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Hello friends!
I don’t like telling stories,
but some people say it is more comprehensible when we tell our subjects through stories.
So, let me tell you one at this time.
A man stopped in front of the carriage-maker at the entrance of town in his car…
He stopped and got out of the car.
He came up to the carriage-maker and greeted him.
The carriage-maker welcomed him with a smile, and without stopping,
went about with what he was doing as he gave a quick look at the white car that the stranger had come in.
Then, he turned up his nose and started to speak…
“Look, sir. These devil cars are dangerous!.
You city folk are so into them, but they cause trouble for you.
They’re faster than my carriages, but they might overturn, God forbid!.
Our carriages are equipped with swinger coils, they are comfortable…
I make the seating soft.
The wheels of my carriage are big,
they go a good distance in a full spin!
You set off from here and you are in the town in the same breath sound as a bell!
It has no fuel pain either!.
The awning over it protects both from the rain and the sun.
You can close the awning if you like and ride open-topped as you watch the surroundings…
The reins are made of special leather;
they are so strong, but they never hurt your hands…
They are for two horses… Two horses drag the cart. Go as far as you can…
And these carriages are made scientifically.
It is the job of science to calculate the diameter of the wheels, balance,
the height and also the distance of the wheels!.
We work scientifically.
We believe in this job, but we always follow the science of carriage-making as well.”
While they were talking, other countrymen who saw the stranger gathered around;
they were nodding and agreeing with the carriage-maker…
With the support by other people around,
the carriage-maker started to praise his carriage even more…
He told about how comfortable and peaceful a ride people could have by it;
and that people in the town had been glad to go to neighboring villages by the carriage;
and that luggage could be carried in the rear closet…
In short, he listed all virtues of the carriage that he knew.
The countrymen rejoiced, as they were eagerly listening to the wise carriage-maker in awe.
They were proud from within that there were such wise carriage-makers.
Since the countrymen were so tolerant and warm-hearted,
they didn’t do or say anything to hurt the stranger who had arrived by his white car made of sheer metal.
They offered him yoghurt drink.
The stranger silently watched the countrymen and listened to the wise carriage-maker of the town.
“You’re right, gentleman!” he said;
“You’re doing a good job, May Allah give you strength.
How nice; you are happy, so are your fellow countrymen !
I hope you live in peace and contentment.”
Then he stood up, walked and got into his car.
He opened the hardtop in sixteen seconds, and started the engine by touching the gear lever.
He checked the navigation screen if there were any children behind the car.
Then he waved his hand goodbye to the countrymen from inside.
He accelerated his seven gears, 493 horse power, 2000 rpm, 516 torques car
and he disappeared quietly in five-six seconds.
The countrymen watched open-mouthed as the car disappeared
and looked at the cloud of dust behind it with appalled eyes.
The carriage-maker was still telling the countrymen
about the virtues and benefits as if the stranger had never been there.
The countrymen were full with admiration and pleasure
while they were listening to the carriage-maker as if they had never seen the stranger stop by.
I think I’ve managed to please you by telling you a story.
By the way, something else came to my mind.
You know, I mentioned in my earlier talks about the ones who run after Buddhism and such beliefs, as they turn up their nose at Islam...
They say Buddhism already includes much more than true Sufism and blah blah...
One would achieve nirvana by repeating the word “ohm”...
They are my dear naive fellows!
Dear intellectualoids consider the existing practice of people today as true Islam,
so either they try to find an answer in Budism or they prefer to worship Jesus.
The son of god will take them on his spaceship back to his father, as it were (!)..
What else can they do? Please just think! Have a heart!
About Islam, what they believe is a god sitting up in the sky..
Such an understanding: God is up there(!)..
The sins and good deeds are to be measured with scales...
an understanding of religion that the ones who aren’t dressed up or don’t grow a beard like Abu Jahil,
Abu Lahab, and who challenge the orders will be sent to hell...
You know, RasulAllah used to dress up just as Abu Jahil and Abu Lahab did in that era.
Was this way of dressing the practice (sunnat) of RasulAllah?
Such an understanding coming out of thousands of fatwas in 1400 years...
What else could these fellows do instead of making their gateway?..
How can the shining sun of Islam be seen behind all this cloud of dust?
Indeed, people don’t have appropriate conditions to devote over forty years to finding the truth of this matter like I did...
In fact, the sun of Quran and religion has been shining over humanity.
Its scope has addressed all the people that will come onto the earth until doomsday, regardless of their understanding.
Despite all this, you can’t even see the sun as long as the clouds cover the sky.
Your skies and horizon would get dark..
You might not even see your hand in front of your face.
The only way is to get away from that dark and cloudy area to open, cloudless areas.
Since the sun of RasulAllah has been concealed by closed minded, facile, formalistic, and militaristic clouds;
people have been doing their best to flee anywhere away from such an area for years...
Because of their tenderness and love, some flee to Buddhism and some to Christianity!..
I wish people could just see the sun of RasulAllaH...
The great example of affection is who said “make it easy, not difficult; make people like it, not hate it”...
I wish you could just see the magnificent human who devoted his whole life to make people rescue their future life
by getting rid of those clouds....
I wish we could just realize the Self (zhat) that tried to say:
“There’s no god up there. Don’t hope for help or worship to a nonexisting outer god, that’s all for nothing.
Just look for that which is entirely present with the name Allah within every bit of existence.
Not outside, look for it just within your existence, essence, heart, consciousness,
inner secret (sirr), khafi and akhfa; and attain so that you can melt down”!
I wish we could just understand the Rasul of Allah who wants to make you realize your beauty by saying:
“You are neither a man or a woman, you are the khalif; as the being carrying the meaning of the names of Allah”...
I wish we could just appreciate the NabiAllah that said:
“If two Muslims draw a sword to each other, both the dead and the killer are in hell”
and warned “when someone accuses another person of blasphemy,
if the person that is accused does believe in Allah and the Rasul, the accuser becomes a blasphemer.”
If only we could see the most magnificent part of the fact... What is that part?
A journey starting from our self, reaching out to the One that is referred to as Allah through the “ascension”(miraj) rising up to the truth of our self...
An external journey that starts from within our essence, our brain, and goes on with getting to know the operating system and the laws,
namely the laws of nature, that our body and our soul, which is the follow up of our body, are subject to!.
If only we could get purified from such primitiveness and outdated mental state as: “everything is what I can see; what I can’t see never exists”!.
If only we could get rid of such insular attitudes as:
“The earth is flat; god is up in the sky doing his job using his 3-5 winged angels;
all his deeds is to put humans and genies in hell; the earth is the center of the universe;
everything is created only to please humans”
and realize that the universal system and order called “SunnatAllah” is what the magnificient RasulAllah revealed.
If only we could grasp the providence and the domination of the One that is present within every bit of existence as the properties of Hu’s names
and that is referred to as “Allah” over the entire existence are out there only to be revealed through the essence of all individual beings!
I wish we could just realize all the practices known as worship are not in fact towards god, but internally, in order for a person to know his truth and attain Allah;
and externally, they are for the purpose of enhancing the conditions that build up his eternal life by making him know
and start to use the spiritual powers within, which are a divine gift...
Above all, I wish we could at least realize how that magnificent mind,
as a result of revealing the perfection of Risalat and Nubuwat within most extensively,
strived to make us realize the universal system; what follows what, how, what will be faced with
and what kind of precautions are essential for the forthcoming events (of afterlife)...
If only we could prudentially read the timeless truths that the magnificent Book of Knowledge covers
which is a bestowed manual for the universal system that came out within himself,
and as a result attain the SPIRIT of Quran!..
Oh, my friends! Whatever shall I tell you?..
During Ramadan I only told you the titles of the subjects yet...
If I go into details on these subjects, I can’t tell you all of my perceptions even for hours or months...
You know what?
I used to dismantle and repair my Grundig TK 145 roller tapes myself looking up in its manual...
Then cathode ray tube tvs came out, I started to replace their bulbs and adjust their tubes...
I also used to remove the carburettor on my 1303 Beetle, clean it, make its air adjustment,
replace the float needle if necessary and make the valve adjustments to make it go faster...
It was child’s play for me to repair typewriters.
Then a computer came along...
I set about with the most advanced pc of the day with a 2 megabytes hard disk...
I made my own computer with ASUS P5AD2E mainboard, 10000 rpm harddisk,
SATA 4 gig ram before coming to Turkey; and I brought it here...
I’ve stood up on my own feet all through my life, as far as in me lies!.
I even stuck my nose into learning about atom physics, chemistry, medicine and psychiatry...
All was for the sake of understanding religion better.
I thought all this information was required in order to understand the Religion and the Quran.
As each is a cogwheel in the mechanism which Allah created.
And as a result, the system is a totally magnificient integrated mechanism, created through Allah.
I don’t know if there are any books on sufism or hadith books left that I haven’t read.
Not once did I even practice 90-120 day abstinance, or observe 3-5 day non-stop fastings (without breaking dinners)
after reading Ahmed Rufai and Bursevi saying “in order to understand these, you’ve got to live yourself.”
What else have I done? I also practiced reclusion.
As you see, there are only a few things left that I haven’t tried by myself within my whole life in which I’ve been subject only to RasulAllah.
I went to the pilgrimage by myself with a hippie bag on my back when I was 20.
People tried to scare me to provoke my suspicions!...
But I’ve only believed and trusted Allah.
I’ve never limited myself with anyone’s perceptions…
I’ve always looked for the new…
I’ve taken everyone’s opinion and evaluate it,
but I’ve always walked through my path alone.
I walk through the path that Allah ordains, with Hu’s Knowledge (ilm), Will (irada) and Power (qudrat)!
If someone doesn’t welcome renovations, he cannot get to it.
New things always occur throughout practice.
Practicing “the old” won’t produce “the new”!.
Here, through this sincere chat,
I’ve tried to tell you that without new practices innovation cannot be acquired.
Behind an innovation, there is absolutely a new practice!..
It’s never possible to get “the fresh” with “the old” in my opinion!..
That’s why, thinking that will result in further expansion in brain,
I’ve come up to this day practicing the names Murid, Fettah and Kuddus.
Besides, I think that…
That wouldn’t be more than a “hobby” talk and reading about Sufism, unless there is planning and systematic study and even the process of practice.
It would just be philosophy!.
Reading and writing the philosophy of Sufism wouldn’t mean being adept at Sufism!.
One cannot go forward by rewinding yesterday!.
While Hazrat Ali the “Master of Sainthood” is saying “raise your children in accordance with the future, not today’s understanding!”…
Shame on us, if we understand and interpret the Holy Book – preserve its authenticity and freshness till doomsday,
include feature addresses to that age’s people – with the repetition of yesterday, as the people of old times in this day.
The reason that I tell you this is…
I’m at the age of 61…
There are two years left to the years that Rasulallah passed away at the period…
The end is close in accordance with our history.
I don’t know how much longer I will stay in this state of brain and mind health.
Neither a sheikh I am, nor a mentor; not even a leader to be followed or somebody within a rank or label…
Also I’m not a person expecting appreciation from others…
The reason that I tell about myself a little,
is to make you understand that it wouldn’t be possible to get this awareness of understanding – which is quite valuable for me – without doing anything, just reading books.
That’s why I tell you all of these.
I’m just an ordinary thinker and I only share my ideas by writing or chatting with willing people.
The ones who make use of these ideas keep reading us,
but the others who don’t think that these ideas are in accordance with their database, don’t read us and live their lives as they wish.
We’ve obtained some new perspectives throughout the practices which Allah enabled us
– especially focusing on the names Kuddüs, Murid and Fettah heavily –
and shared these with you.
So we say that…
Each new approach or practice is followed by a new outcome or expansion.
This goes on like this now and will go on like this in future!
Even if you have skills and ability, with classical applications, you won’t get other than the classical data.
From my point of view, it is necessary to carry out the new practices and approaches systematically,
till you get a result, in order to learn and make use of new aspects,
details and secrets of Allah’s system and order -called RELIGION – which haven’t been recognized yet.
You cannot get to the water by digging in a different part of the yard each time!..
This may only end in frustration for whimsical people who spend few days on a task,
and without an achievement say “there’s no water beneath this yard.”
I may not thank enough; my Rabb has made it easier,
made me reach to the treasure and made me notice my servitude, nothingness.
I don’t care about other people’s chit chats.
Wise people would spend their time with beneficial practices and studies for their future, instead of wasting their life with gossips about me.
That’s the understanding which has made me come here today.
I’m waiting for the day that I’ll leave this world with the peace of understanding Rasulallah and the system he told about,
the Koran that he has brought within my perception and with the peace of my servitude to Allah.
I wish your hearts would be in peace and satisfaction with Allah’s ZHIKR. (practice of repeating the words which carry certain meanings in the brain)
As there is no heaven like knowing ALLAH!..
Whatever you possess here in this world has an end and this means dissatisfaction and depression for wise people!.
Journey of Allah with Allah is infinite and there is no such conception as being fed up!..
Try to get out from your cocoons and fly to eternity, Oh Phoenixes!..
Notice that you’re not little sparrows and understand that the little food around you wouldn’t be satisfactory after a while.
Good-bye.