Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

No Paradise Without Good Manners

Jummah Khutba by Sheykh Abdul Kerim Al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 14 RabiulThani, 1427
May 12, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.

Auzu billahi minash sheytanir rajim
Bismillahir rahmanir rahim
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billahil aliyyil azim.

Medet Ya Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) sent the prophets and the books to us to stay on their way and to learn good manners to go back to Paradise. Anyone who learns how to have good manners is going back to Paradise. No manners, no Paradise. You can pray not five time but fifty times a day, you can recite the Quran twenty-fours a day but if a man doesn't learn the manners then he is not reaching anywhere. (We are talking about) the manners that Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) has put on man, not the manner according to the understanding of today's people that have been educated in the schools. No. Not that kind of manners.

There is no manner today. There is no manner in the east, west, north and south. That's why the whole system is collapsing. One bad behavior, one wrong manner made Sheytan to be kicked away from the Divine Presence forever. He was worshipping. If you put the whole mankind's worship together you cannot equal as much as he was worshipping. With one wrong attitude, one wrong manner that he did he was kicked away from the Divine Presence and from Paradise. With one bad manner that our father did, (he became disobedient to Allah,) he was sent out from Paradise. He was the beloved one of Allah (subhana wa ta'ala). He has created him and He gave him the Paradise. He did one wrong action, he lost proper manners and he was sent out from Paradise. It took centuries for Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) to accept his repentance and to forgive him.

From that time until now so many prophets came and every one of them concentrated on that. All actions, all works, all prayers, all worshipping, all fasting and everything that we are doing are to teach us to have good manners. A man who is going to enter into the palace, who is going to go next to a king, they take him and they train him first. They teach him how to have good manners. If he doesn't have good manners then he cannot go there. It is not possible. The ones who are learning proper manners may stay there. They may reach to higher stations.

We are going back to the kingdom from the dirtiness of this world. We have to go back to our kingdom. If we don't learn how to have good manners then we cannot enter back to that kingdom. We cannot go back to our Paradise. You must understand, that (good) manner is what Allah (subahana wa ta'ala) has ordered us and what He has forbidden us from. We must carry those. Then a man may say, "I have good manners." Otherwise, all teachings now in the east, west, north and south has failed. It has failed so badly that today the religious leaders are accepting man to man and woman to woman marriages. That's how ugly and that's how bad things became in the east and west, north and south. We must wake up to our own selves. We must hold on tightly to the teachings of the Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam). You may not have seen so many things. Through the blessings of our Sheykh, Allah (subahana wa ta'ala) is making us to see and to say, "Don't look here, don't look there, don't do this, don't do that", to teach you good manners. All these actions that we are doing around here, that we are trying to keep up with, is to learn to have good manners. We don't know how much time we have left in this world and we must prepare everyday for the hereafter.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Amin.