Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, June 5, 2009 (JumadThani 11, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying to be obedient to the ones who give you news from ahirat (eternity). Have fear from ALLAH swt. Live as ALLAH and His Prophet want – not as your ego wants. Holy Prophet saws said that ALLAH is going to lift the haybet from Muslims, so their enemies will finish them – because the Muslims fell in love with dunya and came to hate death.

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

Friday 9 Jumad al-Akhir, 1430

Auzu billahi min ash-sheytanir rajim

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah wa shukr Allah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. How much should we say `astaghfirullah’? Say non-stop. The 21st Century people must be saying non-stop `astaghfirullah’ because everything we are doing is wrong, out of the way. Everything today’s people are running to do is wrong. It’s not according to the orders of Allah and His Prophet (sws) and they are insisting on wrong. So many people are insisting, staying on that wrong road. It’s not a good news. It’s not a good news to them.

Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying, `Obey Allah, obey His Prophet (sws), and obey your rightly guided leaders, those that are giving you news from Akhirat.’ Now it’s obligation to you to be obedient to them. If you are not obedient to them then you are obedient to your ego, to your Sheytan, nothing else. And every Juma that Ayat must be read, saying, `Have fear from Allah. Have fear from Allah and obey Allah.’ Fourteen hundred years it’s continuing non-stop. What happened to Muslims? They are sitting like robots, last minute they are running into masjids, as soon as they finish two rakats they are running out like somebody’s running after them. Must be. Sheytan is saying, `Don’t sit there for a long time. Come outside. You belong to me. You are my slave. We are going together to Jahannam.’ This is what Sheytan is saying to them.

Eh, whichever you like. Holy Prophet (sws) came fourteen hundred years ago. Fourteen hundred years ago all laws of this world has settled and finished. You cannot put anything in it and you cannot take anything out. You want to live like a human? Like a human that Allah and His Prophet (sws) like? You must be obedient to that. If you want to live like your ego says, then live. When Azrail is coming the eternal life is finished.

That is for us. Juma khutba is for Muslims, for Mu’mins. It’s not for unbelievers. Different sohbet to those. Juma khutba is given according to the place and how the people are behaving. That must be showing them the way. Later you cannot say, `I didn’t know’. You are hearing. You must be obeying. If you say, `I am obedient servant to Allah’ then you must be obedient to those words. Don’t look at the man who’s saying the words. Look at the words. The words are coming to you from Allah and His Prophet (sws).

The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `In Ahir Zaman my nation is going to be so many but they are not going to be good for anything. And their enemy is going to eat them, is going to take everything away from them.’ They say, `Ya Rasulullah, is it because they are going to be only a handful?’ He says, `So many they are going to be. But Allah subhana wa ta’ala is going to lift the Heybet of Islam away from them. So when their enemies look at them, they are not going to have any feeling, any fear from them. And they are going to attack them and they are going to finish them.’ That’s what happened today. `It’s because they are going to fall in love with this Dunya. They are going to love Dunya and they are going to hate to hear about death.’ This is what happened to the nation today.

No matter how much you are hating, it’s waiting right in front of you. Don’t forget. You get up early in the morning, you don’t know if you are going to reach to nighttime. Don’t be arrogant and stubborn to say, `I am strong and I am healthy.’ Go and look at the hospitals. Go and look at the morgues. You will understand how many healthy ones are waiting in the morgue to be prepared to be buried today or tomorrow. Go and look at it.

Allah has granted to you 24,000 breaths of life everyday. Everyday you are taking 24,000 in and out. It’s calculated. When that is finished your life is finished. Huh, today’s people don’t know how to spend their breath of life too. They are running around wildly. They don’t keep the orders of Allah and His Prophet (sws). They are sitting under the curses of Allah day and night and their life is shortening.

What we will do with that life? Why Allah has given it to us? Why He has sent us to this world? To be slaves to this world? Is that the reason for believers? To be slaves to the world? To run after the world? Or to prepare themselves for Akhirat life? That’s what the believer is supposed to be. Don’t say, `I am a believer’ and live a lifestyle like the unbelievers. Then you will be counted, you will be entering into the book as hypocrites. The unbelievers, the Kafirs are one step higher than the hypocrites. The hypocrites are in the lowest station of the hell-fire.

These words are for you and for me. Take it or leave it. But don’t forget. You can leave as much as you want but you are going to live as much breath of life as is given to you. When Azrail is going to come, there are two doors going out. One is the door of Rahmat and the other one is the door of Zahmat, difficulties. The way you live, the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, that’s how you are going to die. The way you die, that’s how you are going to rise to the Judgment Day. Look at yourself how you are living. What is your idea for life? Look at it and then understand how you are going to die. If you don’t like it then change it. Change it the way that Allah and His Prophet (sws) want it.

Allah subhana wa ta’ala sent His Prophet (sws) almost fifteen hundred years ago. Who rose against him? All those ones who were in love with Dunya. Those who love Dunya rose against the Holy Prophet (sws). Although they were saying that he is Muhammad-ul Amin, the most trustworthy one. But they rose against him. They rose against what he was saying to them. What was he saying to them? He said, `Don’t concentrate on this Dunya. Concentrate on Akhirat. Leave all the things that you are worshipping. Have fear from Allah and be obedient to Allah.’ This is what he was saying to them. Nothing else. And they all rose against one, saying, `Who are you to tell us this? One person you are coming to tell us this. Who do you think you are?’ They gathered together running to attack him.

Thirteen years the Holy Prophet (sws) didn’t take a knife in his hand in Makkah. They did their worst. They said, `You have to have power to put authority.’ He said, `I am not a Sultan to you. I am a servant. I am Abdullah. I am giving the orders of Allah to you.’ They didn’t stop. They ran wildly non-stop and what happened to them? That one person, Allah is raising him up and up and up and up. All the other ones together going down, down, down. He didn’t have the American government supporting him. Muslims are running today saying, `We want support! We want help!’ Run to get help from the hopeless and the helpless. Don’t run to the masjids of Allah saying, `Ya Rabbi, I am Your servant’ and run to get help from them. Look what happens to you and to them. Look what’s coming.

Wake up to yourselves. Don’t be ignorant and arrogant. Allah’s order is order. It’s not changing. The way that it came fourteen hundred years ago, that’s how it’s working. If you don’t know then it’s obligation to you to learn. It’s obligation to you to run after that. To run, to take and to apply to your life if you want safety in Dunya and Akhirat. If you want only a couple of day’s pleasure, it’s here, this Dunya. But don’t forget. Yesterday is passed and tomorrow is unknown. So if you are going live, live today like a wild animal as you like because you don’t know if you are going to reach for tomorrow. Or, live like a human just the way that Allah and His Prophet (sws) have ordered. Take lesson from yesterday, live today and prepare yourself for a better day tomorrow because Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying, `Your Ahir, the believers Ahir, the one that is coming after, is going to be better than today.’

The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The believer’s today must be better than yesterday. Tomorrow has to be better than today.’ Look at yourself. If your today is better than yesterday and if you have hope that tomorrow is going to be better than today, you are a believer that the Holy Prophet (sws) has given description of. Or otherwise, you are in trouble. Shake yourself up and come back to the Sirat-ul Mustaqim. You are reciting the Surat-ul Fatiha asking to be in Sirat-ul Mustaqim. Stay on Sirat-ul Mustaqim. Don’t run copying the Christians and the Jews. Live Islam. There is no moderation in Islam. Anyone who is thinking that they are going to run to moderate Islam, they lost everything.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Saturday evening; May 30, 2009 (Jumad Thani 6,1430)

Seyh Abdul Kerim Efendi said that leaving your responsibilities brings more problems to your life. ALLAH swt sends His help to the ones who are trying to do good. Don’t concern yourself with other people’s actions. Be concerned with living and dying as a believer. Live with the things that you dislike. Learn to be a servant.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday May 29, 2009 (Jumada Thani 4, 1430)

Sheykh Efendi is saying that ALLAH swt ordered us to drop everything worldly to come to Jummah, because if you are busy with the service of your Lord, the world will run after you. The invitation is to go back to paradise. Use your breath wisely while you live so you will go out of this world through the right door. Be merciful to yourself. It’s never too late to understand what ALLAH swt wants from you. Learn from being with the saliheen (righteous ones).

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RUN TO THE SERVICE OF ALLAH SUBHANA WA TA’ALA

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

Friday 2 Jumad al-Akhir, 1430

Auzu billahi min ash-sheytanir rajim

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Astaghrifullah, astaghrullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. We are asking forgiveness from our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala that we are not keeping His orders. He has created us for His service but the children of Adam, especially in this century, they are running away from the service of their Lord. Males and females. If we are running away from the service of our Lord then we are running toward our ego, towards the orders of Sheytan. For that reason, for this century, people are very sad. No one is happy. Everyone is in trouble someway somehow. Our Lord is saying to us, `When the Juma time is entering and when they are calling you, leave everything. Leave your worldly doings and run to Juma. Know that there is more blessing for you in it than what you are doing. And after Juma run around to this world, wherever you want to go, run for your sustenance, to your Riziq.’

The Nation of Muhammad (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), two billion people on the face of the earth today, if they just keep this order for Juma, by next Juma more power will come. If they will all keep this order and leave everything, Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering, saying, `Leave everything. Whatever you are earning at that time is not going to give any blessing to you. Leave everything and run for the service of your Lord.’ These nations, this Ummat in the east, west, north and south, if they keep that order now and just drop everything and run to the service of our Lord, then this Dunya is going to run after them. As soon as they come out from Juma they are not going to know from where to catch the Dunya. Dunya is going to run after them. That’s the order this world has been taking from our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala. He is saying, `If they leave you and they turn to Me, you run after them. If they run after you, you run away from them.’

And this is what the 21st Century people are doing. They are running after this world, non-stop, top-speed. But no one is catching. The ones who catch it, right on the corner Azrail catches those. He says, `Leave everything and come out of this world!’

So now we have two doors for coming out from this world. The right door or the left one. Whichever one that you are busy with, if you are busy with the service of our Lord, most likely you are going to go out from the right door, the door of mercy, the door to paradise, the door to safety. If you are busy with Dunya then most likely you will be going out from the left door, the door of trouble. People are thinking, `Oh, I have so many problems today.’ Eh, as soon as that door opens, more trouble comes, more problem comes, more suffering comes.

This breath of life is with us now. Use it any way you want. You, I, anyone. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is granting this to us and He is giving invitation to us, saying to us, `I have created you to go back to Paradise. This is the invitation and this is what you have to do to go back to Paradise.’ If you are not doing that then later you have no right to complain about whatever is going to happen.

Everyone’s saying, `Allah’s mercy is there.’ Definitely. Allah’s mercy is covering everything but we are not giving mercy to our own selves because we are not keeping the mercy of Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Outside it’s raining. If you are sitting under the shelter the rain is not going to come to you. If you are standing outside then you are going to be all wet. The Rahmat of Allah subhana wa ta’ala is raining everywhere but the curse is raining too and the children of Adam (as) are running to be under that curse.

And we are the last nations on the face of the earth. It’s not the beginning of the world. It’s not the beginning with Adam (as). No. We are the last of the last. Ahir of the Ahir. The Holy Prophet (sws) is saying that he has been sent in Ahir Zaman, the end of the times. Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `I have been sent to this world at just like the time between Asr and Maghrib prayer.’ What is between Asr and Maghrib prayer? Before you turn left and right the sun is down. The day is gone.

From the day that the Holy Prophet (sws) came at Asr prayer up till now almost 1500 years passed. The sun is about to set. The world is about to end. Everything is about to finish. The children of Adam (as) is still busy twenty-four hours with this Dunya and with their egoistic desires. They are not thinking, `If Azrail is coming to me now, how I will go out from this world?’ Are you keeping yourself busy with Allah or you are keeping yourself busy with this Dunya? If you are busy with Allah subhana wa ta’ala then everything else is coming to you. If you are busy with this Dunya then trouble is not leaving you. And we are seeing that in our lives.

And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is granting mercy to us and we are taking the air in and we are giving it out. He is still giving chance to us to ask forgiveness and to turn around. Never it is too late, never it is too early. Any time it comes to you and you come to that awakening station, you must understand, `I have not been created for this. I have been created for the service of my Lord and I must run after that.’ If you are not doing that, you don’t have too much value then. As Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying, `Your value is like the animals. That’s how animals live too. They eat, they drink, they do their own work and they finish. They go. But we are not created as animals. Allah subhana wa ta’ala has granted us that secret of life to this body, this body became alive moving around. This body is going to earth and your spirit is going back to the origin.

We must think carefully, we must run carefully, we must watch carefully. Everything we do we must do for the sake of our Lord. If we are doing something for the sake of our own ego, it’s not accepted and it’s only temporary pleasure coming with this and everything is finishing. So Allah is asking us, ordering us, forcing us to think. He is saying to us, `We have given you intelligence. Why don’t you think? Why you don’t think? We are giving you intelligence. Why you are not thinking?’ He is asking us. With the intelligence you must think. You must use it in this world. Not in the grave, not hereafter. Intelligence is not to say, `I’m so smart and I am running doing this world so like this, I am putting buildings and I am making…’ That’s not intelligence. That’s worldly. Intelligence is man knowing himself and knowing his Lord, and understanding himself and understanding what the Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala wants from him, and he must run to fulfill that order.

The Holy Prophet (sws) said, `My nation’s life is between 60 to 70 years.’ How much you can catch in 60 or 70 years of time? Whatever is there is going to come to you anyway. Whatever is not for you, as much as you run after it, you are not going to catch it. But the Akhirat is there. And Allah subhana wa ta’ala is keeping the door open to every one of us. He has chosen some people and made them prophets, He has chosen and made them Awliya, but He is saying to us that the door of Awliya is open. As much as you run, as much sincerity you have, as much Taqwa you have, you may reach to higher stations and you may open that door.

And make sure that we go out from this world not blind because our Lord is saying, `If you die blind, if you go out from this world blind then you will get up to Judgment Day as blind too.’ He is not talking to us `blind’ about these eyes. No. He is saying, `Blind, the man who is not seeing his own reality what is in front of him.’ You must open your eyes. We must open those eyes and we must see what is for us. What our Lord Allah subhana wa ta’ala has prepared for us, and go out from this world with those eyes open. If the man goes out from this world blind, he is finished. So many people came, friends of Allah, they were not seeing physically. They were seeing spiritually. And that order is given to every one of us. We must open those eyes.

So we must be busy, not with Dunya, we must be busy with that, to try to open those eyes. Once those eyes are open, you leave this Dunya completely anyway. You don’t care for anything for this Dunya. But you must be busy running after opening those eyes. You must be running to those people who have the secrets, they have the code that they will give to you to open those eyes. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is giving our secrets to some other ones hands. We must run and we must find them. He is giving order to us, `Be with Saliheen. Be with the righteous people.’ And being with them is learning from them, listening to them and making our life better, inshaAllah ar-Rahman.

This much should be enough for you and for me.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, May 29, 2009 (Jumad Thani 5, 1430)

Someone asked a question. Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi responded by saying to take one fault at a time and try to correct it. ALLAH swt, His Holy Prophet pbuh, and the awliya are watching you. They are watching to see if you correct your mistakes. Make rabita every day to understand what you are doing wrong in their eyes. What are you doing and what was your intention? Make tauba and ask for their help. Then try to not do those things, and to become a better servant. Every day the believer must progress. Then the veils of the heart begin to open.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday afternoon; May 29, 2009 (Jumad Thani 5,1430)

Someone asked a question. Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi responded by saying that the good manner of a servant is to ask with humility. The more you understand the greatness of ALLAH swt and your own weakness as a creature, the more you will humble yourself, to beg for what you need.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Thursday evening; May 28, 2009 (Jumad Thani 3, 1430)

Şeyh Efendi is saying that blessing is coming through association and sohbet. Education in schools teaches about the world. Holy associations teach about ahirat (life hereafter) and the road back to Paradise. The holy ones follow the example of Holy Prophet Muhamad saws. They show the way back through Islam and the lifestyle of Holy Prophet aleyh as-salatu ve selam. Sayidina Mehdi aleyhi selam and Hazreti Isa aleyhi selam are coming – so is dajjal (anti-christ). Hold on to your sheikh.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday May 15, 2009 (Jumada Awal 20, 1430)

Be with good ones. Don’t take titles for yourself; the good ones will give you title of ‘servant.’ Keep your tongue. Say only good things. Once shaitan was a good one, but he was proud of himself. He forgot he was a servant. Become one of the good ones to be ready for going out from this world.

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THE WAY YOU LIVE IS THE WAY YOU WILL DIE

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

Friday 20 Jumad al-Awwal, 1430

Auzu billahi min ash-sheytanir rajim

Alhamdulillah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is ordering to us, saying, `Be with Saliheen. Be with righteous people. Be with good ones.’ We are asking, `Why do we want to be with good ones? Don’t we have enough goodness given to us?’ He says, `Be with them.’ And being with a good one, your behavior and your manner must change everyday, must become better, you must become a better one everyday. If you are not becoming a better one everyday, it’s enough sign showing that you are going far distance away from Allah subhana wa ta’ala.

21st Century people are claiming everything. Empty promises. Everyone likes the good things. But to be a good one you have to be with a good one. Not to give titles to yourself saying, `I am a good one’. They have to give to you that you are becoming a good one. Or otherwise, you are not a good one. You have to watch, what the man does? How he does the good things? With what? He does it with his tongue, he does it with his hands, he does it with his head, he does it with his wealth. Watch. Are you saying good things? Are you talking good things? Are you going out of your way with your wealth to help others? Are you sitting down, thinking and coming with ideas to make other ones to become good ones? Are you going around changing the bad things through your hands? If not, you are not making any progress.

`Eh Sheykh, we are working.’

You work for yourself. You are working and you are earning money for yourself. Nothing else. Don’t call yourself a good one now, because if you don’t do the job right then you are going to get kicked out. You are not going to get paid. What are you doing for Allah and for His Prophet (sws) and for your religion? For your loved ones? Are you opening your mouth, using your tongue to bring yourself to fire? Or you are opening your mouth to say something that gives benefit to others. As the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Either speak something that will give benefit to others or keep silent.’ Don’t speak until Judgment Day if it’s necessary. If you are not going to speak something that is good, that is going to give benefit to others then keep your tongue for yourself because man is suffering from two parts of his body in the Judgment Day. He is committing all sins, all wrong things with two main parts of his body. One is his tongue and the other one is his private part. Watch how you are using these.

Sheytan was a good one once upon a time. He was worshipping, he was doing things right. When he became proud with himself, he thought that he is something now. Yes, and he said, `I am something. And the Lord is giving me order to make Sejdah to this one? It cannot be. I am better.’ What made him to be kicked out from the Divine Presence? Proudness. He was too proud with himself. Which one is not proud in this 20th Century? From seven years old to seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred, entering to the grave and still proud. How foolish is that? Is that a foolishness? The big one. The real big one.

Don’t you look at yourself? Is man not looking at himself to understand who is he and who is his Lord? And being proud with yourself with the things that you do? You can change this world. Allah gives you power and you change the world from bad to good, the whole world. If He gives you power and you change it now, you still have no right to be proud with yourself. Who are you? A servant. Can the servant be proud? Servant. That’s the title you are going to get. That’s the title you must run after. That is the title you must get before you go out from this world. If you go out with other titles that you are giving to yourself or couple of other fools give to you, sit and think again. If you are going out with those titles from the world, you are paying a great price.

If you reach to become a good one then you have no problem in the grave. You have no problem in the Judgment Day. In the place of Harasat you have no problem. They don’t keep you there. If they keep you under the sun you are in trouble. Allah subhana wa ta’ala is saying, `Now is the time we are separating the good ones from the bad ones.’ Good ones will be separated then. Now everyone is sitting together. Yeah. Everyone looks good. Look at yourself. You may fool the whole world. Don’t fool yourself. Look at your behaviors, look at your manners, look at the business that you are busy with. You will understand if you are a good one or a bad one. You will understand. And if you do good things then definitely everyday you get closer to Allah subhana wa ta’ala one step. One step ahead everyday. One step ahead everyday. If you are standing like that (straight up), then you must become humble. That is the sign that now you are understanding, you are coming closer and you are connecting yourself.

So Allah subhana wa ta’ala is giving order to us, saying, `Be with the good ones.’ Being with the good ones is learning from them, taking from them, applying it to your life. He is saying to us to be with good ones. He sent 124,000 prophets to us. They are all good ones. He sent all these Awliya to us. They are all good ones.

`Is there any Awliya now? They are all in the grave.’

Take your comforter and your pillow and go sleep next to them then. That shows how fool you are too again. One goes out from this world and Allah appoints another one for his place. Never is empty. But the peoples’ badness is so bad in these days that they cannot see the good ones anymore. So the good ones pulled themselves to the corners, saying, `If you are really looking for it, you are going to run to me. I am not going to come to you anymore because you are circling inside the jungle. You are spending your time inside the sewer.’ Yes. When a man is busy with Malayani, when a man is busy with something that doesn’t concern him, it’s just like he is sitting inside the sewer, sewerage. Dirty smell comes out from that one too. The ugliness comes out from the face. You can put as much powder you want to your face. You can wash yourself with perfume. You cannot cover that. To those ones whose hearts are open, smell is coming out. Whose eyes are open, they look and they see whatever is in your heart through your face.

So, don’t fool yourself. Run to be a good one. If you don’t become a good one before you go out from this world, you are in trouble. Who are not good ones? The animals. That means you have not reached to the station to become human. You went out from this world as an animal. So the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The way you live, that’s how you will die. They way you will die, that’s how you will rise in the Judgment Day.’ If you are living with the animal characteristics and the angel of death reaches to you, you will enter to the grave as whatever the characteristic of the animal you are carrying at that time. You will be in that shape.

And what is he saying? The way you will die, that’s how you will rise. If you die in that situation then you will rise on the Judgment Day in that situation. You’ll look at yourself and say, `I was a human. But no. I look like a donkey now.’ Hmm. Yes. And some monkeys came out saying that they are monkeys. No. Allah subhana wa ta’ala has changed the children of Bani Israil that they became disobedient to their prophets. They didn’t listen to them and the curse reached to them from Allah subhana wa ta’ala and some groups He changed them into monkeys and some groups he changed them into pigs. They were humans. They changed into that position while they were living.

And Allah is giving warning to us through His prophets, saying, `The way you live, that’s how you will die. They way you will die, that’s how you will rise.’ If you are still going to take this life as a game, if you are still going to talk nonsense here and there and hee hee hee, haa haa haa, giggling, showing that you are happy but you are the most unhappy creature on the face of the earth, because that is the sign. Anybody going, hee hee hee, that’s showing as a sign that he is unhappy, that one. You still want to be busy with that, welcome to you. Azrail doesn’t have too much time. He is going to come to you too. Don’t worry. He is circling around. And if you are keeping yourself busy with that still, that means you are not believing these words because if you do then you must be shaking yourself. Your heart must be shaking. You must be understanding. If you are still keeping yourself busy with that then the faith is not there. You already lost that faith a long time ago.

So shake yourself up. We must look at ourselves. We must look at ourselves everyday how much good we are becoming, how close we are coming to our Lord, how close we are coming to our Prophet (sws) and how close we are coming to those that Allah and His Prophet (sws) love. You can say whatever you want to yourself, some other ones can give some other titles to you, it’s staying in this world. You must go out from this world with a title in your hand, `Servant of the Lord’. If you do that, if you go out from this world, you will become the winner, you will become the winner of Akhirat. If not, live as you like but don’t forget, you are going to die.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Thursday evening; May 14, 2009 (JumadAwal 19, 1430)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is asking “Are you a tool for ahl ul-Haq or a tool for shaitan?” Running after dunya is like running after your shadow – you never catch it. Run to Holy Prophet pbuh and let dunya run after you. Do not make confusion.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday, May 8, 2009 (Jumad Awal 13, 1430)

Sheykh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that when a person accepts Islam, it is necessary to replace all the habits that do not fit Islam. You must learn to live in the way of Islam.

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Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Friday May 8, 2009 (Jumadal Awwal 4, 1430)

The original order is faith – believe in ALLAH swt and believe in ahirat. Prophets were sent to show people how to have safety in the next life. People are forgetting that they will die. They must follow the orders of the prophets. We are blessed with being the Nation of Muhammad pbuh and with having given shehada. But if you are not holding to the order of ALLAH and His Prophet, your safety in ahirat is in question. Fix yourself – for your safety, follow the Shaykh, not your ego and shaytan.

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THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE IS TO BELIEVE IN ALLAH AND IN AKHIRAT

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

Friday 13 Jumad al-Awwal, 1430

Auzu billahi min ash-sheytanir rajim

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah wa atubu ilaih. We are asking forgiveness from our Lord, to forgive us for our shortcomings. We lost the direction. Mankind lost the compass and direction and not looking to find it. We have entered to the era of the last days. But from the beginning, from the first day until the last day, nothing has changed. People may change, people make ideas according to themselves but the original message and original order has not changed. What’s the original order? Faith.

In the beginning of this children of Adam (as) on this planet, that’s the order that came to them. `Believe in Allah and believe in Akhirat life.’ Allah sent 124,000 prophets to give reminder to every nation. From those who passed, the ones who accepted the order from the prophets and lived according to their orders, they are in safety right now. Those who didn’t, they are in trouble right now. We still have this breath of life with us. But the 21st Century people became very Firaun. They are taking the air in and out and thinking that they are never going to die and running to do all kinds of crimes, to themselves in reality. It’s because whatever you do is for you. If it’s good then you’ll be rewarded. If it’s bad then you are giving invitation to punishment.

So the original message is to believe. Believe in Allah and believe in Akhirat. Believing in Allah, the prophets are coming and saying, `Believe in Allah and His Prophet’, whoever is the prophet of that time. They must believe. Believing in the prophets is not just to say, `I believe’ and that’s it. You must follow the orders those prophets brought.

So it’s the 21st Century. Almost 1500 years ago Allah subhana wa ta’ala sent the Last Prophet (sws), the Seal of Prophets (sws) and He blessed us to be one from his Nation. All prophets wanted to be from the Nation of Muhammad (sws). But in response to them Allah is saying, `I am pleased with you in this station, what I gave to you.’ To the Nation of Muhammad (sws), just to believe, just to give that Shahadat, Allah made it easy for us to give that Shahadat, it is a big blessing. But how we are living? Are we living according to the orders of our Prophet (sws) or according to our ego? From the first day, this is what Adam (alayhi salam) was teaching his children, to believe in Allah subhana wa ta’ala. But from that time one group of them accepted their father, one group didn’t. They became unbelievers. And from that time until now it’s continuing and until the Last Day it’s going to continue. Just in one small period of time, in the time of Mahdi (alayhi salam) and Isa (alayhi salam) [it will not be so]. Then it’s going to change again.

We are very near to those days. And people are going to change positions and places. If you are not holding tightly to the order of Allah and His Prophet (sws) then it is a big question mark. It is a dangerous time waiting for every one of us. What’s keeping away just not accepting two orders of Allah? Believe in Allah and Akhirat. What is it that’s keeping you away? The love of this Dunya, the love of your ego and whispering from Sheytan. Nothing else. So look at it.

`Eh, I am accepting the Prophet (sws). I am not accepting anything else.’

You are accepting your ego. You are accepting the orders of your ego. That is the meaning of that. How are you knowing the Prophet (sws)? From where are you knowing the Prophet (sws)? If you are really following the footsteps of the Holy Prophet (sws) then you must follow the footsteps of the Sahaba-e Kiram. The Sahaba followed the Prophet (sws). Who are you following? Are you following directly the Prophet (sws)? Impossible.

So Sheytan is coming with so many tricks and traps for the 21st Century people because the 21st Century people say they are believers through the tongue. Through the heart their hearts are circling around in so many wrong places. And when our Sheykhs are coming and telling us something, we don’t like it then. So you’re not following the orders of the Prophet (sws). You’re following the orders of your ego. And the ego is taking directions and orders from Sheytan. The master of ego is Sheytan, whispering, giving ways, directions.

So we entered through one door and we are going out from the other one. As the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `The life of my nation on this earth is between 60 and 70 years.’ Check yourselves. Put your accounting in front of you. Look how you lived your life after the maturity age. Look what you did, where you ran, how you lived and why you lived. And if you still have the luxury to run wild to say, `I do as I like’, or to run after this world, or to run after your lower self’s desires, or to accept the orders from your ego, you are free. The door that you just entered is about to finish. The road is about to finish to come out from the other side. The breath of life that is given to mankind is counted. 24,000 are given to you daily. Today’s people don’t know how to take the air in too, shortening your lives. Because there is no Ibadat, shortening your lives. Because of not believing in Allah and His Prophet (sws) correctly, shortening your lives. And the life is short, short, short, and before accomplishing your mission you may find that Azrail is standing in front of you.

Leave everything else. Advice to you and to me. Leave everything else. Be busy with yourself. Do a favor to yourself. Be busy with yourself. Fix yourself before Azrail is coming. The tricks and the traps of this Dunya, if you are busy with this Dunya, then you are not accepting Sheykh, then you are not accepting the Prophet (sws), then you are not accepting Allah subhana wa ta’ala. You are just accepting your ego. You are saying something but living some other lifestyle. This is not what Allah wants from us. Allah subhana wa ta’ala sent 124,000 prophets, He sent books, He sent so many Awliya to us to teach how to live, how to keep ourselves on the Sirat-ul Mustaqim and to go out from this world that way. If we keep that we will be the winner. If not, there are two doors going out from this Dunya. Either the door of Rahmat, mercy, or the door of curse. If you don’t know how to live, if you don’t stand on the Sirat-ul Mustqim, you cannot be reaching to the door of Rahmat because you are choosing another road. Dunya road is leading people to the door of curse.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.