Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday July 3, 2009 (Rajab 11, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that safety is in fitting ourselves to Islam the way that ALLAH swt gave it to us. Prophets have been calling people for generations to the correct way. Sheykh Efendi relates the story of Prophet Nuh aleyhselam, and he continues on, saying that Holy Prophet Muhammad saws said that protection is with Ahl ulBeyt (family of Prophet). Stay around them to be safe in the flood of fire that is coming. People are being selective about the parts of shariat they will accept. They have not reached mature faith where they can accept what ALLAH swt ordered, even though their ego doesn’t like it.

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SAFETY AND PEACE COMES WITH ISLAM, WITH SUBMISSION

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

Friday 10 Rajab, 1430
July 3, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. We must say astaghfirullah as much as we can during this month of Rajab asking forgiveness from our Lord that He has created us for His service and the children of Adam lost their direction completely, in this time especially, doing everything else except knowing Allah and worshipping Allah. Even those who are claiming that they are worshipping to Allah, the majority of them are worshipping to their ego. If it fits to them, to their ego, they are accepting from Islam, if it doesn’t fit to their ego then running left and right to change it. Allah subhana wa ta’ala created us and He has put the rules and the laws to us for our own safety, not for Him, and saying, `These are the laws. Don’t pass beyond this. It will not be safety to you.’ So if a man is looking for safety in Dunya and Akhirat, he must be an obedient servant, must be running to keep the orders of Allah subhana wa ta’ala. `What happened to the other ones who are disobedient?’Eh, dunya is disaster. Their dunya is trouble. Imagine what will happen beyond this. Tornado is coming.

So still the Muslims, the believers are running after the unbelievers. They are running to copy their lifestyle. The Muslims are running to do what the unbelievers, what the Kafirs are doing. And where is the belief? Lost. So that fits to the ego, yes, but it doesn’t fit to the rules and the laws of Allah subhana wa ta’ala.

So, if anybody’s looking for safety, over fourteen hundred years it’s calling, screaming, `Safety is in Islam. Turn your ways to Islam. Not the Islam that you want. The Islam that Allah and His Prophet (sws) brought to us. Not the way that fits to you but the way that Allah subhana wa ta’ala put for us. We have to fit ourselves into that. Not to try to fit Islam to our own selves. Then you see what happens. Two billion people claiming to be Muslims. Ask them. They all have different Islam in their own heads, in their own minds. In the same Masjid they all have different ideas. In the same house the husband is different, the wife is different, the children are different. They are all claiming Islam. That is ego. Nothing else.

So, if you don’t know how to control the ego, you cannot know how to be a servant to Allah. You are the servant to your ego. Ego fools you from so many ways. All the laws that Allah subhana wa ta’ala sent through His Holy Prophet (sws), is to learn how to control our ego. Learn how to put ourselves to the Sirat-ul Mustaqim the way that the Holy Prophet (sws) is showing to us. If you have no control on your ego then your ego is like a wild animal without the reins. Nothing on it. Running to every side and still claiming.

That’s what happened to the Muslims today. Males and females. No separation. Especially the females these days became worse because the females today are coming forward to become Imams, giving Khutbas, making Fatwas, everyone is saying, `I like this one and I like that one.’ And the majority of the men today, that’s one thing the Holy Prophet (sws) came to remove too. Slavery. He removed slavery. But the majority of the men today became slaves to their wives. They are under the slavery of their wives, yes. They are under the slavery of this world.

And wake up to yourselves. We don’t know if we are going to reach to another Rajab. You should not make plans for another Rajab. You should be living this Rajab like this is your last Rajab on the face of this earth. Then you will put some senses to your head. Don’t look at yourself to say, `I am young, I am strong, I am healthy, it’s okay.’ It’s not okay. Azrail is waiting. The believer is that one who has hope and running after that to fix himself but he’s waiting that any minute Azrail may come to him. He is prepared for Azrail.

So, if we want safety and protection then in the month of Rajab it’s very easy. If you let this month to fly away just like that like other months then don’t think that you are going to catch your ego easily again in the month of Shaban or Ramazan. If you are running to force yourself to catch your ego and to put it in the corner a little bit during this month, the month of Shaban becomes easier and the month of Ramazan becomes more easy. And you must continue after the Ramazan. So many people are running doing some things during these months, as soon as Ramazan finishes, they turn back wild. You lose everything then. You start allover again. You didn’t accomplice anything. Just like you are building your Paradise today and tomorrow you are destroying it. Today you are an obedient servant, if you are disobedient tomorrow then you are destroying your own Paradise. But the man is heedless. He is not seeing, he is not knowing, he is not understanding. He doesn’t want to understand because the ego is standing in front of him as a barricade between him and Paradise.

So, our aim, the believer’s aim is not Dunya, it’s not this world. The believer’s aim is Akhirat. The believer should not be worrying so much for this Dunya, the activities of this Dunya. But today’s believers sink in it. Twenty-four hours they are in trouble and they think that they are going to fix it. The more they leave the way of Allah, the more they sink in trouble. Leave things, submit yourself and look how things are going to work for you. You cannot do anything by yourselves. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `We have created man weak. Man may be the weakest creature in his form, in his outside form. But what We have given to him, with that secret, he may be the strongest one. He is ruling everything on the earth, Ins and Jinns.

What happened to that man? That man cannot rule on himself now. The ego is riding on him. Males and females. No exception in this time. This time is one of the worst time that ever happened on the face of the earth. In the time of Nuh (alayhi salam) it happened too. And Nuh (as) was so fed up with his people that they were so disobedient to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. He just opened his hand one time. He went back to them thousands and thousands of times. Hundreds of years. Not one year, not fifty years, not a hundred years, but six hundred, seven hundred years non-stop going back and forth to them asking them, `Turn back to your Lord. Leave this egoistic lifestyle. Turn to your Lord.’ They said, `Who are you to tell us? What is it that you are going to tell us? We are going to live as we like. We are going to do just like the people in Ahir Zaman.’ There something opened to them. They have seen. `They do as they like. We are going to do as we like. You are not going to tell us what to do.’ They cursed at him, they beat him, they threw him away. He went back to them, back to them, because Nuh (as) was seeing what’s waiting for them if they don’t come back.

They didn’t listen. And finally he was fed up with them. He opened his hand saying, `Ya Rabbi, do not leave one of them on the face of the earth who is disobedient to You.’ Just one Dua. Right away response came to him, `I accept it. Prepare the ship. Last safety to those ones. Call them to come here. Those who are coming in, that is the safety to them.’ He prepared the ship. They didn’t listen again. He was saying, `Oh children of Adam, I know what I did. I know what I asked and I know what’s coming to you. Don’t be heedless. Come around. There’s nothing I can do anymore.’ They said, `You lost your mind. The world is so beautiful. You lost your mind. You went on top of the mountain and built a ship. How stupid man you are!’ His own children, his own wife, disobedient to him. He is crying for them. But they are not caring. Their ego is wild until the last order came to him. `No more calling. Whoever came to the ship, shut the door now.’ He is screaming to his own son, `Come in!’ Allah said, `Leave that one out too. He is your son but he is Our servant. We have created that one. He became from the unbelievers. Leave that one out.’ He shut the doors. The whole mankind finished on the face of the earth except those ones who found safety in that ship.

What’s happening to the 21st Century people? What’s happening? Listen to what’s happening. The Holy Prophet (sws) said, `I asked Allah subhana wa ta’ala, Ya Rabbi, do not punish my nation the same way that you have punished through the flood of Nuh (as). And Allah promised me saying to me, `I am not punishing your nation that way. But your nation is going to be so disobedient when you are physically removed from them, they will turn back to their unbelief ways of lifestyle. They are going to run after the Yahudi and the Christians step by step. And they are going to invent a fire. They are going to burn themselves with that fire. The flood of fire is going to happen to them.’ That flood of fire is about to happen. Those who are seeing are screaming and crying saying, `Come back. Turn around. Whatever you are, leave your egoistic way of lifestyle. Go to Sejdah, ask forgiveness. You may find safety. There is no other safety. The flood of fire is about to happen.’ Mankind is running still wild just like the people of Nuh (as) and this is going to take the whole globe. The whole world is going to sink in it. No safety. Safety only comes with those people that they are protected and they are holding tightly to the Prophet (sws).

So the Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `Safety at that time is my Ahl-il Bayt. Run to them. Be around them. They are like the ship of Nuh (as). You are going to find safety. There is no other safety.’ If we take these words seriously… it is very serious. It is up to you if you take it seriously or if you are just putting it through one ear and bringing it out from the other side. But whoever believes, whoever runs, whoever tries may find safety. Whoever doesn’t believe, there is no safety to them. And everyone knows through their life how much trouble they have in their life. The best ones today, yes. They have troubles in their life. What kind of servant is that that you are going to be a servant to Allah subhana wa ta’ala, keeping your daily prayers, keeping everything and non-stop having trouble twenty-four hours a day? Something is wrong somewhere. Something is wrong somewhere. Sit and think.

The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The believer’s today has to be better than yesterday. Tomorrow must be better than today.’ This is what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying. Look at yourself. Your today, is it better than yesterday? Or are you complaining more today? You know what it is. Do you think that your tomorrow is going to be better than today? If you are a believer then it has to be better. Has to be. Your connection has to be better with your Lord. Your connection has to be better with the Prophet (sws). Your connection has to be better with the Awliya Allah. That’s where you find safety. That’s where you find peace. There is no other peace. You are looking for peace? There is no other peace. Circle around the world if you want. Go anywhere you hear that there is peace. It’s only temporary, fake, it’s passing. Peace comes with Islam, with submission. Islam is submission, to submit yourself to your Lord, to the orders of your Lord. Not to say, `I submit myself to Allah.’ And? `I do as I like.’ What kind of foolishness is this?

That’s what happened to today’s Muslims. They say, `We do as we like. We live as we like. We don’t accept the laws that are coming from Paradise. We want to build our own laws. We don’t want Shariat.’ MashaAllah. Is this believer? Is believer saying `I don’t want the laws of Allah on me’? Or are the believers saying, `I don’t like this part’? Allah is saying, `This is what it is. I am sending this to you. You cannot separate this part or that part.’ `I like this part and I don’t like that part.’ That means you have not reached to the complete faith if you are separating. At least you may say, `It is so hard for my ego but it is right because Allah is ordering it. It is so hard for my ego to accept but it is right because Allah is ordering it. It’s good for me. It must be good for me because Allah is ordering it.’

So, we are in the month of Rajab, month of Rahmat and we are slowly moving into the month of Shaban inshaAllah ar-Rahman. We have one more special night during this month. We have another special night after the Laylat-ul Miraj during the month of Shaban. We have another special night that is coming during the month of Ramazan. These four holy nights are during these three holy months. If we are taking care of these days properly then definitely as soon as the Ramazan finishes the believers feel like they just entered into another world the following year if Allah gives to them life to live. If not then they are already prepared to go to the other side without any fear.

Muslims today are fearful of death. What kind of faith is this? What kind of faith is that that you have fear from death? You have fear of reunion with your Lord, to go back to your Lord. What kind of faith is this? What is separating you from that? Isn’t it this Dunya? Isn’t it that Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `This Dunya is a trouble to you. The love of Dunya is a trouble to you.’ Isn’t it what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `You are going to be so many in Ahir Zaman but your enemies are not going to have any fear from you because you are going to have a sickness in you and Allah subhana wa ta’ala is going to remove the Heybet, the majestic look, the majestic powers away from you and your enemies are going to look at you, they are not going to have any fear from you at all.’ And they said, `Ya Rasulullah, are they going to be very little in number?’ He said, `No, the opposite. In numbers they are going to be so many of them but they are going to fall into the love of this Dunya. They are going to love Dunya and they are going to hate death. They are not going to want to hear about death.’ Is that what happened to the nation today? Ask your own selves and you will know by your own selves. Sit down alone in your room and ask yourself, `Do I have the love of Dunya in my heart? Do I have the fear, do I hate death?’ You will know by your own selves. You don’t need anybody to tell you anything then. Don’t blame me to say, `He’s saying these words. I am checking myself all the time twenty-four hours a day to see if my heart is moving to Dunya or Akhirat. You must do the same. If you do it then slowly maybe the protection will come to you. Maybe the help will reach to you. When the Awliya’s help is reaching to you, slowly they remove that fear away and they replace it with a different love into your heart and that is the real love. Otherwise, Dunya love is only temporary and passing and it is only giving trouble to mankind.

If we take these words seriously, we will find safety to our own selves. If not, you are going to live by yourselves and you are going to die by yourselves. You are going to enter into your graves by your own selves. Nobody is going to be there. You are going to be alone. Think on it and that is maybe tomorrow. Maybe before tomorrow. Maybe next year. Maybe this year. Maybe ten years from now, maybe during this year’s time. But it’s going to happen. You cannot escape. It is only a counted time, counted days or years. You cannot escape. Every single day moving one step ahead, you are moving one step forward to your grave. Don’t forget. Don’t say, `I am too young, I am too strong, I am too healthy, I am so wealthy.’ Eh, so many squareheads today say, `I have power in Dunya. I have this position. I am a General. Nobody’s touching me.’ Azrail will touch you good and you will turn into a stone then maybe.

So wake up to your own selves. For fourteen hundred years this Khutba in every Juma is a reminder to people. For fourteen hundred years it’s saying, `Oh people! Have fear from Allah and keep obedience to Allah.’ Allah subhana wa ta’ala is reminding us saying, `Have fear from Allah and keep obedience to your Lord. Your Lord is not like you. Keep obedience to Allah.’ InshaAllah that way we will find safety.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.