Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday July 4, 2008 (Rajab 2, 1429)

ALLAH swt is testing people in dunya. But people are running to sewers, proud, and paying no attention to learning the purpose of
life and preparing for the grave. Intelligence says to be able to pass the test. Free will gives choice to go right or wrong. ALLAH swt wants us
to use youthful energy and power to run after His order, not getting tired from giving into ego. Ask forgiveness to obtain help from ALLAH swt.

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ASK FORGIVENESS AND PREPARE FOR THE TEST

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

Friday 2 Rajab, 1429
July 4, 2008
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah, shukr Ya Rabbi. Ataghfirullah,
astaghfirullah al-Azim wa atubu ilaih. We have entered to a month, the
month of Rajab. As much forgiveness you ask, inshaAllah ar-Rahman, we
will have the results in our lives because Allah subhana wa ta’ala has
created us for a reason and the main reason that He’s saying to us is,
`We have created the man and the jinn only to know Us and to worship
Us.’ He sent us to this world saying it’s `Asfala Safileen’, the
lowest place, testing us. He sent a rope from Paradise down to this
world saying to us, `Hold on to this rope and come back to your home.’

The 21st Century people want to go more deep down. Allah sent us to
the clean area on the earth. But the 21st Century people want to go
into the sewers. The rats live down in the sewers, not humans. This is
what’s happening to mankind today. They’re running top-speed to do
wrong things, running top-speed to go away from the orders of Allah
and the orders of His Prophet (sws). And Dunya is taking them hostage.
But this Dunya has no mercy. 100 times a day it’s speaking to man, `Oh
children of Adam, you’re walking on top of me with proudness.’ Anyone
who’s not knowing their Lord, anyone who’s not knowing their Prophet
(sws), anyone who’s not running to become a servant, they’re proud.
They can say whatever they want. They are showing or they are not
showing, they are.

So the earth is speaking, saying 100 times a day, `Children of Adam,
you’re walking on top of me with proudness but I’m going to pull you
inside. One day you’re going to come inside of me. I’m going to
swallow you and I’m going to finish you. Your hands are not going to
move anymore, your legs are not going to move, your eyes are not going
to see. You’re going to know everything but you’re not going to be
able to do anything. You’re not going to be able to move your fingers.’

That’s for us. That’s what’s waiting for us. Don’t look at what the
world is saying, what the world is promising, saying, `Run here, run
there, enjoy yourself, this is this and this is that.’ Leave those.
The intelligent man, those intelligent students who go to school, they
are worrying to study and to give the exams. At the end of the year
they get good grades. Intelligent students. The foolish ones go to
school to run away from responsibilities but at the end of the
session, finished. They come out with zero. They spent their time with
nothing in the school too and they are wandering in this world with
empty hands not knowing what to do.

We are the same in this world. We are students in this world. We have
to learn. We have to learn what our Lord wants from us. What is it
that we have to do in this world. Not learning only what kind of job
you’re going to have and how much money you’re going to make and what
kind of car, what kind of house you’re going to buy. These are second
class thinking. First the intelligent man is worrying, he’s thinking,
`if Azrail comes to me today what did I sent to my grave for
tomorrow?’ What will I find there when I enter inside?’ If you’re
happy with what you sent there then you are able to do all other
things. Now you should be very happy. Run around empty then. It’s okay
if you’re happy to see what you sent to the grave.

Which man is happy? Which man should be happy? If the prophets who
have been sent to the world clean, they lived clean lives and they
have not done anything other than what Allah wants them to do, they
lived according to the laws of Allah, according to His plan, and the
most beloved one in the Divine Presence is saying, `Ya Rabbi, do not
ask me to worship the way You deserve to be worshipped because I
cannot do it and I will be perished.’ So those are the most clean ones
and they are worrying for their last days too, the prophets. What
about us? Eh, ignorant man always looks brave. That’s not braveness,
that’s stupidity. Intelligent man is he who knows, who prepares
himself that he knows there’s something waiting for him in front of
him, and he prepares before he goes there to pass that test. Or if the
man is preparing to go to a court, he has a big case against him, he
must prepare himself to see what he is going to say, how he’s going to
come out from that mess that he got into.

So Allah subhana wa ta’ala sent us to this world. We have no choice in
it. He sent us here. And He’s saying to us, `We have sent you here for
this reason. This is the reason, to know Us and to worship Us. Only to
know Me and to worship Me. And this is not your home. This world is
not your home. Don’t make this world too luxurious for yourself
because then you don’t want to leave. But this is not your house. You
must come back to your house. Your house is in Paradise. If you are
not finding the road back to your house then you are going to find
road back to the punishment place and you may have a house there
forever for you.’

So Allah subhana wa ta’ala is the one, He is the one who has created
the sharr and the good, the good and the bad. He has left us in
between saying to us, `Now I am giving you intelligence. I am giving
you a freewill. Choose what you want, what is good for you that you
think, to go to the right way or to go to the left way, to live for
your ego selfishly for a very short time in this life or to live
according to the rules and the laws of your Lord and according to what
your Prophet (sws) came to teach you, still have some pleasures in
this world but stay in the borderlines. Don’t go out because if you go
out of the borderlines then you will be like the animals and We are
going to need to put fences around the animals not to go to the other
side. We didn’t put a fence to you but this whole world is a fence to
you. You cannot escape. You can go to sleep, then get up next day,
everyday you can make intention, `I’m going to go here, I’m going to
go there, I’m going to enjoy myself this way, I’m going to run this
way’, but one day Azrail is going to reach to you, if sickness is not
reaching to you before that, Azrail will reach to you.’

When Allah gives to a person power and energy, that is the time He
wants His servants to run after His orders. Not at the time that they
are falling down now, their bodies aren’t holding, they cannot go to
clubs to drink anymore, they cannot go to run around here and there.
So the body is expired and so many turn at that time. Because Allah is
merciful He is accepting that too but it doesn’t have too much value.
The value is when you are having the energy and power, and you are
free, you have everything in your hand and you push everything aside
and you are saying, `Ya Rabbi, Your order is number one to me and I am
going to run after Your orders. And I am going to pound non-stop to my
ego to make my ego to stay on Your orders.’

If we do that then we will become the winners. If we leave that then
we will be the losers. In any way we will be the losers then because
the time that we are spending in wrong areas, wrongdoings, it will not
be counted from our life that was lived for Allah but was lived for
ego. But if we are spending our way in the way of Allah keeping His
orders priority and trying to run for it, although we are very weak in
this century, we have so much shortcomings, it’s still okay.

So today’s people are very weak. Weakness is coming from that ego now.
The ego is making us to be very weak and very tired. The spirit wants
to go to higher stations pulling us but the ego is pulling down. Any
little road that you open to the ego, it’s going to knock you down.

So Allah subhana wa ta’ala, as we said earlier, He has given us these
special days and during these special days He is saying, `Ask
forgiveness. Ask. Show Me that you want to be a good servant. The way
that I want you to be, I will make you.’ We cannot make ourselves but
all we have to do is we have to ask, we have to cry to our Lord. We
have to ask to say our weakness. He knows our weakness but He wants us
to admit it in front of Him to say, `Ya Rabbi, I am your weak servant
and I am asking help from You.’ Then help will reach to us inshaAllah
ar-Rahman.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

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