Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, August 14, 2009 (Shaban 24, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that we are the nation of ahir zaman (end times). Muslims must be strange among the rest of the people. Confusion will come from the scholars to the people. They will leave the sunnah of Holy Prophet (saws) and his sahabbi kiram. We are very blessed to live in this time as followers of Sheykh Mevlana. We will make intention to do more worship and readings and zikir during Ramazan..

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ISLAM BEGAN STRANGE AND IT WILL END STRANGE

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

Friday 23 Shaban, 1430
August 14, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, astaghrifullah. We are asking forgiveness from our Lord for our shortcomings that we are the nation, the nation of Ahir Zaman, the Ummat of Ahir Zaman, Ahir of Ahir Zaman. We reached completely to the end. There is nothing between ourselves and the Qiyamat. From the beginning of Adam (as), coming creation, to the end, Allah subhana wa ta’ala in His calendar, He is giving only seven days to this world. Mankind has no patience but in the presence of Allah it’s only seven days. From Monday to Sunday. Each day worldly is a thousand years. We reached the end of seven thousand now. Whatever Allah subhana wa ta’ala created is coming to an end. Everything has beginning and end, from man to jinn and everything in creation. And this world has reached to the end too. This world was here before Adam (as). Allah created this world way before, but has given time for this world too. This world is reaching to the end and we are the nation that’s reaching completely to the end of the time of this world Alhadulillahi Rabbil Alameen.

Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Islam began Gharib, strange, and it’s going to end strange.’ And he says that his blessings and his Rahmat, mercy to those ones that are reaching to Ahir Zaman. They are going to be strange among the other people. He says, `Keep that way. Don’t drop it. If you do you will drop your faith.’ The world population of Islam is reaching up to two billion. But the ones that are walking, trying to walk the footsteps of the Prophet (sws), not only the Prophet (sws) but the Sahaba-e Kiram, the most important. Everyone is claiming saying, `We are following the Prophet (sws).’ How are you following the Prophet (sws) if you are not following the footsteps of the Sahaba-e Kiram? The Sahaba-e Kiram were following the Prophet (sws).

So, `The biggest confusion is going to come in Ahir Zaman,’ the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `and the confusion is going to come out from their scholars. It’s going to circle around the world and it’s going to go back to them. And the cursing is going to reach to those ones. They are the worst ones under the dome of Allah subhana wa ta’ala that He has created’. Ahir Zaman scholars, so many of them. Only a handful of people escape from that Hadis-e Sharif. What the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, the majority of them they are falling in it. And the Holy Prophet (sws) is giving signs saying, `They are going to be known, their sign is that they are going to leave the Sunnat of the Prophet (sws) and the Sunnat of the Sahaba-e Kiram. They are not going to follow their Sunnat.’

Alhamdulillah, Allah subhana wa ta’ala is blessing us with the himmat of our Sheykh and we are able to go here and there and to see how people are living, this Muslim nation. Exactly fits to what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying.

We are in the month of Shaban. The Bera’at just passed. In the night of Bera’at it has been written again how many people is going to come to this world, how many people are going to die, who is going to lose what, who is going to earn what, everything is there in that book. It’s not going to change so much now. We must run to keep our obligations that Allah subhana wa ta’ala and His Prophet (sws) has ordered to us. Not to be so much worrying for this Dunya. Watching east, west, north, south, males, females, young, old, everyone is worrying for this Dunya non-stop. `What about this? What about that?’ What about? Nothing is going to happen while you are saying `What about?’ If you are submitting yourself to Allah subhana wa ta’ala, everything may run to you if it’s written for you. If it’s not then you can run as much as you want, you cannot reach it.

So we must know how to spend the breath of life that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has granted to us. And we are the nation of Ahir Zaman that the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying. In one way it is very sad to be living in this time but in another way it is a big blessing because the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `I cannot wait for the Judgment Day to meet with my brothers.’ And the Sahaba-e Kiram are saying, `Ya Rasulullah, aren’t we your brothers?’ He says, `No. You are my companions. You are with me. You are seeing me. Accepting me is not too much extraordinary because you are seeing so many things from my hands. But people who are going to come in Ahir Zaman, in the end of the times, they are not going to see me. They are going to change so many things I say, but a handful of people are still going to run holding tightly to what I brought to them. They are my brothers.’

So inshaAllah, inshaAllah ar-Rahman, holding tightly to our Sheykh we will reach there inshaAllah. We will be from those people that the Holy Prophet (sws) is pleased with. We have to hold on tightly and believe the ways that our Sheykh is showing to us because circling around the world now we are understanding how much blessed we are. Just like the Sahaba-e Kiram that they were so blessed that the Prophet (sws) came among them but so many blind ones among them didn’t see the light of the Prophet (sws). Same thing is happening now.

We are in the month of Shaban. It’s finishing. We are approaching the month of Ramazan and the month of Ramazan is for this Ummat and the mercy, Rahmat, everything, safety is reaching to people in this month. InshaAllah we are making intention to keep this month holy. The month is holy but we should keep it holy, we should treat it holy. And we will be having the iftar here and the tarawih here inshaAllah ar-Rahman and during this month more of Zikir, more of reading, more of things that you left behind, try to keep it, you will be extra blessed. If making intention at least to have one Juz of Quran everyday, it is an extra blessing to us, every one of us, to our children, to the passed ones and inshaAllah ar-Rahman we are asking safety for the sake of this month from our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

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