Mercy Oceans, Book 12 (192 pages, 10/15)
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n of his own for cruelty. Maybe you have a description, and Allah Almighty says to His servant, "O My servant, you know what dhulm, cruelty, is. According to what you know, you must keep yourself from that cruelty." Anyone can tell what cruelty is, and He is asking that, if you know what cruelty is, you must leave it, you must keep your ego from being cruel. That
If you are going to give a complete description of dhulm, there is too wide an area for oppression, for cruelty. But it is not so important. Important is that, as you understand it, you must observe it; if you know that this is cruelty, you must keep yourself from that thing. For dhulm, cruelty, we are giving a wide meaning, and it is, in short, to put something in a place that is not suitable for
Yes. If you have a donkey and you put the donkey on your shoulders and go, it is dhulm because you must be on it, not it on you; you have put something in a place which is not suitable for it. You can put this carpet under your feet; you can't put it on your head - not suitable. You can be on this chair; you can't put this chair on your back. You must look after everything: if something is not in its right and suitable place, you are doing dhulm, cruelty.
You are putting women in the place of men. It is cruelty; to put a man in the place of women, that is cruelty. To throw iman, faith, out of the heart and to put kufr, unbelief, in the heart - that is cruelty. To look after yourself more than others, to think about yourself more than others - that is cruelty. So many things you can find that make you dhalim, cruel, and those things are dhulm, cruelty:
We are in need of divine protection, here and Hereafter; we are in need of a shelter here and Hereafter. And through every prophet, in every message which Allah Almighty sent for His servants to be shelters for them, the first principle is to believe. Beliefs are shelters; to believe firstly in your Lord,
Almighty Allah, is the greatest one, the greatest belief, which keeps people here and Hereafter.
But Allah Almighty makes a condition for believers' faith to be shelters for them: if you are a believer, don't clothe your beliefs in cruelty, because a person may believe but at the same time he may use cruelty as a garment, dressing in cruelty. That cruelty prevents that person from being sheltered under divine protection.
If you do not take care of what may harm other people, you may do so many bad things; and it makes you open to divine vengeance, because all the skies are full of the arms of vengeance. Don't think that if you do something, nothing will come on you; no. For everyone, and for every action, there must be an effect in the Heavens; quickly it may be well-known which action is right and which must be punished. And the arms of divine vengeance are looking over peoples' actions; every action is under the eyes of those guardians in the Heavens who are keeping the whole world under their gaze, and quickly vengeance comes upon those people.
Therefore, for every action you must be very careful. You must think about which thing you are intending to do, as sometimes those arms of vengeance reach your minds, coming from your thoughts, also. In everything, we are in need of intention - an intention to accustom, to train ourselves, an intention that keeps us away from troubles and from suffering, here and Hereafter.
Therefore, in Islam, for every believer there must be good intentions.
Some people are coming to me and saying, "We have met with you and have listened, and we have seen that what you are saying is right." Then they are asking me if it is possible for us to follow you without coming into Islam; most of them are asking this. And I am surprised at people, why they are asking that. What wrong thing do they see in Islam that they are asking that?
Islam is one thing and Muslims are something else, because, if you speak truly, Islam remains in the Heavens, no longer on earth. It was a huma103, a precious bird which flew from our hands, and we are looking after it, like this. No more is Islam on earth; Allah Almighty has taken up that Shari'ah. So many nations of the Muslim world are saying now that the Shari'ah is no longer our Law, and Allah Almighty is punishing them, taking the Shari'ah up. And so many times I am listening to our Muslim brothers here: they are saying that we must ask the British government to give us an opportunity or authority to bring the Shari'ah among ourselves. But you can't bring that: Allah Almighty has taken it away because we are not worthy of that Shari'ah.
Therefore, when people look at the Muslims living now they are afraid to come into Islam or to be called Muslims, while to be Muslim is an honor in the Divine Presence; if it has not a good name among people in our day, still it is the most honorable name or most honorable title for servants in the Divine Presence. But nevertheless, they must see that Islam orders to people only good actions and good intentions. If no good actions, a person is a cruel one, even though he may be Muslim; if no good intentions, he is a cruel one, even though his name may be Muslim.
Western people like to be realists; they are so proud of it. But they are not realists. If they were realists, they would realize what Islam is and what it means to be called a Muslim. "Realist" is only a word they say, not real realists; yes.
What is Islam? Good actions and good intentions, and we do not accept bad actions for Islam, for Muslims, nor bad intentions, either. Therefore Allah Almighty orders, firstly, to make your intention when you come into Islam.
103 A mythical bird, Bird of Paradise
"La yuminu ahadukun hatta yuhibbu li-nafsihi na yuhibbu li akhihi104": that is an intention. You must correct your intention, because a person who is not concerned or interested in others is a cruel person; an egotist is a cruel one, perhaps the most cruel one, like Pharoah. Pharoah represents all egotism in himself, and he was the worst cruel one, tyrant. Therefore Islam orders that, as the first step, you must clean your intentions and you must be clear.
If we had good intentions for others, we would not agree for anyone to be in kufr, in the way of falsehood. Therefore, if Muslims fought, from the beginning, their fighting was because they did not accept cruelty or did not agree with the cruelty of people in saying that the Lord is not in existence or to say that we believe in idols105.
Why did Muhammad, p.b.u.h., fight with those people? Was he a sadist? Hasha, God forbid! But they were dhalimin, cruel people, because they did not worship the Lord of the Heavens and the Worlds: they gave their praises and respects to stone, to wooden idols. Therefore he killed them to take them away from that wrongdoing, that cruelty, not simply to kill - hasha, God forbid! But you are putting your ego in the place of your Lord and saying to it, "O my Lord, as you like! What is your command?" and therefore we are cruel within ourselves.
Therefore Islam is the best because, as the first step, if anyone bears witness and says, "I am witness to the existence of the Lord, Almighty Allah, and His unity," then he accepts and intends to give every right to everyone, as he gives to himself. Therefore good intentions begin at the first step; if not, the Prophet says, a person may be a believer, a Muslim, a mumin, by name, but he has not yet reached, has not really put his foot in the true area
104 None of you has believed until he likes for himself what he likes for his brother. (Hadith)
105 That is, the ultimate dhulm, wrongdoing and injustice, is denial of God's existence and sovereignty and/or ascribing it to anyone or anything other than God. For this reason God prescribed fighting for Muslims in the Qur'an to oppose the vested institutions of and paganism which held Arabian society in a strange-hold grip.
of being in Islam. "Islam" is a most honorable title; tuba, highest good tidings, for those who can carry that title with honor. Allah gives honor to His servants by Islam; but Muslims - they should be punished now because they are making the name of Islam bad, while the name of Islam is in the Heavens.
That is our dhulm, our cruelty. Therefore, no more support for the Islamic world from Allah Almighty; no more divine support is coming for Muslims because they are bringing down the name of Islam. We are the cruel ones. I am not ashamed of non-Muslims, no; ashamed of our nation, the Muslim world.
Therefore, when dhulm, cruelty is going to reach the topmost point, Allah will send a Red Wind from East to West, from North to South, to take away everything. It is mentioned in Hadith; I am not speaking from myself about that Red Wind.
In Arabic "red wind" also indicates hegemony; Red rulers, Red hegemony, Red Wind is coming from East to West, from North to South, covering the whole world. "Wa tadhhaba rihukum106": rihukum means hegemony, power; rihun hamran, Red Wind, that power which is seizing the whole world. That is a punishment for dhulm, for cruelty. When people are cruel individually, then collectively they should be put under Red hegemony, a Red Wind, and punished here.
Therefore everyone must think about himself, particularly in our days. We must clean our thoughts. That reactor (Chernobyl) burned, exploding, and people are trying to clean every place from that radiation. But look at the radiation in your head, in your thoughts. Red reactors' radiation is coming on
106 "...And your power departs..." (VIII:46)
thoughts, for all people; even in the Islamic world, where people are saying that they are all right, that Red Wind is coming - through thoughts.
Make your thoughts clean from Red radiation; if even a litt bit, you must be punished. That is important. Everywhere, in every country, people are coming to be in two groups. Most peoples' thougts are affected by Red Winds. That is dhulm, cruelty, and that must in punished. Allah Almighty will never leave it.
Therefore we must know which thing makes Allah Almighty angry with us: that Red radiation makes our Lord angry. That is the first one; that kills. You may understand; we are not going to make it more than this. Those people may be angry but Allah's anger is on them. I am only saying this through my "Headquarters107". You may believe, you may keep it in your heart.
And we are asking forgiveness for every bad thought and for every bad action which makes our names to be written on the cruelty-list. Be careful, every day. Every night you must say, "Astaghfirullah, o my Lord. If my name is put on the list of cruelty, take it away." Otherwise it is dangerous.
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent, the Lord of the Worlds, the Lord of the Children of Adam; the Lord of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ and beloved Muhammad, peace be upon them.
You must try to obey your Lord and you must try to give your love to your Lord. If a person does not give his obedience to his Lord, he is dhālim, cruel; if a person does not give his love to his Lord, Allah Almighty, he is also cruel.
107 Sheikh Nazim's customary way of referring to his sources of inspiration through the the heart of his sheikh, Grandsheikh 'Abdullah ad-Daghistani.
Therefore we must try to give our love to our Lord and to give our obedience to our Lord, Allah Almighty.
Why are we sitting here? We are here for one hour, or less or more. We want to keep people here as long as we can keep them in this assembly because I am someone who has been authorized to address people and to call them to be obedient servants to their Lord and to give their love to their Lord; that is the purpose for which I have been authorized. Therefore, as long as I can keep you here, according to that authority, mercy is raining on you, and it is important to be under those Mercy Rains.
We know that practicing is difficult for everyone in our time because mostly people, and our egos, also, are calling us to be obedient to our egos, and our egos are also calling us to be obedient to devils. It is too difficult in our days to be obedient to the holy orders of our Lord, Almighty Allah, and now, as much as we can be far away from the outside world, we are sitting under a divine shelter and Mercy Rain is raining on people.
That is our gain because, when we go out, seventy devils are waiting for each one, to catch us and to take from us what we are carrying with ourselves; but we hope that we are gaining and taking from this assembly, from Mercy Rain. And we are giving them as an amanat, a trust, to our Lord, Allah Almighty to keep them, and it is well-protected in our hearts, Allah Almighty protecting it.
Now, as we said, we are in need of practicing to be obedient servants and it is difficult, but we must bear difficulties because nothing can be obtained without bearing difficulties. First, we must be patient, and we must try to learn how we can be patient. This holy month teaches servants how they can be patient, and you must try. Fasting is a holy order from our Lord, Allah Almighty, for everyone.
The beginning of goodness and the beginning of good actions is intentions, and we must begin to be obedient servants through intentions. You must intend. And everyone has a tongue to say to his Lord, to address His holy Divine Presence, saying, "O my Lord, I intend to be Your obedient servant. Help me!" Then it is a good beginning. I don't think that Allah Almighty will refuse that from you; no.
Repeat it a second time: "O my Lord!" If a servant calls to his Lord, saying, "Ya Rabb - O my Lord!" He promises to reply to His servant's addressing Him and He says, "Labbayk" What is "labbayk"? "Here I am," says our Lord to you.
Say it; you can talk. So much talking every day; two angels are writing, each day filling so many books with your speech. You can say this. And all history begins from that addressing: "O my Lord! I am asking to be an obedient servant to You.. Help me! I am asking to correct my intentions. O my Lord, help me! And I am asking to save myself from dhulm, from cruelty. Save me!"
And He says, "I am here. I will," "He says, "I will." ("I will" - what does it mean? "Muhaqqaq, definitely!") "I am reaching to you," He says.
"Reach to me, o my Lord, with Your endless Mercy Oceans." "I will. I am reaching to you."
When a ship is in danger, it sends an S.O.S. If you are asking for najdah, S.O.S., from your Lord, quickly, quickly, as much as you may be in need, His divine help reaches you. You may try.
But no need to try: you must believe; you must believe. And that is the key: only say, only ask; it is impossible for there not to be a reply. He must reply, He does, reply, our Lord. Say, "O my Lord, save me from the hands of devils," and He can save, He is able to save you from everything.
That is a good beginning. Then say, "I want, I intend, to fast," and He will send His divine support for fasting. So many little boys or girls here, also, among our assembly, are fasting; they are able to fast because they are intending, and their Lord gives them divine support for fasting. We have been asked to be obedient servants, and we must ask for divine support.
Allah Almighty is asking from His servants to be respectful to Himself, and a part of being respectful to our Lord, Allah Almighty, is to be respectful to His servants. That is important. The twentieth century's people are very proud of the civilization of the twentieth century in which they have shares; every nation, particularly proud Western nations, is are proud enough of saying that it has a share in the twentieth century's civilization. But they have civilized themselves by technical means only. I do not see that they have civilized themselves by respecting nations or by respecting mankind; and we are saying this because every time a technological improvement occurs, I see that we are losing something of our humanity, and the more we look to technological improvements and means, the more we are going to be like those improved machines and to be robots: only moving, working machines we are going to be, without hearts. Therefore that is a danger, or the most dangerous sign, for the future of mankind on earth, on this planet, on this living planet, and we must return to the beginning of our humanity. We must return to that point from where it began and we must begin our movement toward the horizon of humanity.
And when is it going to begin? What is the beginning? The beginning is going to take place when you respect everyone who is one of the members of the great family of mankind. But we have lost that now, or we are going to lose it soon. Therefore we are in need of a heavenly mudakhalah, intervention, to make people stop and to take away those technological improvements, because, for the sake of these technological means, we have lost our humanity. Therefore, when Mahdi comes, may Allah bless him and make us with him, he will say, "Allahu akbar! God is greater than your
technology, even. Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!"108 and he will throw away all these technologies which are supporting the twentieth century's civiliation. And we will say, "Alhamdulillah!" No more noisy sounds of cars or planes or trains or factories; yes, finished. "Oh, so restful," people will say. No more running; rest..
We are speaking about dhulm, cruelty. That cruelty is because of our intentions and our actions, causing people to be cruel. All human beings can now be put under the title of cruel mankind; believers and unbelievers, Muslims and non-Muslims, can now be called cruel.
What is the reason? Because people in the Muslim world say, "We are Muslims, we are believers in Islam, in our Lord's Holy Book, the Qur'an," but no one is practicing. Therefore they are doing dhulm, cruelty. And non- Muslims, because they are fanatical people or too proud to look into the Holy Qur'an, the Last Message of our Lord, not looking at what it is but saying "No" to it, therefore they are cruel.
Therefore Allah Almighty has opened to them a way through technology. They are not afraid of their Lord, but Allah Almighty is making them to fear from the technology which they have invented, trembling. They have built that reactor109, and now the whole world is trembling, using that machine, the Geiger counter; Allah Almighty is frightening all the world's people. No more control over that (nuclear reactor): if it goes up, finished; impossible to be controlled because we can't order the wind, we can't order the rain, and wind and rain are taking radiation everywhere.
Therefore we must turn back. We are walking too much on the wrong way; all humanity, all mankind, is on the wrong way. "Don't enter!" There is a sign, "Prohibited Way," but all are running to it, till we must turn back.
108 It is mentioned in Hadith that when the Mahdi, p.b.u.h., appears, he will announce himself himself and his divinely-appointed mission with a threefold utterance of "Allahu akbar!"
109 Chernobyl
Out of respect for our Lord, Almighty Allah, we must respect each other. When we go on that way, no one respecting the other, we are going to share in what comes to them - no more humanity. And that is endless suffering for mankind in our time, even though we have everything and our life should be the happiest life among all centuries. But it is going in the opposite way: the most suffering people are in our century, and if it continues to run at that speed and no heavenly intervention, then by the beginning of the twenty-first century, all people are going to be crazy. No more time; only fourteen years. If there does not come a divine intervention, then all people, in East and West, from North to South, are going to be majanin, crazy ones. That is terrible!
Therefore we are asking from everyone that, in our own capacity, we must learn to give respect to ourselves, beginning with our families, in our homes. We must do it; we must try to give respect to parents, to give respect to old people, to give respect to small ones, to big ones, in the family; we must practice it, and that is a sign of being obedient and respectful to our Lord. In the community, we must keep honorable people, and if you want to be honorable, you must give honor to everyone, because Allah Almighty has given us an honor that He never gave to any other creature. He honored us, dressing us in honored deputies' garments and crowning us, also, with takrim, divine generosity, divine favors - everyone. But we are not keeping this.
We must keep it. And you must put an end to envy because envy takes away the respect of people for each other. The most dangerous illness for humanity is envy, and you must try to take it away.
It is a strange time now. Within in the family, you can see envy between husband and wife, envy even in a huge way between male and female groups. All males are envious of females; females, also, have so much envy for males among themselves. Those people say, "You men have more
rights," claiming that men do not give them their rights, while Allah Almighty gives rights to them and to you; always they are crying that they are madhlum, oppressed.
Envy - that is envy. The husband is envious of his wife, the wife envies her husband; among children, brothers and sisters envy each other, neighbors to neighbors and employees to employees, the lower ones to the higher, wanting to reach that point and looking at the other with envy. It is the most dangerous illness, destroying humanity, and you must try to leave that. If you do not try, you will destroy yourself plus all other people, because it is a fire.
Therefore we have been ordered to respect each other, and that respect takes away envy from ourselves. And we are asking forgiveness from Allah Almighty for everything, and particularly for being envious. It is not a good title for you, for a believer, to be envious; no, never. You must take it away, throw it out.
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent. We have just arrived at the last day of Holy Ramadan, and we are sorry because the divine manifestations that belong to Holy Ramadan are going away; but a new month, a new moon, is coming, with a new mercy from Allah Almighty. And we are asking from our Lord, Almighty Allah, to let us reach many holy months like Ramadan during our lives, and to take more lights and more honor each time.
We know and believe that Islam is the best for everyone, individually and collectively, because Islam is perfect individually and collectively, and its rules are suitable for the nature of people. It is also perfect for the life of mankind on earth, and it is perfect, also, for our spiritual lives and for our spiritual development. It is excellent, so that no one can even imagine
anything more perfect than Islam for developing people, individually and collectively, in their spiritual lives.
No one can bring any statement to that effect; anyone who can use his clean mind must recognize this. I must say "clean mind" because the twentieth century makes most peoples' minds dirty. They are saying "brainwashing," but it makes brains not washed but dirty about Reality, so that most peoples' minds are dirty, and therefore they can't understand the correct and true rules in Islam.
They are looking with black eyeglasses and seeing everything as black, and they use them most of all for Islam and its rules: when they want to look at Islam, they always put on dirty eyeglasses, painted with black paint, so that anything at which a person may look after that, he must see as a bad thing or with crooked lines on it. Therefore we are saying that people with clean minds, clean brains, who have not put up anything that prevents them from seeing the color and purity of Islam and its rules, may see that in Islam nothing is 'awaj, crooked. Everything is straight.
And in our time, people are objecting or trying to accuse Islam most for its rules concerning ladies, and Western women are trying to accuse the rules in Islam about women most of all. But, as we said, they are always fanatical people and they are always against Islam; they always put on dark eyeglasses painted with black coloring, which never show them what are the real rules and what the rules in Islam give to women.
In reality, Islam brought rules and rights for two kinds of people, rights for men and rights for women; and the Creator put those rules and rights for men and women, no one else. And you must know that men are created as men and women are created as women, male and female. It is impossible to say that men are equal to women or women are equal to men. Each kind of nature is just created as male or female, created in a
special form. People must understand this.
It is impossible
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n of his own for cruelty. Maybe you have a description, and Allah Almighty says to His servant, "O My servant, you know what dhulm, cruelty, is. According to what you know, you must keep yourself from that cruelty." Anyone can tell what cruelty is, and He is asking that, if you know what cruelty is, you must leave it, you must keep your ego from being cruel. That
If you are going to give a complete description of dhulm, there is too wide an area for oppression, for cruelty. But it is not so important. Important is that, as you understand it, you must observe it; if you know that this is cruelty, you must keep yourself from that thing. For dhulm, cruelty, we are giving a wide meaning, and it is, in short, to put something in a place that is not suitable for
Yes. If you have a donkey and you put the donkey on your shoulders and go, it is dhulm because you must be on it, not it on you; you have put something in a place which is not suitable for it. You can put this carpet under your feet; you can't put it on your head - not suitable. You can be on this chair; you can't put this chair on your back. You must look after everything: if something is not in its right and suitable place, you are doing dhulm, cruelty.
You are putting women in the place of men. It is cruelty; to put a man in the place of women, that is cruelty. To throw iman, faith, out of the heart and to put kufr, unbelief, in the heart - that is cruelty. To look after yourself more than others, to think about yourself more than others - that is cruelty. So many things you can find that make you dhalim, cruel, and those things are dhulm, cruelty:
We are in need of divine protection, here and Hereafter; we are in need of a shelter here and Hereafter. And through every prophet, in every message which Allah Almighty sent for His servants to be shelters for them, the first principle is to believe. Beliefs are shelters; to believe firstly in your Lord,
Almighty Allah, is the greatest one, the greatest belief, which keeps people here and Hereafter.
But Allah Almighty makes a condition for believers' faith to be shelters for them: if you are a believer, don't clothe your beliefs in cruelty, because a person may believe but at the same time he may use cruelty as a garment, dressing in cruelty. That cruelty prevents that person from being sheltered under divine protection.
If you do not take care of what may harm other people, you may do so many bad things; and it makes you open to divine vengeance, because all the skies are full of the arms of vengeance. Don't think that if you do something, nothing will come on you; no. For everyone, and for every action, there must be an effect in the Heavens; quickly it may be well-known which action is right and which must be punished. And the arms of divine vengeance are looking over peoples' actions; every action is under the eyes of those guardians in the Heavens who are keeping the whole world under their gaze, and quickly vengeance comes upon those people.
Therefore, for every action you must be very careful. You must think about which thing you are intending to do, as sometimes those arms of vengeance reach your minds, coming from your thoughts, also. In everything, we are in need of intention - an intention to accustom, to train ourselves, an intention that keeps us away from troubles and from suffering, here and Hereafter.
Therefore, in Islam, for every believer there must be good intentions.
Some people are coming to me and saying, "We have met with you and have listened, and we have seen that what you are saying is right." Then they are asking me if it is possible for us to follow you without coming into Islam; most of them are asking this. And I am surprised at people, why they are asking that. What wrong thing do they see in Islam that they are asking that?
Islam is one thing and Muslims are something else, because, if you speak truly, Islam remains in the Heavens, no longer on earth. It was a huma103, a precious bird which flew from our hands, and we are looking after it, like this. No more is Islam on earth; Allah Almighty has taken up that Shari'ah. So many nations of the Muslim world are saying now that the Shari'ah is no longer our Law, and Allah Almighty is punishing them, taking the Shari'ah up. And so many times I am listening to our Muslim brothers here: they are saying that we must ask the British government to give us an opportunity or authority to bring the Shari'ah among ourselves. But you can't bring that: Allah Almighty has taken it away because we are not worthy of that Shari'ah.
Therefore, when people look at the Muslims living now they are afraid to come into Islam or to be called Muslims, while to be Muslim is an honor in the Divine Presence; if it has not a good name among people in our day, still it is the most honorable name or most honorable title for servants in the Divine Presence. But nevertheless, they must see that Islam orders to people only good actions and good intentions. If no good actions, a person is a cruel one, even though he may be Muslim; if no good intentions, he is a cruel one, even though his name may be Muslim.
Western people like to be realists; they are so proud of it. But they are not realists. If they were realists, they would realize what Islam is and what it means to be called a Muslim. "Realist" is only a word they say, not real realists; yes.
What is Islam? Good actions and good intentions, and we do not accept bad actions for Islam, for Muslims, nor bad intentions, either. Therefore Allah Almighty orders, firstly, to make your intention when you come into Islam.
103 A mythical bird, Bird of Paradise
"La yuminu ahadukun hatta yuhibbu li-nafsihi na yuhibbu li akhihi104": that is an intention. You must correct your intention, because a person who is not concerned or interested in others is a cruel person; an egotist is a cruel one, perhaps the most cruel one, like Pharoah. Pharoah represents all egotism in himself, and he was the worst cruel one, tyrant. Therefore Islam orders that, as the first step, you must clean your intentions and you must be clear.
If we had good intentions for others, we would not agree for anyone to be in kufr, in the way of falsehood. Therefore, if Muslims fought, from the beginning, their fighting was because they did not accept cruelty or did not agree with the cruelty of people in saying that the Lord is not in existence or to say that we believe in idols105.
Why did Muhammad, p.b.u.h., fight with those people? Was he a sadist? Hasha, God forbid! But they were dhalimin, cruel people, because they did not worship the Lord of the Heavens and the Worlds: they gave their praises and respects to stone, to wooden idols. Therefore he killed them to take them away from that wrongdoing, that cruelty, not simply to kill - hasha, God forbid! But you are putting your ego in the place of your Lord and saying to it, "O my Lord, as you like! What is your command?" and therefore we are cruel within ourselves.
Therefore Islam is the best because, as the first step, if anyone bears witness and says, "I am witness to the existence of the Lord, Almighty Allah, and His unity," then he accepts and intends to give every right to everyone, as he gives to himself. Therefore good intentions begin at the first step; if not, the Prophet says, a person may be a believer, a Muslim, a mumin, by name, but he has not yet reached, has not really put his foot in the true area
104 None of you has believed until he likes for himself what he likes for his brother. (Hadith)
105 That is, the ultimate dhulm, wrongdoing and injustice, is denial of God's existence and sovereignty and/or ascribing it to anyone or anything other than God. For this reason God prescribed fighting for Muslims in the Qur'an to oppose the vested institutions of and paganism which held Arabian society in a strange-hold grip.
of being in Islam. "Islam" is a most honorable title; tuba, highest good tidings, for those who can carry that title with honor. Allah gives honor to His servants by Islam; but Muslims - they should be punished now because they are making the name of Islam bad, while the name of Islam is in the Heavens.
That is our dhulm, our cruelty. Therefore, no more support for the Islamic world from Allah Almighty; no more divine support is coming for Muslims because they are bringing down the name of Islam. We are the cruel ones. I am not ashamed of non-Muslims, no; ashamed of our nation, the Muslim world.
Therefore, when dhulm, cruelty is going to reach the topmost point, Allah will send a Red Wind from East to West, from North to South, to take away everything. It is mentioned in Hadith; I am not speaking from myself about that Red Wind.
In Arabic "red wind" also indicates hegemony; Red rulers, Red hegemony, Red Wind is coming from East to West, from North to South, covering the whole world. "Wa tadhhaba rihukum106": rihukum means hegemony, power; rihun hamran, Red Wind, that power which is seizing the whole world. That is a punishment for dhulm, for cruelty. When people are cruel individually, then collectively they should be put under Red hegemony, a Red Wind, and punished here.
Therefore everyone must think about himself, particularly in our days. We must clean our thoughts. That reactor (Chernobyl) burned, exploding, and people are trying to clean every place from that radiation. But look at the radiation in your head, in your thoughts. Red reactors' radiation is coming on
106 "...And your power departs..." (VIII:46)
thoughts, for all people; even in the Islamic world, where people are saying that they are all right, that Red Wind is coming - through thoughts.
Make your thoughts clean from Red radiation; if even a litt bit, you must be punished. That is important. Everywhere, in every country, people are coming to be in two groups. Most peoples' thougts are affected by Red Winds. That is dhulm, cruelty, and that must in punished. Allah Almighty will never leave it.
Therefore we must know which thing makes Allah Almighty angry with us: that Red radiation makes our Lord angry. That is the first one; that kills. You may understand; we are not going to make it more than this. Those people may be angry but Allah's anger is on them. I am only saying this through my "Headquarters107". You may believe, you may keep it in your heart.
And we are asking forgiveness for every bad thought and for every bad action which makes our names to be written on the cruelty-list. Be careful, every day. Every night you must say, "Astaghfirullah, o my Lord. If my name is put on the list of cruelty, take it away." Otherwise it is dangerous.
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent, the Lord of the Worlds, the Lord of the Children of Adam; the Lord of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ and beloved Muhammad, peace be upon them.
You must try to obey your Lord and you must try to give your love to your Lord. If a person does not give his obedience to his Lord, he is dhālim, cruel; if a person does not give his love to his Lord, Allah Almighty, he is also cruel.
107 Sheikh Nazim's customary way of referring to his sources of inspiration through the the heart of his sheikh, Grandsheikh 'Abdullah ad-Daghistani.
Therefore we must try to give our love to our Lord and to give our obedience to our Lord, Allah Almighty.
Why are we sitting here? We are here for one hour, or less or more. We want to keep people here as long as we can keep them in this assembly because I am someone who has been authorized to address people and to call them to be obedient servants to their Lord and to give their love to their Lord; that is the purpose for which I have been authorized. Therefore, as long as I can keep you here, according to that authority, mercy is raining on you, and it is important to be under those Mercy Rains.
We know that practicing is difficult for everyone in our time because mostly people, and our egos, also, are calling us to be obedient to our egos, and our egos are also calling us to be obedient to devils. It is too difficult in our days to be obedient to the holy orders of our Lord, Almighty Allah, and now, as much as we can be far away from the outside world, we are sitting under a divine shelter and Mercy Rain is raining on people.
That is our gain because, when we go out, seventy devils are waiting for each one, to catch us and to take from us what we are carrying with ourselves; but we hope that we are gaining and taking from this assembly, from Mercy Rain. And we are giving them as an amanat, a trust, to our Lord, Allah Almighty to keep them, and it is well-protected in our hearts, Allah Almighty protecting it.
Now, as we said, we are in need of practicing to be obedient servants and it is difficult, but we must bear difficulties because nothing can be obtained without bearing difficulties. First, we must be patient, and we must try to learn how we can be patient. This holy month teaches servants how they can be patient, and you must try. Fasting is a holy order from our Lord, Allah Almighty, for everyone.
The beginning of goodness and the beginning of good actions is intentions, and we must begin to be obedient servants through intentions. You must intend. And everyone has a tongue to say to his Lord, to address His holy Divine Presence, saying, "O my Lord, I intend to be Your obedient servant. Help me!" Then it is a good beginning. I don't think that Allah Almighty will refuse that from you; no.
Repeat it a second time: "O my Lord!" If a servant calls to his Lord, saying, "Ya Rabb - O my Lord!" He promises to reply to His servant's addressing Him and He says, "Labbayk" What is "labbayk"? "Here I am," says our Lord to you.
Say it; you can talk. So much talking every day; two angels are writing, each day filling so many books with your speech. You can say this. And all history begins from that addressing: "O my Lord! I am asking to be an obedient servant to You.. Help me! I am asking to correct my intentions. O my Lord, help me! And I am asking to save myself from dhulm, from cruelty. Save me!"
And He says, "I am here. I will," "He says, "I will." ("I will" - what does it mean? "Muhaqqaq, definitely!") "I am reaching to you," He says.
"Reach to me, o my Lord, with Your endless Mercy Oceans." "I will. I am reaching to you."
When a ship is in danger, it sends an S.O.S. If you are asking for najdah, S.O.S., from your Lord, quickly, quickly, as much as you may be in need, His divine help reaches you. You may try.
But no need to try: you must believe; you must believe. And that is the key: only say, only ask; it is impossible for there not to be a reply. He must reply, He does, reply, our Lord. Say, "O my Lord, save me from the hands of devils," and He can save, He is able to save you from everything.
That is a good beginning. Then say, "I want, I intend, to fast," and He will send His divine support for fasting. So many little boys or girls here, also, among our assembly, are fasting; they are able to fast because they are intending, and their Lord gives them divine support for fasting. We have been asked to be obedient servants, and we must ask for divine support.
Allah Almighty is asking from His servants to be respectful to Himself, and a part of being respectful to our Lord, Allah Almighty, is to be respectful to His servants. That is important. The twentieth century's people are very proud of the civilization of the twentieth century in which they have shares; every nation, particularly proud Western nations, is are proud enough of saying that it has a share in the twentieth century's civilization. But they have civilized themselves by technical means only. I do not see that they have civilized themselves by respecting nations or by respecting mankind; and we are saying this because every time a technological improvement occurs, I see that we are losing something of our humanity, and the more we look to technological improvements and means, the more we are going to be like those improved machines and to be robots: only moving, working machines we are going to be, without hearts. Therefore that is a danger, or the most dangerous sign, for the future of mankind on earth, on this planet, on this living planet, and we must return to the beginning of our humanity. We must return to that point from where it began and we must begin our movement toward the horizon of humanity.
And when is it going to begin? What is the beginning? The beginning is going to take place when you respect everyone who is one of the members of the great family of mankind. But we have lost that now, or we are going to lose it soon. Therefore we are in need of a heavenly mudakhalah, intervention, to make people stop and to take away those technological improvements, because, for the sake of these technological means, we have lost our humanity. Therefore, when Mahdi comes, may Allah bless him and make us with him, he will say, "Allahu akbar! God is greater than your
technology, even. Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!"108 and he will throw away all these technologies which are supporting the twentieth century's civiliation. And we will say, "Alhamdulillah!" No more noisy sounds of cars or planes or trains or factories; yes, finished. "Oh, so restful," people will say. No more running; rest..
We are speaking about dhulm, cruelty. That cruelty is because of our intentions and our actions, causing people to be cruel. All human beings can now be put under the title of cruel mankind; believers and unbelievers, Muslims and non-Muslims, can now be called cruel.
What is the reason? Because people in the Muslim world say, "We are Muslims, we are believers in Islam, in our Lord's Holy Book, the Qur'an," but no one is practicing. Therefore they are doing dhulm, cruelty. And non- Muslims, because they are fanatical people or too proud to look into the Holy Qur'an, the Last Message of our Lord, not looking at what it is but saying "No" to it, therefore they are cruel.
Therefore Allah Almighty has opened to them a way through technology. They are not afraid of their Lord, but Allah Almighty is making them to fear from the technology which they have invented, trembling. They have built that reactor109, and now the whole world is trembling, using that machine, the Geiger counter; Allah Almighty is frightening all the world's people. No more control over that (nuclear reactor): if it goes up, finished; impossible to be controlled because we can't order the wind, we can't order the rain, and wind and rain are taking radiation everywhere.
Therefore we must turn back. We are walking too much on the wrong way; all humanity, all mankind, is on the wrong way. "Don't enter!" There is a sign, "Prohibited Way," but all are running to it, till we must turn back.
108 It is mentioned in Hadith that when the Mahdi, p.b.u.h., appears, he will announce himself himself and his divinely-appointed mission with a threefold utterance of "Allahu akbar!"
109 Chernobyl
Out of respect for our Lord, Almighty Allah, we must respect each other. When we go on that way, no one respecting the other, we are going to share in what comes to them - no more humanity. And that is endless suffering for mankind in our time, even though we have everything and our life should be the happiest life among all centuries. But it is going in the opposite way: the most suffering people are in our century, and if it continues to run at that speed and no heavenly intervention, then by the beginning of the twenty-first century, all people are going to be crazy. No more time; only fourteen years. If there does not come a divine intervention, then all people, in East and West, from North to South, are going to be majanin, crazy ones. That is terrible!
Therefore we are asking from everyone that, in our own capacity, we must learn to give respect to ourselves, beginning with our families, in our homes. We must do it; we must try to give respect to parents, to give respect to old people, to give respect to small ones, to big ones, in the family; we must practice it, and that is a sign of being obedient and respectful to our Lord. In the community, we must keep honorable people, and if you want to be honorable, you must give honor to everyone, because Allah Almighty has given us an honor that He never gave to any other creature. He honored us, dressing us in honored deputies' garments and crowning us, also, with takrim, divine generosity, divine favors - everyone. But we are not keeping this.
We must keep it. And you must put an end to envy because envy takes away the respect of people for each other. The most dangerous illness for humanity is envy, and you must try to take it away.
It is a strange time now. Within in the family, you can see envy between husband and wife, envy even in a huge way between male and female groups. All males are envious of females; females, also, have so much envy for males among themselves. Those people say, "You men have more
rights," claiming that men do not give them their rights, while Allah Almighty gives rights to them and to you; always they are crying that they are madhlum, oppressed.
Envy - that is envy. The husband is envious of his wife, the wife envies her husband; among children, brothers and sisters envy each other, neighbors to neighbors and employees to employees, the lower ones to the higher, wanting to reach that point and looking at the other with envy. It is the most dangerous illness, destroying humanity, and you must try to leave that. If you do not try, you will destroy yourself plus all other people, because it is a fire.
Therefore we have been ordered to respect each other, and that respect takes away envy from ourselves. And we are asking forgiveness from Allah Almighty for everything, and particularly for being envious. It is not a good title for you, for a believer, to be envious; no, never. You must take it away, throw it out.
By the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-merciful, Most Beneficent and Most Munificent. We have just arrived at the last day of Holy Ramadan, and we are sorry because the divine manifestations that belong to Holy Ramadan are going away; but a new month, a new moon, is coming, with a new mercy from Allah Almighty. And we are asking from our Lord, Almighty Allah, to let us reach many holy months like Ramadan during our lives, and to take more lights and more honor each time.
We know and believe that Islam is the best for everyone, individually and collectively, because Islam is perfect individually and collectively, and its rules are suitable for the nature of people. It is also perfect for the life of mankind on earth, and it is perfect, also, for our spiritual lives and for our spiritual development. It is excellent, so that no one can even imagine
anything more perfect than Islam for developing people, individually and collectively, in their spiritual lives.
No one can bring any statement to that effect; anyone who can use his clean mind must recognize this. I must say "clean mind" because the twentieth century makes most peoples' minds dirty. They are saying "brainwashing," but it makes brains not washed but dirty about Reality, so that most peoples' minds are dirty, and therefore they can't understand the correct and true rules in Islam.
They are looking with black eyeglasses and seeing everything as black, and they use them most of all for Islam and its rules: when they want to look at Islam, they always put on dirty eyeglasses, painted with black paint, so that anything at which a person may look after that, he must see as a bad thing or with crooked lines on it. Therefore we are saying that people with clean minds, clean brains, who have not put up anything that prevents them from seeing the color and purity of Islam and its rules, may see that in Islam nothing is 'awaj, crooked. Everything is straight.
And in our time, people are objecting or trying to accuse Islam most for its rules concerning ladies, and Western women are trying to accuse the rules in Islam about women most of all. But, as we said, they are always fanatical people and they are always against Islam; they always put on dark eyeglasses painted with black coloring, which never show them what are the real rules and what the rules in Islam give to women.
In reality, Islam brought rules and rights for two kinds of people, rights for men and rights for women; and the Creator put those rules and rights for men and women, no one else. And you must know that men are created as men and women are created as women, male and female. It is impossible to say that men are equal to women or women are equal to men. Each kind of nature is just created as male or female, created in a
special form. People must understand this.
It is impossible
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