Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

STANDING AT THE DOOR OF THANKFULNESS

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

Friday 26 Jumad al-Awwal, 1427
June 24, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergah, Sydney Center, New York.

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

Medet Ya Seyyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.
Shukr Ya Rabbi.
Astaghfirullah,astaghfirullah, astaghfirullahi wa atubu ilaih.

We are asking our Lord Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) to forgive us our shortcomings and make us to become better servants. We are living in the Ahir of the Ahir Zaman, the end of the times. Holy Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) is saying, "When you reach to those days (you will see that) there will be no peace anywhere. There will be confusion everywhere, in the east, west, north and south. There will be very few people trying to stay on the Sirat-ul Mustaqim and the majority of the people will be following their ego's desires and they will run after worldly activities only. Everything is going to turn bad and dirty." That's what happened today everywhere, from mankind, to the air, to the water and to the land. The children of Adam have destroyed everything. It is the secret that Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, "There will be no clean areas to live." No clean air and no clean water. The seas and the oceans are getting dirty. From the air to the land, everywhere. But the worst is man. The inside of man turned so bad that when you are speaking to them something good they are looking at you like you have lost your mind. Alhamdulillah.

It doesn't matter how the world is living. We are responsible for our own selves. If there would be nothing in this world, nothing, everything is gone, no holy ones and no believers at all and you are the only one living, then the Shahadat is enough to keep you in the Sirat-ul Mustaqim. Giving the Shahadat, reminding yourself, purifying yourself and waiting, waiting for our time and preparing for our original place from where we came. It is only temporary here. One day you are good, next day you are bad, the following day you are sick, the following day you are feeling strong and three days later you are feeling weak. That's how it's going to go in this world. What is important is how we are going to the other side and what we are taking with us. If you are able to take that Shahadat with you by saving that Shahadat, keeping it clean and bringing it to the other side then you are the winner. If man is not going to the other side with the Shahadat, with the Kalima-e tawhid, then he is in big trouble. The trouble of dunya is nothing then. The trouble of dunya becomes like Paradise for those who are going to the other side without taking the station of real man, real human, Insan-i Kamil. The whole meaning of life is to make us become Insan-i Kamil, the perfect one and to go to the other side clean. The angels are asking how you came there. Have you taken that secret or not. What are you going to say?

This is the most important worry the believers must have. If you are worrying with this then all other things will come along easy because you have a bigger worry. You are worrying. And don't think that today you are good, you are in Sirat-ul Mustaqim, and it's guaranteed to us. No. It's guaranteed to us as much as we force ourselves on that way. The day that you leave, you fly away. So many came and so many are gone. Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) is ordering us to keep His Orders until the last breath. Not to think that one day we are going to reach to some station and then whatever we do is going to be okay. No. We have to always search ourselves, we have to look at ourselves, we have to question ourselves what we are doing, how we are doing, how we are living and whether we are progressing or we are going backwards. We must question, we must look, we must calculate, we must account ourselves and our deeds before we are coming to the accounting place. We must have it ready for ourselves. When we have it ready then we may look, see and say, "Yes, I did this but I didn't do this. I must work on this part. I finished this part but I didn't finish this part. I must work on this one."

So Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) is saying to us, "If you are living with the knowledge that you know, (you have learned a knowledge and if you are living according to that knowledge) then Allah will teach you the knowledge that you don't know." If we are calculating, accounting and looking at ourselves to see how we are living and what we are doing in our daily activities then we may find the wrong things that we are doing, which doesn't look wrong to us, but in reality in the Divine Presence it's wrong. So we must force ourselves to live according to that. Otherwise, there are two doors. One is the door of mercy, the door of Rahmat and the other one is the door of curse. Allah is not putting us there but mankind is insisting and running to that door. A simple way to be able to stay at the door of mercy is to be always happy with what Allah has given, saying, "Alhamdulillah Ya Rabbi! What you have given to me is the best." Being a thankful servant. If you are being a thankful servant then you never turn to the door of curse, the door of complaints. The only people standing at the door of mercy are those who are pleased with their Lord and at the door of curse are those ones who are complaining. If you are finding any complaints then finish it. When you are about to complain of something then look at the someone who is worse than you and be happy. No need to complain.

The One who has given us everything liked it and that's the way He gave it to us. If there is some good happening through us then know that it is a Rahmat and mercy from our Lord. If there are bad things happening to us then know that it is from our ego. We did something wrong somewhere. Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) does not punish His servants unless the servant runs and stands where the curse is waiting. He is saying to us where we are supposed to be, where we are supposed to spend our life and how we are supposed to live. He sent His Prophet (sws) to teach us. If we are following that Prophet (sws) then we are finding the life becoming very easy in every condition. Nobody should think that the life is going to be any harder than what happened to the Holy Prophet (sws) and the Sahaba-e Kiram. They lived in the worst time and the worst creatures were attacking them. They were at the door of mercy and thankfulness until the time came to them and they passed from this world.

We today alhamdulillah are not going through that much hardship. Although everything is so bad around but still we are not going through hardship like that. Our life is easy. We must be thankful ones and we must stand at the door of thankfulness and not open the door of complaint

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Amin.