Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

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Not remembering death makes you to have high, long, very endless dreams about this dunya. How can you understand the suffering of another Muslim? How can you care?

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

Look how angry the skies are, Look.

Watch what is happening. Look.

Look how angry the water is, look how angry the air is. Look how angry the earth is. They all saying, ” Ya Rabbi, give us permission. Earth is saying, give me permission ya Rabbi, that I have never carried this kind of creatures above me. Give me permission, let me throw them away. That they are stepping on me, I’ll send them in that emptiness, in that black hole that you are talking, swallowing the area, pulling them in.”

Still Allah SWT, patience, with this little creature that He has created.

When will you wake up?

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

Allah swt is saying to you and to me, “ If your prayers are not there, if you don’t have any prayer, if you are not asking from me, what then is your value?”

You give value to yourself according to what? According to you looking at that mirror?

And you say, “ I look like this today. Tomorrow like that.” And every day you are looking to check that every day you are getting wrinkle. Every day you are getting older.

The older you get, today’s people, the more arrogant and stubborn they become.

Resistant and fighting against to who?

Allah.

To nobody else except to Allah. Because every single day, you have been forced to walk one more step towards to your grave. But every single day, you have forgotten that you are walking towards to your grave.

Every single day, instead of preparing yourself to your grave, instead of sending things to your grave. Instead of sending good deeds to your grave. You made good deeds, you turn around, you destroy them, and you send so many bad things to your grave.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, 15 Shaban, 1432 (July 15, 2011)

Even if you live inside Ka’ba it’s still not going to work, if you don’t fix yourself.

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Friday, RabiulAhir 6, 1432 (March 11, 2011)

In this sohbet, Seyh Efendi is speaking about the honor Allah (SWT) has given to the Children of Adam (AS). Especially he is talking about the honor that is being given to the Nation of Holy Prophet (AS). Seyh Efendi is saying that Muslims have fallen into western ideas and have forgotten about death and Akhirat, saying that we must be giving value to the Akhirat life. He is saying that by not knowing the History of Islam, Muslims are not following the way of the Sahaba-i-Kiram and are instead following the western lifestyle. Seyh Efendi is speaking about the importance of leaving this world as a Servant of Allah (SWT).

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THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS HOW YOU WILL GO OUT FROM THIS WORLD

Welcome to you all.

Evet.

One more day. Thank God it’s Friday. Who? What’s that? Wake up from Gaflet. O Muslims! Muslims they have fallen into a very big problem. Huge problem, Muslims they have. Their problem is they have fallen into Gaflet. Heedlesness station.
“Oh, how it will be? We are praying.”
Heh, don’t worry, Sheytan is not going to come to you from that side to stop you from praying. Sheytan is trying to put hook people up to be heedless ones.

Close your phones. Shut down your phones. Turn your phones out. Keep your business out. This is not a business place. If you are so important now and waiting for phone call, outside. That means your body is here but your heart is not here. You’re not going to hear anything. You’re not going to understand anything. Bring your body and your spirit here and leave your Sheytan outside.

Say Euzubillahi Min al-Sheytan al-Rejim. BismillahirRahmanirRahim. And our Prophet saying (AS), Oh my nation, renew your faith. Renewing our faith saying, say, Ashadu an la ilaha il-Allah, wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu.

You must keep Shahadat very special:
Now you becoming Muslim. First order. To give Shahadat. Soon as you give Shahadat, the first step you walk into Islam, what is the second order? Keep your daily prayers, five time prayers. Hm…Muslims majority of Muslims have falling from that part. Not five times, they not even doing one time a day. Muslims! Name is Muslim. But the action is not. So what is that? That’s a heedless station. Saying the Shahadat but not understanding the value of the Shahadat. If you are understanding the value of Shahadat, you must keep that Shahadat very special. Very high. I’m watching Muslims today, they are attacking to each other. Any simple things they coming around saying, “Brother you committing a shirk. Brother you committing a shirk.” Shirk, Bidat, what else they say? Kufr, Haram.

The order to pray is order from our Lord:
The Harams and the Halals is already put there for you by the Holy Prophet (AS). If something is Haram, you cannot make it Halal. If something is Halal, you cannot make it Haram. It’s already set. That’s the foundation. And now you come with the obligations of Islam now. Soon as you say, as we say the Shahadat, the first principle of Islam starts working. Saying now, you are entering through the door of Islam, now pray five times a day. It is order from our Lord. Original order is 50 times a day. When Holy Prophet went to the Miraj, first order to him was 50 times. And, Musa (AS) saying, “Ya Rasulallah, go back because I know from my nation your nation is not going to carry it. And ask for Allah (SWT) to reduce it.” And he did, back and forth, up till 5 times. And he saying to Holy Prophet again (AS), go again, and the Holy Prophet saying no, I feel shy. I feel shame to go back again. Because my Lord is saying those who’s keeping their 5 daily prayer I will reward them as they are keeping 50 times a day. So I feel shame to go back.

What are Allah (SWT)’s rights on you?:
And what happened to our nation today? Muslims they are in trouble. Everyone is complaining. Everyone wants rights. Everyone wants freedom. And saying, I want rights, I want my rights. Are you asking the rights of your Lord on you? First, as a believer. Are you saying, what is Allah’s rights on me. Does He have any rights on me? Ask that question to yourself you will understand. If you don’t know, hm. 24 hours a day, every breath of life that you taking in and you giving out has right on you. Anywhere you looking, anything that you thinking, anything that you doing, Allah has rights on you. Are you watching those rights correctly?

The duty of servant is to hear and obey:
And Allah (SWT) is giving us order, through His Prophet, He’s blessing us another way, saying to the nation of Muhammad, that is for only nation of Muhammad, to keep 5 daily prayers. It is a blessing, that before Prophet (AS), that was order to Prophets! Not to their nations! But the wise people among the nations of those Prophets, they were following their Prophets and they were doing as their Prophet was doing. To the Nation of Muhammad Allah (SWT) is making obligation saying, this is obligation to you. And if you are keeping the orders that I’ll give to you, if you’re keeping the obligations that I give to you, you will become beloved to Me. Allah Allah. His Order, He’s giving order. You are a servant, and the duty of servant is to hear and obey. Understanding what is the meaning of the servant? Some going one more step, no brother, slave! Ah-ha. Mashallah, and how much you keeping it? Some squarehead Wahhabi idea people, when they going to talk about the Prophet (AS), the Muhammad (AS), saying, he is a Prophet and he is the slave, haha Astagfirullah. Hmm….Allah (SWT) doesn’t want a slave. What kind of slavery you going to do to Allah? He is forbidding, He is banning the slavery through His Prophet. And slowly step by step teaching those nations that the slavery is no good. Because you are a free man and you are a servant. Allah (SWT) has created the man in Ahsan-i-Taqwim.

Allah (SWT) sent man to the Earth to be Khalifatullah:
And He sent the man to the Earth to be his Khalifa. To be representing Him. When He is saying to angels, I’m going to create something and I’m going to give this title, the angels they were thinking that this title maybe is for us. They are not even thinking what kind creature this is going to be. And Allah saying to them, “No, it’s not among you. I’m going to create another creature. And I’m going to give this title to them. Khalifatullah. To be representing Me.”
And they said, “Ya Rabbi, you going to create a man and they going to be on the Earth and they going to put bloodshed? We worship You the way that You deserve to be worshipping.
Saying, you only know the things that I let you to know. You open door to them to see the arrogant side of the man, what they were going to do. And He is saying there will be ones, and they will represent Me.

Ummat of Holy Prophet (AS) is the Ummat of Shefaat:
And the Holy Prophet (AS) sent last, to teach mankind, to teach the Children of Adam, to be reaching to the Highest Station. Because this is the Ummat of Shefaat. This Ummat, this Nation, is going to give Shafaat to other nations too. The squareheads they are not even accepting the Shafaat of the Prophet (AS). You not accepting the Prophet’s Shafaat, hm, you can find so many hells to go that time, don’t worry. You think that you going to be finding safety with your arrogance? If you didn’t understand the level, if you didn’t understand the value of the Holy Prophet (AS) that shows how arrogant and how stubborn you are.

What is Faith?:
What is Kufr? And what is faith? The reality is that you can enter to the faith saying Ashadu an la ilaha il-Allah wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu. Shahadat is giving value to you. Why it’s giving value to you? Because you are accepting the Most Valuable one in Divine Presence. That Allah (SWT) mentioning his name alongside His name. Ashadu an la ilaha il-Allah wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu
So if you are keeping what Allah (SWT) kept valuable, high, that is faith. That is faith. What Allah put high, you must put high. You must accept it! You must put it above your head! You must bow down front of that one. Yes. That time you have a faith. Your faith is valuable. Because you are putting high what Allah (SWT) put high. And what is Kufr? What Allah is putting down, if you are putting it up, that is Kufr. The faith, faith is what Allah is keeping high, you must keep it high too. That is faith.

Muslims have divided into 73 different ways:
Is that what happened to us? To our nation? To the nation of Muhammad? One Ummat, one Ummat! What happened to our Nation? What happened to Ummat-i-Muhammad? Ummat-i-Muhammad they have divided, they have deviated for so many different parts. First, they have divide themself from each other. They turn themselves into nationalities. Nationalism. They selected and elected their own flags. And they start eating each other. That’s what happened to the Nation of Muhammad. And those that they are not separating themself as of nations, they start separating themself in 73. My Nation, Holy Prophet saying is going to divide 73 different ways. They all going to claim that they are in Siratal Mustaqim, they are in the right way. It’s only one of them, one group is going to be in Siratal Mustaqim. And 72 of them, they are in the wrong side. They are bounding to Fire. And when Sahaba-i-Kiram asked Ya Rasulallah who are those, if they all going to claim those ones, they are the right way, how we going to know which ones are those. Those that are keeping my Sunnat and the Sunnat of my Sahabi. Not only the Sunnat of the Rasulallah (Salatu wa Sallim), but the Sunnat of my Sahabi. Now we must check ourselves. Yes. Turn back little bit. As we say earlier, Muslims they are growling to each other. Haw, haw, haw, haw, haw. That way. Or, Jamats, or nations. And you don’t need enemy that time. Your enemy is sitting and watching saying, these ones they finishing themselves anyway. It’s easy to bring them down. But those ones and also the heedless Muslims they are not knowing, they are not believing. There is handful of those ones that they are holding tightly to the teachings and to the Sunnat of the Rasulallah (Salatu wa Sallim). They will not deviate from that main road. And with those ones, yes, this world is going to find peace again through the hands of those ones. And your aim and your intention and your heart at least has to be with those ones. To say, Ya Rabbi I am a weak servant, I cannot do anything, but if You give me the power, I will change all this world to turn it to put Your laws on them. And everywhere Your name to be mentioned. If you are not saying this, you have not reached to complete faith.

Sheytan is making believers fall into heedless station:
So we were talking about heedlessness, yes. The Sheytan is making believers to fall into the heedless station, to Gaflet. Especially in these days. Because Sheytan and the buddies of the Sheytans they also know that the time has been giving to them on the face of earth, the first time when the Sheytan became disobedient to Allah (SWT), and Allah (SWT) kicked him out from Paradise, and saying to him, now go. And wait until Judgment Day. Because he make oath to Allah (SWT) saying that I’m going to fool every one of them, those ones that You created to be Your Khalifa, I’m going to fool them. And he’s kicked out from the paradise because of the man. Because of Adam (AS). He didn’t want to put his ego down to bow down front of Adam (AS). Saying, I only make Sajda to you. So many ignorant ones today they saying the same thing. But Allah saying to him, you are worshiping to Me, yes. I am accepting your worshipness. You have to accept also My Order and you have to make Sajda to Adam. You are making worshipping to Me, yes. You are My servant. And that is also My servant. And, I am ordering to you, that you must make Sajda to that one. That one became arrogant again, saying no, I only worship You. I only make Sajda to You. And Allah saying to him again, (SWT), you are making Sajda to Me, that means you are accepting My order. You must accept and obey My order, make Sajda to Adam too. With all that knowledge, he became so ignorant and arrogant. Just like 21st century people, that Holy Prophet saying (AS), they going to read a lot, they going to know a lot, but they going to be very ignorant with the knowledge that they know. They going to be very arrogant with the knowledge that they know. Just like what Sheytan did. What he did? He had so much knowledge, not only the knowledge of Quran, he knows 104 books.

How much investment are you making to your Paradise?:
You hear about Paradise! You only know the name of Paradise. You read about Paradise. You hear about Paradise. You didn’t witness it yet. I don’t know if there is anybody here have witnessed it. I can see it from the face but I’m not seeing any light in those face yet that they just lay their eyes into the Paradise one time and that light reflected to them. You hear. You read. You believe. Sheytan has entered into it. He enter into the Paradise. He didn’t left any place in the Paradise that he didn’t walked around. He have seen everything in the Paradise. Not everything of course. Paradise is expanding. It’s growing. Everyday, it’s growing differently. Your paradise is growing differently every day, depending what kind of investment you are making. Today 21st century people they all became so smart. Saying I got to make investment! I have one house, I must make another house. And, I must have a summer house. And winter house. And I have to make my house to grow bigger! They all become real estate guys, Mashallah. Never satisfied with what they have. Eh, we say okay, it’s okay. You get fooled by these Americans, it’s okay. Continue with that way too. But let me ask you, how much investment you are making to your Paradise? To your house, to your home, that you going to be there forever? The eternal life is there. You not liking to live in the small house in this world. You always looking to the ones that who has better house. Who has better car. But maybe tomorrow they fall down and they die and they cannot take that with them. And you know it and I know it. And not only them but you and I too. Whatever investment you doing, you going to leave it here. If it’s worldly investment, you going to leave it here and you going to go. But still, you not sitting comfortable. You running to do. Say okay, you have nothing else to do, you keeping yourself busy with that okay. How much investment you making to your paradise. Are you checking? You paying the money every day for angels to build for you. Are you able to go to check it to say, I don’t like it this way I want it that way. Oh, Sheykh, can such a thing will happen like that? You doing it in Dunya, why not in Akhirat? They have models there too. Saying to you , your highness, this is going to be your palace. Would you like this stone or this color? Which one? Males and females, I’m asking. Females they want to have their house nice always. Kitchen to bedroom to this to that, watching the tiles, watching. Are you watching that one? Hm, say. Are you making investment for that? Are you really believing that that is your house that you going? If you really believing, your heart must be kicking all the time saying I’m wondering what kind of treasures coming today in paradise. Is my house is built and designed by those treasures? Hm.

Muslims are worrying for their Dunya but Azrail is coming:
So you are not really believing. You are just saying but you not believing. That’s what happened to Muslims. Because Muslims they have worried, they are worrying for their Dunya 24 hours a day. They are worrying for their Dunya and their pleasure in this Dunya. The pleasure that is so temporary. Azrail coming, everything is finishing. The man that is walking and jumping and jumping high, running, before you know, soon as Azrail is coming he’s falling down not moving. Like a log. He needs somebody else to carry it. Not one person, there are 200-300 pound person I can just grab it like this and pick it up. I used to wrestle and I used to grab the man like that, pick him up. The man dies, should be more easier. No, 100 pound man, you picking up from there, is falling on the other side. You cannot pick it up. Two, three, four people is carrying so hardly. Hm. What happened to that man? The spirit, the spirit makes you light. The spirit is making you light. If the spirit is not there its falling down. Becoming very heavy. Yes. So, what happened to us?

The Bedr War:
As Holy Prophet addressed it, he said in Hadith-i-Sharif, he says, in Akhir Zaman, in the end of the times, my nation is going to fall so low that their enemy is going to look at them and they not going to count them for nothing. And their enemy is going to enter into them and they going to take their valuable stuff. They going to sit on their table and they going to eat their food. And my nation is not going to be able to do nothing that time. And they said, Ya Rasulallah, because Sahaba-e-Kiram they are knowing that they were only handful. Handful of people. The first war, the Bedr War, it was only 313 people went to war. And front of them is over 3,000. 3,000 well trained soldiers. That they have the best weapons in their hand for that time. And the Sahabi they did not have anything in their hand. They didn’t even have sword in their hand, so many of them. They just grabbed one stone, one stick, something, they went there saying, their heart was speaking. And, they went to a war with them. How you think that that war is end? What happened with that war, do you know what happened?

Muslims are not knowing their history:
Muslims sleeping because Muslims they are not knowing their history. This is the history part of Islam. You must know. If you are not knowing that part, how you going to keep your faith growing strong? But every one of them they know the history of their nation. If you are asking Pakistanis, saying we are different nation. We separated from India. And, we have an atomic bomb. We can bring them to the end. Mashallah. What a heedlessness is that too. Hm? The Arabs they are growling with each other. The Turks? Don’t even talk about it. They became more heedless than anybody else. Because in Turkish they are saying, the fish, it smells from the head. If the head is smelling is bad, the whole body is no good. So the Turks they were holding the flag of Islam and they were holding the sword of Islam. And they dropped it. They put it down. For what? They wanted to become Westerners. They loved the Western ideas. They wanted to become free ones. And look at them. Yes, look at them, how they are today. They are falling to the lowest level. The Zimbabwe is better than them. Because I’m saying this they are putting me in jail in Turkey. I’m going to continue saying, yes. Heh, think you going to stop me? Yes, you cannot.

Muslims put down the flag of the Holy Prophet (AS):
The Hakk, you must speak the Hakk, doesn’t matter. Is it bothering? Of course it’s bothering me. It should be bothering you too. Because Allah (SWT) has honored us, has giving the honor for Islam, Muslims to carry the flag of the Prophet (AS). To bring it everywhere. And, we put it down. We put it down because of our egoistic reasonings. We fall to the tricks and the traps of Sheytan. And we follow our ego. And that’s what happened to us today. And we are asking help from those ones that they are preparing to finish us completely. Yes. America, freedom, hm? Look what they are debating today. Where? Washington. Should we put Muslims into concentration camps? This is what they are debating. Should we put them in one corner and to put soldiers around them? Hm to you. You going to put Islam to that corner? Hm. You think the Islam it is in the hands of creatures? You not watching the history? How many Abrahas, how many Nimruds, how many Firauns, how many tyrants came before you? Trying to finish Islam? What happened to them, watch, the history. Your end will be same. If you are not coming around and accepting the Most Beloved One in Divine Presence, Muhammad (AS). (Stands)

Allahumma Salli Ala Sayyidina Muhammad (Salatu wa Sallim).

Two sicknesses entered the hearts of the Muslims:
Yes, we are standing up for his honor, yes. And, the heedless ones from the Muslims again. Going and begging to those ones, saying , no we are not like this. We are not terrorists. Say to them, yes we are not terrorists; but you are. If you going to see them talk, say to them, we are not terrorists, but you are. You are doing terrorism everywhere. From the single houses to the nations. You are the one who’s terrorists. Say. No, the Muslims leaders they are falling. They are falling into what? As Holy Prophet saying (AS) time will come to my Nation they are falling and they becoming so heedless and their enemies entering they taking every valuable thing that they have and they cannot do nothing about it. So the Sahabi asking saying Ya Rasulallah their number is going to be less than us during that time? Because Sahaba-i-Kiram looking, 300 Sahabi, they win over 3,000 strong ones. And they are saying Ya Rasulallah, Muslims are going to be less than us that time. Their enemies are going to be so much multiplied like that. And the Holy Prophet saying no, other way around it’s going to be. Their number is going to be so many. But two kinds of sickness is going to enter to their heart. One sickness is the love of Dunya, love of this world. It’s going to enter into their heart. And the second, the fear of death is going to enter to their heart. When these two sicknesses is entering to their heart, Allah (SWT) will lift the majestic appearances of Islam away from them. When their enemy is looking at them, they are saying whole bunch of passive people that they no good for nothing. And they will not have any fear from them. And they will do their worst to them. And they will still running after them. Is this what is happening to us?

Are you following the Sunnat of the Sahaba-i-Kiram?
Ey Muslims, I am talking now to Muslims. I am not talking to non-Muslims. If I am talking to non-Muslims, I have something else to say to them. I am talking to Muslims. And I am talking to those whose saying they are in love with the Holy Prophet (AS). I am not talking to the Wahhabi corrupted brains. I am not talking to those ones too. If I’m going to speak to those ones there is something else to speak to those ones too. Talking to Muslims that calling themselves Ahl-i-Sunnat. People that they are following the Sunnat, the traditions of the Holy Prophet (AS). So where is this Sunnat? Are you following the Sunnat of the Sahaba-i-Kiram? How they were following the step by step the orders of the Holy Prophet (AS). Did they falling into the troubles like this? Did they start eating each other like this? When the people of Mecca they left Mecca and they immigrate, they came to Medina. They make Hijret with the order of Allah (SWT). They left everything there. They left their belongings, they left their house, they left their wealth. And they came to Medina. And sometimes later Holy Prophet saying now is the time to be brothers with each other. From people of Mecca, Ansar and Muhajireen, to become brother to each other. And you should choose one to each other and to share your wealth with each other. Share everything that you have people of Medina share everything that you have with one of your brothers. Because these ones they left everything for Allah’s sake with the order of their Prophet and they came to you. And the blessing of Allah (SWT) has reached to you. Holy Prophet is not saying to them, I am your blessing. He is being very humble. But where the Prophet was, that’s where the blessing and the Rahmet is raining. And they move from Mecca and they make Hijret to Medina. And the Rahmet start raining there. And the people of Medina their life change right away. Everything start changing right away and the Holy Prophet saying to them, aren’t you making these ones your brothers. And they all taking one saying this is my brother Dunya and Akhirat and I am sharing everything. And if something happens to me and I die, my wealth goes to this one completely.

We replaced Islam with western ideas:
Whatever happened to us? Is this what we following? Or we are just fighting for this Dunya? For something that has no value. That’s the only thing we are fighting. That’s the only thing that we are eating each other, Muslims. Because we left the real understanding of Islam. We left the real faith of Islam. We left the understanding of, in Islam, how to share and how to love. And we start, we left that to a side. And we replace it with something else. We replace it with something else, what? The Western ideas. The westerners they go to a store sitting in the restaurant, father and the son, and they are giving order 2 coffee, they are paying different bill. The son is not thinking to pay for his father’s coffee. And the father is not thinking to pay his son’s coffee. That’s how it is. They say you don’t have money, so don’t drink. Is that what happened to Muslims? Ask yourself, don’t ask anybody else. Say to yourself, is this really what happened to me? You going to find the answer by yourself. That you not sharing anymore. And, when it comes to love, the love just like western style too. Love only for me. The one that you love you have to sacrifice things. You have to give things up. The sign of the love you love somebody, through tongue is not enough. The sign of the love, the one that you love, if you cannot do nothing, at least you have to offer a glass of water. Sign of the love. Showing proper respect. Not only through words. So this is what again? Western way. Not Islam.

So we have fallen. We have fallen to the lowest level. But we are here to bring them up to the highest level. We are here to be a good role model to them. 200, 300 million of Americans. They are waiting to be safe. Who knows. Maybe with your good behavior with the good actions that you are doing who knows they are falling in love with Islam maybe because of you. Is this what we doing? No we not doing that. We are hiding ourself. Time to time I go to some places that I know the owner of the store is a Muslim guy. When I say Selam Aleykum brother, when there is he is busy, he’s just completely ignoring. He doesn’t want to give Selam because he doesn’t want his customers to know he is Muslim. Because there’s no sign in the store anyway about Islam at all. So many like that. Hm, you feeling shy and shame from Islam. So you have no faith. Your faith you’re putting it all the way down. With that faith you cannot cross the Sirat. It will be very hard to cross the Sirat with that faith. So what we got to do? First, we have to wake up from the heedless station. We have to force ourself to wake up from that heedless station that we are in. When we wake up from that heedless station, the help will reach to us. The help is there. But because we are so heedless we are not seeing anything.

We only seeing our own ideas. Our own ideas is right. Because, eh, who is your teacher. From where you learning? Eh we go to schools. We learning. We learning in secular schools. They teaching us that Darwin is a monkey and you are monkey too. Oh, that’s what they teaching? No. They teaching Darwin theory. Darwin theory is evolution theory and the evolution theory they are saying that squarehead monkey donkey Darwin saying, our grandfathers they are monkeys. And he’s accepting and there are so many billions of people accepting. And they are accepting to be from monkey generation. If you are accepting don’t worry, you will be raising to the judgment day from the monkey generation but even the monkeys they not going to accept you that time. They going to say no these ones they not among us. These ones are different creature, they are not human and they are not monkeys. So you are not liking that Allah (SWT) created you man? That saying I have created you Ahsan-i-Taqwim, the most perfect creature? That the Angels they were admiring, the angels they were waiting that that title to be given to them? And when Allah saying to them (SWT), I am creating different creature and I am giving that title.

How will you meet the Angel of Death?:
Are you understanding? Are we understanding where we are? We must. We must force ourselves to understand. And if we do, soon as we understand, that time it’s going to become shock to us to understand how heedless situation I was in five minutes ago? If Azrail were to come to me and I was thinking that I had a faith but with this faith, I will falling into the trouble into the grave. The trouble of the grave is waiting. So many saying I am fed up with this Dunya I want to die. What did you do? Do you think that you clean everything and the grave trouble is not waiting for you now? Prepare yourself for that. The grave trouble will not wait for you that time. When? When you are pleased with your Lord. Saying Ya Rabbi I am pleased with You. Please be pleased with me. And that time you run around to do whatever is necessary to please Allah with you. And, you never stop! You never say, this is enough for me. Because you still not sure 100%. You going to run nonstop. That is going to give you energy. That’s what is going o make you to run non-stop for Allah’s sake. Until the Angel of Death comes to you. And when the Angel of Death is coming to you that time, you become so strong that you may say to the Angel of Death that time, “Who are you? Are you the one who’s giving this life and you going to take? I am not giving you permission.”

What you going to do? What you think Azrail is going to do that time? Azrail will be shaking from that one, yes. And going back to Divine Presence saying Ya Rabbi it’s known to you. This Servant of You supposed to be coming out but he’s not coming out. And Allah (SWT) ordering Angel, go back to him. Open your right hand. He will see the signature. And he will give up easily. And that comes, and Azrail is showing the secret that is coming with that and that time that servant easily saying, Ashadu an la ilaha il-Allah wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu.

Bestamli Beyazid (KS)’s saying about Day of Judgment:
Goes out from this world. Because he cannot wait the believer should be in that station that cannot should not be waiting has to be in that station that, I cannot wait to meet my Lord. Just like Bestamli Beyazid (KS), saying, everyone is afraid from that day. The Day of Judgment Day, everyone is afraid from that day. He says, me, Beyazid, I cannot wait for that day! They say what happened? He says, me, the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth who has created everything He is going to say to me, “Ya Beyazid, come to My Presence, you going to be questioned.” He says, what kind of dog I am that my Lord who has created me is going to take me, is going to show value to me to question me? He says I know from questionings I will fail definitely. But with my Lord’s addressing me, with that addressing, that is a love enters to my heart, and it starts overtaking whole my body, and whole my cells becomes fire, if He puts me into the fire, I will burn down the whole Hellfire with that love. Yes. Eh, squareheads, Wahhabi squareheads they are calling this one man with Shirk and Bidet. Pthooo to you!

How a King met the Azrail:
So, wake up to yourself. Either you will go out from this world just like that man like that servant saying, who are you to take my life? I want to go back to my Lord but I have to know for sure. Or, there was a King once upon a time he was also a believer. But he was not taking care of his Shahadat. And, he was going to be show in his kingdom. And he has to go to the place where everyone is prepared. And the people they are holding the sides, thousands of people waiting, our King is going to pass from here. And we should look to see. They were not running in the streets to bring it down that time even the bad ones. Heh, we have to say our King, long life to you! This is what they were doing. Even that one that he was tyrant to himself. And, he’s getting up morning opening his hands, his maids taking clothes, putting new clothes on it, looking at mirror, I don’t like this one, take another one! Another one, another one. Finally he’s satisfied with one clothes, bringing nice horses to him. Saying I don’t like this, pull another one, pull another one. And finally his ego satisfied with one of them, he’s sitting on the horse with his proudness passing through from there, everyone is cheering. And, from the crowd, one old man just appeared. Coming passing his guards holding the reins of the horse. And the King is looking saying, who are you to stop my horse? Get away from here before I order the Jallat, the executioner, to cut your neck off! That one saying to him, O Your Highness, I cannot go anywhere unless I have to tell you something. I have a word to say to you. Now the King is looking down saying who’s this man? Has no fear from me. And he is being little bit scared saying to him, quickly say what you want. He’s saying, “No I cannot say to you like that, bow down, I have to say to your ear.”

King is getting upset but at the same time looking at the firmness of that individual he’s getting scared his heart is shaking. Saying, say quickly, what you want? Saying I am here. He says you are here? Who are you, what is it that you want, say quickly before I get upset to order to the executioner! Saying, you didn’t understand yet? I am here. He says I am Azrail. You are Azrail? Azrail coming in so many different shapes. He starts shaking. Eh…..saying, please, give me a permission, go back to palace and make new wudu, ablution and to complete, and then you take my life.

Saying, it’s too late. Your time is up. Come out from there. Soon as he said come out, spirit leaves the body, the king falls down from the horse, the old man walks back into the crowd. Everyone looking, nobody’s really understanding anything, the king is gone, the old man is gone. That was a king. So many thinking that I’m going to have power and going to be in better situation. That was the King. That’s what happened to him when he has seen the Azrail.

That’s exactly what happened to Abu Jahil, to Nimruds, the Abrahas, the Firauns. So many Firauns of this century that they are declaring lordship, soon as Azrail is coming to them they are shaking like this. Now they know. Are you going to be going out from the world like that? Or you going to go out from the world like the servant of Allah (SWT).

How Azrail meets the Servant of Allah:
That Azrail coming to him, and he is sitting and remembering Allah (SWT). And saying to him, O the Servant of Allah! I am here. He said to him, I know. He says you know? How you know? Hm, says, before you moved from the Presence I knew that you coming to me. He says in that case you also know that your Lord is addressing to you. If you want, I can extend your life more. If you want, whatever you want. He said, no. This is the day that I was waiting, I couldn’t wait for this day, now it’s here! He says but because my Lord is giving me permission, he says, let me just go make a wudu, new wudu, and to make 2 rekat and on the second rekat when I am in the Sajda, just take my life that time.

A good way of going. And he said, yes, you know that it’s grant to you. And he did it and on the second rekat, just like the Ayat saying, O the Nafs, the Ego, the Ego Ammara that turned into Ego of Mutmain. That he is pleased with his Lord and the Lord is pleased with him, come. And easily that leaves the body. And that servant of Allah stays in Sajda. They took him like that they put him in the grave. Right now that we are talking he is in that grave in that Sajda. When he’s going to say “Allahu Akbar” and he’s going to sit, he’s going to find himself in the Judgment place. Just like when you making 2 Rakat prayer and the second Rakat you go, and you sit, and you just sit just like that split second is for that servant of Allah that passed thousands of years. To him in the grave. But to that King, he is still shivering, non-stop. Thousands of year he’s going to pass.

Keep your promise to your Lord!:
So the Azrail is going to come to you and to me. Prepare for that! The most important thing, how you going to go out from this world. So what Holy Prophet saying to us? The way you believe that’s how you will live. The way you live, that’s how you will die. The way you die, that’s how you will rise to the Judgment Day. Judgment Place. So look at yourself and understand and look what is the priority in your life. And if you don’t know, the priority in your life has to be pleasing Allah and loving His Prophet. That has to be the priority of your life. Keeping your promise to your Lord. That has never changed. From the beginning of Adam (AS) until now, until Judgment Day, it’s not going to do. No other Prophets coming, but if there will be billions of Prophets coming from now until Judgment Day, they still going to come with this same order saying to you, keep your promise to your Lord. You have promised to Allah (SWT) that you will be His Servant. Keep your promise! That’s what 124,000 Prophets came to teach people, to keep their promise to their Lord and to show them what is Halal and what is Haram. To stay in the borderlines. If we keep those two, if we stay in the borderlines of Halal and Haram, if we keep the orders of our Lord, if this world turns completely into a Hell, you still going to be happy. You still going to be satisfied. If they put you into the Hell, just like Bestamli Beyazid, you still going to say, where is the Hell? I’ll burn the whole Hell for your sake, Ya Rabbi.

Wa Minallah Tawfiq.

This much should be enough for you and for me, to make us to wake up Inshallah-ur-Rahman. For the honor of our Prophet (AS). For the honor of all those ones who came and who passed and who’s living right now that they are keeping the orders of their Lord. We are asking Ya Rabbi to count us from those ones that we know that we cannot be one of those, but at least count us from those ones that we love them. And, make us to be obedient servants to You, obedient servants to Your Prophet, and obedient ones to the leaders, the rightly guided ones that You are putting for us. Amin, Amin, Amin, wa Salamun alal Mursaleen, wal hamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin.

Also we are asking long life and health for our Sheykh until the appearance of Mahdi (AS). He wants to be with him and we have to ask that, Inshallah, he will be with him. And Inshallah we are asking that if we going to serve rightly with him to keep us with him too. If we going to lose our faith to take us with complete faith minutes that we have out from this world clean and to bring us to His Presence clean. Amin Amin wasalamun alal Mursaleen wal hamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin, al-Fatiha.

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

Friday, RabiulAwal 29, 1432 (March 4, 2011)

Seyh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that although the Muslims of today have faith in their hearts, they have lost their religion and that they are running after all wrong kinds of knowledge, especially from the internet and facebook. Muslims today are running after western knowledge but western knowledge is only planting seeds of distrust of Prophet (SAWS) in their hearts. The most important thing and the foundation for a Muslim is the Shahadat. sheytan is running to fool Muslims and take their Shahadat away. Seyh Efendi is mentioning the remembrance of death and saying that in these days Muslims must protect their Shahadat.

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Protect Your Shahadat

Destur, Medet. Euzubuillahi min al-Sheytan el-Rejim.

BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIM,
BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIM!

Muslims’ troubles are coming because they have forgotten BismillahirRahmanirRahim:
What happened to us, to Muslims? They forgot BismillahirRahmanirRahim. Everywhere anything you do you have to start with that. If you are not starting saying Euzubuillahi min al-Sheytan el-Rejim, BismillahirRahmanirRahim, you are not asking shelter from Allah (SWT) running away from Sheytan to Allah. And BismillahirRahmanirRahim, not saying, that is a sword against to Sheytan, then your job is going to be connected with Sheytan. That’s why 21st century, 20th, 21st century Muslims, we are seeing that, anywhere that they are aiming, it’s not working. And everyone coming with questions, saying, “Your religion maybe is wrong because it’s not working.”
We are seeing that Muslims, they are suffering. It is good, because Allah (SWT) is reminding His servants, because He’s saying to us that those ones that I don’t care, I don’t give care, I don’t even give them a tooth pain in this world, this way they will not remember Me at all.

Incidents happening to Muslims but they not waking up, they not remembering, they not trying to understand why things are not happening, why it’s not working for us. So Euzubuillahi min al-Sheytan el-Rejim, BismillahirRahmanirRahim.

Medet Ya Seyyidi Sultan el-Evliya Medet.

The authority of the world is in the hands of the Holy Ones:
We are asking help and support from the Holy Ones that they are holding the authority and the ruling of this world in reality in their hand. Don’t look at outside this ones that elected selected ones. They just electing yesterday tomorrow they are going. But there is Holy Ones that they are holding. If they are not turning it right, it’s not going to turn. It’s not turning it left, it’s not going to turn.

Heedlessness is causing Muslims to lose their religion:
So Muslims as we say, they became heedless because they have forgot their religion. Saying yes we are Muslims. Mashallah. Faith? Faith is there. Faith is inside but the faith is like a seed. And you put the seed there and if you are not pouring water in it, it’s never going to grow. If it’s staying out there, if that seed staying out there, keep it there 1000 years, put water in it, it’s not going to work again. So the seed has to be in the ground and you have to put water in it for that to grow to come out to see what kind tree it is, what kind fruit it’s going to give to you. And we are looking to Muslims today, we are looking to Islamic world, today no fruits anymore. The trees they dried out. Used to be a trees, yes, trunks and big branches reaching everywhere, meaning Islam is reaching everywhere. But the tree is gone, no more fruits, and Muslims became very heedless, in Gaflet.

Shahadat is the foundation:
They are saying Shahadat, yes, lets renew our Shahadat because Holy Prophet saying (AS), every time remembering you must renew your Shahadat. Renew your Shahadat make your faith growing more and you must and you should be living for this Shahadat if you are a believer. You should be holding the Shahadat strong and high. You should not change anything for that Shahadat.
So let’s renew our faith saying “Ashadu an-la-ilaha il-Allah, wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu.”

Now this is foundation. Now we can build something on it. Without foundation you cannot build nothing, whatever you built its going to crash down. So the Shahadat is our foundation. Then we can start building. As strong as the foundation is, you can put the strongest building on top of it. So continuously, you cannot escape from this now. You cannot say, well the prayer, I need to make wudu, I need to make this, no! At least keep the Shahadat alive in your heart. Anytime you remembering say, “Ashadu an-la-ilaha il-Allah, wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu.”

This is why you have been created. This is the reason of mankind that they have been created to know Allah and to worship Allah (SWT). And knowing Allah (SWT) it is knowing, you must start knowing yourself. And knowing yourself you have to continuously saying this Shahadat and its going to start growing.

Today mankind is learning wrong knowledge from western education:
In reality the man with a wisdom, when he is looking at the seed he knows what kind of tree is going to come out from that seed. He knows what kind of fruit is going to be from it. Because whole secret of that tree it is hidden in that seed. The western knowledge is teaching you, which Muslims they lose their, as we say, they lose their religion. Why they lose their religion? Because they are running for western knowledge. They are running to materialistic knowledge. They are running to learn. But learning what? And it’s in everybody’s tongue they knew couple of ayats, from males to females, saying, “Sheykh, isn’t it Allah saying, first order and first ayat. Iqra, read?” Yes, definitely, but what to read? Read what? Do you think Allah (SWT) saying to you, go to secular schools, go to Sheytanic schools, go to schools that they are teaching you that you came from Darwin. Oh not Darwin. From monkey. They are teaching you the Darwin theory, evolution. Is that what Allah is telling us, to learn this, Iqra, read that? Or He’s telling you to read magazine? Or newspaper? Or He’s telling you to sit front of your computer, which today from 7 years old to 70 years old, they all busy with computers. And I’m saying what are you learning? Yes, they made it so good that you can carry the whole library in your hand. But how many people they have the knowledge, how many people looking. No, just, say, what are you doing? I’m chatting, messaging, watching my Facebook. Heh, watch your Facebook. Make more fitna. That’s exactly what’s happening. Writing back and forth, now today’s people, whatever happening in their bedroom, or in their toilet, in their house, the whole world is watching through internet saying, “Facebook, I’m just, I’m going to toilet right now. I’m going to sleep right now. I’m getting up right now. I’m going down now.”

Why you are spreading this knowledge? What is that going to give to you? Nothing. But the Sheytan is there to take the people to extreme, all the way to the end, to the wrong direction. That time they not going to be busy to understand that, yes I lost my religion. You have a faith definitely, but you have no religion, you lost the religion, you not knowing the religion. And anyone who’s trying to know the religion now they have to go to western books to learn religion, and now because of that, we’ll be like this, because we lost our religion.

Western knowledge is teaching Muslims to have suspicion about the Holy Prophet (AS):
Why? Because Holy Prophet have been sent, (AS), to teach us to bring us to the highest level, to complete the good manner. And completing good manner it’s coming, knowing yourself, knowing your religion, knowing your Lord. Otherwise you cannot. Knowing religion it is not that you just learn from your mother, your father, your parents, from your country that you came and going and making salat. It’s not that. When Holy Prophet came, (AS), he was Muhammad El-Amin. Everyone was calling him Muhammad El-Amin. Even Abu Jahil was calling him Muhammad El-Amin. Everyone was calling him. What is the meaning? The Most Trustworthy One. Whatever he is saying, and we can depend on his word. And Muhammad El-Amin, one night, overnight, became liar, Hasha Astagfirullah. When he said to them, now say La ilaha il-Allah Muhammad Rasulallah, they saying, “No we not believing in you, we not following you. You are wrong.” This is what they say that time. Up till now this is what they are saying.

Especially these westerns that you running after to learn something from them. Yes, what you going to learn? I’ll tell you what you’re going to learn. You going to learn to have suspicion about your Prophet, that’s what you’re going to learn. That’s what they are teaching you. If it’s not, you are believing in Akhirat, you are believing that Angel of Death is going to come to you, you are believing that it may visit you right now. If you are not believing, I am telling you. Think little bit. Do you think that Angel of Death may come to you right now, do you think that Angel of Death may come to me right now, while I am speaking, fffft, it falls down and you go ? Yes, definitely; have you reached to that level to say to Angel of Death, Azrail, who are you? Everyone talking too much in these days, yes.

If you do not have permission to speak, keep silent:
And we say, you have the knowledge to talk? If you have knowledge to talk, talk . If you are giving permission to talk, talk. If you are not giving permission, because it’s giving mouth, don’t talk. Everyone is giving mouth. First you have to learn. And what did you learn you have to digest it. You have to live in yourself then you have to give something to others. Otherwise, no permission. You’ll be responsible in the Judgment Day every word you are saying. I’ll be responsible from every word that I am saying. I am not caring from that camera, or from you, from anyone, but I am caring from the angels that they are watching and they are recording. And they going to bring that in the Judgment Day front of me, front of my Lord saying, you said this. Where is your proof, how did you speak these things? From where you have the permission to speak? Is not that easy.

(So keep the children quiet little bit. Keep those children not to make noise. 10-15 minutes.)

People are living for their egos:
So the important is now not how much you know. It’s not how much you read. It’s how much you are applying from that knowledge to your life and how much you are living with it. That’s important. And Inshallahur-Rahman, if we are learning our religion, then definitely we going to learn, we going to understand the value of this world that time. We not going spend our valuable time with nonsense because Allah (SWT) has giving you one life, not two. And majority of people spending the breath of life for nothing, just coming and going. Just living by mistakenly. Not knowing why they are living. Ask, say, why you are living? People say, what kind question is this. Why am I living? Yeah, why you are living? What is your purpose in this life. What are you going to do. Who are you living for? Oh! Who else, me, myself, and my ego.

That’s what 21st century people doing. Living for themself. Living for their ego. Directed, ego is directed by Sheytan. Sheytan is the master of the ego, Sheytan is the teacher of the ego, whispering, “Pst pst, this way, that way.”

Your conscience, your spirit, your reality saying to you, “No you cannot do this, this is wrong.”
Your ego saying “No, I want it, you gotta do it this way. That’s the way I want it.”

The characteristic of ego is to be rebellious. What it did first time when Allah (SWT) created ego, He put ego in front of Him saying, “Who are you and who am I?”

Ego says, “You are You and I am me.”

Isn’t that what everyone is saying in these days. “Who you talking to me? You talking to me? It’s me.”

Muslims are stuck but the life is ticking:
Haha, yes. How long you going to be here. Do you know? If you know how long you going to be here, speak. As I say earlier, when Angel of Death is coming to you, say to him, say to that one, don’t you dare making mistakes, because that one has no mercy when he’s coming. Don’t make no mistakes. Even Prophets they were shivering from that one. But can you say to that one, “Who are you to take my life? Are you the one who give this life and you going to take?”

That takes full power faith. Meaning your faith has to be full level, 100%. That means you are filling your tank all the time, your tank is up, filled. Never going down. I’m watching you have telephones, every minute, people putting on the plug, saying, I gotta go on the Facebook now, so it takes lots of energy. Or I gotta go to, what is that…music, or video, or whatever. You have to have full power. Are you checking the level of your faith? You get up this morning. Did you check what is the level? Did you check how much fuel you have in it? You are sitting in the car and holding the steering wheel, you think you going? You are not going anywhere. There is nothing in it. That’s why what we say in the beginning, Muslims they not going anywhere. They are stuck. They not going forward. Only time that they moving, they going backward. They not going forward. But the Azrail is taking. Your life is clicking. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

Today’s people are occupied with wrong thinkings and cannot remember:
The breath of life that is giving to you, you finish another day today. When Magrib is happened, your book is closed. Your page has been taken, whatever you did today, it’s taking, up there, someplace. I’m not going to talk to you about that place now because you have no clue. Up there, someplace. It is under security. No one can change it up till Judgment Day. Judgment Day it’s going to come front of you. O my servants, what did you do in these days. You going to remember everything. Today’s people they don’t remember what they did yesterday never mind what they eat lunch time they don’t remember. What did you eat lunch? Huh, yeah, you don’t remember because you are occupied with so many wrong thinkings. Just like your computer, computer has gigabytes, megabytes, bigabytes, terabytes. This up there also has feelings. This is a movie camera that works 24 hours nonstop, it’s filling. Anywhere you look its recording and you filling your memory chips. And you are not knowing how to delete it. You are not knowing how to get rid of the wrong ones. And once you fill it up you not remember anything what you did yesterday.

What is the reason that we are living?:
So why are we living? What is the purpose of this life? Just to eat and drink and to have families, sex, children? Build house, car, and die? This flower is so good. Beautiful. You are not taking the flower and throwing it front of sheep or a goat to eat. Although that there is some people that I am watching they are eating rose now too. They have worse than goat. But, say, this flower we cannot give it to the goat because it’s green. It’s beautiful. Hm. Do you think that Allah (SWT) who created you with such a beauty, everyone is saying watching the mirror they only seeing themself. But Allah (SWT) gave beauty to everyone. If you are seeing wrong somewhere something is wrong with you. Allah created everyone in their perfection. The most perfect. Hm? Isn’t that what He is saying to us?

And He created the man the most perfect one. And He have sent the man all the way down to asfal as-safilin, to lowest place. Lowest place is this Dunya. Yes. For what? To know his Lord. To do good things. Not running for your ego. So we have to learn now why we are living and who are we living for. And if you are not accepting that, then I say don’t die. Don’t leave this world. But you know you going to. So first you have to know why you are living. This way, it generates it gives you energy to understand, who created me? What should I do with it now? You cannot understand your ego just sitting over there and thinking and meditating. Today, also, Muslims, as I say, they falling in so much heedless situation, that they are sitting in the Masjids and when I’m watching and they are sitting like yogis. Saying what are you doing? Saying, I’m making meditation, yoga style. Reyyy, empty head, yogism, if that was going to give something, don’t you think that all yogis they were going to be complete by now. The whole India part is going to be reaching to the Sirdatul Muntaha. But they not going anywhere. Why you running to follow that? Doesn’t Allah (SWT) is giving you ways to complete yourself? Didn’t your Prophet came to teach you that? Yes, he did.

You are a prisoner between two breaths:
But as we say again let me remind you again, you don’t know the religion. Because of that you have to run here, you have to run there, you have to fulfill the emptiness that it looks empty there, you have to fulfill it something else. Because we are not knowing our religion. They shut down everything not to teach you your religion. So we have to know we have to turn back to our own self. We have to understand. It’s not uprising here and there. Muslims today they are uprising, saying we want more freedom. Freedom! Freedom! America has freedom. We are free. And? We want freedom too. What America did with their freedom? Where they reach and you looking for? You are living in it, how free you are? (Deep breath) I tell you how free you are. You are a prisoner between two breaths. That how free you are. If Allah (SWT) doesn’t permit, breath in, you cannot take the air in, and you die. And the air that you just took in, say it is mine. Don’t give it out. Everyone is claiming everything is mine. Take the air. Say “it’s mine.” If doesn’t permit, the air doesn’t come out, and you die. Are you still going to claim that you are free? Are you still going claim to say I do as I like. How you going to do as you like that you are a prisoner between two breath. But we not seeing that because it’s so much heedlessness, it’s so much Gaflet. Yes. When you have the right to say? You may earn the right to say that I am free when you completely submit yourself to your Lord. And as Allah (SWT) saying, die before you die. And you taste that, and that spirit, your time is not up yet, it’s putting back to you. You be able to take it out and circle around and come back in too that time. That time you are free. Otherwise no freedom.

Heart must be busy with Allah (SWT) and His Prophet (AS):
And to reach to that, it’s not that easy. It’s not just to say I am doing this and I am doing that and I’m going to reach there. Because there is so many other enemies watching you, surrounding you for that spirit to leave the body to attack. Even the time when you are dying, they are circling around, waiting that they may capture that spirit. Depending what you were busy with. If you were busy with the good ones, and you will find protection surrounding you. If you are busy with the bad ones, with ugly ones, you going to find those ones. And they going to take that spirit so your Akhirat is going to be worse than this Dunya. So all this, we are falling into this situation as of believers, as of Muslims, because as we say in the beginning, we are believers. You are a believer. Definitely you are a believer because if you didn’t have no faith, what is your business here? Why you came here? You have a faith, your faith just brought you here. But we have to check the level of our faith. Where is it? At least to know how much juice I have in my phone. You know that. It’s showing it to you. Has a track, has a battery, saying, heh, this much you have, this percentage you have. This is so simple thing. You gotta check the level of the faith. To see where is the level of your faith. And checking that you have to charge it all the time. And the only way charging it, you have to remember your Lord. Continuously. Saying Allah. Heart must say Allah. Everywhere you turn, any job that you going to do, BismillahirRahmanirRahim, BismillahirRahmanirRahim, Bismillah. From inside doesn’t have to be outside. Your heart must be busy with your Lord, has to be busy with your Lord. You have to be busy with your Prophet. You have to be busy with the love of the Prophet and the love of the Prophet comes saying, Allahumma Salli Ala Sayyidina Muhammad. Remembering that Prophet. Sending selawat to that Prophet. We going to be sorry for these days that we are spending in this world with heedlessness.

Everyone is complaining today:
Even those ones watching through the cemeteries, everyone complaining. Believers they are complaining. The people who was believers and they were complaining day and night, they are complaining. And unbelievers they are complaining. Unbelievers, watch the cemeteries, go, they will speak to you but you are not hearing anything. Unbelievers they are saying, “how much Gaflet I was in. Such a great Gaflet that I was in that Lord of the Heavens and the Earth, my Creator, my Master, my Owner, gave me life, gave me all this thing, and I didn’t remember only one time, I didn’t say one time La ilaha il-Allah. How foolish I am?”

That one cursing itself. You don’t have to put that one in the fire. The fire of regret, it’s burning more than the fire. Because it’s too late now. So the people who believes but they not living according to their belief and continuously complaining, “I don’t like this, I don’t want this, this is no good, that is no good, this is…,” they are in trouble. They are saying to themself, how foolish I was. Everything was giving to me and I was complaining day and night. I was complaining day time, at least I shouldn’t complain night time. This way all this snakes coming into this grave, it will be little bit less. Hm…you have visitors waiting on the other side too, believe it or not. You can call that self, fear, whatever you want to call, that’s the reality. Whatever you filling that up with. So that one is regretting. The believers that they are running and doing so many good things, they are also regretting, saying, “how foolish I was, I say this many Allah, I should have say more. My mouth and my heart should be busy with that 24 hours. This way not this station in paradise but I will reach to that station.” And that one is regretting.

The Earth grinds the ones that do not complete themselves in Dunya:
That’s what is going to happen in our end. We didn’t reach to that yet. But that’s what it will happen. What will happen is, when you enter to the grave, don’t think that grave is just an empty place and people they just putting some dirt on you and they walking away and everything finish. And sometimes later go and open the grave, you going to find nothing from that one, that’s true. That one didn’t complete his mission that’s why the earth has to finish that one. Earth has to grind. Ground, ground, you know what is ground? Coming from what? Grinding, it’s going to grind that one. It’s going to bring end to that one completely. If you are not completing yourself in this Dunya, you going to complete yourself in the grave. Don’t leave it to the grave; the process of grave is very difficult. If it’s not in the grave, you going to have long day in the Judgment Day. One Judgment Day, one day, it is 50,000 years.

Your eyes are fooling you:
So wake up to yourself. Everything is not as you see. This eyes are also fooling you. So many things that you not seeing with this eyes but you cannot deny them. And so many things that you seeing with these eyes but they are saying to you wrong, they are showing you wrong. You are seeing it wrong. But it looks real! But it’s not. For instance, when you look at the sun, or the moon, you are just looking, ah, it’s round, say, disc, no bigger than that. It’s not disc, disc is not that big.

Murid: (Tray.)

Tray! One big tray. Round tray, hm? That’s what it looks like. Ask to yourself. That’s what your eyes is seeing. Smarty smarty Boston University tube babies, that they are knowing so much, so much knowledge, and ask yourself, eh Eyes, you are fooling me now, huh? The sun is not that big. But it’s that big! That’s what is there. As big as this tray. Is it reality big as that tray? You ask that to yourself you know it. So the reality the eyes that is looking is fooling you. You fooling your own self. And, say, where is East? There. Sun is rising from there. And? Sun is setting there, in the West. No! It’s not rising! Sun is not rising and sun is not setting, in reality. But you are just sitting, if you sit from morning up till night time, you going to see. Allah Allah, sun is rising there, it’s really, and noon-time it’s up there. And night time it’s setting on that side. Next day coming there again. Allah Allah. So it’s rising. And it’s setting. That’s what the eyes is showing to you. But the Ilm-e-Ledun, the other knowledge, is teaching you the reality is not that. Sun is not rising. And sun is not setting.

So what I am trying to say to you, that everything that you see with your eyes that doesn’t mean it’s real. Everything that you not seeing with your eyes, that doesn’t mean that it’s not there. If you open these eyes (Sheykh Efendi points to heart), definitely you going to see something else that time. That time, that knowledge, intelligence and the heart knowledge, is going to complete it, to each other. So you going to do miracles that time. Miracles is going to come out from your hand that time. But we are in Gaflet. Who can do? That door is open to everybody. To the servants of Allah (SWT). Allah saying (SWT), it is for you. I granted that to you. To the Children of Adam. There, there is no separation that time male and female. Female going there too. But the females now running in these days to say we are equal with the mens. We want to build feminism. And what’s going to happen? Don’t you see what they did? What a mess they make? And you became the part of that mess. If you are equal, we not going to call female, only we have to call all males equal. Or all females.

Either following Allah (SWT)’s and His Prophet (AS)’s orders, or orders of Sheytan:
But the Sheytan is coming from every side, from every direction. To fool who? To fool Children of Adam. He is very angry with the Children of Adam. Because Children of Adam became reason for that Sheytan to come out from the Paradise. That’s why he’s making oath, saying, I’m going to take them with me to Jehennem. And our Lord saying, “Well those ones that they going to leave My orders and following you, they will go with you.”

So which one you going to be? Are you going to following your Lord, your Prophet’s order? Or, still going to follow order, don’t say you are free. Anyone who is saying I am free, they are under the authority of somebody else always. So are you going to follow Allah and His Prophet’s orders, or you going to follow your ego and the Sheytan’s orders? Whichever the one you want to do, there, you have a free will. Free will is giving to you not to say, I have a free will and I do as I like. Free will is giving to you to teach your ego to say, no! My Lord doesn’t like this so you not going to do this. The free will it is a whip to you in your hand against to your ego. It is your horse. It is your transportation. The strong as your transportation is, the more powerful you become. But if you don’t have the control of that, it’s going to bring disaster to you. So you have to hold the reins and you have to have the whip. If the ego wants to turn to the wrong side with that free will you going to say no you cannot turn this side. This is forbidden. This is banned to you. From who? From Allah and His Prophet.

What is one job of the Prophets, what they did? They came to teach us what is Halal and what is Haram. Not according to your understanding. Not according to our understanding. According the way that Lord of the Heavens has put His law on us, saying to us, “I ban and I forbid this actions. This actions you cannot do. And this ones, you must do.”

If we follow, if we live according to that, definitely if it’s the, if you are in the worst situation in this world, you still going to be happy. You not going to be sad. Because you are obeying your Lord. And you know that things is going to come easy to you. All the difficulties is still going to be easy for you. Because Allah is watching you. Huh, if you are not following that, you can call yourself much as free you want. 24 hours a day, you are worrying. You are thinking. You running away, that’s why Sheytan make this fast life style, people to run back and forth, back and forth nonstop, not to remember anything until the Angel of Death comes and they remember but it’s too late. Saying, you just got fooled. Another one got fooled. You couldn’t take that, you couldn’t give that Shahadat, you couldn’t live according to that Shahadat, and if you didn’t live according to the Shahadat, you cannot take that Shahadat with you. So the most valuable thing in your life has to be Shahadat. Saying Ashadu an-la-ilaha il-Allah, wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu.

Faith leaves the heart when committing wrongdoings:
If a believer, if you say to that one, I’ll give you this whole room full with gold. Would you give me that Shahadat? What do you think? Eh, we don’t understand from the gold so much, what about American dollar. It’s whole 100 dollar bills inside. Would you give that? If you give that, you must be lost your mind. And Sheytan may come to fool you to say to you, well it’s okay, it’s a good offer! Why not? Just say this and, which so many people they doing that 24 hours in their life, they delaying, and, take all that money and later say Shahadat again.

Eh, what you will do soon as you say, okay give my faith up and taking this, and soon as you take that, Allah sends His Angel saying, go take that one’s life. What are you going to do? Dunya is gone. Akhirat is gone. The law that comes in the Kuran-i-Kerim applies to you. So many people making that mistake; doesn’t apply to Allah (SWT). Allah (SWT) He is not under the law of the Kuran-i-Kerim. We are! So He can change anything any time any second He wants it. You have to keep that alive in yourself. While you are doing mistakes, wrong things, while you are running to commit sins, while you are running to do the things that the Holy Prophet has banned, you have to think to say, if I am doing this right now, what will happen if, if nobody’s saying yes, but Allah is. So what will happen if I receive the Anger of Allah and He’s sending the Angel to take my life? That time you have no faith. Because Holy Prophet saying, if you are a believer, while you are believer, you cannot commit the wrongdoings. And they said, then how we will be, Ya Rasulallah. He says, the faith comes out from your heart, circles on top of your head, and during that time, you go and you commit the sin. Sin means the forbidden action that Allah forbid you. What is Halal and what is Haram. So you go and you do that. And, he says that time while you are doing that, you are not a believer because faith it is not in your heart. And later you do and you realize and you regret, faith comes back into the heart. But what will happen between this time? Are you keeping that death alive in yourself? Keeping remembrance of death? If you do, that time you not going to run to that.

After hardship comes ease:
And because you not running to that, after every hardship, ease must come to you! Allah saying (SWT), He is putting hardship on us, ease must come to us. So if we go through that hardship and we go fight back to our ego, then unexpected place, unexpected time, unexpected hand is going to reach to you to make things easy for you that time. You cannot do things, you cannot change things. But, if we submit ourself, it will change for us.

Wa minallah Tawfiq. Inshallah this much should be enough for you and for me. If we want to take lesson from it, we take and we apply to our life. And believe me, what we have spoken right now, if we live according to this, it is enough until Judgment Day for us. If not, I can speak now until Judgment Day, you not going to take anything again maybe. If you are a wise man, you may take knowledge from an ant. If you think that you know too much, if all Prophets they stand front of you and they give it to you, you still going to turn to the other side. So everything starts with you, everything ends with you. You going, you come to this world alone, by yourself. You have parents, you have this, you have that, you have certain authorities on you, but that is only temporary. So everything you start with yourself, you going to go out with yourself. You are responsible from every action that you are doing. As our Lord saying Allah (SWT), if you did the mustard seed of good, you will be rewarded. If you did mustard seed of bad, you will be questioned. And it’s up to our Lord, He will punish it or He will reward.

So Inshallahur-Rahman, we are asking help and safety and protection in these very very very bad days, 21st century, we have reached to very difficult times, the world has never been in this situation before. It’s the worst time ever on the face of earth, we are asking safety and help for our own self, for our own family, and for those ones that who passed away from this world. Those ones that they have lost their direction, Ya Rabbi, we are asking You to keep us in Sirat al-Mustaqim, to put us to be guiding them and ourself to the road of your Prophet (AS). Wa minallah Tawfiq, and Fatiha.

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Saturday RabiulAwal 2, 1432 (February 5, 2011)

After Fajr prayer, a murid asked Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi about the story of Hazrat Aziz Mahmud Hudai (KS). Sheykh Abdul Kerim talked about how this Saint went from being a prominent judge in the Ottoman Empire to becoming a humble murid of Sheykh Uftade Hazretleri. Sheykh Abdul Kerim spoke about the severe tests that Hz. Aziz Mahmud Hudai went through and how he ultimately became the Sheykh of the Ottoman Sultans.

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Friday Evening, RabiAwal 15, 1432 (February 18, 2011)

Seyh Abdul Kerim is saying that so many people do not know why they are living and they are suffering for being disconnected from ahirat. When you know that Azrail (Angel of Death) may strike at any second, and you don’t know if you will go out as a believer, how can you enjoy dunya? Come to the love of ALLAH swt through love of His Holy Prophet (saws), because everything in creation was created for his sake. Mehdi (as) is one man from Ahl ul-Beyt who is coming to change the direction from dunya toward ahirat.

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Saturday, Dhul Qada 5, 1430 (October 24, 2009)

This was the second sohbet on the evening of Mevlid for Seyh Abdul Kerim Efendi’s father – Haji Fuat Rabbani (kas). Seyh Efendi is saying to always have wudu. Then, put everything aside to attain the stations that zikir brings..

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Saturday, Dhul Qada 5, 1430 (October 24, 2009)

Third in the series of sohbets on the night of Mevlid for Haji Fuat Rabbani (qas). Sayiddina Muhammad (saws) is the Prophet of the end times. There are many forces working against Islam in ahir zaman, even though there are many Muslims, and new beautiful masjids. The lifestyle is lost. But everything is in the hands of Awliya (friends of ALLAH swt). The kingdom of Prophet Isa (as) is building, and Sayiddna Mehdi (as) is coming to bring down tyranny.

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Saturday, Dhul Qada 5, 1430 (October 24, 2009)

Fourth in the series of sohbets on the night of Mevlid for Haji Fuat Rabbani (qas). Stories of Hazreti Musa (as).

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Saturday, Shawal 23, 1431 (October 2, 2010)

Muslims traditionally are not depressed. Why now? They are running after secular lifestyle. The way out is to be with saliheen (righteous people).

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Sunday, Shawal 4, 1431 (September 12, 2010)

Sohbet for five young seekers over breakfast at the Osmanli Dergahi: All worldly knowledge derives from Prophetic – Heavenly – knowledge, just as the secret of the seed is not understood until the tree appears. Philosophy only examines eathly knowledge, and never finds the Truth. Don’t try to kill the ego. Learn to control it and to put it to work for you.

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Thursday, Dhul Qada 20, 1431 (October 28, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is answering the question, “Why should we be Rabbani?”

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Friday, Muharrem 11, 1432 (December 17, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is asking “What qualifies a person to speak on behalf Islam?” Then he goes on to say that philosophy, reading books on hadith, and relying on your experience in a secular system are not preparation for speaking about Islam. Knowledge of the ayats of the Kuran, living the Sunnah, and consultation are required. Without these, do not speak.

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Friday, Muharrem 8, 1431 (December 25, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is speaking about the many events that are remembered for happening on the 10th of Muharrem: Adam (as) was forgiven; the ship of Nuh (as) settled on land; the sea parted for Musa (as) to lead the Bani Israel to safety; Yunus (as) was freed from the fish; Ismael (as) was born; Hazreti Huseyin (ra) was martyred. Now, a big wind is coming with a flood of fire. To be in safety, be around the Ahl ul-Beyt – members of the family of Holy Prophet (saws).

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10th of Muharrem

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Hakkani el-Kibrisi

Friday 8th Muharram 1431 / 25th Dec 2009
Osmanli Naks-I’bendi Hakkani Dergah. Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah. Astargfirullah. Astargfirullahal azim wa atubu ilaih. We’re asking forgiveness from our lord Allah swt. For the sake of this new year that we have entered. Which 10th muharram, there are so many prophets Allah swt that he has granted them different stations, safety and protection. That’s prophets. What’s happening to you on 10th muharram?

Adam [as] when he was sent down from paradise to the earth, he cried for 300 years for forgiveness. For you, for the children of Adam, for his children. He know that he did the mistake, he didn’t do the mistake by himself, to himself. He was carrying the children of Adam, all that came to this world and all that are going to come, their seed, he was carrying with him.

So the disobedient ones, which is mashallah today, you have to go around with a special binoculars to find which one is obedient. The ones they’re not accepting Allah, disobedient. The ones that they’re accepting different ways, disobedient. Muslims, oh, muslims they lost it before anybody else now. Because muslims, they lost their direction.

Disobedience.

So all those disobedient ones, they forced him to do that action and he did it and the price, he paid for it. Adam [as] never became disobedient to Allah swt. So many ignorants today, that they’re 24hrs a day disobedient to Allah and they are daring to say Adam [as] did mistake. Mashallah. It was you who did that mistake, not him. Because he was carrying you.

So when he was sent down, he cried for 300 years. The children of Adam today, muslims, they’re doing the biggest crimes that the kafirs, they are not doing. And not asking for forgiveness. Not sitting somewhere to say, “Astargfirullah, Ya Rabbi” 100 times, not making 2 rakaat to say, “I did mistake, Ya Rabbi, pls forgive me.” No. he cried 300 years on the mountain. And 300 years later with sincerity, Allah accepted and He forgave him. And that was the day, muharram 10th. That Allah forgave and Allah accepted his taubah. Meaning that He accepted you and I. And now we became another firaun again, yes. So Adam [as] has been forgiven during that day.

Second punishment reached to the children of Adam because they were disobedient to Allah swt again. And Allah swt ordered Nuh [as] to build the ship and to take in those ones who’re accepting and all the other ones vanished and perished. Millions, just like now that is preparing to happen. That millions and billions are going to go. Vanish and perish. When Nuh [as] with those believers inside the ship, the mercy of Allah has reached to them again. 10th Muharram. And the ship set to the earth and the waters have been taken away. Safety reached to them. Safety didn’t reach to the other ones that they were inside the water and the water swallowed them.

But they were on the sea, there was no land, so there were no safety to them too. They thought that they were safe inside the ship but in reality there was no safety to them again if the mercy of Allah has not reached, the waters will not go down and the earth will not appear again. And safety reached to them on 10th Muharram.

When the children of Israel, Allah swt showing mercy to them after so many years of slavery under the hand of firauns, and the safety has reached to them through the hand of Musa [as]. And they were disobedient to him non-stop. And 10th muharram he opened the water [parted the Red Sea] and he made them to pass through from one side to the other side, the children of Israel, safety reached to them that day.

When Yunus [as] he was swallowed by that fish, 10th Muharram Allah accepted his taubah and the fish throw him back to the earth again.

When Yusuf [as], when his brothers threw him inside the well to kill him, 10th Muharram was the day that safety reached to him.

Ismail [as] was born on that day, 10th Muharram. Ismail [as], he is the grandfather of Holy Prophet Muhammad [asws]. News given to mankind that day, so many other incidents happened and are happening. And mercy and rahmat is raining.

But at the same time 10th Muharram is the day that when unbelievers again, not unbelievers, they call themselves believers, and they became disobedient ones again to Allah swt and his Prophet [asws] and they raised swords against Hazreti Huseyn [ra] and 10th Muharram is the day that they have martyred them. Meanwhile the other ones they are saying, “we’re muslims, we’re the best ones” and they were killing the grandchildren of the Prophet [asws] for no reason. And since that day, the world is continuing with the same ignorance and arrogance.

To people today, muslims, if anything that doesn’t fit to their ego, right away they declare the opposite side, “They’re Yazidis. Because my ego is not accepting what the other one is saying.”

That’s what happened to muslims today. Wake up to yourself because there’s not too much left for the signs that Holy Prophet [asws] is saying to us, “There is a big wind that is coming and this flood that is coming, is not the flood of water, it’s the flood of fire. And only believers are going to escape from that.”

Believers, those who is believing in Allah and His Prophet [asws] and those who is believing in the judgment day and those who is knowing what they are doing and they are judging themselves with things that they are doing right or wrong. Those are the ones that they’re really believers that they are going to find safety from that flood of fire that is coming. So we should be busy. We should be busy not with something else outside. We should be busy with our own selves, to check ourselves to see what is the level of the faith that we’re having. Is that the level of the faith that that you’re having that as soon as somebody is touching you with a needle to your ego, you’re becoming worse than any wild creature? That is not faith that time.

That kind of faith, Yazid had it too. That kind of faith, Firaun had it too.

Firaun locked himself to the room and he prayed to Allah saying, “tomorrow Musa is coming and I’ve promised him that I’m going to make this river to turn backward. I know I’m a weak one but You’re the Lord who created, I’m asking from you, help me tomorrow.” And the next day, he said to the river, “turn backward” and it did. And Musa [as] looking and he was surprised, knowing that Allah [swt] helped him. And he was heartbroken too. And when he went back to the mountain, Allah saying to him, “What happened, ya Musa?”

He said, “Its known to you Ya Rabbi. You are sending me as a messenger to him and You are giving power to him. To make the river to turn backward. And now, I’m more fool in front of him and all his people.”

And Allah saying to him, “Ya Musa, that one who is unbeliever, all night long knowing that tomorrow he is challenging you, he didn’t sleep. He pray for Me all night long. He asked from Me all night long. But I checked you. And you prayed a little bit and you went to sleep. So he win over you last night because he stay awake all night long. He is also My servant. You are My servant, he is also My servant. He is a bad one but My favour was with him today.”

So many are not understanding. “What’s happening around? This one is wrong and I am right and….”

What are you doing? Are you laying down all night long and sleeping and you think that you’re right and you’re going to stay right forever? Yes, that is what is happening.

So, 10th Muharram. 10th Muharram is coming, wake up to yourself, shake up to yourself. Don’t be firaun. Don’t think that you are and I am in safety yet. The people that they were sitting inside the ship, they have reached to safety but they didn’t sit and sleep because they were in safety, they said, “Ya Rabbi, you saved us from the flood, the water didn’t swallow us but now we’re above the waters, there is no other place to go so there is no safety again, please, we’re asking safety.”

And Allah swt likes His servant when he’s asking from Him, saying, “I want you to ask. I want you to cry. I want you to show that you are My weak and I am your Lord and that time, I’m hearing you.”

So 10th Muharram. 10th Muharram so many incidents happened. How many 10th Muharram passed through your life? How many times that you sit to think, “this day, this incident has happened. What kind of mercy is happening to me? Or what kind of punishment I’m putting myself in?” Sit and think. We must sit and think.

So Holy prophet [asws] prayed, “Ya Rabbi, don’t punish my nation as You have punished the nation of Nuh [as]. With a flood.”

And Allah said to him, “I will not, but your nation, they will invent a fire in ahir zaman. Flood of fire. And they will burn each other with that fire. Ahir zaman, in the end, they’re going to burn each other and billions are going to be taken from this world. “

Prophet [asws] saying that only escape from that flood, run to my Ahlil Bayt. My Ahlil Bayt, my grandchildren ,they are like the ship of Nuh [as]. Safety is with them. Be around them, you will find safety that time. Otherwise, no safety coming to no one except those ones that they are holding tightly to Allah swt and His Prophet [asws]. This is not some kind of movie or imagination. This is what is waiting, in front of us. Don’t fool yourselves to think, “I am this one and I have reached here and I have reached there.” The Awliya Allah, their hearts are shaking from that day. Yes, and the children of Adam is still ignorant and arrogant declaring lordship 24hrs a day, “I am this one and I am that one.”

No. if you are a good servant, definitely your heart must be fearful from that day. Because that day is approaching. We are approaching that day. Its right in front of us. Don’t think that there is too much time left. Hah. Those people that they were punished, perished and finished through the flood, that was not ordinary water too. That was water that was burning. And it burned them and finished them. This one, you know what’s going to happen. Its going to turn people into skeletons. Nothing is going to stand up. Except those area that is protected and those people that is protected. We’re approaching those days.

“I don’t believe.”

Sit and wait. Look what happens. You believe or you don’t believe, its not changing the reality. 21st century people, they built that, they’re giving invitation 24hrs a day for that incident to happen. There’s not too much time left and you and I, we’re all in it. Don’t think that, “I am in safety.”

Anytime that you’re being a tyrant, you are giving that invitation to that flood. Anytime that you are backbiting, you are giving invitation to that. Anytime that you are lying and cheating and you are attacking and you are doing wrong things, you are giving invitation for that day and you are in it. There is a big question mark if you find safety.

So, turn back to yourself, ask forgiveness, stop being busy with other people with what they are doing, look at yourself at what you are doing. Be busy with yourself. If you have fear from Allah and His Prophet and the Judgment day and if you are believing in these words.

If not, do as you like.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq
Bihurmatil Habib
Bihurmatil Fatiha.

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June 17, 2010

Short sohbet in the Osmanli Dergahi in Lefke, Cyprus.

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June 4, 2010

Video of Hadra zikir in Cyprus:

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June 3, 2010

Short sohbet in the Osmanli Dergahi in Lefke, Cyprus.

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June 2, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 30, 2010

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May 29, 2010

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May 26, 2010

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May 25, 2010

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May 24, 2010

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May 24, 2010

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May 20, 2010

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May 19, 2010

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May 16, 2010

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1431 Jumada al-Awwal 16 (May 30, 2010)
Why are you not happy? When you are upset, you may get what you are asking for and be worse off. Or you may become animal. When the Seal of Prophets (saws) was sad, he was sad for the sake of others who were not listening. He was not sad for his ego. Be happy for whatever comes to you, because it comes from ALLAH swt.

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Saturday, 1431 Jumada al-Awwal 15 (May 29, 2010)

Love for anything in this life takes one away from ALLAH swt and His Prophet (saws). Love for the sake of ALLAH swt only. You are responsible for all your actions, even if you do not recognize the signs indicating the right action until years later. How can one call himself intelligent if he does not see that all comes from the Creator? … and to say “La illaha Il ALLAH.”? Emulate one of the sahaba. Patience is essential to faith. No matter what your rank or title, you are only a servant.

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Friday, 1431 Jumada al-Awwal 7 (May 21, 2010)
Remember your past and run away from it. Where you came from is not your identity. Seal your past from others, but don’t forget what you did wrong. Forget two things: what you did good for others and what others did wrong to you. A ‘center’ is a place for learning to leave one’s bad characteristics behind.

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Thursday evening, 1431 Jumada al-Awwal 6 (May 20, 2010)
When you break someone’s heart and you realize it, you are under the obligation to apologize. The other person is not under obligation to accept your apology. You must do whatever is in your power to get that person to accept.

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A three part sohbet by the khalifa of the Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani, Sheikh Abdul Kerim el Hakkani is viewable at the links below:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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May 13, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 11, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 10, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 9, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 8, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 6, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 5, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 4, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 4, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 4, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani: Sword of BismillahirRahmanirRahim

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May 3, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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May 1, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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April 29, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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April 28, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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April 27, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani

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Thursday evening, 1431 Jumada al-Awwal 28 (May 13, 2010)
Someone asked how to be more generous. Peace and blessings come from sharing and giving. ALLAH swt doesn’t like stinginess. Stingy people are tyrants. Also, be on the right side when Sayidinna Mehdi (as) takes the Takbir.

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Thursday evening, 1431 Jumada al-Awwal 28 (May 13, 2010)

Someone asked about participating in family time that is centered around the TV. Sheykh Efendi is asking what is your intention – to please them or to please ALLAH swt? A person is responsible for their children until they reach maturity. Then they are responsible for themselves. Everyone is given intelligence to know what is right and free will to choose. There is no need to jump into non-Muslim lifestyle because others do. A responsible person must do what ALLAH swt orders for him.

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Friday afternoon, 1431 Jumada al-Awwal 22 (May 7, 2010)

Someone asked a question about the time between creation of the spirit and the time that spirit comes to the world. The spirits of all people who have ever lived were created on the Day of Creation. At that time, each individual promised to worship and obey ALLAH swt only. We are responsible in this life to keep that promise. And our spirit is questioned about it after it passes out of the body. The spirit rejoins the body on Judgment Day.

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1431-Jumada al-Awwal 16 (May 1, 2010)

Mevlana Seyh Nazim Hazretleri’s message is to the whole world. Stop everything and be obedient to his words. Share his words with the people who don’t know him. Mevlana has said that a man who brings together 40 people to make zikir is his khalifa, which is like an ambassador. Our aim is to reach people, to teach people how to say shehada and to protect it – until the end of life – from the actions of the ego.

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Friday Afternoon, 1431 Jumada al-Awwal 15 (April 30, 2010)

Someone asked, “If one has reached to high stations, where they become a drop in the ocean, how is it possible that they will lose that station?” Prophet (saws) made dua to not be left for an instant to his own ego. One instant of not paying attention to your own path can cause someone to fall, especially from heights. Any drop of love for dunya prevents one from reaching high stations.

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Friday afternoon JumadAwal 9, 1431 (April 23, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is answering the question of a murid: “How is one going to pass (the test) on their last day?” Seyh Efendi is saying to take care of today. Understand what keeps you from your reality at any moment, what separates you from ALLAH swt. Look how to fix yourself, not to point fingers at others. A person damages himself more than the whole world can damage him. Do everything for the sake of ALLAH swt.

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Saturday evening JumadAwal 3, 1431 (April 17, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying to follow the lifestyle of Prophet (saws) and the sahaba (ra), not the ways of the West. Faith comes out of your heart when you are doing something wrong. If you die then, you are in jahiliyya. Islam came to put boundaries on the bad behavior and traditions of pre-Islamic arabia. Now 21st century people are making their own bad traditions online. Where are you standing in the coming battle between Hak and batil?

Also – nightime is for jinns. No need to have so much interest in them, or in technology. Stay home at night and sleep.

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April 27, 2010

Sheikh Maulana’s sohbet on April 27, 2010:

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Friday afternoon JumadAwal 2, 1431 (April 16, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying to the ladies that – with sincerity – you may begin to find your Lord. That will help you discover your unique secret. In today’s world, the spirit is empty. But if you start to build your spirit, knowledge will come to you.

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Thursday evening RabiThani 30, 1431 (April 15, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is asking how can you be a servant of ALLAH swt and have so many troubles? Don’t forget the one who pulled you from trouble. Look at your own faults to understand why you are troubled by others. Keep the way of Holy Prophet (saws) and your tomorrow will be better than today. There is little peace in the world – even in the home of Sultan Awliya. Peace comes from inside, from sharing and giving and loving others. Don’t carry other people’s burdens by backbiting and slandering. It is torturing yourself.

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March, 6 2010

Sheikh Maulana’s sohbet on March 6, 2010:

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February 26, 2010

To watch the hadra click the link below:

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14, Subat 2010

Şeyh Mevlana Nazım el Kıbrısi Hazretleri ile Şeyh Abdul Kerim Hazretleri. Şubat 2010 ziyaretin ilk goruntuleri:

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17, Subat 2010

The noble tomb of Haji Fuat Rabbani- the father of Sheikh Abdul Kerim el Kibrisi.

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February 19, 2010

Sohbet by Sheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani after Juma prayer

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February 4, 2010

Persembe aksami yapilan Mevlit Kandili videosu icin tiklayin:

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Saturday evening, Safar 16, 1431 (January 30, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying to take a lesson from the bees: There is only one leader. The key to Paradise is ‘La illaha il ALLAH’. But loving each other is also required. Understand what is causing your troubles – spiritually. It is from losing love. Connect with one who will teach you love and obedience to Holy Prophet (saws). Then there is the story of Uwase Kurani.

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Thursday evening, Safar 21, 1431 (February 4, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that people are declaring lordship, asserting their likes and dislikes, their freedom. But they do not understand the value of each breath. The Sheykh counts your breaths for you. People do not know their roles, and are angry all the time with each other. Ego declares, “This is me.” But if ALLAH swt is there, who are you?

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Thursday evening, Safar 21, 1431 (February 4, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying to listen and obey the words of Sheykh Mevlana, to reach your stations. Otherwise you will lose what is valuable.

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Friday afternoon Safar 15, 1431 (January 29, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that divorce shakes the Arsh of the Heavens. Also, keeping your obligations for namaz/salat makes you a better person.

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Friday afternoon Safar 22, 1431 (February 5, 2010)

Someone took bayat on the telephone. Afterwards, Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that to progress in tarikat, you must connect with someone who represents Holy Prophet Muhammad (saws) on earth in these times. Spend a few minutes a day to build the connection. Initiation sets your tombstone in place; now you begin to prepare for your grave. Naksibendi Hakkani way forbids anger. The Shaykh teaches what you need. There is nothing you can give the Shaykh.

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February 4, 2010

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February 4, 2010

Grandsheikh Maulana Nazim el Hakkani appointing Sheikh Abdul Kerim to Turkey.

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Thursday, Safar 7, 1431 (January 21, 2010)
There is little power in these days to change the things that you see wrong. Changing ‘with your hand’ is the job of the government – to prevent people from doing wrong; but they are trapping people instead, not preventing. They are also interfering with parents teaching their children to fear ALLAH swt and to love, to receive both punishment and reward. Darwinism is the basis of modern teachings. Plus children are exposed to violence and deviance on TV. Watch how the ego works when you are trying to change things.

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Friday afternoon, Safar 8, 1431 (January 22, 2010)
Paradise lies at the feet of some mothers – those who are obedient to the Will of ALLAH swt. Anger is not for women. Story of blacksmith taking care of his mother, why he did it, and the stations of both mother and son. Some mothers today are not approving their children’s Islamic lifestyle. Be careful of what you say because it may come true if you are beloved to ALLAH swt.

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Friday, Safar 8, 1431 (January 22, 2010)
How can anyone live on the earth and not obey the Creator? You have been given a little authority – over determining right from wrong. But He has all authority. Ask for His help to do what is right. Ask for His forgiveness when you do something wrong. And continue to hurt and do damage only as much as you can bear the fire. The way you live is the way you will die.

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FIND ANOTHER WORLD IF YOU ARE NOT RELIGIOUS

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 8 Safar, 1431
January 22, 2010
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih. From the beginning of this world, until now, until the end, people living on the earth have been called to believe in Allah, to have faith and to prepare themselves to Akhirat, hereafter life, life that is eternal. And new way, new people the 21st century’s squarehead people are saying, `Eh, these are religious people. We are not religious ones’. What is religion? Religion is teaching you how to live on this earth, how to be an obedient servant, how to prepare yourself for Akhirat. Huh, are you a religious person or not? If not, it is haram to you to live on this earth. It is haram to them to eat and drink. You are not accepting the one who has created you and everything in it and you are staying in His place, in his land? Go find some other Lord. But the problem is it’s not only the unbelievers today, the believers are the same way too. Calling themselves believers and where are you? Are you praying?

`No, I am busy’.

Your business must bankrupt. Where are you? Are you doing something for Allah’s sake?

`No, I enjoy myself’.

You must enter to fire. Prepare yourself to enter to fire. The reason for you to be created and to be sent to this world is not to run after your ego and to have your religion according to your ego too. That’s what happened to the 21st Century people. They make religion to themselves, the religious ones too, the ones that say, `We are religious people. We are believers’. How you believe? `As I like. As my ego says. I do as I like. Nobody says [anything to me]‘.

Hmm. Allah subhana wa ta’ala just gave you Irada-e Juziya, little authority to put yourself, with that authority that is given to you to be able to separate what is right and what is wrong and to put yourself to the right way. But the full authority of you, your life, your family, the earth and the skies, under the earth and above the earth is in the hand of Allah subhana wa ta’ala. No one can do other than what he wants. But if you are preparing to say, `I have Irada and I do as I like’, that means you are saying, `I have fallen to the level of the animals, lower than the animals’, because the animals are not given intelligence and they are not given the responsibility to be a servant. They have been put out there to be under the service of man. And today’s 21st Century man became so wild, even the wild animals are running away from them.

You must put yourself back to line, sit and question yourself to say, `With this faith that I am claiming, am I going to pass the test? If Azrail is coming to me now, am I just going to pass the test, or am I going to fail? So who am I fooling?’ You yourself. Nobody else. 24 hours a day. 24 hours a day fooling yourself. And if you get used to fooling yourself and if you don’t wake up, if you don’t shake yourself up to wake up, years are passing and then you start bragging about it, `I am a Muslim. I am a Muslim for these many years. I did this and I did that’. Huh, now you are in the hand of Sheytan completely. He is playing so good game on you that when Azrail is going to come you may wake up but it’s too late.

Wake up now. In every Juma Khutba the Imam is reminding himself and reminding the Jama’at, `Have fear from Allah and keep obedience to Allah’. Keeping obedience to Allah subhana wa ta’ala is not to say, `I do as I like’. Obedience is to say, `I do as You like. This is too hard for me. It’s very difficult for me. But it’s not difficult for You, Ya Rabbi. Help me to do it. Even if I am doing wrong, I know I am doing wrong, please I am asking forgiveness’ .

Today’s people became worse than the Firauns. Those who are running in the way of Allah became Firaun. They are not accepting anything anymore. Nobody’s accepting anything anymore and everyone is right in their own way. Their eyes are closed. Where are you? Are you living in this world? Or are you living in illusions and delusions world? Wake up to yourselves. Last call, last days. Last days to you, last days to me and last days to the earth. Last days to everything that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has created. Ahir of Ahir Zaman. Mankind has never fallen this low before, in general, east, west, north and south. It’s only a handful of people that they pulled themselves from that general public saying, `Ya Rabbi, we don’t like what they are doing, we don’t like how they are approaching to matters, we don’t like these ones actions. We cannot do anything. So we are pulling back Ya Rabbi. Everything is in Your hand’. Disaster is happening in the world. You must take lesson. It happened there and it’s not going to happen here, who says to you that? One day before those people were saying, `It’s never going to happen here’. One hour before, one minute before, people had so many plans to do. But their plans are not in the way of Allah. So everything turned upside down.

So Nature is upset with today’s people. It’s angry because Allah subhana wa ta’ala has given the authority of the world to the hand of man. He is giving a little intelligence and what the man is doing? Disaster. Rising their heads against the Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Those ones that are not making Sejdah, eh, they are rising. What about you making Sejdah? While you are making Sejdah you are rising your head against Allah subhana wa ta’ala? Being disobedient to His orders? Running away from His orders? Where are you running? From Jannat to Jahannam? That’s exactly what it is. Males and Females! This Dunya made everyone to become slaves. Nothing else. Wake up to yourselves because if you have the whole world in your hand right now, you cannot use it. It’s finished. The authority of the world is taken away too. The Awliya locked everything. Nobody can move anymore. Wake up to yourself before Azrail is coming. If Azrail is coming and at last you wake up, it will be too late. You are living above the earth today and you have a duty. Your duty is to make Sejdah continuously to say, `Ya Rabbi, I am Your servant. I am not a good one’. Today’s people must say this. Not to brag, `I am doing this and I am doing that’. You must say, `I am not a good one. Please help me to be a good one’.

If we do that, inshaAllah, with sincerity, you must say that with sincerity and not with your ego. On the one side saying this and on the other side looking down to the world and looking down to others like Firaun. Ask Firaun what happened to him. What is happening to him right now, ask. You don’t have one percent of what he had in his hand. He had the whole world’s authority in his hand. What happened to him? To Namrud one mosquito was enough, one mosquito. To Firaun one cane was enough. For today’s ignorant and arrogant 21st Century people one Takbir is enough. When that one is taking the Takbir, if you are not aligning yourself with the right side and if you fall into the wrong side, you are going to start crying, you are going to cry until Judgment Day and you are going to cry beyond that.

The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Give good news to people’. We are living the days that mankind lost their mind and Allah is giving order to His Prophet (sws) saying, `Warn them. Give the good news to those who are obedient and give warning to those who are disobedient and leave them to Me. Give them the warning, say to them, make sure that they understand the fire. Then leave them to Me. You cannot change them.’ So, did you understand the fire? If you didn’t, don’t let people to call you whatever, smart or crazy. It’s okay. Put your hand in there and say, `I am Lord.’ Say, `I do as I like’. People will understand then. The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Do wrong things, be disobedient to Allah subhana wa ta’ala as much as you can bear the fire’. You are running away now because the feet are running and the hands are moving. Your eyes are open. And if you cannot run, then you know how to scream, `Help, help, help’, and the help may reach to you. That is a mercy. When Azrail is reaching, there is no more help.

The way you live, that’s how you will die, the way you die, that’s how you will be buried and the way you are buried, that’s how you will rise to the Judgment Day. If you didn’t reach to the level of humanity and you still have the characteristics if animal on your ego, (it means, the way you live that’s how you are going to die), if you die with the characteristics of your ego, whichever the characteristic is at that time when Azrail is coming to you, as soon as they put you in the grave, you are going to turn into that. If you are a hyena, you are going to turn into that. If you are a snake then you are going to turn into a snake. Meaning, if your actions, if your intentions, if your aim, if your thinking is to go to hurt, to go to do damage, to go to do arrogant and stubborn things, which animals they have, you are in that characteristic. If you die during that time like that, as soon as you enter to the grave, you will become like that shape. You will get up to the Judgment Day knowing that you were a human but you are no longer a human in that animal characteristic. They are not going to put you to the side of the animals too. Completely separate because the animals are not going to accept saying, `These are not from us’. The humans are not going to accept.

You have heavy days waiting, to you and to me. Heavy days are everyday waiting for you and for me. Are you still going to run to enjoy the world like heedless and headless people to say, I am enjoying my life’? Have you been created to enjoy your life or have you been created to be a servant to Allah? Have you been created to be a slave to this world? To be obedient to Sheytan? To run after your ego? Or have you been created for Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Choose one thing to yourself and live according to that. Whatever you think that you like, that fits to yourself, put that to yourself.

This much should be enough.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

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Thursday evening, Safar 7, 1431 (January 21, 2010)
Are you learning who you are, or are you just programmed by technology and entertainment? Paradise is only for clean creatures; but ALLAH swt forgives His servants who ask for forgiveness. ALLAH swt loves and takes care of obedient servants. Are you judging what is right based on your ego and secular laws or on the laws of ALLAH? This world will only become safe when Hazreti Isa (as) comes. Until then, find out why you are in this world.

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September 3, 1991

Sohbet given by Sheikh Maulana Nazim in 1991 at The University of California, Berkley can be viewed here:

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Thursday evening, Muharrem 14, 1431 (December 31, 2009)

In response to a murid’s question, Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that a physically disabled person is safe from running around and getting into wrong situations. Two types of people who will be able to give intercession for others on Judgement Day. One group are the able-bodied who work for the sake of ALLAH swt and who suffer through heavy tests without complaining. The second group are people who were not given legs or arms or able bodies. ALLAH swt will compensate them in Ahirat with what they want. Also, those ones who could not run around will intercede for able-bodied sinners.

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Friday afternoon, Safar 1, 1431 (January 15, 2010)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that the during the month of Safar, believers must have more awareness. Believers must follow Shariat – the laws of ALLAH swt as revealed in Holy Kuran, taught by the Prophets, and exemplified in the sunnah. Check the level of your faith to be ready for S. Azreal (Angel of Death). Check your activity for what you do for the sake of ALLAH. Check to see if you are renewing your shehada everyday to keep your faith alive. Keep obedience to your rightly guided leaders, to be obedient to ALLAH swt. During this month of Safar, say 500 ‘Astaghfirullah’ every day.

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THE RULING OF ALLAH AND THE RULING OF TAGHUTS

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 1 Safar, 1431
January 15, 2010
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-Azim wa atubu ilaih. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering saying to us, `Obey Allah, obey His Prophet (sws) and obey those ones who are authority’. Who are authority on what? Those who are on the way of Allah and His Prophet (sws) and they are telling you things in the way of Allah and His Prophet (sws). They are calling you from this Dunya to Akhirat. They are reminding you Allah and His Prophet’s (sws) orders. Now it’s obligation to obey those ones. But the Nation has lost their minds today.

`Eh, we have democracy’.

`Is it fitting to Islam’?

I’ll tell you where it fits. There are two kinds of ruling. Either the ruling of Allah or the ruling of the Taghuts, the Quran-e Kerim is saying. `I am sending you My orders. Everything is in that book. You may not understand that. I sent you the Prophet (sws) and the Prophet (sws) is showing you the ways, teaching you the ways. You have to follow those ways. Since the time of the Holy Prophet (sws), for over fourteen hundred years, until this last century, the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th Century, the Muslims have never fallen (Islam is always very high) this low. All that happened because they wanted to change. They said, `We don’t want this kind of ruling, Shariat. What do we need Shariat for? We are civilized people. We are going to make our own laws.’ Hmm. [In reality] they are saying, `He is ruling the skies, not the earth. That God is ruling up there in the Paradise. Not here. He left us to do as we like’. No! That’s exactly what Namrud said, that’s exactly what Firaun said and that’s exactly what the Awliya are saying that almost every one of the 21st Century people became Namruds and Firauns.

Later, `Eh, we are in trouble’. Your trouble is never going to finish. No end. Every passing day there’s going to be another trouble standing right in front of you. But the miracle of the Holy Prophet (sws), if you are holding to that, it should be enough to take you out from every trouble. What is he saying? `Oh my Nation, Jaddukum Imanukum. Renew your faith. Your faith is getting old. Every time you are remembering, renew your faith.’ Renewing the faith is not just saying that Shahadat through the toungue, `Ash-hadu an la ilaha illallah wa ash-hadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu’. You must say through the tongue, you must believe freely through the heart and you must live according to that Shahadat. What is the guidance of that Shahadat? The Holy Prophet (sws) is showing to us, his lifestyle, his Sahaba-e Kiram, their lifestyle is enough for us to find the way again.

But when we changed it, when they shifted from the ruling system of Islam and they turned to democracy-hypocrisy, then the Nation became heedless and headless. Everyone is running and saying, `I do as I like. Nobody’s going to tell me anything’. If you do as you like then don’t die. Why are you lying to yourself? If you do as you like then don’t get old. If you do as you like then what do you have fear from? Say, `I am the ruler’ just like Namrud and Firaun. Who’s not saying it? Everyone’s saying it. But as soon as something is happening, everyone is shivering. Wake up to yourself. This is the month of Safar. Muslims, wake up to yourselves. It doesn’t matter where you live, which nation you live. You are Muslims, you are believers. Everywhere, every land belongs to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. And the believers are responsible to live according to their faith anywhere they are going. You cannot say, `Eh, there’s nothing here. There’s no ruling of Islam. So, I do as I like as the other ones’. Where is your faith? Faith is gone.

The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us,’ The way you believe, that’s how you will live. The way you live, that’s how you will die. The way you die, that’s how you will be buried. The way you will be buried, that’s how you will get up to the Judgment Day’. Watch yourself, look at yourself, say to yourself, `Am I happy with this situation that I’m living in right now? Is it enough for me to get up for the Judgment Day like this?’ Ask yourself. Don’t lie to yourself. Don’t cheat yourself. You may cheat the whole world, today’s people are lying to the whole world, left and right, at least don’t lie to yourself. Look at yourself, look at your actions, and say, do you like it? If you like it and you say that it’s according to the line with Islam then continue because that’s how you are going to die. If you don’t like it then correct yourself. Don’t delay it for tomorrow because maybe Azrail is waiting for tonight. Maybe your name is in that book.

But the Muslim nation forgot about that too. They don’t want to remember and they don’t want to be reminded by death. And Allah is reminding us, His Prophet (sws) is reminding us, saying to us, `Keep that alive, keep yourself alive with that remembrance. Otherwise, you will forget about Akhirat, you will fall into the wrong ways of Dunya and you will be in trouble. You cannot come out from that mess later.

So, the way we believe, that is the way we must live. That is the way we must force ourselves. That is the way we must prepare ourselves to say, `Azrail may come to me today. What did I do today? How did I live today?’ Leave yesterday. Yesterday you lived good but that was yesterday. What are you doing today? So many people live with the Shahadat. Their lives are in the way of Islam. But in the last days of their lives Sheytan is coming. And if you lose it then you lost it. So you have to keep that alive all the time. One worry you have to have and that is the worry. You have to check everytime, `What is the level of my faith? How’s my Iman, let me check it.’ You have a tester for everything. Where is the tester to check your faith? Check it up to see which level it is. Is it passing or is it failing? If it’s failing, don’t sleep, don’t even eat, run to fix it to bring it to the level that passes because Azrail is blowing on your neck twenty-four hours a day. It may appear in front of you. Think on it, think.

`Eh, we are okay, we are healthy,’

Are you in your right mind? Look what’s happening in the world. So many went to sleep in Haiti. Eh, they went to sleep planning so many things that they are going to do the next day. They don’t sleep nighttime too much too. They run to do so much wrong things there too, and everywhere people today. But when the order is coming, no one can remove it. Instantly, over a hundred thousand just disappeared from this world. Goodbye. Who says that tomorrow it’s not going to be here? Who says that tomorrow it’s not going to be in the land that you are in? Your technologies or your smart tube babies? Today they are making tube babies. Those ones are saying? Eh, they don’t have enough mind to themselves, from top to bottom. If they do then they will run after the Shahadat. Those who have correct faith, correct intelligence, they must run after something that is going to give benefit to them.

`Eh, I am discovering this, this’.

What are you running up there for? What are you going to discover? Did you discover yourself? And you are sitting 24 hours in front of that Sheytan box and getting fooled by it? Wake up to yourselves. The believers are those ones that when their Lord is remembered next to them, their hearts start shivering. They put themselves back to the line again. And when their Prophet (sws) is mentioned love is coming to their hearts and that love makes them to move around to do things for the sake of their Lord. Not like today, the Muslims became Miskin people! They are so lazy, the young generations, sitting and they don’t want to move. They don’t want to do anything. When are you going to move? In the grave? They will tie your feet good. You cannot move there then. Now is the time for you to run around. Nighttime they are sitting all night long doing nothing, of course. Nighttime not any good too, today’s people, but sitting all night long either in front of the television, or new sickness of this century, new confusion of this century, the computers. In front of those computers all night long, and before morning is happening everyone is asleep like they put dirt on top of them.

Is this the reason of your creation? No. Is this the way that the Holy Prophet (sws) is showing to us? Is this the way that we have to get up like zombies to go to work everyday back and forth? No. You have been created to live for Allah and to die for Allah. And everything is finishing except one thing. When the last call is calling to you saying, `Did he pass the test? Did he get his card?’ There are two ways going out from this world. The graveyard is there. The box is out there. Are you looking, are you watching, thinking, `Yes, I am going to be there one day’? If you take that seriously then you have to shake up to say, `What am I doing? Definitely I didn’t pass the test. Definitely my lifestyle is not what the Holy Prophet (sws) is showing’. Then you will shake yourself up to put yourself back to the line. Then you will forget about the problems of this world.

Today’s people, twenty-four hours a day problems. No peace. Of course. You left Allah, you left His Prophet (sws). Don’t worry. With the simple things, with these worldly things Allah is keeping you busy saying, `You want to be busy with yourself? Be busy.’ And you are never remembering Him. And then, `I have this problem’. Good, make two rakat prayer and ask from Allah.

`Sheykh I am too busy’.

Good. Doing what? Are you praying your Salats? No, I cannot. I work. You cannot huh? That’s why you have been created? Only to work? That comes second. The children of Adam (as) have been created to know Allah and to worship Allah. That is priority. That is order. Nothing else to you. If you do that correctly these days, Dunya is going to run after you. The world is going to run after you. This is the order that Allah is giving to this Dunya, saying, `Those that are going to leave you, you must run after them. Those who are running after you, you must run away from them. Fool them, say to them, `I am yours. Come to this corner. You are going to win this, you are going to win this’ and before they turn left and right, life is finished, Azrail is there, you wasted the Dunya and you wasted the Akhirat. And say then, do you have intelligence?

Eh, everyone’s running around saying, `I am this intelligent. I am so smart’. Yes, let’s put it on the tester. What’s the level of your faith? That shows how smart you are. Are you saying, `La ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah’? MashaAllah. They think that they are so smart and this Muslim Nation, the Muslims are running after them. Allah subhana wa ta’ala granted you the Shahadat. He has granted you to be from the Nation of Muhammad (sws). When Allah subhana wa ta’ala created the prophets and He asked them, `Is there anything you want from Me?’ They said, `Yes, Ya Rabbi’. Every prophet, 124,000 prophets said, `Ya Rabbi, we don’t want to be prophets. Take this away from us and make us to become one of the Nation of Muhammad (sws), those people that are going to come after him or in his time’. And Allah is saying, `No. My happiness to you is in this what I gave to you. My happiness to them is in what I gave to them’. And Allah accepted only one prophet to be from that nation. Isa (alayhi salam). These empty heads are saying [about him], `Allah, God, Lord, Son, Mother’. He is coming back to be from the Nation of Muhammad (sws). You are one of them. How are you treating that? Heedlessly 24 hours a day running after what the unbelievers are preparing for you and leaving Allah and His Prophet (sws). Do you think that Azrail is not going to reach to you? So fast, before you turn left and right.

As we said, don’t think that you are too young or you are healthy or you are a famous one. Azrail right now is in business. He is working right now while you are here. At least 150,000 is going to pass from this world today. At least. If it’s another disaster like what’s happening in Haiti, that’s another extra. Don’t think that 150,000 died there and it’s finished. 150,000 at least are coming out from this world everyday. The day isn’t finished yet tonight. Who says that you are not in it? Who says that your name is not in it? When the sun is setting down, do you think that Azrail is taking a break? Who says that your name is not in it from night until morning.

Wake up to yourself if you want safety for yourself, if you want safety in Dunya and Akhirat. Dunya and Akhirat, not only in Akhirat. From now on it’s the month of Safar and it’s coming with heavy bombardment to the disobedient children of Adam (as). So many are going to go out from this world but they are going without faith. Make sure that you hold on tightly to that. Make sure that you don’t give up. How are you going to hold on tightly? What the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying? The way you believe that’s how you will live, the way you live that’s how you will die, the way you die that’s how you will rise’. If you are keeping the Shahadat alive in yourself right now, if the angel of death is going to reach to you someway somehow, you are not first going to say, `Doctor’ or `ambulance’. You will say, `Maybe Azrail is here. Let me renew my faith’. I am not seeing that. I am seeing 80,90 years old, from time to time Azrail is coming to them and touching them to wake them up, they are calling me saying, `Sheykh, I have to go to doctor’. Why are you going to doctor? What is your expectation from this world? You reached to 90. Why don’t you sit over there saying, `La ilaha illallah, astahgirullah, subhanallah, alhamdulillah, la ilaha illallah, Allah’? Why are you not busy with that and you are so busy with the nonsense?

Yes, this is what they are teaching in this country, this is what they are teaching in this world right now. Don’t make your children to be foolish ones growing up like that. You will be responsible later. The lifestyle that you are living, whatever they are seeing, that’s how they are going to grow up, that’s how they are going to be brought up. Huh, if you are living in this country it’s more trouble anyway because you cannot rule on them. The government is saying everywhere now, `You cannot touch them.’ They love them so much that they are saying, `Don’t slap them because we are preparing them to become thieves, to become this and to become that, later to grab them and put them in jail’. Wake up to yourself.

Obey Allah, obey His Prophet (sws) and obey your rightly guided leaders, those that are saying to you the orders of Allah subhana wa ta’ala. They are showing you the ways of the Holy Prophet (sws). If you keep obedience to those then you are keeping the orders of Allah subhana wa ta’ala in the Quran-e Kerim. If not, then you are a disobedient one. You are a disobedient one to the Quran-e Kerim. And then not 5 times a day, you may pray 55 times a day, you may recite the Quran all day all night long, they will ask you, have you been with the Saliheen? That’s what Allah is saying to us, `Be with the Siddiks, the Saliheen, with the righteous people. Be with them’. Have you been with them? Being with them is sitting and listening, asking, learning, moving. He is not saying to you, `Be one of them’. He is saying to us, `Be with them’. Being with them, slowly one day maybe something will pass to you and you will become one of them. If it’s not, in the Judgment Day you go saying, `I was with this Salih, I was with this righteous one, I was with this Awliya, I was with this Sheykh’.

But how are you going to do that? Today’s Firauns, the Wahhabis teaching new style saying, `Nobody brother, nobody. Your ego. Nobody else’. Your ego? You are learning by yourself huh? You are taking from the Quran-e Kerim by yourself huh? Don’t you see that the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Jibreel came to me’? He is pointing towards us saying, `You are going to have somebody’. Don’t you see the Sahaba-e Kiram that so many of them were big ones, high ones, high titled ones during that time too. Don’t you see as soon as they turned to the Prophet (sws) they said, `Prophet (sws) said and I heard’.

From where do you know? Especially the 21st Century people. `I read the book’. Which books? The ones that the Yahudis are printing out and so many things are taken out and so many things they put in new? New styles? Hmm. So wake up to yourselves. Don’t think that with any excuse you or me or anybody will be escaping. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering us, saying, `Believers cannot be heedless. Believers cannot be in Ghaflat’. Don’t think that you are going to say, `Well, I was heedless. I was in Ghaflat. So I am going to be saved’. No. You will be punished because you were in Ghaflat because the believer, what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying? `Be careful from the vision of a believer. He will look with the Nur of Allah. You cannot fool him. The believer cannot get fooled. And the believer will not fool anyone. He will not get fooled by anyone and he will not fool anyone. That is a believer’. That is the real Shahadat, saying, `Ash-hadu an la ilaha illallah wa ash-hadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu’. You must renew your faith.

This is the month of Safar. During this month at least, at least 3 times a day Shahadat and at least 500 times a day astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. If you cannot make it then 300 times a day, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. Today’s people are very busy. They may say to me, `300 times is too much’. Say 100 times at least, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. Astaghfirullah means, sit somewhere for 5 minutes and understand the things you did in Ghaflat and ask forgiveness. Regret from Allah subhana wa ta’ala to say, `You were watching me and I was doing this heedless thing Ya Rabbi. I am asking forgiveness from You’. That’s what it means. And I am watching so many playing with the Tasbih [pulling it so quickly], I say, `What you did?’ They say, `100 times astaghfirullah’. MashaAllah, mashaAllah. You are just fooling yourself. Nobody else. Wake up to yourself.

We entered through one door of this world and we are going to exit from anther door. There are two doors exiting. One entrance and two exits. If you exit from the right side then you are the winner. If you are exiting from the left side then you are in big trouble. That means you were in trouble in Dunya and you are in trouble in Akhirat. Amin.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday afternoon, Muharrem 22, 1431 (January 8, 2010)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that mankind is in this world to earn the next life, and to reach high station in Paradise. Your potential in ahirat is limited if you have to pass through hell. If you are not trying or if you put it off, you will lose the treasure that is for you in Paradise. Many prophets had few or no followers who had no doubt. But the Prophets were telling them the message of ALLAH swt about ahirat.

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Friday, Muharrem 22, 1431 (January 8, 2010)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that the month of Safar is coming soon, a very dangerous month with terrible events. Believers must be especially aware of how they may go out from this world. Don’t count on your worldly position to save you. Did you earn your ahirat today by remembering to do everything for the sake of ALLAH swt? Your shehadat is the only thing that can save you, not doctors, not 911. If you are a believer, every day must be better for your ahirat.

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CHANGE WRONG THINGS BY STARTING WITH YOUR OWN SELF

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 22 Muharram, 1431
January 8, 2010
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. We are leaving one more month behind from another year. The month of Muharram is almost finishing. We are entering to another month, the month of Safar that so many incidents are coming down during this month. Believers, believers must be careful. Believers. Who are the believers? Those who believe in Allah and His Prophet (sws) and those who believe in the Judgment Day. Those believers should be careful. `We are okay today’. What about tomorrow? Are you okay tomorrow? No, you don’t know that. Then you have to know where you are stepping, where you’re putting your feet. But the 21st Century people became heedless and headless living 24 hours with problems and worrying, 24 hours worrying. Seventeen years old to seventy, eighty, ninety, those who are ready to enter to grave. But their worrying is not the worrying of Akhirat. It’s the worrying of Dunya. What are they worrying? `What am I going to eat tomorrow? What am I going to drink tomorrow? Am I going to have enough money tomorrow? Do I have a car tomorrow? I don’t like this car. Am I going to change it for tomorrow?’ Your worry never ends and you finish your life and you prepare yourself to hellfire. Then it doesn’t matter what you call yourself. Call yourself a believer. Are you able to take that Shahadat with you at last going out? As the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The way you believe, that’s how you will live. The way you live, that’s how you will die. The way you die, that’s how you will rise to the Judgment Day’.

The way you believe, that’s how you will live. From where this sickness came to the Muslims to worry for tomorrow, worrying for today, worrying for Dunya? Since when? Over 100 years. And the Muslims now, as we say, from 7 years old to 70, 80, 90 worrying non-stop but worrying only for Dunya. Not worrying to say, `If Azrail is coming to me today, am I going out from this world as a believer? Did I get up this morning and I kept my promise to my Lord? If Azrail is going to come to me today all day long, am I going to go up there to say, `I kept my promise this morning Ya Rabbi’?’ Ask that to yourself. Ask that question to yourself. You’ll find the answer by yourself. Nobody has to say anything to you. Did you cheat early in the morning? Of course, those who are praying are also cheating. Turning this way, that way, getting up by force. They must be in a very squeezed position worldly and they are believing that they want something from Allah. But even then they are doing it cheating. So wake up to yourself because Azrail is ready to strike. Keep that alive in yourself. Don’t say that `I am a young one’ or `I am a strong one’ or `I am a healthy one’ or `I am a powerful one’ or `I have so many positions’. Look, read the newspaper today. Watch how many strong ones are going out from this world, how many healthy ones are going out from this world. Look and watch. Maybe tomorrow is your turn.

And worry, yes, you must worry, we must worry for Akhirat. We have been sent to this world to earn our Akhirat. Did you earn your Akhirat today? At least did you make promise today to live for Akhirat? Everything that you do in this world, did you promise today that you are doing it for the sake of Allah, preparing yourself for Akhirat? If you are doing that then you have no worry. You have only one worry. Akhirat. That never ends. That is the one that keeps pushing you continuously forward. That is the time that people will know too, `This one ran for Allah’. If you are running for Dunya then your energy is going to finish and when the energy is finishing then your hope is going to finish and Sheytan is coming to you saying, `Don’t worry. Your Lord is so Merciful. You don’t have to do it. He’s going to forgive you’. This is what he is saying. Who’s saying this? Allah is saying this to us, `This is how that Sheytan is coming to you to fool you. Yes, your Lord is Merciful with you when you have the breath of life and carrying it. That’s a mercy to wake up, to shake yourself up to say, `What is it that I’m doing? When am I going to wake up?’ Ask that question to yourself. If you didn’t yet then start right now. Push yourself now. Don’t leave it for tomorrow because tomorrow may be too late.

So a very dangerous month is waiting. So many people’s names are written in that book for that month who are going to go out. So many nations are going to turn upside down. So many businesses are going to turn upside down. So many healthy people are going to enter to sicknesses. So many people who think that they are top level are going to come all the way down. Look back, take lesson from history. Muslims are screaming in the streets today saying, `Why Allah is not helping us? The Americans came to Iraq, they went to Afghanistan. The Israelis are finishing us’. Yeah. Ask the question to yourselves. The answer is with you, not with the Americans. They are in Iraq today. Tomorrow they may be in Turkey and there is a road leading to that. These nations, these people, that’s what they are preparing. And they say, `We are such good ones. And their soldiers came and are raping our mothers and our sisters’. Ah, you weren’t that good maybe. Sit and think. Allah subhana wa ta’ala doesn’t send anything to a man who didn’t deserve. Sit and think. Watch what happened, how the history is moving. Watch step by step and you will understand. And don’t look at the other nations. Your own nations, look at how they are, and the hope for tomorrow for them is not that great. It’s terrible.

All that happened to us, to the Muslims, why? Since we left Allah. Over a hundred years ago we have risen against the ruler that Allah sent to us, the Khalifah, we have risen against him. All nations, Muslim nations rose against him saying, `We don’t want this kind of ruling. We don’t want these kinds of laws. What are these laws? Remove it. We put our own laws’. Heh, now you are okay. In all Muslim nations, things that never happened in their dreams, now it’s happening there worse than the western countries. Watch. I don’t have to tell you. You know how it is. You know better than me. So, what’s in it for us? We are part of it. We have to sit and pray, `Yes Ya Rabbi, we are in it. We are part of it. We are asking for forgiveness. ‘ Ask forgiveness from Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Say, `Yes, if You give me the power, I will stand up and I will change all these wrong things. And I am starting to change the wrong things with myself. And I am promising to You that I am going to live according to Your laws, not according to my ego’. Then you will be alright. Even if you change nothing, even if the whole world turns upside down, you will be okay.

So wake up to yourselves. Today is the good day. Tomorrow worse is coming, the following day worse is coming, the following day worse is coming. But the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying otherwise. Allah is saying otherwise to the believers, saying, `The Ahir is going to be better’. But it’s not happening better to those people who are claiming that they are believers. Every day that is passing it’s becoming worse. Yes. It’s because something is wrong with the belief. Something is wrong with their faith. Their faith and their action are completely something different. So we must wake up. You must wake up.

Amri bil maruf wa nahyi anil munkar. That’s finished too, completely, that the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `When that finishes, everything is finished. In the nations, Amri bil maruf must first come from the top leaders. The leaders must give orders to the people to direct them to the right roads and to stop them from the wrongdoings. But it became otherwise. Imams, sheikhs, priests, rabbis, everyone is falling into the same category now. They are afraid to speak the truth because some authorities may call them and question them. That’s what happened. But you must not be afraid to speak the truth at least to your own selves. At least say to your own selves, `This is what’s happening. This is what I’m doing. This is what I’m saying. I am saying the Shahadat but I am living otherwise. I am saying the Shahadat but I am breaking every law, everything that the Holy Prophet (sws) said. I am living something else. I am a different creature’.

Wake up to yourselves. If Azrail comes to you in that situation, it’s not going to be enough to say, `I am a Muslim 20, 30, 40, 60, 100 years’. The Ahir word, the last word is important. And if you are not living according to that then you are not going to be able to hold on tightly to that Shahadat. That is the time that again you are going to run around looking, `Where is doctor? Where is help?’ But Azrail is there and you are not seeing. You are still running to look for doctors. Is that what you are doing right now? Yes, that’s what you are doing right now. Any little incident that comes to you, the first thing that you remember is doctor and hospital and emergency. This is what you are remembering. You are not remembering Allah and His Prophet (sws). You are not remembering to say, `Is this Azrail coming to check me up? Maybe. Let me see. Let me not get excited and slowly let me see. Let me make two rakats. Let me go to Sejdah’. Ah, from where did you learn this? From where did you learn to call 911? Is Islam saying to you that 24 hours any incident happens call 911? Turning the whole world upside down with your confusion and Fitna and later, `911, I am afraid somebody is coming’. Eh, you are not afraid from Allah, definitely. You are not a believer then. You are claiming the Shahadat but you are not believing what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying.

So what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us? `The believer, your today has to be better than yesterday. Tomorrow must be better than today if you are a believer. If you are a believer then your today has to be better than yesterday and your tomorrow must be better than today’. Is there any doubt with the words of the Holy Prophet (sws)? If you have doubt then you lost your faith. Check it up. Look at it. Is that what’s happening to you today? Today is better than yesterday? And you are hoping for tomorrow that it’s going to be better? Not worldly again. Not Dunya. Akhirat, akhirat. Islam is concentrating on everything in Akhirat, not in Dunya. Leave that concentration of Dunya, concentrate on Akhirat, you will be the winner. Everything comes along then to you.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Thursday evening, Muharrem 14, 1431 (December 31, 2009)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is talking about how a strong body can carry strong spirituality.

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Friday, Muharrem 15, 1431 (January 1, 2010)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that Muslims and Muslim countries are celebrating the fake new year, instead of the Islamic new year that began with Muharram. This is not a faith that will save you. Holy Prophet (saws) challenged unbelievers to curse the insincere ones. They refused, knowing it was themselves. But some Muslim leaders are preferring unbelievers. Shaky faith will make you to become like them if you follow their practices.

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MUSLIMS CELEBRATING CHRISTIAN NEW YEAR LOST THEIR MINDS

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 15 Muharram, 1431
January 1, 2010
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. Inna ad-dina indallah-ul Islam. Only one religion in the presence of our Lord, is and always, Islam. No other. Muslims today are being very tolerant. They say, `We have to be tolerant to be with Christians, to be with Jews, to be with this and to be with that.’ Yes. And what are those? Fake religions. Sheytan helped them saying, `You must follow this way. Then I can have you in my hand until I bring you to Jahannam. There’s no other way.’

What was the order given to Adam (alayhi salam)? What is the principle of the orders? Amantu billahi wa malaikatihi wa kutubihi wa rusulihi wal yawmil akhiri bil qadiri khayrihi wa sharrihi min allahu ta’ala. We are saying that there are six. We have faith and we are saying as Muslims `ash hadu an-la ilaha illa allah wa ash hadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu’. What the people were saying in the time of Adam (as)? `ash hadu an-la ilaha illa allah wa ash hadu anna Adam rasulullah’. `Amantu billahi wa malaikatihi…’ that’s what they were saying. `I am believing in Allah and to His angels, and to His books and to His prophets’ and all things are coming. Same things are coming down all the way from Nuh (as) to Musa (as). Did Musa (as) say to his people, `I am opening a new way to you’? Yahudi way or Musawi way? That’s what they are calling themselves, Musawi. Eh, what about the Christians? Isa (as) said to them, `I am your Lord. Leave everything and come to me’? Isawi way? Hazrat Isa (as). Hmm.

Eh, what about the Muslims? Leave those ones out now. Come to the Muslims now. What happened to the Muslims? The Muslims are saying the Shahadat, they are believing all that but they are living worse than the other ones. Maybe 90% of the Muslims including every one of our families in it, they were celebrating new year last night. Isn’t it? Say otherwise. Say, `I am exception’. They don’t know, they don’t remember, they don’t want to be together in the celebrations of the new years of the Islamic calendar but when it comes to that fake one, cheated one, lied one, everyone is together and the Muslims are at the front row. The Muslims, yes. Muslim countries! They are banning the name of Allah and the name of His Prophet (sws), but they are running in the streets all night long like lunatics as if they lost their minds. Yes. If you don’t know then watch in the television, saying, `World television now. We are giving you new year from Indonesia to Malaysia’. What is new year doing in Indonesia? They say `220 million Muslims’. What kind of celebrations are these? And the President has to be there. They are saying, he is Naksibendi. He has taken initiation? MashaAllah. From somebody. Huh! And you are celebrating? You are giving permission? What happened to Malaysia? Same thing. What happened to Iran? Same. Iraq? Worse than anybody else now. Syria? Top level. Egypt? Forget it. The Christians admire them for the way that they are celebrating that new year. And Turks? Don’t even talk about it.

So, what happened to Muslim nations? Yes. What happened to Muslim people? They lost their minds. They lost their faith. That’s not a faith that you’ll be saved with. And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `Inna ad-dina indallah-ul Islam. Don’t come to My presence with another religion. Make sure that you come to the Judgment Day with Islam. Or you will be in big trouble’. And Islam, Islam is following the orders of Allah and His Prophet (sws). Otherwise, it’s only fake ones. And if it’s not coming from the Taqlid (imitation) to the reality, man is never going to understand, never going to taste Islam in himself and always is going to say, as so many, not Muslims today but top level Muslims leaders, they are even able to say today, `They are my best friends’ or `They are my friends’. So many of them say, `So many of them are better than so many Muslims’. They are even daring to say that. Something is wrong somewhere. This is not what the Holy Prophet (sws) taught us.

The ayat came when the Nasrani Christians came to the Prophet (sws), to his masjid, they settled there and they started worshipping in unusual ways. The Sahaba-e Kiram wanted to stop them and the Prophet (sws) said, `Leave them because they are only guests. We are not accepting but leave them. Let’s see what they came for.’ And they came and they started arguing that their religion is right, their religion is this and that, and the Prophet (sws) said to them, `Now the ayat came and Allah is saying that now you altogether come and me and all those who believe in me will come. Then we will curse those ones who are away from the religion of Allah to see how the punishment instantly is going to reach to them.’ And right away they said, `No. No, ya Muhammad. We don’t want that. Don’t do that to us. We will make treaty with you and we go our way and you go your way.’ You think that the Prophet (sws) was going to say curse to himself if he didn’t have order from Allah subhana wa ta’ala? He is saying, `Say to them if they are sincere with what they are saying. Let their intelligent ones, scholars and everyone come together, and you and your family come together and put curses on each other to see how fast the curse is going to reach to them’.

Eh, what happened to Muslims today? Muslims today, Muslims leaders say, `O Papa Hazratleri, I am kissing your hand and your feet’. Bowing down? You are representing Islam and going down half way in front of the unbelievers? Unbelievers. They are not believing in the way of Allah and His Prophet (sws). We call them unbelievers that way, yes. And Orthodox priests or the Rabbis and the Rabies. They love them, they hug them saying, `I love this man and I love that man’. MashaAllah. Something is wrong somewhere. Wake up to yourselves O Muslims. We are living the last days before the big wind is coming. The wind of fire is coming that is going to sweep everyone out whose faith is shaky. Anyone whose faith is shaky, impossible to be saved from that wind. It’s coming. The wind of fire is taking and finishing, making them to become skeletons. They are not believing on this too, yes. The people of Nuh (as) didn’t believe, the people of Lut (as) didn’t believe, Ibrahim alayhi salam’s people didn’t believe. They didn’t believe but they found. Abu Jahil didn’t believe. They found. What is promised is going to come. Look at yourself how you are going to reach to those days. No more running for this Dunya like crazy. You have to make sure that you are building your faith everyday more better, not worse because the more you are with them, especially those people whose faith is shaky, some people are permitted, given order by Awliya Allah saying, `Go inside of them’, they are doing some work with them. Some, their faith is very weak, they are going hanging around with them and before you know, instead of becoming a role model to them slowly they become one of them. Then you lose. You go to the Divine Presence without Islam. Allah is saying to us, `Come to My presence with Islam’.

And another sickness for Muslims today, so many says, `Ah, it’s too hard. It’s too hard to carry the orders of Islam. We cannot do it in this time. It’s not for this time.’ Huh, now you are lying and cheating about Allah. Allah is saying to you, `This is the best for you’ and you are saying that it’s not. Why it’s not? Because your animal ego wants to live like an animal. It doesn’t want to live like a human because what is Islam? What is being a Muslim? To know Allah and to worship Allah. To be good to yourself and to be good for all other people and to every creature that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has created. To be good, that’s all. It’s not more than that. Don’t think that there are 800 forbidden actions in Islam and 500 deeds that are good and they are all going to come your way. No. Maybe one is coming your way. Keep that one, run away from the forbidden action and you will be alright then. The little that you do, you must do continuously. Little Zikir, today’s Murids don’t even do Zikir because they are with the Zikir of Dunya. They are busy with Dunya. So they don’t have time to remember Allah. That’s the bottom point, saying, `I am so busy that I don’t have time. I don’t have time for Zikir and I don’t have time for the orders of Allah. I believe, I accept but I don’t have time’. You will have a lot of time in the grave. Don’t worry. For those who don’t have time, they are going to have a lot of time in the grave. But not this easy. Very hard way. And no escaping then. You cannot escape anywhere. It is real. The way that you are hearing me now, the way that you are seeing, the way that you are feeling, you are going to feel everything there.

Just like you are feeling now, closing your eyes and you’re feeling, in the dream you are sleeping and you are seeing unusual dreams. So much pain sometimes because today’s people don’t see dreams. If they see dreams they see disasters anyway. They don’t see good dreams anymore. Only a handful of people see good dreams. And what happened? `I was running away from here. This guy was cutting me with a saw, this one was shooting me, doing this and that’, going through the pain. Nothing is happening. I was looking at you. You were sleeping there. Do you think that it’s not going to happen even like a dream there? Think again. It’s going to be just like real. But you are not going to be able to speak anymore because they are going to cut the tongue. Because today everyone’s speaking but speaking nonsense. They are speaking things that they should not speak. They are interfering into matters that they should not interfere. Never mind about people today not doing right things, they are running to destroy themselves with their own tongues. And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Promise me two things, I will be waiting for you at the front door of Paradise. The first is your tongue and the second is your private part’. 21st Century people definitely don’t know how to use these both. They are using it wrong. Come back to yourselves. Azrail is ready to hit and you are ready to go out from this world.

`Oh Sheykh, I’m still young and very strong.’

He doesn’t care young or strong. He doesn’t care. When the time is up it’s going to come to you and you don’t know when that time is up. Maybe 19, maybe 90. The more that you go, the more time you spend that is not in the way of Allah, the more trouble you are getting into. The more questioning is going to come to you. Don’t think that you are going to run around as wild in this world, you are going to do whatever you want and you are not going to be questioned. You will be questioned from every action that you did in the world and according to the intentions of the actions you are going to be questioned. Either you are going to be rewarded or you are going to find what is that you are not believing.

These words are for people who believe, who believe in the Shahadat, who believe in what we say `Amantu billahi wa malaikatihi wa kutubihi wa rusulihi’. the principles of Islam, the principles of faith, those who believe in Allah, His angels, His prophets and His books and all things that are coming with the knowledge of Allah subhana wa ta’ala and we are believing that one day we are going to come to the Judgment Day, the Judgment Place and we are going to be questioned about everything that we did. Not only the good actions that you did but what is the intention behind that action. So many people are running, I am watching, so many years they go to a masjid. I know so many people were coming with me, they even fooled me. They were working with me and every Juma they were coming. I said, `MashaAllah, they never made Sejdah. Now they are making Sejdah. Now they are making Sejdah everyday inside the prayer time and work time and I was saying, `If you are going to pray, I am still going to pay you’.’ They were running inside and praying, taking their time, nice Tasbih and I am admiring them, looking, for years every week and every month I am giving bonus extra and they are doing it more. The day that they finish working with me, they stopped praying and they stopped everything. Allahu Akbar! Subhan Allah!

So yes, so many of the mankind are just like that. Wake up to yourselves. Build your faith everyday. Shake your faith to see, `Where am I standing? Little wind that is coming is going to blow me down or not?’ Check yourself. Find out why you do things because as I say, in the Judgment Day you may fool the whole world but you are not going to fool Allah. In the Judgment Day you will be questioned according to your intention. What was your intention doing the good deeds? Or the actions are appearing bad. The man is doing something wrong. He will be questioned according to his intention too. Why he did that bad action? Maybe the whole world is seeing that one as wrong but maybe in the presence of Allah it’s not wrong. You are not the Judge. Allah is. Eh, if you don’t understand that then read the Quran-e Kerim and understand the story of Khizr (alayhi salam) and Musa (alayhi salam). Even Musa (as) didn’t understand the actions of Khizr (as). He said to him, `What a bad action you did!’ And he looked and he said, `Why are you judging me? Are you the Judge? You don’t know what I did and why I did it.’ He said, `I am the Prophet. This shouldn’t be like that.’ And he said to him, `You forgot that Allah sent you to me? And you are interfering to my job? You are judging my job? You will see it later.’

Mankind today lost their direction. They are interfering into everything, things that concern them and things that don’t concern them. Later they put them into trouble and you try to bring them out from the trouble from this side and they go out from the other side. Wake up to yourselves before Azrail is coming. No help will reach you then.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Saturday evening, Muharrem 10, 1431 (December 26, 2009)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that without the help of the Lord, we cannot even take another breath. What is the reason to be proud? Running after dunya, are you one of the 150,000 who will not see tomorrow? All Prophets called people to worship ALLAH swt, to obey His orders, and to be His servant. Hazreti Isa (as) and Sayidinna Mehdi (as) will come with the same message. Fill the heart with nur, through the power of zikir, to be ready for their arrival.

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Friday, Muharrem 2, 1431 (December 18, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that a believer is a good one, taking care of what is for him. Today must be better than yesterday. Aim for ahirat by pleasing ALLAH (for example, by fasting) to be able to carry life’s burdens. shaytan is always whispering, driving people crazy with doubt. Don’t judge others. Keep the holy days of Muharrem special. Your life style shows the health of your shehada..

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Friday, Zul Hijja 22, 1430 (December 11, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that the holy month of Muharram is entering. Year 1430 is ending. Follow someone, and become a thankful servant. If you are living for ALLAH, no attacks from anyone can harm you. Be thankful even for your body, before it fails and Azrael comes. Ask forgiveness. Change to do better. Sit and meditate, think about what you are doing and why. you are accountable for the intention behind your deeds.

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Friday, Zul Hijja 15, 1430 (December 4, 2009)

Disobedience is happening at all levels of society from government to family relationships. People have forgotten the reason for their creation, understanding everything through the ego, understanding wrong. Correct obedience is to the ones who are obeying ALLAH swt and His Prophet saws, not to the ones who try to stop you from the way of ALLAH and His Prophet.

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Thursday evening Zul Hijja 14, 1430 (December 3, 2009)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying to try to understand what is beyond the grave, and be sincere about what you bringing there. If you are not sincere with yourself, you cannot hide it. Stop complaining; this means you are happy with your Lord. After hardship comes ease, then hardship again. ALLAH swt puts everyone under test. Be patient with the tests. It is easier when you are living for the sake of ALLAH.

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Friday, 25 DhulQada1430 (November 13, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying to make sure you are going out from this world with your shehada. There is only one religion in the Presence of the Creator. You must believe in ALLAH swt, and in His Holy Prophet saws. Don’t run after dunya. If you run toward Holy Prophet, he will take you to ALLAH. Then dunya will run after you.

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Thursday evening DhulQada 24, 1430 (November 12, 2009)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that mankind became robotic slaves to their machines. They forgot why they are living, that they are supposed to be servants to the Creator. The government promotes slavery through education that teaches wrong things: darwinism and running after enjoyment. We are not free, but prisoners between two breaths.

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Friday, 18 Dhul Qada 1430 (November 6, 2009)

We came from ALLAH (jalla jalaluhu), and we will return to Him (inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un). No one is going to escape. Is it today? Did you discover the reason for your creation? What did you put in your book for Ahirat? Understand what Şeyh Mevlana means by ordering murids not to be out after maghrib.

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Friday, 18 Dhul Qada 1430 (November 6, 2009)

Imam Ali (R), cousin of the Holy Prophet (S) said: “Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company. ” AMIR CELOSKI lived like this.

This sohbet/discourse and zikir was held by Sheikh Abdul Kerim el Kibrisi in honor of our late brother Amir Celoski.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Thursday, 17 Dhul Qada 1430 (November 5, 2009)

North Jersey: Four-car crash leaves one dead

Amir Celoski

I loved him, we all loved him.

From www.yursil.com

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Saturday, 12 DhulQada 1430 (October 31, 2009)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying to be with salihin. Follow the ones who follow sunnah of Holy Prophet (saws) and his companions. They will lead you on the siratul mustakim to ALLAH swt.

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Friday, 11 DhulQada 1430 (October 30, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that Islam is the only religion that ALLAH swt accepts. If you are not following a rightly guided leader, you are following your ego. Islam cannot be changed to match your ideas, your beliefs, your lifestyle. Ignorants and the tools of shaytan are out there now, showing signs to the wrong direction. The ones holding the light of Islam are hidden. You have to look for those ones to find the true Islam.

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ONE RELIGION IN THE PRESENCE OF ALLAH

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 11 Zil-Qadah, 1430
October 30, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York

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

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. Inna ad-dina indallah-ul Islam. One religion in the presence of your Lord. Islam. Saying to us, `Don’t come to my presence with something else. You will be failing. The only religion that I’m accepting is Islam. The only book that I’m accepting is the Quran. The only prophet and the last prophet that I’m accepting is Muhammad (alayhi salatu wa salam).’

Eh, the 21st Century people are reading a lot, they have so much computers, they built these computers mashaAllah, they built so much technology, but they are buried in it. They sink in it. They are knowing nothing because they are not knowing what is good for them and what is bad for them. They are running top-speed after illusions and delusions and so many wrong thinkings. And Allah is sending to us saying, `Islam’. Islam is open. You cannot hide anything to the corners. Everything is open. He has sent 124,000 prophets and all these prophets were calling their people to Islam, to Allah, saying, `La ilaha illallah.’ That is Islam. Saying, `Submit yourself to your Lord. One and Only. No other one. He has no partner.’

During those times prophets came in their nations. Some believed and some didn’t. So many prophets came and not even one person believed on them. It didn’t change the reality. That one who came and who gave them the message is in safety now and those ones who became disobedient are in trouble. They are in trouble in their graves. After Judgment Day more trouble is coming to mankind. This is what man is building to himself because the ego is standing.

The ego is always saying, `Me, me and only me. Whatever you say, I don’t care.’ That’s what the ego says. Males and females, the same, saying, `What I say, that’s what has to happen. I am a Muslim but what my ego likes, that’s what I’m going to do.’ No you are not a Muslim then. You lost Islam. Islam is to submit yourself to your Lord, to submit yourself to His orders, to submit yourself to His Prophet (sws), to submit yourself to the rightly guided ones. If you are not submitting yourself to them then you are following the desires of your ego. So you are a servant of your ego. You can do any kind of forms then. You can be a Buddhist, sitting like Buddha, you can be Christians going to church, or Jews going to synagogue once a week, or Muslims going to Juma, or from time to time going into masjids, but you are following your ego. Finished. You are not following the orders of Allah subhana wa ta’ala because you don’t know which ones are those. You do things according to your ego then.

Eh, 21st Century people, from the normal people to murids to the Sheykhs now, cigarettes in their mouths. They are smoking cigarettes. What is that? If a man can’t control himself with a cigarette, if he cannot stop his ego from that cigarette, how is he going to control himself with other orders that Allah is giving to do and don’t? Impossible. The simplest thing and the worst thing, to you, to your community and to your nation, financially and in every way. You cannot stop yourself from that wrong action. How are you going to stop yourself, your ego from so many other tricks and traps that Sheytan is coming to play with you?

Yes, today the name of Islam is there, today the appearances of the Quran is there, the appearances of Masjids are there, but Mu’mins, where are they? We are looking. Where are they? They are hiding. They are pulling themselves to the corners. And the hypocrites, the fools and the ignorant, the tools for Sheytan are appearing here and there. This is the way that it has to happen. That’s what the Holy Prophet (sws) said, `The ones that are giving light are going to pull themselves to the corners. So you are not going to see light. Those who are looking for light, they are going to run after, they are going to find them. But those who are not liking the light of Islam, they are not going to care. They are just like the bats. As soon as they see the light, it’s bothering them.’

Sheytan already changed so many signs in Islam since the 1920′s. `One Way’ is the other way. Everyone is saying, `I am finding my way.’ How are you finding your way? From where are you taking that? Sign is showing that way but already somebody has played around with it. One time I was driving in Cyprus. I see one sign showing one road, saying, `Gecitkoy’. So if you follow that in the map, you see that there is a Gecitkoy and you have to follow that road to go to that village. But somebody came down from their car someday somehow and they took G, E and C out and now the sign says, `Itkoy’. You are looking at the map, there is no such thing as Itkoy. There’s Gecitkoy. So I say maybe it’s a wrong direction, I have to turn to this side. But when you look at it closely you see that somebody took those couple of letters out. Huh, it’s a completely different meaning too. Gecitkoy means giving way to you to pass. Itkoy means the dog’s village. That’s what it means.

All the signs everywhere Sheytan played around with. And as the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `In Ahir Zaman only the name of Islam is going to stay. The appearances of Islam are going to disappear.’ That’s what happened. And appearing so many fools in that Itkoy way, that sign, claiming that they know Islam, claiming that they are the best ones. Some are claiming that they are Mahdi, some are claiming that they are prophets, some are claiming that they are Khizr and some are preparing to declare that they are Mahdi.

Eh, Allah gave you intelligence to put it together and to think and to watch. Yes, do you have to watch your Sheykh? Of course. You have to watch every activity that he’s doing. Look. Does it fit into the borderlines of Islam? Yes. Not according to your ego. According to Islam. According to the time and according to that place. Where the wolves are, you don’t walk around without the stick in your hand. When the wolves are around you have to have the gun ready too. It doesn’t matter if you are a Murid or if you are a Sheykh. The wolf is not listening. When the wolf is ready to attack you have to be able to pull and shoot. But so many fools today are not knowing anything. They are not knowing the simple steps of Islam and they are thinking that they know everything and saying, `Oh, Sheykh cannot do this. Sheykh cannot say this.’ Sheykh can use everything that is necessary to save his Murid from hell. He is not looking for worldly activities. He’s not looking how they are going to think. Sheykh is that one who has been given permission from the Holy Prophet (sws) depending on the area that he is working in.

As I said, those fools that they cannot stop themselves from cigarettes, they are jumping today and finding other fools like them and thinking that they are going to harm Islam or thinking that they are going to turn Islam as their ego wants it. You cannot. They have been trying for fourteen hundred years. You cannot. Impossible. Impossible. Islam, Inna ad-dina indallah-ul Islam, the only religion that Allah is accepting. And it looks like now that it’s covered but it’s rising up now. When that cover is taken off, it’s the only one that’s taking over the whole world again. It is so easy for Allah subhana a ta’ala. It is so hard for those ignorant ones even to think on it.

It was so easy for Sultan Mehmet Khan when he aimed to Istanbul, because he had plans and he had aims and he put his life in front saying, `Either Istanbul will take me or I will take Istanbul. There is no other way.’ They said to him, `Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind? Do you know how protected this city is?’ He says, `I know. I know how it is. But I see a vision. And where my sword is reaching, where my power is reaching, not even your imagination can reach because you are not knowing Islam. I know and I am reaching there. Watch me.’ He reached. Watch us. We are reaching back to Istanbul. Watch. We are reaching back to Rome. Watch. All those fools who think that they are standing in front of Islam, in front of those ones, they are only giving energy and power to those who are working in the way of Allah. There’s an Ayat-e Kerima saying, `When they say to them, `All your enemies have come together, they are preparing against you’, that’s making their faith to grow stronger and they say, `Hasbinallah wa ni’mal wakeel. Allah is enough for me.” Yes.

So, any safety that anybody is looking for in Dunya and in Akhirat, Islam. Real Islam. Islam the way that the Holy Prophet (sws) brought. Not so many fake things that they put later here and there. Not so many things that they have changed the road with. You can change all the roads, you can change all the signs, but the man who has a vision doesn’t need the signs anymore. He doesn’t need the GPS anymore. He follows the road. He knows the road because there’s a light going in front of him.

So, if you don’t know then you must follow that guide. You must follow his orders. You must not follow your ego and your head to say, `I know so much and I read so much.’ Yes, the more you read the more ignorant you are going to become! The more arrogant you are going to become in these days! The more fool you are going to become in these days! Because that’s what they are preparing for you.

Not even understanding that part that there are so many enemies of Islam running to finish it. Who are the enemies of Islam? The Fascists are the enemies of Islam, the Communists are the enemies of Islam, the Seculars are the enemies of Islam, the Laiks are the enemies of Islam, the Feminists are the enemies of Islam. All these are enemies of Islam. I have more to say but it doesn’t fit to this Khutba place. Other times I say.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Thursday, Dhul Qada 10, 1430 (October 29, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying once you get rid of your animal characteristics, you will be able to reach what ALLAH (swt) has prepared for you. It requires submission to the Creator, and cleaning yourself of the animal characteristics. The rats who support Dajjal and Shaytan are bringing the dirtiness from the sewers and attacking the Awliya.

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NO FEAR FOR THE DEFENDERS OF TRUTH

Sohbet given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Thursday 10 Zil-Qadah, 1430
October 29, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Tariqatuna Sohbet wa Khayru fil Jamiat. Our way continues through association. (First we enter into the way). Later step by step everyone is reaching to what is for them that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has given, has prepared. But the 21st Century people, although they are in trouble twenty-four hours, they are still running to make more trouble to themselves, not only in Dunya but in their graves and in Akhirat. Anyone who’s running for Islam, Islam means submission. Peace. And the peace can only come through submission. And submission is to the One who has created you. But not according to your ego. It’s according to what He has prepared, that He has sent 124,000 prophets to show people roads from Dunya to Akhirat and to show people that they have become dirty and they became disobedient to Allah.

Sheytan became disobedient and all the beauty that was given to him, all the knowledge that was given to him, all the power that was given to him, as soon as he became disobedient, it means he changed all that with disobedience. Allah didn’t take it away but that arrogant and stubborn one through that action threw away everything that Allah subhana wa ta’ala had granted to him. He took it and he threw it away. And when the warning reached to him, it’s not only that he was ignorant and arrogant, he then turned to become stubborn with the wrong thing that he did. And he did so until Allah subhana wa ta’ala was ordering the angels, the guards of the paradises, saying, `Kick this one out from Paradise!’ And he has been kicked out from Paradise.

He didn’t sit comfortably. He cannot sit comfortably until the Judgment Day. That worrying and the fear is driving him crazy. And he didn’t sit comfortably and he came to the gates of Paradise, he managed to enter inside through the mouth of the snake… so many snakes are in the world today, he managed to enter inside and he fooled Hazrat Hawa. And Hazrat Hawa became a disobedient one, a direct disobedient one to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. And Hazrat Hawa managed to fool Adam (alayhi salam) and as soon as Adam (as) did the forbidden action, order came to him saying, `Now you became dirty too. Anyone who’s disobedient to My order, they are dirty ones and dirty ones cannot stay in Paradise. Then order was given sending them to this Dunya, saying, `Clean yourselves and come back to Paradise. If you are not cleaning yourselves then you cannot be going back to Paradise. Clean yourselves from those animal characteristics’, because only the animal characteristics became disobedient to Allah subhan wa ta’ala.

And since that time Sheytan managed to enter between the children of Adam (as) and put confusion and Fitna, and always one group is running to keep the orders of Allah and another one always running to make confusion and disobedience to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. And that has continued up to the last prophet Muhammad (salatu wa salam). And did it stop? No. It continued. When Islam became a state and a government that’s ruling strongly, Sheytan couldn’t run around too much to put more of his confusion inside the believers. Since 1908, since Ulul Hakan Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan came down from power, Sheytan is running top-speed inside of Muslims and he managed to fool them left and right, to put confusion to them while they are in the same Masjids and they are following the same Sheykhs or they are running to do something for Allah’s sake.

What’s making that? Their ego. Everyone wants their ego to be praised. Eh, your ego is a disobedient creature to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Anyone who’s going to praise your ego, that one is also a sheytan. Especially now, in the Ahir of Ahir Zaman, in the confusion of sheytans and dajjals. There is nothing left for the big Dajjal to come out. And I am seeing so many running after the dajjals. Eh, run. You are free to go anywhere. Run anywhere. But you are only running away from Haqq to Batil. Nothing else. And dajjals are waiting to put the chains around the necks and later you may be sorry but sometimes the last sorry is not enough. And Sheytan will drag those ones with him into Jahannam.

We are defenders of the Truth. The Hakkanis. Defenders of the Truth. Not only through the name. Not only through this small area. Anywhere we are walking on top of this earth, we are defending the Truth. Anyone who is saying other than that, they must be the agents of Sheytan. In my position I am a weak servant. But as our Sheykh is saying, with Allah subhana wa ta’ala I can be the most strong one. But no need for me to be the strong one because Sheykh Mevlana is on top of everything, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.

All those who are going to run and become helpers to Sheytan and dajjals, welcome. Run right now if you want. If there’s not one person left around, don’t think that this attitude is going to change. It’s not. It’s not going to change because we are defending the Truth and against sheytans and dajjals it’s going to become more strong, more powerful. Never is it going to become weaker. We may not be able to carry this until the end. Whatever Allah subhana wa ta’ala has granted to us in this life, inshaAllah ar-Rahman we are going to spend it until the last breath and no man on the face of earth, no sheytans, no dajjals and no governments are going to be able to put any fear in us because we are holding tightly to Allah, to His Prophet (sws) and to His Awliya.

Anyone who is claiming that they know the Awliya, if they don’t know Sheykh Mevlana Muhammad Nazim al-Hakkani, they must be knowing sheytans. If anyone is claiming that they are Awliya, they have to know that one. If they are not knowing that one then they must be the agents of Sheytan. This much should be enough for you, for me and for all those who are going to listen worldwide. And I want this to enter everywhere. Translate in Turkish, put it in English to enter to every one of them, for them to hear this and who’s challenging, I am here. I am not challenging anyone. I am a weak servant. But not wolves, not hyenas, not cats but the rats are trying to challenge me. They are only rats and the rats, the duty of the rats is only to go inside the sewers and to bring out dirtiness. They are surviving with the dirtiness. Nothing else.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

InshaAllah ar-Rahman, we are asking help and support from our Sheykh and I don’t know about you but I put my neck under his feet. And every blood that is in my body is sacrificed to him. I will never ask if he’s doing right or wrong because I know that he’s doing right. And even if it is something that looks that it’s not right, definitely I trust and I follow his footsteps. And everything that I’m doing in this country for 35 years, all those who know me know that I am following his footsteps, even though so many of them don’t like me because of that. And I have no fear and I have no worry. Even if he says to me the worst words in this world, inshaAllah I am over 50 years old and I didn’t change my heart to him one time, I am not intending to change it until the last breath.

We are serving Sheykh Mevlana Muhammad Nazim al-Hakkani for five generations. My grandfather, my father, me, my son and my grandson. We are serving him. We are going to serve him. Anyone who is saying other than that, either they are attacking me or they are liars or they are in big Ghaflat.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, 4 Dhul Qada 1430 (October 23, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying a believer waits, watches, and tries to understand. He doesn’t fool people and he doesn’t get fooled. Everyone is waiting for the last takbir from Sayiddina Mehdi (as). Don’t interfere with things that are not for you. Confusion is going to start from within Islam. Your faith will help you to respond to attacks, and to stay on the side of Mehdi (as), not to fall to the side of dajjal.

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BEWARE OF SIDING WITH DAJJAL

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 4 Zul-Qadah, 1430
October 23, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Be careful from the vision of a believer because he looks with the Nur of Allah.’ You cannot fool that one. You may think so sometimes because the believers are patient. They wait, they watch, they try to understand. Eh, another hadith is saying to us, `The believer doesn’t fool anyone. If you are getting fooled then you are not a believer and if you are fooling somebody then you are not a believer.’ The believer does not fool anyone but the believer will not get fooled by anyone too. If he gets fooled then he is still not in the station of faith. Alhamdulillah, Ahir Zaman, Ahir of Ahir Zaman that there is not too much time left for Mahdi (alayhi salam) to take the last Takbir. Three Takbirs he must be taking. Already two are taken. One of them is going to be open physically when he is opening the flag of the Prophet (sws). There is nothing for that too now. The whole world and everything in it is preparing for that, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.

We cannot wait for those days. The believers, yes, the believers cannot not only wait for those days but the believers cannot wait for the Judgment Day, because a believer has nothing to hide. A believer has nothing to fear from except Allah subhana wa ta’ala. That’s why the believer must walk on the Sirat-ul Mustaqim, must try to do what Allah and His Prophet (sws) ordering. If you are doing that then you have no fear. The whole world may come together to attack you. Allah gave you two ears. It’s passing from one side and going out from the other side. If the whole world is like today, eh, today the majority of the people lost their faith. Only a handful of people are behind the curtains waiting. The rest have shaky faith. Whichever direction the wind blows, they go to that side. That is not faith. That is not the faith that’s going make the believers pass the Sirat because you are shaky. When you are shaky then definitely you will be falling down.

So the Holy Prophet (sws) is ordering us what we have to do in these days and how we have to live in these days, saying, `Don’t interfere. Pull yourself away. Watch yourself. Don’t go searching so much to think that you’re going to make your religion better. A couple of hadith and a couple of ayats that you know, try to live according to that because confusion is going to be from inside of Islam. Confusion is going to be from the people who are claiming that they are representing Islam. But the confusion is going to start with them, it’s going to circle around the world and it’s going to go back to them.’ When you are lying, when you are saying a lie about someone, that word reaches to that one. If that person is not what you are saying, there’s a shield that comes in front of that one, Allah’s protection, and that word starts going to the skies. And there’s a shield covering that area, cannot go up, starts going down. Another shield, starts going east and west, north and south. So that word cannot go anywhere, it turns back to the person who said it and that person stays with that burden until Judgment Day.

So, man is going to suffer, as the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, from two parts of his body. One is his tongue and the other one is his private parts. Today’s people don’t know how to use these two. Everyone speaks something and everyone puts something on top of what they hear. Lying, cheating and slandering are in top-speed everywhere in the world. But whatever the evil sources are planning is not going to work. If you are the only person left in this world, if the whole world is attacking you… it may happen. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is testing His servants sometimes. It may happen. How are you going to do? Should you turn to the wrong side because they are attacking? You have to know your faith. And the faith, the Shahadat must be enough for you to find the road. The Shahadat means what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Be careful from the vision of a believer.’ When the Shahadat really enters into your heart, you will see. Nothing can fool you then. You will see, you will understand and you walk on the Sirat, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.

We finished the month of Ramazan. We finished this month and now we are entering to another month. This month is the month of Hajj and the believers everywhere in the world are preparing to go to Hajj. Those who cannot go should make intention that inshaAllah ar-Rahman, Allah subhana wa ta’ala will be putting their names with those who are going. But today also people are going to Hajj, doing all these things but so many are failing. So many are going to Hajj with their dirty characteristics and they don’t want to change their dirty characteristics. Simple, very simple. Today’s people are going to Hajj and there are certain things that are Halal that becomes Haram to a man. The man cannot do those things. It is a Sunnat and it is an order from the Holy Prophet (sws) to put nice smell on you, especially on Juma day. When you go to Hajj, it is forbidden to use good smell, cologne, whatever these oils are that you are using. But people go with their cigarettes in their mouths and I wouldn’t be surprised if soon they will be sitting in front of the Kaba and smoking cigarettes.

When that is done by ordinary believers they say, `Sheytan is fooling them.’ But today so many so-called Sheykhs, so many Imams, so many foolish ones who think that they are the representatives of the world, that they are the representatives of the Prophet (sws), they are representatives of Tariqats, they have cigarettes in their mouths. Puff, poof. That’s enough sign showing to you that you are with Sheytan. As Sheykh Mevlana is saying, this is a Khutba place, so let me say that, it is a pacifier from Sheytan. You have the pacifier in your mouth and you are saying, `I am representing Allah and His Prophet (sws)’? Thuuh! You cannot stop your ego from one wrong action and you are thinking that you are representing Islam. Eh, that’s what happened today.

So, as I said, now people are going to prepare to go to Hajj, so many are preparing to go to Hajj with their sheykhs. They say, they know, `We should not use cologne.’ They know that part. It’s because the Prophet (sws) forbid. Eh, the Prophet (sws) is forbidding you to go in front of the Kaba with a good smell. Then how are you going with that dirty and disgusting smell? That is the mentality of today’s people. Whatever they are doing, they are turning it to themselves, saying, `This is right. It has to fit to me.’ That’s the religion that everyone’s building to themselves. As soon as they are finding someone saying, `This is wrong. You should not do this’, ohhh, they turn to become, not wolves, hyenas.

Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. Everything has their time and the end. The beginning and the end. So, whatever you do in this world, however you live, it is your life. One day you are going to come to the Judgment Day and you are going to be questioned. If you think that you are fooling somebody in the world, you are only fooling yourself. One day you may come in front of the Judgment Day and everything will be put in front of you with whole people watching. People are afraid today from people.

`The wrong thing I do, it should not come out in front of the public because I will be bad.’

That’s true. Aren’t you ashamed that it’s going to come in front of Allah and everyone is going to watch? That shows that these people don’t have fear from Allah. They don’t have strong faith to Allah. Whatever side is there, Dajjal or Mahdi, it doesn’t matter, they move to whoever promises something. One day they are on the side of Mahdi’s workers and one day they are on the side of Dajjal’s workers. Don’t be from those ones. If you are from those ones then wake up and turn around because the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `When the last days will be approaching, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. People are going to move from one side to another, one side to another.’ Make sure you stand on the side of Haqq when the Takbir is taken. You will not be with Dajjal and the ones that are around him.

Dajjal is going to come in so many different forms. To Christians different, to Muslims, to Jews completely different. Be careful, we are in those days. The Prophet (sws) was talking to the Sahaba-Kiram about the confusion of Dajjal so much that the Sahaba-e Kiram were saying, `We thought that Dajjal was behind the date trees. As soon as the Prophet (sws) is leaving, he’s going to come out.’ It passed fourteen hundred years. It is now the time. All the deputies of Dajjal have appeared. You need eyes to see. So many are running after those ones. Watch yourself, watch your step. You are responsible from your life. Either you enter to Paradise or you build yourself to hell. Whichever side you fall into, that shows your faith and with that faith you cannot pass the Sirat.

These words are for you, for me and the whole mankind.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, 27 Shawal 1430 (October 16, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying not to interfere with work that is not yours – especially in regard to religion. Prophet (saws) is saying that if you live the knowledge you know, ALLAH swt will teach you what you do not know. It’s not university knowledge. It’s the knowledge of how to become better; it is taken from a master, a teacher. It is learning that your ego is your enemy, and trying to fix yourself before the Angel of Death comes for you..

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DON’T LOSE YOUR LAWYERS FOR THE JUDGMENT DAY

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 27 Shawwal, 1430
October 16, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, alhamdulilahi rabbil alameen. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullahil azim wa atubu ilaih. The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `Don’t interfere to the work that doesn’t concern you. Don’t interfere to the knowledge that doesn’t concern you. If you are interfering to the knowledge that doesn’t concern you, that is enough sign showing to you that Allah doesn’t love you.’ This place here, not this place, the Khutba place, for fourteen hundred years, from the day that the Holy Prophet (sws) immigrated from Mecca to Medina, the first Khutba, the first Juma he gave outside of Medina and from that day until today there is Juma going on in every Juma. Juma is obligation. It’s Farz to believers to attend to Juma, in the Juma time to tell the believers, `Have fear from Allah.’

For fourteen hundred years it’s going on. It started from one masjid in Medina and it spread everywhere in the world. For over fourteen hundred years in every Juma every Imam is standing on that point, reminding themselves and their Jama’at, `Have fear from Allah.’ Allah subhana wa ta’ala is showing to us saying, `I am reminding you. You are My servants. I have sent you to this world and you are going to do as I say, not as your ego says.’ And for fourteen hundred years the unbelievers are running and attacking Islam, trying to bring Islam down. But the worst is that the believers from the inside are running and they are thinking that they are going to bring Islam down or they are going to invent some kind of Islam that fits to their ego. It’s not going to happen. It didn’t happen when the Holy Prophet (sws) was one man, one individual. Do you think that it will happen now? But the ignorant man who is blind twenty-four hours a day is thinking that way.

So today, yes for almost one hundred years now, right after our Sultan, our Khalifah, Ulul Hakan Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan, right after that one, Allah subhana wa ta’ala has hidden, putting the Khalifah aside and this mankind became very wild, running very wild, males and females. Everyone is interfering into everything. Don’t! It is not good for you. It is not going to do good for you. Not in Dunya and not in Akhirat. Especially, interfering in the matters of religion, don’t. Dunya? Eh, if you are talking in Dunya, when the man with that knowledge confronts you, you finish, your knowledge finishes anyway. You make a fool out of yourself. What about the Akhirat knowledge? So many fools are interfering today of course. So many fools whose minds are not with them, running after them.

Eh, Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `I have created Jannat and Jahannam. I have created Jahannam also and I mean to fill Jahannam with people.’ Whichever side you want. Don’t think that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has no mercy and He is going to take little creatures that He created and throw them inside the fire. No. But He is giving enough chance to that little creature in Dunya saying to him, `I did send you to this world and I am taking you also. If you would’ve come to this world by yourself then you have the right to do whatever you want. But you didn’t. I sent you. So I put two roads for you in this world. Sirat-ul Mustaqim, the right road and the road that leads behinds the sheytans to Jahannam. In Sirat-ul Mustaqim, on the right road, I put leaders who are leading that road. Follow them.

Your duty is to follow. You don’t. Your ego is saying no. Eh, Sheytan is more clever than you and me. He has so much knowledge that he even fooled Adam (alayhi salam). Adam (as) has no partner in his creation. Allah subhana wa ta’ala created only him in that way. No other creature Allah subhana wa ta’ala has created like Adam (as). He didn’t create you and I like that. He didn’t create our Holy Prophet (sws) like that. He did not create any prophet like that. He spent time, He put design to him. And He gave warning to Adam (as), saying to him, `This Sheytan is your enemy. Be careful.’ And Adam (as) just got weak in one point and Sheytan managed to fool him. That’s why Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `No matter what happens, don’t get weak in religion. Hold on tightly if you are believers because in the end you are going to win.’

So the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `If you are living with the knowledge that you know, if you are applying the knowledge that you know to yourself,’ because too many people are coming today to me saying, `How are we going to know this, Sheykh? And how are we going to know that? How are we going to know if this Sheykh is right? How are we going to know if this Sheykh is wrong?’ It’s another confusion and fitna coming from Sheytan. It’s so easy. So simple. But of course, the ego is declaring something, saying, `I am so good. So I have to look to find the good ones.’ And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `If you live with the knowledge that you know sincerely, the knowledge that you know, if you apply it to your life, Allah subhana wa ta’ala will teach you the knowledge you don’t know.’ So then any simple knowledge that you know, if you are not a hypocrite and if you are living according to that knowledge, every other knowledge that is concerning you, Allah subhana wa ta’ala will teach you. Don’t worry.

So the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `If the knowledge is in China, go and seek that knowledge.’ So many squarehead Imams today and sheykhs are saying, `You see, the Prophet (sws) is saying to us to read. Go to the universities even if it is in China.’ And I say, `Hey squarehead Imam or Sheykh! Calling yourself Sheykh! The universities are everywhere today. It’s not only in America. Cyprus is a small island like this, go and count to see how many universities are there. But our brothers are finishing this university and still saying, `I have to go to America or London.’ Why? `Because I have to get a bigger diploma from a bigger Yahudi place.’ That’s what happened.

So, that is not the knowledge that the Holy Prophet (sws) is talking about. And he is not talking to you about the knowledge itself. To learn the knowledge you need a teacher, you need a master. He is saying, if the knowledge is in China, go and seek that knowledge. Go there and seek that knowledge. This knowledge. The knowledge of Akhirat. How many are left in this world now? Go and look to those nations. Today, over 100,000 masjids in Turkey. Over 100,000! In over a hundred thousand mosques and masjids they are giving Khutba. But the Khutba is prepared by a couple of soldiers and is given to their hands and is said, `Read to the nation.’ If it’s otherwise, tell them to come and speak to me. Same thing is happening in Egypt, same thing is happening in Saudi Arabia, same this is happening everywhere. Exceptions are countries like this that they don’t come to interfere to me to say to you, `Read this.’ That’s why they are going crazy left and right saying, `We cannot control this religion. Somewhere somehow somebody is standing up and speaking again the ayats that we are hiding, the hadith that we are hiding.’

And as I said, there are so many hypocrites, Munafiqs who are in the religion, who are coming to the dergahs, to the sheykhs not to fix their ego to become better but they are thinking, `We are going to go to get some power.’ What power are you looking for? What power you think that the Sheykh has to give to you? If he has the power definitely he is not going to give to you. If Allah gave to him then he is saying, `If Allah wants He is going to give to you too. If it is given to me, I am not even going to show to you what is that.’ But so many squareheads are fooling the other ones. They are thinking, talking so big, entering into so many matters that don’t concern them, entering into the knowledge that they get dizzy and later Sheytan is coming to them saying, `This is what you are looking for. Don’t worry. I will give you something.’ They become black magic people. That’s what they think this religion is. It’s not. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is in control. He has the control of this world and everything is in His hand.

He is saying to us, `I let your rope a little bit loose. Run around. But your rope is in My hand. When I pull, you are going to come. Run as you like if you think you are going to run. But this world is so small. In the end, you are going out from one door.’ You entered through one door and you are going out from another door. One door entrance, two doors exit. You entered clean. We are not Christians to say, `You were born to this world dirty.’ No. You enter clean. You are clean up to the maturity age. After the maturity age you are dirtying yourself with your dirty mind, with your dirty thinking. And turn around and ask forgiveness and clean yourself again in this journey. While you entered through that door you are continuing that journey. You are going to go out from the other door. Two doors are waiting for you. Either you go out from the right side which is Selamat, Safety, or you go out from the left door. The troubles begin that time. You are complaining now that you have trouble? Hmm, hmm. You are complaining now that you have problems? At that time you will see what problem is.

So wake up to yourselves. These words are for you, for me and for the whole mankind who is hearing this. If anybody is saying, `I am exception from this’ that one should not be a human. Maybe it’s an angel or maybe it’s lower than the animals that Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying because Allah subhana wa ta’ala is putting ego and is saying to us, `Your ego is your worst enemy.’ And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying this to us. You cannot take care of your ego. You need a master. You need somebody to fix it for you, to show you what is right and what is wrong. If you don’t then your guide is going to be Sheytan. Sheytan is going to lead you. And you are still going to think that you are in the Sirat-ul Mustaqim but you are already going to be in the wrong road. When the angel of death is coming to you, you are going to go out from this world through the wrong door and all the problems begin then.

Intelligence is showing to the man, saying to know what he wants, to understand who is his enemy and to try to fix himself before the angel of death is reaching to him. When is this angel of death going to come you think? It may come one minute later, it may come tonight, it may come tomorrow. Keep this alive. Don’t make it so long. Don’t think it’s so far distant as everyone is making so many plans, `I am doing this and I am doing that. I am going here and I am going to…’. A Sahabi one day came to the Holy Prophet (sws), a young Sahabi, and said, `Ya Rasulullah, I have borrowed some money. I made a deal with this person that I am going to pay in one month’s time. Please pray for me that I will be able to make it.’ And the Holy Prophet (sws) looked at him and said, `Oh, what a long term plan you made. How did you do this?’ To a young Sahabi he is saying, `How did you make this long plan? One month? Who says to you that Azrail is not coming to you five minutes later?’

That word was to the Sahabi and to every believer who is coming after, to you and to me. Not to think that, `Oh, it’s going to be long term’ or so many are saying, `I am doing wrong today but one day I am going to change. Okay, I am making intention that by next year I am going to change.’ Just like the Yahudi and the Christians, saying, `This year, this new year I am going to do this and then I am going to start changing.’ New Year. Their new year is Christmas of course. These kinds of Muslims are celebrating Christmas and New Year.

Wake up to yourselves. The Holy Prophet (sws) is Mubashshiran wa Naziran. He gives warning and he is giving the good news to mankind. And all his inheritors are doing the same. And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `You and the people that you speak, don’t forget the Judgment Day. Oh, those ones that are speaking!’ He is talking about the Imams and Sheykhs and everyone, saying, `Oh, those ones who are reminding their people but they are forgetting about themselves. You wait to see what happens to you.’ That is for me and to all those people who are standing up and speaking to their Jama’at.

These words, as I said earlier, are for you and for me. If you want, take it, you will win. If you don’t want it, there are two doors. Either you are going out from the right side or the left side. America is not going to save you. Whoever is promising, giving promises is not going to save you. Your good deeds and the intention in the good deeds are going to save you. Nothing else. Maybe then you will find some good lawyers. Because you have good deeds and you have good intentions, then you may find good lawyers who will speak for your behalf in the Judgment Day.

So many people today are losing their lawyers too. They go against their Sheykhs. They do so many secrets behind their Sheykhs. They think that the sheykhs don’t know. Oh, what kind of Sheykh do you think that is going to be? If it’s just like your thinking and if one wall is separating him from the wrong thing that you are doing, definitely that one is not a Sheykh. Know that. But if that Sheykh is going to use some technology to know, definitely that one is not a Sheykh too.

So wake up to yourself, inshaAllah ar-Rahman. We are meaning to enter to Paradise. And Paradise is our place. We are lonely in this world. No matter who is around you, you are always lonely. You are longing for your original house and you are bound towards that. But so many times, so many people are entering to the road that Sheytan is guiding. You are longing for your house and you are running into Jahannam?

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, 13 Shawwal 1430 (October 2, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is warning believers to obey ALLAH swt and to fear ALLAH. A heedless person cannot be doing this; they are not careful of where they are stepping and what they are getting into. sheytan is whispering, leading heedless ones to jehennam (hell). Obey ALLAH and follow a guide – not sheytan.

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HEEDLESSNESS IS FORBIDDEN IN ISLAM

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 13 Shawwal, 1430
October 2, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah. Astaghfirullah al-Azim wa atubu ilaih. 21st Century’s heedless people. Heedlessness is forbidden in Islam. Everytime when a man is heedless, it means that Sheytan is sitting on his neck. It’s turning him left and right. Believers must be in a awakening station. Not heedless. For fourteen hundred years the Khutba is happening worldwide and every Imam is saying, `Obey Allah and have fear from Allah.’ For fourteen hundred years reminding to Mu’mins, `Obey Allah and have fear from Allah.’ Non-stop in every Juma.

`Eh, aren’t we obedient servants to Allah?’

A heedless person is not obedient to Allah. A heedless person is ready to fall into any trap any minute. He’s not knowing what is open in front of him. How is he going to know, `Is there any ambush here? Let me check out. Is there any mine here? Let me see.’ No. The Muslims countries are worse. Non-Muslim countries are disaster. Just like a big minefield everywhere. You are walking in the minefields. The Muslims are walking in the minefields and their heads are up like this. So proud. And what happens? When you are walking in the minefield like that then what happens? One, two, three steps, at the fourth one you are going to touch somewhere and the mine is going to finish you. And still so many are thinking, `I am in the Sirat-ul Mustaqim.’ Yes, Sheytan has hundreds of thousands of tricks, not one, and the heedless person cannot save himself from his tricks and traps.

Two ways, two doors. You enter to this world through one door. You are going to go out either from the right side or from the left side. Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The way you live, that’s how you are going to die. The way you will die, that’s how you will be buried. The way you will be buried, that’s how you are going to get up to the Judgment Day.’ What is the meaning of this? The way you live… your lifestyle is important. How do you live? What is your role-model? You are living according to what? According to your ego or according to the orders of Allah and His Prophet (sws). If you are according to Allah and His Prophet’s (sws) order then are you taking somebody to guide you?

`Eh, I have a Sheykh.’

Are you listening to that one? Or are you just sitting, while he’s speaking your mind is completely in some other place. Are you thinking to say, `This sohbet is for me. I must correct myself. I must look at how heedless I am.’ He is talking about heedlessness but is he talking about the people that is not there? Or is he talking about you? `I have to correct myself. Let me check myself to see what is the sickness I have. Where am I heedless?’

So many people today are exempting themselves from this, saying, `It’s not for me.’ It’s not for you and it’s not for me. It’s for who? The Quran-e Kerim is for you and for me. The Holy Prophet (sws) spoke and he put orders for you and for me, for every one of us. Are you carrying an ego? Yes. It’s for you. Yes. Are you controlling your ego? If you are controlling your ego then how are you going to be heedless? You are under the control of your ego. That’s why you are heedless. You are not in an awakening station. You are completely heedless. So then you are not obeying Allah and you are not obeying His Prophet (sws).

`Eh, I was just talking here.’

`What were you talking? What were you saying?’

`A couple of words backbiting.’

`You are disobedient to Allah.’

The order is saying, `Obey Allah and have fear from Allah.’ You are disobedient to Allah and you have no fear from Allah because Allah subhana wa ta’ala is putting order. First He is saying to us, `Do’, He is putting order to us, `Do this, do this, do that, do this, do that.’ Then He says to us, `Don’t do this, don’t turn here, don’t look here, don’t say this, don’t move here’. So many… 500 orders `Do’ and 800 orders `Don’t do’. Which one is coming on your way, do you know? If you are a heedless one then definitely you are not knowing. Anything comes on the way, `Eh, this is okay for me.’ Of course. Sheytan is putting it in a nice box for you. Just like Sheytan is putting the liquor inside nice bottles and nice boxes. Very expensive. Hmm. The cigarettes have nice boxes, very good shapes on it, mashaAllah. Take it! Poison inside. Just like that Sheytan is showing, putting everything in nice forms for you and Mu’mins are running.

You must check to see what is here, what is under here, is it a minefield or not? No, today’s Mu’mins are not checking Sheytan. They are checking the Rahmanis. Everytime I’m hearing now, `How are we going to believe that he is a right sheykh? How are we going to know if he is right? How are we going to trust? How?’ Don’t trust because you are already trusting Sheytan. You are already holding tightly to Sheytan. Don’t worry. If you don’t let go then he will drag you to Jahannam. Nothing else. That is his job. Then he’s turning around and laughing, saying to you, `Thuuh! Allah created you to be His servant and you followed me? Disobedient creature. You followed my order? Thuuh! You are worse than me.’ And in the Judgment Day he will complain about you saying, `I didn’t do anything to this one. I just whispered. That’s it. Nothing else. I didn’t take his hand to shoot somebody and to kill somebody. I didn’t push him to make adultery. I didn’t push him to make Fitna and Fasad. Nothing. My duty was to whisper things and I did.’

And so heedless ones, yes. Sheytan is so happy with the 21st Century people. Is Allah happy? No. Is His Prophet (sws) happy? He is not. Are Awliya Allah happy? No. Who is happy? Sheytan. They sheytans are very happy. So we must wake up to our own selves because we entered through one door and we are travelling no matter what, whether we are in an awakening station or we are sleeping. We are continuing on that road coming to and end. And the way you live that’s how you are going to die. The way your lifestyle is, that is the road you are going to follow. If you go out from this world through the left door, that is the time of the beginning of troubles. This has not changed from the beginning of the world until now and it’s not going to change until Judgment Day. No exceptions. There will be no exceptions. Don’t think, `I am exception.’ You are not exception. I will tell you a story and you will understand that you are not exception and I am not exception.

When Hazrat Fatima (ra) passed from this world, some Sahaba secretly buried her at nighttime and one of them got very emotional and said to the grave, `O grave, today we are putting somebody to you that is very beloved to the Prophet (sws). Be careful with that one and know how you are going to treat that one. If you don’t know then let me give you some more titles about her. She is the most beloved wife of Ali (radiyallahu anh). If you don’t know then let me tell you a little bit more. She is the mother of Hasan and Husayn. Sound came back from the earth, `Hey you, mind your business! Today is not a day anymore to treat that one with this title or with that title. Whatever she has sent here before, that’s what she is going to find with me. If she sent here the obedience and the orders she kept for Allah subhana wa ta’ala, that’s what she will find here. You? You worry about yourself. Don’t interfere into my business. Tomorrow I am going to pull you inside too. And as you have been given order by Allah subhana wa ta’ala to be an obedient servant, I have also been given order from Allah subhana wa ta’ala saying to me, `Put safety to obedient servants. Have no mercy to disobedient ones.’

Check yourself. Find out what you are doing and why you are doing. Islam is not only what you are doing but why you are doing. What is the intention behind there? Find out and you will understand if you are an obedient servant or a disobedient servant. If you do understand then definitely say, `Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah.’ If you find yourself thinking that you are obedient servant, say, `La ilaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu min az-zalimeen.’ That is the Dua that a Prophet turned to Allah subhana wa ta’ala with for one disobedience. Allah said to Prophet Yunus (alayhi salam), `Go to this nation and give them My message.’ And everyday he was going to them and they were torturing him everyday. Everyday they were becoming worse and worse and worse. One day he decided saying, `I am spending my life with these ones. I am not going to stay here. I am going to go to another place. I may find a different people that may listen to this.’ And he was taking off. He got into the ship and all of a sudden the sea started shaking below the ship. The waves were turning upside down as if it was going to swallow the ship. There was a wise man sitting in the ship. People came to him knowing, saying, `Please pray for us. We don’t know what happened. All of a sudden the sea got angry.’ In the old days people were a little bit more smarter than today. Today the earths are shaking, skies are cracking up, things are turning upside down, people are still running for their selfish ego. I’m watching and I cannot believe. What kind of heedlessness is this? Astaghfirullah al-Azim wa atubu ilaih.

And those ones were saying, `All of a sudden this sea is shaking. Something is happening. Please pray.’ That man he closed his eyes for a little bit and said, `No, I cannot pray because there’s a disobedient servant in this ship.’ And Yunus (as) was listening. And the man was saying, `That disobedient one is running away from the order of Allah. If he doesn’t jump into the sea, if he doesn’t throw himself into the sea, this sea is going to swallow this ship and everyone of us is going to die in it. And not only is he going to be punished because of his disobedience, he is going to be punished because he became a reason for everyone of us to die if he doesn’t jump.’ So Yunus (as) was hearing this and he said, `There is no other way.’ He jumped into the sea and the fish came and swallowed him. When he was inside the stomach of the fish he realized it saying, `Oh Ya Rabbi, La ilaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu min az-Zalimeen. You are the Subhan Allah.’ Simple understanding. `I have become from those who tyrannize themselves. Please forgive me.’ He stayed in that fish for days, inside the stomach and finally Allah subhana wa ta’ala accepted and the fish came near the seaside and threw him out but his body started burning through the sun. And when he got cured he went back to that nation again.

If you think that you are an obedient servant then you must say this. You must continue. This is the Wird that you must say everyday at least a 100 times because today under the obedience everyone is disobedient. If you keep these words it will put safety to you. If not, the grave is waiting. Every single day we are going closer. As we said earlier, it doesn’t matter who you are, it doesn’t matter what you do, you may find yourself in the wrong side. Be in an awakening station, understand what you are doing and why you are doing. Don’t interfere into anything. Just interfere into your own businesses. Watch to see what’s happening. You are not the one who’s going to change the world. If you are the one who’s going to change the world and if you are still sitting here, that means the permission has not been given to you yet.

So your duty is to sit and to wait because the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `In Ahir Zaman that’s what’s going to happen. People are not going to run after Haqq and they are not going to give obedience to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. If you are living in that time, keep the Haqq and be patient. Don’t interfere because you cannot change so many things. Try to change yourself. Be in an awakening station, prepare yourself and wait for the Sahib-uz Zaman to take the Takbir.’ Not to say, `I am here, I am Sahib-uz Zaman, I am Mahdi.’ Close your ears for those fool people. They are fools and they are running after those kinds but they are being suspicious about their sheykhs. When that one is coming out, he is not going to say, `I am the Mahdi.’ He is going to start doing his job. Taking the Takbir and doing everything. No man, no power is going to stop that one. It’s almost about to happen. Wake up to yourselves.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Saturday, 18 Ramazan 1428 (September 29, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying all burdens are lifted from people sitting in an association for sohbet. Know who you are; then you can know your Lord. All the knowledge is nothing without good manner (adab, edeb). The summary of necessary knowledge is knowing that a mustard seed of good actions brings reward, and a mustard seed of bad brings punishment. Difference between anger and jilal. Wake up before it is too late.

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Thursday, 16 Ramazan 1428 (September 27, 2007)

Sheykh Efendi is saying sohbet is needed every day. Allah swt is holding your provision and releases it to you. Shehada is key. The secret is to protect the faith. The reason for our creation is to know and to worship Allah swt, not to work for dunya.

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Friday, September 4, 2009 (14 Ramazan, 1430)

Someone asked how to know what parts of the ego to fix. Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi says to start with the obvious – whatever you notice at the moment. Once you get the obvious, then the hidden tricks of the ego will show themselves. First, work to finish anger. It is the ego declaring its lordship. Anger is a veil that prevents other things from opening to you. Anger finishes your good deeds. Swallow it. Any word you say when angry adds fuel to the fire.

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Friday, August 28, 2009 (Ramazan 8, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that during Ramadan, shaytan is in chains. So you cannot blame shaytan for your wrongdoings. It is the ego declaring itself. Look carefully at your intention before taking action or speaking. Fasting in this month should help us become better servants. When you start correcting yourself, everything around you is going to be correct. Today’s people are trying to correct the other ones. Correct yourself first. Tarikat teaches you to rise from the lower self to higher stations.

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Thursday 6 Ramazan 1430 (August 27, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi was saying that having patience means controlling the ego when something happens that you want to react to. Fasting helps you to learn to control yourself – not to be in control of another person or whatever is around you. When you have control, spiritual experiences open for you.

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Friday, 1 Ramadan 1430 (August 21, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi was saying that Ramazan is the month of rahmet and mercy for the believers who take it seriously, trying to come closer to ALLAH swt. It is the month of patience – to have authority on yourself and to show compassion to the ones you have authority over. The worst confusion is going to come out from the shaykhs and the imams in the hutbe place – calling people toward dunya. Prophet saws said that for your good deeds during Ramazan, the rewards are multiplying. Fast from all haram and from your bad habits.

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Friday, August 14, 2009 (Shaban 24, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that we are the nation of ahir zaman (end times). Muslims must be strange among the rest of the people. Confusion will come from the scholars to the people. They will leave the sunnah of Holy Prophet (saws) and his sahabbi kiram. We are very blessed to live in this time as followers of Sheykh Mevlana. We will make intention to do more worship and readings and zikir during Ramazan..

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ISLAM BEGAN STRANGE AND IT WILL END STRANGE

Juma Khutba given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 23 Shaban, 1430
August 14, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, astaghrifullah. We are asking forgiveness from our Lord for our shortcomings that we are the nation, the nation of Ahir Zaman, the Ummat of Ahir Zaman, Ahir of Ahir Zaman. We reached completely to the end. There is nothing between ourselves and the Qiyamat. From the beginning of Adam (as), coming creation, to the end, Allah subhana wa ta’ala in His calendar, He is giving only seven days to this world. Mankind has no patience but in the presence of Allah it’s only seven days. From Monday to Sunday. Each day worldly is a thousand years. We reached the end of seven thousand now. Whatever Allah subhana wa ta’ala created is coming to an end. Everything has beginning and end, from man to jinn and everything in creation. And this world has reached to the end too. This world was here before Adam (as). Allah created this world way before, but has given time for this world too. This world is reaching to the end and we are the nation that’s reaching completely to the end of the time of this world Alhadulillahi Rabbil Alameen.

Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Islam began Gharib, strange, and it’s going to end strange.’ And he says that his blessings and his Rahmat, mercy to those ones that are reaching to Ahir Zaman. They are going to be strange among the other people. He says, `Keep that way. Don’t drop it. If you do you will drop your faith.’ The world population of Islam is reaching up to two billion. But the ones that are walking, trying to walk the footsteps of the Prophet (sws), not only the Prophet (sws) but the Sahaba-e Kiram, the most important. Everyone is claiming saying, `We are following the Prophet (sws).’ How are you following the Prophet (sws) if you are not following the footsteps of the Sahaba-e Kiram? The Sahaba-e Kiram were following the Prophet (sws).

So, `The biggest confusion is going to come in Ahir Zaman,’ the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `and the confusion is going to come out from their scholars. It’s going to circle around the world and it’s going to go back to them. And the cursing is going to reach to those ones. They are the worst ones under the dome of Allah subhana wa ta’ala that He has created’. Ahir Zaman scholars, so many of them. Only a handful of people escape from that Hadis-e Sharif. What the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, the majority of them they are falling in it. And the Holy Prophet (sws) is giving signs saying, `They are going to be known, their sign is that they are going to leave the Sunnat of the Prophet (sws) and the Sunnat of the Sahaba-e Kiram. They are not going to follow their Sunnat.’

Alhamdulillah, Allah subhana wa ta’ala is blessing us with the himmat of our Sheykh and we are able to go here and there and to see how people are living, this Muslim nation. Exactly fits to what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying.

We are in the month of Shaban. The Bera’at just passed. In the night of Bera’at it has been written again how many people is going to come to this world, how many people are going to die, who is going to lose what, who is going to earn what, everything is there in that book. It’s not going to change so much now. We must run to keep our obligations that Allah subhana wa ta’ala and His Prophet (sws) has ordered to us. Not to be so much worrying for this Dunya. Watching east, west, north, south, males, females, young, old, everyone is worrying for this Dunya non-stop. `What about this? What about that?’ What about? Nothing is going to happen while you are saying `What about?’ If you are submitting yourself to Allah subhana wa ta’ala, everything may run to you if it’s written for you. If it’s not then you can run as much as you want, you cannot reach it.

So we must know how to spend the breath of life that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has granted to us. And we are the nation of Ahir Zaman that the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying. In one way it is very sad to be living in this time but in another way it is a big blessing because the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `I cannot wait for the Judgment Day to meet with my brothers.’ And the Sahaba-e Kiram are saying, `Ya Rasulullah, aren’t we your brothers?’ He says, `No. You are my companions. You are with me. You are seeing me. Accepting me is not too much extraordinary because you are seeing so many things from my hands. But people who are going to come in Ahir Zaman, in the end of the times, they are not going to see me. They are going to change so many things I say, but a handful of people are still going to run holding tightly to what I brought to them. They are my brothers.’

So inshaAllah, inshaAllah ar-Rahman, holding tightly to our Sheykh we will reach there inshaAllah. We will be from those people that the Holy Prophet (sws) is pleased with. We have to hold on tightly and believe the ways that our Sheykh is showing to us because circling around the world now we are understanding how much blessed we are. Just like the Sahaba-e Kiram that they were so blessed that the Prophet (sws) came among them but so many blind ones among them didn’t see the light of the Prophet (sws). Same thing is happening now.

We are in the month of Shaban. It’s finishing. We are approaching the month of Ramazan and the month of Ramazan is for this Ummat and the mercy, Rahmat, everything, safety is reaching to people in this month. InshaAllah we are making intention to keep this month holy. The month is holy but we should keep it holy, we should treat it holy. And we will be having the iftar here and the tarawih here inshaAllah ar-Rahman and during this month more of Zikir, more of reading, more of things that you left behind, try to keep it, you will be extra blessed. If making intention at least to have one Juz of Quran everyday, it is an extra blessing to us, every one of us, to our children, to the passed ones and inshaAllah ar-Rahman we are asking safety for the sake of this month from our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Sunday, July 19, 2009 (27 Rajab, 1430)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi was saying that if you keep your five daily prayers, that will be your miraj. He talked more about Miraj of Holy Prophet (saws), and also about Archangel Azrail (as).

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Friday, July 17, 2009 (Rejeb 25, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that the honor of an obedient servant keeps going higher, and he becomes beloved to ALLAH swt. The year in which Leylatul Miraj occurred was most difficult for Holy Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, when he was very lonely, and when he was required to declare prophethood. That night ALLAH swt showed Prophet everything He had created; He comforted him and let him know that he was not alone. Then Holy Prophet continued his work, along with the sahabis, who gave their lives. We need these holy nights to gather power to continue on the path of servanthood, to remember to avoid running after dunya, to live as Muslims, and to raise our children properly.

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Thursday evening; July 16, 2009 (Rejab 24, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that Islam is a complete lifestyle. But Muslims have come under the control of zionists and the lifestyle they are promoting. Holy Prophet pbuh said that a believer does not fool anyone, and cannot be fooled by anyone. But Muslims have developed fear of death, and are losing fear of ALLAH swt. If you don’t keep the shehadat alive in yourself, you turn away from having hope in ALLAH swt and start to believe in other things – like pills and doctors. People are being fooled by academic knowledge. Work for ahirat.

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Friday July 10, 2009 (Rajab 17, 1430)

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ISLAM IS COMPLETE AND NOT IN NEED OF MODERATION

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 17 Rajab, 1430
July 10, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah wa
atubu ilahi. We must ask forgiveness from our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala,
especially the people of 21st Century forget to ask forgiveness because we all
became completely disobedient to our Lord. And we are all in trouble and we are
still not waking up, we are still not looking to see what’s happening to us.
Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying, `Oh my servants, ask from Me and I will give
to you.’ We are not even asking. The nation of Muhammad (sws) is not even asking
anymore. It’s not sitting somewhere, making two rakats, opening their hands to
cry and to beg, to ask and to say, `Ya Rabbi, my situation is this. I am asking
safety.’ No asking because the nation of Muhammad (sws) learned how to ask from
the unbelievers. They go to the unbelievers asking for help. Eh, how foolish
they became that they are asking help from the unbelievers? Isn’t it the aim of
the unbelievers to finish Islam? That’s what happened to the Muslims. The
Muslims are heedless and headless. That’s what became.

And yes, the Ahir of Ahir Zaman, the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying that’s what
will happen to this nation in Ahir Zaman. And he is saying to us, `Their enemies
will come together.’ He is saying to the Sahaba-e Kiram. Saying, `Their enemies
will all come together against them and they will finish them.’ And they said,
`Ya Rasulallah, is it because our number is going to be very less at that time
than them?’ He said, `No. Your number is going to be more than them. But you are
not going to be able to do anything. Why? Because the nation of Muhammad (sws)
is going to fall in love with this Dunya. They are going to love Dunya more than
Allah and more than Akhirat. And they are going to hate to hear of death. They
are not going to want to hear about death. They are going to run away from
death. And that is the time that Allah subhana wa ta’ala is going to remove the
Heybet of Islam away from you and the unbelievers are going to look at you and
they are going to see nothing there. They are going to attack and they are going
to finish you.’

Is that what’s happening to this nation? Is that what’s happening to this Ummat?
Say, somebody say. Where are the scholars, where are the Alims of this nation?
Say. Yes, that’s what’s happening. That’s what happened to this nation because
the Khutba place, this Khutba place became a place for the Imams to collect
money. This is what happened. The Khutba is to remind the believers, to say to
them what kind of situation they are in. Not having any fear from anyone. Having
fear from Allah subhana wa ta’ala. The Imam must remind the Jamat to say to
them, `This is what’s happening to you.’ Juma time is not the time to learn
religion. Juma time is to know, to learn, to understand what kind of heedless
situation this Ummat has fallen into. That’s what the Juma is for. It changed.
Everyone is running to make it moderate Islam.

`We have to moderate Islam. We have to remove these things from Islam. We have
to make the Muslims to become unbeliever Muslims, Kafir Muslims.’

That’s what the moderate Islam is. And that’s what this nation is running after.
Males and females are running top-speed. Those who are praying and those who are
not praying are running top-speed.

And danger is here because we are the last nations. Wake up! Wake up! We are the
last nations on the earth. If the whole world is yours, you are not going to be
able to enjoy it. Those who have the world know. They are not enjoying the
world. It’s impossible for anyone to enjoy from now on because now is the time
for payback for everyone because we became disobedient servants to our Lord. And
He is just lifting some things. Not too many things. Saying, `You are
disobedient to Me. Okay. I will lift the peace from you.’ That’s what happened.
The peace is gone. Peace has left. Don’t think that these couple of Kafirs
saying, `Terrorism here, terrorism there’. The nations became terrorists. The
governments became terrorists. Why? Because their people are sleeping heedlessly
and headlessly. Everyone is running twenty-four hours for this Dunya.

And this is what happened to us. It’s about time for the Muslims to believe and
to wake up because the Muslims are not believing only in this Dunya. You are
believing the hereafter life, not this Dunya. This Dunya is only a test for the
believers and we are running to make this Dunya a Paradise. No Paradise in
Dunya. And now that Allah lifted the peace away from us, no peace in anyone’s
house. Not even in Awliya’s house there’s any peace anymore because people
surrounding twenty-four hours a day are complaining and the complaint is with
their Lord. Not asking, not sitting to pray to say, `Ya Rabbi, la ilaha illa
anta subhanaka inni kuntu min az-zalimeen. We have become from the tyrants Ya
Rabbi. Forgive us Ya Rabbi.’ We are not asking that. We are all saying, `What we
did? We are okay. What we did? Why are they doing this to us?’

Don’t look at what they are doing to you. Look at what you are doing to
yourselves. Look what we are doing to ourselves in this Dunya. Look what we are
doing to ourselves in Akhirat. If Azrail is coming now, nobody is ready to go.
You are not ready to go to the other side. That’s what the Holy Prophet (sws) is
saying, `This nation will forget about death.’ And the believer is supposed to
be ready for death. The believer is supposed to be ready for Azrail’s coming.
The believer is supposed to have his wudu, the believer has to run for his
prayers and the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The believer has to be praying
the prayer as if he is not going to reach to another prayer.’ This is how the
believers are supposed to be. The believers have 100, 200 years of plans on the
face of this earth. This is what happened to the believers today.

And yes, we left the way of the Holy Prophet (sws). We deviated from the road
that he has left to us. We invented so many different kinds of beliefs and we
are running after those beliefs. A couple of squarehead Wahhabis came out to
this world to destroy Islam and the Muslims are believing and running after the
Wahhabi ideologies. And they are calling themselves Ahl-e Sunnat. `We are
following the Sunni way. We are following the Sunnat of the Rasulullah (sws).’

So the fear of death is there. When the fear of death is there no enjoyment in
this life and no enjoyment hereafter for you. You must get rid of it. The only
way to get rid of it is turning yourself back to your Lord sincerely to say, `I
am Your servant. Every authority is in Your hand, it’s not in my hand. I am a
weak servant. Forgive me.’ Sincerely ask and look what happens then. As the Holy
Prophet (sws) is saying, `In Ahir Zaman, the blessing also will be lifted.
People are going to have everything but they are not going to have blessing.’ Is
that what’s happening? Yes. We have everything. No blessing. Because there’s no
blessing, no sharing and no caring. Nobody cares for nobody anymore. This is
what happened to this nation. And we are going more deep, more deep and more
deep into troubles.

And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The blessing for time is going to be
lifted too.’ That’s what happened. He says, `The year is going to feel like a
month, the week is going to feel like a day, the day is going to be just like a
split second, turning left and right, the day is gone.’ Is that what happens in
your lives? You know that that is happening. Yes. These are the words coming to
us from the Holy Prophet (sws) fourteen hundred years ago. He says, `When you
reach to those days, when you reach to those days when the year is going to feel
like a month, the week is going to feel like a day, the day is going to feel
like seconds, minutes, the last days are there. What Allah subhana wa ta’ala
designated for this world and everything else is finishing. Time is finishing.
The world is continuing to its destination and its carrying everyone in it. The
live and the dead, everyone is in it. The live ones are on top of it. The ones
that are dead are underneath.
When the stop happens to this world, two doors are going to open up. One to the
right side and one to the left side. Whatever you earn, that’s what you are
going to do. Either you are going to come out from the right side of the doors
or you are going to come out from the left side of the doors. If you are coming
out from the right side of the doors, you passed. You passed the test. If you
are coming out from the left side of the doors, the Jahannam is waiting. And
Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying, `Yes, that day we are going to separate them.
We are going to separate the believers and unbelievers.’

And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `In Ahir Zaman there’s going to be so many
calling themselves believers but to find a real believer among them is going to
be very difficult. Their masjids are going to be full with people. But they are
all going to be there for Dunya reasons. To find real believers among them is
going to be very difficult.’ These are the days. We are in it. We are not the
nations of Ahir Zaman. We are the nations of Ahir of Ahir. Complete end.

The month of Rajab, we are in it. Those who are connected are feeling the
blessings. Muslims are not feeling the blessings too. The month of Rajab. The
month of Rajab is the month of Allah, the month of mercy. The month that Rahmat
is raining. The Muslims are complaining that they are in trouble because they
are running away from where the Rahmat is. They are running toward the areas
where the curse is raining. That’s what happened to this nation. We must wake up
before it’s too late. You entered through one door of this world and you are
going to enter out from the other side. Not you, not me, not the ones who passed
and not the ones who are coming can escape from that. They are all going to pass
through that. Make sure that you get your pass ID. And your ID must say `Servant
of Allah’. It should not say anything else on it but to say `Servant of Allah’.
If you pass from this world with that ID card then you are in safety. If you
didn’t pass with that ID, you are in trouble. And you know if you have that ID
in your hand now. If Azrail is coming to you now, you know if you have that ID.
Don’t fool yourself to say, `I am praying and I am doing this and I am doing
that’. No. Look at yourself, look at your ideas, look at your aims, look at your
plans for this Dunya, you will understand if you are living for this Dunya or
your are living for Uqba, for Allah subhana wa ta’ala. You will understand if
you are living for your ego or you are living for Allah’s order. You understand
if you are following the moderate Islam, you understand if you are following the
footsteps of unbelievers and you also know if you are following the footsteps of
the Holy Prophet (sws).

Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering to us to have fear from Him and not to lose
the hope from Him. We are not losing the hope. The nation should not lose the
hope. Anytime you turn around, you may be forgiven. You may have the biggest
problems in the world, you shouldn’t come to say, `Ya Rabbi, I have big
problems.’ You should say, `Ya Rabbi, I am sitting and asking, begging for your
Rahmat. Definitely your Rahmat is bigger than anything that I am in.’ If we are
keeping it this way, the month of Rajab, we are approaching the month of Shaban.
Shaban is the holy month of the Holy Prophet (sws). The blessed month.
InshaAllah we are approaching it. By next week maybe will be the Miraj. Then we
are entering the month of Shaban and in Shaban we have the night of Bara’at. In
that night the nation’s destiny is re-written again. The way that we have moved
from last Bara’at to this Bara’at, everything will come for calculation to see
if we ran toward our Lord or we ran toward this Dunya. If you were running for
this Dunya then more difficulty of this Dunya is waiting for you. If you were
running to Allah subhana wa ta’ala theN more easy things are going to be waiting
for you.

We still have some days inshaAllah ar-Rahman. Intelligent believers, they should
sit, they should ask. You know and I know what kind of trouble everyone is in.
And you know and I know that no one is lifting, no one is taking the trouble
away from you except Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Turn back to Allah subhana wa
ta’ala sincerely the way that the Holy Prophet (sws) has left it to us, not the
way your ego wants it, not the way that the unbelievers are preparing some kind
of lifestyle for the Muslims. Turn back to your own realities, turn back to your
own traditions. Keep your Islamic traditions. Turn back to the Sunnat of the
Rasulullah (sws). There is no other safety except that. As the Holy Prophet
(sws) is saying, `In Ahir Zaman, to carry the Sunnat of the Rasul (sws) is going
to be just like carrying fire in your hand.’ That’s how it’s happening. But it
doesn’t matter even if it’s a fire. You have to change it from one hand to
another hand. If you drop it then you lose your faith.

Now we are already in trouble, the believers, don’t think that it’s going to
become better if we are not asking or if we are not turning back to the road
that Allah and His Prophet (sws) designated for us. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is
saying to us, `Today we have completed your religion.’ Fourteen hundred years
ago He has completed our religion. Our religion is complete. Don’t believe the
unbelievers who say, `You are backward, you are behind, you are this and you
must change this and you must change that.’ Say to them, `You must change your
head! Leave me alone. Let me live my religion.’ Allah knows what He is doing and
He finished this religion. He completed this religion with His Prophet (sws).
Anything that we are trying to do in it, we are going out from the religion. We
are trying to fit the religion to our own selves then. And then you are
inventing a new religion according to your ego. That is the time you are worshipping to your ego.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Saturday July 4, 2009 (Rajab 13, 1430)

People became slave to 4 things; their ego (nafs), to their desires (hawa), to shaytan, and to this world (dunya). ALLAH swt gave free will to control the ego, not to do whatever you like. Feel shame for being disobedient to Him and His friends. All prophets advised against running for dunya. Holy Prophet saws said there is little time left. The last call is given. Keep busy with ALLAH swt and His Prophet, and with your sejde (prostration). Welcome to obedient servants. The winds are taking everything else.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday July 3, 2009 (Rajab 11, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that safety is in fitting ourselves to Islam the way that ALLAH swt gave it to us. Prophets have been calling people for generations to the correct way. Sheykh Efendi relates the story of Prophet Nuh aleyhselam, and he continues on, saying that Holy Prophet Muhammad saws said that protection is with Ahl ulBeyt (family of Prophet). Stay around them to be safe in the flood of fire that is coming. People are being selective about the parts of shariat they will accept. They have not reached mature faith where they can accept what ALLAH swt ordered, even though their ego doesn’t like it.

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SAFETY AND PEACE COMES WITH ISLAM, WITH SUBMISSION

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 10 Rajab, 1430
July 3, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. We must say astaghfirullah as much as we can during this month of Rajab asking forgiveness from our Lord that He has created us for His service and the children of Adam lost their direction completely, in this time especially, doing everything else except knowing Allah and worshipping Allah. Even those who are claiming that they are worshipping to Allah, the majority of them are worshipping to their ego. If it fits to them, to their ego, they are accepting from Islam, if it doesn’t fit to their ego then running left and right to change it. Allah subhana wa ta’ala created us and He has put the rules and the laws to us for our own safety, not for Him, and saying, `These are the laws. Don’t pass beyond this. It will not be safety to you.’ So if a man is looking for safety in Dunya and Akhirat, he must be an obedient servant, must be running to keep the orders of Allah subhana wa ta’ala. `What happened to the other ones who are disobedient?’Eh, dunya is disaster. Their dunya is trouble. Imagine what will happen beyond this. Tornado is coming.

So still the Muslims, the believers are running after the unbelievers. They are running to copy their lifestyle. The Muslims are running to do what the unbelievers, what the Kafirs are doing. And where is the belief? Lost. So that fits to the ego, yes, but it doesn’t fit to the rules and the laws of Allah subhana wa ta’ala.

So, if anybody’s looking for safety, over fourteen hundred years it’s calling, screaming, `Safety is in Islam. Turn your ways to Islam. Not the Islam that you want. The Islam that Allah and His Prophet (sws) brought to us. Not the way that fits to you but the way that Allah subhana wa ta’ala put for us. We have to fit ourselves into that. Not to try to fit Islam to our own selves. Then you see what happens. Two billion people claiming to be Muslims. Ask them. They all have different Islam in their own heads, in their own minds. In the same Masjid they all have different ideas. In the same house the husband is different, the wife is different, the children are different. They are all claiming Islam. That is ego. Nothing else.

So, if you don’t know how to control the ego, you cannot know how to be a servant to Allah. You are the servant to your ego. Ego fools you from so many ways. All the laws that Allah subhana wa ta’ala sent through His Holy Prophet (sws), is to learn how to control our ego. Learn how to put ourselves to the Sirat-ul Mustaqim the way that the Holy Prophet (sws) is showing to us. If you have no control on your ego then your ego is like a wild animal without the reins. Nothing on it. Running to every side and still claiming.

That’s what happened to the Muslims today. Males and females. No separation. Especially the females these days became worse because the females today are coming forward to become Imams, giving Khutbas, making Fatwas, everyone is saying, `I like this one and I like that one.’ And the majority of the men today, that’s one thing the Holy Prophet (sws) came to remove too. Slavery. He removed slavery. But the majority of the men today became slaves to their wives. They are under the slavery of their wives, yes. They are under the slavery of this world.

And wake up to yourselves. We don’t know if we are going to reach to another Rajab. You should not make plans for another Rajab. You should be living this Rajab like this is your last Rajab on the face of this earth. Then you will put some senses to your head. Don’t look at yourself to say, `I am young, I am strong, I am healthy, it’s okay.’ It’s not okay. Azrail is waiting. The believer is that one who has hope and running after that to fix himself but he’s waiting that any minute Azrail may come to him. He is prepared for Azrail.

So, if we want safety and protection then in the month of Rajab it’s very easy. If you let this month to fly away just like that like other months then don’t think that you are going to catch your ego easily again in the month of Shaban or Ramazan. If you are running to force yourself to catch your ego and to put it in the corner a little bit during this month, the month of Shaban becomes easier and the month of Ramazan becomes more easy. And you must continue after the Ramazan. So many people are running doing some things during these months, as soon as Ramazan finishes, they turn back wild. You lose everything then. You start allover again. You didn’t accomplice anything. Just like you are building your Paradise today and tomorrow you are destroying it. Today you are an obedient servant, if you are disobedient tomorrow then you are destroying your own Paradise. But the man is heedless. He is not seeing, he is not knowing, he is not understanding. He doesn’t want to understand because the ego is standing in front of him as a barricade between him and Paradise.

So, our aim, the believer’s aim is not Dunya, it’s not this world. The believer’s aim is Akhirat. The believer should not be worrying so much for this Dunya, the activities of this Dunya. But today’s believers sink in it. Twenty-four hours they are in trouble and they think that they are going to fix it. The more they leave the way of Allah, the more they sink in trouble. Leave things, submit yourself and look how things are going to work for you. You cannot do anything by yourselves. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `We have created man weak. Man may be the weakest creature in his form, in his outside form. But what We have given to him, with that secret, he may be the strongest one. He is ruling everything on the earth, Ins and Jinns.

What happened to that man? That man cannot rule on himself now. The ego is riding on him. Males and females. No exception in this time. This time is one of the worst time that ever happened on the face of the earth. In the time of Nuh (alayhi salam) it happened too. And Nuh (as) was so fed up with his people that they were so disobedient to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. He just opened his hand one time. He went back to them thousands and thousands of times. Hundreds of years. Not one year, not fifty years, not a hundred years, but six hundred, seven hundred years non-stop going back and forth to them asking them, `Turn back to your Lord. Leave this egoistic lifestyle. Turn to your Lord.’ They said, `Who are you to tell us? What is it that you are going to tell us? We are going to live as we like. We are going to do just like the people in Ahir Zaman.’ There something opened to them. They have seen. `They do as they like. We are going to do as we like. You are not going to tell us what to do.’ They cursed at him, they beat him, they threw him away. He went back to them, back to them, because Nuh (as) was seeing what’s waiting for them if they don’t come back.

They didn’t listen. And finally he was fed up with them. He opened his hand saying, `Ya Rabbi, do not leave one of them on the face of the earth who is disobedient to You.’ Just one Dua. Right away response came to him, `I accept it. Prepare the ship. Last safety to those ones. Call them to come here. Those who are coming in, that is the safety to them.’ He prepared the ship. They didn’t listen again. He was saying, `Oh children of Adam, I know what I did. I know what I asked and I know what’s coming to you. Don’t be heedless. Come around. There’s nothing I can do anymore.’ They said, `You lost your mind. The world is so beautiful. You lost your mind. You went on top of the mountain and built a ship. How stupid man you are!’ His own children, his own wife, disobedient to him. He is crying for them. But they are not caring. Their ego is wild until the last order came to him. `No more calling. Whoever came to the ship, shut the door now.’ He is screaming to his own son, `Come in!’ Allah said, `Leave that one out too. He is your son but he is Our servant. We have created that one. He became from the unbelievers. Leave that one out.’ He shut the doors. The whole mankind finished on the face of the earth except those ones who found safety in that ship.

What’s happening to the 21st Century people? What’s happening? Listen to what’s happening. The Holy Prophet (sws) said, `I asked Allah subhana wa ta’ala, Ya Rabbi, do not punish my nation the same way that you have punished through the flood of Nuh (as). And Allah promised me saying to me, `I am not punishing your nation that way. But your nation is going to be so disobedient when you are physically removed from them, they will turn back to their unbelief ways of lifestyle. They are going to run after the Yahudi and the Christians step by step. And they are going to invent a fire. They are going to burn themselves with that fire. The flood of fire is going to happen to them.’ That flood of fire is about to happen. Those who are seeing are screaming and crying saying, `Come back. Turn around. Whatever you are, leave your egoistic way of lifestyle. Go to Sejdah, ask forgiveness. You may find safety. There is no other safety. The flood of fire is about to happen.’ Mankind is running still wild just like the people of Nuh (as) and this is going to take the whole globe. The whole world is going to sink in it. No safety. Safety only comes with those people that they are protected and they are holding tightly to the Prophet (sws).

So the Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `Safety at that time is my Ahl-il Bayt. Run to them. Be around them. They are like the ship of Nuh (as). You are going to find safety. There is no other safety.’ If we take these words seriously… it is very serious. It is up to you if you take it seriously or if you are just putting it through one ear and bringing it out from the other side. But whoever believes, whoever runs, whoever tries may find safety. Whoever doesn’t believe, there is no safety to them. And everyone knows through their life how much trouble they have in their life. The best ones today, yes. They have troubles in their life. What kind of servant is that that you are going to be a servant to Allah subhana wa ta’ala, keeping your daily prayers, keeping everything and non-stop having trouble twenty-four hours a day? Something is wrong somewhere. Something is wrong somewhere. Sit and think.

The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The believer’s today has to be better than yesterday. Tomorrow must be better than today.’ This is what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying. Look at yourself. Your today, is it better than yesterday? Or are you complaining more today? You know what it is. Do you think that your tomorrow is going to be better than today? If you are a believer then it has to be better. Has to be. Your connection has to be better with your Lord. Your connection has to be better with the Prophet (sws). Your connection has to be better with the Awliya Allah. That’s where you find safety. That’s where you find peace. There is no other peace. You are looking for peace? There is no other peace. Circle around the world if you want. Go anywhere you hear that there is peace. It’s only temporary, fake, it’s passing. Peace comes with Islam, with submission. Islam is submission, to submit yourself to your Lord, to the orders of your Lord. Not to say, `I submit myself to Allah.’ And? `I do as I like.’ What kind of foolishness is this?

That’s what happened to today’s Muslims. They say, `We do as we like. We live as we like. We don’t accept the laws that are coming from Paradise. We want to build our own laws. We don’t want Shariat.’ MashaAllah. Is this believer? Is believer saying `I don’t want the laws of Allah on me’? Or are the believers saying, `I don’t like this part’? Allah is saying, `This is what it is. I am sending this to you. You cannot separate this part or that part.’ `I like this part and I don’t like that part.’ That means you have not reached to the complete faith if you are separating. At least you may say, `It is so hard for my ego but it is right because Allah is ordering it. It is so hard for my ego to accept but it is right because Allah is ordering it. It’s good for me. It must be good for me because Allah is ordering it.’

So, we are in the month of Rajab, month of Rahmat and we are slowly moving into the month of Shaban inshaAllah ar-Rahman. We have one more special night during this month. We have another special night after the Laylat-ul Miraj during the month of Shaban. We have another special night that is coming during the month of Ramazan. These four holy nights are during these three holy months. If we are taking care of these days properly then definitely as soon as the Ramazan finishes the believers feel like they just entered into another world the following year if Allah gives to them life to live. If not then they are already prepared to go to the other side without any fear.

Muslims today are fearful of death. What kind of faith is this? What kind of faith is that that you have fear from death? You have fear of reunion with your Lord, to go back to your Lord. What kind of faith is this? What is separating you from that? Isn’t it this Dunya? Isn’t it that Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `This Dunya is a trouble to you. The love of Dunya is a trouble to you.’ Isn’t it what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `You are going to be so many in Ahir Zaman but your enemies are not going to have any fear from you because you are going to have a sickness in you and Allah subhana wa ta’ala is going to remove the Heybet, the majestic look, the majestic powers away from you and your enemies are going to look at you, they are not going to have any fear from you at all.’ And they said, `Ya Rasulullah, are they going to be very little in number?’ He said, `No, the opposite. In numbers they are going to be so many of them but they are going to fall into the love of this Dunya. They are going to love Dunya and they are going to hate death. They are not going to want to hear about death.’ Is that what happened to the nation today? Ask your own selves and you will know by your own selves. Sit down alone in your room and ask yourself, `Do I have the love of Dunya in my heart? Do I have the fear, do I hate death?’ You will know by your own selves. You don’t need anybody to tell you anything then. Don’t blame me to say, `He’s saying these words. I am checking myself all the time twenty-four hours a day to see if my heart is moving to Dunya or Akhirat. You must do the same. If you do it then slowly maybe the protection will come to you. Maybe the help will reach to you. When the Awliya’s help is reaching to you, slowly they remove that fear away and they replace it with a different love into your heart and that is the real love. Otherwise, Dunya love is only temporary and passing and it is only giving trouble to mankind.

If we take these words seriously, we will find safety to our own selves. If not, you are going to live by yourselves and you are going to die by yourselves. You are going to enter into your graves by your own selves. Nobody is going to be there. You are going to be alone. Think on it and that is maybe tomorrow. Maybe before tomorrow. Maybe next year. Maybe this year. Maybe ten years from now, maybe during this year’s time. But it’s going to happen. You cannot escape. It is only a counted time, counted days or years. You cannot escape. Every single day moving one step ahead, you are moving one step forward to your grave. Don’t forget. Don’t say, `I am too young, I am too strong, I am too healthy, I am so wealthy.’ Eh, so many squareheads today say, `I have power in Dunya. I have this position. I am a General. Nobody’s touching me.’ Azrail will touch you good and you will turn into a stone then maybe.

So wake up to your own selves. For fourteen hundred years this Khutba in every Juma is a reminder to people. For fourteen hundred years it’s saying, `Oh people! Have fear from Allah and keep obedience to Allah.’ Allah subhana wa ta’ala is reminding us saying, `Have fear from Allah and keep obedience to your Lord. Your Lord is not like you. Keep obedience to Allah.’ InshaAllah that way we will find safety.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday June 26, 2009 (Receb 4, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi was saying that the month of Receb is the month of ALLAH swt. This month reminds us to obey ALLAH swt and to fear Him. Story of the arrogance of Nemrut in the face of Prophet Ibrahim a.s., and his defeat by the mosquito. Many nemruts today declare war on ALLAH swt by disobeying him. Realize that you are the weakest servant, ask for forgiveness and acceptance. Ask to have arrogance removed from your heart.

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