Jummah khutba by şeyh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kıbrısi

Friday, 16 Jumad al-Thani 1429
(June 20, 2008)
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York

Auzu billahi min ash-sheytanir rajim
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Medet Ya Seyyidi Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah. We are thanking our Lord that He has created us from the children of Adam (as) and He has granted us faith. How much should we thank? Non-stop. Non-stop we should be thanking. But Dunya is fooling us. This world. And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us in one ayat, `This Dunya life is only very temporary and very little enjoyment you are going to get out from it. It’s only a game. The real life is the life of Akhirat. Hereafter. Prepare yourself for that.’

Today, from the kindergartens to the universities, from the workplaces to anywhere you go, Imams, masjids, mosques are concentrating people for Dunya, the world. 124,000 prophets came to the world. None of them came to the world to live in the world. None of them came to tell people, `Come to Dunya. Have better jobs. Have better education.’ No. Education, studying and learning is obligation, it is farz in Islam. It is obligation to the boys and the girls. It is obligation for the child from seven-years-old up to seventy-years-old. From the crib to the grave, it is obligation to learn.

But to learn what? What is it that we have to learn? Are we going to learn this Dunya? This Dunya that Allah is saying to us, `It’s only temporary and there’s only very little benefit in it’? Or should we concentrate on Akhirat? All prophets were coming to tell us, `Turn your face’… face means, your love, your attachment, `from this Dunya to Akhirat. From Dunya to Mawla. From this life to the Akhirat life. From this temporary life to the eternal life that is waiting for you.’

This is what we have to concentrate on. This is what we have to be busy with. This is what we have to sit and think all the time. `How I did today? Today I got up again. Why did I get up? Did I get up for the sake of Allah, to live for Allah’s sake or I got up for this Dunya?’ If you’re getting up for this Dunya then there’s very little benefit, Allah is saying. If you’re getting up for Allah’s sake to live for Allah’s sake then this Dunya is coming free with it because you’re aiming for Akhirat life. It’s just like a farmer who’s planting grain. When he’s planting the grain no farmer is planting grain to collect straw. Everyone’s planting the grain to multiply the grain, to get more out from it. But the straw comes free. It grows with it and you take the straw free. This Dunay is just like that straw. The Akhirat life is just like that grain you’re planting.

So the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `When the angel of death comes to you, three things go with you to the grave. Three things accompany you to your grave. One is your family, the other one is your wealth and the other one is your good deeds. Your good deeds, your good actions, your good way of lifestyle stays in the grave with you. Your family and your wealth turn back.’ Huh, in the 21st Century not even your family comes to your grave anymore. As soon as you die they leave you over there and they don’t bury you until they finish the fighting of Dunya.

So for what? For what all this? For a little bit of food that we’re going to eat? Or to say, `I’m going to leave it to my children’? Which children? Those children who are going to fight for who’s going to take more and they’re not going to even turn to look at you? Allah subhana wa ta’ala is giving us a lesson, teaching us who we are and what we are. We’re all like this. Yes. The children of Adam are all like that. Exceptions are those ones who turn around and take their ego under their control. And their mind, their faith and their spirit is ruling on their ego. If the man is saying, `Yes, I’m that one’, then that one must be aiming to Akhirat. If the man is saying, `Yes, I’m controlling my ego, my ego is under my control, my faith is strong, I have high intelligence, my spirit is very happy’, that one’s aim is Akhirat. He’s looking to Akhirat. He cannot look for Dunya. As soon as you turn and you look at Dunya, the burden starts, the heaviness starts.

So this is a lesson to us, to you and to me, to the whole mankind. Allah is speaking to us, saying to us who we are, what this world is, what is waiting for us on the other side and who is He and what is it that we have to do with that One. You may delay it. Delay as much as you want. The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `If you’re delaying today’s job for tomorrow, you’ve already lost. You’ve already perished.’ Do you know when the angel of death is going to come to you? Instantly. When you’re making the corner, he’s waiting. Sometimes we go through that and we’re still not waking up to understand, `Azrail was there.’ You didn’t see the figure, that’s true. But all actions are showing that you were just a second away from death.

So you think you’re brave then? Challenging? Challenging death? Challenging Akhirat when you’re not ready for it? That is an ignorant man. Ignorant man is he who doesn’t know he’s challenging death. Yes, the ignorant man is that one who’s sitting on two wheels, going on top-speed and he’s giving his life to one little stone on the road. That one is ignorant. He’s not knowing what’s waiting for him there. There is no protection. Yes, you may say, you’re standing here and the building may fall on top of your head. That is beyond your control. It’s not in your hand. But certain things are in your hand, it is in our hand and we have to take control on that. And if we don’t then we pay a price for that too.

So one day the Holy Prophet (sws) was passing through next to a wall and that wall was cracked. Anytime it may collapse. And when he came to that station near that level he started moving fast from there. He moved fast and after he passed that wall he slowed down. The Sahaba said, “Ya Rasulullah, are we running away from Qadar? From destiny?’ He said, `No, we’re running away from the open signs of Qaza, accidents, to the destiny of Allah.’ We’re escaping from here. We don’t know what’s waiting for us on the other side. But Allah is showing us the danger there. So we should not play here. We should move. We should move from here fast to our destiny.

This is what we have to do. Death is waiting for us. We didn’t taste the death yet. Everyone of us are going to. We cannot escape from it. No man is going to escape from it. There’s only one man who escaped from it until now for over two thousand years. Isa (alayhi salam). He’s coming back to the world to die. One of the biggest reasons that he’s coming back to this world is to taste the death because he went up with his spirit and with his physique together and he’s going to come back to this world to die, to give that spirit and that body will go under the ground to be prepared for the Judgment Day. No man is going to escape from that. We cannot.

Yesterday we were inside our mother’s womb. Today we are standing on top of this ground. Tomorrow we are going to be in it. So as much benefit you’re going to get from this Dunya, run to Dunya. Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `As much as you’re in need of this Dunya, run to this Dunya. As much as you’re in need of Akhirat, run to Akhirat.’

So an intelligent man must sit and think, `How much I need this Dunya and how much I need the Akhirat?’ That is according to your faith.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

BELIEVERS MUST LOOK WITH THE NUR OF ALLAH

Jummah Khutba given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim Al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 26 Safar, 1428
March 16,2007
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Sydney Center, New York.

Auzu billahi minash sheytanir rajim
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Medet Ya Seyyidi Sultanul Awliya Medet

Alhamdlillahi Rabbil Alameen. As-salatu wa salamu `ala rasulina Muhammad wa alihi wa ashabihi ajma’in. Shukr. We are thanking our Lord ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala). One more month of Safar we are finishing inshaallah ar-Rahman and we are entering into the holy month of Rasulullah (salatu wa sallim).

Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “Be careful from the vision of a believer because he looks with the Nur of ALLAH. You cannot fool him.” When a believer looks with the Nur of ALLAH, he must know what is valuable. That’s the sign which is showing that you cannot fool him now. Sheytan cannot fool him, Dunya cannot fool him and the treasures and the pleasures of this world cannot fool that one. If a man is saying this and still running after Dunya and leaving the duties that ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala) put as obligations on him, he already got fooled. He can say as much as he wants and he can read this (Qur’an-e Kerim) as much as he wants. It’s because if he is a real believer, then he must know what is valuable. Of course, we need to go to work and we need to earn. But the priority is ALLAH, His orders and His Prophet (sws).

Over one and a half billion Muslims in the east, west, north and south. These countries are non-Muslim countries. What happened to the Muslim countries now? Look what’s happening. Friday, Juma, holy day, holy days. The days that we are entering (RabiAwal) – the believers must be celebrating the month, the month that the Holy Prophet (sws) has been born. The believers must take that month very holy, must run after that month, must sit, stand all together and must make Mawlid celebrations to the Holy Prophet (sws) because the Prophet (sws) has been sent to this world for the safety of the whole mankind in the east, west, north and south, from the day that he came until Judgment Day. If anyone is saying, “I am safe” or anyone who is looking for safety must be taking the orders and the footsteps of the Holy Prophet (sws). No other safety.

So when we look at it, to ourselves, to the whole nation of Islam and to this whole mankind… because ALLAH subhana wa ta’ala is not sending him to one nation, to one handful of Arabs. No. He is sending him to the whole mankind and also other creatures, other jinns and all. He is the prophet of all. He is the Prophet of the prophets. When all other prophets were coming, order was being given to them, “If Muhammad (sws) is coming in your time, know that the prophethood that we are giving to you is void. You must follow that one.” ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala) knew when he is going to send that Prophet. He is showing a sign to us saying to us that all those prophets accepted the Prophet (sws). He didn’t come in their time but they accepted it.

The majority of those prophets asked ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala) saying, “Ya Rabbi, do not make us prophets. Make us one from the nation of that Prophet (sws), one of the followers of that Prophet (sws).” And ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala) refused saying to them, “What I give to you, my happiness in you is in that. What I give to the nation of Muhammad, it is a blessing to them.” It is a sad thing for those people from the east, west, north and south, all this mankind that, that title is given to them and they are just leaving that title and running after this empty world. And in the end you are going to find emptiness. Nothing else. Hands are (going to be) empty. Run after it.

PROPHET DREW A LINE IN THE SAND

Once in the desert Holy Prophet (sws) drew a line with his cane and said to the Sahaba-e Ikram, “If you follow that line, that line will bring you to me and I will bring you to ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala).” Once also he took the Sahaba-e Ikram early in the morning while the sun was rising and the told them, “Turn your backs to the sun.” They turned. He said, “Do you see your shadows?” They said, “Yes.” He said, “Run to catch that shadow.” The Sahaba-e Ikram were not too… (How to say this word now in this khutba place, I must watch [Sheykh Efendi smiles]) …smarties like today’s people right away to say to the Prophet (sws), “Well, we cannot catch the shadow.” Prophet (sws) knew that. The Sahaba-e Ikram knew that too. But the Prophet (sws) has ordered and they were all running top-speed trying to catch the shadow not knowing what is behind this. They were running and finally Prophet (sws) said to them, “Stop.” He said to them, “Now, turn around.” They turned around. He said, “Now run to me. Catch me and I will take you to ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala).”

Now we must look. The Sahaba were with the Prophet (sws). They were watching the miracles, they were watching everything and every word that the Holy Prophet (sws) was saying, they were taking it and putting it on top of their heads. Never having any doubts and never saying any words against the Prophet (sws). Just one time it happened in the Uhud War. They used their own understanding, some of the Sahaba, and they said, “We should go out Ya Rasulullah to fight with them.” Prophet’s (sws) heart was not in it but he said, “It’s because the majority of you wanted it”, and he changed it. Later he put his armors on, he came out and the other Sahaba warned the other ones (who wanted to go to war) saying, “What are you saying? Holy Prophet (sws) said to stay and you wanted to go out of Uhud?” They changed their minds. They said, “We are sorry Ya Rasulullah. We made a mistake. We said a word against your word.” He said, “But when a prophet puts on his armor he will not change it again. We are going out.” They went and you know the story of the Uhud War, what really had happened there, for just simple things that they did, the Sahaba.

MUSLIMS LOST DIRECTION

Look at us today. East, west, north and south, Muslims, Muslim nations, Muslim individuals and groups lost the direction, the compass because this Sheytan has changed the signs. One way streets, dead end streets, he changed it. In dead end streets he is putting the signs saying, “This is the way you are going.” (Sheykh Efendi smiles). In one ways streets he is turning the signs the other way around showing wrong direction to mankind. The only way out is following the footsteps, the teachings of the Holy Prophet (sws). No other way. So if we are not doing that then we are getting fooled by Sheytan. And do we fit to that hadith now saying, “Be careful from the vision of a believer. You cannot fool him because he looks with the Nur of ALLAH”? We must fit to that. If we are believers, if we are Mu’mins then we must fit to that hadith. And we must run top-speed, any opportunity that is coming to us, we mus look saying, “This is a test to me from my Lord”, “This is a test to me from my Sheykh”, “This is a test to me from my Prophet”.

And we should not say, “What is in it for me?” We should say, “What is in it for the mankind. What is in it for other people?” When we do that, then slowly we are changing the wrong attitude that we have and that wrong attitude is turning to a good one, if we are following that Prophet (sws). That Prophet (sws) came for our own safety. He never looked for anything for himself, he never ran after anything for himself. He always ran after the mankind trying to take them out from that mess. They did all kinds of harm to him. He didn’t give up. He went back to them. That is the characteristic of all prophets and the characteristic of those called `Sayyids’. Sayyids are those ones, whatever is done them, they forget easily, they give up easily and they run for them again for their safety. That’s the real meaning of Seyyid. So there are two kinds of Seyyids. One is coming from the lineage of the Holy Prophet (sws) and the second Sayyid is like that and the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “Those are more close to me.”

So we must be careful. Today is a holy day. The Muslims’ holy day. ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala) made that holy day for us saying to us, “You have to work these days and these days you must rest.” And between Fajr up till Juma time if you are running after this Dunya for earnings, that money is not going to give you so much benefit. ALLAH is saying this to us. Even if they give you the world during that time, say, “Eh, I should leave it. What’s going to happen? It’s not going to be of benefit to me. I am collecting the world but who knows maybe there’s a curse coming with that.” If we just think, Muslims just think that these days are very important, this Friday, this holy day then they should not be in this station today. They should not be in these heedless places today. Majority of the Muslims are not entering to the steps into the masjids. They say, “We are Muslims.”

“When are you going to come to the masjid?”

“Eh, when we have somebody, dead people, then we are coming to the courtyard.”

They are coming to the courtyard. They are not entering inside the masjid.

“Why are you not entering in there? Are you believers?

“Yes.”

“Why are you not entering into a masjid of ALLAH to ask? You have no problems?”

Full with problems. Sit over there, open and ask. Ask from that One who hears you. Not from the ones who are preparing to destroy you. This is what the Muslims are doing today.

We must leave that too. We must leave all those because Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “When you are reaching to that time and you are seeing that the majority are running to the wrong direction, leave them, separate yourself from them, pull yourself away from them. If you are entering into their masjids and you are watching that they are busy with worldly nonsense, don’t give salams to them, don’t sit with them and don’t associate with them.” It’s because the masjids of ALLAH are not for that nonsense. They are to prepare you for Akhirat.

So now, we must look at ourselves, we must run to change the wrong things that we are holding on to and we are running after. The priority must be ALLAH and reaching to ALLAH must be through the Holy Prophet (sws), as the Sahaba-e Ikram did. We must not run after our shadow, we must run after the Holy Prophet (sws), behind him. Anywhere we hear him, anywhere we hear (something from him), it fits to our heart that it is something good that the Holy Prophet (sws) said, we have to watch ourselves, “Am I doing that or not?”

“No.”

“I must try to do it.”

Don’t go around checking, “Oh, is this a real hadith brother or is this a fake hadith?”

It’s not for you. Take it as real. Even if it’s a wrong one, take it as real and ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala) will give you the blessing because you are showing respect to that Prophet (sws). If you are running to say, “Is this right? Is this wrong?”, then until Judgment Day you cannot finish it. Impossible. Centuries are passing, people are running after that nonsense, days coming, months are passing, years are passing and life is going. They are running after empty things. They are running to catch something to find something. No! “Whatever you know”, saying Holy Prophet (sws), “In Ahir Zaman, don’t run around searching so much because there’s going to be so much publications everywhere and so much confusion. The little that you know, take it sincerely and apply it to yourself. Then you will find the Sirat-ul Mustaqim.” That’s what ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala) is saying to us, “If you live with the knowledge that you know, ALLAH will teach you the knowledge that you don’t know.”

Ah, plus us, ourselves, we have the Guide of the guides, the Sultanul Awliya, Sultan of the sultans. He is showing us, alhamdulillah, everything right. Every khutba and every sohbet that he is making, if we take only one of them and apply it to our life then definitely we will find the right road. If we are just taking one of his khutba, one of his sohbet and if we don’t read nothing else and concentrate on that, that is enough to put us into Sirat-ul Mustaqim and to make us continue on that road. Otherwise, in today’s world, through this technology, through this media, internets, newspaper, magazine, instead of spreading knowledge it’s spreading so much confusion everywhere. Everyone saying, “I know, I know.”

“From where do you know?”

“I know. I know the best.”

One newspaper has a hundred writers, two hundred writers, depending on the newspaper. The editor is saying, “The article that I write is the best.” Everyone is saying, “It’s the best. Best, best, best.” Imams, everyone knows the best. Sheykhs – everyone knows the best. Only them, nobody else. We must leave this ignorance. We must leave this arrogance. Anywhere we are entering, if somebody’s speaking then we must listen. If he is speaking from the Truth, from the Haqq then we must take it. But maybe the person is wrong. It doesn’t matter. The Truth is not changing, the Haqq is not changing. Even if it’s coming from Sheytan, you must take the true words.

PROPHET MUSA AND SATAN

“Sheytan is disobedient.”

Leave that now. When we look at ourselves, how many times are we disobedient? That Sheytan became disobedient only one time in the Divine Presence and he has been kicked away and cursed. He was the most beautiful creature. Disobedience made him to become the ugliest creature and kicked away from the Paradise saying, “You don’t fit to the Paradise anymore. Go to Dunya.” If ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala) would’ve punished him then he would’ve been more happy. But He said, “No. Go away from here. Go to Dunya and wait until Judgment Day. That time I am going to punish you.”

So every single day that is passing, every month and year that is passing and we are getting closer to the Judgment Day, that Sheytan is shivering from that fear now saying, “I am getting closer. I am also getting closer to that Judgment Day. What kind of punishment is reaching to me?” Still the door is open to him. When he went to Musa (as) saying, “Ya Musa, your Lord is an unjust one.” Hasha astaghfirullah. Musa (as) said, “Why are you saying that?” He said, “Because Adam committed the mistake and I did the same thing. Both committed disobedience. He has forgiven him but He hasn’t forgiven me. For that He is unjust.” Ulul Azam prophet, a high one, given a book, Kalimullah, he is thinking, “This Sheytan has one point here.” He was not finding a way out. When he was thinking on the Mountain of Tur, Rabbil Alameen said to him, “What happened, Ya Musa?”

He said, “It is known to You, ya Rabbi. This Sheytan came to me and said this and this but I couldn’t find any answer for him.”

He said, “It’s easy. When you are going back, tell him… when he is going to come, say, `My Lord is Just’. He knows where Adam is buried. Tell him to go over there and make one Sejdah and I will forgive him.”

Musa (as) was coming, saying, “This is the message you got.”

He said, “I didn’t make Sejdah to Adam when he was alive and I am going to make Sejdah to his dead body?”

He became more stubborn and more arrogant. We must be careful. ALLAH (subhana wa ta’ala) is showing that one to us, saying to us, “Your ego is the same like that one. It’s because your ego is representing that Sheytan in this body.” So we must be careful. We must not run after that ego because that ego is going to bring you to the fire. So we must be careful. If we are looking for safety then the only way out is what Holy Prophet (sws) brought to us and we must go out from this world with a title. Everyone is looking for a title, east, west, north and south.

“Are you going to school?”

“Yes, I am studying.”

“What are you going to become?”

“Doctor.”

“You?”

“Professor.” “Engineer.” “Shepherd.”

Nobody goes to school to become a shepherd but now they go to school to become a garbage man, to learn how to collect garbage. MashALLAH. They have to have degrees to collect garbage too now. Don’t think that I am putting that job down. No. It is a high job, it is a job that a humble man can do, but this is what today’s education system is ordering, saying, “Run to get titles.” We need to get one title. The title that says, “The Servant of ALLAH.” When we go to the other side the angels stop saying, “Let me see your ID card, what it says on it. Servant of ALLAH or the creature that ALLAH created who became the servant of Sheytan or the creature that ALLAH created who became the servant of his ego or the creature that ALLAH subhana wa ta’ala created who became the servant of Dunya.” You must run to put that one the first, “The Servant of ALLAH.” If we are putting that into our ID card then we are reaching to safety in Dunya and Akhirat.

We must not say today, “Yes, we did it” and lay down tomorrow. No. Until the angel of death comes to us we must run every single day, in every opportunity that is opening in front of us, to run to keep that title high. If we want safety and if we want to be from those ones about whom are said, “Be careful from the vision of a believer because he looks with the Nur of ALLAH. You cannot fool that one”, then we must run after this. Otherwise, Sheytan, Dunya or our ego has fooled us and the one who got fooled by his ego is in trouble.

Wa min ALLAHu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha..
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Transcribed by Yeni Osmanli

Honor of Being Human is Only in Taqwa and Servanthood to ALLAH cc

Sohbet by Seyh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Saturday 16 Muharram 1428
(February 3, 2007)
Osmanli Dergah, Sidney Center, New York

Auzu Billahi Minasheytanir Rajim
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
La Hawla Wala Quwwata Illa Billahil Aliyyul Azim
Hasbunallah Wani’mal Wakil
Tariqatina Sohbet Fil Khayri Min Jemiet
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alemin

We are thanking to our Lord, Allah (subhanahu wata’ala). First, He has created us a man. Not a donkey. Not an animal. Not a tree. But a man. Man that He has created in Ahsani Taqwim. The Most Perfect creature. That all this creation, that knowing and not knowing, what man knows and what he doesn’t know, from all this creation Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) [is] continuously creating and He has created the man in Ahsani Taqwim, the Most Perfect one. What else [do] you want? Complaining non-stop! Twenty-four hours a day! Because [He] created you a man? And He didn’t create you [a] donkey. That’s why you’re complaining? Hasbinallah Wani’mal Wakil.

So Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) has created us the most perfect creatures. He has not created nothing for no reason. Everything has – what He has created – everything has a reason of creation. And everything that you are seeing and not seeing, from the galaxies to the atoms, they all have [a] reasoning of creation. Nothing happened just by coincidence, by accidents, or – nothing is a copy. Everything that you see or you don’t see in the universes or in your world, or on you, every cell is perfect. Perfect. Allah is perfect, creating everything perfect. So from all this creation, Allah (subhanahu wata’ala), He has honored us, the mankind saying, “the Best One.” Because better than the angels. If you [are] using the titles that is given to you as a human, the mankind reaches to the station of angels or higher than the angels. But He’s saying to us, “If you are not using that title that I am giving to you as a human, you are falling to the levels of the animals. But He’s saying, “No, now you are lower than the animals.” Because the animals they know their reason of creation. And they are living according to that reason of creation. They have no intelligence. They have only instincts that is coming to them. Or some animals, they move according to inspiration. Inspiration [is] coming to them. The angels, they have been created. They have no will or wish. And they have no desires. And Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) created them, and saying, “This is what you got to do.” And they do. They have no ego.

So the man, Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) has created saying, “Ahsani Taqwim.” Understand that. All this creation that we are knowing, and things that we don’t known that we start imagining, He created them saying, “Be.” Kun Fayakun. And everything appeared. Except the man. The man Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) has created Adam (aleyhis selam). He has taken from the earth, mixing up the dirt, putting water, molding, putting a shape to a man with His Divine Hands. Don’t think this kind of hands now. But He’s teaching us a lesson saying that He has put a shape to a man. Spending time in His creation. He’s putting a shape to a man. Then, Allah (subhanahu wata’ala), when that man is laying down, only a clay body, He’s blowing to that man from His Holy Breath. Holy Breath. That now you [are] calling that Spirit came. No, Allah is not giving what is from Him to a man. If He’s giving something, what is from Him to a man, and that man has to be increasing always as Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) [is] expanding. And then the man will declare one day saying, “I am your partner.” That’s why Allah is not accepting partnership in His Kingdom. And everything that you know and everything that you don’t know that’s His Kingdom. Everything that He has created.

So, just this man, He has blown into from His Holy Breath. Not something from Himself that He’s giving. No, just a Breath that for us to understand. (Sheykh breathes in and out quickly). You’re taking the air in and putting it out. That doesn’t mean that you are giving spirit out. (Sheykh breathes in). You are taking air in and you are giving air out. So Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) [is] saying to us. He has blown from His Holy Breath to a man. And that man now became perfect. Instantly. He stood up. And when Adam (aleyhis selam), that Holy Breath became spirit to him, became life to him, and when he opened his eyes, laying down and looking, then when the spirit started moving into the body, everywhere that is coming in is becoming alive and moving. And he’s sitting. Before it’s reaching to the feet, when he sit, then he sneezed (Sheykh sneezes) then he says, “Alhamdulillah. ” First time he has just [been] created. He has just been given that Breath. He did that and he’s saying, “Thank you Ya Rabbi,” the “basit”, the lowest level of explanation [of] Alhamdulillah. Saying, “Thank you Ya Rabbi.”

Why did he say that? The man, [in] Ahir Zaman, man in the Last Times, living on the face of earth now, they just found that out. Allah is giving them the knowledge to find that. The Holy People, they have always known. But these one[s] they [are] just finding out. Allah is giving them a sign that maybe they wake up. Now they [are] finding out when you are sneezing, then the heart stops for a split second. It may not click back on again. So the life is taken (Sheykh breaths out) is given right back to him and he’s saying, “Thank you Ya Rabbi.

Alhamdulillah you have given me back that life.” And all the spirit reaching to his feet. And he stood up. Now he’s looking around. And order [is] coming to him, “What is this, what is that?” He starts knowing everything. Just with that Holy Breath that Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) [is] blowing into a man. Angels are in need of studying and looking and learning. The Adam (aleyhis selam) did not. He didn’t study. Just that Holy Breath made him. Gave him a life, and made him to know everything.

So Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) [is] saying to us. That now he’s in Paradise, looking around. Living. But he’s getting bored after a while in Paradise saying, “This is Paradise, this is food, this is that.” Everything that is around him, he’s looking; none of the creation is one of his kind. [It] is not made out from the same material. All made out from different material. The Paradise, and the tree[s], and the angels, and everything surrounding him is not one of his kind. He has communication with them but is not one of his kind. So he start[s] feeling lonely in the Paradise. Then Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) when he’s sitting now saying, “I am tired of this Paradise now,” and for a split second going to sleep and he’s waking up and he’s seeing another, one of his kind. It [is] made out from the same material. But is completely different than him: Hawwa. And they say to him, “What is this one?” They ask, “What is this?” Right away he knew that one too saying, “This is Hawwa.” “What is the name, why is [it] Hawwa?” “Because she has been created from the living one. I have been created from the mud. But that one has been created from me. To be accompanying me in this Paradise.” So the Paradise became Paradise until the cursed Sheytan fooling them and putting them out from the Paradise to the earth and saying, “Find your way back to the Paradise.” He started being bored in the Paradise. But now, as soon as Hawwa came, he’s not bored anymore in Paradise. And they wanted to stay in Paradise forever. Think. And they commit[ed] the wrong doings there. Then Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) [is] sending Adam (aleyhis selam) down to earth. His wife. From their children multiplying, we are here, Ahir Zaman. The End of the Times. In reality we are all coming out the same mother, same father. Different colors. Different shapes. It doesn’t matter. All coming from that two. Male and Female. Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) is saying, “We have created you from one nefs,” one, “then from that one We have created Hawwa, then We multiplied.”

What is the reason of creation then now? Why we are here? The whole of these animals and these trees. The trees they know their job. Every year, now [it] is wintertime, everything falling, the greens they fall out. The whole tree, you look, is nothing. No sign of life in it. But [as] soon as the winter is gone, the summer start[s] coming, you’re going to see the life growing up again. Same green again. Whatever that tree is giving, if it’s an apple tree, [the] following year [it] is not going to mix up to give orange. Or what else? Banana tree. Hmm. It’s not mixing up. Now those trees, they all know exactly when they [are] going to open up, how much fruit they [are] going to give. And when they [are] going to close again. Centuries. Some trees they stay thousands of years. I met one tree in my country. [It] is over a thousand year[s] old. It gives fruit seven times a year. Never mixing up. Always giving that fruit out. Over [a] thousand year old tree. Right in our mosque, is only one there. Somebody, some Holy Man, brought it from somewhere, planted there, it became [a] huge tree. That huge tree is giving this much small fruits on it. And [it] is never giving the fruit on the branches. [It] is giving it on its own trunks area. This much opens up. [It] is [an] unusual tree. Alhamdulillah. Sheykh Mevlana is eating from that one’s fruit all the time. We are eating too so many times. But [a] thousand-year- old tree is never mixing up. Always giving out the same fruits. From the time that I’ve known myself, the same fruit. I ask elderly people. They say [it] never mixed it up. Giving the same fruit. Man – mixing up everything. One day like this, one day like that. One day believer, one day unbeliever. One day he’s thinking I am from the children of Adam. One day he’s thinking saying, “Monkey, Darwin, I am monkey,” and they [are] running after [a] monkey.

They don’t want to carry no responsibility. That’s what it means. They want to live like animals. But [the] animal world is not accepting too saying, “We have our own laws. You cannot carry these laws.” You want to live like animals, go out there to the forest. Now, look how many minutes you’re going to stay out there. But all those animals, they’re finding their house, their finding their way, and eating and drinking and living. So the man, insisting to live like [an] animal carrying no responsibilities, carrying no laws, and no order saying, “I am free, I do as I like.”

You are not free. You are a prisoner between two breaths. I tell you that much. (Sheikh takes a breath in) If Allah does not permit, this air doesn’t come in and you die. If He doesn’t permit (Shaykh breaths out) air doesn’t come out and you die. How [are] you claiming you are free? If you are that free stop breathing for one hour. No, put it down, fifteen minutes. Maybe five minutes. No. You cannot. It is not possible. So you are not free. You are in need of that air. So you must beg for that air to continue coming. Because that [is] the first need for life that is given to you. You cannot live without that for two minutes. Now, the second life is water. Seen in your body. So now we cannot say, you cannot say I am free. Don’t drink. Why are you drinking? All the time. Don’t drink. Don’t eat. Continue all these things.

So we are not free. If we are free, if we are free having authority on your own self, why are you getting old? Don’t get old. Stay young. You are [getting old]. So that shows to you, that shows to me that somebody has power on us. Has the authority on us. And is ruling on us. Even if we like it or not, He’s moving us to that destiny. And He’s moving us to where? To our grave. No way out. If you can find [a] way out go. No way out. Forward, going always. But going always forward toward the grave site. Every single day that is passing. Mashallah, in the West first, people with empty heads they were jumping up and down celebrating their birthday. Now, East and everywhere saying, “I am very happy. Right. One more year that I got elderly now. That’s why I’m happy.” Getting old. Then you say, “How old are you?” Especially if it’s a woman in the old days, they don’t say. Now, the men, they don’t say too. “Don’t ask my age. I feel, I feel like my heart is eighteen years old.” Mashallah, hehe, but your body is finished, expired. Ha-ha. Say, “Fool yourself as much as you want to fool. Eighteen or twenty.” Hmm. The bottom point is you can feel, you can act, you can look. But there is a certain limit life is giving to you and to me. Once that’s finished, shwww, out from this world.

And that life is not given to us saying this many years you’re going to live. That life is given to us this many breaths of air (Sheykh breaths in and out) You’re going to breath in and you’re going to give out. This many. It’s counted. Don’t make no mistake.

So all this that Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) is giving to us, and is teaching us, sending prophets to us, sending books to us, to makes us be aware of our own self and to be aware of Him. First to know our self, and to know Him. We have to know two things: One, we have to know our self, then we have to know Him, Allah (subhanahu wata’ala). Why created. We must know. All this for what? To know Him and to worship Him. He has not created us to be running after this world, to be slaves for this world. He has created us for His service. So all these things that we’re seeing it in this world, He has created for our service. Everything is working for us. From this snow that is coming down, for this water, the air, the mountains, trees, animals, everything for us. Us to Himself. For His service. And He’s saying, “When you are in My service, I have created everything for you, and you for My service,” so, “when you become [a] good servant for Me, I am for you also.” Allah Allah. The mankind [is] running away from the service of Allah. Wants everything, but still running from the service of Allah. Saying, “I am for you. Ask, I give you everything. That time I work for you too. Everything, I created for you.”

So now, we have to know who we are and who is our Lord. We have to learn. We have to try to live according to that. If we are not living according to that, then we are living according to our ego. And this short life that is given to us, one day [it] is just going to finish, expire. (Sheykh breathes in) The breath of air is going to expire, (Sheykh trying to breathe) you won’t be able to take in anymore. Finished. They say, “Your time is up.” The air is there. “We have given you [a] calculated amount of air.” You have just finished. Take to the hospital. They put all those gas on your head, mask pumping the air in. Eh, that’s what they’re pumping. Air. (Sheikh breathes in) Now how much [would] you pay for this air? Free. Go to [a] hospital. Look, one tank. How much they’re going to charge you? Easy, go and ask them. Would you give the whole world that you have that time? Of course you would. How much [would] you give for this glass of water? Nothing. For free. We’re not understanding the value. If the water is not here what we will do? Seventy percent of your body is water. This body is water. Seventy percent.

So treat that body properly. Don’t listen to stupid music. Listen [to] good music. Don’t use bad words. Use good words. Because they have just proven also that, [when] you’re speaking nice words into this water, then the water turns into beautiful crystals, beautiful shapes. And when you let the water listen to Rock & Roll music, or dirty words, those crystals, they turn into very ugly shapes. Evilish shapes. So this water is your body. Seventy percent. Treat this water properly too. Honor the water.

We have what? What we will do with this water? If you don’t have water? If you own this whole world and I have this glass of water and you are ready to die from thirst. If I tell you, “Give me half of the wealth that you have, I give you this glass of water.” Would you give it to me that time? Half of the wealth that you have. No? You would give to that person who’s going to give you a glass of water because you’re dying from thirst. For that glass of water, you will give half of the wealth.

And what about, [if] you just drank that water, now Allah’s authority on you [is] saying, “This water is not coming out, that you just have drank.” Meaning you cannot go to [the] toilet now to bring this water out. And somebody [is] there saying, “Give me the other half of the wealth, I’ll let you to go to [the] toilet to take this water out. Would you give the other half? Of course. So, he gave the whole world for a glass of water. Now you understand the value of the water? Yes, we must understand. Now, we must understand the value that Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) has given to us. Now, we’re trying to understand the value of things that [are] so easily coming to us that we [are] not showing value. And Allah is saying to us, “I have created you Ahsani Taqwim.” The most perfect creature. Haaa.

So now, if we start understanding the value that is around us, that Allah created for our service, slowly when we are understanding our own value, then when we start understanding our own value we look at it saying, “We are no good for nothing.” Yes, that time we look at the animal we see, the Sheep eats green only, grass. Then it gives milk. It gives meat. It gives the fur. It gives the skin. It gives the horns. It gives the bones to me, and everything is useful. And me, I am eating everything. What comes out from you? You know what comes out. It’s not even good for putting [for] fertilizing the land. So the animal’s waste is also good, fertilizing the land. Everything coming out is good. So now that you are seeing that you have no value at all, and Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) is saying, “I have created you the most perfect one. I am giving value to you.” What else [do] you want now? You’re still insisting? Oh mankind, still insisting saying, “I am monkey.” Or you’re still insisting to say, “I am a creature that Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) has created.” That time you reach somewhere. Inshallah we do. And if we do that, that time we will win this Dunya, everything surrounding us becomes Paradise for us, and real Paradise [is] waiting for us that time. Because Allah is saying, “Ha, you think this is something for you? This world?” He says, “You cannot even imagine, you cannot even bare to see [for] a split second what I have created for you in [the] hereafter life. So be a good servant.”

Inshallahur Rahman, we are making [the] intention to be a good servant. When you are a good servant, when you are happy with Allah and Allah is happy with you, then everything is yours. Then Allah is saying to us, “Yes, that nafs, that ego that Allah is happy with.” Now, your Lord is happy with you, enter to the Paradise of your Lord and live there forever. Otherwise, whatever we are planting in this world, that’s what we are going to harvest this year, [the] following year, or that season. Whatever that we are planting with our life, whatever that we are doing in our life, that’s what we are going to harvest hereafter. If we are turning our face to the direction of Paradise, one day, even if it is slow, we’re going to reach there. If our face [is facing the] opposite side to the Hell side and continuing that way, that’s what we’re going to reach.

So the choice is given to our hands. Allah is saying to us, “Either be My servant and stay on the way of the Paradise, and when the door opens you enter in the Paradise. Or runaway from My servanthood. You cannot run so much, because I have your leash in My hand. No man can escape from My hand. I’m sending the Azrail anytime I want. And once Azrail is coming taking your life, then they drag you into that wrong side. But I have not created you a man to put [a] leash around your neck and to pull you. I left you free. You are not [an] animal. I am showing you a lesson.” Allah [is] saying to us, “You are putting a leash around the necks of animal and you [are] pulling them.” That bull out there, over [a] thousand pound, you’re putting that leash and pulling it. Easily following you. Those wild animals, the man has authority on them. Why? Because Allah has just said to them, “Obey the man.” And showing [the] tricks and [the] traps to man, and the man is putting all those huge animals under their control. We must be under the service of our Lord, Allah (subhanahu wata’ala). That time, the much as we are under the service of our Lord, that much honor we have. Otherwise, the honor that you are putting on you with your clothes, with your worldly titles, you may keep it until the Angel of Death is coming. When the Angel of Death is coming, they’re taking all the titles away. [People will be] saying, “Quickly, remove this one from here. Don’t leave it out here. [It] started smelling. No creature is going to live that time. Quickly take it and bury it under the ground.”

That’s what the man is good for that time. So Inshallahur Rahman, first we have to understand the value that Allah (subhanahu wata’ala) has created around us. To show proper respect. Then we understand our value. Then we will understand that we really have no value. Then we say, “Ya Rabbi, Astaghfirullah. I’m just making prostration to you.” And that time, [the] more Taqwa you have, [the] more value you have.

Wamin Allahut Tawfiq.
Wahurmatul Habib.
Wahurmatul Fatiha.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin.

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Transcribed by Hakkani_Naksibendi

STANDING AT THE DOOR OF THANKFULNESS

Jummah Khutba given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim Al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 26 Jumad al-Awwal, 1427
June 24, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Sydney Center, New York.

Auzu billahi minash sheytanir rajim
Bismillahir rahmanir rahim
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billahil aliyyil azim.

Medet Ya Seyyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.
Shukr Ya Rabbi.
Astaghfirullah,astaghfirullah, astaghfirullahi wa atubu ilaih.

We are asking our Lord Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) to forgive us our shortcomings and make us to become better servants. We are living in the Ahir of the Ahir Zaman, the end of the times. Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) is saying, “When you reach to those days (you will see that) there will be no peace anywhere. There will be confusion everywhere, in the east, west, north and south. There will be very few people trying to stay on the Sirat-ul Mustaqim and the majority of the people will be following their ego’s desires and they will run after worldly activities only. Everything is going to turn bad and dirty.” That’s what happened today everywhere, from mankind, to the air, to the water and to the land. The children of Adam have destroyed everything. It is the secret that Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “There will be no clean areas to live.” No clean air and no clean water. The seas and the oceans are getting dirty. From the air to the land, everywhere. But the worst is man. The inside of man turned so bad that when you are speaking to them something good they are looking at you like you have lost your mind. Alhamdulillah.

It doesn’t matter how the world is living. We are responsible for our own selves. If there would be nothing in this world, nothing, everything is gone, no holy ones and no believers at all and you are the only one living, then the Shahadat is enough to keep you in the Sirat-ul Mustaqim. Giving the Shahadat, reminding yourself, purifying yourself and waiting, waiting for our time and preparing for our original place from where we came. It is only temporary here. One day you are good, next day you are bad, the following day you are sick, the following day you are feeling strong and three days later you are feeling weak. That’s how it’s going to go in this world. What is important is how we are going to the other side and what we are taking with us. If you are able to take that Shahadat with you by saving that Shahadat, keeping it clean and bringing it to the other side then you are the winner. If man is not going to the other side with the Shahadat, with the Kalima-e tawhid, then he is in big trouble. The trouble of dunya is nothing then. The trouble of dunya becomes like Paradise for those who are going to the other side without taking the station of real man, real human, Insan-i Kamil. The whole meaning of life is to make us become Insan-i Kamil, the perfect one and to go to the other side clean. The angels are asking how you came there. Have you taken that secret or not. What are you going to say?

This is the most important worry the believers must have. If you are worrying with this then all other things will come along easy because you have a bigger worry. You are worrying. And don’t think that today you are good, you are in Sirat-ul Mustaqim, and it’s guaranteed to us. No. It’s guaranteed to us as much as we force ourselves on that way. The day that you leave, you fly away. So many came and so many are gone. Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is ordering us to keep His Orders until the last breath. Not to think that one day we are going to reach to some station and then whatever we do is going to be okay. No. We have to always search ourselves, we have to look at ourselves, we have to question ourselves what we are doing, how we are doing, how we are living and whether we are progressing or we are going backwards. We must question, we must look, we must calculate, we must account ourselves and our deeds before we are coming to the accounting place. We must have it ready for ourselves. When we have it ready then we may look, see and say, “Yes, I did this but I didn’t do this. I must work on this part. I finished this part but I didn’t finish this part. I must work on this one.”

So Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is saying to us, “If you are living with the knowledge that you know, (you have learned a knowledge and if you are living according to that knowledge) then Allah will teach you the knowledge that you don’t know.” If we are calculating, accounting and looking at ourselves to see how we are living and what we are doing in our daily activities then we may find the wrong things that we are doing, which doesn’t look wrong to us, but in reality in the Divine Presence it’s wrong. So we must force ourselves to live according to that. Otherwise, there are two doors. One is the door of mercy, the door of Rahmat and the other one is the door of curse. Allah is not putting us there but mankind is insisting and running to that door. A simple way to be able to stay at the door of mercy is to be always happy with what Allah has given, saying, “Alhamdulillah Ya Rabbi! What you have given to me is the best.” Being a thankful servant. If you are being a thankful servant then you never turn to the door of curse, the door of complaints. The only people standing at the door of mercy are those who are pleased with their Lord and at the door of curse are those ones who are complaining. If you are finding any complaints then finish it. When you are about to complain of something then look at the someone who is worse than you and be happy. No need to complain.

The One who has given us everything liked it and that’s the way He gave it to us. If there is some good happening through us then know that it is a Rahmat and mercy from our Lord. If there are bad things happening to us then know that it is from our ego. We did something wrong somewhere. Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) does not punish His servants unless the servant runs and stands where the curse is waiting. He is saying to us where we are supposed to be, where we are supposed to spend our life and how we are supposed to live. He sent His Prophet (sws) to teach us. If we are following that Prophet (sws) then we are finding the life becoming very easy in every condition. Nobody should think that the life is going to be any harder than what happened to the Holy Prophet (sws) and the Sahaba-e Kiram. They lived in the worst time and the worst creatures were attacking them. They were at the door of mercy and thankfulness until the time came to them and they passed from this world.

We today alhamdulillah are not going through that much hardship. Although everything is so bad around but still we are not going through hardship like that. Our life is easy. We must be thankful ones and we must stand at the door of thankfulness and not open the door of complaint

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Amin.

Do Not Miss Jummah for Business;
Prepare for Mahdi (as) and Isa (as)

Cuma Hutbe by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Hakkani el-Kibrisi

Friday, 28 RabiThani 1427
May 26, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.

BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Medet Ya Seyyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.
Alhamdulillah, shukr Allah, Astaghfirullah.

We are thanking our Lord Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) that He has created us from mankind, He has put us in the nation of Muhammad (salatu wa sallim) and in this Ahir Zaman, in these bad times, in the worst time that the world has never seen such a foolishness before, He is keeping us in His service. This much should be enough for believers. If you have nothing else in this world and you are just thinking this then that should be enough for happiness to enter into your heart and the whole body must be happy.

Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) is saying, “In Ahir Zaman, in the end of times, they are going to build their mesjids so beautifully but as much importance they are going to show to their clothes, they are not going to show that much importance to their religion. If their worldly wealth is okay then they are not going to care what is going to happen to their religion.” Do you need to be a saint to understand that we are in those times now? We are in it. Everywhere you are going you are finding people running building mesjids (putting so many big office buildings, not mesjids anymore), but they are not putting Holy Prophet’s (sws) name and they are not putting Allah’s name in it. Empty places, dry and empty places. They are putting some designs out and in but the people who are entering in it are far away from Islam. So many are far away from faith. The mesjids of Allah are to bring people, the Muslims together and to worship Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) together to prepare themselves not for this world but to prepare themselves for what is coming ahead, the other world. Another prophecy, Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “If they know you then they are going to give salam to you but if they don’t know you then they are not going to give salam to you and they are not going to take salam from you in the mesjids of Allah.” Go and try. Look at how many people are entering and who is giving salam to who. If they know each other then they sit over there and they talk. They talk on the phone even if the Imam is giving khutba. It doesn’t matter to them. They are busy now.

This is not the Islam that Holy Prophet (sws) has brought to us. Islam must be priority in your life. Islam. The work of Allah must be priority, doing things for the sake of Allah must be priority. You must hold it high. Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “Spread salam among each other.” People are not giving salam to each other in the mesjids of Allah. The more salam you give the more blessings come to you. You will be under that blessing. If they don’t give you answer, it’s okay. You still give them salam. Angels will take it. Angels will reply back to you. Don’t worry.

Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is ordering us saying “Oh believers! Be with the righteous ones. Be with Saliheen.” Be with them, sit with them, talk with them, associate with them and spend time with them. The whole world east and west, north and south (exception are some places, some areas) turned into dirtiness. The jobs that they are doing are dirty, the intention of people are dirty, people even dirty the air. They are saying what? Pollution? Air pollution? Dirty air. They dirty the water. Mankind is dirtying everything now. They are dirtying the oceans, putting their wrong wastes everywhere. Small towns, go two miles down, you look and it says, “Do not trespass.” They put some dirtiness there, now the gas is coming out and the people are leaving their houses. Hmm.

All these are happening because man lost his direction (and they turned) from Akhirat to Dunya. Mankind lost their way. They forgot what they have been created for and they are running top-speed for this world. They are running to own the world. They are becoming slaves to the world. Never mind about praying five times a day, (they are saying), “Praying five times? Brother, it’s very hard.” Huh, very hard to pray five times a day? Then what kind of Allah is that who is giving you order to pray five times a day and you are saying that it’s hard? Hmm? Doesn’t Allah say, “I do not put on My servants burden that they are not going to be able to carry”? He is saying to us, “Come to My Presence five times.” Leave five times. We say, “Are you praying (at all)?”

“No.”

I say, “Pray two rakats a day.”

Then they turn and they say, “Sheykh, are you changing Islam?” I am not changing Islam but you are not praying five times a day. Pray at least two rakats a day. That will give you some energy maybe. Leave two rakats. Now it’s Juma. Pray once a week. (They say,) “I am busy.” You are busy? Maybe your business will become bankrupt. Every Muslim who is not going for Juma because of business, their business is going to become bankrupt from now on. You are leaving Allah’s order and not going for Juma? And now there are mesjids everywhere in the world, in every corner. With a car the farthest distance is one hour. Anywhere you are in America the farthest distance you are going to find a mesjid is one hour away from you. The Sahaba-e Kiram were walking miles. They were getting up and they were walking miles to come to Fajr prayer. They were going back, finishing their jobs and they were walking miles to come back for Zuhur prayer.

Whatever happened to Muslims today? Later they say, “Oh! We are under tyranny.” Of course you are under tyranny because Allah is saying to us, “If you are leaving the way of Allah then Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) will take the tyrants among you, He will make them to become your leaders and they will tyrannize you.” That’s what’s happening to us. “If you are remembering your Lord, if you are running after your Lord’s orders then Allah will make this world very easy for you and He will remember you in the Divine Presence.” This news should be enough for believers, for a man who believes in Allah and His Prophet (sws) and for a man who believes in the Judgment Day. This should be enough for the man who believes that he is going to get up from the grave, he is going to come to the Judgment Place and he is going to be questioned. If he is not believing that then leave that one. Run far away from him.

You cannot change anything anymore. It is not for us to change. It needs big power to come down to change the wrong direction of this world. So Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, “When you reach to the end of times, when you reach to those times when you see wrong but you are not going to be able to change it with your hands, you are going to see wrong but you are not going to be able to change it with your tongue then you have turn to your heart saying, `Oh my Lord, I am not accepting this wrong thing. I am far away from that wrong thing and from that person.’” And Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “That is the weakest of faith.” But you must do that for you to find safety. And he is saying, “When you see the whole crowds running into wrong direction, then pull yourselves away to the mountainsides. Live alone, pray alone and wait for the Savior. Wait for Mahdi (as) and Isa (as) to fix this world. You cannot do anything.” If all man come together they cannot change this wrong direction that it is going towards now. Isa (as) is coming down with Mahdi (as) to change it.

InshaAllah ar-Rahman we are asking our Lord to count us among those good ones to be helping those and to be helping the work of those. And we are believing that we have entered to that era. Soon these activities are going to take place in this world. We must prepare ourselves for that. Preparing ourselves is sitting and remembering Allah by Zikir for power to come to your heart. Don’t think you need gun power or you need this or that. No. You need this power (Sheykh Efendi pointing to the heart). When the power in the heart is strong then you will be winning. Otherwise, tyranny is going to be taken away from this world, every tyrant is going to be taken away from this world and if we have any tyranny in our hearts then we will go with them. So we must sit, we must concentrate, we must look, we must clean ourselves, we must work for the sake of Allah and we must try to build our Akhirat. If we run to build our Akhirat then Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) will make this world easier. If we run after this world then Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) will make this world hard for us and we cannot build our Akhirat then.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil.

Fatiha.
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Transcribed by Yeni Osmanli

The World Lost Its Compass;
The Dirtiness of Nuclear War

Sohbet by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Hakkani el-Kibrisi

Thursday, 27 RabiThani 1427
May 25, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Medet Ya Seyyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.
Alhamdulillah, shukr Allah, Astaghfirullah.

We are asking medet inshaAllah ar-Rahman from our Sheykh to send us something to speak that will benefit us, that will benefit me, you and everyone who listens. We are not good for anything. If they don’t send then we cannot speak. What we speak is for ourselves and for those people who are running to find true ways and to live the way of Islam, the way of Truth. This sohbet is for anyone who is thirsty for that. If it’s not then everyone should run to live as they like until the angel of death will come. After that no `as you like’. As He likes. After the angel of death comes we will all understand. Those who were before us all understand now. But it’s too late for some of them. Those who were living and trying to correct themselves in this life should not worry and those who are trying now should not worry too. Allah is the Most Merciful and the Most Beneficent.

The whole mankind today, from east, west, north and south lost the direction, lost the compass. It doesn’t know which side to go anymore and so much problems, miseries and pains and man is running for all kinds of things that the children of Adam has not been created for and staying under the curse and not collecting what is coming for them. The mercy of Allah is raining but they are running to the areas where the curse is raining. For that the whole mankind lost the direction, exception is some handful of people (such as) here and some others in the world. But the general (masses) lost the compass. They lost the direction. Nobody is controlling the wheel except Sheytan driving towards Jahannam.

Our Grandsheykh is saying, “This Sheytan is sitting on a big truck and that truck has a very powerful engine. So many people are behind that truck and Sheytan is driving the truck into the ocean or over a cliff, ready to fall down.” Our Sheykh is saying, “We (the Awliya, him and so many like him, there are 124,000) are trying to hold the truck from behind not to go down the cliff, not to go down to the ocean but the physical power that the truck is carrying is pulling every one of us together. So we have to know where to let it go.” And they are screaming to those who want safety saying, “Jump down from the truck! Otherwise, the end is deep, going down.”

Jumping down from the truck means turning back to the laws of Islam. There is no other way. Leave the ego ways, leave the ways of other teachings, other kinds of governmental teachings (let’s put it that way), or from studying in schools that are saying to you, “Enjoy yourself.” There is nothing to enjoy in this world. We have not been created to run after to try to enjoy ourselves. Enjoyment is in the hereafter. And we must have discipline to be able to accept the laws of Islam, to put it on ourselves and to start benefiting. All those laws and everything are to teach us to reach to the highest stations anyway, to become Insan-i Kamil, the most perfect one. So it’s teaching us slowly how to have better discipline, how to have better Adab, better manners.

Islam first put laws saying, “Forbidden things. Halal and Haram.” Haram and Halal, that is, what is for us and what is not for us to have, to eat, to drink and to enjoy. All nations today, Muslim countries too, removed the laws of Allah. They put their own laws. Man’s laws. Then later they are saying, “Oh, we are not interfering into religion. Leave as you like.” But they are not even leaving that. They are interfering into religion all the time. It’s okay in a country to go to open bars, clubs, discotheques and all kinds of wrong places. The government gives them license saying, “These are the borderlines. Live according to that and enjoy as much as you want inside that room. Go crazy if you want. Don’t bring it out. Drink as much as you want. But if you are too drunk then don’t drive your car. Let somebody bring you home.” This is what the governments are saying to people, some governments, especially in the Middle East. And it’s okay. It’s not illegal. That’s legal. You can have bars, you can have clubs and you can have all kinds of things that are speaking only for ego. It’s okay.

When you go to those governments to get a license saying, “I accept your secular way also. Let me live according to my religion inside the secular way. I am asking you to give me license to open a dergah and to have ten people, fifteen people, fifty people or a hundred people in the dergah to say `Allah’. We don’t like to go to bars, clubs and discotheques to go crazy drinking and getting all these wrong things. We would like to come together in this place to say `Allah’ and to jump up and down.” Now you are finding all governments saying, “No! We are not giving you permission to do that.”

Hmm. So you give permission to a man to have the microphone in his hand… some are not even men that are appearing on television. They look like men but they are not. Some look like women but they are almost naked, appearing on television singing, dancing and making people to admire them, to run after them, on state-run televisions and permission is given to all those wrong things, but they are not giving permission to believers to remember their Lord in their own houses. How are you expecting your government to stand up for a long time? No police government ever lived more than a hundred years. In a hundred years time it came down. History is showing, from the time of Firaun and Namrud to everyone. Meaning, oppressor governments who were pushing people didn’t live for long. All these ones are not going to live for long too now.

Ya hu, don’t you see? You go to an university and the university has laws saying to you, “You have to come to school at this time, you have to enter to the class at this time, at this time you are going to study, at this time you are going to sleep, at this time you are going to eat, at this time you are going to do that and at this time you are going to do this.” Everything has their laws. But when it comes to religion they don’t want any laws, they don’t want anybody to bother them and they say, “Live your religion by yourself.”

(You say,) “Let’s have ten people together.”

They say, “No! By yourselves.”

And Allah is saying, “Become Jamat.” So that’s how those governments are really favoring and letting religion live among the people.

Alhamdulillah, in America we still have the freedom to live the religion that way. That’s why the Awliya Allah are supporting it. They are not supporting the government or the President. They are supporting this government because they are still leaving people to live their own religion the way that their Prophet left to them. They are not oppressing them. That’s why the Awliya Allah are praying and so many people are taking the Awliya Allah’s praising (let’s say) to America or Great Britain and they are thinking that the Awliya Allah are concentrating on that individual whoever is the President for that time or whichever the party is in that time. They are thinking that the Awliya Allah are taking the sides of parties, Republicans or Democrats or whatever more there is. That also shows how close they are and how much they are understanding the teachings of the Awliya Allah. They are definitely supporting this country because we can still sit here and pray as we think our Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) left to us and they are not coming to bother us. That’s why they are blessed. But you cannot do that in any Muslim country today. Not in Turkey, not in Egypt, not in Morocco, not in Syria, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Iraq, not in Iran, not in Uzbekistan and not in any country.

They are claiming that they are Muslims and they are living according to Islam. According to what Islam? The Islam that you have invented according to what fits to your ego? Or the Islam that the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) came to teach us? That kind of Islam? Or the kind of Islam that you have invented according to your own ego? Yes, they are living the kind of Islam that fits to their ego. That’s why they don’t have the laws of Allah. They removed the laws of Allah and they put the laws of man and they are screaming that there are terrorists everywhere. Of course. It’s not working. Your laws are not working. Put the laws of Allah back on and look how fast it’s going to work.

We say to them, “You tried everything. For almost a hundred years you tried everything from Communism, to Fascism, to dictator regimes, to everything. Why not take Islam and try Islam again too a little bit to see what’s going to happen.” As soon as you say to them `Islam’ they start shivering, saying, “These terrorists are coming.” Terrorists? If it was up to the Muslims they would not even take a gun in their hand. It’s only to protect themselves. Nothing else. And the Sufis never went fighting with any governments too. But when they were under the ruling of the Empire and under the ruling of the Khalifah, they were the first soldiers, always in the front lines. Yes, the Sufis, because they were fighting and defending for the sake of Allah. So they were running in the frontlines. But after the Khilafat came down nowhere will you find the Sufis uprising and fighting. No. Until they came and they approached them here and there in different countries, in Afghanistan and in Chechenistan, and some small groups of people are standing up, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. But the majority among them also turned into the wrong areas and they started adopting and taking some teachings of the Wahhabis and they started becoming tyrants.

And I am surprised to hear today from the Muslims that they are supporting and they are saying, “We must have nuclear bombs. The Muslim governments must have nuclear bombs.” Let me ask you, what are you going to do with that nuclear bomb? Do you think having nuclear bombs will stop those oppressors on you? It’s their weapon. They are going to find something else on you again. So if you have the nuclear bomb then what are you going to do? Are you going to use it on America? Or are you going to use it on Russia? Or China? Or Israel (as they are running non-stop and declaring)? As soon as America gives ultimatum to one country, right away they say, “We are going to hit Israel.” What’s going to happen when you hit Israel? When you are hitting Israel you are going to hit Lebanon, Jordan and all Muslims countries there too. And half of Israel is Muslims inside. Muslim people are living inside there too. Do you think the atomic bomb is going to separate saying, “This is Muslim and this is not Muslim”? How foolish the Muslims became! And what kind of a war is it then that it is a disgrace to mankind to have such a bad weapon. Even the Generals in America never liked to have that option because they are men with a vision understanding the warfare, and understanding, “This is something very dirty.” They don’t want that. You are burning everything, man, animals and everything in it. What kind of understanding of Islam do these people have?

Islam is saying to you that if you have a ship at the shore and there are a thousand people there where nine hundred and ninety-nine of them have been found guilty by the court of Islam and they are going to have death penalty, every one of them. They are escaping from that country and nine hundred and ninety-nine people who are in that ship are guilty and they have death penalties on them. There is only one person in that ship who is not guilty but he is just caught up with them there. You cannot sink that ship because there is one innocent sitting among those nine hundred and ninety-nine of them. As man you cannot sink that ship. If Allah wants He is going to do something. But you cannot sink that ship. Allah is not giving permission to Muslims then, saying, “Let that ship go. Think of some other ways to stop that ship.” You cannot kill every one of them because there is one innocent, even though nine hundred and ninety-nine of them have death penalties on them.

This is the Islam that Holy Prophet (sws) brought to us and if anybody is trying to get something other than that then they are never going to reach anywhere again. They are leaving the way, they are running away, they are deviating from the ways of the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) and they are screaming saying, “We need help. We need help Ya Rabbbi!” Allah is saying to us, “You need help? Hold on tightly to that Prophet. Then help will reach to you. If you are not holding on tightly to My Prophet then no help is reaching to you.”

Wa min Allahu taufiq.

InshaAllah ar-Rahman this much is enough for you and for me.

Fatiha.
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Transcribed by Yeni Osmanli

No Paradise Without Good Manners

Jummah Khutba by Sheykh Abdul Kerim Al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 14 RabiulThani, 1427
May 12, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.

Auzu billahi minash sheytanir rajim
Bismillahir rahmanir rahim
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billahil aliyyil azim.

Medet Ya Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) sent the prophets and the books to us to stay on their way and to learn good manners to go back to Paradise. Anyone who learns how to have good manners is going back to Paradise. No manners, no Paradise. You can pray not five time but fifty times a day, you can recite the Quran twenty-fours a day but if a man doesn’t learn the manners then he is not reaching anywhere. (We are talking about) the manners that Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has put on man, not the manner according to the understanding of today’s people that have been educated in the schools. No. Not that kind of manners.

There is no manner today. There is no manner in the east, west, north and south. That’s why the whole system is collapsing. One bad behavior, one wrong manner made Sheytan to be kicked away from the Divine Presence forever. He was worshipping. If you put the whole mankind’s worship together you cannot equal as much as he was worshipping. With one wrong attitude, one wrong manner that he did he was kicked away from the Divine Presence and from Paradise. With one bad manner that our father did, (he became disobedient to Allah,) he was sent out from Paradise. He was the beloved one of Allah (subhana wa ta’ala). He has created him and He gave him the Paradise. He did one wrong action, he lost proper manners and he was sent out from Paradise. It took centuries for Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) to accept his repentance and to forgive him.

From that time until now so many prophets came and every one of them concentrated on that. All actions, all works, all prayers, all worshipping, all fasting and everything that we are doing are to teach us to have good manners. A man who is going to enter into the palace, who is going to go next to a king, they take him and they train him first. They teach him how to have good manners. If he doesn’t have good manners then he cannot go there. It is not possible. The ones who are learning proper manners may stay there. They may reach to higher stations.

We are going back to the kingdom from the dirtiness of this world. We have to go back to our kingdom. If we don’t learn how to have good manners then we cannot enter back to that kingdom. We cannot go back to our Paradise. You must understand, that (good) manner is what Allah (subahana wa ta’ala) has ordered us and what He has forbidden us from. We must carry those. Then a man may say, “I have good manners.” Otherwise, all teachings now in the east, west, north and south has failed. It has failed so badly that today the religious leaders are accepting man to man and woman to woman marriages. That’s how ugly and that’s how bad things became in the east and west, north and south. We must wake up to our own selves. We must hold on tightly to the teachings of the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam). You may not have seen so many things. Through the blessings of our Sheykh, Allah (subahana wa ta’ala) is making us to see and to say, “Don’t look here, don’t look there, don’t do this, don’t do that”, to teach you good manners. All these actions that we are doing around here, that we are trying to keep up with, is to learn to have good manners. We don’t know how much time we have left in this world and we must prepare everyday for the hereafter.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Amin.

Wake up! Avoid the Confusion of Sheytan!

Jummah Khutba given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim Al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 17 Safar, 1427
March 17, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Sydney Center, New York.

Auzu billahi minash sheytanir rajim
Bismillahir rahmanir rahim
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billahil aliyyil azim.

Medet Ya Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Alhamdulillah wa shukr Allah. All praising belongs to our Lord Allah (subhana wa ta’la) and to His Rasul, our Habib Muhammad (alayhi salatu wa salam), to the Ashab-e Kiram and to all those who came. They stood in the way of Allah and Islam came to us. Fourteen hundred years has passed and it has reached to us. They did their part. They did their job. Now we must think how far we are going to take this. Where it is going to reach and what we are going to leave behind us. If this world is going to continue for another thousand years then how far what we are doing today and what we are leaving is going to reach. Man must sit, think and calculate to himself to understand whether he is leaving something behind or not. It’s not like today everyone running top-speed like head-cut chickens trying to reach somewhere. Hmph!

Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is saying, “I have created you man and I have given you intelligence.” The religion spread in the world not with miracles but with one man. The Habibullah. Yes, he is Allah’s Prophet (sws) but he was one person. One man. He came to awakening station and woke up the whole world. Through him it passed to others and the other ones, the other ones, the other ones and it reached to us. How are we today? Are we sleeping or are we in awakening station? You check yourself. Leave what anybody else says to you. Check yourself. Check your activities. Check yourself how sincere you are with your Lord and with His orders. Check yourself to find out which one is priority to you, Allah and His Prophet (sws) or your ego, or this world. (If it is ego or this world) then your problem never ends. Don’t worry. If you don’t keep Allah priority then it’s never going to end. It never ended for anyone and it’s not going to end for you.

This is the problem that so many people that I am watching who are going back and forth not understanding the superiority, who is more superior or if anybody else is more superior than others, and this is how it goes. The prophets are like us humans. They were spirits that Allah had created and He chose them among the other spirits and He said, “You will be the prophets.” They are higher. He put them in higher stations right away. As soon as He chose them saying, “You are prophets” then they became higher than the normal spirits instantly because the title is given by the Creator. It’s not given by man who are voting and giving titles. The Creator is giving titles saying, “I choose these ones to be my prophets.” He didn’t ask us, “Would you like it or not? Would you vote for these ones?” (Sheykh smiles). No. He says, “These ones are My prophets and you are My normal servants and you are going to obey them. You want to reach back to Me? You have to obey them. You have to follow their footsteps. Without following their footsteps you cannot reach to Me. You cannot come to Me. You are coming to Me through their doors. If you are looking to come to Me you must look through their doors. You must look to make them happy. You must look to make them satisfied with you. Then I will be happy with you.”

Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has created man for His service. He created the donkey for your service. He created you for His service and you have to find your part in that service. “What is it that I have to do in this service? What is for me in this work? What has Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) given to me?” You must know, you must find out, you must work and you must go according to that. You must live according to that.

Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is saying in another Ayat in Surat-ul Ale Imran, “You are the Nation that I have created. You are the Nation that is ordering good things and you are forbidding people from the bad things and you are believing in Allah.” Check yourself. Are you fitting into that Ayat? Are you fitting really and sincerely? Not because Allah is saying, “You are the Nation”. Allah is saying to that nation. Check yourself. With your activities, what you are doing and how you are living, are you fitting into that Ayat? If you are fitting then be happy but if you are not fitting then alarm yourself right away. Say to yourself, “What am I doing? Sheytan got me from somewhere. He put me to sleep.” Wake yourself up. Whatever it takes and whatever you have to do, you have to wake yourself up because otherwise you will fall out of that Ayat and if you fall out of that Ayat then in the Judgment Day you will not fall into that category that Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) said, “You are the nation”. You will fall with the other nations.

So the believers cannot live a heedless life. The believer is that one who is in awakening station all the time and forces himself (finding a tariqat and going into tariqat, of course). Tariqat is to make the believers reach to higher and higher stations, not to go to lower stations, not to go to sleep, not to talk nonsense here and there, or as so many today are saying, “My Sheykh is praying in my place. My Sheykh is doing this and my Sheykh is doing that.” If your Sheykh is doing then what Allah has created you for? To be donkey? You are not even good for a donkey then. What are you doing? What is in it for you? How are you going to bring that message to others? If that is so good and you like it then have you brought that message to others? Anyone who lives in the foreign countries, don’t make any mistake. Questions will be asked to every one of you. When you come to the Judgment place it will be questioned to you, “You love Islam and you lived according to Islam. Who did you bring with you in the Divine Presence? For whom did you become a reason for that person to enter into Islam? Did you bring anyone here?” If not then even if you earn the whole Paradise what is it good for? Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is saying that you are a selfish one. You want Islam only for yourself.

If a man is not in awakening station then never mind about reaching to others, he cannot even reach to himself. He only falls into his own illusions and delusions. And later some squareheads that saved themselves from hell are trying to save Sheytan from hell too now. That’s what happens to man. When a man leaves the main road, the road of the footsteps of the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam), Sheytan is going to find so many ways to fool that man. And so many are sitting on that road but they are not doing anything, they are not getting up, they are not moving. They are not getting anything. We must wake up because the danger is waiting for us. If we are heedless now then when the big wind is coming then we are not going to have time, not even a minute to look around. We are not going to have people to warn us then. You are not going to find anybody to tell you, “Turn this way or turn that way.” Warning is now. Everyone is going to fall into their own problems then. They are going to run to find their way out. Don’t make any mistake to think that, “Oh, everything is so nice now. America, beautiful country”, or whatever you are in, or to think that it’s going to continue like this. No. It’s coming to an end.

Of course, there are so many people suffering right now in different parts of the world. Right this minute they are suffering. They have woken up and they are screaming. But their prayer is not accepted now. Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “If you stop forbidding people from the wrong ways and asking people to turn their ways to the right way, to the way of Allah and His Prophet (sws), then Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) will put punishment on you, on that nation, He will put terror on that nation and then you will beg and you will cry but your prayers will not be accepted.” Check it out. Look around the world. Is this how it’s happening or not? If it’s not like that then ask questions again later. We will tell you specifically what’s happening where.

But leave that part. We must worry for ourselves now. Man must worry to save himself first before reaching to others. If you cannot save yourself then you cannot reach to others. Allah’s order is not a game as so many people today are taking Islam and they are acting like they are representing Islam and they are saying, “The more Sheytan is disobedient to Allah the higher station he gets.” Squarehead! And they are not feeling shame to say that they are following the Sultan-ul Awliya. But leave them. We must look at our acts. You must look at yourself. Don’t get fooled by fools like that. You know by yourself whether you are in Paradise or you are in Hell in this world. You know by yourself. Nobody has to say to you anything. If you have reached to that station and your heart is so open to the whole world then you wouldn’t live that kind of lifestyle. You wouldn’t have any single minute in your life that has any problems. You will live in peace.

But that is the time that you will not have any peace. Sultan-ul Awliya is not having peace because he is looking around the world and the whole mankind has lost the direction. The whole mankind is running towards Jahannam and he is screaming. For over eighty years now he is screaming to mankind saying, “Oh mankind! Turn. Turn your way this way. You are going in the wrong direction.” Nobody is waking. And some of his so called deputies, who call themselves deputies, they are running to bring Sheytan out from Jahannam. Don’t get fooled by that kind of foolishness. Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) punished and perished so many nations before this nation. Nothing can stop Allah. Everything is in His Hands. All authority is in His Hand. He does as He likes. Don’t make any mistake. Those people must be in drugs anyway. The drugs that they have been taking are still working in the body. The body is not clean from the drugs.

You must wake up. Sheytan has so many ways to fool man and Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has so many Ayats in the Quran-e Kerim saying to us, “Wake up.” He is warning us from the confusion of Sheytan and Dajjal. Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) is warning us in hundreds and hundreds of hadith. Where are we going to put these? Which side should we put these? Should we ignore all these now? Is it another new style now? Everyone is talking from the spiritual aspect? Where is your Shariat now? Where is the law that Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has given. The Nation lost every Shariat today. Today, the Nation is living worse than the unbelievers. The majority of the Muslims are living worse than the unbelievers. And now you are going to be that tolerant (to Sheytan)? You cannot. That is only Sheytan fooling the man. But those who do not want to be fooled must check themselves up. They must watch out, they must look and they must be worrying. In every higher station that they are going they must be worrying. They must be watching out because the higher station they are reaching they are seeing the danger that is waiting.

And Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has given this job, this duty, to man. Man must establish the Shariat again in this world. Man must open the Quran-e Kerim. Man must work to bring the Khalifah and man must open the flag of the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam). It’s not going to come from the sky. It’s going to be from these men that are living today on earth. We are all responsible. In the Judgment Day we will all be questioned. Allah will ask us, “What have you done to bring the Khilafat back and to put My laws back on. What did you do? What did you do?” Everyone will be questioned according to their level and according to their station. So is this the time now that you are going to worry to save Sheytan from hell? Sheytan is not worrying to save you from hell. Sheytan is running to bring you to hell with all these kinds of foolishness, with ideas.

You must wake up. We must wake up. “O my nation, wake up. Don’t sleep”, Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us. Don’t sleep doesn’t mean going to sleep in the nighttime. Be in an awakening station! Ahir Zaman! Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, “In the end of time, the man will walk out from his house early in the morning as a believer and he will come back to his home at night as an unbeliever.” He will hear so many things here and there and he will start questioning. He will start making ideas, thinking and accepting some of those things. He is going to lose his faith. That’s what it means. If you are sitting and thinking, “Yes, this is okay, this is okay, this is okay, everything is okay”, you are losing. Have you become more merciful than Allah (subhana wa ta’ala)? Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is the most Merciful one. That Me’lun will not be forgiven unless he goes and submits his will saying, “Oh my Lord, I made a mistake. I have been a fool and I am asking You to forgive me and I am making Sejdah to the Children of Adam.” Then he will be forgiven, yes.

People want to take some parts for themselves saying, “Well, I have been forgiven.” What did you do? Did you at least cry for the mistakes and the wrong things that you did? When you and Allah are together and every time you are remembering it, are you crying for it? Are you being sorry for it? This is what we have to remember. Otherwise, Sheytan is going to fool us. Sheytan has fooled so many ones, so many people. He has fooled people who reached the level of sainthood in the time of Musa (alayhi salam). As soon as they gave an inch, he knocked them down bringing them all the way to Jahannam.

So, if we take the hadith of Holy Prophet (sws), we apply it to our lives and we try to live according to that then we will find safety. There is no other safety. And also not every hadith. You have to know which one is for you. You have to know which one is working for you. All the hadith Holy Prophet (sws) is addressing is good but maybe it’s not for you. You have to take one, apply it and you must live according to that every single day. When you wake up you have to check and you have to say, “I am living according to this hadith.” Then you are following the sunnat of Rasulullah (salatu wa sallim) and then because you are in constant contact with Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) through that hadith, his blessings and his protection will reach to you and then you will not have any foolishness like that to think and to say such words, but you will run to clean yourself up. Every time you think you have cleaned one part you will find that another part is dirty. You will be continuously running and then you will see that you are going to have doubt, “Am I going to be able to clean myself before I leave this world or not?” So you will cry for yourself and you will run for yourself. Leave crying for Sheytan. Cry for yourself because Sheytan is not going to cry for you and for me. Holy Prophet (sws) is crying for us, Awliya Allah are crying for us and they are saying to us, “Oh nation, turn your face this way. Turn your face this way. Turn your face to the way of the Prophet (sws) and not to the way that Sheytan is showing to you.”

So we must say one (as I always say, of course) hadith from our Grandsheykh. Whatever we learn, we learn from our Grandsheykh. Grandsheykh is saying what his Grandsheykh Sheykh Abdullah Daghistani (ks) is saying. He is saying, “My son, the whole mankind today have entered into a big truck.” Think that there is a big truck and the whole mankind is behind that truck, sitting inside the trailer in the back. The driver is driving that truck towards the ocean and everyone is going to sink. Everyone is going to die. The driver is Sheytan and all man is sitting in that truck. And Sheykh Abdullah Daghistani (ks) is saying, “We, the Awliya, are holding that truck from behind for it not to go into the ocean. But the power that the engine has is dragging us with it together.” He says, “We must know where to let it go. If not then the power that the truck has in its engine is going to pull us into that wrong place.” InshaAllah this will be enough for us to clarify so many matters that are happening.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Amin.

MUSLIMS ADOPTING CHRISTIAN WAYS

Jummah Khutba given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim Al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 10 Safar, 1427
March 10, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Sydney Center, New York.

Auzu billahi minash sheytanir rajim
Bismillahir rahmanir rahim
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billahil aliyyil azim.

Medet Ya Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is saying to us, “Oh believers, whatever that Prophet brought to you, take it and whatever he forbade you from, stop it.” It is a direct order from Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) to believers. Not to unbelievers. What that means is that you must follow the footsteps, you must run after the Sunnats of Rasulullah (salatu wa sallim). You must take whatever he brought and apply it to your lives. You must stop whatever he forbade you from. What will happen if you don’t stop? You are turning your religion into Christianity. Some got used to it. They say, “Jesus” but none of them are following Jesus. They are not following the orders of Jesus (alayhi salam). It is religion according to their ego.

This is what happened to the Muslims too. “Religion according to my ego. The way that it fits me. The way that I like it.” No! You cannot. You cannot have religion like that. That is your ego. You will be worse than the Wahhabis then. At least the Wahhabis are punctual to their prayer times. If you are not following the Sunnats of Rasulullah (salatu wa sallim) then why are you waiting for Mahdi (as)? Mahdi (as) is coming to bring out the forgotten Sunnats of Rasulullah (salatu wa sallim). He is not coming with a new book to you. He is not coming with something like a magic religion as so many are thinking. You have to follow. He is coming with the power to make you follow. If you are not following then he is going to make you follow by force. He has the authority and he has the Divine Order in his hand. So it’s about time for believers to put themselves together and start following the little that they know. Otherwise the message of Mahdi (as) that is coming is not going to give too much happiness to you.

Believers must live with the knowledge they know, with the knowledge that Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) brought to you. You must take that and you must apply it to your life. You cannot say, “I am a believer and I live as I like.” You have in the Holy Quran the orders of Allah and you have the Sunnats of Rasulullah (salatu wa sallim). In these days and in these times when everyone is in darkness, you have a Sheykh. You have somebody to show you what is right and what is wrong. You are still running after your ego. Are you following the orders of Allah or are you following the orders of your ego? You are following the orders of your ego. You must leave it. You must drop it. You must be sincere with your word to Allah (subhana wa ta’ala). You have promised in the Day of Creation, “I live only for You and I worship You.” What kind of promise is that? You cannot even keep five daily prayers. You cannot keep one holy day in the week. How are you keeping that promise? Think to yourself and put it to yourself.

Going to Juma is not by force like the sheep that everyone is running in and everyone is running out. On Juma believers must get up early in the morning. Believers must do their errands here and there. They must clean themselves up. They must go to the masjids one hour before the Azan is calling and not running here and there when Azan is calling like prisoners whose prison doors have just been opened. What kind of belief is this? What kind of happiness is that, when you are running to happiness? You are running to Allah for that Holy Day, for that Juma. You are running because Allah is saying to you, “Come to My Presence in Juma time”. Know that everything you are doing in that Juma time other than Allah is forbidden to you. It is haram to you. Whatever you are eating, whatever you are earning and whatever you are doing is haram to you! When Juma time is entering if you are busy with something else, it is haram to you! When are believers going to wake up? It’s open Ayat. It’s not closed. When are you going to wake up? You must wake up before the Angel of Death appears to you.

If you are not taking seriously what Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has put on you and the Holy Prophet (sws) has put on you then you have already turned this religion into a kind of Christianity religion. That’s why everyone leaves you alone then. They don’t run after you. They are not upset with you. They say, “These ones are just going in like robots and coming out like robots. They are not applying Islam to their lives. They are living according to Western ideas. They are going inside the masjids like robots and they are coming out like robots. Don’t bother them. It is good for us.” Believers must take and must apply to their lives and when you are applying to your life your life must change. You must get rid of the wrong habits that you picked up here and there. You must progress and you must go forward. If you don’t then sit and wait. Sit and wait. Continue the same way that your ego likes. But in the end neither your ego nor you are going to like it. You are going to lose.

Believers must make it different because Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is saying, “Your Ahir must be better than today. Your Ahirat must be better than today.” I am watching. It’s not becoming better for Muslims. Everyday it’s becoming worse and worse and worse. There is no doubt with the orders of Allah. There is no doubt with His words. Something is wrong with the Muslims, those people who call themselves Muslims. You are not taking Islam priority to your life. You are not taking Islam to say, “This is what I am living for.” You are not living for Islam then. You are living for something else, whatever the priority is for you. Then in the Judgment Day that’s what you are going to find.

“Say to them Ya Rasulullah: They have accepted Islam but faith has not entered into their hearts yet.” Allah is saying this. Accepting Islam is something and faith entering into the heart is something else. When faith is entering into your heart, you must change. So many of the Sahaba-e Kiram were worse than animals. They were destroying everything around them They were killing their own children. As soon as faith entered their hearts they became the most delicate individuals in the world. They have changed. They left all those wrong attitudes, wrong ways and wrong styles. It’s one century now that Muslims have picked up wrong styles. It’s about one century now that the role model of the Muslims everywhere in the world is western ideas, western ideologies and western lifestyle. You must get rid of it. You must apply Islam to your life, to your daily life, to your house life, morning to evening, to work, to outside, to friendship and to everywhere you must apply it. Otherwise, don’t expect changes. You must make the changes. You must make the changes to yourself. If you are not making it then no magic is going to happen to you. Then waiting for Mahdi (as) or waiting for anything else will be just words. That means that you are not really believing in Mahdi (as) because the biggest reason of Mahdi’s (as) coming back is to remove Muslims, the people who have faith, away from that low station that they put themselves, to carry Islam back up, to stand up again. That’s why he is coming. And the only way to do that is to turn back to the traditions, back to the lifestyle of the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam).

For one hundred years now, every time this nation dropped something from the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam), every time they dropped one sunnat, they replaced it with something else. And what they replaced it with is these western ideologies, with these western ideas. Check your life daily and you are going to find how many wrong things you are doing and check your intention. When you are getting up early in the morning check yourself, are you saying, “Oh my Lord, I just woke up. You gave me this life back and I am intending and I am promising to live for You.” Are you doing it? Check yourself every single day. That time you understand if you are living for Islam or you are living for your ego. Anyone who lives for Islam, their Ahir must be better than today.

Tomorrow must be better than today for anyone who is living Islam from east to west and north to south. Anyone who is leaving Islam, their tomorrow is going to be worse than today. Every single day that is coming is going to be worse. If you want peace, safety and the door of Paradise then turn your face that way. Your face should be turned to the Qibla not in the prayer times only. Every time, twenty-four hours a day your heart must be there. Your physical form must be running here and there but your heart must be with Allah and with His Prophet (sws). If you do this then you will win for yourself. If you don’t do this then you will lose for your own self.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Amin.

Note: Someone emailed a question about one of the sohbets of Sultan Evliya Mevlana Seyh Muhammad Nazim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi. Sheykh Mevlana speaks about how the Infinite Mercy of Allah Almighty is to reach to everyone. The sohbet is called “The General Amnesty and the Oceans of Mercy”. We read it at the Dergah one night after zikir. It can be found at: http://www.sheiknazim.com/portal-bin/content/view/128/66/ . The person who was asking had some time ago consulted a scholarly murid of Seyh Mevlana about this, because other influences on his accepting Islam had offered a Kuran-only perspective that would have many (or most)people condemned to hell for eternity. He received an unsatisfying answer from that murid and decided to drop the subject until asking again. This sohbet below is Sheykh Abdul Kerim’s response to the question.

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

The Infinite Mercy of Allah Almighty

Wednesday 23 Muharram, 1427
February 22, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.

Medet Ya Seyyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

First I would like to say that after hearing the sohbet from Sheykh Mevlana, I don’t think anybody in this world can talk about something more. Sheykh Mevlana put it openly and simply to the whole world, to all scholars and to all saints. If I see that in that question there is a doubt about the Rahmat of Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) then my answer will be very hard and very harsh to that person and to all people in this world who are thinking negatively about that sohbet or about Sheykh Mevlana. But I am feeling that it’s a sincere question. But again I don’t think that Sheykh Mevlana left any open area for us to say anything. Without Sheykh Mevlana we are nothing and we are no one. And we are not saying that we are something now. We are still nothing. Whatever is coming to us is coming from him.

Auzu billahi min-ash Sheytanir Rajim

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah-il aliyil azim

For me personally, when I look at Sheykh Mevlana, I have never up till now, inshaAllah I will not until I go out from this world, have any doubt about Sheykh Mevlana. And if Sheytan is going to fool me to have any doubt about him then may Allah take my life now. When I am looking at Sheykh Mevlana, he is a complete, living representative of Holy Prophet (sws). When Sheykh Mevlana is speaking, for me, it is Holy Prophet (sws) speaking through the mouth of Sheykh Mevlana. That’s how I am seeing it.

When we read here and there a couple of hadith and when we know a couple of hadith, so many times we become so arrogant and so stubborn. One incident that had happened is also clarifying all these matters that people are going back and forth about kufr, kafir, who is entering to paradise and who is not entering to paradise. The first thing is it’s not for us to judge that and even to think about that. And the second thing is, Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, “If you don’t want for others what you want for yourself then you have not reached to complete faith.” So if anyone asks for paradise for themselves, they must ask for the other ones too.

As Grandsheykh is saying that before even creating the mankind Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has created the paradises and separated one place for everyone in the paradises. Before we came to this earth we had a place in paradise that Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has parceled for us saying, “This is yours.” We look at the story of Holy prophet (sws). He immigrated from Makkah to Madina and some years later with a strong army he was coming back to Makkah with the intention of cleaning the idols from the Ka’ba. They were not coming back to Makkah looking for their belongings, their houses or what they had left behind. Prophet’s (sws) aim for coming back to Makkah was cleaning the Ka’ba of the idols. So when they were making the journey, as a matter of fact, even when Prophet (sws) made the intention to go back to the Ka’ba, we see that the enemy side had broken their promises. That’s why Prophet (sws) moved with his army to comeback to Makkah to conquer Makkah.

So, when Holy Prophet (sws) was coming very close to the land, to Makkah, near the city, the other Sahaba-e Kiram brought a Sahabi in the presence of the Prophet (sws) and they said, “Ya Rasulullah, this Sahabi was escaping. He came from Madina and he was escaping. He was going to Makkah. When we found and forced him to speak he said to us that he wasgoing to Makkah to warn the people in Makkah that the Prophet (sws) is coming with a big army, for them to defend themselves or to escape.” Prophet (sws) said beforehand,”Keep very quiet. They should not know that we are coming to Makkah and we are going to catch them by surprise.” And that’s what was happening. Then that Sahabi said to Holy Prophet (sws) that he has family members in Makkah. He ran to notify them. Allah knows his intention. Maybe he went to tell them, “Escape from Makkah because Prophet (sws) and us are coming with a big army and you may be punished.” Who knows what he was thinking? We cannot think anything about it. But we know one thing, that he was going to Makkah to notify people. Although he (sws) said, “Keep it secret”, he was going to notify people.

I look at it differently now, me, personally. That Sahabi also had a mercy in his heart. He was running to notify his family to run away, to escape and not to fight with Holy Prophet (sws). This way they will not be punished. But he didn’t know the divine secret which Holy Prophet (sws) kept secret for people not to know in Makkah while they were going. Holy Prophet (sws) was more merciful than that one. Holy Prophet (sws) said, “Keep it silent. They should not know. If they know then there are a couple of arrogant ones among them who will make them to uprise against us and with this army we will be crushing them down. So this way I won’t have any bloodshed there. We will surprise them as soon as we enter and they will not have any chance to run to their swords. So we will conquer. This way the mercy will reach to everyone completely.”

So, that Sahabi didn’t know. He went according to his own understanding only and he ran to notify his family. It’s love there again. It’s because of love he was running to save his family. But in reality, his family would have been in more safety and protection either under the sword of Prophet (sws) or under his protection. If they had gone with the sword of the Prophet (sws), they would have gone to paradise directly too because in another hadith of the Holy Prophet (sws) we are seeing that there was a war once. They captured all from the enemy side. They were in prison and Holy Prophet (sws) was personally going and checking the situation of the prisoners to understand if they are comfortable or if they are under torture. He was watching them and he was smiling to them and greeting them. Most of them were surprised and the leader of that tribe was such an angry one. With that anger inside of him he looked at the Prophet (sws) and he said, “See? He is declaring that he is a prophet but he is happy because he has conquered and made us prisoners. What kind of a prophet is that?” So Prophet (sws) smiled at that one again and said, “Yes, I am very happy. I am very happy to have taken you as prisoners because my prisoners are going to paradise with me.” So now, looking at this hadith, looking at the situation of the Prophet (sws) in which he was in, how much those people have suffered in Makkah while they were living there and what kind of mercy they were coming back with to the Ka’ba to bring to those people.

When we are understanding and we are comparing, then definitely we understand exactly what Sheykh Mevlana is speaking there too. But we have to have mercy in our hearts to be able to see that. But what is even more surprising to me is when Grandsheykh sent me here and I first came to this country, I was 18 years of age. He said to me, “My son, you have to do one thing. Go there, find work, work, earn your living, do everything, but you have to do one thing. Anybody that you meet, make those people to love you in any way. Give them something. Give them presents or talk to them nicely. Do for them whatever it takes for them to love you.” At first I didn’t understand. I was very young, 18 years of age. But I said, “That’s what Sheykh Mevlana said and that’s what I have to do.” And I was smiling and greeting everybody. People were turning and cursing at me. I think I told you the story before when I first came to the airport and I came down to the street level, I said to a man, “Good morning, sir. How are you?” He looked at me so hard and said, “What the hell is wrong with you? Do you know me?” I thought that I was pronouncing it wrong. I thought I was not saying ‘good morning’ correctly and by mistake I said something wrong to him. Later I asked someone, ”How do you greet people in this country?” He said, “Good morning.” I said, “That’s what I said to the man and he cursed at me.” He said, “Well, wait a minute. Don’t go around now to people to say ‘good morning’ and talk to them. In this country people don’t talk to each other and if they don’t know each other then they don’t greet each other.”

But the order that I took from Sheykh Mevlana was completely different. He said to me, “Greet them. Give them something. Talk to them nicely.” Later down the years I slowly started understanding what Sheykh Mevlana said. But I didn’t question Sheykh Mevlana. I said, “This is what he said and this is what I am going to do. Whatever it takes I am going to do it.” And I did it, alhamdulillah, and then so many years later I understood why he said that to me and what was really happening.

So, before we come to that kind of knowledge to understand, so many come to conclusions and they start judging people with everything they are doing. Every one of us must know that we are not judges. We are going to be judged. We are not judges. We cannot judge anybody. That is the first thing. The second thing is that it is a good manner to say if Allah asks you, “How was this one in Dunya?” If you saw that one doing something wrong then it is good manners to say, “It is known to you Ya Rabbi. You know best and I know nothing.” And if He says to you, “Should I punish this one?” What are you going to say? “Punish him”? Then you are punishing your own self. But I am always very surprised with one thing that I always say. So many times I am finding this kind of merciless actions from the people that come to Islam later. I am finding that I am saying all these things to them and they are coming with arrogance and stubbornness again, not to me of course but to Sheykh Mevlana, saying, “Nooo… They are in hell, they are in hell.” I said, “Who are they that you are saying they are in hell? They are your own parents, your own grandparents, your own cousin, your own brothers and your own sisters. They are the ones that you are talking about.”

So, when a man has no mercy in his heart then he cannot look with that mercy to any other people because he has no mercy. Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) looks down upon us and to everyone with that mercy and that mercy is here, everywhere, because we are still breathing the air and we have the chance to ask for forgiveness. That is His mercy. And Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) is giving it to us. So we must wake up. As I said earlier, if we see that there is a fire going on in this building, we should not sit outside and be comfortable. We should run in here and with whatever it takes we should try to save people from here. If there are no people then there are animals. We should move them out. If there are no animals then there are carpets, there are things that are valuable. We should try to move them out before the whole place burns down. We know that it is going to burn down.

This is what happened to the world. Mankind turned the world into a hell. Everything is almost ready to happen and everyone to be burned in it and still people are putting fuel into that fire. The mercy is reaching to you and you are coming to the right road. You must try to reach to the other ones in any way. Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) created us and He put obligation on us to obey Him and we are the most disobedient creatures to Him all the time. Those who say, “We are obedient” are the most disobedient ones. Leave the ones that are not believing in Allah. So, should we say, “Send the punishment right away to us”? If that punishment is coming then I don’t think that any individual is going to escape from that punishment now because someway somehow they are connected to that punishment. We are doing something wrong.

Look at the mercy of the Holy Prophet (aleyhi salatu wa salam). When they came to him and said, “Ya Rasulullah, everything is between your two lips. Pray for curses on this nation that are attacking us.” He said to them, “I have not been sent as a prophet of curse. I have been sent as the Prophet of Mercy.” He said, “Our fighting against them is a mercy to them.” Then Prophet (sws) came back to Makkah and they have conquered Makkah but there was no bloodshed anywhere. Most of the people that were living in Makkah at that time were the ones who did the worst cruelty to the Sahaba-e Kiram and to the Prophet (sws). So Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “Before they are coming and asking I have forgiven every one of them no matter what they did to us.” If Prophet (sws) is forgiving then every Sahabi must be forgiving. He said, “I am forgiving everyone no matter what they did to us, except three people. If you find them and even if they wrap themselves inside the cloth of the Ka’ba, cut their necks off.” Prophet (sws) didn’t show any mercy to those.

One of them was the son of Abu Jahil. He did so much damage to Islam that Prophet (sws) said, “If you catch that one then cut his neck off.” Look at the mercy now. Prophet (sws) is not forgiving that one. I think his name is Ikrima if I am not mistaken. That one also knew that he did the biggest cruelties to everyone. So he said, “There is no space for me here. I must escape.” And he escaped. He took the boat and he started going, leaving that country. The sea was very calm. As soon as he took the boat and the boat started moving, instantly big waves started coming and it was ready to take the whole ship inside. That one understood. He thought to himself, “Oh! The Lord of Muhammad!” He said, ”Oh Allah of Muhammad! I may escape from his hands but I cannot escape from You. I understood now. All those cruelties that I did, I understood, and I am asking forgiveness from You. I am asking You to forgive me just once. Allow this ship to turn back to the port and I will go to that Prophet (sws), I will accept the Shahadat and I will save my life.” There was nobody there. It was him and Allah. And with divine order, when the ship started to be moved by the waves, right away the captain turned the ship back towards the port from where they were coming. And Ikrima prayed for everything to settle down so that he can just go there and he said, “Now I understand that he is the Prophet which you have sent to us and we must accept that one.”

As soon as Ikrima reached to the port he didn’t look anywhere for a horse or anything. He kept running and coming towards the Prophet alayhi salatu wa salam), to Madina. And the people who were on the watchout saw that Ikrima is running top speed and coming. They said to the Prophet (sws), “Ya Rasulullah, this is what’s happening.” He said to them, “Then leave him. Don’t touch him. Let him come.” And he came to the presence of Holy Prophet (sws). He said to the Prophet (sws), ”Ya Muhammad, I am not saying to you this because I am afraid of dying. But I am going to tell you the story of what had happened.” And he said, “This is what happened to me. I was escaping from you and now I understand that I can escape from your hand but I cannot escape from your Lord. Please, I am asking forgiveness. I am begging for you to forgive me.” Then the Prophet (sws) said to him, “Allah has already forgiven you. That’s why you are here.” He said, “Ya Rasulullah, I did so much damage to you and to other Sahabis and I am asking your forgiveness. Please forgive me.” And the Holy Prophet (sws) forgave him. And he said, “Now, take my sword Ya Rasulullah. Now you can cut my head off. Give permission to them to cut my neck off. You will not find me disobedient to you.” Holy Prophet (sws) said, “Allah has forgiven you, I am forgiving you and everyone has forgiven you. Live your life.” Later, that person did a lot of good things for Islam.

Of course, we didn’t live in the time of the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam). We are a group of people that are the luckiest ones because we know Sheykh Mevlana. Someway somehow we all know Sheykh Mevlana. I am looking and watching the mercy that is coming from him, comparing it with our own selves, comparing it with the wrong things that we are doing and the mercy is still reaching to us non-stop. We have to find in our hearts to forgive others. Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, “If you are not forgiving then you are not going to be forgiven.” We must find it.

Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has even warned His own prophets. Prophet Nuh (alayhi salam) was sent to his nation to call them to Allah and every time he was going, speaking to those people and calling them to Allah, they were throwing stones at him, they had sticks, and they were beating him up with the sticks until he would faint. Thinking that he is dead they would leave him there and go away. That holy prophet was coming back to his house, crippled, recovering from those wounds, going back out saying, “O my nation, the mercy of Allah is with you. Turn yourselves to Allah.” They would say, “You came back again?” They would start throwing stones at him again and they would start punishing him again. That continued for over six hundred years. Not one day, not six days, it’s not sixty days, not six years. Six hundred years! The Holy Qur’an is addressing saying to us that Nuh (as) was prophet for 950 years. That prophet is going out to his nation, asking, begging and crying for them to turn and this is what they were doing to him. He was not giving up. He was going back, going back and going back.

Finally one day, it touched his heart so hard that he opened his hand saying, “O my Lord, these ones are never going to change. Punish them.” What the prophets ask, Allah gives them right away. So divine order came to him saying, “Ya Nuh, build the ship. I am going to punish them with a flood.” He started building the ship and he started worrying more now because this nation didn’t believe him for 650 years. They are not going to believe him and they are going to be punished. He was very sorry for what he asked but he did it already. While he was building the ship he was going out to them again calling them, “Come to Allah”, “Come to Allah”, “Come to Allah”. Finally, you all know the story. He built the ship and he addressed people, whoever was believing, to enter into the ship, he took one pair of every animal and the flood came. Even one of his own sons didn’t accept him and he drowned in those waters.

Maybe we should put this inside also for you to understand Sheykh Mevlana’s sohbet that Allah has time inside time and place inside place. There was an old lady believing in Nuh (as) and accepting what he said. She had a cow. She was taking fresh milk and she was coming to that prophet with fresh milk. She said to Nuh (as), “Ya Nuh, I am living behind this mountain and sometimes I cannot come. When the flood is going to come please send somebody for me. This way I can come here and I can be in the ship.” Nuh (as) said to her, “Yes, I will send somebody to you.” So, with all that excitement of what was happening, with his worrying about his son and such, he forgot about that lady and the flood happened. After the flood ended and the world was dry again, the ship settled on the mountain and everyone came out from the ship. As soon as they came out from the ship, Allah’s order reached to Nuh (as). This is a good lesson for you, for me and for those people to understand the mercy of Allah (subhana wa ta’ala). Of course, I am saying again, after what Sheykh Mevlana spoke we have nothing else to speak but maybe it will clarify the minds of other people a little bit more.

As soon as Nuh (as) put his feet on the ground Allah ordered him saying, “Ya Nuh, now build Me forty clay jars.” In the Middle-Eastern countries they have big round clay jars and you put water in it. It keeps the water very fresh and cool, like a well made out of clay. He (subhana wa ta’ala) said, “Now build Me forty clay jars from the mud.” Nuh (as) right away started building without questioning anything. He was building them very nicely showing so much love and care because it’s the order of Allah (subhana wa ta’ala). As soon as he finished, order came to him saying, “Take that stick and break every one of them. Take the stick and break all of the forty clay jars.” The Awliya Allah are saying that Nuh (as) took that stick but just for an instant it passed through his heart saying, “How beautifully I made them, how much care I showed to this and now my Lord is ordering me to break them.” They are saying that he showed his dislikeness just for a split second. He was not question but he was saying, “How much care and how much love I put into this and how He is ordering me to break them.”

As soon as that passed through his heart, Divine order reached to him again saying, “Ya Nuh, as much value those jars have next to you, do you think those disobedient creatures whom I had created and whom I made with My Divine hands, whom I gave shape and whom I gave the spirit, do you think those creatures, those servants, those disobedient ones didn’t have that much value next to me?” Awliya Allah are saying that then Nuh (as) said, “Oh my Lord, what have I done!” And then he started crying going, ”Hooh, hooh” from deep inside. That’s where his name Nuh is coming from. The deep cry was coming from the regret that he asked for that nation to be punished, after all that he went through with them.

Divine order reached to him again and that lady appeared. He said to himself, “Look, this was an obedient one and I forgot to send message to that lady to enter to the ship.” So divine order reached to him again saying, “Oh Nuh, you may have forgotten her too because it’s not your creature. It’s my creature. But I didn’t forget that one. The whole world entered into the flood but I have saved that one from that flood.” So that woman came saying, “Ya Nuh, the flood didn’t happen yet?” Nuh (as) said, “Where were you? Nothing happened to you? You didn’t see any extraordinary events?” She said, “Ya Nuh, there’s only one day that I stopped coming to you because the cow stopped giving milk.” From time to time the cows stop giving milk and they start fresh again sometime later. “Now that the cow started giving milk I came back to you. But up till this time there’s only one incident that was extraordinary. One day everywhere it turned very dark. It’s like the whole world turned into darkness and my cow disappeared. The next day I found my cow. I went to sleep. When I woke up it was nice sunshine again and I saw that my cow came. Everywhere was dry but I saw that it was completely muddy up to the udders of my cow.” He said to her, “Ohh, yes I forgot about you but Allah didn’t forget about you. The flood already came and passed.”

That lady had mercy in her heart. She accepted it and Allah saved that one. Nuh (as) regretted what he did and the Awliya Allah are saying that in the Judgment Day people are going to come for Shafa’at to Adam (as) saying, “You are our father. Give intercession for us. We were disobedient ones.” And Adam (as) is going to say to them, “No, I cannot do anything to you today. Today I am worrying about my problems because Allah said to me, ‘Don’t do it’ and I did it. Go to Nuh. Nuh is the second father of people.” When they are going to come to Nuh (as) he is going to say, “Oh, how are you coming and asking me this. I asked Allah to punish you and you have been punished and I feel so much shame. How am I going to go to the Divine Presence since I asked Allah for you to be punished. I cannot speak on your behalf. From crying I cannot speak for anything. Go to this one.” “Go to Ibrahim (as)”, “Go to Musa (as)”, and one by one prophets are going to be sending their nations. They will say, “Go to Isa (as)” and they will come to Isa (as). Isa (as) will say to them, ”How are you going to ask me to ask Shafa’at for you? You attacked my rights. You put my rights on the floor saying I was the Lord and I was the son of God. That’s what I am worrying now. Go to Muhammad (alayhi salatu wa salam). He is the one who is going to give Shafa’at to every one of you.”

And inshaAllah ar-Rahman, we are asking for his Shafa’at, for the Shafa’at of the Awliya Allah and for Allah to give us power to reach to other people so they may also get Shafa’at. Shafa’at is in Dunya and in Akhirat.

Wa min Allahu taufiq.

InshaAllah ar-Rahman, this should be enough for you, for me and as I said, if you say that Sheykh Mevlana’s sohbet is not enough for you then I don’t think anything is going to be enough for you. Those who call themselves scholars should put the books aside today, they should completely turn their hearts to Sheykh Mevlana, completely submit their wills to Sheykh Mevlana and go and ask to renew their initiation again. No one has any power or any authority to doubt, especially the murids of Sheykh Mevlana, to doubt Sheykh Mevlana and to say, “I am in the same level with the understanding of Haqq.” What do you or me understand about Haqq? Hasha astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih. And that is very wrong also, what is written there by that person, whoever is that one that is saying, ”There are certain things of Sheykh Mevlana that I am not understanding but in the Haqq level…” what is that? What is it saying there?

(A murid reads from a paper) It says, “On the level of Haqq I am aligned with Sheykh Mevlana.”

On the level of Haqq he is in line with Sheykh Mevlana. Mashallah. Astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih. We, each one of us, cannot even be the dust under the feet of Sheykh Mevlana. Sheykh Mevlana is serving this mankind for over eighty years. I was a little child and I was watching with my own eyes, in spite of the cruelties that they did to him, he forgave everyone and he kept on crying for them for over eighty years. Those ones just came to Islam yesterday and they haven’t found the mercy in their hearts to forgive even their own families. How are they going to be in line with Sheykh Mevlana? Hasha astaghfirullah. Astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih.

May Allah forgive me and always give higher stations to our Grandsheykh Sheykh Mevlana Muhammad Nazim al-Hakkani, to all the other ones who passed before and those ones who are sincerely trying to understand Sheykh Mevlana, may Allah open ways to them to reach to other people. Those ones who are going arrogantly and stubbornly with the egoistic way, may Allah close their ways and make them become slaves of Sheykh Mevlana. Amin.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.