MSN.20 JUL 2010.POST.ENG

O Prophet! LetYour Sandals Honor My Throne!

Sultan ul-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al Haqqani

20 July 2010   Lefke, Cyprus

 

 

 

Dastoor yaa Sayyidee. (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Laa ilaaha illa-Llah, Laa ilaaha illa-Llah, Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Sayyidina wa nabiyyina Muhammadun Rasoolullah (s) zidhu ya rabbee `izzan wa sharafa wa karaman wa maj-jada wa jam'an thumma salaatu was-salaam `ala jami`ee al-anbiya wa 'l-awliya wa `alayna ma`akum min rabbee samawati wa 'l-ardeen, narju rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh. (Mawlana Shaykh sits)

We know nothing.We know nothing. And we must try to learn, who is not learning anything, their value or their level is going to be on the level of animals. And Allah Almighty is honoring Mankind with such an honor that He never granted to any other creatures. That is our understanding level, beyond which we are not seeing anything. We may say only from a small drop from an endless ocean.

 

As-salaamu `alayka yaa Qutb al-Mutasarrif, Saahib al-`Asr, Saahib az-Zamaan. We are asking from your heavenly presence that is prepared for servants of our Lord. They are azi nadar, treasurers, and are calling to people day and night, "O People! Come and take from the endless treasures of your Lord, because you are deputies forever! Come and take more and more, and carry as much as possible!"  You must be as eager as a sultan bringing a heap of golden treasure, but people are eager for dirty things.

 

We are addressing our attenders, especially to those who claim they are `ulama. They are not happy to be ordinary `ulama, but they are bringing a new title for them, to be "Salafi `ulamas". That has never been used before by anyone in the Muslim world, to refer to themselves as, "Salafi `ulamas," but they are giving themselves that imitated title. It has never been mentioned through Islamic sources. “The ways of Salafi `ulama,” why are you claiming this? We have a judgment on the Day of Resurrection with you. Don’t claim something that you are never reaching! Which Salaaf as-Saalih is accepting you to be Salaaf as-Saalih? No one! But you are making that title for yourself and saying we must come together with you, Salafi `ulamas! And what about the others; what are their titles? Imitated titles, we have real titles, to be Salafi.

 

What is the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s) saying? (Mawlana Shaykh stands) B`ad an aqool a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Whoever is claiming to be Salafi `ulamas, you must say first, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaan nir ‘r-rajeem. (Mawlana Shaykh sits) How many people are there? One hundred, one thousand, one million, ten million, a hundred million, or five-hyndred million? I am asking. And you know that the Seal of Prophets (s) was saying, Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Stand up for Allah, don’t worry! (Mawlana Shaykh sits) The Seal of Prophets (s) said:

عليكم بسواد الأعظم

`Alaykum bi 's-sawaadi 'l-`azhaam.
Follow the majority.

What does it mean? You are accusing other `ulamas of not following Salaaf as-Saalih, that only you are, so just a handful of people in the whole world are following Salaaf as-Saalih? What about the thousands of `ulamas throughout the Islamic world? You are on the right way and they are on the wrong way? What is that pride? Allah never likes people to be proud. `Alaykum bi's-sawaadi 'l-`adhaam, "Follow the majority of the people."

 

The Seal of Prophets (s) is saying, "O People! O `ulamas! All of you are accused with something that you must try to remove from yourself." We are saying according to the holy command of the Seal of Prophets (s), Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem, we are entering a new ocean that has never passed before. We are asking `ulamas that they understand and also make people understand. Now we are knowing nothing but, mu`allimu 'n-naasu 'l-khayr, the Teacher of Goodness to Mankind, who is he? That is the Seal of Prophets' (s) holy title! He is not an ordinary teacher. He is supported by Heavens; that is a real teacher. And he is saying, "I am coming from Heavens to be the best teacher for Mankind." Why is he saying "best teacher?" Because he is coming to teach people what is good for them here and Hereafter, mu`allimu 'n-naasu 'l-khayr, maa huwa 'l-khayr.

 

Shaykh Hisham, that is a question. What is khayr? To dress in an expensive robe? To wear first-class glasses and make your beards fashionable? To drive a BMW? Why is that the most important? Or to use private planes with every comfort? Is that khayr? The Prophet for every Creation, that no one can reach or approach where he is putting his holy feet, in the Heavens and down on Earth. Living ones are never reaching to where the Seal of Prophets (s) is putting his na`alayn shareef, holy shoes. SubhaanAllah!

 

The Lord of Heavens is saying to remind people something. It is very important in our days, because there are coming such fashionable things. (Mawlana Shaykh holds a package with nahlayn shareef.) If Salafi `ulamas are seeing this, they will be on fire, so angry, shouting, “What is that? What is that?" We are saying, "na`alayn shareef." This is the most respected na`al, shoe or slipper of the Seal of Prophet (s). They will shout, "Bid`a, haraam!" If we show them, they are going to be on fire! This is showing ta’zeem wa tashreef for the Seal of Prophets (s)! Allah Almighty is glorifying and honoring him, because he passed Jibreel’s (a) station and went up with his slippers! He (s) asked to take them off, but the Lord of rabbul `arsh il-`azheem said, "Put your shoes on My Holy Throne to be honored with your step, and don’t take it away!"

Salafi `ulamas are very angry with this. Why? What happened? If Allah Almighty is glorifying him, why are you jealous? If at night an angel comes and gives you such a shape and puts it on your head, you will be very happy, saying, "I never used this, but a heavenly one came and put it on my head." You should be happy, not jealous, if Allah Almighty is saying to His most beloved, most majestic, and most praised one in His Divine Presence, "O My most beloved and glorified one! Put your steps on My Holy Throne, because you are much more valuable than `Arsh! That is `Arshullah, you are Habeebullah!" Sallahu `alayhi wa sallam. What we are saying is making me to think on it. Allah, Allah. 

 

Respect endlessly, as there is no limit for respect. If Allah Almighty is giving respect to someone, it is immeasurable. But you are using that hattaa (head-cover) and that is what you understand about khayr. What is khayr? The Seal of Prophets (s), did He teach you to use such an instrument that can only reach rich ones, or mulook or sultans? Is the Seal of Prophets (s) saying that is real khayr, goodness? He is teaching you to use such things? He taught you to make a level for yourself from the level of common people! Allah, Allah.

 

Once upon a time; there is a story, but when we are saying "story", Salafi `ulamas get very angry. They say, “They are never knowing anything. We are not listening to such qassas." Allah Almighty is saying asta`eedhu billah, (Mawlana Shayh stands):

فَاقْصُصِ الْقَصَصَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

faqsus al-qassas la`alahum yatafakaroon
Relate to them (yaa Muhammad) the story that perhaps they may think. (Al-A`araaf 7:176)

Is this ayatu 'l-kareemah or not? How are you refusing qissah? (Mawlana Shaykh sits) That is the holy command from Allah Almighty; am I bringing it from myself? Why are you not reciting that ayatu 'l-kareemah to mulook, to presidents, prime ministers, and shaykhs? Whay are you not reciting to them, O Salafi 'ulama? Go to jalaalatu 'l -malik and say one story of the Banu Isra`eel! But you are never accepting, because if you are saying qissah they will say you are a story teller! Allah is saying, faqsasu 'l-qassas, alif laam, imma yakoon lil-khaas, aw yakoon alif laam yusheer `ala 'l-ahad, wa `alal jins aw lil-`umoom yusheer, al-qassas, maa ja`alallah Subhaana wa ta`ala one kind of story, no. He may say any story is for what? Saying the reason also that, la`alahum yatakfaroon, “You may say any story,” for what? "To make people take some benefit, to think on it."

 

Therefore, I am telling now one story, qissah, at the the time of Iskandar, Alexander the Great. He reached India, the last point of his conquest. He asked to make a parade to show people his power, majesty, and might. People had never seen such a parade. His armies were passing with gold and silver armors, and precious stones and jewels. He was passing and looking. Behind him there was one person sitting, he had only a sarong. He was not facing the parade, but was looking back.

Alexander the Great held the reins of his horse and said, "Why are you not turning your face to look at my majesty?"
The man replied, "O Sikandar, the son of Philipos! Once upon a time I was interested in such things that we have every day. We have such a parades," and today we have these parades in Cyprus also. "I was so interested but one thing happened and I just left it."
Alexander the Great asked, “What is that?”
The man said, "Once I was walking from one village to reach another place, the darkness of the night was decending. I thought to myself that dangerous and wild animals come out in the dark." Because at night, every badness and all kinds of shaytans are going to be around.

 

O Salafi `ulamas! The Seal of Prophets (s) is saying, "O People! ahbisoo awlaadukum ba`da ghuroob ish-shams, "Keep your children in homes after sunset." You are saying, "We have amr bi 'l-m`aroof!" Why you amr bi 'l-m`aroof wa 'n-nahya `an i'l-munkar people are not going around to make youngsters go to their homes? No such order from jalaalatul malik? Why are you not doing this? The Seal of Prophets (s) said, ahbisoo awlaadukum ba`da ghuroob ish-shams. “Keep your children in homes after sunset,” because it is the time of intishaar ash-shayateen, "Devils going out and around." You are not doing that, so you have a heavy responsibility.

 

O Salafi `ulamas! Look at what that faqeer is saying. “I was looking at that time to get some protection from the darkness, from zhulmatu 'l-layl, oppression of night, and wahshatu 'l-layl, wildness of night time. I saw one place that is using Indian ruhbaan, a monastery. I opened the door, entered, and looked for a place to rest. It was dark, but I found a place and thought to sleep there. I woke up in the morning, and the priest of that monastery came and looked at me, saying, 'Where are you from?' And I told him my story. The priest said, 'You know the story of the one that you were sleeping with? He is naked, do you know that one?' and I said, 'I don't know him.' He said, 'That is the king of this area. He passed away, they brought his dead body to be in this temple.' And then I saw him and thought, 'I am a beggar and that is the emperor. I see no difference between me and him!' From that day I am disgusted. When I saw that manzhar, view, I thought there is no difference between your king and a beggar! I was thinking, 'That king is different than me,' but I saw him and I were on the same level. Therefore, that interest in my heart just fell down."

Iskandar Kabeer, Alexander the Great, said, “You said the truth and I am never stepping more than this limit.I am moving back!” He was ashamed!

 

O Salafi `ulamas! You are so interested in such a society, you and your ladies, your daughters, your sons, your kings, your presidents, and your shaykhs, must take a lesson from this story. Allah Almighty is saying (Mawlana Shaykh stands) astaa'eedhu billah, faqsasu 'l-qassas l`alahum yatafakaroon, "relate to them the story for them to reflect upon." (59:21) (Mawlana Shaykh sits)

 

O Allah! Tawbah yaa Rabbee, amaan yaa Rabbee, that is all from our egos' tashji`a, encouragement. Our egos and Shaytan encourage us to run after such nonsense things!

 

O People! Come to Allah and do your best for Him! Try to make everything for the pleasure of Allah. Don’t try and make your egos pleased with you and make Allah Almighty displeased with you.

Fatihah. May Allah forgive us.

O our Attenders! Come and listen before a slap comes on your heads; do not run away!

Fatihah.

 

MSN.23 JUL 2010.POST.ENG

Beauty Is from Obedience and Ugliness Is from Sins

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

23 July 2010     Lefke, Cyprus

 

As-salaamu `alaykum. Dastoor yaa RijaalAllah. (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, laa ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi 'l-hamd! And we are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits)

 

We are a handful of people here and we are trying to reach blessings, more blessings in this holy month, Shabaan Mu`azzam. It is just honored from other months and it is granted for the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidi 'l-Awwaleen wa ’l-`Akhireen, Sayyidina Muhammad (s). We are asking for barakah, blessings, and praisings from Allah Almighty.

 

O People! Say, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem and, Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits) That gives us honor, when we stand for our Lord, our Creator, Allah Almighty. SubhaanAllahi 'l-`Aliyyu 'l-`Azheem. Endless Glorifying Oceans for Him, Almighty.

What we are saying is according to our capacities. If we are not going to be in such figures, in height reaching between 1.5 up to two meters, if going to be taller than two meters, it is not good, as, "The best of matters are the moderate/middle ones." Allah Almighty created Man in such a position, in such a form that is good, better, or best for human nature: not too tall and not too short. But Allah Almighty is granting to Mankind such attributes that belong only to Mankind. What Mankind has just been granted, no creature has been granted. Huuuuuu.

 

O People! We are all sinners. And what is sin? We must ask Salafi `ulamas, because they are claiming they know everything. If they are asked, “Do you know this?” none of them are saying, "I don't know."

O Salafi `ulamas! What does "sin" and "sinners" mean, and what is the last step of sinners on this planet? They must answer what is "sin." Yes, say! I may hear and some ones may hear. They are looking to each other, asking, "What shall we say about sin?" You are `ulamas, so you must know what is sin, sinners, what will be sinners' final position. The first sinner was the father of human nature, Sayyidina Adam (a). What did he do that made him a sinner and then he was ordered to get out from Paradise? Paradise is not for sinners, no. To sin is the worst recognition that is given to Mankind, and it is the worst title or the worst shirt that a person may dress in.

 

Allah Almighty just dressed the first one and his wife with the most honored dressings. When he became a sinner, that most honored dressing fell down from his body and he was naked, running to cover his ugly appearance. That means sins make people in an ugly position and sinners are going to be known by their faces, which are always ugly, uglier, and ugliest! Animals may be small ones or big ones, but they are never changing their forms and never going to be in a hated position, to be seen as ugly. But Mankind is quickly going to be known by their ugly faces. When they are getting ugly, Shaytan is saying, "Don't worry, use cosmetics and you will be so beautiful or handsome." Ugliness from Heavens’ ugliness sent on people can't be changed by artificial means, no; cosmetics cannot cover what is taken away from disobedient ones or sinners from their creation or forms!

Look at people now, particularly women who are running to sins more than men. And they are quickly getting to be ugly ones and no cosmetics may take that ugliness from their faces or their bodies. Because sinners are cursed; la`natullah, heavenly cursing, comes on those women who are not hearing the commands of Allah Almighty and running in Sin Oceans. Now the whole world's women are just swimming in Cursing Oceans! What do you think if a person is falling in a sewage channel and getting out, how can you look to that one? And now also those who are falling into sewage, sins channels, are like that. What they are using from cosmetic, artificial things are also shaytanic productions. And people now are mostly wasting every possibility to make themselves to be seen as beautiful or handsome. They are asking on the wrong way , as a person who is asking for jewels from a grocery shop! No, you can't find that; it is a grant from Allah Almighty to Adam (a) and his wife, but when they were going against holy orders, getting into sin, just taken away that appearance that you can't look at them. They were so beautiful and handsome, but that sin was making them ugly and they were running to cover their ugliness, but they could not.

Paradise is never accepting ugliness because Beauty Oceans are just running in it. Therefore, sinners can't enter Paradise. They must be thrown from Paradise and thrown in ugliness, into Sewage Oceans. Look now, so many women who are younger than me by 10 years. When you are saying “younger,” they are very happy!

 

So many people are running uselessly, and they will be rides of their egos, because Shaytan cheated our grandfather and grandmother (Adam and Hawwa [a]). They are running after that one to be seen as beautiful, to be as they like, as they are thinking they are 18 years old, or 15 years old. They are so happy, looking in the mirror, with falling hair, their faces are going to be like rivers lines and they have no teeth, remembering, "Once upon a time, I was a queen of beauty in England, in Germany, and Turkish people were running after me saying, 'You are so beautiful,' and now I am still beautiful!" Allah Almighty punished sinners with madness, to be crazy.

 

O People! I am speaking to Salafi `ulamas because they are also going to be very unhappy when their ages go up and they are very unhappy, using so many things for their beards and giving so many new forms for their beards, moustaches, and eyes. For what are you decorating yourself?

 

"O Shaykh, we must try to look as handsome ones."

"For whom?"

"For our ladies, our maidens, we must show ourselves as handsome ones."

 

O People! Sins will never allow a man to remain handsome or a women to remain beautiful! Run away from sins! Don't leave yourself in a position that your name is registered under the title  "sinner." Try for your names to be written under the "good ones" table, to be granted beauty. Don't be sinners! All nations are sinners now and no good tidings for them, but always angels are warning them with bad tidings. For what? All nations are trembling in anticipation of huge and terrible events on their doors now. Run to Allah (swt) and ask for His forgiveness and blessings! Try to be obedient servants; don't be the ride of your ego and of Shaytan!

 

May Allah forgive us for the honor of this holy month, Sha`baan Mu`azham. And coming now in this week is a very, very important, holiest of nights, Laylat ul-Bara`ah, not tomorrow, after tomorrow, going to be Sunday evening up to Monday. Try to be from those servants who are forgiven and granted from the endless Mercy Oceans!

May Allah forgive me, forgive you and send us someone to collect our hearts, for the honor of the Seal of Prophets (s), and for our hearts to be prepared for our Lord's lights and lightenings. Ameen.

 

Fatihah.

 

MSN.18 JUL 2010.POST.ENG

Your Honor Is to Follow Heavenly Ones
Sultan al-Awliya
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani
18 July 2010     Lefke, Cyprus

Yaa Rabbee, shukr. Yaa Rabbee, shukr. Yaa Rabbee, shukr. (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Hasbun Allah. Hasbun Allah wa ni`mal wakeel ni`mal Mawla wa ni`mal Naseer.
Zidhu yaa Rabbee `izzan wa sharafan nooran wa surooran, wa ridwaana wa sultaanan wa man tabi`ahu min al-anbiya wa 'l-awliyaa wa 's-saaliheen, yaa Rabbi 'l-`Alameen. (Mawlana Shaykh sits) O Rabbana, `afwak wa ridaak. O our Lord, we are weak servants! Give us, O our Lord, our Creator, much more strength for standing up for heavenly obligations. We know we are weak ones, as You Almighty are saying: (Mawlana Shaykh stands)

 وَخُلِقَ الإِنسَانُ ضَعِيفًا

Wa khuliqa 'l-insaana da`eefa.
We have created man weak. (4:28)

(Mawlana Shaykh sits) As you said, O our Lord, "Man is created weak." irham da`fana, Have mercy on our weakness. You grant us from heavenly support and sufficiency to stand up for Your holy commands, to keep them and to follow Your heavenly commands. O our Lord! Please write our names under the table of good ones, good servants. If our names are written as bad servants, we are asking for forgiveness and Your blessings!

We are saying our salaam and salute for our world's commander, qutb, Qutb al-Mutasarrif, who is looking after everything on behalf of our Lord's command.

May Allah forgive us. Ask forgiveness and you will find your Lord forgiving and granting from endless Mercy Oceans, from His endless Blessing Oceans! Look at yourself, O Mankind, and don't claim useless things, that you are strong ones, that you are victorious ones, or that you are powerful ones, because you have so many aspects from this life. Don't think that material aspects are giving you power, no! Don't believe that material aspects are supporting you. Don't trust people who are heedless ones or ignorant ones; who are they trusting? Mankind! They are heedless ones, and those no-mind people are those who trust material aspects and become proud with massive treasures. Those are unlucky, no-mind people and losing their chance in the Divinely Presence.

O our Attenders! Don't trust your imitated titles; leave that. Don't trust on material aspects. If trusting on material aspects, they are so foolish, no-mind ones and their levels are under the levels of animals. Those people are even going to be cheated with their dressing and their nonsense titles. Now you may even go in a government office and see a person sitting at a desk with writing, "Chief Commissioner, Mr. Foolish One." Or it is written on it, "Director of this big building, Mr. Monkey." Or you are entering and looking at a very fat person sitting behind a table that is very well decorated and his chair may be enough for three people to sit on, but it is only for himself, and in front of him is written, "Mr. Chairman of Limited Companies, Mr. Elephant." Or getting in it and you are finding a person, never smiling, a very, very proud one and if anyone is entering inside, showing that he is so proud and never saying, "Sit down, " but saying, "Look where you are, in front of whom." It is writtten on that one, "Mr. Chimpanzee, the First from Monkey Territory." And another one is sitting behind or on the left hand side of that one, and it is written on its table also, "The Second Chairman for the Monkey's Territories, Prime Minister, Mr. Orangutang." Or you are entering to another office to ask for something and see a very angry person sitting, and his chair may be for three people, sitting on it and putting his eyeglasses like this.

He says, "Who are you?"
"O Your Excellency, I am your servant."
"What do you want?"
"I want to reach a monkey's area in southern Africa, to be the chimpanzees' chairman."
"Yes sir, you are my servant!"
He turns to his assistant and orders, "Please write that he is asking to be deputy in the jungles of India, and that his order must be there in writing. Put my stamp on it and send him away!"

Are you understanding what I am saying? Yes, that is a reality, that those who have some power in their hands are looking at people as if they are downstairs and looking for themselves as upstairs. Therefore, they are looking and saying, "Who are you? What do you want?"
"I am Mr. Cock, here to complain about foxen."
"What are they doing?"
"They are always running after cocks, hunting and eating them. We are looking for justice."
That magistrate turns to his assistant and orders, "Please write for them that order, that I am the king of jungles, ordering to wolves that they must be very, very keenly looking after jungles, for everyone to keep to their levels. That is my order. If wolves are meeting foxen running after cocks, you must stop that. If dying, they are not making trouble for cocks and hens also."

OK? Understand? Now in all countries you may find such people who think they are special ones in the jungles of this world, and they can do anything or make trouble for everyone, but they are never happy to be in trouble by anyone, even from ants! Why are we saying this, O our attenders? Because you are not understanding heavenly knowledge. They are making me to speak on your levels, the level of animals, the level of jungles. I can't speak about up, because our attenders are never taking any care; therefore, I am saying their real personalities are under the levels of animals! Some of them belong to Australian deserts, Indian jungles, at desert peoples' levels. I must speak to you like this because you are not understanding heavenly declarations; you are never giving any value, so I am making a theater for you today!

Yes, you are so proud! Shaytan is blowing to everyone from Mankind that, "You can never be an ordinary person; you must always be a VIP." So we are coming down and showing the egoistic levels of people living on this planet. The Lord of Heavens is calling you to His Divinely Presence, but you are insisting to be VIPs on this planet. Take your VIP ranks! Who is asking to be on a VIP level on this planet, their names are appointed from Heavens as wolf, fox, snake, bear, tiger, or wild animal! People now are insisting to be on the level of animals. Very few people are asking to reach VIP people in Heavens; their interest is only for this life. Take it! But it is going to be written, "That was a representative of wolves, or foxen, or donkeys, or of so-and-so."

Why are you not trying to be a heavenly representative on Earth? You are always going to be angry with me because I am asking you to look up, to ask for heavenly ranks and heavenly honor, and all of you are running to imitated honors of imitated titles. Therefore, they are making me say to you in such a way that those who follow their egoistic demands are on the levels of jungle animals. If you are asking for honor that will be for you from pre-Eternal up to Eternal, you must ask for heavenly honors, but that will never reach you until you are following one heavenly personality, heavenly beings, messengers and their real followers. If you are asking for honor, follow them. If you are asking the honor of this world, your honor is on the level of jungle animals.

O Salafi `ulamas! Marhaban. Kayfa haalukum al-yawm, How are you today? Are you happy now? Do you think we are speaking wrong? You can't say this. Don't be angry. All prophets were coming for what? You are saying, "We are `ulamas." The Lord of Heavens created Mankind for what? Say! Say to people, to learn and to know, beginning from sultans or presidents or prime ministers, or this one or that one, who is carrying imitated ranks only lasting up to the graveyard and not beyond. Why are you not reminding, "O People! You were not created to run after imitated titles or treasures." Why are they imitated? Because you are going to leave them when you leave this life; you are leaving your treasures and going only with your white burial shrouds. Why are you not saying this matter also every Jumu`ah? Is it not written in the Holy Qur'an? How are you reciting the Holy Qur'an? How are you reciting the story of Qaroon? Why are you not saying to kings and presidents about Qaroon's treasures and that his name is mentioned in the Holy Qur'an? Why are you not reminding people?

Every Jumu`ah you must say, even daily you must say to people, wa dhakkir, remind of the holy command of the Lord of Heavens. You must remind people what is good for them and what is cheating them. As another goal that daily they are shooting artillery shells at you, why are you not declaring daily to people? Say! If not saying, be in fear from the Lord of Heavens, Who will ask you, "Why were you not teaching My servants what is reality, and which thing their Lord was asking from them?"

O `ulamas, doctors of Shari`ah, `ulamas of Azhar ash-Shareef, and Salaaf as-Saalih! You are making dunya on your heads and Salaaf as-Saalih were putting the Earth under their feet! How are you claiming, "We are Salaaf as-Saalih `ulamas." May Allah forgive us.

I am sorry to say such things, but it is a heavenly order that I must say, and I am addressing to my ego first. Anyone who is interested may accept  and follow it, and he may take benefit here and Hereafter. May Allah forgive us.

Fatihah.

(32 minutes)

It is written from Heavens that they are attending, and the stations of attenders are VIP stations, while others' are animals' stations. They may choose to attend these gatherings or not, it doesn't matter.

Fatihah.

(Mawlana Shaykh prays two rakaats Salaat ash-Shukr.)

MSN.24 JUL 2010.POST.ENG

Are You on True Steps?
Sultan al-Awliya
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani
24 July 2010    Lefke, Cyprus

Yaa Mawlay. Dastoor yaa Sayyiddee. (Mawlana Shaykh stands)  Laa ilaaha illa-Llah. Laa ilaaha illa-Llah. Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah, `alayhi salaatullah wa salaamu `ala jami` al... As-salamu `alaykum, yaa Qutb az-Zamaan. As-salaamu `alayka, yaa Qutb al-Mutasarrif. As-salaamu `alayka, yaa `ibaadAllah as-saaliheen. We are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.

O our Attenders! As-salaamu `alaykum! Fahimna yaa RijaalAllah. Fahimna warzuqna yaa Rabbana husnu 'l-adab, good manners.

O Salafi `ulamas! For what anbiya were sent? What was the real aim of prophets to be sent to people, to Mankind? So many people instead of asking for fahim, "understanding", people are asking for faham, "coal". We are trying, and our holy ones who are looking after us are trying to make Mankind understand.

O Salafi `ulamas! Marhaban! Today you are dressing in another coat and you are changing your eyeglasses today also, saying, "We must always follow new fashions. Old fashions just passed away, now we must follow new fashions." Congratulations to you that you are only understanding to look or to be seen as elegant. For what? For your ladies, but more important than your ladies, ladies that are `aaridoon wa `aaridaat, showing their beauties to Mankind, to Man and you are following them to show yourself as so elegant. Even if you are dressing in an aabaa, cloak, you like that your very fashionable ladies look at you and see you in an appearance that you are followers of western society's high-life. You are not people living in deserts, because people in deserts, in the eyes of western people, are always downstairs, their levels are the lowest levels. Therefore, you are trying to change that understanding from western people that Arabs are also followers of every new fashion, daily.

Is it not true? Are you not looking to your people? Everyone is trying to be much more fashionable than others where you are living. Because the Lord, Allah Almighty, (Mawlana Shaykh stands) is opening to you khazaa'inu 'l-ard, treasurestores of the earth. What is khazaa'inu 'l-ard? Oil! Not olive oil, no, dirty oil! Opening dirty oil to you. Why opening dirty oil to some people? I am asking, that is a question. Because people like money, gold, and diamonds. Everywhere they are trying to put diamonds, rubies and every ornament to make their lives like the lives of Paradise people. Leave that bad understanding! The Lord of Heavens is not looking to your dressings or to your homes, or not looking at your tents that belong to mulook. They are trying to make everything a new fashion, because Allah Almighty granted to them that dirty oil. You are selling it and taking money and making high life with western fashions that they are saying, "High life," or they are saying, "Most fashionable life," and you are trying to follow daily fashions of western people whose aims are only to reach to material aspects. They are never interested in spirituality!

You are followers also, because Allah Almighty is giving to you that dirty water, dirty oil. And as long as that dirty oil is increasing, as much as it coming more and more, they are going to be more and more happy with that dirty oil. The punishment for those whose only interest is for oil, as holy ones are saying, when sakaraat ul-mawt, death throes are coming and they are looking and seeing themselves drawn towards an ocean that is only from that dirty oil. They are crying and shouting, and when their last breath is finishing, they are just falling in that dirty Oil Ocean. Amaan yaa Rabbee! That belongs to our spirituality and such people are blamed because they are Sufi people. Some of them, their veils are just opened and they are looking and seeing some of their last hoursor last minutes when they are leaving this life, seeing that they are trying to save themselves from that dirty Oil Ocean.

O Salafi `ulamas! Beware, hadhir, warn mulook and shaykhs who have so many wells of that dirty oil! In the last moment they are going to be drowned in those dirty Oil Oceans up to the Day of Resurrection. O men and women who have so much richness from Earth, dirty oil wells, you are only thinking what is the latest, new fashion to dress, new fashion cars, new fashion buildings, new fashion planes, new fashion eating, and new fashion lives. Beware! Allah Almighty is not giving you that for your egos' pleasure, no, as it is not a real pleasure. Real pleasure is when you are taking that dirty oil and not wasting it for shaytanic purposes!

O Salafi `ulamas! Why are you not warning people? I am never hearing such things that you are warning your people. You are living in a desert but under that Allah Almighty is making dirty oil oceans. Therefore, I am speaking to shaykhs who are asking to wear the best dressings, most fashionable dressings that people may look at them. One pair of clothes for one poor one may be enough for one year's living. Allah Almighty is saying every time, la`allahum yatafakkaroon, "That perchance they may reflect." (Al-A`araaf 7:176) You must think on what they are making me to speak. That means the Lord of Heavens is giving you a chance for understanding and that chance you can only reach with your thinking.

O rich ones, shaykhs, mulook, and other ones who have billions or trillions! You must know that today you are approaching your lives' end by one more day, and death is not looking if you are malik, or if you are minister, or if you are shaykh, or if you are wives of mulook, or you are the richest ones' wife, no! Today is coming to be one day less. You approached now, and your life is going to end and it is just an appointed number that you will be in this life, only one year, ten years, twenty years, eighty or ninety years, then finishing. Therefore, everything that a person is going to eat, drink, breathe, and the time that they will be living ones on this planet is just prepared. So why are you not saying such things to people, O Salafi `ulamas, and warning them that when a person's last moment is reaching, according to heavenly knowledge from holy ones, there are four angels coming before that one is prepared to leave this imitated or temporary life, and that one's last moment is like a drunk one for preparing for death, to leave this life, because it is going to be finished and to be taken for aakhirah, the Next Life.

First of all, such knowledge is reaching me that this veil is going to open and that one's eyes are going to be fixed to one point, not looking at his wife, at his children, his gold, or his business, no! Never looking to his dunya, only looking upwards, and one angel is appearing to him saying, "O `AbdAllah! I am one angel ordered to bring everything that you ate in your whole life and I am looking now in the east and west, and nothing is remaining for your sustenance; finishing, no more sustenance remains for you," then passing. Then a second one is coming, "As-salaamu `alayka yaa `AbdAllah! I am the angel appointed for drinking, but no drop remains for you to drink. Try to be ready to leave this life." He leaves and another one comes, saying, "As-salamu `alayka, yaa `AbdAllah! I am appointed for your breathing, but no more breath remains for you." Doctors may put medical instruments inside you to make you breathe, but that is false! That angel leaves and a fourth angel comes, saying, "As-salaamu `alayka yaa `AbdAllah! I am that one looking after your ajal, life span, and your life is just finishing; there is no more time for you to be alive on this planet." Then they are leaving, and the Angel of Death, Azra`eel (a) comes and takes you away!

O rich ones, majestic ones, ministers, and shaykhs! Beware! That moment is approaching to everyone. Therefore, you must try to do something good to make your Lord pleased with you. Don't try to make your egos to be pleased with you but try to make your Lord pleased with you. If you are making your Lord pleased with you, you are going to be welcome on the last moment, "Welcome!" If not, you are never going to be welcome. What are you going to do? Salafi `ulamas, why are you not saying in Jumu`ah khutbah to Mankind? You are only saying, kullu muhdathatin bida` wa kullu bida` tun dalaala wa kullu dalaalatan fi 'n-naar, "every newly-invented thing is an innovation and every innovation is misguidance and every misguidance is in the fire."

Why are you not saying this, for people to take their care, for their Lord be happy with them and pleased with them? Leave that and say this! Who is understanding this is never running to do something against heavenly orders! Why are you not saying, "Peoples' buildings, peoples' titles, airplanes, eating, dressing, understanding, lives, and all of them are against Shari`atullah," why are you not saying? You are only saying, "It is bida` to say laa ilaaha illa-Llah, laa ilaaha illa-Llah in dhikr." Wahhabi people are never understanding anything, and light is also taken from their faces!

May Allah forgive us and send us someone to make clear our ways to Allah and to make us to be prepared for our Eternal lives! Try to reach Eternity! Eternity, Eternity! Such a beautiful word, Eternity, Eternity! If you are losing that, you are never going to be granted another chance for Eternity, you are going to be thrown away! May Allah forgive us. May Allah correct our steps.

O People! O Salafi `ulamas! Why are you not saying that Allah Almighty is saying, "O My servants, use qadama sidqin, true steps." Which one of you claims to use true steps?

O Salafi `ulamas! khif Allah! O gigantic appearance ones, Wahhabi people! Are you claiming your steps are true? Say, and I may follow you! Astaghfirullah. yuassir ahwaalanaa, May Allah make our affairs easy.

Fatihah.

Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.

Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome
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Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.

(40 minutes) Because today they are playing, no-mind people! From our attenders there are so many no-mind people who prefer to go and enjoy themselves for weekend pleasures and a few ones are leaving, but we hope that they are looking when they are coming back from shaytanic pleasures. They may look and they will be repented. Astaghfirullah. Allah, Allah. Tubtu wa raja'tu ila Allah, "I repented and turned again to Allah."

(Mawlana Shaykh prays two rakaats Salat ash-Shukr)

(Mawlana Shaykh speaks to Shaykh Hisham Effendi on the phone.)

MSN.24 JUL 2010.FINAL.ENG

Are You on True Steps?
Sultan al-Awliya
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani
24 July 2010   Lefke, Cyprus

Yaa Mawlay. Dastoor yaa Sayyiddee. (Mawlana Shaykh stands)  La ilaaha illa-Llah. La ilaaha illa-Llah. La ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah, `alayhi salaatullah wa salaamu `ala jami` al... As-salamu `alaykum, yaa Qutb az-Zamaan. As-salamu `alayka, yaa Qutb al-Mutasarrif. As-salaamu `alayka, yaa `ibaadAllah as-saaliheen. We are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.

O our Attenders! As-salaamu `alaykum! Fahimna yaa RijaalAllah. Fahimna warzukna yaa Rabbana husna al-adab, good manners.

O Salafi `ulamas! For what anbiya were sent? What was the real aim of prophets to be sent to people, to Mankind? So many people instead of asking for fahim, "understanding", people are asking for faham, "coal". We are trying, and our holy ones who are looking after us are trying to make Mankind understand.

O Salafi `ulamas! Marhaban! Today you are dressing in another coat and you are changing your eyeglasses today also, saying, "We must always follow new fashions. Old fashions just passed away, now we must follow new fashions." Congratulations to you that you are only understanding to look or to be seen as elegant. For what? For your ladies, but more important than your ladies, ladies that are `aaridoon wa `aaridaat, showing their beauties to Mankind, to Man and you are following them to show yourself as so elegant. Even if you are dressing in an aba, cloak, you like that your very fashionable ladies look at you and see you in an appearance that you are followers of western society's high-life. You are not people living in deserts, because people in deserts, in the eyes of western people, are always downstairs, their levels are the lowest levels. Therefore, you are trying to change that understanding from western people that Arabs are also followers of every new fashion, daily.

Is it not true? Are you not looking to your people? Everyone is trying to be much more fashionable than others where you are living. Because the Lord, Allah Almighty, (Mawlana Shaykh stands) is opening to you khaza'in ul-`arb. What is khaza'in ul-`arb? Oil! Not olive oil, no, dirty oil! Opening dirty oil to you. Why opening dirty oil to some people? I am asking, that is a question. Because people like money, gold, and diamonds. Everywhere they are trying to put diamonds, rubies and every ornament to make their lives like the lives of Paradise people. Leave that bad understanding! The Lord of Heavens is not looking to your dressings or to your homes, or not looking at your tents that belong to mulook. They are trying to make everything a new fashion, because Allah Almighty granted to them that dirty oil. You are selling it and taking money and making high life with western fashions that they are saying, "High life," or they are saying, "Most fashionable life," and you are trying to follow daily fashions of western people whose aims are only to reach to material aspects. They are never interested in spirituality!

You are followers also, because Allah Almighty is giving to you that dirty water, dirty oil. And as long as that dirty oil is increasing, as much as it coming more and more, they are going to be more and more happy with that dirty oil. The punishment for those whose only interest is for oil, as holy ones are saying, when sakaraat ul-mawt, death throes are coming and they are looking and seeing themselves drawn towards an ocean that is only from that dirty oil. They are crying and shouting, and when their last breath is finishing, they are just falling in that dirty Oil Ocean. Amaan yaa Rabbee! That belongs to our spirituality and such people are blamed because they are Sufi people. Some of them, their veils are just opened and they are looking and seeing some of their last hoursor last minutes when they are leaving this life, seeing that they are trying to save themselves from that dirty Oil Ocean.

O Salafi `ulamas! Beware, handhir, warn mulook and shaykhs who have so many wells of that dirty oil! In the last moment they are going to be drowned in those dirty Oil Oceans up to the Day of Resurrection. O men and women who have so much richness from Earth, dirty oil wells, you are only thinking what is the latest, new fashion to dress, new fashion cars, new fashion buildings, new fashion planes, new fashion eating, and new fashion lives. Beware! Allah Almighty is not giving you that for your egos' pleasure, no, as it is not a real pleasure. Real pleasure is when you are taking that dirty oil and not wasting it for shaytanic purposes!

O Salafi `ulamas! Why are you not warning people? I am never hearing such things that you are warning your people. You are living in a desert but under that Allah Almighty is making dirty oil oceans. Therefore, I am speaking to shaykhs who are asking to wear the best dressings, most fashionable dressings that people may look at them. One pair of clothes for one poor one may be enough for one year's living. Allah Almighty is saying every time, la'allahum yatafakkaroon, "That they may reflect." You must think on what they are making me to speak. That means the Lord of Heavens is giving you a chance for understanding and that chance you can only reach with your thinking.

O rich ones, shaykhs, mulook, and other ones who have billions or trillions! You must know that today you are approaching your lives' end by one more day, and death is not looking if you are malik, or if you are minister, or if you are shaykh, or if you are wives of mulook, or you are the richest ones' wife, no! Today is coming to be one day less. You approached now, and your life is going to end and it is just an appointed number that you will be in this life, only one year, ten years, twenty years, eighty or ninety years, then finishing. Therefore, everything that a person is going to eat, drink, breathe, and the time that they will be living ones on this planet is just prepared. So why are you not saying such things to people, O Salafi `ulamas, and warning them that when a person's last moment is reaching, according to heavenly knowledge from holy ones, there are four angels coming before that one is prepared to leave this imitated or temporary life, and that one's last moment is like a drunk one for preparing for death, to leave this life, because it is going to be finished and to be taken for Akhirah, the Next Life.

First of all, such knowledge is reaching me that this veil is going to open and that one's eyes are going to be fixed to one point, not looking at his wife, at his children, his gold, or his business, no! Never looking to his dunya, only looking upwards, and one angel is appearing to him saying, "O `AbdAllah! I am one angel ordered to bring everything that you ate in your whole life and I am looking now in the east and west, and nothing is remaining for your sustenance; finishing, no more sustenance remains for you," then passing. Then a second one is coming, "As-salaamu `alayka yaa `AbdAllah! I am the angel appointed for drinking, but no drop remains for you to drink. Try to be ready to leave this life." He leaves and another one comes, saying, "As-salamu `alayka, yaa `AbdAllah! I am appointed for your breathing, but no more breath remains for you." Doctors may put medical instruments inside you to make you breathe, but that is false! That angel leaves and a fourth angel comes, saying, "As-salaamu `alayka yaa `AbdAllah! I am that one looking after your ajal, life span, and your life is just finishing; there is no more time for you to be alive on this planet." Then they are leaving, and the Angel of Death, Azra`eel (a) comes and takes you away!

O rich ones, majestic ones, ministers, and shaykhs! Beware! That moment is approaching to everyone. Therefore, you must try to do something good to make your Lord pleased with you. Don't try to make your egos to be pleased with you but try to make your Lord pleased with you. If you are making your Lord pleased with you, you are going to be welcome on the last moment, "Welcome!" If not, you are never going to be welcome. What are you going to do? Salafi `ulamas, why are you not saying in Jumu`ah khutbah to Mankind? You are only saying, ...........kullu bida` tun naar...

Why are you not saying this, for people to take their care, for their Lord be happy with them and pleased with them? Leave that and say this! Who is understanding this is never running to do something against heavenly orders! Why are you not saying, "Peoples' buildings, peoples' titles, airplanes, eating, dressing, understanding, lives, and all of them are against Shari`atullah," why are you not saying? You are only saying, "It is bida` to say la ilaaha illa-Llah, la ilaaha illa-Llah in dhikr." Wahhabi people are never understanding anything, and light is also taken from their faces!

May Allah forgive us and send us someone to make clear our ways to Allah and to make us to be prepared for our Eternal lives! Try to reach Eternity! Eternity, Eternity! Such a beautiful word, Eternity, Eternity! If you are losing that, you are never going to be granted another chance for Eternity, you are going to be thrown away! May Allah forgive us. May Allah correct our steps.

O People! O Salafi `ulamas! Why are you not saying that Allah Almighty is saying, "O My servants, use qadama sidqin, true steps." Which one of you claims to use true steps?

O Salafi `ulamas! kif Allah! O gigantic appearance ones, Wahhabi people! Are you claiming your steps are true? Say, and I may follow you! Astaghfirullah. yuassir ahwaalanaa, May Allah make our affairs easy.

Fatihah.

Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.

Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome
.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.
Dome, dome, dome, dome.

(40 minutes) Because today they are playing, no-mind people! From our attenders there are so many no-mind people who prefer to go and enjoy themselves for weekend pleasures and a few ones are leaving, but we hope that they are looking when they are coming back from shaytanic pleasures. They may look and they will be repented. Astaghfirullah. Allah, Allah. Tubtu wa raja'tu ila Allah, "I repented and turned again to Allah."

(Mawlana Shaykh prays two rakaats Salat ash-Shukr)

(Mawlana Shaykh speaks to Shaykh Hisham Effendi on the phone.)

MSN.21 JUL 2010.POST.ENG

First Is To Surrender, Then Comes Faith
Sultan al-Awliya
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani
21 July 2010    Lefke, Cyprus

Dastoor yaa rijaalAllah. (Mawlana Shaykh stands)
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah.
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah.
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultan Allah.

Illaahi zidh Habeebika `izzan wa sharafaa, nooran wa suroora, wa ridhwaanan wa sultaana illaahi min shahr ‘l-Sha`baan al-Mu`azzam. Thumma salaam `alayk yaa Saahib al-Waqt, yaa Qutb al-Mutasarrif fi 'd-dunya. O our holy ones! We are needy for your support to address people through east and west. We are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. (Mawlana Shaykh stands) O our Lord! We are weak ones; give us from heavenly support to take away everything that belongs to Shaytan. (Mawlana Shaykh sits) Allah, Allah.

As-salaamu `alaykum our attenders from ins and jinns, from Mankind and jinns. As-salaamu `alaykum wa `alayna wa `alaa man `ittaba al-hudaa.

O People! We are trying to learn much more about heavenly rights that belong to Allah Almighty which we have been ordered to fulfill. We are not living here to make our egos to be enjoyful and happy, or to play and make our egos happy, no. Madad. We must know what is right and what is wrong. Originally, Man never knew what is right and wrong, and for that reason, Allah Almighty sent His prophets to teach them who a true one is, and what is right and what is wrong, nothing else. If we are not trying to know who a true one is and what is wrong, we will never be able to fulfill our oaths in the Divine Presence that we took on the Day of Oaths. And the Lord of Heavens has always sent His prophets, who are special beings; they are not ordinary or we would never know. But special ones have been authorized to show what is good and what is bad; what is true and what is wrong; what is an honor for Mankind and what is taking away honor from Mankind. Madad yaa Sultaanu 'l-Awliya. This is an important point.

O our Attenders, try to hear! And I am also trying to understand what is true and what is wrong. Yes, the Lord of Heavens ordered and is calling His servants to learn. And the Seal of Prophets (s) said:

طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم و مسلمة

talab al-`ilmi fareedatan `ala kulli muslim wa muslimah.
Seeking knowledge is an obligation on every Muslim man and Muslim woman.

O our Salafi `ulamas! Marhaban! Do you know this hadeeth shareef, or are you sleeping? Say, about that holy hadeeth. Everything that the Seal of Prophets (s) is speaking is holy; it is not ordinary words.

إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَى

In huwa illa wahyun yoohaa.

It is not except revelation revealed to him. (53:4)

You are making the holy speeches of the Seal of Prophets (s) as if they are your speeches. No! He is a specialized one in the Divine Presence, and he was granted such a position that no one can reach, only that specialized or chosen one, Sayyidina Rasoolullah (s) can reach it! What was he saying? Talab al-`ilmi fareedatan `ala kulli muslim wa muslimah. He was not saying, "mu’min wa mu’minah"; there must be a difference between the two. The Seal of Prophets (s) was using "muslim wa muslimah" because Islam came as a base for imaan; if there is no faith there is no Islam. You must believe that you can stand on the base of imaan. And therefore he was saying, “alla kulli muslim wa muslimah.” 

What is for talab al-`ilm, student of knowledge? Make it clear to your people: talab al-`ilm asks for heavenly knowledge, not what you know of Islamic knowledge. Yes, Muslim or muslimah. Allah gives us through His most holy servant an understanding between imaan and Islam. Talab al `ilm. If a person is Muslim or muslimah, what are they asking to learn? You must try to understand why the Seal of Prophets (s) was saying, "Muslim or muslimah," and not saying, "mu’min wa mu’minah." Open it up if you are `ulamas! Qooloo aslaamnaa:
 

قَالَتِ الْأَعْرَابُ آمَنَّا قُل لَّمْ تُؤْمِنُوا وَلَكِن قُولُوا أَسْلَمْنَا وَلَمَّا يَدْخُلِ الْإِيمَانُ فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ وَإِن تُطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ لَا يَلِتْكُم مِّنْ أَعْمَالِكُمْ شَيْئًا إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

Qaalati 'l-A`araabu aamannaa qul lam tu'minoo wa laakin qooloo aslaamnaa wa lammaa yadkhuli 'l-imaanu fee quloobikum wa in tutee`oollaaha wa rasoolahu laa yalitkum min `aamaalikum shayan innallaaha ghafoorun raheem

The Arabs declare, "We believe." Say (to them), "You do not. Rather say, 'We submit,' because belief has not yet found its way into your hearts. If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not reduce a thing from your deeds. Allah is the Oft-Forgiving and the Most Merciful." (49:14)

Allah Almighty is saying, qaalati 'l-A`araab. When they were claiming that they are aamannaa, believing, He said, "You must say aslaamna, 'we submit'." That means, the level of imaan is higher than the level of Islam. But as the first step, you must come to Islam to say, "I am aslamtu." Aslamtu means,  “I surrender to my Lord's orders.” When you reach that level, you must ask for more knowledge to take you from the level of Islam to the level of imaan, which is the most important thing. Therefore, we must ask how we can reach the level of imaan. Who knows this? Prophets! Prophets called people to Islam. And when the people were saying aslaamna, prophets taught them how to be mu’mins, believers, because their Islam was only through their tongues, saying, "La ilaaha illa-Llah (Mawlana Shaykh stands), la ilaaha illa-Llah, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Muhammadan Rasoolullah.” (Mawlana Shaykh sits) That is Islam, but what about imaan? When we are saying Kalimat ash-Shahaadatayn, the Declaration of Allah's Oneness, we are going to be Muslim, but then you need to be mu’min, the one who surrendered and is asking to walk on it to reach the level of imaan.

O our Salafi `ulamas! Is there anything wrong with this? Are you saying this hadeeth shareef? Open up your knowledge more and more and more. To say Kalimatu ash-Shahaadah is the first step. To what was Allah Almighty calling His people to say  Kalimatu 'sh-Shahaadah, and what was the Seal of Prophets (s) saying? He was saying, (Mawlana Shaykh stands):

الإيمان بضع وستون أو بضع وسبعون شعبة، أعلاها: لا إله إلا الله، وأدناها: إماطة الأذى عن الطريق. والحياء شعبة من الإيمان

 al-imaanu bid`a wa saba`oon shu`batan `aalaaha Kalimatu 'sh-Shahaadah adnaaha eemaatat al-adhaa min at-tareeq, “Imaan, faith, is composed of 70 and more branches, the highest of which is the shahaadah and the lowest of which is to remove what is harmful from the way, (and modesty is a branch of faith).” (the two Sahihs) (Mawlana Shaykh sits)

When you come into the state of imaan, `aalaaha an taqool, you are coming into Islam by saying, laa ilaaha illa-Llah, Muhammadan Rasoolullah," wa sharafaa wa karramah, Sayyidi’l-Awwaleen wa ‘l-Akhireen. (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits) That hadeeth shareef, O Salafi `ulamas, carries people from adna, the lowest step of Islam, to `alaa, the highest step. Therefore, talab al-`ilmi, seeking knowledge, is to ask and to learn. It is an obligation from Allah Almighty to every man and woman who says, "We are Muslims." Yes. Are you teaching this or are you speaking of many things that can be maa laa ya`neeh, “What is of no concern.” Is it not? Why are you speaking from maa laa ya`neeh? Why are you speaking from academic knowledge to a standard level of school? What is that?

After elementary comes a higher level. From the lowest level, they have been offered `alaa, the top point of being Muslim and mu’min: one wing Islam, one wing imaan. You must use it to reach high levels of Heavens. Islam, yukhaatib, addressing to our physical beings, but imaan, addressing to our spiritual beings. You can't reach with your material being or physical being, you won't be able to go up, as it is heavy. Material things are heavy; you can’t use those to go up. But when you are going to be mu’min, believers, you are taking power through your spiritual being and may go up and up and up; endless horizons or endless horizons of imaan. Therefore, Allah Almighty is saying, (Mawlana Shaykh stands)  

وَلِكُلٍّ دَرَجَاتٌ

wa li kullin darajaat.
To everyone are levels from what they perform of deeds. (6:132)

(Mawlana Shaykh sits) Allah Almighty is saying, “In front of everyone are endless horizons that have endless goals." Try to reach one after one; there is no hindrance if you are asking for it. Therefore, saying,  "For everyone there is a level." He may reach that level, and another one may reach another level. For everyone, wa li kullin darajaat. Your level can’t be the same as another’s level; you have a unique level for yourself. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar! That means the Lord of Heavens is granting to everyone as He likes endless oceans, endless levels. Maa fee zihaam, "There is no crowding there." Everyone is going up and up, while no one is preventing.

O our Salafi `ulamas! When have you been granted darajaat? Do you know or not? As long as people are following their rides' desires, there levels are always the levels of animals. When you leave that, an opening will come to you and only for you, not for anyone else. You don’t know anyone’s level and degree; it is only for himself or herself. No one knows what you have been granted through your Paradise and you never know what is granted to anyone else. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar!

O our Salafi `ulamas! You must teach about Islam and imaan, to make peoples' feet fixed here and Hereafter. If you are not making people to put their feet on the right station, they can’t get up. Then you should be like an airport, with some airplanes going up and some waiting. Waiting for what? Because there is no petrol, no power, and they are just sitting there. Therefore, we have been ordered to ask for more heavenly powers, to move from this airport up to our real target’s levels or else you will remain here, never going up! All heavenly commands and heavenly orders provide petrol power to our spirituality, for us to go up. If people are not using this, they will always remain on the runway. Others who take their power from the Seal of Prophets (s), rise up and go to special directions, granted from the Lord of Heavens. And no one knows where they are going or what is in that level. You can’t look there; if you are looking, you can’t see. You can only see what belongs to you; no one else can look in that level. If someone else looks, your Paradise is veiled to him, and you can’t look in his Paradise also, because it is veiled and belongs only to him. 

May Allah forgive us, for the honor of His most honored one, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits). Mashaa-Allah. Shukranlillah.

Fatihah.

(Mawlana Shaykh prays two rak`aat Salaat ash-Shukr.)

(Mawlana Shaykh sings.)

Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome

Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome

Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome

Fatihah.