Jummah Khutba: Your Ego Is Your Enemy

Osmanli Naksibendi Sohbets

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, 27 Shawal 1430 (October 16, 2009)

Sheykh Efendi is saying not to interfere with work that is not yours – especially in regard to religion. Prophet (saws) is saying that if you live the knowledge you know, ALLAH swt will teach you what you do not know. It’s not university knowledge. It’s the knowledge of how to become better; it is taken from a master, a teacher. It is learning that your ego is your enemy, and trying to fix yourself before the Angel of Death comes for you..

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DON’T LOSE YOUR LAWYERS FOR THE JUDGMENT DAY

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

Friday 27 Shawwal, 1430
October 16, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

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

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, alhamdulilahi rabbil alameen. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullahil azim wa atubu ilaih. The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `Don’t interfere to the work that doesn’t concern you. Don’t interfere to the knowledge that doesn’t concern you. If you are interfering to the knowledge that doesn’t concern you, that is enough sign showing to you that Allah doesn’t love you.’ This place here, not this place, the Khutba place, for fourteen hundred years, from the day that the Holy Prophet (sws) immigrated from Mecca to Medina, the first Khutba, the first Juma he gave outside of Medina and from that day until today there is Juma going on in every Juma. Juma is obligation. It’s Farz to believers to attend to Juma, in the Juma time to tell the believers, `Have fear from Allah.’

For fourteen hundred years it’s going on. It started from one masjid in Medina and it spread everywhere in the world. For over fourteen hundred years in every Juma every Imam is standing on that point, reminding themselves and their Jama’at, `Have fear from Allah.’ Allah subhana wa ta’ala is showing to us saying, `I am reminding you. You are My servants. I have sent you to this world and you are going to do as I say, not as your ego says.’ And for fourteen hundred years the unbelievers are running and attacking Islam, trying to bring Islam down. But the worst is that the believers from the inside are running and they are thinking that they are going to bring Islam down or they are going to invent some kind of Islam that fits to their ego. It’s not going to happen. It didn’t happen when the Holy Prophet (sws) was one man, one individual. Do you think that it will happen now? But the ignorant man who is blind twenty-four hours a day is thinking that way.

So today, yes for almost one hundred years now, right after our Sultan, our Khalifah, Ulul Hakan Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan, right after that one, Allah subhana wa ta’ala has hidden, putting the Khalifah aside and this mankind became very wild, running very wild, males and females. Everyone is interfering into everything. Don’t! It is not good for you. It is not going to do good for you. Not in Dunya and not in Akhirat. Especially, interfering in the matters of religion, don’t. Dunya? Eh, if you are talking in Dunya, when the man with that knowledge confronts you, you finish, your knowledge finishes anyway. You make a fool out of yourself. What about the Akhirat knowledge? So many fools are interfering today of course. So many fools whose minds are not with them, running after them.

Eh, Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `I have created Jannat and Jahannam. I have created Jahannam also and I mean to fill Jahannam with people.’ Whichever side you want. Don’t think that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has no mercy and He is going to take little creatures that He created and throw them inside the fire. No. But He is giving enough chance to that little creature in Dunya saying to him, `I did send you to this world and I am taking you also. If you would’ve come to this world by yourself then you have the right to do whatever you want. But you didn’t. I sent you. So I put two roads for you in this world. Sirat-ul Mustaqim, the right road and the road that leads behinds the sheytans to Jahannam. In Sirat-ul Mustaqim, on the right road, I put leaders who are leading that road. Follow them.

Your duty is to follow. You don’t. Your ego is saying no. Eh, Sheytan is more clever than you and me. He has so much knowledge that he even fooled Adam (alayhi salam). Adam (as) has no partner in his creation. Allah subhana wa ta’ala created only him in that way. No other creature Allah subhana wa ta’ala has created like Adam (as). He didn’t create you and I like that. He didn’t create our Holy Prophet (sws) like that. He did not create any prophet like that. He spent time, He put design to him. And He gave warning to Adam (as), saying to him, `This Sheytan is your enemy. Be careful.’ And Adam (as) just got weak in one point and Sheytan managed to fool him. That’s why Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `No matter what happens, don’t get weak in religion. Hold on tightly if you are believers because in the end you are going to win.’

So the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `If you are living with the knowledge that you know, if you are applying the knowledge that you know to yourself,’ because too many people are coming today to me saying, `How are we going to know this, Sheykh? And how are we going to know that? How are we going to know if this Sheykh is right? How are we going to know if this Sheykh is wrong?’ It’s another confusion and fitna coming from Sheytan. It’s so easy. So simple. But of course, the ego is declaring something, saying, `I am so good. So I have to look to find the good ones.’ And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `If you live with the knowledge that you know sincerely, the knowledge that you know, if you apply it to your life, Allah subhana wa ta’ala will teach you the knowledge you don’t know.’ So then any simple knowledge that you know, if you are not a hypocrite and if you are living according to that knowledge, every other knowledge that is concerning you, Allah subhana wa ta’ala will teach you. Don’t worry.

So the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying to us, `If the knowledge is in China, go and seek that knowledge.’ So many squarehead Imams today and sheykhs are saying, `You see, the Prophet (sws) is saying to us to read. Go to the universities even if it is in China.’ And I say, `Hey squarehead Imam or Sheykh! Calling yourself Sheykh! The universities are everywhere today. It’s not only in America. Cyprus is a small island like this, go and count to see how many universities are there. But our brothers are finishing this university and still saying, `I have to go to America or London.’ Why? `Because I have to get a bigger diploma from a bigger Yahudi place.’ That’s what happened.

So, that is not the knowledge that the Holy Prophet (sws) is talking about. And he is not talking to you about the knowledge itself. To learn the knowledge you need a teacher, you need a master. He is saying, if the knowledge is in China, go and seek that knowledge. Go there and seek that knowledge. This knowledge. The knowledge of Akhirat. How many are left in this world now? Go and look to those nations. Today, over 100,000 masjids in Turkey. Over 100,000! In over a hundred thousand mosques and masjids they are giving Khutba. But the Khutba is prepared by a couple of soldiers and is given to their hands and is said, `Read to the nation.’ If it’s otherwise, tell them to come and speak to me. Same thing is happening in Egypt, same thing is happening in Saudi Arabia, same this is happening everywhere. Exceptions are countries like this that they don’t come to interfere to me to say to you, `Read this.’ That’s why they are going crazy left and right saying, `We cannot control this religion. Somewhere somehow somebody is standing up and speaking again the ayats that we are hiding, the hadith that we are hiding.’

And as I said, there are so many hypocrites, Munafiqs who are in the religion, who are coming to the dergahs, to the sheykhs not to fix their ego to become better but they are thinking, `We are going to go to get some power.’ What power are you looking for? What power you think that the Sheykh has to give to you? If he has the power definitely he is not going to give to you. If Allah gave to him then he is saying, `If Allah wants He is going to give to you too. If it is given to me, I am not even going to show to you what is that.’ But so many squareheads are fooling the other ones. They are thinking, talking so big, entering into so many matters that don’t concern them, entering into the knowledge that they get dizzy and later Sheytan is coming to them saying, `This is what you are looking for. Don’t worry. I will give you something.’ They become black magic people. That’s what they think this religion is. It’s not. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is in control. He has the control of this world and everything is in His hand.

He is saying to us, `I let your rope a little bit loose. Run around. But your rope is in My hand. When I pull, you are going to come. Run as you like if you think you are going to run. But this world is so small. In the end, you are going out from one door.’ You entered through one door and you are going out from another door. One door entrance, two doors exit. You entered clean. We are not Christians to say, `You were born to this world dirty.’ No. You enter clean. You are clean up to the maturity age. After the maturity age you are dirtying yourself with your dirty mind, with your dirty thinking. And turn around and ask forgiveness and clean yourself again in this journey. While you entered through that door you are continuing that journey. You are going to go out from the other door. Two doors are waiting for you. Either you go out from the right side which is Selamat, Safety, or you go out from the left door. The troubles begin that time. You are complaining now that you have trouble? Hmm, hmm. You are complaining now that you have problems? At that time you will see what problem is.

So wake up to yourselves. These words are for you, for me and for the whole mankind who is hearing this. If anybody is saying, `I am exception from this’ that one should not be a human. Maybe it’s an angel or maybe it’s lower than the animals that Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying because Allah subhana wa ta’ala is putting ego and is saying to us, `Your ego is your worst enemy.’ And the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying this to us. You cannot take care of your ego. You need a master. You need somebody to fix it for you, to show you what is right and what is wrong. If you don’t then your guide is going to be Sheytan. Sheytan is going to lead you. And you are still going to think that you are in the Sirat-ul Mustaqim but you are already going to be in the wrong road. When the angel of death is coming to you, you are going to go out from this world through the wrong door and all the problems begin then.

Intelligence is showing to the man, saying to know what he wants, to understand who is his enemy and to try to fix himself before the angel of death is reaching to him. When is this angel of death going to come you think? It may come one minute later, it may come tonight, it may come tomorrow. Keep this alive. Don’t make it so long. Don’t think it’s so far distant as everyone is making so many plans, `I am doing this and I am doing that. I am going here and I am going to…’. A Sahabi one day came to the Holy Prophet (sws), a young Sahabi, and said, `Ya Rasulullah, I have borrowed some money. I made a deal with this person that I am going to pay in one month’s time. Please pray for me that I will be able to make it.’ And the Holy Prophet (sws) looked at him and said, `Oh, what a long term plan you made. How did you do this?’ To a young Sahabi he is saying, `How did you make this long plan? One month? Who says to you that Azrail is not coming to you five minutes later?’

That word was to the Sahabi and to every believer who is coming after, to you and to me. Not to think that, `Oh, it’s going to be long term’ or so many are saying, `I am doing wrong today but one day I am going to change. Okay, I am making intention that by next year I am going to change.’ Just like the Yahudi and the Christians, saying, `This year, this new year I am going to do this and then I am going to start changing.’ New Year. Their new year is Christmas of course. These kinds of Muslims are celebrating Christmas and New Year.

Wake up to yourselves. The Holy Prophet (sws) is Mubashshiran wa Naziran. He gives warning and he is giving the good news to mankind. And all his inheritors are doing the same. And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying to us, `You and the people that you speak, don’t forget the Judgment Day. Oh, those ones that are speaking!’ He is talking about the Imams and Sheykhs and everyone, saying, `Oh, those ones who are reminding their people but they are forgetting about themselves. You wait to see what happens to you.’ That is for me and to all those people who are standing up and speaking to their Jama’at.

These words, as I said earlier, are for you and for me. If you want, take it, you will win. If you don’t want it, there are two doors. Either you are going out from the right side or the left side. America is not going to save you. Whoever is promising, giving promises is not going to save you. Your good deeds and the intention in the good deeds are going to save you. Nothing else. Maybe then you will find some good lawyers. Because you have good deeds and you have good intentions, then you may find good lawyers who will speak for your behalf in the Judgment Day.

So many people today are losing their lawyers too. They go against their Sheykhs. They do so many secrets behind their Sheykhs. They think that the sheykhs don’t know. Oh, what kind of Sheykh do you think that is going to be? If it’s just like your thinking and if one wall is separating him from the wrong thing that you are doing, definitely that one is not a Sheykh. Know that. But if that Sheykh is going to use some technology to know, definitely that one is not a Sheykh too.

So wake up to yourself, inshaAllah ar-Rahman. We are meaning to enter to Paradise. And Paradise is our place. We are lonely in this world. No matter who is around you, you are always lonely. You are longing for your original house and you are bound towards that. But so many times, so many people are entering to the road that Sheytan is guiding. You are longing for your house and you are running into Jahannam?

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.