Where Must Our Sincerity Lie?

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.

BismiLlahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim:

(Qur’ān 09:119). ‘Yā ‘Ayyuhā l-Ladhīna ‘Āmanū t-Taqū l-Llaha Wa Kūnū Ma’a sSādiqīn’, ‘O you who have believed, fear Allāh and be with the truthful.’ “O believers, fear Allāh ﷻ and be with the righteous,” says Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. He ﷻ says, “Be sincere so that your life may be good and beautiful.” But people, because their egos don’t desire it, associate not with the good, but with the bad or with unnecessary things. They become attached with sincerity to things that are completely useless.

People become so attached sincerely to bad things, or rather, to unnecessary things. And the most useless thing they become attached to – and I’ve been thinking about it for days – is football. Football is useless. Okay, you play a little, run around, have fun, we understand; but what we mean is these football clubs. People become so attached to those clubs with such sincerity, such devotion, that it’s impossible to change them to another club. Even if you gave them millions, they wouldn’t change their club. But when it comes to the right path, they’ll be extremely fickle; a thousand times over. They won’t keep their word. You can’t rely on them. But in the other matter, there is neither fickleness, nor breaking of word, nor reneging. He continues with that commitment until the end of his life.

These are unnecessary things; what is truly necessary is to remain steadfast on the way of Allāh ﷻ. It is to find a true murshid and follow him. This is not a game. Life is precious. Time is precious. You get angry, fight, curse and insult others over unnecessary things. Okay, we understand you love it, but there’s no need to do these unnecessary things. A person should think a little. Okay, you love it, we understand that. But the sincerity, loyalty, and keeping of word shown towards that club must be directed towards the way of Allāh ﷻ. If one does that, he would become one of the great ‘Awliyā’.

Therefore, as we said, shayṭān distracts people with either unnecessary things or sins. May Allāh ﷻ protect us. This is a strange disease and one of the biggest problems of the end of times. As we said, a person can love that, but that sincerity must be directed towards Allāh ﷻ. May Allāh ﷻ help us. May He ﷻ not keep us preoccupied much with unnecessary things, in shā’a Llāh.

Wa min Allāhi t-Tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥa.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 08 August 2026/ 25 Safar 1448 Fajr Prayer – Akbaba Dergah, Istanbul