Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, May 16, 2008 (Jumad Awal 10, 1429)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that those who read the book of Allah continuously, who keep their 5 daily prayers and who share from the favors that have been given to them with others, they should expect and wait for good results. For safety and for inner peace, read more Quran (murids should be reading 1 juz of Quran every day or reciting Ikhlas 100 times); keep your wird, and read hadith (Sheykh Efendi recommends reading 3 hadith a day and applying it to your life). Don’t speak so much of what you think you know.

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READ THE QURAN TO GAIN ALLAH’S FAVOR

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

Friday 10 Jumad al-Awwal, 1429
May 16, 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. Allah subhana wa ta’ala
is saying, “Those who reads the book of Allah, who keeps their five
daily prayers and who shares from the favors that He has given to them
openly and secretly with others, they should expect and wait for good
result for them because Allah subhana wa ta’ala does not let anything
to go to waste.” These are such good things to do for man. Even if
Allah is not sending a book or anything to remind us, it is the best
thing that man can do. What’s preventing us from this? What’s
preventing the mankind? Dunya. This world. The love of this Dunya. If
a man has the love of Dunya in his heart he cannot say, `Yes, I am one
of those ones that Allah is saying there’, because when you are taking
the book of Allah and you are reading continuously…

Muslims today don’t read anymore. They are on the internet talking
back and forth. They all became scholars teaching each other but they
are not reading anything anymore. They are not taking the book of
Allah to read and to say, “Well, Allah has spoken and there are words
in it for me. He is mentioning also me in that book. Let me look in
that book to see which part is talking about me.” Yes, Allah is
speaking to the whole mankind in that book and sometime it takes the
whole lifetime for a man to find what is there. That’s why it is an
obligation to believers to recite everyday, for murids to recite one
Ju’z of Quran everyday. Eh, you don’t know how to recite the Quran. At
least recite 100 Ikhlas a day. No, they are not doing it because if
you are reading 100 Ikhlas a day then your action and everything is
going to change. Everything is going to change.

You go to a doctor, you get sick, doctor gives you one paper saying,
`Read this. Go bring it to the pharmacy and read it. Do according to
this paper.’ And everyone is running top-speed to do that. But Allah
is saying, “Read this book. It is a cure to you also. It has secrets
in it that when you are reading you will find cure to your
sicknesses.” The sick ones aren’t reading it and the cured ones aren’t
reading it. Everyone is talking in these days. Just talking nonsense.
Talking back and forth. One says one word and the other one replaces
it with ten. The other one doesn’t think to say, `Well, maybe this
person is right. Let me just stop.’ No.
`He said ten words? I am going to give back a hundred.’

That’s the instruction coming from Sheytan. Sheytan is saying that,
`You must. Don’t stand at the bottom of this. Don’t sit to say this.
Who’s that one to say? Give answer back. You have time. You are free.’
(Sheykh Efendi smiles mockingly).

So then it’s showing that the man is stuck with this Dunya. Anyone who
is stuck with this Dunya is suffering. He is going to suffer. The
Dunya is not a place for a man to find enjoyment and running around
thinking that, “I am going to have this and I am going to have that. I
am going to earn this and I am going to be getting this and I am going
to have…” No. It’s not going to be. Maybe the more that you are
earning, in that ayat Allah is saying, “If you are earning and you are
not sharing with others then it’s going to become more burden to you.”

So we have two roads. Either we follow the direction that the ego is
showing to us or we follow the order that our Lord is ordering to us.
If we are following that order then it looks in the beginning pretty
hard but it’s the easiest way. The other way is the hardest way. It’s
always. And it’s always going to become harder, harder and harder.
Never is it going to become easier. Every single day that is passing
it’s going to become harder. Every week that is passing it’s going to
become harder. Every month and every year. But the days and the weeks
and the months and the years that are passing are not promising us
another life. It’s taking away from our life. And we are going down.
We are expiring, finishing. It doesn’t matter how much you think you
say to yourself, “I feel like…”

Today people are 80 years old and they say, `I feel like I’m 18.’ Say
that one more time. What did you do when you were 18 that you want to
feel like 18 again? So you are admiring the wrong lifestyle. You have
not woken up yet to say, “When I was 18 I was doing wrong. I was in
the wrong road and I was living against the laws and rules of my Lord.
So I have become in awakening station now. Oh Ya Rabbi! Don’t make me
remember those days.” Because if you are remembering, if you continue
remembering then you are going to be questioned. If Allah erased it
off from your mind He will erase it from other people’s minds too.
Then you come to the Judgment Place clean. So don’t admire the wrong
time that you were passing. No.

So the only way to find safety from the tricks and traps of Sheytan is
the Book of Allah. The believers must hold that book with them always.
Anytime they have they must open and they must read. They are making
it easier for us saying, “Well, you may not understand from this book.
Read hadith.” If you are reading 3 hadith a day then your life is
going to change, yes, your reading is not just to read. You are going
to take it and apply to your life. Knowledge is to know. But why do
you want to know? To learn how to read and write. For what? Why are
you going to school to learn how to read and write? To understand, to
read, to have knowledge. Why do you need the knowledge? To apply to
our lives. Not to say, “I know this much and I know that much.” The
more that you know then and you are disconnected from Allah’s way,
that’s what’s going to happen. Anywhere you go you are going to open
your mouth. You are going to think that you know only. Only you,
nobody else. You are going to talk.

And in these days people don’t have to go anywhere anymore. They don’t
go out from their rooms. They sit in front of their computers and talk
to the whole world, giving advice to the whole world but meanwhile
they are suffering in their own little rooms.

So if you want safety then that is what Allah is saying to us. This is
safety to you. This is the way that you will find safety. This is the
way that you will find peace, as He is saying to us, “If you are doing
this then Allah is not going to waste your time. He is going to favor
you.” Favoring back to you, yes. Favor in Dunya and favor in Akhirat.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.