Talk, discourse, sohbet by Shaikh Abdul Kerim about Servanthood to ALLAH

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Honor of Being Human is Only in Taqwa and Servanthood to ALLAH cc

Sohbet by Seyh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Saturday 16 Muharram 1428
(February 3, 2007)
Osmanli Dergah, Sidney Center, New York

Auzu Billahi Minasheytanir Rajim
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
La Hawla Wala Quwwata Illa Billahil Aliyyul Azim
Hasbunallah Wani'mal Wakil
Tariqatina Sohbet Fil Khayri Min Jemiet
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alemin

We are thanking to our Lord, Allah (subhanahu wata'ala). First, He has created us a man. Not a donkey. Not an animal. Not a tree. But a man. Man that He has created in Ahsani Taqwim. The Most Perfect creature. That all this creation, that knowing and not knowing, what man knows and what he doesn't know, from all this creation Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) [is] continuously creating and He has created the man in Ahsani Taqwim, the Most Perfect one. What else [do] you want? Complaining non-stop! Twenty-four hours a day! Because [He] created you a man? And He didn't create you [a] donkey. That's why you're complaining? Hasbinallah Wani'mal Wakil.

So Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) has created us the most perfect creatures. He has not created nothing for no reason. Everything has – what He has created – everything has a reason of creation. And everything that you are seeing and not seeing, from the galaxies to the atoms, they all have [a] reasoning of creation. Nothing happened just by coincidence, by accidents, or - nothing is a copy. Everything that you see or you don't see in the universes or in your world, or on you, every cell is perfect. Perfect. Allah is perfect, creating everything perfect. So from all this creation, Allah (subhanahu wata'ala), He has honored us, the mankind saying, "the Best One." Because better than the angels. If you [are] using the titles that is given to you as a human, the mankind reaches to the station of angels or higher than the angels. But He's saying to us, "If you are not using that title that I am giving to you as a human, you are falling to the levels of the animals. But He's saying, "No, now you are lower than the animals." Because the animals they know their reason of creation. And they are living according to that reason of creation. They have no intelligence. They have only instincts that is coming to them. Or some animals, they move according to inspiration. Inspiration [is] coming to them. The angels, they have been created. They have no will or wish. And they have no desires. And Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) created them, and saying, "This is what you got to do." And they do. They have no ego.

So the man, Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) has created saying, "Ahsani Taqwim." Understand that. All this creation that we are knowing, and things that we don't known that we start imagining, He created them saying, "Be." Kun Fayakun. And everything appeared. Except the man. The man Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) has created Adam (aleyhis selam). He has taken from the earth, mixing up the dirt, putting water, molding, putting a shape to a man with His Divine Hands. Don't think this kind of hands now. But He's teaching us a lesson saying that He has put a shape to a man. Spending time in His creation. He's putting a shape to a man. Then, Allah (subhanahu wata'ala), when that man is laying down, only a clay body, He's blowing to that man from His Holy Breath. Holy Breath. That now you [are] calling that Spirit came. No, Allah is not giving what is from Him to a man. If He's giving something, what is from Him to a man, and that man has to be increasing always as Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) [is] expanding. And then the man will declare one day saying, "I am your partner." That's why Allah is not accepting partnership in His Kingdom. And everything that you know and everything that you don't know that's His Kingdom. Everything that He has created.

So, just this man, He has blown into from His Holy Breath. Not something from Himself that He's giving. No, just a Breath that for us to understand. (Sheykh breathes in and out quickly). You're taking the air in and putting it out. That doesn't mean that you are giving spirit out. (Sheykh breathes in). You are taking air in and you are giving air out. So Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) [is] saying to us. He has blown from His Holy Breath to a man. And that man now became perfect. Instantly. He stood up. And when Adam (aleyhis selam), that Holy Breath became spirit to him, became life to him, and when he opened his eyes, laying down and looking, then when the spirit started moving into the body, everywhere that is coming in is becoming alive and moving. And he's sitting. Before it's reaching to the feet, when he sit, then he sneezed (Sheykh sneezes) then he says, "Alhamdulillah. " First time he has just [been] created. He has just been given that Breath. He did that and he's saying, "Thank you Ya Rabbi," the "basit", the lowest level of explanation [of] Alhamdulillah. Saying, "Thank you Ya Rabbi."

Why did he say that? The man, [in] Ahir Zaman, man in the Last Times, living on the face of earth now, they just found that out. Allah is giving them the knowledge to find that. The Holy People, they have always known. But these one[s] they [are] just finding out. Allah is giving them a sign that maybe they wake up. Now they [are] finding out when you are sneezing, then the heart stops for a split second. It may not click back on again. So the life is taken (Sheykh breaths out) is given right back to him and he's saying, "Thank you Ya Rabbi.

Alhamdulillah you have given me back that life." And all the spirit reaching to his feet. And he stood up. Now he's looking around. And order [is] coming to him, "What is this, what is that?" He starts knowing everything. Just with that Holy Breath that Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) [is] blowing into a man. Angels are in need of studying and looking and learning. The Adam (aleyhis selam) did not. He didn't study. Just that Holy Breath made him. Gave him a life, and made him to know everything.

So Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) [is] saying to us. That now he's in Paradise, looking around. Living. But he's getting bored after a while in Paradise saying, "This is Paradise, this is food, this is that." Everything that is around him, he's looking; none of the creation is one of his kind. [It] is not made out from the same material. All made out from different material. The Paradise, and the tree[s], and the angels, and everything surrounding him is not one of his kind. He has communication with them but is not one of his kind. So he start[s] feeling lonely in the Paradise. Then Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) when he's sitting now saying, "I am tired of this Paradise now," and for a split second going to sleep and he's waking up and he's seeing another, one of his kind. It [is] made out from the same material. But is completely different than him: Hawwa. And they say to him, "What is this one?" They ask, "What is this?" Right away he knew that one too saying, "This is Hawwa." "What is the name, why is [it] Hawwa?" "Because she has been created from the living one. I have been created from the mud. But that one has been created from me. To be accompanying me in this Paradise." So the Paradise became Paradise until the cursed Sheytan fooling them and putting them out from the Paradise to the earth and saying, "Find your way back to the Paradise." He started being bored in the Paradise. But now, as soon as Hawwa came, he's not bored anymore in Paradise. And they wanted to stay in Paradise forever. Think. And they commit[ed] the wrong doings there. Then Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) [is] sending Adam (aleyhis selam) down to earth. His wife. From their children multiplying, we are here, Ahir Zaman. The End of the Times. In reality we are all coming out the same mother, same father. Different colors. Different shapes. It doesn't matter. All coming from that two. Male and Female. Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) is saying, "We have created you from one nefs," one, "then from that one We have created Hawwa, then We multiplied."

What is the reason of creation then now? Why we are here? The whole of these animals and these trees. The trees they know their job. Every year, now [it] is wintertime, everything falling, the greens they fall out. The whole tree, you look, is nothing. No sign of life in it. But [as] soon as the winter is gone, the summer start[s] coming, you're going to see the life growing up again. Same green again. Whatever that tree is giving, if it's an apple tree, [the] following year [it] is not going to mix up to give orange. Or what else? Banana tree. Hmm. It's not mixing up. Now those trees, they all know exactly when they [are] going to open up, how much fruit they [are] going to give. And when they [are] going to close again. Centuries. Some trees they stay thousands of years. I met one tree in my country. [It] is over a thousand year[s] old. It gives fruit seven times a year. Never mixing up. Always giving that fruit out. Over [a] thousand year old tree. Right in our mosque, is only one there. Somebody, some Holy Man, brought it from somewhere, planted there, it became [a] huge tree. That huge tree is giving this much small fruits on it. And [it] is never giving the fruit on the branches. [It] is giving it on its own trunks area. This much opens up. [It] is [an] unusual tree. Alhamdulillah. Sheykh Mevlana is eating from that one's fruit all the time. We are eating too so many times. But [a] thousand-year- old tree is never mixing up. Always giving out the same fruits. From the time that I've known myself, the same fruit. I ask elderly people. They say [it] never mixed it up. Giving the same fruit. Man - mixing up everything. One day like this, one day like that. One day believer, one day unbeliever. One day he's thinking I am from the children of Adam. One day he's thinking saying, "Monkey, Darwin, I am monkey," and they [are] running after [a] monkey.

They don't want to carry no responsibility. That's what it means. They want to live like animals. But [the] animal world is not accepting too saying, "We have our own laws. You cannot carry these laws." You want to live like animals, go out there to the forest. Now, look how many minutes you're going to stay out there. But all those animals, they're finding their house, their finding their way, and eating and drinking and living. So the man, insisting to live like [an] animal carrying no responsibilities, carrying no laws, and no order saying, "I am free, I do as I like."

You are not free. You are a prisoner between two breaths. I tell you that much. (Sheikh takes a breath in) If Allah does not permit, this air doesn't come in and you die. If He doesn't permit (Shaykh breaths out) air doesn't come out and you die. How [are] you claiming you are free? If you are that free stop breathing for one hour. No, put it down, fifteen minutes. Maybe five minutes. No. You cannot. It is not possible. So you are not free. You are in need of that air. So you must beg for that air to continue coming. Because that [is] the first need for life that is given to you. You cannot live without that for two minutes. Now, the second life is water. Seen in your body. So now we cannot say, you cannot say I am free. Don't drink. Why are you drinking? All the time. Don't drink. Don't eat. Continue all these things.

So we are not free. If we are free, if we are free having authority on your own self, why are you getting old? Don't get old. Stay young. You are [getting old]. So that shows to you, that shows to me that somebody has power on us. Has the authority on us. And is ruling on us. Even if we like it or not, He's moving us to that destiny. And He's moving us to where? To our grave. No way out. If you can find [a] way out go. No way out. Forward, going always. But going always forward toward the grave site. Every single day that is passing. Mashallah, in the West first, people with empty heads they were jumping up and down celebrating their birthday. Now, East and everywhere saying, "I am very happy. Right. One more year that I got elderly now. That's why I'm happy." Getting old. Then you say, "How old are you?" Especially if it's a woman in the old days, they don't say. Now, the men, they don't say too. "Don't ask my age. I feel, I feel like my heart is eighteen years old." Mashallah, hehe, but your body is finished, expired. Ha-ha. Say, "Fool yourself as much as you want to fool. Eighteen or twenty." Hmm. The bottom point is you can feel, you can act, you can look. But there is a certain limit life is giving to you and to me. Once that's finished, shwww, out from this world.

And that life is not given to us saying this many years you're going to live. That life is given to us this many breaths of air (Sheykh breaths in and out) You're going to breath in and you're going to give out. This many. It's counted. Don't make no mistake.

So all this that Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) is giving to us, and is teaching us, sending prophets to us, sending books to us, to makes us be aware of our own self and to be aware of Him. First to know our self, and to know Him. We have to know two things: One, we have to know our self, then we have to know Him, Allah (subhanahu wata'ala). Why created. We must know. All this for what? To know Him and to worship Him. He has not created us to be running after this world, to be slaves for this world. He has created us for His service. So all these things that we're seeing it in this world, He has created for our service. Everything is working for us. From this snow that is coming down, for this water, the air, the mountains, trees, animals, everything for us. Us to Himself. For His service. And He's saying, "When you are in My service, I have created everything for you, and you for My service," so, "when you become [a] good servant for Me, I am for you also." Allah Allah. The mankind [is] running away from the service of Allah. Wants everything, but still running from the service of Allah. Saying, "I am for you. Ask, I give you everything. That time I work for you too. Everything, I created for you."

So now, we have to know who we are and who is our Lord. We have to learn. We have to try to live according to that. If we are not living according to that, then we are living according to our ego. And this short life that is given to us, one day [it] is just going to finish, expire. (Sheykh breathes in) The breath of air is going to expire, (Sheykh trying to breathe) you won't be able to take in anymore. Finished. They say, "Your time is up." The air is there. "We have given you [a] calculated amount of air." You have just finished. Take to the hospital. They put all those gas on your head, mask pumping the air in. Eh, that's what they're pumping. Air. (Sheikh breathes in) Now how much [would] you pay for this air? Free. Go to [a] hospital. Look, one tank. How much they're going to charge you? Easy, go and ask them. Would you give the whole world that you have that time? Of course you would. How much [would] you give for this glass of water? Nothing. For free. We're not understanding the value. If the water is not here what we will do? Seventy percent of your body is water. This body is water. Seventy percent.

So treat that body properly. Don't listen to stupid music. Listen [to] good music. Don't use bad words. Use good words. Because they have just proven also that, [when] you're speaking nice words into this water, then the water turns into beautiful crystals, beautiful shapes. And when you let the water listen to Rock & Roll music, or dirty words, those crystals, they turn into very ugly shapes. Evilish shapes. So this water is your body. Seventy percent. Treat this water properly too. Honor the water.

We have what? What we will do with this water? If you don't have water? If you own this whole world and I have this glass of water and you are ready to die from thirst. If I tell you, "Give me half of the wealth that you have, I give you this glass of water." Would you give it to me that time? Half of the wealth that you have. No? You would give to that person who's going to give you a glass of water because you're dying from thirst. For that glass of water, you will give half of the wealth.

And what about, [if] you just drank that water, now Allah's authority on you [is] saying, "This water is not coming out, that you just have drank." Meaning you cannot go to [the] toilet now to bring this water out. And somebody [is] there saying, "Give me the other half of the wealth, I'll let you to go to [the] toilet to take this water out. Would you give the other half? Of course. So, he gave the whole world for a glass of water. Now you understand the value of the water? Yes, we must understand. Now, we must understand the value that Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) has given to us. Now, we're trying to understand the value of things that [are] so easily coming to us that we [are] not showing value. And Allah is saying to us, "I have created you Ahsani Taqwim." The most perfect creature. Haaa.

So now, if we start understanding the value that is around us, that Allah created for our service, slowly when we are understanding our own value, then when we start understanding our own value we look at it saying, "We are no good for nothing." Yes, that time we look at the animal we see, the Sheep eats green only, grass. Then it gives milk. It gives meat. It gives the fur. It gives the skin. It gives the horns. It gives the bones to me, and everything is useful. And me, I am eating everything. What comes out from you? You know what comes out. It's not even good for putting [for] fertilizing the land. So the animal's waste is also good, fertilizing the land. Everything coming out is good. So now that you are seeing that you have no value at all, and Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) is saying, "I have created you the most perfect one. I am giving value to you." What else [do] you want now? You're still insisting? Oh mankind, still insisting saying, "I am monkey." Or you're still insisting to say, "I am a creature that Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) has created." That time you reach somewhere. Inshallah we do. And if we do that, that time we will win this Dunya, everything surrounding us becomes Paradise for us, and real Paradise [is] waiting for us that time. Because Allah is saying, "Ha, you think this is something for you? This world?" He says, "You cannot even imagine, you cannot even bare to see [for] a split second what I have created for you in [the] hereafter life. So be a good servant."

Inshallahur Rahman, we are making [the] intention to be a good servant. When you are a good servant, when you are happy with Allah and Allah is happy with you, then everything is yours. Then Allah is saying to us, "Yes, that nafs, that ego that Allah is happy with." Now, your Lord is happy with you, enter to the Paradise of your Lord and live there forever. Otherwise, whatever we are planting in this world, that's what we are going to harvest this year, [the] following year, or that season. Whatever that we are planting with our life, whatever that we are doing in our life, that's what we are going to harvest hereafter. If we are turning our face to the direction of Paradise, one day, even if it is slow, we're going to reach there. If our face [is facing the] opposite side to the Hell side and continuing that way, that's what we're going to reach.

So the choice is given to our hands. Allah is saying to us, "Either be My servant and stay on the way of the Paradise, and when the door opens you enter in the Paradise. Or runaway from My servanthood. You cannot run so much, because I have your leash in My hand. No man can escape from My hand. I'm sending the Azrail anytime I want. And once Azrail is coming taking your life, then they drag you into that wrong side. But I have not created you a man to put [a] leash around your neck and to pull you. I left you free. You are not [an] animal. I am showing you a lesson." Allah [is] saying to us, "You are putting a leash around the necks of animal and you [are] pulling them." That bull out there, over [a] thousand pound, you're putting that leash and pulling it. Easily following you. Those wild animals, the man has authority on them. Why? Because Allah has just said to them, "Obey the man." And showing [the] tricks and [the] traps to man, and the man is putting all those huge animals under their control. We must be under the service of our Lord, Allah (subhanahu wata'ala). That time, the much as we are under the service of our Lord, that much honor we have. Otherwise, the honor that you are putting on you with your clothes, with your worldly titles, you may keep it until the Angel of Death is coming. When the Angel of Death is coming, they're taking all the titles away. [People will be] saying, "Quickly, remove this one from here. Don't leave it out here. [It] started smelling. No creature is going to live that time. Quickly take it and bury it under the ground."

That's what the man is good for that time. So Inshallahur Rahman, first we have to understand the value that Allah (subhanahu wata'ala) has created around us. To show proper respect. Then we understand our value. Then we will understand that we really have no value. Then we say, "Ya Rabbi, Astaghfirullah. I'm just making prostration to you." And that time, [the] more Taqwa you have, [the] more value you have.

Wamin Allahut Tawfiq.
Wahurmatul Habib.
Wahurmatul Fatiha.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin.

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Transcribed by Hakkani_Naksibendi