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Bismillahi Rahmanir Rahim We are not extremists or fanatic people, but our way is the way of the middle, not to deviate to the right or the left. Go straight. Who is going to one side, is not perfect...
There is head and feet- not everybody is going to be head. But without feet the head also cannot walk. Allah has created eveything in perfection, you have to see it. But man wants to do as he likes on earth, like Pharao and Nimrod, and they don't want to respect Allah.
In the 18./19th century they fell into the sea of Fasad and dirtiness. It started in France with the revolution, spread in Europe and from there it came to us. Dirty waters were flowing out and therefore the world is now as it is. The canalisation has broken in so many places, that it cannot be repaired anymore, and no one can save himself from these dirty waters...And democracy is a deception, cheating.
To see oneself better than others is Haram, Batil. No nation is better than the other. All have been created by Allah.
In front of him the one who respects and loves Him most is the acceptable one...It is not enough to call oneself Muslim- have you become a real Muslim? Have you submitted to Allah and sacrificed your nafs like Abraham was ready to slaughter his son, whom he loved more than anything?!
This month has started strongly. And everything that is happening you find in the Holy Quran- every letter is like an ocean of meanings. For what the story about Abraham and Ismail? We are from the generation (zurriyet) of Adam, the nation(millet) of Ibrahim and the ummah of Muhammad sws. But they are so proud to say that they come from apes. They may be the sons of apes- we are the sons of Adam a.s. and from the nation of Ibrahim, and it is honour for us! Abraham was Khalilullah, the friend of Allah, and he was ready to sacrifice what was most dear to him, his son Ismail, and also Isamil was ready to sacrifice himself and he was fully submitted: Canim feda olsun, may my soul be your ransom, he said.
Allah doesn't want us to be slaves to our ego, but to serve Him. You can do that? For what people are living? They live to satisfy their ego- important people as well as common people. So many ordinary stones- where are the jewels?
Imam Rabbani, a Naqshibandi Sheikh-ul Azam, said: Great is the one who saved himself from the slavery of his ego. For what we are fasting? It is worshipping, servanthood, the best means to save people from the slavery of their ego. All the prophets used to fast and tought their nation to fast. Allah's reward for fasting is endless, because it turns you from a servant to your ego into a servant of Allah. So don't say: I am great. Allah alone is Great, and He gives greatness to the one who escapes from his ego. But we open and close our eyes only to serve our ego. People of the 21st century are servants to their ego, and Shaitan is their first teacher...
Everyone wants to study. Nobody wants to learn a craft, no one wants to be a shepherd or gardener. No one respects the other anymore, everybody wants to be a big one and important one. But there is a head and there are feet. In Russia they tried and said all are equal and all should govern. They killed the Zar and put themselves in the palace. And Stalin killed 8o Million people and cleaned Middle Asia from Muslims... Not everybody is going to govern, because who should they govern? Trees? Donkeys? Dogs? They don't need a government. But egomania, the illusion of being important and great, is slavery to the ego, and most probably there is no real great man at all anymore.
In old times they worked with the light of faith. But people nowadays are in darkness and don't see, where they are going or stepping. Nobody sees anymore. Mind and willpower have come down to zero, and Shaitan has made people dishonoured in the service to their ego. A human being is servant of Allah, our Lord. Who is there that lives for Allah? The Saudis? The Turks? The Egyptians, Syrians, Pakistanis?
This month has started with 'Azamet, take care! The door of worship is fasting, and it means war against the ego, that always wants to do, as it likes. Say: "No, I don't want to be your servant anymore, I am turning to Allah, I am no more listening to you!" Who says that, will be saved, and the others will have to go...
Every morning I am eating Sahur and I am asking for support for the fasting. If Allah gives support, with one bite I may fast 4o days...
O Allah, let us be under the Tajalli of Lutf (mercy, divine grants, favours), not of Azab (divine anger).
[November 17, 2001]
