OSMANLI GARDEN

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

WE ARE OSMANLI NAKSIBENDI HAKKANIS. WE HAVE DIFFERENT WORK

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

We are obedient to Shaykh Mawlana. We are not disobedient to them. We are obedient to Shaykh Mawlana. They have different work. We have different work. They have to know what their work is, and they should run for that. I have different work. I have different orders that is coming to me from Shaykh Mawlana, and I have to follow that. Head of the tarikat is Shaykh Mawlana. So, we are not accepting certain things that they are trying to put on us. We are not accepting that. I am not accepting it. They can open 1,000 places here in NY its ok with me. We are not going to say, ‘why you are doing this?’ But, I can go and I open places in Michigan too, nobody can say, ‘why you are doing this?’ We are doing different work. It’s a different thing here. You got to understand this.

So, our silence is not a fear, or we are scared. No, we are not. Definitely we know that there is a law out there. If somebody passes their limit, let the law take care of it; not me. If the law has been removed, then that time it will be completely different. We’ll see what will happen that time. The enemy is going to run away that time. If its an enemy, the enemy is going to run away.

The Haqq is going to win. Batil is going to go down. And insha’Allah, we are Hakkanis. I’m going to say one more thing. We are Osmanli Naksibendis. Sheykh Mawlana tell me, ‘open this branch this way. I didn’t give it to anybody. I am giving it to you. He gave me that flag. He says, ‘this is your flag. Open it, and put it everywhere in the world.’ We didn’t make publicity. That happened, when in our pond, there was a writing. Allah write His name- Allah and Muhammad, and there were different names, and we took the picture, and we brought them to Shaykh Mawlana, and he has seen them. That time I was also under attack again, and my heart was really hurting. I was sitting in my place there, just trying to make some kind of khalwat, and I was getting these attacks, and I was saying, ‘Ya Rabbi, I didn’t do anything, why I am getting these attacks? I don’t know, and it is very hard for me to prove people that I am doing right, because the people that are attacking me, they have a big celebrity; and I was just really bothered by it. That time, I heard somebody calling me, saying, ‘there is writing on top of the pond.’ We didn’t make too much publicity about that. And. It has been there for years. Allah writes His name. What is this? He is sealing, saying, ‘Yes this place is happening with the permission of Allah.’ (Also writing) is His Prophet’s name, and Abu Bakr Siddik, and Umar, and Ali (ra)’s name writing. Things start changing by itself. So, I say, ‘Alhamdulillah; Subhanallah.’

Then I saw another dream, and I went to Cyprus and I told Shaykh Mawlana. I didn’t go to Cyprus especially for that. I was going some time later. And, I showed Shaykh Mawlana the pictures. And, I said to him what happened. And, he make little bit Rabita, and he was very happy. Then, he is saying to me, ‘the Prophet (asws)is very happy with the work that you are doing, and he’s saying that he’s giving you a flag; and this is how you are going to do it.’ And, he gave me another flag, which I didn’t put it yet. And, he said to me to open another web page for it and to bring other things together for it, which I didn’t do yet too. It’s going to come out soon. He said that to me in those years, and he said, ‘these are the signs that are for the coming of Mahdi (as). You are going to be putting big work for that.’ So, I didn’t say all this to people. But, he didn’t say to me that this is all secret too, because there were other people that were sitting over there watching. And, he himself made the picture of the flag, and how to do the crescent, and how the colors are going to be; and he said, ‘this is your colors, and your people should use these colors always.’ That’s why you see green and red everywhere. He said, ‘These are the colors given to you’, and he said, ‘You are holding this flag in the Judgment Day.’ That’s what Shaykh Mawlana is saying to me. That much is enough, and I believe Shaykh Mawlana. I believe every word that he said, because I have lived everything that he said. I am living that.

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

HZ EBU BEKIR POEM

ROUGH ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

Ya Rabbi give rizik with Your favor to the one who has limited provision To the one who went bankrupt and took shelter in Your Greatness To this rambling, stranger, humble, unconventional, sinner servant Forgive the countless sins

His doing is always wrong, oblivions and riots Your doings, with penty of grants, are unmeasurable gifts The heart says “my sins have increased like the sand.” Ya Rab, forgive all of them! This is the best grant.

What will my situation be? I could not do good deeds. Majority of my deeds are not good, my provision of servanthood is very little Accept my prayer, remove my sicknesses This servant of Yours is asking cure from You “Shafi”

May the hell not to burn me with flames that rise to the sky Just like how Halil was not burned with Your “fire; be cold” order. In my every important job, You are my remedy and You are enough to me I made You a representative, You are my Lord and You are my voluntary

Give Your treasure of ihsan (beneficence), how Exalted Generous You are Be my Guide in my doings, make my heart to accept Your every wish Forgive me from Your Exalted property, may all the horrors come to an end You are our Judge in the Day of Judgement, Cebrail is Your usher

Where is Prophet Nuh and Musa? Where is Isa and Yahya You are guilty o rebellious Siddik, repent to the Exalted Mevla p>

HZ EBU BEKİR ŞİİRİ

Lütfunla rızk ver Ya Rab, bu azığı kıt olana, Gerçekten iflas eyleyip keremine sığınana Bu başıboş, garip, hakir, kalender günahkâr kula O sayılmaz günahları affeyleyerek bağışla

Onun işi her dem hata, unutmalar ve isyanla Sen işin, bol bağışla, ölçüye gelmez ikramlar Gönlü der ki: “Günahlarım kum gibi ne çoğalmış” Affeyle hepsini Ya Rab! Eyleyip en güzel bağış

N’ola halim? Ey ilahi! Güzel işler yapamadım İşimin çoğu hayırsız, ne de az kulluk azığım Kabul buyurup niyâzım, hastalıklarımı gider Bu kulun hasta kalbiyle sen “Şâfi”den derman diler

Yakmasın beni cehennem, göğe çıkan alevlerle Nasıl yanmadıysa Halîl, “Ateş; Soğuk ol” emrinle Her mühim işimde bana, şifa sensin ve yetersin Vekil eyledim seni ben, Rabbim de hasbim de sensin

İhsan hazneni ver bana, Sen ne yüce bir cömertsin İşlerimde olup delîl, gönlümün yap her dileğin Yüce mülkünden bağışla, tüm dehşetler sona ersin Mahşerde kadımız sensin, Cebrâil de mübâşirin

There Is A Haqq And There Is A Batil 

 BismillahirRahmanirRahim 

 We are not living in a time of love. Who is saying it is a time of love? We are not. Our Sheykh is not. Which planet are you on to think now that this is the time of love? The best place to be free to say it is the time of love is America (Sheykh laughs). This is the time of love? Or Europe. This is the time of love? Or India or Asia. This is the time of love and understanding and tolerance and loving each other? No. It is not. Now it is our responsibility to know what is this hate that is around, so that we are not inside of that, do you understand? That we are not inside of that anger, we’re not inside of that confusion that people now, they love and they hate for the sake of their ego. Not for the sake of Allah SWT. Because there is still a haqq and there is still a batil. Haqq you have to love. Batil you have to hate. This is what a believer is. Eh, if you’re a munafiq it’s something else. Munafiq, oh, you can do anything you want. I’m not going to interfere. But if there is Amr bil Maroof wa Nahi ‘anil Munkar, that means that there is still Haqq and batil. This is foundation of our faith. You’re supposed to encourage something that is good and you’re supposed to forbid, discourage, according to your level, now, what is evil. 

You cannot stay silent or you cannot say ‘it’s okay brother, don’t judge,’ or you cannot say ‘now is the time for love. Everything is allowed.’ Who is going to say that? Dajjal. 

 Dajjal is going to say ‘this is the time of love. The time of love- everything is allowed. There is no shariat. Everything is allowed.’ Who is going to come to bring Shariat? Mahdi (AS). He is going to say ‘there is a Haqq and there is a batil.’ Those ones who are preparing for Mahdi (AS), they already have that Haqq and batil in their lives. You may be in the middle of batil, but you cannot love it. You cannot have an inch in your heart to say it is okay. You cannot.  

BismillahirRahmanirRahim.

Zakat is made the third pillar of our faith; right after worshiping to Allah is zakat. Why? Because zakat is not just throwing money, giving a check. Everyone thinks that zakat is to give money.

No, zakat is to know who you give money to, who is deserving of this money and why you have to give it. Who are these people? It is not just to give money and, ‘oh, I have to. Ah that’s it, that’s finished.’ No. You know when you pray, nobody just prays, they make namaz, and they don’t make dua, they don’t ask Allah for something, correct? Anybody does that? No. Meaning there is a reason why you pray. Nobody says, ‘I worship You just because I want to worship You,’ very few. Evliya’Allah they do it of course, they don’t ask for themselves, they ask for others. Now, if the namaz there is a reason for that, meaning you ask something from it, the zakat has to have a reason too. Everyone’s just caught up, zakat suddenly becomes, ‘oh, dunya.’ Correct? Third pillar is dunya. Tauba Astaghfirullah. Zakat means what? Those people, those ones that’s deserving of that zakat. Who are they? Hah, now you enter into, it’s not about you, it’s about other people. The mazlum. The people who are oppressed, the people who are poor, the people who are in need. Now, the issue of that zakat now, you open it. Zakat is not just one-fortieth of your earnings. Zakat is if you are able to help people to come out from their state of oppression, you help. That is farz for you, for me. Now that zakat is open, it’s not just your money, your property, your gold now. It is what? What you value. You give zakat. What you value most, you give zakat. That’s why Sheykh Effendi has said before, Evliya’Allah is saying, ‘there is a zakat, there is a zakat for your happiness too.’ One of the prayers, it is Duha, Duha prayer, it is zakat for your physical health. You understand? You have to give that zakat. Some, the zakat of your faith.

Now, there is a zakat that regular people they give and there is a zakat that those beloved of Allah they give. That’s why in the old days they say, ‘don’t rush to be in front.’ As they asked Imam Abu Hanifah, ‘what is the law of zakat?’ And he says, ‘for you it is different, for me it is different.’ They say, ‘ah, you see? You are ahli bida’at.’ He said, ‘for you it is one-fortieth. For me, you cannot follow the shariat, the law of zakat that I put on myself. Because I follow the law that Hz. Abu Bakr is following, and his law for zakat it is not one-fortieth. It is everything.’ Everything he gives. That is his zakat. Oh, the zakat now, you are talking about the zakat of the Prophets and the zakat of his progeny, of the Ahlul Bayt, you think that time they will hesitate? You see how Ibrahim (AS) he had to pay his zakat? Both his child and his happiness. His child and his happiness. Yeah, that we cannot even think now.

So, the zakat of the Ahlul Bayt, you think now it is any shock to them? What they had to do, what they had to give up, what they had to give to Allah for this nation? So, they knew and they did. And we are continuing, we have the bloodline of the Holy Prophet (asws), then that continues also. Don’t ask and don’t test Allah’s power, of course. But, it is necessary. Because, again, the zakat is not about you, it is about the ummat.

THE HEART OF THE BELIEVER IS THE THRONE OF ALLAH

Jummah Mubarek

SONG OF THE REED -By Mevlana Rumi (RA)

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

1. Now listen to this reed-flute's deep lament About the heartache being apart has meant:

2. 'Since from the reed-bed they uprooted me My song's expressed each human's agony,

3. A breast which separation's split in two Is what I seek, to share this pain with you:

4. When kept from their true origin, all yearn For union on the day they can return.

5. Among the crowd, alone I mourn my fate, With good and bad I've learned to integrate,

6. That we were friends each one was satisfied But none sought out my secrets from inside;

7. My deepest seecret's in this song I wail But eyes and ears can't penetrate the veil:

8. Body and soul are joined to form one whole But no one is allowed to see the soul.'

9. It's fire not just hot air the reed-flute's cry, If you don't have this fire then you should die!

10. Love's fire is what makes every reed-flute pine, Love's fervour thus lends potency to wine;

11. The reed consoles those forced to be apart, Its notes will lift the veil upon your heart,

12. Where's antidote or poison like its song, Or confidant, or one who's pined so long?

13. This reed relates a tortuous path ahead, Recalls the love with which Majnun's heart bled:

14. The few who hear the truths the reed has sung Have lost their wits so they can speak this tongue.

15. The day is wasted if it's spent in grief, Consumed by burning aches without relief--

16. Good times have long passed, but we couldn't care When you're with us, our friend beyond compare!

17. While ordinary men on drops can thrive A fish needs oceans daily to survive:

18. The way the ripe must feel the raw can't tell, My speech must be concise, and so farewell!

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

If we have killed our hearts with our sinning, with our disobedience, with our ignorance and our arrogance, then we are going to be cut off from the pleasure of Allah and of His Prophet. We are going to find ourselves moving away more from zikr, from amals, from ibadat, from sohbet, and we are going to be left alone by ourselves. So what is the way to cure the heart? The only way for the heart to be cured is to be in the Company of the Doctor of the Heart, to be in the Sohbet of those who understand all the diseases of the heart, and they know how to clean that heart up. We have to be in the Company of the Friends of Allah.

Hz. Sultan Bahu is saying, ‘A perfect Master scrubs his murids like a laundry man rubs and beats dirt out of clothes. But unlike the laundry man who needs soap, the Master purifies with his gaze, removing all traces of dirt from the murid’s heart.’ And the true Master, the true Guide, if he is cleaning us, that cleaning is going to hurt us. Because just as a piece of metal that has been rusted over needs to be scraped and bruised in order to become cleansed, the same way our hearts which have gotten so dirty need to be cleaned. And the problem today with the Muslims is that they do not want someone who is going to tell them what their problem is. They do not want to consult with someone who is going to say to them, ‘you have a dead heart. You are proud. You are arrogant. You are stubborn.’ They don’t want to hear this. Instead, they want to go and sit with people who will tell them, ‘you are a saint. You are the best one. You are already a Friend of Allah.’ And because Muslims do not want to clean themselves, and do not want to sit with the ones who can clean them, they have reached to disaster. That is why in the whole world, in this world full of people whose hearts are dead, there is so much cruelty and tyranny. Because if the heart is dead with sin, then definitely it is not going to care about other people. It is not going to care about the suffering of other people. It is not going to care about how to help other people.

But during the times before, people whose hearts were alive, they cared. The Khalifas,from the time of Hz. Umar to the time of the Ottomans, they used to go out at night time in disguise to sit with the people and understand what they were going through. They used to lift sacks of flour on their own backs so that they could help other people. Because when the heart is alive, it is going to be looking at how to help the servants of Allah (swt). It is going to be able to see that other people are in pain, and it is going to help those people. And that help did not just extend to the Muslims. When Sultan Abdul Majid heard about the suffering of the Irish during the potato famine, his heart was so moved that he sent five ships full of food as well as monetary aid to the Irish, more than Queen Victoria herself sent. And that is the spirit of Islam that shows itself when the heart is alive. That spirit can only come alive if somebody is sitting in the company of the Evliya. And that bringing back to life, it is not going to be easy. Just like when the physical heart dies they have to use a machine to electric shock it back to life, the same way the Evliya have to work very hard to bring our hearts back to life.

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Everyone is making a big fuss now, because they say the Hubble telescope, the strongest telescope that we know, correct? So it traces a spot, next to, I don’t know if it is a star or the moon or something, this spot, a very bright spot. It was looking and it was looking, looking, looking, looking, it is some billions of light years away, billions of light years away. Because it’s bright, a spot there, there’s so many spots of course, surrounded by spots, but this one is a little bit brighter. They were looking at that. They thought it’s a planet, it’s not a planet. They thought it was a star, it’s not a star. It’s a galaxy. And that galaxy contains trillions of suns. You understand? It makes the Milky Way look like a scratch in the sky. It is so huge. And they say, according to our understanding of physics too, it should not exist. It is too huge, they say. This is this world. So what is our understanding now of Ahiret? And now, what is our understanding when you say ‘Allahu Akbar’? Now, you don’t need to understand how small we are and how great it is to go to Sejdah. 

 What do we want? As Murids, it should be clear what you want. If you are in love, what you want is the object of your love, that’s all. That is what you want. InshaAllah, may we get that. What we want is their pleasure, that they are happy with us, and as they like. 

JUMMAH MUBAREK: Only The Pure Heart Benefits Us In Front Of Allah

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If our heart is beating for our wealth, for our dunya, for power, for influence, such a heart is not going to benefit us in the presence of our Lord on the Day of Judgment. If our heart is beating only for our children, for our families, that heart is not going to benefit us. Only the Pure Heart benefits us in front of Allah (SWT). The Pure Heart is a heart that is filled with love. The Pure Heart, it is a heart filled with passion. Today, everyone claims to be on the way of love. Muslims and non-Muslims, they say, our religion is love. But what kind of love? The love of the 21st century, it is a selfish love. It is a dishonorable love. 21st century love is only to look, what can I get from the other person? What satisfaction can I get? And even when it comes to Love of Allah, they are only looking to say, what can I get from Allah?

But the Prophetic Love, the Love that Holy Prophet (AS) taught to the world, it is the purest love. It is not a selfish love. It is a selfless love. And that love manifested itself in the world through the Sahaba-e-Kiram. They came from a society of the most cruel people known to man. The Arabs of that time, the Jahil Arabs, they were warring with each other, fghting non-stop. They had no compassion for the weak or the poor. They were murdering their own daughters only because they were girls. Very similar to what is happening in this world today. But when the light of Islam reached them, they transformed completely. And Allah (SWT) describes them in the Holy Quran saying, BismillahirRahmanirRahim. they prefer others above themselves, even though they go into poverty. (59:9). .

The Love of the Sahaba-e-Kiram it is rooted in serving others. And that service, it happens through passion. Our Sheykh is describing that passion using the word Ashk. Ashk transforms a man. Ashk is what separates a human from an animal. Because an animal acts only from instinct. He eats from instinct, he procreates from instinct, he survives from instinct. Ashk makes a man live for a purpose. As Sheykh Mevlana is saying, “A person without love and passion, he is not human, he is rubbish.”

BismillahirRahmanirRahim Once you enter into Islam, you are going to have a lot of passion. You are going to have a lot of energy. Your veils are going to be open for you. But after that, people lose their passion, they lose their drive, and we see them leaving Islam. Is it because of Islam? No. It’s because the person now, he’s expecting the same kind of high that he gets in the beginning as in the middle and the end. Anything that you start doing first, for example, when you first get married or you fall in love, it’s going to be so nice and sweet. Then after that, the reality starts to set in. The aim is not to have that high, that feeling continuously. That’s not the aim. That is a wrong aim. And if you are a believer who is always constantly looking to improve his faith, then you may even question that first feeling. How it was and how sincere that feeling is. Because if that feeling is sincere, then why are we feeling weakness? If that feeling was sincere and it is permanent, then why are we feeling a drop in our faith? Like I said, a lot of energy comes in that is needed. The boost is needed. Now, you are looking at your faith and you are measuring it, and you are understanding. Now the faith, like everything else, is going to take work, for you to work at it. Just like a marriage, just like a friendship, just like your own work at work. Now you are going to pass through that phase, the initial stage where it’s just a feeling. That feeling will go away. What are you going to be left with now? Is work. The more that you put into that work, the more benefit, the more rewards, the more satisfaction, the more faith you are going to have. Because now, especially if you are coming into Islam or you come into Tarikat, after you pass through the initial ‘Honeymoon’ period, then they say, ‘now we are going to start working on you.’ Now, welcome to Tarikat. Welcome to the way. Welcome to the way of understanding your enemies inside of you. And to get rid of them.

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Are we going to recognize our families on the Judgment Day?

Sheykh Efendi: Yes, we are going to recognize. And Allah is saying, 'That Day, children are going to run away from their parents and parents will run away from their children.'

That's why it says, your families, your children, your wealth, everything is only a confusion to you. So on that Day, everything that you did and everything that you didn't do for you children is going to appear in front of you. They are going to run to take their rights from you and you are going to run to take your rights away from them. Loving so much now, but there's not going to be that much love that Day.' Hmm. Everyone is going to run for themselves.

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Is it permissible for us to perform Qurban on behalf of others?

‘If you are able to do it, it is very recommended that you do. Because in Islam too, qurban especially and zakat, qurban and Hajj, something to think about. You cannot really pray for someone, like namaz, you cannot make namaz for someone, correct? You cannot make someone to give Syahadat, I mean to say Syahadat for someone else, correct? A person cannot say, ‘okay you don’t fast for Ramazan, I’m going to fast for you.’ It cannot happen. But zakat you may, maybe. Put that aside, but definitely Hajj, if somebody who cannot make it, you can actually do it. And the Qurban is also part of that Hajj, in reality.

Holy Prophet (asws), every year he would cut one qurban for the ummat. And his ummat is not just his Sahabis, not just those who believe in him at that time, but for entire human race. From his time until Judgement day, every single year he will cut one for the whole ummat. Of course he is going to cut for himself, for his family, for other things but one specifically for all of humanity. Who is doing that these days? Alhamdulillah, we are. The way of SahibulSaif, we are continuing that. As in our way, every Fajr we have to pray for the whole ummat. Not just say, ‘ya, ya, ya. I pray. I pray. That’s what I mean, whole ummat.’ No, to say, Ya Rabbi, save the ummat of Muhammad. Ya Rabbi, give more mercy to the ummat of Muhammad. Ya Rabbi, forgive the ummat of Muhammad. We say specifically this. Every Fajr, in the Naksibendi way we have to say. We are not making any difference between Sufi and wahabbi, or shi’ or Chrisitan, Jew or Hindu. We say these are all ummat, we are praying for the whole ummat. Understand?

If you have love, your heart will break every day. Because that is the sign of love. If you say and you are claiming that you have so much love, that you say people should have love, should have unconditional love, and you are not crying for the ummat, you are not feeling the pain of the ummat, now because you say openly, ‘people should have more love,’ now openly you should also say, ‘May Allah bring down all these tyrants.’ Which they are not doing. And openly they must say, ‘we must stop this tyranny because it’s breaking everyone’s heart, and Allah and His Prophet they are not happy with it.’ But no, twenty four hours people are talking about nonsense. Astaghfirullahal adzim wa atubu ilaih. May Allah forgive me.’

Shaykh Lokman Effendi Hz.

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