MSN.7 DEC 2010.PREPOST.ENG

 Come to Islam! Come to Nature!

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

7 December 2010     1 Muharram 1432

Lefke, Cyprus

 

Mubarak Muharram! For the honor of Islam (...) we must come back to Islam. I am unhappy with everything in the name of technology, I am fed up! We must bring the civilization of original Islam. Everything from Islam, or there will be no way  to save Mankind from technology and its instruments. We must come to nature, as technology is taking Man from his real personality. 

Laa ilaaha illa-Llah. I am looking, I am taking. Laa ilaaha illa-Llah. I hope it will, beginning this year. Come to Islam! Save yourselves from technology, which is making everyone (run in circles). Come to nature! Technology is taking (a toll) on our physical being and changing our personalities, making us like machines. Yaa Allah! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.)

I am nothing, but I like to be in this humble place with those who are coming to learn something of the real way of Islam. I like that you may try to learn Holy Qur'an, that one of you teach another if he is not knowing. Even if you give a half-hour to learn Holy Qur'an, that will be a real support for you from Heavens. Now, we haven't anything from technology to fight them, but our spiritual power of Islam should make technology under my feet!

O People! Don't say, "How can it be?" One orphan is making the whole world under his command, bringing holy commands and carrying three-billion people under him up to today! We can do it by that beloved one's power. There is no need to ask from Allah Almighty or even from His most beloved one. The weakest servant of that chosen one, that most beloved one, most glorified one, may change this world from here up to there! Try to be on his way, the real way of the Seal of Prophets (s).

Enough. I am not coming to speak anything, but 'they' are making this for me. I don't know, but they know. I can't take except what they are granting. 

O People! As-salaamu `alaykum.

Fatihah.

All of you are in my heart. I am taking up the holy flag of Islam!

 

MSH.22 JAN 2011.PREPOST.ENG

The Key of Paradise

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

22 January 2011    Burton, Michigan

 As-Siddiq Mosque

A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.

Nawaytu 'l-arba`een, nawaytu 'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu 'l-khalwah, nawaytu 'l-`uzlah,

nawaytu 'r-riyaadah, nawaytu 's-sulook, lillahi ta`ala fee haadha 'l-masjid.

Ati`ullaha wa ati`u 'r-Rasoola wa ooli 'l-amri minkum.

Obey Allah, obey the Prophet, and obey those in authority among you. (4:59)

Kaleemataani khateefataani `ala 'l-lisaan thaqeelataani fi 'l-meezaan. SubhaanAllahi wa bi hamdihi, Subhaanallahi 'l-`Azheem astaghfirullah. Two words that Allah said, through His Prophet (s), a message to us, that there are two words that are very light on the tongue, but they are very heavy on the scale. They are to glorify Allah, to say Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammad ar-Rasoolullah (s), SubhaanAllahi wa bi hamdihi, Subhaanallahi 'l-`Azheem , astaghfirullah. I am not lecturing you and I am believing that we are all making sin and no one is safe from committing a sin and we say altogether, astaghfirullah astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. We are asking Allah to forgive us. By forgiving we will succeed, by not forgiving we don’t know what will happen to us. But we know that we will be punished; our punishment can be in different ways, and we are saying, "Yaa Rabbee, don't punish us, but send Your mercy on us." I advise myself first, then you if you want to accept or not, it is up to you. We all are at the threshold standing there in the presence asking Allah to forgive us, for the sake of His beloved Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad `alayhi afdala 's-salaatu wa 's-salaam (Mawlana Shaykh Hisham stands) Labbayk yaa Rasoolullah, yaa

Rahmatan li 'l-`Alameen, yaa shafi`eei 'l-mudhnibeeen, unzhurunaa bi nazhran min indika yaa habeebullah. Rabbana 'ghfir lana bi jaahi habeebika 'l-Mustafa bi shafa`atihi yaa Rabbana, yaa Allah! (Mawlana Shaykh Hisham sits) Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik `alaa Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

 

No one is able to raise his head, to say, "I am here," on the Day of Resurrection. It is mentioned even between animals that Allah will question them. Do you know that? Even animals are going to be questioned, if one was attacking the other, as Allah will give every animal its right. When that is over, every animal will know what he did wrong and they will repent, because they know that Allah (swt) created them. We don't say, "They don't know anything, they are animals." No, female and male animals know that Allah (swt) is the Creator! Evidence of this is in Holy Qur'an, when the ant spoke to all ants, as mentioned in Surat-an Naml, "Chapter of the Ants." Every surah has a name, and if that ant's message was not important, there would not be a surah named for it. Is any surah in the Qur'an under your name? Can you find a surah under anyone's name?

 

So how do we find a big surah in the name of an ant ? Not only that, Suratu 'l-Baqarah, another chapter, is named for the cow; Suratu 'l-Fil is named for the elephant; Suratu 'l-Ana'am is about all animals; Suratu 'n-Nahl is named for the bees. How do all these animals have a surah named for them, and we have no surah named after us? Who is better? Allahu Akbar! Allah honored human beings:

 

 وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ

wa laqad karamna Bani Adam.
Truly We have honored the Children of Adam. (al-Israa, 17:70)

 

Of course, human beings are better, but there is only one surah named for them: Surah al-Insaan. "Insaan" is everyone, all Mankind, but it is a small surah. It means Allah (swt) is giving us examples from the smallest of animals, which is ant, an-naml, and linguists in Old Arabic know it as "ad-dhar," which means the smallest possible thing. That is why in Arabic we call an atom "dharra." Allah gave a surah in the name of ant, and also the biggest animal, the elephant--from the smallest to the biggest or from the biggest to smallest--to tell you, "Look at My wisdom! I am the Creator! Take advice or inspiration from everything around you."

 

The ant is so small that you cannot see its head from its back, but you know the head is in the front because it is moving. If it goes backwards you don't know; you think the head is in the back. It is small, consisting of two pieces connected with one small, hairline tube. And one ant was speaking to millions of ants, and was knowing about Sayyidina Sulayman (a), saying, "The Prophet of Allah is coming!"

حَتَّى إِذَا أَتَوْا عَلَى وَادِي النَّمْلِ قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّمْلُ ادْخُلُوا مَسَاكِنَكُمْ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمَانُ وَجُنُودُهُ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

Hatta idha ataw `ala waadi 'n-namli qaalat namlatun yaa ayyuha 'n-namlu 'dkhulu masaakinakum laa yahtimannakum sulaymaanu wa junooduhu wa hum laa yash`uroon.

Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed, "O ants! Enter your dwellings unless Solomon and his armies crush you, unknowingly." (an-Naml, 27:18)

 

"Before Sulayman (a) and his army destroy you." Ants also know what an army is. How do they know it is an army? They even know the army was carrying weapons! The ant told them, "This is an army, not followers." So the smallest of animals know that Allah sent prophets to humanity to make them go on the right way. When it comes to the Creator, animals know, (as we learn from) Suratu 'l-Fil, "Chapter of the Elephant":

 

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ

Asta`eedhu billah. Alam tara kayfa fa`ala rabbuka bi ashaabi 'l-feel.

See you not (O Muhammad) how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant? (105:1)

 

Allah (swt) said:

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ

Alam tara kayfa fa'ala Rabbuka bi as-haabi'l feel.
Have you seen how your Lord dealt with the possessors of the elephant? (Chapter of the Elephant, 105:1)

He is saying, "Did you not see what Allah did with the People of the Elephant?" What did He do? When Abraha brought elephants to destroy the Ka`aba, they pushed an elephant coming all the way from Yemen, up to Meccatu ‘l-Mukarramah hafizhahullah. When it reached the Ka`aba the elephant stopped, he did not move. Why? Because it knew that is the House of Allah (swt)! It thought, "How am I going to destroy the House of Allah?" They were pushing him to destroy it and those elephants were huge, a specialty of Yemen, and it didn’t move. It means the elephant knows Allah (swt) is the Creator.

So Allah will judge the animals; don't think He won't. That is why if anyone tortures animals Allah will torture them, because on the Day of Judgment animals will accuse any human who harmed them! They will say, "This one tortured and abused us." When I was 24 years old and newly married, we had a big cage on the balcony with at least forty very small, colorful birds. They are nice, waking you in the morning for Fajr, nice ones and that day we put them on balcony. After one week, Mawlana Shaykh came to visit from Sham to Lebanon, and the bedroom was by the balcony, near the birds. So at Fajr time he began to hear them and after we prayed Fajr he called me and said, "Free them." I had bought them a week before! He said, "Allah will imprison you if you imprison them. It is not acceptable. These birds have to fly wherever they like. You cannot cage them, so free them." Aamana wa sadaqna. I opened the cage door, and they flew out quickly one after each other, and flew away. He said, "Free them and Allah will free you from Hellfire." May Allah free us from Hellfire, that is the most important thing!

I am not talking about scorpions, spiders or snakes that harm people; they harm so you have to be careful. If you kill them it is permissible as you are saving others from harm. But you must have mercy on everything. We are ordered to have mercy on animals, so are we not ordered to have mercy for human beings? When people leave their cats without food or water, police arrest them for cruelty. What do you think about those who are cruel to human beings? If you kill an animal on the street they will put you in jail. How many people are killing each other but not going to jail? How many suicide bombers are killing human beings? Is Allah not going to send them to jail, to punish them in Hellfire? No one is allowed to kill anyone else! In Holy Qur'an, Allah (swt) says you have no right to kill anyone.

 

مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَن قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَلَقَدْ جَاء تْهُمْ رُسُلُنَا بِالبَيِّنَاتِ ثُمَّ إِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِّنْهُم بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فِي الأَرْضِ لَمُسْرِفُونَ

Min ajli dhalika katabnaa `alaa banee israaeela annahu man qatala nafsan bi-ghayri nafsin aw fasaadin fi 'l-ardi fa-ka-annamaa qatala 'n-naasa jamee`an wa man ahyaahaa fa-ka-annama ahyaa 'n-naasa jamee`an wa laqad jaathum rusooluna bi 'l-bayyinati thumma inna katheeran minhum ba`ada dhalika fi 'l-ardi la-musrifoon.

Because of this did We ordain unto the children of Israel that if anyone slays a human being, unless it be (in punishment) for murder or for spreading corruption on Earth, it shall be as though he had slain all Mankind; whereas if anyone saves a life, it shall be as though he had saved the lives of all Mankind. And, indeed, there came unto them Our apostles with all evidence of the truth, yet, behold, notwithstanding all this, many of them go on committing all manner of excesses on Earth. (Surat al-Ma'idah, 5:32)

 

Allah (swt) says in the Holy Qur'an that whoever killed one person, it is as if they killed all human beings. How many of these countries have been killing, countries against countries, and bloodshed everywhere? Allah is going to punish anyone who is killing and has no mercy in his heart; He doesn't care if this is a soldier, a civilian, a president or a king. Allah likes people to be straight forward. If you are not straight forward Allah will bring someone to punish you. So the best of our Naqshbandi teaching is to be straight forward, not to cross lines.

 

So on the Day of Judgment, Allah (swt) is going to judge animals in front of everyone. Allah took away dinosaurs because they were like suicide bombers, killing other Creation with no mercy, like dictators and tyrants of countries who don't care; they want the chair and to get it and keep it they kill everyone. What happened to dinosaurs? They are not extinct. They were once the giants, the biggest, might be ten times bigger than an elephant. What makes you stand? The bones in your spine. When you take away discs of the spine and bones, you shrink. Allah shrank the dinosaurs. Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, said, "Dinosaurs tortured other animals for many years when Allah created Earth and sent them on Earth, so Allah masakhahum, shrunk them, He made them smaller." He made them miniatures compared to their original size. A certain kind of lizard living today is a miniature dinosaur. Allah is torturing them by saying, "You thought you were the greatest, now you are the smallest under the feet." That is why on TV channels you can see many kinds of lizards on so many different animal channels. So Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, said when awliyaullah look at a lizard, they remind them of their origin, saying, "Look how Allah is punishing you!"

Animals do not go to Paradise, so their punishment is to be shrunk under the feet of other animals. They will be questioned, "Why did you abuse that one?" After Allah judges them, He will order one of the angels to blow on them and make them disappear like dust.

Human beings who were abusers, torturers, terrorists, violent, will say, "I wish I could be forgotten and like them, disappeared," not to go to Hellfire for Eternity. Human beings at that moment look at them and say, "Yaa Rabbee! Make us like them as they have no existence!" But Allah (swt) is saying, "No, I must judge them. They must make you pay for those whom you harmed." So if you don't harm anyone you are safe, but if you harmed anyone there will be a big question mark. We have to ask ourselves, did we harm someone? Of course, we may shout at someone, break their heart, be dishonest, backbite, spread rumors, create fitna, kill people, torture someone, beat them up. You see how they torture prisoners. Is this how they show mercy in their hearts? If that is a bad person, what gives you the right to torture him? Burning flesh with cigarettes, pulling out fingernails, hanging, and worse, they don't care.

Allah (swt) will judge, and when we see animals we will say, "Yaa Rabbee! We hope You will make us like them." But Allah is Most Merciful. If you want the key to Paradise, Allah gave us the key, He did not hide the key and say He will not give it. He is the Most Generous and He does not give only one key, but He will give everyone a key! Do you deserve it or not? (Mawlana stands) We say, "Yaa Rabbee, we know we don't deserve it, but send Your mercy on us for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad (s), for the sake of awliyaa, Holy Qur'an, and angels." (Mawlana sits) He gives us the key if we want Paradise. Do you want Paradise? Raise your hands. If you want Paradise, then you have to obey. Obedience is the key. But obedience in what? What does Allah like the most and hate the most? You can put the same answer, but in different ways. What does Allah hate most? If you avoid it you get the key, even if you have sins, because Allah (swt) says, "I will forgive your sins, kul yaa `ibaadAllahi." Don't lose hope of Allah's mercy: He will forgive everyone! So this means if we avoid what Allah hates most and do what Allah loves most, we are safe by His mercy and Prophet's mercy, shafa`at an-nabi!

You are spending your days and nights on the Internet; don't tell me you are not. Here in this mosque or any other place, Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere, if they want a job, they apply day and night and all their thinking is 'how can I get a job?' So, you are spending days and nights, weeks and months, years and years to find a job; as soon as you find a job you jump on it. Allah says, "If you want a job, I will give, but show Me ghirah, care," be dedicated, like when you sit at a computer to solve your problem. Today people even check for diseases, what kind of medicine they have to take: organic, herbal, homeopathy, physical therapy. Allah is saying one thing: "Leave what I hate most, and recite what I love most!" Show dedication, focus on that for  one day up to forty days; whenever you have free time, if you are not sleeping or eating, or worshipping. You will find by the fortieth day your problem will be solved. But no wali can help in a way that is kun fayakun. Awliyaa don't do that. Prophet (s) intercedes on our behalf and it is up to Allah (swt) to resolve the matter with kun fayakun, but at least knock at the door! Look at what Allah hates most, shirk billah, associating someone with Him. Allah doesn't like you to give your heart to anyone as it is for Allah and no one else.

Yes, you treat family well, but now our family and children come first, then our job, then eating, then maybe later we might remember Allah. Allah comes first! What He hates is for someone to associate anyone with Him, or to love something more than Him. Love must be for Him, then He will give you the key! What does Allah like most? For us to say, "laa ilaaha illa-Llah, Muhammadur Rasoolullah!" Say, "laa ilaaha illa-Llah!" To sit and say that is so simple, like the machine in the bank that counts money; if you keep feeding it currency it will burn, no more counting. (Allah is saying to us), "Come, you don't need to count anymore, the doors are open." Laa ilaaha illa-Llah, laa ilaaha illa-Llah, laa ilaaha illa-Llah, laa ilaaha illa-Llah, laa ilaaha illa-Llah. (recites continuously for minutes) La ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah! (du`a) al-Fatihah. Sitting like that, we completed 300. Sit like that, reciting continuously, "laa ilaaha illa-Llah." Cover yourself with a sheet and then you will experience a very nice feeling and will have goosebumps, and slowly you will feel that Prophet (s) is dressing you, taking over, and awliyaa taking over depending on the level in Divine Presence. Allah loves that! If you have water or tea in front of you, it will become blessed water, then you can drink it with the barakah. It will become Paradise water, not normal water; all you have read makes the water blessed, because when "laa ilaaha illa-Llah" comes on the tongue it goes everywhere.

That is the key of Paradise, miftahu 'l-jannah: qaal an-Nabi man qaala laa ilaaha illa-Llah [and also with it Muhammadun Rasoolullah] dakhala 'l-jannah, "Say, 'laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadan Rasoolullah.'" So if you have a problem, when you have empty time sit and recite this. It is what Allah (swt) likes, but all of us, me, you, and everyone have brought Shaytan into our homes, proud of the technology they brought--TV, satellites, video boxes. One time I said, "Let's open a box and see how many shaytans are inside it!" Satellite companies will be responsible and they are carrying the blame of the whole world. On the Day of Judgment everyone will accuse them, and they will carry the burdens of all. If you are president of a country, let's see how happy your people are. You say you will give democracy, so okay, let us vote now! Do they support him on the Day of Judgment? Not one hand will be raised.

(Qur'an recitation)

On the Day when everyone will run from his brother, father, mother, wife, children, saying, "Yaa Rabbee! Who cares for them? Let me be safe!" We are running to Prophet (s) as every nation goes to its prophet. (Mawlana Shaykh Hisham stands) Call on Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh Hisham sits) We run there and everyone is running. You are going to say, "This is my president?" Which president? What kind of president? Which king? Sayyidina `Umar (r) disguised himself so he would not be known as he searched for those who were hungry. He walked the streets of Madinah, carrying on his shoulder the food for needy people, that is what a true khalifah does. Where are they today? They have security, body guards. Allah will give you security, which you don't need if you are like Sayyidina `Umar (r) and people will love you; (on the other hand) they will shoot and kill you from hatred, so don't make people hate you!

That word will save us from Hellfire, from shirk, not to associate anyone with Allah, to say, "la ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah." It will open for you the key to Paradise. Laa ilaaha illa-Llah! (Mawlana makes du`a on shuyukh and blessed ones) atahireen, mutahareen, mutahirah.

Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.

 

MSH.26 JAN 2011.ASR.PREPOST.ENG

How To Be Saved in the Last Days

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

26 January 2011   Buenos Aires, Argentina

Suhbah / `Asr

A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.

 

Do they know the five pillars of Islam and the six pillars of imaan? Whoever knows, raise their hands. So it means they don't know. When the Archangel Gabriel (a) asked the Prophet (s), he said the five pillars of Islam are, 1) to say the shahada, ash-hadu an laa ilaaha illa-Llah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Rasoolullah, 2) iqamat as-salaat, to say your prayers, 3) zakaat, to give one-forteith of any money that stays with you over one year, 4) to fast Ramadan, and 5) to make hajj, pilgrimage to the Ka`aba if you are able.

Do you know the six pillars of imaan? (No.) So how do you know about all these wars and so on? The six pillars of imaan are, to believe in God, and His angels, and His books, and His prophets, including Jesus (a), Moses (a), and all of them, and to believe in the Last Day, and in the Day of Resurrection.

Archangel Gabriel asked the third question, ma`a 'l-ihsaan, yaa rasoolullah? Religion is three levels: Islam is the first level; imaan, faith, which many don't know, is the second level; and ihsaan is the third level, the level of moral excellence and perfection of character. That is why we have the book, The Sufi Science of Self-Realization, which helps you acquire that power awliyaullah have, and what you have in yourself.

Then Archangel Gabriel asked, "When is the Last Day?" and the Prophet (s) said, "The one who is asked doesn't know more than the one who is asking." That means Allah (swt) alone knows. Then Archangel Gabriel asked, "Tell me the Signs of the Last Day." The Prophet (s) gave many hundreds of signs, but I will mention one: "When you see the barefooted, naked Bedouins compete in building high rises." This means when you see the Arab Gulf states have tall buildings like those in New York, and that was mentioned by the Prophet (s) 1400 years ago.

وأن ترى الحفاة العراة العالة رعاء الشاء يتطاولون في البنيان

an tara al-hufaat al-uraat yatatawaloona fil bunyan.

Until the people compete with one another in constructing high buildings. (Sahih Bukhari 9:88:237)

This means when you see the barefooted and the naked, those who have only something to cover their private parts, and there comes a time when they are building tall buildings. Have you seen that yet or not? Those who went to hajj, did you see high buildings? Do you see high buildings everywhere around the world today? This is what the Prophet (s) said 1400 years ago. This means we are in that period now, and that period must not frighten us, as it is going to be a change to the best kind of human being. What is written is written; it cannot be changed.

I am not going to explain that issue, but to save yourself you must pray your five prayers and fast Ramadan, and keep connection with your shuyookh, your awliyaullah, your saints. Keep love of Allah (swt) in your heart, keep love of the Prophet (s) in your heart, keep love of your shaykh in your heart, and you will be saved! That is why Mawlana Shaykh told us to recite 100 to 1000 times per day, "HasbunAllah, RabbunAllah."

May Allah (swt) forgive us. That is a good question you asked and we can continue to discuss it as it will never end. But it is good for everyone to know and hear what the situation is today.

Wa `alaykum salaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

 

MSN.20 JAN 2011.#2.PREPOST.ENG

Where Is Your Name Written?

Sultan al-Awliya     

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

20 January 2011   Lefke, Cyprus

 

...our Lord, Allah Almighty. Therefore, people have lost their ways and they are following shaytanic ways, teachings, and trespassings. From shaytanic ways the whole world is coming down, even though technology just reached its top point and civilization is coming down, down, down. What shall we do? We are trying to do what makes Allah Almighty happy with us.

 

Others are following people to fire, as Shaytan is running after youngsters because it is easy to cheat them with dunya's pleasures. Therefore, keep yourself away from Shaytan and it's traps. (Mawlana Shaykh questions some guests about their marital status.) Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. The first command now for young brothers is marriage; those who are coming to tariqah must keep marriage. Understand? Try to be good ones. (Inshaa'Allah Sayyidee. We are nothing without you.) Good ones. There are two tablets: on one are written the good servants, on the second are written Shaytan's servants. Look where your name is written. You may reach treasures from dunya, but if your name is written under Shaytan's servants, what is the benefit? Try to make sure your names are written as "good servants", the servants of the Lord, Almighty Allah. Don't leave yourself to be Shaytan's servants, not servants, but slaves. 

 

 

MSN.16 JAN 2011.PREPOST.ENG

After Kings Will Come Tyrants
Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

16 January 2011    Lefke, Cyprus

Let the people look, that the Lord Almighty never left them and never forgot what they did to His servants. The holy verse says three words, ista`eedhu billah:

لَقَدْ أَحْصَاهُمْ وَعَدَّهُمْ عَدًّا

Laqad ahsahum wa `addahum 'addaan.

He does take an account of them (all) and has numbered them (all) exactly. (Surah Maryam, 19:94)

Who is "He" Who counted? He never forgets! It is written in the Heavens, how they oppressed and abused Allah's servants, one after the other; it is written on them and Allah (swt) will punish them. Let them fear! Let them fear! All of them are jabaabira, tyrants, from east to west. How many tyrants there are! What they have done has been counted; by the order of the Lord Almighty the angels have counted them. What is "counted"? It means, "one by one."

So there is a warning for the tyrants, because their end is going to be worse than the punishment of the pharoah in the time of Sayyidina Musa (a), Prophet Moses. Allahu Akbar! May Allah (swt) protect us from their evilness! The greatest fault is not on the people, but on the `ulama, the scholars that did not declare what Allah (swt) ordered to be declared! Rasoolullah (s) foretold the news about the future and gave warnings about the most important things to come. In a noble hadith, he (s) said:

_{سيكون من بعدى خلفاء ثم من بعد الخلفاء امراء ثم من بعد الامراء ملوك ثم من بعد الملوك جبابرة ثم يخرج رجل من اهل بيتى يملأ الارض عدلا كما ملئت جورا ثم يؤمر القحطانى فو الذى بعثنى بالحق ما هو دونه}

_{Sayaatee min ba`dee khulafaun wa min ba`d al-khulafaun umarraun wa min b`ad al-umarau mulookan wa min ba`d al-mulook jabaabira.}

_{There will come after me caliphs, and after caliphs will come princes, and after princes, kings, and after kings will come tyrants.}

Why didn't the scholars declare it? Why didn't they stand against Abdul Nasser when he incited a revolution against King Farouk of Egypt? They threw away the king! Then, why didn't the scholars say, "After the kings there will be tyrants." This is their fault, (and from it) they are carrying all the faults of the ummah; it's on them. From them comes the corruption and to them it will return.

Astaghfirullah! Aman, yaa Rabbee! Fatihah. May Allah Almighty free the nation from tyrants. Yaa Rahmaan! (Mawlana Shaykh makes du`a.)

MSH.21 JAN 2011.Khutbah.PREPOST.ENG

The Power of One Ant

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

21 January 2011    Burton, Michigan

Jumu`ah Khutbah at As-Siddiq Mosque

Ayyuhal mu'mineena al hadhiroon fi taqullahu wa`atioo. Inn Allaha ma`al-ladheena taqa wal-ladheenahum muhsinoon. Qaala Rasoolillahi, sallAllahu ta'ala `alayhi wa `alaa saahbihi wa sallim,`alaa ukhdiruhum bi ahli 'l-jannah.

Prophet (s) is asking his Sahaabah (r), "Do you want me to tell you about the People of Paradise?" and of course everyone likes to hear who the people of Paradise are. Everyone today says their house is like a paradise, which in the mind is something that has no limits; whatever you do, however nice, compared to Allah's (swt) creation of Heavens and Earth, it does not compare! So when Prophet (s) asked, "Do you want me to tell you who are the People of Paradise"? of course they want to know, because they want to achieve that, they want to try to be like that, they want to give up anything they can--their souls, their love to Allah and His Prophet, their souls to Allah and His Prophet (s)--they will do anything to achieve Paradise. He did not say reaching Paradise is by doing an act of violence, but he said, kullu da`eefin mutada`af, as narrated by Haritha bin Wahb (r):

أَلَا أُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِأَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ؟ كُلُّ ضَعِيفٍ مُتَضَعِّفٍ لَوْ أَقْسَمَ عَلَى اللهِ لَأَبَرَّهُ. أَلَا أُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِأَهْلِ النَّارِ؟ كُلُّ عُتُلَ جَوَّاظٍ مُسْتَكْبِ

'Alaa unabba-ukum bi ahli 'l-jannah? Kullu da`eefin mutada`afin. Law aqsama `ala Allahi 'l'abarrahu...

Shall I inform you about the people of Paradise? (They will be) every weak and oppressed person. When he swears by Allah, he fulfills his oath. (Bukhari and Muslim) 

He said that everyone who tries to humble himself more and more to Allah (swt) and His Prophet (s), to Islam, to Muslims, to humanity, to the whole of what Allah has created, to humble himself to anything, Allah will give him Paradise. When Sayyidina Sulayman (a) came with his followers, his students, his army, towards Saba, toward Sheba, to bring her to Islam. He was passing through a valley and one ant spoke:

حَتَّى إِذَا أَتَوْا عَلَى وَادِي النَّمْلِ قَالَتْ نَمْلَةٌ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّمْلُ ادْخُلُوا مَسَاكِنَكُمْ لَا يَحْطِمَنَّكُمْ سُلَيْمَانُ وَجُنُودُهُ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

Hatta idha ataw `ala wadi annamli qaalat namlatun yaa ayyuha an-naml udkhulu masaakinakum laa yahtimannakum sulaymaanu wa junooduhu wa hum laa yash`uroon.

Till, when they reached the Valley of the Ants, an ant exclaimed, "O ants! Enter your dwellings unless Solomon and his armies crush you, unknowingly." (an-Naml, 27:18)

O ant! That ant knew itself; it knew it is an ant. What do you want lower than an ant; it is so small. You look at it and say, "Ah, what is this ant?" and children might step on it and kill it. It does not say "no"; it surrenders to Allah’s will. So ants know they are the lowest. There may be lower than them, but for the sake of our discussion here of what Allah (swt) gave to them, (we say ants are the smallest creatures). However small it was, look at how much it was able to speak, because when you are so humble Allah will give you a voice that can be heard from east to west! But you need people with ears (to hear you). We are deaf, we are not hearing anything. Sayyidina Sulayman (a) heard because he was a thankful, rich prophet (s). They say, "Why is this imaam or shaykh rich?" It is a wrong idea that an imaam or shaykh must not be rich. Historically, prophets were rich. Sayyidina Khadijah (a), the wife of Prophet (s), was one of the richest. It is not the degree of wealth that distinguishes if you are humble or not. Prophet (s) said:

الغنى الشكر خَيْرٌمن الفقير العابد

Ghaneeyun shaakir khayrun min al-faqeeryou 'l-`abid.

The thankful rich person is better than the poor worshipper. 

A thankful rich person is better than a poor worshipper, because he is a humble person. Although he has power in dunya through his wealth, he is still humble, looking after everyone. There are still people like that looking after the community. Allah (swt) said that one is more loved than a worshipper who has nothing, who can help no one but himself, because that rich one can help citizens and countries. Today you see rich people; they don't know when they may have to run away from their countries and how to take their money, which is being confiscated by governments. Some rich ones steal from people and are tyrants, so Allah sends others to take revenge on them, and then they can't take their money anymore. You can see this in North Africa today. Every tyrant's time is coming, so we must be away from tyranny. 

So one ant was speaking; for its humbleness, Allah (swt) made that ant speak. Ants have countries, governments, kings, queens, and Allah is giving this example in Holy Qur’an: qaalat namlatun, "One ant said, 'O ants! I care for you! My colleagues, my citizens! Run and enter your homes before the footsteps of Sulayman's army trample you!'"

Sayyidina Sulayman (a) heard that and went into prayer, saying, "O Allah! Forgive me. I am thankful to You for what You have given me." He was a prophet with all the treasures of dunya and akhirah! What he built for Sheba, Queen of Yemen, were such things she had never imagined, because he had jinn building all kinds of palaces of glass and mirrors, where you can see your image everywhere and think you are walking on water. When she saw that, she realized her kingdom was nothing. She knew that when a king walks into a village he destroys it, and he was a king. He was powerful, but he did not show his power as he wanted to attract them to Islam. 

If Allah (swt) wants to give you a paradise, don’t think He will give you like what Sayyidina Sulayman (a) showed to Bilqees (Sheba), although jinn were building it and also brought her throne to him. That is still nothing compared to the paradise that Prophet (s) is mentioning to Sahaabah, `alaa ukhdiruhum bi ahli l-jannah, "Do you want me to tell you of the people of Paradise?" The paradises Prophet (s) mentioned have no comparison with paradises on Earth, or with the paradise of Sayyidina Sulayman (a) that his jinn built. In comparison, you would not accept one ornament on her throne! But what do you need to do? One thing that Prophet (s) is asking is to be humble: kullu da`eefin mutada`af. 

Everyone is weak in Allah’s Presence: it means to be humble, and try to humble oneself to not have a personality such as, "I did this, I did that! They didn't give me respect! They threw this on me! We are slaves, we are servants!" No, be happy (with your life) as a slave is never questioned! They go to Paradise without questioning, because a servant will not come against his Lord. You cannot say to Allah, "No, I don't want to obey!"

Allah (swt) said:

 أَطِيعُواْ اللّهَ وَأَطِيعُواْ الرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الأَمْرِ مِنكُمْ

Ati`oollaha wa ati`oo 'r-Rasoola wa ooli 'l-amri minkum.

Obey Allah, obey the Prophet, and obey those in authority among you. (an-Nisa, 4:59)

Obey those whom Allah appointed over you. Who is that? `Ool 'l-`amr, authorities. And there are always two authorities with you: one on the right, one on the left. Let us make them happy by making istighfaar. The one on the left cannot write a sin before 24 hours have passed; he will give you a chance to repent. So every night before sleeping, say, "Yaa Rabbee astaghfiruka wa 'atubulayk, astaghfirullah `adheem wa tubulayhi," and Allah will erase and forgive all your sins; He will not allow the angel on the left to write anything! But we forget. In Arabic, the word insaan, "human being," comes from the word nisyaan, "to forget." We are human beings who forget, we don’t remember. Don’t forget! Allah (swt) is always reminding us in Holy Qur'an:

لَئِن شَكَرْتُمْ لأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ 

Wa la'in shakartum la-azeedannakum
If you thank Me, I will give you more. (al-Ibrahim, 14:7)

Allah is reminding us, idhkoroonee, idhkuroonee! Remember Me, remember Me!

فَاذْكُرُونِي أَذْكُرْكُمْ وَاشْكُرُواْ لِي وَلاَ تَكْفُرُونِ

Fadhkuroonee adhkurkum, washkuroolee wa laa takfuroon.
Remember Me, I will remember you. Give thanks to Me and do not be ungrateful towards Me. (al-Baqarah, 2:152)

"Remember Me, I remember you!" Remember Him! So what to say? Either salawaat on Prophet (s), because "salloo `alayh" is an order (the imperative form of the verb):

إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا

inna-Llaha wa malaa'ikatahu yusalloona `ala 'n-nabi, yaa ayyuha 'l-ladheena aamanoo salloo `alayhi was sallimoo tasleema. 

Verily, Allah and His angels send praise on the Prophet. O Believers! Pray upon him and greet him. (al 'Ahzaab, 33:56)

Or make istighfaar, or recite asmaullahu 'l-husna, or read Qur’an, or read hadith; then you are remembering Him. Washkuroo lee wa laa takfuroon, "When you remember Me, I remember you. When I remember You, you have to thank Me, because I mentioned your name in a Presence better than your presence." When you see today, if the president mentions your name because you did something nice, you send him a thank you letter. He is only like you and me, and president for five or six years and then he is gone, but you try to approach him as much as you can. What about Allah, the Creator?

O Muslims! Be thankful to Allah! Be humble, and you will be from the People of Paradise. 

Aquloo qawlee hadha wa astaghfiruka al-`azheem wa lakum wa li saa'iri 'l-mustaghfireen fa ya fawzan li 'l-mustaghfireen astaghfirullah.

MSN.21 JAN 2011.PREPOST.ENG

The Worldwide Curse of Modern Technology

Sultan al-Awliya
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani
21 January 2011    Lefke, Cyprus

As-salaamu `alaykum. (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi 'l-hamd! Wa sallAllahu `alayhi wa salaam `alaa Sayyidina Muhammadin (s), Sayyidi 'l-Awwaleen wa ’l-Akhireen.  Zidhu yaa Rabbee `izzan wa sharafan nooran wa surooran, sultaanan wa ridhwaana wa man tabi`ahum bi ihsaan ila Yawmi 'd-Deen. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. (Mawlana Shaykh sits)

As-salaamu `alaykum. Dastoor yaa RijaalAllah, madad. Madad yaa Sultan al-Awliya, madad. Yaa awliyaaullah! Amiduna bi madadikum.

O People! As long as you are running away from Allah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, cursing will come you from above and from under your feet also. Allah Jalla Jalaaluh!

O our Attenders! Ask for forgiveness, as He, the Lord of Heavens, likes it. He is Almighty! Do you think that He has only one Earth? It is the same (for Him) to create an atom or to create one world. If He is asking to put this world in an atom, it is so easy. He is Allah, Who has endless Power Oceans, endless Majesty Oceans, endless Dominions, and endless Creation from pre-Eternal to Eternal. As an example, from where is Niagara Falls coming and to where is it going? Only the Creator knows! No one knows all of His Divine Attributes; that is impossible. He is Only One, there is no other. He is the Creator, and no one knows when Creation began and when it will end. It is impossible to find a beginning as it is eternal, from pre-Eternal up to Eternal. No one knows what is pre-Eternal, Eternal or Eternity! Allahu Akbar! (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar al-Akbar! (Mawlana Shaykh sits) Huuuuuu.

قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ

Qad khalat min qablikum.
Surely many passed before you. (Aali `Imraan, 3:137)

O People! An unknown Creation is coming from huge Dominion Oceans, appearing and disappearing, and no one knows. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits) First of all, we must be ashamed before our Lord, but people are drunk ones, forgetting that we are in the sight of our Creator and we must not do anything that He never likes. People lost their minds and are drunk ones, for nothing, and they are also using drugs.

O our Attenders! Throughout the east and west, from north up to south, this is our temporary home and no one is going to be here forever, finished! Now we are on a very small planet, dunya, and the Lord of Heavens (swt) granted us to be in existence. When we are coming in existence, it is suitable to first ask, "Who brought us into existence? From where are we coming, and to where are we going? Yesterday we were not in existence, today we are in existence, and tomorrow also we are going to disappear. We were 'disappeared' ones, then we appeared, and tomorrow we are going to disappear also! Who is making it like this?"

But people are drunk, which is from Shaytan. May Allah Almighty protect us from its trips and protect us from falling into its traps. But people are not hearing; they are becoming more drunk and even our physical being beside the greatness of this planet is nothing! But we are not using what we have been granted from Heavens. Our physical being is from this world, but our real being is from Heavens. Because people are drunk. Even Muslim territories, I am sorry to say, are not thinking on it. And if a believer thinks about something, the Lord of Heavens, the Creator, gives a key. Thinking is like a key. If you are thinking, you have been granted a key, and if you are using that key another opening comes to you, making you ask, "What is this?" If you think on it further, you will be granted another heavenly key for a new opening. If you plant one seed a tree grows, and perhaps at the beginning it will give a few fruits, but eventually it yield more. That is like our thoughts: if you are thinking, you shall see this one tree may grow to cover from east to west, and if you continue to think (expand your thoughts), more openings will come. However, no one can fully understand the holy words of the Seal of Prophets (s), who spoke and addressed people. What did he say?

تفكر ساعة خير من عبادة سبعين سنة

Tafakkur sa`atin khayrun min `ibaadati saba`een sannah.
Contemplation for one hour is better than 70 years of supererogatory worship. (Nuzhat al-Majalis)

To sit and think about realities, both within yourself and outside of yourself, is more important than to pray for 70 years, because that thinking opens endless Power Oceans. When you have been granted to reach those heavenly Power Oceans, you may receive more and more knowledge endlessly, and every time you receive more, you will behold the greatness of the Creator, and you will see yourself as so small. You will see you are becoming smaller and the Creator is becoming greater and greater in your sight! Allahu Akbar Jalla Jalaaluh! (Mawlana Shaykh stands) Allah Akbar Jalla Jalaaluh. Jalla `Azaamatuh wa laa ilaaha ghayruhu. (Mawlana Shaykh sits)

O our Attenders! If you are not using what is granted to you, you will be cursed, and cursing brings every trouble to people! Throughout the east and west, you will find there are endless troubles and no stability. People are fighting each other, asking to kill each other, which not from our heavenly being's wisdom, but it is from Shaytan. It is cheating people, running after them, taking them to wrong ways, bad works and bad activities, teaching people such foolishness, basing their entire capability on something that is not giving people happiness or honor or a sweet life! Shaytan is opening to people a door and saying, "O People! Come and see what is in it and what you can do with it! You must know your ability, capacity and power, which I am teaching you. O Mankind! Come, and I will show you so many ways that you will be so happy. I am teaching you technology so that you can do everything through it." That is the worst teaching from Shaytan to Mankind, and they think by doing everything with technology instead of manpower brings them happiness. Every trouble on Earth is coming through the expansion of technology!

Now people throughout east and west are making so many millions (of dollars), saying, "What can we do? We are hungry, thirsty people. We are without clothes." How can it be? And now they are asking their governments, "Give us work." Governments are saying, "We don't have work, we are doing everything with technology now, so go away (your jobs have been replaced)!" That is the reason countries are quarreling among themselves and with others. Shaytan is spreading technology, taking every capacity and ability from Mankind, leaving them in a big place, saying, "There is no work because we are doing everything through technology." And now nations are running to kill other nations, but as long as they are not kicking away technology, these troubles will increase and will never diminish. People will kill themselves and others with technology, with nuclear bombs; not millions but billions, destroying this planet. People are dying, nature is dying also, oceans have no more life, mountains are bringing fires, and Mankind is going to be cursed on this planet, for the honor of their technology! Leave that, and come and be friendly to nature! Nature is enough for you!

O Mankind! O jaahil, ignorant ones! As long as you are against nature you will die, you will kill, you will suffer, and it will not diminish. Technology will never finish, but it will give more troubles because technology is against nature. When Man is against nature through technology, nature is also coming against Mankind. Therefore, governments and technical experts who teach people so many things through technology, it will kill you, and you will kill Mankind! The main purpose of Shaytan, the most terrible enemy for Mankind, is to take away Mankind from Earth through technology, because technology is against nature. When nature dies, Mankind is going to die, finished, and all nations are now running on technology.

O People! If we do not return to friendliness towards nature and Allah Almighty gives you what you like, you are not going to be saved, but you will face so many kinds of troubles and miseries, and you will cry, and you will die. I am not hearing this point from anyone, from east to west, from professors to doctors to technological people, and even the Muslim world is not saying, "Come and be friendly with nature; it will protect you from every trouble here, and will protect you from falling into the Lord's Cursing Oceans."

O People! You must understand. I am a weak servant, but they are making the weakest servant speak and address, to me and to everyone. If you are saying it is wrong you are going to be in fire, burning yourself, and the Lord of Heavens is never happy to burn even one ant, and He is not happy that you kill each other!

وَلاَ تَقْتُلُواْ أَنفُسَكُمْ

Wa laa taqtuloo anfusakum

Nor kill (or destroy) yourselves. (An-Nisa, 4:29)

Don't kill yourselves! So many people say, "O Shaykh! We are coming from London, bringing our sons and daughters; make du`a for them to be successful." Ptuu (spit) on you and your concept of success! They are such jaahil, ignorant people, running to study in high schools where they teach to kill nature and make technology their flag! As much as technology is killing, they are like a virus, saying, "It doesn't matter, let them die. If there remains a handful of people, we will still be happy with technology." That is reality, but I am sorry to say eastern `ulamas and western technology experts are not making a balance to look at reality. We are just speaking about the real causes of troubles, miseries, and sufferings for Mankind.

O Mankind! If you like a happy, sweet, and good life here and Hereafter, leave technology and return to nature; be friendly with nature, which is like your mother who gives everything to you without tiring. Blessings from Heavens will never be exhausted or leave Man, but when they are imprisoned, there will always be troubles in this world.

May Allah forgive me, forgive you, and forgive His servants, for the honor of the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits)

Fatihah.

MSN.14 JAN 2011.PREPOST.ENG

The Mighty Wrath of Safar

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

14 January 2011   Lefke, Cyprus

 

(Mawlana Shaykh stands) Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillaahi 'l-hamd! Alfu salaat, alfu salaam `alayka yaa Sayyidi 'l-Awwaleen wa ’l-`Akhireen, Habeeb ar-Rabbi 'l-`Alameen, Noor al-`Arshillah, Sayyidi 'l-Awwaleen wa ’l-`Akhireen. Yaa Rasoolullah! Yaa Rabbee! Zidhu `izzan wa sharafan nooran wa surooran, sultaanan wa ridhwaana. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. (Mawlana Shaykh sits) Dastoor, yaa Sayyidee. Madad, yaa RijaalAllah.

 

As-salaamu `alaykum, attenders here, from east to west, from north to south, everyone, everywhere. La hawla wa la quwatta illa billahi 'l-`Aliyyu 'l-`Adheem.

O Mankind! All of us on this planet are now in a very terrible position and now is the time the period of Mankind on this planet is going to finish. wa li-kulli naqul haad, "For everything there is a limit." Here on this planet the period of Mankind is also in limits; everyone has a limit and when it finishes they must be taken away. And we have just reached the last point of limits appointed by heavenly power on this planet, and it is (comparitively) like an atom, not only this world, but our solar system is also like an atom. Bigger than that is our galaxy, which is also like an atom. And when we go deeper we may think that space is so huge. La hawla wa la quwatta illa billahi 'l-`Aliyyu 'l-`Adheem. Where is `abdul, (the) servant? You say! When I say “space,” what is it? Who knows? Who knows space, where it begins, where it ends? That is like an atom, and all life in it are like atoms. No one truly knows space; we are looking at something, but it is not really space, it is the Dominions of Allah Almighty's Majestic Oceans that no one knows!

 

We are such small ones and for everything there is a limit appointed by the Lord of Creation. When did Creation begin? It began from pre-Eternal. What is Eternal? What is pre-Eternal? What is Eternity? No one knows. People now are running for something that is tasteless, for themselves, not using what they have been granted by Allah Almighty. We have been granted understanding, but now Mankind is not running to understand and know. They are like completely drunken ones, because they are losing the chance granted to people only once. Here they come for understanding, but others occupy themselves with running after physical pleasure. That desire belongs to our material being, and finally our physical being will be buried from where it was taken and will be given back to the Earth.

A car cannot move by itself.. A 2011 car is a new fashion car but it is in a showroom. We say, "Why are you not running it?" They say, "We cannot, because we need a driver." Similarly, our bodies cannot move, cannot act, and cannot understand without a commander. We are commanding a car and it functions by the driver's command. Now we are also in need of a driver that may command and turn that car according to his intention. For example, if I am going from here to London, Turkey, Hijaz, or to Asia, that car cannot move by itself, but if one person is driving, he may program it to go where he asks. Without a driver or commander, our physical being cannot do anything. You know a driver or commander is not the same Creation as a car; a car is one thing and our soul is something else. Our souls are from Heavens and our bodies are from Earth. We must leave our physical beings here and our souls are going up.

O People! It is enough that you are drunk, but try not to be cheated by Shaytan! Shaytan is making people not to think on such realities, always saying, "Drink, drink, drink, drink more and enjoy more!" That is Shaytan's mission; it is trying to cheat. That is its real being, given when Allah (swt) commanded him to make sajdah to Adam (a). Shaytan ran away and said, "No! I am not making sajdah to that one." Allah Almighty said, "You are free, O cursed one! Go away and try to do what you can to them." From that day Shaytan was full with hatred for that command and said, "I am making them go on the wrong way. I will train them to not be Your servants, but to be my servants!" From being with angels in Heaven came demon Shaytan, true? Allah Almighty answered, "Do as you like! I am the Lord, and My command will continue, not yours!"

 

It is a big shame for Mankind that have been granted such honor, yet they are not thanking their Lord. They are running after their worst enemy, the most cursed one. Up to today, Shaytan is saying to Mankind, "You are powerful. I am teaching you every technology and with it you will be such powerful ones," and it is permitted by Almighty Allah to teach Mankind everything. Mankind runs after shaytanic technology, thinking, "We are able to do everything as we like. We are not in need of heavenly commands, we can do everything through our technology." Shaytan's agents are not leaving Mankind to learn that there are two kinds of powers: from Heavens and from Earth. Shaytan says, "Your power is now perfect and you can do everything as you like, no other power can stop you!"

But now they are reaching that point when floods and natural disasters are beginning around the world. Angels are saying to Mankind, “Where is your power? To where are you running? That is a very small flood, only one heavenly drop makes you underwater. We are not ordering, 'O Continents! Get down a little bit.' There is no need, but we are now using some drops from the power of Heavens and huge floods are coming.” It is going to be like Atlantis, under the ocean. Yet people are not taking wisdom from that. They are saying, "We can do this." You cannot do anything! Only one drop from Heavens is coming to show people that, “All perfect power and perfect will is with us, not with you!” One angel may do this but people are not trying to stop floods, they are only running away to find something to eat and drink. They are not saying, “O our Lord! Only You can do, and only You can forgive us. You are merciful to Your weak servants. O our Lord! We are weak servants, so grant us Your forgiveness.”

What we are speaking is happening now. Again Mt. Etna erupted in Italy. Fire is saying, "O People! Floods are coming on you. Beware! Under you is fire and over you is water!" yet they are not thinking. No one is saying anything, but it is a warning for all nations that no one can refuse. No one is going to mosques to say, "Stop it, O our Lord!" No one is running to churches to say, "O our Lord! Stop that cursing on us!" Where are the holy people? Where are the religious people? Why are they not saying anything? Now, the Muslim world's only focus is to say, "We must save Palestinians!" What is that? Does it take all nations to free Palestinians? They are free!! Why are you not looking from east to west, and from north to south? Shaytan is making their attention only on one square foot of space. There are five billion or more people and you are only focusing on one million people! What is that? Where is Islam? Is there no wisdom from Islam? Where are our religious people, and the holy people from Christianity, and the holy rabbis from Jerusalem? What are they doing? People are so proud, saying, "We have power." Use your power now! "Yes, we are using nuclear power." Yes, use what you can (if you have so much power)! May Allah forgive us.

O People! Come to your real understanding, don’t run after Shaytan. Shaytan is calling you to be destroyed in fire here and Hereafter. May Allah forgive us.

 

O People! Safar is a terrible month, coming with power. Of the twelve months it is the most terrible. Events are going to appear, and it has only been one week and this power is coming; I don't know what is coming behind it. May Allah Almighty forgive us, and send us a sultan to destroy Shaytan's sultanate, for the honor of the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits)

Fatihah.