Worship Allah ﷻ with Sincerity

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 Hadith which is a big warning for people. Our Holy Prophet says that people might do works of people of Paradise and all sorts of good deeds throughout their whole life and in the end they do the works of the people of hell and thus end up in hell. On the contrary, a person might be doing works of people of hell throughout his whole life but in the end he repents and becomes of the people of Paradise. What is important is the end and being steadfast.

People of this world say: “I’ve been doing [good] things yet nothing is happening”, shaytan can fool them that way. Those who are on the path of Haqq (truth) are more of an enemy against shaytan and so shaytan tries to misguide them from that path. This is why we should always be careful and sincere. All the things, worships, and works that you do should be for the sake of Allah ﷻ. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says: “I am scared of Shirk AlKhafi.” What’s that? It’s the hidden Shirk (polytheism). You pray and then you say: “Well, my Rizk (sustenance) hasn’t opened up.” You fast and then you say the same thing again: “It hasn’t happened”. This means that you’re not doing this for the sake of Allah ﷻ but for money and wealth. When this is the case, of course in the end it comes to a certain place where it blows up and you forget about it. You say that this is not useful and you try to look for other ways out. Then your end comes and may Allah ﷻ forbid, you leave this world with a bad end and go to hell.

This exists in most of the people of today. Two days ago some people asked us, again we’re not saying this specifically to other people, we’re also saying it to our Nafs (ego), they said: “We are praying, we are doing this and that but our Rizk is not opening up. Why is that?” You can pray and make Dua that Allah ﷻ may open up your works and business, there’s no problem with that. But if you say: “I did it and I’m asking but it’s not being answered and nothing is happening”, then you are in danger. The biggest danger here is for our end to be a bad one. Therefore, we need to pay attention. Tariqa is to train the ego. It is to tell people of their mistakes and to fix the mistakes. If you fix your mistakes, then Allah ﷻ willing your end will become good. If not, if you go according to your own mind and form your own religion, then that’s different and you haven’t learnt what Tariqa and Islam teach. So we need to be careful. This world is a place of tests and trials. May Allah ﷻ not test us and not burden us with things that we cannot carry insha’Allah. May Allah ﷻ strengthen our faith. May we sincerely worship Allah ﷻ and be His servants insha’Allah.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.

Hazrat Shaykh Muhammad Mehmet ar-Rabbani 17 March 2021/4 Sha‘bān 1442 Sabah Namaz, Akbaba Dargah