BismillahirRahmanirRahim

BEING BUSY WITH MALAYANI

Sohbet by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Hakkani el-Kibrisi

Friday 17 Ramazan, 1426
October 21, 2005
Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.


Medet Ya Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.


Firstly, we have to make intention to become servants to Allah (subhana wa ta'ala). Then another first thing which is our business is to leave Mahdi (as), leave the Judgment Day and to look when our Judgment Day is. We must be busy with when Azrail is going to come to us. If we are busy with that then we prepare ourselves for Mahdi (as), for Judgment Day and for everything. Judgment Day to you and to me is the day that Azrail comes to us. He takes your life away and it's finished.

This is what we have to be busy with. The murids should be busy thinking, "Azrail can come to me one hour later." That's what you have to be busy with. When you are busy with that then you wouldn't have too much time to be busy with the other ones and when you are busy with that then the other ones will open up to you. When you are busy with what is all the way in the end then you are not seeing what is in front of you and you are going to fail. You are not looking down. You are looking to the sky.

We must put aside malayani stuff. Malayani is that which does not concern us. It may be knowledge but it does not concern us. We must put it aside. For instance, you are a car engineer, fixing cars and you may know something about rocket engines. You read and you may know something. But you should not enter in it so much in details because you are a car mechanic. You are not a mechanic for rockets. So you should leave that knowledge aside and you should concentrate on what is for you and to be expert on that. When man is concentrating on that then he is not doing malayani. But if the man says, "I am a mechanic and so I have to know all the engines in the world," then he is not going to reach anywhere. He is going to be busy with malayani then. That's what malayani is.

If you are a doctor then you have to know all the principles of the body, the physiology. You have to know everything in general but what is your expertise? The heart. Then you have to concentrate on the heart. You may know the general ideas of the body but you should not be concentrating on the liver so much. Your job is to be concentrating and knowing the best about the heart. If you are a dentist then you must concentrate on the teeth. What is related, what is reaching, what is going, what is happening and what is affecting the teeth. That's what you have to be busy with.

There are endless knowledge everywhere that Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) gave to us. We cannot know all those and it is not obligation for us to know all those. It is also not obligation for us to go around and to search certain things that are not concerning us. We must leave that aside. We must not stick our noses in it. Sometimes you may get corrupted with that nonsense and before you know it you are spending your time, your aim and your life for nothing, and you are coming to the end of your time. That's what's happening to millions of people. They are busy with so many things.

It is Mubarek Ramazan now. I just called some people somewhere in Turkey. They finished the Teravih quickly to sit and watch the football game. The murids. I was talking to the person and I said, "What is that noise behind?" He said to me, "They all went crazy." I said, "What?" He said, "They are watching a football game, they are jumping up and down and they forgot about everything." Subhanallah. Football game. A ball. The murids are sitting and watching football, being busy with football knowing how much their Sheykh, Sheykh Mevlana talks about that nonsense. He is saying to them, "Your head will become empty like a football if you are watching it so much." They are leaving zikir, they are leaving everything and they are sitting and watching football. Hasbinallah wa ni'mal wakeel! What are you going to say to that?

Eh, they are like that, we are another way and everyone is in other foolish ways running. Leave it. Leave unnecessary things. Don't let the time pass in emptiness. We should not interfere into the knowledge that does not concern you and me. We should ask, we should learn, we should progress, we should take and we should put in our lives the knowledge that concerns us. If it doesn't concern us then we should leave it. It's not our business. Otherwise, we will not receive anything from it. We will just be getting more burdens from it.

Wa min Allahu taufiq inshaAllah ar-Rahman.

El-Fatiha.

Transcribed by Nakshobondi@yahoo.com