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ord of the Heavens but he said, "I am the Lord on earth, and I am the greatest because the whole earth is under my feet. His throne is in Heaven but I am here98.
For this reason he was astonished when Moses said to him, "You must believe in your Lord," and he asked, "Who is my Lord? I see my Lord in my self99.". He meant to say, "My ego is my Lord, not anyone else." But modern Pharaohs say, "No Lord on earth or in Heaven," astaghfirullah, astāghfirullah! "No God," they say. "The universe came into being by itself." No-mind people! If you asked people in a mental hospital, they would find fault with those people. "How are you keeping those crazy people outside who say, 'No God of the universe'? Why are you imprisoning us in a mental hospital when there are so many crazy people outside?" Yes, they would blame those people, those Pharaohs, those Nimrods, who say, "No God of the universe." They say that the whole universe exists by itself and yet they claim that they are scholars or people who know science! But Allah Almighty
97 According to Islamic tradition, God spoke directly to Moses, p.b.u.h., without the agency of the Angel Gabriel. See IV:164
98 See XXVIII:38; XL:36-37; XLIII:51
99 See XX:49; XXVI:23–29; LXXIX:23-24
is going to punish them, and then at the end of their lives they are going to shout, to cry, saying, "Allah! O my God!" O my God! - where was your God throughout your life? Now - "O my God, save me from this!" everyone must say,
When that Pharaoh made his nation, also, slaves, the Children of Israel were enslaved more than anyone else. Then Allah Almighty said to Moses, "Take them out of Egypt. I am with you, your Companion100. "O Allah Almighty promised the believers to be Saviour for them and Protector and Friend and Companion and Helper and Supporter - to be everything.
Believe in God; believe in your Lord Almighty. Then you will find every narrow path becoming wider, so that the one who believes in his Lord will find a sirāt, a path, in the next world101; on the Last Day he will go on it. It is as narrow as a wire is narrow, but believers will find it so wide, while unbelievers will find it like the edge of a sword.
Then Allah Almighty commanded Moses, saying, "Take the Children of Israel with you out of Egypt and walk on your path as I am commanding you." And all the people went after Moses; he was in front and the people were marching after him.
They reached the beach of the Red Sea. Then, when they approached it, Allah Almighty's divine wisdom made that Red Sea form into huge waves. You have heard about that huge tidal wave rushing on Bangla Desh? More than tidal waves that Red Sea was with the anger of the Lord, too strongly attacking; all the Children of Israel were trembling. You must believe in your Lord, Almighty Allah!
"Where have you been ordered to go, O Moses?" the Children of Israel asked.
"In this direction," he said.
They looked and trembled from that Red Sea, its huge waves attacking, And then they looked behind them and there was Pharaoh approaching, coming like this.
100 See XX:46–47; XXVI:53; XLIV:23
101 This refers to the heavenly Bridge which every human being must cross on the Day of Judgment. For the righteous it will be wide and spacious, easily crossed and leading to Paradise, while for sinners it will be as narrow as a hair, leading to Hell
Then when they reached the beach of the Red Sea, a horseman came to Moses and said, "O Prophet of the Lord, O Moses, in which direction have you been ordered to go?"
"In this direction," he said.
Then that horseman spurred his horse and, jumping on the waves, he passed over them as if he had been walking on the street, all the people look ing on. There was belief, true faith, with that person. The command of the Lord must be obeyed; you must obey it. Don't be worried. Allah is your companion. "I am with you," He says. Spurring his horse and jumping on the waves; the waves were so terrible that you couldn't bear to look, but that horseman jumped and ran on the waves, reaching the other side.
Another horseman came after that one, asking, "In which direction have you been ordered to go, o Prophet of the Lord, O Moses?"
Moses, pointing with his stick, said, "In that direction." And that horseman also made his horse jump on the sea, on the waves. But then he disappeared.
The Children of Israel were looking on. Then they cried, they shouted, all of them. But Allah Almighty Waliu-l-muminin, He is the Savior of the believers. He was looking at what they were going to do, to say. And Pharaoh was approaching now, no more distance. Moses was awaiting the command, the holy command, of his Lord.
If you believe in God Almighty you can make people believe in Him, but if you do not believe, you can't make others believe. Prophets have perfect belief in their Lord so that they are able to give from their belief. And no one's belief can be like beloved Muhammad's belief, p.b.u.h., because he gives from his belief for eternity. If mankind goes on up to eternity, the Prophet's belief is an ocean; he may give, never getting finished. Yes.
Therefore we must believe in prophets and in the Seal of the Prophets; we must believe. And it is part of the Shahadah, the Declaration of Faith; without proclaiming your witness to "Muhammadu Rasul-Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of God," it is incomplete. Whoever addresses people must believe in what he is saying; then he may make people believe. Therefore a munāfiq, a hypocrite, can't give anything. Perhaps his illness may spread to others.
Prophet Moses, p.b.u.h., believed in his Lord, Almighty Allah. Then, when those two persons asked and he told them that we have been ordered to pass through that direction, nothing could be a hindrance in front of them because the will of their Lord took every hindrance from their way; yes.
Prophet Moses saw when the heavenly doors opened (you may see with your eyes but prophets' eyes are something else, not like our eyes). He saw when that order came and that door opened for them to pass through.
Because everything waits for its appointed time, yes? Before that it is not going to happen, and it is not going to be delayed after that. Everything must be in its appointed time, too punctual. In Allah Almighty's Divine Presence everything is punctual, most perfectly punctual.
Now Pharaoh was coming with his soldiers on horses. The Children of Israel were waiting. When faith has settled in your heart, no more troubles ; troubles have finished. Moses was waiting for the divine command. And then those two horsemen passed over. One passed as if he was riding on the street, American asphalt. Mashā'Allāh, that person had strong faith in his Lord, Al mighty Allah.
Another time there also happened what happened to the companion of Moses, that horseman. That was in the time of the Sahabah, the Prophetis Companions. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqās, may Allah bless him, a great soldier, reach ed the Tigris River in Baghdad with the Muslim army, running after the Magian people in Iran. It was the season after winter when too much water was running. Sa'd, may Allah bless him, was the commander of that army.
When he stood at the beach of the Tigris, he addressed it, saying, "O Tigris! This is the army of Caliph 'Umar, whose justice goes around the whole world. Even wolves cannot attack sheep due to his justice. This is the army under his name, going to fight the Magians, unbelievers. Let it pass through on you." Then saying, "Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim, Allahu akbar!" he went across on his horse, never getting wet, and the whole army passed through the river. Every miracle that has been given to all the prophets has been given to our Prophet, p.b.u.h., and to his nation, to his followers, alhamdulillan.
Then Allah Almighty commanded, "O Moses, strike Thy stick on those waves, on the sea102”. And then that huge sea became twelve paths. When it was opened, they saw that second fellow on his horse, standing there: the One who preserved the first one on the sea preserved that second on in the
102 XX:77; XXVI:64
sea. And Allah Almighty says, "I am your Companion. I am your Savior, o My believers. Trust in Me. As much as you trust in Me, you will find it all right. I will not allow your belief to be lost. Ana 'inda dhanni 'abdi bl103. O people, you will find me to be as you think Me to be. I am that One." Therefore, “Wallahu Waliu-l-muminin."
O people, this world is approaching an end, and the Last Days have reached to our time. And we are in terrible conditions because of our actions. We have let devils establish their kingdom on earth, and they have established their kingdom between East and West. They are doing their worst for the Children of Adam, and unfortunately the Children of Adam - they are their supporters. And as the Last Prophet informed us, some terrible events will appear, will come, so that now people are complaining for nothing.
Compared to the events that will come and the terrible conditions that will fall upon mankind, we may say that we are now living in Paradise.
Yet even now people are still complaining, even in England, in Germany, in Switzerland, in France, in Italy, in Spain. I am not speaking of territories in which people are never going to be happy with their lives; I am saying that in free countries, not prison countries, people are complaining for nothing. But terrible conditions are approaching soon, the heavenly curse coming on earth because so many people are saying, "No God," because they are denying even the Lord of Heaven, saying, "Everything in the universe has come into existence by itself." O foolish one, if everyone is in existence by itself or by himself, why do you lose your existence, why do you not keep your existence?
Therefore terrible conditions must come, as holy books inform us. O believers, your Companion is your Lord. Amidst difficult conditions, amidst terrible conditions, He is your Friend, He is your Saviour, here and Hereafter. Believe in your Lord and try to be an obedient servant to Him. He is not going to lose you, here or Hereafter.
'Asr/June 14, 1985
103 I (Allah) am as My servant thinks Me to be (Hadith Qudsi)
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful., Most Beneficent and Most Munificent, the Lord of Jesus Christ, the Lord of Moses, the Lord of beloved Muhammad. peace be upon them; the Lord of the Heavens, the Lord of the worlds, the Lord of universes known and unknown. And we are His slaves, under His command. Everything is under His command and only Almighty Allah's will goes on. And we must be satisfied with His will, we must be happy with His judgments, because He knows well. He knows best and He does the best; trust and believe in Him. When you believe and trust, you are in peace and in happiness, and there are endless favors for you and endless Mercy Oceans for you.
A person is asking, saying to me that he is very interested in Islam; his heart has come very close to Islam. But he is married to a lady and she is so strong in keeping Christianity. And that person says, "O sheikh, I see that time is running quickly, and I must see about myself and must decide about myself, but I am between two contradictory sides. On the one side I want to approach Islam; my heart likes it. But I also love my wife so much, and she says to me, 'You must believe in Jesus Christ. Anyone who does not believe that Jesus Christ is his Lord and his Saviour must go to Hell.' What can I. do?" he is asking, and he is expecting an answer from our side. And we are saying:
Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim. Perhaps millions of people are interested in Islam, not only interested but their souls find satisfaction, true peace, in Islam. Even when they are just interested they feel that satisfaction in their souls. Yes, that is the important sign that everyone must know, even though there may be so many different ways, so many different religions.
The Prophet, p.b.u.h., Sayyidina Muhammad, was given great wisdoms in brief words. As he is the prophet of all nations, for all times and for all the world, his words are suitable for everyone and for every time. He knows well, or rather, he is the person who knows best about the characteristics of all mankind, particularly of his nation. Therefore, when he addressed people, his companions and all mankind up to Qiyamah, the Last Day, he saw their characteristics and gave his wisdoms. You must think about his wisdoms.
He was saying that for anyone who may be in doubt about something - he may learn something or may listen to or hear something; he may read big books, so embellished, but yet he has doubt in his heart - for such a person, the Prophet, p.b.u.h., says, "At last, o servant of your Lord, o man, you are asking something about Reality. You may read books or you may ask from
learned people, from scholars, but yet, if you are not content, you must ask your heart. Finally you must return to your heart, to your conscience. Ask it. If it agrees with that judgment that you read in books or hear from scholars, then it is correct. But if your conscience refuses it, even if all books say something and your conscience refuses, you must follow your conscience."
You must ask your conscience. That is important for those who are asking about Truth, about Absolute Reality, because this chance has been given to you only once. You will not go and come from here; when you have passed away, you will no more come to this world, to this life - finished. Don't believe in the tales that newspapers sometimes write. A person was saying that this is the second time, the third time, the fourth time, that I have come to this world. Don't believe such tales; those are drunk peoples' words. Only once you are coming here, and then you are going there and waiting. Millions and millions, they are waiting. For whom? For you. They are in cemeteries, waiting and listening for the trumpet to rise up, but that trumpet is not going to blow until all of us go there, joining them. Everyone will join cemeteries and then came into the Divine Presence of Allah Almighty.
Now, everyone, particularly in our time, is proud of his ideas and never looks at his conscience; rather peoples' egos cover their consciences. If anyone asks his conscience, he is going to find out what Absolute Truth and Reality are. But every time, when he is going to ask his conscience, ego comes, saying, "What are you doing? You must believe as I say to you." Therefore, many people, perhaps millions, hear about Islam and about its Prophet; perhaps sometimes they may be interested but yet they are in the hands of their egos.
Such a person is saying to me that my wife is threatening me, saying, "If you do not believe that Jesus Christ is the Lord and Saviour, you will go to Hell." Then, o believers, I am speaking to the one who makes such a claim about anyone who does not believe that Jesus Christ is the Lord, and I am saying: Does Jesus Christ have a Lord, or not?
If Jesus Christ did not have a Lord, it would be correct; we would have to believe as church people say. But Jesus Christ has a Lord, and his Lord is our Lord. Jesus Christ just came to make people believe in his Lord, through himself, and we believe that the Saviour is his Lord. If Jesus Christ is the Saviour, I feel ashamed to look at a person without clothes, put in front of all churches. It is even prohibited to look at that part of the body of a person; then how would the Lord make His prophet appear in front of all people
without a covering104? What mentality, what conscience, can accept such a thing? And how can he be the Saviour of others when he is like a condemned person, like a criminal, on the cross?
We do not accept that, we do not believe in that supposition, no. It is not correct because Allah Almighty, his Lord, is able to protect him as He protected every prophet. Particularly Jesus Christ; he is a miraculous being among other prophets and there is no need for the Lord Almighty to make His holy Word105, who represents Him, into a sheep, a lamb, for killing. That is something that no one can accept.
Therefore you must look for the truth, at what your conscience says to you. If you bring a little child to that cross and tell him, "Look, this is our Saviour," he will say, "But he can't save himself. Then how can he save us?" Even a small child must say this. "Who is that one whom they are calling 'Saviour'? Who put in the nails and killed him? Is that person alive? What punishment will people give to that person106? Is Jesus going to hang there, crucified, up to the Last Day? Why don't they take him down to be at rest?" Yes, even a small child may ask such questions; he is not going to believe that.
But Satan makes people be fanatical and stubborn, and if anyone is stubborn, there will be no intercession for him on the Last Day. He will be with Satan because of his stubbornness.
Allah Almighty ordered Satan to be in Hell; for a long period, 120,000 years, he has been in Hell. Then Allah Almighty orders the angels, "Bring Satan from Hell to the entrance of Paradise." They bring him to the front of Paradise and order Adam, p.b.u.h., to come near the entrance of Paradise. And Allah Almighty says to Satan, "Make sajdah to Adam and enter Paradise."
104 In other words, how is it imaginable that God Almighty, Most Just and Most Merciful, would permit His blessed and honored prophet to be hanged, naked, on a cross designed for the execution of common criminals, the most shameful, degraded situation imaginable?
105 See III:45 and IV:171
106 That is, crucifying another human being is such a heinous deed that even a child can recognize the ēnormity of it and expect the perpetrator of it to be punished severely. How then could the Merciful God permit His noble prophet to become the victim of such barbarity? Has He no power to protect the one whom He brought into the world so miraculously and appointed for such a special mission?
But Satan says, "Never! Never will I make sajdah to Adam," and he returns to Hell without making sajdah to him. That is stubbornness. Anyone who has that bad characteristic of our egos can't enter Paradise. Thus, so many people in the time of the Holy Prophet, p.b.u.h., saw his miracles, because Sayyidina Muhammad, p.b.u.h., was given every miracle that all the prophets had been given, and yet they refused to believe in him. And after his time, up to this day, Allah Almighty has been waiting for the whole Christian world and for Jewish people to look at the Seal of the Prophets, to observe his personality and to know, to search for the truth about him and to come to Islam. But still they are running away.
Up to when are they running? Up to the time when Jesus Christ comes down107' - that is the limit of the period which Christians and Jewish people have been given to look to the Last Prophet. You must investigate whether he is that one who is mentioned in your holy books or not.
Yes, anyone who may look into his conscience must accept the Last Prophet. If the other prophets are like stars, the Seal of the Prophets is the sun; how is it possible to believe in the stars and deny the sun? He is the shining sun. Yes, he has been given authority by his Lord, Almighty Allah, for his nation, his ummahn, to be up to the end of this world, and he has been given authority for his nation to finally be victorious over all other religions and their followers.
Now we are in the twentieth century's period of science, when people are proud of everything that Allah Almighty has permitted to them. As He promised to give power to mankind through the skies and the earth - yes, they are improving. And now we are living in the Last Days mentioned in the Old Testament and the New Testament; we have now reached those Last Days and people have reached the topnost point of their science and of their authority. If they are given more than this, they are going to destroy the whole world; it is only a little distance to reach that point.
And now people are asking, "What is after this. The whole of science has reached this point. We have reached this limit and after this, what is going to happen?" And they are asking for a light for the future. When they ask for that light, they must find it in someone. One by one those light-seekers are
107 A reference to the second coming of Jesus, which, according to numerous hadiths, will take place in the Last Days after the coming of the divinely-appointed leader, the Mahdı, to whom Sheikh Nazim has referred in many places as the sultan who is to come
increasing, as Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an to His Holy Prophet, beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., "I sent you, o My beloved Muhammad, that Book, and I also sent you nūr, light108."
And people may be inheritors of that Book, the Holy Qur'an, and at the same time they may be inheritors of that light. Yes, you may learn meanings of the Holy Qur'an, it is possible for anyone who is interested in the Holy Qur'an.
But the lights that Allah Almighty gave to the Prophet, p.b.u.h., to his heart - that only goes from heart to heart, not coming through the pages of a book. No, that is something that goes from heart to heart.
Prophet Muhammad, p.b.u.h., brought those lights from his Lord. The Angel Gabriel brought the verses of the Holy Qur'an from his Lord to Muhammad, p.b.u.h., but for all those lights, Allah Almighty invited His Holy Prophet, p.b.u.h., to His Divine Presence during the Night Journey, an honor which no one ever accepted except beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., and He filled his heart with those lights, with that nur.
Now people are looking and seeing darkness for tomorrow. So many lights an earth, but they look at their future and see darkness, deep darkness. And now they are beginning to ask, "What can take that darkness away? Where can we get those lights for our future?" Therefore we are happy to see people in Western countries asking for that light, that nur. And as they are asking, Allah Almighty gives. That is the victory which Allah Almighty promised for Islam.
Islam is victorious. But what about Muslims? Muslims, if they are victorious over their egos, are also going to be victors. Islam is absolute Truth, representing the lights of the Lord, Allah Almighty. The one who reaches the source of nūr, of lights, is going to be lighted here and Hereafter. We must look for those lights.
This is the holy month, Ramadan. So many lights are coming on earth. You may take from those lights. Allah Almighty has appointed people from among His sincere servants for His lights, coming through His beloved Prophet, Sayyidinā Muhammad, p.b.u.h. They are very rare but they are not finished. At every time you may find them, and you must ask for nur, as Allah Almighty commands: "Faltamisū nūra109. O people, ask for lights." And your
108 See, for example, IV:174; V:17 (v:15 in Pickthall's translation); VII:157; XXXIII:46; LXIV:8
109 Then let us have [or, let us borrow] light." (LVII:13)
conscience, when you reach the source of light, signals to you that it is right. If you find disturbance within yourself, leave him 110and look for another one.
And we are asking for forgiveness for ourselves and for others, and asking for hidayah, Allah Almighty's guidance, for all mankind. And He has promised to send a sultan, a heavenly sultan, who will also be the sultan on earth. We are asking our Lord to make his arrival happen quickly, because Allah Almighty is the Saviour and at every time He may send a saviour to save His servants. Even if Satan has established his kingdom, it is only on bātil, falsehood, and bātil is nothing. It is only imaginary, no reality, and soon it is going to vanish. And I am asking Allah Almighty to make me also in the army of that sultān when he comes, and that we may be his assistants and helpers, and to give us more lights throughout our lives, here and Hereafter.
Jum'ah/June 14, 1985
O mumins and muminahs111, o believers in Allah Almighty and in His prophets, peace be upon them, and in His holy books, all of them - we are Muslims, and we are sufficiently proud to be Muslims. Allah Almighty honored us with Islam, and He offers that honor to all mankind. They are fortunate and happy people who accept that honor and wear it and who want to be proud through Islam.
Allah Almighty sent 1214,000 prophets. From beginning up to end, all prophets called people to which thing? All of them. all the prophets, came together on one word: O people, ittaq-Allan wa 'ati'hū112. All shari’ats, holy laws, as a summary, brought to the Sons of Adam only this one word: Fear the Lord, Allah Almighty, and obey Him. That is so. None of the prophets called people to obey himself; no. It is clear: all of them called people to believe in God and to obey Him.
Lastly Islam proclaimed this, and we must listen to the last message of our Lord, Allah Almighty. The conditions of life may be different, may be changed, from one time to another, but that condition is not taken away: to be an obedient servant to Allah Almighty and to fear Him.
110 That is, the spiritual guide you are considering
111 Male and female believers
112 Fear God and obey Him
Now, o believers, we have reached the last Friday of this holy month. Once again another holy month is going. Tuba, happiness, for those people who have made Ramadan pleased with them and who have made the Lord of Ramadan pleased with them. That is happiness and that is honor. We have been honored once again by this holy month, and it is running, going, finishing.
Perhaps you are saying, "Oh, we are fasting and we are praying. It is all right. That is a reason to make our Lord pleased with us." But it. is not only that point. There is another point. You must look after that, also.
Allah Almighty looks at our intentions. "What is My servant thinking about for after Ramadan? Leaving his horse to go everywhere, to look at everything, to eat everything, to do everything? What about My servant after 'Eid? What does he intend to do?" That point makes trouble.
Therefore, o believers, we believe in Allah Almighty and we believe in our responsibility for the Last Day, and we believe that we will be aske
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ord of the Heavens but he said, "I am the Lord on earth, and I am the greatest because the whole earth is under my feet. His throne is in Heaven but I am here98.
For this reason he was astonished when Moses said to him, "You must believe in your Lord," and he asked, "Who is my Lord? I see my Lord in my self99.". He meant to say, "My ego is my Lord, not anyone else." But modern Pharaohs say, "No Lord on earth or in Heaven," astaghfirullah, astāghfirullah! "No God," they say. "The universe came into being by itself." No-mind people! If you asked people in a mental hospital, they would find fault with those people. "How are you keeping those crazy people outside who say, 'No God of the universe'? Why are you imprisoning us in a mental hospital when there are so many crazy people outside?" Yes, they would blame those people, those Pharaohs, those Nimrods, who say, "No God of the universe." They say that the whole universe exists by itself and yet they claim that they are scholars or people who know science! But Allah Almighty
97 According to Islamic tradition, God spoke directly to Moses, p.b.u.h., without the agency of the Angel Gabriel. See IV:164
98 See XXVIII:38; XL:36-37; XLIII:51
99 See XX:49; XXVI:23–29; LXXIX:23-24
is going to punish them, and then at the end of their lives they are going to shout, to cry, saying, "Allah! O my God!" O my God! - where was your God throughout your life? Now - "O my God, save me from this!" everyone must say,
When that Pharaoh made his nation, also, slaves, the Children of Israel were enslaved more than anyone else. Then Allah Almighty said to Moses, "Take them out of Egypt. I am with you, your Companion100. "O Allah Almighty promised the believers to be Saviour for them and Protector and Friend and Companion and Helper and Supporter - to be everything.
Believe in God; believe in your Lord Almighty. Then you will find every narrow path becoming wider, so that the one who believes in his Lord will find a sirāt, a path, in the next world101; on the Last Day he will go on it. It is as narrow as a wire is narrow, but believers will find it so wide, while unbelievers will find it like the edge of a sword.
Then Allah Almighty commanded Moses, saying, "Take the Children of Israel with you out of Egypt and walk on your path as I am commanding you." And all the people went after Moses; he was in front and the people were marching after him.
They reached the beach of the Red Sea. Then, when they approached it, Allah Almighty's divine wisdom made that Red Sea form into huge waves. You have heard about that huge tidal wave rushing on Bangla Desh? More than tidal waves that Red Sea was with the anger of the Lord, too strongly attacking; all the Children of Israel were trembling. You must believe in your Lord, Almighty Allah!
"Where have you been ordered to go, O Moses?" the Children of Israel asked.
"In this direction," he said.
They looked and trembled from that Red Sea, its huge waves attacking, And then they looked behind them and there was Pharaoh approaching, coming like this.
100 See XX:46–47; XXVI:53; XLIV:23
101 This refers to the heavenly Bridge which every human being must cross on the Day of Judgment. For the righteous it will be wide and spacious, easily crossed and leading to Paradise, while for sinners it will be as narrow as a hair, leading to Hell
Then when they reached the beach of the Red Sea, a horseman came to Moses and said, "O Prophet of the Lord, O Moses, in which direction have you been ordered to go?"
"In this direction," he said.
Then that horseman spurred his horse and, jumping on the waves, he passed over them as if he had been walking on the street, all the people look ing on. There was belief, true faith, with that person. The command of the Lord must be obeyed; you must obey it. Don't be worried. Allah is your companion. "I am with you," He says. Spurring his horse and jumping on the waves; the waves were so terrible that you couldn't bear to look, but that horseman jumped and ran on the waves, reaching the other side.
Another horseman came after that one, asking, "In which direction have you been ordered to go, o Prophet of the Lord, O Moses?"
Moses, pointing with his stick, said, "In that direction." And that horseman also made his horse jump on the sea, on the waves. But then he disappeared.
The Children of Israel were looking on. Then they cried, they shouted, all of them. But Allah Almighty Waliu-l-muminin, He is the Savior of the believers. He was looking at what they were going to do, to say. And Pharaoh was approaching now, no more distance. Moses was awaiting the command, the holy command, of his Lord.
If you believe in God Almighty you can make people believe in Him, but if you do not believe, you can't make others believe. Prophets have perfect belief in their Lord so that they are able to give from their belief. And no one's belief can be like beloved Muhammad's belief, p.b.u.h., because he gives from his belief for eternity. If mankind goes on up to eternity, the Prophet's belief is an ocean; he may give, never getting finished. Yes.
Therefore we must believe in prophets and in the Seal of the Prophets; we must believe. And it is part of the Shahadah, the Declaration of Faith; without proclaiming your witness to "Muhammadu Rasul-Allah, Muhammad is the Messenger of God," it is incomplete. Whoever addresses people must believe in what he is saying; then he may make people believe. Therefore a munāfiq, a hypocrite, can't give anything. Perhaps his illness may spread to others.
Prophet Moses, p.b.u.h., believed in his Lord, Almighty Allah. Then, when those two persons asked and he told them that we have been ordered to pass through that direction, nothing could be a hindrance in front of them because the will of their Lord took every hindrance from their way; yes.
Prophet Moses saw when the heavenly doors opened (you may see with your eyes but prophets' eyes are something else, not like our eyes). He saw when that order came and that door opened for them to pass through.
Because everything waits for its appointed time, yes? Before that it is not going to happen, and it is not going to be delayed after that. Everything must be in its appointed time, too punctual. In Allah Almighty's Divine Presence everything is punctual, most perfectly punctual.
Now Pharaoh was coming with his soldiers on horses. The Children of Israel were waiting. When faith has settled in your heart, no more troubles ; troubles have finished. Moses was waiting for the divine command. And then those two horsemen passed over. One passed as if he was riding on the street, American asphalt. Mashā'Allāh, that person had strong faith in his Lord, Al mighty Allah.
Another time there also happened what happened to the companion of Moses, that horseman. That was in the time of the Sahabah, the Prophetis Companions. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqās, may Allah bless him, a great soldier, reach ed the Tigris River in Baghdad with the Muslim army, running after the Magian people in Iran. It was the season after winter when too much water was running. Sa'd, may Allah bless him, was the commander of that army.
When he stood at the beach of the Tigris, he addressed it, saying, "O Tigris! This is the army of Caliph 'Umar, whose justice goes around the whole world. Even wolves cannot attack sheep due to his justice. This is the army under his name, going to fight the Magians, unbelievers. Let it pass through on you." Then saying, "Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim, Allahu akbar!" he went across on his horse, never getting wet, and the whole army passed through the river. Every miracle that has been given to all the prophets has been given to our Prophet, p.b.u.h., and to his nation, to his followers, alhamdulillan.
Then Allah Almighty commanded, "O Moses, strike Thy stick on those waves, on the sea102”. And then that huge sea became twelve paths. When it was opened, they saw that second fellow on his horse, standing there: the One who preserved the first one on the sea preserved that second on in the
102 XX:77; XXVI:64
sea. And Allah Almighty says, "I am your Companion. I am your Savior, o My believers. Trust in Me. As much as you trust in Me, you will find it all right. I will not allow your belief to be lost. Ana 'inda dhanni 'abdi bl103. O people, you will find me to be as you think Me to be. I am that One." Therefore, “Wallahu Waliu-l-muminin."
O people, this world is approaching an end, and the Last Days have reached to our time. And we are in terrible conditions because of our actions. We have let devils establish their kingdom on earth, and they have established their kingdom between East and West. They are doing their worst for the Children of Adam, and unfortunately the Children of Adam - they are their supporters. And as the Last Prophet informed us, some terrible events will appear, will come, so that now people are complaining for nothing.
Compared to the events that will come and the terrible conditions that will fall upon mankind, we may say that we are now living in Paradise.
Yet even now people are still complaining, even in England, in Germany, in Switzerland, in France, in Italy, in Spain. I am not speaking of territories in which people are never going to be happy with their lives; I am saying that in free countries, not prison countries, people are complaining for nothing. But terrible conditions are approaching soon, the heavenly curse coming on earth because so many people are saying, "No God," because they are denying even the Lord of Heaven, saying, "Everything in the universe has come into existence by itself." O foolish one, if everyone is in existence by itself or by himself, why do you lose your existence, why do you not keep your existence?
Therefore terrible conditions must come, as holy books inform us. O believers, your Companion is your Lord. Amidst difficult conditions, amidst terrible conditions, He is your Friend, He is your Saviour, here and Hereafter. Believe in your Lord and try to be an obedient servant to Him. He is not going to lose you, here or Hereafter.
'Asr/June 14, 1985
103 I (Allah) am as My servant thinks Me to be (Hadith Qudsi)
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful., Most Beneficent and Most Munificent, the Lord of Jesus Christ, the Lord of Moses, the Lord of beloved Muhammad. peace be upon them; the Lord of the Heavens, the Lord of the worlds, the Lord of universes known and unknown. And we are His slaves, under His command. Everything is under His command and only Almighty Allah's will goes on. And we must be satisfied with His will, we must be happy with His judgments, because He knows well. He knows best and He does the best; trust and believe in Him. When you believe and trust, you are in peace and in happiness, and there are endless favors for you and endless Mercy Oceans for you.
A person is asking, saying to me that he is very interested in Islam; his heart has come very close to Islam. But he is married to a lady and she is so strong in keeping Christianity. And that person says, "O sheikh, I see that time is running quickly, and I must see about myself and must decide about myself, but I am between two contradictory sides. On the one side I want to approach Islam; my heart likes it. But I also love my wife so much, and she says to me, 'You must believe in Jesus Christ. Anyone who does not believe that Jesus Christ is his Lord and his Saviour must go to Hell.' What can I. do?" he is asking, and he is expecting an answer from our side. And we are saying:
Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim. Perhaps millions of people are interested in Islam, not only interested but their souls find satisfaction, true peace, in Islam. Even when they are just interested they feel that satisfaction in their souls. Yes, that is the important sign that everyone must know, even though there may be so many different ways, so many different religions.
The Prophet, p.b.u.h., Sayyidina Muhammad, was given great wisdoms in brief words. As he is the prophet of all nations, for all times and for all the world, his words are suitable for everyone and for every time. He knows well, or rather, he is the person who knows best about the characteristics of all mankind, particularly of his nation. Therefore, when he addressed people, his companions and all mankind up to Qiyamah, the Last Day, he saw their characteristics and gave his wisdoms. You must think about his wisdoms.
He was saying that for anyone who may be in doubt about something - he may learn something or may listen to or hear something; he may read big books, so embellished, but yet he has doubt in his heart - for such a person, the Prophet, p.b.u.h., says, "At last, o servant of your Lord, o man, you are asking something about Reality. You may read books or you may ask from
learned people, from scholars, but yet, if you are not content, you must ask your heart. Finally you must return to your heart, to your conscience. Ask it. If it agrees with that judgment that you read in books or hear from scholars, then it is correct. But if your conscience refuses it, even if all books say something and your conscience refuses, you must follow your conscience."
You must ask your conscience. That is important for those who are asking about Truth, about Absolute Reality, because this chance has been given to you only once. You will not go and come from here; when you have passed away, you will no more come to this world, to this life - finished. Don't believe in the tales that newspapers sometimes write. A person was saying that this is the second time, the third time, the fourth time, that I have come to this world. Don't believe such tales; those are drunk peoples' words. Only once you are coming here, and then you are going there and waiting. Millions and millions, they are waiting. For whom? For you. They are in cemeteries, waiting and listening for the trumpet to rise up, but that trumpet is not going to blow until all of us go there, joining them. Everyone will join cemeteries and then came into the Divine Presence of Allah Almighty.
Now, everyone, particularly in our time, is proud of his ideas and never looks at his conscience; rather peoples' egos cover their consciences. If anyone asks his conscience, he is going to find out what Absolute Truth and Reality are. But every time, when he is going to ask his conscience, ego comes, saying, "What are you doing? You must believe as I say to you." Therefore, many people, perhaps millions, hear about Islam and about its Prophet; perhaps sometimes they may be interested but yet they are in the hands of their egos.
Such a person is saying to me that my wife is threatening me, saying, "If you do not believe that Jesus Christ is the Lord and Saviour, you will go to Hell." Then, o believers, I am speaking to the one who makes such a claim about anyone who does not believe that Jesus Christ is the Lord, and I am saying: Does Jesus Christ have a Lord, or not?
If Jesus Christ did not have a Lord, it would be correct; we would have to believe as church people say. But Jesus Christ has a Lord, and his Lord is our Lord. Jesus Christ just came to make people believe in his Lord, through himself, and we believe that the Saviour is his Lord. If Jesus Christ is the Saviour, I feel ashamed to look at a person without clothes, put in front of all churches. It is even prohibited to look at that part of the body of a person; then how would the Lord make His prophet appear in front of all people
without a covering104? What mentality, what conscience, can accept such a thing? And how can he be the Saviour of others when he is like a condemned person, like a criminal, on the cross?
We do not accept that, we do not believe in that supposition, no. It is not correct because Allah Almighty, his Lord, is able to protect him as He protected every prophet. Particularly Jesus Christ; he is a miraculous being among other prophets and there is no need for the Lord Almighty to make His holy Word105, who represents Him, into a sheep, a lamb, for killing. That is something that no one can accept.
Therefore you must look for the truth, at what your conscience says to you. If you bring a little child to that cross and tell him, "Look, this is our Saviour," he will say, "But he can't save himself. Then how can he save us?" Even a small child must say this. "Who is that one whom they are calling 'Saviour'? Who put in the nails and killed him? Is that person alive? What punishment will people give to that person106? Is Jesus going to hang there, crucified, up to the Last Day? Why don't they take him down to be at rest?" Yes, even a small child may ask such questions; he is not going to believe that.
But Satan makes people be fanatical and stubborn, and if anyone is stubborn, there will be no intercession for him on the Last Day. He will be with Satan because of his stubbornness.
Allah Almighty ordered Satan to be in Hell; for a long period, 120,000 years, he has been in Hell. Then Allah Almighty orders the angels, "Bring Satan from Hell to the entrance of Paradise." They bring him to the front of Paradise and order Adam, p.b.u.h., to come near the entrance of Paradise. And Allah Almighty says to Satan, "Make sajdah to Adam and enter Paradise."
104 In other words, how is it imaginable that God Almighty, Most Just and Most Merciful, would permit His blessed and honored prophet to be hanged, naked, on a cross designed for the execution of common criminals, the most shameful, degraded situation imaginable?
105 See III:45 and IV:171
106 That is, crucifying another human being is such a heinous deed that even a child can recognize the ēnormity of it and expect the perpetrator of it to be punished severely. How then could the Merciful God permit His noble prophet to become the victim of such barbarity? Has He no power to protect the one whom He brought into the world so miraculously and appointed for such a special mission?
But Satan says, "Never! Never will I make sajdah to Adam," and he returns to Hell without making sajdah to him. That is stubbornness. Anyone who has that bad characteristic of our egos can't enter Paradise. Thus, so many people in the time of the Holy Prophet, p.b.u.h., saw his miracles, because Sayyidina Muhammad, p.b.u.h., was given every miracle that all the prophets had been given, and yet they refused to believe in him. And after his time, up to this day, Allah Almighty has been waiting for the whole Christian world and for Jewish people to look at the Seal of the Prophets, to observe his personality and to know, to search for the truth about him and to come to Islam. But still they are running away.
Up to when are they running? Up to the time when Jesus Christ comes down107' - that is the limit of the period which Christians and Jewish people have been given to look to the Last Prophet. You must investigate whether he is that one who is mentioned in your holy books or not.
Yes, anyone who may look into his conscience must accept the Last Prophet. If the other prophets are like stars, the Seal of the Prophets is the sun; how is it possible to believe in the stars and deny the sun? He is the shining sun. Yes, he has been given authority by his Lord, Almighty Allah, for his nation, his ummahn, to be up to the end of this world, and he has been given authority for his nation to finally be victorious over all other religions and their followers.
Now we are in the twentieth century's period of science, when people are proud of everything that Allah Almighty has permitted to them. As He promised to give power to mankind through the skies and the earth - yes, they are improving. And now we are living in the Last Days mentioned in the Old Testament and the New Testament; we have now reached those Last Days and people have reached the topnost point of their science and of their authority. If they are given more than this, they are going to destroy the whole world; it is only a little distance to reach that point.
And now people are asking, "What is after this. The whole of science has reached this point. We have reached this limit and after this, what is going to happen?" And they are asking for a light for the future. When they ask for that light, they must find it in someone. One by one those light-seekers are
107 A reference to the second coming of Jesus, which, according to numerous hadiths, will take place in the Last Days after the coming of the divinely-appointed leader, the Mahdı, to whom Sheikh Nazim has referred in many places as the sultan who is to come
increasing, as Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an to His Holy Prophet, beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., "I sent you, o My beloved Muhammad, that Book, and I also sent you nūr, light108."
And people may be inheritors of that Book, the Holy Qur'an, and at the same time they may be inheritors of that light. Yes, you may learn meanings of the Holy Qur'an, it is possible for anyone who is interested in the Holy Qur'an.
But the lights that Allah Almighty gave to the Prophet, p.b.u.h., to his heart - that only goes from heart to heart, not coming through the pages of a book. No, that is something that goes from heart to heart.
Prophet Muhammad, p.b.u.h., brought those lights from his Lord. The Angel Gabriel brought the verses of the Holy Qur'an from his Lord to Muhammad, p.b.u.h., but for all those lights, Allah Almighty invited His Holy Prophet, p.b.u.h., to His Divine Presence during the Night Journey, an honor which no one ever accepted except beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., and He filled his heart with those lights, with that nur.
Now people are looking and seeing darkness for tomorrow. So many lights an earth, but they look at their future and see darkness, deep darkness. And now they are beginning to ask, "What can take that darkness away? Where can we get those lights for our future?" Therefore we are happy to see people in Western countries asking for that light, that nur. And as they are asking, Allah Almighty gives. That is the victory which Allah Almighty promised for Islam.
Islam is victorious. But what about Muslims? Muslims, if they are victorious over their egos, are also going to be victors. Islam is absolute Truth, representing the lights of the Lord, Allah Almighty. The one who reaches the source of nūr, of lights, is going to be lighted here and Hereafter. We must look for those lights.
This is the holy month, Ramadan. So many lights are coming on earth. You may take from those lights. Allah Almighty has appointed people from among His sincere servants for His lights, coming through His beloved Prophet, Sayyidinā Muhammad, p.b.u.h. They are very rare but they are not finished. At every time you may find them, and you must ask for nur, as Allah Almighty commands: "Faltamisū nūra109. O people, ask for lights." And your
108 See, for example, IV:174; V:17 (v:15 in Pickthall's translation); VII:157; XXXIII:46; LXIV:8
109 Then let us have [or, let us borrow] light." (LVII:13)
conscience, when you reach the source of light, signals to you that it is right. If you find disturbance within yourself, leave him 110and look for another one.
And we are asking for forgiveness for ourselves and for others, and asking for hidayah, Allah Almighty's guidance, for all mankind. And He has promised to send a sultan, a heavenly sultan, who will also be the sultan on earth. We are asking our Lord to make his arrival happen quickly, because Allah Almighty is the Saviour and at every time He may send a saviour to save His servants. Even if Satan has established his kingdom, it is only on bātil, falsehood, and bātil is nothing. It is only imaginary, no reality, and soon it is going to vanish. And I am asking Allah Almighty to make me also in the army of that sultān when he comes, and that we may be his assistants and helpers, and to give us more lights throughout our lives, here and Hereafter.
Jum'ah/June 14, 1985
O mumins and muminahs111, o believers in Allah Almighty and in His prophets, peace be upon them, and in His holy books, all of them - we are Muslims, and we are sufficiently proud to be Muslims. Allah Almighty honored us with Islam, and He offers that honor to all mankind. They are fortunate and happy people who accept that honor and wear it and who want to be proud through Islam.
Allah Almighty sent 1214,000 prophets. From beginning up to end, all prophets called people to which thing? All of them. all the prophets, came together on one word: O people, ittaq-Allan wa 'ati'hū112. All shari’ats, holy laws, as a summary, brought to the Sons of Adam only this one word: Fear the Lord, Allah Almighty, and obey Him. That is so. None of the prophets called people to obey himself; no. It is clear: all of them called people to believe in God and to obey Him.
Lastly Islam proclaimed this, and we must listen to the last message of our Lord, Allah Almighty. The conditions of life may be different, may be changed, from one time to another, but that condition is not taken away: to be an obedient servant to Allah Almighty and to fear Him.
110 That is, the spiritual guide you are considering
111 Male and female believers
112 Fear God and obey Him
Now, o believers, we have reached the last Friday of this holy month. Once again another holy month is going. Tuba, happiness, for those people who have made Ramadan pleased with them and who have made the Lord of Ramadan pleased with them. That is happiness and that is honor. We have been honored once again by this holy month, and it is running, going, finishing.
Perhaps you are saying, "Oh, we are fasting and we are praying. It is all right. That is a reason to make our Lord pleased with us." But it. is not only that point. There is another point. You must look after that, also.
Allah Almighty looks at our intentions. "What is My servant thinking about for after Ramadan? Leaving his horse to go everywhere, to look at everything, to eat everything, to do everything? What about My servant after 'Eid? What does he intend to do?" That point makes trouble.
Therefore, o believers, we believe in Allah Almighty and we believe in our responsibility for the Last Day, and we believe that we will be aske
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