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Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani
Destur ya Sayyedi, meded. Audhu billahi minash-Shaitan-ir-rajum. Biusmillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim. La haula wa la quwatta illa billahi-l 'Aliyyu-l 'Adhim.
As-Salamu 'alaikum. We are asking forgiveness from Allah Almighty. This is an association, an association with the Sheikh. How are Murids in need of a Sheikh? You may think of a regiment with 1000 people. If the regiment has no officer, a colonel or a lieutenant to lead them, how will this work? How can it work if all 1000 people are on the same level? They don't know anything about fighting, they don't know anything about the enemy and his powers, how can they function? They will be finished!
And there must be a Sheikh for Muslims and for the Muslim community. Soldiers may fight: Italians may fight against the Greek people, or Albanians may fight against Italians, or Bosnians may fight against Serbians, or Bulgarian fighting against Rumanians, or Russia fighting against Germany, or Germany fighting against France, or England fighting with Turkey, or Turkey fighting with Iran. This is fighting among people of the same level. These simple soldiers are in need of their superiors to show them how they should fight and how to protect and shelter themselves, and how they may be victorious.
People, out of ignorance, become enemies of each other. Our Creator did not order us to fight each other and be enemies of each other. Enmity between man and man it is wrong. Allah Almighty is showing us our common enemy, so that we should fight him only. In reality, it is forbidden for man to fight man, only in exceptional cases (it is allowed)... Men have only been ordered to be servants of their Creator, of their Lord, and every servant has been ordered to be friendly with everyone who is a friend of their Lord. You can't fight someone who is a servant of your Lord! That would mean that you are fighting against your Lord! Very dangerous! We have been ordered to support the servants of Allah, not to fight against them, no! This is the biggest 'haram'. It is strictly forbidden in Islam to fight against someone who is a servant of Allah. Anyone fighting IbadAllah becomes a Kafir. The ones fighting Allah Almighty's servants are cursed people and enemies. They are thrown away from the Divine Presence.
Therefore, coming from Paradise, we have now landed on this planet Earth, and we had been ordered to be servants of our Creator. And the first man and first Prophet of Allah Almighty to His servants on earth, only declared the Heavenly Command and Order of Allah Almighty: "O Adam! Speak the Holy Command! Declare My Holy Command to your children, so that My Message that I am sending to you and your generation may reach your children and your children's children. And I am leaving open Heavens and Paradise for those of your generation who may ask for My servant-hood and not follow their enemy. My Heavens and My Paradises are open for them. Tell them; give My most important message to them. Tell them, teach them for what reason they have been sent down or thrown away from Paradise. Who was the main reason that they have been thrown away from Paradise? What was real reason? One of My creatures came to me in My Divine Presence as the first rebellious one, accusing Me and disobeying My Divine Order. And I degraded him from a high position to the lowest position, throwing him away! You must tell your sons and children, your generation, the real reason that you have been sent away from Paradise, of that one whose name I changed to 'Shaitan', Satan, the father of devils. Therefore, warn My servants, your children, that they must not follow that cursed creature, that first one to disobey My Divine Order in My Divine Presence. And I ordered the angels to kick him out. Tell your children not to be friendly with him; but treat him as an enemy. They must know that Shaitan is their most dangerous and terrible enemy. He is going to make you enemies of each other. I don't like this, I am ordering you: O the Children of Adam! Don't be friendly with that cursed one. If you are going to be friendly with him, you are going to be My enemies, and I will curse you, here on earth and in the hereafter, in Hell"
Yes, therefore we are here and Shaitan is around us, among us - everywhere you can find Shaitan. If you say to the Wahhabi people that the Prophet Sayyedina Muhammad s.a.w.s is everywhere, they get so angry and start accusing us of being Mushriks. And I asked some of them: "Do you think that there is any place where there is no Shaitan?" I asked them, and they were surprised, saying: "Yes, Shaitan is everywhere. How can you claim there could be a place where Shaitan is not present?" They object if you say that Sayyedina Muhammad s.a.w.s is everywhere. They say: "No, it is not true. To be everywhere is only for Allah. No one else may be present everywhere." But I am asking to close them in prison (to trap them): "What about Shaitan? Is Shaitan everywhere, and ready, or not? Show me a place where there is no Shaitan!" They reply: "No, Shaitan is everywhere." I ask: "Is Shaitan in Haram Sharif?" They reply," Yes!" " Is he present in Mecca and Medina?" They say, " Yes!" "Arafat?" "Yes!" "Mina?" "Yes!" "In Jerusalem? Is Shaitan in Jerusalem? If Shaitan is not there, then how come they are fighting? How are Jewish people fighting against the Arabs? How are Muslims fighting each other?"
Shaitan has made his headquarters in the Middle East, also in Saudi Arabia, and everywhere, particularly his main headquarters are in the Western countries, because the Western people welcome him with such a big welcome that you can't imagine!
I say: "How can you claim that when I say Sayyedina Muhammad s.a.w.s is everywhere, that I commit 'Shirk' with Allah; to be everywhere is only for Allah?" And I ask them and they cannot answer. I ask them: "Do you think you are free from Shaitan?" They say, "No, waswasu-l khannas - Shaitan is with me also!" "Ahhhh, yes! You are representative of Shaitan? Don't say to me such foolish things, accusing the Prophet!"
The Prophet's spiritual power, his spirituality, must be with everything in order for it to be in life (in existence), because first Allah Almighty created his Nur, the Lights of Sayyedina Muhammad s.a.w.s, and from that Light he created all creation. We have the power to make them not to speak (to silence the Wahhabis). Alhamdulillah! Haqq is always up and Batil always down! If you mix olive oil with water in a bottle, do you think olive oil will settle at the bottom? No, it always stays up! We are Ahl-ul Haqq, we are with Haqq, we are with the Truth, we are with the true ones (truthful ones) also. But they can't show any true ones that they are following - now or before, when they created their own way, away from our right path. They did a Bid'a and left Ahlul Sunnah wal Jama'at. And they said: We are Salafi, we are Najdi, we are Wahhabi, we belong to Muhammad Abdul Wahab. Why do you need to say "We follow Muhammad Abdul Wahhab?" What about Sayyedina Muhammad? Why you are not saying: "We follow Sayyedina Muhammad s.a.w.s?" Did a new revelation from Heavens come to Muhammad Najdi, Abdul Wahhab, to follow him?! How you are making this up!? Shaitan is ordering to you to make a Bida; to leave the main true way of Islam, for cheating people to Jahannam (Hell)."
Now we come to the important point; that Shaitan now poses to be a friend of people now, cheating them and making man an enemy of each other. It is not true! It is forbidden! For man to fight man is forbidden! Only if one follows Shaitan or represents Shaitan, we must fight them, because they are for Shaitans or for Shaitan. We don't accept them! Therefore, Islam is fighting the descendants of Shaitan and Shaitan's friends and Shaitan's representatives and devils. Islam is fighting them! Islam is not fighting anyone who accepts to be a servant of Allah Almighty. We are not fighting them, but we are fighting Shaitan, and we shall fight them till the end, Shaitan and his friends, and we are going to be victorious! Even though Shaitan, his friends, his representatives and his devils have been winning since many centuries, now, in this 21st. century, the servants of Allah Almighty are going to be victorious against the servants of Shaitan. May Allah forgive me and bless you for the honour of the Seal of Prophets. And therefore, we are saying - we began and (they) made me to speak in such a way ... Yes! We are soldiers of Haqq, we are soldiers and supporters of Truth, and we have been ordered to be true ones. This is the reason they are fighting against Sheikhs, because Sheikhs are the representatives of the Prophet s.a.w.s. As the Prophet was saying: "Ash-sheikh fi qaumihi kama nabi fi ummati" - The Sheikh's power and honour in the community, among Mu'mins, is as the position of a Nabi, a prophet among his nation. So, they have been honoured by the most honoured Nabi (saws)
Yes, soldiers are fighting other soldiers. They have lieutenants, colonels and majors or people of similar ranks. If not, they can't fight - they just fight each other. We are also in need to fight Shaitan and his representatives. Shaitan, and his first representative in us is our ego. We must fight our ego. The Sheikh teaches us how to fight our ego, because the ego is the most dangerous representative of Shaitan in everyone. If you don' t kill it, you can't be saved, you can't be a real servant of Allah Almighty.
Therefore, we now close this association (with the fact) that we are in need to be with someone who is authorized to teach us how to fight our egos, to fight the representative of Shaitan and to fight Shaitan and everyone who belongs to Shaitan. If you don't come and hear and listen and accept, you are going to be with Shaitan - in Hell.
May Allah forgive us and save our souls from satanic works and dealings. Bi-hurmatil Habib, bi-hurmatil Fatiha.
[June 18, 2002]
