Jummah Khutba: Obey ALLAH (swt) and His Prophet (saws) for Safety in Ahirat

Osmanli Naksibendi Sohbets

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday May 8, 2009 (Jumadal Awwal 4, 1430)

The original order is faith – believe in ALLAH swt and believe in ahirat. Prophets were sent to show people how to have safety in the next life. People are forgetting that they will die. They must follow the orders of the prophets. We are blessed with being the Nation of Muhammad pbuh and with having given shehada. But if you are not holding to the order of ALLAH and His Prophet, your safety in ahirat is in question. Fix yourself – for your safety, follow the Shaykh, not your ego and shaytan.

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THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE IS TO BELIEVE IN ALLAH AND IN AKHIRAT

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 13 Jumad al-Awwal, 1430
May 8, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

Auzu billahi min ash-sheytanir rajim
BismillahirRahmanir Rahim
Medet Ya Seyyidi Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih. We are asking forgiveness from our Lord, to forgive us for our shortcomings. We lost the direction. Mankind lost the compass and direction and not looking to find it. We have entered to the era of the last days. But from the beginning, from the first day until the last day, nothing has changed. People may change, people make ideas according to themselves but the original message and original order has not changed. What’s the original order? Faith.

In the beginning of this children of Adam (as) on this planet, that’s the order that came to them. `Believe in Allah and believe in Akhirat life.’ Allah sent 124,000 prophets to give reminder to every nation. From those who passed, the ones who accepted the order from the prophets and lived according to their orders, they are in safety right now. Those who didn’t, they are in trouble right now. We still have this breath of life with us. But the 21st Century people became very Firaun. They are taking the air in and out and thinking that they are never going to die and running to do all kinds of crimes, to themselves in reality. It’s because whatever you do is for you. If it’s good then you’ll be rewarded. If it’s bad then you are giving invitation to punishment.

So the original message is to believe. Believe in Allah and believe in Akhirat. Believing in Allah, the prophets are coming and saying, `Believe in Allah and His Prophet’, whoever is the prophet of that time. They must believe. Believing in the prophets is not just to say, `I believe’ and that’s it. You must follow the orders those prophets brought.

So it’s the 21st Century. Almost 1500 years ago Allah subhana wa ta’ala sent the Last Prophet (sws), the Seal of Prophets (sws) and He blessed us to be one from his Nation. All prophets wanted to be from the Nation of Muhammad (sws). But in response to them Allah is saying, `I am pleased with you in this station, what I gave to you.’ To the Nation of Muhammad (sws), just to believe, just to give that Shahadat, Allah made it easy for us to give that Shahadat, it is a big blessing. But how we are living? Are we living according to the orders of our Prophet (sws) or according to our ego? From the first day, this is what Adam (alayhi salam) was teaching his children, to believe in Allah subhana wa ta’ala. But from that time one group of them accepted their father, one group didn’t. They became unbelievers. And from that time until now it’s continuing and until the Last Day it’s going to continue. Just in one small period of time, in the time of Mahdi (alayhi salam) and Isa (alayhi salam) [it will not be so]. Then it’s going to change again.

We are very near to those days. And people are going to change positions and places. If you are not holding tightly to the order of Allah and His Prophet (sws) then it is a big question mark. It is a dangerous time waiting for every one of us. What’s keeping away just not accepting two orders of Allah? Believe in Allah and Akhirat. What is it that’s keeping you away? The love of this Dunya, the love of your ego and whispering from Sheytan. Nothing else. So look at it.

`Eh, I am accepting the Prophet (sws). I am not accepting anything else.’

You are accepting your ego. You are accepting the orders of your ego. That is the meaning of that. How are you knowing the Prophet (sws)? From where are you knowing the Prophet (sws)? If you are really following the footsteps of the Holy Prophet (sws) then you must follow the footsteps of the Sahaba-e Kiram. The Sahaba followed the Prophet (sws). Who are you following? Are you following directly the Prophet (sws)? Impossible.

So Sheytan is coming with so many tricks and traps for the 21st Century people because the 21st Century people say they are believers through the tongue. Through the heart their hearts are circling around in so many wrong places. And when our Sheykhs are coming and telling us something, we don’t like it then. So you’re not following the orders of the Prophet (sws). You’re following the orders of your ego. And the ego is taking directions and orders from Sheytan. The master of ego is Sheytan, whispering, giving ways, directions.

So we entered through one door and we are going out from the other one. As the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The life of my nation on this earth is between 60 and 70 years.’ Check yourselves. Put your accounting in front of you. Look how you lived your life after the maturity age. Look what you did, where you ran, how you lived and why you lived. And if you still have the luxury to run wild to say, `I do as I like’, or to run after this world, or to run after your lower self’s desires, or to accept the orders from your ego, you are free. The door that you just entered is about to finish. The road is about to finish to come out from the other side. The breath of life that is given to mankind is counted. 24,000 are given to you daily. Today’s people don’t know how to take the air in too, shortening your lives. Because there is no Ibadat, shortening your lives. Because of not believing in Allah and His Prophet (sws) correctly, shortening your lives. And the life is short, short, short, and before accomplishing your mission you may find that Azrail is standing in front of you.

Leave everything else. Advice to you and to me. Leave everything else. Be busy with yourself. Do a favor to yourself. Be busy with yourself. Fix yourself before Azrail is coming. The tricks and the traps of this Dunya, if you are busy with this Dunya, then you are not accepting Sheykh, then you are not accepting the Prophet (sws), then you are not accepting Allah subhana wa ta’ala. You are just accepting your ego. You are saying something but living some other lifestyle. This is not what Allah wants from us. Allah subhana wa ta’ala sent 124,000 prophets, He sent books, He sent so many Awliya to us to teach how to live, how to keep ourselves on the Sirat-ul Mustaqim and to go out from this world that way. If we keep that we will be the winner. If not, there are two doors going out from this Dunya. Either the door of Rahmat, mercy, or the door of curse. If you don’t know how to live, if you don’t stand on the Sirat-ul Mustqim, you cannot be reaching to the door of Rahmat because you are choosing another road. Dunya road is leading people to the door of curse.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.