21 May 2010 Lefke, Cyprus
Allah Allah. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Yaa Hayyu, yaa Qayyum. Yaa Hayyu, yaa Qayyum. Yaa Hayyu, yaa Qayyum. Yaa Hayyu, yaa Qayyum. Yaa Hayyu, yaa Qayyum. Yaa Dha 'l-Jalaali wa 'l-Ikraam! (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) Madad yaa RijaalAllah. Alfu, alfu salaat `ala Sayyidina Muhammad, Sayyidi 'l-Awwaleen wa’l-Akhireen. As-salaamu `alaykum! As-salaamu `alaykum yaa `Ibaadallahi-sشaliheen. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. O our heavenly master, give us your support for speaking to Mankind on this planet! And give us, O our master, an understanding of what it is important to understand. For what are we asking to understand? To know about ourselves and to know our mission on this planet, for what we have been created; which thing was behind our Creation, and who is going to be looking after us after this life.
A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. Allah Almighty orders that we must run from Shaytan to His Heavenly Presence. Madad yaa RijaalAllah! Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Who are defenders of the Heavenly Presence? There must be some ones for protecting those heavenly levels. We have been ordered to turn our faces to the Holy Ka`aba and our hearts to Holy Ka`aba's representatives of heavens on Earth. And we have been ordered to make our real hearts--our souls--to turn in the direction of Holy Ka`aba and the Holy Ka`aba represents the real Bayt ul-Ma`moor that is in the heavens. All angels are turning, looking, and taking their spiritual powers from that center, Bayt ul-Ma`moor, which is represented by Holy Ka`aba on this Earth.
O People! As-salaamu `alaykum, in the east and west! O our protector on this planet who represents the Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad (s). (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) We are asking your support now; if we don't have that support we are going to be like animals.
من تشبه بقوم فهو منهم
man tashabaha biqawmin fahuwa minhum
Who imitates a people is of them. (hadith of Prophet [s]).
Who is trying to be someone else is going to be like that one. Now on this planet people are trying to represent themselves on the level of animals. People are running to be like animals in the east and west, from north to south, asking that their level is only to be eating, drinking and for physical desires and sexual pleasures, nothing else. That is the level of animals!
If a person only focuses on their physical pleasures, they are quickly going to be at the level of animals, of no value! Because it is finally going to be said to animals, "Turn into earth," and they will be changed. The secret honor granted from the Lord of Heavens has only been granted to us, to Mankind. Whoever leaves the heavenly levels is going to be on that level! Who is interested in their spirituality and asks to reach even beyond the level of angels, they will reach to their real levels! Who is only interested in eating, drinking and sexual pleasures, their levels are going to be the level of animals, with no real meaning for their lives, no! Allah Almighty granted Mankind original honor that was never granted to animals, and those people will reach their real levels when they leave this material, physical being.
Therefore, now people only take interest in their physical pleasures, and they are doing their missions and understandings only for their material pleasures, with no meaning. When they are leaving this life, they just lost their real aspects and real levels, and they will be on Earth, never going up to reach their real heavenly positions. And as much as people are going to be interested in this limited life and its pleasures, they are going to be no-value ones. And daily they are being loaded with such heavy darkness, coming on their physical being, just surrounded by darkness walls, and they are going to be in it. People are coming to this life pure and they have been granted a chance to take more heavenly lights, but they are leaving that and running after such black, darkness walls, running to be in it!
Like a silk worm that is working, eating, eating, eating, drinking, and then becoming a cocoon in darkness, imprisoning itself inside, seeing only darkness in a dark place. Now people are like that silk worm. And now Man, human nature, is working with 'ijtihaad, giving their unlimited efforts and finally making for themselves a cocoon. Where is that cocoon for Mankind? In their graves. They are surprised to find themselves there, saying, "Where were we living, and where have we reached?" Eating, eating, eating and finally making that cocoon, getting in it and finishing. And people take pleasure from eating, drinking and sexual desires, until in the end they find themselves in a dark place with no lights. When a person is buried in his grave and Allah Almighty awakens him again, he looks, finds himself in a dark place, and he does not know what is going to happen. There are no lights. That is a heavenly knowledge. And then what is to happen, happens. Their tombs are going to be their last cocoon, and they will be there until the Day of Resurrection.
O People! You have just reached the 21st century, as some people believe, but as Muslims we believe we are now 1431 years from the time of the Prophet (s)! He has given pleasure, lights and honor to people, but they are running away from lights! Like an insect that lives underground, these people run after darkness living until they can't reach lights again, they are just locked up in themselves. And we don't know when we are going to be leaving this life and going to our graves, only Allah Almighty knows. For thousands of years people are waiting underground in their graves. Waiting, waiting, waiting, no eating, no drinking, and no lights, because they did not take heavenly lights from here. If they are not taking heavenly lights, they can't find anything that gives them pleasure there, so their lives end in deep trouble. They are going and then waiting, waiting, waiting, and there is no opening for them!
O People! O Listeners! Take care of yourselves! I know people are mostly running, particularly in the summertime, perhaps more than taking care, are the Arabian people, because they are loaded with gold and jewels and are building castles for themselves. They would like to live there forever, to enjoy themselves. Mostly when summertime comes, you can find hundreds or thousands of people leaving their castles and saraaha (towers), running to Europe or America. For what?
"We are going to make a check-up."
"For what?"
"To know if any bad thing is growing in our physical being and to make it stop."
You are so clever, O rich ones, and you have such honored titles. You do not like to die or be disturbed with a bad illness. You are going for a "check-up." You go to Europe in the summertime or in autumn, a little bit in springtime, to look at what is happening. What happens, will happen! You can't save yourself through a "check-up." (Mawlana Shaykh laughs.) Tawbah, astaghfirullah. That is your only satisfaction. If your check-up and it is okay they say, "Our check-up is good so we may continue in the same lifestyle, no need to change."
And in the second or third year the doctor says, "O, Your Highness, I see something in your kidney."
"This is not good news for me," says that very, very proud, very rich one. His sadness begins and he is thinking on it.
"We may begin to treat you with a very light medicine, don't worry," say the doctors.
After one year the doctor says, "What we are seeing on your kidney is not yet taken away and on the second one a new appearance is beginning. You must be very careful now to take your medicines, and you must always be under a doctor's control." Finishing, finishing, finishing. The third year the doctor says, "You must keep a strict diet, you must not eat too much, drink too much, or run with ladies too much. You must take it down a little, or there may be more danger for your life." What is the benefit of having billions, and gold? What are your huge castles giving to you, what are young ladies giving you? What are they giving you? And day by day you are coming down, lower.
O People! Wake up from your drunkenness! Leave that and come and accept Truth! If you are keeping the holy orders of the Lord of Heavens, you may live and be both healthy and wealthy, finished! But you are running after something that gives you troubles, and it is dangerous. This life is finished. It may be that he is 40-years-old and he may live up to 80 years but in another 40 years the fires of punishment begin.
I am calling out to rich ones who say they are oil kings. So many of their faces are coming down, no longer carrying good-looks. They thought that their faces were going to be like the faces of young ones with their material wealth. No, finished! You may have billions or trillions of pounds or euros, but that never gives your face the look of a wealthy young man. Therefore, I am addressing those who are keeping dunya in their hands, and not giving for the sake of Allah (swt)! Give! Take this honor from the Divine Presence or you will be kicked out of the Divine Presence!
May Allah forgive us, for the honor of Sayyidina Muhammad (s).
Fatihah.
(39 minutes) As-salaaamu `alaykum!
(Mawlana Shaykh sings.)
Allahumma salli wa sallim `ala
Nabiyyina Muhammad `alayhi 's-salaam.
Salaatan tadoomu wahtoohda `ilayh
ma marra 'l-layaali wa toola 'd-dawaam.
O Allah! Pray and send peace on
our Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace!
Praises everlasting, to which all are guided,
as long as the nights and as long as the days!
Fatihah.