BismillahirRahmanirRahim


PARTIPICATION IN ZIKR CORRECTLY

Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Hakkani el-Kibrisi

Friday 18 Raby' al-Thani, 1426
May 28, 2005.
39th Street Dergah, Manhattan, New York.


Hasbinallah wa ni'mal wakeel.
Wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billahil aliyyil azim.

Medet Ya Sayyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya.


For participating in Zikr we are closing the lights. Close your
eyes. Don't look around. Follow by heart. When the Sohbet is
happening the lights are open. You watch. You listen. You watch.
When the Zikr is going on we are closing the lights for you not to
be busy with what is around. This way you will be able to
participate. And don't worry about what the guy sitting next to you
is going to say. Whether he is going to say you are crazy or you are
a wali. It doesn't matter what anybody says. You are here for Allah,
remembering Allah and if you are remembering just like that,
mashallah. This will take you directly to paradise. (Sheykh
teasingly laughs).

Remember! Remember. If I tell you to get up and sing, `X' is making
more voice than everybody else when he is singing songs for nafs,
for ego. This is for Allah. Keep your self to your self. Turn back
to your heart. Keep your eyes closed. Don't be busy with around.
Look into your heart. Follow the leader who is making the Zikr. If
the voice is going higher, then bring yours higher. If he is bringing
it down lower, then bring yours lower. If you close your eyes and you
follow with your ears then you will be able to participate.
Otherwise, you are not going to.

Ala bi zikrillahi taqma'in qulub. Allah is saying to us, "If you
want your heart to be satisfied, you must say Allah." Leave what
others say. We want our hearts to be satisfied and we must say
Allah. That's why we are here and that's why this is a loud Zikr.
It's not a silent Zikr. It's not by heart. When it's by heart you
have to be able to keep your tongue from even to touch the upper
side (of your mouth). You must not move anything of your body. But
then I am seeing everyone is moving. I am hearing so much voices.

Now you must move. You must participate. You must put yourself into
that harmony in the circle. Then you may find something, you may
feel something, you may see something and you may hear something.
Not only you are here. Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) is
saying that when a group of people are sitting and gathering for the
sake of Allah and they are ready to remember their Lord, there are
angels who are walking on the earth and as soon as one hears it,
then they call the other ones and they encompass that area. And the
ones who are looking from the paradise come down. They will be in
that part.

There are others that are participating with us. If you are not
seeing them then something is wrong. You have to see. We have to
see. We have to fear. At least, we have to fear just a little bit.
But you are not giving your heart, your self into it. You are busy
looking around. Leave it! What are you going to see? It's dark.
Close that light too. Completely dark. Turn to yourself. Don't
worry! Don't worry what anybody is going to say. Look what your Lord
and what your Prophet (saw) is going to say. We are under the watch.
Some ones are watching us. Watch yourself. Watch your heart. Turn to
yourself. That is Zikr.

This is open Zikr, as much as you participate in it. When you need
to be silent, be silent. When you need to make loud Zikr, you must
make loud Zikr. Inshallah ar-Rahman. If you do then you will win for
yourself. If you don't then you are just saying (the zikr) like a
cassette. If you put the cassette in and open the volume, as much as
you open, it's going to say. It's not going to get anything. We must
get something.

Wa min Allahu taufiq.

Bihurmatil Habib.

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

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Transcribed by Nakshobondi@Yahoo.com