Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

SUPERIORITY AMONG SERVANTS

Sohbet given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Kibrisi

Thursday 17 Raby' al-Thani, 1426
May 26, 2005.
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 Syyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya.

Tariqatuna sohbet wa khayru fil jami'at. Association. Jamat. A Jamat can make association. Jamat is obligation. What Allah will give to a group of people, He will not give to an individual. When an individual is asking, he may not get what he may get when he is among a group of people. Whatever is necessary is given through Jamat; a group of people. The worship that a group of people is doing together is more beloved to Allah than an individual's worship. If an individual goes, prepares something and eats alone, and on the other hand, if the prepares something and calls somebody, a couple of friends to eat together, it is more beloved to Allah than an individual running and doing things alone and eating or enjoying alone.

Up until Holy Prophet (saw) Allah sent down to earth different nations and different tribes and the Prophet (saw) is the Seal of Prophets. He is sealing everything together and he is saying, "There is no superiority between Arabs and non-Arabs. There is no superiority between an Arab and an Ajam except in Taqwa, except in righteousness." There is no superiority with people's nationalities, with their races or with their tribe except in Taqwa. A person having high taqwa is the one who has the most fear from his Lord and who is the most obedient to His Lord. So whoever is most fearful and most obedient to their Lord, they are in higher stations than the other ones. But if that person is having that fear and he is keeping the orders of Allah when his blood (lineage) is reaching to a prophet, that one is in a higher station because he is coming through the generation of the prophets to guide people. Maybe an individual has fear and obedience to his Lord but he is from a lost tribe somewhere. When you are comparing that one to the one whose lineage is reaching to the prophets, then that one (from prophetic lineage) is in authority.

This is the problem that so many people that I am watching who are going back and forth not understanding the superiority, who is more superior or if anybody else is more superior than others, and this is how it goes. The prophets are like us humans. They were spirits that Allah had created and He chose them among the other spirits and He said, "You will be the prophets." They are higher. He put them in higher stations right away. As soon as He chose them saying, "You are prophets" then they became higher than the normal spirits instantly because the title is given by the Creator. It's not given by man who are voting and giving titles. The Creator is giving titles saying, "I choose these ones to be my prophets." He didn't ask us, "Would you like it or not? Would you vote for these ones?" (Sheykh smiles). No. He says, "These ones are My prophets and you are My normal servants and you are going to obey them. You want to reach back to Me? You have to obey them. You have to follow their footsteps. Without following their footsteps you cannot reach to Me. You cannot come to Me. You are coming to Me through their doors. If you are looking to come to Me you must look through their doors. You must look to make them happy. You must look to make them satisfied with you. Then I will be happy with you."

Then Allah (subhana wa ta'ala) chose a group of people again saying, "These are the helpers of the prophets." He is speaking to the normal spirits now. He is saying to them, "If you are looking to reach to Me you must follow the prophets. You cannot come to Me directly." No saints, no Awliya can go to Allah directly. No saints have reached the Divine Presence directly. One reached to the Divine Presence who was living in the time of the Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam) but without seeing the prophet (saw), whom we call Uwaysel Qarani. But he reached to the Divine Presence with the love of the Prophet (alayhi salatu wa salam). He didn't reach to the Divine Presence by himself. So Allah is saying to us, showing to us that anyone who is a nominee to come to the Divine Presence from among those saints, He is saying to them, "You follow those prophets." And He is saying to normal people like us, "You are looking to reach to My Divine Presence? Follow My saints. Follow their footsteps. Follow them. And if you make any space in their hearts and if they are satisfied with you then I will be happy with you." If they are not happy with you then that's enough sign for you showing you that Allah is not happy with you. If you make one Friend of Allah to be happy with you then that's a sign that is showing to you that there is a space for you in the Divine Presence through that saint.

We should not let Sheytan to fool us and we should not say, "Oh we are all the same." Eh, by saying that "We are all the same", now the women and the men are saying, "We are the same." Now children are saying to their parents. "We are the same. Why are you telling me this and that? Who are you to tell me? I am a free man. I am going to eat in your house, I am going to grow up here but I am going to do as I like." Yeah, no way. (Sheykh smiles). It never worked. In these days they tried to make that work but it's not going to work. That's why everything is falling into pieces. Everywhere there is no discipline, there is no love, there is corruption, there are wrong things going on non-stop.

All these are happening because the high ones lost the direction, they lost the way to reach to their Lord and Allah is punishing them through their generations. If the leaders of the countries want their people to be obedient to them, first they have to be obedient to their Lord. Look how easily Allah will make those people become obedient to their leaders. But the first thing is wrong because the leaders are not obedient to their Lord, to their Creator. They invented so many lords but there is only One. They are not obedient to our Lord, to the Lord that had created them. And their nations are becoming disobedient to them. When the parents are disobedient to their Lord then Allah makes their children to become disobedient to them.

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So association is important to make people to wake up, to make people to improve in their lives. Through association people will hear what is left out and what is it that they have to catch. So we turn back tonight's association saying, "Wake up and be in an awakening station in association."

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Amin.