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Salamu alaykum
It is Eid, today is Bayram.
The most happy day in the Heavens
and the Heaven will send this spirit for the Earth
and the Earth will digest it.
This could be heavy day,
the first day, but it is coming from Heaven.
I was complaining, this first day of Eid, of Bayram,
is coming very heavy, very tired. We are busy all day but
I realise that it's coming from Heaven. I realise.
I wanted to share this with everyone because,
Allah Almighty when He sends something from Heaven,
in the standard of dunya, it will be heavy.
Because it is Heaven's production it has nothing to do with dunya.
So that's why when this body is not ready for Heaven, because,
this body will never go to Heaven, this is belonging to dunya.
We are leaving the body
and we are going to have another body in Paradise.
There's a very nice story about an old lady.
She came to our Prophet (sas) and said, "I am old lady,
I will be in paradise?" He said, "No" and she was shocked.
"How come? I believe in you, believe in Allah". He said,
"You will be a very beautiful lady going to Paradise,
not with this old body".
So that's why whatever coming from heaven,
you realise,"Oh, so heavy",
because it's not a production of dunya, it's a production of Heaven.
Alhamdulillah, made it clear for me also
because I was complaining
about the first day of Eid.
So now, it's been clear for all of us.
So this is beginning of what we have for this coffee talk.
So with this one I say Eid Mubarak for everyone,
and it will be insha Allah with goodness for all of us,
and will give us the real spirit of Eid.
The real spirit of Bayram.
Because nobody understands what is the meaning of Eid,
or Bayram or fiesta.
It is the most precious thing that you are having.
Imagine, one diamond, it's so small
but you can buy with this one diamond, one car.
I say, this is useless, just to put in your ring,
or to put in your safe, but the car you can use everyday.
No, they say 'This is very precious',
Allah Almighty gave you these stones to make you understand
what means, 'precious'.
This precious, it is a moment, it is one rakat,
it is one sajdah, it is one sadaqah, it is one goodness.
This is diamond.
This is diamond, so maybe you have lorry of things,
but it isn't worth one sajdah.
A sajdah is worth more than one lorry, whatever you do.
So this is the simple example
for the precious things that Allah Almighty sent from Heaven.
You say "Ah, it's so heavy", but it's not, it is precious.
That's why Subhanallah, make this subject going on and on.
Allah Almighty will, with Mawlana Shaykh's baraka
we've been having long years, Alhamdulillah, most of us,
long years of Mawlana Shaykh
& these are precious moments with Mawlana Shaykh.
Years, but I call these moments, because it's passed,
because there is no past belonging to you
and no future belonging to you, there's present belonging to you.
There's a second, maybe less than second belonging to you.
The rest is not belonging to us, nothing's belonging to us, nothing!
Only what we are. Maybe we can be owning
dunya, but we occupy only 2 square metres.
"That's mine!" I have 10,000 acres.
I have this, I have.. But, where are you? 2 metres, maybe 1 sq. metre.
This is yours. Allah Almighty, He make's perfect design.
That's why nobody can say "I am the ruler, everything is mine".
No way!
Allah Almighty made corporation for ruling,
corporation for eating, corporation for entertainment.
It is all corporate.
The first corporation was built up by Allah Almighty.
Everyone says let's make corporation for this, for that.
No, Allah Almighty made the biggest corporation.
So before it was among the people, among the community,
now it's among the nations internationally,
I give you this, you give me that, so it is.. But in the end,
nobody rules. Allah Almighty is the Ruler.
That's why when you look at it you think you are ruling, but no,
Fa Al Hukmu Li Allahi Al Alliyi Al Kabir (40:12)
Absolute ruling is for Allah Almighty. Absolute. No doubt.
Today imagine, if the electric is gone, who will rule?
Nobody, no communication.
So how you rule? You are individual.
So you come back for the oneness.
One, but Allah Almighty gives facilities.
With these facilities, people become more ignorant.
You see people becoming more shrewed, becoming more...
ugly face coming out & they think "Now, we control everything".
One, only one button is with one Waliullah. He is the one
giving this electric power. (Switch) off also, he can switch off.
So if you (switch) off, finish, blank, nothing.
Nothing, it will only be the voice of this back.....
Electric finished, so that's why whatever is coming heavenly is
continuously going but what is coming from dunya is temporary.
Everything is temporary here.
That's why we are temporary. Our power is temporary.
Our richness is temporary. Our poorness is temporary.
And this is reminding with very nice story,
Mawlana Sahykh used to say it all the time,
about Iskendar al Kabir, the Great Alexander,
when he was conquering an island in the Indian ocean.
The people were very wise there.
Imagine them, even small child when he talked to you, he talked wisdom.
And he was so impressed with them and liked them so much,
and finally he said, "I was so happy to be on your island
and I am so happy with your wisdom and I am impressed so,
I can give you 3 things. Whatever you order,
without asking, even if you ask my kingdom I will give you".
So happy. And they said to him
"We want good health".
He said, "What? I have headache, I don't know what to do with,
how can I give you good health, to not be ill.
Okay, another one, this finish.
This I cannot give".
They said, "We want
our final destiny".
He said, "How can I give you final destiny,
I don't know what will happen after one minute.
I don't know what will happen after 2 minutes,
or 1 year. How can I give you this? This belongs to Allah Almighty".
And the third one I forgot actually.
And after that he said, "Okay, I will be
...okay you stalemated me, I am finished,
so I will make you march with my army".
Because in that day it is the most strong army, the brightest army.
And he said, "We will march & it will be a festival for you".
"That's good". And they started marching
& making big days for the army.
He was there and all the people celebrating,
except one man.. You see, -imagine, all this army, people..
One man.. the army passing and he was sitting like this.
He doesn't look at them, anything
and Iskendar sees him and says:
"What is this man doing there? He doesn't look at this bright army,
the most powerful army on Earth, uhhh..?".
He didn't ask him to come to him, he went to him & said:
"Are you not impressed with my army?"
Why you are not impressed with my army?
Why you are not impressed with these people?
At this big festival and you are not celebrating
and you are not interested. What's the wisdom? What happened?"
He said, "Yes, I can tell you.
One day I was travelling from my village to the town.
It was almost nighttime and it became dark
and there was big storm and raining,
and I saw one monk..
monastery and I went in.
And when I went in I saw 2 bodies,
and I was scared of dead people,
& said outside is more dangerous but dead people will never harm me.
It's only one night, let me sleep. In morning storm will be finished".
So he slept and early morning the temple door opened.
3-4 monks coming and saying "What are you doing here?"
He said "Yesterday was a storm so I've just been here for the night".
They said, "Go,go! Immediately go, we have things to do".
They said, "This body belongs to the king
and we have to prepare him. Today we are so busy".
He said, "Okay but, who is the other one?"
"Oh, this is the most poor one on this island, the poorest one,
and he died the same day so we will finish him also.
You know the king gets better treatment, but,
unfortunately the poor one died so we have to look after him also".
He said "Hanh, I came and saw 2 bodies;
this is the king, this is the poor one.
I looked like this, and I looked like this, and I looked like this.
This doesn't say he is king and this doesn't say he is poor man.
The 2 of them are same. After this, nothing will impress me, not at all.
Not your army, maybe if the whole world's army comes,
I will not be impressed. After I see this, there is no difference
so nothing will impress me.
Alhamdulillah that's why he was saying,
"With this island I got the most wisdom,
but nothing will impress me anymore".
Small thing, but it is a huge thing at the same time.
So that's why don't say, "I am ruling. I am this. I am that".
Finally the poor man and king are equal. In one stage.
So that means we didn't do anything,
except what Allah Almighty ordered & asked us to do
& this is the most important & I'm asking from everyone,
first from me, to keep up with Allah's orders;
to be good servants and try to do your best for Allah Almighty.
Wa min Allah at-tawfiq, bi hurmat al Habib bi hurmat al Fatiha.