BismillahirRahmanirRahim

THE HEART'S THRONE

Hutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Hakkani el-Kibrisi

Friday 10 Ramazan, 1426
October 14, 2005
Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.


Medet Ya Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.


We are thanking our Lord Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) for giving us these holy days, for making us to reach to these holy days and inshaAllah ar-Rahman we will complete them successfully and receive the blessings that are coming with it. Ramazan is coming with its own secrets. Every month has their secrets. But the holy month of Ramazan is blessed and in this month Rahmat and Barakat is raining down from the heavens for those who are looking to receive. If a man is not making any difference then he is not going to see it. He is still going to be in his own world, his own problems and miseries until the end comes to him.

Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) has not created us to put us into that situation. He is not putting us there. We are putting our own selves because we are deviating from the reason of creation. We are deviating from what Allah has created us for. We are running towards this world and the world is running away from us. The peace then flies away. There will be no peace, and worrying will take over. Worrying will enter into the heart. When worrying enters into the heart of a believer and the worry is not the worry of Akhirat but it is for Dunya then sorrow, pain and all other problems come with it.

If a man does not care about this Dunya so much, then he has very little problems. The more you are worrying, the more you are running and the more you are trying to do better for this world, you are dividing yourself. In one heart, there must be the love of Allah (subhana wa ta'ala), the love of His beloved ones, and the love of Akhirat. Dunya is here. We are in it. If you own it or you don't own it, it's around you. Allah has promised that He is going to send whatever is necessary for a man to live. And He is sending. We are watching the whole world. Everyone is getting something, even if they are unbelievers. They (unbelievers) have the better things because Allah has promised us saying, "As long as you live in this world, I am going to send you, I am going to provide you and them." But the more they are going to get, if they don't have the love of Allah and the love of Akhirat in their hearts, the more problems they are going to get. And this is what's happening because Allah is not giving any value to this world. If a servant is giving the most value to this world and he is not giving any value to his Lord, then it is impossible for that servant to have peace or to find peace. Not only on top of the Empire State Building but any place that you think is the best, palaces or whatever you think, you may go there and you are going to find that for one day or two days you will be admiring that worldly beauty; and then two days later, sourness is going to enter into the heart again.

So the problem is here (Sheykh pointing to the heart), inside, in the heart. Man must concentrate and man must give his heart to his Lord. Man must clean his heart first to be able to say, "Oh my Lord, I have cleaned the heart and the throne is waiting for you. My heart's throne is waiting for you." Then you will find peace entering into the heart. Otherwise, there is no peace for you. No man in this world has ever been, and no one is ever going to be able to until the Last Day. And most of the time, after the Last Day, after the Judgment Day there will be more problems for those who constantly think and worry about the world. You may hide from people; but you cannot hide from Allah; and you cannot hide from those who have vision and they are looking.

So the most important thing is to concentrate on the heart to try to get rid of whatever is occupying that heart. If it's the world then get rid of it. If it's other things then get rid of it. The heart is firstly for Allah. Then His Prophet (sws) and then those whom Allah and Prophet (sws) love. Then slowly you may have other spaces. It opens up because all of them that you are putting into the heart is looking to Allah. Nothing else. If you are putting the Prophet (sws)into the heart, the Prophet (sws) is looking at Allah (subhana wa ta'ala). If you are putting your Sheykh, he is looking at Allah (subhana wa ta'ala). All those are looking at Allah. So in reality it's Allah who is in the heart. That's why it is said about them, "If you see them, then you remember Allah." They remind you of Allah because they are with Allah.

The love comes from them to you, to us, and it enters into our hearts. You have to know what you do with that love. If you know what to do with that love then slowly you may get used to it and you may feel familiarity because the Waliullah, the servants of Allah, the good servants of Allah come down to the level of very simple people to make familiarity with them to be able to come closer and to be able to send to them. But we have to know. You have to know to put the barricades, not to pass beyond your limitations, because after a while, sometime later, Sheytan comes whispering into your heart and then you may say, "He doesn't know too much. He's just like me." If you say that then the love that you had is out. You are saying but it's not there. If that goes then everything else slowly disappears.

So many are saying, "I love Allah." Where is the sign? It is easy to say that you love Allah. "Say to them!" Allah is saying to His Holy Prophet (sws), "Say to them Ya Muhammad, if they love Allah then they must follow you. They must love you and follow you." That is the sign. Allah is saying, "If they say that they love Allah, then they must love you and they must follow you. They must follow your orders. They must try to live like you. They must try to live the way that you are showing to them." Allah is putting there a scale for testing our love. In these days the ignorant squarehead Wahhabis are coming with so many Wahhabi ideas under the name of Ahl-e Sunnat people saying, "It is hadith, it may be a weak hadith, it may be a gharib hadith, it may be this hadith." Leave everything aside. If you are thinking that it is weak then this is Ayat. Are you going to say, "This is a weak Ayat"? It's open. Allah is saying to us, "If they love Allah then they must love and follow you. They must follow you." Following means they must love him. You cannot follow somebody if you are not loving him.

Sheytan is coming in so many forms to change them because Sheytan knows that it is not going to be easy once one gives his heart that way. He knows that he is not going to be able to change it. So he is putting Nifaq, confusion seeds into the heart. Then you start debating with youself, "This, that, this, that." When anything comes, move it out right away. Look how easy it's going to become, and look how much that love is going to grow. The idea of that love is to bring you to Allah. All prophets came to bring people to Allah. Prophets didn't call people saying, "Come to me." They didn't say that to people. They said to them, "Look at me. This is what your Lord wants. This is how you have to live. And look at what I am doing. Look at me. Watch. The way that I am living, you must live that way. This is the way that your Lord loves."

Hmm. Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) is the one who trained and who taught the good manners to His prophets. That's why most of them had no fathers. Most of them. The big ones, the holy ones grew by themselves. Allah is their teacher. Allah is saying, "I am their teacher. I am teaching them." Ibrahim (alayhi salam), Musa (alayhi salam), Isa (alayhi salam), Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam), Adam (alayhi salam). Count. So Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) is not accepting partners. Since they were prophets, He was taking the fathers away because when a young person gets into trouble he runs right away to his father, to his parents to find protection. When Allah took that away from them, then they were running to Allah saying, "Oh our Lord, this is our problem." And Allah was teaching them.

So Allah is their teacher and now Allah is saying to us, "You must follow them. You must obey them." What will happen if a man is not following a prophet? He is not any better than Sheytan. Sheytan was doing the same thing saying, "I am following Allah." Allah said to him, "Follow Adam (alayhi salam)." Making sejdah to Adam means to follow Adam. (Allah said,) "From now on learn from Adam." He didn't like that. He said, "I am taking from you. Not from that one. You just created that one." It doesn't matter if He created that one now or if He created him billions of years ago. It doesn't matter. The order is what's important. Allah is giving order saying, "Follow this." That's it. The duty of that Me'lun, that evil was to submit himself to Adam (alayhi salam)

There is a secret there. If he were to submit himself to Adam (alayhi salam), then he would have grown in knowledge and reached to higher stations. But in the beginning when he was worshipping to Allah it was not because of the love of Allah. It was the love of Maqam al-Mahmud. He was watching it saying, "This is the aim that I am going to reach." So many people you are finding in the world also who don't love to work. But they work so hard day and night, twenty hours a day because they have an aim. They have to reach there and they know this is the way they are going to reach there. There's no other way. So that's what that one did. Allah tested him. Allah tested his love and he failed because if you love Allah, then right away you would submit to his order. It is so easy. "You are saying to me to submit to that one. Of course. That means you love that one too. So I submit myself to that one." It will be easy then.

Sheytan is circling around now with the same evil action that he did because with that action he has been cursed and he has been sent away from the Divine Presence. He has been sent away from Paradise. He knows that with that action he is going to move this little mankind also to be cursed and to be sent away from the Divine Presence. That's exactly what happened to so many today. They are running saying, "Eh, I don't accept anything."

"Hmm. What do you accept?"

"I accept only Allah."

Now you are in trouble. You are not a prophet. The time of prophets is finished. Fourteen hundred years ago the Last Prophet (sws) came and he is gone. It's finished. No more prophet is coming now. If somebody tells you that he is a prophet or if someone is declaring himself to be a prophet now, are you going to run to see that prophet?

"Maybe."

If you say maybe then it's a sign that you are weak, your faith is very weak and you may lose your faith for that because Allah is saying to us, "This is the Last Prophet, the Seal of Prophets. No more prophet is coming." It's gone. You must follow that one. And that one is saying to us, "I am living among you but I am leaving my inheritors, the ones who are going to follow my footsteps. Follow those. Hold on tightly to them and you will find safety." Otherwise, it will also not be accepted on the Judgment Day for a man to say, "I didn't live in the time of the Prophet (sws). I love the Prophet (sws) but I couldn't be with the Prophet (sws)." He left ways, he left means to people to reach to the Prophet (sws). Holding onto those will take you to the Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam). If you leave them, then Sheytan becomes your good buddy.

Don't think that Sheytan is going to tell you to stop worshipping. No. To so many of them he says, "Look, prayer time is up, quickly go to pray. Don't miss a minute. Time entered. Quickly go to prayer." It's because now they are not thinking any longer. They became robots. Robotic actions. The minute enters and they are there. Most of the Wahhabis are like that. Very punctual.

"Calling Azan brother?"

"No! Wait till one more minute."

Or one is calling Azan and they are saying, "Stop! Stop that one! There's one more minute. It didn't enter." MashaAllah. Very nice. Punctual. Allah said to us to do the prayers on time. So we pray on time. But He is not telling us to be robots. How are you going to be exact by a split second like that? Sheytan is saying, "If I let these ones to go out of the mosque then they may wake up. They may see certain things, they may wake up and they may need the Prophet (sws). So it's better for them to be here." Meaning, as long as you leave the prophet, it's okay. Sheytan is very happy now.

This is what Sheytan did. He left his prophet. He left Adam (alayhi salam). Allah sent Adam (as) to him to be a prophet, to be a guide. This is what he is doing to the mankind saying, "Leave your prophets and be like me. I know everything and I am going to teach you everything." And before you know, a man comes from the dumpster, from the drug-world, from the world that never had connections in any way with Islam, with Allah, with Prophet (sws) or with anything, he is going to the store, buying ten books, starts reading those books and in two years time he becomes Awliya. He is understanding every secret now because Sheytan is sitting on his shoulders and pulling the reigns saying, "Turn left, turn right, turn left, turn right."

That's not the way. The only way is the Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam). The way is not to say alone, "Okay, Prophet." In the old days they would ask, "What is your Mazhab, what is your Mashrab, what is your Tariqat and who is your Sheykh?" Now they have eliminated all these. Who did this? Did the 21st century man become very smart all of a sudden in that way that they don't need it? Those people before the 20th century needed it and now they don't need it? Of course. Sheytan is saying, "You don't need it now. I put this technology for you. Be busy with these sheytans non-stop. Be busy in front of the computer, tik tik tik tik. Forget your prayers, forget your zikir and forget everything else. Be busy there."

"I am searching."

"What are you searching?"

"Islamic pages."

How many Islamic pages do you need? One thousand? Every Islamic page has to give you almost the same information. If they are giving other than that then there's something wrong somewhere. So you have to be content and you have to be happy with one of them. From time to time you may say, "Okay, I am going to look at it, I am going to read this and I am going to read that." It's okay. But don't sit by yourself with your own imagination and start giving fatwas according to those.

Ahmad bin Hanbal Hazretleri. He is a Mazhab Imam. These Wahhabis are saying, "We follow Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal." Look at what he is saying. They were saying, "Ya Imam, what does a man have to know, what kind of knowledge he has to know to give fatwa involving the matters of Islam?"

He said, "He has to be an Alim in hadith."

"How much hadith does he have to know? Is knowing a hundred thousand hadith by heart enough?"

He said, "No. It's not enough."

"Two hundred thousand?"

"It's not enough."

"Three hundred thousand?"

He said, "If a man knows three hundred thousand hadith and he knows the connections of the hadith (the chain of narrators) then he may give fatwa in very small matters. Not in big matters but in small matters. He may give fatwa concerning the small things of daily life. Who is saying this? Ahmad bin Hanbal Hazretleri. He is giving us another way again saying, "When you are thinking that you know too much then check your knowledge. Understand what you know and speak according to that. Otherwise you will be in trouble."

Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) is saying to us, "This is the worst thing that I am afraid for my nation in the Ahir Zaman. They are going to read the Quran and they are going to give explanation to the Ayats according to their own understanding. Then there will be big trouble." This is what happened. Anybody is taking the Quran, reading it and right away giving commentaries. Your commentaries are according to your knowledge. It's according to your own wisdom. It's according to your own worldly knowledge. Nothing else. If you are twenty-years-old then you are going to give according to the knowledge of a twenty-year-old.

So we must wake up. Before we enter into all this mess that we said earlier, Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) put it aside right away and He put in our hearts the love of the Awliya Allah. We love them and we follow them. We must follow them correctly. We must not sit from time to time with our own ego to start debating, "Am I doing right, am I doing wrong?" If you are starting that then Sheytan is going to find a way to enter because you are opening doors to Sheytan. You have to say to yourself, "That one knows better." Even if that one doesn't know better than you, still you have to say, "That one knows better. My Sheykh is always going to know better than me. It is impossible for me to reach to him. It is impossible for me to reach to his level." That's what you have to say. That's what we have to say.

You may reach to certain levels that you may know. Of course. You are following the Sultanul Awliya and you are not going to know something? Of course you are going to know. He is sending. He is sending big oceans to you. But don't get dizzy. Don't get drunk to say, "Oh, I know everything now," and turn around to say that he too is making shirk. (If you do so then) Sheytan has put a choking collar around your neck and now he is pulling you. He is going to choke you with that and you are choking yourself then with whatever comes out from your tongue. You are hanging yourself with that. So we must be careful. Rahmat and mercy is raining down. But if you are looking to find where the dumpy place and the sewer is and you are running towards the sewer then you are not going to find any Rahmat there. Even if it's running from up there but down there is a sewer. You are going to sink in it. You must come out from that.


El-Fatiha.

Transcribed by Nakshobondi@yahoo.com