BismillahirRahmanirRahim

THE HONORED CHILDREN OF ADAM

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

Friday 12 Jumad al-Thani, 1425

July 30, 2004
39th Street Dergah, Manhattan, New York.


Selamun aleykum. Meded Ya Sayiddi, Ya Sultan Evliya,
Mevlana Sheykh Nazim al-Hakkani. Meded


Tariqatuna sohbet wa khairu fil jamiat. Our way is association.
Through association we may learn something that we don't know and we
may learn something that we know but we are not able and capable to
do. We may know so many things but we are not doing it. So it's not
any good again. Allah is ordering us to be Jamat, to be a group of
people because blessings, rahmat and mercy is coming to a Jamat, to
a group of people. And when you are weak and alone, through that
Jamat you may pick up energy and you may be able to do things that
you are not able and capable to do when you are alone.

In these days it is pretty difficult and pretty hard to do the
orders of Allah (subhana wa ta'ala). Most people turn to only what
is good for them and what is good for their ego. This is what the
universities are teaching. The radios, televisions, magazines and
all kinds of things are teaching that here. In the stores they have
thousands of kinds of magazines for you to learn how to enjoy
yourself. "You like this and you don't like that." So many things
that are not even crossing through your mind you are finding in
those magazines and you start acting according to those magazines
saying, "I am one of them." You should close the door to those
things because those ones don't really love you and they are not
really there to help you. They are just there to sell those
magazines to you in order to make you become a member for their own
lives to become better. Maybe you don't know this but put it in
your mind.

The world publications, the televisions and everything are
controlled and ruled by the Zionists. You will find so many Jews,
the Hasidics especially, who will not put televisions in their
houses. Think. You don't find televisions in their houses. Why is
this? Because they know what kind of poison is coming through
that television to poison people. So they don't want their children
to be poisoned, they don't want their family members to be poisoned.
So their Rabbis are ordering them not to put televisions in their
houses because 90% of television today is giving you only poison.
It's giving you something that doesn't even cross through your mind
and you sit in front of the television and you say, "Yeah, this is
good. Let me do it." So your role model is the television. Your
guide is the television. Your guide is the magazine. Your guide is
something that they are putting there for you.

But we have not been created for that. You will know how to live
whether you watch that magazine or not. You will know how to live
even if you don't watch that television. You will know how to live.
You will know how to live even better then. You are just copying
something that is not for you. So we should try to put a lid on that
and put it aside to sit and to understand what is it that we have to
do in this life and what is the main important thing. We have not
been created only to be running after our ego and our selfish
desires. No. We have been created to be the honored ones. Allah is
saying, "We have honored the Children of Adam. Laqad karramna bani
adam." We have to reach and we have to carry that honor. Otherwise,
we will fall and we will become worse than the animals. Not like the
animals. Worse than the animals. And it is sad to see and to say
that today the majority of the people live worse than the animals.
They do acts that the animals don't do. It doesn't fit the category
of humans. We have to learn and we have to know how to live.
Otherwise, we will be wasting this life for nothing.

This life is very short. Seventy years? I will give you thirty more
years, staying a hundred years. What are you going to do? A hundred
years later even if they tell you to stay you are going to say, "Oh,
my hand is not working, my leg is hurting, my head is hurting, my
eyes are not seeing, I cannot eat, I cannot sleep." So you are
praying to die then. But you don't know where you are going. So this
life is only temporary. The life that is waiting for us is
permanent. And we must earn that life from here. Everyone is running
to make investments for this life. I am watching that everyone is
saying, "I have to work, I have to make investment here, I have to
make investment there, I have to make this much money, I have to
make a house here." All this is good alhamdulillah. But how do you
know that you are going to be able to reach to take the pleasure of
those things?

"I will leave it to my children."

Your children are not going to help you in the grave. What you sent
to the grave is what is going to help you. Not your children.
Whatever is necessary for them Allah will open doors to them too,
and they will work and they will earn. Don't worry. Allah will not
leave anybody without Rizq (provision). Allah is Razzaq (The
Provider). He is sending you whatever you need and whatever your
children need too. So you shouldn't worry about that too much. If
you are leaving a tyrant child and if you are leaving a lot of
wealth to him then you will not be comfortable in the grave also.
Whatever tyranny he does in this world, you will pay the price for
that in the grave. They will say, "You left all this money to that
one and that power and he is hurting this and he is hurting that,"
and you will be punished there.

So the aim is to please Allah. When our aim is to please Allah then
we will not be seeing ourselves at the center of the universe. We
will not be seeing ourselves to have created everything and that
everything has to circle around us. No. The 21st century people, the
majority of them think that they created everything and everything
has to circle around them, in their actions, in their lifestyle and
in everything. It's not. It's not going to be because the worst and
the difficult days are waiting. The worst and difficult days are
waiting for this country too. The luxury of this country is going to
go. Don't think that it's going to continue like this. It has
already started sinking, going down. But it's not affecting you yet
but soon it will affect you. Soon. No government can stop that. It's
not possible. It's going top-speed. We have to learn how to live. We
have to learn how to live at that time for that not to bother us and
not to hurt us. Otherwise, you will be casualties of that system
that is coming.

So Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) has created us for Himself. He has
created everything for us. Everything is working for us. The sun is
working for us, the moon is working for us, the wind is working for
us, air, water and everything is working for us. Who are we going to
work for? Running like animals, coming out from the stables, running
to eat the grass and going back to sleep? Having children and going
back? No. We are humans. We have to make it better. We have to know
what we are doing and we have to know how we are doing. We have to
make it better. They are animals. They are not responsible. They
don't have intelligence. We have intelligence. That's why we are
progressing. Our life is going and we are progressing. We are
building houses, we are making materials, nice clothes to wear, nice
this and nice that but that is not what we have been created to do.

We are not appreciating anything and we are not understanding
anything. This oxygen that we are taking instantly, if it comes to
you only 1% more than what is coming now, it burns you as soon as
you inhale it. It burns everything inside. Are you the one who is
giving that to your own self? Who is controlling this? For
centuries, they say billions of years, for billions of years who is
controlling this? For billions of years who is controlling that sun
not to come one inch closer to this world? If that sun comes one
inch closer or if this world goes one inch closer to the sun, it
would be burned completely. If it goes one inch far away from its
own orbit where it's turning, circling around, everything will be
frozen. Who has the control of all this? We must think. That's what
intelligence is for. We cannot think if we put our heads inside the
hole. We have to come out. We have to look. We have to see who we
are and what we are.

Don't look at what they are commercializing to you in the
television. Don't be sitting and watching only the television and
learning your knowledge from the television. Think. Open your eyes.
Understand the activities of the world, what's happening and why
it's happening. Why is it happening? Question. Question by yourself
to understand. Then slowly you will understand that whom you are
supporting are the cruel ones. Why are you helping them? And if you
are helping the cruel ones, supporting the cruel ones and the tyrant
ones then you too are a tyrant one. You must wake up. We must wake
up before it's too late for our own selves. We must wake up before
it's too late for everything else that's around us.

Allah is the Ruler. Allah is the Creator. Allah is the Supreme Ruler
of everything. He left us temporarily to do certain things. Either
you will pay a great price for that or you will get a great reward
for that. We have to know what we are doing and how we are doing.
Our intention is important.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq.

Bihurmatil Habib.

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

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Transcribed by Nakshobondi@Yahoo.com