Caravan

To The Divine Presence

Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Al-Haqqani An-Naqshibandi, Sohbet of 15th of June, 1994.

Therefore, Allāh Almighty ordered, asta‘īdhu biLlāh, "Lā yukallifu Llahu nafsan illā wus‘ahā" (2:286) according
to our capacity. Allāh Almighty is saying according to the adaptation, capacity and strength of His servants. He
says "He accepted Me in that station; he prostrated to Me; he accepts Me. My servant accepted Me and I accept
him too. He made sajda to Me. I accept his sajda too."

And the general rule in Islām is "Innamā l-a‘mālu bi n-niyyāt". And on the Day of Judgment Allāh Almighty will
measure our value not according to our deeds but according to our intentions. He will give us paradise and
rewards. The deeds we do are so little. Whereas our intentions, the more we increase our intentions, the better it
is. Allāh Almighty is not putting you into borders by saying "Make intention until here and don't intend beyond
it". And what He'll grant us on the Day of Judgement will not be according to our deeds but according to our
intentions. Therefore, you see a servant doing some small insignificant service, however, his intention is big. It
will be in enormous size on the Day of Judgement. Allāh Almighty will reward with such a reward that they will
be astonished. They'll say "Yā Rabbi, I didn't do this. What I did is so little. What You gave is so big." "O My
servant, your intention was big. Your deed was little, but your intention was big". Therefore...

M: "Is there an opposite of this? One does big things and has little result from intention."

SN: One does big things. Of course, a big thing... A big thing, in fact, emerges from a big intention. Who does
something big has actually done it with big intention. Who has done a lot, did not work to make something
small. Now today when the virtues of the first month of the Hijrī year, Muḥarramu l-Ḥarām were being
mentioned in the khuṭbah, with the start of this month, if mu’minūn (believers) decorated all mosques from the
domes till their doors, it would still be little. Now it passed through my heart during the khuṭbah - if only I had
such an authority, I would decorate all the mosques throughout the world from their domes till the minarets
both from inside and outside. That intention passed through my heart. However, I don't have the power to do it.
But I have the power to intend it. I made intention. I hope that on the Day of Judgement Allāh Almighty will
favour me according to my intention and say "You wanted to decorate all mosques for the honor of Muḥarramu
l-Ḥarām. And I reward you as if you have done it".

"Innamā l-a‘mālu bi n-niyyāt wa innamā likull imri’in mā nawá" And everyone will be given according to their
intentions whatever they are. The Prophet said it. Allāh Almighty approves the Prophet and I get from that
virtue. I said I would decorate the houses and I would decorate the government offices. In brief, I would
decorate the whole world. Allāh Almighty will give favours as if I had decorated the whole world. All right. So I
made my intention. If you say so, you'll be given too. If million, billion, trillion, quatrillion people say "I intend
for the same", Allāh Almighty doesn't say "I will give only to you. They heard it after, I won't reward them." He
will give to everyone. Therefore, make intention. They said "Niyyatu l-mar’ khayrun min ‘amalihi". One's
intention is better than his deed. Because what we can do is so limited. What we do based on our strength or
money, physical or financial abilities, is very little. However, what we can intend is unlimited. Therefore, don't
be ignorant. Make intention according to no limit. Think what you can do. What can you do to make Allāh
pleased? Yes.

Therefore, I want to work hard for Allāh and to finish unbelief completely. Fatih said so; Sultan Fatih Mehmed
who came with a virtue of cleaning the world from unbelief from one end to another end. And I want, yā Rabbi,
give me a chance to save this world from the dirt of unbelief, to clean it, to declare tawḥīd to the whole world, to
not leave a single unbeliever. This is my intention. Your intention should be so too. Building a factory, gathering
dunyā is not a purpose. This is the purpose. What is the intention of the mu’min? To not leave a kāfir first and
foremost, to clean out the dirt of unbelief, to clean the world. This is the intention. What will you be? I'll be an
engineer. What will you be? I'll be a doctor. What will you be? I'll be a lawyer. What will you be? A
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businessman. What are these? This is collecting dirt. This is collecting the garbage of this world. The
municipalities with clerks for garbage. The garbage collectors named it municipality - garbage collection seamed
harsh. Whereas people are fighting over becoming the head of garbage collection. And I'm thinking, what's the
honor of being a head of garbage collection? So many people struggle for it. "You don't know, Hoja Efendi.
You're not aware of such things. There are many things inside the garbage."

Every believer must be like a volcano. He should say "I'll burn the unbelief. I'll clean the dirt of unbelief out of
the world". When it is so, it will be completely different. Allāh will change everything in 24 hours. Did you
understand, my son?

M: "Don't say so. Some get offended and think it's wrong. You'll bring troubles on us and make us uprooted."

SN: All right. We made intention to sweep them away and to uproot those who say this. What will you be? I'll be
a diplomat. What are the assets of a diplomat? Tell me, what is the capital of a diplomat?

M: "Lies."

SN: Well done. They say they do master's, but they don't realize it. There is no politics in Islām. There is no
lying in Islām. However, government is in the field of politics. And if Haji Altan makes intention like "If only
Sheikh Efendi came here every evening and I could treat people like this every night and if my house was wider
and if I could treat 200 people instead of 100, if I didn't get tired". Where is Haji Altan? If he says so, he'll
receive so much reward. "If only I could collect all the classic automobiles of the world like Mehmet Shafkat
Efendi. If I could make an exhibition and visit mornings and evenings..." Yes. Everyone has something in his
heart. Who's heart is with Islām, how happy is the one who struggles for Islām. Allāh won't give other troubles to
him. Allāh won't trouble anyone who's busy with Islām. He won't bother them with troubles of dunyā. No.
Dunyā will be like a tame dog wagging its tail and following them. Ḥāshā mina l-ḥuḍūr. He won't have troubles.
Who's not worried about anything but Islām, Allāh won't give him any trouble. He won't give either to his body,
or his children, either to his wife, or his parents, either to his work, or his neighbors, either to his farm, or his
animals, either to his agriculture, or his trade.

Who's busy with Allāh, who's busy with Islām, Allāh won't give him other worries. Pay attention to it. Hospitals
will be closed, jails will be empty, no asylums will remain. The country will be like paradise. Roses will blossom.
However, we're not busy with Islām. Therefore, there are a thousand kinds of troubles. As soon as one ends,
another appears. Another trouble appears before the first is over. We are going up for troubles. If you want to
live without worries, make Islām your worry. Let Islām be your only worry. You'll be relaxed. Neither in dunyā
will you be troubled, nor in ākhirah will Allāh Almighty give you troubles. However, unfortunately, our worry is
not this. Our worry is dunyā. And dunyā is a ball of troubles. It is a ball of problems. Because dunyā has
countless problems. They say life has become complex now. It has become very mixed and complicated.
Everything is trouble for people of this time. Their refrigerator is a trouble, TV's a trouble, iron is a trouble,
washing machine is a trouble, dishwasher is a trouble, TV is a trouble, video is a trouble, car is a trouble, clothes
are a trouble, children are a trouble, wife is a trouble, home is a trouble, furniture is a trouble, car is a trouble,
plane is a trouble, government is a trouble, state is a trouble, military is a trouble, school is a trouble, studying is
a trouble, classes are a trouble.

Shall we count more? Their eating and drinking is a trouble, sleeping and waking up is a trouble. Isn't it so?
People are over troubled. They are drowning in troubles. Why? If there was only one problem, they would
remove others with it. Let your problem be Islām. Allāh Almighty will erase all troubles. What they plant and
harvest is troubles. What they plant and don't is troubles. What they do and don't is troubles. What they read
and don't is troubles. With or without children it's troubles. Married or unmarried it's troubles. Leaving and
coming is troubles. Doctors and judges are troubles. Clerks and officers are troubles. Municipality and counties
are troubles, ministers and governments are troubles, banks and currencies are troubles. With and without
money is troubles. Chemistry and alchemy is troubles. Doctors and engineers are troubles. Architects and
lawyers are troubles. Judges are troubles.

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M: "How will we turn so much hardship into pleasure?"

SN: Only one way. Haji Yashar is a trouble. If you want to get rid of troubles, if you want to be without
troubles, make Islām your worry. Don't sleep in the dawn. Be awake in the dawn so that no troubles remain on
you. It will remove visible illnesses and hidden problems. Be awake in the dawn. Don't sleep in the dawn. Adhān
is called. Sulṭānuka yā Allāh Ni‘mati jalīlu Llāh, barakati khalīlu Llāh, shafā‘at yā Rasulu Llāh. Allāhumma
irḥam wa akrim ṣāḥiba hadhā ṭ-ṭ‘āmi wa l-ākilīn. Allāhumma-rzuqnā ṭayyiban wa-sta‘milnā ṣāliḥin. Allāhumma
zid wa bārik wa lā tuqallil. Ziyādatan ilā sharafi n-Nabiyyi ṣalláLlāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam wa ‘alā ālihī wa ṣaḥbihī
wa jamī‘I l-anbiyā’ wa l-awliyā wa ilā Mashāyikhi l-‘iẓām wa lanā ma‘ahum wa man naḥnu fi jiwarihīm
khāsatan ilā ruḥi sibṭi Sayyidi l-'Aālamīn Sayyidinā 'Abā 'AbduLlāhil Ḥusain wa rufaqa’ihi al-Fātiḥa

How did you come? "I came flying". Then fly and let's see. "I can't fly here, I fly by plane." When we get on a
plane, we both fly and reach wherever we want. Therefore, you ask for the Divine Presence. You want to reach
the world of angels (malakūt). Of course, you will find a caravan which goes to that world and join them. You
will follow them. What did the great ones say? Certainly, they wanted to be with them even in the back of the
caravan. You can't go anywhere without finding the caravan. There is a caravan to the Divine presence. The
leaders of the caravan to the Divine presence are the Prophets ‘alayhumu s-salām. The leader of the Prophets is
our Master ‘alayhi ṣ-ṣalātu wa s-salām. Then come his successors, Awliyā’. Therefore, who looks for the caravan
will find them. If you find one of them, you will join their caravan. By foot or by vehicle you will reach where
they're going.

However, it is impossible to do it on your own. No one has reached malakūt on his own. Our Prophet was sent
to malakūt by Jibrā’īl ‘alayhi s-salām. He reached it. What is this sign for? If our Master ‘alayhi ṣ-ṣalātu wa s-
salām was in need of a guide, of Jibrā’īl, how can people like you and me reach it? Can we reach it on our own?
No. I wanted to meet the head of municipality here in Izmir and they stopped me at the door. "Who are you?
What did you come for?" Ten people stood in a row. They are probably from those who get paid and don't
work. How can you pass through that crowd? And there is also this shayṭān gate which you pass through when
entering the plane. They say you have to go through it. "Do you have any weapon?" I looked, there was a lot of
formality. Yā Hū, if it is like this at the door of the head of municipality, how is it with ministers? How is it to go
to them? They will never allow us. I want to say that there is a protocol in dunyā. The protocol is formality. Isn't
there formality of malakūt? Will you enter with a greeting? What is it? Is it ask-and-enter, this malakūt? Do you
think so? You'll be hit with a stone on your head. They will throw you down. It is seen every night how they
stone shayāṭīn (the devils) who want to come closer in the heavens, whoever dares. If anyone daring is from
people, he can't go up from the ground. How can he reach the sky? How can someone who can't raise and hold
his two legs in the air reach malakūt? There is power in jinn, but when they want to approach, shooting star
catches them.

Therefore, Metin bey, my son, malakūt has its protocol. You should learn its protocol from Awliyā’u Llah who
are the protocol officers. Therefore, they said Adab yā Hū. You must keep the adab of protocol. Then let them
take you in. Is it so? Nafsu l-ammārah. Ego. What is the reality of ego? The reality of ego shouldn't be assumed
as something ordering only badness. "Nafsuka maṭiyyatuka", said the Prophet ‘alayhi ṣ-ṣalātu wa s-salām. Your
ego is your animal for you to ride it and move. If you obey your animal, when you follow your animal, you
become an animal too. And if you tame your animal, make it obey you, then it will carry you to the world of
angels. Otherwise, Allāh Almighty did not create the ego without wisdom. He didn't create it without meaning.
And He didn't create it to convict people. Maybe He created it for people to convict their egos. Allāh Almighty
is saying "Ride your animal and come to Me. But when you come to Me, leave it and enter." They used to
commute by riding in old times. Now there are cars. Does someone coming on horseback go inside the living
room of the house he visits, with his horse? Does he put his animal next to himself when he sits down? I am
showing the head of municipality as well. Astaghfiru Llāh. Blessings to Huseyin bey he won't be offended by
such things. The sign isn't for him. Can we seat him together with animals? Let it sit in front of you. Can it be?
Can you enter with an animal? He says "Leave the animal and enter." Therefore, no one can enter the Divine
Presence without leaving his ego. You can waggle as much as you want. Is it good? Yes.

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These things we told about, they are all known. Almost everyone knows it. However, its application... When you
become a doctor or a chemist, you must work next to another chemist to learn its application. Or you must be
an assistant for another doctor so that he teaches you how to apply what you learnt. Without learning the
application, the information you read from books doesn't make you ready. Therefore, someone taking religious
lessons by reading religious books cannot control his ego. Because the matter of controlling the ego is different.
It's possible that someone can control his ego without reading anything and the one who reads all the books
cannot. He must come down. Then he says "Yā Hū, how do you control yourself? I read so many books and
can't do it - still looking at people coming and going." "You are a scholar. How can you look?" "I do. I look
despite having studied." And the other one doesn't look, though he didn't study. He is the one who knows the
application. You must follow him so that he teaches you how to use your will power. Otherwise, you should do it
on your own. Is it ok, my son? Or I will explain in another way. Eventually you need someone, who will teach
you. You know for yourself. If you need, you'll search and find. If you don't, you will act as you like. However,
your actions then will be like those of a blindfolded waterwheel horse. They blindfold the horses, otherwise they
won't turn around, they will turn once and stop. When they're blindfolded, they walk in a circle all day long
thinking they have reached Uskudar from here. When they open their eyes, they see they're still here. Likewise,
you have to follow a man with open eyes so that he shows you the way and is your guide.

Thanks to Metin bey, you're hearing many things too. Of course, we're not created as angels. If we were created
like angels, we wouldn't carry responsibility. We wouldn't have sins and step into wrong. It is in order not to take
wrong steps - all these matters that we spoke about. It is to take the right steps. The guide is to teach you that
you can take the right steps and how to take them, the guide who will be next to you. Otherwise, of course, we
are sinners. We make sins, then we need someone who will guard us from falling into sins and teach us the way
so that we don't fall into that dirty hole again, so that you know that a sin is a dirty hole. And does anyone throw
himself down into the toilet hole? Will anyone do it on purpose? Even if they force him, he'll resist strongly not
to fall into it. What is the value of someone who throws himself into it? He has the same value as what is inside
that toilet. We are not infallible. However, if we repeat the sin we commited 1,000 times and repent for it, Allāh
Almighty will clean us and we'll be ashamed for throwing ourselves into that dirty hole again and again and then
ask to be cleaned by the Lord. "O My servant, I'm telling you, don't fall there. It is dirty there. I cleaned you, be
careful." We go again, fall, come out and ask again. But Allāh Almighty doesn't get tired.

When a servant says "tawbah yā Rabbi", Allāh Almighty forgives him and cleans him But the thing to fear is, we
don't know when death will come. If it comes while you're in that dirt, you'll depart without faith. He becomes
dirty. If someone is inside spiritual and physical dirt, his end will be problematic. Therefore, don't stay without
wuḍū. Keep your wuḍū’. And don't be inside spiritual dirt. Don't make sins. When you know you commit a sin,
immediately say "Tawbah yā Rabbi, tawbah yā Rabbi, astaghfiru Llāh". You'll be saved from that dirt
immediately. Wa min Allāhi t-tawfīq. Is there anything else, my son?

M: "Regarding eating and sleeping less. What Allāh Almighty and our Prophet loves..."

SN: It's up to the doctors. Some doctors tell to eat. For example, like Omer bey. A doctor tells him to eat
because he's thin and needs strength. And to someone like you, he tells not to eat. Isn't it? The one who cures
knows your situation. Eat less, sleep less, speak less. Not always does a doctor keep his patient on a diet. There is
a period when he keeps him on a diet. And when the illness is gone, he's not going to keep him on a diet
anymore. He orders a diet until the spiritual illness is gone. He tells some not to eat fat, he tells some not to eat
sweet, he tells some not to eat salt, to some not to eat meat. He tells some to eat vegetables like this ox. The
person who is a murshid of the patient knows his situation and condition. He tells accordingly. If you decide to
eat less and sleep less by yourself, your ego will kick you. You won't know where you come from. And you won't
be able to come near there. A man cannot rule himself on his own, only with the skill of a murshid. Did you see
a patient who makes his own diet? No. He does it when a doctor says it. No one does it by himself. What a
doctor says is accepted. A patient doesn't say "I shouldn't eat this or that". He waits for a doctor. And when he
tells you to sleep less, you must sleep less. When he tells you to speak less, you must speak less. When he tells you

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to eat less, you must eat less. When he tells you to fast, you must fast and not when he tells you otherwise. If he
wants, he can tell you to break fast 1 hour before sunset. "Only 1 hour left, how will I break it?" Break it.

M: "We came to you as if we came to a doctor now. What can you say about this?"

SN: I say Fātiḥah.

Fātiḥah.

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