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- What are the qualities Allah SWT loves for us to show when we are afflicted with tribulation?
- How can we overcome our ego when we have wrong desires that ache if we don’t commit them?
- The ego denies the blessings of Allah SWT, but really focuses on the good that it has done. How do we defeat that trick of the ego?
- If They Were To See You
- Asking The Right Questions
- Does Allah give us many paths knowing what we will choose?
- Some of us are grown, but are still like children on the inside. What must one do with this?
- Why do we see a black spot on the forehead of the wahabis and the shining face of Ahli Sunnah wal Jamaat?
- Can anyone change Mazhab for his own benefits or is it from the ego to think like that?
- Are you speaking about collective decision making, rather than maybe making the wrong decision?
- Manners are Learned in Jamaat
- How do we protect ourselves from bad thoughts that come into our head?
- I left Islam three years ago. Is it possible Allah will forgive me if I repent?
- Is A Sheykh Needed To Understand What Kind Of Service Is Best For Us?
- Does the Sheykh need to submit his nafs to a Sheykh or is it beyond our understanding?
- Desire Of The Soul
- Are the soul and the nafs the same? If we have bad thoughts is it because the sheytan empowers the nafs?
- Who Are You Following, O Muslims?
- Strangers In This World
- What should we do when people wish us Happy New Year?
- The Prophet (AS) said there will be more than seventy branches of Islam. How can we be sure that we are in the right one?
- Why is there a need for four Mazhabs in Islam?
- We, The Millet Of Ibrahim (as)
- Sincere Love For The Kingdom Of Allah
- What Are You Intending?
- The Ehli Zikr Are Making Everyone To Remember Allah
- Should I wait until a Sheykh crosses my path while carrying on with my namaz and zikr?
- I make zikr almost 24/7, yet I still feel so lonely. How come I still feel this loneliness and pain?
- Why do Muslims now chose laziness and no discipline for learning the knowledge of Allah?
- What is the Islamic perspective on those whose bodies have been cremated?
- What is the significance of the ‘Hu, Hu’ zikr?
- More Than Cool Water
- What makes a person to make the right decisions at the right time?
- The Right Direction
- Some years ago I was asked, ‘what is your religion and what is your book?’
- If Jannat is under our mother’s feet, what is under the feet of Rasulullah (SAW)?
- Why is tazkiyah not widely taught nowadays?
- The Marifat of Knowing Your Purpose
- Why are some people born with more misfortune than others?
- Can a person only connect to the Prophet (AS) through a Sheykh or is there any other way?
- What is hubud dunya and how do I remove it?
- What is hidden shirik and how can I be safe from it?
- Can a person under the age of forty use a walking stick or cane with the intention of following the sunnat?
- Love and Be Loved
- How do we keep our hearts open when things are good in terms of this dunya?
- ‘Pray As You Have Seen Me Pray.’
- What is the relationship between anxiety and anger?
- How can we understand the essence of sabr and shukr?
- What can be done if one is negligent, and how can we stay thankful always to Allah and to the Holy Prophet (AS)?
- What is being recited before Sheykh Lokman Effendi starts to climb the mimbar e-Rasool (AS) and while he is climbing step by step on the mimbar?
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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Concentrate on the work in order to prepare yourself and find balance
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: I notice that I fluctuate between looking at myself and just forgetting everything else or I’ll be thinking about the big picture and forgetting to work on myself. How do I connect the two? It’s okay. You will … Continue reading
What can we do to strengthen our faith, to not betray our Sheykh?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: What can we do to strengthen our faith, to not betray our Sheykh? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. Be busy with us. Don’t be busy with what your ego wants or what your desires want, what you want from this world. Be busy … Continue reading
Hz Yunus Emre spoke of a burning feeling in his poetry, was this worldly problems or spiritual?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Hz Yunus Emre spoke of a burning feeling in his poetry, was this in regards to worldly problems or the fire of regrets from spiritual mistakes? We are asking our Sheykh to send us something insya’Allah, to speak, … Continue reading
How do we know when we are doing meditation what we conclude is Hak or batil?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How do we know when we are doing meditation what we conclude is Hak or batil? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. How you meditate? What is meditation in Islam? These days, people understand meditation: you sit certain way, you put your hands certain … Continue reading
Learn The True Character Of Our Prophet (asws) From The Defenders Of Truth
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin. Wasalatu wa salamu ala rasulina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmain nahmadulllahu ta’ala wa nastaghfiruhu wa nashadu an-lailaha ilallahu wahdahu la sharika lah wa nashadu anna sayyidina Muhammadin abduhu wa habibuhu wa rasuluhu … Continue reading
Muslims Lost the Spiritual Value of Ramazan
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Medet ya SahibulSaif Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Kibrisi el-Rabbani Medet. We are asking support from our Sheykh, SahibulSaif Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Kibrisi el-Rabbani to send us something. Not for us just to sit and to speak. Not for us just … Continue reading
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What we could do when people from our past try to make us remember our time of jahilliyah?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Could our Sheykh gives us women an advice about what we could do when people from our past come to try to trick and play with our ego and to remember us who we used to be in … Continue reading
How can we become thankful servants and worship Allah the way He is supposed to be worshiped? What is the correct way?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How can we become thankful servants and worship Allah the way He is supposed to be worshiped? What is the correct way? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. Destur. We cannot worship Allah as He deserved to be worship. This is the holy … Continue reading
I feel I am the worst person on the face of the earth, What can I do to overcome this feeling?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: I feel I can become a good person (servant) for the sake of Allah, yet I am constantly feeling like I am being used as the worst examples for the whole of mankind… I feel I am the … Continue reading
How do I clean my heart? How to check your ego when it has gone out of control?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How do I clean my heart? How to check your ego when it has gone out of control? BismillairRahmanirRahim. First you understand that your heart is dirty. If your heart is sick, first thing that you have to do … Continue reading
Ramazan: Make the intention to establish Hakk upon ourselves
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin. Wasalatu wa salamu ala rasulina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmain nahmadulllahu ta’ala wa nastaghfiruhu wa nashadu an-lailaha ilallahu wahdahu la sharika lah wa nashadu anna sayyidina Muhammadin abduhu wa habibuhu wa rasuluhu … Continue reading
Ramazan: Run to the mercy of Allah in every little thing that you have
BismillahirRahmanirRahim We are asking help and support from our Sheykh Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Kibrisi al-Rabbani to give us permission to speak and to say something. We are asking him to send us something that is going to give us benefit, … Continue reading
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How can we be real in our actions and our faith, lifestyle?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How can we be real in our actions and our faith, lifestyle? First you are going to do it over and over again. At first it’s going to be fake. If you are so used to doing things … Continue reading
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How do people who are trying to become better in this way, stay away from bad influences of people who have slowly become distant from the way without being harsh?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How do people who are trying to become better in this way, stay away from bad influences of people who have slowly become distant from the way without being harsh? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. You don’t have to be harsh. You just … Continue reading
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Remembrance of Death is an endless Ocean
BismillahirRahmanirRahim We are asking from our Sheykh to send us something that is going to give us benefit, here and hereafter, to guide us in our lives, to guide us in this very confusing lives, to guide us in this … Continue reading
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Remember your first Experience
BismillahirRahmanirRahim A murid who came to the Osmanli Dergahi for the first time tells Sheykh Lokman Hz how things and people at the dergah seems very familiar to him, and he ask Sheykh why this is so. Remember your first … Continue reading
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Why are we supposed to be miserable when we are on the right path?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Medet Ya SahibulSaif. This is the first Jumma of Ramazan. Alhamdulillah, we are happy. We are thanking Allah for making us to experience the first jumma of Ramazan. Anyone has any question? Anything you want to say, to ask, … Continue reading
Ramazan: Allah Grants Help and Victory to His righteous servants
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin. Wasalatu wa salamu ala rasulina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmain nahmadulllahu ta’ala wa nastaghfiruhu wa nashadu an-lailaha ilallahu wahdahu la sharika lah wa nashadu anna sayyidina Muhammadin abduhu wa habibuhu wa rasuluhu … Continue reading
Work towards getting rid of Jealousy this Ramazan
BismillahirRahmanirRahim We are asking help and support from our Sheykh to send us something that is going to benefit us tonight, for this night, in our lives. And if we listen carefully, there is something there. If we listen to … Continue reading
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How was Adam (as) tricked by Sheytan?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How was Adam (as) tricked by Sheytan? He wasn’t tricked by Sheytan. He wasn’t tricked by Sheytan. He listened to Hawa Ana. Do you think he is going to get tricked by Sheytan? He wasn’t tricked by Sheytan. Because, … Continue reading
It has become more of a common practice to preserve body with formalin, what happens with those conditions?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: It has become more of a common practice to preserve body with formalin, what happens with those conditions? Oh, that’s even worse now. What happens if a live person, how would he feel if formalin or other kinds … Continue reading
How do we become beautiful?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How do we become beautiful? Why do you want to become beautiful? How do you become beautiful? I’m saying, why you want to become beautiful? For who? Whose eyes is going to see? If you say, ‘no, it’s … Continue reading
A believer believes, a friend of Allah witnesses
BismillahirRahmanirRahim We are blessed today. We are blessed every day. Alhamdulillah. And the believer believes this. He’s not just saying. And if the ego and sheytan is tricking, he’s going to find the reason to sit and to remember the … Continue reading
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Celebrating Ramazan with the Happiness that comes from Allah and His Prophet (asws)
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin. Wasalatu wa salamu ala rasulina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmain nahmadulllahu ta’ala wa nastaghfiruhu wa nashadu an-lailaha ilallahu wahdahu la sharika lah wa nashadu anna sayyidina Muhammadin abduhu wa habibuhu wa rasuluhu … Continue reading
May the Ramazan connects us closer to our Original Home
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Never forget that we are not meant to be here, meaning we are not meant to make this world into our home. We are not meant for this world. We are not for this world. If you are meant … Continue reading
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Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth as it was before
BismillahirRahmanirRahim SelamAleykum warahmatullahi wabarakatu. SelamAleykum is not a Muslim greeting. It is a greeting of all faith. It is a greeting that Jesus was saying, it is a greeting that Moses were saying, it is a greeting that 124 … Continue reading
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