BismillahirRahmanirRahim

Grandshaykh Mevlana Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Hakkani

12 Thul-Quada 1422 Saturday

January 26, 2002


Tubtu wa rajata ila-llah� Meded,ya Sayidi, Destur. Audhu bi-llahi mina
shaitani rajim, Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim.

`Tariqatuna a-sohba wa khairu fi jami'at'- that is our Grandsheikh
Shah-u-Naqshband's description for Tariqat. He was the Imam of the most
distinguished Naqshbandi order. Sohbet, association with Sheikh, is the engine
for the Mureed to make him to move towards Allah Almighty's divinely Presence.
If you take the engines from an airplane, you can't use it; it is impossible for
it to move. Perhaps you may put in front of the plane an ox or a horse, and they
may carry it on the runway, but the power of the horse or the ox is not enough
to make the plane to fly. It needs engines.

And everything in existence is moving. We may say that we see so many things but
they are not moving; but really everything through their atoms is moving through
its place or in any direction. And movement is the characteristic of creatures;
creatures can move and must move. You can't find anything in existence to be in
the same position or movement for even the smallest unit of time that is
passing. That is the characteristic of creatures.

But movement is not a divine Attribute. He is Samad, Allahu Samad- only we can
give some description to make it closer to our understanding, but beyond that
you can't enter.

There are two kinds of cane: one is the ordinary cane, the second is the sugar
cane. One is empty; the second one is full, so that you can't find in it any
hole. Filling everything inside, so that you can't find an empty spot through
the sugar cane. Samad means the existence of someone that fills the whole
universe or universes, or the whole creation, so that you can't find a smallest
spot empty. There is no space without the existence of the Creator. Therefore
movement can't be- impossible. To where it should be? But we are moving in a
space or atmosphere that is empty; we are not related. Therefore we may move in
space, because our existence never fills the space. But Samad means Who fills
every existence, every space, every atmosphere. It is a divinely Attribute that
He is approving His Existence everywhere, in every direction, through every
distance, so that no space, not even less than an atom, is empty from His
Existence.

We may move, because we can find space and distances and directions to move in,
because our existence never fills except where we are standing. And when we are
walking, where we were before, is going to be empty. Therefore, we may move; and
everything in existence through this atmosphere is moving. Movement is the
attribute of creatures, and to be not moving is the divinely Attribute. An ocean
is not moving from its place, but everything in it is moving. You can't find
through an ocean anything fixed. Everything in it is moving, only the ocean
never moves- to where it should move? It can't move. But everything in it must
move- nothing is fixed in it. And the whole creation is moving through the
oceans of Samadiya; it must move, and its movement and existence belong to the
ocean. If there is no ocean, nothing lives in the ocean, and if the countless
creatures through the ocean are not moving, they can't be in existence.
Everything that is in existence must move. Can you find a fish to be in the same
position from even one second to the other? Never. But the ocean is the ocean.
And the whole creation is through Allah Almighty's endless power oceans. Allah
Almighty is filling everything, but nothing is going to be with Him. Creatures
are not with Him, but Allah Almighty is with them. But they can't be with Him.

We are asking to move, and our material being can't move through the spiritual
world- we are in need of a spiritual engine to get up and enter the spiritual
worlds. Yes, we have engines- through our creation we have been granted engines.
But it is not enough that the engines are on the plane to make it to fly. Must
come petrol in it, and then petrol makes the engine to work. If not coming in
it, it can't work. We are Tariqat people, which means, that we are asking to
reach to our heavenly positions. If you are asking to reach to your heavenly
station, you must put petrol, and then you may reach to your position or station
through Heavens. Therefore we have association with the Sheikh, and Sheikh is
asking and taking from the Prophet's spiritual power. That power is running
through the Sheikh's heart and through his heart he may give that spiritual
power to people, to make them to move up. Therefore it is a perfect description
what Shah-u-Naqshband said: `Tariqatuna as-sohba'; it means that our way is a
way towards Allah. We are asking to move to Allah, and everything that is asking
to move is in need of a power for pulling or pushing it.

And Mureeds, who are asking to reach their heavenly stations or the divinely
Presence, must take a power through their plane, and that power may take them to
their real positions or heavenly stations, or through the divine Presence. You
must use it! Therefore the Sahaba were those who were coming and going to be
present with Rasulullah sws, who were attending the Prophet's association. Even
one association with him was enough for them to take them from the lowest level
to the highest. That is the Prophet's power. If all nations, billions and
billions of people, would be with Rasulullah, he would be able to give everyone
enough power to take them from the lowest level to the highest. `wa khairu fi
jami'a'.

Therefore Grandsheikh was always saying: `Association is the power centre that
makes you to move towards Heavens or the divinely Presence'. Every day you can
find another reality coming into appearance. Every day coming a new opening; it
can't be the same like the day before. And it is not going to be same the next
day, tomorrow, as today: `Kulli yaumin Huwa fi sha'an'; every day must be
independent in its being, and there is no similarity among two days, not with
the day before, not with the day after. Every day has a special being through
its existence. Today you are someone that you were not yesterday, and your
personality is again going to be different next day, tomorrow- you are going to
be changed physically and spiritually.

And physically the improvement is that whatever you do for your material being
is bringing you to a limit for your physical being. That is improvement,
bringing you to a limit. But what you are reaching spiritually is taking you
from `Asfala Safilin', the lowest level of today, to the highest level of today,
and that is not same level the next coming day and it was not the same or a
similar level as yesterday. Therefore we need always a renewment, refreshment,
re-acting and re-moving, day by day asking more to move towards the divine
Presence.

If you are not doing anything, you have been carried, as a person that fainted.
If they take a fainted person to Arafat, and he never feels or sees or does
anything- what do you think about his Hajj? Okay or not? Okay! Therefore so many
people, the majority of people, come here like fainted people, drunk people,
coming not knowing, getting out not knowing, but their names are just recorded
or registered that they were through this life on earth. Coming and going, but
coming fainted and going fainted; coming and going knowing nothing. It is
approved that he has been through that life, but he was like a fainted or a
drunken person. He never knew about this life and it's obligations, no- coming
and going. Allah Almighty- and this is something you didn't hear before- will
order to deal with these people with another treatment the Day of Resurrection
or Judgment Day. They are going to be at least figures. But those, who were
ready or present with Allah Almighty (during their life), they are like Sultans,
and the others are their people. They are not going to be lost, because nothing
is created Batil, without wisdom.

And we said now: If a person is going to Arafat and the whole day he was
fainted, but he was carried and put on Arafat, and he was not with himself or
herself up to sunset and then taken away- but still this holy appearance and
blessings that come on whole people is coming on him, cleaning him. But his rank
is something else. Who is awakening and doing what is obligatory for him should
be dealt with in another way. But those people who are never ready with
themselves, never knowing where they are or were, who are only brought to Arafat
and taken away, they reach to the blessings that come on everyone from mankind
who is living, but they are reaching 1%, and some others take more- 1oo% or 9o%,
or 5o%, or 1o%.

For the other people it is written: Nothing they reached. Then they should be
granted another blessing on them. We said as an example that people who go on
Mount Arafat and who are awakening reach treasures. Who can never take anything
should be granted something else from Allah Almighty's charity and generosity.
They should be granted, because just they reached and they were through this
life- Allah Almighty is sending them- but they were fainted or drunk people,
never knowing anything.

And we are trying not to be 1oo% drunk people, not doing anything; at least
something we must do through our whole life daily, so that we are going to be
registered as: sometimes awakening, sometimes heedless. You should be dealt with
in such a way. Or: fully present or: fully heedless, fully fainted, or:
part-time heedless, part-time fainted- coming and going.

They are going on Arafat- and we must ask from Allah Almighty to be awaken- and
this honour no doubt is just dressed on who is opening his hands and asks. Those
people who fainted, no, but he should be granted something else.

This is also an answer for some Awliya who are sad about the majority of people,
what should be their position in divinely Presence. Therefore this is coming,
that Allah Almighty is giving His divinely Judgment through His divinely
Justice, and when He is giving His Judgment for all nations, all mankind, you
cannot find anyone to say: `Dhulimtu'-`I have been unlucky or I lost', and that
Allah's Judgment is oppression. They can't say, because Adam a.s. said: 'Rabbana
dhalamna anfusina'. The first man and our father, the father of the Children of
Adam, was saying: 'O our Lord, just we did unjust dealing, we dealt with You so
badly. We did that bad dealing only for our ego's sake, and we are asking Your
forgiveness.' He was not asking forgiveness only for himself and his wife, Hawa
a.s., our mother, but it was a general asking: 'O Allah, if You are giving Your
blessings, forgiveness, give it to me and ourselves as well as to our whole
generation.'

Therefore on the Day of Resurrection, Judgment Day, no one can stand up and say:
'I have been oppressed', no. That is `adlu mutlak', perfect judgement, it is
just and people should be happy with Allah Almighty's Judgment. That happiness
is going to be for them, even if they may be thrown into the fire; that
happiness will give them pleasure even they are in the fire. They are not angry
about their Lord's Judgment for them. They should say: 'Your Judgment is
1oo% perfect, and more and more and more. We are happy with Your Judgment.' That
happiness is coming through them, and even they are through fire, the fire can't
touch them. They may be only in it, but through their inside there is an opening
to say that: 'Allah did His best, His most excellent, most perfect Judgment.'
That refreshment makes the fire not to affect them even it is eating them. That
is another ocean. May Allah forgive us."