2 March 2010 Lefke, Cyprus
Dastoor yaa Sayyidee, madad. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) La ilaaha illa-Llah, la ilaaha illa-Llah, la ilaaha illa-Llah, Sayyidina wa Nabiyyuna Muhammadun Rasoolullah. Allahumma zidhu `izzan wa sharafa nooran wa suroora wa ridwaana wa sultaana. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)
Thumma salaam, as we are servants, and according to our weaknesses we are trying to glorify our Lord, Almighty Allah. All praisings, all t`azheem, glorification is endlessly for our Lord, Allah Almighty. Then we are saying to our most beloved Prophet of the Last Days (s); when this world is going to come an end just he was sent, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) And we have been honored to be his nation. Try to know your honor, as even other prophets haven't been granted that honor. And we are asking a heavenly support from our Grandshaykh, who is Sultan on this world and responsible for every happening on it. And he had been granted such a personality that he can look from East to West, from North to South, under oceans and through continents. Rijaal Allahi, yaa `Azeez.
O hadari `ulamas! What you can say about that; it is impossible? No!
إِنَّمَا أَمْرُهُ إِذَا أَرَادَ شَيْئًا أَنْ يَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ
innamaa `amruhoo 'idhaa `araada shay`an `an yaqoola lahu koon fayakoon.
Verily, when He intends a thing, His Command is, "be", and it is! (36:82)
Are you believing or not, Salafi `ulamas, hadari `ulamas? Try to understand something from Holy Qur'an. You must know that we are living on this planet, and this planet is area of mumkinaat, possibilities. The main characteristic of our dunya is that everything may be possible and also it belongs to creatures that are living on it. I am not saying that possibility is for heavenly beings; their characteristics are different 100% from our characteristics. We are not speaking on it, but we are saying that this world is in possibility area, may be possible for everything that belongs to this planet. I am not saying it is a wrong to be on other planets, but this is only for this planet, for dunya.
And we are saying to our governor and controller of everything on this planet, as-salaamu `alaykum yaa Sultanu 'l-Awliya! We are asking for ourselves to be given in the Heavenly Presence of the Lord of Heavens.
Then we are saying as-salaamu `alaykum, to our listeners who are giving a care for listening; some of them may understand and some of them may not understand, but we must try to learn and understand something. It is like a table with so many kinds of food on it. Some of it is suitable for you, some not, but commonly it is a heavenly table coming from heavens to Earth. Some people have been invited through prophets, chosen ones who are in relationships with heavens and heavenly beings. We may reach that tray. Look at it and you can find everything on it, nothing that a person is asking is not granted to him. Therefore, on that tray you can find good things, you can find bad things. It is difficult to reach good things, but bad things people may reach quickly. You can reach them easily or also with difficulty.
You may reach and you may take, but some other things on that tray are so easy to reach. They are saying, "Take and go," a takeaway. This side needs some conditions to reach, but that side is a takeaway, ready for you to take away. But this one is something else from the other; this side is giving you a heavenly pleasure. Your soul is going to be refreshed and your self is just understanding something more; your real being is making that. That is a heavenly grant from Allah. Everyone's heavenly being is a grant from Allah Almighty, coming from heavens. You should find a pleasure on that table. Another table is a takeaway and is coming so easily, but it is not belonging to heavens. Takeaway is a shaytanic wish and is so easy to reach, but heavenly being is so hard and difficult to reach, and asking (requiring) you to be serious for that. But now in our days, people are running after everything that is easy.
Technology is making people to be lazy ones. Some people say, “Technology is so good, so easy and a big pleasure for us, making our lives easier!” Really, it is just against our life. One, it is ready always. Everything in existence is zero, no real being for it. Real existence is for the Lord of Heavens, Lord of all Creation (swt). We are all on the zero side. Technology is making people to be zero because it is showing them their lives are so easy, and that can't be! Technology is hiding Man's identity from his real being; everyone from Mankind who is running with technology is on zero point.
Very strange. Before this time, for news to reach America, Africa, Europe, the East or West, was needing a long time. Now instantly this message is taking our association from East to West and from North to South, (but at the same time) it is making you a zero on left side (in front) of one. People are thinking that technology is giving us some new identity and making everything so easy for us, but really it is taking your real being down, either the physical being or spiritual being, making it zero. And people are thinking that to be zero with science and technology is making them to be in rest and pleasure, no. Really, they are losing their identity through technology.
People's understanding has just changed because all technology is making them lose their personality through their mind or through looking or speaking or hearing or doing or working. It is taking away everything from Mankind, until it is going to be only a symbol. It has been said to them, "Now you are on zero point, in front of one, and now you can do as you are asking to be. Here are buttons, make like this, should be something that you are asking. If touching like that, another thing is happening." That is not honor, that is shaytanic. All technology belongs to Shaytan. Do you think that such a thing can be through a person, himself? If you are saying, “We never heard such a thing,” do you think that technology is over our average, and what technology is doing, we can't do? That is a wrong idea!
O our hadari `ulamas! What is your opinion on this point? Do you think that the companions of the Seal of Prophets (s) were not granted such things through their spiritual power? Do you think that technology is above our capacity or capability? Is technology over ourselves or we are commanding it? Making technology under our feet! Yes, all Sahaabah (r), were granted heavenly powers that if they are asking to stop all technology in one second they can do it! But people's beliefs are on zero now; they are believing in technology, but not in the real power that we carry through our souls. Technology is something for ourselves, for our physical beings, but technology can’t do anything for our souls. If technology is over our souls, why can’t it bring dead bodies back to life once again? If that heavenly, secret, spiritual being is taken away from Man, will technology restore our souls to our physical body? It can’t do that! That means spirituality is over materialism. Materialism is under the feet of those people who reached the level of heavenly beings. Materialism can’t take you even one foot up, but your spiritual power can carry you from Earth to heavens.
O Salafi `ulamas! What is your proof? Did you never hear about Laylatu 'l-Mi`raaj, the Night Journey? Was the Seal of Prophets (s) using technology? Was he using aircraft? Was he using missiles? How you are claiming that technology is over the power of Man's spiritual being, how you are saying? Why you are not reminding people that Man has been granted such a specialty through himself that all technology is going to be under his feet?! The Seal of Prophets (s) is not using aircraft or a rocket to go up; no rocket could reach in billions of years what he reached through a second or the blink of an eye, passing through seven levels of heavens! But people now are just running through darkness tunnels of their life, like some stars they call, “black holes.” They are running in it, disappearing, and will never come back again.
O Salafi `ulamas, hadari `ulamas! bila haraj, without embarrassment, nothing prevents you to say that in Islam there are powers, and everyone’s spiritual power is different according to darajaat, steps. As Allah Almighty is saying, for everyone there are some steps to reach to their appointed level. But now, particularly in the Muslim world and among their `ulamas, people are not thinking on such a point. They are saying, “Technology is helping us make this and that.” If a man may use spiritual power, whatever they are doing, he may do a hundred times more, and bring listeners here from everywhere!
Islam is the biggest grant from Allah Almighty to all of Creation. And all Sahaabah (r), companions of the Seal of Prophets (s), were prepared with such powers to use as they liked, according to the Preserved Tablet. They were observing and acting, but blind people are never looking or seeing, and they can’t act on anything.
Such things we must know. We see a new horizon just opened for all nations from the weakest servant (Mawlana Shaykh Nazim [q]), according to heavenly orders, and they never saw or heard it from East to West. Therefore, I am saying, "O our people, listeners, please take a little bit to understand, because heavenly grants of the Lord of Heavens are never cut off. He is not making a photocopy for this day to be like yesterday, or today and tomorrow to be the same; every day is carrying another personality and for every day, every hour, there is an identity."
Those who reach the top levels through heavens should reach that point in such a way. A grant from heavens is making them to put one foot on Earth and second on heavens, because Man is carrying a secret inheritance from heavens, as they have been appointed, selected and elected to be khalif, deputies through Creation. And the real deputy is only one on the divine level. Heavenly levels contain countless identities from deputies. One deputy is never going to be the same as another, and each one has been granted also to be khalif on a creation that no one else may put a foot on it.
O People! Try to understand and you must know that awliyaa are not heedless. They know the time and the capacity of people, and give a time and an opening for them according to their capacities and levels of understanding. Therefore you are a deputy and you are a deputy, but what belongs to you (as an individual) is a secret; you have a secret being, a secret creation and a secret identity. All are functioning through the holy commands of heavens. Those who are working and following the ways of heavens are behind some prepared ones for understanding. To make people to understand and to jump from one level to another level, there are some special beings. But now people are thinking all Mankind is a photocopy. No! And now the Lord of Heavens is asking to give light for the understanding of Man so that he may think on it. Thinking is the key of locked realities; try to find someone who says, “Yes, follow me, your key is with me, I am carrying it.”
Once a famous wali, Shaykh Ahmad al-Badawi (r), reached a level where he heard heavenly sounds belonging to the Lord of Heavens. He said, “O my Lord, I am hearing Your sweet speech, and I like to see you.” And the Lord of Heavens was saying, “Prepare yourself and come." And he was going around and a person came, saying “O Ahmad, what you are asking from heavenly stations, your key is through my hands. Come to me.” And he was saying laa haajata lee. anaa laa aakhudhu ' l-miftaaha illa min al-fataah, “I am not in need of your key. I am going to take the key for my station from al-Fataah, the Opener, the Lord of Heavens.”
And that one answered, “You may take, go.” Going, running around and asking, “O my Lord, I need that key.”
“O Ahmad, look, I just granted the key for your heavenly station to my servant that you met him. And he was asking to give you the key, but you said, ‘I am not in need, I am taking from my Lord.'”
That is adab, good manners for people? I heard from my Grandshaykh (q) that Ahmad al-Badawi (r) said, laa haajata lee anaa laa aakhudhu ' l-miftaaha illa min al-fataah.
He was running for a long time, and suddenly coming and meeting with that original one, saying, “O my teacher, now I am coming to you.”
“You are coming to me now? And you reached your reply from your Lord?”
"Yes."
And that one sent his spiritual power on Ahmad al-Badawi and took (responsibility for) whole stations that he reached; Ahmad al-Badawi was knowing nothing, running and disappeared, and for a long time he wasn’t reading, so that was taken away. When that time was over, he said, “O my Lord, I just reached to you, I can't find."
(His teacher said,) "Now I can open (your trust) for you." And for Ahmad al-Badawi, ohhhh, jadhba, the Power of Attraction was so powerful then!
O People! You must follow someone who is able to give to you the key of your real station; you must look after him or Shaytan is carrying you!
May Allah forgives us, O our Lord, forgive us. Yaa Sayyidee, yaa Rasoolullah, shafa`a yaa mashaaykh al-`izhaam, we are in need of your spiritual help to save us from shaytanic tricks, not to fall into shaytanic traps. O our Lord, forgive us!
(NOTE: To learn more about the story of Shaykh Ahmad al-Badawi (r), go to the Sufilive series, From Whom Can We Take Tariqah @ http://sufilive.com/print.cfm?id=1771&lc=EN )
(Mawlana Shaykh sings.)
Dome dome dome dome
Dome dome dome dome
Dome dome dome dome
Dome dome dome dome
Yaa Muhammad canım arzular seni,
Dost Muhammad canım pek sever seni.
O Muhammad, my soul desires you,
O Friend Muhammad, my soul desires you so much!
Huuu huuu huuu huuu huuu huuu huuu huuu.
Fatihah.
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Mashaa-Allah. (Mawlana Shaykh laughs.) Must be. We don't know what they are sending, something unexpected, running. I can't reach to say a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem; I can't find time to put a tap on it.
(Mawlana Shaykh speaks with Hajjah Naziha on the phone.)