Muslims Must Wake Up

As-Salāmu ‘Alaykum wa Raḥmatullāhi wa Barakātuh. A‘ūdhu Billāhi Minash-shayṭāni r-rajīm. Bismillāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Wa ṣ-Salātu wa s-Salāmu ‘alá Rasūlinā Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-Awwalīna wa l-Akhirīn. Madad yā RasūlAllāh, Madad yā Sādāti Aṣḥābi Rasūlillāh, Madad yā Mashāyikhinā, Dastūr Mawlana Sheikh Abdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistāni, Sheikh Muḥammad Nāẓim al-Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-Suḥbah wa l-Khayru fi l-Jam‘iyyah.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla is saying if you help Allah ﷻ, Allah ﷻ will help you. You will be firm and steadfast. You will be steadfast and stand with Iman, says Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Shukr to Allah ﷻ, we went to a trip [Far East] for a month. Every day in that trip there were news that there is a war between Islam and the enemies of Islam. This war is not new. It was there a hundred years ago and it was there a thousand years ago. As long as there is Kufr, the war will not end. What’s important is to know with whom to stand.

A hundred years ago, unfortunately, the war started when the Ottoman Khalifah came as the Khalifah of Islam to the present city of Gaza. And while the Ottoman soldiers were fighting with Kafirs, Muslims were attacking the Ottomans together with Kafirs. They said, “We don’t want you. We will take this place under our control as the land of Arabs” and were fighting them. Grandshaykh Mawlana Shaykh Abdullah ad-Daghestani was in resistance against the Englishmen for three months in this holy place under oppression, in Gaza. He was in resistance in war. But then the order came to withdraw. Everywhere was full of traitors anyway. Grandshaykh left it and stayed in Jerusalem for six months. Then he was taken out of it too. So it is not a new war. Muslims give importance to others without relying on Allah ﷻ and helping Allah ﷻ. By helping others, they think they will be saved. The result is evident here. Who could have dared if the Ottomans were here? Who could have dared to do such villainy?

We must pray that Allah ﷺ protects and helps them. They are our brothers. Muslims are brothers to each other. Even if they are not Muslim, there is something called humanity out there. These things done don’t have [as small as] an atom of relation with humanity. The West that we run after looking up to it calling, “The West, the West, the West”; if you slap someone there, a terrorist or an immoral man, the West which “should go down” like Mawlana used to say raises hell. There are tens of thousands of babies, children and women who are dying. And they are doing everything they can so that those who could survive die later. They neither provide water, nor abstain from poisoning them. They are doing everything. Our Muslim people need to wake up. We must know that being a human is not by being in the West.

People must be merciful. People whom Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla created as human are merciful. When they are not merciful, they are worse than wild animals. Wild animals attack and kill others when they get hungry. But if they cannot catch them, they leave them. Mankind is not like this. Mankind doesn’t leave it and doesn’t stop until he is done or harms it.

Therefore, Muslims must know this. They already know. Everyone may have taken a lesson. Yet, many people keep stubbornly pursuing the West. “The West will do this for us. The West will like us”. The West didn’t like us for wearing a fez on our heads. Sometimes our people are so patriotic, if they put on a fez in the movies to portray Istanbul, they raise hell. “Allah Allah! Why did they wear a fez! Are we like this?” They get so upset, don’t even ask about it.

May Allah ﷻ not deprive people from mind. There are very few clever people now. Everywhere is full of stupid people. May Allah ﷻ help us. Our situation is indeed - People must think. Even Muslims are unfortunately giving importance to those who do badness to us. They know the bad as good. They praise harmful things. Harmful things seem to be good. The harmful things that overthrew our Ottomans are the most accepted things and the most important things; whereas if people think a bit, they will understand. Also, they are cheating all people. And what we don’t like the most is that people who claim to be Muslims don’t see this. They are blind. They don’t see the so much harm caused to us and applaud at those who harm us. Those who harm us are obvious. What they do is clear. They don’t mind children and do all kinds of badness in front of the world. And then people say they are upset. If you are upset, at least don’t accept these harmful things and say, “We don’t accept them”. We don’t accept what Allah ﷻ doesn’t accept. We don’t accept anything that Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla doesn’t accept. But we cannot do anything. Allah ﷻ certainly has set time for everything. When the time comes, with the permission of Allah ﷻ, the whole world will reach peace.

The current oppression will go on. The oppression will not stop. When will it stop? When Islam is spread all over the world. And that is near. Everything has its end. And the end of this situation is near insha’Allah, because people haven’t seen such badness. Even if they had seen it, they would know it is bad. Now they think

the bad is good and even applaud it being happy. We ask that Allah ﷻ gives mind and understanding, nothing else.

When our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam was coming back from Taif, they threw stones at him ﷺ. Jibril ‘alayhi s-salam came and said, “I will crush them in a minute with my wing”. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ said, “No. My nation doesn’t know yet. They haven’t come to their senses yet. Insha’Allah they will and realize. Otherwise, until they come to their senses, there will be harm”. We ask that Allah ﷻ helps us, nothing else. May Allah ﷻ give mind and understanding to our people, to those who live by as Muslim, because they are played with like a toy. They are shown the bad as good and the good as bad.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla gave mind and understanding to mankind. They must look what is good and what is bad without rushing. Don’t rush. Don’t run after everyone. Not everyone is sincere. People with sincere intentions are very few, not one in a thousand. Even if they are one in ten thousand or one in hundred thousand, it will be very good.

In recent times, since 15-20 years when Internet has been widespread, they’ve been bringing up the news and people believe them. People don’t believe them much now. But some things serve their purpose, so they accept and believe them. Don’t believe them. Allah ﷻ gave you mind and understanding. Wait. Don’t rush. What you should rush for are good deeds. Rush to pray, rush to fast, rush to pay Zakah, rush to give Sadaqah. If there is a matter of marriage, rush for that. Get married. Also Hajj. These are the matters to rush for. You must rush to do them as it is unclear when your death comes. Fulfill these good deeds and the orders of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla before that. Otherwise, when you run after totally useless things and hurry, you will regret it. There is no regret in things ordered by Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. People never feel any regret about them. But for things apart from them, people oftentimes feel regret.

Why are we saying this now? There is a group of charlatans now. There are lots of charlatans from all sides as we are living in the end of times. They hurry people and steal their money by telling them “Invest it here, you will earn this much. If you don’t come here, we will capture you”. There is this as well. Therefore, do not ever rush. As we said, what you must rush for are the orders of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. May Allah ﷻ help us. May He ﷻ help us do these beautiful things. May He ﷻ help us insha’Allah. No need to hurry for worldly matters at all, because if worldly matter will come to you, they certainly will. No need to rush for

them. No matter if you hurry or not, they will come. And if they won’t come, you can hurry as much as you want, they won’t come.

This is the Adab and order of the religion of Islam and our Tariqah. It is wrong to follow everyone. May Allah ﷻ help people of the end of times. A war has started from all sides, not only with guns and bombs. They are throwing weapons worse than bombs on people’s heads and brains that there is no Iman left with that weapon. May Allah ﷻ protect us. There is no more humanity, no more manners. There is nothing left. May Allah ﷻ protect us. They are worse than bullets and bombs. With a bullet, you die and become a Shaheed. The same happens with the bomb. You save your Akhirah then. But may Allah ﷻ protect us from this. When you are in it, you are not going to end well. If you are taken under their target and they hit you, or if you let that happen, you will not end well.

May Allah ﷻ protect us from the evil of shaytan and especially the evil of people. People are more evil than shaytan. The shaytan said to Allah ‘Azza waJalla, “Why did You create them? They are worse than me”. Mankind is indeed like that. We ask that Allah ﷻ helps us. We don’t ask for anything else.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 12 November 2023/ 28 Rabi’ Al-Akhir 1445 Eyüp Sultan Dergah, Istanbul