28 November 2009 Lefke, Cyprus
Eid al-Adha
(Mawlana Shaykh stands.)
Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, laa ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, wa lillahi ‘l-hamd! Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, laa ilaaha illa-Llah, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, wa lillahi ‘l-hamd! Allahu akbar kabeera w 'alhamdu lillahi katheera wa subhaanAllahi ‘l-`azheem bi hamdihi ‘l-kareem bukratan wa aseela. Laa ilaaha illa-Llah. W'Allahu akbar wa laa hawla wa laa quwatta illa billahi ‘l-`Aliyyi ‘l-`Azheem.
Adrikna, Yaa Rijaal Allah a`eeynoona.
A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmaani ‘r-Raheem. We are asking humbly from our Lord, from our Creator Who grants to His most honored and beloved one in His Divine Presence Sayyidina Muhammad (s), wa man taabi`ahu, also whom they are following him and we are asking Allah's forgiveness and blessings. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)
As-salaamu`alaykum, our listeners! As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh and `Eid Mubarak for all of you. `Eid Mubarak for Believers and we are asking forgiveness from Allah Almighty; and His blessings through these holy days. Then we are asking from our master, qutb, who is looking after everything on this planet; a support to be with holy ones. Who asking happiness, who asking pleasure, who asking pleasement here and Hereafter, must follow holy one. (There is) one holy one, and that is Allah Almighty’s order, saying, Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmaani ‘r-Raheem.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ وَكُونُواْ مَعَ الصَّادِقِي
Yaa ayyuha ‘l-ladheena `aamanu ittaqullaha wa koonoo ma ‘s-sadiqeen!
O you who believe! Be careful of your duty to Allah, and be with the truthful. (9:119)
The Lord of Heavens ordering to His creatures from Human Beings.
O Believers! First of all you must try to keep holy orders of your Lord so that He will be pleased with you. When you are reaching pleasement from your Lord, that is the last target or limits of our good intentions. That making ourselves to be happy forever, when you are jumping from this life to real life. Try to reach someones that are dressing you in dress of honor, because everyone going to jump from this life on another life. One is imitated life, that we are in it. When you are jumping from this life to another life, it is going to be real life for ourselves, and that is our pleasure endlessly, up to Eternity. Eternity. Eternity.
O People! Ask the ways to be through Eternal Life, (where is) never-ending life, never-ending pleasure, never-ending lights, never-ending satisfaction, never-ending pleasement. Your imitated being just coming to an end. And when you are reaching the end of this life, you must jump from here on your real level through heavens. heavens going to be forever! This imitated life going to be in limits, but our real being going to be endlessly, no end, and that is the pleasure.
O People! Try to reach that honor in heavenly presence of the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s). O Rasoolullah! Sacrifice, we are in need a sacrifice. Sacrifice, yesterday, today and two days more; they are sacrificing days here on this imitated or temporary life. We have been ordered to do a sacrifice on behalf of ourselves on this planet. Sacrificing must be. Sacrificing had just been ordered from the Lord of Heavens to His Most Honored and Beloved One in His Divine Presence on this world, for our souls. Therefore, we are sacrificing through this `Eid for ourselves.
For this life you need a sacrifice; cleaning yourself is sacrificing, but finally you must do a real sacrifice. If you are asking to reach eternal life, you must pay something; that payment is a sacrifice. Payment for ourselves that we are asking up to reach Permanent Life, we must do a sacrifice.
What is that sacrifice? For this life we are making sacrifice and slaughtering for ourselves from camels, cows, goats or sheep, but you must sacrifice for eternal life. What is that sacrifice? Your ego! Faqtuloo anfusakum, that is payment for reaching Eternal Life. Therefore, everyone shall die for a payment. Some people dying, but they are not slaughtering their egos. They are waiting for heavenly command, and Sayyidina Azraeel (a) coming, slaughtering their egos and taking them up. Some people, they are doing that slaughtering by themselves, according to holy commands of heavens and they are reaching their stations, heavenly levels, here. Therefore, we are saying that we must do a sacrifice.
إِنَّا أَعْطَيْنَاكَ الْكَوْثَرَ فَصَلِّ لِرَبِّكَ وَانْحَرْ
Astaidh billah. Innaa a`taynaka ‘l-kawthar fasalli li rabbika wanhar .
To thee We granted the Fount of Abundance. Therefore, to your Lord turn in prayer and sacrifice. (108:1-2)
Inna ataynaka ’l-Kawthar. Kawthar—we can understand only it’s name, "Kawthar," a running river, but you are never going to be able here to understand what is that; you can’t understand. That is a biggest grant from Allah Almighty to His Most Beloved One, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), to make his nation alive. Who drinking from Kawthar, that holy spring, he understands he is reaching a real life. And you are reaching payment for being an eternal one.
Here (in dunya) we are doing something imitating. The real fasalli li rabbika wanhar, “Therefore, to your Lord turn in prayer and sacrifice,” (108:3) this praying only to Allah Almighty. You must try to be for Him only, and finally you are going to present most valuable thing through yourselves to Allah (swt).
And as an understanding for everyone, the Lord of Heavens ordered Sayyidina Ibrahim, “Slaughter your son.” His son was most beloved one for him and Allah (swt) saying, “Slaughter real one.” Real one just happened when Sayyidina Ibrahim was accepting holy order and asking to slaughter Sayyidina Isma`eel (a). Then the Lord of Heavens al-`Afuww, The Forgiving, saying, “Enough. I understand you are just tasleem, submitting; now leave that one and you must do that slaughtering for the Lord of Heavens; slaughter your ego!” Therefore, it is written through holy books and reaching some knowledge from khaleel, friends of Allah, khaleelullah. Just reaching some happenings through heavenly beings and such tales reaching to people.
One of most important ones who taking care for his Lord’s commands was Aba Yazid al-Bistami (q), who was trying to reach his heavenly level and asking to enter his real station in the Divine Presence, “O my Lord, how I can reach to You?” Allah Almighty saying, “Leave your ego, anhar. Slaughter and come; I am not accepting you with that. Slaughter it and come alone. When you are slaughtering your ego you are getting to be clean one. If you are not clean, you can’t come through My Heavenly Presence; I am not accepting that. Slaughter it, leave it and come. You are clean, but dirtiness coming from your ego. Who was saying ana (I) not accepting Me as his Lord. Therefore, I am not accepting that one. Slaughter and come. Leave that dirty one. Whom they are not keeping My order, they are dirty ones. Leave them and come with clean ones.”
Therefore, the Prophet (s) just had been ordered, fasalli li rabbika wanhar. Fasalli means “surrender yourself,” tasleem, with whole. “Wholly, fully, surrender to Me and cut that dirty one. Slaughter, kill it and come. You are clean. That ego is dirty one.
إِنَّ النَّفْسَ لأَمَّارَةٌ بِالسُّوءِ
inna nafs an la-ammaaratan bi ‘s-soow.
The (human) soul is certainly prone to evil. (12:53)
The ego is always asking to make a competition with Me. Saying to people, ‘My servants, don’t listen to Him. Listen to me.’” Therefore, how leave the ego? “Slaughter it and come alone. You are clean; with ego you are not clean.”
O People! Try to be clean ones through this life. If you are not going to be clean ones here, you will be taken through a bath, that cleaning. You must be clean. When you are going to be clean? You will be clean when you are killing your ego and that dirtiness from you. (Allah Almighty saying,) “Come, come! No one claiming that and saying, ‘I am that one,’ that they are surrendering fully through My Divine Presence. What I am commanding, they are saying, `ala al-`ayn wa 'r-raas, ‘We are accepting Your holy command, O our Lord.’”
O our listeners! It is not enough to take a shower daily and you are thinking you are going to be clean ones, no. When you are killing your ego and throwing it away, then you will be clean and acceptable. This is a holy day that pilgrims running to do what they have been ordered by their Lord and asking forgiveness from Allah Almighty, and after forgiveness coming blessings. Blessings only for clean ones, not dirty ones. Clean yourself and then come; you will find ikraam, grants from Allah Almighty. You will be granted a real life through your real being. (Allah Almighty saying,) “Come to Me now! No one there, I am here. You are always saying, ‘you.’ ‘You,’ no: ‘Myself.’”
O Believers! We are trying to make ourselves an understanding; even less than understanding, to wake up before we are called by heavenly announcement, “Come here!” Not to come there and you are dirty with your dirty ego. Try to be clean every time. Clean ones are just well-known people. You may see on their faces a brightness and a lightening. You may follow such people. You have been ordered to follow good ones; therefore, we are asking every night for our master, pole, qutb, who is commanding everything through this planet, and asking, “Please clean our beings.” When you are cleaning, our beings going to be real beings.
The Lord of Heavens asking to accept from ourselves real beings. If we are not clean ones, no one can stand up in the Divine Presence. Therefore, we have been ordered when we are going to stand up in the Divine Presence, for praying we must clean ourselves so that we may be accepted in Divine Presence.
O Allah! We are weak ones. O our Lord, we are not clean ones but asking to be clean ones. Grant us that cleanliness for the honor of Your most honored one in Your Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad (s).
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Fatihah.
It is good for understanding. We must try to reach a number that showing a perfection. “Forty” is a perfect number used for so many purposes; 40 days. Take care, if you are asking to reach something through 40 times; you are asking and you are reaching. That is an important number through numbers. Keep it well and it will be opened; such a strange meanings and situations may appear. Keep it well. If you are asking to reach to something, follow it for 40 days or 40 times, and you will reach what you are asking. May Allah grant us the secret of the number 40.
Fatihah.
(40 minutes)
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Alhamdulillah, it is okay. As-salaamu `alaykum, welcome to you listeners! Try to reach real life.