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As salamu Alaikum
Wa Rahmatullahi Ta'ala wa Barakatuh
Doctor Munir, today there is no Abdul-Majid.
Today there is Shaykh Ali!
Al Hamdulillah, we have
a very honoured guest also with us, and we have
the people that Mawlana Shaykh he loves so much.
And we say, ya Mawlana Shaykh, we love you, we love you,
we love so much, Al Hamdulillah.
The love,
The love of Mawlana
I just see it in Kamaluddin's shop.
We love you so much, say: ya Mawlana we love you so much.
The love, very important, you cannot imagine
how the love is important. If there is no love
there is no life. So simple.
Why the mother looking after her child?
Because she loves him so much,
otherwise nobody can look after a child. It's a very hard job.
But the secret is the love.
Why we are here? It's so simple:
Because we have love for our Shaykh, Ahamdulilah.
Everyone is coming from nowhere. Why?
They are distributing money? They are giving ranks?
No, it is only dervish life, very simple.
Eh? The secret is love.
So, if there is love there is life.
And Al Hamdulillah, our life with the love of Mawlana Shaykh.
This is the important thing. Look, I love this chair,
so that's why I'm sitting here and talking to you.
If I don't love this chair, I will not be talking to you.
See, even Ramadan is loving us, so coming every year
ten days earlier.
So even Ramadan is loving us. Ten days earlier.
As Mulla Nasruddin he saying. They ask Mulla Nasruddin
"Do you think Ramadan is happy with us
and he loves us, and he is satisfied with us
and he accepts our fasting?" He said: "Of course!"
"How do you know?" they say. "Every year it's coming ten days earlier,
that's why!" It's Mulla Nasruddin.
Yesterday we told this joke, but today we tell it for your honour.
So that's why, when you are begining
in one way,and when you are begining to go somewhere
you have to put the love as the pocket money for your jouney.
Because all of us, we have journey.
Somebody starts when he's born,
somebody starts when he's young, somebody starts when he's old.
Everyone he has a spiritual journey,
but, the timing of the spiritual journey
is different than the others. And there is something...
Some people, they start very early, like me, because I'm born in it,
but I will not be faster than
somebody coming very late.
Because this is Allah Almighty
He start from Maqams. It doesn't matter that you are coming late,
or coming early, no. You have your station, you start from your station.
And this, it was reminding me of a very nice story.
One day one of the Shaykhs
someone coming and he attend to him and he start to be his mureed.
And the Shaykh start to give that new mureed
a lot of respect and a lot of responsibilty. He just coming in, new.
And all mureeds like us, start to be jealous.
"What's going on here? Why? This Shaykh, yesterday coming!
We don't know him, and the Shaykh he put him in the chair, ya Hu!
And give him a lot of respect, how come?" And you know, the gossip.
So, it starts all around, and all of them they start,
and finally it's coming to the ear of the Shaykh.
Shaykh he knows of course, but it's coming loud now "Why, why why?"
And the Shaykh, he asks, he puts all the mureeds
and he makes a Sohbat, and at the end of the Sohbat he says
"I will ask you a question, and I want everyone to answer me."
The question was: "If you are (Astaghfirullah,
hasha, hasha, hasha,thumma kalla! But the question is a question,
no hard feelings, no kufur, no shirk) If you were Allah Almighty,
what will you in this world?"
So they start, one two three to answer. One of them says:
"I will be making all the people not have any illness."
The second one says: "I will make all the people to be rich."
The third one says: "I will make all the people to be tall." The other one
says: "I will make all the people to be handsome, to be beautiful,
to be this, to be that," and everyone he put what he has in his mind.
Finally it's coming to the last mureed, though he came very late.
"So what you will be doing?"
He says: "Ya Sayidi, I will not change anything.
I will not change anything." Shaykh says: "Why?"
Shaykh angry with him. "Why?" He says: "I don't think that I know
better than Allah Almighty." Shaykh says: "You see! This is
the one, he is coming with the pure intention.
Not like you!"
So, it doesn't matter
that you are coming earlier, or coming late. Don't think there is
time table and the Shaykh program
or in the Shaykh progressing. There is no timetable.
Not at all. If you are written in the list, so your time is coming
so you will be with the Shaykh. Your time is ok,
you will be with the Shaykh. So that's why the Shaykh
is all the time waiting,
Who is next coming to me on my list? Who is next coming to me?
Nobody coming to Shaykh coincidently.
Everything is written, everything in it's place. This is very important.
This is to make it clear
how is the Shaykh system working.
We think there is no system, but the Shaykh
he have system, and he has perfection in his system.
There is perfection. He throw us
stone, but be sure that stone will hit somebody.
Be sure. Even if it is going
not hitting anybody, but be sure that stone is hitting someone.
Even by seeing he is hitting somebody.
Al Hamdulillah that we are lucky people, that Mawlana
Shaykh he accepting us to be his mureeds,
and he accepting us to be his followers, and he is honoring us
to be his murids. I put it in this way.
He is honoring us and he is making us as a human;
taking our bad manners,
our bad ego out, and he doesn't see our animal side
and he sees our human side. Al Hamdulillah, and he is honoring us
with the humanity and human side, to be Bani Adam,
the children of Adam. And he is looking at us without any
bad. He doesn't look for the bad side of us, he looks for the
good side of us. He says: "I am only interested in the heart
and the heart is the Gold, and I am interested in your gold, in your
your jewelry. I'm not interested in your face, if you're handsome
or you're ugly, not interested in tall or short." He's not interested.
He's interested only with heart. This is Mawlana Shaykh.
This is Mawlana Shaykh that we say
we love you, we love you, we love you so much. That's why
we love you Shaykh Nazim. That's why we are here Shaykh Nazim.
Al Hamdulillah. This is one of the most important
things that it is our life. I don't think anybody of you
wherever he goes he has one minute or one second
without thinking of Mawlana Shaykh. I don't think so.
Whatever you see, because... I will put another example.
If you are in love with one woman
or a woman in love with one man, so,
it will be stepping in the pink cloud, Ahhhhh...
You don't think anthing else. She doesn't think anything else.
This is the love. But this is temporary love.
When you are married, and when you got the real reponsabilities
where is this love? You start saying
we been stepping in pink cloud, there is no more pink cloud!
Finish! Ya hu. This is Allah Almighty, he put this one only
trick you and to make you married, otherwise no one will marry.
Neither man, neither woman.
But the spiritual love that we love for Mawlana Shaykh
we are all the time in pink cloud, climbing.
Al Hamdulillah that Allah Almighty he give us such a precious love
that make us all the time walking in pink cloud
and we don't need anything else.
Whetever happens in the world, Al Hamdulillah we have
the love of Mawlana Shaykh. That we are asking from Allah
Almighty to give Mawlana Shaykh long life
and give him good health, and even that he is breathing upstairs
that makes us more than happy.
And to be with him here and hereafter, this is the real gaining.
Al Hamdulillah. Shukur Ya Rabbi, Shukur Al Hamdulillah.
With this sweet ending I can say, wa min Allahi Altawfiq
Bihurmat Al-Habib, Bihurmat Al-Fatiha. Good?