BismillahirRahmanirRahim

THE VALUE OF LIFE

Sohbet given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Hakkani el-Kibrisi

Friday 17 Ramazan, 1426

October 21, 2005

39th Street Dergah, Manhattan, New York.

Medet Ya Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Tariqatuna sohbet wa khayru fil Jamiat. The meaning of all

(heavenly) Books is to teach man to say, "La ilaha illallah." All

Books and all prophets came to teach man to say, "La ilaha ilallah.

Falam an-lahu la ilaha illallah." There is no god and nothing to

worship except Allah (subhana wa ta'ala). When man is concentrating,

understanding and living according to that then his Dunya becomes

paradise, his world becomes paradise, his paradise is paradise and

his grave is paradise. Fear goes away. Fear leaves that one and

Sheytan runs away. The evils run away and the evil people run away

because he is with Rahman. He is with Allah. Those who leave Allah,

Sheytan comes near them, all sheytanic creatures come near them, all

human sheytans come near him until they make that one to become one

of the sheytans.

That is in the hand of man. Allah gave that to our hand saying, "It

is protection to you. Say: La ilaha illallah continuously." Your

heart must remember your Lord. If you want satisfaction to your

heart, if you want peace in your heart then you must say, `Allah.'

This Mankind, the 21st century people of today are all sick. From

the newborns to the ones that are ready to go to the grave, all are

sick. All have problems and they don't even know what the biggest

problem is. They think it's the world but it's not because everyone

has the world. (Sheykh pointing to the heart) The biggest problem is

emptiness here. The life is very sour. Anything they touch, anywhere

they look and any place they go, after a while it becomes a pain to

them. Everything that man is doing becomes very painful. Not

satisfied with anything. Men, women, children, adults and elderly.

All. Some people are exception. They are exception from billions.

What is the cure for that? They are not running to look for the cure. They are

running thinking, "I am going to make more Dunya, more world and I am going to

find peace." If finding peace is with Dunya, with the world then it will be

easy. If you have a pair of clothes to wear, a shelter on your head and you can

fill your stomach then you should be peaceful. Why then are you worrying? You

don't know if Azrail is waiting behind the door. You are entering here but you

don't know if you are going out alive. Who can guarantee that saying, "I am

guaranteed to go out tonight"? Who can dare to say that? They are listening. He

(Allah subhana wa ta'ala) may say, "That one is challenging Me? Take him away."

Dunya is finished and Akhirat is finished (for that person).

So when man understands the value of this world, if he thinks that this world is

valuable and runs after it for some time then after a while he must understand,

"This world has no value. But the life has a value. What Allah has given, what

Allah has granted to me is very valuable. Let me hold on tightly to that." When

you are holding onto that life then you would be looking and saying, "Well, this

life is going is going to go away from my hand too after a while. What am I

going to do?" Then you will be able to concentrate on what is waiting for you on

the other side. Otherwise, the majority is running away and they don't even want

to think about death anymore. They don't want to be around those who are going

to remind them about death. They run away. They find it easier, they think that

it's easier saying, "Let me run away from this one and my life is going to

become better and easy because this one is reminding me all the time that I am

going to die. So let me go far away." They go far away and if they had one

problem then their problems become double. Now that they are not close to

someone who is close to Allah, that little peace in the heart is taken away.

You may give them the whole world but they are not going to be satisfied by it.

If you don't believe me then go and look at Rockefeller. They have the

Rockefeller Center. The half of Manhattan belonged to him. But he was not in

peace. He was running after more. What are you running after? You have

everything. Anything you need comes to you. What are you running for? Everything

you have is more than enough for you and your children to spend all their lives.

He had to run because there was nothing that could replace that emptiness. It's

a big emptiness and if man falls into that emptiness then he disappears. He

loses his mind.

So the only way out of that and the only answer is Islam. There is no other

answer. You can go to any place. You can go to any rabbi or

anything. They have no answer to that. It is impossible. The answer is with

those ones who are not walking around with books, (Sheykh pointing at the

heart) whose books are there and who are able and capable to read people there

(in the heart). They have the answer. They say to you, "You have this sickness

and the cure is this. This is what you have to do." You don't like it. Who cares

whether you like it or not? You got sick. You are going to get the recipe to get

cured. Otherwise, you are going to die.

Dying in the spirit is not like dying in the world. (Sheykh smiles). If your

spirit is dead then you have lost. You have perished. You are going to be swept

away never coming back to existence again. Even Sheytan doesn't want that.

Sheytan is saying (to Allah subhana

wa ta'ala), "I would rather stay in the hell-fire forever. Don't send me to

non-existence. Once You gave me a body and once You made me appear, don't put me

to disappearing stations."

Of course, the ignorant men are saying, "So what?" They are ignorant and

complete empty-heads. They are not knowing anything. When they start knowing

something then they start worrying. For instance, you

have one ring and you lose it. It doesn't have too much value but you go around

looking for it. No? If you think that you left it in the toilet, do you leave it

there? You go to look in the toilet. "I left it there. Let me get it." What's

the value? Nothing. You get another one. But it's yours. So it's valuable.

Life is also very valuable. How are we spending that life, in which

way are we spending and in what cause are we spending that life, that's

important. If we are spending it in the way of Allah then we

must do the work of Allah. If we are doing the work of Allah and we are spending

it in the way of Allah then do you think the pain, sorrow and all these worldly

disasters are going to come into your

heart? No, even if you go through so many incidents in your life, ups and downs,

with physical punishments, with materialistic punishments. When Allah removes

material things to test your faith, your faith becomes stronger every time it's

coming and you say, "Shukr Ya Rabbi. Alhamdulillah. You reminded me something Ya

Rabbi. Thank you. You reminded me that I am a weak servant." Then faith grows.

When your faith grows, grows and grows then everything starts opening.

Everything is with faith.

We must concentrate on that faith. Ash-hadu an-la ilaha illallah wa ash-hadu

anna muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluhu. If we concentrate on that then our world

becomes paradise and paradise cannot wait for us to go there.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Transcribed by "Yeni Osmanli".