Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday April 17, 2009 (Rabi Thani 21, 1430)

Thinking wrong and imagination can put you into the wrong area. Maybe it will lead you to backbiting or slander. Many unbelievers mind their own business; but many believers are busy making fitna. Remember why you are here – to worship ALLAH swt, not to support your ego. Look at how you are living your own life to see if it is correct.

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LEAVE MALAYANI AND HEAR AND OBEY

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

Friday 24 Rabi-ul Akhir, 1430
April 17, 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. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih. Allah subhana wa ta’ala has created us for one reason, the main job, the main duty of the children of Adam is to know Allah and to worship Allah. And He has given us a very short time in this world. Compared to the life that is coming, the eternal life, this is not even worth to say short. What the children of Adam is busy with twenty-four hours a day? With nonsense, with malayani, with something that is just going to build problems, troubles and punishment to them. Still that man has something in his head to say, `I am intelligent’ ? Astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih.

This is to believers. Juma khutba is to believers. It’s not to unbelievers. Juma khutba is given from the first day that the Holy Prophet (sws) made Hijrat from Makkah to Madinah and he started the Juma khutba. And since then that is continuing. And in that Juma khutba the Holy Prophet (sws) prayed saying that, `Ya Rabbi, any man that is not taking care of this Juma, is not caring and is not coming for this Juma, the collars of his shirt must not come together.’ Meaning, all dunya and everything that he is trying to do, he should not be successful. That is the curse that the Prophet (sws) put.

A billion and a half Muslims today are running around in the streets at this time everywhere in the world, in Muslim countries, non-Muslim countries, everywhere running around. And know that the new empty-head ones are also coming around and saying, `If there is no Khalifah, there cannot be Juma.’ Hasha Astaghfirullah. Shut down all the masjids everywhere in the world then. Why are you keeping it there? But the confusion is going to be reaching everywhere. And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `There’s going to be confusion so big that inside the house of Awliya there’s going to be confusion.’ People that are going to be making Sejdah together and they are talking to each other together saying how much they love each other, but behind their backs they are going to make confusion, they are going to make fitnah. They are going to make slandering, they are going to put wrong things out.’

And Allah is giving us the ayat, Surat-ul Hujrat, in that ayat He is saying to us, `Thinking about things in your own imagination sometimes, know that it puts you into the wrong area, and you will be committing a sin when you start thinking wrong.’ And he is saying, `When you are backbiting, it’s just like you are eating your own brother’s dead meat.’ This is the ayat of the Quran. And they asked the Holy Prophet (sws), `Ya Rasulullah, what is backbiting?’ He said, `Backbiting is something that a person is doing and if he is there he is not going to like you saying that. That is backbiting.’

`What about if something is not there.’

`That’s completely slandering. Prepare yourself for a heavier punishment than that.’

Today’s people sink into that and we say that the unbelievers are busy with themselves. The believers, the mumins, the murids are busy with nonsense that are just going to prepare punishment to them. And the worst, the murids are busy with the Sheykh’s business. Who are you to understand? Did you understand to stick your nose into things? Do you understand where you are and how you are and what you are? Hmm. Okay. Continue for as much breath that is given to you. You like it. As Allah subhana wa ta’ala and His Prophet (sws) is saying, `The ignorant ones are trying to challenge Allah.’ Yes, running and attacking the Holy Prophet (sws) and his representatives. This is what’s happening. But everyone is given free breath to do.

What is your business in Dunya? To know Allah and to worship Allah. Stop malayani. Even though malayani is a knowledge, but that knowledge doesn’t concern you. You should not be busy with that. How a believer is going to be busy with something that is going to bring fitnah and confusion to himself, to the community and to the nation of Islam. Because of that, fitnah is non-stop, back and forth, going everywhere. But there’s a strong word for those ones that they are not going to be able to escape from. They may run around a little bit but they are not going to escape.

So your duty, our duty, from that day that the Holy Prophet (sws) is putting that khutba, the duty to us is to go and listen and to put ourselves back to that line again. Believers, mumins, murids, at least two times a day they should sit down somewhere and think, early in the morning to think, `What am I here for? Another life is given to me today. Today I just woke up again. What is it that Allah wants from me? What is it that I have to do?’ By evening time you must sit down to calculate what you did. Do you think if somebody’s doing this non-stop he can continue with this nonsense? It’s not going to give anything to those who are running after something that doesn’t concern them. It’s not going to give benefit of course. It’s going to give them lots of trouble, in dunya and akhirat. Your troubles are enough for you. Don’t go getting other peoples’ burdens. You will be crushed underneath. Later, `I cannot move’. You are not going to.

`I cannot breath’.

You cannot breath the air. The air is going to be haram to you then. The eating and drinking will be haram to you. That is haram action. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering us to keep ourselves out from that and saying, `Those are believers. Those are believers who don’t interfere into other people’s business. They look at themselves. They check themselves out and they look at what they do. How they are going to build their relationship with their Lord, this is what their business is. And He is saying in the same Surah, `When the Bedouins came to the Prophet (sws) they said, `We became believers.’ He says, `No. Say to them, they are not believers yet. The faith has not entered into their hearts. They may call themselves Muslims but they are not believers.’

So we must sit and think where we are, what we are doing and which category you are fitting yourself. But at least you must be sincere with your own self to put the things that you do and look at the actions and orders that Allah is ordering and compare to that. Put yourself in any category then. If you still want to cheat yourself and lie to yourself, continue. Allah subhana wa ta’ala didn’t create the fire for nothing. Don’t forget that. You are not special. I am not special. None of us will be special when you become disobedient to Allah and His Prophet (sws).

Sheytan made countless worshipping. No man can reach if he stays on Sejdah all his life, twenty-four hours a day, he cannot make the drop of worship that Sheytan did. He knew not one book, 104 books he knew. He knew all the pages that were sent to the prophets. He has seen Adam (alayhi salam) before life was blown into him. He has seen his creation. He witnessed. He witnessed the paradises. He didn’t leave any empty spot on the face of this earth where he didn’t make Sejdah. Shah Bahauddin Naksibendi (qaddasallahu sirruh) is saying, `If Sheytan would have left one handful of area on the face of this earth that he didn’t make Sejdah, I can save all the Mumins in that area. But I am finding no place where he didn’t make Sejdah.’ So after all this he just became disobedient one time. And that disobedience is because of jealousy. He was jealous. Are you carrying that sickness inside of you? You just inherited something big from Sheytan. And that is enough. If you don’t get rid of it then it should be enough to finish and burn your faith before you go out from this world.

So which one should we take seriously? The order of Allah? That He is saying to us, `I have created you to know Me and to worship Me. This is the reason of your creation.’ This is the reason of our creation. Because we are making a couple of Sejdah, don’t think that you have reached to Sidrat-ul Muntaha. We are in need of making another Sejdah because we are in Ghaflat all the time, in heedless station, as an Awliya is saying. One century passed after the Holy Prophet (sws) and they came and they asked, `What should we do? Things are not working good.’ She says, `We are not making astaghfirullah properly. We are not asking forgiveness from our Lord properly. We are in need of sitting down and say astaghfirullah for the astaghfirullah that we are making in Ghaflat, in that heedless station.’

Heedlessness makes a person to go out from his line. The believer must be in an awakening station. Believer must know what’s coming from where. Believer must know where the words are going to end. Believers must know when they open their mouth what they are saying and why they are saying. And if somebody is coming to you and if you think that you are such a good one, if someone comes to tell you something, your duty is to shut that one down, not to listen even if it’s true. It’s not your business. Say to that one, `I don’t want to hear. I don’t want to be a partner to the sin that you are ready to commit. I don’t want to hear. Go away.’ And stay away from that one because that one is enough to put you into trouble. Until that one is not correcting itself you don’t need to have a friend like that. That is an enemy to you. Leave that one to the hand of the Sheykh. He has ways to fix them and you. Don’t worry. So many ways. Endless ways. Once somebody is giving initiation, they are going to be fixed, easily or through hardship. And imagine whatever you can imagine, you cannot even imagine what can come to the person if he continues being arrogant and stubborn. Sheytan is not more powerful than the Awliya Allah.

So, Allah subhana wa ta’ala is giving us warnings. Who are we that He is giving us warnings? Are you understanding your value? As a physical form, nothing. Not even a drop. But the spirit that Allah has put there is very high and very big. And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying, `I have not created you for the fire. Don’t run into the fire. Later you are not going to be able to bear that punishment. And in this dunya you are going to be in trouble. You are not going to have proper sleep in this dunya too.’

So the 21st Century people became completely heedless and headless. And all this education that they are taking, it’s not only that they are making them to be more proud with themselves, it’s making them to become more ignorant and arrogant. This is not what Islam is ordering us. This is not why the Holy Prophet (sws) came to this world to teach us. This is not what the Prophet (sws) is teaching us. The Sahaba-e Kiram once upon a time were in darkness. They needed somebody. They couldn’t come out from that mess that they have entered. So Allah’s mercy has reached to them, to us and to the whole mankind. And He sent His most beloved one to them. And the only thing they did was they put their ignorance aside and they became obedient to that Prophet (sws). And they have reached to the highest station that no man ever is going to reach. Everything that they did wrong is forgiven and they have reached to the highest station in paradises that no one is going to reach easily. That’s what we are aiming for. We are trying to be with them in the hereafter life. But we have to close doors to this kind of nonsense that is circling around in the world.

So the Holy Prophet’s (sws) order we must take, we must put it on top of our head even if it is not good for our own ego. Anything that the Holy Prophet (sws) is forbidding us, definitely it’s not going to be good for our own ego. We are not in this world to support our ego. We are in this world to obey Allah and to obey His Prophet (sws) and to obey our leaders, those ones that Allah appointed to us. We must obey them. Those ones who are calling us to Allah and His Prophet (sws), we must obey them. Disobedience to them is obedience to Sheytan and to ego. Obedience to them is disobedience to your ego and to Sheytan.

So which side you think we should take as believers? As we said earlier, don’t think that you are special. We are only special, we can be only special as much Taqwa that we have. As much obedience to Allah and His Prophet (sws), then definitely that much higher station you are going to go. Then yes there are differences. Then there are differences among the children of Adam (as). That is the difference that man can have. You want to be a different one? Obey Allah and His Prophet (sws) and those ones that Allah appointed to us. The more obedience to them, the higher station you reach. The higher station you reach the more you leave the nonsense of this dunya.

Never forget the Ayat of Allah subhana wa ta’ala that is saying to you and to me, `Know that this world, your family, your children, your worldly wealth, it is only a confusion to you. You are going to go into your graves by yourselves.’ Every one of us. You are going to get up to the Judgment Place by yourselves. Think on it now. Your mother is not going to help you or my mother. Your father or my father is not going to help me or is going to help you. It doesn’t matter if your father reaches to the station of the highest Awliya. He is not going to be able to help you then. If you became disobedient to Allah and His Prophet (sws) then definitely you became disobedient to that one. Then the help is not going to reach to you. So many children of prophets became disobedient to their fathers. So many wives of prophets became disobedient to the prophets. The prophets didn’t lose. They lost.

The duty is to those who listen, they must obey. They must listen. The duty of a servant, everyone of us is a servant, the prophets are servants too, is to hear and obey. To hear Allah and to obey Allah. If you understand that part then it becomes easy after that to hear the right word. It doesn’t matter where it’s coming from. The word of Haqq, the truth, you must hear, you must obey, you must take and you must apply to your life. Not to go crazy when somebody says to you the true word, to go out of yourself screaming, fighting. Where do you think you’ll reach? Where do you think you are going to reach with that? Who reached where with that? No one. It’s only arrogance and stubbornness and that cannot continue for a long time. A believer must move, must pull himself out from that, must not be a servant to Sheytan. Anyone who is falling into the hand of his anger, that one is a servant to his Sheytan.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.