BismillahirRahmanirRahim

HOLDING ONTO THE ROPE OF ALLAH

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

Saturday 27 Shaban, 1426

October 1, 2005

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

Medet Ya Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Murids can only learn and progress if they listen and follow, if they take what they learn and apply it to their lives. If you don't apply to your life then it's as if words are entering from one ear and coming out from the other side. There is going to be no progress. You may think you are making progress but Sheytan has hundreds of thousands of ways to fool people. It fooled millions and it's ready to fool millions, except those who hold tightly to the rope of Allah and they do not separate.

Allah is saying that to us. He is saying, "Hold on to the rope of Allah and do not separate." The rope of Allah is not a rope coming from the sky that you are going to hold. First you have to know what the rope of Allah is. If you don't know the rope then how are you going to hold onto that rope?

In the army if a soldier is not learning how to listen and obey the one that has only one stripe then how is he going to obey the General? How is he going to be able to reach to the General? Even those who are going to become Generals in the future time have to be under the training of that one who has one stripe. He is doing that. That is his job. When they come from the outside with all the wrong characteristics, his job is first to put them in training and to give them some discipline. When they are learning the discipline then slowly they may reach to their ranks. Otherwise, they are not reaching anywhere. Only illusions and delusions will be happening.

And if that one is not able and capable to listen, to learn and to follow the orders of the one with one stripe or two stripes then he is not going to know how to act in the presence of the General. With one wrong move that he is going to do in the presence of the General he may receive a very heavy punishment for that. Every army in this world that still has discipline go according to this. Otherwise, no army can stand.

There is no election in the army. Why not? There's election everywhere. Let the soldiers elect the Generals. The governments are showing to the mankind, with whatever they are doing they are showing to the mankind, look we are doing the foolish act (of election), but that's what we want (no election). No democracy or this kind of election is allowed where the feet is going to elect the head. When the feet start to elect the head, in the last 100 years look what happened to this world. The feet started electing the head in the last 100 years.

Then after that in the last 50 years they say, "Why does it have to be men and it's not women?" Now the world became a complete hell because the women rule, because the prophets have said and because Allah has ordered saying, "When your women become your leaders, it is the end of you. You are finished." That's what's happening from families to Jama'ats and to nations. From corporations to everything. You must know the reason of creation. The men must know their reason of creation and the women must know their reason of creation. Just because the secular governments are opening positions doesn't mean that the mu'mins and the believers have to follow. Even if they find themselves in that situation they must look to find one head, one master, to consult and to do accordingly. Otherwise, this world has turned into a hell and it's becoming more hell.

Escaping from that hell is only through obedience. Disobedient people are going to be perished. Allah doesn't love disobedient ones. His Prophet (sws) doesn't love disobedient ones. The Awliya Allah do not love disobedient ones. Sheytan loves them. They become good buddies to Sheytan. So what are we going to do? What do we care about what's happening out there? Don't we have our way that the Holy Prophet (sws) is showing to us? Why do we have to follow that? Because the ego likes it. That's what the ego wants. But your ego is only going to take you to the fire and no other place. The ego is only going to take man to the fire and no other place.

The one who is supporting his ego is worshipping to his ego. He is not worshipping to Allah. Allah is not accepting that worship. He is saying, "The first thing you have to do is obey My orders." And Allah didn't leave people alone to say, "I am obeying Allah only." He said, "Obey Allah, obey His Prophet and obey those leaders who are in the way of the Prophet." Some are changing that again according to their own understanding saying, "Allah says, `obey Allah, His Prophet and obey your leaders.'" Which leaders? The leaders that are running to make you to become unbelievers? That's what some sheykhs say in these days because that's what fits to their bread, to put butter on their bread.

Allah is saying, "Obey Allah, obey His Prophet and obey your rightly guided leaders." Rightly guided are the ones that are following the footsteps of the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam). When they are rightly guided ones then you are not going to be liking them so much. Your ego is not going to like them because they are going to work against your ego.

What kind of an Ayat is this now? "Obey Allah." If we obey Allah then why do we need to obey something else? Who is saying this Ayat? Me or the Prophet (sws)? Allah is saying it. Allah is showing it to us like in the army saying, "If you are not learning how to obey the one stripe then you are not going to be able to reach to higher stations to obey the other ones. In every station you are going to show your disobedience." When you reach to higher stations and you show your disobedience then they don't look at whether you cry or you smile. You will be vanished and perished then. That's why training is in the early times.

So if we are obeying the Prophet (sws) then why do we need the others then? That means we are not knowing how to obey the prophets too. That means we have to come down, down, down until we will find someone that is familiar to us and start forcing ourselves, our ego to learn how to obey. Disobedience is coming from Sheytan. First disobedient one is Sheytan and everyone who is following disobedience is following the footsteps of Sheytan.

Ahir Zaman. The end of the times is coming very heavily to mankind because mankind made situations to himself like that and he is entering deeper, deeper and deeper. You must come out. You must hold on to that hand that is given to pull you out. You have no right now to fight against that hand. You are in a situation where the quicksand is pulling you in. You have no right to put your ideas in it. That one is out. He is going to pull you. Otherwise, you will sink into that quicksand. The quicksand will not listen. It doesn't care which person is in it. It doesn't look at the title, it doesn't look at the shape, it doesn't look at whether the person is male or female and it doesn't look whether the person is older or younger. It's pulling in. Once you start sinking in you must hold onto the rope that is reaching to you. You must not be arrogant. That is the ego. That quicksand is the ego. It's pulling people in and swallowing them. It's finishing them.

You must wake up. We are entering the month of Ramazan. You must wake up. You must not fast only from eating, drinking and sexual actions. No. Animals do that too. That's only the animal self who is fasting. Man's animal body is fasting then. Eating, drinking and sex. There is an animal sitting over there. It's not having any sex and if you don't give it food and water then it's not going to drink and eat. We must make it better than that. We are humans. We must make intention and correct intention. Not only hearing these words now and saying, "Yes, yes, yes" to yourselves and five minutes later forgetting about it.

This is association. You can forget it if you want. You can take what is for you or not take what is for you. If you like the words then take it and if you don't like the words then leave it. This is association. There is no force to anyone. It doesn't matter who are the listeners. The prophets were speaking and their people were listening to them and among the listeners were their wives, their children, their loved ones and also strangers. To some prophets, the strangers listened, obeyed and followed but their wives didn't. They sank. The prophets couldn't help them. For some, the strangers listened to them but their own children didn't listen to them. The prophets couldn't help them. They sank. They perished. For Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam), so many from his beloved family whom he loved so much didn't listen. Even Holy Prophet (sws) couldn't do anything. They sank and they finished.

The stories are repeating all the time, every single day. Every single day that is passing it's happening somewhere somehow to somebody. It's happening. Nothing that is here now was here 200 years ago. Everything is different. You can go back a hundred years.Nothing that is around here was existing only a hundred years ago.What happened to those people a hundred years ago and all those things. Everything is gone. It's something new now. We are going to finish and something new is going to take over. The only thing that is going to stay with us is what we have learned, what we have followed and what we have applied to our lives.

Learning is to put what you have learned into your life and to make a difference. It's not to learn so much to go around giving lectures and not helping your own self. No. There are so many today. Not one but millions. They are learned ones. They know very well so many things. If they are not applying it to themselves then they will be like a candle, lighting up, giving light to others but it's finishing itself, destroying itself. Don't be like that. Be such that when the other ones are looking at you they must feel comfort.They must feel the Paradise. But don't get mixed up thinking feeling comfort means that one has to be smiling `Hehehe' and laughing at you. No. When it's necessary he has to smile, when it's necessary he has to scream and when it's necessary he has to force you to pull you out from that situation. That one is real. If he only speaks to you what your ego likes then that one is not good. Run away from that one. If he speaks words that your ego doesn't like then hang around. You may get somewhere then.

InshaAllah this is sohbet for you and for me. If we follow then we will win. If not, Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) has created the Paradise and the Hell saying to us, "Choose whichever one you want." Allah is the Most Merciful One. He is not creating creatures to put them into the fire. But when the creatures become disobedient to their Lord then they are choosing that and they are running towards that way. No man can carry that. We should not run after that.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Transcribed by “Yeni Osmanli”.