Dastoor yaa Sayyidee, madad yaa RijaalAllah. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Laa ilaaha illa-Llah, laa ilaaha illa-Llah wa Sayyidina wa Nabiyyina Muhammadan Rasoolullah!
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
O Our Attenders! Our attenders for some most important points. When a hunter hunts, he puts all his attention on it, and he is asking to be occupied with something. For what? For a small bird, giving such effort, and such attention for hunting. That may be only once. Laa hawla wa laa quwatta illa billah. Laa hawla wa laa quwatta illa billah. And Mankind is not taking any care beyond their existence in this life. This is an existence for everyone, yes? But people are not taking any attention or care beyond this life, and this life is such a small bird beyond which, Allahu akbar, what Allah Almighty is granting no one knows.
O Our Attenders! Thumma as-salaamu `alaykum. Don't be heedless. Don't think that we are in this life continuously. One day it will stop, and we are not taking any attention for our being on this planet. We are here for what? And we are saying also, as-salaamu `alayk ya man huwa mas'oolun an kulli (peace upon you who is responsible for every) happening on this planet among Mankind first. Then for everyone living on this planet, their responsibility is on one who is appointed and dressed with such a heavenly power that he can control from east to west, from north to south, from oceans, from top point up to deepest point. SubhaanAllah, the most glory is for the Lord of Creation!
How can it be? Do you think that sometimes I see a small ant running on this handkerchief, and I ask it, "Who created you?"
And he is answering, "Who created you, just created me."
Allahu akbar. Why are people not thinking? Because they are drunk and they are not thinking on it. Allahu akbar. This planet is nothing, so small that in terms of greatness it can't be seen, can't be known. But we are on it and we are doing so many efforts; we are running, we are working, we are asking, we are trying. For what are you trying, O Mankind? For what?
When Sayyidina Nuh (a) was asked, "O eldest one through prophets that no one lived as long as you lived, what is your intibah, impression in1000 years? You are the second father of Mankind on Earth because the flood took them away, so you are the longest-living one on this planet, so what is your impression? What will you say to your descendants?"
And he said, "O my sons and my grandsons, now I see a vision. Just I am looking to that one caravan that just reached and entered an inn, and he is passing and now they are leaving. I am looking and seeing dunya as such a person that just entered in, that is written on it "inn". haythu ana minhum, "Where I am amongst them?" I am getting "inn" and now it is written "out" and I am going out; nothing else (happened) in 1000 years."
O Salafi `ulamas! Is that true or not? We are not going to discuss it, but it is realizing an unchangeable reality for Mankind, yes. Billions of Mankind, billions just entered from one entrance and they passed. Some were sitting a little bit longer or shorter time, and then they are standing up and getting out. That is my impression about the life of Mankind, as one of them, the longest lived on this planet, as Sayyidina Nuh (a) said, "and now I am passing on. What about other nations and other prophets' people going to be after me, coming their lives shorter, shorter, shorter." And now it is going to shortest life for Mankind, for the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s).
(Mawlana Shaykh stands.) And Sayyidina Nuh (a) was lying down, and he stood up on his bed giving t`azheem, highest respect to the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) And were our "civil service `ulama," Salafi `ulama standing when we say his name? You must learn, Salafi `ulamas, to give your highest honor and respect to the Seal of all Prophets, the most beloved, most glorified, most majestic one amongst all Creation: you must learn to stand up when his name is mentioned!! It is for you to learn that if standing, the Lord Almighty is not getting angry, but He is getting angry when His most beloved, most glorified, and His most mutlaq, absolute, deputy from pre-Eternal up to Eternal (is disrespected)! Don't think another "Muhammad" is coming! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.)
No one (can say his holy name) enough, no one, no one, no one! Yes, when his (s) name is mentioned, you must stand up! Don't say, "This is bida`, haraam, shirk!" No, that is showing the most respect to that one who Allah Almighty is saying is endlessly respected! Don't think that Allah Almighty will mu-aakhadha, punishing you because you are standing up, no! Because He Almighty respects that one, and for his (s) honor He created everything: no one knows the beginning, no one knows the ending. And our religion, Islam, just came on such strong pillars and the strongest one is, man huwa mas'ool `an kulli shay'in fee hadha 'l-`alam, (who is the one responsible for everything in this world)? The Creator of All Creation, Allah (swt)!
O our Salafi `ulamas! That is what our teachers are teaching me, and sending to me. That is hadith or not? Everything that has an honor belongs to the Seal of Prophets (s), and Allah Almighty just granted to His absolute deputy from pre-Eternal up to Eternal. Allah Almighty is not changing His deputy, no. He is One and His deputy is one. Absolute, yes. You must give your highest respect to that (one who is) respected in Divinely Presence. And our religion is based on respect and glorifying and honoring, yes? Just built on it. If you are not respecting someone that is respected in heavens, you are not on right way, but you are Shaytan's followers.
Because Shaytan is never happy that the real deputy of Allah Almighty is respected. Do you know, Salafi `ulamas, why Shaytan was angry and not making sajdah? Shaytan was so mujtahid, it was such an effortable (hard-working) one to make obediency for his Lord, because he thought that honor will be granted to himself, but no.
Then Allah Almighty did not bring Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), because that mashhadun `azheem, that scene can't carry (his light). Therefore, Allah Almighty sent Adam and putting on Adam's forehead a very, very, very, very small spot from the light of Muhammad (s). To be deputy was granted to Adam and the whole world became lights; you can't imagine! Not bringing Sayyidi 'r-Rusulu 'l-Kiraam (s), (instead) coming Sayyidina Adam (s)! Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, yafa`lu maa yureed wa yafa`lu maa yashaa. Jallahu ta`ala! The lights of Allah Almighty's deputy can't appear because all Creation is not able to carry it and may be burned and disappear!
O Salafi `ulamas! Where is your knowledge? What you are saying? Do you think it is fairy tales? No, they are opening up a little but from that knowledge you may say it is a spot in an ocean, and all Creation cannot carry more than that spot. Where is your knowledge? Why you are not looking in Islamic books but saying someone (else's) knowledge is not true, that it is not good and making like this and making like that. You cannot do this. Islam is so good, so high, with love you can't imagine. And you're not asking for this, you are taking your books, what use is that? What do you think? Millions of books are written, but the Holy Qur'an's knowledge, and it's only the first level. We are not going to the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh levels. We are not finishing the first level; how we are going to finish the second or third heavenly levels?! When it is reaching to the limits, that level is according to our capacity, but everything belonging to Allah Almighty is unlimited!
O People! Where we are? Take care. Do not say that you are "`ulamas" or you are "Salafi `ulamas." What was their opinion or their knowledge about the heavens? First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh levels. You can't say because you are not as yet entering into it. You are looking at the map, on it here, there is Prophet's holy tomb. Do you think that he is such a person, inside that photo? I am like him? No. Therefore, seven levels of heaven and we are looking at a picture and more than the picture, we are looking at their names. Even pictures, we are not looking at. How we are reaching and seeing that ocean is when we are diving in it.
O People! Ask for more and more and more knowledge and the Lord of Heavens saying, و لدينا مزيد wa ladayna mazeed, as long as you are asking He may grant you more, endlessly.
May Allah forgive us. We are trying to wake up sleeping or frozen minds to understand something laa yudhkar, not to be mentioned. Yes! We are on a small planet, we are not reaching everywhere, up and down. What do you think? Heavens is a handful ocean, going to be small drops? Because our ocean is in limits but heavens and heavenly oceans, unlimited. Another secret knowledge we are leaving. Now Salafi `ulamas to discuss among themselves, which of them we are saying is true or which you are not understanding or accepting. And if not accepting we may say to you, haatoo burhaanakum. If you are going to refuse what has been said now, bring over this knowledge another knowledge with a real proof, if not (then it is) useless.
O People! Try to learn. Therefore, the Lord of Heavens was saying to His most beloved one, "Tell your nation, kun taaliban, "Be students."
أطلبوا العلم من المهد اٍلى اللّحد
Utlubu 'l-`ilma mina 'l-mahdi ila 'l-lahad.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
O our Lord! We know nothing, only we know to eat, to drink and to enjoy ourselves with halaal or haraam . May Allah protect us. This is an association with our Grandshaykh. They are sending something; it is not from my thinking, not coming and I am writing. No, it is waridaat, inspirations from heavens, so be respectful. If you can't refute it, bi-daleelin qawiyyah; if you are not bringing real proofs through your real objections, it is something with no reality. Don't say, "I finished it." Don't say, "I have become doctor," or, "I shall look for your pulse." Yes, there is someone looking for this, someone who has been authorized for looking at your understanding, learning, and knowledge levels, then sending you there.
May Allah forgive us for the honor of the most honored one in His Divine Presence. ( Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits)
Fatihah.
(40 minutes.) What they are sending now is enough.
(Mawlana Shaykh speaks with Shaykh Hisham Effendi and Hajjah Naziha on the phone.)