Broadcast: 2 November 2010
Recorded:
16 March 1991 (Ramadan)
Peckham Mosque, London, UK
A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. Ash-hadu 'ana Muhammadan abduhu wa Rasooluh. Allahuma salli wa salim wa barik 'ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa `ala aalihi wa barik was sallam. Huuu. la ilaha illa-Llah. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. La hawla wa la quwatta illa billahi 'l-`Aliyyu 'l-`Adheem.
May Allah bless you and forgive me. We are thanking Allah Almighty once again that granting us once again to reach this holiest month. The month of Ramadan is the "month of mercy." Marhaban ahlan wa sahlan ya shahr ar-rahmah! Greeting and welcome, O month of mercy! Madad, yaa Sultan al-Anbiya. We are meeting here for the honor of the beloved Prophet of the Lord, Allah Almighty, whom He sent to His servants Sayyidina Muhammad (s). May Allah give him more honor here and Hereafter. He is the most respected, most honored one among all Mankind. He is beloved, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)!
We shall look throughout this holy month at what will be granted daily to our people, to our brothers and sisters, true mu'minaat. We are in need of some knowledge. You have science, what Mankind thinks in their heads from science fields. Science will never be an ocean, but divine knowledge is an ocean! We can say "divine knowledge," but we are not saying "divine science," as science will never be divine! Divine knowledge opens divine wisdoms.
People think (according to) science, and the fruit of science is technology. Therefore they are in depression; one after one is falling in depression and technology can't take people out of depression. There is no treatment for Mankind through science, not for their troubles, depression, suffering, miseries, or from their problems! The only answer for their problems is through heavenly knowledge; one may treat Mankind's sufferings and miseries with heavenly knowledge and nothing else. Don't think that pills, tablets, or spirits "cure" people; it is impossible! Don't think that drugs may give people confidence, satisfaction, pleasure and happiness. Never!
Therefore, we are saying, now Mankind needs knowledge that comes from Heavens through prophets, through illuminated people. When that knowledge comes, they will become enlightened and illuminated. You must if everything is alright or not. When lights are coming, people are illuminated, like the beam of a flashlight. If heavenly knowledge comes to a person, it must show itself through space. If you can see that light, you must understand that heavenly knowledge is running through that one's heart.
We are in need of such knowledge, to arrange our inner lives and to be able to fix our relations from Earth to Heavens. As long as we are on Earth without a connection to Heavens, we are like other creatures, with no value. There is value for Mankind as long as they may reach to Heavens. All prophets came from Heavens, but they are living on Earth to make our connections to Heavens easy. If they are not coming from Heavens no one can reach Heavens! And also after prophets, there must be someone whose connection is to Heavens and if anyone is asking to reach Heavens then everyone has a heavenly station. The Creator granted to everyone, women or men, divine stations in Heavens, and all of Heavens are in the Divine Presence. The Lord created Mankind and granted them their heavenly stations in the Divine Presence. What we are speaking about is knowledge from Heavens that reached to prophets and traditional knowledge belongs to Heavens; what we are saying belongs to those heavenly oceans. Don't ask to try it by scientific methods; that will never give proof for knowledge. Science is on Earth and knowledge is in Heavens. Science arranges your life on Earth, and heavenly knowledge arranges your heavenly life. Knowledge surrounds all science, which is a drop from the oceans of knowledge.
Therefore, when a person enters Knowledge Oceans, he or she finds confidence and pleasure, but science makes him in a very short distance; it imprisons people! We are in need of that heavenly connections and have been offered a way to reach our heavenly stations, where everyone's names are written on their individual, private, special stations: That is for this one, that is for that one." There, men and women are equal. Here on Earth, they are asking for equality between men and women. Women are asking to be equal to men here in this life, but the Creator is making different characteristics for men and women. If a person is using his characteristics from being male, he going to be another creature. If a woman is using her characteristics for being male, she is going to be another strange creature. Therefore, Allah Almighty created a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. If He Almighty was asking them to be equal, He would create everyone to be only men or only women! He created men and women, two kinds, and each one is independent in their creation. There is no equality in their creation, but as human beings, all of them are the same; all are servants, and servanthood is making them equal in the Divine Presence.
But now women are asking for another kind of equality, which is foolish, useless, and which has no value. Their equality is in their servanthood in the Divine Presence! Allah Almighty is asking for men and women to perfect their servanthood. Allah Almighty is asking from all human beings to be servants, and servanthood is the true equality among men and women. All of them have been offered to be servants, and there is no higher honor than to be servants to the Lord, Allah Almighty. But now women think if they do man's work that it will be an honor for them. They are becoming engineers, soldiers. They think that is an honor for them because men are doing all these things and they are asking, "Why are we not going to be doctors or engineers? We must be." That is short-mindedness with little thinking. They do not understand what Allah Almighty is giving to all Mankind. The highest honor is to be His servant! His Majesty, the King, sultans, emperors, all of them are proud to be accepted by the Lord, Allah Almighty, as His servant.
Her Majesty the Queen, here in London, may Allah bless her, is proud to be a servant of the Church of England. She refers to herself as "servant." Emperors were also servants, and in Islam all of them were servants of the Lord, Allah Almighty. They never knew any higher rank than servant of the Lord, Allah Almighty, and Allah grants them equality by making all of them His servants. But they are fighting, saying, "Why we can't be like men, with equality?" You can't be like man because your creation is to be a woman, and you have been honored to be a servant, finished! What promise did the mother of Sayyida Maryam (a) make to Allah? All of you must know it. Aali `Imraan, the lady of `Imraan, when she was pregnant, prayed, "That which I am carrying, I am giving to be a servant of the Lord, Allah Almighty, in Jerusalem." She thought it would be a son. The Holy Qur'an is giving every evidence for women and men to be fully confident (in their nature). We are speaking from knowledge, not from my stomach or from my head, but from my heart. She asked for what she was carrying (in her womb) to be the Lord's servant. When she gave birth, she was very surprised, saying, "O my Lord! What happened? I can't keep my promise as I have a daughter," and she was thinking to throw it away. But Allah Almighty is giving an example for Mankind, saying, "No, I am accepting her as a servant in Bayt al-Muqqadas (the Holy House in Jerusalem)." That means Allah Almighty is honoring all women, accepting them as a servant, as a son is accepted!
That girl, Sayyida Maryam (a), was accepted. That is divine equality, but women are fighting that honor. No woman must be like a man or work like a man; that is not equality! Allah Almighty honored men to be men and women to be women! Keep the ownership of servanthood and both wings, of men and of women, must keep the honor of each other; men must keep the honor of women and women must keep the honor of men. Men must keep the honor of women, to be equal in honor and in respect, also.
Allah Almighty is giving you (women) a little bit more power for this life, to carry the burden of life, because your creation is stronger. They are weak, but they are stronger than men for worshiping and they will easily reach a connection to their heavenly stations. Now it is possible for men to reach a connection in forty days, but we may do the same for women in forty hours! If I say an order to you (a man), you must keep it for forty days to keep a connection, but for them (women) I may do it for forty hours, to reach a connection. Then you will look up and wonder, "Where are they?" (Mawlana Shaykh laughs)
So the sole discussion of the true equality of men and women is based on heavenly knowledge, but philosophers and scientists may continue on their knowledge. Knowledge gives confidence to hearts, and thanks to Allah Almighty, that He granted for our first meeting sakinaat, that means confidence. Are there no Arabs here? Are they all sleeping? Sakeenah brings confidence and inshaa-Allah that sakeenah, peace, will open in your hearts and we are in need of that deep peace.
O Mankind! We are in need of that deep peace in our hearts because difficult conditions are covering Mankind and they are losing balance in their spiritual beings. May Allah grant us through these Endless Oceans that He granted to His beloved one (s) and His awliya that we may perhaps complete forty days or forty hours, they we may reach the Holy Night of Power in Holy Ramadan. We shall try, if our brothers or sons may reach. Now it is close to Maghrib, and we can make our association by divine knowledge. May Allah grant you good understanding and grant me to speak on divine wisdoms.
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Azeez Allah!
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah!
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah!
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah!
Fatihah.
(Second part of video)
By the Name of Allah Almighty, alhamdulillah, this is the holy month of Ramadan, and Heavens are open for the servants of the Lord, Allah Almighty, and the doors of Paradise are open for the servants of Allah. Hells are locked up, not to be open for the servants of the ummah. May Allah Almighty grant to our attenders and to the nation of Muhammad (s) from His endless Mercy Oceans, from His endless Favor Oceans. We are expecting our Lord's blessings. There is an important point to be well known: Allah Almighty created Man, and they are His servants and also His deputies. Allah Almighty is granting His divinely love to all His creatures. To which kind of people is Allah Almighty granting from His divinely love? He created all with His love, but He is going to make it more and more, and He sent His servants to this life.
Do you think that He sent Mankind to Earth for dunya? Do you think that Allah Almighty just sent His servants to be servants of this world? If a believer is thinking this, it must be wrong. Allah Almighty never sent His servants here to this life to be servants for this dunya! He sent His servants to this Earth to be aware of pre-Eternal. You are not servants only here. No one knows when your souls were created except the Creator. Don't think that your existence began when you were born in this life. Our physical being in this life began by dust, but only Allah Almighty knows when your existence began. From pre-Eternal, His servants were servants and you were one of those servants! We were all servants from pre-Eternal up to Eternal, and Allah Almighty gave honor to you through that creation, by making you His servant, and then the Almighty gave you a new physical being. Your real being is in the Divinely Presence, but He gave you a physical being here. Then He observed, when you dressed in your physical body, are you going to lose or forget your servanthood? That is important, and the biggest test for Mankind.
Mankind was created a long time ago, before "time" began, when there was no time and Mankind was in the Divinely Presence as servants. No time or space was yet created, but Mankind was present in the Divinely Presence as servants to their Lord, Allah Almighty. His Divinely Will asked to dress them in a physical body and send them to this life. I am not speaking from science; we are speaking from heavenly knowledge, and there can be no objecting on it. You must listen and obey. What we are saying is from heavenly knowledge and only a few people are authorized to speak from knowledge in our days. You are lucky to be listening and accepting what we are saying to you! And Lord, Allah Almighty, ordered Mankind to be dressed in a physical body that He ordered to be created in Paradise, from where we were all looking how Creation is going on. All Mankind saw what Allah Almighty created for them of their physical being or physical body. Then His divinely will asked for a big test for them and divine wisdoms granted endless blessing on Mankind, on those to be dressed with a physical being.
From that time up to today, and up to the end of the Day of Resurrection, the Last Day, that divine test continues. Divine people are asking for equality between two kinds of human beings, women and men. Who is preferred in the Divine Presence, women or men? (...video goes blank...)
Interviews with Muslim Converts
Q: How did you hear of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim?
A: Through a neighbor. I was playing football his son with a football, and I saw people with turbans.
Q: What came through your mind when you saw the turban?
A: I thought it was different, and I asked him to explain and then I went for dhikr and in a few minutes took shahadah.
Q: So now your mother and father are Muslims, mashaa-Allah. How old are you?
A: Fifteen. (Mashaa-Allah, how old were you then?) Ten. (Mashaa-Allah.)
Q: So do you look forward to coming here?
A: Yes.
Q: People come from all over the world here; have you met them?
A: Yes, they come from all over, also some from America.
Q: What is your name?
A: Yusuf. I am Greek from the Greek side of Cyprus. I was Christian and practicing, but it was all false; there was nothing. On the Greek side of Cyprus there are not many Muslims. Shaykh Nazim called me and asked everyone, "Who wants to convert?"
Q: How is your Ramadan? Was it difficult to follow Mawlana Shaykh Nazim as a guide? In Christianity you have a guide, but not like shaykh.
A: Yes, we say, "Why should we kiss his hand?" After that you realize what you are kissing, that He is a Light from God. He is a part of the family of Prophet (s), so he is very special!
Q: When did you first see Mawlana Shaykh with your eyes?
A: That is too hard to explain; just pure Heavens!
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