LIBERATING THE SOUL, Book 5 (Shaykh Nazim, 199 pages, 12/13)
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ugh eating and drinking or through riches. The main sources of power are com- ing from the Heavens, but people have become heedless of those heavenly power sources.
With each prophet, a new channel was opened from heavenly sources. Man is created in the Heavens, not on the earth. Allah could have created him on earth but He did not. Some wrong ideas in other religions say he was created on earth. No! Adam was created in Paradise, to let everyone know that their father was a heavenly being.
When he was sent on earth, he brought his connection, as the first channel of heavenly power sources, to transmit to his children. Adam, when he was ordered to come down on earth, fasted for thirty days, not by breaking fast every day but continuously for thirty days.
He was not like ourselves. When he stood erect, he reached the skies. He heard the glorifying of angels; fear ran through his heart because the angels’ glorifying was like thunder. He lived, not dying from hunger after thirty days. It means that he was in connection and heavenly powers were supporting him, even if it were 30,000 days. He was taking from the Divine Presence. And you are also suitable to take from those divine powers!
Therefore, prophets have been sent as extraordinary super-beings. But people are looking at them like themselves; millions of empty-headed peo- ple in our time, saying, “What is prophethood? What is the difference be- tween prophets and other people?”
Prophets are sources of heavenly powers. They do not die as we die; [at death] they are only veiled from people, their power never turning off. We are going to be turned off, like engines. If you aren’t able to reach to those real Life Oceans among endless Power Oceans, you will die as ani- mals die. You must ask!
Now Western people are going to awaken. They are searching for everything. Now, when they have reached a limit of technology, they are asking for something else to reach some other horizons. They can look, but technological means can’t take them to those horizons; not possible. They can go up to space from this world, but then how can they reach so many other horizons,?
They sent a rocket towards the skies. There they saw some other things that do not belong to this world and they could not touch them. Some secret knowledge they are still keeping from people. They saw Guardians when that rocket moved around, going at more than their speed—looking, and they were dressed in green. But devils made them not to be known to common people, because devils never like people to believe in something immaterial; they only like them to believe in what they can see.
Can you see what is moving in electric wires or in batteries? Touch them! You can’t see, but there is power. Man must believe in the seen and in the Unseen. Allah the Creator sent, by each prophet, a new channel of power. Now, in our times, 124,000 power channels are on.173 That power is running throughout East and West, North and South, and They174 are asking to give that power to people.
People are only asking support from riches; as the Last Days approach, people are asking only for material things. But now the end is coming and they are getting in touch with a new era, and that touch is giving them a
173That is, because at all times there are 124,000 awliya on earth, representing the 124,000 prophets who came and went during the course of history, now, as at all times, 124,000 spiri- tual power sources are open and operating among mankind.
174That is, the holy people or saints of Islam who possess such true spiritual power.
new awakening. They are starting to ask for something other than riches, something that gives support. Now they are asking for spiritual powers to support them.
Man must turn to the masters of power on earth. Otherwise, it is so difficult; they should be destroyed by devils. Devils are trying to do that; they are going to do that, within limits. It is going to be a result of heedless peoples’ actions; they are preparing their [own] bad ends.
Man must turn to people of power. On the Night of Power during this Holy Ramadan, they have reached new power sources. Each Ramadan Allah re-powers with new powers. On the Night of Power, they have been given double, huge Power Oceans going into action.
Through three and more stations, those powers are going into action. Technology is going to vanish. There should be perfect and complete sup- port for mankind. During past times, no one was in need as we are now. During this Night of Power, there are just appointed huge Power Oceans to be under the control of Sayyidina Mahdi saw. He should be given from both powers, seen and unseen.
The seen affects your body, the Unseen your spiritual body. That power should reach even to those who are under the earth, in graves. When the secret power of the Holy Qur’an appears and is under the control of Sayyidina Mahdi ¡, there should be a change for everything, living peo- ple or people in graves, for everyone to reach their destinations. They must reach their destinations.
We may give only a little drop of knowledge from a huge Ocean to make people understand. It is impossible under these conditions for man to be given more than this, but we hope to reach to that Ocean and swim in it.
As They are giving me to give to you, we hope it should be an honor for you, more than others, that you are listening and believing. And we are thanking our Lord for making an opening for you in a foreign country. Islam is not yet an official religion here. During this holy month, it is an honor for this country, because mercy is falling on them for the sake of
these lectures. We hope than no harm harms you and those who belong to you. ▲
41: WORKING TOWARD OUR MAIN GOAL: TO REACH THE STATION OF A DEPUTY
Men are created to be deputies, divine deputies on earth. They have been honored.
We have been given a mind or intellect, and our mind is for us like a captain of a ship or plane or train, leading people on to their destinies. Therefore, Islam is established on a mind-base.
Up to a limit, you can use your mind, but mind helps people only within those limits. After those limits, its power finishes. Minds’ capacities are within those limits; if you try to use it past its limits, you will destroy it. Beliefs, religions, take people beyond minds.
A difficulty for common people is objecting to something that proph- ets bring to them. The Holy Qur’an gives explanations on every subject, [including] why people are denying prophets. That must be known.
In the Glorious Qur’an, Allah says that people are denying because they are always asking to use their intellect for understanding. They are asking to understand everything through minds; for everything they are us- ing their minds’ knowledge. If anything is beyond their limit, they are say- ing, “No, we don’t accept anything beyond our understanding.”
They are mistaken in thinking that there is no understanding and knowledge other than their limited knowledge and intellect. Even our scholars are not yet accepting the knowledge of Sufi people as knowledge. They aren’t accepting the knowledge of tasawwuf; they are denying tariqats and saying, “No more knowledge beyond ours.”
How can you make a limit for knowledge whose main source is the endless Knowledge Oceans of Allah, opened to the Prophet and from
him to his inheritors? I am nothing in that caravan; perhaps I am the last one. But by those grandshaykhs, we have been given authority to make Association with people.
Many times Shaytan is coming and saying, “What are you saying now?
You are going to finish!”
And I am saying, “I may finish when my Grandshaykh‘s knowledge finishes. He may finish when the Prophet finishes, and the Prophet’s saw knowledge may finish when Allah’ s knowledge finishes. Do you think that our main line is going to dry up?”
During the Night Journey, Gabriel reached the limits of the universes, of creation, after which that there is no creation. That is the limit that our knowlege reaches. After that, no one knows except Hu.175
Gabriel stopped there, but he did not deny what came after those di- vine territories. The Prophet saw was the only one who was given permission to go further; no one else is permitted to go further.176 He was the only one, and he was clothed in divine attributes. If not clothed in divine attrib- utes, impossible; no creature could move further. And when Allah asked, “Who are you?” he said, “I am You.” “Who are you?” “You. No one else except You is here.” Absolute Unity Oceans!
A person knocks at another’s door. “Who is there?” He answers, “I am.”
“If you are there, there is not enough room here for two people. Go away!”
A second time he knocks at the door and that person asks, “Who is there?”
“You!”
175He, Allah Himself.
176Bukhari, 1:345; Muslim, 329.
“All right, come in. There is only place here for one.” Only room for one. If two is too many, what about three, what about a Trinity?
When the Prophet was clothed [by Allah with divine attributes], he finished, and he said, “I am You, You are I.” That is the way, if a person approaches that station. And everyone has an ascension. You should reach that station, all of you.
When you reach that station, Allah says, “I am their eyes for seeing and their ears for hearing and their hands for touching.”177 They are reach- ing the real station of deputies (now we are candidates for being deputies).
If They kick this earth, it will take it out of its orbit, throwing the moon far away—deputies’ powers. They have been clothed in divine at- tributes. The Prophet saw was able to see from the front, the back, right, left, up, down, but he saw only Allah.
I am asking scholars if he came back—if, even after he had reached the end of all the universes, he came back in that dress?178 Allah ordered one ray from his real being to come on earth to his physical body and cre- ated a new physical body, going and coming and being with people. The Prophet saw was there in that Divine Presence, never moving.
You have been honored to be a candidate for his deputyhood. But we are asking for something cheap and worthless; no one is interested in reach- ing that honor. They are denying everything beyond their minds. Our words, only square-headed people can deny, imprisoned in their minds. When they are denying, they are slaves of their egos, of this world, of this temporary life; they are leaving the real life and its pleasures.
The main goal must be to reach the real station of being deputy, not the main goal, business and properties. Those are only little boys’ pleasures. Undeveloped people’s minds are running after such material goals, such rubbish.
177Bukhari, 8:509.
178The spiritual dress in which Allah clothed him during his Ascension.
The main purpose that you have been given is for ascension; They are waiting to put on your crown to be in the Divine Presence. Grandshaykh said that whoever reaches that, if all the treasures of this world or all the universe were given to him, he would give everything for the pleasure that he will reach in one second of time—all treasures! But we are heedless peo- ple, never taking care, occupying twenty-four hours with collecting rubbish, and leaving jewels and divine pleasures, that honor for which you can’t give any description!
And Allah said, “O My habib, My beloved, I am not leaving you alone here.179 I am clothing your ummah’s sincere ones in the same dress, and they are going to be with you,” those who are following the Prophet saw.
Grandshaykh informed me about a group of people whom the Prophet passed after leaving Gabriel—five levels, with 500,000 years between each one and the next. At one of them, he stood and looked, be- cause there were endless Muhammads . Allah said, “O Muhammad, I am not making you sit down with people different from yourself, but I am clothing them all like you.” No one is going to be sorry that he did not reach the Prophet saw, to give them absolute pleasure. Everyone will look at him, at the Prophet and will be given. You should be clothed!
That gives information about non-material things for those people who are making it their goal to use ascension and reach to that station. Al- lah Almighty says, “Those who remain only within their minds’ limits are dhalim, cruel [to themselves].” That cruelty is destroying them physically and making them suffer, and every difficulty is coming from that, for those who stand only by their minds and do not accept knowledge which is be- yond mind.
We are happy to believe in endless Oceans of power, mercy, wis- doms—endless attributes, each reaching to endless Oceans, endless Beauty Oceans, endless Peace Oceans. Only one drop of those Beauty Oceans is enough for eight Paradises; you won’t be able to look even at one in Beauty Paradises. Gabriel, the most beautiful angel, saw a maiden smiling a little
179In the Prophet‘s unique, most highly exalted station.
bit in one place, and her teeth became like lightning. He thought that Al- lah’s Manifestation had come and fell down in sajdah, but that maiden laughed and said, “O Gabriel, it is only my smiling!”
Our mother Eve was given, from that maiden’s beauty, one drop, and from her beauty-DNA, one drop runs in all women up to today. What about in the Divine Presence? Therefore, weekly, on Friday, Allah gives a feast for the people of Paradise. When He opens something from those Beauty Oceans, they forget everything they were given and come to it.
Be happy always, O mankind! Don’t follow Satan and devils. A weak servant is calling you. You are free to listen to more, or to devils. Whoever who listens to me should be happy here and Hereafter! ▲
GLOSSARY
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq—the closest of the Prophet’s Companions and his father-in- law, who shared the Hijrah with him. After the Prophet’s death, he was chosen by consensus of the Muslims as the first caliph or successor to the Prophet. He is known as one of the most saintly of the Prophet’s Companions.
Abu Yazid Bistami—Bayazid al-Bistami, a great ninth century wali and Naqshbandi master.
Adab—good manners, proper etiquette.
Allahu akbar—God is the Most Great.
Amir (pl., ‘umara)—chief, leader, head of a nation or people.
‘Arafat—a vast plain outside Mecca where pilgrims gather for the principal rite of Hajj.
‘Arif—knower; in the present context, one who has reached spiritual knowledge of his Lord.
Ar-Rahim—the Mercy-Giving, Merciful, Munificent, one of Allah’s ninety-nine Holy Names
Ar-Rahman—the Most Merciful, Com- passionate, Beneficent, the most often repeated of Allah’s Holy Names.
Astaghfirullah—I seek Allah’s forgive- ness.
Awliya (sing., wali)—the “friends” of Allah, Muslim saints.
Bait al-Maqdi— the Sacred House in Jerusalem, built atthe site where Solomon’s Temple was later erected.
Bayah—pledge; in the context of this book, the pledge of a disciple (murid) to a sheikh.
Dajjal—the False Messiah whom the Prophet saw foretold as coming at the end- time of this world, who will deceive man- kind with pretensions of being divine.
Dhikr (zikr, zikir)—literally, “remem- brance” (of Allah) through repetition of His Holy Names or various phrases of glorification.
Du’a—supplication. Dunya—world, this world’s life.
Efendi—Turkish for “sir” or “mister.”
‘Eid—festival; the two major festivals of Islam are ‘Eid al-Fitr, marking the comple- tion of Ramadan, and ‘Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice during the time of Hajj.
Fard—obligatory.
Fatehah—al-Fatehah, the opening surah or chapter of the Qur’an.
Grandshaykh—generally, a wali of great stature. In this text, where spelled with a capital G, “Grandshaykh” refers to Mau- lana ‘Abdullah ad-Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim’s shaykh, to whom he was closely attached for forty years up to the time of Grandshaykh’s death in 1973.
Hadith (pl., ahadith)—reports of the Holy Prophet’s sayings, contained in the collections of early hadith scholars. In this text, “Hadith” has been used to refer to the entire body of his oral traditions, while “hadith” denotes an individual tradition.
Hajji—one who has performed Hajj, the sacred pilgrimage of Islam.
Halal—permitted, lawful according to the Islamic Shari’ah.
Haqq—truth, reality. Haram—forbidden, unlawful. Hasha—God forbid! Never! Haqq—truth, reality.
Imam—leader; specifically, the leader of a congregational prayer.
Iman—faith, belief.
Jababirah—tyrants, oppressors.
Jinn—an invisible order of beings created by Allah from fire.
La ilaha illa-Llah, Muhammadu rasul- Allah—there is no deity except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
Maula—master, lord, protector, patron, referring to Allah Most High.
Me’raj—the Holy Prophet’s ascension to the Heavens and the Divine Presenc.
Muezzin—one who makes the call to prayer (adhan).
Muluk (sing., malik)—kings, monarchs.
Murid—disciple, student, follower.
Murshid—spiritual guide, pir.
Nafs—lower self, ego.
Nur—light.
Qada wa qadar—the sixth pillar of Is- lamic faith, referring to the divine decree.
Qiblah—direction, specifically, the direc- tion faced by Muslims during prayer and other worship.
Qiyamah—(the Day of) Resurrection or Judgment.
Rabi’ah al-Adawiyah—Rabi’ah Basri, a great womansaint of the eighth century C.E.
Ramadan—the ninth month of the Is- lamic lunar calendar, the month of fasting.
Rasul-Allah—the Messenger of God, Muhammad saw.
Sahabah (sing., sahabi)—the Compan- ions of the Prophet, the first Muslims.
Sajdah (also sujud)—prostration.
Salawat—invoking blessings and peace upon the Holy Prophet saw.
Sayyid—leader; also, a descendant of the Holy Prophet.
Sayyidina—our chief, master.
Sayyidina ‘Umar—‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, the Prophet’s eminent Companion and the second caliph of Islam.
Shahadah—the Islamic creed or Declara- tion of Faith, “Ash-shadu an la ilaha illa- Llah wa ashhadu anna Muhammu rasul Allah, I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah and I bear witness that Mu- hammad is His messenger.”
Shah Naqshband—Grandshaykh Mu- hammad Bahauddin Shah-Naqshband, a great eighth century wali, the founder of the Naqshbandi Tariqah.
Shari’at/Shari’ah—the divine Law of Islam, based on the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet saw.
Shirk—polythism, ascribing divinity or divine attributes to anything other than God.
Sohbet (Arabic, suhbah)—the assembly (Association) or discourse of a shaykh.
Subhanallah—glory be to Allah.
Sultan/sultana—ruler, monarch.
Sultan al-Awliya—lit., “the king of the awliya,’ the highest ranking saint.
Sunnah—the practice of the Holy Prophet; that is, what he did, said, recom- mended or approved of in his Compan- ions. In this text, “Sunnah” is used to refer to the collective body of his actions, sayings or recommendations, while “sunnah” refers to an individual action or recom- mendation.
Takbir—the pronouncement of God’s greatness, “Allahu akbar, God is Most Great.”
Tarawih—the special nighly prayers of Ramadan.
Tariqat/tariqah—literally, way, road or path. An Islamic order or path of disci- pline and devotion under a guide or shaykh; Islamic Sufism.
Tawaf—the rite of circumambulatin the K‘abah while glorifying Allah, one of the rites of Hajj and ‘Umrah.
Ummah—faith community, nation.
‘Umrah—the minor pilgrimage to Mecca, which can be performed at any time of the year.
Wudu—the minor ablution that precedes prayers and other acts of worship.
Zakat/zakah—the obligatgory charity of Islam, one of its five “pillars” or acts of worship.
Zakat al-Fitr—the obligatory charity of ‘Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the com- pletion of Ramadan.
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ugh eating and drinking or through riches. The main sources of power are com- ing from the Heavens, but people have become heedless of those heavenly power sources.
With each prophet, a new channel was opened from heavenly sources. Man is created in the Heavens, not on the earth. Allah could have created him on earth but He did not. Some wrong ideas in other religions say he was created on earth. No! Adam was created in Paradise, to let everyone know that their father was a heavenly being.
When he was sent on earth, he brought his connection, as the first channel of heavenly power sources, to transmit to his children. Adam, when he was ordered to come down on earth, fasted for thirty days, not by breaking fast every day but continuously for thirty days.
He was not like ourselves. When he stood erect, he reached the skies. He heard the glorifying of angels; fear ran through his heart because the angels’ glorifying was like thunder. He lived, not dying from hunger after thirty days. It means that he was in connection and heavenly powers were supporting him, even if it were 30,000 days. He was taking from the Divine Presence. And you are also suitable to take from those divine powers!
Therefore, prophets have been sent as extraordinary super-beings. But people are looking at them like themselves; millions of empty-headed peo- ple in our time, saying, “What is prophethood? What is the difference be- tween prophets and other people?”
Prophets are sources of heavenly powers. They do not die as we die; [at death] they are only veiled from people, their power never turning off. We are going to be turned off, like engines. If you aren’t able to reach to those real Life Oceans among endless Power Oceans, you will die as ani- mals die. You must ask!
Now Western people are going to awaken. They are searching for everything. Now, when they have reached a limit of technology, they are asking for something else to reach some other horizons. They can look, but technological means can’t take them to those horizons; not possible. They can go up to space from this world, but then how can they reach so many other horizons,?
They sent a rocket towards the skies. There they saw some other things that do not belong to this world and they could not touch them. Some secret knowledge they are still keeping from people. They saw Guardians when that rocket moved around, going at more than their speed—looking, and they were dressed in green. But devils made them not to be known to common people, because devils never like people to believe in something immaterial; they only like them to believe in what they can see.
Can you see what is moving in electric wires or in batteries? Touch them! You can’t see, but there is power. Man must believe in the seen and in the Unseen. Allah the Creator sent, by each prophet, a new channel of power. Now, in our times, 124,000 power channels are on.173 That power is running throughout East and West, North and South, and They174 are asking to give that power to people.
People are only asking support from riches; as the Last Days approach, people are asking only for material things. But now the end is coming and they are getting in touch with a new era, and that touch is giving them a
173That is, because at all times there are 124,000 awliya on earth, representing the 124,000 prophets who came and went during the course of history, now, as at all times, 124,000 spiri- tual power sources are open and operating among mankind.
174That is, the holy people or saints of Islam who possess such true spiritual power.
new awakening. They are starting to ask for something other than riches, something that gives support. Now they are asking for spiritual powers to support them.
Man must turn to the masters of power on earth. Otherwise, it is so difficult; they should be destroyed by devils. Devils are trying to do that; they are going to do that, within limits. It is going to be a result of heedless peoples’ actions; they are preparing their [own] bad ends.
Man must turn to people of power. On the Night of Power during this Holy Ramadan, they have reached new power sources. Each Ramadan Allah re-powers with new powers. On the Night of Power, they have been given double, huge Power Oceans going into action.
Through three and more stations, those powers are going into action. Technology is going to vanish. There should be perfect and complete sup- port for mankind. During past times, no one was in need as we are now. During this Night of Power, there are just appointed huge Power Oceans to be under the control of Sayyidina Mahdi saw. He should be given from both powers, seen and unseen.
The seen affects your body, the Unseen your spiritual body. That power should reach even to those who are under the earth, in graves. When the secret power of the Holy Qur’an appears and is under the control of Sayyidina Mahdi ¡, there should be a change for everything, living peo- ple or people in graves, for everyone to reach their destinations. They must reach their destinations.
We may give only a little drop of knowledge from a huge Ocean to make people understand. It is impossible under these conditions for man to be given more than this, but we hope to reach to that Ocean and swim in it.
As They are giving me to give to you, we hope it should be an honor for you, more than others, that you are listening and believing. And we are thanking our Lord for making an opening for you in a foreign country. Islam is not yet an official religion here. During this holy month, it is an honor for this country, because mercy is falling on them for the sake of
these lectures. We hope than no harm harms you and those who belong to you. ▲
41: WORKING TOWARD OUR MAIN GOAL: TO REACH THE STATION OF A DEPUTY
Men are created to be deputies, divine deputies on earth. They have been honored.
We have been given a mind or intellect, and our mind is for us like a captain of a ship or plane or train, leading people on to their destinies. Therefore, Islam is established on a mind-base.
Up to a limit, you can use your mind, but mind helps people only within those limits. After those limits, its power finishes. Minds’ capacities are within those limits; if you try to use it past its limits, you will destroy it. Beliefs, religions, take people beyond minds.
A difficulty for common people is objecting to something that proph- ets bring to them. The Holy Qur’an gives explanations on every subject, [including] why people are denying prophets. That must be known.
In the Glorious Qur’an, Allah says that people are denying because they are always asking to use their intellect for understanding. They are asking to understand everything through minds; for everything they are us- ing their minds’ knowledge. If anything is beyond their limit, they are say- ing, “No, we don’t accept anything beyond our understanding.”
They are mistaken in thinking that there is no understanding and knowledge other than their limited knowledge and intellect. Even our scholars are not yet accepting the knowledge of Sufi people as knowledge. They aren’t accepting the knowledge of tasawwuf; they are denying tariqats and saying, “No more knowledge beyond ours.”
How can you make a limit for knowledge whose main source is the endless Knowledge Oceans of Allah, opened to the Prophet and from
him to his inheritors? I am nothing in that caravan; perhaps I am the last one. But by those grandshaykhs, we have been given authority to make Association with people.
Many times Shaytan is coming and saying, “What are you saying now?
You are going to finish!”
And I am saying, “I may finish when my Grandshaykh‘s knowledge finishes. He may finish when the Prophet finishes, and the Prophet’s saw knowledge may finish when Allah’ s knowledge finishes. Do you think that our main line is going to dry up?”
During the Night Journey, Gabriel reached the limits of the universes, of creation, after which that there is no creation. That is the limit that our knowlege reaches. After that, no one knows except Hu.175
Gabriel stopped there, but he did not deny what came after those di- vine territories. The Prophet saw was the only one who was given permission to go further; no one else is permitted to go further.176 He was the only one, and he was clothed in divine attributes. If not clothed in divine attrib- utes, impossible; no creature could move further. And when Allah asked, “Who are you?” he said, “I am You.” “Who are you?” “You. No one else except You is here.” Absolute Unity Oceans!
A person knocks at another’s door. “Who is there?” He answers, “I am.”
“If you are there, there is not enough room here for two people. Go away!”
A second time he knocks at the door and that person asks, “Who is there?”
“You!”
175He, Allah Himself.
176Bukhari, 1:345; Muslim, 329.
“All right, come in. There is only place here for one.” Only room for one. If two is too many, what about three, what about a Trinity?
When the Prophet was clothed [by Allah with divine attributes], he finished, and he said, “I am You, You are I.” That is the way, if a person approaches that station. And everyone has an ascension. You should reach that station, all of you.
When you reach that station, Allah says, “I am their eyes for seeing and their ears for hearing and their hands for touching.”177 They are reach- ing the real station of deputies (now we are candidates for being deputies).
If They kick this earth, it will take it out of its orbit, throwing the moon far away—deputies’ powers. They have been clothed in divine at- tributes. The Prophet saw was able to see from the front, the back, right, left, up, down, but he saw only Allah.
I am asking scholars if he came back—if, even after he had reached the end of all the universes, he came back in that dress?178 Allah ordered one ray from his real being to come on earth to his physical body and cre- ated a new physical body, going and coming and being with people. The Prophet saw was there in that Divine Presence, never moving.
You have been honored to be a candidate for his deputyhood. But we are asking for something cheap and worthless; no one is interested in reach- ing that honor. They are denying everything beyond their minds. Our words, only square-headed people can deny, imprisoned in their minds. When they are denying, they are slaves of their egos, of this world, of this temporary life; they are leaving the real life and its pleasures.
The main goal must be to reach the real station of being deputy, not the main goal, business and properties. Those are only little boys’ pleasures. Undeveloped people’s minds are running after such material goals, such rubbish.
177Bukhari, 8:509.
178The spiritual dress in which Allah clothed him during his Ascension.
The main purpose that you have been given is for ascension; They are waiting to put on your crown to be in the Divine Presence. Grandshaykh said that whoever reaches that, if all the treasures of this world or all the universe were given to him, he would give everything for the pleasure that he will reach in one second of time—all treasures! But we are heedless peo- ple, never taking care, occupying twenty-four hours with collecting rubbish, and leaving jewels and divine pleasures, that honor for which you can’t give any description!
And Allah said, “O My habib, My beloved, I am not leaving you alone here.179 I am clothing your ummah’s sincere ones in the same dress, and they are going to be with you,” those who are following the Prophet saw.
Grandshaykh informed me about a group of people whom the Prophet passed after leaving Gabriel—five levels, with 500,000 years between each one and the next. At one of them, he stood and looked, be- cause there were endless Muhammads . Allah said, “O Muhammad, I am not making you sit down with people different from yourself, but I am clothing them all like you.” No one is going to be sorry that he did not reach the Prophet saw, to give them absolute pleasure. Everyone will look at him, at the Prophet and will be given. You should be clothed!
That gives information about non-material things for those people who are making it their goal to use ascension and reach to that station. Al- lah Almighty says, “Those who remain only within their minds’ limits are dhalim, cruel [to themselves].” That cruelty is destroying them physically and making them suffer, and every difficulty is coming from that, for those who stand only by their minds and do not accept knowledge which is be- yond mind.
We are happy to believe in endless Oceans of power, mercy, wis- doms—endless attributes, each reaching to endless Oceans, endless Beauty Oceans, endless Peace Oceans. Only one drop of those Beauty Oceans is enough for eight Paradises; you won’t be able to look even at one in Beauty Paradises. Gabriel, the most beautiful angel, saw a maiden smiling a little
179In the Prophet‘s unique, most highly exalted station.
bit in one place, and her teeth became like lightning. He thought that Al- lah’s Manifestation had come and fell down in sajdah, but that maiden laughed and said, “O Gabriel, it is only my smiling!”
Our mother Eve was given, from that maiden’s beauty, one drop, and from her beauty-DNA, one drop runs in all women up to today. What about in the Divine Presence? Therefore, weekly, on Friday, Allah gives a feast for the people of Paradise. When He opens something from those Beauty Oceans, they forget everything they were given and come to it.
Be happy always, O mankind! Don’t follow Satan and devils. A weak servant is calling you. You are free to listen to more, or to devils. Whoever who listens to me should be happy here and Hereafter! ▲
GLOSSARY
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq—the closest of the Prophet’s Companions and his father-in- law, who shared the Hijrah with him. After the Prophet’s death, he was chosen by consensus of the Muslims as the first caliph or successor to the Prophet. He is known as one of the most saintly of the Prophet’s Companions.
Abu Yazid Bistami—Bayazid al-Bistami, a great ninth century wali and Naqshbandi master.
Adab—good manners, proper etiquette.
Allahu akbar—God is the Most Great.
Amir (pl., ‘umara)—chief, leader, head of a nation or people.
‘Arafat—a vast plain outside Mecca where pilgrims gather for the principal rite of Hajj.
‘Arif—knower; in the present context, one who has reached spiritual knowledge of his Lord.
Ar-Rahim—the Mercy-Giving, Merciful, Munificent, one of Allah’s ninety-nine Holy Names
Ar-Rahman—the Most Merciful, Com- passionate, Beneficent, the most often repeated of Allah’s Holy Names.
Astaghfirullah—I seek Allah’s forgive- ness.
Awliya (sing., wali)—the “friends” of Allah, Muslim saints.
Bait al-Maqdi— the Sacred House in Jerusalem, built atthe site where Solomon’s Temple was later erected.
Bayah—pledge; in the context of this book, the pledge of a disciple (murid) to a sheikh.
Dajjal—the False Messiah whom the Prophet saw foretold as coming at the end- time of this world, who will deceive man- kind with pretensions of being divine.
Dhikr (zikr, zikir)—literally, “remem- brance” (of Allah) through repetition of His Holy Names or various phrases of glorification.
Du’a—supplication. Dunya—world, this world’s life.
Efendi—Turkish for “sir” or “mister.”
‘Eid—festival; the two major festivals of Islam are ‘Eid al-Fitr, marking the comple- tion of Ramadan, and ‘Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice during the time of Hajj.
Fard—obligatory.
Fatehah—al-Fatehah, the opening surah or chapter of the Qur’an.
Grandshaykh—generally, a wali of great stature. In this text, where spelled with a capital G, “Grandshaykh” refers to Mau- lana ‘Abdullah ad-Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim’s shaykh, to whom he was closely attached for forty years up to the time of Grandshaykh’s death in 1973.
Hadith (pl., ahadith)—reports of the Holy Prophet’s sayings, contained in the collections of early hadith scholars. In this text, “Hadith” has been used to refer to the entire body of his oral traditions, while “hadith” denotes an individual tradition.
Hajji—one who has performed Hajj, the sacred pilgrimage of Islam.
Halal—permitted, lawful according to the Islamic Shari’ah.
Haqq—truth, reality. Haram—forbidden, unlawful. Hasha—God forbid! Never! Haqq—truth, reality.
Imam—leader; specifically, the leader of a congregational prayer.
Iman—faith, belief.
Jababirah—tyrants, oppressors.
Jinn—an invisible order of beings created by Allah from fire.
La ilaha illa-Llah, Muhammadu rasul- Allah—there is no deity except Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
Maula—master, lord, protector, patron, referring to Allah Most High.
Me’raj—the Holy Prophet’s ascension to the Heavens and the Divine Presenc.
Muezzin—one who makes the call to prayer (adhan).
Muluk (sing., malik)—kings, monarchs.
Murid—disciple, student, follower.
Murshid—spiritual guide, pir.
Nafs—lower self, ego.
Nur—light.
Qada wa qadar—the sixth pillar of Is- lamic faith, referring to the divine decree.
Qiblah—direction, specifically, the direc- tion faced by Muslims during prayer and other worship.
Qiyamah—(the Day of) Resurrection or Judgment.
Rabi’ah al-Adawiyah—Rabi’ah Basri, a great womansaint of the eighth century C.E.
Ramadan—the ninth month of the Is- lamic lunar calendar, the month of fasting.
Rasul-Allah—the Messenger of God, Muhammad saw.
Sahabah (sing., sahabi)—the Compan- ions of the Prophet, the first Muslims.
Sajdah (also sujud)—prostration.
Salawat—invoking blessings and peace upon the Holy Prophet saw.
Sayyid—leader; also, a descendant of the Holy Prophet.
Sayyidina—our chief, master.
Sayyidina ‘Umar—‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, the Prophet’s eminent Companion and the second caliph of Islam.
Shahadah—the Islamic creed or Declara- tion of Faith, “Ash-shadu an la ilaha illa- Llah wa ashhadu anna Muhammu rasul Allah, I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah and I bear witness that Mu- hammad is His messenger.”
Shah Naqshband—Grandshaykh Mu- hammad Bahauddin Shah-Naqshband, a great eighth century wali, the founder of the Naqshbandi Tariqah.
Shari’at/Shari’ah—the divine Law of Islam, based on the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet saw.
Shirk—polythism, ascribing divinity or divine attributes to anything other than God.
Sohbet (Arabic, suhbah)—the assembly (Association) or discourse of a shaykh.
Subhanallah—glory be to Allah.
Sultan/sultana—ruler, monarch.
Sultan al-Awliya—lit., “the king of the awliya,’ the highest ranking saint.
Sunnah—the practice of the Holy Prophet; that is, what he did, said, recom- mended or approved of in his Compan- ions. In this text, “Sunnah” is used to refer to the collective body of his actions, sayings or recommendations, while “sunnah” refers to an individual action or recom- mendation.
Takbir—the pronouncement of God’s greatness, “Allahu akbar, God is Most Great.”
Tarawih—the special nighly prayers of Ramadan.
Tariqat/tariqah—literally, way, road or path. An Islamic order or path of disci- pline and devotion under a guide or shaykh; Islamic Sufism.
Tawaf—the rite of circumambulatin the K‘abah while glorifying Allah, one of the rites of Hajj and ‘Umrah.
Ummah—faith community, nation.
‘Umrah—the minor pilgrimage to Mecca, which can be performed at any time of the year.
Wudu—the minor ablution that precedes prayers and other acts of worship.
Zakat/zakah—the obligatgory charity of Islam, one of its five “pillars” or acts of worship.
Zakat al-Fitr—the obligatory charity of ‘Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the com- pletion of Ramadan.
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