16 February 2013 Lefke, Cyprus
(Translated from Turkish)
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. We may say the Ismu ‘l-Jaleel of our Lord, “Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Sayyidina Muhammadun Rasoolullah.” It is said, yawmun jadeed, rizqun jadeed, “A new day, a new provision.” Allah Almighty sustains His Divine Grants in the apparent, too. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Why does He (swt) make us recite the “a`oodhu”?
فَاسْتَعِذْ بِاللّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيم
Fasta`idh billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem.
Seek refuge with Allah from Shaytan, the Accursed. (Surat an-Nahl, 16:98)
Dastoor, yaa RijaalAllah! May there be a heavenly support from the holy ones that we say a few words and open inshaa-Allah. Our first word is, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.” The Bismillah should be our first word (as it means). “The Bismillah is Your Pure Name and who remembers it is purified. Who says ‘Allah’ can reach everything he desires.” What a beautiful teaching! It teaches people that any act without the Bismillah is cut off.
كل عمل لم يبدأ باسم الله فهو أبتر
Kullu `amalim lam yabtadi Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem fa huwa abtar.
The Prophet (s) said, “Any `amal which does not begin with ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem’ is cut off; it has no continuity.” (Ahmad, Musnad)
This is the Word of Allah (swt) and the teaching of the Prophet (s). Whichever act starts without the Bismillah it is cut off, it has no result. Yawm al-jadeed, rizq al-jadeed! In every new day there are the grants of Allah Almighty for His servants, His blessings and His gifts for them. Allah Almighty, Jalla Jalaaluhu!
O People, listen! You are Man, you should listen and understand for what does Allah Almighty make us recite the Bismillah? For our every doing to succeed. The key for opening all difficulties is Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Allah Almighty (swt) wants His servant's life to be a sweet life. Whoever wants every day and every hour of this life to be sweet, whoever wants a sweet life, a life without troubles, sorrows, hardness, whoever wants a sweet life, Allah Almighty says:
لاَ يُرِيدُ بِكُمُ الْعُسْرَ
Laa yureedu bikumu ‘l-`usraa.
Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship. (Surat al-Baqara, 2:185)
Allah Almighty says, “I did not give you a life that will be a burden to you and I never want to put a burden on you. I don't want My servant to be crushed, I don't want him to live in difficulties. Laa yureedu bikumu ‘l-`usraa, an easy and sweet life, this is what I want. I did not create My servants to be crushed in dunya, instead they should enjoy the dunya.” How should they enjoy? “I want them to spend a comfortable life full with pleasures, this is My desire. I created My servant and sent him to dunya, not to crush him there.”
Rabbu ‘l `Izza, our Lord, Allah Almighty (swt) says, “I did not order anything to make hardship for you. Everything should go so easy for you and your day should be a sweet day. It should not be a bitter life for you, not a life like poison. This is what I want: I want you to live comfortably, happily in dunya life and in contentment, being busy with My servanthood, but you followed the evil Shaytan. The evil Shaytan wants to burden you with the burden of dunya so that your dunya life will be like poison!”
Allah Almighty wants a beautiful life for His servants. Shaytan, on the contrary, wants to corrupt the beautiful life Allah Almighty taught Mankind. His whole hatred and struggle is for Man to not find comfort, for him to live in misery, for Mankind's dunya life to be as the wheat that is crushed between the two millstones. Shaytan wants his life to be poisonous and in hardships like this. Therefore, to open his day, for the door of a comfortable life to open for him, Man should first say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.” Say the Bismillah!
اذْكُرُونِي أَذْكُرْكُمْ وَاشْكُرُواْ لِي وَلاَ تَكْفُرُونِ
Fadhkuroonee adhkurkum, w ’ashkuroo lee wa laa takfuroon.
Remember Me, I will remember you. Give thanks to Me and do not be ungrateful towards Me.
(Surat al-Baqarah, 2:152)
Fadhkuroonee adhkurkum, “Remember My Ismu ‘l-Jaleel and I grant you, feast you with My blessings.” W ’ashkuroo lee, “Be grateful to Me.” Wa laa takfuroon, “And don't deny Me; it is a shame for you!” This is the address. “O Man! I created you, I made everything ready for you on Earth so that you won't have any hardship. This is the situation, but you don't accept this you don't appreciate this and you fall from one hardship to another, you become like the wheat that is crushed between the two millstones. I don't want this! I sent you to dunya, I didn't send you to make you crushed between two millstones! It is a temporary life. Acknowledge Me and everything will be beautiful for you. I like good deeds, I like beautiful servants and their beautiful deeds. If you want this, then start saying My Ismu ‘l-Jaleel, ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem,’ and your every doing will go easy; it will flow like water, there will be no difficulty in front of you and your life will go easy and sweet.”
This is because Allah Almighty did not want any hardship for you. He (swt) presented you the most beautiful life, but what is its key? Say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem” and stand up for Allah! What comes first? What are you granted when you stand up for Allah? The sweet life. Allah Almighty doesn't want a life like poison. Haasha! Haasha thumma kallaa. He (swt) didn't make it as a poison for Mankind, but He made it a sweet life, hayaat at-tayyiba, to be a nice life. He (swt) wants this. “Let them be My guests in this three-day dunya life and live comfortably. Let them be My guests and listen to Me, return to Me and I grant them everything.”
They don't do this. What is the key for this? Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Why do you run in the streets? Let alone running in the streets, in all countries, everywhere turned into streams of people, and they don't even know what they want. What is it that they want? Hayaat at-tayyiba, the sweet life, the nice life. But you are the guests of Allah Almighty in dunya, and does Allah Almighty give a hardship to the ones who are His guests? No, He (swt) doesn't, but foolish men are following Shaytan and can't enjoy life; they fall from one trouble to another. Why do you run in the streets, men and women? Did Allah order you like this, “O People! Go out into the streets and scream, men and women.” This is not suitable for your humanity. What is suitable for your humanity is for you to return to your Lord. When you don't accept Your Creator, then no one accepts you and Shaytan makes you a toy in his hand. The streets are filled with people. What do they want, what do they want? They don't know.
When the Muslim soldiers were entering Izmir, there was a group of people there from other religions who were also calling with the rest. Muslims said, “Long live!” and they were also calling, “Long live!”
“Who should live long?” asked one.
They said, “Whoever won, may they live long!”
Look at who makes you win. Why do you run after Shaytan? Shaytan ridiculed you and made you to run in the streets like wild animals. He makes you scream and swear. They have no rest or comfort, they have nothing to eat or drink. All their claim is protesting in streets, which is not suitable for the adab of Mankind. When Allah Almighty appoints a servant who is covered in black hair to rule over you, even if the rest of him is all black, obey him because he also can protect you! Obey him, saying, “Allah appointed him for us!” and take the attitude of adab, remain with adab. It means, “Allah Almighty appointed for us this servant, so we may walk on his way and say, ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.’ Yaa Rabbee! May You make this servant of Yours a mercy for us, not wrath.”
They don't say this, but scream in the streets. Say one “Bismillah” and you can destroy! You can destroy the doings of shaytaans, but they don't say it. “Don't ever say it, as we are social people, we are filthy ones, we belong to the ‘"giddyap"’ level. The "giddyap" ones run, scream and kick. We too are from them, we don't want the other level; we don't want the level of those who go to the mosque. We are the "giddyap" level who scream and run in the jungles.” Okay then, take what is suitable for you! Run, scream and shout all day, but you won't be well regarded. The world of Malakoot does not respond to you, because you are out of the level that will be protected. You entered the "giddyap" level, which means the four-legged animals’ level. If you were in the human level, you would go to mosques. You have temples; go there and call, ‘O our Lord Who created us! May You grant us the hayaat at-tayyiba!’”
“O My Servant! You are given the key to the beautiful life, Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem, which opens for you all locked doors, it opens for you all the treasures, it opens the doors of eight Paradises. Say, ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem!’”
“We won't say it!”
“So you are that arrogant? Okay, run in the streets and may you not find what you seek,” say the angels.
O Man who have become animals! O animals who deny their Lord! You scream in the streets? Who will answer you? Who has ever gotten an answer like this anyways? You are Man, so prove your humanity. Call out, “O our Lord! Bi ‘smika ‘l-`Azheem, we seek refuge in Your Holy Name, al-`Azeem. Save us, O Lord! May You send Your beautiful servants, powerful servants who will teach us our humanity. May You send us the deputies of prophets who will save us from being animals and we follow them.” What business do you have in the streets? For whom are the mosques? Do dogs ever enter a mosque? Neither a dog nor anyone from the "giddyap" level enters there.
Don't sleep! Open your eyes so that you know the magnificence of humanity, you know what a beautiful life Allah Almighty appointed for His servants. They kick it away, they kick it away and they gather behind Shaytan and run. Who makes them go out and shout in the streets, who makes people uneasy, who makes them kill each other, who crushes them in fights and wars is Shaytan.
Allah Almighty says, “I appointed hayaat at-tayyiba, a beautiful life for you. Start with the Bismillah, turn towards Me and I will make your every day a beautiful day; every day will go nicely and you will never face any troubles. Turn to Me!”
“No, we will scream no matter what!”
Okay, scream. Scream, but you can't find a place that will answer them. They are running and screaming in the streets. Who are you running to, why are you screaming, what do you seek and from whom, what is it that you want? They don't know. Shaytan pulled them out of the human level and made them enter the four-legged "giddyap" ones' level and said, “Run!”
“We are passing near a mosque?”
“Don't look at the mosque, look at the streets!”
If they say one Bismillah, Allah Almighty makes the dunya changed; this dunya turns into a different dunya for Allah’s servants who say His Ismu ‘l-Jaleel.
يَوْمَ تُبَدَّلُ الأَرْضُ غَيْرَ الأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاوَاتُ وَبَرَزُواْ للّهِ الْوَاحِدِ الْقَهَّارِ
Yawma tubaddalu ’l-ardu ghayra ’l-ardi w’as-samawaatu wa barazoo lillahi ’l-waahidi ’l-qahaar.
On the Day when the Earth will be changed to another Earth and so will be the heavens, and (men) will be marshalled forth, before Allah, the One, the Irresistible. (Surat Ibraheem, 14:48)
On that day Allah Almighty changes dunya to another dunya; He (swt) appoints a nice life, a sweet life for you. You don't do this? Run then! They don't feel their hunger, thirst or exhaustion. This wildness is everywhere, because Shaytan whips them, “Scream, shout!” You can't gain anything by screaming and shouting. Say, “O Allah! For the honor of Your Beloved, may You appoint over us the servants You love so that our works straighten and our provision becomes plenty.”
“Really? Is your provision not sufficient?”
“No, it is not.”
“Okay, do you say the Bismillah?”
“No, we don't say it.”
As long as you don't say it, your provision will be insufficient, even the whole dunya will be insufficient for you! Even if you save treasures still you are not satisfied, still you are in hardships and you cannot be saved from them. O Mankind! If you want to be saved from hardships, say the Magnificent Name of Who created you: Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem, in the Name of Allah, Who is ar-Rahman and ar-Raheem, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful! I may say it to you in English also, that you know English. I know also. Recite, say it even in this form and your life will turn different.
O Lord! Forgive us. We are left without a master! Send us a sultan! We want a sultan so that when you look at his face you tremble. Sultan should not be like yourselves. Our Lord will send such a sultan. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. O our Lord! May You give health to our bodies, give joy to our thoughts and mind. May You grant noor to our hearts, barakah to our every work. May our life and death be clean, may we come up to Your Divine Presence clean.
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. When the Angel of Death comes to take your soul, he will say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem” and take it. One day the Angel of Death will come and your soul will leave your body. When the Angel of death comes to take your soul, he will say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem,” and by saying, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem,” your exit from dunya will be in such a comfortable way, in a wonderful state which is impossible to define! The people who sink into dunya and became pressed, their souls are taken by force, by pulling and hurting. It will be too late for him at that time, as he didn't say the Bismillah.
O our Lord! May You make us from those who don't forget the Bismillah! May we say Your Ismu ‘l-Jaleel and our troubles go away, the hardness in us may go away. O Lord! May You dress on us from the treasures that are in the Ka`bah, the dress of faith, the dress of Islam, the dress of honor, the dress of joy, the dress of blessings, the dress of knowledge, the dress of softness, the dress of servanthood, the dress of familiarity. May You not make us from those who are squeezed and pressed in dunya.
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Forgive us, yaa Rabbee! Forgive us, yaa Rabbee! We are left astonished. Anta Rabbu ‘l-Jaleel, Rabbu ‘l-Jaleel, there is no end to Your Magnificence. Forgive us, yaa Rabbee! May You send us from Your servants who will show us Your beautiful ways, yaa Rabbee!
They said, “A rock (asteroid) is passing by the Earth,” and the whole world has been in a panic for two days. Why? A rock which is the size of a fist passes by and all people are in panic. Why should you panic? “Bi haqqi Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem, by the right of the Bismillah, O stone, don't come towards us, but turn back in the direction from which you came!” If a wali, servant of Allah, says this, he can return and throw it to that side. Now all people are left bewildered, saying, “What will happen to us?” Accept Allah and goodness will come to you! Accept His Prophet (s), praise and love him, and your dunya as well as your Akhirah will become prosperous. When he says, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem! Bi haqqi Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem, turn back in the direction from which you came,” it turns. By the right of Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem, O our Lord, may You grant us health and wellness from Your Generous Grants and grant us the power of faith! Make us far away from ugly acts and may we not become ugly.
Everyone wants to look beautiful. They put makeup and wear fashionable clothes, but beauty is not with these. No, beauty comes down from Heavens. Raise your hands to the Heavens and say, “Yaa Rabbee! Make us beautiful. You are the Most Beautiful One! Send us a speck from the Ocean of Beauty so we may look beautiful to You, yaa Rabbee!” The wives of these people strive to look beautiful for the people outside. These ones drew away from humanity, they became disobedient to their Lord and denied the beautiful life. Their appearance is human, but they have become shaytaans; they turned into such a herd. May Allah forgive us! May He send us His holy servants who will show the right way for us. Yaa Rabbee! Forgive us.
Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.
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