Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday May 15, 2009 (Jumada Awal 20, 1430)

Be with good ones. Don’t take titles for yourself; the good ones will give you title of ‘servant.’ Keep your tongue. Say only good things. Once shaitan was a good one, but he was proud of himself. He forgot he was a servant. Become one of the good ones to be ready for going out from this world.

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THE WAY YOU LIVE IS THE WAY YOU WILL DIE

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

Friday 20 Jumad al-Awwal, 1430
May 15, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering to us, saying, `Be with Saliheen. Be with righteous people. Be with good ones.’ We are asking, `Why do we want to be with good ones? Don’t we have enough goodness given to us?’ He says, `Be with them.’ And being with a good one, your behavior and your manner must change everyday, must become better, you must become a better one everyday. If you are not becoming a better one everyday, it’s enough sign showing that you are going far distance away from Allah subhana wa ta’ala.

21st Century people are claiming everything. Empty promises. Everyone likes the good things. But to be a good one you have to be with a good one. Not to give titles to yourself saying, `I am a good one’. They have to give to you that you are becoming a good one. Or otherwise, you are not a good one. You have to watch, what the man does? How he does the good things? With what? He does it with his tongue, he does it with his hands, he does it with his head, he does it with his wealth. Watch. Are you saying good things? Are you talking good things? Are you going out of your way with your wealth to help others? Are you sitting down, thinking and coming with ideas to make other ones to become good ones? Are you going around changing the bad things through your hands? If not, you are not making any progress.

`Eh Sheykh, we are working.’

You work for yourself. You are working and you are earning money for yourself. Nothing else. Don’t call yourself a good one now, because if you don’t do the job right then you are going to get kicked out. You are not going to get paid. What are you doing for Allah and for His Prophet (sws) and for your religion? For your loved ones? Are you opening your mouth, using your tongue to bring yourself to fire? Or you are opening your mouth to say something that gives benefit to others. As the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Either speak something that will give benefit to others or keep silent.’ Don’t speak until Judgment Day if it’s necessary. If you are not going to speak something that is good, that is going to give benefit to others then keep your tongue for yourself because man is suffering from two parts of his body in the Judgment Day. He is committing all sins, all wrong things with two main parts of his body. One is his tongue and the other one is his private part. Watch how you are using these.

Sheytan was a good one once upon a time. He was worshipping, he was doing things right. When he became proud with himself, he thought that he is something now. Yes, and he said, `I am something. And the Lord is giving me order to make Sejdah to this one? It cannot be. I am better.’ What made him to be kicked out from the Divine Presence? Proudness. He was too proud with himself. Which one is not proud in this 20th Century? From seven years old to seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred, entering to the grave and still proud. How foolish is that? Is that a foolishness? The big one. The real big one.

Don’t you look at yourself? Is man not looking at himself to understand who is he and who is his Lord? And being proud with yourself with the things that you do? You can change this world. Allah gives you power and you change the world from bad to good, the whole world. If He gives you power and you change it now, you still have no right to be proud with yourself. Who are you? A servant. Can the servant be proud? Servant. That’s the title you are going to get. That’s the title you must run after. That is the title you must get before you go out from this world. If you go out with other titles that you are giving to yourself or couple of other fools give to you, sit and think again. If you are going out with those titles from the world, you are paying a great price.

If you reach to become a good one then you have no problem in the grave. You have no problem in the Judgment Day. In the place of Harasat you have no problem. They don’t keep you there. If they keep you under the sun you are in trouble. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying, `Now is the time we are separating the good ones from the bad ones.’ Good ones will be separated then. Now everyone is sitting together. Yeah. Everyone looks good. Look at yourself. You may fool the whole world. Don’t fool yourself. Look at your behaviors, look at your manners, look at the business that you are busy with. You will understand if you are a good one or a bad one. You will understand. And if you do good things then definitely everyday you get closer to Allah subhana wa ta’ala one step. One step ahead everyday. One step ahead everyday. If you are standing like that (straight up), then you must become humble. That is the sign that now you are understanding, you are coming closer and you are connecting yourself.

So Allah subhana wa ta’ala is giving order to us, saying, `Be with the good ones.’ Being with the good ones is learning from them, taking from them, applying it to your life. He is saying to us to be with good ones. He sent 124,000 prophets to us. They are all good ones. He sent all these Awliya to us. They are all good ones.

`Is there any Awliya now? They are all in the grave.’

Take your comforter and your pillow and go sleep next to them then. That shows how fool you are too again. One goes out from this world and Allah appoints another one for his place. Never is empty. But the peoples’ badness is so bad in these days that they cannot see the good ones anymore. So the good ones pulled themselves to the corners, saying, `If you are really looking for it, you are going to run to me. I am not going to come to you anymore because you are circling inside the jungle. You are spending your time inside the sewer.’ Yes. When a man is busy with Malayani, when a man is busy with something that doesn’t concern him, it’s just like he is sitting inside the sewer, sewerage. Dirty smell comes out from that one too. The ugliness comes out from the face. You can put as much powder you want to your face. You can wash yourself with perfume. You cannot cover that. To those ones whose hearts are open, smell is coming out. Whose eyes are open, they look and they see whatever is in your heart through your face.

So, don’t fool yourself. Run to be a good one. If you don’t become a good one before you go out from this world, you are in trouble. Who are not good ones? The animals. That means you have not reached to the station to become human. You went out from this world as an animal. So the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The way you live, that’s how you will die. They way you will die, that’s how you will rise in the Judgment Day.’ If you are living with the animal characteristics and the angel of death reaches to you, you will enter to the grave as whatever the characteristic of the animal you are carrying at that time. You will be in that shape.

And what is he saying? The way you will die, that’s how you will rise. If you die in that situation then you will rise on the Judgment Day in that situation. You’ll look at yourself and say, `I was a human. But no. I look like a donkey now.’ Hmm. Yes. And some monkeys came out saying that they are monkeys. No. Allah subhana wa ta’ala has changed the children of Bani Israil that they became disobedient to their prophets. They didn’t listen to them and the curse reached to them from Allah subhana wa ta’ala and some groups He changed them into monkeys and some groups he changed them into pigs. They were humans. They changed into that position while they were living.

And Allah is giving warning to us through His prophets, saying, `The way you live, that’s how you will die. They way you will die, that’s how you will rise.’ If you are still going to take this life as a game, if you are still going to talk nonsense here and there and hee hee hee, haa haa haa, giggling, showing that you are happy but you are the most unhappy creature on the face of the earth, because that is the sign. Anybody going, hee hee hee, that’s showing as a sign that he is unhappy, that one. You still want to be busy with that, welcome to you. Azrail doesn’t have too much time. He is going to come to you too. Don’t worry. He is circling around. And if you are keeping yourself busy with that still, that means you are not believing these words because if you do then you must be shaking yourself. Your heart must be shaking. You must be understanding. If you are still keeping yourself busy with that then the faith is not there. You already lost that faith a long time ago.

So shake yourself up. We must look at ourselves. We must look at ourselves everyday how much good we are becoming, how close we are coming to our Lord, how close we are coming to our Prophet (sws) and how close we are coming to those that Allah and His Prophet (sws) love. You can say whatever you want to yourself, some other ones can give some other titles to you, it’s staying in this world. You must go out from this world with a title in your hand, `Servant of the Lord’. If you do that, if you go out from this world, you will become the winner, you will become the winner of Akhirat. If not, live as you like but don’t forget, you are going to die.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.