Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday April 24, 2009 (Rabi Thani 28, 1430)

Holy Prophet (saws) said in the last hutbe that he was leaving the Book of ALLAH swt and his own sunnah. Shaytan orders people to leave the sunnah – and they do. Then they are easily led here and there, attracted by wrong things. When you drop the sunnah, you replace it with bidat (innovation). Wahabbis sink into bidat because they replace the traditions and lifestyle of Holy Prophet with customs of the crusaders. ALLAH swt said to follow your rightly guided leaders. They will guide you.

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OBEY TO BE WITH PROPHETS, SIDDIQEEN, SHUHADA AND SALIHEEN

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

Friday 28 Rabi al-Akhir, 1430
April 24, 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. Astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. Our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying in one ayat of Surat-ul Nisa, `Those who obey Allah and His Prophet (sws), they will be receiving the greatest reward, they will be with them. In the Judgment Day when they are raised they will be with the prophets, with the Saliheen and with the Shuhada.’ And Allah is saying, `What good friends you have!’ And the Holy Prophet (sws) in the last khutba is saying to us in Sahih Bukhari… Of course, today everyone took everything out as they like and in the last khutba the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Oh people, Oh Sahaba’, he is speaking to the Sahaba. `I am leaving you two things. If you are holding tightly to those things then definitely you are not going to go out from the road anymore.

First the Turks, then the Arabs and everywhere the Wahhabi idea people removed this. Everywhere you look it says, Prophet (sws) said, `I leave you one thing. The book of Allah.’ Open and look at the last khutba. How many are you going to find saying, `I leave you the book of Allah and His Prophet’s (sws) Sunnat’? The Prophet (sws) is saying this. Who are you to take it out? That’s what the order is that’s coming from Sheytan, saying, `If you don’t take out the Sunnat then these Muslims everywhere are going to be visible. When they are visible like that, the other ones are going to look at them and they are going to admire them. So the whole world is going to enter to Islam. So the big boss, that big Sheytan is saying to the small ones, of which so many today are coming from the Alims of Islam. So many Dajjal is going to come from them too because the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `In Ahir Zaman, you are not going to find a drop of faith in the hearts of their Alims, in so many of their Alims that are going to come.’

Don’t be surprised. Open the televisions and look. You will see so many of them. They are Alim. Don’t deny that. Don’t say that they are not Alim. They are knowledgeable ones. They read a lot. No need to say names in the Khutba now. But you all know what (is on) the Turkish television, Pakistani, Arab, you all know. Americans, now there are Americans too, Europeans, so many. Helpers of Sheytan. Agents of Sheytan. Why are they afraid of the Sunnat of Rasulullah (sws)? Because if you are holding the Sunnat, the lifestyle of the Holy Prophet (sws), definitely you are not going to admire something else. But if you are leaving the Sunnat of the Prophet (sws), running top-speed, anywhere the wind is coming from, running to that side. So today even Muslims everywhere are not liking the dress-code of the Muslims. They are fighting about it from mothers to fathers to their children, from children to their parents. So we have entered to a heedless and headless time that the Muslims became completely ignorant. Not only ignorant but also arrogant and stubborn. Something that they don’t know, they fight about it non-stop twenty-four hours.

`Prophet did this and he didn’t do this. And he did this and he didn’t…’

How do you know the Prophet (sws)? Who taught you the Prophet (sws)? You think knowing only the name of the Prophet (sws) you know the Prophet (sws)? How do you know the Quran? Taking the Quran and reading a couple of ayat on the surface, you think you know the Quran? The Quran contains everything in it. The past, the present, the future and eternity is in the Quran. This is like somebody looking at the top of the ocean and saying, `I just discovered the ocean because I have a couple of ships going on top of the ocean.’ He is giving description of the ocean saying, `It’s just a couple of ships and some fishes in there.’ Dive in there under the ocean and look what’s happening. And in order for you to dive you have to be an expert, you have to be given permission. Quran is containing all those oceans in it. Everything. This world is nothing. It’s only a dot.

So, if we are taking everything according to our own head then definitely we go out of the road.

So the Holy Prophet (sws) is speaking to the Sahaba, he is giving Khutba like this and saying to the Sahaba-e Kiram, `I don’t know if I’m going to be among you by next year.’ He is giving them a hint and saying to them, `But I am leaving you two things. One is the book of Allah and the second is the Sunnat of your Prophet (sws). You know how he lived. So it is a duty to you too.’ Then he turns around and says to them, `The ones who are here must give this message to the ones coming after. And the ones that are coming after, who knows maybe they will keep it better than you.’ He is saying that, saying to the Sahaba-e Kiram, `You must give my message. My message is my lifestyle, my Sunnat, my tradition, to them. You must teach the ones who are coming after you. Who knows maybe they will keep it better than you.’ And through the history, yes, we have seen so many saints came. How they became saints?

They are coming and asking me, `There are so many Christian saints too. So many Jewish saints, Buddhist saints.’ Muslims are saying this. `There are so many Buddhist saints.’ Do you have your mind together with you or you left it inside the toilet when you came out? How are you going to be a saint that you are denying one of the most beloved ones in the Divine Presence? Even the ones who came before the Holy Prophet (sws), the prophets, they have to accept the Prophet (sws). And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to them. Allah didn’t know? Of course He knew. He is saying to them, `Know that if I am sending the Prophet Muhammad (sws) in your time, your book and your prophethood is taken away automatically. You have to follow that one.’ He is giving warning to His prophets, advice, saying to them. In reality He is teaching the children of Adam (as), saying to them, `Everyone who came in the past accepted that Prophet (sws). Everyone that is going to come has to accept.’ La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah. That’s the only word. No other one. No other real word. La ilaha illallah. Every word that you say is going to come to an end. That word, we are living for that word. You must live for that word and you must die for that word saying, `La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah.’ That is the time that you are carrying the faith and that is time that you are obeying Allah and His Prophet (sws).

That’s why Allah is saying to us, `When you are obeying Allah and His Prophet (sws) then you will be with the prophets, with the Saliheen, with the righteous ones, with the Shuhada, with the good ones in the Judgment Day and after that. You will be with them.’ And He is saying to us, `What good friends you have now.’ Yes, that’s what you need, that’s what we need. Not just to say, `I accept the Prophet (sws).’ Accepting the Prophet (sws), you must accept his lifestyle. You must take his lifestyle to apply to your life. Islam is teaching us how to live. Not like seculars saying, `We separated state and the religion.’ When you are separating the state and the religion, this is what you get. You like it? The 21st Century people like it? Why are you running after terrorism? Leave everything. You are separating religion and the people. Leave people to live as they like. You like the outcome? All these people who are terrorists grew up in the same countries. But one thing was missing. They didn’t have the fear of Allah. This is what they teach them, saying, `Have self-esteem. ‘ The universities are teaching, saying, `Have self-esteem. Believe in yourself.’ MashaAllah. Believing in yourself? Eh, that’s what happens.

So, words for Muslims are not to be ignorant and arrogant and stubborn, and when hearing those words in the universities not to think that they are teaching you something. And you think you are becoming better ones. No. You are becoming worse ones. Every time when you are leaving one Sunnat of Rasulullah (sws) you are going down. That’s why Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `If you are leaving my Sunnat, you are replacing with that one with innovation, with Bida’t.’ The Wahhabi squareheads are screaming, `Bida’t, bida’t, bida’t’, but they sink inside the Bida’t. Because they removed all the Sunnat of Rasulullah (sws), they sank, they changed it. As soon as you change it with Sunnat, you replace it with Bida’t, with innovation, and the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying for that kind of Bida’t, `Every Bida’t is under my feet.’ You took out the turban. Hmm. What are you going to replace it with? You are going to carry a mirror in your hand and a comb to fix your hair twenty-four hours to look nice to who? That’s what you are replacing with. You are taking out the Shalwar? Huh, you are replacing it with Chatal. Shalwar, taking it out, putting on pants. Eh, that’s how Shovalios were wearing. When the crusaders were coming to fight against Islam, that’s what they were wearing.

So tell me, is this the lifestyle? This is just simple, as they say `simple’, it’s not that simple, but the outside form. And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `If you admire to look like a nation, you will become one of them.’ You don’t need to admire any nation. Admire Islam. The Holy Prophet (sws). There is no role model to us except him. He is coming to us from Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Allah is saying to us, `He is his teacher. He likes the way he dressed, He likes the way he slept, He likes the way he ate, He likes the way he talked, He likes the way he walked. He is his teacher.’ We must take that and apply that to our life. That is the Sunnat of the Holy Prophet (sws). Outside and inside must be together. When the inside of that clock is working and there are no outside arrows showing, it’s not good. Not good for anybody. It’s useless. Inside is working, as so many is saying, `Eh, look at my heart.’ Eh, okay. We look at your heart. We don’t see anything. Show us the arrows to see how you are living. `Eh, the inside is working.’ Maybe it’s working. That’s between you and Allah. Isn’t that obligation to you also, Allah is saying to you that if you like something you must spread to others? How are you doing it?

So, if the inside is working and on the outside the arrows are not working, that clock is not good for anything. Useless. If the outside is like that and inside is not working, that is also useless. Automatically you can see that one hour time is passing but these arrows are not moving. It’s not a good one. So when you are with those ones who in the outside form are carrying the Sunnat of the Prophet (sws), you spend one hour with them and you will understand automatically if they are good ones or bad ones. Look at their lifestyle, how they are living and you will understand. You don’t need to be an expert, you don’t need to be a scholar. No. So, if we don’t carry the Prophet’s (sws) Sunnat, Sheytan is very happy then and Sheytan is saying, `Now you left the way of the Prophet? Don’t worry. I’ll put around your neck chains that you cannot escape from my hand after that.’ And that’s what happens.

So the Prophet (sws) came to separate Haqq and Batil. He came to put us back to Sirat-ul Mustaqim, to the main road. And Surat-ul Fatiha came to separate who were disobedient to Allah and who left the ways. We are saying, `Keep us in the Sirat-ul Mustaqim.’ In order for us to stay on the Sirat-ul Mustaqim we must follow the one who is leading on that Sirat, on that road. And that is the Holy Prophet (sws). If we keep that then definitely we will be the winner. If we leave that then don’t forget, live as much as you can, you are going to die. Collect as much world, you are going to leave that. You are entering to the world through one door, you are going out through the other door. You are filling up your books day and night, twenty-four hours a day. Man in reality is not doing anything to anybody else except himself. When we say `man’ sometimes the women are thinking that these words are not for them. For you too.

Every word that you say and every action that you do, you are filling up your book. Any good thing that you say you are filling up your book and you are going to find it in the Judgment Day as reward to you. Before going to Judgment Day you my find it in the grave. Any wrong things that you say, any wrong things that you do, you are going to find it in front of you again.

Ali (radiallahu anhu karam allahu wajha) is saying, `I have never done anything good to anyone and I have never done anything bad to anyone.’ And they said to you, `Ya Ali, definitely we know that you didn’t do anything wrong to anyone but we know that you did so many good things to so many people.’ He said, `No. If I did something to someone and if that person earns something from that then in reality I am going to get paid in the Judgment Day for it. So I did it to myself because I’m getting paid for it in the Judgment Day. If I harmed someone and that person is harmed through my word or through my action, I didn’t really do anything to him again. In the Judgment Day he is going to receive my good reward and I am going to take his wrong things away. So I am going to be punished. In reality, I did everything to myself.’

In reality you and I, we are doing everything to our own selves. We don’t have too much time left in this world. Azrail is running top-speed. You don’t know when he’s going to reach to you. Prepare yourself and be ready. Always have your package ready to take off to the other side. The children of Adam are making so many plans day and night but one day you are not going to reach to your plans. One day your plans are going to stay and Azrail is going to take you.

So, if we want to be with those ones, with the prophets, with the Saliheen, with the righteous people, with the Awliya Allah, with the Friends of Allah, with the Shuhada, with the good ones then we must obey Allah and His Prophet (sws). And obedience to Allah and His Prophet (sws) is to obey those ones who are obeying them.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.