A selection of Sohbats in text form. You can find all the Sohbats on our YouTube channel Naqshbandi Germany.
Follow the model of the companions — they had a teacher. It still exists today. It hasn’t changed. The model, and the Sunnah of Allah, which He has given us, has given to people, has not changed — and will not change. You will always have someone who leads, and who is the bearer of news. In our time, he is a Sheikh, a Murshid. And he has the same function as the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
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We are in this holy time of Rabi al-Awwal. And as we said, it is a time to revive our hearts and to be revived for the love of Prophet, for the love of Allah Almighty. And it means also for those — or for us, or for me — who have bad qualities: „I have to work on these bad qualities. I have to watch them and to learn to correct them and to learn to control my ego.“ That is important and this month is helping us to work on this.
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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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