Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, Safar 8, 1431 (January 22, 2010)
How can anyone live on the earth and not obey the Creator? You have been given a little authority – over determining right from wrong. But He has all authority. Ask for His help to do what is right. Ask for His forgiveness when you do something wrong. And continue to hurt and do damage only as much as you can bear the fire. The way you live is the way you will die.

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FIND ANOTHER WORLD IF YOU ARE NOT RELIGIOUS

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

Friday 8 Safar, 1431
January 22, 2010
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih. From the beginning of this world, until now, until the end, people living on the earth have been called to believe in Allah, to have faith and to prepare themselves to Akhirat, hereafter life, life that is eternal. And new way, new people the 21st century’s squarehead people are saying, `Eh, these are religious people. We are not religious ones’. What is religion? Religion is teaching you how to live on this earth, how to be an obedient servant, how to prepare yourself for Akhirat. Huh, are you a religious person or not? If not, it is haram to you to live on this earth. It is haram to them to eat and drink. You are not accepting the one who has created you and everything in it and you are staying in His place, in his land? Go find some other Lord. But the problem is it’s not only the unbelievers today, the believers are the same way too. Calling themselves believers and where are you? Are you praying?

`No, I am busy’.

Your business must bankrupt. Where are you? Are you doing something for Allah’s sake?

`No, I enjoy myself’.

You must enter to fire. Prepare yourself to enter to fire. The reason for you to be created and to be sent to this world is not to run after your ego and to have your religion according to your ego too. That’s what happened to the 21st Century people. They make religion to themselves, the religious ones too, the ones that say, `We are religious people. We are believers’. How you believe? `As I like. As my ego says. I do as I like. Nobody says [anything to me]’.

Hmm. Allah subhana wa ta’ala just gave you Irada-e Juziya, little authority to put yourself, with that authority that is given to you to be able to separate what is right and what is wrong and to put yourself to the right way. But the full authority of you, your life, your family, the earth and the skies, under the earth and above the earth is in the hand of Allah subhana wa ta’ala. No one can do other than what he wants. But if you are preparing to say, `I have Irada and I do as I like’, that means you are saying, `I have fallen to the level of the animals, lower than the animals’, because the animals are not given intelligence and they are not given the responsibility to be a servant. They have been put out there to be under the service of man. And today’s 21st Century man became so wild, even the wild animals are running away from them.

You must put yourself back to line, sit and question yourself to say, `With this faith that I am claiming, am I going to pass the test? If Azrail is coming to me now, am I just going to pass the test, or am I going to fail? So who am I fooling?’ You yourself. Nobody else. 24 hours a day. 24 hours a day fooling yourself. And if you get used to fooling yourself and if you don’t wake up, if you don’t shake yourself up to wake up, years are passing and then you start bragging about it, `I am a Muslim. I am a Muslim for these many years. I did this and I did that’. Huh, now you are in the hand of Sheytan completely. He is playing so good game on you that when Azrail is going to come you may wake up but it’s too late.

Wake up now. In every Juma Khutba the Imam is reminding himself and reminding the Jama’at, `Have fear from Allah and keep obedience to Allah’. Keeping obedience to Allah subhana wa ta’ala is not to say, `I do as I like’. Obedience is to say, `I do as You like. This is too hard for me. It’s very difficult for me. But it’s not difficult for You, Ya Rabbi. Help me to do it. Even if I am doing wrong, I know I am doing wrong, please I am asking forgiveness’ .

Today’s people became worse than the Firauns. Those who are running in the way of Allah became Firaun. They are not accepting anything anymore. Nobody’s accepting anything anymore and everyone is right in their own way. Their eyes are closed. Where are you? Are you living in this world? Or are you living in illusions and delusions world? Wake up to yourselves. Last call, last days. Last days to you, last days to me and last days to the earth. Last days to everything that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has created. Ahir of Ahir Zaman. Mankind has never fallen this low before, in general, east, west, north and south. It’s only a handful of people that they pulled themselves from that general public saying, `Ya Rabbi, we don’t like what they are doing, we don’t like how they are approaching to matters, we don’t like these ones actions. We cannot do anything. So we are pulling back Ya Rabbi. Everything is in Your hand’. Disaster is happening in the world. You must take lesson. It happened there and it’s not going to happen here, who says to you that? One day before those people were saying, `It’s never going to happen here’. One hour before, one minute before, people had so many plans to do. But their plans are not in the way of Allah. So everything turned upside down.

So Nature is upset with today’s people. It’s angry because Allah subhana wa ta’ala has given the authority of the world to the hand of man. He is giving a little intelligence and what the man is doing? Disaster. Rising their heads against the Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Those ones that are not making Sejdah, eh, they are rising. What about you making Sejdah? While you are making Sejdah you are rising your head against Allah subhana wa ta’ala? Being disobedient to His orders? Running away from His orders? Where are you running? From Jannat to Jahannam? That’s exactly what it is. Males and Females! This Dunya made everyone to become slaves. Nothing else. Wake up to yourselves because if you have the whole world in your hand right now, you cannot use it. It’s finished. The authority of the world is taken away too. The Awliya locked everything. Nobody can move anymore. Wake up to yourself before Azrail is coming. If Azrail is coming and at last you wake up, it will be too late. You are living above the earth today and you have a duty. Your duty is to make Sejdah continuously to say, `Ya Rabbi, I am Your servant. I am not a good one’. Today’s people must say this. Not to brag, `I am doing this and I am doing that’. You must say, `I am not a good one. Please help me to be a good one’.

If we do that, inshaAllah, with sincerity, you must say that with sincerity and not with your ego. On the one side saying this and on the other side looking down to the world and looking down to others like Firaun. Ask Firaun what happened to him. What is happening to him right now, ask. You don’t have one percent of what he had in his hand. He had the whole world’s authority in his hand. What happened to him? To Namrud one mosquito was enough, one mosquito. To Firaun one cane was enough. For today’s ignorant and arrogant 21st Century people one Takbir is enough. When that one is taking the Takbir, if you are not aligning yourself with the right side and if you fall into the wrong side, you are going to start crying, you are going to cry until Judgment Day and you are going to cry beyond that.

The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Give good news to people’. We are living the days that mankind lost their mind and Allah is giving order to His Prophet (sws) saying, `Warn them. Give the good news to those who are obedient and give warning to those who are disobedient and leave them to Me. Give them the warning, say to them, make sure that they understand the fire. Then leave them to Me. You cannot change them.’ So, did you understand the fire? If you didn’t, don’t let people to call you whatever, smart or crazy. It’s okay. Put your hand in there and say, `I am Lord.’ Say, `I do as I like’. People will understand then. The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Do wrong things, be disobedient to Allah subhana wa ta’ala as much as you can bear the fire’. You are running away now because the feet are running and the hands are moving. Your eyes are open. And if you cannot run, then you know how to scream, `Help, help, help’, and the help may reach to you. That is a mercy. When Azrail is reaching, there is no more help.

The way you live, that’s how you will die, the way you die, that’s how you will be buried and the way you are buried, that’s how you will rise to the Judgment Day. If you didn’t reach to the level of humanity and you still have the characteristics if animal on your ego, (it means, the way you live that’s how you are going to die), if you die with the characteristics of your ego, whichever the characteristic is at that time when Azrail is coming to you, as soon as they put you in the grave, you are going to turn into that. If you are a hyena, you are going to turn into that. If you are a snake then you are going to turn into a snake. Meaning, if your actions, if your intentions, if your aim, if your thinking is to go to hurt, to go to do damage, to go to do arrogant and stubborn things, which animals they have, you are in that characteristic. If you die during that time like that, as soon as you enter to the grave, you will become like that shape. You will get up to the Judgment Day knowing that you were a human but you are no longer a human in that animal characteristic. They are not going to put you to the side of the animals too. Completely separate because the animals are not going to accept saying, `These are not from us’. The humans are not going to accept.

You have heavy days waiting, to you and to me. Heavy days are everyday waiting for you and for me. Are you still going to run to enjoy the world like heedless and headless people to say, I am enjoying my life’? Have you been created to enjoy your life or have you been created to be a servant to Allah? Have you been created to be a slave to this world? To be obedient to Sheytan? To run after your ego? Or have you been created for Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Choose one thing to yourself and live according to that. Whatever you think that you like, that fits to yourself, put that to yourself.

This much should be enough.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.