that person must give most high respect to his Lord, Almighty Allah. Then He grants to him from His wis- doms and knowledges.
What is that most high respect? Allah is looking at His servants. He is not looking at your outer appearance, no; not important whether you are a red one or yellow one or blue one. Allah makes your whole body for your- self. “Only your heart belongs to Me, so leave it only for Me. Don’t let anyone else be there except Me. That is for Me only!”
We are fasting, and we intend to fast a perfect fast. How should most high respect to our Lord be? Fasting is a respect, and it is simple fasting by not eating or drinking or fulfilling other desires; we are leaving them for the sake of Allah. They are halal, permitted, at other times, but during the day- time in the holy month, you must fast from them. That is simple and first level respect.
You must fast by your organs, also. We must try to keep our organs from sins with our eyes, tongues, ears, hands orfeet (but we must keep our organs from prohibited things at every time, not only in Ramadan). That is higher respect to your Lord, Allah Almighty.
There is most high respect, also. Allah is looking at your heart, and the highest respect is to keep your heart only for the Lord, Almighty Allah. Who is pleased to see someone whom he never likes in his home? How should Allah be pleased with you if your heart is full of someone whom He never likes? Try to keep your heart only for Him. That is the highest respect.
It is impossible without dhikr. Dhikr guards your heart from anyone else. Shaytan and his representatives are trying to prevent people from dhikr. Those foolish people claiming to be Muslims are saying that it is is bid’ah (they know only three words: “shirk,” “bid’ah,” “kufr”148)! Allah gives permision to do dhikr everywhere, in the mosque. Allah gives permission; in
148Ascribing divinity to other than Allah, innovation in religion, and unbelief.
the heart, also. The heart is the bait-Ullah149 that Allah built; He honored you by making that organ His house. We are asking to go to Mecca to look at that House that Ibrahim built,150 but you must look for His home in your heart first.
Allah says, “I am giving permission to do dhikr in My home,” at every time to do dhikr, “Allah, Allah, Allah. . .” And the whole universe is an- swering; it is full of that dhikr. You heart also must say, with everything, “Allah!” But we are dead people, never-understanding people. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lah il-‘Aliyi-l-‘Adhim!
Guard that House within yourself by dhikr so that Satan can never ap- proach. If a person forgets dhikr, Satan puts his trunk into your heart and uses it as a toilet, putting every dirty thing into it. People are complaining that such dirty things are coming to their hearts. Because you are heedless, Satan is making your heart a toilet. You are giving permission: “Now I am heedless, no one to make dhikr. You cancome and use it as a toilet.” You must understand. Such dirty thoughts are coming that you may be ashamed to say them. Say “Allah. . .” and he runs away!
“How can I remember Allah the whole day long? Is it possible?” some foolish ones are asking. Do you think that when you fall in love with a beautiful one or a handsome one, you will forget the whole day, half of your heart there and half with me?
Allah says, “My beloved servants, they are always with you,151 going and coming, talking and walking with you. Physically they are with you, but their hearts are always with Me.” It is not easy; perhaps it is the most diffi- cult thing to reach to that point. But try for some time, even in the day- time, to be with your Lord, Almighty Allah. Even if you are with someone else all day, when the time approaches, five minutes before iftar,152 everyone must be ready: to be in wudu and sit towards qiblah and be with his Lord.
149The house of Allah.
150That is, the K’abah, built by the prophet Abraham ¡, assisted by his son Ishmael ¡.
151That is, among other people.
152Fast-breaking at sunset.
Allah Almighty honored the nation of Muhammad saw with endless honors. When He addressed Moses ¡ on Mount Sinai, He spoke to him behind seventy thousand veils. But He says, “I am so close to the fasting people of Muhammad’s ummah at the time of iftar that only one veil re- mains.” Therefore, that is adab, good manners with our Lord. Grand- shaykh was sitting, before the time of breaking fast, for fifteen minutes or half-an-hour to be present with the Lord Almighty.
The Prophet saw, during the Night Journey, when he left the archangel Gabriel and reached such a station as no one may be able to give a descrip- tion of, out of the limit of minds—when Allah addressed him, he looked in front, looked in back, right, left, everywhere seeing his Lord. When you sit, you must try to make your whole self in the Presence of Almighty Allah to reach a feeling that your Lord is looking at you from six directions. If you do it for even a short time, you should reach to highest respect. Don’t make noise and come and go! Be with your Lord.
[A line or more may be missing here.] That is the condition by which wisdoms feed your faith. You should be another person. Each night a dress of divine light may come into your heart, angels landing with light on your heart.
People are trying to learn something from books. During that short time, Allah may teach you. People are asking for knowledge for the sake of pride, to be something. And we are asking to be nothing. To move your ego out of existence, that is highest respect. Our ‘Headquarters’ has made me to speak on something most important for everyone. ▲
36: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NIGHT OF POWER
Whoever is keeping Allah’s orders should be happy on ‘Eid153 because Allah rewards him. The one who was obedient should be in peace here and Hereafter.
In the last third part of Ramadan is the Night of Power, the most im- portant night. Allah is hiding this night from common people, saying, “It is more valuable than one thousand months.”154
Who can reach one thousands months’ worshipping? It is eighty-three years. But Allah promises to reward whomever is respecting that holiest night so that we will not worship only on that night, because if it were fixed on one night, people would only pray on one night. The twenty-first, twenty-third, twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh, twenty-ninth—one of them may be the holy night.
The one who reaches that Night should ask for everything, for this life and for the Eternal Life. We must ask Allah to be pleased with us; throughout our whole life we must intend to make our Lord pleased. If someone reaches that, he has reached everything; if not gaining Allah’s pleasure, all of life is going to be nothing. That Night is the most important and holiest night. You must make Allah pleased with you!
I‘tikaf for the last ten days is sunnah, also. For every jama‘ah, it is neces- sary that at least one person must do it.155 ▲
153The Festival of Fast-Breaking at the end of Ramadan.
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155That is, in each Muslim community (jama’ah), at least one person should ob
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also follow. People have no minds; if they see one per- son doing something, they must do it, also.
That is a common illness. The Prophet saw informed us that when the Last Days approach, my people will follow the People of the Book step by step. Even if my people see non-Muslims entering into the narrow hole of a fox, they will try to enter also.
143This and similar tactics have been frequently used by communists, missionaries and oth- ers. People are shown something which they desire, and when they express a wish for it, they are told to ask for it from Allah. When it is not given to them in response to their prayer, the ‘trainer’ then instructs them to ask him. He gives it and then says, “You see, God is not real, does not hear you, does not respond, will not give, etc. But I”—or, in the case of missionaries, Jesus—“will give it to you.”
Once the Muslim world was stronger than Western countries. It con- tolled Western countries and Western people were trying to imitate it be- cause the weak always imitate the powerful one. The East was powerful through faith. Because of that they felt powerful, not because of weapons; through faith they saw themselves as powerful. But now in this century, Muslim peoples’ faith is becoming weaker and is going to be zero. They are saying, “We are behind, not yet advanced—backwards. We must try to do more like Western countries, to reach their technology.” But Allah’s wis- dom makes them to be down. When they reach one level, the West has al- ready reached another one.
Their faith is weak. They are asking to be servants to Western people, and Allah gave them the most precious part of the world—the most beauti- ful, rich and everything. But they are coming to the West to be street cleaners. I am always saying, “Go home!”
Allah honored us but we are not thankful. Instead, we are asking to be like Western people. No cure for that sickness till we leave those stupid ideas. They are like women, always asking for equality.
But they are never going to be equal. On the five continents, every- where, Allah is putting people to be suitable for that place. Now you can’t see anyone walking on his feet; everything is upset, upside-down. We need someone to put everything in order from A to Z; everything is upset now. Allah is saying, “O people, I gave you a mind to use it!” But they think it is most enjoyable not to carry anything in their heads, never to think. ▲
33: THE TIME OF SAYYIDINA MAHDI
When Sayyidina Mahdi ¡ comes, it is going to be a charity-less time because he will order all the treasures under the earth and under the seas to be brought out, and there will be twenty ministers from mankind over jinn. So many treasures will appear (good tidings for ladies!), so many—like hills, everywhere, Mahdi ¡ sending people everywhere to come and take.
If peoples’ egos were going to be the same as in our days, we would run to them, but at that time we will be given very powerful spiritual desires and heavenly views are going to come into our vision. Therefore, no one will be interested in such kinds of jewels, material ones. There will be an- other kind of jewels.
The Prophet saw ordered giving good tidings about Mahdi ¡: “O schol- ars and learned people, give good tidings about Mahdi!” But I don’t see anyone giving it. That is important because the ummah is in a narrow posi- tion spiritually. They need good tidings about the future; otherwise they think that there is too dark a future. But we say as the Prophet said about Sayyidina Mahdi ¡: The whole world must stop to meet him. He is coming.
It is good tidings for believers—not for unbelievers; they get angry. And each time they are get angry with Islam or tariqats or Mahdi ¡, Allah says to them, “May you die from your anger!” Unbelievers are making themselves unhappy. Happiness is for believers.
The Prophet says that Mahdi ¡ will ask whomever wants to take those jewels to come. One person will come from far away and ask to take from them before all the people rush at them, and he will go and ask, “From where can I take?”
Now, for the Government, for five pence they must sign five signa- tures. But the guardian of those treasures will say, “Get in!” taking no sig- natures, and that person will rush at them.
Shining gold! If any of our people saw that view, he would faint— twenty-two carats, not eight carats. Rushing, coming on his knees, putting them everywhere, all pockets full.
While he is on his knees he doesn’t understand about carrying all that, but gold is heavy. When he wants to get up, he isn’t able to, so heavy, and he slowly takes them out. And he looks.
Are people still sleeping, or have they died? Have they not heard that it is free today? Then he says, “What about me? If no one else is taking, for what am I so greedy?” Only you? Go and put it back! For what are you taking that metal, like a donkey?
I am giving the view from ‘Headquarters,’ as the Prophet said. Prophets have the power of vision in their eyes like television. And accord- ing to the power of their belief, everyone may see the Heavens and Paradise and Qiyamah and Hells. When Sayyidina Mahdi ¡ comes, everyone will see the seven heavens, the eight Paradises, the seven hells and Qiyamah. Man is created with such powers.
So many guardians for some papers or libraries! If there were such treasures in our time, you would have to bring nuclear weapons to guard them. But when that person wants to give back the treasures he took, that guardian says, “Go away! When We give something, we never take it back!”
At that time, no need for charity because barakah will be raining down. Allah will order the skies to give wholly barakah and will order the earth to give wholly barakah. Now people are going long distances with tractors. At that time, such places will yield hundredfold. If you plant one boxful, you will take seven hundred boxes, trees giving fruit twice each year.
Sayyidina ‘Ali said about the signs of the Last Days that there would come a day for people when they wouldn’t be able to take anything from trees without medicine [chemicals]. Now people are using too chemicals to grow fruits. Therefore, through those chemicals such strange illnesses are
coming on people that doctors are saying, “I have never seen such an ill- ness.” But when Mahdi ¡ comes and says, “Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar wa lil-Lahi-l-hamd!”144 all that will be changed.
No hypocrites will live at the time of Mahdi ¡; they must be taken away. The one who harms people spiritually or physically can’t be in that time. The people living in that time will be like the cream on milk. When the Prophet spoke about that time, the sahabah were asking to be with them, and Sayyidina ‘Umar said, “Ya Rasul-Allah, we would give every- thing to be one of them!” And the Prophet said, “Your love for those people is covering them, and you should be with them, you should be wit- nesses.”
We are hoping and asking to be with Mahdi ¡. Ask! If the Prophet says, “The lifespan of my nation’s people is mostly sixty or seventy years,” I hope that if I live normally up to seventy, I must be with him, because it is too close now, his time. No one can imagine that light, that happiness, that pleasure for people!
No one will need that electric power, all technology taken away. Allah has made those unbelievers to be happy with that technology in order to know their Lord, but they are going on their knees in front of technology instead of the Lord. Therefore, that headache should be taken away and another kind of power should come down, a part of Paradise.
At that time, you may think but your movement is going to be speed- ier than your thought, and you should be at the K‘abah or in the East or the West more quickly than your thought, Allah opening at that time something of deputy’s honors—only something, because this earth can’t carry even one person with real deputy’s honors. You can’t imagine those powers until you reach that time.
We were expecting to speak about something else today, but They are changing it, to say something about Mahdi ¡ to be happy. If someone be- lieves, he will see more and more, till his spiritual powers appear.
144“God is Most Great,” repeated three times, “and all praise is for Him.”
Charity now is more important; you may do now as much as you can. At least you may do, for supporting truth in our days—more important now!— sajdah and charities. What you are given for a simple charity, you can’t imagine. It is the time for trading for our eternal life. Good tidings for the one who believes that when he gives, it will not become less. Don’t be afraid! Allah says, “When you give for the sake of Allah, I give. I will not leave you empty, I will refill.” ▲
34: USING YOUR HEART TO UNDERSTAND
We, mankind, must know more about ourselves. That is the most im- portant thing for us: to know about ourselves. The Holy Qur’an is teach- ing us the complete knowledge about ourselves, and the Prophet saw worked to give an understanding to people about themselves. And his inheritors, awliya, are working on that point, also.
It is impossible for a person to reach a level of real faith without knowing about himself, because without knowledge about himself no one can know about Allah Almighty. Every murshid, grandshaykh, has reached to understanding about himself.
We have been honored by the Lord of the universes, the Lord of crea- tures. But although we have been honored, most of mankind is arguing with their Lord. No other creatures are arguing except mankind; it is im- possible, but they are fighting, making a discussion. And the Prophet saw gave warning and said, “The one who shoots at us, if he puts an arrow and knows it, he is not from our nation.”
Every activity, every action, that is against the Lord’s orders or His Prophet’s orders (whose orders are the same as Allah’s)—whoever rejects or does something against divine orders, it means that that person is com- ing and shooting the Prophet saw. “Whoever shoots us is not from our na- tion,” he says. If you know something that Allah or the Prophet orders and you are against it, it is dangerous. You must try not to be against it.
But we know it and we are fighting. At that time we are far from the Prophet saw. That fight continues till you reach a high level of faith where you can control your actions. Therefore, we need to know about ourselves so that we will not be against divine orders.
But our ego always likes to fight against the Lord, Almighty Allah, like Nimrod. Our ego, if not accepting divine rules, means that it wants to fight. Your ego is such an ignorant one; it never gives real value to believ- ing in the Lord, Almighty Allah. For ego, it is so simple a thing: it thinks it can easily be the sultan, the ruler, of the physical body. Always, if it finds a chance, ego is going to fight with the Lord, Almighty Allah. It is the most difficult one to agree, always against divine orders.
Most people cannot accept anyone else to be first; they must be the first. Each time prophets came, they fought against them. They looked first at what was his right to be a prophet: “What is your proof? What does it mean, revelation? Why only for you? Why not for us, also?” The most arguing ones are mankind. Even though they saw the miraculous things that prophets showed, still they did not accept and argued with them, never ending their arguments with prophets. They thought they could take them away and make truth disappear, and their falsehood would go on. For that reason they came against prophets.
Most argumentative, our egos! Mostly, people who have a [spiritual] sickness are more argumentative, and those who think that they are some- thing, not accepting to be nothing, and those who don’t want to be some- thing but to be everything. V.I.P.—if he is a V.I.P., I must be a V.V.I.P.!
The whole Shari’at, divine rules, came not to give something to ego but to take everything from ego and to make it a slave, when it is going to de- clare, “I am nothing, I am a slave.” If a person does not come down to a low level from his imagined high status, he will never reach divine stations and power; as long as you don’t accept to be nothing, we are not giving any- thing. Allah is saying, “O people, I have bought all of you, I have paid a price. I shall give you Paradise and you are all for Me.” Even if He did not buy us, we are for Him, also, but He is saying, “O My believers, I have bought you and I am paying with Paradise.”
Until you stop arguing with your Lord, you will never reach anything. Therefore, tariqat teaches people how to stop egos from claiming anything. You must leave your will in the hands of your shaykh, first of all; then you may learn how you can leave your will in the hands of the Prophet , and
then you may learn how to leave your will yourself in front of Allah. If not getting training at the first level, people are never going to be able to carry servanthood in front of Allah. If someone does not leave his ego in front of his shaykh, he will go in front of the Divine Presence with his ego and he will be thrown out.
Abu Yazid, the ‘king’ of saints, asked, “How can I come to you, O my Lord?”
He answered, “Leave your ego and come. Don’t bring ego! I don’t like partners.”
Ego says, “You like something and I like something. You must be obedient to Me, also!” But if you leave ego as it likes, it never lets you do anything for the sake of Allah. It says, “No Lord for you except Me!”
You must be obedient always, tariqats are firstly teaching people. First- standard people must follow a guide; common people’s natural characteris- tics are ordering them to follow a guide. Perhaps a scholar in Mecca may do tawaf by himself, but ordinary people need a guide for the first time until they reach the K‘abah and know in practice [how to do tawaf]. So many scholars know about hadith and Qur’an, but their knowledge can’t reach to real Islam, and Muslim scholars can’t reach to the Holy Prophet’s pres- ence. If not humble enough to take a guide, they can’t reach their destina- tions in the Divine Presence.
When you take a guide, you must say, “O my ego, I am not listening to you now. Now I have a guide” (but ego is never going to agree with that declaration). When you take a guide, it is perfect to ask about everything. At the least, you must ask about three points: about marriage, traveling and divorce; at the least, that you must ask.
Not to ask [other questions] shows that the murid is improving, be- cause when the shaykh gives Association, he gives for everyone’s needs. Even though all mankind may be in that meeting, if he is an authorized one, he must be able to give everyone his needs. But for beginners, it doesn’t matter if they ask from morning up to night.
We must be present with the shaykh, not present with body but absent with heart. If someone comes without heart, it is like barrels sitting. You must come with your heart; They know how to fill it. During that time, without questioning, everything reaches a solution.
When the Prophet saw came, people came to ask. But they were foolish ones. If a prophet comes and says, “I am a man from the Heavens, from your Lord,” don’t ask with your ego! Put your heart in front of his heart and look; quickly your heart can understand. If anything is in his heart, it willrun to your heart; if not, if empty, nothing can you take from him, even though he may speak from Jum’ah to Jum’ah.145
For new ones, it is important: Use your heart. No one can cheat you. Grandshaykhs don’t need advertising. Have you seen any jewelry shop do- ing advertising? But for soap and cheap things, too much advertisement, all London full-up! In the market I don’t expect to find jewels.
If you have a heart, look and sit down. If that shaykh is correct, it means that he has a heavenly connection. If not, go away. Those foolish people, coming and looking at whether that is a prophet, never using their hearts! ▲
145Friday to Friday.
35: CONCERNING DHIKR
Ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim—no one can be like Him. His beloved servant, Sayyidina Muhammad , represents His endless Mercy Oceans, and each one of mankind takes his station in the Divine Presence according to the mercy in his heart. Whoever wants to know his station or his rank in the Divine Presence, he must look into himself at what is the amount of mercy in his heart for creatures.
The Prophet saw is Nabi ar-Rahmah, the Prophet of Mercy . He didn’t say anything from himself, but every word he spoke was also revelation.146 We don’t take anything from his life before the age of forty as being hadith, no; from forty years on he began to speak according to the Lord’s will. Like Moses ¡, divine words were put into his mouth.
Therefore, when Gabriel ¡ first appeared to him on the Mountain of Light, he told him to read, to recite. And Muhammad saw said, “I am not a person who can read, I am illiterate.”
Gabriel ¡ embraced him. Then a second time he said, “Read!” Muhammad said, “I can’t read.”
And a third time Gabriel ¡ said, “You must read, in the name of the Lord, who created.”147 And he began to speak according to the Creator.
Meanings were given to the Prophet’s heart and he spoke; that is the way that the Lord taught His beloved Sayyidina Muhammad . And each time that Allah granted to him something from His endless favors, he
146 Meaning that nothing that he said came from his mind or ego but was divinely revealed or inspired.
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always asked it for his nation, also, and Allah promised to give it also to his nation. But He put one condition: if anyone wants to learn something of divine knowledges and Allah teaches him, that person must give most high respect to his Lord, Almighty Allah. Then He grants to him from His wis- doms and knowledges.
What is that most high respect? Allah is looking at His servants. He is not looking at your outer appearance, no; not important whether you are a red one or yellow one or blue one. Allah makes your whole body for your- self. “Only your heart belongs to Me, so leave it only for Me. Don’t let anyone else be there except Me. That is for Me only!”
We are fasting, and we intend to fast a perfect fast. How should most high respect to our Lord be? Fasting is a respect, and it is simple fasting by not eating or drinking or fulfilling other desires; we are leaving them for the sake of Allah. They are halal, permitted, at other times, but during the day- time in the holy month, you must fast from them. That is simple and first level respect.
You must fast by your organs, also. We must try to keep our organs from sins with our eyes, tongues, ears, hands orfeet (but we must keep our organs from prohibited things at every time, not only in Ramadan). That is higher respect to your Lord, Allah Almighty.
There is most high respect, also. Allah is looking at your heart, and the highest respect is to keep your heart only for the Lord, Almighty Allah. Who is pleased to see someone whom he never likes in his home? How should Allah be pleased with you if your heart is full of someone whom He never likes? Try to keep your heart only for Him. That is the highest respect.
It is impossible without dhikr. Dhikr guards your heart from anyone else. Shaytan and his representatives are trying to prevent people from dhikr. Those foolish people claiming to be Muslims are saying that it is is bid’ah (they know only three words: “shirk,” “bid’ah,” “kufr”148)! Allah gives permision to do dhikr everywhere, in the mosque. Allah gives permission; in
148Ascribing divinity to other than Allah, innovation in religion, and unbelief.
the heart, also. The heart is the bait-Ullah149 that Allah built; He honored you by making that organ His house. We are asking to go to Mecca to look at that House that Ibrahim built,150 but you must look for His home in your heart first.
Allah says, “I am giving permission to do dhikr in My home,” at every time to do dhikr, “Allah, Allah, Allah. . .” And the whole universe is an- swering; it is full of that dhikr. You heart also must say, with everything, “Allah!” But we are dead people, never-understanding people. La hawla wa la quwwata illa bil-Lah il-‘Aliyi-l-‘Adhim!
Guard that House within yourself by dhikr so that Satan can never ap- proach. If a person forgets dhikr, Satan puts his trunk into your heart and uses it as a toilet, putting every dirty thing into it. People are complaining that such dirty things are coming to their hearts. Because you are heedless, Satan is making your heart a toilet. You are giving permission: “Now I am heedless, no one to make dhikr. You cancome and use it as a toilet.” You must understand. Such dirty thoughts are coming that you may be ashamed to say them. Say “Allah. . .” and he runs away!
“How can I remember Allah the whole day long? Is it possible?” some foolish ones are asking. Do you think that when you fall in love with a beautiful one or a handsome one, you will forget the whole day, half of your heart there and half with me?
Allah says, “My beloved servants, they are always with you,151 going and coming, talking and walking with you. Physically they are with you, but their hearts are always with Me.” It is not easy; perhaps it is the most diffi- cult thing to reach to that point. But try for some time, even in the day- time, to be with your Lord, Almighty Allah. Even if you are with someone else all day, when the time approaches, five minutes before iftar,152 everyone must be ready: to be in wudu and sit towards qiblah and be with his Lord.
149The house of Allah.
150That is, the K’abah, built by the prophet Abraham ¡, assisted by his son Ishmael ¡.
151That is, among other people.
152Fast-breaking at sunset.
Allah Almighty honored the nation of Muhammad saw with endless honors. When He addressed Moses ¡ on Mount Sinai, He spoke to him behind seventy thousand veils. But He says, “I am so close to the fasting people of Muhammad’s ummah at the time of iftar that only one veil re- mains.” Therefore, that is adab, good manners with our Lord. Grand- shaykh was sitting, before the time of breaking fast, for fifteen minutes or half-an-hour to be present with the Lord Almighty.
The Prophet saw, during the Night Journey, when he left the archangel Gabriel and reached such a station as no one may be able to give a descrip- tion of, out of the limit of minds—when Allah addressed him, he looked in front, looked in back, right, left, everywhere seeing his Lord. When you sit, you must try to make your whole self in the Presence of Almighty Allah to reach a feeling that your Lord is looking at you from six directions. If you do it for even a short time, you should reach to highest respect. Don’t make noise and come and go! Be with your Lord.
[A line or more may be missing here.] That is the condition by which wisdoms feed your faith. You should be another person. Each night a dress of divine light may come into your heart, angels landing with light on your heart.
People are trying to learn something from books. During that short time, Allah may teach you. People are asking for knowledge for the sake of pride, to be something. And we are asking to be nothing. To move your ego out of existence, that is highest respect. Our ‘Headquarters’ has made me to speak on something most important for everyone. ▲
36: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NIGHT OF POWER
Whoever is keeping Allah’s orders should be happy on ‘Eid153 because Allah rewards him. The one who was obedient should be in peace here and Hereafter.
In the last third part of Ramadan is the Night of Power, the most im- portant night. Allah is hiding this night from common people, saying, “It is more valuable than one thousand months.”154
Who can reach one thousands months’ worshipping? It is eighty-three years. But Allah promises to reward whomever is respecting that holiest night so that we will not worship only on that night, because if it were fixed on one night, people would only pray on one night. The twenty-first, twenty-third, twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh, twenty-ninth—one of them may be the holy night.
The one who reaches that Night should ask for everything, for this life and for the Eternal Life. We must ask Allah to be pleased with us; throughout our whole life we must intend to make our Lord pleased. If someone reaches that, he has reached everything; if not gaining Allah’s pleasure, all of life is going to be nothing. That Night is the most important and holiest night. You must make Allah pleased with you!
I‘tikaf for the last ten days is sunnah, also. For every jama‘ah, it is neces- sary that at least one person must do it.155 ▲
153The Festival of Fast-Breaking at the end of Ramadan.
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155That is, in each Muslim community (jama’ah), at least one person should ob
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