Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

THE GOOD NEWS AND THE WARNING

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

Thursday 10 Raby' al-Thani, 1426
May 19, 2005
Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.

Auzu billahi minash shaytanir rajim
Bismillahir rahmanir rahim

Nawaitul arbain, nawaitul itikaf
Nawaitul khalwa, nawaitul uzla,
Nawaitu riada, nawaitu suluk,
Fi masjid lillahi ta'ala, Ya Rahmatan lil Alamin

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

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

Tariqatuna sohbet wa khayru fil jamiat. Association is important for people who are looking to find ways to get rid of their own wrong characteristics and to try to become better ones. Association does not give anything to people who are arrogant and stubborn. It does not give anything to those people who come to association thinking that they know so much. It only raises their arrogance and stubbornness. Everything we say, they take it and they try to understand it according to their own egoistic understanding. It is impossible for somebody to understand through his ego what the prophets were speaking, or to understand the people who inherited secrets from the prophets.

It doesn't matter if you are with the Sheykh one day, one year, ten years or a hundred years. Every sohbet comes with different secrets in their own times. Sheykh may be giving the same sohbet everyday, but every day different secrets are coming out. If you come, you sit and instantly you say, "Eh, I already know this", then you come with what you know and you go with what you know. You don't take anything. (Sheykh holding up a cup of tea) If you are coming here like this cup you are not taking anything. This cup is full. Whatever you put, it's not going to take it. If you are coming here throwing this (tea) away or leaving it in your house and you are bringing the cup empty then you are going to find your cup getting filled again, and every time you are tasting from that cup you are going to know that it's different than what was in it before. But if a person is coming that way (filled), then he is only going to take what he brought. Nothing else. And if he continues that way then Sheytan will be guiding that one. Sheytan will say, "You see this one? This word from him is wrong, that is wrong, this is wrong, that is wrong" and that is the time you hang yourself because you are finding wrong in your guide. You lost the case.

Of course, if a man, if a murid builds a close connection with the Sheykh and the Sheykh is able and capable to scream and to curse at that murid and if that murid is not taking from screaming and cursing, never is that murid going to take from sohbet. The murid, if he is not taking from the anger of the Sheykh, seeing that Sheykh is angry because he is doing this, and if he is not taking something for himself to fix himself, then he is not going to take it from sohbet. Impossible. But we still have to say. What we have to say is that we enter into this room and we may not be going out alive. Azrail is waiting. Only those people to whom it is given and who know that they are doing things 100% correctly according to the Divine orders and not according to people's understanding, they may feel some comfort when they are knowing that "the Angel of Death is going to come to me." Because everyday they are checking themselves up, and they are watching, "Hmm, today I am correct again" or "I have this and I fixed this. Good. So if he comes, I did my duty. I am ready to go." But even then they don't want to go because they have to build more, because it's necessary to have more extras where they are going.

What about the arrogant and stubborn people? (They say) "I don't care that I am going to die." Of course you don't care. How are you going to? You don't know what is waiting for you. You are arrogant and stubborn thinking that everything is going to be like in this world. (You say) "So what? Today this happened and tomorrow something else is going to happen to me. Someone else is going to come along." No! It's not going to be that way. That way is only in Dunya. In Dunya whatever life Allah is giving to a man, he is going to run to finish it. That's what everybody is running for. To finish their lives. Nothing else. But when the life is finished you can no longer say, "Eh, I don't care." That's when you see the reality. The veil is removed from your heart. You are seeing.

Allah is saying to his Prophet (saw), "Give the good news to my servants." And He is continuing and saying, "And also warn them. Give warning to them." The good news is that Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) has created us for paradise, He wants us to go to paradise and He is making our way, our road, our direction to go to paradise. No person in this world is ever going to go to the Divine Presence to say, "I didn't know the road to paradise." And Allah says, "If the person did not know and if no messenger came to them then I am responsible to put them in the highest station. But for sure to every nation and every tribe We have sent messengers, prophets and people to warn them." But they didn't take Allah's words seriously. As they got used to playing around in Dunya, spending their time with playing, they think that in Akhirat it's going to be like that too. But it's not.

So what about a man who prays five times a day? What about a man who recites the Fatiha forty times a day at least? If you pray with the sunnat then at least forty times a day you recite that Fatiha. Surat- ul Fatiha.