Mercy Oceans, Book 12 (192 pages, 2/15)
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herefore we have been ordered to take away that huge veil and hindrance. If you can't take it away, you can't reach the reality of the real knowledge about yourself that makes a way for you to reach the Divine Presence and divine knowledge.
The first man and first prophet, Adam, p.b.u.h., was with his Lord, Allah Almighty; he was in Paradise, he was with his Lord, seeing and hearing. But when his ego made a trap for him, then a huge barrier, a huge veil, came between his Lord and himself, making him come down. And that huge veil comes among his children; as long as they live on earth, that veil is between themselves and their Lord. And he was told that if you can take it away, the barrier of your ego, quickly you may be with your Lord, as before.
Our Lord is with us but we do not feel that; we think that the Lord is on His Throne, too far away, or that our Lord will be with us on the Last Day. No
6 The first surah, al-Fatehah, "the Opening," consists of seven short verses which are always recited in the Islamic prayers (salat, namaz)
one thinks or feels that our Lord is with ourselves and that without our Lord we can't be in existence for even a moment or a second, or less than a second; you can't be in existence if our Lord is not with you. All things stand in existence by their Lord; if He is not there, nothing will be in existence. But we are heedless. We do not consider or think that Allah Almighty is with ourselves; we make Him far away.
That is ego, coming and making a huge veil. You can't observe it, you can't think about it. Therefore, from the beginning, from the time of Adam, we have been ordered to take away that veil and to be with our Lord, Allah Almighty. We have been ordered to cut away that veil, and all worshipping and all shari'ahs7 are for taking away our ego and its veils.
The most effective action for taking away that veil is fasting. Therefore Allah Almighty ordered every nation, through every prophet, to fast; and we are fasting for that purpose: to take away our ego's veil and to be with our Lord.
When Allah Almighty spoke to Moses, p.b.u.h., on Sinai, between Moses and his Lord there were 70,000 veils. And Allah Almighty ordered the nation of Muhammad, p.b.u.h., to fast, and He says that when the time of breaking fast8 comes, I am leaving only one veil between Myself and My fasting servant. If we could cut that veil, we would be with our Lord, Allah Almighty; we would be in Unity Oceans, and you can't come back from that Ocean.
Therefore Allah Almighty is keeping that one veil between you and Himself until we finish our period in this life. Otherwise anyone who reaches the time of breaking fast would be taken away and disappear; he would be with his Lord at break-fast in the Divine Presence.
7 The divinely-revealed law coming through such prophets as Adam, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them all
8 In Islamic fasting, whether the obligatory fasting of Ramadan or voluntary fasting at any other time, the period of fasting is from dawn to sunset. The fast must be broken at sunset food or drink (iftar), followed by the sunset (Maghrib) prayer. Fasting is resumed again the following morning just before dawn, after a pre-dawn meal (suhur)
We are thanking our Lord that He gave us such a powerful means for coming closer to His Divine Presence, and we hope that one day, when our lives are ended, we will be in His Divine Presence and that He will grant us to be in His Divine Presence forever. And therefore we must try to take away that veil between ourselves and our Lord, Allah Almighty.
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent. O our Lord, we are nothing, or trying to be nothing. You are in existence, and for the sake of Your Holy Prophet, beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., we are in existence. All glory and praise and thanks to You, o our Lord. Grant us those things that we are in need of. We are intending to be obedient servants and we are asking Your divine help.
We are sitting here to learn how we can be obedient servants. That is important for our lives because we have been invited to the Divine Presence. The Last Day will come and everyone must die, and then Allah Almighty will bring them to life in His Divine Presence. Everyone must believe that there is a Gathering Day and that, as he came to this life and knew nothing, the one who sent him to this life will also bring him to the next life in His Divine Presence.
We are intending to be obedient servants to our Lord, Allah Almighty. The way that reaches that station of being obedient servants to our Lord passes through believing in His beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., and our faith also lies in believing in beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h. And for everyone, belief in beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., must be through knowing him and recognizing him and loving him.
Allah Almighty sent every prophet among his own nation, and He made each one to be the most noble person among his nation. Every prophet was a perfect one in his physical body and a perfect one in his mind; they were
perfect-looking, also, because Allah Almighty made them in perfection outwardly and inwardly, since those people who are calling to Allah Almighty must be in perfection. It is not divine wisdom to send to people a person in whom, if they look at him, they see anything that makes them dislike him.
Therefore they were perfect outwardly and in their souls; their appearance and their physical bodies were perfect, and their characteristics were also perfect..
And the Last Prophet, also, our Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad, p.b.u.h., was in perfection outwardly; if anyone looked at him, he was carried away. And Allah Almighty also gave him such characteristics that Muhammad, p.b.u.h., was unique among all prophets, among all creatures. No one can reach our Prophet's perfection in his physical body or in his characteristics.
Allah Almighty praises him for having the best characteristics. Allah gave to hin from His attributes, and our Prophet is the most perfect one among prophets, among all people, with every perfection that a person may have. Therefore knowledge about the Holy Prophet, p.b.u.h., must be learned by everyone. As much as we can learn about beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., our hearts will run toward him with love.
Firstly, Allah Almighty gave him the most beautiful names. Muhammad, p.b.u.h., means "the Praised One," here and Hereafter; on earth and in the Heavens he has been praised. And then Allah Almighty gave him the best of every good characteristic. All prophets have the characteristic of being truthful; they never told lies. And our Prophet, up to time when prophethood came to him, was known as the truest one among his tribe, among his nation, and he was called "Muhammad al-Amin9”, the was, throughout his life, the truest one.
9 Muhammad the Trustworthy," the title given to Muhammad, p.b.u.h., by his people long before his call to prophethood, due to his extraordinarily upright and truthful nature, which was well-known to all
He was the prophet before creation appeared; no creation had yet appeared when his name was written as prophet in the Divine Presence. La ilaha illa- Llah, Muhammadu-r-rasul-Allah," there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His messenger, was written on the Divine Throne; the first writing was "La ilaha illa-Llah, Muhammadu-r-rasul-Allah." That writing, "La ilaha illa-Llan," is never found without "Muhammadu-r-rasul-Allah," p.b.u.h. No one knows at which time "La ilaha illa-Llah" was written; in pre-eternity it was written, although no one can know when, and after it was written "Muhammadu-r- rasul-Allah," p.b.u.h.
He was the first among creatures, he was the first among prophets, and his nation, also, was created first; but Allah Almighty sent him after all the other prophets, as when there is an invitation and the king is invited to that feast. The king does not come first but comes last, yes? Therefore the Seal of the Prophets was the first among creation but he was the last of the prophets to come to this world.
And when he came, for forty years he never said or proclaimed anything about his prophethood. Then, when he reached forty years, Allah Almighty sent the Angel Gabriel and ordered Muhammad, p.b.u.h., to proclaim that he is a prophet, the Last Prophet, the prophet for everyone on earth, here and Hereafter. And people around him were surprised. They said, "How can he say this? He never told a lie throughout his life but now he is saying something that we can't accept. We worship idols; so many idols we pray to, and now he is saying that all your idols are batil, false, that you must leave them and you must worship the Lord of the Heavens, the Lord of the Worlds, the Lord of the Children of Adam." They were so surprised, saying, "How is that one calling us to something that we have never even heard about, while he has never told a lie? What shall we do?"
But he was truthful, the truest one who ever lived on earth, and invitation was correct, because he was inviting all people to the Divine Presence and
he was coming to bring people to his way; and whoever comes on his way is going to be beloved by his Lord, Almighty Allah. Therefore, he was calling to a way; the one who may be on it can be a saint, a wali, a beloved one to his Lord, Allah Almighty
And his Message is continuing up to today, his invitation is continuing throughout East and West. He is calling people to their Lord, to Allah Almighty. He is not calling people to worship himself or to be servants to him, but he is calling people and saying, "O people, I am a servant of your Lord.
Your Lord is my Lord. All of you, you must come and must be obedient servants and worshippers of your Lord. He gave to me from His divine love, and I represent divine love. Nothing is more precious in the Divine Presence than divine love, and I am coming to give you what my Lord gave to me from His divine love. I am coming, o people, o my Lord's servants, and asking to make you sharers in that love; I am bringing love to humanity. My Lord gave it to me. For that reason I am 'beloved Muhammad'," he says, "and I have brought you divine love. Come and take. I am giving."
Anything better than this? Who can consider anything to be more precious or more valuable than this? And in the Divine Presence there are endless Love Oceans; that love makes you "high." Yes, that is also the meaning of making you high; "high" is also to live our life with love, in divine love.
Therefore the Last Prophet, the Seal of the Prophets, just brought to the world divine love. We can't carry it by ourselves. The love of the Lord, Allah Almighty, comes to the Prophet's heart and then through the Prophet's heart it goes through awliyas' hearts, and awliyas' hearts are sources of divine love. Anyone who finds our Lord's awliya and goes to their hearts, takes his share of divine love.
You must know about the Last Prophet. We just gave a very short description of him, but it may be enough for anyone to know about beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h.; when you think about his name, it is enough for you to
know him and to love him, also. Allah Almighty loves him and gives to him, and he is calling us to his way.
And Allah Almighty gave him five hundred commands. Anyone may be able to practice all of them or some of them, and the divine wisdom in giving those five hundred commands is that for each one which we are practicing, we are taking more share from divine Love Oceans.
All of them are acts of worship or of charity. Worshipping is for your Lord and charity is for His servants and the creatures of your Lord, Allah Almighty, and both of them make Him pleased with you: every worship makes your Lord pleased with you, and every charity that you do for His creatures and for His servants also makes Him pleased with you. And if Allah Almighty is pleased with you, then He grants to you more love from His divine Love Oceans.
That is the message of the Last Prophet; that is the way of beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., showing us how to reach to that, so that we may have more share of Love Oceans, divine Love Oceans.
Then Allah Almighty, through His Prophet, also prohibits certain actions, the actions of devils. Evils are the actions of devils, and He prevents and prohibits His servants from those, saying, "Don't do this, don't do that." And as long as you are saying, "O our Lord, for Your sake I am leaving this bad action or this bad characteristic of my ego," then everything that you are leaving for the sake of the Lord, Allah Almighty, makes Him pleased with you, and you will come spiritually closer to Allah Almighty and He will give you more love, more share of divine Love Oceans.
Love carries you to the endless Beauty Oceans of the Lord, Almighty Allah, and to Perfection Oceans, the absolute perfection of Allah Almighty, carrying you to that Ocean, also.
Now, during this holy month we are practicing fasting. That fasting helps us to keep orders and to leave evils and devils. Therefore it is a lovely practice
to Allah Almighty because it makes servants to be closer to their Lord, and during this month it always rains on people, on His servants, from Love Oceans.
Try to take more share during this holy month from Love Oceans. Allah Almighty gives to his servants from His divine love. Why are you not asking? You must ask, ask and take, and you will be happy.
The one who is given from divine love, he does not die10. Animals die because animals do not carry that love. Once a sheikh died, but it was not like common peoples' dying. He died, and his murid, disciple, buried him. We put our dead bodies facing Makkah, and that murid was trying to turn his sheikh's face to qiblah11 in his grave, uncovering his face. Then his sheikh spoke: "O my son, He has turned our face to Himself. Our face was not turned toward anyone else during this life; only at one Face it was looking, not at many faces - no. At His Face, only at His Divine Face," he said.
And the murid was too frightened. "O my master, are you alive? How am I burying you? I thought you had died!"
"No," his sheikh said. "Look! You are speaking with your breath but I am speaking without breathing; with my soul I am speaking. I am dead from your life but I have real life. The lovers of their Lord, they do not die. Leave me; cover my grave and go out, quickly. I am going."
That is the lovers' condition. They are in the paradise of love here, in their graves, and also in the Hereafter. If no love, there is no meaning for
10 That is, his body dies but does not decay, and his soul is alive in another life, hearing, seeing, feeling and knowing
11 The direction of the Holy K'aba in Makkah, the sacred House of God which Muslims face during their worship as the focal point of this physical world, a material symbol of their Lord´s presence. At death a Muslim is laid to rest in the grave with his or her face tumed toward the qiblah.
Paradise. May Allah Almighty give you from His endless Love Oceans, and bless you and forgive us.
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent, the Lord of Abraham, the Lord of Moses, the Lord of Jesus Christ, the Lord of beloved Muhammad, peace be upon him and upon them.
We are asking Allah Almighty's blessings during this holy month, and asking also that His blessings continue forever for ourselves and for every one of the Children of Adam, and that He keeps us from misguidance and misguided people, because man during this life may be guided or may be misguided. Those who are misguided, their ways are going to Hell here and Hereafter, and the ones who have been guided, their way is going to Paradise here and Hereafter. Therefore we are in need of praying to our Lord and asking Him for guidance in our lives; and, as His servants ask, He gives guidance.
That is an important thing for our lives, to ask for guidance from our Lord, Allah Almighty. People are between haqq and batil, truth and falsehood, and everyone must learn and must know what is truth and falsehood. We are in need to follow truth during our lives because it gives us honor and peace here and Hereafter, while falsehood grows from misguidance and makes troubles, giving sufferings to people here and Hereafter.
Our Grandsheikh, may Allah bless him, was saying, "When a person accepts truth, when he proclaims truth first by his tongue, then that truth must come to his heart." He proclaims it with his tongue and he believes it in his heart, confirming or acknowledging it. First we proclaim truth, and then it is going to be in our hearts.
What is going to happen when truth is in someone's heart? What is the sign that a person has truth and that he has accepted truth in his heart? There must be a sign.
Allah Almighty says in His Glorious Qur'an, "Wa qul, Ja'a-l-haag wa zahaqa- l-bātil"12 - when truth comes, falsehood goes away; truth defeats falsehood. Therefore, when we proclaim truth with our tongues, it prevents our tongues from uttering any falsehood; then, more than that, when our hearts accept truth and truth is in our hearts, it also takes away every falsehood from our hearts.
The first thing, when truth comes into our hearts, is that it takes away every bad thought and bad intention and bad characteristic. In our books that have come through traditions from every prophet up to the Seal of the Prophets, beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., it is stated that there are so many bad characteristics in our hearts, in number sixty false and bad characteristics within our hearts. When truth comes, it takes those away, defeating them.
The first and most dangerous falsehood is kufr, to deny the existence of the Lord, Almighty Allah. When truth comes, a person must believe in the existence of the Lord, Almighty Allah; he must say that there is a Creator who created all the worlds, who created the universe, who created the Heavens, who created Paradise and Hell. Truth makes him proclaim and believe that there is one Lord, creating, giving life, and taking life away. That is the first and most important thing when truth enters into our hearts: to proclaim the existence of the Lord, Almighty Allah.
Then, we proclaim that the Lord, Almighty Allah, has eternal life from pre- eternity up to post-eternity, and we proclaim the truth that there is an eternal life for the Children of Adam; for believers and for unbelievers, also, because those who do not believe in eternal life are not going to die and finish, no.
They also have eternal life, and truth in our hearts makes us believe in that
12 And say, (O Muhammad), Truth has come and falsehood has perished." (XVII:81)
eternal life. No need to believe in this life because we are living in it; but, when we are believers, we believe in unseen things, and the way to our Lord passes through unseen territories. We believe in the life unseen. If you want to see, you must first believe in the Unseen; then you may see it, you may reach that point. Therefore we believe in unseen worlds and Heavens, and we believe in the eternal life.
That is the result of accepting truth, taking away, one after the other, the bad characteristics from our hearts. When truth comes, falsehood must go away. Every bad characteristic belongs to falsehood, and if real truth comes and enters into your heart, it must take that away. And one of the biggest falsehoods and worst characteristics of the Children of Adam is that they like this life. The love of dunya, the love of this life - that is the biggest sin, which is the source of evils.
As long as people love this dunya, this life, troubles will never go away; every day they will fall down more and more, sinking into sufferings.
Therefore, if truth comes to your heart, it takes away the love of dunya and changes that love into the love of your Lord, the love of Allah Almighty. That is the sign that you love your Lord, Almighty Allah, defeating in your heart the love of this world, the love of this life, because if we give our love to a temporary thing and it goes, our love finishes. But that love is something given to us to put in a suitable place.
Once the Angel Gabriel came to Prophet Muhammad, p.b.u.h., and said to him, "O Muhammad, you may put your love with anyone whom you may select; as you like, you may put your love with that thing. But you must know that everything that you love in this world is going to leave you." If you put your love with your family, with your wife, with your children, with your business, with your car, with your castle, with your ranks - anything or anyone you may put your love with, you must know that it will go away and
leave you, and your love will go with it and finish, so that it is falsehood to put our love there because Allah Almighty gives us that love and it is divine.
You must be very careful where you put that precious thing, whether losing it or protecting it. If you give your love during your life to anyone - to your wife or your children or your castle or your business – then it is lost, finished, because when you leave this life, that love will not be with you. Those people or those things will stay here and you will go without love; your love will stay behind.
That is falsehood. But when truth comes to your heart, truth says to you, "Don't give your love except to the eternal existence of your Lord, Allah Almighty. Give Him your love because that love comes from Him; give it back to Him, also. When you are here, that love is with you; if you go, it goes with you. You are with your Lord here, and when you go from this life, He does not leave you. He is with you forever; in the eternal life, also, He is with you, and you are not going to lose your love. You will gain it because you have put it with the correct and suitable one."
Therefore, truth, when it comes to the heart of a person - he may be a Christian, he may be Jewish, he may be Buddhist, he may be Muslim; no difference - that love of the Lord with truth must be in that person's heart; otherwise he is a liar. A real Muslim, a real Christian, a real Jew, a real Buddhist, a real Zoroastrian, must have truth with himself. If falsehood is in his heart, he will run to this life's enjoyments and he will represent falsehood. The one who represents truth, his heart must be with his Lord; he must give his love only to his Lord, Almighty Allah.
Therefore we are asking for that truth. Don't cheat yourself and don't cheat others. Everyone must look into his heart, at who is there. His love is with whom - with very temporary things or with the Eternal Lord, Allah Almighty?
We must think about it, because our breaths are limited. Each day 24,000 breaths are finishing, and we have a limited number, millions or billions.
Their number is written, and every moment, every second, we are taking and finishing them. Then, before our breaths finish, we must look after ourselves, at where we are putting our love. We still have an opportunity to change that love from temporary things to the eternal and permanent existence. That is important.
Every prophet just came to make it firm for everyone, so that they may give their love only to their Lord. "O people, your Lord gave you that love, and He is asking it back from you to Himself." That is important.
We are not playing; we have not come into this life to play with families, with wives, with children - no. There are some places in our bodies which belong to children, to wives, to animals, to farms, to flowers, but love is for Allah Almighty only. And the main sign comes: when truth enters into your heart, when that love goes to Allah, it takes falsehood away. And that is falsehood, to put your love with temporary things; that is falsehood. You must change it, you must give your love to the eternal existence of Allah Almighty, the Lord. We must try; we must try to do it.
Titles are not important - Muslim, Christian, Jewish, to be a sheikh, to be a priest, to be a rabbi, to put a big thing on your head; no.
Important is this: to whom you are giving that love. The one who gave you that love, you must give it to Him. No one else is suitable for that love; only your Lord, and He will ask on the Day of Resurrection: "What did you bring, O My servant? What did you bring to Me?"
Fasting; praying, giving charities, going on pilgrimage: all of them - for what? For the sake of that love; you are giving your love to your Lord. Present Him with fasting, with worshipping; every kind of worshipping makes you present your love to His Divine Presence. Yes; the real aim of every kind of
worshipping and charity is to say, "O my Lord, I am presenting to You my love through this worship. It is not suitable for You, our worshipping. We can only give You our love." And He is asking that love from His serv
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herefore we have been ordered to take away that huge veil and hindrance. If you can't take it away, you can't reach the reality of the real knowledge about yourself that makes a way for you to reach the Divine Presence and divine knowledge.
The first man and first prophet, Adam, p.b.u.h., was with his Lord, Allah Almighty; he was in Paradise, he was with his Lord, seeing and hearing. But when his ego made a trap for him, then a huge barrier, a huge veil, came between his Lord and himself, making him come down. And that huge veil comes among his children; as long as they live on earth, that veil is between themselves and their Lord. And he was told that if you can take it away, the barrier of your ego, quickly you may be with your Lord, as before.
Our Lord is with us but we do not feel that; we think that the Lord is on His Throne, too far away, or that our Lord will be with us on the Last Day. No
6 The first surah, al-Fatehah, "the Opening," consists of seven short verses which are always recited in the Islamic prayers (salat, namaz)
one thinks or feels that our Lord is with ourselves and that without our Lord we can't be in existence for even a moment or a second, or less than a second; you can't be in existence if our Lord is not with you. All things stand in existence by their Lord; if He is not there, nothing will be in existence. But we are heedless. We do not consider or think that Allah Almighty is with ourselves; we make Him far away.
That is ego, coming and making a huge veil. You can't observe it, you can't think about it. Therefore, from the beginning, from the time of Adam, we have been ordered to take away that veil and to be with our Lord, Allah Almighty. We have been ordered to cut away that veil, and all worshipping and all shari'ahs7 are for taking away our ego and its veils.
The most effective action for taking away that veil is fasting. Therefore Allah Almighty ordered every nation, through every prophet, to fast; and we are fasting for that purpose: to take away our ego's veil and to be with our Lord.
When Allah Almighty spoke to Moses, p.b.u.h., on Sinai, between Moses and his Lord there were 70,000 veils. And Allah Almighty ordered the nation of Muhammad, p.b.u.h., to fast, and He says that when the time of breaking fast8 comes, I am leaving only one veil between Myself and My fasting servant. If we could cut that veil, we would be with our Lord, Allah Almighty; we would be in Unity Oceans, and you can't come back from that Ocean.
Therefore Allah Almighty is keeping that one veil between you and Himself until we finish our period in this life. Otherwise anyone who reaches the time of breaking fast would be taken away and disappear; he would be with his Lord at break-fast in the Divine Presence.
7 The divinely-revealed law coming through such prophets as Adam, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace be upon them all
8 In Islamic fasting, whether the obligatory fasting of Ramadan or voluntary fasting at any other time, the period of fasting is from dawn to sunset. The fast must be broken at sunset food or drink (iftar), followed by the sunset (Maghrib) prayer. Fasting is resumed again the following morning just before dawn, after a pre-dawn meal (suhur)
We are thanking our Lord that He gave us such a powerful means for coming closer to His Divine Presence, and we hope that one day, when our lives are ended, we will be in His Divine Presence and that He will grant us to be in His Divine Presence forever. And therefore we must try to take away that veil between ourselves and our Lord, Allah Almighty.
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent. O our Lord, we are nothing, or trying to be nothing. You are in existence, and for the sake of Your Holy Prophet, beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., we are in existence. All glory and praise and thanks to You, o our Lord. Grant us those things that we are in need of. We are intending to be obedient servants and we are asking Your divine help.
We are sitting here to learn how we can be obedient servants. That is important for our lives because we have been invited to the Divine Presence. The Last Day will come and everyone must die, and then Allah Almighty will bring them to life in His Divine Presence. Everyone must believe that there is a Gathering Day and that, as he came to this life and knew nothing, the one who sent him to this life will also bring him to the next life in His Divine Presence.
We are intending to be obedient servants to our Lord, Allah Almighty. The way that reaches that station of being obedient servants to our Lord passes through believing in His beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., and our faith also lies in believing in beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h. And for everyone, belief in beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., must be through knowing him and recognizing him and loving him.
Allah Almighty sent every prophet among his own nation, and He made each one to be the most noble person among his nation. Every prophet was a perfect one in his physical body and a perfect one in his mind; they were
perfect-looking, also, because Allah Almighty made them in perfection outwardly and inwardly, since those people who are calling to Allah Almighty must be in perfection. It is not divine wisdom to send to people a person in whom, if they look at him, they see anything that makes them dislike him.
Therefore they were perfect outwardly and in their souls; their appearance and their physical bodies were perfect, and their characteristics were also perfect..
And the Last Prophet, also, our Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad, p.b.u.h., was in perfection outwardly; if anyone looked at him, he was carried away. And Allah Almighty also gave him such characteristics that Muhammad, p.b.u.h., was unique among all prophets, among all creatures. No one can reach our Prophet's perfection in his physical body or in his characteristics.
Allah Almighty praises him for having the best characteristics. Allah gave to hin from His attributes, and our Prophet is the most perfect one among prophets, among all people, with every perfection that a person may have. Therefore knowledge about the Holy Prophet, p.b.u.h., must be learned by everyone. As much as we can learn about beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., our hearts will run toward him with love.
Firstly, Allah Almighty gave him the most beautiful names. Muhammad, p.b.u.h., means "the Praised One," here and Hereafter; on earth and in the Heavens he has been praised. And then Allah Almighty gave him the best of every good characteristic. All prophets have the characteristic of being truthful; they never told lies. And our Prophet, up to time when prophethood came to him, was known as the truest one among his tribe, among his nation, and he was called "Muhammad al-Amin9”, the was, throughout his life, the truest one.
9 Muhammad the Trustworthy," the title given to Muhammad, p.b.u.h., by his people long before his call to prophethood, due to his extraordinarily upright and truthful nature, which was well-known to all
He was the prophet before creation appeared; no creation had yet appeared when his name was written as prophet in the Divine Presence. La ilaha illa- Llah, Muhammadu-r-rasul-Allah," there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His messenger, was written on the Divine Throne; the first writing was "La ilaha illa-Llah, Muhammadu-r-rasul-Allah." That writing, "La ilaha illa-Llan," is never found without "Muhammadu-r-rasul-Allah," p.b.u.h. No one knows at which time "La ilaha illa-Llah" was written; in pre-eternity it was written, although no one can know when, and after it was written "Muhammadu-r- rasul-Allah," p.b.u.h.
He was the first among creatures, he was the first among prophets, and his nation, also, was created first; but Allah Almighty sent him after all the other prophets, as when there is an invitation and the king is invited to that feast. The king does not come first but comes last, yes? Therefore the Seal of the Prophets was the first among creation but he was the last of the prophets to come to this world.
And when he came, for forty years he never said or proclaimed anything about his prophethood. Then, when he reached forty years, Allah Almighty sent the Angel Gabriel and ordered Muhammad, p.b.u.h., to proclaim that he is a prophet, the Last Prophet, the prophet for everyone on earth, here and Hereafter. And people around him were surprised. They said, "How can he say this? He never told a lie throughout his life but now he is saying something that we can't accept. We worship idols; so many idols we pray to, and now he is saying that all your idols are batil, false, that you must leave them and you must worship the Lord of the Heavens, the Lord of the Worlds, the Lord of the Children of Adam." They were so surprised, saying, "How is that one calling us to something that we have never even heard about, while he has never told a lie? What shall we do?"
But he was truthful, the truest one who ever lived on earth, and invitation was correct, because he was inviting all people to the Divine Presence and
he was coming to bring people to his way; and whoever comes on his way is going to be beloved by his Lord, Almighty Allah. Therefore, he was calling to a way; the one who may be on it can be a saint, a wali, a beloved one to his Lord, Allah Almighty
And his Message is continuing up to today, his invitation is continuing throughout East and West. He is calling people to their Lord, to Allah Almighty. He is not calling people to worship himself or to be servants to him, but he is calling people and saying, "O people, I am a servant of your Lord.
Your Lord is my Lord. All of you, you must come and must be obedient servants and worshippers of your Lord. He gave to me from His divine love, and I represent divine love. Nothing is more precious in the Divine Presence than divine love, and I am coming to give you what my Lord gave to me from His divine love. I am coming, o people, o my Lord's servants, and asking to make you sharers in that love; I am bringing love to humanity. My Lord gave it to me. For that reason I am 'beloved Muhammad'," he says, "and I have brought you divine love. Come and take. I am giving."
Anything better than this? Who can consider anything to be more precious or more valuable than this? And in the Divine Presence there are endless Love Oceans; that love makes you "high." Yes, that is also the meaning of making you high; "high" is also to live our life with love, in divine love.
Therefore the Last Prophet, the Seal of the Prophets, just brought to the world divine love. We can't carry it by ourselves. The love of the Lord, Allah Almighty, comes to the Prophet's heart and then through the Prophet's heart it goes through awliyas' hearts, and awliyas' hearts are sources of divine love. Anyone who finds our Lord's awliya and goes to their hearts, takes his share of divine love.
You must know about the Last Prophet. We just gave a very short description of him, but it may be enough for anyone to know about beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h.; when you think about his name, it is enough for you to
know him and to love him, also. Allah Almighty loves him and gives to him, and he is calling us to his way.
And Allah Almighty gave him five hundred commands. Anyone may be able to practice all of them or some of them, and the divine wisdom in giving those five hundred commands is that for each one which we are practicing, we are taking more share from divine Love Oceans.
All of them are acts of worship or of charity. Worshipping is for your Lord and charity is for His servants and the creatures of your Lord, Allah Almighty, and both of them make Him pleased with you: every worship makes your Lord pleased with you, and every charity that you do for His creatures and for His servants also makes Him pleased with you. And if Allah Almighty is pleased with you, then He grants to you more love from His divine Love Oceans.
That is the message of the Last Prophet; that is the way of beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., showing us how to reach to that, so that we may have more share of Love Oceans, divine Love Oceans.
Then Allah Almighty, through His Prophet, also prohibits certain actions, the actions of devils. Evils are the actions of devils, and He prevents and prohibits His servants from those, saying, "Don't do this, don't do that." And as long as you are saying, "O our Lord, for Your sake I am leaving this bad action or this bad characteristic of my ego," then everything that you are leaving for the sake of the Lord, Allah Almighty, makes Him pleased with you, and you will come spiritually closer to Allah Almighty and He will give you more love, more share of divine Love Oceans.
Love carries you to the endless Beauty Oceans of the Lord, Almighty Allah, and to Perfection Oceans, the absolute perfection of Allah Almighty, carrying you to that Ocean, also.
Now, during this holy month we are practicing fasting. That fasting helps us to keep orders and to leave evils and devils. Therefore it is a lovely practice
to Allah Almighty because it makes servants to be closer to their Lord, and during this month it always rains on people, on His servants, from Love Oceans.
Try to take more share during this holy month from Love Oceans. Allah Almighty gives to his servants from His divine love. Why are you not asking? You must ask, ask and take, and you will be happy.
The one who is given from divine love, he does not die10. Animals die because animals do not carry that love. Once a sheikh died, but it was not like common peoples' dying. He died, and his murid, disciple, buried him. We put our dead bodies facing Makkah, and that murid was trying to turn his sheikh's face to qiblah11 in his grave, uncovering his face. Then his sheikh spoke: "O my son, He has turned our face to Himself. Our face was not turned toward anyone else during this life; only at one Face it was looking, not at many faces - no. At His Face, only at His Divine Face," he said.
And the murid was too frightened. "O my master, are you alive? How am I burying you? I thought you had died!"
"No," his sheikh said. "Look! You are speaking with your breath but I am speaking without breathing; with my soul I am speaking. I am dead from your life but I have real life. The lovers of their Lord, they do not die. Leave me; cover my grave and go out, quickly. I am going."
That is the lovers' condition. They are in the paradise of love here, in their graves, and also in the Hereafter. If no love, there is no meaning for
10 That is, his body dies but does not decay, and his soul is alive in another life, hearing, seeing, feeling and knowing
11 The direction of the Holy K'aba in Makkah, the sacred House of God which Muslims face during their worship as the focal point of this physical world, a material symbol of their Lord´s presence. At death a Muslim is laid to rest in the grave with his or her face tumed toward the qiblah.
Paradise. May Allah Almighty give you from His endless Love Oceans, and bless you and forgive us.
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent, the Lord of Abraham, the Lord of Moses, the Lord of Jesus Christ, the Lord of beloved Muhammad, peace be upon him and upon them.
We are asking Allah Almighty's blessings during this holy month, and asking also that His blessings continue forever for ourselves and for every one of the Children of Adam, and that He keeps us from misguidance and misguided people, because man during this life may be guided or may be misguided. Those who are misguided, their ways are going to Hell here and Hereafter, and the ones who have been guided, their way is going to Paradise here and Hereafter. Therefore we are in need of praying to our Lord and asking Him for guidance in our lives; and, as His servants ask, He gives guidance.
That is an important thing for our lives, to ask for guidance from our Lord, Allah Almighty. People are between haqq and batil, truth and falsehood, and everyone must learn and must know what is truth and falsehood. We are in need to follow truth during our lives because it gives us honor and peace here and Hereafter, while falsehood grows from misguidance and makes troubles, giving sufferings to people here and Hereafter.
Our Grandsheikh, may Allah bless him, was saying, "When a person accepts truth, when he proclaims truth first by his tongue, then that truth must come to his heart." He proclaims it with his tongue and he believes it in his heart, confirming or acknowledging it. First we proclaim truth, and then it is going to be in our hearts.
What is going to happen when truth is in someone's heart? What is the sign that a person has truth and that he has accepted truth in his heart? There must be a sign.
Allah Almighty says in His Glorious Qur'an, "Wa qul, Ja'a-l-haag wa zahaqa- l-bātil"12 - when truth comes, falsehood goes away; truth defeats falsehood. Therefore, when we proclaim truth with our tongues, it prevents our tongues from uttering any falsehood; then, more than that, when our hearts accept truth and truth is in our hearts, it also takes away every falsehood from our hearts.
The first thing, when truth comes into our hearts, is that it takes away every bad thought and bad intention and bad characteristic. In our books that have come through traditions from every prophet up to the Seal of the Prophets, beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., it is stated that there are so many bad characteristics in our hearts, in number sixty false and bad characteristics within our hearts. When truth comes, it takes those away, defeating them.
The first and most dangerous falsehood is kufr, to deny the existence of the Lord, Almighty Allah. When truth comes, a person must believe in the existence of the Lord, Almighty Allah; he must say that there is a Creator who created all the worlds, who created the universe, who created the Heavens, who created Paradise and Hell. Truth makes him proclaim and believe that there is one Lord, creating, giving life, and taking life away. That is the first and most important thing when truth enters into our hearts: to proclaim the existence of the Lord, Almighty Allah.
Then, we proclaim that the Lord, Almighty Allah, has eternal life from pre- eternity up to post-eternity, and we proclaim the truth that there is an eternal life for the Children of Adam; for believers and for unbelievers, also, because those who do not believe in eternal life are not going to die and finish, no.
They also have eternal life, and truth in our hearts makes us believe in that
12 And say, (O Muhammad), Truth has come and falsehood has perished." (XVII:81)
eternal life. No need to believe in this life because we are living in it; but, when we are believers, we believe in unseen things, and the way to our Lord passes through unseen territories. We believe in the life unseen. If you want to see, you must first believe in the Unseen; then you may see it, you may reach that point. Therefore we believe in unseen worlds and Heavens, and we believe in the eternal life.
That is the result of accepting truth, taking away, one after the other, the bad characteristics from our hearts. When truth comes, falsehood must go away. Every bad characteristic belongs to falsehood, and if real truth comes and enters into your heart, it must take that away. And one of the biggest falsehoods and worst characteristics of the Children of Adam is that they like this life. The love of dunya, the love of this life - that is the biggest sin, which is the source of evils.
As long as people love this dunya, this life, troubles will never go away; every day they will fall down more and more, sinking into sufferings.
Therefore, if truth comes to your heart, it takes away the love of dunya and changes that love into the love of your Lord, the love of Allah Almighty. That is the sign that you love your Lord, Almighty Allah, defeating in your heart the love of this world, the love of this life, because if we give our love to a temporary thing and it goes, our love finishes. But that love is something given to us to put in a suitable place.
Once the Angel Gabriel came to Prophet Muhammad, p.b.u.h., and said to him, "O Muhammad, you may put your love with anyone whom you may select; as you like, you may put your love with that thing. But you must know that everything that you love in this world is going to leave you." If you put your love with your family, with your wife, with your children, with your business, with your car, with your castle, with your ranks - anything or anyone you may put your love with, you must know that it will go away and
leave you, and your love will go with it and finish, so that it is falsehood to put our love there because Allah Almighty gives us that love and it is divine.
You must be very careful where you put that precious thing, whether losing it or protecting it. If you give your love during your life to anyone - to your wife or your children or your castle or your business – then it is lost, finished, because when you leave this life, that love will not be with you. Those people or those things will stay here and you will go without love; your love will stay behind.
That is falsehood. But when truth comes to your heart, truth says to you, "Don't give your love except to the eternal existence of your Lord, Allah Almighty. Give Him your love because that love comes from Him; give it back to Him, also. When you are here, that love is with you; if you go, it goes with you. You are with your Lord here, and when you go from this life, He does not leave you. He is with you forever; in the eternal life, also, He is with you, and you are not going to lose your love. You will gain it because you have put it with the correct and suitable one."
Therefore, truth, when it comes to the heart of a person - he may be a Christian, he may be Jewish, he may be Buddhist, he may be Muslim; no difference - that love of the Lord with truth must be in that person's heart; otherwise he is a liar. A real Muslim, a real Christian, a real Jew, a real Buddhist, a real Zoroastrian, must have truth with himself. If falsehood is in his heart, he will run to this life's enjoyments and he will represent falsehood. The one who represents truth, his heart must be with his Lord; he must give his love only to his Lord, Almighty Allah.
Therefore we are asking for that truth. Don't cheat yourself and don't cheat others. Everyone must look into his heart, at who is there. His love is with whom - with very temporary things or with the Eternal Lord, Allah Almighty?
We must think about it, because our breaths are limited. Each day 24,000 breaths are finishing, and we have a limited number, millions or billions.
Their number is written, and every moment, every second, we are taking and finishing them. Then, before our breaths finish, we must look after ourselves, at where we are putting our love. We still have an opportunity to change that love from temporary things to the eternal and permanent existence. That is important.
Every prophet just came to make it firm for everyone, so that they may give their love only to their Lord. "O people, your Lord gave you that love, and He is asking it back from you to Himself." That is important.
We are not playing; we have not come into this life to play with families, with wives, with children - no. There are some places in our bodies which belong to children, to wives, to animals, to farms, to flowers, but love is for Allah Almighty only. And the main sign comes: when truth enters into your heart, when that love goes to Allah, it takes falsehood away. And that is falsehood, to put your love with temporary things; that is falsehood. You must change it, you must give your love to the eternal existence of Allah Almighty, the Lord. We must try; we must try to do it.
Titles are not important - Muslim, Christian, Jewish, to be a sheikh, to be a priest, to be a rabbi, to put a big thing on your head; no.
Important is this: to whom you are giving that love. The one who gave you that love, you must give it to Him. No one else is suitable for that love; only your Lord, and He will ask on the Day of Resurrection: "What did you bring, O My servant? What did you bring to Me?"
Fasting; praying, giving charities, going on pilgrimage: all of them - for what? For the sake of that love; you are giving your love to your Lord. Present Him with fasting, with worshipping; every kind of worshipping makes you present your love to His Divine Presence. Yes; the real aim of every kind of
worshipping and charity is to say, "O my Lord, I am presenting to You my love through this worship. It is not suitable for You, our worshipping. We can only give You our love." And He is asking that love from His serv
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