BismillahirRahmanirRahim

HONORING THE HOLY NIGHTS AND DAYS

Sohbet by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Kibrisi

Monday 16 Rajab, 1426

August 22, 2005

Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.

Medet Ya Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

This is association. You don't have to listen, you don't have to take the words

seriously and you don't have to take it and apply it to yourselves. It's like a

marketplace. When you go to a market, whatever you like you buy and you come

home. The rest you leave there. You don't take it. Whatever you like. Whatever

suits you, that's what you take.

This is association. Through association people who are nominee to become better

servants to Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) learn. They learn only if they take the

association seriously and what's coming through the sohbets seriously. If they

don't then they don't learn. So it's like a marketplace. You go, you watch and

you look around. If you don't buy then you come home and you die from hunger. If

you don't take from the association then something is waiting on the other side.

Don't make any mistake, none of you here, no individual who is going to listen

to this sohbet should make the mistake to think that you are the one that

everything circles around. No. We are just weak servants. Nothing else. To know

that is Marifat. To know that you are a weak servant who is not good for

anything, if the Lord of the Heavens does not permit you then you cannot move

your finger, that is Marifat.

In these days I am watching, here and everywhere, when people start worshipping

a little bit and when they start doing certain things a little bit, they think

that they have reached to Sidrat-ul Muntaha and they want do whatever they want

to. So they run after their ego again on the other side. No permission. No

permission to you and no permission to me. Especially for those who are around

me, there is no permission at all. As long as my eyes are open, there is no

permission. You may run far away, that's okay. You can get up right now,

everyone of you, and run.

You are not coming here for me. Your being here is not for me. It's for Allah.

And Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) is ordering to you, to me and to everyone to be a

Jamat and to worship in Jamat. If you are not taking that seriously then you are

not taking Allah seriously. Do you think that I am going to care for somebody

who is not taking Allah seriously and His Prophet (saw) seriously? Think again.

Through obligation prayers the believers will become beloved to Allah. Through

the obligation prayers. If you keep what Allah has ordered then you start

becoming beloved to Allah. And through voluntary worship you start becoming

closer to Allah. If you are getting closer to Allah then don't think that you

are going to drop the obligation prayers. Obligations! Not only prayers but

other obligatory worships, as soon as you drop them then you are good for

nothing. And slowly it becomes a shaky situation that you may not save your

faith before the Angel of Death will reach to you. Either you take Allah and His

Prophet (saw) seriously or there is a big question mark, "Are we going to save

our faith in the last breath or not?"

Who are we? The Sahaba-e Kiram who gave so many things in the way of Allah and

His Prophet (saw), some of them made one wrong mistake and they lost everything.

Do you think that you are going to reach to the level of the Sahabi, any one of

you? Any one of us? What do you think? Do you think that because the other guy

next door is not praying and you are praying, you reached somewhere? Reaching

somewhere is taking Allah's orders seriously. Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) is

ordering to us, "Take Me seriously." Hmm.

If we don't, then we will cry a lot in Dunya and Akhirat. You lose everything in

Dunya. Those who are beloved to Allah and His Prophet (saw) don't love you then.

You can do whatever you want but they don't love you then. That love only comes

when you are obedient to Allah and His Prophet (saw). If you are not then you

are separating yourself from them.

Week after week, year after year I am saying, Sheykh Mawlana is saying and we

are going to say. The holy days and the holy nights are approaching. In these

nights take it seriously. Take it seriously! It's only five nights a year, not

ten. There are three hundred and sixty five days in a year and there are only

five nights that are very holy. You cannot keep up with that? What kind of faith

you have then? Where is your faith? Are you going to give me excuses? Give me

one million excuses but it's not good for anything. No excuses can pass for that

for a believer. If a believer says, "I have an excuse. In three hundred and

sixty five days I cannot save five days for Allah and His Prophet (saw)," then I

have doubt with your faith. We are not playing here. We are not here for picnic.

We are not here to have only good times and tea parties. We are here to worship.

And those who does not want to worship, they have no place with me. They have a

very short time.

So in a night like this you get sohbet like this. You wanted it, and that's why

you're getting it. Take it. If you take it then you win. If you don't take it

then it's for me. It's for me then. But on the other side, you get nothing of

what is coming also.

El-Fatiha

Transcribed by “Yeni Osmanli”