Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday May 29, 2009 (Jumada Thani 4, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that ALLAH swt ordered us to drop everything worldly to come to Jummah, because if you are busy with the service of your Lord, the world will run after you. The invitation is to go back to paradise. Use your breath wisely while you live so you will go out of this world through the right door. Be merciful to yourself. It’s never too late to understand what ALLAH swt wants from you. Learn from being with the saliheen (righteous ones).

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RUN TO THE SERVICE OF ALLAH SUBHANA WA TA’ALA

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

Friday 2 Jumad al-Akhir, 1430
May 29, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Astaghrifullah, astaghrullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. We are asking forgiveness from our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala that we are not keeping His orders. He has created us for His service but the children of Adam, especially in this century, they are running away from the service of their Lord. Males and females. If we are running away from the service of our Lord then we are running toward our ego, towards the orders of Sheytan. For that reason, for this century, people are very sad. No one is happy. Everyone is in trouble someway somehow. Our Lord is saying to us, `When the Juma time is entering and when they are calling you, leave everything. Leave your worldly doings and run to Juma. Know that there is more blessing for you in it than what you are doing. And after Juma run around to this world, wherever you want to go, run for your sustenance, to your Riziq.’

The Nation of Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), two billion people on the face of the earth today, if they just keep this order for Juma, by next Juma more power will come. If they will all keep this order and leave everything, Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering, saying, `Leave everything. Whatever you are earning at that time is not going to give any blessing to you. Leave everything and run for the service of your Lord.’ These nations, this Ummat in the east, west, north and south, if they keep that order now and just drop everything and run to the service of our Lord, then this Dunya is going to run after them. As soon as they come out from Juma they are not going to know from where to catch the Dunya. Dunya is going to run after them. That’s the order this world has been taking from our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala. He is saying, `If they leave you and they turn to Me, you run after them. If they run after you, you run away from them.’

And this is what the 21st Century people are doing. They are running after this world, non-stop, top-speed. But no one is catching. The ones who catch it, right on the corner Azrail catches those. He says, `Leave everything and come out of this world!’

So now we have two doors for coming out from this world. The right door or the left one. Whichever one that you are busy with, if you are busy with the service of our Lord, most likely you are going to go out from the right door, the door of mercy, the door to paradise, the door to safety. If you are busy with Dunya then most likely you will be going out from the left door, the door of trouble. People are thinking, `Oh, I have so many problems today.’ Eh, as soon as that door opens, more trouble comes, more problem comes, more suffering comes.

This breath of life is with us now. Use it any way you want. You, I, anyone. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is granting this to us and He is giving invitation to us, saying to us, `I have created you to go back to Paradise. This is the invitation and this is what you have to do to go back to Paradise.’ If you are not doing that then later you have no right to complain about whatever is going to happen.

Everyone’s saying, `Allah’s mercy is there.’ Definitely. Allah’s mercy is covering everything but we are not giving mercy to our own selves because we are not keeping the mercy of Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Outside it’s raining. If you are sitting under the shelter the rain is not going to come to you. If you are standing outside then you are going to be all wet. The Rahmat of Allah subhana wa ta’ala is raining everywhere but the curse is raining too and the children of Adam (as) are running to be under that curse.

And we are the last nations on the face of the earth. It’s not the beginning of the world. It’s not the beginning with Adam (as). No. We are the last of the last. Ahir of the Ahir. The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying that he has been sent in Ahir Zaman, the end of the times. Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `I have been sent to this world at just like the time between Asr and Maghrib prayer.’ What is between Asr and Maghrib prayer? Before you turn left and right the sun is down. The day is gone.

From the day that the Holy Prophet (sws) came at Asr prayer up till now almost 1500 years passed. The sun is about to set. The world is about to end. Everything is about to finish. The children of Adam (as) is still busy twenty-four hours with this Dunya and with their egoistic desires. They are not thinking, `If Azrail is coming to me now, how I will go out from this world?’ Are you keeping yourself busy with Allah or you are keeping yourself busy with this Dunya? If you are busy with Allah subhana wa ta’ala then everything else is coming to you. If you are busy with this Dunya then trouble is not leaving you. And we are seeing that in our lives.

And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is granting mercy to us and we are taking the air in and we are giving it out. He is still giving chance to us to ask forgiveness and to turn around. Never it is too late, never it is too early. Any time it comes to you and you come to that awakening station, you must understand, `I have not been created for this. I have been created for the service of my Lord and I must run after that.’ If you are not doing that, you don’t have too much value then. As Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying, `Your value is like the animals. That’s how animals live too. They eat, they drink, they do their own work and they finish. They go. But we are not created as animals. Allah subhana wa ta’ala has granted us that secret of life to this body, this body became alive moving around. This body is going to earth and your spirit is going back to the origin.

We must think carefully, we must run carefully, we must watch carefully. Everything we do we must do for the sake of our Lord. If we are doing something for the sake of our own ego, it’s not accepted and it’s only temporary pleasure coming with this and everything is finishing. So Allah is asking us, ordering us, forcing us to think. He is saying to us, `We have given you intelligence. Why don’t you think? Why you don’t think? We are giving you intelligence. Why you are not thinking?’ He is asking us. With the intelligence you must think. You must use it in this world. Not in the grave, not hereafter. Intelligence is not to say, `I’m so smart and I am running doing this world so like this, I am putting buildings and I am making…’ That’s not intelligence. That’s worldly. Intelligence is man knowing himself and knowing his Lord, and understanding himself and understanding what the Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala wants from him, and he must run to fulfill that order.

The Holy Prophet (sws) said, `My nation’s life is between 60 to 70 years.’ How much you can catch in 60 or 70 years of time? Whatever is there is going to come to you anyway. Whatever is not for you, as much as you run after it, you are not going to catch it. But the Akhirat is there. And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is keeping the door open to every one of us. He has chosen some people and made them prophets, He has chosen and made them Awliya, but He is saying to us that the door of Awliya is open. As much as you run, as much sincerity you have, as much Taqwa you have, you may reach to higher stations and you may open that door.

And make sure that we go out from this world not blind because our Lord is saying, `If you die blind, if you go out from this world blind then you will get up to Judgment Day as blind too.’ He is not talking to us `blind’ about these eyes. No. He is saying, `Blind, the man who is not seeing his own reality what is in front of him.’ You must open your eyes. We must open those eyes and we must see what is for us. What our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala has prepared for us, and go out from this world with those eyes open. If the man goes out from this world blind, he is finished. So many people came, friends of Allah, they were not seeing physically. They were seeing spiritually. And that order is given to every one of us. We must open those eyes.

So we must be busy, not with Dunya, we must be busy with that, to try to open those eyes. Once those eyes are open, you leave this Dunya completely anyway. You don’t care for anything for this Dunya. But you must be busy running after opening those eyes. You must be running to those people who have the secrets, they have the code that they will give to you to open those eyes. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is giving our secrets to some other ones hands. We must run and we must find them. He is giving order to us, `Be with Saliheen. Be with the righteous people.’ And being with them is learning from them, listening to them and making our life better, inshaAllah ar-Rahman.

This much should be enough for you and for me.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.