Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, Muharrem 22, 1431 (January 8, 2010)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that the month of Safar is coming soon, a very dangerous month with terrible events. Believers must be especially aware of how they may go out from this world. Don’t count on your worldly position to save you. Did you earn your ahirat today by remembering to do everything for the sake of ALLAH swt? Your shehadat is the only thing that can save you, not doctors, not 911. If you are a believer, every day must be better for your ahirat.

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CHANGE WRONG THINGS BY STARTING WITH YOUR OWN SELF

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

Friday 22 Muharram, 1431
January 8, 2010
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 al-azim wa atubu ilaih. We are leaving one more month behind from another year. The month of Muharram is almost finishing. We are entering to another month, the month of Safar that so many incidents are coming down during this month. Believers, believers must be careful. Believers. Who are the believers? Those who believe in Allah and His Prophet (sws) and those who believe in the Judgment Day. Those believers should be careful. `We are okay today’. What about tomorrow? Are you okay tomorrow? No, you don’t know that. Then you have to know where you are stepping, where you’re putting your feet. But the 21st Century people became heedless and headless living 24 hours with problems and worrying, 24 hours worrying. Seventeen years old to seventy, eighty, ninety, those who are ready to enter to grave. But their worrying is not the worrying of Akhirat. It’s the worrying of Dunya. What are they worrying? `What am I going to eat tomorrow? What am I going to drink tomorrow? Am I going to have enough money tomorrow? Do I have a car tomorrow? I don’t like this car. Am I going to change it for tomorrow?’ Your worry never ends and you finish your life and you prepare yourself to hellfire. Then it doesn’t matter what you call yourself. Call yourself a believer. Are you able to take that Shahadat with you at last going out? As the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The way you believe, that’s how you will live. The way you live, that’s how you will die. The way you die, that’s how you will rise to the Judgment Day’.

The way you believe, that’s how you will live. From where this sickness came to the Muslims to worry for tomorrow, worrying for today, worrying for Dunya? Since when? Over 100 years. And the Muslims now, as we say, from 7 years old to 70, 80, 90 worrying non-stop but worrying only for Dunya. Not worrying to say, `If Azrail is coming to me today, am I going out from this world as a believer? Did I get up this morning and I kept my promise to my Lord? If Azrail is going to come to me today all day long, am I going to go up there to say, `I kept my promise this morning Ya Rabbi’?’ Ask that to yourself. Ask that question to yourself. You’ll find the answer by yourself. Nobody has to say anything to you. Did you cheat early in the morning? Of course, those who are praying are also cheating. Turning this way, that way, getting up by force. They must be in a very squeezed position worldly and they are believing that they want something from Allah. But even then they are doing it cheating. So wake up to yourself because Azrail is ready to strike. Keep that alive in yourself. Don’t say that `I am a young one’ or `I am a strong one’ or `I am a healthy one’ or `I am a powerful one’ or `I have so many positions’. Look, read the newspaper today. Watch how many strong ones are going out from this world, how many healthy ones are going out from this world. Look and watch. Maybe tomorrow is your turn.

And worry, yes, you must worry, we must worry for Akhirat. We have been sent to this world to earn our Akhirat. Did you earn your Akhirat today? At least did you make promise today to live for Akhirat? Everything that you do in this world, did you promise today that you are doing it for the sake of Allah, preparing yourself for Akhirat? If you are doing that then you have no worry. You have only one worry. Akhirat. That never ends. That is the one that keeps pushing you continuously forward. That is the time that people will know too, `This one ran for Allah’. If you are running for Dunya then your energy is going to finish and when the energy is finishing then your hope is going to finish and Sheytan is coming to you saying, `Don’t worry. Your Lord is so Merciful. You don’t have to do it. He’s going to forgive you’. This is what he is saying. Who’s saying this? Allah is saying this to us, `This is how that Sheytan is coming to you to fool you. Yes, your Lord is Merciful with you when you have the breath of life and carrying it. That’s a mercy to wake up, to shake yourself up to say, `What is it that I’m doing? When am I going to wake up?’ Ask that question to yourself. If you didn’t yet then start right now. Push yourself now. Don’t leave it for tomorrow because tomorrow may be too late.

So a very dangerous month is waiting. So many people’s names are written in that book for that month who are going to go out. So many nations are going to turn upside down. So many businesses are going to turn upside down. So many healthy people are going to enter to sicknesses. So many people who think that they are top level are going to come all the way down. Look back, take lesson from history. Muslims are screaming in the streets today saying, `Why Allah is not helping us? The Americans came to Iraq, they went to Afghanistan. The Israelis are finishing us’. Yeah. Ask the question to yourselves. The answer is with you, not with the Americans. They are in Iraq today. Tomorrow they may be in Turkey and there is a road leading to that. These nations, these people, that’s what they are preparing. And they say, `We are such good ones. And their soldiers came and are raping our mothers and our sisters’. Ah, you weren’t that good maybe. Sit and think. Allah subhana wa ta’ala doesn’t send anything to a man who didn’t deserve. Sit and think. Watch what happened, how the history is moving. Watch step by step and you will understand. And don’t look at the other nations. Your own nations, look at how they are, and the hope for tomorrow for them is not that great. It’s terrible.

All that happened to us, to the Muslims, why? Since we left Allah. Over a hundred years ago we have risen against the ruler that Allah sent to us, the Khalifah, we have risen against him. All nations, Muslim nations rose against him saying, `We don’t want this kind of ruling. We don’t want these kinds of laws. What are these laws? Remove it. We put our own laws’. Heh, now you are okay. In all Muslim nations, things that never happened in their dreams, now it’s happening there worse than the western countries. Watch. I don’t have to tell you. You know how it is. You know better than me. So, what’s in it for us? We are part of it. We have to sit and pray, `Yes Ya Rabbi, we are in it. We are part of it. We are asking for forgiveness. ‘ Ask forgiveness from Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Say, `Yes, if You give me the power, I will stand up and I will change all these wrong things. And I am starting to change the wrong things with myself. And I am promising to You that I am going to live according to Your laws, not according to my ego’. Then you will be alright. Even if you change nothing, even if the whole world turns upside down, you will be okay.

So wake up to yourselves. Today is the good day. Tomorrow worse is coming, the following day worse is coming, the following day worse is coming. But the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying otherwise. Allah is saying otherwise to the believers, saying, `The Ahir is going to be better’. But it’s not happening better to those people who are claiming that they are believers. Every day that is passing it’s becoming worse. Yes. It’s because something is wrong with the belief. Something is wrong with their faith. Their faith and their action are completely something different. So we must wake up. You must wake up.

Amri bil maruf wa nahyi anil munkar. That’s finished too, completely, that the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `When that finishes, everything is finished. In the nations, Amri bil maruf must first come from the top leaders. The leaders must give orders to the people to direct them to the right roads and to stop them from the wrongdoings. But it became otherwise. Imams, sheikhs, priests, rabbis, everyone is falling into the same category now. They are afraid to speak the truth because some authorities may call them and question them. That’s what happened. But you must not be afraid to speak the truth at least to your own selves. At least say to your own selves, `This is what’s happening. This is what I’m doing. This is what I’m saying. I am saying the Shahadat but I am living otherwise. I am saying the Shahadat but I am breaking every law, everything that the Holy Prophet (sws) said. I am living something else. I am a different creature’.

Wake up to yourselves. If Azrail comes to you in that situation, it’s not going to be enough to say, `I am a Muslim 20, 30, 40, 60, 100 years’. The Ahir word, the last word is important. And if you are not living according to that then you are not going to be able to hold on tightly to that Shahadat. That is the time that again you are going to run around looking, `Where is doctor? Where is help?’ But Azrail is there and you are not seeing. You are still running to look for doctors. Is that what you are doing right now? Yes, that’s what you are doing right now. Any little incident that comes to you, the first thing that you remember is doctor and hospital and emergency. This is what you are remembering. You are not remembering Allah and His Prophet (sws). You are not remembering to say, `Is this Azrail coming to check me up? Maybe. Let me see. Let me not get excited and slowly let me see. Let me make two rakats. Let me go to Sejdah’. Ah, from where did you learn this? From where did you learn to call 911? Is Islam saying to you that 24 hours any incident happens call 911? Turning the whole world upside down with your confusion and Fitna and later, `911, I am afraid somebody is coming’. Eh, you are not afraid from Allah, definitely. You are not a believer then. You are claiming the Shahadat but you are not believing what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying.

So what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us? `The believer, your today has to be better than yesterday. Tomorrow must be better than today if you are a believer. If you are a believer then your today has to be better than yesterday and your tomorrow must be better than today’. Is there any doubt with the words of the Holy Prophet (sws)? If you have doubt then you lost your faith. Check it up. Look at it. Is that what’s happening to you today? Today is better than yesterday? And you are hoping for tomorrow that it’s going to be better? Not worldly again. Not Dunya. Akhirat, akhirat. Islam is concentrating on everything in Akhirat, not in Dunya. Leave that concentration of Dunya, concentrate on Akhirat, you will be the winner. Everything comes along then to you.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.