Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
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