Whoever acts without thinking never reaches this
real life. Everyone must try to reach real life in this life.
It is an important responsibility. We promised to our
Lord on the day of spirits that we would try. This is
our aim in all actions and all worshippings. Allah is not
needing worship. He ordered it to help us. Who reaches
this real life has completed his responsibility. We must
think for every action, it is a way to reach real life.
What is the highest teaching of the Naqshbandi Tariqat?
It is to teach everyone how he can carry disliked
things, how to face difficulties. We cannot face them
without thinking; thinking that it is the will of our
Lord. We are weak and cannot endure difficulties by
our own power, but that thinking and surrendering allows
His will to carry us. With His Will, we are powerful
to face all difficulties. This point is reached only by
thinking about everything.
The plane of thinking is as wide as you can imagine.
Thinking is the key to reality. Everything we have now,
is the fruit of thinking. Of all religions, the one giving the
most value to thinking is Islam. This is by the hadith:
«One hour of thinking is worth 70 years of worship.»
The perfection of man is hidden in his words. This hadith
is enough for thinking people to know that the one
who said it is perfect, of high personality. Our Prophet’s
words are worth writing in gold letters everywhere.
Our Grandsheikh is asking: who can understand?
Everyone? In an assembly of 1000 people, how many
are understanding the speaker? Who is listening is understanding.
You may say: «Oh we are listening». Man
has two kinds of ears, on the head and on the heart. One
only listening with his head, is not listening, Understanding
is in the heart. If your heart is in action, you
can listen.
-Mercy Oceans
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In some ways it is recommended to control anger for a period of time, allowing for some instances of anger during this period of testing. In the Naksibendi way, this is different.
After telling us certain means to control anger, Shaykh Maulana tells us in Sohbet:
“A certain amount of anger is part and parcel of every personality. Without some of that fire in our constitution we would die; therefore, it is possible for us to digest a certain amount of anger without suffering adverse side-effects. Of course, if we were to remain unchanged over a long period of time and swallow the same amount of anger, we would overdose; but that is not the case, for in time our intake of anger decreases as we learn, and are granted the ability not to react angrily to provocation in the first place. So, just as a baby initially drinks great quantities of milk, then graduates to solid food, decreasing its milk consumption drastically, we can swallow and digest anger, in the full knowledge that other forms of nourishment are soon forthcoming.”
“If you can manage to refrain from showing anger for forty days, you will have passed a great milestone. When it assails you, you must evade it, and when it is going to issue from you, you must swallow it. If you can successfully avoid it for forty days, anger will begin to assault you less frequently: once every forty days. If you can manage to keep yourself in this manner the initial forty days, and thereafter, in the face of forty more assaults (forty periods of forty days, a little more than four years), Satan will announce to his helpers: “Don’t bother attacking that person; you are just wasting your time and energy. His defenses are impenetrable: one thousand attacks are just as futile as one. Leave him alone, he has escaped from our hands”. Satan’s helpers are the selfish ego, vain desires and worldliness: these are our four great enemies, and whoso learns to control his anger will be victorious against these base influences.”
One of the masters of the Naksibendi Path, Shaykh Abdulhalik Gucdevani (ks) was learning the commentary of the Holy Quran from his hoja Shaykh Sadreddin and they came to this Ayat:
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
(O mankind) Call upon the Lord humbly and in secret. Lo! He loveth not aggressors (Surah Araf 7/55)
After Shaykh Sadrreddin finished the commentary on this ayat Abdulhalik Gucdevani asked him:
“Sir, how are the hidden prayers and dhikr performed that are described in this ayat? If the person performs and recites the prayer and dhikr openly, people can hear and see it. This situation has the danger of showing off. If he performs it from his inside then the devil notices because in the hadith-e-sherif it is said, “The devil circulates inside the human, like the blood circulates in the veins” (Bukhari). How is it possible to perform the dhikr of Exalted Allah without people and the devil taking notice?”
His teacher is filled with admiration for the question he asked.
“Oh my son! This is Ladune, a divine ilm (knowledge). If Allah wills, he will join you to one of the friends of thou and teach you the hidden dhikr. ”
Abdulhalik Gujdevani (ks) started to wait for this friend, in the end, Allahu Tala joined him firstly with Hz Khidr (as) and later with the great Arif Yusuf Hemadani (ks) who trained him spiritually in the end and graduated him, with permission for Irshad (guiding).
The famous Hoja Ahmed Yesevi (ks) is also calph of Yusuf Hemadani (ks) and also friend of Abdulhalik Gucdevani (ks) on this path. The training of these two great saints both originated from Yusuf Hemadani (ks). In history and until the present day most of the Turkish people join the spiritual training and fayd which comes from these two branches
– Edited and excerpted from Manners of Sufi Way
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