00:00We were having some fun before we started tonight.
00:10Some things on the internet we found to be.
00:13Some people were posting things we thought it was amusing.
00:17And then when Imam Bilal was reading Sheikh Nazim's Dua,
00:22I remembered something from Quran.
00:25I asked the AI, where is that thing?
00:28He pointed me to Sayyidina Sheikh Abdul Al-Faiz in Augustana,
00:39our Grand Sheikh.
00:42He had said, don't enter into arguments with people
00:48unless you have the power of Ibrahim, alayhi s-salam,
00:53to stop.
00:58That Ayat of Quran says, don't criticize their idols, what they do.
01:05They're going to defend them more strongly.
01:10Everyone thinks their own doings is okay, perfect.
01:14If you say something to them, they get angry.
01:17See it every day on the internet.
01:19They insult certain officials, shall we say.
01:24They even more.
01:29There was a story
01:30that Manus Sheikh Nazim used to say always for
01:35Sayyidina Musa, alayhi s-salam.
01:37Prophets, they used to go around walking everywhere so people would see them.
01:44If you saw a prophet, it would help to bring you into faith, into Iman.
01:48So all the prophets were traveling, walking, and led simple lives.
01:55He was walking one day in the fields,
02:00and he came upon a shepherd with his sheep.
02:04And that shepherd was a simple campoon, country person, from the countryside.
02:15He had his prized sheep.
02:18Everyone who raises animals has one.
02:22This is my pet.
02:24I was in Michigan one time.
02:30I had gone for a trip.
02:31I came back.
02:33And it was Eid.
02:34And the local Assyrians had come.
02:37They had slaughtered my prized goat.
02:39It was hanging.
02:43It had a name, everything.
02:44What you did?
02:47That shepherd, he had his prized sheep, a ram.
02:52And he was combing the wool of that ram.
02:59And he was speaking and making dua to Allah while he was grooming his sheep.
03:05And Musa was hearing what he was saying.
03:09He said, oh, my Lord.
03:11He's combing the wool.
03:16Oh, my Lord, if you come here, I'll comb your wool so nicely,
03:20and I'll polish your horns and your hooves and your teeth so nicely.
03:26And Musa got angry with him.
03:27He walked up to him and said, you, what are you doing?
03:32You think Allah is a sheep going to come?
03:34You think your Lord is a sheep?
03:37What's the matter with you?
03:39And a divine voice stopped you.
03:40Oh, Musa, stop.
03:43He loves me.
03:45This is how he thinks.
03:46He's a simple person.
03:49Don't break his heart.
03:50His love is like that.
03:52Leave it.
03:53Leave him like that.
03:59In the end, everyone goes back to Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
04:04He sees everything.
04:05How finally he sees, how finally he hears.
04:09In the end, everyone will be brought back to their Lord,
04:28and he'll say the truth of what they used to argue about.
04:32Allah will solve these things.
04:33There are things that can't be solved by arguments or ridicule.
04:42Leave it to be.
04:46Someone came to Sheikh Mehmet the other day,
04:51and he was complaining about the current situation in the Tariqat.
04:59And there was some fitna going around.
05:06He said, there's not too much drama happening.
05:09Sheikh Mehmet said to him,
05:11why are you in Tariqat?
05:13Why are you in Tariqat?
05:18Tariqat is something private, inward directed towards Allah.
05:25Everyone has enough to be busy with themselves, with their Lord.
05:28To straighten themselves out, asking to go higher, preparing to meet their Lord.
05:38Everyone has to be busy with that job.
05:41Sheikh came to encourage his marids, Grand Sheikh, Amonah Sheikh Nazim,
05:48and after them, to encourage them, each one, to be busy with themselves,
05:55preparing themselves to meet their Lord.
05:58That's the important job.
06:00What this one's doing, or that one's doing, what we can do for that.
06:06What we're going to do?
06:12Do we be busy with ourselves?
06:13As I was saying to Hussein's group this afternoon, Grand Sheikh, Allah bless him.
06:22Sheikh Abdullah, Dagestani, he was Ummi.
06:26He didn't, he wasn't a scholar, he didn't study books.
06:29He could recite Quran, but he didn't study.
06:33He wouldn't say Al-Ghazali said like this, and this one said like that,
06:36and Ibn Abbas said like that, his heart was receiving.
06:42He went one time to the Diwan, or the Halakha of Auliyah in Shem Sharif, in Damascus.
06:52That was the seat of Islamic learning at that time.
06:57He went to their circle, and he was sitting.
07:01All of them knows that Grand Sheikh is not a man of books.
07:05And these are all men of scholars, men of learning.
07:10Then it was Grand Sheikh's turn to speak.
07:13And he said, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, you know,
07:17Shaitan, Iblis, is the biggest favor from Allah to people.
07:21And everybody was, who is this guy also from the countryside coming from Russia,
07:32from Dagestan, coming from the mountains, coming here to tell us?
07:37What's he say?
07:39And someone who knew Grand Sheikh said, wait, wait.
07:44Maybe he'll explain.
07:45And he said, yes, Shaitan is the biggest favor from Allah to people.
07:54Because Shaitan, so it's, he didn't say his,
07:59it's enmity and jealousy towards human beings,
08:03because it wants to be chief.
08:05The top deputy in Ijjalun Khalaf of Al-Ard.
08:08I did a deputy for myself.
08:11Allah said, first one, Sayyidina Adam.
08:13And Iblis said, hi, you said, Adam.
08:17They have, me has to have that title.
08:20I'm better than him.
08:21I'm made from fire, he's made from mud.
08:24And Allah said, get out from my divine presence.
08:31So Iblis said, because you put me in the wrong,
08:34I'm going to run after human beings up to the end.
08:37He's angry, but he doesn't like us.
08:40It doesn't like us.
08:42He didn't say he, he said it, or Shaitan.
08:46Due to Shaitan's jealousy and enmity, hatred for human beings,
08:52he said, I'm going to run after them.
08:54Quran says like that, I'm going to assault them from a place.
08:58They can't see me, but I can see them.
09:01Shaitan and its armies,
09:03its volunteers from humans and jinns.
09:06I'm going to attack their weak spots.
09:10All of us have weak spots in our personalities,
09:16in our human personality, in our spiritual personality.
09:21We have weak spots.
09:24Every ego, secret target to declare himself like,
09:27I am the greatest Lord, I am God.
09:31Every ego says like that.
09:33That's his secret target.
09:34But we don't get the chance.
09:35So we're nice.
09:37Like a helpless one can't do anything.
09:41As soon as they get the chance,
09:42if they're given power, then it comes out.
09:45All that ego, be cruel to everyone, dominate,
09:49and you see it.
09:51Anyone's given the chance to be tyrant, they use it.
09:55We're tyrants also.
09:56We just didn't get the chance.
09:58Dar shohrat afat ast,
10:00and shahra nak shaban.
10:01You want to be famous, but we're not letting you.
10:06Ego is angry, but better be angry.
10:08So shaytan, the iblis, and its armies,
10:14they search out our weak spots,
10:17our jealousy, our anger, our envy,
10:20our pride, kabur,
10:22all the weak spots in our personality,
10:27and they attack there.
10:29They attack there.
10:31If a person can be alert,
10:37now I am awake, said that guy,
10:43and we have to follow him.
10:45If we can be awake to their attacks,
10:47the attacks of shaytan and its armies,
10:50we can stop that.
10:52Attacking on our jealousy, on our pride.
10:54If we can catch it as an attack on our weak spot,
10:58we'll stop it.
10:59No, pride is for Allah.
11:01Honor is for Allah, not for my ego.
11:04For instance,
11:05if we can stop it,
11:08if we can stop anger at the moment,
11:10it's about to burn.
11:12We climb up.
11:13We get stronger.
11:15And then shaytan goes and looks for the next weak spot
11:18and attacks.
11:19On account of the attacks of shaytan,
11:21we improve.
11:22Therefore, Grand Sheik said,
11:24shaytan is the biggest favor
11:25from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
11:27to human beings.
11:29Because through its attacks,
11:31why Allah made that shaytan?
11:32To make us to improve.
11:34If we defend ourselves,
11:36if we be with our shaykh that time,
11:38with our prophet that time,
11:39with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
11:41at the moment of those attacks,
11:43we climb up.
11:44We improve.
11:45The power of shaytan
11:49is strongest at the beginning.
11:51Grand Sheik used to teach us
11:53patience at the first blow.
11:55When you're going to be angry
11:56at that first moment
11:57when you're about to blow up,
11:59shaytan's power is strongest.
12:02If you can stop him at that point,
12:04stop it.
12:05You win, shaytan loses.
12:08If not, shaytan puts us down.
12:11And then we have to start over again.
12:13Back to the,
12:13back to,
12:14what's that board game
12:15the kids play?
12:16Monopoly.
12:16Go back to goal.
12:17Do not collect,
12:18do not collect 200.
12:24So may Allah make us alert.
12:29Shaunaq Shaban said,
12:34be aware of the moment.
12:39There was a famous hippie philosopher,
12:41or Ram Dass.
12:43Be here now.
12:45Like that.
12:45Be here now.
12:46Be present now.
12:49Be with your sheikh.
12:50Be with prophets,
12:51all of you,
12:51with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
12:53So at the moment,
12:55when a shaytan attack comes,
12:57you can stop it.
12:59And you improve.
13:01When we improve,
13:02they can open the doors of our,
13:06everyone has spiritual possibilities.
13:10They're locked.
13:10They're locked.
13:11They can't be open
13:12until the person is trustworthy.
13:13They're not going to give way
13:14to their temper,
13:15to their anger,
13:16to jealousy,
13:17to pride.
13:18It's going,
13:19when they're trustworthy,
13:20they can be given.
13:21If no,
13:21can't be given.
13:23For dunya power,
13:25yes,
13:25an untrustworthy person
13:26can be given.
13:28A person who's angry
13:29and proud
13:29and jealous.
13:31Yeah,
13:32they can get dunya power,
13:33but spiritual power,
13:34but spiritual power,
13:35no.
13:37They can't open.
13:39It is more than nuclear power.
13:41You can't give it to someone
13:42who's not trustworthy,
13:44not going to be able to
13:45resist
13:47shaytan.
13:50May Allah make us able
13:52to carry,
13:54to carry
13:55a mama
13:57straight ahead
13:58and we have to go.
13:59Like that.
14:01Like that.
14:01Bi-Hurman to the Abhi,
14:02Bi-Hurman to the Fatih.
