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BismillahirRahmanirRahim. O believers, this is the third Juma of the holy Ramadan. May thanks be to Allah that He gave us the opportunity to honour this blessed month and to praise Him- if not, we would also be among the heedless people. It is a mercy and favour of Allah to be allowed to enter through this door- He gave us the permission... So many important people are denied entrance, because they don't recognize Allah...No matter how proud they were during their life- at the end they loose their power. As they didn't know Allah they are made to be forgotten also.
Allah is the Owner of the religion. All prophets came to inform people that Allah and Akhirat are a reality and that we have a responsibility. Who has mind and is mature, must declare the existence of Allah. It is not enough to say the Shahada. A believer believes, makes Sajda, does goodness, thinks about Akhirat and works for Allah. Either our service is for Allah or for our nafs. And all people live only to satisfy their ego- everything must be ready for them immediately, everything must be from the best, and they want to amuse themselves with women. All these things are not aims of our life, we are not created for that.
Now all nations have religion- in Europe there are so many churches, ask them about that. And the Jews still stick to the laws that Musa (Moses) brought in the Taurah. Religion is like spiritual clothing of light, that you can dress. All the Christians and the Jews stick to their religions. But our people made it a fashion to get away from Islam. What shall become of us? Shall we become Orthodox? Protestant? Jewish? The emptiest people live here in Cyprus. The Turks on the continent at least still pray. But Allah is not sleeping- He sees and watches everything...
Musa a.s. once asked Allah: ,O Allah, is there a time when You are sleeping also'?- 'Taadab, ya Musa! I will give you the answer. Take two jugs of water and go on your way, I will answer you'.- So Musa went with the two jugs full of water. And Allah send one moment of heedlessness on him, a kind of short sleep for one moment only, and in that moment the jugs fell and broke and the water was spilt. 'Ya Musa, do you have your answer now? Imagine-if I would sleep even for a shortest moment, the creation would be upside down. But I am Hayyu, Qayyumu, I am Raqib, and I am watching over my creation all the time. I am aware of every movement of any of My servants in any moment. Nothing is hidden from Me'.
Islam is the religion of truth, Haqq. No one can say that anything that is forbidden in it contains any goodness. But the Cypriots nowadays are doing all Haram without ashaming. Watch out! Allah will put you in a condition that you will not like, because you make Kufr and do not give thanks, Shukr to Him. We have peace on the island since 27 or 3o years. The young people don't know what happened, and no one is thankful, because we are not teaching them that in the schools. Instead they give lessons about sex and they teach girls and boys together. Everybody, even animals, know about this by themselves- no need to make lessons on that. But because they don't respect Allah and don't listen to Him.
Next week there is the Laylatu-l Qadir. It is mostly the 27th night, one night of the last ten days, and it must be looked for, because it is the most precious night of the whole year. We will see what is going to happen after that night, or after Bayram...They always talk about an economic crises. That is a trap of Shaitan. We have a religious crises in reality. People leave Allah and run after Dunya, and Dunya is running away from them. We have a crises in Adab- people don't look after their behaviour to correct themselves. It is not a question of money- but that is so easy to say...Finish nightlife and the crises will be finished. Who is going out nighttime except those who go to make Haram? Except for those who go to prayers, everyone goes out at night for Haram...I am against the fortresses of Shaitan!Until we learn about Haram and Halal again, the crises will not finish. Our government is not looking after us, and we are amanet for them, a trust to be looked after. We will see what is going to happen now...
So many young people here in the mosque- you are like the young shafts that come up after the old branches have been cut from the tree. Islam will never go down. This century is the century of Islam, of Haqq, and Batil is finished...
Every Juma we used to make rain dua- today, after prayer, we will make a dua for Shukr...Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, ya Rabbi, Shukr, Alhamdulillah...Tauba, ya Rabbi, Tauba, ya Rabbi, Tauba, Astaghfirullah...
[December 7, 2001 - Girne (Kyrinia), Cyprus / Jumua Khutbah (Friday Sermon)]
