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BismillahirRahmanirRahim
KNOWING
WHAT IS FOR YOU
Sohbet
given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Hakkani el-Kibrisi
Thursday
14 Jumad al-Ahir, 1426
July
21, 2005
Osmanli
Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.
Medet
Ya Syyidi Ya al-Hakkani, Medet.
Tariqatuna
sohbet wa khayru fil jamiat. Our way can only continue
through
association. Our way means the right way, the way from Dunya
to
Akhirat, the way away from the ego and to the spirit, the way to
understand
what is for you and what is not for you. If a man is not
understanding
that then he will run all his life and in the end he
is not
going to catch that which he was running after because it was
not for
that one.
In the
21st century people are egoistic, selfish and stubborn. They
are
running fast forward to enter into the fire. It's like a
scorpion.
If a scorpion is moving to go into the fire and you put
your
hand to try to stop it, it's not going to stop. It's going to
bite
your hand and it's going to enter to that fire. From the
beginning
of the first man until the end of the last man there is
only
one thing Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) says that He has created
the man
for. It is only to know Him and to worship Him. Nothing
else.
All other things around that man is doing is to keep him
running
and to keep himself from exploding and losing his mind when
he is
turning to himself completely for that divine knowledge that he
is not
going to understand overnight. So Allah is making the man to
go
being busy here, working, doing this, thinking, then something
else is
coming the next day, something else, something else and
(thus)
improving himself from this Dunya to the Akhirat life.
The
world has always been in trouble because of arrogant and
stubborn
people whom Allah sent prophets to. They didn't listen and
divine
punishment reached to them. At that time they didn't have
bombs
to go around and to put them to become terrorist ones. Allah
was
punishing them through different ways. But the world has never
before
seen such a thing like this. The arrogance is reaching from
east to
west, north to south, among believers and unbelievers.
Arrogance
everywhere. Knowingly. People know. People know what is
waiting
for them. They know what the trouble is, they know what is
right
and they know what is wrong. They are still running towards
that
(arrogance) to enter to the fire.
And
Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) has finished sending His prophets. He
says,
"No more prophets. Fourteen hundred years ago the Last Prophet
(sws)
came and until Judgment Day no more prophet is coming." And He
says,
"But there is always going to be people living who are
representing
those prophets and guiding the mankind saying to
them,
`Go this way.'" If they listen then they will win and if they
don't
listen then they will lose for themselves. Some says, "It's
okay."
It's not okay because when you reach to the end it's not
going
to be okay. You are not seeing now and you are not knowing
now.
(They
say,) "As I like." Not as you like. As the One who has created
you
likes. Not as you like. Who are you? Do you understand yourself?
Have
you understood who you are? Have you understood what you are
occupying
in this world? And what is your power? What is your
knowledge?
What is your wisdom? If you understand that then you will
become
humble. If you understand that then you will lower yourself
and you
will put yourself down saying, "My Lord is watching me
twenty-four
hours. How will I continue being arrogant stepping on
His
earth, drinking the water that He is providing for me, eating
the
foods that He is sending to me and taking the air that He is
giving
me?
So the
farther you are away from association the more you may become
arrogant
and stubborn to bring an end to your own self. That's what
people
are really doing. They are bringing an end to themselves.
They
are bringing trouble to themselves and they are bringing
miseries,
pains and all kinds of things that Allah has not created
man
for. But man is giving invitation to himself because man wants
to live
wrongly and he doesn't want to live according to the laws of
His
Lord. He wants to live according to the laws of his ego and ego
is the
enemy of the Creator. Allah created that one for a reason and
He is
showing to us that, "This ego that I have created is arrogant
and
stubborn and it is always disobedient to Me. And I have put that
in you
in this physical form but I have also put the spirit in too.
The
spirit is obedient and it wants to go back to his origin."
They
asked, "What is the spirit Ya Rasulullah?" He said, "The
knowledge
of that spirit is very little for you to know." That means
first
we have to know what the ego is. If you are understanding what
the ego
is and what the traps and the tricks of the ego are then you
start
discovering what the spirit is and what the spirit is for. We
have to
know what the ego is to be able to understand what the
spirit
is and where the spirit is taking you. No man in this world
goes to
a beautiful place, a nice and clean place, and says, "I
don't
like this. I like to live inside a sewer." No man. But usually
the
majority of the man are running towards the sewer. Allah
says,
"I have prepared for you Paradise." Paradise is what it means.
You
cannot give any explanation to it and it is the most beautiful
thing
which you cannot even imagine. (He says,) "And I have prepared
for you
palaces in the Paradise and I have prepared for you life.
You
think that your ego is enjoying this life for a split second.
That's
nothing compared to the life that I have prepared for you
there.
But you have to pass through certain levels to appreciate and
to
understand what I am giving to you." Otherwise, man is not
understanding.
And
it's a very short life that Allah is giving, especially to the
people
of this century, especially the people of this last 1000
years.
From the time of Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) man's
life
started becoming very shortened. Prophet (sws) passed away at
63
years of age. Before that people were living 150, 200, 300 years.
But
after Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) very rarely will you find
people
living 125 years. And that is a very short life. Short life
compared
to the life that is waiting for man.
So the
prophets came to teach us how to live in this world and how
to
prepare ourselves for the hereafter life. All those people that
were
longing and looking for the truth in their hearts ran around
those
prophets. Once they came to those prophets, they didn't leave
them
after that, until either the prophet passed away or they passed
away
from this life. Those were sincere ones, sincere ones who were
looking
for the truth in their hearts. They stayed clean, they lived
a clean
life, they passed from this life clean and there is no doubt
that
they are entering to their own paradises in their own stations,
of course.
When
prophets passed from this life, especially Holy Prophet (alayhi
salatu
wa salam), those people didn't run wild again. They didn't
say,
"We all know. We do as we like." They ran around the companions
of the
Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam), those ones that knew
Prophet
(sws) most and those ones that spent time with Prophet (sws)
most.
They stayed around them. They didn't separate themselves. When
that
one passed away they ran to the other one. They accepted
whoever
came. They ran and they stayed around. None of them was
heard
in one-year time, ten years time or until they died, to have
said,
"Well we know. We have taken knowledge from the Prophet (sws).
So what
do we need this one for? We don't need it." They didn't say
that.
They ran more and they learned more. People at that time were
thinking
that they knew but they didn't understand how they were
knowing.
They were knowing the knowledge that the prophets know.
For
example, one night Ali (radiallahu anh) was seeing a dream
before
fajr. Omar (ra) was the Khalifah and as they were doing to
the
Prophet (sws) in his time, now they were running after Omar (ra)
to keep
the salat, especially in the morning time. They didn't
say,
"Why don't someone come pray behind me?" They ran after that
one. So
Ali (ra) had seen a dream in the nighttime before fajr. He
saw
that he was praying behind the Prophet (salatu wa salam) early
in the
morning. After the fajr prayer finished, as we are doing, the
recitation
of the Ya Sin and everything finished, the Prophet (sws)
sat and
there was a very beautiful maid (jariya) entering inside. In
her
hand was one plate with so many beautiful dates on it. She
brought
that to the Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) and all the
Sahaba
were watching. Prophet (sws) took one put it in his mouth and
then
put it in the mouth of Ali (ra). He put another one, put it in
his
mouth and put that one in the mouth of Ali (ra) again. Ali (ra)
was
saying, "Such a beautiful taste they have," and he was thinking
to have
another one but he just woke up. He heard the azan and he
woke up
to go to the fajr prayer.
So he
came to the fajr prayer with the life of that dream which was
so
alive. He came behind Omar (ra). Omar (ra) started praying and he
started
reciting the same surahs that Prophet (sws) was reciting
that
morning in his dream. Ali (ra) was thinking, "How did Omar
know?
He is sounding like the Prophet (sws). The same way." After
everything
finished Omar (ra) turned, sat down, looked at Ali (ra)
and
before you know it, Ali (ra) was surprised and shocked to see
the
same Jariya that he had seen in the dream entering to the room
with a
big plate in her hand and gave it to Omar (ra). Omar (ra)
took
one, put it in his mouth and put it in the mouth of Ali (ra).
He took
another one, put it in his mouth, put it in Ali's (ra) mouth
and Ali
(ra) was saying, "This is the continuance of the dream and I
wish to
have the third one." He was thinking from the inside and
Omar
(ra) said to him, "Ya Ali, Prophet (sws) gave you only two. He
didn't
give you three. So why are you wishing for the third one?"
Later
it continued and whatever had happened we are not entering
into
that part now.
This is
to show us which Allah is saying to us through the Holy
Quran
that, "The Prophet (sws) is among you." Don't think that the
Prophet
(sws) died or he finished or because he just physically
disappeared,
everything is going to disappear also. That Prophet
(sws)
is among you and when you have trouble call to that Prophet
(sws).
Ask that one to pray on your behalf. People today became very
ignorant,
very arrogant and very stubborn. All this is because of
their
ego. They are not putting their ego down to say, "Oh Sheykh,
pray
for me. I am in trouble." Yes. People they get into trouble. We
watch
them getting into trouble. It is not obligation for us to go
to say,
"You are in trouble." You have to know what your trouble is,
you
have to put your ego down, you have to go to your Sheykh and you
have to
say, "I am in trouble." If you don't, if you are not going
to a doctor
to find a cure then that sickness is going to kill you,
finish
you and then it may finish your Dunya and Akhirat.
It is
not a game. Tariqat especially. Tariqat, the Way, the way
people
must live. Everyone is sick spiritually. Everyone needs a
doctor.
They need a doctor to direct their spiritual connections to
reach
to their stations. If they don't have that doctor then they
are not
going to reach to their stations. If they don't have the
guide
then they are not going to reach to what is for them. And as
they
are not going to earn what is for them in Dunya, so they are
not
going to earn what is for them in Akhirat. Holy Prophet (sws)
and all
prophets came to teach people how to live. And the prophets
came in
the worst times when the people lost their directions
completely
and they didn't have any way to turn anymore except to
their
own ego. Allah then sent prophets to them to show them the
way.
Whoever held onto those prophets found safety. Whoever left
those
prophets are in trouble, right now.
Don't
think that the world has never seen such things like this
before,
the buildings or anything that people are building today.
The
world has seen all these things before too and everything came
to an
end. The people before us built better world, in luxury ways,
in art
and in every way. But it came to an end, it disappeared, it
fell
into the oceans and it disappeared into the oceans. 21st
century
man has not reached anywhere except in arrogance which is
reaching
all the way to the skies. We must clean and clear ourselves
from
that if we are looking for the truth and if we are running to
defend
the truth. It doesn't matter how the world is living. It's
not our
problem. It is not your problem. You cannot save anybody
until
you learn how to save yourself. If you don't save yourself
then
you are not going to be able to save anyone and those ones that
you are
trying to save are going to pull you into their own hell.
And
Allah is saying to us, "As you like. I have created you for
Paradise.
But if you are running towards hell then you are going to
open
the door of hell by yourself."
So
inshaAllah ar-Rahman, this is for me and for you. If you like it,
then
take it. If you don't like it, then say, "It does not apply to
me. I know
what I am doing." If you know what you are doing then I
will
ask you what your connection is with your Lord and what He is
telling
you. What do you know? And you know the answer better than
me,
what is it that you know and what are the answers and the
questions
that are coming to you. If you have built that bridge
between
you and Allah then you don't need anything. Then you are the
guide.
Then if it is necessary you will reach to the other side of
the
world and you will pick up what is for you, what Allah has
appointed
for you saying, "This one has to come out and it's written
in your
book. You pick that one out." But maybe one million people
are
sitting around you. You don't touch those. But you reach to the
one who
is all the way to the other side of the road, you pick it
up, you
clean and you prepare.
That is
knowledge and knowledge has no end. Endless it is coming
continuously,
and as we said earlier, Ali (ra) didn't know that
knowledge
(in that context). Holy Prophet (sws) said, "I am the city
of knowledge
and Ali is the door of that city." Ali (ra) didn't say
to
himself after Holy Prophet (sws) passed away, "This is what
Prophet
(sws) said. So this is what I am going to do." He followed
Abu
Bakr Siddiq (ra) step by step. Then he turned around and he
followed
Omar (ra) step by step. Then he turned around and followed
Osman
(ra) step by step. He accepted them all.
InshaAllah
ar-Rahman, this is to teach us where we are, who we are,
what we
are, what is our expectation and where we are aiming. Are we
aiming
to the right place or to the wrong place? Sometimes people
say,
"I have aims." Sure, you have aims but are you aiming to what
is for
you, or are you aiming somewhere that you are never going to
reach?
That you have to know also.
Wa min
Allahu taufiq
Bihurmatil
Habib
Bihurmatil
Fatiha.
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