Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday afternoon, Safar 1, 1431 (January 15, 2010)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that the during the month of Safar, believers must have more awareness. Believers must follow Shariat – the laws of ALLAH swt as revealed in Holy Kuran, taught by the Prophets, and exemplified in the sunnah. Check the level of your faith to be ready for S. Azreal (Angel of Death). Check your activity for what you do for the sake of ALLAH. Check to see if you are renewing your shehada everyday to keep your faith alive. Keep obedience to your rightly guided leaders, to be obedient to ALLAH swt. During this month of Safar, say 500 ‘Astaghfirullah’ every day.

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THE RULING OF ALLAH AND THE RULING OF TAGHUTS

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

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

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

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-Azim wa atubu ilaih. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering saying to us, `Obey Allah, obey His Prophet (sws) and obey those ones who are authority’. Who are authority on what? Those who are on the way of Allah and His Prophet (sws) and they are telling you things in the way of Allah and His Prophet (sws). They are calling you from this Dunya to Akhirat. They are reminding you Allah and His Prophet’s (sws) orders. Now it’s obligation to obey those ones. But the Nation has lost their minds today.

`Eh, we have democracy’.

`Is it fitting to Islam’?

I’ll tell you where it fits. There are two kinds of ruling. Either the ruling of Allah or the ruling of the Taghuts, the Quran-e Kerim is saying. `I am sending you My orders. Everything is in that book. You may not understand that. I sent you the Prophet (sws) and the Prophet (sws) is showing you the ways, teaching you the ways. You have to follow those ways. Since the time of the Holy Prophet (sws), for over fourteen hundred years, until this last century, the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th Century, the Muslims have never fallen (Islam is always very high) this low. All that happened because they wanted to change. They said, `We don’t want this kind of ruling, Shariat. What do we need Shariat for? We are civilized people. We are going to make our own laws.’ Hmm. [In reality] they are saying, `He is ruling the skies, not the earth. That God is ruling up there in the Paradise. Not here. He left us to do as we like’. No! That’s exactly what Namrud said, that’s exactly what Firaun said and that’s exactly what the Awliya are saying that almost every one of the 21st Century people became Namruds and Firauns.

Later, `Eh, we are in trouble’. Your trouble is never going to finish. No end. Every passing day there’s going to be another trouble standing right in front of you. But the miracle of the Holy Prophet (sws), if you are holding to that, it should be enough to take you out from every trouble. What is he saying? `Oh my Nation, Jaddukum Imanukum. Renew your faith. Your faith is getting old. Every time you are remembering, renew your faith.’ Renewing the faith is not just saying that Shahadat through the toungue, `Ash-hadu an la ilaha illallah wa ash-hadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu’. You must say through the tongue, you must believe freely through the heart and you must live according to that Shahadat. What is the guidance of that Shahadat? The Holy Prophet (sws) is showing to us, his lifestyle, his Sahaba-e Kiram, their lifestyle is enough for us to find the way again.

But when we changed it, when they shifted from the ruling system of Islam and they turned to democracy-hypocrisy, then the Nation became heedless and headless. Everyone is running and saying, `I do as I like. Nobody’s going to tell me anything’. If you do as you like then don’t die. Why are you lying to yourself? If you do as you like then don’t get old. If you do as you like then what do you have fear from? Say, `I am the ruler’ just like Namrud and Firaun. Who’s not saying it? Everyone’s saying it. But as soon as something is happening, everyone is shivering. Wake up to yourself. This is the month of Safar. Muslims, wake up to yourselves. It doesn’t matter where you live, which nation you live. You are Muslims, you are believers. Everywhere, every land belongs to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. And the believers are responsible to live according to their faith anywhere they are going. You cannot say, `Eh, there’s nothing here. There’s no ruling of Islam. So, I do as I like as the other ones’. Where is your faith? Faith is gone.

The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us,’ The way you believe, that’s how you will live. The way you live, that’s how you will die. The way you die, that’s how you will be buried. The way you will be buried, that’s how you will get up to the Judgment Day’. Watch yourself, look at yourself, say to yourself, `Am I happy with this situation that I’m living in right now? Is it enough for me to get up for the Judgment Day like this?’ Ask yourself. Don’t lie to yourself. Don’t cheat yourself. You may cheat the whole world, today’s people are lying to the whole world, left and right, at least don’t lie to yourself. Look at yourself, look at your actions, and say, do you like it? If you like it and you say that it’s according to the line with Islam then continue because that’s how you are going to die. If you don’t like it then correct yourself. Don’t delay it for tomorrow because maybe Azrail is waiting for tonight. Maybe your name is in that book.

But the Muslim nation forgot about that too. They don’t want to remember and they don’t want to be reminded by death. And Allah is reminding us, His Prophet (sws) is reminding us, saying to us, `Keep that alive, keep yourself alive with that remembrance. Otherwise, you will forget about Akhirat, you will fall into the wrong ways of Dunya and you will be in trouble. You cannot come out from that mess later.

So, the way we believe, that is the way we must live. That is the way we must force ourselves. That is the way we must prepare ourselves to say, `Azrail may come to me today. What did I do today? How did I live today?’ Leave yesterday. Yesterday you lived good but that was yesterday. What are you doing today? So many people live with the Shahadat. Their lives are in the way of Islam. But in the last days of their lives Sheytan is coming. And if you lose it then you lost it. So you have to keep that alive all the time. One worry you have to have and that is the worry. You have to check everytime, `What is the level of my faith? How’s my Iman, let me check it.’ You have a tester for everything. Where is the tester to check your faith? Check it up to see which level it is. Is it passing or is it failing? If it’s failing, don’t sleep, don’t even eat, run to fix it to bring it to the level that passes because Azrail is blowing on your neck twenty-four hours a day. It may appear in front of you. Think on it, think.

`Eh, we are okay, we are healthy,’

Are you in your right mind? Look what’s happening in the world. So many went to sleep in Haiti. Eh, they went to sleep planning so many things that they are going to do the next day. They don’t sleep nighttime too much too. They run to do so much wrong things there too, and everywhere people today. But when the order is coming, no one can remove it. Instantly, over a hundred thousand just disappeared from this world. Goodbye. Who says that tomorrow it’s not going to be here? Who says that tomorrow it’s not going to be in the land that you are in? Your technologies or your smart tube babies? Today they are making tube babies. Those ones are saying? Eh, they don’t have enough mind to themselves, from top to bottom. If they do then they will run after the Shahadat. Those who have correct faith, correct intelligence, they must run after something that is going to give benefit to them.

`Eh, I am discovering this, this’.

What are you running up there for? What are you going to discover? Did you discover yourself? And you are sitting 24 hours in front of that Sheytan box and getting fooled by it? Wake up to yourselves. The believers are those ones that when their Lord is remembered next to them, their hearts start shivering. They put themselves back to the line again. And when their Prophet (sws) is mentioned love is coming to their hearts and that love makes them to move around to do things for the sake of their Lord. Not like today, the Muslims became Miskin people! They are so lazy, the young generations, sitting and they don’t want to move. They don’t want to do anything. When are you going to move? In the grave? They will tie your feet good. You cannot move there then. Now is the time for you to run around. Nighttime they are sitting all night long doing nothing, of course. Nighttime not any good too, today’s people, but sitting all night long either in front of the television, or new sickness of this century, new confusion of this century, the computers. In front of those computers all night long, and before morning is happening everyone is asleep like they put dirt on top of them.

Is this the reason of your creation? No. Is this the way that the Holy Prophet (sws) is showing to us? Is this the way that we have to get up like zombies to go to work everyday back and forth? No. You have been created to live for Allah and to die for Allah. And everything is finishing except one thing. When the last call is calling to you saying, `Did he pass the test? Did he get his card?’ There are two ways going out from this world. The graveyard is there. The box is out there. Are you looking, are you watching, thinking, `Yes, I am going to be there one day’? If you take that seriously then you have to shake up to say, `What am I doing? Definitely I didn’t pass the test. Definitely my lifestyle is not what the Holy Prophet (sws) is showing’. Then you will shake yourself up to put yourself back to the line. Then you will forget about the problems of this world.

Today’s people, twenty-four hours a day problems. No peace. Of course. You left Allah, you left His Prophet (sws). Don’t worry. With the simple things, with these worldly things Allah is keeping you busy saying, `You want to be busy with yourself? Be busy.’ And you are never remembering Him. And then, `I have this problem’. Good, make two rakat prayer and ask from Allah.

`Sheykh I am too busy’.

Good. Doing what? Are you praying your Salats? No, I cannot. I work. You cannot huh? That’s why you have been created? Only to work? That comes second. The children of Adam (as) have been created to know Allah and to worship Allah. That is priority. That is order. Nothing else to you. If you do that correctly these days, Dunya is going to run after you. The world is going to run after you. This is the order that Allah is giving to this Dunya, saying, `Those that are going to leave you, you must run after them. Those who are running after you, you must run away from them. Fool them, say to them, `I am yours. Come to this corner. You are going to win this, you are going to win this’ and before they turn left and right, life is finished, Azrail is there, you wasted the Dunya and you wasted the Akhirat. And say then, do you have intelligence?

Eh, everyone’s running around saying, `I am this intelligent. I am so smart’. Yes, let’s put it on the tester. What’s the level of your faith? That shows how smart you are. Are you saying, `La ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah’? MashaAllah. They think that they are so smart and this Muslim Nation, the Muslims are running after them. Allah subhana wa ta’ala granted you the Shahadat. He has granted you to be from the Nation of Muhammad (sws). When Allah subhana wa ta’ala created the prophets and He asked them, `Is there anything you want from Me?’ They said, `Yes, Ya Rabbi’. Every prophet, 124,000 prophets said, `Ya Rabbi, we don’t want to be prophets. Take this away from us and make us to become one of the Nation of Muhammad (sws), those people that are going to come after him or in his time’. And Allah is saying, `No. My happiness to you is in this what I gave to you. My happiness to them is in what I gave to them’. And Allah accepted only one prophet to be from that nation. Isa (alayhi salam). These empty heads are saying [about him], `Allah, God, Lord, Son, Mother’. He is coming back to be from the Nation of Muhammad (sws). You are one of them. How are you treating that? Heedlessly 24 hours a day running after what the unbelievers are preparing for you and leaving Allah and His Prophet (sws). Do you think that Azrail is not going to reach to you? So fast, before you turn left and right.

As we said, don’t think that you are too young or you are healthy or you are a famous one. Azrail right now is in business. He is working right now while you are here. At least 150,000 is going to pass from this world today. At least. If it’s another disaster like what’s happening in Haiti, that’s another extra. Don’t think that 150,000 died there and it’s finished. 150,000 at least are coming out from this world everyday. The day isn’t finished yet tonight. Who says that you are not in it? Who says that your name is not in it? When the sun is setting down, do you think that Azrail is taking a break? Who says that your name is not in it from night until morning.

Wake up to yourself if you want safety for yourself, if you want safety in Dunya and Akhirat. Dunya and Akhirat, not only in Akhirat. From now on it’s the month of Safar and it’s coming with heavy bombardment to the disobedient children of Adam (as). So many are going to go out from this world but they are going without faith. Make sure that you hold on tightly to that. Make sure that you don’t give up. How are you going to hold on tightly? What the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying? The way you believe that’s how you will live, the way you live that’s how you will die, the way you die that’s how you will rise’. If you are keeping the Shahadat alive in yourself right now, if the angel of death is going to reach to you someway somehow, you are not first going to say, `Doctor’ or `ambulance’. You will say, `Maybe Azrail is here. Let me renew my faith’. I am not seeing that. I am seeing 80,90 years old, from time to time Azrail is coming to them and touching them to wake them up, they are calling me saying, `Sheykh, I have to go to doctor’. Why are you going to doctor? What is your expectation from this world? You reached to 90. Why don’t you sit over there saying, `La ilaha illallah, astahgirullah, subhanallah, alhamdulillah, la ilaha illallah, Allah’? Why are you not busy with that and you are so busy with the nonsense?

Yes, this is what they are teaching in this country, this is what they are teaching in this world right now. Don’t make your children to be foolish ones growing up like that. You will be responsible later. The lifestyle that you are living, whatever they are seeing, that’s how they are going to grow up, that’s how they are going to be brought up. Huh, if you are living in this country it’s more trouble anyway because you cannot rule on them. The government is saying everywhere now, `You cannot touch them.’ They love them so much that they are saying, `Don’t slap them because we are preparing them to become thieves, to become this and to become that, later to grab them and put them in jail’. Wake up to yourself.

Obey Allah, obey His Prophet (sws) and obey your rightly guided leaders, those that are saying to you the orders of Allah subhana wa ta’ala. They are showing you the ways of the Holy Prophet (sws). If you keep obedience to those then you are keeping the orders of Allah subhana wa ta’ala in the Quran-e Kerim. If not, then you are a disobedient one. You are a disobedient one to the Quran-e Kerim. And then not 5 times a day, you may pray 55 times a day, you may recite the Quran all day all night long, they will ask you, have you been with the Saliheen? That’s what Allah is saying to us, `Be with the Siddiks, the Saliheen, with the righteous people. Be with them’. Have you been with them? Being with them is sitting and listening, asking, learning, moving. He is not saying to you, `Be one of them’. He is saying to us, `Be with them’. Being with them, slowly one day maybe something will pass to you and you will become one of them. If it’s not, in the Judgment Day you go saying, `I was with this Salih, I was with this righteous one, I was with this Awliya, I was with this Sheykh’.

But how are you going to do that? Today’s Firauns, the Wahhabis teaching new style saying, `Nobody brother, nobody. Your ego. Nobody else’. Your ego? You are learning by yourself huh? You are taking from the Quran-e Kerim by yourself huh? Don’t you see that the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Jibreel came to me’? He is pointing towards us saying, `You are going to have somebody’. Don’t you see the Sahaba-e Kiram that so many of them were big ones, high ones, high titled ones during that time too. Don’t you see as soon as they turned to the Prophet (sws) they said, `Prophet (sws) said and I heard’.

From where do you know? Especially the 21st Century people. `I read the book’. Which books? The ones that the Yahudis are printing out and so many things are taken out and so many things they put in new? New styles? Hmm. So wake up to yourselves. Don’t think that with any excuse you or me or anybody will be escaping. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering us, saying, `Believers cannot be heedless. Believers cannot be in Ghaflat’. Don’t think that you are going to say, `Well, I was heedless. I was in Ghaflat. So I am going to be saved’. No. You will be punished because you were in Ghaflat because the believer, what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying? `Be careful from the vision of a believer. He will look with the Nur of Allah. You cannot fool him. The believer cannot get fooled. And the believer will not fool anyone. He will not get fooled by anyone and he will not fool anyone. That is a believer’. That is the real Shahadat, saying, `Ash-hadu an la ilaha illallah wa ash-hadu anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu’. You must renew your faith.

This is the month of Safar. During this month at least, at least 3 times a day Shahadat and at least 500 times a day astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. If you cannot make it then 300 times a day, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. Today’s people are very busy. They may say to me, `300 times is too much’. Say 100 times at least, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. Astaghfirullah means, sit somewhere for 5 minutes and understand the things you did in Ghaflat and ask forgiveness. Regret from Allah subhana wa ta’ala to say, `You were watching me and I was doing this heedless thing Ya Rabbi. I am asking forgiveness from You’. That’s what it means. And I am watching so many playing with the Tasbih [pulling it so quickly], I say, `What you did?’ They say, `100 times astaghfirullah’. MashaAllah, mashaAllah. You are just fooling yourself. Nobody else. Wake up to yourself.

We entered through one door of this world and we are going to exit from anther door. There are two doors exiting. One entrance and two exits. If you exit from the right side then you are the winner. If you are exiting from the left side then you are in big trouble. That means you were in trouble in Dunya and you are in trouble in Akhirat. Amin.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.