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- Muslim countries are not united and not supporting each other. How can this be resolved?
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- The Greatest Struggle: Fighting the Ego
- Forgiveness in the Face of Betrayal
- Is it possible for Sheykh followers to have a lifeline, akin to a helpline, in the grave?
- The Sheykh’s Guidance: A Lifeline in a Confused World
- Hope and Redemption in the Intercession of the Holy Prophet (AS)
- The Eid of Ahir Zaman
- How do I confront the consuming flames within myself?
- What does my dream about water turning into a flood of blood and finding safety on a boat signify?
- Ramazan Reflections: Awakening the spirit
- What Would You Trade Your Shahada For?
- Obedience, Submission, Love: Pathways to Allah’s Mercy
- How is it possible for people to forget the good things that Sheykh has done to them?
- What causes love to hate transition?
- In Pursuit of Divine Love – Reflections on Sincerity
- How often do people seek forgiveness just to avoid consequences, rather than truly regretting their mistakes?
- How can I adopt aspects of your structure, such as prayer, gatherings, and overall organization, to share with my brothers back home?
- The Majesty of Ramazan: Run with Passion for Allah’s Sake
- Honoring Promises in the Face of Family Disagreement
- Canakkale: Finding Strength in Faith
- How much do past experiences influence our reactions, turning us bitter instead of better?
- How can we overcome our natural tendency towards ingratitude, especially when seeking multiple favors from Allah?
- How can past hardships in youth strengthen the bond with one’s Sheykh and enhance progress in Tarikat?
- The Path of Ramazan: Learning from the Golden Teachings of our Sheykh
- How can we strengthen our faith to the one who is the waris of the Prophet of Allah and our Sheykh?
- Where will Shariat be upheld if we persist in granting forgiveness to everyone?
- How can I learn to forgive when it’s personally challenging for me?
- How can one prevent recurring negative habits driven by the ego?
- Seeking Allah’s Mercy in Rajab
- Get Rid Of Your Ilahs
- Enter the Sacred Months of Islam with Purity and Preparedness
- How can I prepare myself for the bigger battle and how can I be with the Mahdi (AS)?
- The Divine Authority of the Khalifa
- Overcoming Confusion and Applying Wisdom
- Getting to the Heart of the Matter
- Emptying Your Cup and Opening Your Door to Inner Wisdom
- Awaken Our Hearts to the Suffering of the Ummah
- Wisdom Of The Heart
- Understand the Hidden Impurities Within Yourself
- How can I rediscover my spiritual identity and reconnect with my Seyyid and Tasawwuf roots?
- An Explanation of Tarikat, Shariyat and Tassawuf
- What should a murid do to fight jealousy?
- The Essence of True Honor
- Safeguarding the Believer’s Unity by Understanding the Attacks of Sheytan
- The Significance of Muslims Visiting One Another
- What pushes Sheykh away from murids, what pulls him towards them?
- How can we increase our awareness to cultivate good manners?
- Silencing the Past: How Ignorance Shapes the Present
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Monthly Archives: February 2019
Are things ever in your hands?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Are things ever in your hands? Your job is just to say, to deliver the message. You cannot force them, you leave it. They start attacking you, continuously, what do you do? Good, you pull back. First, before … Continue reading
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How do we accomplish a big intention that we make?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How do we accomplish a big intention that we make? I’m not telling you now to try to reach for that. If you say, ‘my intention is kufr is going to fall,’ what are you going to do? … Continue reading
O my Lord, You are my Goal!
BismillahirRahmanirRahim This the Prophet (AS)’s prayer, ‘My goal is You, ya Rabbi. My aim is for Your pleasure.’ The Prophet (AS) is running for that. How we are doing, what we are doing? How are you going to know, without … Continue reading
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How do we sincerely put Allah in place of our idols?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How do we sincerely put Allah in place of our idols? This is the beauty of our Shahadat, because it’s showing us the way, how to have La illaha illallah, which is to follow the Prophet. So in … Continue reading
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Is ingratitude the main cause of disobedience?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Is ingratitude the main cause of disobedience? Ingratitude, is that the main cause of disobedience? No. It’s not the main cause of disobedience. What is the main cause of disobedience? Say you disobey Allah, astaghfirullah, we all do. … Continue reading
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What does the dua of Hz Ali (KW) mean?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: What does the dua of Hz Ali (KW) mean when he says “Oh Allah save us from the problems of being humble”? Humility is the easiest thing to copy. Everyone is trying to be humble and humble and … Continue reading
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What’s the wisdom of Musa AS living in the house of Firaun?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim What is the wisdom of Musa (AS) living in the house of Firaun? So that Musa (AS), later on when he sees the Firaun and he calls the Firaun he will know how to speak to the Firaun and … Continue reading
How to control the ego in a situation when one feels frustrated?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How to control the ego in a situation when one feels frustrated? You still haven’t learnt? If you haven’t learnt, then you are going to go through a little bit more and every time that happens, the smack … Continue reading
Allah Wants To Show His Mercy
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
Love who I love, leave who I leave
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Is Allah in need of our prayer? Is Allah in need of our praising? Doesn’t Allah have enough power now to put everything in existence right to complete non-existence and to create a new creation and to make everyone … Continue reading
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The Beauty of His (AS) Ummat
BismillahirRahmanirRahim What is the reason that we are following the EvliyaAllah, what is the reason that we are following the Holy Prophet (AS)? Mankind so proud, saying that, ‘we are servants to Allah,’ who is serving who? What is it … Continue reading
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How do we leave this world with Shahadat?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How do we get ready to leave this world with Shahadat? What is affecting believers that they would leave this world without testimony of their faith? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. If you are waking up and you are saying the Shahadat, … Continue reading
How does one know what is a ‘good sign’ or ‘bad sign’?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How do one know if a sign is to be taken as a ‘good sign’ or a ‘bad sign’? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. That’s a very good question. It’s pretty simple, if you have someone to teach you what is good … Continue reading
Is it true peacocks come from Jannah?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: I have heard peacocks come from Jannah, is it true and is there a story behind it? It is very true. The peacock came directly from Jannat. Darwin hates the peacock because he says there is no reason … Continue reading
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How should we better use our time?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Time flies and I cannot control my time. Sometimes I feel one day is like 1 hour. How should we better use our time? How can we be simple with it? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. Start with that. Start with BismillahirRahmanirRahim. … Continue reading
How can we prepare for the End Times?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: The more I research and listen to lectures the more it feels like the End Times is very close. How can we prepare for this? I am constantly going to the gym not to please my ego but … Continue reading
During Farz prayer, what does it mean to ‘organize your lines…”?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Every time before a farz congregational prayer is performed the reminder to “Organize your lines, and let your shoulders be adjacent to each others, so that the devil will not be able to engross up you”. Can you … Continue reading
What Are You Intending?
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
The knowledgeable Ones of My Nation
BismillahirRahmanirRahim HasbunAllahu wa ni’mal wakeel, wa Ni’mal maula wani’man Naseer. Wa La Hawla wa La Quwwata Illa Billahil aliyyil azeem. Medet Ya SahibulSaif Sheykh Abdul Kerim Effendi Hz. We are asking support from our Sheykh insya’Allah to send us something … Continue reading
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At what point does one know if they are insincere?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: At what point does one know if they are insincere? BismillahirRahmanirRahim. How do you know if you are insincere? When you look at your intention, if your intention is for the sake of Allah. If it’s not for the … Continue reading
How does Allah descend during Tahajjud?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: When Allah SWT is closer to us than our jugular vein, how can we understand when it is said that He descends down during the time of Tahajjud? Any praise that you give to Allah SWT, He is beyond … Continue reading
How can I overcome boredom?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How can I overcome the feeling of boredom when I don’t do much of the ‘old things’ for my ego’s gratification? So you are saying, before I became good, I have a very interesting life, before, oh, it … Continue reading
How do I find motivation to continue?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How do I find motivation to continue to hold on even when it feels I’m not making much progress? Increase your trust in your Sheykh. Increase your trust in him. Increase your love for him. Increase your submission. … Continue reading
Using your will to get closer to Allah SWT
BismillahirRahmanirRahim If man understand his station, if man understand his station, if man understand the station of the man in front of him, he is going to start worshiping him. If man is able to see the crown of honor … Continue reading
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What lights up the grave?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Recently I have been thinking about loneliness. It is very scary and I started to think about the loneliness in the grave. What can I do to prepare for it? What lights up the grave? We were just … Continue reading
Allah SWT gave you honor
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
Why does mankind go through stages?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: In the Holy Quran, Allah SWT is mentioning that He makes human beings go through stages, from baby to child, adult to old age, and then he dies, and that this is a sign for the people who … Continue reading
The Meaning of Sohbet
BismillahirRahmanirRahim With sohbet, then the meaning of Islam will continue. Without the sohbet, the meaning is not going to continue, the form may continue. Holy Prophet (AS), he came to give meaning. First he gave the meaning, and then he set … Continue reading
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How did the Prophet (SAW) show compassion to animals?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: How did the Prophet (AS) show compassion to animals? The Holy Prophet (AS), he was Rahmatil Alamin. He was mercy, compassion, extreme love for all of the worlds. All of the worlds. Everything in creation he was a … Continue reading
The Resources that Have Been Granted
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Allah is saying ‘We are going to support the tyrants.’ Allah is saying the power has been given to them. And He’s telling the believers what to do in this age of tyranny, not to fight them. Pull yourself … Continue reading
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Why are people in this time selfish?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: Why are people in this time selfish? If everything is very easy, then you are going to share more easier. It’s not me trying to make things up or extrapolating something and pulling it out, this is what … Continue reading
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Understanding the dirtiness of this world
BismillahirRahmanirRahim We are asking support, insyaAllah, from our Sheykh, to speak that which is of benefit. Not to talk and just talk and talk and talk, and it doesn’t give you benefit. To talk, you can take things from the … Continue reading
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The Return to Ignorance
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
The life of Ibraheem (AS)
BismillahirRahmanirRahim We are asking support from our Sheykh to send us something Insya’Allah that is going to benefit us. We cannot speak of things that our Sheykh is not sending. We cannot speak or listen about things that our Sheykh … Continue reading
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What can I do to stop being so selfish?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: What can I do to stop being so selfish? Start giving more. Take less. Give more. Give something that you love, don’t give something that is useless, or extra. You say you love your time, ‘this is my … Continue reading
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Is there any ruler connected to a Sheykh?
BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: During the times of the Ottomans, some Sultans were connected to a Sheykh. During these times, is there any ruler connected to a Sheykh? Allahu’Alam. Prophet (AS) says, ‘the zikr of the Ummara, the zikr of the Emirs, … Continue reading
Sahibul-Saif Sheykh Abdul Kerim al-Kibrisi 