Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, 4 Dhul Qada 1430 (October 23, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying a believer waits, watches, and tries to understand. He doesn’t fool people and he doesn’t get fooled. Everyone is waiting for the last takbir from Sayiddina Mehdi (as). Don’t interfere with things that are not for you. Confusion is going to start from within Islam. Your faith will help you to respond to attacks, and to stay on the side of Mehdi (as), not to fall to the side of dajjal.

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BEWARE OF SIDING WITH DAJJAL

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

Friday 4 Zul-Qadah, 1430
October 23, 2009
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 al-azim wa atubu ilaih. The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Be careful from the vision of a believer because he looks with the Nur of Allah.’ You cannot fool that one. You may think so sometimes because the believers are patient. They wait, they watch, they try to understand. Eh, another hadith is saying to us, `The believer doesn’t fool anyone. If you are getting fooled then you are not a believer and if you are fooling somebody then you are not a believer.’ The believer does not fool anyone but the believer will not get fooled by anyone too. If he gets fooled then he is still not in the station of faith. Alhamdulillah, Ahir Zaman, Ahir of Ahir Zaman that there is not too much time left for Mahdi (alayhi salam) to take the last Takbir. Three Takbirs he must be taking. Already two are taken. One of them is going to be open physically when he is opening the flag of the Prophet (sws). There is nothing for that too now. The whole world and everything in it is preparing for that, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.

We cannot wait for those days. The believers, yes, the believers cannot not only wait for those days but the believers cannot wait for the Judgment Day, because a believer has nothing to hide. A believer has nothing to fear from except Allah subhana wa ta’ala. That’s why the believer must walk on the Sirat-ul Mustaqim, must try to do what Allah and His Prophet (sws) ordering. If you are doing that then you have no fear. The whole world may come together to attack you. Allah gave you two ears. It’s passing from one side and going out from the other side. If the whole world is like today, eh, today the majority of the people lost their faith. Only a handful of people are behind the curtains waiting. The rest have shaky faith. Whichever direction the wind blows, they go to that side. That is not faith. That is not the faith that’s going make the believers pass the Sirat because you are shaky. When you are shaky then definitely you will be falling down.

So the Holy Prophet (sws) is ordering us what we have to do in these days and how we have to live in these days, saying, `Don’t interfere. Pull yourself away. Watch yourself. Don’t go searching so much to think that you’re going to make your religion better. A couple of hadith and a couple of ayats that you know, try to live according to that because confusion is going to be from inside of Islam. Confusion is going to be from the people who are claiming that they are representing Islam. But the confusion is going to start with them, it’s going to circle around the world and it’s going to go back to them.’ When you are lying, when you are saying a lie about someone, that word reaches to that one. If that person is not what you are saying, there’s a shield that comes in front of that one, Allah’s protection, and that word starts going to the skies. And there’s a shield covering that area, cannot go up, starts going down. Another shield, starts going east and west, north and south. So that word cannot go anywhere, it turns back to the person who said it and that person stays with that burden until Judgment Day.

So, man is going to suffer, as the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, from two parts of his body. One is his tongue and the other one is his private parts. Today’s people don’t know how to use these two. Everyone speaks something and everyone puts something on top of what they hear. Lying, cheating and slandering are in top-speed everywhere in the world. But whatever the evil sources are planning is not going to work. If you are the only person left in this world, if the whole world is attacking you… it may happen. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is testing His servants sometimes. It may happen. How are you going to do? Should you turn to the wrong side because they are attacking? You have to know your faith. And the faith, the Shahadat must be enough for you to find the road. The Shahadat means what the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Be careful from the vision of a believer.’ When the Shahadat really enters into your heart, you will see. Nothing can fool you then. You will see, you will understand and you walk on the Sirat, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.

We finished the month of Ramazan. We finished this month and now we are entering to another month. This month is the month of Hajj and the believers everywhere in the world are preparing to go to Hajj. Those who cannot go should make intention that inshaAllah ar-Rahman, Allah subhana wa ta’ala will be putting their names with those who are going. But today also people are going to Hajj, doing all these things but so many are failing. So many are going to Hajj with their dirty characteristics and they don’t want to change their dirty characteristics. Simple, very simple. Today’s people are going to Hajj and there are certain things that are Halal that becomes Haram to a man. The man cannot do those things. It is a Sunnat and it is an order from the Holy Prophet (sws) to put nice smell on you, especially on Juma day. When you go to Hajj, it is forbidden to use good smell, cologne, whatever these oils are that you are using. But people go with their cigarettes in their mouths and I wouldn’t be surprised if soon they will be sitting in front of the Kaba and smoking cigarettes.

When that is done by ordinary believers they say, `Sheytan is fooling them.’ But today so many so-called Sheykhs, so many Imams, so many foolish ones who think that they are the representatives of the world, that they are the representatives of the Prophet (sws), they are representatives of Tariqats, they have cigarettes in their mouths. Puff, poof. That’s enough sign showing to you that you are with Sheytan. As Sheykh Mevlana is saying, this is a Khutba place, so let me say that, it is a pacifier from Sheytan. You have the pacifier in your mouth and you are saying, `I am representing Allah and His Prophet (sws)’? Thuuh! You cannot stop your ego from one wrong action and you are thinking that you are representing Islam. Eh, that’s what happened today.

So, as I said, now people are going to prepare to go to Hajj, so many are preparing to go to Hajj with their sheykhs. They say, they know, `We should not use cologne.’ They know that part. It’s because the Prophet (sws) forbid. Eh, the Prophet (sws) is forbidding you to go in front of the Kaba with a good smell. Then how are you going with that dirty and disgusting smell? That is the mentality of today’s people. Whatever they are doing, they are turning it to themselves, saying, `This is right. It has to fit to me.’ That’s the religion that everyone’s building to themselves. As soon as they are finding someone saying, `This is wrong. You should not do this’, ohhh, they turn to become, not wolves, hyenas.

Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. Everything has their time and the end. The beginning and the end. So, whatever you do in this world, however you live, it is your life. One day you are going to come to the Judgment Day and you are going to be questioned. If you think that you are fooling somebody in the world, you are only fooling yourself. One day you may come in front of the Judgment Day and everything will be put in front of you with whole people watching. People are afraid today from people.

`The wrong thing I do, it should not come out in front of the public because I will be bad.’

That’s true. Aren’t you ashamed that it’s going to come in front of Allah and everyone is going to watch? That shows that these people don’t have fear from Allah. They don’t have strong faith to Allah. Whatever side is there, Dajjal or Mahdi, it doesn’t matter, they move to whoever promises something. One day they are on the side of Mahdi’s workers and one day they are on the side of Dajjal’s workers. Don’t be from those ones. If you are from those ones then wake up and turn around because the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `When the last days will be approaching, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. People are going to move from one side to another, one side to another.’ Make sure you stand on the side of Haqq when the Takbir is taken. You will not be with Dajjal and the ones that are around him.

Dajjal is going to come in so many different forms. To Christians different, to Muslims, to Jews completely different. Be careful, we are in those days. The Prophet (sws) was talking to the Sahaba-Kiram about the confusion of Dajjal so much that the Sahaba-e Kiram were saying, `We thought that Dajjal was behind the date trees. As soon as the Prophet (sws) is leaving, he’s going to come out.’ It passed fourteen hundred years. It is now the time. All the deputies of Dajjal have appeared. You need eyes to see. So many are running after those ones. Watch yourself, watch your step. You are responsible from your life. Either you enter to Paradise or you build yourself to hell. Whichever side you fall into, that shows your faith and with that faith you cannot pass the Sirat.

These words are for you, for me and the whole mankind.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

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