20 April 2010 Lefke, Cyprus
Dastoor, yaa Sayyidee. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Yaa Allah. Laa ilaaha illa-Llah. Laa ilaaha illa-Llah. Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Sayyidina Muhammadur Rasoolullah. Zidhu yaa Rabbee, `izzan wa sharafan nooran wa surooran, sultaanan wa ridwaana. All blessings, all glory, all honor, all majesty only for You, O our Lord! Subhan sensin, sultan sensin. Give to Your most beloved, most honored, most glorified servant, Your deputy, Sayyidina Muhammad (s) what no one can give, what no one can imagine! Give your intercession, yaa Sayyidee, yaa Habeebu Rabbu 'l-`alameen (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)
To all prophets, to all awliyas, saints, Allah (swt) grants His whole Mercy Oceans. O our Protector, O our Supporter, O our high, high heavenly supporter! We are asking from you a support. We are knowing nothing, and You may send us something from your authorized mission and authorized holy support that you have been granted, for the honor of the Seal of Prophets (s). Look at our conditions and give us what we are in need of, for the honor of the most honored one in the Divinely Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.)
O Our Attenders! Who are trying to be present at such a humble assembly and meeting and association on a small island through a small village, O our Grandshaykh, you may support us. So much honor and so much blessings on you, attenders of such a simple meeting. We are simple people, and we are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. O qutb, who is representative of the Seal of Prophets (s) now on this planet, we are humbly asking for some understanding for heavenly happenings. We are knowing nothing and you have been authorized to grant to those people who are interested and asking something to learn.
O Salafi `ulamas! Marhaban! What sayings of the Seal of Prophets (s), one-hundred, one-thousand, ten-thousand, ten-million, ten-billions from the Seal of Prophet's (s) tawjeeh, making people's faces orienting to that one hadith? I am not thinking on something (to speak); no, I am only naaqil, transmitter and I know nothing! I am not claiming that I am such a person, knowing, no. Now I am also hearing, listening and trying to understand, but to try to understand by yourself is so difficult. Therefore, we are in need of someone who opens that treasure for us and gives from that treasure or we are looking outside. But the key is just granted to some ones. Who are they? They are the ones who are 100% never taking any care for this life and its pleasures, no. That means they are clean ones, trying to understand something.
O Salafi `ulamas! Milk is clean, but if you are putting that milk in a pot that it is not clean, it will quickly change from cleanliness to dirtiness and you must throw it away. Therefore, heavenly grants are not granted to everyone. Those grants are only given to those whom their hearts are clean. How is our heart's cleanliness, as Allah jala jalallahu, (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) is contained in the hearts of people, as you know also, Salafi `ulamas, but you are never speaking. I know.
The Lord of Heavens, Allah Almighty, is saying (in Hadith Qudsi):
ما وسعني سمائي ولا أرضي ولكن وسعني قلب عبدي المؤمن
maa wasi`anee samaee wa laa `ardee wa lakin wasi`an qalbi `abdee al-mu’min.
"My Earth could not contain Me, nor My heavens, but the heart of My believing servant contained Me."
For all Creation on Earth and on heavens, it is so difficult to carry Me, they are so simple aspects that I can't be there. I am endlessly Great One; I am the Greatest and no one can be greater than Me! Therefore, Earth and heavens are not enough of a base or maqam, station for Me. Never. I granted to human beings a heart, qalb. When We are saying 'heart,' it is like a fist in appearance, but you must see it as only, mumathil, representing. But the real qalb that I granted to My deputies, no one knows about that, can't be. maa wasi`anee samaee wa laa ardee wa lakin wasi`an qalbi `abdee al-mu’min
(Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! SubhaanAllah (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) Allah jalla jalaalahu is saying, "That means unlimited capacity that I grant to Mankind. I may be through that One's unlimited heavenly being," because heavenly beings are also reaching to a distance unlimited. But that is unlimited according to our understanding. I am not saying something that belongs to Allah (swt). We can't say which honor is granted to Mankind. They have such a position that every measure you are using here for understanding something is going to be on the line of zero; it may reach to that level, but beyond that level we can't move there, the level that in heavens we have been granted only for us. It is impossible for a creature to reach the level of the Creator. Can't be! Can't be!!!! All of them are on the first level of their being, and through their understanding there they may look but they can't enter it. Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allah! (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Allahu akbar! Subhaanak, yaa Rabb! Sultaanak, yaa Rabb! Allah is Great! All glory, O my Lord! All majesty, O my Lord! (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) Everything is within limits, but Who is putting those limits, He is unlimited!
Now we are saying about Mankind that they have been granted something special. Every creature has a level and they may look at it but they can't enter it. And Mankind has such a limit that its horizons are endless and its dominions are beyond those horizons, that is impossible for any creature or Creation to understand. Always, we are on the point of zero! If zero is on the left of one, always it's value is zero. If the Lord of Heavens is asking to give that zero something, He puts that zero behind one and it is beginning to look, to see, to understand, to know, to do, to obey, to respect, to make obediency endlessly. That is such an explanation of maa wasi`anee samaee wa laa ardee wa lakin wasi`an qalbi `abdee al-mu'min, reaching that horizon that no other creatures are able to reach. Subhaan Allah, Sultaan Allah Almighty!
O People! What are you saying? First, we are addressing the `ulamas. That hadith from the Seal of Prophets (s) isgiving people ta`zheem and taqdees, glorifying and sanctifying. What was the Seal of Prophets (s) saying? You know, utlubu'l-`ilm wa law fi's-seen
Seek knowledge even as far as China.
Yes? Or it is hadith da`eef la asla lahaa (a weak hadith with no basis)? No, you know it is just hadith shareef, no arguments on it!
O Salafi `ulamas! You must try to reach levels of holy knowledge that prophets are bringing. You can't reach that secret knowledge on Earth because that knowledge must come from heavens. Say to people, al-`ilm `aala 'r-rutab (knowledge is in different levels)! Which knowledge does this refer to? Knowledge that mafaheem, gives understanding for this planet has no value, as the most valuable levels of knowledge belong to heavens. Therefore, you must try, O Salafi `ulamas, to reach the Seal of Prophet's (s) Knowledge Oceans. You must try to approach, try to take from those oceans a nuqta, a drop or less than drop.
You may say al-`ilm `aalaa 'r-rutab (knowledge is in different levels). Which `ilm, knowledge, (is referred to here)? Have we been sent to this life to know about this planet? What is that? Everyone is trying to teach something about this planet, dunya, `ilmu 'd-dunya, (knowledge of this world). The Seal of Prophet (s) was knowing everything, every secret that belongs to this life, but he was never mashghool, occupying himself with such a knowledge because it is of no value, it doesn't matter. Prophet (s) was coming, and today people from Earth cannot reach to heavens to that level, because you can't reach there by rockets or missiles or jumbo jets. You can't reach those distances, that there is not any measure for their height and width! And Prophet (s) was saying--he is not asking, he is saying to people--you are learning knowledge li tatasala, to amuse yourselves about what is on this planet, and that is making you on a no-value level. "No value level" means they never reach any level of heavens.
O Salafi `ulamas! ... Which `ilm are you telling Muslims and mu'mins? Is Prophet (s) asking you to reach that honor and rutbah, station, urging you to reach material aspects? Material aspects are finally going to be in the graveyard, finished! What about your souls that belong to heavens? Why are you not using your chance through this life to understand what is real knowledge? Now you are carrying your books under your arms and saying you are`ulama. Dont say, “bid`a, haraam, kufr, shirk.” You must show people where they are standing and to where have they been invited. Show people what ladder to go up! All we are saying to people about this life is that it has no value!
May Allah (swt) forgives us. We are trying, they are granting to our attenders something to taste from heavenly beings, because people now are in a darkness. Everywhere zhulmah, darkness spread, everywhere from east to west, from north to south, like nighttime. In darkness without heavenly lights, you can't find your way. Therefore, Salafi `ulamas, you must try to find such people who are real inheritors of the Seal of Prophets (s), who have heavenly lights. You must go out and look and find such a person that they show you the ways to heavens!
May Allah (swt) forgive us for the honor of the Seal of Prophets (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.)
Fatihah.
(37 minutes) Mashaa-Allah. Mashaa-Allah. Alhamdulillah. Allah (swt) opens our hearts. Tawbah yaa Rabb. Allah Kareem Allah, Allah Kareem Allah, Allah Kareem Allah.
(Mawlana Shaykh speaks to Shaykh Hisham Effendi and Hajjah Naziha on the phone; they sing "Happy Birthday" to Sultan!)