Our Grandsheikh is saying – his every advice is like
shells for guns, giving to you to use against the enemy.
But you are only taking and making a depot. We are
giving to you for shooting; that is our intention. We
are giving you every range of shells, some for nearby
and some for the other side of the mountain. Yet our
Grandsheikh is saying: «I can’t find anyone to keep my
advices.» I hope you may keep his advice.

Our Grandsheikh is asking, what is that which Allah
and his Prophet don’t like? You must know, and when
knowing, keep far away from it. He answers that it is to
look after a person’s faults. Allah has prohibited this. It
is a big sin and the worst action a person can make. You
also have faults everyone has so many, and you have a
responsibility for those faults in the Divine Presence.
So why are you looking to the faults of others; you must
eliminate your own. When one is looking to the faults
of another, the respect we have for him in our heart
disappears, and the love toward him is extinguished.
Therefore, it is prohibited. So many faults everyone
has, that if we were looking to them, all would become
enemies. It causes seperation of the Ummah, and then
comes Shaitân to capture us. Islam calls love and strong
relations between people, to protect from badness and
give power to faith. Therefore, we are ordered for worshipping
together, so that our faith will grow stronger.

Our Grandsheikh says we must be careful that Shaitân
does not make our worship unacceptable. It is unacceptable
when we are asking for any rewards. We must
ask for our Lord’s pleasure only. When all the ego’s
desires are finished, then one is a servant of the Lord.
To look for some reward for worshipping is like idol
worship. Sincerity is to ask only your Lord’s service.
So many people are worshipping and then doing what
their ego demands. This means that they are servants
of Allah and of Shaitân. It is a dangerous way.
Until we become clean of bad character we can’t be
free of Shaitân, this world, our egos, and vain desires.
Until you know when you put your foot down, whether
it is on the right way or the wrong way, you are yet
in need of alignment in your heart. You must know
and be awake to where you are putting your foot. In
one second’s sleeping may come a dangerous accident.

Therefore, we are always in need to repeat the word of
shahâda, to put us on the right way.
Until we become free of bad character, we cannot attain
to real faith; and if no real faith, then there is no
life in this world will live on in the tomb, his body not
turning to dust. It is a sign from Allah that he has reached
true life. How is it possible to save ourselves from
bad character? A bad characteristic is pride. Iblis was
thrown out of the Divine Presence for his pride. If a man
is not humble enough to accept one man to teach him
lessons, he is proud. You must have a Tariqat Teacher
to show you how to use the Shariah on yourself. He
learned from his Sheykh how to use Shariah on himself.
There can be no surgeon who hasn’t witnessed surgery,
but learned only from books.