BismillahirRahmanirRahim

NOMINEES OF PARADISE

Sohbet by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Kibrisi

Saturday 3 Shawwal, 1426
November 5, 2005
Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.


Medet Ya Syyidi Ya al-Hakkani, Medet.


Through sohbet the nominees of paradise will learn something. People
who are nominees learn something. They take that and apply it to
their lives. If the same sohbet is given every night then the murid
must take lesson every night from that sohbet. So every night the
murid must come to the association with an empty bucket, not
thinking that he is knowing something. Whatever he learned tonight
must be put in his bucket there to bring his cup empty again to fill
up a fresh one. If you are coming here with a cup half-filled with
water then you can only get half a cup. If you come here with a full
glass then you get nothing. Whatever you come with is what you take
back. You didn't get anything. You have to bring that cup empty.

That cup is your heart. You have to come empty saying, "Tonight I am
going to fill this up again." Maybe that night secrets will be given
that fits to your heart only. If you missed it then goodbye. You
missed the train. Or, that may come again one year later, or seven
years later. You have to wait again for a long time because you have
lost your chance.

Tariqat is to make a person to keep his face towards the Qibla, to
prepare him to his destiny where he is going and to be ready always.
And the only way to be ready for that is to have the love of Allah
and the love of the Prophet (sws) in your heart more than anything
else. If you don't have the love of Allah and His Prophet (sws) in
your heart more than anything else then you are not ready for
Akhirat life yet. That means you still have attachments to this
world. Something is holding you to this world. So you don't want to
go where your place is. That's dangerous.

So anybody who is in tariqat must make progress every single day and
must fill up his grave with the necessary things that he needs
because he is going to spend time in that grave or in the journey
beyond the grave. All orders of Islam or all orders that all
prophets came to give people and to make them to live according to
those orders was only to clean them for the journey to where they
came from, to clean them and to make them to enter into paradise.
Nothing else. From all the prayers, all fastings, all zakats, all
hajj, all zikirs, all good deeds and all voluntary worships is to
prepare man to turn his face back to the Qibla and to be ready for
the angel of death when he is coming to go clean, to clean himself
in this world and to go out clean from this world.

That's the whole meaning of this life. All other things that we are
keeping, the works, the worldly wealth, children, this, that and
everything is an obstacle on our way. Allah is saying to us openly
in the Holy Qur'an, "All your wealth, your children and everything
that you own is only confusion for you." Isn't it? It is only a
confusion. All the wealth that you have, worldly wealth and the
children that you have are only confusion for you. If it keeps you
away from Allah then it's a big confusion. If you use that properly
in the way of Allah then it is a big blessing, moving you towards
Allah better.

We must keep Allah and His Prophet (sws) priority. Otherwise, man is
losing. There is no other way.

Wa min Allahu taufiq.

El-Fatiha.

Transcribed by “Yeni Osmanli" <nakshobondi@yahoo.com