Friday Evening Sohbet: Protect Your Shahadat

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

Friday, RabiulAwal 29, 1432 (March 4, 2011)

Seyh Abdul Kerim Efendi is saying that although the Muslims of today have faith in their hearts, they have lost their religion and that they are running after all wrong kinds of knowledge, especially from the internet and facebook. Muslims today are running after western knowledge but western knowledge is only planting seeds of distrust of Prophet (SAWS) in their hearts. The most important thing and the foundation for a Muslim is the Shahadat. sheytan is running to fool Muslims and take their Shahadat away. Seyh Efendi is mentioning the remembrance of death and saying that in these days Muslims must protect their Shahadat.

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Protect Your Shahadat

Destur, Medet. Euzubuillahi min al-Sheytan el-Rejim.

BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIM,
BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIM!

Muslims’ troubles are coming because they have forgotten BismillahirRahmanirRahim:
What happened to us, to Muslims? They forgot BismillahirRahmanirRahim. Everywhere anything you do you have to start with that. If you are not starting saying Euzubuillahi min al-Sheytan el-Rejim, BismillahirRahmanirRahim, you are not asking shelter from Allah (SWT) running away from Sheytan to Allah. And BismillahirRahmanirRahim, not saying, that is a sword against to Sheytan, then your job is going to be connected with Sheytan. That’s why 21st century, 20th, 21st century Muslims, we are seeing that, anywhere that they are aiming, it’s not working. And everyone coming with questions, saying, “Your religion maybe is wrong because it’s not working.”
We are seeing that Muslims, they are suffering. It is good, because Allah (SWT) is reminding His servants, because He’s saying to us that those ones that I don’t care, I don’t give care, I don’t even give them a tooth pain in this world, this way they will not remember Me at all.

Incidents happening to Muslims but they not waking up, they not remembering, they not trying to understand why things are not happening, why it’s not working for us. So Euzubuillahi min al-Sheytan el-Rejim, BismillahirRahmanirRahim.

Medet Ya Seyyidi Sultan el-Evliya Medet.

The authority of the world is in the hands of the Holy Ones:
We are asking help and support from the Holy Ones that they are holding the authority and the ruling of this world in reality in their hand. Don’t look at outside this ones that elected selected ones. They just electing yesterday tomorrow they are going. But there is Holy Ones that they are holding. If they are not turning it right, it’s not going to turn. It’s not turning it left, it’s not going to turn.

Heedlessness is causing Muslims to lose their religion:
So Muslims as we say, they became heedless because they have forgot their religion. Saying yes we are Muslims. Mashallah. Faith? Faith is there. Faith is inside but the faith is like a seed. And you put the seed there and if you are not pouring water in it, it’s never going to grow. If it’s staying out there, if that seed staying out there, keep it there 1000 years, put water in it, it’s not going to work again. So the seed has to be in the ground and you have to put water in it for that to grow to come out to see what kind tree it is, what kind fruit it’s going to give to you. And we are looking to Muslims today, we are looking to Islamic world, today no fruits anymore. The trees they dried out. Used to be a trees, yes, trunks and big branches reaching everywhere, meaning Islam is reaching everywhere. But the tree is gone, no more fruits, and Muslims became very heedless, in Gaflet.

Shahadat is the foundation:
They are saying Shahadat, yes, lets renew our Shahadat because Holy Prophet saying (AS), every time remembering you must renew your Shahadat. Renew your Shahadat make your faith growing more and you must and you should be living for this Shahadat if you are a believer. You should be holding the Shahadat strong and high. You should not change anything for that Shahadat.
So let’s renew our faith saying “Ashadu an-la-ilaha il-Allah, wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu.”

Now this is foundation. Now we can build something on it. Without foundation you cannot build nothing, whatever you built its going to crash down. So the Shahadat is our foundation. Then we can start building. As strong as the foundation is, you can put the strongest building on top of it. So continuously, you cannot escape from this now. You cannot say, well the prayer, I need to make wudu, I need to make this, no! At least keep the Shahadat alive in your heart. Anytime you remembering say, “Ashadu an-la-ilaha il-Allah, wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu.”

This is why you have been created. This is the reason of mankind that they have been created to know Allah and to worship Allah (SWT). And knowing Allah (SWT) it is knowing, you must start knowing yourself. And knowing yourself you have to continuously saying this Shahadat and its going to start growing.

Today mankind is learning wrong knowledge from western education:
In reality the man with a wisdom, when he is looking at the seed he knows what kind of tree is going to come out from that seed. He knows what kind of fruit is going to be from it. Because whole secret of that tree it is hidden in that seed. The western knowledge is teaching you, which Muslims they lose their, as we say, they lose their religion. Why they lose their religion? Because they are running for western knowledge. They are running to materialistic knowledge. They are running to learn. But learning what? And it’s in everybody’s tongue they knew couple of ayats, from males to females, saying, “Sheykh, isn’t it Allah saying, first order and first ayat. Iqra, read?” Yes, definitely, but what to read? Read what? Do you think Allah (SWT) saying to you, go to secular schools, go to Sheytanic schools, go to schools that they are teaching you that you came from Darwin. Oh not Darwin. From monkey. They are teaching you the Darwin theory, evolution. Is that what Allah is telling us, to learn this, Iqra, read that? Or He’s telling you to read magazine? Or newspaper? Or He’s telling you to sit front of your computer, which today from 7 years old to 70 years old, they all busy with computers. And I’m saying what are you learning? Yes, they made it so good that you can carry the whole library in your hand. But how many people they have the knowledge, how many people looking. No, just, say, what are you doing? I’m chatting, messaging, watching my Facebook. Heh, watch your Facebook. Make more fitna. That’s exactly what’s happening. Writing back and forth, now today’s people, whatever happening in their bedroom, or in their toilet, in their house, the whole world is watching through internet saying, “Facebook, I’m just, I’m going to toilet right now. I’m going to sleep right now. I’m getting up right now. I’m going down now.”

Why you are spreading this knowledge? What is that going to give to you? Nothing. But the Sheytan is there to take the people to extreme, all the way to the end, to the wrong direction. That time they not going to be busy to understand that, yes I lost my religion. You have a faith definitely, but you have no religion, you lost the religion, you not knowing the religion. And anyone who’s trying to know the religion now they have to go to western books to learn religion, and now because of that, we’ll be like this, because we lost our religion.

Western knowledge is teaching Muslims to have suspicion about the Holy Prophet (AS):
Why? Because Holy Prophet have been sent, (AS), to teach us to bring us to the highest level, to complete the good manner. And completing good manner it’s coming, knowing yourself, knowing your religion, knowing your Lord. Otherwise you cannot. Knowing religion it is not that you just learn from your mother, your father, your parents, from your country that you came and going and making salat. It’s not that. When Holy Prophet came, (AS), he was Muhammad El-Amin. Everyone was calling him Muhammad El-Amin. Even Abu Jahil was calling him Muhammad El-Amin. Everyone was calling him. What is the meaning? The Most Trustworthy One. Whatever he is saying, and we can depend on his word. And Muhammad El-Amin, one night, overnight, became liar, Hasha Astagfirullah. When he said to them, now say La ilaha il-Allah Muhammad Rasulallah, they saying, “No we not believing in you, we not following you. You are wrong.” This is what they say that time. Up till now this is what they are saying.

Especially these westerns that you running after to learn something from them. Yes, what you going to learn? I’ll tell you what you’re going to learn. You going to learn to have suspicion about your Prophet, that’s what you’re going to learn. That’s what they are teaching you. If it’s not, you are believing in Akhirat, you are believing that Angel of Death is going to come to you, you are believing that it may visit you right now. If you are not believing, I am telling you. Think little bit. Do you think that Angel of Death may come to you right now, do you think that Angel of Death may come to me right now, while I am speaking, fffft, it falls down and you go ? Yes, definitely; have you reached to that level to say to Angel of Death, Azrail, who are you? Everyone talking too much in these days, yes.

If you do not have permission to speak, keep silent:
And we say, you have the knowledge to talk? If you have knowledge to talk, talk . If you are giving permission to talk, talk. If you are not giving permission, because it’s giving mouth, don’t talk. Everyone is giving mouth. First you have to learn. And what did you learn you have to digest it. You have to live in yourself then you have to give something to others. Otherwise, no permission. You’ll be responsible in the Judgment Day every word you are saying. I’ll be responsible from every word that I am saying. I am not caring from that camera, or from you, from anyone, but I am caring from the angels that they are watching and they are recording. And they going to bring that in the Judgment Day front of me, front of my Lord saying, you said this. Where is your proof, how did you speak these things? From where you have the permission to speak? Is not that easy.

(So keep the children quiet little bit. Keep those children not to make noise. 10-15 minutes.)

People are living for their egos:
So the important is now not how much you know. It’s not how much you read. It’s how much you are applying from that knowledge to your life and how much you are living with it. That’s important. And Inshallahur-Rahman, if we are learning our religion, then definitely we going to learn, we going to understand the value of this world that time. We not going spend our valuable time with nonsense because Allah (SWT) has giving you one life, not two. And majority of people spending the breath of life for nothing, just coming and going. Just living by mistakenly. Not knowing why they are living. Ask, say, why you are living? People say, what kind question is this. Why am I living? Yeah, why you are living? What is your purpose in this life. What are you going to do. Who are you living for? Oh! Who else, me, myself, and my ego.

That’s what 21st century people doing. Living for themself. Living for their ego. Directed, ego is directed by Sheytan. Sheytan is the master of the ego, Sheytan is the teacher of the ego, whispering, “Pst pst, this way, that way.”

Your conscience, your spirit, your reality saying to you, “No you cannot do this, this is wrong.”
Your ego saying “No, I want it, you gotta do it this way. That’s the way I want it.”

The characteristic of ego is to be rebellious. What it did first time when Allah (SWT) created ego, He put ego in front of Him saying, “Who are you and who am I?”

Ego says, “You are You and I am me.”

Isn’t that what everyone is saying in these days. “Who you talking to me? You talking to me? It’s me.”

Muslims are stuck but the life is ticking:
Haha, yes. How long you going to be here. Do you know? If you know how long you going to be here, speak. As I say earlier, when Angel of Death is coming to you, say to him, say to that one, don’t you dare making mistakes, because that one has no mercy when he’s coming. Don’t make no mistakes. Even Prophets they were shivering from that one. But can you say to that one, “Who are you to take my life? Are you the one who give this life and you going to take?”

That takes full power faith. Meaning your faith has to be full level, 100%. That means you are filling your tank all the time, your tank is up, filled. Never going down. I’m watching you have telephones, every minute, people putting on the plug, saying, I gotta go on the Facebook now, so it takes lots of energy. Or I gotta go to, what is that…music, or video, or whatever. You have to have full power. Are you checking the level of your faith? You get up this morning. Did you check what is the level? Did you check how much fuel you have in it? You are sitting in the car and holding the steering wheel, you think you going? You are not going anywhere. There is nothing in it. That’s why what we say in the beginning, Muslims they not going anywhere. They are stuck. They not going forward. Only time that they moving, they going backward. They not going forward. But the Azrail is taking. Your life is clicking. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

Today’s people are occupied with wrong thinkings and cannot remember:
The breath of life that is giving to you, you finish another day today. When Magrib is happened, your book is closed. Your page has been taken, whatever you did today, it’s taking, up there, someplace. I’m not going to talk to you about that place now because you have no clue. Up there, someplace. It is under security. No one can change it up till Judgment Day. Judgment Day it’s going to come front of you. O my servants, what did you do in these days. You going to remember everything. Today’s people they don’t remember what they did yesterday never mind what they eat lunch time they don’t remember. What did you eat lunch? Huh, yeah, you don’t remember because you are occupied with so many wrong thinkings. Just like your computer, computer has gigabytes, megabytes, bigabytes, terabytes. This up there also has feelings. This is a movie camera that works 24 hours nonstop, it’s filling. Anywhere you look its recording and you filling your memory chips. And you are not knowing how to delete it. You are not knowing how to get rid of the wrong ones. And once you fill it up you not remember anything what you did yesterday.

What is the reason that we are living?:
So why are we living? What is the purpose of this life? Just to eat and drink and to have families, sex, children? Build house, car, and die? This flower is so good. Beautiful. You are not taking the flower and throwing it front of sheep or a goat to eat. Although that there is some people that I am watching they are eating rose now too. They have worse than goat. But, say, this flower we cannot give it to the goat because it’s green. It’s beautiful. Hm. Do you think that Allah (SWT) who created you with such a beauty, everyone is saying watching the mirror they only seeing themself. But Allah (SWT) gave beauty to everyone. If you are seeing wrong somewhere something is wrong with you. Allah created everyone in their perfection. The most perfect. Hm? Isn’t that what He is saying to us?

And He created the man the most perfect one. And He have sent the man all the way down to asfal as-safilin, to lowest place. Lowest place is this Dunya. Yes. For what? To know his Lord. To do good things. Not running for your ego. So we have to learn now why we are living and who are we living for. And if you are not accepting that, then I say don’t die. Don’t leave this world. But you know you going to. So first you have to know why you are living. This way, it generates it gives you energy to understand, who created me? What should I do with it now? You cannot understand your ego just sitting over there and thinking and meditating. Today, also, Muslims, as I say, they falling in so much heedless situation, that they are sitting in the Masjids and when I’m watching and they are sitting like yogis. Saying what are you doing? Saying, I’m making meditation, yoga style. Reyyy, empty head, yogism, if that was going to give something, don’t you think that all yogis they were going to be complete by now. The whole India part is going to be reaching to the Sirdatul Muntaha. But they not going anywhere. Why you running to follow that? Doesn’t Allah (SWT) is giving you ways to complete yourself? Didn’t your Prophet came to teach you that? Yes, he did.

You are a prisoner between two breaths:
But as we say again let me remind you again, you don’t know the religion. Because of that you have to run here, you have to run there, you have to fulfill the emptiness that it looks empty there, you have to fulfill it something else. Because we are not knowing our religion. They shut down everything not to teach you your religion. So we have to know we have to turn back to our own self. We have to understand. It’s not uprising here and there. Muslims today they are uprising, saying we want more freedom. Freedom! Freedom! America has freedom. We are free. And? We want freedom too. What America did with their freedom? Where they reach and you looking for? You are living in it, how free you are? (Deep breath) I tell you how free you are. You are a prisoner between two breaths. That how free you are. If Allah (SWT) doesn’t permit, breath in, you cannot take the air in, and you die. And the air that you just took in, say it is mine. Don’t give it out. Everyone is claiming everything is mine. Take the air. Say “it’s mine.” If doesn’t permit, the air doesn’t come out, and you die. Are you still going to claim that you are free? Are you still going claim to say I do as I like. How you going to do as you like that you are a prisoner between two breath. But we not seeing that because it’s so much heedlessness, it’s so much Gaflet. Yes. When you have the right to say? You may earn the right to say that I am free when you completely submit yourself to your Lord. And as Allah (SWT) saying, die before you die. And you taste that, and that spirit, your time is not up yet, it’s putting back to you. You be able to take it out and circle around and come back in too that time. That time you are free. Otherwise no freedom.

Heart must be busy with Allah (SWT) and His Prophet (AS):
And to reach to that, it’s not that easy. It’s not just to say I am doing this and I am doing that and I’m going to reach there. Because there is so many other enemies watching you, surrounding you for that spirit to leave the body to attack. Even the time when you are dying, they are circling around, waiting that they may capture that spirit. Depending what you were busy with. If you were busy with the good ones, and you will find protection surrounding you. If you are busy with the bad ones, with ugly ones, you going to find those ones. And they going to take that spirit so your Akhirat is going to be worse than this Dunya. So all this, we are falling into this situation as of believers, as of Muslims, because as we say in the beginning, we are believers. You are a believer. Definitely you are a believer because if you didn’t have no faith, what is your business here? Why you came here? You have a faith, your faith just brought you here. But we have to check the level of our faith. Where is it? At least to know how much juice I have in my phone. You know that. It’s showing it to you. Has a track, has a battery, saying, heh, this much you have, this percentage you have. This is so simple thing. You gotta check the level of the faith. To see where is the level of your faith. And checking that you have to charge it all the time. And the only way charging it, you have to remember your Lord. Continuously. Saying Allah. Heart must say Allah. Everywhere you turn, any job that you going to do, BismillahirRahmanirRahim, BismillahirRahmanirRahim, Bismillah. From inside doesn’t have to be outside. Your heart must be busy with your Lord, has to be busy with your Lord. You have to be busy with your Prophet. You have to be busy with the love of the Prophet and the love of the Prophet comes saying, Allahumma Salli Ala Sayyidina Muhammad. Remembering that Prophet. Sending selawat to that Prophet. We going to be sorry for these days that we are spending in this world with heedlessness.

Everyone is complaining today:
Even those ones watching through the cemeteries, everyone complaining. Believers they are complaining. The people who was believers and they were complaining day and night, they are complaining. And unbelievers they are complaining. Unbelievers, watch the cemeteries, go, they will speak to you but you are not hearing anything. Unbelievers they are saying, “how much Gaflet I was in. Such a great Gaflet that I was in that Lord of the Heavens and the Earth, my Creator, my Master, my Owner, gave me life, gave me all this thing, and I didn’t remember only one time, I didn’t say one time La ilaha il-Allah. How foolish I am?”

That one cursing itself. You don’t have to put that one in the fire. The fire of regret, it’s burning more than the fire. Because it’s too late now. So the people who believes but they not living according to their belief and continuously complaining, “I don’t like this, I don’t want this, this is no good, that is no good, this is…,” they are in trouble. They are saying to themself, how foolish I was. Everything was giving to me and I was complaining day and night. I was complaining day time, at least I shouldn’t complain night time. This way all this snakes coming into this grave, it will be little bit less. Hm…you have visitors waiting on the other side too, believe it or not. You can call that self, fear, whatever you want to call, that’s the reality. Whatever you filling that up with. So that one is regretting. The believers that they are running and doing so many good things, they are also regretting, saying, “how foolish I was, I say this many Allah, I should have say more. My mouth and my heart should be busy with that 24 hours. This way not this station in paradise but I will reach to that station.” And that one is regretting.

The Earth grinds the ones that do not complete themselves in Dunya:
That’s what is going to happen in our end. We didn’t reach to that yet. But that’s what it will happen. What will happen is, when you enter to the grave, don’t think that grave is just an empty place and people they just putting some dirt on you and they walking away and everything finish. And sometimes later go and open the grave, you going to find nothing from that one, that’s true. That one didn’t complete his mission that’s why the earth has to finish that one. Earth has to grind. Ground, ground, you know what is ground? Coming from what? Grinding, it’s going to grind that one. It’s going to bring end to that one completely. If you are not completing yourself in this Dunya, you going to complete yourself in the grave. Don’t leave it to the grave; the process of grave is very difficult. If it’s not in the grave, you going to have long day in the Judgment Day. One Judgment Day, one day, it is 50,000 years.

Your eyes are fooling you:
So wake up to yourself. Everything is not as you see. This eyes are also fooling you. So many things that you not seeing with this eyes but you cannot deny them. And so many things that you seeing with these eyes but they are saying to you wrong, they are showing you wrong. You are seeing it wrong. But it looks real! But it’s not. For instance, when you look at the sun, or the moon, you are just looking, ah, it’s round, say, disc, no bigger than that. It’s not disc, disc is not that big.

Murid: (Tray.)

Tray! One big tray. Round tray, hm? That’s what it looks like. Ask to yourself. That’s what your eyes is seeing. Smarty smarty Boston University tube babies, that they are knowing so much, so much knowledge, and ask yourself, eh Eyes, you are fooling me now, huh? The sun is not that big. But it’s that big! That’s what is there. As big as this tray. Is it reality big as that tray? You ask that to yourself you know it. So the reality the eyes that is looking is fooling you. You fooling your own self. And, say, where is East? There. Sun is rising from there. And? Sun is setting there, in the West. No! It’s not rising! Sun is not rising and sun is not setting, in reality. But you are just sitting, if you sit from morning up till night time, you going to see. Allah Allah, sun is rising there, it’s really, and noon-time it’s up there. And night time it’s setting on that side. Next day coming there again. Allah Allah. So it’s rising. And it’s setting. That’s what the eyes is showing to you. But the Ilm-e-Ledun, the other knowledge, is teaching you the reality is not that. Sun is not rising. And sun is not setting.

So what I am trying to say to you, that everything that you see with your eyes that doesn’t mean it’s real. Everything that you not seeing with your eyes, that doesn’t mean that it’s not there. If you open these eyes (Sheykh Efendi points to heart), definitely you going to see something else that time. That time, that knowledge, intelligence and the heart knowledge, is going to complete it, to each other. So you going to do miracles that time. Miracles is going to come out from your hand that time. But we are in Gaflet. Who can do? That door is open to everybody. To the servants of Allah (SWT). Allah saying (SWT), it is for you. I granted that to you. To the Children of Adam. There, there is no separation that time male and female. Female going there too. But the females now running in these days to say we are equal with the mens. We want to build feminism. And what’s going to happen? Don’t you see what they did? What a mess they make? And you became the part of that mess. If you are equal, we not going to call female, only we have to call all males equal. Or all females.

Either following Allah (SWT)’s and His Prophet (AS)’s orders, or orders of Sheytan:
But the Sheytan is coming from every side, from every direction. To fool who? To fool Children of Adam. He is very angry with the Children of Adam. Because Children of Adam became reason for that Sheytan to come out from the Paradise. That’s why he’s making oath, saying, I’m going to take them with me to Jehennem. And our Lord saying, “Well those ones that they going to leave My orders and following you, they will go with you.”

So which one you going to be? Are you going to following your Lord, your Prophet’s order? Or, still going to follow order, don’t say you are free. Anyone who is saying I am free, they are under the authority of somebody else always. So are you going to follow Allah and His Prophet’s orders, or you going to follow your ego and the Sheytan’s orders? Whichever the one you want to do, there, you have a free will. Free will is giving to you not to say, I have a free will and I do as I like. Free will is giving to you to teach your ego to say, no! My Lord doesn’t like this so you not going to do this. The free will it is a whip to you in your hand against to your ego. It is your horse. It is your transportation. The strong as your transportation is, the more powerful you become. But if you don’t have the control of that, it’s going to bring disaster to you. So you have to hold the reins and you have to have the whip. If the ego wants to turn to the wrong side with that free will you going to say no you cannot turn this side. This is forbidden. This is banned to you. From who? From Allah and His Prophet.

What is one job of the Prophets, what they did? They came to teach us what is Halal and what is Haram. Not according to your understanding. Not according to our understanding. According the way that Lord of the Heavens has put His law on us, saying to us, “I ban and I forbid this actions. This actions you cannot do. And this ones, you must do.”

If we follow, if we live according to that, definitely if it’s the, if you are in the worst situation in this world, you still going to be happy. You not going to be sad. Because you are obeying your Lord. And you know that things is going to come easy to you. All the difficulties is still going to be easy for you. Because Allah is watching you. Huh, if you are not following that, you can call yourself much as free you want. 24 hours a day, you are worrying. You are thinking. You running away, that’s why Sheytan make this fast life style, people to run back and forth, back and forth nonstop, not to remember anything until the Angel of Death comes and they remember but it’s too late. Saying, you just got fooled. Another one got fooled. You couldn’t take that, you couldn’t give that Shahadat, you couldn’t live according to that Shahadat, and if you didn’t live according to the Shahadat, you cannot take that Shahadat with you. So the most valuable thing in your life has to be Shahadat. Saying Ashadu an-la-ilaha il-Allah, wa Ashadu anna Muhammadan Abduhu wa Rasuluhu.

Faith leaves the heart when committing wrongdoings:
If a believer, if you say to that one, I’ll give you this whole room full with gold. Would you give me that Shahadat? What do you think? Eh, we don’t understand from the gold so much, what about American dollar. It’s whole 100 dollar bills inside. Would you give that? If you give that, you must be lost your mind. And Sheytan may come to fool you to say to you, well it’s okay, it’s a good offer! Why not? Just say this and, which so many people they doing that 24 hours in their life, they delaying, and, take all that money and later say Shahadat again.

Eh, what you will do soon as you say, okay give my faith up and taking this, and soon as you take that, Allah sends His Angel saying, go take that one’s life. What are you going to do? Dunya is gone. Akhirat is gone. The law that comes in the Kuran-i-Kerim applies to you. So many people making that mistake; doesn’t apply to Allah (SWT). Allah (SWT) He is not under the law of the Kuran-i-Kerim. We are! So He can change anything any time any second He wants it. You have to keep that alive in yourself. While you are doing mistakes, wrong things, while you are running to commit sins, while you are running to do the things that the Holy Prophet has banned, you have to think to say, if I am doing this right now, what will happen if, if nobody’s saying yes, but Allah is. So what will happen if I receive the Anger of Allah and He’s sending the Angel to take my life? That time you have no faith. Because Holy Prophet saying, if you are a believer, while you are believer, you cannot commit the wrongdoings. And they said, then how we will be, Ya Rasulallah. He says, the faith comes out from your heart, circles on top of your head, and during that time, you go and you commit the sin. Sin means the forbidden action that Allah forbid you. What is Halal and what is Haram. So you go and you do that. And, he says that time while you are doing that, you are not a believer because faith it is not in your heart. And later you do and you realize and you regret, faith comes back into the heart. But what will happen between this time? Are you keeping that death alive in yourself? Keeping remembrance of death? If you do, that time you not going to run to that.

After hardship comes ease:
And because you not running to that, after every hardship, ease must come to you! Allah saying (SWT), He is putting hardship on us, ease must come to us. So if we go through that hardship and we go fight back to our ego, then unexpected place, unexpected time, unexpected hand is going to reach to you to make things easy for you that time. You cannot do things, you cannot change things. But, if we submit ourself, it will change for us.

Wa minallah Tawfiq. Inshallah this much should be enough for you and for me. If we want to take lesson from it, we take and we apply to our life. And believe me, what we have spoken right now, if we live according to this, it is enough until Judgment Day for us. If not, I can speak now until Judgment Day, you not going to take anything again maybe. If you are a wise man, you may take knowledge from an ant. If you think that you know too much, if all Prophets they stand front of you and they give it to you, you still going to turn to the other side. So everything starts with you, everything ends with you. You going, you come to this world alone, by yourself. You have parents, you have this, you have that, you have certain authorities on you, but that is only temporary. So everything you start with yourself, you going to go out with yourself. You are responsible from every action that you are doing. As our Lord saying Allah (SWT), if you did the mustard seed of good, you will be rewarded. If you did mustard seed of bad, you will be questioned. And it’s up to our Lord, He will punish it or He will reward.

So Inshallahur-Rahman, we are asking help and safety and protection in these very very very bad days, 21st century, we have reached to very difficult times, the world has never been in this situation before. It’s the worst time ever on the face of earth, we are asking safety and help for our own self, for our own family, and for those ones that who passed away from this world. Those ones that they have lost their direction, Ya Rabbi, we are asking You to keep us in Sirat al-Mustaqim, to put us to be guiding them and ourself to the road of your Prophet (AS). Wa minallah Tawfiq, and Fatiha.