Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, 13 Shawwal 1430 (October 2, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is warning believers to obey ALLAH swt and to fear ALLAH. A heedless person cannot be doing this; they are not careful of where they are stepping and what they are getting into. sheytan is whispering, leading heedless ones to jehennam (hell). Obey ALLAH and follow a guide – not sheytan.

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HEEDLESSNESS IS FORBIDDEN IN ISLAM

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

Friday 13 Shawwal, 1430
October 2, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah. Astaghfirullah al-Azim wa atubu ilaih. 21st Century’s heedless people. Heedlessness is forbidden in Islam. Everytime when a man is heedless, it means that Sheytan is sitting on his neck. It’s turning him left and right. Believers must be in a awakening station. Not heedless. For fourteen hundred years the Khutba is happening worldwide and every Imam is saying, `Obey Allah and have fear from Allah.’ For fourteen hundred years reminding to Mu’mins, `Obey Allah and have fear from Allah.’ Non-stop in every Juma.

`Eh, aren’t we obedient servants to Allah?’

A heedless person is not obedient to Allah. A heedless person is ready to fall into any trap any minute. He’s not knowing what is open in front of him. How is he going to know, `Is there any ambush here? Let me check out. Is there any mine here? Let me see.’ No. The Muslims countries are worse. Non-Muslim countries are disaster. Just like a big minefield everywhere. You are walking in the minefields. The Muslims are walking in the minefields and their heads are up like this. So proud. And what happens? When you are walking in the minefield like that then what happens? One, two, three steps, at the fourth one you are going to touch somewhere and the mine is going to finish you. And still so many are thinking, `I am in the Sirat-ul Mustaqim.’ Yes, Sheytan has hundreds of thousands of tricks, not one, and the heedless person cannot save himself from his tricks and traps.

Two ways, two doors. You enter to this world through one door. You are going to go out either from the right side or from the left side. Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The way you live, that’s how you are going to die. The way you will die, that’s how you will be buried. The way you will be buried, that’s how you are going to get up to the Judgment Day.’ What is the meaning of this? The way you live… your lifestyle is important. How do you live? What is your role-model? You are living according to what? According to your ego or according to the orders of Allah and His Prophet (sws). If you are according to Allah and His Prophet’s (sws) order then are you taking somebody to guide you?

`Eh, I have a Sheykh.’

Are you listening to that one? Or are you just sitting, while he’s speaking your mind is completely in some other place. Are you thinking to say, `This sohbet is for me. I must correct myself. I must look at how heedless I am.’ He is talking about heedlessness but is he talking about the people that is not there? Or is he talking about you? `I have to correct myself. Let me check myself to see what is the sickness I have. Where am I heedless?’

So many people today are exempting themselves from this, saying, `It’s not for me.’ It’s not for you and it’s not for me. It’s for who? The Quran-e Kerim is for you and for me. The Holy Prophet (sws) spoke and he put orders for you and for me, for every one of us. Are you carrying an ego? Yes. It’s for you. Yes. Are you controlling your ego? If you are controlling your ego then how are you going to be heedless? You are under the control of your ego. That’s why you are heedless. You are not in an awakening station. You are completely heedless. So then you are not obeying Allah and you are not obeying His Prophet (sws).

`Eh, I was just talking here.’

`What were you talking? What were you saying?’

`A couple of words backbiting.’

`You are disobedient to Allah.’

The order is saying, `Obey Allah and have fear from Allah.’ You are disobedient to Allah and you have no fear from Allah because Allah subhana wa ta’ala is putting order. First He is saying to us, `Do’, He is putting order to us, `Do this, do this, do that, do this, do that.’ Then He says to us, `Don’t do this, don’t turn here, don’t look here, don’t say this, don’t move here’. So many… 500 orders `Do’ and 800 orders `Don’t do’. Which one is coming on your way, do you know? If you are a heedless one then definitely you are not knowing. Anything comes on the way, `Eh, this is okay for me.’ Of course. Sheytan is putting it in a nice box for you. Just like Sheytan is putting the liquor inside nice bottles and nice boxes. Very expensive. Hmm. The cigarettes have nice boxes, very good shapes on it, mashaAllah. Take it! Poison inside. Just like that Sheytan is showing, putting everything in nice forms for you and Mu’mins are running.

You must check to see what is here, what is under here, is it a minefield or not? No, today’s Mu’mins are not checking Sheytan. They are checking the Rahmanis. Everytime I’m hearing now, `How are we going to believe that he is a right sheykh? How are we going to know if he is right? How are we going to trust? How?’ Don’t trust because you are already trusting Sheytan. You are already holding tightly to Sheytan. Don’t worry. If you don’t let go then he will drag you to Jahannam. Nothing else. That is his job. Then he’s turning around and laughing, saying to you, `Thuuh! Allah created you to be His servant and you followed me? Disobedient creature. You followed my order? Thuuh! You are worse than me.’ And in the Judgment Day he will complain about you saying, `I didn’t do anything to this one. I just whispered. That’s it. Nothing else. I didn’t take his hand to shoot somebody and to kill somebody. I didn’t push him to make adultery. I didn’t push him to make Fitna and Fasad. Nothing. My duty was to whisper things and I did.’

And so heedless ones, yes. Sheytan is so happy with the 21st Century people. Is Allah happy? No. Is His Prophet (sws) happy? He is not. Are Awliya Allah happy? No. Who is happy? Sheytan. They sheytans are very happy. So we must wake up to our own selves because we entered through one door and we are travelling no matter what, whether we are in an awakening station or we are sleeping. We are continuing on that road coming to and end. And the way you live that’s how you are going to die. The way your lifestyle is, that is the road you are going to follow. If you go out from this world through the left door, that is the time of the beginning of troubles. This has not changed from the beginning of the world until now and it’s not going to change until Judgment Day. No exceptions. There will be no exceptions. Don’t think, `I am exception.’ You are not exception. I will tell you a story and you will understand that you are not exception and I am not exception.

When Hazrat Fatima (ra) passed from this world, some Sahaba secretly buried her at nighttime and one of them got very emotional and said to the grave, `O grave, today we are putting somebody to you that is very beloved to the Prophet (sws). Be careful with that one and know how you are going to treat that one. If you don’t know then let me give you some more titles about her. She is the most beloved wife of Ali (radiyallahu anh). If you don’t know then let me tell you a little bit more. She is the mother of Hasan and Husayn. Sound came back from the earth, `Hey you, mind your business! Today is not a day anymore to treat that one with this title or with that title. Whatever she has sent here before, that’s what she is going to find with me. If she sent here the obedience and the orders she kept for Allah subhana wa ta’ala, that’s what she will find here. You? You worry about yourself. Don’t interfere into my business. Tomorrow I am going to pull you inside too. And as you have been given order by Allah subhana wa ta’ala to be an obedient servant, I have also been given order from Allah subhana wa ta’ala saying to me, `Put safety to obedient servants. Have no mercy to disobedient ones.’

Check yourself. Find out what you are doing and why you are doing. Islam is not only what you are doing but why you are doing. What is the intention behind there? Find out and you will understand if you are an obedient servant or a disobedient servant. If you do understand then definitely say, `Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah.’ If you find yourself thinking that you are obedient servant, say, `La ilaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu min az-zalimeen.’ That is the Dua that a Prophet turned to Allah subhana wa ta’ala with for one disobedience. Allah said to Prophet Yunus (alayhi salam), `Go to this nation and give them My message.’ And everyday he was going to them and they were torturing him everyday. Everyday they were becoming worse and worse and worse. One day he decided saying, `I am spending my life with these ones. I am not going to stay here. I am going to go to another place. I may find a different people that may listen to this.’ And he was taking off. He got into the ship and all of a sudden the sea started shaking below the ship. The waves were turning upside down as if it was going to swallow the ship. There was a wise man sitting in the ship. People came to him knowing, saying, `Please pray for us. We don’t know what happened. All of a sudden the sea got angry.’ In the old days people were a little bit more smarter than today. Today the earths are shaking, skies are cracking up, things are turning upside down, people are still running for their selfish ego. I’m watching and I cannot believe. What kind of heedlessness is this? Astaghfirullah al-Azim wa atubu ilaih.

And those ones were saying, `All of a sudden this sea is shaking. Something is happening. Please pray.’ That man he closed his eyes for a little bit and said, `No, I cannot pray because there’s a disobedient servant in this ship.’ And Yunus (as) was listening. And the man was saying, `That disobedient one is running away from the order of Allah. If he doesn’t jump into the sea, if he doesn’t throw himself into the sea, this sea is going to swallow this ship and everyone of us is going to die in it. And not only is he going to be punished because of his disobedience, he is going to be punished because he became a reason for everyone of us to die if he doesn’t jump.’ So Yunus (as) was hearing this and he said, `There is no other way.’ He jumped into the sea and the fish came and swallowed him. When he was inside the stomach of the fish he realized it saying, `Oh Ya Rabbi, La ilaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu min az-Zalimeen. You are the Subhan Allah.’ Simple understanding. `I have become from those who tyrannize themselves. Please forgive me.’ He stayed in that fish for days, inside the stomach and finally Allah subhana wa ta’ala accepted and the fish came near the seaside and threw him out but his body started burning through the sun. And when he got cured he went back to that nation again.

If you think that you are an obedient servant then you must say this. You must continue. This is the Wird that you must say everyday at least a 100 times because today under the obedience everyone is disobedient. If you keep these words it will put safety to you. If not, the grave is waiting. Every single day we are going closer. As we said earlier, it doesn’t matter who you are, it doesn’t matter what you do, you may find yourself in the wrong side. Be in an awakening station, understand what you are doing and why you are doing. Don’t interfere into anything. Just interfere into your own businesses. Watch to see what’s happening. You are not the one who’s going to change the world. If you are the one who’s going to change the world and if you are still sitting here, that means the permission has not been given to you yet.

So your duty is to sit and to wait because the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `In Ahir Zaman that’s what’s going to happen. People are not going to run after Haqq and they are not going to give obedience to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. If you are living in that time, keep the Haqq and be patient. Don’t interfere because you cannot change so many things. Try to change yourself. Be in an awakening station, prepare yourself and wait for the Sahib-uz Zaman to take the Takbir.’ Not to say, `I am here, I am Sahib-uz Zaman, I am Mahdi.’ Close your ears for those fool people. They are fools and they are running after those kinds but they are being suspicious about their sheykhs. When that one is coming out, he is not going to say, `I am the Mahdi.’ He is going to start doing his job. Taking the Takbir and doing everything. No man, no power is going to stop that one. It’s almost about to happen. Wake up to yourselves.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.