MSN.5 NOV 2010.PREPOST.ENG

Paradise Opens for Those Who Seek It

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

5 November 2010   Lefke, Cyprus

 

Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi 'l-hamd!

Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi 'l-hamd!

 

Zidhu yaa Rabbee `izzan wa sharafan nooran wa surooran, sultaanan wa ridwaana. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, laa ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi 'l-hamd! Sayyidina Muhammadin `izzan wa sharafan nooran wa surooran. Alhamdullahi Rabbi 'l-`Alameen. Madad yaa Saahib al-Imdaad.

Yaa Kareem, yaa Rabbee. Yaa Rabb! Anta Rabb! Anta Rabbi 'l-`Alameen! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits) Wa subhanak la nuhsee thanaan `alayk kama athnayt `ala nafsik, “Glory be You, we have never praised You as you praised Yourself.”

 

As-salaamu `alaykum RijaalAllah... jannah. And we are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. 

 

As-salaamu `alaykum. Afshoo as-salaam baynakum. O our attenders throughout the east and west, may Allah forgive us.

O People! As-salaamu `alaykum. Blessings are coming with every word that Sayyidi 'l-Awwaleen wa ’l-Akhireen, the Seal of Prophets is just saying with honor. For 23 years those blessings have always been raining. On whom? On his Companions (r), men and women. They have been honored to be with the Seal of Prophets (s), the most glorified one in the Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits) Tooba! The biggest good tidings for those who are listening from Sahaabatihi 'l-kiraam, Companions of the Seal of Prophets, and Allah Almighty is not closing those blessings, they are always raining. Any time you are speaking and you are glorifying the Seal of Prophets (s), those blessings are coming on you also. Therefore, when you are saying, “As-salaamu `alaykum, alfu salaam,” say to each other, “As-salaamu `alaykum,” and don't use plastic words. We are trying to be obedient ones. (...)

From east and west, people are running. “Oh, to where are you running?” “To collect much more rubbish.” Everyone is running after zibal, rubbish, to make heaps. If it is a golden heap, it is rubbish also, but people running and then finished, empty. One of my schoolmasters entered a classroom to teach mathematics, looking (back and forth). All students ... now they lost it, and they make like a hedgehog? They lost it. Then they were combing their hair, now suflu, kuflu, the youngsters' heads are so ugly. Now it is a new fashion, half the hair must be green, and the second half must be red. Our schoolmaster used to say, “Such beautiful hair is on your head, but inside your head is empty!” Now people are like this. All nations, from first class to last class, have empty heads and they are running after dunya. For what? They like to make heaps of rubbish.

 

O People! Throughout the east and west, north to south, where are your teachers? Where are your `ulamas, scholars, in Islam, in Christianity, and in Judaism? Where are your scholars? Where? People are running after the rubbish of this world and you are not saying, "O People! You have not been created to collect dunya, but you have been created to be for the Lord of Heavens. You are not putting for inside, but only running after rubbish like a dog.”

 

"O hello, darling. Prepare tea for me before we eat something, because today I am so tired because I was reaching the top point of my goals that I was asking to reach today. I had no chance, I only caught a small heap."

“What is that?”

“It is rubbish of dunya.”

“Where can you find that rubbish?"

“O my darling! I may say to you, go to the WC (bathroom) and take more.”

 

This is dunya. No pope, rabbi or shaykh of Islam may say that is wrong. The challenge is to the whole world, with all people running after rubbish to make more rubbish heaps. If it is gold, rubbish, mashaa-Allah. They are saying, "We are reaching the last point of civilization." Mashaa-Allah, you are putting on an apron and running to collect more rubbish.

 

O People! That is the last point of Mankind, to reach their targets, to collect more WC collections. Congratulations for everyone! Popes, holy ones, rabbis, and `ulamas al-Azhar will be happy with this addressing. No one can say, "You are wrong, rubbish collector.”

 

There are some big cars in London, written on them, "Transportation," and everyone is saying, "This rubbish is for me! You go to the WC and take more from there. We shall make pyramids! Yes, and I am trying to make mine the most high pyramid." We are speaking now about millions, quadrillions, and pentillions of people are finished. They are never asking for which purpose the Creator created us. People are drunk for collecting of rubbish and they are making so many colors of rubbish, to say, "Not only do I have yellow, black, and blue, I have red also! White belongs to Heavens, but I have other colors." They are making a conference for 24 hours (...) Congratulations, once again, to all nations! Congratulations for rubbish collectors! Shaytan is saying, "Ba ba ba, you are first, no one is reaching to me. Look at the Internet, no one is reaching (...) I am the first one."

It is not suitable for a person who is glorified in the Heavens to run after rubbish. The Lord of Heavens did not create people to live for the rubbish of dunya! Yaa Rabbee, Anta Rabb! Anta Rabb! Send us a person to teach us with such heavenly perfume.

Once upon a time, I was in Madinat a-Munawwara, as-salaat wa 's-salaam `alaa nabiyina, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits) It may have been the season of Hajj. We were travelling and just coming to visit our Grandshaykh in his seclusion. One person came from India, whose age was 140 years, and his son was 90 years old. I was there also, and he was with Grandshaykh and kissing him and Grandshaykh said, "O Nazim! Look at that one; from his mouth is coming the best-smelling perfume." Look at billions and billions of people, their mouths are smelling like WC and the Angel of Death is coming and never likes that smoking, dirty smell. Laa hawla wa laa quwatta illa billahi 'l-`Aliyyu 'l-`Azheem. What are we going to do?

 

All people are running for saving more rubbish. Tawbah, astaghfirullah. That is the understanding of their civilization, to construct buildings with 70 floors, and another one competes, saying, "I will build 80 floors." Where are `ulamas in Islam? Why are they not warning them? No one is speaking, not Muslims, Christians, Jewish people and their rabbis. No one is opening their mouths to say, "O People! Don't try to collect more from the dirtiness and rubbish of this dunya." What shall we say? No one likes to say this.

 

May Allah forgive us and send us a holy guide for us, a holy imaam, to arrange our hearts and our understandings. All people are on the wrong understanding of Islam. Christianity and Judaism are leaving people to drink wine and eat pork. That is haraam, forbidden in Judaism, and Christianity. Also, Jesus Christ never ate pig! Can anyone bring an authority that Jesus Christ ate from pig's meat? No one can say that Moses drank wine and became drunk! It is never written in the Old Testament or in the  New Testament, so why are they doing that? They will be asked in the Divinely Presence, "Why did you drink that? It is dirty! Was there any command from Me to you, O Jewish people, O Christian people, O Muslim people?” How are more than half of Muslims drinking? Is there any authority with them? They are finished, they are rubbish collectors!

O Mankind throughout the east and west! Look after holy books once again, and what they are saying to you. He, Almighty Allah, said: (Mawlana Shaykh stands)

 

وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ

Wa maa khalaqta 'l-jinna wa 'l-ins illa li-ya`budoon.

I have only created jinns and men that they may serve Me. (51:56)

 

(Mawlana Shaykh sits) If anyone understands, I am happy. Even if one person understands and keeps himself or herself from the rubbish of dunya, I am going to be happy, but people are running after Shaytan, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem! If we are going to speak up to next week, from next week to next month, from next month to next year, it is not going to finish. We must change our understanding about our beliefs, which are blessed for believers to eat and drink, but so many things are forbidden for believers, but we are not teaching that. If you are saying something, why are you not teaching in schools the holy books, the Holy Qur'an for mu`mins? They are saying, "O Shaykh, this is a school building, not a monastery, mosque or synagogue. If you like, go there and learn." That is their answer. They will be grabbed by their necks and their heads will come in the WC!

 

May Allah forgive us. I think that it is more than enough. I am asking forgiveness for me and for you. And we are all sinners, asking the Lord of Heavens, send to us! Those good tidings just reached us, for Mahdi (a) to come first, and the second one who most nations like him and are keeping his ways, Dajjal, the Anti-Christ. And the whole world is also looking for Jesus Christ, `Isa (a) to come from Heavens and give to people what they have been needing. Whoever is asking for Paradise, the way to Paradise is opening. Those who are not asking for Paradise will quickly go to the Fire. May Allah forgive us.

O People! Tooboo il-Allah, we must ask for forgiveness! May Allah send us those true ones to change the ways of Mankind towards Paradise, or else all of us will be in the Fire. Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq.

All nations! Hear and take care for yourselves! O RijaalAllah, Holy Ones! Help us to take way rubbish from our hearts and to be good servants for our Creator, Allah Almighty. (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits) Bi jahi nabi al-kareem.

 

Fatihah.

 

MSN.4 NOV 2010.(25 MAR 1991).PREPOST.ENG

Love Gives Us Life

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

4 November 2010 London, UK

(Recorded 25 March 1991)

Tariqatunaa as-suhbah, our way or `ibarah, expression, is, "association with the shaykh". Shah Naqshband (q) said this 20,000 times in his holy life. Wa 'l-khayru fi 'l-jam`iyya, "and blessings will be with the meeting of brothers." Meetings that are in coffee shops, cinemas, or theaters are not blessed meetings. Blessed meetings are when people come together for the love of Allah (swt). And now Allah is running through hearts with dhikr, giving familiarity to people. If there is no dhikr, that meeting is also going to be useless! Dhikrullah takes away wildness from egos and brings familiarity. You may look after your brother; you like to see him every time, and that meeting is going to be blessed by Allah Almighty. There are such meetings, like we are here now, and you are not coming for me, but for what I am representing and what I have been granted from our Grandshaykh (q), and to him from the beloved servant, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), and to him from his Lord, Almighty Allah!

Divine Love Rivers run from endless Love Oceans of the Lord, Almighty Allah. If one drop comes on Earth, it will make everyone forget this life and be far away from themselves, drunk in the love of the Lord, Almighty Allah, and who represents the Almighty, Rasoolullah (s)! One drop is more than enough, not for this world, but for the universe! That river is running from that ocean to the heart of Rasoolullah (s), and he is going to give, to make his ummah drink. It is a meeting that awliyaa are asking for, to make people drink from them. And the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order, whose main pillar is Sayyidina Shah Naqshband (q), is saying that our tariqah is built on such an association, giving divine love through the heart of Prophet (s) to our hearts, thus giving divine love to people. Love makes people alive; without that divine love, people are dead!

Therefore, `Ashiq Yunus, one of the famous lovers for divine love, said, "Who reached to divine love through his heart is never going to die. Who dies is an animal." Animals die, not lovers, and if love is coming through our hearts, it is making every part of our body alive, every cell to be young and alive. People use creams to take away wrinkles; they are very anxious to take away this. Use divine creams, let divine love to come through every cell to be young, to be beloved ones and alive! You may even put them in the graveyard, but their bodies never change; they remain the same, fresh!

I met such a person in Damascus, Shaykh Hassan al-Jibawi (q), Allah bless him, who was buried 500 years ago. The government opened a road and wanted to take him from his tomb. I was there looking when people came to open his grave to take him to a new place. He was as if he was sleeping. If you rubbed his face, blood returned and his cheeks were red. His beard was full, not like my beard, too much white now. His skin was the same. When his grandson took him out, he put his hand under his head to put him in a new coffin in another graveyard. Then Shaykh Hassan (q) lightly slapped his grandson's cheek. His grandson was not an ordinary person; an ordinary person can't take this, he may faint. And he said, "O my Master!

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 those in authority among you. (an-Nisaa, 4:59)

He surrendered, saying, "O Master! Allah Almighty ordered to first obey Him Almighty; then secondly, to obey His Prophet (s); and third, to obey His rulers. I cannot (disobey)! They are rulers." And Shaykh Hassan surrendered.

Then they began taking him away a little further, maybe 200 yards. They had to pass through some traffic lights. It took them two hours because people were asking to reach his coffin, to carry it and to be honored by such a grand wali. And his coffin passed over the fingers of the carriers, but their fingers were not touching his coffin (it levitated slightly above their reach), taking him there. Grandshaykh (q) was there for seven years in seclusion in the same zawiya, same tekkia.The first night when Grandshaykh (q) entered Damascus they gave that dargah to him. Shaykh Hassan (q) entered and welcomed Grandshaykh (q), and Prophet (s) was there, saying "This is my descendant, Shaykh Hassan al-Jibawi (q)." Grandshaykh (q) was in that dargah for seven years. I met him there in 1944.

That divine love gives real life. They are coming on the Day of Resurrection with this body, but mostly people are going to be dust, finished. There is only one small cell at the back side of the body that is protected by angels. Even if the body falls in acid or is burned, that cell will be protected. And from that cell will come a new beginning, just how a body comes through the womb of the mother from one cell. And when Qiyamah, the Day of Judgment, comes, this world will be empty for forty days; there will be no life of any kind, finished! There will only be rocks and earth, no plants, no animals, no Mankind, no living creature whatsoever! Only Earth will appear as a vast plain. Entire mountains will be changed by huge and terrible earthquakes, making everything like sand. Grandshaykh (q) said, "You will not be able to find a stone even the size of this fist. All will be like sand. If a person looks from east to west, they will see no mountains, nothing. Those forty years will be empty."

Then there will come a rain. There is an ocean under the Divine Throne; its water will rain on Earth. It is the water of men. It will be raining continuously and reaching underground 70 yards. It will come down and the Earth will be drinking and drinking. Then those cells will open with that rain. And our bodies, instead of coming through the womb of mothers, from underground, Allah Almighty will create our bodies once again. But those people who are alive with Divine Love, no need! Their same bodies will appear on qiyamah, the Day of Resurrection, as they have been honored. They will come like suns shining, coming. They will be known through those lights. And they are awliyaa (saints) and anbiyaa (prophets), all of them will be known. Others are taking noor, lights from them. Everyone is reaching them, or one of them; they are like magnets. Every prophet and saint is carrying their ummah or carrying their followers. All Grandshaykhs have that; people running after them to reach to those lights. 

Therefore, the most important mission of prophets is to give Divine Love. When divine love comes, they will be happy (to fulfill) any order. They will be happy! Orders are never going to be a burden on them. Who loves, never feels a difficulty when he has been ordered by his Beloved one. When a person is in love with their Lord and with the Lord's beloved servant, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), they are happy and are in enjoyment with the Lord's orders.

Rab`ia al-`Adawiyya (q), one woman, one lady, was from 1300 years ago. Her name is always being remembered. Her name is very well known and has been spoken of her. So many emperors and sultans died and are now finished but her name is still living; and she was a lady. And through the Islamic world, through Muslims, I don't think that whoever is interested in their religion, has not heard about her. Everyone from east and west, now and before, is mentioning her. She is saying, "O my Lord, I am not that one who is worshiping You fearing from Hells or for Your Paradise, but I am worshiping You for Your love. For Your love! I love You, O my Lord! And I am full with love and I am worshiping and (still) I am not getting satisfied by worshiping." She was saying this to her Lord, even though she was praying 1,000 raka`at every night from sunset to sunrise. She could do it every month. She was so conscious, looking and praying. And every night in her cell where she was praying, there was a light coming from the Heavens, Allah blessing her. 

Try to worship Allah Almighty with love; that is living worship! I have seen in some places written "live music". What does it mean? It is not recorded, it is happening now. I like it. And people come through live broadcasts on television also, which means it is not from a cassette. In the same way, Allah Almighty is asking you to worship from your soul, not from a cassette. Our minds are running from east to west, but like a cassette, we are praying and reciting without meaning and awareness. When you worship Allah Almighty with awareness and intention, that will give you light, but you can't do that if there is no love from yourself. Why are people escaping worship? Because there is no love. If there is no love, how they can worship?

Allah Almighty is saying, "O People! I like you to worship Me from your love, not by force, no. I am not in need. But I like to be worshiped from love." And when you do it from love, that is the real taste and real sweetness of worship. Without that, it is tasteless.

We do not like to drink tea without sugar. Therefore, without love it is tasteless. Allah is not accepting from Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Without that love you are eating each other, killing and destroying! You are only in the appearance of a human, but in reality you are a beast! Be from human nature, don't be a beast. You may be English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Turkish, Polish, Spanish... Switzerlandish! (laughter). It is not important. You must have that divine love in your heart! Allah Almighty is not looking at your colors, your length or your weight, no. Allah Almighty is only looking to your heart to see, "Is My love there, or not? Is respect there, or not?" That is important!

Now we are trying to make worldwide teachings! Sayyidina Imam al-Mahdi (a) is there; we are small ones and he is a king-size one! Grandshaykh (q) will also plant love of the Lord through the hearts with his dhikr. May Allah bless you and forgive me.

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Wadood Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah

Fatihah.

 

MSN.4 NOV 2010.(25 MAR 1991).PREPOST.ENG

Love Gives Us Life

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

4 November 2010 London, UK

(Recorded 25 March 1991)

Tariqatunaa as-suhbah, our way or `ibarah, expression, is, "association with the shaykh". Shah Naqshband (q) said this 20,000 times in his holy life. Wa 'l-khayru fi 'l-jam`iyya, "and blessings will be with the meeting of brothers." Meetings that are in coffee shops, cinemas, or theaters are not blessed meetings. Blessed meetings are when people come together for the love of Allah (swt). And now Allah is running through hearts with dhikr, giving familiarity to people. If there is no dhikr, that meeting is also going to be useless! Dhikrullah takes away wildness from egos and brings familiarity. You may look after your brother; you like to see him every time, and that meeting is going to be blessed by Allah Almighty. There are such meetings, like we are here now, and you are not coming for me, but for what I am representing and what I have been granted from our Grandshaykh (q), and to him from the beloved servant, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), and to him from his Lord, Almighty Allah!

Divine Love Rivers run from endless Love Oceans of the Lord, Almighty Allah. If one drop comes on Earth, it will make everyone forget this life and be far away from themselves, drunk in the love of the Lord, Almighty Allah, and who represents the Almighty, Rasoolullah (s)! One drop is more than enough, not for this world, but for the universe! That river is running from that ocean to the heart of Rasoolullah (s), and he is going to give, to make his ummah drink. It is a meeting that awliyaa are asking for, to make people drink from them. And the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order, whose main pillar is Sayyidina Shah Naqshband (q), is saying that our tariqah is built on such an association, giving divine love through the heart of Prophet (s) to our hearts, thus giving divine love to people. Love makes people alive; without that divine love, people are dead!

Therefore, `Ashiq Yunus, one of the famous lovers for divine love, said, "Who reached to divine love through his heart is never going to die. Who dies is an animal." Animals die, not lovers, and if love is coming through our hearts, it is making every part of our body alive, every cell to be young and alive. People use creams to take away wrinkles; they are very anxious to take away this. Use divine creams, let divine love to come through every cell to be young, to be beloved ones and alive! You may even put them in the graveyard, but their bodies never change; they remain the same, fresh!

I met such a person in Damascus, Shaykh Hassan al-Jibawi (q), Allah bless him, who was buried 500 years ago. The government opened a road and wanted to take him from his tomb. I was there looking when people came to open his grave to take him to a new place. He was as if he was sleeping. If you rubbed his face, blood returned and his cheeks were red. His beard was full, not like my beard, too much white now. His skin was the same. When his grandson took him out, he put his hand under his head to put him in a new coffin in another graveyard. Then Shaykh Hassan (q) lightly slapped his grandson's cheek. His grandson was not an ordinary person; an ordinary person can't take this, he may faint. And he said, "O my Master!

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 those in authority among you. (an-Nisaa, 4:59)

He surrendered, saying, "O Master! Allah Almighty ordered to first obey Him Almighty; then secondly, to obey His Prophet (s); and third, to obey His rulers. I cannot (disobey)! They are rulers." And Shaykh Hassan surrendered.

Then they began taking him away a little further, maybe 200 yards. They had to pass through some traffic lights. It took them two hours because people were asking to reach his coffin, to carry it and to be honored by such a grand wali. And his coffin passed over the fingers of the carriers, but their fingers were not touching his coffin (it levitated slightly above their reach), taking him there. Grandshaykh (q) was there for seven years in seclusion in the same zawiya, same tekkia.The first night when Grandshaykh (q) entered Damascus they gave that dargah to him. Shaykh Hassan (q) entered and welcomed Grandshaykh (q), and Prophet (s) was there, saying "This is my descendant, Shaykh Hassan al-Jibawi (q)." Grandshaykh (q) was in that dargah for seven years. I met him there in 1944.

That divine love gives real life. They are coming on the Day of Resurrection with this body, but mostly people are going to be dust, finished. There is only one small cell at the back side of the body that is protected by angels. Even if the body falls in acid or is burned, that cell will be protected. And from that cell will come a new beginning, just how a body comes through the womb of the mother from one cell. And when Qiyamah, the Day of Judgment, comes, this world will be empty for forty days; there will be no life of any kind, finished! There will only be rocks and earth, no plants, no animals, no Mankind, no living creature whatsoever! Only Earth will appear as a vast plain. Entire mountains will be changed by huge and terrible earthquakes, making everything like sand. Grandshaykh (q) said, "You will not be able to find a stone even the size of this fist. All will be like sand. If a person looks from east to west, they will see no mountains, nothing. Those forty years will be empty."

Then there will come a rain. There is an ocean under the Divine Throne; its water will rain on Earth. It is the water of men. It will be raining continuously and reaching underground 70 yards. It will come down and the Earth will be drinking and drinking. Then those cells will open with that rain. And our bodies, instead of coming through the womb of mothers, from underground, Allah Almighty will create our bodies once again. But those people who are alive with Divine Love, no need! Their same bodies will appear on qiyamah, the Day of Resurrection, as they have been honored. They will come like suns shining, coming. They will be known through those lights. And they are awliyaa (saints) and anbiyaa (prophets), all of them will be known. Others are taking noor, lights from them. Everyone is reaching them, or one of them; they are like magnets. Every prophet and saint is carrying their ummah or carrying their followers. All Grandshaykhs have that; people running after them to reach to those lights. 

Therefore, the most important mission of prophets is to give Divine Love. When divine love comes, they will be happy (to fulfill) any order. They will be happy! Orders are never going to be a burden on them. Who loves, never feels a difficulty when he has been ordered by his Beloved one. When a person is in love with their Lord and with the Lord's beloved servant, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), they are happy and are in enjoyment with the Lord's orders.

Rab`ia al-`Adawiyya (q), one woman, one lady, was from 1300 years ago. Her name is always being remembered. Her name is very well known and has been spoken of her. So many emperors and sultans died and are now finished but her name is still living; and she was a lady. And through the Islamic world, through Muslims, I don't think that whoever is interested in their religion, has not heard about her. Everyone from east and west, now and before, is mentioning her. She is saying, "O my Lord, I am not that one who is worshiping You fearing from Hells or for Your Paradise, but I am worshiping You for Your love. For Your love! I love You, O my Lord! And I am full with love and I am worshiping and (still) I am not getting satisfied by worshiping." She was saying this to her Lord, even though she was praying 1,000 raka`at every night from sunset to sunrise. She could do it every month. She was so conscious, looking and praying. And every night in her cell where she was praying, there was a light coming from the Heavens, Allah blessing her. 

Try to worship Allah Almighty with love; that is living worship! I have seen in some places written "live music". What does it mean? It is not recorded, it is happening now. I like it. And people come through live broadcasts on television also, which means it is not from a cassette. In the same way, Allah Almighty is asking you to worship from your soul, not from a cassette. Our minds are running from east to west, but like a cassette, we are praying and reciting without meaning and awareness. When you worship Allah Almighty with awareness and intention, that will give you light, but you can't do that if there is no love from yourself. Why are people escaping worship? Because there is no love. If there is no love, how they can worship?

Allah Almighty is saying, "O People! I like you to worship Me from your love, not by force, no. I am not in need. But I like to be worshiped from love." And when you do it from love, that is the real taste and real sweetness of worship. Without that, it is tasteless.

We do not like to drink tea without sugar. Therefore, without love it is tasteless. Allah is not accepting from Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Without that love you are eating each other, killing and destroying! You are only in the appearance of a human, but in reality you are a beast! Be from human nature, don't be a beast. You may be English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Turkish, Polish, Spanish... Switzerlandish! (laughter). It is not important. You must have that divine love in your heart! Allah Almighty is not looking at your colors, your length or your weight, no. Allah Almighty is only looking to your heart to see, "Is My love there, or not? Is respect there, or not?" That is important!

Now we are trying to make worldwide teachings! Sayyidina Imam al-Mahdi (a) is there; we are small ones and he is a king-size one! Grandshaykh (q) will also plant love of the Lord through the hearts with his dhikr. May Allah bless you and forgive me.

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Wadood Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah

Fatihah.

 

MSN.6 NOV 2010.(13 JAN 2003).PREPOST.ENG

Worlds of Imagination and Dreams

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

13 January 2003  Lefke, Cyprus

 

Dastoor yaa Sayyidee, yaa Sultan al-Awliya! Madad, yaa Saahib al-‘Imdaad. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.

We must hurry to begin, saying, Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem, because it must be the title for every meeting, and every meeting must be for the pleasure of the Lord of Heavens, Allah Almighty. You must not be heedless. Therefore, Prophet (s) is advising and ordering his nation to begin everything, every action or every moment, with Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem makes a servant to be an awakened servant, not heedless. Heavenly support never reaches heedless people. If one is not saying, Bismillahi r-Rahmani r'Raheem, he is heedless and, therefore, left to himself or herself. What can he or she do with his very short possibility, very short activity, very short power?

Everyone has been given a battery to use in this life, but if he is not asking to reach heavenly power stations, day by day the power of that battery becomes less and less, until you are going see that person as finished, like a walking dead figure. Now, generally speaking, people are dead figures, not alive, because their batteries have reached the limit of their physical beings which only gives limited support. After that they finish, and the battery loses power. Therefore, those who are imprisoned in their physical beings are never thinking or never interested in spiritual, heavenly support. They are going to come down and down until they are finished and vanish. Now you may say 99% of people are in such a way, like dead figures walking on Earth, day-by-day coming down and finishing. But for those to whom heavenly support comes for their spirituality, they are living batteries asking to reach toward Heavens, to touch and reach their main positions where divine, heavenly power runs in them. Therefore, they do not get tired nor do they show a vision of a dead figure, no.

All prophets and awliyaa, saints, never show a vision of a dead figure. Others do, and day-by-day they are coming down. Therefore, I am hurrying to say first, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem, to clean the way. Then saying, Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. That it is to first put a switch there to have running power. Therefore, all dead figures' representatives will be taken away in Armageddon, finished! Living dead figures will be taken away. Satanic powers can only affect dead figures; satanic teachings or drive never work on people if they are not dead figures. Satanic affects, movements, or activities pass only on dead figures, and for living figures it is prevented, never giving a way to assault you with satanic hegemony, no. 

Therefore, ahraar, free people, awliyaa, are free from any satanic affect; they cannot be affected. That is a preface for Shaykh Abdul Jalil, may Allah bless our meetings and give us good understanding, which can only come through the ways of saints. You can't reach the skies without a plane, with which your figure goes up. If you are not using a plane, you can't go up. If you are not using spiritual power from saints, you can't reach your heavenly stations. SubhaanAllah! Endless, absolute glory is for Allah Almighty, Ta'ala, the Most Exalted! Now we are asking from our heavenly headquarters to give us, to awaken our spirituality. Sometimes I am looking, seeing two cars close to each other and a wire is connected from one to the second one. And you can see or hear nothing but after five minutes, they are saying, "It is okay now." Before five minutes, it was not moving but after that, it starts to move. Unseen, untouched, unheard power comes through that wire, from one car to the other. We can't see it, hear it or touch it, but after a while we say, “It's okay and moving." 

Therefore, in these associations, when you are making rabitah, keeping your hearts with our grandshaykh--Saahibul Majlis, Owner of the Association, by whose name this meeting is coming into existence--you may ask, "Why are you not saying this meeting is going to come in existence by Allah?" Allah (swt) is so big, so great, beyond your imagination! Allah Almighty granted Mankind a mind, and from it all people of the world indulge in their mindly productions! Twenty-first century people use their imaginations to make an imaginary world for children with figures seen on TV and computers. They are making so many things from their imaginations for children, and cartoon cinema. They are never thinking that if their imagination was useless, Allah (swt) would not have given it to Man!

Why is He giving us the power of imagination if it is useless? He may close that mind and no one can imagine anything, but that means there must be something about it. You have never heard this point before. Is it true, professor?

رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقْتَ هَذا بَاطِلاً

Rabbana ma khalaqta hadha baatilan,

O our Lord, You have not created this world purposeless", (Al-`Imran, 3:191)

"Worlds of imagination," for what is it created and granted to Mankind, if it is without any benefit? Allah (swt) is saying, "I created everything for some purpose and benefit for Mankind because they are My caliphs on Earth." But now people are imprisoning themselves through their five senses and making orders or rules, and pressure on their people, saying, "You must not think beyond this positive knowledge." Yes, finished. By force, you must think that beyond the five senses there is nothing!

Allah Almighty refuses this by giving us unlimited, untouched worlds of imagination. And imagination gives Man endless areas to run on, to live in, to be in that imagination. But they are forcing people by saying, “Beyond our positive knowledge you must not believe anything.” What about dreams? Dreams are another world, untouched. Anyone can see without using his eyes, can hear without their ears, can run without their legs, can touch and catch without their hands. What is that, I am asking. How are you forcing people to say that there is nothing beyond positive, touched worlds, to ignore that? What about the world of imagination and dreams, which have philosophical basis. This is a way so people understand. I am going to destroy the falsehood of those "positive-thinking" people! If there is no meaning for dreams, Allah Almighty would never grant them to Mankind! Animals and no other creatures, not even angels, dream. Only Mankind has dreams, and when they awaken, if it was useless then Man would have never been granted the ability to imagine! Therefore, there is another untouched world for imagination.

We are coming to this point: we said Allah Almighty's Greatness is beyond and beyond and beyond! If you can link countless "imagination worlds" to each other, you may find Allah Almighty's Reality is beyond that. Any point you reach where you conclude, "At this point I know Allah," He is not that, because anything you can understand cannot be Allah (swt)! He is beyond our imaginings! Therefore, even if you link the imagination of countless people and creatures to give a sample of Allah Almighty's Greatness, you still can't reach it, because that greatness is never the same as the Greatness of Allah Almighty! It can never and will never be!

Therefore, don't say Allah Almighty will give that power to His servants. The grant to one blessed person is like an atom from endless oceans of power from Allah Almighty, and that smallest point from endless oceans may drown everything. From endless Greatness Oceans, the smallest of the smallest points, smaller than an atom, may fill universes, and through that smallest mass of an atom, billions or trillions or quadrillions of universes swim! This is just to give an example for His Greatness on our level to understand; you cant't speak more than that. Haddi 'l-makhlooq, the limit of the creature can never reach, hadda 'l-Khaliq, the Reality of the Creator, even through imagination! Everything is granted to us only on our creatures' level, and that will never be at the Creator's level.

May Allah forgive me. 

Therefore, the perfect adab for everyone is to ask for and look for an authorized person.You can't find all the springs; you must search for where they are, for they are not everywhere, no. The heavenly springs are only on the level of Creation, not beyond. Millions or billions or trillions of Heavens may come into existence solely by His order, "Be!" People, particularly Christians, make posters to show our Lord, astaghfirullah, trying to make the Creator on the level of creatures! What is that? Finished! And now Muslims can't understand what we are saying, and their thinking is like the Christians' thinking. 

May Allah forgive us. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar wa lillahi 'l-hamd, for the honor of His most beloved servant, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)!

Fatihah

MSN.3 NOV 2010.(19 MAR 1991).PREPOST.ENG

The Great War, Armageddon

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

19 March 1991 |  London, UK

(Posted 3 November 2010)

 

(..weak audio...) A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Allah, Allah ... yaa RijaalAllah. He is coming from Africa to meet Grandshaykh (q), but he passed away. I am inheriting his cape. ... come down … he was signing to ... Kenya. Kenya, yes. O yaa Rabbee, madad yaa Sultan al-Awliya. Tariqatuna as-suhbah. Grandshaykh said the main pillar of most-distinguished Sufi Order is Sayyidina Shah Naqshband (q). May Allah bless you! The Naqshbandi Order is standing up like a staff, and our Grandshaykh (q) is the last and complete, Allah's blessings on him. We hope that we will meet him here, before the Hereafter.

Coming is `asrul-ajaa'ib wal-gharaa'ib, the time of mysteries and wonders; ghufran, Sayyidina Muhammad (s). This is up to the time of Mahdi (a) and will be on sunnatullah, natural laws or rules. It was only for prophets and saints, saying time-by-time they were cutting that and showing qudratullah, the Heavenly Power. Ordinarily no one was using it except prophets when they called people to believe in them. People asked them, “What is your proof that you have been sent by Allah Almighty?” And then Allah Almighty authorized them with miraculous power that belong to Heavens, khaariqan lil-`adaat, "breaking the usual." But in the 20th century awliya were enabled and they were using that miraculous power. After the second World War, it is finished; only one, Grandshaykh (q), was using it.

One must be always trying not to be hopeless; one must be clear. Sayyidina Mahdi (a) is Saahib al-Karamaat, "Master of Miracles." He will use all miraculous powers; natural rules will end, all the usual rules will break, and unusual powers will come. The first to break will be technology, making it rubbish and throwing it in the ocean because Mankind is too proud with technology and trembling! Huuuuu. That time now is reaching, and when a great war begins it will carry up to Mahdi (a), known as "Armageddon" in other holy books. When it begins that miraculous power, all authorized awliya will begin to use that power. I was there and Grandshaykh said something about that power and good tidings for people. Everyone who wears a turban, nothing (bad) will come on him, finished!

O People with heavenly turbans! It is impossible, even if bombs fall like rain, they will never come on him! No one can be touched by Armageddon if he is wearing a turban. Angels and jinn will give directions to destroy huge weapons. They are saying the Patriarch is bringing it down, and second will be Russians, (then) the Scots. Yes, it is true. Understanding? It will be protected, everyone. If you fear, a beard is not enough, shalwar is not enough, but the turban, the crown of Prophet (s) is enough! For ladies, hijab will protect them, but women and men with uncovered heads will go away. Who wears a turban can't be touched, not by a bullet or anything (to injure him). He will be protected and surrounded with heavenly powers, because heavenly powers will be enabled from the beginning of Armageddon. Qudratullah will be enabled at the time of Mahdi, (a), may Allah grant to you at this time. All sahaabah (r) were asking, and after them all awliyas are asking to be in the time of Mahdi (a), but it is passing through a very difficult tunnel. You can't imagine the fear and the terribleness of that tunnel through which people pass to reach the time of Mahdi (a)!

Now step by step, the whole world is approaching what Grandshaykh refers to as "the Great War of Armageddon." It will happen suddenly when people are speaking of peace, and I was wondering, when will be the time of peace? If we are saying our time is in peace, nothing happens. So many things are going on, but how will it be? Now I understand, before the Iraqi Gulf War started, people were talking about and hoping for peace, but that big war came suddenly and no one could prevent it. Suddenly, every balance is going to be changed. Suddenly, every idea for peace is going to be changed into war. Suddenly, people's minds are going to be changed towards war. Suddenly, the hearts of people are going to be prepared for war! Muqallib al-quloob, who is looking after the hearts of servants, in a second changes the hearts of all people, and it will be what the Seal of Prophets (s) said about it; this world will be changed and people will be renewed. Everything needs renewment and that renewment will come with Mahdi (a)!

Soon all things are going to be prepared. Therefore, I am looking after `Eid to the month of Shawwal, at what will happen in Shawwal, Dhul Qa`dah, Dhul Hijjah, up to 10th Muharram. If the Divine Order is coming on 10th Muharram, Sayyidina Mahdi (a) must come! And so many people are just delivered from here to the Hereafter, billions will be transferred and a new generation is coming. Once Grandshaykh showed me at night a view he was attending for a ceremony somewhere. And in front of him was passing someone new, with a short beard, young people by the millions. He said to me, "O my son! These are those whom you will reach, to look after them, mostly from Russia." They are blond people, and I watched them. "They will be saved, blessed, and protected. They are coming to be for Mahdi (a)." Then I understood that those growing up to twenty years old, mostly they will be protected. After that, up to thirty years old will be half protected; up to forty years old a lot of people will be protected; after reaching forty years of age, mostly men will be taken from that generation, not women.

What I mean to say is, renewment is coming and all people after forty years, mostly their minds and their hearts are occupied by shaytanic ideas and they have no more good attributes or characteristics, which is difficult to change. Therefore, they will be transferred to akhirah, to the Next Life. Only who have been changed, and who keeps the ways of tariqahs will be protected and will be with Sayyidina Mahdi (a)! But mostly new ones and youngsters will be protected, as no account is written for them up to twenty years; they remain clean.

May Allah forgive us and clean us! Cleanliness is a main condition for being protected. Dirty ones will never be protected as they are put in the dustbin and taken away. Try to be clean ones with clean minds, hearts, bodies, tongues, work, and clean intention! If not, like garbage, you will be taken away. Who becomes unclean cannot be at the time of Mahdi (a), when there will be no more unclean people; only there will be Paradise people at the time of Mahdi (a) and no more Hell's people, finished! May Allah grant you to be Paradise people, and forgive me.

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah

Ilaa sharafan Nabi...

MSH.5 NOV 2010.Khutbah.PREPOST.ENG

Importance of the First Ten Days of Dhul-Hijjah
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
5 November 2010 Burton, Michigan
Jumu`ah Khutbah at As-Siddiq Mosque

Alhamdulillah...man yahdilllah fa la mudilla lahu wa man yudlil fa la haadiya lahu wa ashadu an laa ilaaha illa-Llah wahdahu la shareek lahu wa ash-hadu anna Sayyidina Muhammad (s) Rasoolullah... Ayyuhal-mu`minoon al-haadiroon ittaqullah wa ati`ooh.

O Muslims, Believers! We are always asking Allah (swt) to forgive us. Why do we pray? Why do we fast? Why do we go for Hajj? Why do we give zakaat? Why do we believe in tawheed? Is it necessary or not? Will Allah (swt) increase us if we pray or decrease us if we don't? Al-`adhamatulillah, Grandeur is for Allah! He is independent of everything! When Allah says, "Pray five prayers," it is for our benefit, not for His. If we fast, it is for our benefit. If we do Hajj, it is for our benefit. If we have imaan, it is for our benefit. If we reach a state of ihsaan, then it is for our benefit. So, if it all is for our benefit, as we agree, then we have to do as much as we can. As you are doing for dunya, you must also do for your akhirah. You must not say, "I will do a little," as in dunya you don't say, "I will work a little;" we work as hard as we can, we work day and night to have better life. No one is saying not to do that, but at least do for akhirah. For our akhirah we do a little, but for dunya we do too much.

What did Sayyidina `Ali say? One day he said to Sahaabat al-kiraam(r), "The whole Qur'an and the whole ahadeeth focus on one point." The whole message, all prophets with their religions that Allah Almighty sent them with, and what Allah sent Sayyidina Muhammad (s) with all depend on one point, after which there is no honey. If there are millions of bees with no queen, there is no honey. So that is the queen of the bees. With that point you get the point of worship. So they told him, "Yaa Sayyidina `Ali, say it!" And he said,    راس الحكمة مخاة الله   raas al-hikmata makhaafatullah, "The head of all wisdom from the message is to know that Allah is seeing you and is going to judge you."

Makhaafatullah is fear of Allah, and it takes two meanings: one is fear of His punishment, and the other is fear of losing His love. If you have no fear then do as you like, but if we are Muslims we know we are going to be judged, then we must know what we are doing daily, and we must say, "Astaghfirullah," as we are doing sins daily. So this is the main point: to fear Allah. We fear the police will pull us over on the street and give us a ticket, but we don't fear that Allah will pull us over! I am not speaking to you and not including myself, and we are not speaking to non-Muslims, I am speaking to Muslims. Allah (swt) said:

اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَانشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ

Iqtarabati's-sa`at wanshaq al-qamar.
The Hour approached and the moon split. (54:1)

And we as Muslims believe that, and we believe what the Holy Qur'an came with, but why are we not trying to do better? Okay, we are praying, fasting, and coming to Jumu`ah, but we should do better!

اعمل لدنياك كانك تغيش ابدا وعمل لاخرتك كانك تموت غدا

Sayyidina `Ali said, `Amal li-dunyaaka ka-annaka ta`aeeshoo abadan wa `amal li- akhiratika ka-annaka tamootu ghadan.
Work for dunya as if you are going to live forever, and work for akhirah as if you are dying tomorrow.

He said, from one side do for dunya as if you will live forever, but don't forget to do for akhirah as if you are dying tomorrow. If someone has cancer and knows he is dying in two or three months, then he works to die in a way in which Allah (swt) is happy with him. If in one moment Allah is happy with you, it is enough to forgive all your sins!  He is the Lord of Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! So you don't know, keep doing (goodness and worship).

Allah (swt) said:

وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَقُولُ رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَة ً وَفِي الآخِرَةِ حَسَنَة ً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّار

wa minhum man yaqoolu rabbanaa aatina fee ad-dunyaa hasanatan wa fee al-aakhirati hasanatan wa qinaa `adhaaba an-naar.
And of them there are some who say, "Our Lord! Give us in this world what is good and in the Hereafter what is good, and save us from the torment of the Fire! (Al-Baqarah 2:201)

Say it! "O our Lord! Give us in this life a reward, something, and in the Next Life give us hasanat." Allah balanced between dunya and akhirah, since we are going to see that day that we cannot run from; wherever we are, the Angel of Death is coming to take our souls, so let us prepare ourselves! Those who did not go to Hajj, prepare to go, and those who did already, they may do it again.

ما من أيام العمل الصالح فيها أحب إلى الله من هذه الأيام -يعني الأيام العشر- قالوا يا رسول الله ولا الجهاد في سبيل الله قال ولا الجهاد في سبيل الله إلا رجل خرج بنفسه وماله ثم لم يرجع من ذلك بشيء

As the Prophet (s) said, related from Ibn Abbas (r), maa min ayaamin al-`amal as-salihu feeha ahab ila-allahi min hadhihi 'l-ayaam, "And to prepare is easy. ... "

O Muslims! Dhul-Hijjah, the month of Hajj, is coming in two days. We are under one obligation of the five pillars of Islam. Those who did not go for Hajj must prepare to go, today, tomorrow, or next year, but make your intention and prepare to go. (Prophet [s]said to the Sahaabah [r]) there are no other days during the year that if you do a goodness, Allah is more happy with it. And they asked, "Even the jihad in the way of Allah?" And Prophet (s) said, wa laa al-jihaadu fee sabeelillah. "And not even the jihaad in the way of Allah." It means these ten days are more important than that, so try to do dhikr as much as possible, of hasbunallah rabbunallah, laa ilaaha illa-Llah, and others, what comes to the heart.

These ten days are coming and I call the attention to the day of Arafat. for of those who are not going to Hajj. On that day, the ninth Dhul-Hijjah, the hujjaaj go out from Mecca to Arafat and stand and make du`a the whole day, and then go to Muzdalifah. Those staying home asked the Prophet (s) about fasting that day. He said it is kafaaratan li sanatayn, forgiveness for two years. For example, if `Eid is Tuesday, who fasts on Monday is going to have his sins waived for the past year and for the coming year. Let us make the intention now to fast that day, then Allah (swt) will forgive you for what came before and what will come in the next year. As Sayyidina `Ali said, work as much as you can for dunya but don't forget you are going to die. So we fast that day, and look, taharar, to find the days that are most valuable to fast, pray or worship, as you don't know when the Angel of Death will come.

Abu Hurayrah (r) related that the Prophet (s) said, al-`umratu li 'l-`umratu kaffaaratan maa baynahuma "From one Umrah to another is expiation for what is in between them." So it is good to keep that in mind, as you don't know when a chance will come to go for Umrah.

Abu Hurayrah (r) also related that the Prophet (s) said, "The accepted reward for Hajj is Paradise, al-hajj al-mabrour.So anyone who does Hajj without doing anything that is not accepted, the reward of that is Paradise. May Allah take us to Paradise, for if there are questions they will never end. May Allah send us to Paradise with no account! And don't think we are far from that day when He will call everyone to Judgment! Allah said:

إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا وَأَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقَالَهَا وَقَالَ الْإِنسَانُ مَا لَهَا

idha zulzilat al-ardu zilzaalah, wa qaalat al-insaanu maa laha..."
When the earth quakes with her [last] mighty quaking and [when] the earth yields up her burdens,and man cries out, "What has happened to her?" (Zalzala, 99:1-3)

There is coming a day when Allah will shake this whole Earth once, and everyone will be upside down, and Allah will bring everyone who died to question them. If they do one atom's-weight of goodness they will see it, and if they did one atom's-weight of bad they will find it."

We ask Allah to forgive us with His Mercy!

wa ya fawzan lil-mustaghfireen istaghfirullah.

(Mawlana sits) Du`a.

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

Inn-Allaha wa malaa'ikatahu yusalloona `ala an-nabi. yaa ayyuhalladheena aamanoo salloo `alayhi wa sallimoo tasleemah.

Verily, God and His angels bless the Prophet; hence,O you who have attained to faith, bless him and give yourselves up (to his guidance) in utter self-surrender! (33:56)

Du`a

[End]

MSN.2 NOV 2010.PREPOST.ENG

We are All Equal in Servanthood
Sultan al-Awliya
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani
Broadcast: 2 November 2010

Recorded:
16 March 1991 (Ramadan)
Peckham Mosque, London, UK

A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. Ash-hadu 'ana Muhammadan abduhu wa Rasooluh. Allahuma salli wa salim wa barik 'ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa `ala aalihi wa barik was sallam. Huuu. la ilaha illa-Llah. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwatta illa billahi 'l-`Aliyyu 'l-`Adheem.

May Allah bless you and forgive me. We are thanking Allah Almighty once again that granting us once again to reach this holiest month. The month of Ramadan is the "month of mercy." Marhaban ahlan wa sahlan ya shahr ar-rahmah! Greeting and welcome, O month of mercy! Madad, yaa Sultan al-Anbiya. We are meeting here for the honor of the beloved Prophet of the Lord, Allah Almighty, whom He sent to His servants Sayyidina Muhammad (s). May Allah give him more honor here and Hereafter. He is the most respected, most honored one among all Mankind. He is beloved, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)!

We shall look throughout this holy month at what will be granted daily to our people, to our brothers and sisters, true mu'minaat. We are in need of some knowledge. You have science, what Mankind thinks in their heads from science fields. Science will never be an ocean, but divine knowledge is an ocean! We can say "divine knowledge," but we are not saying "divine science," as science will never be divine! Divine knowledge opens divine wisdoms.

People think (according to) science, and the fruit of science is technology. Therefore they are in depression; one after one is falling in depression and technology can't take people out of depression. There is no treatment for Mankind through science, not for their troubles, depression, suffering, miseries, or from their problems! The only answer for their problems is through heavenly knowledge; one may treat Mankind's sufferings and miseries with heavenly knowledge and nothing else. Don't think that pills, tablets, or spirits "cure" people; it is impossible! Don't think that drugs may give people confidence, satisfaction, pleasure and happiness. Never!

Therefore, we are saying, now Mankind needs knowledge that comes from Heavens through prophets, through illuminated people. When that knowledge comes, they will become enlightened and illuminated. You must if everything is alright or not. When lights are coming, people are illuminated, like the beam of a flashlight. If heavenly knowledge comes to a person, it must show itself through space. If you can see that light, you must understand that heavenly knowledge is running through that one's heart.

We are in need of such knowledge, to arrange our inner lives and to be able to fix our relations from Earth to Heavens. As long as we are on Earth without a connection to Heavens, we are like other creatures, with no value. There is value for Mankind as long as they may reach to Heavens. All prophets came from Heavens, but they are living on Earth to make our connections to Heavens easy. If they are not coming from Heavens no one can reach Heavens! And also after prophets, there must be someone whose connection is to Heavens and if anyone is asking to reach Heavens then everyone has a heavenly station. The Creator granted to everyone, women or men, divine stations in Heavens, and all of Heavens are in the Divine Presence. The Lord created Mankind and granted them their heavenly stations in the Divine Presence. What we are speaking about is knowledge from Heavens that reached to prophets and traditional knowledge belongs to Heavens; what we are saying belongs to those heavenly oceans. Don't ask to try it by scientific methods; that will never give proof for knowledge. Science is on Earth and knowledge is in Heavens. Science arranges your life on Earth, and heavenly knowledge arranges your heavenly life. Knowledge surrounds all science, which is a drop from the oceans of knowledge.

Therefore, when a person enters Knowledge Oceans, he or she finds confidence and pleasure, but science makes him in a very short distance; it imprisons people! We are in need of that heavenly connections and have been offered a way to reach our heavenly stations, where everyone's names are written on their individual, private, special stations: That is for this one, that is for that one." There, men and women are equal. Here on Earth, they are asking for equality between men and women. Women are asking to be equal to men here in this life, but the Creator is making different characteristics for men and women. If a person is using his characteristics from being male, he going to be another creature. If a woman is using her characteristics for being male, she is going to be another strange creature. Therefore, Allah Almighty created a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. If He Almighty was asking them to be equal, He would create everyone to be only men or only women! He created men and women, two kinds, and each one is independent in their creation. There is no equality in their creation, but as human beings, all of them are the same; all are servants, and servanthood is making them equal in the Divine Presence.

But now women are asking for another kind of equality, which is foolish, useless, and which has no value. Their equality is in their servanthood in the Divine Presence! Allah Almighty is asking for men and women to perfect their servanthood. Allah Almighty is asking from all human beings to be servants, and servanthood is the true equality among men and women. All of them have been offered to be servants, and there is no higher honor than to be servants to the Lord, Allah Almighty. But now women think if they do man's work that it will be an honor for them. They are becoming engineers, soldiers. They think that is an honor for them because men are doing all these things and they are asking, "Why are we not going to be doctors or engineers? We must be." That is short-mindedness with little thinking. They do not understand what Allah Almighty is giving to all Mankind. The highest honor is to be His servant! His Majesty, the King, sultans, emperors, all of them are proud to be accepted by the Lord, Allah Almighty, as His servant.

Her Majesty the Queen, here in London, may Allah bless her, is proud to be a servant of the Church of England. She refers to herself as "servant." Emperors were also servants, and in Islam all of them were servants of the Lord, Allah Almighty. They never knew any higher rank than servant of the Lord, Allah Almighty, and Allah grants them equality by making all of them His servants. But they are fighting, saying, "Why we can't be like men, with equality?" You can't be like man because your creation is to be a woman, and you have been honored to be a servant, finished! What promise did the mother of Sayyida Maryam (a) make to Allah? All of you must know it. Aali `Imraan, the lady of `Imraan, when she was pregnant, prayed, "That which I am carrying, I am giving to be a servant of the Lord, Allah Almighty, in Jerusalem." She thought it would be a son. The Holy Qur'an is giving every evidence for women and men to be fully confident (in their nature). We are speaking from knowledge, not from my stomach or from my head, but from my heart. She asked for what she was carrying (in her womb) to be the Lord's servant. When she gave birth, she was very surprised, saying, "O my Lord! What happened? I can't keep my promise as I have a daughter," and she was thinking to throw it away. But Allah Almighty is giving an example for Mankind, saying, "No, I am accepting her as a servant in Bayt al-Muqqadas (the Holy House in Jerusalem)." That means Allah Almighty is honoring all women, accepting them as a servant, as a son is accepted!

That girl, Sayyida Maryam (a), was accepted. That is divine equality, but women are fighting that honor. No woman must be like a man or work like a man; that is not equality! Allah Almighty honored men to be men and women to be women! Keep the ownership of servanthood and both wings, of men and of women, must keep the honor of each other; men must keep the honor of women and women must keep the honor of men. Men must keep the honor of women, to be equal in honor and in respect, also.

Allah Almighty is giving you (women) a little bit more power for this life, to carry the burden of life, because your creation is stronger. They are weak, but they are stronger than men for worshiping and they will easily reach a connection to their heavenly stations. Now it is possible for men to reach a connection in forty days, but we may do the same for women in forty hours! If I say an order to you (a man), you must keep it for forty days to keep a connection, but for them (women) I may do it for forty hours, to reach a connection. Then you will look up and wonder, "Where are they?" (Mawlana Shaykh laughs)

So the sole discussion of the true equality of men and women is based on heavenly knowledge, but philosophers and scientists may continue on their knowledge. Knowledge gives confidence to hearts, and thanks to Allah Almighty, that He granted for our first meeting sakinaat, that means confidence. Are there no Arabs here? Are they all sleeping? Sakeenah brings confidence and inshaa-Allah that sakeenah, peace, will open in your hearts and we are in need of that deep peace.

O Mankind! We are in need of that deep peace in our hearts because difficult conditions are covering Mankind and they are losing balance in their spiritual beings. May Allah grant us through these Endless Oceans that He granted to His beloved one (s) and His awliya that we may perhaps complete forty days or forty hours, they we may reach the Holy Night of Power in Holy Ramadan. We shall try, if our brothers or sons may reach. Now it is close to Maghrib, and we can make our association by divine knowledge. May Allah grant you good understanding and grant me to speak on divine wisdoms.

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Azeez Allah!
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah!
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah!
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah!

Fatihah.

(Second part of video)

By the Name of Allah Almighty, alhamdulillah, this is the holy month of Ramadan, and Heavens are open for the servants of the Lord, Allah Almighty, and the doors of Paradise are open for the servants of Allah. Hells are locked up, not to be open for the servants of the ummah. May Allah Almighty grant to our attenders and to the nation of Muhammad (s) from His endless Mercy Oceans, from His endless Favor Oceans. We are expecting our Lord's blessings. There is an important point to be well known: Allah Almighty created Man, and they are His servants and also His deputies. Allah Almighty is granting His divinely love to all His creatures. To which kind of people is Allah Almighty granting from His divinely love? He created all with His love, but He is going to make it more and more, and He sent His servants to this life.

Do you think that He sent Mankind to Earth for dunya? Do you think that Allah Almighty just sent His servants to be servants of this world? If a believer is thinking this, it must be wrong. Allah Almighty never sent His servants here to this life to be servants for this dunya! He sent His servants to this Earth to be aware of pre-Eternal. You are not servants only here. No one knows when your souls were created except the Creator. Don't think that your existence began when you were born in this life. Our physical being in this life began by dust, but only Allah Almighty knows when your existence began. From pre-Eternal, His servants were servants and you were one of those servants! We were all servants from pre-Eternal up to Eternal, and Allah Almighty gave honor to you through that creation, by making you His servant, and then the Almighty gave you a new physical being. Your real being is in the Divinely Presence, but He gave you a physical being here. Then He observed, when you dressed in your physical body, are you going to lose or forget your servanthood? That is important, and the biggest test for Mankind.

Mankind was created a long time ago, before "time" began, when there was no time and Mankind was in the Divinely Presence as servants. No time or space was yet created, but Mankind was present in the Divinely Presence as servants to their Lord, Allah Almighty. His Divinely Will asked to dress them in a physical body and send them to this life. I am not speaking from science; we are speaking from heavenly knowledge, and there can be no objecting on it. You must listen and obey. What we are saying is from heavenly knowledge and only a few people are authorized to speak from knowledge in our days. You are lucky to be listening and accepting what we are saying to you! And Lord, Allah Almighty, ordered Mankind to be dressed in a physical body that He ordered to be created in Paradise, from where we were all looking how Creation is going on. All Mankind saw what Allah Almighty created for them of their physical being or physical body. Then His divinely will asked for a big test for them and divine wisdoms granted endless blessing on Mankind, on those to be dressed with a physical being.

From that time up to today, and up to the end of the Day of Resurrection, the Last Day, that divine test continues. Divine people are asking for equality between two kinds of human beings, women and men. Who is preferred in the Divine Presence, women or men? (...video goes blank...)

Interviews with Muslim Converts

Q: How did you hear of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim?
A: Through a neighbor. I was playing football his son with a football, and I saw people with turbans.

Q: What came through your mind when you saw the turban?
A: I thought it was different, and I asked him to explain and then I went for dhikr and in a few minutes took shahadah.

Q: So now your mother and father are Muslims, mashaa-Allah. How old are you?
A: Fifteen. (Mashaa-Allah, how old were you then?) Ten. (Mashaa-Allah.)

Q: So do you look forward to coming here?
A: Yes.

Q: People come from all over the world here; have you met them?
A: Yes, they come from all over, also some from America.

Q: What is your name?
A: Yusuf. I am Greek from the Greek side of Cyprus. I was Christian and practicing, but it was all false; there was nothing. On the Greek side of Cyprus there are not many Muslims. Shaykh Nazim called me and asked everyone, "Who wants to convert?"

Q: How is your Ramadan? Was it difficult to follow Mawlana Shaykh Nazim as a guide? In Christianity you have a guide, but not like shaykh.
A: Yes, we say, "Why should we kiss his hand?" After that you realize what you are kissing, that He is a Light from God. He is a part of the family of Prophet (s), so he is very special!

Q: When did you first see Mawlana Shaykh with your eyes?
A: That is too hard to explain; just pure Heavens!

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