“Remember Me and I Will Remember You!”

Sultan al-Awliya
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani
15 February 2013    Lefke, Cyprus
(Translated from Turkish)

We may say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.” May Allah (swt) not make us without religion and may He not make us without understanding, either. Our tongues should say “Allah,” our tongues should say salawaat for the pure Prophet, Ahmadi Muhammad al-Mustafa (s), our tongues should always recite salawaat for the Beloved of Allah Almighty, the salawaat ash-shareef, and we may say:

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Kullu amrin dhiy baalin lam yabdaa feehi bi-Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmani ‘r-Raheem  fa huwa abtar.

The Prophet (s) said, “Any action which does not begin with ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem’ is cut off; it has no continuity.” (Ahmad, al-Musnad)

The saying of “dhiy baalin” is for teaching us. What is the meaning of “dhiy baal”? An important, valuable matter. What suits the believer is to perform beautiful and good deeds, and “dhiy baal” is the matter which has value. Allah Almighty orders us, “Do beautiful acts, perform good deeds.” “dhiy baal” means something that has a value. What suits the believer is to do clean things. The glory of the believer is in doing beautiful actions, doing beautiful service, doing beautiful deeds, doing beautiful servanthood, because servanthood requires beautiful service and a servant is the one who makes good service. Who strives to do foolish, meaningless things is far away from servanthood. The things a servant does are solid and firm, he doesn't do a rotten thing. Why? Because he will say the Bismillah, and when he says the Bismillah the service he does is clean, it is firm.

A believer's work cannot be corrupt, it will be clean. A believer has noor on his face and joy in his heart; a believer does not live a sad life, a believer is happy, a believer is the owner of good deeds and he is in the first class when making service for Allah Almighty! May Allah (swt) not remove us from His servanthood! Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. O our Lord! May You forgive us. Don't make us forget to remember Your Holy Name!

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Nasoo ’Llaaha fa nasiyahum.

They have forgotten Allah, so He has forgotten them. (Surat at-Tawbah, 9:67)

They forgot Allah and Allah leaves them forgotten! Who runs away from Allah becomes forgotten, and a person whom Allah forgets cannot find goodness. A nation which does not accept Allah cannot find goodness and a person who does not keep the Order of Allah before everything else cannot find goodness. What does he become? He becomes the animal of Shaytan. Shaytan bridles and mounts that person. When you say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem,” Shaytan can't put a bridle on you! Shaytan wants to make Man an animal to himself, and when he makes Man an animal he makes him do all kinds of dirty things. Those who do dirty, dishonored things are the animals of Shaytan. A person with a dark face is the animal of Shaytan, and a person who has a clean face, with noor, is the servant of his Lord and he is from the nation of our Prophet (s).

You should be careful with this; it should be taught. With which deed does Man's face shine? Which deed darkens the faces of people? The faces of people today, ninety-nine percent of them are dark and who looks at their faces finds no goodness and who works for them has no goodness! Amaan, yaa Rabbee! Amaan, yaa Rabbee! May our Lord save us from being animals to Shaytan.

Allah Almighty sent us His Most Beloved (s) so that we know our way, our street and attain to the acceptance of our Lord Almighty. They are strong. Whenever a nation kept Allah, then Allah kept them. Whosoever does not keep Allah, Allah Almighty leaves them. Nasoo ’Llaaha fa nasiyahum, “Who forgets Allah becomes forgotten.” Say, “Allah!” How should we say it? Say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.” When you get up, when you sit, when you work, when you do anything, say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.” Put “Bismillah” signs inside your home, put “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem” signs everywhere and don't fear as neither stones will rain on you nor will you get stuck under snow or taken prisoner by the enemy.

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. We should hang its signs everywhere, as well as the “Adab, yaa Hu!" signs. Adab. The value and honor of Man is measured by however much adab he has. When you see the sign, “Adab, yaa Hu!" be ashamed, O Man, and don't forget your Lord! This is what adab is. Who forgets his Lord has no adab; he is zero and he or she is ugly and no matter how much makeup she puts on her face, she cannot be beautiful. The beauty that Allah Almighty grants does not fade off a man's face, the beauty on the face of those who don't forget Allah is the same until they go down to their graves. In the grave, when angels come they recognize them and their noor and they question accordingly. There is noor on the faces of those who don't forget Allah, there is joy in their hearts, there is happiness and they succeed in every work they do! Amaan, yaa Rabbee!

Those who moved away from adab are all fighting each other; what they do is only to oppress, to kill, to burn, to destroy each other. May Allah forgive us! Allah did not create us to kill each other, but to be believers. When we become believers, the sword is lifted off us; otherwise, the Sword of Qahhar (Wrath) comes and ruins the people. O our Lord! May You make us from those who always remember You, who never forget You.

How can you forget, how can you forget Who created you? Why don't you recite the Bismillah? Why don't you teach the Bismillah? You put up portraits and make people show respect for the portraits (of political leaders) and you don't remember Allah Dhul Jalaal and you don't recite the Bismillah, but instead you put portraits, statues, idols, stones everywhere and you stand in front of them and worship them. This is a shame for the people! To forget the One Who created them is not suitable for Mankind! Man's honor is for his Lord Who granted him the honor and Who created him. May Allah (swt) make us from those who always remember their Lord.

Don't forget the Bismillah; otherwise, you have no value and everything you do will go wrong. Those who forget Allah (swt) always fight each other and Allah Almighty says:

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Fadhkuroonee adhkurkum, wa ’shkuroo 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)

“Don't forget me and I will not forget you, I don't forget you! Some of them I feast with My blessings, I don't leave them, and some of them I leave forgotten. I forget those who forget Me; I don’t forget, but I leave them as forgotten,” because he doesn't accept the One Who created him and he does not remember His Holy Name.

They don't recite the Bismillah even once! They don't ever make sajda! Shame on them! We are not able to teach these things. They distort the minds of our children with all kinds of unnecessary, stupid, complicated things and drive them to Shaytan's way. Shame on those people that don't make the children walk towards Allah (swt)! They cannot teach the life that Allah (swt) accepts and they make them wander far away from it. A person who forgets his Lord has no value left. Therefore, let us say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.”

Don't forget, O Son! Don't forget Allah Almighty or else you will be forgotten later. If you seek Allah's help, say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem” and Allah helps you in your every work. “This one may help, that one may help....” It is not true. Say, “Allah!” and He (swt) sends you His servants who will help you, His honored servants, He sends His majestic servants and informs you about His awliyas and your every work becomes right, but they don't teach these things and the whole world has fallen into a state of madness.

It is the year 2013 in their calendar. Today dunya has fallen into its darkest era ever. Why? Because people are not saying, “Allah.” They make people forget Allah and they whip the horse of Shaytan! Shame on you, O People of the 21st century! Allah knows how many centuries passed, but it is in the calculation (of time) they know.

O People of the 21st century! Collect yourselves, pull yourselves together and know the purpose of your life, know Who brought you into existence! Don't forget about His servanthood and you won't be forgotten, in dunya as well as in Akhirah. Yaa Rabbee! May You send us from Your servants who will teach us Your ways, send us Your sincere servants who will defeat Shaytan. If they say “Be!” it will be and if they say, “Don't be!”  it will not be, Allah Almighty has such awliyas. If they say, “Stop!” it stops and if they say, “Carry on!” it carries on.

They forgot the awliyas and they forgot the prophets. Yaa Hu! This man has even forgotten Allah! How can he ask about the Prophet (s), how can he ask about the awliyas? The one they follow is Shaytan.

Therefore, each country established a building without a foundation and now it has collapsed over their heads on the whole world because what they built is a rotten building. In one quake all of them collapsed, the whole world! Unless Allah Almighty keeps you, no matter what you build, it will collapse on your head, and the world has collapsed, what they call ‘the 21st century.’ Dunya collapsed on the people of this century and they can't pull themselves out from under it, either. Of course you can't! What will pull you out is the Will of Allah Almighty. When He (swt) said, “Fall down!” the whole world fell down over these disobedient, denying and unbelieving people, and now they are trying to remove that debris. No you can't, because the debris is like a mountain and your power is like that of an ant. What turns the ant into an elephant is the power of Allah (swt). What makes an elephant like an ant is again Him (swt). Step firmly! Step into the stirrup of the horse like a man and rule over your ego fully so that Allah helps you! Allah Almighty knows where you are going and knows that you are following Shaytan, too, so He (swt) leaves you and Shaytan makes you ragged.

Today's Mankind is ridiculed by Shaytan and they have become the animal of Shaytan. Come to yourself, O Man! Say, “I am Man!” and if you are Man, don't do evil. All the people in the whole world learn evil, want to do evil and they sink themselves, as well as others.

O Lord,  tawbah, yaa Rabbee! Tawbah, yaa Rabbee! Tawbah astaghfirullah. Allah Almighty says, fadhkuroonee adhkurkum, “Remember Me and I will protect you with My mercies and remember you.” Fadhkuroonee adhkurkum, wa ’shkuroo lee, “Be grateful (make shukr) to Me,” wa laa takfuroon, “and don't deny Me.” (2:152)

What kind of Man are you that you don't know what you do? Who doesn't know what he does is an animal. How can it be that Man doesn't know what he does? But your doings are like this. Before they used to say, “You do too much, but because all you do is evil, tie up your pants and then do it, it will come down between your legs! What is it that you are doing?” So this is what the whole world is doing and everyone keeps quiet, but this, my voice, will be heard in the east and in the west, because I have the intention to serve Allah and am determined to destroy the sultanate of Shaytan, even in this old age of mine! Allah (swt) supports us and His Great Prophet (s) guides us! How beautiful is Islam! What a clean path Islam is! Every clean, pure act is in Islam and every dirty life condition is in unbelief and in forgetting Allah.

O our Lord! May You forgive us. I am weak, O Lord! I am weak, O Lord! Qawwi dha`fi fi ridaaq. I am crying; I am crying to myself. I am sad and crying because of the troubles that those who misguided the people caused, loaded on the nations. I am sad and crying because of what Mankind is suffering through, but Mankind has fallen into such a state that they are welcoming what Shaytan makes them do and they forget Allah Almighty. Amaan, yaa Rabbee! Tawba, yaa Rabbee! We ask tawbah, O Allah, on their behalf also. Tawbah, yaa Rabbee!

We started with Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem and we finish with Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. May our grave be filled with noor and may our destination be Paradise. O our Lord! May You forgive us. O Allah! Wa ‘l-hamdulillahi Rabbi ‘l-`Alameen wa ‘l-`aqibatu li ‘l-muttaqeen, fa laa `udwaana illaa `ala ‘zh-zhaalimeen. Yaa Rabbee! Don’t make us from the oppressors and don't leave us in the hands of oppressors either.

It is Rabi` al-Awwal, the holy month of Mawlid ash-Shareef, and it has been three days since it started. May our strength and joy be more! Allah Almighty is with the true ones, Allah Almighty is not with the people who are twisted. Twisted people are with Shaytan. How do you tell if one is twisted? Because he is without the Bismillah! The way of a person without the Bismillah is twisted, it doesn't succeed, it is a dead-end road, it is dead. They will be finished, destroyed!

Yaa Rabbee! Send us a Saahib (Master), send us the ones who will teach us our religion, who will teach us our servanthood for You, who will make us keep the adab of our Prophet (s). Yaa Rabbee! You are Subhaan, You are Sultaan! O our Lord! You are the Subhaan, You are the Sultaan. Say this and don't fear. Yaa Rabbee, tubnaa wa raja`naa ilayk! Yaa Rabbee! May You make our end a good end. Yaa Rabbee! I am weak. Send us a Saahib, send us a Master who will execute Your Order. You sent a sultan, but now dunya is left without a sultan. Send us a Sultan! Who is sultan? The one who starts with Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem is Sultan. Those who worship portraits and statues, become soldiers to Shaytan in the way of Shaytan. Those who say “Allah,” are the soldiers of Allah (swt) and His Beloved (s). May the Great Prophet (s) forgive us. He is al-Shafee` and al-Mushaffa` in the Divine Presence of Allah Almighty; he (s) intercedes and his

intercession is accepted.

Read the Mawlid ash-Shareef in this holy month. Read so that mercy rains on you; if not, they will suffer much more. May Allah not make us from those who go astray! Those who go astray are animals to Shaytan. Yaa Rabbee! You forgive us and You send us a Master. O Lord! Send us a Sultan. Tawbah, yaa Rabbee! Tawbah, yaa Rabbee, tawbah astaghfirullah. We repent for ourselves too. We repent for everyone and for ourselves also. We should say, “Tawbah astaghfirullah.” We should say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.”  We should make sajda, even if it is two raka`ats. Don't drink or troubles will come on your head. Don't smoke or you will catch a disease that can't be cured. Don't eat the dirty things or you will suffer troubles that can't be cured.

O our Lord! May You forgive us. O our Lord! Send us a Sultan for the honor of Your Beloved (s), may You send us that we see him and our children see him also. May our homes be joyous, may you recite the Holy Qur’an in your homes, may noor come and calamities go away from our homes, may noor rain on us!

O People! Pull yourselves together or else this wheel of life will chop you up, finish you and throw you away. Amaan, yaa Rabbee! Forgive us. Send us a Master.

Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq.

We may say, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem,” as whoever remembers the Name of Allah first, Allah makes his every doing easy for him. How beautiful, how beautiful that Allah straightens the work of who says, “Allah,” and the work of who doesn't say it is all corrupt.

One day when Sultan Mahmood was passing through a place, he saw two blind men sitting together. One of them was saying, “Yaa Ma`bood! Yaa Ma`bood!” and the other one was saying, “Yaa Mahmood! Yaa Mahmood! Yaa Mahmood!” Both of them are blind and both beg from the people; they live with what people give. So Sultan Mahmood said, “Fill a chicken with gold and send it to that one who says, ‘Yaa Mahmood.’” He was saying, “Mahmood” and the other was saying, “Ma`bood.” He said to give it to the one who says “Mahmood” and they gave it.

He looked at it and said, “O friend! They brought me something, but I am full; it is something like a chicken, but I am full. Give me a few coins and I will give it to you and you can eat it.” He also struggled to understand what it is and found out it is chicken. He gave a few coins and took it. Then he saw that it is full with gold inside. He took it to his house and came back again and sat.

The other one was saying, (in a weak voice), “Yaa Mahmood! Yaa Mahmood! Yaa Mahmood!” The other one's work succeeded, so he was saying even more, “Yaa Ma`bood! Yaa Ma`bood! Yaa Ma`bood!” He was saying it strongly.

“What happened to them?” the Sultan asked.

“One of them, that one who says, ‘Yaa Mahmood,’ again calls, ‘Yaa Mahmood.’”