What is the Honor Of Man?

Where do you get honor? How do you get it? Because somebody is going to put a medal on you saying that you have a badge of honor or they give you a diploma, or because you wear nice clothes, or nice face? Then do they say you have honor? Is it because you have connections, they say this is honor? Where do you get honor from? You get honor from the people who have honor. So many people have Islam, they don’t have honor. It is simple. How do we learn what is honor in Islam, in Tarikat? From where? From books, from our own understanding? We learn from our Sheykh. Those who have honor, they will give you that honor. They will teach you what is that honor. And, what is Sheykh Efendi teachings us? How to get that honor. What is our honor contained in? It is to become a Servant.

We can be a Servant by being heedless, by becoming headless, by doing things for show? A little bit and you get upset? These days people get very upset. Of course it happens. During Sheykh Efendi’s time they used to get upset with their Sheykhs. They get very upset with their Sheykhs. They refuse to talk to their Sheykhs. It happened. It happened in Sheykh Efendi’s time, definitely it’s going to happen in my time. (It is) because they Murids, they are spoiled.

So, what does it mean to be a Servant? What it means to be a Servant, that little bit that is happening to you, suddenly you are, “Growwwwl!” You are jumping out. Sometimes with some people, there is nothing there and they get very hurt. They get very upset. There’s nothing there. We think we are Servants? What is our proof that we are Servants? What have we done? The Sheykh is saying something and they say, ‘No.’ Sheykh is saying this, they say, 'No.’ You cannot even learn how to serve an Evliya'Allah, our Sheykh, don’t think you’re serving me. I don’t need anything. I’m not a Sheykh anyway. It doesn’t matter what people call me. But, look to our Sheykh, look to our Grandsheykh. What kind of Servant are we going to be? We cannot even serve those ones who in reality they are serving us. They’re pulling us from the hell hole that we were in and putting us in a paradise, but we’re still bringing dirtiness to the paradise. Dirtiness is not coming from outside. It’ coming from inside.

The stubbornness is a big characteristic of sheytan. So many Murids are very stubborn! You know you are wrong but still very stubborn. Allah loves us to say, 'Astaghfirullah al Azim wa Atubu Ilaih,’ to say, 'Astaghfirullah.’ With the Astaghfirullah, you can increase your Rizq. Do you know that? With the Astaghfirullah that you say, you can increase your progeny, your children, just by saying, 'Astaghfirullah al Azim wa Atubu Ilaih’ sincerely, not just by pulling the Tesbih, but sincerely, knowing that you did something wrong. Of course these days we are screaming at people, 'you are doing something wrong!'

They say, 'No, no, no, no.’

'Okay, I’m wrong but, but, etc..’

It is never finishing; continuing. Do you think that is real Astaghfirullah? The way that we are going to do to our Sheykh is the way we are going to do to Allah (SWT) in the Judgment Day.

'No, no, it’s not me, it is because this one did something to me. This one told me what to do.’

There are signs of a person who is saying Astaghfirullah, by the look, by the actions, by the words.

So, to become a Servant, it is a very high honor. Yes, but we are all here trying to learn how to be one. Once in a while we are saying very harsh words like this. It is just to wake people up. Are you waking up? You should wake up. Otherwise, the honor come because we are Bani-Adam. Have we reached to that station of Bani-Adam? Have we reached to that station that Allah (SWT) is saying, 'Wa laqad Karamna Bani Adam, to us? Is Bani Adam just saying I am this and I am that, I am Murid, I’m Naksibendi, I’m Sufi? Those are just titles and those are just claims. This much is enough.

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