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A short Association, because now our egoes are pleased that we just had a delicious dinner with every kind of Allah Almighty\u2019s favors, so many n\u2019imat [favors] granted us through the doctor\u2019s generosity. And we are first thanking Dr. Akmal Khan; we must first say \u201cThank you\u201d to you, to your family, and as you are giving your generosity to me and to my followers, Allah Almighty should reward you and your ancestors, blessing them and giving hidayat [guidance] for your descendants. May Allah bless everyone that is coming here, from far distances or near ones, and Allah Almighty rewards everyone according to their intentions. Allah Almighty is always looking at our hearts, what are our intentions.<\/p>\n
And we are saying, \u201c\u2018Audhu bil-Lah min ash-Shaytani-r-Rajeem, bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem.\u201d1 We are escaping from Shaytan to Allah, to hide us. We are asking His divine shelter and His divine protection because it is so difficult for us to defeat Shaytan, because our egoes are also always going with Shaytan. If our egoes were not going with Shaytan, it would be easy, but our egoes and Shaytan are from the same characteristic.<\/p>\n
Shaytan was the first rebellious one toward Allah; in the Divine Presence, the first one who was rebellious was Shaytan, not anyone else before him. And he did his worst for his Lord, while it was right to do his best for his Lord, Allah Almighty, and Shaytan was cursed and kicked out of Heaven to earth.<\/p>\n
And our egoes are also never accepting to be servants. Our nafs \u2014 that means ego \u2014 is never happy to be a servant to Allah Almighty. Therefore, the same characteristic in Shaytan is with our egoes. And when our egoes are with Shaytan, it is like a man and woman coming together and bringing forth a baby; nafs, our ego and Shaytan, when coming together, must give a birth to an evil, there must be an evil born.<\/p>\n
Therefore, Allah Almighty, through His first Message to mankind, through the first man and first prophet, Sayyidina Adam, was advising His servants, \u201cDon\u2019t give a chance that Shaytan approaches you.\u201d If you are giving that chance to him, sharr, evil, must come; a sin must must be there. A sin is born; when Shaytan and our ego go together, a sin quickly comes. Therefore, Allah Almighty is teaching, from the first prophet up today, that you must ask a shelter from Him from Shaytan. Therefore we have been ordered to say \u201cAudhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r- Rajeem.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAudhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytani-r-Rajeem\u201d \u2014 that means we are weak ones. We aren\u2019t able, by ourselves, to defeat him, to throw him away. Therefore we must ask divine help: \u201cO our Lord, give us a shelter from Shaytan.\u201d And Shaytan is everywhere and with everyone. No one is going to be without Shaytan; not any place, even holy places, where Shaytan is not there \u2014 everywhere. Only one place that no Shaytan is in; the only place that Shaytan is forbidden to be there, that is in K\u2019abah. Shaytan can\u2019t enter inside it \u2014 no. He can\u2019t be there, or quickly he will be burned. Instantly he will be turned to be ashes; he can\u2019t come inside it \u2014 prohibited. And also at the grave of the Prophet, turbatu-Rasool,2 (SAWS), inside it, he can\u2019t be there, instantly burning and turning to ashes. But in every other place you can find so many shaytans, and also with you, coming with you, even sleeping with you, eating with you, walking with you. 2<\/p>\n
When you are sleeping, he is sitting, not sleeping. Not sleeping and he is waiting for you, so that he may see you when you are waking up. If he sleeps, you may make wudhu and pray, but he is looking at you, if you are waking up and says, \u201cSleep, sleep. It is still dark. Don\u2019t get up. You must sleep. Still a long time to morning.\u201d Every time you are begin to wake up he says, \u201cThere is still a long time before adhan.3 Sleep, sleep well.\u201d Yes? Is it not so?<\/p>\n
Therefore, every time a person is waking up, Shaytan is saying to him, \u201cDon\u2019t get up. Sleep. It is so beautiful to sleep. Rest. Even now you are not resting; you are working too much and not resting, taking no pity on your own self. Sleep!\u201d<\/p>\n
Therefore, Shaytan is everywhere and with everyone. Never leaving you, always coming, saying to you, \u201cI am your bodyguard; trust in me. I am guiding you to an excellent situation. Come with me, follow me.\u201d \u201cFollow me\u201d; writing on his back and saying to everyone, \u201cFollow me, follow me.\u201d Just as it is written on some cars in an airport, \u201cFollow me,\u201d similarly Shaytan is going in front of everyone, man and women, writing and saying, \u201cFollow me\u201d \u2014 and not only writing \u201cFollow me\u201d but also with a microphone in his hand saying, \u201cPlease follow me! Follow me! Don\u2019t look right and left but just follow me. I am with you always,\u201d and people are running after him, day and night.<\/p>\n
Therefore we must say, \u201c\u2018Audhu bil-Lah min ash-Shaytani-r-Rajeem. O our Lord, we can\u2019t do anything with Shaytan if You do not help us.\u201d When you are saying \u201c\u2018Audhu bil-Lah min ash-Shaytani-r-Rajeem,\u201d he is jumping from here to a distance, but then, slowly, slowly, slowly running, approaching you.<\/p>\n
When you are saying \u201c\u2018Audhu bil-Lah min ash-Shaytani-r-Rajeem,\u201d it is like kicking a football, kicking him, \u201c\u2018Audhu bil-Lah min ash-Shaytani-r-Rajeem\u201d and throwing him away.<\/p>\n
Therefore, any time that you are feeling yourself in a bad situation and not able to take control of yourself, you must say \u201c\u2018Audhu bil-Lah min ash-Shaytani-r-Rajeem, \u2018audhu bil-Lah. . . . \u201d At least seven times you can say it, and he is going to be tired, running away.<\/p>\n
Yes. And we are saying \u201cBismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem.\u201d If Allah Almighty does not help us, we can\u2019t do anything. \u201cBismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem\u201d means, \u201cO my Lord, I am helpless, I am weak, and I am asking Your support, divine support. I am in need of Your blessings, I am in need of Your mercy, I am in need of Your favors. O my Lord, please grant me, please support me, to be able to do something, something for You.\u201d Not something for anyone else. If you are doing something for anyone else, it is going to finish and vanish, but everything that you are doing for Allah, it is for you forever. It is impossible for it to be taken away, Allah Almighty keeping it in His treasures. When you are in need, at that time of most need for ourselves on the Day of Resurrection, we should ask help and He should give it to us.<\/p>\n
Therefore, you must try to be with Allah, and whoever is with Allah, Allah Almighty, in every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every week, every month, every year, He will be supporting, and no one will come to Sheikh Nazim to say, \u201cO sheikh, pray for me because my business is getting bad, getting no more profit. Please pray to Allah for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yahu, I am saying, \u201cAllah is closer to you than I am. Why are you not saying it to Him?\u201d Allah is closer to His servants than themselves. \u201cWa \u2018alamu anna Llahu yahulu baina-l-marri wa qalbihi\u201d4 \u2014 this holy verse is saying that Allah Almighty is coming in yourself and coming in your heart. And you can\u2019t reach your heart; Allah is closer than you to your heart. No one can imagine how close He is to you. It must be so, because He is the Creator.<\/p>\n
He is the Creator, and He creates what you are thinking and for what you are thinking and for what you are working and what is your purpose and what is your aim; He knows before you know it. I am saying, \u201cWhy are you not asking from Allah, coming to me and saying to me that \u2018Pray for me,\u2019 while between you and Allah Almighty there is nothing.\u201d You can say, \u201cO my Lord\u201d; you can say, \u201cYa Rabb, ya Rabb, ya Rabbi,\u201d and He is just reaching to you or He is just with you, because you can\u2019t stand up without Allah\u2019s Power; if His power does not go through your whole body, even through cells then you cannot function, cannot be alive. Cells must be alive with Allah Almighty\u2019s power or even the smallest cell can\u2019t be alive in your blood, in your brain, in your skin, in your flesh, in your organs. Every cell must be with its Lord and must glorify its Lord.<\/p>\n
Therefore, we must try to reach a state that by praying we are able to reach Allah Almighty\u2019s Will \u2014 that means, what He is asking for me, for you, for anyone else, and if you understanwhat is His will for you, then not to object to it, not to reject or object to Allah Almighty\u2019s Will, and then you should be happy.<\/p>\n
Try to be with Allah Almight\u2019s Will. Don\u2019t put your will in the place of your Lord\u2019s Will, or don\u2019t put your will against the Will of your Lord. Whoever puts his will in opposition to the Will of Allah, he is going to fall into an endless depression. Mostly depression is coming from that point, because you want something and Allah Almighty wants something else. And even if all mankind is going to insist on one purpose, they can\u2019t change it, they can\u2019t make their will to precede or subjugate Allah\u2019s Will. If Allah Almighty says \u201cNo,\u201d no one can make it \u201cYes.\u201d If He says \u201cYes\u201d for something, even if all nations say \u201cNo,\u201d it must transpire as He wills.<\/p>\n
Therefore, that is the most keen knowledge, keen treatment for depressed people. Depressed people must know that what they are saying \u201cYes\u201d to is not going to be or what they are saying \u201cNo\u201d to is not going to be. They must learn that only Allah Almighty can say \u201cYes;\u201d in spite of all mankind saying \u201cNo!\u201d If He says \u201cYes,\u201d that must be. If all mankind says \u201cYes\u201d and Allah Almighty says \u201cNo,\u201d it is going not to be. That must be taught to everyone, because depression is increasing day-by-day, and it is a kind of punishment from Allah Almighty that His servants are not using their will and their minds for their actions; they are acting without using their minds and wills, and every time they are making mistakes.<\/p>\n
Even a simple mistake harms people. What if you make an mistake, every time, every moment, every hour, every day coming against the Will of Allah, and your will makes mistakes? But now it is the time of atheist people; they are saying \u201cNo God.\u201d Astaghfirullah5 \u2014 no God but Allah! Allah is God. And they are not teaching about God in schools \u2014 it is forbidden in schools to be taught about Allah, and they are saying, \u201cIf anyone wants to know something about their Lord, there is the church. Go in and learn there.\u201d<\/p>\n
They are so proud of not putting it into the curriculum of students; they are saying, \u201cIf you want to ask about God, go. There is a church. This is something that you can believe or not believe \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d Put a symbol there \u2014 in the midst of universities, as a symbol, a symbol of mystery. I saw in Cambridge and Oxford, in universities, huge cathedrals, but they are not putting at the beginning of every knowledge the knowledge that leads us to Allah, to God. Therefore, their teachings are harmful and with no result, making people depressed, because if a person says \u201cThere is No Allah, no God,\u201d that means he is in a situation where there is no any support from any direction and then he can fall down. Therefore, governments must change their educational policies, to put knowledge about Allah as the first lesson for little children all the way up to academic studies. They must say first, \u201cIn the name of Allah, All-mighty, All-Merciful, who created us, who granted us to be His servants.\u201d As long as they do not put this, they are going to be in suffering, with no peace, and fighting continuing.<\/p>\n
May Allah forgive us. Therefore, O people, listen and try to act, try to believe, try to act according to your beliefs. Don\u2019t let Shaytan come to you so you can follow him. Shaytan is in Hell, and anyone following Shaytan is just going to fall into Hell. And the Prophet is in Paradise; whoever wants to follow him, he should reach the Prophet in Paradise. May Allah cause us to be in Paradise with His prophets, with His awliya (saints) and anbiya (prophets) and with pure ones, and may He change this world to take away devils and to make us among His sincere servants so that we should reach happiness and contentment and pleasure from Allah Almighty.<\/p>\n
Footnotes<\/em><\/p>\n (1) I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the Rejected.<\/p>\n (2) The grave of the Prophet, SAWS.<\/p>\n (3) The call to prayer.<\/p>\n (4) 8:24.<\/p>\n (5) I ask Allah\u2019s forgiveness.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Escaping from ShaytanA short Association, because now our egoes are pleased that we just had a delicious dinner with every kind of Allah Almighty\u2019s favors, so many n\u2019imat [favors] granted us through the doctor\u2019s generosity. And we are first thanking Dr. Akmal Khan; we must first say \u201cThank you\u201d to you, to your family, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1652,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1906","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1906\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}