23 May 2010 Lefke, Cyprus
(Mawlana Shaykh stands.)
Madad yaa Sultan ul-Awliya. Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar wa lillahi 'l-hamd! Allahumma zidh Habeebak `izzan wa sharafan nooran wa surooran, sultaanan wa ridwaana. Bi jaahihi `indak ighfir lana w 'astoorna w 'arhamnaa wa ayyidi 'l-Islam wa 'l-Muslimeen yaa Rabbi 'l-`alameen! Tawbah yaa Rabbee. Tawbah yaa Rabbee. Tawbah, astaghfirullah. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.(Mawlana Shaykh sits.)
Thumma salaamu `alayka yaa Sahib az-Zaman. Thumma salamu `alaykum yaa `IbaadAllahi 's-Saliheen. Thumma salamu `alayka yaa Qutb al-Mutasarrif fee hadhihi 'l-majaal `ala hasab yujid amru 's-sama. As-salaamu `alaykum yaa `IbaadAllahi as-saliheen. Nastamid min roohaaniyyatikum.
I am asking heavenly support from heavenly people. We know nothing and we are asking to know, and to do as the Lord of Heavens is asking from His servants to do. And we are saying as-salaamu `alaykum, O our attenders who are taking pleasure from such meetings. O People! Don't ask for pleasure when you are getting into a bad condition. Don't ask for pleasure by drinking wines, or when you are dancing with ladies, no! That brings much more darkness on your real being, yes.
Our real being gives us pleasure or sometimes our real being is getting in dark areas, and can't be able to get out without heavenly light. Therefore, O people, when you are getting in darkness, that means power is cut off and you are running to find a candle, because you lost real lightening. And now 99 % or more people are falling into darkness, in spite that everywhere they are finding everything for pleasure for their physical beings. Yet their feelings are never getting to be satisfied, because it is not from a real center, and those lights are not coming to them.
Therefore, they are running to find a small candle to show them something, some things they see, but mostly they can't see. If a person is asking to see, that means he is a blind person and a blind person is always in fear because he is never knowing where he is putting his feet, not knowing. Therefore, blind people are always in fear. Sometimes they are using a stick in their hands to look, not look, but to find anything in front of them, or if any dangerous thing is coming on them, they are using this stick. And mostly blind people are not carrying a stick, they are in such a difficult position, and who is carrying a stick, a little bit their feelings are showing them the way and directing them in a direction that may be safe for them.
Now, people here on this planet, on dunya, billions of people, all of them are in a situation that they are never knowing anything what is going to happen for them. The coming events are always closed down, and they are not knowing. Coming events are only just opening for some special beings or some chosen or selected ones that have been authorized, and they have eyes. Therefore, just mentioned from beginning up to end, some people that are knowing about coming events and the Seal of Prophets (s) who had been granted the Holy Qur'an was saying.
O our Salafi `ulamas! You are saying, "We are `ulamas." They are making me to speak, I don't know, but they are making me to speak. About the Holy Qur'an we are saying, Umm ul-Kitaab, "Mother of Books," that all knowledge is coming from that holy book, yes. Don't look to European or western countries' books to learn something, we are not in need. Take away their universities, make them away. Say that, "We are Ummata Muhammad (s), (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) We are not in need of your knowledge!" (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) We are never going to learn from you anything, no! We have everything, we have been granted everything that we are in need of or we may be in need, everything we have! We are not needy to take from western countries' knowledge, no! It is not a valuable thing.
They have, for example, a shell covering a nut. I am trying to speak American style English today, "shelll." You must make your tongue like this also. (Mawlana Shaykh curls tongue and laughs.) O our mulook, you must learn also, "shelll." I must look in the mirror if my tongue is going to be like this also (curled), "shelll." They have such a "shelll" that in it they are not reaching. They only have an image as in shops they are making figures from plastic. You can look and you can say, "Oh! So beautiful ones here, so elegant people here, so beautiful ones here." But when you are touching, it is as a "shelll."
How is my English, O people? I am learning American English also, and London English, and Shakespeare English I am also speaking. From outside you are looking at those figures and saying, "So handsome, so beautiful figure," but when you are touching, it is a plastic figure. And knowledge that western countries are reaching through their efforts are only a shape or figure, and you can't find a real being in that figure. And our idiot learned people are looking to western countries and amazing. They are saying, "O, so beautiful, western countries' civilization, we are so mutakhkhir, retarded, backward." People lost roohu 'l-Islam, the spirit of Islam. I am sorry to say, this is a big blame for Muslim countries, Muslim authorities, Muslim scholars, and Muslim mulook, kings also! Yes, they are looking, "O, amazing 21st century civilization!"
"O my darling, how can we be if we are changing our cars to now because it is New Year, 2010?"
"O my darling, we may be patient and after three months, new fashion for 2011, it is better."
People are drunk in their out-looking (appearance). Their whole beings are running after such foolishness. That is Islamic world also, all of them are running after new fashions. And new fashions, all of them, are like new models, but they are using the same material and presenting to people, "Look at this new fashion that belongs to 2011." Out-looking taking whole nations, and it is blame for the Muslim world that they are running after western ways, running after fashion.
O Salafi `ulamas! Are you not knowing that Prophet (s) said, man tashabbaha bi qawmin fa-huwa minhum, “Who imitates a people is one of them.” Is it not true? Keep your personality and your Islamic identity! If anyone is looking, they may say, "This is a Muslim man or a Muslim lady." Europeans are making so many laws against Islamic dressing and the out-looking of people. In particular, in newspapers, France is preventing (Muslim women) to put veils on their faces. For what? Who are you to prevent that? Where are our `ulamas to say, "Faces may be covered!" Why they are not saying, man tashabbaha bi qawmin fa-huwa minhum? What you are saying, claiming that you are doctors of Shari`ah? Where is Shari`ah and where are you!? We have power! Why are you not sending an ultimatum to French government? "You can't interfere with our ladies' dressing. If you are doing this, we are doing against your people! Anyone coming here with European dressing, they can't enter Damascus, Egypt, Iran, or Turkey!" Why are you not making this, why? Are you not fearing from Allah? Not fearing. If not fearing, Allah makes you down!
And this hadith shareef:
من تشبه بقوم فهو منهم
man tashabbaha bi-qawmin fahuwa minhum.
Who imitates a people is one of them.
Don't buy and use cars in your countries. Doesn't matter if they may say, "Muta-akhkhir, backwards." They may say. Thousands of people are just killed or killing from car accidents but before time no one was dying when they were riding on camels or on horses. That is an important point and we are coming to say something, O doctors of Shari`ah! Shari`ah is not ill to need doctors. Shari`ah is a strong one. And you must listen and you must say yes to what they are making me to speak to you. I am not a person to prepare something to address whole people from east to west, west to east, north to south, south to north, but they are making me to speak on some points that you are on the wrong way. Islam coming with a holy book, Qur'an `azheemu 'sh-shaan, "a book of great significance," (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) that was brought and granted to the Seal of Prophets (s). Any book can't be over Holy Qur'an. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)
O People! You must hear, listen and try to understand about our holy book, the Holy Qur'an, which had been sent to him, the Seal of Prophets (s), (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Sayyidina Muhammad (s), he was granted the Holy Qur'an. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) Yes `ulamas of Azhari 'sh-shareef, doctors of Shari`ah, why are you not saying what the Seal of Prophets (s), who had been granted the Holy Qur'an, said about it. Salafi `ulamas! Say, don't fear! How did the Seal of Prophets (s) give a description for the Holy Qur'an? Say the holy hadith! You are not remembering because your minds are occupied, full with the thinking of western nonsense. Empty your minds and you can understand. The description that the Seal of Prophets (s) was saying about the Holy Qur'an:
كتاب الله فيه خبر ما قبلكم ، ونبأ ما بعدكم
feehi khabaru maa qablakum wa naba'u maa ba`dakum.
"The Book of Allah: in it is the history of those before you and what shall come after you."
Is that OK or not? Am I speaking wrong? Never! They are making my tongue to speak the truth. I am shouting to the whole Muslim world!
Whole `ulamas must teach and have good calligraphers to write in gold letters about the description of Holy Qur'an, feehi khabaru maa qablakum wa naba'u maa ba`dakum, "In it is information about what was before you and tidings of what is after you." Write this and put it everywhere. You are not doing that. You are running to be doctors of Shar`iah. Doctors huh? That (description of Holy Qur'an) is enough for whole nations. Especially for the Seal of Prophets' (s) nation, (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Ummatan Muhammad (s)! Must be known, must be written everywhere about the Holy Qur'an, feehi khabaru maa qablakum wa naba'u maa ba`dakum. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) Ayatu 'l-Kareema. If you are not getting satisfied (with the hadith), O `ulamas, I am saying from the Holy Qur'an. That one was holy hadith shareef. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Allah Almighty is saying:
مَّا فَرَّطْنَا فِي الكِتَابِ مِن شَيْءٍ
Maa farratna fi 'l-Kitaabi min shay.
Nothing have We omitted from the Book. (6:38)
Haqq or baatil? How are you running like this and like that and Allah Almighty is everything that mankind may ask, learn, do and may find in the holy verse, Maa farratna fi 'l-Kitaabi min shay, "We did not leave out anything in this holy book." (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) SadaqAllahu `l-azheem. Allahu akbar. Ghaflatuna (we are heedless). You are writing in universities, "No holy books can enter in our universities." That is the yanbu`, spring of kufr. You must teach whole nations, but before whole nations, particularly Muslims must know that is hadith shareef and that is Allah Almighty's holy words: Maa farratna fi 'l-Kitaabi min shay. That means that anything mankind asks, they can find it. But the key must be granted from heavens for an opening; and when you are running into the dirtiness of western countries, you are never given that key to open those endless treasures.
May Allah forgive us.
Tawbah yaa Rabbee. Tawbah yaa Rabbee. Tawbah astaghfirullah. Blame for the whole ummah.
(Mawlana Shaykh sings.)
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I am blaming my ego. You are `ulamas, astifloo, as you like. Look, who is giving an objection on these words, up to morning their coffins going to be ready to take such foolish ones to cemetery.
Allah! Allah! Laa illaha il Allah, laa illaha il Allah!
Dome dome dome dome
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Fatihah.
Alhamdulilah. Mashaa-Allah, mashaa-Allah, mashaa-Allah! Where is Shaykh Hisham? (Singapore)
(Mawlana Shaykh prays two raka'at shukr.)