In

Our Ṭarīqah Everything Is in the

Heart
Shaykh Mehmet Adil Al-Haqqani, Sohbet of the 4th of August, 2018.

As-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa raḥmatu Llāhi wa barakātuh. A‘ūdhu biLlāhi mina sh-shayṭāni r-

rajīm. Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Aṣ-ṣalātu wa s-Salāmu ‘alá Rasūlinā Muḥammadin
Sayyidi l-awwalīn wa l-ākhirīn. Madad yā Rasūla Llāh, madad yā Sādāti Aṣḥābi Rasūli Llāh,
madad yā Mashāyikhinā, dastūr Mawlānā Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistānī,
Shaykh Muḥammad Nāẓim al-Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā ṣ-ṣuḥbah wa l-khayru fi l-
jam‘iyyah.

Our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, and our Mashāyikh spread blessings and virtue with the
permission of Allāh ‫ﷻ‬. Who walks on their way gets benefit. Walking on that way is to leave
this dunyā and to follow our Prophet ‫ﷺ‬. What we mean by leaving this dunyā is not to keep
it in your heart. You are in dunyā, you must deal with dunyā. Laziness is not good. To get
livlihood is an important order of Allāh ‫ﷻ‬. He ‫ ﷻ‬says you should get ḥalāl provision. Don't
be lazy. Laziness is from shayṭān. Shayṭān teaches laziness. And also keep your prayers, pay
attention to your worship. These are the orders of our ṭarīqah.

Attend ṣuḥbah and dhikr. When they go to ṣuḥbah or dhikr, sometimes people get into some
state. When such a state occurs, they show it outwardly by screaming and shouting. This is
disliked in our ṭarīqah. Mashāyikh don't like it. There are 41 ṭuruq. Some of them accept this
as good but the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah says that state is like showing off to people. Afterwards
they cannot control it also. When they can't, there start to be problems in their normal life.
Therefore, Mashāyikh don't like it. Mawlānā was saying that he was in one ṣuḥbah of Shaykh
‘Abdu Llāh ad-Dāghistānī. He said, "He gave ṣuḥbah from such high level that I said 'Allāh'
‫ ﷻ‬involuntarily. He didn't want even that. He said, 'You shouldn't have done it. Be careful,'
said Grandshaykh."

So our Naqshbandī ṭarīqah is for the heart. Everything is in the heart. Even our dhikr is made
in the heart. Silent dhikr is the dhikr of the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. We should make it in our
hearts. However, we imitate other ṭuruq by making loud dhikr, in our dhikr and ḥaḍrah.
Most of our people criticize even that. We do it not as Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, but imitating the
methods of other ṭuruq so that we have the barakah from them as well. Otherwise, the
Naqshbandī ṭarīqah makes dhikr khafī, silent dhikr. Everything should be silent. It should be
between the heart and Allāh ‫ﷻ‬.

And as we said, we shouldn't put dunyā in our hearts. Dunyā should remain outside. Its
border is outside the heart. We should never let it in our hearts. Some people think when they
join this ṭarīqah, they think they get better by being in that state. No. Better not do it. Because

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as we said, it is something Mashāyikh don't like. You should keep it to yourself and keep it in
your heart, in shā'a Llāh. Let there be strength in your heart.

Our ṭarīqah, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are in Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. It is different from other forty
ṭarīqah because our ṭarīqah making mentioning Allāh ‫ ﷻ‬whole time in heart and our ṭarīqah
to make prevent people from material world. How? We not doing anything, not working? No.
You must work. To be lazy not good. It is order Allāh ‫ ﷻ‬to look after your provision with
ḥalāl and bring thing for your family. Don't be lazy. But when you do this, don't put this
material world in your heart. Its limit under, after, outside heart. Heart only for Allāh ‘Azza
wa Jalla, no need for other thing.

And many times other ṭarīqah also they have, when something happening, they said become
doing some movement or shouting or something doing. When they are becoming, come some
spiritual thing, they are shouting. They are shouting or someone throwing himself, shaking
himself. This is in our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, it is not good. Ṭarīqah, all our ṭarīqah it
is in heart. Everything you must put it in your heart, don't appear it outside. Because even
when we doing dhikr, our dhikr in heart. When make dhikr, we imitate other forty ṭarīqah. It
is allowed for them to do this. Making ḥaḍrah also not from Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. All this to
imitate other ṭarīqah for barakah from other mashāyikh. Because all ṭarīqah they are right
but our ṭarīqah, each ṭarīqah they have a special rule, special teaching.

So our ṭarīqah it is heart the most important thing, to be in your heart everything – your
happiness, your sadness, your everything. It must be in your heart, not appear. Other ṭarīqah
they can do this. For our ṭarīqah to make shouting, to do this, it is not looking good for this
Mashāyikh. Even once Mawlānā, he was saying, Mawlānā Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh al-Fā’iz ad-
Dāghistānī he was making ṣuḥbah and Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim he was there. And he was
very high ṣuḥbah and without knowing, he said only "Allāh" ‫ﷻ‬. Grandshaykh said, "Don't
say this also. Keep it in your heart." No, not even this word. Now many people they are
shouting they are shaking themself because this from – not good for our ṭarīqah. And to after
this, slowly, slowly this people they cannot control themself and people around they will be
disturbed from them. For disturbing people – not important. For disturbing Mashāyikh – is
important.

We must be careful not to follow our ego even for good thing. It is order to not do this from
Mashāyikh. We will not do this even it is permitted from other ṭarīqah. Our Mashāyikh they
are not allowing anything, not... What they are saying, we must follow. Not to say, "We can
do this by ourself." We see Mashāyikh doing dhikr with imitate other ṭarīqah, we follow. If
they are not saying, we not follow. Because our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah way, it is same
everywhere from beginning until end. So no any... Many people they criticise, "You are not
doing what ṭarīqah saying." No. We are knowing and we are knowing what we do – following
our Mashāyikh. And there is, we separate between Naqshbandī ṭarīqah and other ṭarīqah
also. Allāh ‫ ﷻ‬make our heart all time with Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, in shā’a Llāh.

Wa min Allāhi t-tawfīq, al-Fātiḥah.

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