Mercy Oceans, Book 11 (183 pages, 4/17)
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ll clean them. And we respect Your servants. No matter how dirty they are now from their actions, yet that secret which you gave them is still there and it is well-protected in their hearts, deeply planted, as the most precious treasure is placed in the deepest place of their hearts.''
You still do not know about yourself. When you look at yourself, you may understand about yourself step by step. But we are occupied by everything around ourselves and we are looking outside, not within ourselves. As long as you look outside, you are heedless about yourself; if you can look into yourself, you will find something else. You look at your photograph or you look in the mirror and you still see the outward view of yourself, but you must think about yourself that you have been given divine secrets.
The universe that you have been given within yourself is something like a very little drop in an ocean, and there are five secret treasures hidden in your heart. The heart is not that piece of flesh in yourself ; that is the physical body's heart. But you have something else within yourself. That is your personality in the Divine Presence, and you have been given five treasures, five universes. Each one is wider than the next and deeper, and in the deepest one, which has no limits, is the Throne of your Lord. It is the Throne of your Lord because nothing else can contain your Lord; it is impossible.
Neither the worlds nor the Heavens can contain your Lord Almighty but only your heart, the hearts of the Children of Adam. No limit to your heart, it means.
And yet you are running after this temporary life's pleasures, and you do not reach any of them because when you reach one, your eyes go to the second one; no time to take pleasure, enough pleasure, from this because the second one appears. When you move to reach the second, then a third one appears, saying, "Come to me. Leave that and come to me." Then you put this one in your mouth but another says, "No, leave this and take that." And this is our life. You are tiring yoursell to catch a pleasure but it is impossible to enjoy anything because so many are calling you, "Leave that one and come to me," and when you reach that, then another calls, "Come to me."
No one is going to be in enjoyment throughout his whole life, even if he may live eighty years, ninety years or more, particularly as each time he becomes more tired, and when your age increases your taste goes down, also, little by little. In this way you are leaving the true tastes which you can find within yourself, leaving them and running after something which is just an illusion.
Now we are here. Where did all our life's pleasures go up to this day? All of them are finished; nothing left with us. Therefore, if we can use wisdoms - not knowledge; il we can use wisdoms - we must look to ourselves. When we look within ourselves, then we may look at the whole universe. Then you may look at, you may know about yourself. And when you know about yourself, you are going to know about everyone else, also. When you are pleased with yourself, at the same time you are going to be pleased with everyone. When your true personality appears, you will take care to respect yourself, because we have also been ordered to respect ourselves because we have been honored by divine honors.
Therefore you must respect yourself. How can you respect yourself? We say, we witness, "Ashhadu an la ilaha ill-Allah, wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasulahu26." And the Prophet also must be witness for himself; he also said, “Wa ana ashhadu anna Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasulahu27." "'Abd-Allan wa rasulihi28, he had to say; he had to proclaim the honor that he had been given by his Lord. And also everyone of the Children of Adam has to proclaim that he has been honored by his Lord, Almighty Allah; that is one meaning that Allah Almighty ordered by saying, "Wa amma bi-ni'mati Rabbika fa-haddith29." You must know what Allah Almighty gave to you of endless honors and glory; you must know this and you must respect yourself.
There is a good saying among Arabs. When they are angry with someone or someone makes them angry, they say, "Yahtarim nafsa." What does it mean? When you are angry then I may do something that is not an honor for you. When two people are quarreling and insulting each other, it says, "Keep your honor," because if I begin, your honor goes down. "Keep your honor"; everyone must keep respect for himself because he has been honored by his Lord, Allah Almighty.
26 I bear witness that there is no deity except God and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His messenger, the Islamic profession of faith
27 And I (Muhammad) bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His messenger
28 The slave of God and His messenger
29 And proclaim the favor of thy Lord. (XCIII:11)
Then, when he keeps respect for himself, he is going to keep respect for everyone, and that makes our Lord pleased with us. If you keep respect, everyone must keep respect for you, also. And if everyone keeps respect for you, you will keep respect for them, also. Then all problems will find a solution among people. Everyone is going to be in satisfaction within himself.
This is the wise man's view of the Children of Adam. No matter how much they may do bad things, still they are honored and respected people.
Therefore we must keep respect for everyone.
A sister was asking me today, "If we face a tyrannical person, doing so many cruelties, what are we going to do?" Yes, if you face Pharoah - and you can find a lot of pharaohs in our time, I mean to say tyrants, be cause our time is the period of tyrants, and tyrants are worse than dictators. Tyrants are like Nero; he gave the order to make a fire in Rome so that he could see the city burn and take pleasure in it. And the Prophet, p.bo.h., described our time as the time of tyrants - not dictators but tyrants like Nero, saying, "Jababirah.
Wa min ba'd al-muluk al-jababiratun30."They have fallen into the dirt and until their bad actions leave them they must be in dirtiness. And Allah Almighty created seven Hells for cleaning every dirtiness that comes upon the children of Adam. That cleaning, that purification, may be during this life. By every means Allah Almighty makes His servants clean; every suffering, misery, every trouble, cleans them. Then, if that is not enough for them, in the grave there will be purification. If that is not enough, it will be on the Day of Resurrection. If it is still not enough, they will go into Hell to do purification. And if it is allright, they may came out. If not yet enough, they may stay more and more and more, up to eternity. And for eternity - He knows about Hell's people. When Allah Almighty orders, that purification may be ended. No one may make an objection about them.
Hajjaj was a well-known tyrant who made hills out of the heads of people. He died, and then he was seen in a dream, saying, "For each one of the people I killed, I have been killed, also, this for this, and for just one Sahabi, Ibn Zubair, may Allah be pleased with him - for that one alone, seventy times31."
30 Tyrants. And after monarchy [the Ottoman sultans] (will come ) the tyrants," This is part of a hadith concerning the sequence of events for the Muslim ummah following the Prophet's death up to the end of the world
31 Hajjaj, who governed Iraq during early Umayyad times, was an extremely harsh and tyrannical ruler. 'Abdullah ibn Zubair was a great Companion of the Prophet who stood up against his tyranny and who was executed cruelly by Hajjaj
Yes, Allah Almighty will never leave him alone; there must be purification, according to our dirty actions.
Now, every night in our countries there are advertisements for washing powders; every night I look. This one is best, that one is making dirty clothes very clean. Yes, big machines in Hell to make them clean. Therefore you may do everything; you are free. But you must know that at some time you will be caught. No one can escape. Everyone must come to that door, to pass through it. Then - "Come here, come here!” Hajjaj thought that it was allright to order, "Cut off his head! Cut of that other head!" But then he said, "For each of them, my head has been cut off once, and for that one Sahabi alone, seventy times." Yes. Therefore you are free to do everything but He says, "I gave you will. Do everything, but if you make yourselves dirty, there will be washing."
Now, no one enters Paradise except clean people. They will be brought from Hell, burned bodies. There are two oceans, springs, at the entrance of Paradise. Burned people will come from the fire and be thrown into one of those springs. They will come out with beauty like that of Prophet Yusuf, Joseph, p.b.u.h. Then they will come and drink from the second spring, and every dirty characteristic of their egos, envy and others, will go away, and the Prophet's good attributes will come on them; they will become perfect in beauty and in good characteristics. Then Paradise will open to them and say, "Welcome." Up to that point, too much washing; no one can enter Paradise if not clean.
Therefore the one who has been given wisdoms looks at people and respects them and feels pity for them because they are in need of cleaning. He feels respect and pity toward everyone, particularly sinners. But the eyes of knowledge look at them in a different way, and they curse them and if they can they take revenge on them, also. Therefore wisdom cares more about everyone and wants to bring them under Mercy Oceans, while knowledge's eyes see them as sinners and want to punish them. And divine punishment is also a mercy for sinners, to clean them. Thus Islam, true faith, looks at all people and sees them as respectable and honored creatures and as candidates to be deputies of Allah Almighty. If they are clean, then Allah Almighty crowns them with His divine crowns, and no one except the Children of Adam have been given that honor.
You must respect yourself and keep respect for everyone. Don't say, That is a sinner, that is an unbeliever, that is a Christian, that is Jewish, that is a
Buddhist, that is anything else," Their actions may be of any kind but yet they have been honored and their Lord wants to clean them. Allah Almighty never leaves His servants permanently in the hands of their egos or in the hands of Satan, and haqq, truth, is going to destroy the kingdom of Satan. It must be destroyed and finished and vanish.
'Isha/Jume 3, 1985
The greatest good tidings for Ahl al-Iman, the People of Paradise. When they enter into Paradise, angels come and say, "You are welcome to be in these Paradises eternally. Whoever enters never goes out."
That is the greatest good tidings for them, the divine guarantee that they will never leave. And the greatest sorrow is for the people of Hell; they enter and do not get out. If you could count as many as the whole universe has atoms, and also electrons, for each electron you may be in it for one million years and then you come out. But still they are happy because it is a period of time which is counted and it is going to be finished one day; the hope of that one day gives them peace even if they are in Hell. It is such a huge, huge number of years, but they are still going to be happy and say, "Alhamdulillah, it is not eternal." Beside eternity that is going to be nothing, nothing, nothing. Therefore the people of Hell, when they hear that they will stay in it eternally, that is the deepest suffering. And they ask to be taken out of Hell; even one moment of it is so difficult.
Then, an Yawn al-Mahshar, the Day of Gathering, the Day of Resurrection, Allah Almighty will ask His angels to find one person who during his life had so much pleasure, who was most pleased with this life, every enjoyment for himself - "Look for that one." And they will bring a person who lived 1,700 years; he had been king of all the world and he had been given everything of enjoyments. That person will be brought and Allah Almighty will order, "Take this person into Hell for one second. Put him in it and then bring him here."
They will put him and then bring him there. Then Allah Almighty will ask, "O My servant, what thing that you tasted throughout your life, more than one thousand years, and you were given everything - what thing from those pleasures and enjoyments is with you now?" And he will say, “O my Lord, I swear by Your Name that I tasted nothing, nothing. That one second I was put into Hell and taken out just finished everything that I tasted during a thousand and more years of this life." Then, what about being in Hell for
thousands, millions of years, billions of years, not finishing, not ending, no hope? That is terrible! Therefore so many believers' eyes do not sleep from the fear of Hell, the fear of the anger of their Lord.
Then He will order the angels to find one person among all the people in Mahshar an that Day who had suffered so much, and Allah Almighty will order, "Take this person for one second into Paradise." The angels will put him into it, and then Allah Almighty will ask, "What kind of suffering did you have during your life?"
"O my Lord, nothing! Nothing for me, finished!" Nothing does he re member because of that Paradise. If all the anbiya, prophets, and awliya, saints, and 'ulamā, Islamic scholars, were to sit together from the beginning of this world up to the end and speak about Paradise, it would be impossible for them to give a description of it; they could speak as only one drop from an ocean.
What would you think if the last person who enters Paradise should be given ten times of this world? In this world, out of four parts, one-fourth is continents and three-fourths is oceans, and of the continents, also, half of them is deserts or forests where no one can live. But that ten times of this world is filled with every favor of our Lord Almighty. And that is just for the last person who is to be given from Paradise. Then what about for the others?
Yes, this is also our life, counted days or months or years. It is going to finish. Every breath takes us toward Akhirah, toward the Eternal Life. Keep your breaths for your Lord, Almighty Allah, and say, "Allah. Allah." If you do not say it by your will, still your breaths each time say, "Hū Hü. Hū. Hu. Hu32. Hu. Hu.". This is going on, "Hu" with each breath; whether you like to say it or not, this "Hu Hu. Hu. Hū," must be. May Allah make us on His dhikr, remembrance.
"Asr/June 4, 1985
Which characteristic makes you be in a high rank in the Divine Presence? This is an important point. Everyone must ask and must know it, because we are trying to make our Lord, Allah Almighty, pleased with us.
32 The Arabic pronoun "He," referring to the Divine Essence
Which characteristic makes Allah Almighty pleased with us? It is tawadu', humility that makes our Lord pleased with us. The first thing that made our Lord Almighty to be angry with His creatures was the opposite of humility. What is that? Pride; the first sin appeared from pride.
The first one who raised his head and was rebellious to his Lord Almighty was Satan, and the reason was that he claimed to be proud over one of his Lord's creatures. Allah Almighty created Adam, and then Satan claimed to be above Adam, not to be beneath his rank, saying, "I am more important than this creature. Then how are you ordering me to make sajdah, to prostrate myself before him? I see that my station is higher than anyone else's, particularly than that one who has just been created. I fill every square foot on earth and in the Heavens with sajdah; the most high respects I give to you, and that one, the new one, has not even made one sajdah to you. But yet you are saying that I must make sajdah, I must give my most high respect, to that one. I am the one who will never accept to make sajdah to anyone except to You," Satan said to Allah Almighty, seeing himself as being above every creature, and particularly over Adam. That was pride from him, so that the divine anger or the divine curse fell upon him.
Therefore every prophet just came to advise people that they should leave pride and should be humble, because pride makes your Lord angry with you and humility makes Him pleased with you. That wisdom is enough for ever one throughout his life. But it is not so easy to make our ego accept that particularly as our ego always votes for Iblis, Satan, never voting for Allah Almighty. Isn't it so? Everyone knows it. Always for Allah? No! For everything that Satan does our ego says, "Allright. Yes, this is correct, that is wrong." Astaghfirullah!
Therefore each prophet came with holy books and with holy commands, manthuma, a law including other laws, as prophets came from the Lord. And the last, the Seal of the Prophets, p.b.u.h., also came with so many holy commands, bringing them to people in his time and up to the Last Day, so that if this world were to continue, his Message would cover every nation even up to eternity. And the summary or soul of all the holy commands that the Seal of the Prophets brought to the Children of Adam is for what? To teach people how they can be humble servants.
In the Holy Qur'an and in the Holy Shari'ah, orders have been given for keeping - five hundred kinds of commands and good deeds that you may do as a respect to your Lord and as a charity to His servants, because all
commands consist either of respect to Allah Almighty or of charities to His servants, which are at the same time most high respects to your Lord.
Therefore Islam is perfect because it brought people most high respects to give to their Lord and at the same time it brought the Children of Adam every kind of charity, good actions, and at the same time as you are doing or giving your charities, you are giving your most high respects to your Lord Almighty. From this direction, if you look at Islam, you will find it perfect because it covers every charitable work and includes every respect, most high respect, to your Lord. Yes, every charity that you can think of you can find in Islam, and every kind of most high respect to your Lord you can find also in Islam.
Then there are also eight hundred prohibitions, prohibited actions, so from that direction, also, Islam is perfect because you can't find any evil, any badness or anything that harms people, without its being prohibited in Islam. Any harmful thing, no matter how simple or unknown or unthought of, Islam brings in front of people to see that this is an evil, even such a thing that you can't imagine but which harms you, either in your faith or in your health or in your thoughts, because for prohibitions our ego always allies with Satan.
And ego, nafs, always finds a taste in bad things. Therefore it generally conceals them and tries to show you that they are excellent. What is wrong if you go to the pub? What is wrong with drinking wine and whiskey and spirits? Why are they prohibited when they give you so much enjoyment?"
That is nafs' defense, wanting to make things seem good to present to you. And the Prophet, p.b.u.h., said that when the Last Days approaches, people will drink wine but will give it different names. They do not say wine," they say "whiskey", "champagne"; they say, "This is vodka, this is brandy, " doing so much advertising, making so many beautiful-looking bottles, saying, "This is Johnny Walker. You must be like this when you drink," doing so many things to cheat, to deceive people. Therefore your ego always comes with Satan and conceals prohibited things, saying, "This may be good.
Particularly in our community, in our time, you must use it. You must also put a bar in your house. It must be there, and every kind of bottle." I see some houses which are like a hotel; yes, up to here with bottles of wine and whiskey. One thousand Satans are in them, sitting - sitting quietly but when drinking, they appear, all of them.
Thus eighthundred things which are harmful physically or spiritually have all been prevented in Islam, so that no one can object concerning any of them that it gave benefit and was useful to people but Islam prevented that.
Therefore Islam is perfect through its commands, and it is perfect through keeping people from harmful things.
And when Allah Almighty orders certain things, by each one he gives an honor. We said that there are five hundred respects, most high respects to Allah Almighty and also charities. Each one that you do, that you keep, gives you more honor. That is karāmah, honor, and the prohibited things are for himayah, safety - for the safety of mankind physically and spiritually. That is perfection. For this reason Allah Almighty said, "O My Prophet, beloved Muhammad, I have just completed your faith, your religion, your Islam and I am pleased with whomever comes to Me with Islam33.".
It is complete now. No one can imagine a religion more perfect than Islam. Not to mention the twentieth century, if there came one-hundred-and twenty centuries, Islam is perfect since Allah Almighty created man as man34, not creating men as monkeys or apes; no. He created man as man from the beginning. Apes were created as apes, monkeys were created as monkeys, but man was created as man, and He gave him his form. Even if one hundred centuries more may pass, no one can think of a more perfect form either for men or for wamen.
Therefore, when Allah Almighty says that it is now complete, perfect, it is perfect. What is after the full moon? Islam has become the full moon; if you ask for something else after the full moon, you are going to find it waning. Therefore people now are running; they are not looking at the full moon of Islam and they are running to find something, particularly old religions.
Christianity or Judaism are trying to make themselves like the full moon, but it is impossible because they were before Islam and Islam came as a full moon. If anyone wants something after the full moon, he will find only a deficiency; impossible. For this reason, Allah Almighty says, "Who is the one who can bring something more perfect than what I brought to you, O Muhammad? Tell them that anyone who can do that may do it, may try. But no one can." And we are saying, as our Lord commands, "Fa-haddith35, issuing a challenge.
33 See V:4 (V:3 in Pickthall's translation of the Holy Qur'ān)
34 That is, man's nature and form has been the same from the beginning of his creation and will remain the same up to the end. Thus, Islam came for the guidance of man as man (not as a creature "evolving" from another species), and hence it is perfect
35 Then proclaim." (XCIII:11)
Yes, come - Christians, come ; Jews, come. Islam is the full moon; from any direction you may look, you can find it perfect. Don't look at its followers, no; look at the full moon itself. Why are you accusing Islam because of the actions of its followers? Islam is perfect but its followers are not perfect.
Now we shall come to the important point, humility. What is the main goal of all these commands and prohibitions, in summary? Why does Allah Almighty order all these commands and prohibitions? To make people humble servants, nothing else, because they are under command.
Allah Almighty created Gabriel, p.b.u.h., the Angel of Prophethood36, the Holy Messenger, as the most beautiful angel. Among angels you can't find anyone more beautiful than Angel Gabriel (ordinarily you can't look at any of the angels; from their beauty you may fall down dead). He created Gabriel, and Gabriel looked into the mirror of Qudrah, his Lord's power, looking at himself. Because of his beauty he has been called Taus al-Malaikah, the Peacock of the Angels, after the most beautiful and ornamented bird.
When Gabriel, p.b.u.h., saw that Allah Almighty had created him with such beauty and ornaments, he made two rak'ats37 of thanks to his Lord, and each rak'at lasted 20,000 years, two rak'ats 40,000 years, praising his Lord. When he had finished, Allah Almighty said, "O My angel, Gabriel, this is good praise from you to Me, yet its value is not as much as the value of two rak'ats from my beloved Muhammad's nation. Even if they pray two rak'ats very quickly, those two rak'ats from those servants are more valuable in My Divine Presence than the two rak'ats that you prayed during 40,000 years. Why? Because you prayed without My ordering you. Without My command you prayed those two rak'ats, but those servants from the nation of My beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., are praying from My order; they are keeping My order and praying, making themselves humble servants. That humility of theirs, their keeping My holy command, makes them humble servants to me. They say, 'Our Lord is commanding us, and we are His humble servants, we are praying.' That humbleness gives their prayers value. Their two rak'ats, because they are doing it out of humbleness, are more valuable in My Divine Presence."
36 Gabriel, p.b.u.h., was the bringer of divine revelation (wahy) to all the prophets, including Sayyidina Muhammad, p.b.u.h
37 A rak'at is one complete unit or cycle in the Islamic prayer, or salāt
Therefore you can understand for what purpose we have been been given commands. Every command of Allah Almighty that we keep is to make us humble servants to Him. And for every prohibition, also, we say, "Our Lord has prohibited this. We must obey, we must be obedient servants to our Lord, keeping His order." That gives value to the Children of Adam, and all shari'ahs, sacred laws, all holy books, and all prophets including the Seal of the Prophets, peace be upon them all, just came to teach people to be humble servants.
That is all. Any time your ego calls you to be rebellious to your Lord, that is kufr38; it is dishonor for you if you know that an action makes you proud, because if you do not listen to your Lord it makes you feel pride in the Divine Presence. And the one who is proud must be cast out of the Divine Presence just as Satan was cast out.
Therefore the most acceptable and lovely characteristic of mankind is to be humble, and all the prophets just came to teach us how we can be humble servants. And we are asking
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ll clean them. And we respect Your servants. No matter how dirty they are now from their actions, yet that secret which you gave them is still there and it is well-protected in their hearts, deeply planted, as the most precious treasure is placed in the deepest place of their hearts.''
You still do not know about yourself. When you look at yourself, you may understand about yourself step by step. But we are occupied by everything around ourselves and we are looking outside, not within ourselves. As long as you look outside, you are heedless about yourself; if you can look into yourself, you will find something else. You look at your photograph or you look in the mirror and you still see the outward view of yourself, but you must think about yourself that you have been given divine secrets.
The universe that you have been given within yourself is something like a very little drop in an ocean, and there are five secret treasures hidden in your heart. The heart is not that piece of flesh in yourself ; that is the physical body's heart. But you have something else within yourself. That is your personality in the Divine Presence, and you have been given five treasures, five universes. Each one is wider than the next and deeper, and in the deepest one, which has no limits, is the Throne of your Lord. It is the Throne of your Lord because nothing else can contain your Lord; it is impossible.
Neither the worlds nor the Heavens can contain your Lord Almighty but only your heart, the hearts of the Children of Adam. No limit to your heart, it means.
And yet you are running after this temporary life's pleasures, and you do not reach any of them because when you reach one, your eyes go to the second one; no time to take pleasure, enough pleasure, from this because the second one appears. When you move to reach the second, then a third one appears, saying, "Come to me. Leave that and come to me." Then you put this one in your mouth but another says, "No, leave this and take that." And this is our life. You are tiring yoursell to catch a pleasure but it is impossible to enjoy anything because so many are calling you, "Leave that one and come to me," and when you reach that, then another calls, "Come to me."
No one is going to be in enjoyment throughout his whole life, even if he may live eighty years, ninety years or more, particularly as each time he becomes more tired, and when your age increases your taste goes down, also, little by little. In this way you are leaving the true tastes which you can find within yourself, leaving them and running after something which is just an illusion.
Now we are here. Where did all our life's pleasures go up to this day? All of them are finished; nothing left with us. Therefore, if we can use wisdoms - not knowledge; il we can use wisdoms - we must look to ourselves. When we look within ourselves, then we may look at the whole universe. Then you may look at, you may know about yourself. And when you know about yourself, you are going to know about everyone else, also. When you are pleased with yourself, at the same time you are going to be pleased with everyone. When your true personality appears, you will take care to respect yourself, because we have also been ordered to respect ourselves because we have been honored by divine honors.
Therefore you must respect yourself. How can you respect yourself? We say, we witness, "Ashhadu an la ilaha ill-Allah, wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasulahu26." And the Prophet also must be witness for himself; he also said, “Wa ana ashhadu anna Muhammadan 'abduhu wa rasulahu27." "'Abd-Allan wa rasulihi28, he had to say; he had to proclaim the honor that he had been given by his Lord. And also everyone of the Children of Adam has to proclaim that he has been honored by his Lord, Almighty Allah; that is one meaning that Allah Almighty ordered by saying, "Wa amma bi-ni'mati Rabbika fa-haddith29." You must know what Allah Almighty gave to you of endless honors and glory; you must know this and you must respect yourself.
There is a good saying among Arabs. When they are angry with someone or someone makes them angry, they say, "Yahtarim nafsa." What does it mean? When you are angry then I may do something that is not an honor for you. When two people are quarreling and insulting each other, it says, "Keep your honor," because if I begin, your honor goes down. "Keep your honor"; everyone must keep respect for himself because he has been honored by his Lord, Allah Almighty.
26 I bear witness that there is no deity except God and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His messenger, the Islamic profession of faith
27 And I (Muhammad) bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His messenger
28 The slave of God and His messenger
29 And proclaim the favor of thy Lord. (XCIII:11)
Then, when he keeps respect for himself, he is going to keep respect for everyone, and that makes our Lord pleased with us. If you keep respect, everyone must keep respect for you, also. And if everyone keeps respect for you, you will keep respect for them, also. Then all problems will find a solution among people. Everyone is going to be in satisfaction within himself.
This is the wise man's view of the Children of Adam. No matter how much they may do bad things, still they are honored and respected people.
Therefore we must keep respect for everyone.
A sister was asking me today, "If we face a tyrannical person, doing so many cruelties, what are we going to do?" Yes, if you face Pharoah - and you can find a lot of pharaohs in our time, I mean to say tyrants, be cause our time is the period of tyrants, and tyrants are worse than dictators. Tyrants are like Nero; he gave the order to make a fire in Rome so that he could see the city burn and take pleasure in it. And the Prophet, p.bo.h., described our time as the time of tyrants - not dictators but tyrants like Nero, saying, "Jababirah.
Wa min ba'd al-muluk al-jababiratun30."They have fallen into the dirt and until their bad actions leave them they must be in dirtiness. And Allah Almighty created seven Hells for cleaning every dirtiness that comes upon the children of Adam. That cleaning, that purification, may be during this life. By every means Allah Almighty makes His servants clean; every suffering, misery, every trouble, cleans them. Then, if that is not enough for them, in the grave there will be purification. If that is not enough, it will be on the Day of Resurrection. If it is still not enough, they will go into Hell to do purification. And if it is allright, they may came out. If not yet enough, they may stay more and more and more, up to eternity. And for eternity - He knows about Hell's people. When Allah Almighty orders, that purification may be ended. No one may make an objection about them.
Hajjaj was a well-known tyrant who made hills out of the heads of people. He died, and then he was seen in a dream, saying, "For each one of the people I killed, I have been killed, also, this for this, and for just one Sahabi, Ibn Zubair, may Allah be pleased with him - for that one alone, seventy times31."
30 Tyrants. And after monarchy [the Ottoman sultans] (will come ) the tyrants," This is part of a hadith concerning the sequence of events for the Muslim ummah following the Prophet's death up to the end of the world
31 Hajjaj, who governed Iraq during early Umayyad times, was an extremely harsh and tyrannical ruler. 'Abdullah ibn Zubair was a great Companion of the Prophet who stood up against his tyranny and who was executed cruelly by Hajjaj
Yes, Allah Almighty will never leave him alone; there must be purification, according to our dirty actions.
Now, every night in our countries there are advertisements for washing powders; every night I look. This one is best, that one is making dirty clothes very clean. Yes, big machines in Hell to make them clean. Therefore you may do everything; you are free. But you must know that at some time you will be caught. No one can escape. Everyone must come to that door, to pass through it. Then - "Come here, come here!” Hajjaj thought that it was allright to order, "Cut off his head! Cut of that other head!" But then he said, "For each of them, my head has been cut off once, and for that one Sahabi alone, seventy times." Yes. Therefore you are free to do everything but He says, "I gave you will. Do everything, but if you make yourselves dirty, there will be washing."
Now, no one enters Paradise except clean people. They will be brought from Hell, burned bodies. There are two oceans, springs, at the entrance of Paradise. Burned people will come from the fire and be thrown into one of those springs. They will come out with beauty like that of Prophet Yusuf, Joseph, p.b.u.h. Then they will come and drink from the second spring, and every dirty characteristic of their egos, envy and others, will go away, and the Prophet's good attributes will come on them; they will become perfect in beauty and in good characteristics. Then Paradise will open to them and say, "Welcome." Up to that point, too much washing; no one can enter Paradise if not clean.
Therefore the one who has been given wisdoms looks at people and respects them and feels pity for them because they are in need of cleaning. He feels respect and pity toward everyone, particularly sinners. But the eyes of knowledge look at them in a different way, and they curse them and if they can they take revenge on them, also. Therefore wisdom cares more about everyone and wants to bring them under Mercy Oceans, while knowledge's eyes see them as sinners and want to punish them. And divine punishment is also a mercy for sinners, to clean them. Thus Islam, true faith, looks at all people and sees them as respectable and honored creatures and as candidates to be deputies of Allah Almighty. If they are clean, then Allah Almighty crowns them with His divine crowns, and no one except the Children of Adam have been given that honor.
You must respect yourself and keep respect for everyone. Don't say, That is a sinner, that is an unbeliever, that is a Christian, that is Jewish, that is a
Buddhist, that is anything else," Their actions may be of any kind but yet they have been honored and their Lord wants to clean them. Allah Almighty never leaves His servants permanently in the hands of their egos or in the hands of Satan, and haqq, truth, is going to destroy the kingdom of Satan. It must be destroyed and finished and vanish.
'Isha/Jume 3, 1985
The greatest good tidings for Ahl al-Iman, the People of Paradise. When they enter into Paradise, angels come and say, "You are welcome to be in these Paradises eternally. Whoever enters never goes out."
That is the greatest good tidings for them, the divine guarantee that they will never leave. And the greatest sorrow is for the people of Hell; they enter and do not get out. If you could count as many as the whole universe has atoms, and also electrons, for each electron you may be in it for one million years and then you come out. But still they are happy because it is a period of time which is counted and it is going to be finished one day; the hope of that one day gives them peace even if they are in Hell. It is such a huge, huge number of years, but they are still going to be happy and say, "Alhamdulillah, it is not eternal." Beside eternity that is going to be nothing, nothing, nothing. Therefore the people of Hell, when they hear that they will stay in it eternally, that is the deepest suffering. And they ask to be taken out of Hell; even one moment of it is so difficult.
Then, an Yawn al-Mahshar, the Day of Gathering, the Day of Resurrection, Allah Almighty will ask His angels to find one person who during his life had so much pleasure, who was most pleased with this life, every enjoyment for himself - "Look for that one." And they will bring a person who lived 1,700 years; he had been king of all the world and he had been given everything of enjoyments. That person will be brought and Allah Almighty will order, "Take this person into Hell for one second. Put him in it and then bring him here."
They will put him and then bring him there. Then Allah Almighty will ask, "O My servant, what thing that you tasted throughout your life, more than one thousand years, and you were given everything - what thing from those pleasures and enjoyments is with you now?" And he will say, “O my Lord, I swear by Your Name that I tasted nothing, nothing. That one second I was put into Hell and taken out just finished everything that I tasted during a thousand and more years of this life." Then, what about being in Hell for
thousands, millions of years, billions of years, not finishing, not ending, no hope? That is terrible! Therefore so many believers' eyes do not sleep from the fear of Hell, the fear of the anger of their Lord.
Then He will order the angels to find one person among all the people in Mahshar an that Day who had suffered so much, and Allah Almighty will order, "Take this person for one second into Paradise." The angels will put him into it, and then Allah Almighty will ask, "What kind of suffering did you have during your life?"
"O my Lord, nothing! Nothing for me, finished!" Nothing does he re member because of that Paradise. If all the anbiya, prophets, and awliya, saints, and 'ulamā, Islamic scholars, were to sit together from the beginning of this world up to the end and speak about Paradise, it would be impossible for them to give a description of it; they could speak as only one drop from an ocean.
What would you think if the last person who enters Paradise should be given ten times of this world? In this world, out of four parts, one-fourth is continents and three-fourths is oceans, and of the continents, also, half of them is deserts or forests where no one can live. But that ten times of this world is filled with every favor of our Lord Almighty. And that is just for the last person who is to be given from Paradise. Then what about for the others?
Yes, this is also our life, counted days or months or years. It is going to finish. Every breath takes us toward Akhirah, toward the Eternal Life. Keep your breaths for your Lord, Almighty Allah, and say, "Allah. Allah." If you do not say it by your will, still your breaths each time say, "Hū Hü. Hū. Hu. Hu32. Hu. Hu.". This is going on, "Hu" with each breath; whether you like to say it or not, this "Hu Hu. Hu. Hū," must be. May Allah make us on His dhikr, remembrance.
"Asr/June 4, 1985
Which characteristic makes you be in a high rank in the Divine Presence? This is an important point. Everyone must ask and must know it, because we are trying to make our Lord, Allah Almighty, pleased with us.
32 The Arabic pronoun "He," referring to the Divine Essence
Which characteristic makes Allah Almighty pleased with us? It is tawadu', humility that makes our Lord pleased with us. The first thing that made our Lord Almighty to be angry with His creatures was the opposite of humility. What is that? Pride; the first sin appeared from pride.
The first one who raised his head and was rebellious to his Lord Almighty was Satan, and the reason was that he claimed to be proud over one of his Lord's creatures. Allah Almighty created Adam, and then Satan claimed to be above Adam, not to be beneath his rank, saying, "I am more important than this creature. Then how are you ordering me to make sajdah, to prostrate myself before him? I see that my station is higher than anyone else's, particularly than that one who has just been created. I fill every square foot on earth and in the Heavens with sajdah; the most high respects I give to you, and that one, the new one, has not even made one sajdah to you. But yet you are saying that I must make sajdah, I must give my most high respect, to that one. I am the one who will never accept to make sajdah to anyone except to You," Satan said to Allah Almighty, seeing himself as being above every creature, and particularly over Adam. That was pride from him, so that the divine anger or the divine curse fell upon him.
Therefore every prophet just came to advise people that they should leave pride and should be humble, because pride makes your Lord angry with you and humility makes Him pleased with you. That wisdom is enough for ever one throughout his life. But it is not so easy to make our ego accept that particularly as our ego always votes for Iblis, Satan, never voting for Allah Almighty. Isn't it so? Everyone knows it. Always for Allah? No! For everything that Satan does our ego says, "Allright. Yes, this is correct, that is wrong." Astaghfirullah!
Therefore each prophet came with holy books and with holy commands, manthuma, a law including other laws, as prophets came from the Lord. And the last, the Seal of the Prophets, p.b.u.h., also came with so many holy commands, bringing them to people in his time and up to the Last Day, so that if this world were to continue, his Message would cover every nation even up to eternity. And the summary or soul of all the holy commands that the Seal of the Prophets brought to the Children of Adam is for what? To teach people how they can be humble servants.
In the Holy Qur'an and in the Holy Shari'ah, orders have been given for keeping - five hundred kinds of commands and good deeds that you may do as a respect to your Lord and as a charity to His servants, because all
commands consist either of respect to Allah Almighty or of charities to His servants, which are at the same time most high respects to your Lord.
Therefore Islam is perfect because it brought people most high respects to give to their Lord and at the same time it brought the Children of Adam every kind of charity, good actions, and at the same time as you are doing or giving your charities, you are giving your most high respects to your Lord Almighty. From this direction, if you look at Islam, you will find it perfect because it covers every charitable work and includes every respect, most high respect, to your Lord. Yes, every charity that you can think of you can find in Islam, and every kind of most high respect to your Lord you can find also in Islam.
Then there are also eight hundred prohibitions, prohibited actions, so from that direction, also, Islam is perfect because you can't find any evil, any badness or anything that harms people, without its being prohibited in Islam. Any harmful thing, no matter how simple or unknown or unthought of, Islam brings in front of people to see that this is an evil, even such a thing that you can't imagine but which harms you, either in your faith or in your health or in your thoughts, because for prohibitions our ego always allies with Satan.
And ego, nafs, always finds a taste in bad things. Therefore it generally conceals them and tries to show you that they are excellent. What is wrong if you go to the pub? What is wrong with drinking wine and whiskey and spirits? Why are they prohibited when they give you so much enjoyment?"
That is nafs' defense, wanting to make things seem good to present to you. And the Prophet, p.b.u.h., said that when the Last Days approaches, people will drink wine but will give it different names. They do not say wine," they say "whiskey", "champagne"; they say, "This is vodka, this is brandy, " doing so much advertising, making so many beautiful-looking bottles, saying, "This is Johnny Walker. You must be like this when you drink," doing so many things to cheat, to deceive people. Therefore your ego always comes with Satan and conceals prohibited things, saying, "This may be good.
Particularly in our community, in our time, you must use it. You must also put a bar in your house. It must be there, and every kind of bottle." I see some houses which are like a hotel; yes, up to here with bottles of wine and whiskey. One thousand Satans are in them, sitting - sitting quietly but when drinking, they appear, all of them.
Thus eighthundred things which are harmful physically or spiritually have all been prevented in Islam, so that no one can object concerning any of them that it gave benefit and was useful to people but Islam prevented that.
Therefore Islam is perfect through its commands, and it is perfect through keeping people from harmful things.
And when Allah Almighty orders certain things, by each one he gives an honor. We said that there are five hundred respects, most high respects to Allah Almighty and also charities. Each one that you do, that you keep, gives you more honor. That is karāmah, honor, and the prohibited things are for himayah, safety - for the safety of mankind physically and spiritually. That is perfection. For this reason Allah Almighty said, "O My Prophet, beloved Muhammad, I have just completed your faith, your religion, your Islam and I am pleased with whomever comes to Me with Islam33.".
It is complete now. No one can imagine a religion more perfect than Islam. Not to mention the twentieth century, if there came one-hundred-and twenty centuries, Islam is perfect since Allah Almighty created man as man34, not creating men as monkeys or apes; no. He created man as man from the beginning. Apes were created as apes, monkeys were created as monkeys, but man was created as man, and He gave him his form. Even if one hundred centuries more may pass, no one can think of a more perfect form either for men or for wamen.
Therefore, when Allah Almighty says that it is now complete, perfect, it is perfect. What is after the full moon? Islam has become the full moon; if you ask for something else after the full moon, you are going to find it waning. Therefore people now are running; they are not looking at the full moon of Islam and they are running to find something, particularly old religions.
Christianity or Judaism are trying to make themselves like the full moon, but it is impossible because they were before Islam and Islam came as a full moon. If anyone wants something after the full moon, he will find only a deficiency; impossible. For this reason, Allah Almighty says, "Who is the one who can bring something more perfect than what I brought to you, O Muhammad? Tell them that anyone who can do that may do it, may try. But no one can." And we are saying, as our Lord commands, "Fa-haddith35, issuing a challenge.
33 See V:4 (V:3 in Pickthall's translation of the Holy Qur'ān)
34 That is, man's nature and form has been the same from the beginning of his creation and will remain the same up to the end. Thus, Islam came for the guidance of man as man (not as a creature "evolving" from another species), and hence it is perfect
35 Then proclaim." (XCIII:11)
Yes, come - Christians, come ; Jews, come. Islam is the full moon; from any direction you may look, you can find it perfect. Don't look at its followers, no; look at the full moon itself. Why are you accusing Islam because of the actions of its followers? Islam is perfect but its followers are not perfect.
Now we shall come to the important point, humility. What is the main goal of all these commands and prohibitions, in summary? Why does Allah Almighty order all these commands and prohibitions? To make people humble servants, nothing else, because they are under command.
Allah Almighty created Gabriel, p.b.u.h., the Angel of Prophethood36, the Holy Messenger, as the most beautiful angel. Among angels you can't find anyone more beautiful than Angel Gabriel (ordinarily you can't look at any of the angels; from their beauty you may fall down dead). He created Gabriel, and Gabriel looked into the mirror of Qudrah, his Lord's power, looking at himself. Because of his beauty he has been called Taus al-Malaikah, the Peacock of the Angels, after the most beautiful and ornamented bird.
When Gabriel, p.b.u.h., saw that Allah Almighty had created him with such beauty and ornaments, he made two rak'ats37 of thanks to his Lord, and each rak'at lasted 20,000 years, two rak'ats 40,000 years, praising his Lord. When he had finished, Allah Almighty said, "O My angel, Gabriel, this is good praise from you to Me, yet its value is not as much as the value of two rak'ats from my beloved Muhammad's nation. Even if they pray two rak'ats very quickly, those two rak'ats from those servants are more valuable in My Divine Presence than the two rak'ats that you prayed during 40,000 years. Why? Because you prayed without My ordering you. Without My command you prayed those two rak'ats, but those servants from the nation of My beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., are praying from My order; they are keeping My order and praying, making themselves humble servants. That humility of theirs, their keeping My holy command, makes them humble servants to me. They say, 'Our Lord is commanding us, and we are His humble servants, we are praying.' That humbleness gives their prayers value. Their two rak'ats, because they are doing it out of humbleness, are more valuable in My Divine Presence."
36 Gabriel, p.b.u.h., was the bringer of divine revelation (wahy) to all the prophets, including Sayyidina Muhammad, p.b.u.h
37 A rak'at is one complete unit or cycle in the Islamic prayer, or salāt
Therefore you can understand for what purpose we have been been given commands. Every command of Allah Almighty that we keep is to make us humble servants to Him. And for every prohibition, also, we say, "Our Lord has prohibited this. We must obey, we must be obedient servants to our Lord, keeping His order." That gives value to the Children of Adam, and all shari'ahs, sacred laws, all holy books, and all prophets including the Seal of the Prophets, peace be upon them all, just came to teach people to be humble servants.
That is all. Any time your ego calls you to be rebellious to your Lord, that is kufr38; it is dishonor for you if you know that an action makes you proud, because if you do not listen to your Lord it makes you feel pride in the Divine Presence. And the one who is proud must be cast out of the Divine Presence just as Satan was cast out.
Therefore the most acceptable and lovely characteristic of mankind is to be humble, and all the prophets just came to teach us how we can be humble servants. And we are asking
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