Suhbah 2017: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (4/25)
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e us also for ākhirah, not to forget ākhirah. This is to mix and to make it combined these two things, it is very difficult. Because many people they are mixing, leaving one or they leaving other. So both of them, it will be following their ego, the easy way. No, in life you must be following and fighting your ego to follow way of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam even it is difficult. You must follow.
Don't follow your ego or people who are teaching you to forget ākhirah. This is ṭarīqah teaching. And ṭarīqah teaching coming from Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And when you... Of course, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam show us you will, you must live as you're not dying at all. You can make plan for future also. But don't forget the most important thing, to say "if Allāh want this, in shā’Allāh" In shā’Allāh meaning if Allāh want this. Because if He didn't want anything, nothing happen. Only what He want, it will be happen.
So we are looking, we don't know how we will live. But for making something, everybody has plan. And it's ok, not bad. But most important thing to not forget Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, if He wants. Even Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam; scholar from Jewish people coming to make exam for Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. They ask him three things. And he said "Tomorrow I will give you answer." He didn't say in shā’a Llāh. But he is Prophet, innocent, not doing any wrong. But this, for teaching for his nation, ummah, Allāh not giving his answer. One month waiting. 15 days or one month, something like this. And after He give him this answer.
And He say āyah "Wa-lā taqūlanna lishay’in innī fā‘ilun dhālika ghadan illā an yashā’a Llāh" (18:23-24) Don't say for anything "I will do this tomorrow" without saying if Allāh want. Every time don't forget to say in shā’a Llāh. So it is for Muslim, for ṭarīqah people. Everything make normally. Some of them saying "oh". You're saying this maybe after one month coming Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām. Ok, he is coming. Also we are more happy. We are extremely happy. We are not object for this. So no harm to say "I plan to do this, in shā’Allāh, if Allāh wants next month, next week, tomorrow, after tomorrow." But you must say, in shā’Allāh. Don't forget saying, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
29.WHO IS THE STRONG ONE Monday, 30 January 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam says that a strong person isn't someone, who beats other people. You may be a strong wrestler, you may beat them up. You may beat them up when you get angry. No one can do something to him. "He isn't strong" says our Prophet. "The strong one is the one who controls his anger, gets over his anger." When angry a physically strong one beats the others. If he isn't strong he still tries to do something; creates trouble. Harms himself because of his anger. Other people may also be harmed. That's why if you control your anger, you'll be raised. If anger controls you, you'll be defeated. Then you aren't strong. Because you need power to control your ego. Anger comes from ego. You regret it later on most of the time. Sometimes you hear something, you get angry. Immediately you give a useless reaction. So, when you get angry you need to repent so that you don't immediately do something that you'll regret later on. "Fī l-‘ajalah an-nadāmah. Wa fī tta’annī as-salāmah." If you rush, you'll regret it.
If you act slowly and think, "What is this? Is it right or wrong? Why did it happen like this?" you'll get over your anger and you won't regret it. This is advice for everyone; young, old, everyone. Of course when you are young you are full of energy. That's why they get angry more. They give useless reactions. Young people should learn this that you aren't strong even if you beat everyone. Strong one looks at everyone with mercy. If there is something wrong you can change it into something good.
Our Prophet advises us not be get angry. A companion came. "Tell me something". "Don't get angry." "Tell me something else". He said five, six times. Companion said; "He will say this until the Judgement Day." So he left. So anger is a bad thing. It harms people. Controlling it is a big power. It shows a person's power. May Allāh make us all achieve controlling that anger. Me in the first place, it isn't good to say "I" but everyone has it. Everybody needs this advice. Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam he said who is strong one. He said strong one not one he beats everybody [up]. No. Strong one; [he] who controls his anger. If you control anger, you are a strong one. But if you not control your anger, even you are the most powerful in one of the world, also you are not strong. Because your anger controls you. But to control anger, it is difficult and it is [an] order.
Who controls anger, he is really powerful. Because everybody when he is getting angry, not seeing anything, doing bad things for people. And these bad things coming for him also. After he'll regret for what he done. He said "Oh, I done this. Why I've done this? I follow - I was very angry, I do this. But now what will happen? How I can make it to repair this?" Sometimes he cannot repair it, something, doing very bad thing. So he'll be sorry for what he done. To control anger you must remember this ḥadīth from Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And if you get angry, don't quickly go to fight or to do trouble for people.
First, remember Allāh, say astaghfiru Llāh, astaghfiru Llāh l-‘Aẓīm Because to control yourself, you must remember this also. Also they said, "Fī t-ta’annī as-salāmah wa fī l- ‘ajalah annadāmah." If you are doing very - you must be cool, you must be slow, not to go quickly. For everything to go to hurry, it is not so good. Only in some things hurry, it's good. For good thing; you go for marriage or for other, to make good thing, you can hurry. But for other things, you must wait, you must think and to see what it is reality. Maybe you misunderstand something and you will be sorry for what you done.
So you must be slowly, not to hurry, not to rush. You'll be happy, you'll be safe. You'll be in salāmah, peace. But you are hurry, you'll be sorry. This is translation for this. So you must... When you becoming angry from something, don't hurry. Just look around and ask. Maybe you many times some people they become [are] misunderstanding. After they become, when they done something, they become sorry and they become embarassed also for what they done. And he apologized and he doing something. Sometimes repair, sometimes he cannot repair what he done.
So we - To anger, most attribute Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam was warning ummah and nation. Once one ṣaḥābah he ask him "Advise me, O Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam" He said don't be angry. "Yes, al-ḥamdu liLlāh. OK, another advice?" he said for Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. Prophet he said "Don't be angry." And of course the ṣaḥābah not objecting what Prophet [said] He asked "Maybe another one?"
He still continued [like] this until five or more than five times. Prophet still saying "Don't be angry." And he said, ṣaḥābah was saying "I thought if I ask forever, he will say don't be angry. So I was stopping." So it is very important point to control our anger, in shā'a Llāh. This is first for me. Because I am every time angry. For all of us, it is very in need to do this naṣīḥah, this advice. It is very important for us.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
30.ONLY SHOW THEM THE RIGHT WAY Tuesday,31 January 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
"Innaka lā tahdī man aḥbabt wa lākinna Llāha yahdī man yashā’ " (28:56) Holy verse. "You don't guide whom you like. But Allāh guides whom He wills." Most people want to guide their relatives, friends, their loved ones to the right path. Because they love this path they try to guide others to this path. These are Allāh's beautiful ways. If Allāh wills, it happens. If not, no matter how hard you try it doesn't work.
Some people try to attract people by showing things, that aren't in Islām. There is no need for such a thing. Because in order to attract; just treat people gently. "Yassirū wa lā tu‘assir". Don't make it difficult. Treat people gently. Religious orders are clear. If someone saw a light. He came to you, to your ṣuḥbah, be friends with you, wants something. Slowly, slowly; making him love it after taking this path, he worships better than you. He will have more effort than you.
If you give everything at once then it gets difficult. You shouldn't do that. If you order things, which aren't in Islām to make him like it then there is no benefit. It harms you as well. Because he came for Allāh. Allāh gave a light inside him, you should help him. So help him and not make him run away. Then our way is Allāh's way. Some may come. Some may go. Don't be sorry. These are Allāh's will.
If you are on the right way, don't worry, don't be sorry. You know yourself. If you made a mistake, knowing or not knowing May Allāh forgive you. Most people make mistakes. That's why we say 100 times, 500 times, 1000 times astaghfiru Llāh. We make many mistakes without noticing. It is ok if you aren't intending. May Allāh not leave us to our ego. In shā’a Llāh, we are on the right way. We are following that way, with followers for it to be a guidance for people. This is an advice to our followers, to our friends. Don't leave the right way. You can't do everything all at once. You do it slowly. You do Allāh's orders. Like we said don't resort to things, that have nothing to do with Islām. That is a burden on you. Allāh ’Azza wa Jalla saying Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. "Innaka lā tahdī man aḥbabta walākinna Llāha yahdī man yashā’ "(28:56) Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said even Prophet cannot make people to follow right way, to follow good way. Only Allāh which people He love them, He guides them to [the] right way.
But you do your best. Because many people, especially from first time of Islām, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam Allāh order him "beginning from your nearest people, your family." And Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam he love his family, his relatives and he try from beginning to make them to come to Islām.
And he collect all of them in one meeting. All his family, uncles, altogether. They were OK. Abū Lahab, he wasn't inside this. When he heard, quickly he come and he destroy this meeting. Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam was very sad for this. Because nearly other all his family, they will become to be Islām in this first [meeting] But this Abū Lahab he making very ugly word. And he was aggressive and attacking Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And he finish this meeting without doing anything. For this, Allāh ’Azza wa Jalla saying you cannot make who you love to be come to Islām or to hidāyah. Only what Allāh He want, he can be in right way, guide to right way. So for this, our way, Prophet way. We are offering al-ḥamdu liLlāh, what Prophet saying. We try to follow like we learn, like we see.
To learn when you are seeing, it is most important, not only speaking. We're following Mawlānā, he was doing exactly like Prophet following step by step. So we are following. And we want people who are come to, Allāh guide them to this way, to follow [the] same way; way of mercy and sweet and gentle way. This is the way we show. Because these people who are coming for hidāyah, Muslim or non-Muslim, even Muslim, there are many people, they are running from Islām, from Muslim. But Allāh when He give them in their heart light, they like to come and seeing how it is this.
What we will do for them? To show them the best from Islām. Allāh, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said "Yassirū wa lā tu‘assirū". Be easy for people, not make it hard for them. But show them the right way, way of - Because they have this light, no need to show them another way. Only what [is] in Islām way, but in gentle way you show them. Don't mix with your ego or to try make people lieing for people "this is Islām and this is how you must be here." To show them what is not in Islām This is not good. Because Islām is enough for whole, every person in this world. He [it] has every happiness, goodness in Islām. No need for other thing to say to them, to mix with philosophy or with other things. No need for this.
Because they - What we say from beginning Allāh sends these people for hidāyah. So only what you will do, Allāh make you wāsiṭah (means), intermediary. So you get your wages from Allāh, your reward from Allāh. This is better than whole world. Only show them the right way without making them running away. Not mix from another thing. Only show them this nice way, way of Prophet, awliyā’ and way of Mawlānā. This is enough for all of them. So don't think you will be clever "I can tell them some story not happened. They will believe in this and that". No, no. Just believe there is, mā shā’a Llāh, in history of Islām and ṭarīqah millions of history, real history and real happening, good
things you can tell for these people. No need to make any lie. Lie not good in Islām. For everything.
So only you leave your heart clean and try the best. And maybe sometimes we make fault without knowing. With knowing, it's not good. Even with knowing, you can make tawbah astaghfiru Llāh, OK. But every day without knowing many times we do something wrong without knowing. We are repenting; ask forgiveness from Allāh . And He will forgive, in shā’Allāh. Allāh make us in right way, in shā’Allāh, not going any one millimetre from other [than] this way.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
31.BEAUTY IS FROM GOODNESS Sunday, 19 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Thank Allah we are rejoined with the ikhwan again. People who are on the path of Allah and who follow Allah’s commands are continuously relieved and are carefree Inshallah. Our care is for the situation of the Nation of Muhammad and its circumstances.
Allah has shown the way, the beautiful way. When people deviate from this path they think, “I will be relieved and I will be happy,” when in fact they are mistaken. All sadness, unfortunateness, and whatever evil there may be befalls them. Even if they think they are alright – not that they do anyway – they become unhappy. Because nothing happens if Allah does not want it to happen. Everything goes well once Allah wants it to.
Allah placed beauty in goodness. There is no relief in evil, in filth, and in sins. There is sorrow. There is sorrow in this world and in the hereafter. This world is short. What is important is the hereafter. So it is not important whether you got sad or not in this world. However, again people who are on the path of Allah, whether poor or rich, Allah provides them with peace and beauty. It is like paradise for them in this world when there is internal peace. But they can have as much of the world’s money as they like, they can have anything, and nothing is of use if there is no peace.
We met with good people thank Allah where we went and where we visited. They came for Allah, for the sake of Allah. There is no [material] benefit. Their expectation was dua. They asked for dua for their children to stay on the right path and to not deviate from the right path. This was their expectation: dua. They did not ask for money. They only asked for such a favor.
May Allah grant us all to stay on this path and keep the children of the Nation of Muhammad safe. Shaitans are plenty there but it is the same here. So do not think they are there [in the United Kingdom] and we are safe here. Do not comply with your ego. Be careful.
Be careful of children so they stay on the right path. Show them the beautiful way. Do not show them the bad way. Show them the beautiful over and over. This is an important matter as it comes from the family. So it is learnt in the family first. The mother needs to teach it first. Then slowly, as long as that seed is inside, it will certainly turn green.
May Allah protect us. May Allah give us health and appetite InshaAllah. May we all be protected from the evils of Shaitan InshaAllah. May we be with good people everywhere we go InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
32.ALLAH IS THE BEST HELPER Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah is the best helper. We should not say this and forget about it. Now, people are in this state anyway. They should have totally understood this, but it does not cross their minds. People become relieved if they remember this. Allah also helps when you say it.
Nobody can help humanity if Allah does not want it. Nothing can effect people as long as they are under the protection and guardianship of Allah. They become relieved, find peace, and all bothers are removed. There is no such thing as running after it as, “This man is rich, he would help us and we would be relieved.”
Funny things happen sometimes. A man, a bahlul, sent a letter once: “Make dua to Allah for me. Let me get in the dream of the Sultan of Brunei so he can hire me.” That is amazing. You pray to Allah so Allah gives you relief, so Allah gives you common sense, and so Allah helps you out. There is no need to take it to such lengths. Allah can help you on the top of a mountain or in the middle of the desert. You need to trust in Allah. The one who helps you is Allah and He does not let you be in need of anybody. The best for us and the closest to us is Allah Azza wa Jalla. May we not be deprived of Allah’s help Inshallah.
“HasbunAllah wani’mal wakeel, ni’mal mawla wani’man naseer.” Allah is the best helper and there cannot be anyone better than Him. Perish the thought (Hasha). And this people should say a hundred times a day so they may be saved from their bothers and troubles. Whatever gloom there may be, whatever sadness or anxiety, they all go away. Sometimes people think when they are with a powerful man they can be saved from troubles through his protection. The biggest protection is from Allah Azza wa Jalla. Do not forget this. Seek refuge in Him.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
33.HAJJI MESTAN EFFENDI Friday, 24 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
What Allah says occurs. Allah did not leave us on earth forever. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He states: “Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon.” (Sura Baqara:156) “We come from Allah and to Him we will return.” May Allah have mercy on him. We were with our elder brother Hajji Mestan for 33 years. He was next to Shaykh Mawlana most of the time.
Shaykh Mawlana used to love him. He also gave him himmat (spiritual support) and his station rose. This is what is important. The lifetime Allah has provided is limited. Mashallah, thank Allah, I think he lived to be 77 years old. This means he was next to Shaykh Mawlana for almost half of his life. Shaykh Mawlana gave him himmat and helped him. He became an accepted person wherever he went. They would be expecting him. Doors would open wherever he went.
He was a person of states (haal). What is meant by a person of haal is a difficult person. They said, “Sahibul ahwal laa tatahammaluhul jibaal.” “Mountains cannot withstand the person of states.” Sometimes he would say or do things people could not stand, and other times different things would happen. However, he was protected very well even in that state with the himmat of Shaykh Mawlana. There are many people of states whom nobody knows and nobody approaches. With Shaykh Mawlana’s himmat and with Shaykh Mawlana’s karamat (spiritual gifts), it would be in its place if we said people would ask about Hajji almost all over the world, wherever went from America to Malaysia, and from Indonesia to Africa. May Allah have mercy on him.
When you are with the shaykhs, they make you reach felicity both in this world and in the hereafter. They say about those who are with them, “Laa yashqaa jaleesuhum.” Those who sit with them do not become people of brigandage (brigands), they do not see harm, and are continuously under protection. May Allah have mercy on him. He would make Shaykh Mawlana pretty joyful, he would make him laugh. We have many beautiful memories with Hajji. We were together twice in seclusion (khalwat), we were together twice in hajj (pilgrimage), and we were together in some trips. May Allah have mercy on him.
He was a beautiful person and would know the old customs. Most people do not know some things now. He would know them. He would remind them and sometimes tell Shaykh Mawlana about them. Shaykh Mawlana would take pleasure and ask, “What is this? What do they call this? How do you do it?” He would laugh and find relief. He would joke a lot with Shaykh Mawlana.
Shaykh Mawlana would eat downstairs. One time he pointed at someone and he filled Hajji Mestan’s pockets with all the forks and spoons he could find without him being aware. This was not enough. This time they threw in melon and watermelon. Shaykh Mawlana laughed so hard. Shaykh Mawlana would joke with him like this. He would not do this much to others, but he would call this person specifically. In fact, he knew about it but pretended not to know. May Allah have mercy on him.
However, as we said, it is human nature and nobody lives forever. May Allah have mercy on him. He left a pleasant effect. Like Nasreddin Hodja, he had plenty of activities and plenty of good states. Every time we remember these we will mention him with mercy Inshallah. People are with those they love. As an analogy, when coming back from London, people there were sad while those who were meeting us here were happy.
It is the same when going to the hereafter. We are sending him with sadness here and there Shaykh Mawlana, mumins, his friends, his relatives, his mother, his father, and all of them meet him with joy. Because Mashallah his states were for Allah and nothing else. InshaAllah Allah made him go to paradise. InshaAllah those of paradise meet him there. Now he is saved from this body and is in the gardens of paradise InshaAllah.
May Allah grant us all such beautiful conditions. These conditions will befall all of us. As our hodjas say, they recite a poem: “If death were bad, prophets would not die.” Death will come upon everyone. What is important is being ready for it, and for them to meet us with joy there InshaAllah. May his abode be paradise. May Allah have abundant mercy on him. May we attain his shafaat (intercession) InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
Fatiha for his soul.
34.TRUE SCHOLARS ARE PEOPLE OF TAQWA Saturday, 25 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
May Allah be content with you, welcome to all of you. We have people, children, who will become scholars. May Allah be content with them all. Being a scholar has a great status in the sight of Allah. There are two kinds of scholars. Inshallah because ours are on the way of Allah, they will come out with true scholar attributes. Because knowledge cannot be without training the ego. Otherwise it becomes selfish, and arrogance appears. It would be of benefit neither for oneself nor for others.
Thank Allah they are going on the way of our Shaykh Mawlana, our Shaykh Baba. That is the way of our Holy Prophet. Shaykh Mawlana would say the scholars of Sham are people of taqwa. Shaykh Mawlana, thank Allah, gave that taqwa to everybody, to all the brothers. Of course those studying would be better. When that taqwa, that fear of Allah, exists in them they do everything accordingly. It becomes useful for the Ummah, for themselves, and for those studying.
The teachers would not ask us for money when we were studying in Sham. They would say, “We have only one condition and that is if there are people asking for it wherever you go, show them this knowledge and teach them this taqwa.” They would say, “As long as you do this, we do not ask for anything, and we make our rights halal (give our blessings).” We would not pay. On the contrary, they would give us money in the madrasa. They would give us 20 liras a month. It was quite some money at the time. You could almost buy one gold coin with it. Think of it that way.
Of course, money does not have much value left anymore. We calculated it then: the holy ones would give us as much as a gold coin. But it is not important. What is more important than gold is their placing in people that taqwa, that fear of Allah, and staying away from the haram. That is much more valuable. And this Inshallah you give to these children. Those who are not students, Inshallah all of our brothers become like this. Fear of Allah is the most valuable thing in Islam. Inshallah may it be granted to us all.
This way is a beautiful way. It enlightens people, gives them light, and gives light everywhere. If a person has nur it becomes nur for everybody. If not, if there is darkness,
if we do this job for benefit it becomes dark. That time it is not useful for yourself. On the contrary it becomes twice as harmful. The torture a scholar will suffer is twice as much. A normal person or an ignorant person did not know. He might have done it unknowingly. If one torture is given to him, it is twice for the scholar. It is multiplied.
As we also read in the hadith lesson the other day, those who read the Koran and study should do it for the sake of Allah. For memorizers1, they also need to be more careful because they are carrying the Koran. They need to be moralized with the morals of the Koran. Now everybody sends their children to become a hafiz, but that is also a great sinful burden2. They memorize in two years and you are happy, but what they memorize in two years they forget in one.
This is also important and we need to be careful of it. If they are able to do it let them do it. If they are not able to, let them study in the madrasa. If they memorize 5-6 sections3, it is beautiful if they do not forget it. It is a sinful burden if they memorize the whole Koran and forget it. At the very least, 3-4 sections, 5 sections, or however much they can is better. Let them continue it without forgetting. May Allah be content with you all. May your grace4 increase. May the spiritual support5 of our Shaykh be present.
Al-Fatiha.
And for the soul of Haji Mestan Efendi. Al-Fatiha.
35.MAY OUR AFFECTION INCREASE Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Blessings descend and goodness comes when we mention our Holy Prophet. They are not showing enough respect to our Holy Prophet. Especially these Arab called people want to show our Holy Prophet as a regular person because they know the Koran.
It is sunna to follow every word and every action of our Holy Prophet. Those who apply the sunna and those who respect our Holy Prophet find respect, and this would be useful for oneself. In every hardship we need to pray as, “Lift this hardship off of us for the sake of our Holy Prophet.” “Your dua is only answered this way,” says Allah Azza wa Jalla. Your dua would be answered if you mention the name of our Holy Prophet when starting the dua, start with salawat and finish with salawat.
Otherwise, Allah would not look at you. A person might pray but if you ask, “Why is it not being answered? Why is it not working?” it is because you are not reciting salawat. It says Allah Azza wa Jalla also confers salawat when the name of our Holy Prophet is mentioned. “Innallaha wa mala’ikatahu yusalluna alan-neby.” “Indeed, Allah and His angels confer blessing upon the Prophet.” (Sura Ahzab:56) Therefore, it is important to know the value of our Holy Prophet. Arabs think they know everything because they know Arabic. It is of no value whether you know the language or not if Allah Azza wa Jalla does not inform you, or if you do not respect him. It is not important. What is important is affection1, respect and regards toward our Holy Prophet. This is what is important because a person is saved with muhabbat.
You can be as much of a scholar as you like, but it is of no use to you when you have no affection towards our Holy Prophet. You would be of no use to anybody else either. You are nothing but harm! They see our Holy Prophet as a regular person. Even the holy ones are different than regular people. Our Holy Prophet had such different traits, he had many characteristics not found in regular people. But a person needs to have the eye to see this. Otherwise, “He is someone like you and I,” they say and move on. This would be harmful for oneself. What Shaitan works on most is not informing people of the value of our Holy Prophet and showing him differently. Many follow Shaitan when he does
that. Shaitan bursts and cracks [with anger] when there are people who have affection towards our Holy Prophet.
Therefore, may Allah Azza wa Jalla make us a nation worthy of our Holy Prophet Inshallah. May his affection be inside of us the most so we may not have a greater affection than for him. Affection towards Allah Azza wa Jalla and our Holy Prophet are what we need most. This is what raises our soul and raises our station. It is affection for our Holy Prophet.
May it increase every day. Our Holy Prophet has said, “The one whose two days are the same is in loss.” Affection increases. Our actions are not increasing, they are decreasing. May our muhabbat increase so that our station increases. May we be neighbors with our Holy Prophet in paradise InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
36.BE WITH ALLĀH AND DON’T FEAR Wednesday, 1 March, 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our ṭarīqah is Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, follows the Prophet's " way. It continues with dhikr and ṣuḥbah. We did dhikr so that there is barakah. We remembered Allāh's name. "Alā bidhikri Llāhi taṭma’innu l-qulūb." (13:28) May our assembly, meeting be blessed, in shā’Allāh. This is Allāh's table. Allāh called us here. We remembered His name. He definitely gives blessings. He doesn't send us back empty handed. He sends us from here with gifts and blessings, in shā’Allāh. Ask for goodness, you'll find goodness.
Be on good terms with everyone, especially with the leaders. No need to be on bad terms with them, we have to help them. We focus on Allāh, they deal with worldly matters. Allāh gave everyone a duty, a quality, so they follow a way. There is a duty for everyone. There is something to do for everyone Allāh's order: "Yā ayyuhā l-ladhīna āmanū t-taqū Llāha wa kūnū ma‘a ṣ-ṣādiqīn." (9:119) Fear Allāh and be with those who are true. Keep away from bad people. Don't think badly of others. Don't think evil - like "he'll treat me bad". Be a good one, leave the rest to Allāh because we live in the end of times. The Day of Judgement is close. We are in the days that the Prophet " mentioned. These are difficult days, The Prophet " describes this time as "dark nights", such bad days. We reached the days of end of times so we have to be careful. We should fear Allāh and be with good ones.
We shouldn't harm anyone. Treat the servants of Allāh good, especially the believers. Don't be with unbelievers and oppress Muslims. Don't harm or hurt Muslims just to look nice to unbelievers. Unbelievers can't even help themselves, how will they help you? Be with Allāh certainly. Only Allāh can save you in these days. Be with Allāh, don't fear. Whoever is with Allāh, they are always blessed. Their end is good, the most important thing is that the end is good. "Wa-ilá Llāhi turja‘u l-umūr." (2:210) "To Allāh, all matters are returned." If you are with Him, you are in good situation. If you are against Him you are in bad situation. You are losing then.
These are the days of trade. Ākhirah trade. The Prophet " gives good tidings for the ones keeping their religion that for every sunnah that you keep you get a hundred martyrs' reward, our Prophet's " sunnah.
Because the enemy is strong, He gives that much reward and blessings in return. Now the whole world is united against Islām. When we say Islām, they are united against the Islām that is on the right path. You can't harm anyone in Islām. You can't take anyone's right. These terrorists that we see they are all soldiers of shayṭān. They've nothing to do with Islām. There are very few Muslims. Real Muslims on the right path are very few. But again this is wisdom of Allāh for Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām to appear. It is the good tidings of the Prophet " in these dark days. When they are oppressed, Allāh will send them a savior - it is Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām. It is mentioned in holy ḥadīth. ‘Īsá ‘alayhi ssalām will also descend at that time. Just like the world is full of oppression and injustice now, they'll fill it with justice, give everyone's right and light up the world. This oppression will end. There is these good tidings for people. Don't lose hope from Allāh. Allāh is Almighty.
This is one of the miracles of the Prophet ". The news that he " gave 1400 years ago are becoming real. He " mentioned these days. After this in shā’a Llāh, it won't be too long. It happens when Allāh wants but we hope it is soon so we can see those beautiful days. This is good news. People everywhere are hopeless. "What are we going to do? People, who claim to be Muslims, they do this, that". They have nothing to do with Islām. Our good tidings to them is Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām. When Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām comes, real Muslims will be with him. We'll rule the world with Allāh's permission. It is Allāh's promise - the whole world will be Muslim then. Allāh's order: "Lā taqnaṭū min raḥmati Llāh" (39:53) "Don't despair of the mercy of Allāh" says Allāh. Always be prepared, be happy with Allāh's good tidings. Be with Allāh, don't fear at all. Āmin, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
37.THE SECRET IS SINCERITY Friday, 3 March, 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh we are meeting again with you. And al-ḥamdu liLlāh our big brother Shaykh Ḥasan Efendi, he is recovering. We miss him here. In shā’Allāh next time, many times in shā’Allāh again we'll be with him. In shā’a Llāh. In shā’Allāh everyone for Mawlānā they have special place and special duty to do. And Shaykh Ḥasan he is, mā shā’a Llāh, running this center. Coming from everywhere, people coming, taking blessing and barakah. şifa olsun (may he get well) in shā’Allāh . What he do for us also must be lesson. Only for sake of Allāh to be your intention pure, pure for Allāh. Everything, whole your life, only for His to be pleased with you, you must be.
We say Shaykh Ḥasan he is old murīd and he has capacity to bring people together. We cannot be like him. Of course, everybody they have something to do. Allāh He said: "afaḥasibtum annamā khalaqnākum abathā" (23:115) "We don't create you for nothing." Everybody have something to do. You do what Allāh want you to do, obey Him !. You make your intention pure for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. This is main reason for us. What Allāh create for us to be, your intention pure, not looking for anything from not good for worshipping Allāh !, taking away from Allāh. As we said, we cannot be everybody like Shaykh Ḥasan to whole life going around for make people to come to right way. But also we can make our business. And if our intention for Allāh !, it is, Allāh ! reward us also.
As we said, Allāh create all human being. And He ! create for them some specialty. Some of them become engineer, some of them become builder, some of them become shepherd, some of them become politician, some of them become doctor. There is not only what we count from profession. There is thousands of professions. Allāh create everybody for this. They can do this. But the most important - to not forget Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. You can do your job properly and you'll be in service of Allāh obeying Him. Just if you do this in proper way, maybe Allāh from your this sincerity, He can make people to come to right way when see you like this.
Last night one brother asking "How you make this people to become Muslim? Tell me I can try to make them Muslim also. Many non-Muslim I think they like to be Muslim." He asked like this, one man last night. He ask, not ask me, ask other people. Of course, everybody must be slowly slowly to become Muslim. They must to be around him. So it is secret to be sincere. Already many people who are they are making meeting and become Muslim through them. There is like this people. But it is not common. Few like Shaykh Ḥasan, like other, they are doing this. So if you are shepherd, you cannot say "I will make these people Muslim, tell me how to do this." It is not like cooking recipe. You
cannot do. You can do other way, by your good behaviour, with your good politeness, with your to be straight with everybody, to do this sincerely.
People they can attract by you. And without saying anything for them they'll be friend with you. After maybe they become hidāyah through you also. You cannot hold man and say "I will make you some..." If you speak from evening to morning, nothing will happen.
Islām no need to make advertisement for Islām. Islām it is. Because real live religion, not dead, not. So if you are really following and you are sincere, people they will follow you. They come to ask what is this. And this it will be hidāyah for them. There is light, people who have good spirit, good behaviour, they must be come to Islām. Because like time of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, these mushrik people, they were waiting around Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, where he " is staying, make people to not meet him ". Because they know if they meet him ", they will accept him ", accept Islām. So before coming they were making many people, they say "This is liar. This is crazy. This is not following his father's way", not let these people to reach Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
Who has good character, they were following Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. Even we know story of Sayyidinā ‘Umar ibnu l-Khaṭṭāb, when he come he was coming to fight Prophet ", to kill Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And when he came back, he was become Muslim, when he see Prophet " and speak to him ". Because he has good character, he has good spirit. And others who don't have this character, they have bad character, nothing affect them. Like Abū Lahab, Abū Jahl, Al-Walīd. Many of them, these Quraysh proud people, stubborn people they not affect for them Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
This time also same. Who have good character, must be to accept the right way. If they have chance to see this beauty from Islām. But who has no good character, it's normal for him to hate Islām and be enemy for Islām. But al-ḥamdu liLlāh Shaykh Ḥasan and others, they are making effort everywhere, in Italy, Spain, France. Everywhere our brothers, they are going from place to place to make these people to understand beauty of Islām and to tell them about what they don't know. Or people they show them bad thing about Islām, opposite of Islām. This shayṭān, he has... now his kingdom on the top, of his kingdom now. And the most powerful thing working for him - media. They are most who attacking Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, attacking Islām, this media. And subḥāna Llāh, Allāh can make defend His religion with somebody nobody can expect from him to defend or to even he without knowing defending.
Now many people, they will be "Who is this man?" Now every from this shayṭān weapon make people to go, even Muslim to accept what they are saying. Subḥāna Llāh this man,
he is now in the world number one, the most powerful one. Everybody knows, they are surprised. They don't accept him. They are making, they are protesting him - "We not accept you". You know this handsome man - Donald Trump. He is saying this is media, they are liar. He's first number in the world. He said everything they are saying opposite truth. They are making white black and make black white. They say "No, this is not white. This is black." People say "We think this is white". So it is black, but meaning white. You cannot deny this. Nobody cannot deny this. So many things, not many things, most of what they are saying, these people, maybe 99,99% it is not truth. They are just army of shayṭān. So Allāh send them one to make them to be rezil (humiliated) al-ḥamdu liLlāh.
So people even they are cheating people, this Trump coming "It's very bad for you, for Muslim..." But what happened? They said for Obama he's Muslim, his father Muslim, he's black. He make the worst for black people, for Muslim the worst what happened. Through all these American presidents, he was the worst. So al-ḥamdu liLlāh we are happy what Allāh give us. We are what in need, Allāh He ! put him. For Muslim also, "Al-khayru fī mā waqa‘a" The best what Allāh He choose. We accept Allāh, His order and we are just here like passenger, like guest in this world. No need to be afraid. If you are in some house, you are guest, you will be look to repair this house? No, you are only two days. They are owner of house. He will look after his house.
So don't be afraid from anything. Only be sincere with Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Allāh He keep you safe and maybe He make you reason for people to be safe also. "Inna Llāha ma‘a lladhīna t-taqaw wa l-ladhīna hum muḥsinūn" (16:128) Allāh with who afraid from Him and who are generous people. If you'll be only afraid from Allāh, not do bad thing. If you afraid from Allāh, you don't do bad thing. You do good thing. Do this, don't worry.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
38.FIGHT YOUR EGO Sunday, 5 March, 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allāh He ask and He answer for us. He said: O believer "Yā ayyuhā alladhīna āmanū hal adullukum ʿalā tijāratin tunjīkum min ʿadhābin alīm" (61:11). Allāh ask you, you like to be safe from bad end, bad life, next life to be safe from every badness? He ask for believers. To be safe from this, you must believe in Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam and to struggle in way of Allāh by your effort, bodily effort, by your support with money, with everything. You must support Allāh and Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. If you do this, Allāh He said you'll be safe and you'll be forgiven for what you done before. He is most merciful. He forgive every badness, everything you do. When you ask forgiveness from Him, He forgive you. And He will be happy with you. And you will be happy with Him.
People they are running after happiness, going around world to find happiness. And shayṭān show them happiness in to be mindless, to be crazy, using something, make your mind to go away, not remember anything what you done, what you... Make to not remember anything when you take this thing. This only happiness, no benefit from this happiness. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is not happy with this happiness. He give you happiness with your... by yourself. If you do what He said, you find real happiness. Because what you done, if you have been in time before Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, Allāh many times He changed people to another creature when they done bad thing. But in our time, Sayyidina ‘UbayduLlāh alAḥrār said this: no any more to change people to animal. Sometimes they changed to dog, sometimes for pig. They were changing because getting, they do something, coming quickly punishment for them. Sometimes even for stone also people were changing. But in our time not changing. Allāh ﷻmake mercy. But what happened? Well Sayyidina ‘UbayduLlāh alAḥrār saying Allāh ﷻchange them from inside because they do bad thing, wrong thing. And they are not feeling any sorry and not disturbed. They make happy to do this.
This meaning their inner side changing to something else, not human being. Human being cannot be like this. To kill people, to steal people, to harm people, to do bad thing for anyone - it is not from human being's attribute. Human being Allāh He create them to be merciful, to be high position. "Walaqad karramnā banī Ādam" (17:70)
Allāh He make them the highest between creatures. Because they cannot be human being, real human being - only appearance like human but inside they are like animals. So these people they don't have any happiness.
These people only happiness for them to harm people, to make people to be like them. They thought they are becoming majority. They thought like dunyā, like this world, it will be democracy, there will be election and they will be going to make new president. They thought, astaghfiruLlāh, they will change Allāh. This is what they thought. Because for this they are trying the most effort for people to make them do bad things, to make them to make wrong things.
But even whole universe, not only our world, can come again[st] Lord ‘Azza wa Jalla, it is nothing effect one gram, one point. No value for all of this. Allāh only want us... for us giving this. He create everything. He is not in need to for our worshipping, for our obedience, to do good or to do bad. Only for our benefit. And in āyah, from verses from Qur’ān what He said? "O believer, I want to tell you something to be safe." To be safe, we must follow Allāh and Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And you must be also struggle, "wa tujāhiduna fī sabīli Llāh" (61:11) to be fighting in way of Allāh. How to fight from way of Allāh? The biggest thing to fight - to fight your ego, the biggest enemy for us. No mercy at all, our ego it not have mercy for us at all. Don't think it will be sorry for you.
We are seeing everywhere now. Six days I am here, every time coming people. They cannot control ego. They cannot fight [it]. They just surrender [to it] and they finish. Must be control. Many people they are listening but not... In that time they said "Of course, we can do this". After, when they're going out, they quickly forget this. If you control your ego and you fight ego, you'll be that time happy. And He will reward you good house, good palace in paradise. If you don't do this, you cannot find this. And you will regret forever. This is order for us, for whole human being, not only for Muslim this. Allāh ﷻsent our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, He " is the last prophet for human being. Because we are accepting all prophets since Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām until Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
We don't have democracy in Islām. Because Western people, they are even for prophets they are criticizing, beginning from our first father Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām. They are angry for him "Why he make eating something from paradise tree? And we are now suffering here." The prophets they are from their attribute they are ma‘ṣūm (without guilt). They are highest station between whole human beings. Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam saying there is companion from prophet and scholar, they are, if no prophecy... Some Banī Isrā’īl they have many prophets. These ‘ulamā’ and scholars they can be higher than them for prophet. Because prophet the highest. If no prophecy, they would be higher than prophets - ‘ulamā’, real scholar. Because Prophet " the highest. Even Sayyidinā Abū
Bakr the highest one, ‘Umar, ‘Uthmān, ‘Alī, all these ṣaḥābah they are below prophet level. Down, not... Like this we are respecting all prophets. No any tolerance to say anything for prophets. "Lā nufarriqu bayna aḥadin min rusulih" (2:285) It's from ’āyah, verses from Qur’ān. No difference between any one. All we're respecting and accepting. And all religions acceptable, we accept them - heavenly religion. And Allāh also accept. This is our belief.
And for others, it is sometimes different, they not accept. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He said if you like to be in highest level, you must accept and follow. Real happiness to be with them. Saints also. We have many saints. These saints also they finish their ego. After this they become saint. But there is shortcut way and long way. Shortcut to follow instruction of our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and do what He say. Long way to look, try one, try other one, try next one, try ten religion, try hu
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e us also for ākhirah, not to forget ākhirah. This is to mix and to make it combined these two things, it is very difficult. Because many people they are mixing, leaving one or they leaving other. So both of them, it will be following their ego, the easy way. No, in life you must be following and fighting your ego to follow way of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam even it is difficult. You must follow.
Don't follow your ego or people who are teaching you to forget ākhirah. This is ṭarīqah teaching. And ṭarīqah teaching coming from Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And when you... Of course, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam show us you will, you must live as you're not dying at all. You can make plan for future also. But don't forget the most important thing, to say "if Allāh want this, in shā’Allāh" In shā’Allāh meaning if Allāh want this. Because if He didn't want anything, nothing happen. Only what He want, it will be happen.
So we are looking, we don't know how we will live. But for making something, everybody has plan. And it's ok, not bad. But most important thing to not forget Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, if He wants. Even Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam; scholar from Jewish people coming to make exam for Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. They ask him three things. And he said "Tomorrow I will give you answer." He didn't say in shā’a Llāh. But he is Prophet, innocent, not doing any wrong. But this, for teaching for his nation, ummah, Allāh not giving his answer. One month waiting. 15 days or one month, something like this. And after He give him this answer.
And He say āyah "Wa-lā taqūlanna lishay’in innī fā‘ilun dhālika ghadan illā an yashā’a Llāh" (18:23-24) Don't say for anything "I will do this tomorrow" without saying if Allāh want. Every time don't forget to say in shā’a Llāh. So it is for Muslim, for ṭarīqah people. Everything make normally. Some of them saying "oh". You're saying this maybe after one month coming Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām. Ok, he is coming. Also we are more happy. We are extremely happy. We are not object for this. So no harm to say "I plan to do this, in shā’Allāh, if Allāh wants next month, next week, tomorrow, after tomorrow." But you must say, in shā’Allāh. Don't forget saying, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
29.WHO IS THE STRONG ONE Monday, 30 January 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam says that a strong person isn't someone, who beats other people. You may be a strong wrestler, you may beat them up. You may beat them up when you get angry. No one can do something to him. "He isn't strong" says our Prophet. "The strong one is the one who controls his anger, gets over his anger." When angry a physically strong one beats the others. If he isn't strong he still tries to do something; creates trouble. Harms himself because of his anger. Other people may also be harmed. That's why if you control your anger, you'll be raised. If anger controls you, you'll be defeated. Then you aren't strong. Because you need power to control your ego. Anger comes from ego. You regret it later on most of the time. Sometimes you hear something, you get angry. Immediately you give a useless reaction. So, when you get angry you need to repent so that you don't immediately do something that you'll regret later on. "Fī l-‘ajalah an-nadāmah. Wa fī tta’annī as-salāmah." If you rush, you'll regret it.
If you act slowly and think, "What is this? Is it right or wrong? Why did it happen like this?" you'll get over your anger and you won't regret it. This is advice for everyone; young, old, everyone. Of course when you are young you are full of energy. That's why they get angry more. They give useless reactions. Young people should learn this that you aren't strong even if you beat everyone. Strong one looks at everyone with mercy. If there is something wrong you can change it into something good.
Our Prophet advises us not be get angry. A companion came. "Tell me something". "Don't get angry." "Tell me something else". He said five, six times. Companion said; "He will say this until the Judgement Day." So he left. So anger is a bad thing. It harms people. Controlling it is a big power. It shows a person's power. May Allāh make us all achieve controlling that anger. Me in the first place, it isn't good to say "I" but everyone has it. Everybody needs this advice. Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam he said who is strong one. He said strong one not one he beats everybody [up]. No. Strong one; [he] who controls his anger. If you control anger, you are a strong one. But if you not control your anger, even you are the most powerful in one of the world, also you are not strong. Because your anger controls you. But to control anger, it is difficult and it is [an] order.
Who controls anger, he is really powerful. Because everybody when he is getting angry, not seeing anything, doing bad things for people. And these bad things coming for him also. After he'll regret for what he done. He said "Oh, I done this. Why I've done this? I follow - I was very angry, I do this. But now what will happen? How I can make it to repair this?" Sometimes he cannot repair it, something, doing very bad thing. So he'll be sorry for what he done. To control anger you must remember this ḥadīth from Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And if you get angry, don't quickly go to fight or to do trouble for people.
First, remember Allāh, say astaghfiru Llāh, astaghfiru Llāh l-‘Aẓīm Because to control yourself, you must remember this also. Also they said, "Fī t-ta’annī as-salāmah wa fī l- ‘ajalah annadāmah." If you are doing very - you must be cool, you must be slow, not to go quickly. For everything to go to hurry, it is not so good. Only in some things hurry, it's good. For good thing; you go for marriage or for other, to make good thing, you can hurry. But for other things, you must wait, you must think and to see what it is reality. Maybe you misunderstand something and you will be sorry for what you done.
So you must be slowly, not to hurry, not to rush. You'll be happy, you'll be safe. You'll be in salāmah, peace. But you are hurry, you'll be sorry. This is translation for this. So you must... When you becoming angry from something, don't hurry. Just look around and ask. Maybe you many times some people they become [are] misunderstanding. After they become, when they done something, they become sorry and they become embarassed also for what they done. And he apologized and he doing something. Sometimes repair, sometimes he cannot repair what he done.
So we - To anger, most attribute Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam was warning ummah and nation. Once one ṣaḥābah he ask him "Advise me, O Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam" He said don't be angry. "Yes, al-ḥamdu liLlāh. OK, another advice?" he said for Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. Prophet he said "Don't be angry." And of course the ṣaḥābah not objecting what Prophet [said] He asked "Maybe another one?"
He still continued [like] this until five or more than five times. Prophet still saying "Don't be angry." And he said, ṣaḥābah was saying "I thought if I ask forever, he will say don't be angry. So I was stopping." So it is very important point to control our anger, in shā'a Llāh. This is first for me. Because I am every time angry. For all of us, it is very in need to do this naṣīḥah, this advice. It is very important for us.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
30.ONLY SHOW THEM THE RIGHT WAY Tuesday,31 January 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
"Innaka lā tahdī man aḥbabt wa lākinna Llāha yahdī man yashā’ " (28:56) Holy verse. "You don't guide whom you like. But Allāh guides whom He wills." Most people want to guide their relatives, friends, their loved ones to the right path. Because they love this path they try to guide others to this path. These are Allāh's beautiful ways. If Allāh wills, it happens. If not, no matter how hard you try it doesn't work.
Some people try to attract people by showing things, that aren't in Islām. There is no need for such a thing. Because in order to attract; just treat people gently. "Yassirū wa lā tu‘assir". Don't make it difficult. Treat people gently. Religious orders are clear. If someone saw a light. He came to you, to your ṣuḥbah, be friends with you, wants something. Slowly, slowly; making him love it after taking this path, he worships better than you. He will have more effort than you.
If you give everything at once then it gets difficult. You shouldn't do that. If you order things, which aren't in Islām to make him like it then there is no benefit. It harms you as well. Because he came for Allāh. Allāh gave a light inside him, you should help him. So help him and not make him run away. Then our way is Allāh's way. Some may come. Some may go. Don't be sorry. These are Allāh's will.
If you are on the right way, don't worry, don't be sorry. You know yourself. If you made a mistake, knowing or not knowing May Allāh forgive you. Most people make mistakes. That's why we say 100 times, 500 times, 1000 times astaghfiru Llāh. We make many mistakes without noticing. It is ok if you aren't intending. May Allāh not leave us to our ego. In shā’a Llāh, we are on the right way. We are following that way, with followers for it to be a guidance for people. This is an advice to our followers, to our friends. Don't leave the right way. You can't do everything all at once. You do it slowly. You do Allāh's orders. Like we said don't resort to things, that have nothing to do with Islām. That is a burden on you. Allāh ’Azza wa Jalla saying Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. "Innaka lā tahdī man aḥbabta walākinna Llāha yahdī man yashā’ "(28:56) Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said even Prophet cannot make people to follow right way, to follow good way. Only Allāh which people He love them, He guides them to [the] right way.
But you do your best. Because many people, especially from first time of Islām, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam Allāh order him "beginning from your nearest people, your family." And Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam he love his family, his relatives and he try from beginning to make them to come to Islām.
And he collect all of them in one meeting. All his family, uncles, altogether. They were OK. Abū Lahab, he wasn't inside this. When he heard, quickly he come and he destroy this meeting. Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam was very sad for this. Because nearly other all his family, they will become to be Islām in this first [meeting] But this Abū Lahab he making very ugly word. And he was aggressive and attacking Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And he finish this meeting without doing anything. For this, Allāh ’Azza wa Jalla saying you cannot make who you love to be come to Islām or to hidāyah. Only what Allāh He want, he can be in right way, guide to right way. So for this, our way, Prophet way. We are offering al-ḥamdu liLlāh, what Prophet saying. We try to follow like we learn, like we see.
To learn when you are seeing, it is most important, not only speaking. We're following Mawlānā, he was doing exactly like Prophet following step by step. So we are following. And we want people who are come to, Allāh guide them to this way, to follow [the] same way; way of mercy and sweet and gentle way. This is the way we show. Because these people who are coming for hidāyah, Muslim or non-Muslim, even Muslim, there are many people, they are running from Islām, from Muslim. But Allāh when He give them in their heart light, they like to come and seeing how it is this.
What we will do for them? To show them the best from Islām. Allāh, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said "Yassirū wa lā tu‘assirū". Be easy for people, not make it hard for them. But show them the right way, way of - Because they have this light, no need to show them another way. Only what [is] in Islām way, but in gentle way you show them. Don't mix with your ego or to try make people lieing for people "this is Islām and this is how you must be here." To show them what is not in Islām This is not good. Because Islām is enough for whole, every person in this world. He [it] has every happiness, goodness in Islām. No need for other thing to say to them, to mix with philosophy or with other things. No need for this.
Because they - What we say from beginning Allāh sends these people for hidāyah. So only what you will do, Allāh make you wāsiṭah (means), intermediary. So you get your wages from Allāh, your reward from Allāh. This is better than whole world. Only show them the right way without making them running away. Not mix from another thing. Only show them this nice way, way of Prophet, awliyā’ and way of Mawlānā. This is enough for all of them. So don't think you will be clever "I can tell them some story not happened. They will believe in this and that". No, no. Just believe there is, mā shā’a Llāh, in history of Islām and ṭarīqah millions of history, real history and real happening, good
things you can tell for these people. No need to make any lie. Lie not good in Islām. For everything.
So only you leave your heart clean and try the best. And maybe sometimes we make fault without knowing. With knowing, it's not good. Even with knowing, you can make tawbah astaghfiru Llāh, OK. But every day without knowing many times we do something wrong without knowing. We are repenting; ask forgiveness from Allāh . And He will forgive, in shā’Allāh. Allāh make us in right way, in shā’Allāh, not going any one millimetre from other [than] this way.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
31.BEAUTY IS FROM GOODNESS Sunday, 19 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Thank Allah we are rejoined with the ikhwan again. People who are on the path of Allah and who follow Allah’s commands are continuously relieved and are carefree Inshallah. Our care is for the situation of the Nation of Muhammad and its circumstances.
Allah has shown the way, the beautiful way. When people deviate from this path they think, “I will be relieved and I will be happy,” when in fact they are mistaken. All sadness, unfortunateness, and whatever evil there may be befalls them. Even if they think they are alright – not that they do anyway – they become unhappy. Because nothing happens if Allah does not want it to happen. Everything goes well once Allah wants it to.
Allah placed beauty in goodness. There is no relief in evil, in filth, and in sins. There is sorrow. There is sorrow in this world and in the hereafter. This world is short. What is important is the hereafter. So it is not important whether you got sad or not in this world. However, again people who are on the path of Allah, whether poor or rich, Allah provides them with peace and beauty. It is like paradise for them in this world when there is internal peace. But they can have as much of the world’s money as they like, they can have anything, and nothing is of use if there is no peace.
We met with good people thank Allah where we went and where we visited. They came for Allah, for the sake of Allah. There is no [material] benefit. Their expectation was dua. They asked for dua for their children to stay on the right path and to not deviate from the right path. This was their expectation: dua. They did not ask for money. They only asked for such a favor.
May Allah grant us all to stay on this path and keep the children of the Nation of Muhammad safe. Shaitans are plenty there but it is the same here. So do not think they are there [in the United Kingdom] and we are safe here. Do not comply with your ego. Be careful.
Be careful of children so they stay on the right path. Show them the beautiful way. Do not show them the bad way. Show them the beautiful over and over. This is an important matter as it comes from the family. So it is learnt in the family first. The mother needs to teach it first. Then slowly, as long as that seed is inside, it will certainly turn green.
May Allah protect us. May Allah give us health and appetite InshaAllah. May we all be protected from the evils of Shaitan InshaAllah. May we be with good people everywhere we go InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
32.ALLAH IS THE BEST HELPER Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allah is the best helper. We should not say this and forget about it. Now, people are in this state anyway. They should have totally understood this, but it does not cross their minds. People become relieved if they remember this. Allah also helps when you say it.
Nobody can help humanity if Allah does not want it. Nothing can effect people as long as they are under the protection and guardianship of Allah. They become relieved, find peace, and all bothers are removed. There is no such thing as running after it as, “This man is rich, he would help us and we would be relieved.”
Funny things happen sometimes. A man, a bahlul, sent a letter once: “Make dua to Allah for me. Let me get in the dream of the Sultan of Brunei so he can hire me.” That is amazing. You pray to Allah so Allah gives you relief, so Allah gives you common sense, and so Allah helps you out. There is no need to take it to such lengths. Allah can help you on the top of a mountain or in the middle of the desert. You need to trust in Allah. The one who helps you is Allah and He does not let you be in need of anybody. The best for us and the closest to us is Allah Azza wa Jalla. May we not be deprived of Allah’s help Inshallah.
“HasbunAllah wani’mal wakeel, ni’mal mawla wani’man naseer.” Allah is the best helper and there cannot be anyone better than Him. Perish the thought (Hasha). And this people should say a hundred times a day so they may be saved from their bothers and troubles. Whatever gloom there may be, whatever sadness or anxiety, they all go away. Sometimes people think when they are with a powerful man they can be saved from troubles through his protection. The biggest protection is from Allah Azza wa Jalla. Do not forget this. Seek refuge in Him.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
33.HAJJI MESTAN EFFENDI Friday, 24 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
What Allah says occurs. Allah did not leave us on earth forever. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He states: “Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon.” (Sura Baqara:156) “We come from Allah and to Him we will return.” May Allah have mercy on him. We were with our elder brother Hajji Mestan for 33 years. He was next to Shaykh Mawlana most of the time.
Shaykh Mawlana used to love him. He also gave him himmat (spiritual support) and his station rose. This is what is important. The lifetime Allah has provided is limited. Mashallah, thank Allah, I think he lived to be 77 years old. This means he was next to Shaykh Mawlana for almost half of his life. Shaykh Mawlana gave him himmat and helped him. He became an accepted person wherever he went. They would be expecting him. Doors would open wherever he went.
He was a person of states (haal). What is meant by a person of haal is a difficult person. They said, “Sahibul ahwal laa tatahammaluhul jibaal.” “Mountains cannot withstand the person of states.” Sometimes he would say or do things people could not stand, and other times different things would happen. However, he was protected very well even in that state with the himmat of Shaykh Mawlana. There are many people of states whom nobody knows and nobody approaches. With Shaykh Mawlana’s himmat and with Shaykh Mawlana’s karamat (spiritual gifts), it would be in its place if we said people would ask about Hajji almost all over the world, wherever went from America to Malaysia, and from Indonesia to Africa. May Allah have mercy on him.
When you are with the shaykhs, they make you reach felicity both in this world and in the hereafter. They say about those who are with them, “Laa yashqaa jaleesuhum.” Those who sit with them do not become people of brigandage (brigands), they do not see harm, and are continuously under protection. May Allah have mercy on him. He would make Shaykh Mawlana pretty joyful, he would make him laugh. We have many beautiful memories with Hajji. We were together twice in seclusion (khalwat), we were together twice in hajj (pilgrimage), and we were together in some trips. May Allah have mercy on him.
He was a beautiful person and would know the old customs. Most people do not know some things now. He would know them. He would remind them and sometimes tell Shaykh Mawlana about them. Shaykh Mawlana would take pleasure and ask, “What is this? What do they call this? How do you do it?” He would laugh and find relief. He would joke a lot with Shaykh Mawlana.
Shaykh Mawlana would eat downstairs. One time he pointed at someone and he filled Hajji Mestan’s pockets with all the forks and spoons he could find without him being aware. This was not enough. This time they threw in melon and watermelon. Shaykh Mawlana laughed so hard. Shaykh Mawlana would joke with him like this. He would not do this much to others, but he would call this person specifically. In fact, he knew about it but pretended not to know. May Allah have mercy on him.
However, as we said, it is human nature and nobody lives forever. May Allah have mercy on him. He left a pleasant effect. Like Nasreddin Hodja, he had plenty of activities and plenty of good states. Every time we remember these we will mention him with mercy Inshallah. People are with those they love. As an analogy, when coming back from London, people there were sad while those who were meeting us here were happy.
It is the same when going to the hereafter. We are sending him with sadness here and there Shaykh Mawlana, mumins, his friends, his relatives, his mother, his father, and all of them meet him with joy. Because Mashallah his states were for Allah and nothing else. InshaAllah Allah made him go to paradise. InshaAllah those of paradise meet him there. Now he is saved from this body and is in the gardens of paradise InshaAllah.
May Allah grant us all such beautiful conditions. These conditions will befall all of us. As our hodjas say, they recite a poem: “If death were bad, prophets would not die.” Death will come upon everyone. What is important is being ready for it, and for them to meet us with joy there InshaAllah. May his abode be paradise. May Allah have abundant mercy on him. May we attain his shafaat (intercession) InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
Fatiha for his soul.
34.TRUE SCHOLARS ARE PEOPLE OF TAQWA Saturday, 25 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
May Allah be content with you, welcome to all of you. We have people, children, who will become scholars. May Allah be content with them all. Being a scholar has a great status in the sight of Allah. There are two kinds of scholars. Inshallah because ours are on the way of Allah, they will come out with true scholar attributes. Because knowledge cannot be without training the ego. Otherwise it becomes selfish, and arrogance appears. It would be of benefit neither for oneself nor for others.
Thank Allah they are going on the way of our Shaykh Mawlana, our Shaykh Baba. That is the way of our Holy Prophet. Shaykh Mawlana would say the scholars of Sham are people of taqwa. Shaykh Mawlana, thank Allah, gave that taqwa to everybody, to all the brothers. Of course those studying would be better. When that taqwa, that fear of Allah, exists in them they do everything accordingly. It becomes useful for the Ummah, for themselves, and for those studying.
The teachers would not ask us for money when we were studying in Sham. They would say, “We have only one condition and that is if there are people asking for it wherever you go, show them this knowledge and teach them this taqwa.” They would say, “As long as you do this, we do not ask for anything, and we make our rights halal (give our blessings).” We would not pay. On the contrary, they would give us money in the madrasa. They would give us 20 liras a month. It was quite some money at the time. You could almost buy one gold coin with it. Think of it that way.
Of course, money does not have much value left anymore. We calculated it then: the holy ones would give us as much as a gold coin. But it is not important. What is more important than gold is their placing in people that taqwa, that fear of Allah, and staying away from the haram. That is much more valuable. And this Inshallah you give to these children. Those who are not students, Inshallah all of our brothers become like this. Fear of Allah is the most valuable thing in Islam. Inshallah may it be granted to us all.
This way is a beautiful way. It enlightens people, gives them light, and gives light everywhere. If a person has nur it becomes nur for everybody. If not, if there is darkness,
if we do this job for benefit it becomes dark. That time it is not useful for yourself. On the contrary it becomes twice as harmful. The torture a scholar will suffer is twice as much. A normal person or an ignorant person did not know. He might have done it unknowingly. If one torture is given to him, it is twice for the scholar. It is multiplied.
As we also read in the hadith lesson the other day, those who read the Koran and study should do it for the sake of Allah. For memorizers1, they also need to be more careful because they are carrying the Koran. They need to be moralized with the morals of the Koran. Now everybody sends their children to become a hafiz, but that is also a great sinful burden2. They memorize in two years and you are happy, but what they memorize in two years they forget in one.
This is also important and we need to be careful of it. If they are able to do it let them do it. If they are not able to, let them study in the madrasa. If they memorize 5-6 sections3, it is beautiful if they do not forget it. It is a sinful burden if they memorize the whole Koran and forget it. At the very least, 3-4 sections, 5 sections, or however much they can is better. Let them continue it without forgetting. May Allah be content with you all. May your grace4 increase. May the spiritual support5 of our Shaykh be present.
Al-Fatiha.
And for the soul of Haji Mestan Efendi. Al-Fatiha.
35.MAY OUR AFFECTION INCREASE Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Blessings descend and goodness comes when we mention our Holy Prophet. They are not showing enough respect to our Holy Prophet. Especially these Arab called people want to show our Holy Prophet as a regular person because they know the Koran.
It is sunna to follow every word and every action of our Holy Prophet. Those who apply the sunna and those who respect our Holy Prophet find respect, and this would be useful for oneself. In every hardship we need to pray as, “Lift this hardship off of us for the sake of our Holy Prophet.” “Your dua is only answered this way,” says Allah Azza wa Jalla. Your dua would be answered if you mention the name of our Holy Prophet when starting the dua, start with salawat and finish with salawat.
Otherwise, Allah would not look at you. A person might pray but if you ask, “Why is it not being answered? Why is it not working?” it is because you are not reciting salawat. It says Allah Azza wa Jalla also confers salawat when the name of our Holy Prophet is mentioned. “Innallaha wa mala’ikatahu yusalluna alan-neby.” “Indeed, Allah and His angels confer blessing upon the Prophet.” (Sura Ahzab:56) Therefore, it is important to know the value of our Holy Prophet. Arabs think they know everything because they know Arabic. It is of no value whether you know the language or not if Allah Azza wa Jalla does not inform you, or if you do not respect him. It is not important. What is important is affection1, respect and regards toward our Holy Prophet. This is what is important because a person is saved with muhabbat.
You can be as much of a scholar as you like, but it is of no use to you when you have no affection towards our Holy Prophet. You would be of no use to anybody else either. You are nothing but harm! They see our Holy Prophet as a regular person. Even the holy ones are different than regular people. Our Holy Prophet had such different traits, he had many characteristics not found in regular people. But a person needs to have the eye to see this. Otherwise, “He is someone like you and I,” they say and move on. This would be harmful for oneself. What Shaitan works on most is not informing people of the value of our Holy Prophet and showing him differently. Many follow Shaitan when he does
that. Shaitan bursts and cracks [with anger] when there are people who have affection towards our Holy Prophet.
Therefore, may Allah Azza wa Jalla make us a nation worthy of our Holy Prophet Inshallah. May his affection be inside of us the most so we may not have a greater affection than for him. Affection towards Allah Azza wa Jalla and our Holy Prophet are what we need most. This is what raises our soul and raises our station. It is affection for our Holy Prophet.
May it increase every day. Our Holy Prophet has said, “The one whose two days are the same is in loss.” Affection increases. Our actions are not increasing, they are decreasing. May our muhabbat increase so that our station increases. May we be neighbors with our Holy Prophet in paradise InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
36.BE WITH ALLĀH AND DON’T FEAR Wednesday, 1 March, 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our ṭarīqah is Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, follows the Prophet's " way. It continues with dhikr and ṣuḥbah. We did dhikr so that there is barakah. We remembered Allāh's name. "Alā bidhikri Llāhi taṭma’innu l-qulūb." (13:28) May our assembly, meeting be blessed, in shā’Allāh. This is Allāh's table. Allāh called us here. We remembered His name. He definitely gives blessings. He doesn't send us back empty handed. He sends us from here with gifts and blessings, in shā’Allāh. Ask for goodness, you'll find goodness.
Be on good terms with everyone, especially with the leaders. No need to be on bad terms with them, we have to help them. We focus on Allāh, they deal with worldly matters. Allāh gave everyone a duty, a quality, so they follow a way. There is a duty for everyone. There is something to do for everyone Allāh's order: "Yā ayyuhā l-ladhīna āmanū t-taqū Llāha wa kūnū ma‘a ṣ-ṣādiqīn." (9:119) Fear Allāh and be with those who are true. Keep away from bad people. Don't think badly of others. Don't think evil - like "he'll treat me bad". Be a good one, leave the rest to Allāh because we live in the end of times. The Day of Judgement is close. We are in the days that the Prophet " mentioned. These are difficult days, The Prophet " describes this time as "dark nights", such bad days. We reached the days of end of times so we have to be careful. We should fear Allāh and be with good ones.
We shouldn't harm anyone. Treat the servants of Allāh good, especially the believers. Don't be with unbelievers and oppress Muslims. Don't harm or hurt Muslims just to look nice to unbelievers. Unbelievers can't even help themselves, how will they help you? Be with Allāh certainly. Only Allāh can save you in these days. Be with Allāh, don't fear. Whoever is with Allāh, they are always blessed. Their end is good, the most important thing is that the end is good. "Wa-ilá Llāhi turja‘u l-umūr." (2:210) "To Allāh, all matters are returned." If you are with Him, you are in good situation. If you are against Him you are in bad situation. You are losing then.
These are the days of trade. Ākhirah trade. The Prophet " gives good tidings for the ones keeping their religion that for every sunnah that you keep you get a hundred martyrs' reward, our Prophet's " sunnah.
Because the enemy is strong, He gives that much reward and blessings in return. Now the whole world is united against Islām. When we say Islām, they are united against the Islām that is on the right path. You can't harm anyone in Islām. You can't take anyone's right. These terrorists that we see they are all soldiers of shayṭān. They've nothing to do with Islām. There are very few Muslims. Real Muslims on the right path are very few. But again this is wisdom of Allāh for Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām to appear. It is the good tidings of the Prophet " in these dark days. When they are oppressed, Allāh will send them a savior - it is Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām. It is mentioned in holy ḥadīth. ‘Īsá ‘alayhi ssalām will also descend at that time. Just like the world is full of oppression and injustice now, they'll fill it with justice, give everyone's right and light up the world. This oppression will end. There is these good tidings for people. Don't lose hope from Allāh. Allāh is Almighty.
This is one of the miracles of the Prophet ". The news that he " gave 1400 years ago are becoming real. He " mentioned these days. After this in shā’a Llāh, it won't be too long. It happens when Allāh wants but we hope it is soon so we can see those beautiful days. This is good news. People everywhere are hopeless. "What are we going to do? People, who claim to be Muslims, they do this, that". They have nothing to do with Islām. Our good tidings to them is Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām. When Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām comes, real Muslims will be with him. We'll rule the world with Allāh's permission. It is Allāh's promise - the whole world will be Muslim then. Allāh's order: "Lā taqnaṭū min raḥmati Llāh" (39:53) "Don't despair of the mercy of Allāh" says Allāh. Always be prepared, be happy with Allāh's good tidings. Be with Allāh, don't fear at all. Āmin, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
37.THE SECRET IS SINCERITY Friday, 3 March, 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh we are meeting again with you. And al-ḥamdu liLlāh our big brother Shaykh Ḥasan Efendi, he is recovering. We miss him here. In shā’Allāh next time, many times in shā’Allāh again we'll be with him. In shā’a Llāh. In shā’Allāh everyone for Mawlānā they have special place and special duty to do. And Shaykh Ḥasan he is, mā shā’a Llāh, running this center. Coming from everywhere, people coming, taking blessing and barakah. şifa olsun (may he get well) in shā’Allāh . What he do for us also must be lesson. Only for sake of Allāh to be your intention pure, pure for Allāh. Everything, whole your life, only for His to be pleased with you, you must be.
We say Shaykh Ḥasan he is old murīd and he has capacity to bring people together. We cannot be like him. Of course, everybody they have something to do. Allāh He said: "afaḥasibtum annamā khalaqnākum abathā" (23:115) "We don't create you for nothing." Everybody have something to do. You do what Allāh want you to do, obey Him !. You make your intention pure for Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. This is main reason for us. What Allāh create for us to be, your intention pure, not looking for anything from not good for worshipping Allāh !, taking away from Allāh. As we said, we cannot be everybody like Shaykh Ḥasan to whole life going around for make people to come to right way. But also we can make our business. And if our intention for Allāh !, it is, Allāh ! reward us also.
As we said, Allāh create all human being. And He ! create for them some specialty. Some of them become engineer, some of them become builder, some of them become shepherd, some of them become politician, some of them become doctor. There is not only what we count from profession. There is thousands of professions. Allāh create everybody for this. They can do this. But the most important - to not forget Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. You can do your job properly and you'll be in service of Allāh obeying Him. Just if you do this in proper way, maybe Allāh from your this sincerity, He can make people to come to right way when see you like this.
Last night one brother asking "How you make this people to become Muslim? Tell me I can try to make them Muslim also. Many non-Muslim I think they like to be Muslim." He asked like this, one man last night. He ask, not ask me, ask other people. Of course, everybody must be slowly slowly to become Muslim. They must to be around him. So it is secret to be sincere. Already many people who are they are making meeting and become Muslim through them. There is like this people. But it is not common. Few like Shaykh Ḥasan, like other, they are doing this. So if you are shepherd, you cannot say "I will make these people Muslim, tell me how to do this." It is not like cooking recipe. You
cannot do. You can do other way, by your good behaviour, with your good politeness, with your to be straight with everybody, to do this sincerely.
People they can attract by you. And without saying anything for them they'll be friend with you. After maybe they become hidāyah through you also. You cannot hold man and say "I will make you some..." If you speak from evening to morning, nothing will happen.
Islām no need to make advertisement for Islām. Islām it is. Because real live religion, not dead, not. So if you are really following and you are sincere, people they will follow you. They come to ask what is this. And this it will be hidāyah for them. There is light, people who have good spirit, good behaviour, they must be come to Islām. Because like time of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, these mushrik people, they were waiting around Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, where he " is staying, make people to not meet him ". Because they know if they meet him ", they will accept him ", accept Islām. So before coming they were making many people, they say "This is liar. This is crazy. This is not following his father's way", not let these people to reach Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
Who has good character, they were following Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. Even we know story of Sayyidinā ‘Umar ibnu l-Khaṭṭāb, when he come he was coming to fight Prophet ", to kill Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And when he came back, he was become Muslim, when he see Prophet " and speak to him ". Because he has good character, he has good spirit. And others who don't have this character, they have bad character, nothing affect them. Like Abū Lahab, Abū Jahl, Al-Walīd. Many of them, these Quraysh proud people, stubborn people they not affect for them Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
This time also same. Who have good character, must be to accept the right way. If they have chance to see this beauty from Islām. But who has no good character, it's normal for him to hate Islām and be enemy for Islām. But al-ḥamdu liLlāh Shaykh Ḥasan and others, they are making effort everywhere, in Italy, Spain, France. Everywhere our brothers, they are going from place to place to make these people to understand beauty of Islām and to tell them about what they don't know. Or people they show them bad thing about Islām, opposite of Islām. This shayṭān, he has... now his kingdom on the top, of his kingdom now. And the most powerful thing working for him - media. They are most who attacking Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, attacking Islām, this media. And subḥāna Llāh, Allāh can make defend His religion with somebody nobody can expect from him to defend or to even he without knowing defending.
Now many people, they will be "Who is this man?" Now every from this shayṭān weapon make people to go, even Muslim to accept what they are saying. Subḥāna Llāh this man,
he is now in the world number one, the most powerful one. Everybody knows, they are surprised. They don't accept him. They are making, they are protesting him - "We not accept you". You know this handsome man - Donald Trump. He is saying this is media, they are liar. He's first number in the world. He said everything they are saying opposite truth. They are making white black and make black white. They say "No, this is not white. This is black." People say "We think this is white". So it is black, but meaning white. You cannot deny this. Nobody cannot deny this. So many things, not many things, most of what they are saying, these people, maybe 99,99% it is not truth. They are just army of shayṭān. So Allāh send them one to make them to be rezil (humiliated) al-ḥamdu liLlāh.
So people even they are cheating people, this Trump coming "It's very bad for you, for Muslim..." But what happened? They said for Obama he's Muslim, his father Muslim, he's black. He make the worst for black people, for Muslim the worst what happened. Through all these American presidents, he was the worst. So al-ḥamdu liLlāh we are happy what Allāh give us. We are what in need, Allāh He ! put him. For Muslim also, "Al-khayru fī mā waqa‘a" The best what Allāh He choose. We accept Allāh, His order and we are just here like passenger, like guest in this world. No need to be afraid. If you are in some house, you are guest, you will be look to repair this house? No, you are only two days. They are owner of house. He will look after his house.
So don't be afraid from anything. Only be sincere with Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Allāh He keep you safe and maybe He make you reason for people to be safe also. "Inna Llāha ma‘a lladhīna t-taqaw wa l-ladhīna hum muḥsinūn" (16:128) Allāh with who afraid from Him and who are generous people. If you'll be only afraid from Allāh, not do bad thing. If you afraid from Allāh, you don't do bad thing. You do good thing. Do this, don't worry.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
38.FIGHT YOUR EGO Sunday, 5 March, 2017
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allāh He ask and He answer for us. He said: O believer "Yā ayyuhā alladhīna āmanū hal adullukum ʿalā tijāratin tunjīkum min ʿadhābin alīm" (61:11). Allāh ask you, you like to be safe from bad end, bad life, next life to be safe from every badness? He ask for believers. To be safe from this, you must believe in Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam and to struggle in way of Allāh by your effort, bodily effort, by your support with money, with everything. You must support Allāh and Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. If you do this, Allāh He said you'll be safe and you'll be forgiven for what you done before. He is most merciful. He forgive every badness, everything you do. When you ask forgiveness from Him, He forgive you. And He will be happy with you. And you will be happy with Him.
People they are running after happiness, going around world to find happiness. And shayṭān show them happiness in to be mindless, to be crazy, using something, make your mind to go away, not remember anything what you done, what you... Make to not remember anything when you take this thing. This only happiness, no benefit from this happiness. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is not happy with this happiness. He give you happiness with your... by yourself. If you do what He said, you find real happiness. Because what you done, if you have been in time before Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, Allāh many times He changed people to another creature when they done bad thing. But in our time, Sayyidina ‘UbayduLlāh alAḥrār said this: no any more to change people to animal. Sometimes they changed to dog, sometimes for pig. They were changing because getting, they do something, coming quickly punishment for them. Sometimes even for stone also people were changing. But in our time not changing. Allāh ﷻmake mercy. But what happened? Well Sayyidina ‘UbayduLlāh alAḥrār saying Allāh ﷻchange them from inside because they do bad thing, wrong thing. And they are not feeling any sorry and not disturbed. They make happy to do this.
This meaning their inner side changing to something else, not human being. Human being cannot be like this. To kill people, to steal people, to harm people, to do bad thing for anyone - it is not from human being's attribute. Human being Allāh He create them to be merciful, to be high position. "Walaqad karramnā banī Ādam" (17:70)
Allāh He make them the highest between creatures. Because they cannot be human being, real human being - only appearance like human but inside they are like animals. So these people they don't have any happiness.
These people only happiness for them to harm people, to make people to be like them. They thought they are becoming majority. They thought like dunyā, like this world, it will be democracy, there will be election and they will be going to make new president. They thought, astaghfiruLlāh, they will change Allāh. This is what they thought. Because for this they are trying the most effort for people to make them do bad things, to make them to make wrong things.
But even whole universe, not only our world, can come again[st] Lord ‘Azza wa Jalla, it is nothing effect one gram, one point. No value for all of this. Allāh only want us... for us giving this. He create everything. He is not in need to for our worshipping, for our obedience, to do good or to do bad. Only for our benefit. And in āyah, from verses from Qur’ān what He said? "O believer, I want to tell you something to be safe." To be safe, we must follow Allāh and Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. And you must be also struggle, "wa tujāhiduna fī sabīli Llāh" (61:11) to be fighting in way of Allāh. How to fight from way of Allāh? The biggest thing to fight - to fight your ego, the biggest enemy for us. No mercy at all, our ego it not have mercy for us at all. Don't think it will be sorry for you.
We are seeing everywhere now. Six days I am here, every time coming people. They cannot control ego. They cannot fight [it]. They just surrender [to it] and they finish. Must be control. Many people they are listening but not... In that time they said "Of course, we can do this". After, when they're going out, they quickly forget this. If you control your ego and you fight ego, you'll be that time happy. And He will reward you good house, good palace in paradise. If you don't do this, you cannot find this. And you will regret forever. This is order for us, for whole human being, not only for Muslim this. Allāh ﷻsent our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, He " is the last prophet for human being. Because we are accepting all prophets since Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām until Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.
We don't have democracy in Islām. Because Western people, they are even for prophets they are criticizing, beginning from our first father Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām. They are angry for him "Why he make eating something from paradise tree? And we are now suffering here." The prophets they are from their attribute they are ma‘ṣūm (without guilt). They are highest station between whole human beings. Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam saying there is companion from prophet and scholar, they are, if no prophecy... Some Banī Isrā’īl they have many prophets. These ‘ulamā’ and scholars they can be higher than them for prophet. Because prophet the highest. If no prophecy, they would be higher than prophets - ‘ulamā’, real scholar. Because Prophet " the highest. Even Sayyidinā Abū
Bakr the highest one, ‘Umar, ‘Uthmān, ‘Alī, all these ṣaḥābah they are below prophet level. Down, not... Like this we are respecting all prophets. No any tolerance to say anything for prophets. "Lā nufarriqu bayna aḥadin min rusulih" (2:285) It's from ’āyah, verses from Qur’ān. No difference between any one. All we're respecting and accepting. And all religions acceptable, we accept them - heavenly religion. And Allāh also accept. This is our belief.
And for others, it is sometimes different, they not accept. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He said if you like to be in highest level, you must accept and follow. Real happiness to be with them. Saints also. We have many saints. These saints also they finish their ego. After this they become saint. But there is shortcut way and long way. Shortcut to follow instruction of our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and do what He say. Long way to look, try one, try other one, try next one, try ten religion, try hu
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