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Fatiha for his Soul.

ONE RELIGION IN THE PRESENCE OF ALLAH

Juma Khutba delivered by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 11 Zil-Qadah, 1430
October 30, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York

Auzu billahi min-ash sheytanir rajim
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Medet Ya Seyyidi Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-azim wa atubu ilaih. Inna ad-dina indallah-ul Islam. One religion in the presence of your Lord. Islam. Saying to us, `Don’t come to my presence with something else. You will be failing. The only religion that I’m accepting is Islam. The only book that I’m accepting is the Quran. The only prophet and the last prophet that I’m accepting is Muhammad (alayhi salatu wa salam).’

Eh, the 21st Century people are reading a lot, they have so much computers, they built these computers mashaAllah, they built so much technology, but they are buried in it. They sink in it. They are knowing nothing because they are not knowing what is good for them and what is bad for them. They are running top-speed after illusions and delusions and so many wrong thinkings. And Allah is sending to us saying, `Islam’. Islam is open. You cannot hide anything to the corners. Everything is open. He has sent 124,000 prophets and all these prophets were calling their people to Islam, to Allah, saying, `La ilaha illallah.’ That is Islam. Saying, `Submit yourself to your Lord. One and Only. No other one. He has no partner.’

During those times prophets came in their nations. Some believed and some didn’t. So many prophets came and not even one person believed on them. It didn’t change the reality. That one who came and who gave them the message is in safety now and those ones who became disobedient are in trouble. They are in trouble in their graves. After Judgment Day more trouble is coming to mankind. This is what man is building to himself because the ego is standing.

The ego is always saying, `Me, me and only me. Whatever you say, I don’t care.’ That’s what the ego says. Males and females, the same, saying, `What I say, that’s what has to happen. I am a Muslim but what my ego likes, that’s what I’m going to do.’ No you are not a Muslim then. You lost Islam. Islam is to submit yourself to your Lord, to submit yourself to His orders, to submit yourself to His Prophet (sws), to submit yourself to the rightly guided ones. If you are not submitting yourself to them then you are following the desires of your ego. So you are a servant of your ego. You can do any kind of forms then. You can be a Buddhist, sitting like Buddha, you can be Christians going to church, or Jews going to synagogue once a week, or Muslims going to Juma, or from time to time going into masjids, but you are following your ego. Finished. You are not following the orders of Allah subhana wa ta’ala because you don’t know which ones are those. You do things according to your ego then.

Eh, 21st Century people, from the normal people to murids to the Sheykhs now, cigarettes in their mouths. They are smoking cigarettes. What is that? If a man can’t control himself with a cigarette, if he cannot stop his ego from that cigarette, how is he going to control himself with other orders that Allah is giving to do and don’t? Impossible. The simplest thing and the worst thing, to you, to your community and to your nation, financially and in every way. You cannot stop yourself from that wrong action. How are you going to stop yourself, your ego from so many other tricks and traps that Sheytan is coming to play with you?

Yes, today the name of Islam is there, today the appearances of the Quran is there, the appearances of Masjids are there, but Mu’mins, where are they? We are looking. Where are they? They are hiding. They are pulling themselves to the corners. And the hypocrites, the fools and the ignorant, the tools for Sheytan are appearing here and there. This is the way that it has to happen. That’s what the Holy Prophet (sws) said, `The ones that are giving light are going to pull themselves to the corners. So you are not going to see light. Those who are looking for light, they are going to run after, they are going to find them. But those who are not liking the light of Islam, they are not going to care. They are just like the bats. As soon as they see the light, it’s bothering them.’

Sheytan already changed so many signs in Islam since the 1920’s. `One Way’ is the other way. Everyone is saying, `I am finding my way.’ How are you finding your way? From where are you taking that? Sign is showing that way but already somebody has played around with it. One time I was driving in Cyprus. I see one sign showing one road, saying, `Gecitkoy’. So if you follow that in the map, you see that there is a Gecitkoy and you have to follow that road to go to that village. But somebody came down from their car someday somehow and they took G, E and C out and now the sign says, `Itkoy’. You are looking at the map, there is no such thing as Itkoy. There’s Gecitkoy. So I say maybe it’s a wrong direction, I have to turn to this side. But when you look at it closely you see that somebody took those couple of letters out. Huh, it’s a completely different meaning too. Gecitkoy means giving way to you to pass. Itkoy means the dog’s village. That’s what it means.

All the signs everywhere Sheytan played around with. And as the Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `In Ahir Zaman only the name of Islam is going to stay. The appearances of Islam are going to disappear.’ That’s what happened. And appearing so many fools in that Itkoy way, that sign, claiming that they know Islam, claiming that they are the best ones. Some are claiming that they are Mahdi, some are claiming that they are prophets, some are claiming that they are Khizr and some are preparing to declare that they are Mahdi.

Eh, Allah gave you intelligence to put it together and to think and to watch. Yes, do you have to watch your Sheykh? Of course. You have to watch every activity that he’s doing. Look. Does it fit into the borderlines of Islam? Yes. Not according to your ego. According to Islam. According to the time and according to that place. Where the wolves are, you don’t walk around without the stick in your hand. When the wolves are around you have to have the gun ready too. It doesn’t matter if you are a Murid or if you are a Sheykh. The wolf is not listening. When the wolf is ready to attack you have to be able to pull and shoot. But so many fools today are not knowing anything. They are not knowing the simple steps of Islam and they are thinking that they know everything and saying, `Oh, Sheykh cannot do this. Sheykh cannot say this.’ Sheykh can use everything that is necessary to save his Murid from hell. He is not looking for worldly activities. He’s not looking how they are going to think. Sheykh is that one who has been given permission from the Holy Prophet (sws) depending on the area that he is working in.

As I said, those fools that they cannot stop themselves from cigarettes, they are jumping today and finding other fools like them and thinking that they are going to harm Islam or thinking that they are going to turn Islam as their ego wants it. You cannot. They have been trying for fourteen hundred years. You cannot. Impossible. Impossible. Islam, Inna ad-dina indallah-ul Islam, the only religion that Allah is accepting. And it looks like now that it’s covered but it’s rising up now. When that cover is taken off, it’s the only one that’s taking over the whole world again. It is so easy for Allah subhana a ta’ala. It is so hard for those ignorant ones even to think on it.

It was so easy for Sultan Mehmet Khan when he aimed to Istanbul, because he had plans and he had aims and he put his life in front saying, `Either Istanbul will take me or I will take Istanbul. There is no other way.’ They said to him, `Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind? Do you know how protected this city is?’ He says, `I know. I know how it is. But I see a vision. And where my sword is reaching, where my power is reaching, not even your imagination can reach because you are not knowing Islam. I know and I am reaching there. Watch me.’ He reached. Watch us. We are reaching back to Istanbul. Watch. We are reaching back to Rome. Watch. All those fools who think that they are standing in front of Islam, in front of those ones, they are only giving energy and power to those who are working in the way of Allah. There’s an Ayat-e Kerima saying, `When they say to them, `All your enemies have come together, they are preparing against you’, that’s making their faith to grow stronger and they say, `Hasbinallah wa ni’mal wakeel. Allah is enough for me.” Yes.

So, any safety that anybody is looking for in Dunya and in Akhirat, Islam. Real Islam. Islam the way that the Holy Prophet (sws) brought. Not so many fake things that they put later here and there. Not so many things that they have changed the road with. You can change all the roads, you can change all the signs, but the man who has a vision doesn’t need the signs anymore. He doesn’t need the GPS anymore. He follows the road. He knows the road because there’s a light going in front of him.

So, if you don’t know then you must follow that guide. You must follow his orders. You must not follow your ego and your head to say, `I know so much and I read so much.’ Yes, the more you read the more ignorant you are going to become! The more arrogant you are going to become in these days! The more fool you are going to become in these days! Because that’s what they are preparing for you.

Not even understanding that part that there are so many enemies of Islam running to finish it. Who are the enemies of Islam? The Fascists are the enemies of Islam, the Communists are the enemies of Islam, the Seculars are the enemies of Islam, the Laiks are the enemies of Islam, the Feminists are the enemies of Islam. All these are enemies of Islam. I have more to say but it doesn’t fit to this Khutba place. Other times I say.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

NO FEAR FOR THE DEFENDERS OF TRUTH

Sohbet given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Thursday 10 Zil-Qadah, 1430
October 29, 2009
Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani Dergahi, Siddiki Center, New York.

Auzu billahi min ash-sheytanir rajim
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Medet Ya Seyyidi, Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Tariqatuna Sohbet wa Khayru fil Jamiat. Our way continues through association. (First we enter into the way). Later step by step everyone is reaching to what is for them that Allah subhana wa ta’ala has given, has prepared. But the 21st Century people, although they are in trouble twenty-four hours, they are still running to make more trouble to themselves, not only in Dunya but in their graves and in Akhirat. Anyone who’s running for Islam, Islam means submission. Peace. And the peace can only come through submission. And submission is to the One who has created you. But not according to your ego. It’s according to what He has prepared, that He has sent 124,000 prophets to show people roads from Dunya to Akhirat and to show people that they have become dirty and they became disobedient to Allah.

Sheytan became disobedient and all the beauty that was given to him, all the knowledge that was given to him, all the power that was given to him, as soon as he became disobedient, it means he changed all that with disobedience. Allah didn’t take it away but that arrogant and stubborn one through that action threw away everything that Allah subhana wa ta’ala had granted to him. He took it and he threw it away. And when the warning reached to him, it’s not only that he was ignorant and arrogant, he then turned to become stubborn with the wrong thing that he did. And he did so until Allah subhana wa ta’ala was ordering the angels, the guards of the paradises, saying, `Kick this one out from Paradise!’ And he has been kicked out from Paradise.

He didn’t sit comfortably. He cannot sit comfortably until the Judgment Day. That worrying and the fear is driving him crazy. And he didn’t sit comfortably and he came to the gates of Paradise, he managed to enter inside through the mouth of the snake… so many snakes are in the world today, he managed to enter inside and he fooled Hazrat Hawa. And Hazrat Hawa became a disobedient one, a direct disobedient one to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. And Hazrat Hawa managed to fool Adam (alayhi salam) and as soon as Adam (as) did the forbidden action, order came to him saying, `Now you became dirty too. Anyone who’s disobedient to My order, they are dirty ones and dirty ones cannot stay in Paradise. Then order was given sending them to this Dunya, saying, `Clean yourselves and come back to Paradise. If you are not cleaning yourselves then you cannot be going back to Paradise. Clean yourselves from those animal characteristics’, because only the animal characteristics became disobedient to Allah subhan wa ta’ala.

And since that time Sheytan managed to enter between the children of Adam (as) and put confusion and Fitna, and always one group is running to keep the orders of Allah and another one always running to make confusion and disobedience to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. And that has continued up to the last prophet Muhammad (salatu wa salam). And did it stop? No. It continued. When Islam became a state and a government that’s ruling strongly, Sheytan couldn’t run around too much to put more of his confusion inside the believers. Since 1908, since Ulul Hakan Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan came down from power, Sheytan is running top-speed inside of Muslims and he managed to fool them left and right, to put confusion to them while they are in the same Masjids and they are following the same Sheykhs or they are running to do something for Allah’s sake.

What’s making that? Their ego. Everyone wants their ego to be praised. Eh, your ego is a disobedient creature to Allah subhana wa ta’ala. Anyone who’s going to praise your ego, that one is also a sheytan. Especially now, in the Ahir of Ahir Zaman, in the confusion of sheytans and dajjals. There is nothing left for the big Dajjal to come out. And I am seeing so many running after the dajjals. Eh, run. You are free to go anywhere. Run anywhere. But you are only running away from Haqq to Batil. Nothing else. And dajjals are waiting to put the chains around the necks and later you may be sorry but sometimes the last sorry is not enough. And Sheytan will drag those ones with him into Jahannam.

We are defenders of the Truth. The Hakkanis. Defenders of the Truth. Not only through the name. Not only through this small area. Anywhere we are walking on top of this earth, we are defending the Truth. Anyone who is saying other than that, they must be the agents of Sheytan. In my position I am a weak servant. But as our Sheykh is saying, with Allah subhana wa ta’ala I can be the most strong one. But no need for me to be the strong one because Sheykh Mevlana is on top of everything, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.

All those who are going to run and become helpers to Sheytan and dajjals, welcome. Run right now if you want. If there’s not one person left around, don’t think that this attitude is going to change. It’s not. It’s not going to change because we are defending the Truth and against sheytans and dajjals it’s going to become more strong, more powerful. Never is it going to become weaker. We may not be able to carry this until the end. Whatever Allah subhana wa ta’ala has granted to us in this life, inshaAllah ar-Rahman we are going to spend it until the last breath and no man on the face of earth, no sheytans, no dajjals and no governments are going to be able to put any fear in us because we are holding tightly to Allah, to His Prophet (sws) and to His Awliya.

Anyone who is claiming that they know the Awliya, if they don’t know Sheykh Mevlana Muhammad Nazim al-Hakkani, they must be knowing sheytans. If anyone is claiming that they are Awliya, they have to know that one. If they are not knowing that one then they must be the agents of Sheytan. This much should be enough for you, for me and for all those who are going to listen worldwide. And I want this to enter everywhere. Translate in Turkish, put it in English to enter to every one of them, for them to hear this and who’s challenging, I am here. I am not challenging anyone. I am a weak servant. But not wolves, not hyenas, not cats but the rats are trying to challenge me. They are only rats and the rats, the duty of the rats is only to go inside the sewers and to bring out dirtiness. They are surviving with the dirtiness. Nothing else.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

InshaAllah ar-Rahman, we are asking help and support from our Sheykh and I don’t know about you but I put my neck under his feet. And every blood that is in my body is sacrificed to him. I will never ask if he’s doing right or wrong because I know that he’s doing right. And even if it is something that looks that it’s not right, definitely I trust and I follow his footsteps. And everything that I’m doing in this country for 35 years, all those who know me know that I am following his footsteps, even though so many of them don’t like me because of that. And I have no fear and I have no worry. Even if he says to me the worst words in this world, inshaAllah I am over 50 years old and I didn’t change my heart to him one time, I am not intending to change it until the last breath.

We are serving Sheykh Mevlana Muhammad Nazim al-Hakkani for five generations. My grandfather, my father, me, my son and my grandson. We are serving him. We are going to serve him. Anyone who is saying other than that, either they are attacking me or they are liars or they are in big Ghaflat.

Wa min Allahu tawfiq

Bihurmatil Habib

Bihurmatil Fatiha.

Sohbet  by Sheikh Abdul Kerim al-Kibrisi on the occassion of the Urs of Haji Fuat ar-Rabbani – 1430

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THE CLOUDS OF ÇANAKKALE

Sohbet given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi

Friday 9 Ramazan, 1428 / Septermber 21, 2007
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.

[After the Juma prayer someone asked Sheykh Efendi about the Canakkale
War of 1915 saying, "Many are now saying that the clouds that appeared
in Canakkale taking in British soldiers and disappearing, it's just a
story. Is it true?"]

Sheykh Efendi: Auzu billahi min ash-sheytanir rajim.
BismillahirRahmanirRahim.
Medet Ya Seyyidi Sultanul Awliya, Medet.

Millions today are making jokes about how the cloud appeared in
Canakkale and took one group of British and just disappeared and still
their bodies are not known anywhere. Now they are making stories. But
people from that time believed because they saw and they witnessed.
After them their children, they are also not believing because it’s
something extraordinary. It’s showing (to the non-Muslim forces that
came against the Ottoman Empire) that the God that you are worshipping
is helping these people and it’s not helping you. So it’s not such a
good position that you want to be in, right? How are you going to say,
“The side that we were fighting against, they were right and the Lord
helped them by sending clouds and everyone disappeared in it.” It
wasn’t just ten people in it.

Not only that but so many other unusual things happened there. Who was
in Canakkale? Our Grandsheykh (Abdullah Daghestani QS). So is it so
hard for us to understand who is making all these things? Heh, there
was a General who didn’t like the Grandsheykh. And a bomb flew and
fell into the area where the Grandsheykh and everyone were in. Almost
everybody died or became wounded. Where Gransheykh was, where it fell,
it just became a big hole and Grandsheykh was sitting and praying
there. The General was shocked and he came down to the Grandsheykh. He
kissed his hand and said, “I didn’t believe in God. I didn’t believe
in anything but I believe you from now on because I have seen with my
eyes what had happened.” He said, “You are a different individual from
everything else.” And that General started following the Grandsheykh.

Not only Grandsheykh but so many other sheykhs and saints entered into
that war. 250,000 people died. It’s not 250. Two hundred and fifty
thousand people died there in that short time. Only from the Turks.
Almost 300,000 died from the other side. Over 300,000 people. You are
talking about more than half a million people dying in those waters
and in those lands there. Everywhere you are stepping on there are
bodies underneath it.

I spent three nights there and early in the morning when I was calling
the Azan… I was calling the Azan very strongly early in the morning,
(there was one tomb, that of Suleyman Pasha, he did great things there
too) near his tomb and I was going there for prayer and you can see in
far distance the lights of the Greek islands there, right on the
border. People came from the other side. In the morning when I was
calling the Azan right before dawn, things were setting down and I was
seeing all these beautiful rains of light coming down. Like rain drops
light was coming down and with that different smells were coming. And
there was a voice speaking to me saying that all those drops are
representing all those soldiers, and everyone has a different smell.
So everywhere I was walking I was seeing different lights. I was
walking, passing through their tomb sites and you would think that
there are so many tombs there but it’s not. In the mountains and
everywhere you see that light connection coming from the Paradise to
there, from their tombs going up.

That’s why people who don’t have strong spirituality cannot live
around there. It’s pretty heavy for them. People who have high
spirituality want to live there all the time but they don’t leave them
too because you discover so many secrets there. It opens up. Unless
you are keeping the secrets, then they keep you there for some time.
Otherwise (they don’t). You can see that all those areas are not
packed up with things. Everywhere is almost empty. In the villages,
you see the people, you look at their faces, no arguments, just peace
coming from their faces and they are always walking, going back and
forth but no talking. No sound. It’s like a dead valley. No sound.
It’s like a different world that you are living in. Even just an
ordinary person can feel that right away and understands that it’s
completely different here now.

Huh, all those soldiers, British, ANZAC, all those are very happy to
be buried there. They are saying, “Mistakenly we have fallen into
Paradise.” (Sheykh Efendi smiles). Everything smells different. The
flowers smell different there, the mountain flowers, they all have
different smells and different colors. You can see that heavenly look
on everything there. All the stones they put there are symbolic. They
are not underneath there. They just carried so many of them and they
buried them in mass graves and they put those stones there. But there
are special places where special incidents happened. Those areas are
completely different. You see how it is there. But you can see it on
the stones. Every stone that you pass, the age that all died were 19,
20, 21.

Did you see the trench? The war trench behind which they were hiding?
You didn’t go there?

`X’: No, I didn’t.

Then you didn’t see anything what the soldiers the built. Do you know
how close they came to each other? From here to there where `Y’ is
sitting [approx. 10 meters]. The world has never seen a war like that
before. Never. No way that it can get that close. You have trenches
here and you have trenches there [Sheykh Efendi pointing to the two
opposite walls of the dergah and the distance between them is about 30
ft.]. That’s how close they got. Everything was so close there. The
fear and the smell of death and the smell of the love of Paradise that
kept those people keep on coming and going. People without faith
cannot stand there. The other ones had no choice because they were
dumped there with ships. So they had no place to go now. So many were
brought from the Subcontinent countries. They were Muslims. Afghanis
and [today's] Pakistanis. So many were put in ships and brought there
[by the British] to fight the Khalifah’s soldiers. Khalifah’s
soldiers! They didn’t know. They tried to give up but they [the
British] said, “You cannot go anywhere. We will shoot you down into
the water.” So they were fighting.

People are having everything easy now, everybody speaks on everything
and Islam became a game to everybody. A game. Nothing but a game. Not
accepting anything. People gave lives! Not life. Lives! One house
giving three, four sons to die in that war. Can you imagine? Four
sons, five sons died in that war. Three sons died and the husband
died. I met a lady. Looking at her face is like looking at a heavenly
person, as if heaven appeared through her face. It is not sad and it
is not khek khek khek. It is a beauty that is appearing. So beautiful
and calm. She was talking, she was praying and she was saying to me
what happened. The husband died and three sons died. And she was
saying, “Alhamdulillah. I hope I didn’t make a mistake. But I have no
regret. If I had ten sons then I will give again. But I am looking at
the situation of this country now and I am very sad. I think those
ones will be sad too.” Looking at her face, (I saw) Paradise coming
out from her face. And she said that she didn’t cry. She cried from
the pain but she didn’t cry for anything and she was very happy with
what Allah did. Then she was living all these years after that by
herself. She had another daughter and she died too after some time.
And she is still living. Allahu Akbar! People going through all that
pain, do you think it’s easy? Think on it. Just to think on it. So
many people I say these to, they say `Eh.’ I say, “Compare, just
compare with yourself and look what happens.” No comparison.
Impossible to compare. They were believing. That’s all. They were
believing in what they were doing. They were sincere with what they
were doing.

I met another lady. She fixed the whole village with her father’s
death money that was coming. The government was not taking care of the
tombs of the people, okay? And he was one of the persons who died in
Canakkale and it’s near the village there. So they brought him to the
village and they put him there and at that time the government put
money out saying they have to take care of those areas. They did it.
Then [later] everything was falling down. So she was showing me the
tomb site that she fixed and she was saying to me, “He fixed it
himself.” I said, “How it happened?” She goes, “Everything was falling
down and the little money that they were giving me from the government
for my father’s death, I saved little for me for whatever was
necessary for me to live on, and the rest to this village. He is in
the grave and with his money we are still living. He is in the grave.
With his money we are still living. The village is still living with
the money that is coming because of him. And they are fixing his tomb
with his money.” Allah, Allah. Unusual things are happening around
there.

Astaghfirullah al-Azim wa atubu ilaih.

El-Fatiha.

Ottoman soldiers praying before battle

The Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said “”He who clings fast to my Sunnah (way of life) when my Ummah is corrupt, will receive the Reward of a hundred martyrs.”

One must affirm that there can be absolutely no doubt in the fact that each and every Sunnah of our beloved Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is considered supreme and well worthy of emulation by a true believer of and follower of his esteemed lifestyle. In fact a true lover of Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would be prepared to give his life for the practical preservation of even one Sunnah. A true Ummati of Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is one who endeavors to emulate every Sunnah, whether it is connected to the Ibaadat (worship) of Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam or his habit or lifestyle (the manner of his eating, walking, dressing etc.)

The tying of the turban is a ‘Sunnat-e-Mustamirrah’ (perpetually adhered to practice of Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has enjoined the tying of the turban upon us. It has been reported: “Tie the turban. It will increase you in forbearance.” (Fathul Baari) It is also reported that somebody enquired of Hadhrat Ibn Umar Radhiallahu anhu whether the tying of the turban was sunnat or not. He replied in the affirmative.

“The turban distinguishes the Muslims from the Mushriks” Prophet Mohamed sala allahu alayhi wa salam

“The turban is the honour of a Mu’min and represents the dignity of the Arabs. When the Arabs will stop wearing the turban, their respect will be lost” (Dailami)

Hadith on Turbans ..

Hadhrat Jaabir Radhiallahu anhu reports that on the occasion of the conquest of Makkah, Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam entered Makkah Mukarramah while wearing a black turban. (Sahih Muslim Vol.1 Pg439)

In Sahih Muslim and Nasa’i, Sayyidina ‘Amr bin Hurayth Radhiyallahu ‘anhu says: “That scene is still before my eyes, when Sayyidina Rasulullah, sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, was reciting the khutbah on the mimbar. He wore a black turban on his mubaarak head, and its shamlah (the end portion of the turban) was between his shoulders.”

Ibn ‘Umar, radhiyallahu anhu, reports: “When Rasulullah, sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, fastened an ‘amaamah (turban), he used to put the shamlah between his shoulders. (i.e. he used to put it on the back).” Nafi’ says: “I had seen ‘Abdullah bin Umar, radhiyallahu anhu, do it in the same manner.” ‘Ubaydullah, who is the student of Nafi’, says: “in my time the grandson of Abu Bakr, radhiyallahu anhu, Qaasim bin Muhammad and the grandson of ‘Umar, radhiyallahu anhu, Saalim bin ‘Abdullah did the same.”

Sulaiman bin Abdullah says I saw those Sahaba who were from the Muhajireen-e-Awwaleen (those Sahaba who were among the first to migrate to Medina – an indication of their status and rank) wearing turbans of cotton material. The colours were black, white, green, red and yellow. Some would tie it in such a fashion that they would first place one end of the turban on their heads, then the topee and then continue tying the turban on the fold of the topee. They would not wrap it from under the chin. (vol.8 pg. 241)

In Ibn Abi Shayba’s Musannaf, Ibn Jarir al-tabari’s Tafsir, Ibn al-Mundhir, Ibn Abi Hatim, and Ibn Mardawayh on the authority of `Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr: The latter was wearing a yellow turban on the day of Badr, so the angels descended wearing yellow turbans.

In Ibn Ishaq’s Sira and in Tabarani, on the authority of Ibn `Abbas: On the day of Hunayn the angels wore Red turbans.

Virtues of the Turban ..

Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is reported to have said: “Hold on to the turban as it is a sign of the angels. Also let the loose end hang from the back.” (Baihaqi)

“Adopt the turban as it will increase your forbearance.” (Mustadrak of Hâkim)

“Some of Allah Ta’âla’s angels stand at the door of the Musjid and seek repentance on behalf of those wearing white turbans.” (Al Maqaasidul Hasanah pg.466)

Allah Ta’âla causes his mercy to descend on the people wearing turbans on the day of Jummah and his Angels make du’â for such people.” (Dailami)

The reward of the Salah performed while wearing the turban is multiplied 25 times while that Jumu’ah performed with the turban is multiplied (Dailami has reported this in his Musnad from Ibn Urnar (Radiallahu Anhu)

The angels attend the Jumu’ah while wearing turbans. Hence, those people who are wearing turbans receive the benefit that the angels make dua for them till sunset. (Dailami)

The Jumu’ah performed while wearing a turban is 70 times superior to a Jumu’ah without a turban. (Dailami)

Two rakaats of Salah performed while wearing the turban are superior to seventy rakaats performed without a turban. (Narrated by Jaabir Radiallahu Anhu)

May Allah grant us to follow this Sunnah … Amin

Shaykh Abdul Kerim Al Kibrisi (qs)

Shaykh Abdul Kerim Al Kibrisi (qs)

Shaykh Abdul Kerim Al Kibrisi (qs)

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The Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said “He who clings fast to my Sunnah (way of life) when my Ummah is corrupt, will receive the Reward of a hundred martyrs.”

The sunnah of Prophet Adam (as)

The Gospel of Barnabas mentions:

‘…Adam, having sprung upon his feet, saw in the air a writing that shone like the sun, which said: “There is only one God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God.” Whereupon Adam opened his mouth and said: “I thank Thee, O Lord my God, that Thou hast deigned to create me; but tell me, I pray, what meaneth the message of these words: “Muhammad is the Messenger of God.” Have there been other men before me?”

‘Then said God: “Be thou welcome, O my servant Adam. I tell thee that thou art the first man whom I created. And he whom thou hast seen [mentioned] is thy son, who shall come into the world many years to hence, and shall be my Messenger, for whom I created all things; who shall give light to the world when he shall come; whose soul was set in a celestial splendour sixty thousand years before I made everything.”

‘Adam besought God, saying: “Lord, grant me this writing upon the nails of the fingers of my hands.” Then God gave to the first man upon his thumbs that writing; upon the thumb-nail of the right hand it said: “There is no God, ” and upon the thumb-nail of the left hand it said: “Muhammad is the Messenger of God.” Then with fatherly affection the first man kissed those words, and rubbed his eyes, and said: “Blessed be that day when thou shalt come to the world…”

- Section 39 of the Gospel of Barnabas

In the Hadith:

The Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said, “whosoever has touched the name Muhammad with his hands, then kissed his hand with his lips and rubbed it on his eyes, then he will see Allah Ta’ala just as righteous ones see and my intercession will be close to him even though he is a sinner.’’ (An Nawafi ul Atri’aa)

In Jannat, when Hazrat Adam (alaihis salaam) desired to meet the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam), then Allah Ta’ala sent Wahi (revelation) to him, “From your generation, he will become apparent in the later years.” Then Hazrat Adam (alaihis salaam) desired from Allah Ta’ala to meet the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam). Allah Ta’ala showed him the Noor of the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) on the Shahadat finger of his right hand. The Noor recite the Tasbeeh of Allah Ta’ala. It is for this reason that this finger is known as the kalmia finger. Allah Ta’ala showed the beauty of Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) on the thumbnails of Hazrat Adam (alaihis salaam) like a mirror. Then, Hazrat Adam (alaihis salaam) kissed his both the thumbnails and turned them over his eyes.

Thus, this Sunnah of Hazrat Adam (alaihis salaam) became consistent in his descendant. When Hazrat Jibraeel Ameen (alaihis salaam) informed Rasoolullah (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) of this he said, “that person, who when hearing my name in Azaan, kisses his thumbnails and turns it over his eyes, he shall never go blind.” (Tafseer Roohul Bayaan).

Once the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) entered the Masjid and sat down near the pillar. Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (radi Allahu anhu) was seated beside him. Hazrat Bilal (radi Allahu anhu) then stood up and commenced with Azaan. When he said: “ Ash hadu Ana Muhammadur Rasoolullah”, Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (radi Allahu anhu) placed his both the thumbnails on to his eyes and said “Qurratu Aini Bika Ya Rasoolullah” ( Ya Rasoolullah! You are the coolness of my eyes). When Hazrat Bilal completed Azaan, the Holy Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said, “O Abu Bakr! Whosoever does like you have done, Almighty Allah will forgive his all sins.” (Tafseer Roohul Bayaan).

Sayyiduna Imam Hasan (radi Allahu anhu) said Whosoever hears the Mu’azzin say’ “ Ash hadu Ana Muhammadur Rasoolullah” and says “Marhaba bi Habibi” and “Quratu Aini Muhammad Bin Abdullah” and then kisses his both the thumbs and keeps it on his eyes, then he will never become blind and his eyes will never be sore.” (Maqaaside Husna).

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In fiqh, the discussion of taqbil al-unbulatayn wa mash al-’aynayn is usually found at the end of Bab Adhan. Certain gestures performed during the adhan, and specifically the ‘amal of kissing the thumbs and wiping the eye, are something known to Shafi’is, and there can be no objection whatsoever by our jurists (and any jurists for that matter) to those wishing to perform this ‘amal: as far as we are concerned, it is classified under the category of the Fada’il al-A’mal [I'anat, 1:243; al-Jurdani, Fath al-'Allam, 2:140-1].

Among its legal bases ['ilal] is that it is a Sunna of the first Khalifa of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him!) [i.e., an Athar of the first Khalifa], and it is also based on a number of Hadiths, of which the most well known is the Hadith of Abu Bakr (may Allah be well pleased with him!).

Shaykh Akiti full article:

http://baalawi.com/articles/fiqh/1416-shaykh-muhammad-afifi-al-akiti-kissing-the-thumbs-etc-during-adhan.html

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If the video does not load, click here: http://www.vimeo.com/6000221

The sohbet begins at the 4 minute mark.  Shaykh Abdul Kerim is speaking in English and one of his mureeds is translating into Urdu.

Zikr begins at the 29 minute mark with a beautiful salawat being recited at 34:30

Toward the end of the video you can see the entire gathering taking bay’ah with Shaykh Abdul Kerim into the Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani tariqa

Alhamdulilah.

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The Holy Prophet (S) said:

“Near the time of Qiyaamah the rich ones from amongst my Ummah will perform Hajj for the sake of travel and holiday; The middle class will perform Hajj for commercial purposes, thereby transporting goods from here to there while bringing commercial goods from there to here. The Ulamaa will perform Hajj for the sake of show and fame; The poor will perform Hajj for the purpose of begging.” (Kanzul Ummaal)

To attain a better understanding of just how well this hadith fits with the times we are currently in, read the following article which I have already written a post on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/15/mecca-hotel-against-hajj-spirit

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Kanz al-Ummal fi Sunan wal Aqwal wal Afwal, is the largest available unique
collection of Ahadith/Athar by the Hanafi Imam: Ali ibn Husamud-Din
al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, who died in the year 975 AH. It contains more than
46,000 narrations composed from many individual earlier collections. It is
in essence a continuation of Imam al-Suyuti’s Hadith collections, Jami
al-Saghir, its Zawa’id and Jami al-Kabir (Jam al-Jawami). The Kanz was
printed more than 100 years ago in Hyderabad, India.

An interesting article taken from The Daily Texan on a young Christian girl’s experience with the Hijab.

Definitely worth a read.

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/top-stories/covered-life-gives-new-perspective-1.1760128

Wasalam,

-adil