A selection of Sohbats in text form. You can find all the Sohbats on our YouTube channel Naqshbandi Germany.
Everything that brings us together here is love. Because Mawlana Sheikh Nazim was saying that every existing thing is (existing) out of love. Every existing thing is out of love — existing out of Allah’s love — because otherwise it wouldn’t be in existence. It’s only in existence through Him, through His holy name Ya Wadud, he said.
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If you know Him, then you will love Him. Whichever attribute you recognize — or reflect —, you then reflect love, you reflect mercy, you reflect generosity, you reflect all 99 Beautiful Names and beyond that thousands of names and ultimately endless names. They settle in your heart, they are reflected there.
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We humans exist to know Allah. For He, jalla jalaluhu, says: “I was a hidden treasure and wanted to be known. That is why I brought creation into being.” And for that, you need sincerity. It is a quality that belongs to it (to this process of realisation).
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Believing is one. It’s in oneness. It is about oneness. And Shaytan is that one who is giving doubts, and nourishing doubts. That is his task. He is trying believers with doubts about their own beliefs.
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If you have love for Allah Almighty, you are doing what He is saying. If we have love, the best way to express the love towards Allah Almighty is to listen and follow His orders, His recommendations, and the knowledge, which He likes to give to us. According to that, you may do. So that He is pleased.
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The main characteristic of mankind is forgetfulness. That is a weakness. „Truly, We have created man weak,“ it says in the Quran. And then it also says elsewhere, also in the Quran — everything is in the Quran — that he (mankind) is forgetful.
Q: There are different scholars they have made fatwa about music. If we accept that the music is accepted, how to recognize which is the good music for your soul and which is the music that is only for your nafs? How can we distinguish?
Ya ayuhal mu’minun! Eid Mubarak. Mashallah. This is one of the greatest days of the year for Muslims and believers — Eid al-Adha. And we say congratulations, and we thank Allah, subhana wa ta’ala, our Creator, for allowing us to experience this day. And for creating us and bringing us into this world, in this time — in the time of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. And we say, through our Sheikh and through our Awliyas — who look after us and who watch over us, in the time after the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ — we say to the people: „Come to Islam. Do not deny Islam. And do not forget Islam. O Muslims!“ …
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It’s a present for everyone, for us, that the Sheikh is visiting us — Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad — that the friend of God is visiting and gathering the brothers and sisters. We must be very thankful. There is a blessing for everyone. Everywhere he is going, everything he is visiting, everything he is looking at gets blessings. And he looks at everything, mashallah. Because it is Sunnah. It‘s Sunnah to look at the creation, what Allah created …
What is Inside Must Appear Read Post »
This question yesterday was a question that could be dealt with for a few years, actually. And one important thing about this topic of brotherhood… The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, who said that the reason for destroying the Ummah is to bring up the Fitnah of the past – Shaytan’s Fitnah of the past, separations, hurts, negativities, that are over; to bring it up again and thereby practically renewing it …
