ZAWK 3389

To my AYN(ـعـ ) withIN me..

Do not release our secret in to water!

Look ! if It dissolves, you may not find it then!

It is difficult in this life, O my mirror(AYNa) !

To live like a silverless[*] glass !

If you tie your four ends to the horizon of hope, and throw.

You will undress your soykas[*]!

Desert of Suffering is completely nude!…

Kulihvani

Translated by GaribAN on 03.09.10

GLOSSARY

AYN(ـعـ ):  This refers to letter ‘AYN (ـعـ )’ in Arabic. AYNa in Turkish language means ‘MIRROR’. ‘AYaN-i Sabita’  used in Tasawwuf refers to immutable essence.

Silverless:  Term that Kulihvani uses in place of ‘silverless’ in here is “SIRRsız” in Turkish. Sirr means secret in Turkish. When you silver the glass to make it mirror, you put a silver backing behind it so that it will give you a reflection causing duality. Backing of the mirror is also called “SIR:Secret” in Turkish language… ‘Sirrsiz’ means ‘Secretless’ but in English ‘silverless’ is the best word to use. However knowing this little detail is vital for understanding this ‘zawk’.

Soyka: Pronounced as ‘soika’ in Turkish. This is an ancient word meaning the clothes which are undressed last, just before putting the shroud on a dead body.

Turkish Original:

FEEL THE CREATOR(AL-HALIQ)

“Do not ever attempt to solve the conundrums which you sensed, felt, and your mind got stuck in, in order to know the Creator(HaLiQ)…

What is within the faith(iman), is to see the Creator by His Divine Names(Asma ul Husna).

It is better that you look around you.

Infact the eyes were given by Allah as a gift to UNderstand this. Because, by all of His Beautiful Divine Names(Asma-ul-Husna) , (Allah) is playing with your children. Look in to the depths of heavens, you see that He is walking in the clouds, extending His arms to you by lightenings and coming down to you by rains, and smiling to your eyes by the flowers then waving at you by rising in the trees.

This means there is knowledge belonging to beyond in the depths of your sight, sense, hopes and wishes.

Trying to reach to that knowledge will inject faith(iman) to son of man. “

Dr.Munir Derman (k.s)

 “I WAS A SEED,

  AND A PLANE TREE I HAVE BEEN”

I was a seed. I don’t know what seed. I was planted in the earth…

I remained in the darkness for days. But I did not get scared.

It was not alien to me at all…I saw a soundless and wordless muhabbat [1].

It gave to me water mixed with sustenance(riziq). It heated me. One day my bossom cracked by itself…

They pulled me up. I went above the earth. They pulled me down by picking my other side shreds…I permeated as a root into the earth.

The Sun gave heat to me from between the cloud.

The cloud sent rain. My sustenance(rizq) came from below, and I sucked them. The sustenance, and the water…

I started to grow over the earth. I was careless, about myself. One day, my little leaves emanated and I gave a bud. Will it be a thorn, or will it blossom a flower similar to the fragrant rose. Not known yet…

I grew up between two stones to save my self from being crushed. One day, I have been a plane tree. The earth whispered to me.

Whatever you have seen above, they all came from me in the light …They forgot that they received their sustenance from me. Who are they?  I said…

People, animals, all creation. But only you were with me…

From time to time you bow down to me for prostration. In the word of Allah:

“W’AN-NAJMU W’ASH-SHAJARU YASJUDAAN..”

“And the Herbs and the trees prostrate(make sajda)”

Only the ones who haven’t forgotten this are you. Now I am a big plane tree rising towards the heaven. One day, they opened a cafe in my shadow. They drank coffee and tea. Ultimately, they drank…

They gambled…

The crows landed on my branches, and they nested.

They defecated on those sitting in my shadow..They couldn’t cope with the crows, and this time they pruned my branches so that crows would not land there. I lost the skill of giving shadow, and started to dry out. They came and cut me one day…They removed my roots so that I wouldn’t sprout…

They made a log out of me and burned it. They warmed up in the cold…I had no leaves anymore. I was naked.

They made a plank out of a part of me,

They made a door, a chair, a table, a game of backgammon out of me…

They painted me and changed my colour…

They took seeds from me,

They planted them in the streets, gardens, parks and around the palaces!..

If you knew what things I see and hear,

From the small and great of today’s people…

I did not get upset and fed up with changing from form to form but do you know what I am getting upset about…

The dogs are peeing on my body on the streets. That is why, I am getting upset. I would make a complaint to Haqq (The Truth [2]), If it was not rebelling. But I feel shy.

However (Haqq) blinked at me.. Who is that?…You know “the ONE who is Singular/Alone”, Him…

Leave the work to me…

Let me tell you a bit of the Haqq given skill within me, which you don’t know…

You wouldn’t know but the faces of my leaves look always towards the sky, to the heaven (sama). Even when my leaves turn yellow and fade…

When they fall, they close up on the earth by bringing my face looking to heaven(sama) towards the earth…

You cannot turn my face to anyone…

You will say some of them fall the other way round. It is to hide this secret so that it wouldn’t be arrogancy.

My leaves. When they are on their branches, we are turned our back to the ones that are under.  When I fall on the ground, again I show my back. Do you know why my leaves are like that. It is not because I look down on them…

It is because of the what I saw in the heaven(sama)…

It is because I am ashamed of seeing their states and the works they do…

Let me say a word to you in the language of the Plane Tree so that you can think …

Our root is hidden in the earth. We hold ourselves erect by means of it. It feeds us. And we always grow towards the heaven(sama)to thank(shukur).

Your Professor friend jumps (in to the subject) here…

He will say there is Geotropism, the gravity of the earth. Yes it is a fairly true answer…

Yes that gravity of the earth has existed for me. You found out this law  by contemplating over a falling fruit from my kind.

I showed it to you…

If I didnt exist, you wouldn’t be able to find it..I am hiding myself with this veil, and why am I growing towards the heaven ?…

 To my root.

“The rain comes out of the ground, then it emerges from the water in the state of steam. So that it will fall down from my head again.”

The steam rises from earth to heaven.

The rain falls down from heaven to earth.

You see these. You don’t understand what this continuous circulation(dawr-i daim) is…

Dr.Munir Derman (k.s)

Translated by GaribAN from the literary work of  Dr.Munir Derman(k.s), “A friend of ALLAH says that – the first of the unwritten secrets and the last of the secrets that will be written.” Volume 1. p.184-186.

Please see the following link for the English translations of Dr.Munir Derman’s works : http://www.muhammedinur.com/En/category/derman

REFERENCES:

[1] MUHABBAT: It comes from the word الحب in Arabic pronounced as „Al-Habb“ meaning „Love“. The Truth of Muhabbat in Tasawwuf is to give your everything to the Beloved and not to leave anything within you for yourself.

People of Muhabbat fall in three groups:

1-Muhabbat of Amme:

This is a love because Allah bestows upon them. Rasulullah PBUH says : “Hearts have characteristic of loving the ONE bestowing upon them.”

2-State of Sifati-Ashk(Love): This is due to heart looking at ALLAH’s glory(jalal), magnificience (azamat), power(qudrat) and knowledge(ilm). This sort of Muhabbat is experienced by the elite(Hawas), loyal(sadiq) and Men of Divine Knowledge(ahl-i tahqiq). Husain an-Nuri says that: “Muhabbat is the revelation of the secrets when the veils are torn.”

3-The State of Dhati Muhabbat: This is to love ALLAH without any reason. This is born from understanding and knowing that loving ALLAH is causeless and beginingless.This sort of love is the love of loyals(siddiq) and Arifs.

Muhabbat also includes another root term “HABBA” . Habba means “seed” in Arabic and this is the seed of Love. When you put a seed in the soil , one day this will grow to tree and it will blossom flowers and give the fruit. The aim of this seed is to have this fruit. Aim of planting the seed of Love was to grow Prophet Muhammad PBUH as a fruit.

[2]  AL-HAQQ: The TRUTH. Please see the details about this name in following link: http://www.muhammedinur.com/En/islam/al-haqqu-the-truth.html

وَالنَّجْمُ وَالشَّجَرُ يَسْجُدَانِ

“W’an-najmu w’ash –shajaru yasjudaan:

And the herbs and the trees both (alike) bow in adoration.”

(Qur’an - Al-Rahman- [55/6] )

WHAT IS IT?

Destiny harvests your life by the suffering

A silent word through your heart is passing

Open your ear and hear, the mind is quickly choosing

What is it that cracks a thrown seed open?

Don’t upset your self, the darkness will brighten up one day

Don’t be upset, the mercy of your Lord(Rabb) will find you one day

LOVE , everything is empty in this world other than LOVE

What is it that makes the loving EyE cry?

Don’t ever break your hope,

Don’t think that you will reach that quick

That caravan is the caravan of the suffering,

You draw a circle in the desert with it

The human being is crucified ,

On the cross of the mind with FOUR nAILS

What is it that makes the 40 year black hair white?

Gather yourself o poor Darwish,

Do not leave the track of the ‘RaSuL(sas)’

Howcome the drop of this tear comes from your eye

If He did not love you,

The self like the ice will melt

By the coyness of the Rose and the words of the BELOVED

What is it that giving greenness to a swinging broken branch?

GaribAN

Basildon11.11.09

RaSuLullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam)):

Messenger of ALLAH. Rasul is translated as messenger to English language but the term “Messenger” will only limit the meaning of this word. The term, “Rasul” has very comprehensive meanings. We can look in to the syllables , “Ra” and “Sul”. In Arabic , “SALL”, “SUL”, SALAH:Prayer” , “SALAWAT”, “SALAM”, “SILA” , “IRSAL” have similar root etymologically. “SUL” is like SILA and “SILA” means the Tie. In English the word SALUte and SALVATion also come from The same root. SILA is like a connecting tie. “RA” shows the subject doing it. Rasul means the one who will connect you or take you back in the right direction(istiqamat). IRSAL means the transportation, to carry or to send. Rasul is the one who has the authority to get the SILA done. For instance there is a term in Turkish ,”SAL”. “SAL” is in English called RAFT. It takes you from one side of the river to the other side. Rasul takes ROOH(Spirit) back to ALLAH. Because the spirit(ROOH) is from ALLAH. RASUL is the one who will make the Risala(revelation, message) appear. RASUL makes you “SALL” to ALLAH , connects you to ALLAH. SALL means to reach somewhere. RASUL is the one who will make you reach where you come from.

That is why in Qur’an  ALLAH j.j says:
اِنَّ اللّٰهَ وَمَلٰئِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِىِّ يَا اَيُّهَا الَّذٖينَ اٰمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلٖيمًا
İnnellahe ve melaiketehu yüSALLUne alen nebiyy ya eyyühellezine amenu SALLU aleyhi ve SALLImu taSLIMa: Allah and His Angels send blessing on the Prophet: o ye that believe send ye blessings on him, and salute him with all respect.(Qur’an [33/56] )

For the ones who say that there is no one between the humanbeing and God :
Did Angel Gabriel not get between the Prophet (sas) and Allah when the revelation was being made?

RASUL is the batini face of Muhammad (sas) looking at God. Muhammad (a.s) as an Abd(Servant ) and Bashar(Humanbeing), he can live and die on this earth like anyone else. But His light and as a Rasulullah , He is alive with ALLAH and in his duty. He is the first manifestation point for divine manifestations(Tajalliyat).  Even the angels are created from this point. We are not saying this to praise him, we are pointing to a fact. He has a face of Rasuliyyat( Head of all Rasuls), Ummiyyat(Mother as a first manifestation point for the whole creation and bringer of the news from the Unseen ‘Ghayb’), Bashariyyat(humanness), Nabiyyat(prophethood). This is a part of the divine system operating and it is called Sunnatullah.

Shaikh M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen explains this matter within his book Asma’ul Husna between (136-146) which can be read in the following link:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6HP-C04hTdUC&pg=PA242&dq=bawa+muhaiyaddeen&hl=en&ei=g1tITJufPJG7jAfFjfDHDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CF0Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=ali&f=false

These names mentioned for Rasulullah (sas) in page 136 and 137 are not mentioned to adorn the book but have deep meanings. These feautures of Rasulullah SAS were explained by Auliyaullah (Friends of God) over centuries by various special SALAWATs. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (rh.a) has done this from time to time in his books with various explanations as well.Because He knew who Rasulullah (sas) is.

As Allah created the divine light(Noor) of “Mim” as a first point of manifestation, He was before Adam(a.s). Whole creation created from that manifestation point. That is why Allah j.j calls Rasulullah SAS as a Rahmatan lil Alamiyn(Blessing, Rahmat , Grace to the worlds). In a hadith this is explained by Rasulullah (sas) him self as below:

Nur-u-Mim: : Truth of Muhammad (SAW). Noor-u-Mim. Light of Muhammad (SAW). First light created from the Divine Light of Allah(Noorullah). ALLAH creates everything from that light as It is the first manifestation point for the DIVINE LIGHT of ALLAH.That Light upon Light praises ALLAH before and during the creation of heaven and the heavenly and earth and the earthly. The inhabitants of the heavens named that light Ahmad. As his praise of ALLAH is greater than the praise of all that is created, he is called Ahmad al-hamidin- the greatest of givers of praise. The following hadith narrated from Jabir bin Abdullah(r.a) points to Nur-u-Mim(Light of Mim).
Narrated from Jabir bin Abdullah (radiyallahu anhu): “O Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)! May my mother and father be your ransom, shall you tell me of the first thing ALLAH created before all things?” I said.

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “ O Jabir! Before the material(ashya), from HIS light(Noorullah), He created the Light of your Prophet(NooruNabi).”

And He said that :

“ That light (Noor) used to circulate and get around in the places ALLAH wished by His Power(qudrat). There was not ,at that time, a tablet(Lawh), or a pen(qalam), or a paradise(jannah) , or a hell, or an angel, or a heaven , or a sun, or a moon, or a jinn or a human(ins).”

After that He said : “When ALLAH Taa’la wished to create the creation, HE divided that light(noor) in to four parts:

He created the pen from the first part. He created the tablet(Lawh) from the second part. He created throne(Arsh) from the third part. He split up the fourth part and made it four parts: He created the heavens from the first one. He created the earth from the second one. He created the paradise and hell from the third one. He split up(taqsim)the fourth part and divided in to four parts again : He created the light of the eyes of the believers(mumeens) from the first one. From the second one, He created the light of their hearts and that means ‘to know ALLAH’. From the third one, He created the light of their tounges and that is ‘Kalimah-i-Tawheed(La ilaha illa ALLAH: There is no GOD but ALLAH)’….”
(Imam Ahmad, Musnad IV-127; Hakim, Mustadrak II-600/4175; Ibni Hibban, Al Ihsan XIV-312/64

ZAWK 1254

The Noor( Divine Light) of the Nar(the Hell fire) of Nimrod is the rose garden of Abraham

Under every food is the fire, the bliss is the tears you see

My exalted Lord(RABB) has given the eight heavens(jannah) for the seven hells(jahannam)

A pharoh for every Moses. There it is the play of the Unity(Tawheed).

Kulihvani

31.12.95 21:33

SHARIAT-TARIKAT-MARIFAT-HAKIKAT

(Excerpted and translated to English from Kulihvani Divani - Insan)

One day, While my soul was in a state(hâl) of being naked and helpless;
I said to our Master Prophet Muhammad Mustapha (sas):

“What I am saying is true, my shaikh beats your shaikh!…” they say..
They are saying so many things to people and making them do things…
With their states , people are like the waters flowing to the sea of death…
They have minds(‘aql) as well and they believe in the hereafter (akhira) too…
They’ve got confused. They don’t know what to do!…
The representatives of the Worthy Friends and Tariqat Pirs today are not clear whether they are auliyahs(friends of Allah) or ashkiyas(bandits).
They have occupied those paths…
They are putting the crown of Ghaus-ul-Azam to their unborn grandchildren and they are granting throne to them!…
While tasawwuf is suffering in agony in the claws of personal and nafsanic desires,
Your real unspoilt Muhammadi Lovers have worn the dress of public, mixed with the public and they have hidden themselves amongst them…
This place has remained to the unmerciful and muhabbatless ones.
Qadar Qadarullah, time of akhir!…”

 I whimpered by saying so many words like that.
As a result, what was written on the notebook of my heart: 

4- Haqiqat-i Muhammadiyya: Spiritual states(Hâl and akhwal) of Rasulullah (sas). They don’t fit within the words but are known when experienced e.g.”Kabe Kawsayn”.

The person understanding that he is a Muhammadi will need to hear the word, action, ahlaq(morale) and hâl(spiritual state) of Rasulullah (sas) and conform to them.
This is the essence of the test of servanthood.

To WAKE them up – To SOBER them up, and To give NEWS!
are the single, unique and perfect occupation of Muhammad (sas).
In fact, all Nabis and Rasuls were ordered to do TANZIR(warning and admonishing).

Quadruple system of TABLIĞ, TANZIR, TABSHEER, TASHEED…

TABLIĞ( Tebliğ ): To transport, transmit, communicate and convey. “Belağ” means the beautiful expression fitting for the purpose. Being appropriate, right, just, and true for the people who are addressed to. A right word said in the right place for the appropriate spiritual state.

TANZIR(inzâr):to frighten , intimidate, warn, awaken and admonish by informing that the end will be bad…

TABSHEER(Tebşir): To give news(good or bad) to the ones who pay heed to the Divine Laws. To give the news of JaNNat to those who obey and act accordinly, and to give the news of JahaNNam to those who disobey.

TASHEED(Teşhid): Being witness to those both who obey and conform , and to those who disobey and become defiant.

b-) Tabsheer (by being shâhid-shâhida in 3 references):
Al-Baqara 2/143; An-Nahl 16/89; Al-Muzammil 73/15.

c-) Tanzir-Tabsheer (referenced as “bashiran-naziran” in 8 places in the Qur’an): Al-Baqara 2/119; Al-A’râf 7/188; Al-Maida 5/19; Al-Hûd 11/12; Al-İsrâ 17/105; Al-Maryam 9/57; Al-Furqân 25/56; Al-Fâtır 35/24

d-) Tanzir-Tebsheer-Shahid (in two places): Al-Ahzâb 33/45; Al-Fatih 48/8

e-) Bashiran-Naziran-Daiyan (1 place): Al-Saba’ 34/28

f-) Daiyan (the Caller) (1 place): Al-Qasas 28/87

g-) The inviter( in 2 places): Al- Ahzâb 33/46; Al-Shurâ 42/15

h-) Hidayat Guide (referred as being “hâd” in 1 place): Al-Ra’d 13/7

i-) Tabliğ: Âl-i Imrân 3/20 and in many verses in the Qur’an.

2-Tanzir ayats related to Nabîs (a.s): (20 references in Total)

Al-Bakara 2/213; Al-Nisâ 4/165; Al-An’âm 6/48,130; Al-Yûnus 10/2; al-Kahf 18/56; Al-Sajda 17/3; Al-Nahl 16/2; Al-Shuarâ 26/208; Al-Kasas 28/46; Al-Saba’ 34/34; Al-Fâtır 35/24,37,42; Al-Sâffat 37/72,177; Al-Zumar 39/71; Al-Dhuhruf 43/23; Al-Ahkaf 46/21; Al-Mulk 67/8,9

3-Tanzir related to Nûh (a.s): (5 references in Total)
Al-Zariyat 51/50,51; Al-Nûh 71/1,2; Al-Shuarâ 26/115

4-Tanzir related to Hûd (a.s) :

Translated by GaribAN on 05.07.2010

NUBUWWAT AND WILAYAT

(This sohbat was written down and translated from the voice recordings of Dr.Munir Derman(k.s). From time to time people around him ask questions and he gives answers to them. Tape Record Ref:MD02)

This time when I was visiting Ankara(capital city of Turkey), I have seen those who do not know their own existence justly in Ankara.
They attempt to make irshad by pretending to be a Meshayih(shaikhs, pirs etc.) and gathering disciples around themselves, eventhough they have not pressed the foot in the maqam of Irshad.

They have disciples(murids).
They introduce themselves to the people of the world as Wali by calling each other My Sultan! Or ‘Efendi Hadhrat’!
They say : “We are the people(Ahl) of Marifat!”

We have run in to the invitors selling the words of Auliyah and tasawwufi sentences.

Write “Sin”, “Lâm”. Write “Tın”. Write “Aliph”. Write “Nun”!
Read this. It is SULTAN, isn’t it?
Counterpart of this “Sîn” is “Yâ Sîn”.
It is “Yâ Sîn”.
After that “Lâm” is coming. Aliph Lâm.
Tı, Tâ-Hâ and Ta, Mim, Sin..
Also Nun, Surah Nur , did you understand ?
They give the meaning of “Sultan”.
Sultan in Arabic is “Burhan” in the language of Qur’an.
This means “evidence”.
They introduce themselves to the people of the world as wali by calling each other My Sultan! Or Efendi Hadrat!
They say “we are Ehl-i Marifat(People of wisdom)”.
We run in to the invitors selling the words of Auliyah and tasawwufi sentences.
Marifat is a knowledge(ilm).

This knowledge is used for removing the veil between himself and his Rabb(lord). The owner of Marifat sees the attribute(sifat) of everything.
He can not see its Truth(Haqiqat).
Unity(tawheed) of these attributes is Marifat.
You wouldn’t have been a Walî by knowing this Unity(Tawheed).
You can not see the Truth(Haqiqat).
If everyone seeing the zâhir of the material (ashya) was a Walî, nobody would deserve the punishment(azab).
Even the possessor of Marifat is not the possessor of good(Hayr).
Even though you would see the man flying!..

Even the Sevens, Fourties, ThreeHundred are not the owner of Wilayat.
They are not the owner of Wilayat.
If these murshids had pressed the foot in the post of Wilayat(Maqam-i Wilayat), they would not claim to be doing irshad, and would not be far away from the level of TRUTH(HAQQ) by regarding themselves saintly/glorious(Aziz) in the public.
They introduce themselves as Walî.
As soon as Rasulullah(sas) passed away to “Akhirat”, Nubuwwat has been permutated(Tebeddul) to Wilayat.
Huqm-u Nubuwwat has been complete.
Period of Wilayat has emerged.
Spiritual Power (RUHÎ QUDRAT) of Our Master Rasulullah(sas) has been manifest within the Auliyah.
Auliyah are such people that they are hidden to whole world and everything.

They possess every knowledge.
As the people of the world do not know in whose hand the tasarruf is, auliyah is not known in his time.
No matter how much his outer(zâhiri) existence is not hidden, his true SECRET(SIRR) is hidden.
As today is the period of Wilayat, Maqam-i Qudrat belongs to Auliyah. What was wiped on Auliyah, is the nubuwwat of Rasulullah (sas).

When a wali had 3 thousand kilos of load 300 years ago, this load is 30 thousand kilos today.
Because when it gets closer to hereafter(akhirat) and doomday(kiyamat), the works which ALLAH does not like will increase so much. The walees took this load on their shoulder so that Janâb-i ALLAH will not give ghadab to people and Ruhaniyyat-i Rasulullah will not be saddened.
If you made 10 year effort to make a Walî angry in earlier time , we will have to wait 300 years today.

Allah is manifesting(making tajalli) to that degree with His Asma, As-Sabûr(The Patient One) today.
People of Lût(Job) used to fill two streets,
They were 1500 people.
Qawm of Nûh(Noah) included 2000 people.
Musa’s were 1200 people.
Janab-i Allah reduced(flattened) them to the level of earth in a split second.
The mankind (bashariyyat) is doing What the people of Lot were doing in 30 years, in half an hour today.
These men!..

Because it is Rahmatanlilalamin(Mercy to the worlds).
Rahmat means that
Each centimetre square of this quadrate area is under the effect of 1033 gram air mass. When we held a ……(missing word due to unclear tape record), it swells. Lift the air up then it is held on the scale(Mizan).
Rahmat is like that too.
As long as our master Rasulullah (sas)’s sacred body(Jasad-i Mubarak) is within the earth(ardh), His RAHMAT will still continue.
Close to the after life(akhirat), Close to the dooms day(kiyamat). This is a hadith.
Dooms day(Kiyamat) will happen in Mecca last.
5 minutes after it will happen in Madina.
Jebrail(Gabriel), Mikail(Michael), Israfil(Raphael) and Azrail(Angel of Death) will descend.
They will descend down and break off the sacred body of Rasulullah(sas) (They will take it).
So that He will not see its magnitude.
So that He will not be afraid of it.
That is why, the above is like this so that Rasulullah will not be saddened.

(A lady is asking : )
Efendim(My master), but, could there be another world after the life in this world? Could there be another Âlam?

There are ones walking hiddenly amongst the public.
No one can know them but the TRUTH(HAQQ).
The attributes (Sifat) of the Material(Ashya) can not be a veil to them. There is no secret/hidden thing to them.
If they wish , they reach from east to west(shark to gharb).
They are called ‘AHLULLAH’.
The wise men(Âlim) of my people(ummah) are like the prophets of the Bani Israel (Children of Israel). This is a noble hadith.
Who are ment by the wise men here are Auliyahs.
There is no possibility for any one other than Auliyah to reach to “Maqam-i Nubuwwat”.
Wilayat and Nubuwwat are both a Divine Light(Noor).
When that Divine Light(Noor) emerges and arises from the the existence of a wali, this is called WILAYAT.
If it emerges from the existence of a Nabi(Prophet), it is called Nubuwwat(Prophethood).

It is must(fardh) for a Prophet(Nabi) to explain that Noor.
It is forbidden for an Auliyah to (disclose this Noor).
Because, otherwise He will have claimed the prophethood(Nubuwwat).
That is why it is forbidden.
(Otherwise) He will become a ‘Kafeer:Infidel’ immediately.

Every spiritual state(hâl) has the Essence and Word which are peculiar to its self.
His(a Waliullah’s) speech perhaps can not be understood instantly.
But you can feel a majestic grandeur(HeyBet) within his speech.
Every Wali’s speech(kelâm) is different.
Everyone of them speaks in accordance with his own spiritual station(Maqam).
They do ‘irshad’,
They are wrapped up with knowledge(ilm).
They do forgive.
They cover the blemishes and disgrace of the people.
They show patience(sabr) to the afflictions.
They become pleased with the situations coming from ALLAH but manifesting through His slaves in Zahir(when an affliction comes from the hand of a slave of Allah, he will consider this coming from Allah and be pleased with it without any complaint).
If these(friends of ALLAH:Waliullah) were apparent, and
If they had considered the people to be the one causing infliction, they would have gone in to controversy and fight about themselves( this would go in to a battle with public then this would not be appropriate for wilayat).
Their disguise is a mercy to the people from the Haqq.
A wali being apparent to public will only become apparent with his knowledge(ilm) in Outer(Zahir).
They don’t show the secret of wilayat to anyone.
There are a lot of veils hiding every wali.
The veils are various.
Everyone can not understand the Wali.
Many would not believe and remain as objector.
This is also a secret.
If everbody within the public had accepted his grandeur, he would not have been able to find a reward(ajir) coming from his patient(sabr) state against those who attribute a lie to him.
If everyone had attributed a lie to him, in this case he would not have been able to give thanks(making shukr) to the Haqq.
That is why , faith (iman) has two kinds.
One of them is SABR(Patience).
The other one is SHUKR( Being Thankfull to Allah. Acknowledging the beneficence of Allah).

There is a word called TASAWWUF constantly on the lips of today’s scholars and mursheeds.
Tasawwuf used to have an essence and truth.
But it used not to have a name circulating within the mouth.
Today, it only has a name.
Its essence has not remained and its truth has perished.
His Tasawwufi writings and books are the spiritual state of that Wali living that state.
If someone’s inner is worthier than his outer, his name is called ‘WALI”. That’s it!..
If his inner and outer is same, his name is called ‘ÂLIM’.
If his outer is wothier than his inner, he is called the class of ‘JAHIL:Ignorant’.

We always, we always told you many times, wrote and hinted. But you take your own course. You desire to know the bottom of every thing. Otherwise, the work finishes in a split second! (Dr.M.Derman is Speaking to a student around him)
………

Everything has an end.
That is why , keep away from the words of the salesman son!
The ones ,who do work in this physical plane, will also be in need of the words of Spiritual stations and the men within these stations.
We have fallen in to this situation today because our country has lost the meaning of that last sentence.
Believe in what you see ,and what you hear!
Find and know its’ ‘Hukm(influence, verdict, judgement)’ afterwards your self!

Eyes of the person eating the bread crumbs and rice grains fallen off after the dining table is removed, will open.

This sentence is the essence of the ten volume book.
If you become like this, the trees, wolves, stones and animals that are in the places you roam, will speak with you. There is no one remained to say these words anymore. There are no ones to take their places either.
The libraries has been closed for 40 years.
There are also no ones who will read the books.
Other writing, other language, other mentatility.
In fact you and me are not even able to write a letter to each other in earlier Turkish.
I write from the right and you start from the left.
“Muhterem Efendim!
Sayin, Bay good!” ( Dr.M.Derman shows here an example of how the earlier Turkish has been contaminated by other languages. )

40 or 50 year generation in our country, has established a language of ignorance by gathering made up words.
But from a point of view, this has been good.
The things which will be apparent have manifested perfectly.
Hadrat Akshamsaddeen’s father named Shaikh Hamza is a person who had ‘karamats’.
when Akshamsaddeen(1389-1450-A waliullah who was the teacher of Fatih Sultan Mehmed) was 7 year old, Shaikh Hamza came to Amasya by ALLAH’s order.
He is in the street of Kavak.
His grave is still there.
On the night Shaikh Hamza passed away and was put in his grave, a beast called the “wolf of Sirtan” opens his grave and wants to eat his body.
Shaikh takes his hand out.
He squeezes that beast’s throat and kills it.
Next morning , when the people come to visit his grave, they see the hand of Merhum( the one who reached to the grace of Allah) outside.
Everyone is in amazement.
At that moment, an Arif person whose heart eye is open, happens to be there as well.
That person mentioned says: the hand of the deceased must be washed as it held the wolf!
They wash it.
His hand is withdrawn inside indeed.
Since that day, they call this marhum “Wolf strangler Shaikh –Kurtbogan Seyh”.
Now he is remembered with this name in that land.
They would not know Shaikh Hamza.
What is it within this story?
Seek and find it!..

Now, here is today’s Ankara(capital city of Turkey).
Unfortunately, there are not even a single shadow amongst the mursheeds and religious scholars who could know the necessity of washing that hand.
Whomever you talk with, everyone is in the desire and heedlessness of showing their greatness and making the others accept themselves.
Nakshibandi Shaikhs, Khaliphs of Rifai, their disciples(mureeds), and those Binamaz people who were introduced to us as Murshid.
The Jaheels(ignorants) with long moustaches having no Ghusul(major ablution), considering themselves as Alawi.
I have seen those who hurt the Ahl-i Baith and saddening the spirit of Rasulullah (sas), while they are stating that they love the Ahl-i Baith. I have seen those double faced hypocrites looking religious and giving titles/post(maqam) to themselves.
We have seen people showing reverence to those(fake mursheeds, sheikhs and hypocrites) by expecting something from them, and being in kufr(disbelief) because of their inability to understand this and fallen in to shirk completely.
We have seen clean youngsters running after them by looking at their pompous speech.

When the spiritual heart crusts,
When disbelief(Kufr) and hypocrites increase in a land,
The outer , material, and volitional (iradî) balance of that land is also fallen off…
If any type of work is entrusted to those who are not qualified for it, a time period waiting for the dooms day keeps being expected.
There is no need to count the signs of the doomsday today!
Why are you asking?
There is no need to say ‘this happened or this will happen’ anymore. All people, they themselves one by one are a kind of sign of the doomsday.
Signs of that world have already dawned physically in the spirits now…

Some of Prof.Dr.Munir Derman(k.s)’s writings and his short biography in English language can be found in the following link:
http://www.muhammedinur.com/En/category/derman

6TH POEM FROM THE DIVAN OF NIYAZI MISRI (k.s)

Oh the one asking cure for his suffering
Is your suffering not enough as a cure for you
Oh the one asking for the comfort of his soul
The soul being the sacrifice for his beloved is the soul for you

If you ravage your existence
The distress in the heart will go
If you ruin the strangeness
The beloved will be the guest for you

Only capital on this path
Is the surrendering, believe in this
Lean on ALLAH by truthfulness ( sidq [1] )
See if He will not bestow perfection(ihsan) for you.

Surrender your essence to the Unity(Tawheed: Oneness)
And do not open your secret to anyone
Follow the trail of the (true)shaikh
Your shaikh is enough as an evidence(burhan) for you

A wandering person can not cover distance
He can not find his purpose quickly
Wait at the door of Maarifat [2]
The wisdom(irfan [3] ) will show its face for you

Leave the world and the hereafter
Leave the first and the last
Come, leave that dry passion
SUBHÂN [4] is enough as the desirable for you

Claim sincerely your beloved
Give your soul and find His face
Ruin your own existence
Who else is there as beloved for you

Your morbid(sides) will all become fit
Your poison will turn in to ghee and honey
The mountains will become fruitful orchard
The whole universe will become a garden for you

Difficult certainly the path of Truth(Haqq)
His temple(dergâh) is rather high as well
If you do not become his slave truthfully
He will not make this path easy for you

If you tie your self to the servanthood
If you keep crying in the mornings and daybreaks
If you cascade like the waters
The ocean(Ummân) will be found quickly for you.

Be a nightingale , toot and see
Blossom like a rose, fume and see
Throw your soul in the fire of love and see
The fire will become a rose garden for you

Oo Niyazi, make your face the earth
Tear your bossom by the suffering
Make your heart palace pure
In case the SULTAN will come for you

Niyazi Misri (k.s)

Translated by GaribAN –02.07.10
Original Turkish Version: http://www.muhammedinur.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2335

The origin for the word is sabh, voidness, or tasbeeh, making something void. So the direct literal meaning of the phrase is God is void… And there is a part that is unpronounced which is “void of all evil”. And this is the way that it is used in the Quran. For example it says; “SubhanAllahi ammaa yasifoon 37:159 - Void/Free is Allah from that (evil) which they ascribe (to Him)” and “SubhanAllah ammaa yushrikoon” 52:43 - Free is God from what they associate with him”

It is also often cited during the Islamic prayer (salat). During the sermon (khutba) in the mosques.

The statement of “Subhan’allah” testifies one’s removing any anthropomorphic elements or associations with God, as al-Razi says in his Mukhtar al-Sihah, (تنزيه tanziyh).

However, for us the term “SuBHaN” has deeper meanings than what al-Razi says. It’s root includes s-b-h which refers to the verb “swimming”. Everything in this Universe is rotating or swimming and they all make “subbuh”. Nothing can lean on each other in this universe, every particle and everything have to be swimming. Allah j.j is the One who has beatiful names called Asma u’l Husna in Arabic. The meanings of these names manifest and appear as ashya(material ) to the perception of human being. So What we look and see as material swimming within the Universe is in fact the meanings of the Divine Attributes of ALLAH j.j perceived by us in the screen of our minds.

A Short Biography of Niyazi Misri (k.s):

In the mid-1600, Niyazi Misri became the spiritual leader of the Istanbul Tekke (or lodge) of the Helveti Sufis, and established another tekke in Bursa.

He was exiled from the region several times, accused of unorthodox practices and for his outspoken criticism of political corruption. With each exile, however, it seems he became even more popular with the general population, who pressured government officials for his return.

ADAM - SALAH

….Nabi(1642-1712) [1] was one of those who claimed that there is a serious link between being ‘Adam’ and prayer(salah). In his famous nasihadname [2] called ‘Hayriyye’which he had written for his son Hayrullah, He allocated a separate section for the prayer(salah) in his book and said that:

Sen namaza idesin çünki kıyâm
Elf olursun eyâ mâh-ı temâm 

Oh the son who is like a bright moon! If you stand to prayer in the position of “kiyam(standing up position during the salah)”, you will look like letter ‘Aliph(ا)’. 

When you reach to Ruku(bending downward position), letter “Dal” will appear. Know that What I said are the secret of prophets(Sirri-Nabees).

Understand what I said, because you have the inherent ability to posses this secret: Could you call anybody leaving the prayer(salah) , “Adam” ?

Let us bring the explanation to these lines :

In Ottoman Alphabet , the term “Adam(insan)” includes three letters, “Aliph, Dal and Mim” respectively.

Dal(د) , is a line with a 90 degree angle in the middle of it, and this is similar to the position of the person in ‘Ruku’ during the prayer.

Mim(مـ) starts with a circular ring then this looks like someone in prostration during the prayer.

Translated by Barbaros Sert
28.06.10 www.muhammedinur.com/En  

GLOSSARY

[1] Nabi: Yusef Nabi (1642 – 10 April 1712) was a Turkish Divan poet in the court of Mehmet IV. He was famous for “his brilliant lyrics filled with popular sayings and critiques of the age and verses commenorating innumerable important occasions.”

[2] Nasihadname: A written work which gives admonition, advise and counsel to the readers related to religious issues.