Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, Muharrem 15, 1431 (January 1, 2010)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that Muslims and Muslim countries are celebrating the fake new year, instead of the Islamic new year that began with Muharram. This is not a faith that will save you. Holy Prophet (saws) challenged unbelievers to curse the insincere ones. They refused, knowing it was themselves. But some Muslim leaders are preferring unbelievers. Shaky faith will make you to become like them if you follow their practices.

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MUSLIMS CELEBRATING CHRISTIAN NEW YEAR LOST THEIR MINDS

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

Friday 15 Muharram, 1431
January 1, 2010
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. Inna ad-dina indallah-ul Islam. Only one religion in the presence of our Lord, is and always, Islam. No other. Muslims today are being very tolerant. They say, `We have to be tolerant to be with Christians, to be with Jews, to be with this and to be with that.’ Yes. And what are those? Fake religions. Sheytan helped them saying, `You must follow this way. Then I can have you in my hand until I bring you to Jahannam. There’s no other way.’

What was the order given to Adam (alayhi salam)? What is the principle of the orders? Amantu billahi wa malaikatihi wa kutubihi wa rusulihi wal yawmil akhiri bil qadiri khayrihi wa sharrihi min allahu ta’ala. We are saying that there are six. We have faith and we are saying as Muslims `ash hadu an-la ilaha illa allah wa ash hadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu’. What the people were saying in the time of Adam (as)? `ash hadu an-la ilaha illa allah wa ash hadu anna Adam rasulullah’. `Amantu billahi wa malaikatihi…’ that’s what they were saying. `I am believing in Allah and to His angels, and to His books and to His prophets’ and all things are coming. Same things are coming down all the way from Nuh (as) to Musa (as). Did Musa (as) say to his people, `I am opening a new way to you’? Yahudi way or Musawi way? That’s what they are calling themselves, Musawi. Eh, what about the Christians? Isa (as) said to them, `I am your Lord. Leave everything and come to me’? Isawi way? Hazrat Isa (as). Hmm.

Eh, what about the Muslims? Leave those ones out now. Come to the Muslims now. What happened to the Muslims? The Muslims are saying the Shahadat, they are believing all that but they are living worse than the other ones. Maybe 90% of the Muslims including every one of our families in it, they were celebrating new year last night. Isn’t it? Say otherwise. Say, `I am exception’. They don’t know, they don’t remember, they don’t want to be together in the celebrations of the new years of the Islamic calendar but when it comes to that fake one, cheated one, lied one, everyone is together and the Muslims are at the front row. The Muslims, yes. Muslim countries! They are banning the name of Allah and the name of His Prophet (sws), but they are running in the streets all night long like lunatics as if they lost their minds. Yes. If you don’t know then watch in the television, saying, `World television now. We are giving you new year from Indonesia to Malaysia’. What is new year doing in Indonesia? They say `220 million Muslims’. What kind of celebrations are these? And the President has to be there. They are saying, he is Naksibendi. He has taken initiation? MashaAllah. From somebody. Huh! And you are celebrating? You are giving permission? What happened to Malaysia? Same thing. What happened to Iran? Same. Iraq? Worse than anybody else now. Syria? Top level. Egypt? Forget it. The Christians admire them for the way that they are celebrating that new year. And Turks? Don’t even talk about it.

So, what happened to Muslim nations? Yes. What happened to Muslim people? They lost their minds. They lost their faith. That’s not a faith that you’ll be saved with. And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `Inna ad-dina indallah-ul Islam. Don’t come to My presence with another religion. Make sure that you come to the Judgment Day with Islam. Or you will be in big trouble’. And Islam, Islam is following the orders of Allah and His Prophet (sws). Otherwise, it’s only fake ones. And if it’s not coming from the Taqlid (imitation) to the reality, man is never going to understand, never going to taste Islam in himself and always is going to say, as so many, not Muslims today but top level Muslims leaders, they are even able to say today, `They are my best friends’ or `They are my friends’. So many of them say, `So many of them are better than so many Muslims’. They are even daring to say that. Something is wrong somewhere. This is not what the Holy Prophet (sws) taught us.

The ayat came when the Nasrani Christians came to the Prophet (sws), to his masjid, they settled there and they started worshipping in unusual ways. The Sahaba-e Kiram wanted to stop them and the Prophet (sws) said, `Leave them because they are only guests. We are not accepting but leave them. Let’s see what they came for.’ And they came and they started arguing that their religion is right, their religion is this and that, and the Prophet (sws) said to them, `Now the ayat came and Allah is saying that now you altogether come and me and all those who believe in me will come. Then we will curse those ones who are away from the religion of Allah to see how the punishment instantly is going to reach to them.’ And right away they said, `No. No, ya Muhammad. We don’t want that. Don’t do that to us. We will make treaty with you and we go our way and you go your way.’ You think that the Prophet (sws) was going to say curse to himself if he didn’t have order from Allah subhana wa ta’ala? He is saying, `Say to them if they are sincere with what they are saying. Let their intelligent ones, scholars and everyone come together, and you and your family come together and put curses on each other to see how fast the curse is going to reach to them’.

Eh, what happened to Muslims today? Muslims today, Muslims leaders say, `O Papa Hazratleri, I am kissing your hand and your feet’. Bowing down? You are representing Islam and going down half way in front of the unbelievers? Unbelievers. They are not believing in the way of Allah and His Prophet (sws). We call them unbelievers that way, yes. And Orthodox priests or the Rabbis and the Rabies. They love them, they hug them saying, `I love this man and I love that man’. MashaAllah. Something is wrong somewhere. Wake up to yourselves O Muslims. We are living the last days before the big wind is coming. The wind of fire is coming that is going to sweep everyone out whose faith is shaky. Anyone whose faith is shaky, impossible to be saved from that wind. It’s coming. The wind of fire is taking and finishing, making them to become skeletons. They are not believing on this too, yes. The people of Nuh (as) didn’t believe, the people of Lut (as) didn’t believe, Ibrahim alayhi salam’s people didn’t believe. They didn’t believe but they found. Abu Jahil didn’t believe. They found. What is promised is going to come. Look at yourself how you are going to reach to those days. No more running for this Dunya like crazy. You have to make sure that you are building your faith everyday more better, not worse because the more you are with them, especially those people whose faith is shaky, some people are permitted, given order by Awliya Allah saying, `Go inside of them’, they are doing some work with them. Some, their faith is very weak, they are going hanging around with them and before you know, instead of becoming a role model to them slowly they become one of them. Then you lose. You go to the Divine Presence without Islam. Allah is saying to us, `Come to My presence with Islam’.

And another sickness for Muslims today, so many says, `Ah, it’s too hard. It’s too hard to carry the orders of Islam. We cannot do it in this time. It’s not for this time.’ Huh, now you are lying and cheating about Allah. Allah is saying to you, `This is the best for you’ and you are saying that it’s not. Why it’s not? Because your animal ego wants to live like an animal. It doesn’t want to live like a human because what is Islam? What is being a Muslim? To know Allah and to worship Allah. To be good to yourself and to be good for all other people and to every creature that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has created. To be good, that’s all. It’s not more than that. Don’t think that there are 800 forbidden actions in Islam and 500 deeds that are good and they are all going to come your way. No. Maybe one is coming your way. Keep that one, run away from the forbidden action and you will be alright then. The little that you do, you must do continuously. Little Zikir, today’s Murids don’t even do Zikir because they are with the Zikir of Dunya. They are busy with Dunya. So they don’t have time to remember Allah. That’s the bottom point, saying, `I am so busy that I don’t have time. I don’t have time for Zikir and I don’t have time for the orders of Allah. I believe, I accept but I don’t have time’. You will have a lot of time in the grave. Don’t worry. For those who don’t have time, they are going to have a lot of time in the grave. But not this easy. Very hard way. And no escaping then. You cannot escape anywhere. It is real. The way that you are hearing me now, the way that you are seeing, the way that you are feeling, you are going to feel everything there.

Just like you are feeling now, closing your eyes and you’re feeling, in the dream you are sleeping and you are seeing unusual dreams. So much pain sometimes because today’s people don’t see dreams. If they see dreams they see disasters anyway. They don’t see good dreams anymore. Only a handful of people see good dreams. And what happened? `I was running away from here. This guy was cutting me with a saw, this one was shooting me, doing this and that’, going through the pain. Nothing is happening. I was looking at you. You were sleeping there. Do you think that it’s not going to happen even like a dream there? Think again. It’s going to be just like real. But you are not going to be able to speak anymore because they are going to cut the tongue. Because today everyone’s speaking but speaking nonsense. They are speaking things that they should not speak. They are interfering into matters that they should not interfere. Never mind about people today not doing right things, they are running to destroy themselves with their own tongues. And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Promise me two things, I will be waiting for you at the front door of Paradise. The first is your tongue and the second is your private part’. 21st Century people definitely don’t know how to use these both. They are using it wrong. Come back to yourselves. Azrail is ready to hit and you are ready to go out from this world.

`Oh Sheykh, I’m still young and very strong.’

He doesn’t care young or strong. He doesn’t care. When the time is up it’s going to come to you and you don’t know when that time is up. Maybe 19, maybe 90. The more that you go, the more time you spend that is not in the way of Allah, the more trouble you are getting into. The more questioning is going to come to you. Don’t think that you are going to run around as wild in this world, you are going to do whatever you want and you are not going to be questioned. You will be questioned from every action that you did in the world and according to the intentions of the actions you are going to be questioned. Either you are going to be rewarded or you are going to find what is that you are not believing.

These words are for people who believe, who believe in the Shahadat, who believe in what we say `Amantu billahi wa malaikatihi wa kutubihi wa rusulihi’. the principles of Islam, the principles of faith, those who believe in Allah, His angels, His prophets and His books and all things that are coming with the knowledge of Allah subhana wa ta’ala and we are believing that one day we are going to come to the Judgment Day, the Judgment Place and we are going to be questioned about everything that we did. Not only the good actions that you did but what is the intention behind that action. So many people are running, I am watching, so many years they go to a masjid. I know so many people were coming with me, they even fooled me. They were working with me and every Juma they were coming. I said, `MashaAllah, they never made Sejdah. Now they are making Sejdah. Now they are making Sejdah everyday inside the prayer time and work time and I was saying, `If you are going to pray, I am still going to pay you’.’ They were running inside and praying, taking their time, nice Tasbih and I am admiring them, looking, for years every week and every month I am giving bonus extra and they are doing it more. The day that they finish working with me, they stopped praying and they stopped everything. Allahu Akbar! Subhan Allah!

So yes, so many of the mankind are just like that. Wake up to yourselves. Build your faith everyday. Shake your faith to see, `Where am I standing? Little wind that is coming is going to blow me down or not?’ Check yourself. Find out why you do things because as I say, in the Judgment Day you may fool the whole world but you are not going to fool Allah. In the Judgment Day you will be questioned according to your intention. What was your intention doing the good deeds? Or the actions are appearing bad. The man is doing something wrong. He will be questioned according to his intention too. Why he did that bad action? Maybe the whole world is seeing that one as wrong but maybe in the presence of Allah it’s not wrong. You are not the Judge. Allah is. Eh, if you don’t understand that then read the Quran-e Kerim and understand the story of Khizr (alayhi salam) and Musa (alayhi salam). Even Musa (as) didn’t understand the actions of Khizr (as). He said to him, `What a bad action you did!’ And he looked and he said, `Why are you judging me? Are you the Judge? You don’t know what I did and why I did it.’ He said, `I am the Prophet. This shouldn’t be like that.’ And he said to him, `You forgot that Allah sent you to me? And you are interfering to my job? You are judging my job? You will see it later.’

Mankind today lost their direction. They are interfering into everything, things that concern them and things that don’t concern them. Later they put them into trouble and you try to bring them out from the trouble from this side and they go out from the other side. Wake up to yourselves before Azrail is coming. No help will reach you then.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.