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- What are the sources of the feelings of anger and jealousy?
- The Higher Knowledge of Tarikat
- Die Before You Die
- If there is a possibility to get married, is it good?
- The one who knows himself, knows his Lord
- Lovers of The Holy Prophet (AS)
- Difficulties are Forgettable
- The Prophets came to Remind us
- Why was Mansur al-Halaj (QS) saying ‘Ana al-Hakk’?
- In The Majlis Of The Wise
- We Must Focus On Our Duty
- Always remember how Allah is giving Mercy to you
- What does one do if one has low self-esteem?
- How do we not be complacent?
- Can the intention be something that sheytan is aware of?
- Sheykh Effendi says a Murid can either become Nur or nar, and he gives light to people. Can you open this more?
- Sohbet of Servanthood
- How do we keep our egos in check so that we don’t get lazy and uninterested on deeds done on regular days?
- Under the Shadow of Sahibulsaif
- Covering the wrongs of others
- Turn Away From Yourself
- Could you suggest a solution to keep our heart peaceful and at ease in these painful times?
- Is there a way to prevent Ghaflat and to remain conscious always?
- Protecting Love
- The Business of a Believer is to Believe
- How is the Murid supposed to prepare himself to handle the Sheykh’s decisions?
- Shariat of Rasulullah
- How can I take the pain of speaking to foolish people as an opportunity to correct myself?
- Mawlid 1443: Defenders of the Sunnat
- Losing your taste in this world
- The Prophet’s Heart
- Continuing the Struggle of the Holy Prophet (AS)
- What can I do to better myself and have a better work ethic?
- The new generation thinks that the Khilafat is only history. How can we make them to understand?
- It Is In Man’s Nature To Follow
- What makes people to miss welcoming the month of the Holy Prophet on a Divine Threshold?
- Do not cross the limit
- An Ottoman Heart
- The Vengeance of Allah
- What is the edep for us Murids when the Angel of Death comes?
- How does one sincerely get rid of the habit of always wanting to take credit?
- Should saving ourselves first from the fire be our main goal?
- Can you please explain why nothing happened to those rebels who revolted against the Saltanat?
- What happens if a person gets fooled, but they realize it and they change?
- Don’t Inherit From sheytan
- Priorities of the Heart
- Can you tell us ten characteristics of an Abdullah?
- For people who cannot be in sohbet physically, is there a way to be distanced, but still in sohbet?
- The Practices of Belief
- Today’s people, Muslim or non Muslim don’t take Religion seriously. Is the flood of fire too close?
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Monthly Archives: January 2017
I took Bayat recently but I recognized now I’m far from being a murid. How can I become a murid?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: I took Bayat from Sheykh Lokman recently, but I recognized now I’m far away from being a murid, how can I become murid, especially being away from Dergah and being alone? Just be sincere. In reality, we are … Continue reading
I realize I have opened doors of heaviness for myself. How do I turn back?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Yesterday in the sohbet you asked us to look into what mistakes we have made that is bringing us heaviness. I realized I have unexpectedly taken things in my hand and opened doors of heaviness for me. How … Continue reading
I am a woman who has experienced a lot of abuse. Nothing in this world gives me peace. What do I do to find satisfaction?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: I am a woman who has experienced a lot of abuse, emotional and psychological. I don’t know what to do with all the feelings that are inside of me. Nothing in this world gives me peace. What do … Continue reading
10th of Muharram –Remember The Ones who Came Before
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Medet Ya Sayyidi Sultan Awliya, Medet. We are asking help and support from our Sheykh, Sahibul Maqam, to make us to speak something that it will benefit us. Not just to speak for the sake of speaking. I never want … Continue reading
Allah has given us enough power to rule
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Every difficulty should make us to become clearer. Every difficulty should make us to become more higher in faith. Not every difficulty is going to make us to become weaker and weaker. This is a believer. As Allah is … Continue reading
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Follow the Path to Allah with Sincerity
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
How can we prepare ourselves for the day Azrail comes so we can say shahadah?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: When Azrail comes and we see him, we are going to have big fear. How can we prepare ourselves for that day so we can say shahadah? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. How to prepare for Azrail? Like this, when you go … Continue reading
How can we recognize tricks and traps of our egos so that the spirit could start working?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How can we recognize tricks and traps of our egos so that the spirit could start working? You must hold on and submit to a guide, the way that a sick man, a dying man submits to a … Continue reading
Can you define knowledge that does not concern you? What knowledge makes us spiritually dirty?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Can you define “knowledge that does not concern you”? You have said this in other sohbets. What knowledge should we avoid online and offline? What knowledge makes us spiritually dirty? If the person who is asking this question, … Continue reading
Look To Fix Your Weaknesses
BismillahirRahmanirRahim None of us here we are we being tested. Don’t think that things that happened to us, heavy things that happened to us sometimes, we are being tested. What are we being tested with? Hunger? That is the first … Continue reading
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Look through the eyes of your Master
BismillahirRahmanirRahim If we think we are clean, that’s the problem. If you think you are smart, you are not going to learn anything. If you think you don’t know something, that’s the time you will know everything. Because more you … Continue reading
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In Tarikat, We Are Concentrating On How To Become Abdullah
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Tariqatuna Sohbet wa Khayru fil Jamiat. This way, it is through association. Do you understand what that means? This way, it is through association. What is this way? This is the way of Islam. This is the way of … Continue reading
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Follow the Way of the Pure Hearted
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
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When Sheykh Effendi says follow your heart, how can we make sure we are not going to get tricked?’
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Tariqatuna Sohbet wa Khayru fil Jamiat. Our Tarikat is based on association. With association you may find the answer to what you’ve been looking for. If you are in Tarikat, you should always be looking for answers. Don’t be … Continue reading
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Muslims fighting each other when they stop being a ummah
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Muslims have always been fighting each other? They have, they have been split up and they were fighting each other. We stop becoming an ummat. What is the khutba saying? What is the khutba saying about this, about the … Continue reading
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Arrested For Saying “Allah”
BismillahirRahmanirRahim People, they are taking for granted, and they are not understanding the value what Allah is granting them sometimes. Just 10 year ago today, just this time, 28th, which month we are in now? June? Oh, 28th June 2001, … Continue reading
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How do I pray for someone who asks me to pray for them?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Whenever Someone Says, ‘Pray for me,’ I always say okay but I really do not know how to pray for them. How may I get into the habit of praying for others and what should we ask Allah … Continue reading
When the taste and enjoyment of this world becomes sour and fake, know that your Lord has pulled you closer
BismillahirRahmanirRahim “I am with people that they are fighting very hard against to their ego and against to their sheytan just to remember You (Allah). And I remember how hard it was just to remember You when I was in … Continue reading
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Is it possible to raise our level of Taqwa by making more Zikr?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question : Is it possible to raise our level of Taqwa by making more Zikr? Taqwa is what people, they are saying to be aware and to be conscious of Allah. Islam, Iman, and Ihsan. Islam, it is the do’s … Continue reading
What am I suppose to think of when I make zikr of Allah just by repeating His name, “Allah?”
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Whenever I make Zikr by saying, “Allah Allah,” I can’t seem to focus on one particular thing or meaning, as it seems endless and too deep for me to contemplate upon. For example. when I say “Astaghfirullah,” I … Continue reading
I feel very alone and weak in my country. What should I do when surrounded by Sheytans and Ego everywhere?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: I feel very alone and weak in my country. What should I do when surrounded by Sheytans and Ego everywhere? This is something that the Holy Prophet (AS) had described that we are speaking in the Khutba. You are … Continue reading
There are so many people in Muslim countries getting killed. Is this a punishment for betraying the Sultan?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: There are so many people in Muslim countries getting killed. Is this a punishment for betraying the Sultan? That is not true. There Is also lots of people in Non-Muslim countries, they are getting killed everyday too. This … Continue reading
Show High Edep To The Holy Sakal e-Sharif
BismillahirRahmanirRahim We’ll see if it is needed. If it is needed, if the community needs it and they are showing that respect, it is welcoming the physical presence of the Prophet (asws). Nobody knows how to take care of it … Continue reading
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The Aim Of a Murid
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Alhamdulillah, we are first asking Allah swt to protect our association from the sheytan that are outside and inside, from our own egos. We are here to remember Allah, to give the highest praising to the Holy Prophet (asws), … Continue reading
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Will doubts always exist and we always have to fight them, or will we totally conquered our doubts?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Whatever that you are doing, it must be to remember Allah. Whatever that you are doing, it must be connected to the work that you are doing as a Muslim, to do work that you are doing as a … Continue reading
Be aware and awake living in this dangerous times
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Heedlessness is not acceptable. Because you are opening the doors to sheytan. You have good intentions, you worship, you have knowledge but you are opening the doors to sheytan. Do you know that you are being heedless? You don’t … Continue reading
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Beware from those who are trying to change Islam
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
What is the reason for facing difficulties when trying to do something good? Is there ever an end to the difficulties in path of doing good?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: What is the reason for facing difficulties when trying to do something good? Is there ever an end to the difficulties in path of doing good? How can I overcome these difficulties and stay strong? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. Look to … Continue reading
Take lessons from everything that is happening in the World now
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Any musibah, any bad things that happens to us or to other people, we say, ‘Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.’ Those ones that on that New Year’s day and they were Muslims and they were celebrating new year … Continue reading
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Sahibul-Saif Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Kibrisi 