True Love

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.

Our Holy Prophet ﷺ states:

“A man will be with whom he loves.” It’s a good tiding to the Saḥābah (companions). A companion was crying to the Prophet ﷺ, he said: “We are together in this world but how are we going to be in the next world?” The Prophet ﷺ said: “A man will be with whom he loves”, even if one person is at a higher station in the hereafter, a person will be close to them; therefore, this is a good tiding for people, for Muslims. May people love good people then.

Thank Allah ﷻ that the people we love are the good Awliya (saints), the Prophet ﷺ, the Ahl al-Bayt (his family), the Saḥābah (his companions), and the Mashaikh. Our Shaykh, Shaykh Nazim taught us this love. His whole life was full of the love of Allah ﷻ. He gave Sohbahs and taught people to love Allah ﷻ and love each other, not to be enemies against each other. He taught goodness not animosity. Love teaches goodness. The others that teach animosity are charlatans; that’s not love, that’s hypocrisy. True love is the love that the Awliya teach and show. Their love exists while they’re alive in this life and when they’re not here, when they’ve departed and have gone to the world of Barzakh. They have Tasarruf, manifestation there too and they have the ability to give love to people’s hearts, Allah ﷻ willing. So those who have seen him or haven’t seen him and those who came later but loved him, Allah ﷻ willing they’ll be with him. They’ll be together with him in the true life, the life of the hereafter. They have a great place in the sight of Allah ﷻ. So for their honor, those who love them will certainly leave this world in felicity and will be with them. Even if they have the slightest love towards them, Allah ﷻ willing, that will save them.

Therefore, nowadays there are plenty of people who do not appreciate or value this, they say: “What use or need is there for Awliya and Mashaikh? Are there such things even?” They are poor and wretched people, they are ones who are deprived from this and their end in the hereafter is difficult. So this Mahaba (affection) is a great blessing and Lutf (grace) for us, it’s a great gift for us from Allah ﷻ and it’s not meant for everybody. So we say thank Allah ﷻ for it and that he made us with the Mashaikh and with the Sultan-ul Awliya Shaykh Nazim. Those who are not [with them], if they have love towards them, there’s a great favor and Lutf (grace) for them as well. It has been 7 years now that he has separated from amongst us. Many people have been feeling love towards him since then, they will also be with him until the day of judgment. Whoever loves him will be with him and with the Holy Prophet ﷺ, because he loves the Holy Prophet ﷺ and we also love the Holy Prophet ﷺ and Allah ﷻ, and this love goes this way. May Allah ﷻ raise his station and increase our love and faith insha’Allah.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.

Hazrat Shaykh Muhammad Mehmet ar-Rabbani 20 February 2021/8 Rajab 1442 Sabah Namaz, Akbaba Dargah