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Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani

A'udhu-billahi minash-Shaitan-ir-rajim. Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim. By the Name of Allah Almighty, the All Merciful, the most Beneficent, the most Magnificent ... Meded ya Sultan-ul-Auliya, meded ya Rijalallah.

Welcome to you. To those coming and asking to learn something! For what? To make their Lord pleased with them. Welcome to them. Those who are not thinking on that point, no welcome to them here or in the hereafter! The first obligation for mankind to learn and act upon, is only to know that their Lord Allah Almighty is their Creator and Sustainer. He is the Creator who brought (into existence) everything that we can are seeing of the worlds, of the universe, that we can touch, see, hear, taste, and feel. That is the world of materials. And for the material world, we use our five senses. It may be millions and billions of light years from Earth to space; but our eyes may reach that distance. And our sight and the lights coming from our eyes is much more powerful, much faster in reaching such huge distances than the light of this material world. The fastest medium in order to reach from Earth to other material worlds in the universe, is light. But this light belongs to the material world. It is not from the lights of Heavens, no! Therefore, this light of the material world may travel at 300.000 km/sec, and may reach far distances with this speed; but it may take millions or billions of years to reach. But the light of man's eyes does not belong to this material world. Our lights have been granted to us by our Creator, by the Lord of Heavens. No distance takes more than a second. Even lesser than a second of time - meaning, it doesn't need any time. It doesn't need any time to reach the farthest point of this material universe; a person only need to turn his eyes, and lights from his eyes may reach that farthest point.

Therefore we are saying, that from our five senses, only the light of our eyes may reach that farthest point of material universe instantly, without any delay, never taking any time, because the lights of our eyes travels independent of time. When it is out (independent) of time, it is so easy. That is something that we can say about our spiritual power; one very small spot from an ocean that we have been granted from the Creator, from our Lord, because we are His deputies, Khalifa. And the real position of a Khalifa must be out (independent) of time and space. If we had not been granted that, it would mean that we are not His deputies. We have been granted such a power - a power that can't be described, no! Therefore, when people asked the Seal of Prophets about the soul, he only said: It is by the Order of Allah Almighty; and there is no description of His Order, Divine Order! With His Divine Order your souls are in existence, and no more description of it, no, finished! And because man is the deputy of the Lord of Heavens, he has been granted such specialities. And his being is so special that no other creature may reach to that point, finished. And as there is no time for Allah Almighty, no space, no distance - the same attributes from the Divine Oceans, endless Oceans, have been granted only to the most beloved representative of Allah Almighty - to the Seal of Prophets Sayyedina Muhammad s.a.w.s - only granted for him. No one can reach the Divine Oceans, the Divine Essence, the Divine Attributes, the Divine Holy Names and Divine Holy Actions. The deputy of the Lord of Heavens appeared through the Oceans of Activities of the Holy Names, and His Activities through His Holy Names are unlimited. Even if you enter only one, you can't find its limits; and what is in it - no one knows. Allahu Akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Subhana Hu wa ta'ala! Ya Rabb, ma azamu shanak!

We are so weak in our physical being, we are so weak to understand through our physical being. If you don't break the walls of your material being, you can't reach the Holy Activities of the Holy Names. Therefore, no one knows Allah Almighty, only He knows. But He granted us such a power, because He granted us to be His deputies. But don't think that you are going to be the Almighty's absolute deputies! A small ant - it is only to make you think a little bit, because people have stopped to think now. People are never thinking! A very small ant, do you think that it may be your deputy? And what I am saying of that one Activity from the countless Activity Oceans, is just a small spot, for us to understand. And it is such a simple example: May a very small ant be your deputy or Khalifa in one field or one holy Name, from which are coming countless activity oceans, endlessly coming form the attribute of Divine Creation? He is the Creator! (from Him) coming coming, coming. Impossible!

Therefore, when He said to angels: I am going to appoint a deputy on Earth, Shaitan, with his knowledge was so small. Because 'bi dhat', by himself, Shaitan was in the prison cell of his knowledge, and could see only what he was imprisoned in. He was not able to cross the limits of his position to look what is beyond his knowledge, what is happening beyond him (his horizon). Never understanding! That is the darkness of ignorance! Therefore Allah Almighty was saying to one of His prophets, perhaps to Sayyedina Musa (a.s), "Shaitan did not know anything about Me - even in his (high) position. If he had known about Me in the field of Actions, he wouldn't have been rebellious. If he had known that I am the Lord or I am that Lord, that la yutha, in whose Divine Presence no one can be disobedient; but he didn't know. Therefore he became Shaitan " Allah Almighty wants to give more, to give more, more ma'rifat for knowing. In every atom may be a universe. If you want, a whole universe like this one, or a million times bigger, may be put into a single atom. And with this, what Allah has granted to mankind, he can reach his position of a deputy by using some of the Divine Attributes that reached him in the field of Activities of Holy Names, no more. And then when he has reached this point, he becomes a real deputy - because now we are only candidates. We haven't reached that position yet. We are candidates, and when a person passes the position of a candidate and reaches the real position of a deputy, which has such unlimited powers in it. One of them is that the deputy who has just reached the position, has saved himself and is free of time and space.

Getting back to the point where we began, of what is necessary. We are such ignorant ones, with such a limited understanding - misunderstanding or not understanding at all, because we are imprisoned in our material being. Therefore, Shaitan and his satanic advice and satanic teachings affect people; but Divine Teaching has no effect on them. Finished! They say: No! Finished! Whatever Shaitan says, they say: Okay! But to what the Prophet says, they say: No! Because they are on the same position as Shaitan; because Shaitan is himself imprisoned in his cell and the position of his understanding, which is a misunderstanding at the same time. He is never asking to reach or know more. And Allah Almighty wanted to break his cell, to open his locked position and to take him out to look and see, what is around. He wanted to grant him unlimited (knowledge); but Shaitan was so ignorant, so fanatic to keep his position in his his cell. Like a silkworm, insisting to be in it's cocoon, not leaving and dying in it. It is going to die in it and Shaitan is also finished, just finished himself by himself. And those silkworms asking to come out their cocoon are granted wings, and they fly out! Shaitan just died in it. Never asking it to be opened.

Allah Almighty taught Adam, alayhi salatu wa-salam, the Holy Names, 'Asma - the Holy Names, and also the names of everything in this universe. And the angels asked: "Why was Adam granted this?" And Allah Almighty said:" I know!" Then Allah Almighty taught Sayyedina Adam and gave to him some secret code numbers. Those code numbers were never given to the angels. He asked: "Open this case'. The angels tried; but they couldn't. They said: "We can't, we haven't got that code number.' Allah Almighty said: "O Adam, use what I gave to you". And Adam opened that case. Those code numbers were for Adam, not for the angels. But Shaitan was thinking: "I have such great powers, I will never go out and bow to Adam!" All angels came and bowed (to Adam); but Shaitan said: "No, I will stay here and will not go to bow to Adam!" "Who is Adam?!" he asked. Adam is the one who was granted the code number of creation, of the universe. Why you are not going to bow to him, to his authority that was granted to him from Allah Almighty? You must bow to him. But he said: "No!" You may die in it (your ignorance)! And finished, closing on him... May Allah forgive us.

Therefore, first of all we must learn about our Creator - very simple knowledge, and after that knowledge, the most important duty or obligation of mankind is that they must ask and they must learn and ask how they can make their Lord pleased with them. That is final point. Now, whole nations have just locked their cases, their doors, never opening them for this point. And inside they are insisting to die and to be destroyed, and are not coming out to know this and to endlessly praise and thank their Lord in His Divine Presence to make Him happy and pleased with them. May Allah forgive me and grant you His blessings. Fatiha.

[June 22, 2002]