We jump about from here to there. We are incapable of paying attention to one thing and of staying with it. If we could concentrate even on the smallest thing, we would find God.
-Sheykh Maulana Nazim al-Hakkani
“If a man tells you a lie,” asks our Grandshaykh, “what will be your position? You must not say, ‘No! that isn’t true.” You must not refuse his words. This is a high character and good manners.
“You may tell him, “Oh? Is it so?” Maybe, in your sight his statement has no reality, but you must be gentle. We have not been ordered to refuse people, but to make them more pleased. We are living in a time when people may say anything and everything; you must be patient with them, and excuse them, always without fighting. You must know that people are ill in their egos. If you are claiming to be doctors, you must excuse them. If you are on the way of prophets , you must help them and be tolerant of them. This is the highest degree of good manners.
-Sheykh Maulana Nazim al-Hakkani
This is an extremely powerful talk.
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Sheykh Maulana Nazim Kibrisi speaking to a large audience in Koln, Germany in the early ’90s. He talks about the necessity of a khalifa for Muslims to be able to stand up again. This can be done only be reviving the spirit of the Ottomans. Lightning will strike those who do not speak the truth.
Sheykh Nazim advises that all people should gather and work toward this goal under the name of “New Ottomans” / “Yeni Osmanlilar”.
So many people come to me to see what we are doing, and then they want to know what they should pay. I show them my stick and tell them, “I haven’t come here to make a business out of it. Go away! If you like to give charity to someone, then do that. This is a very important matter. Everyone who wants to be successful and reach high levels spiritually, should never consider any material benefits from people. If they are in need and people want to give them something, that is different. But they should not do a fixed payment and demand a fee like £70, £7 or 70p, no! You must do it for the honour of mankind. It is the honour of mankind to be able to help people just the way in which prophets did. They were healers too. They gave their best to people by giving them their mercy. But they never asked anything from them. That is the highest level of humanity. The more you run after materials, the more your spiritual power will come down. There are so many methods of healing, but the strongest is purification and purification begins when we leave material desires. When you have left all material desires you will start to get your full power. As long as you still have material desires your power can’t run, it is mixed up. You have to wait for your elements to be arranged.
-Shaykh Nazim al-Hakkani
As Muslims we have spiritual obligations as well as duties in this life. We must try to make a balance between the two. The spiritual exercises which you do for your Lord will give you energy for your practical life, that is if you can keep the power within you. It so easily escapes through your eyes, ears, speech and actions. It even runs away through our thoughts and through our hearts. We have so many holes which leak our spiritual power. The important part is not so much how we pray or meditate, it is essential to know how to keep the achieved spiritual power within you.
Everyone wants to get power. Politicians usually run after power most of all. They want to reach the climax of power. They all run on their own to get it. Once they have it they use it quickly and are drained just as fast. Whoever is supported spiritually will not waste power in such a way. Which is why all the sultans had spiritual leaders as supporters. They were in contact with them, they were listening to them and it made them successful. Nowadays politicians never listen to mystical advice, so they have no spiritual support and end up eating each other. It has no value. They call it democracy. It means that they take their power from the public, but that is not a firm base. The public is like an ocean, you cannot step on it, you will sink. All of them who want to be supported by the public are mistaken, because the public will never support a person forever. The public can be cheated or it can cheat. It can be cheated by politicians and in the same way be cheated by them. If someone relies on the public, he will lose everything. Clemenceau had the complete support of the French people. They were ready to die for him, that is the kind of hero he was. Then they stopped voting for him and he died out of sadness. He trusted the public! Take Churchill, he did his best during both wars for the English people and then finally they decided to take Chamberlain instead, so Churchill also died disappointed and sad.
Whenever a politician relies on the public, and does not catch a support from a spiritual person, he can be considered to be very stupid. He will not stay in power.
-Shaykh Maulana Nazim Al-Hakkani
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