Kûnû Rabbaniyîn, „Be Those Who Establish Lordly Worship“

Sultan al-Awliya
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani
20 October 2010 Lefke, Cyprus

(Text from “sufilive.com”, edited by E. Ahmad)

Dastûr yâ Sayyidî, madad. Lâ ilâha illâ-Llâh, lâ ilâha illâ-Llâh, lâ ilâha illâ-Llâh, Muhammad Rasûlullâh ‘alayhi salâtullâh, wa salâmuh, mina l-azal ilâ l-abad. Madad yâ rijâl Allâh. Thumma as-salâtu wa s-salâm, ‘alâ jamî‘i l-anbiyâ’ wa l-mursalîn, salawâtullâh wa salâmu ‘alayhim ajmâ‘în.
Yâ Rabbî. Thumma as-salâmu ‘alayk, yâ Sâhibu z-Zamân, wa s-salâmu ‘alaykum yâ rijâl Allâh mutasarifûn fî hadha l-‘alami d-dunyâ, jazakumullâhu anâ, khayra l-jazâ ….
Allâh Allâh, ‘Azîz Allâh, Karîm Allâh!

And we are saying, A‘ûdhu billâhi mina sh-shaytâni r-rajîm. Bismillâhi r-Rahmâni r-Rahîm. Allâhuma qawwi da‘fana fî ridâk. Anta l-Rabb wa nahnu l-‘abîd, anta l-Rabb wa anâ l-‘abd, anta l-ma‘bûd wa anâ l-‘abid.

You are the Lord and I am a servant, You are worthy of worship and I am a worshipper!

Allâh Allâh, Allâh Allâh, Allâh Allâh, ‘Azîz Allâh!
Huuu, Huuu, Huuu, Huuu, Huuu, Huuu,
Hayy, Hayy, Hayy, Hayy, Hayy, Huuu.

O our Attenders! As-salâmu ‘alaykum! Kûnû! Try to be always thankful to the Lord of the Heavens! Allâhu Akbar, Allâhu Akbar! Lâ ilâha illâ-Llâh!
O People! From east to west, from north to south, try to be thankful servants of your Creator, who has created us and granted us endless favours here and Hereafter. And Almighty Allah is asking to be honoured. He, Almighty, gives His Dominions unlimited honour and He likes His servants to honour their Creator. They are unable to give anything, but He likes a servant to say, shukr Yâ Rabbî, „Thanks, O my Lord!“ That is an honour from weak servants to the Lord of the Heavens, and He likes it. If an ant says, subhân Allâh yâ Rabbî, „Glory to You, my Lord,“ He is happy and He likes it. The point which we must learn, know, and teach,is that every good word, good action, and good effort makes our Lord happy with us.
O People! All religions have been based on this principle from the beginning of Mankind. Starting with Adam, peace be upon him, who used to call Rabbunâ, Rabbunâ! Allah Almighty likes His servants to call on Him, Yâ Rabbanâ, „O our Lord, O our Creator!“

Wa in min shay’in illâ yusabbihu bi-hamdih.
And there is not a thing but celebrates His praise! [17:44]

Wa in min shay’in illâ yusabbihu bi-hamdih. Allah Almighty likes this; it is His Glorious Attribute. He likes to be glorified and He becomes happy with glorification. He is not asking for anything else from His Creation. And tasbîh is glorifying, yes? He created everything to glorify Him, Almighty, subhânahu wa ta‘-âlâ! So simple! From the beginning, the first messenger Sayyidina Adam, alayhi salâm, was crying and saying, „Yâ Rabbanâ, yâ Rabbanâ, yâ Rabbanâ! Subhânak yâ Rabbanâ, yâ Rabbanâ! O my Lord, O my Lord! Glory to You, my Lord“ He taught his children to say, „Yâ Rabbanâ, yâ Rabbanâ! O our Glorified Lord.“ These were the first words with which Adam, peace be upon him, called his Lord. And after him, Seth æ; after Seth, Idrîs æ; after Idrîs (a. s.) so many other prophets came in between, until reaching Nûh (a. s.), who also called out, „Yâ Rabbanâ!“ Nabiyy Hûd (a. s.), nabiyy ‘azami l-ûlâ, Lût (a. s.),Yûnus (a. s.), Ibrâhîm (a. s.), Ismâ‘îl (a. s.) and Ishâq (a. s.), all of them were calling out, „Yâ Rabbanâ!“ Moses (a. s.) was calling out, „Yâ Rabbanâ!“ Jesus (a. s.) was saying, „Yâ Rabbanâ!“ Sayyidinâ Muhammad (s) was calling and saying, „Yâ Rabbanâ, yâ Rabbî, yâ Allâh!“
And what was Allah Almighty, rabbu l-‘izzah, the Lord of Honour, saying to His servants? The Lord of the Heavens is not saying, „My servants.“ Allâhu Akbar, Allâhu Akbar!

O ‘ulamâ’, all ‘ulamâ’! Learned people, holy ones from Judaism and Christianity. All prophets, and the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidi l-Awwalîn wa l-Akhirîn, Sayyidinâ Muhammad (s), did not call and say to his ummah, „O my Lord’s servants!“

O Salafi ‘ulamâ’ and Azhar ‘ulamâ’! Hear and listen, holy people from Judaism and Christianity! No prophet said to Mankind, „O servants of my Lord!“ Servanthood is something, perhaps the first-line position for people. But He, the Lord of Heaven, is asking His servants, the Children of Adam, to arise in servanthood on this planet and to come up to His Divine Presence. Subhân Allâh, Subhân Allâh. That is what Allah Almighty likes for His deputies. He didn’t say, „I am going to create servants.“

Asta‘îdhu billâh:
Wa idh qâla rabbuka li-l-malâ’ikati innî jâ‘ilun fi-l-‘ar¡i khalîfah.
And when your Lord said to the angels, „Verily I am making in the Earth a deputy.” [al-Baqarah, 2:30]

Allah Almighty was not saying, innî jâ‘ilun fi l-‘ar¡i ‘ibâdî, „I am going to create servants.“ You must understand the honour which the title khalifah gives.

Wa laqad karamnâ banî âdam(a).
Verily, We have honored the Children of Adam. [an-Najm, 17:70]

He is granting them such an honour! Servanthood is not the same as takrîm, honour. Allâh, Allâh. Subhân Allâh. Heavenly Knowledge Oceans! And we are talking to Jewish learned people, „rabbis“, and to Christians holy ones, „saints“, and to Muslim „‘ulamâ’.“ None of these titles make the Lord of Heaven, our Creator, happy. This is a special declaration tonight, differing from others, in making the hearts of all nations satisfied. They are sending me some waves of inspiration, although I am nothing; they are sending these inspirations to the whole Islamic world. And now I am not speaking of Christianity or Judaism. They are speaking to give clarity to the Islamic world, to Muslims. Subhâna Llâhi l-‘Aliyyu l-‘A|îm! The Seal of Prophets (s) said:

Sataftariqu ummatî ‘alâ thalâtha wa saba‘în firqah.
My nation will divide into 73 sects.

Tonight we must change those 73 firqah, sects, and make them one, because every sect is claiming something about themselves, „We are this, we are that.“ And we are now leaving the people of the book ; leave them aside for this matter. They are making me speak about a famous point tonight, for the first time in the Islamic period. Subhân Allâh! Subhân Allâh! Subhân Allâh! Sultân Allâh! Sultân Allâh! Whoever can understand, may understand. If someone is not granted an understanding, then his level is the same as the level of animals. But what they want me to speak about is suitable for the whole Muslim world! No one can say, „No, you are wrong.“ No! Throughout the Islamic world, from its beginning up until tonight, a wrong understanding has existed among the servants of the Lord, Allah Almighty. Some of them were saying, „We are this,“ and some others were saying, „We are that.“ All of them tonight are going to be closed down. Yes!

Now, in the Hijri year 1431, and tonight is the 13th or 14th of Dhul-Qa‘dah, the whole Islamic world, all ‘ulamâ’ and every person may pay attention and understand something! They are making me speak about tasawwuf; they are now putting a line to stop tasawwuf. The Lord of the Heavens never ordered His most beloved deputy, Sayyidinâ Muhammad (s), „Say to your nation that you are Sufi people.“ You are not going to speak any more about tasawwuf and there will be no more mutasawwif, followers of Sufism, from now until the end of the world! Mutasawwif will never exist after this moment. The Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, never spoke about it, nor did the Holy Qur’ân.
We must come to a reality on which no one can make any arguments. Allah Almighty is not saying, „Kûnû mutasawwifîn, kûnû Naqsh-bandiyîn, kûnû Qâdirîn, kûnû Mawlawiyîn, kûnû Shadhiliyîn, kûnû forty tarîqahs.“ It is stopping tonight!

Also, the name „Salafî“ was never mentioned in the Prophet’s (s) speech or in the Holy Qur’ân. Neither „tasawwuf,“ nor „Salafî“, no! Allah Almighty never ordered, „O My servants! You must be Sufis!“ The Lord of the Heavens never said, „O My servants! You must follow Salafîs and you must be Salafiyûn.“ Allah Almighty never ordered His servants, „You must be Wahhabiyûn.“ Clear? He never told the Children of Israel to say, „We are the chosen ones,“ and to say, „We are following the twelve sects.“ No. You may be twelve sects, which means twelve tribes, but there is no honour in their names! There is no honour also in being „Wahhabî“, or „Salafî“, or „Sûfî“!
The whole Islamic world must accept tonight, that there is no more tasawwuf, because the Holy Qur’ân is showing us what we must say, what we must iqrar, admit, to ourselves. This and that does not exist, No! We must follow Holy Books; and what was the last Holy Book saying? What was the Lord of Heaven ordering the Christians and the Jewish people? He is not saying that servants may claim, „I am this one“ or „I am that one,“ no. All of them are under my feet now! But the Lord of Heaven is saying, „O My servants! Kûnû Rabbâniyîn! Be those who establish Lordly worship.‘“ Be a Rabbânî. No more tasawwuf. Never! From now on until the end of the world, you must say, „I am Rabbânî! I am not giving up; I am Rabbânî!“ That is the highest honour for us.

This is for Christians, for Jewish people, and for the whole Islamic world, to take away nifâq, hypocrisy, and shiqâq, division. This order has come tonight. Don’t say, „(We are) Naqshbandî-Óaqqânî“. It belongs to Rabbânî!“ Wa kûnû Rabbâniyîn! That is ayatu l-karîmah!

Mâ kâna li-basharin an yu’tîyahu llâhu l-kitâba wa l-hukma wa n-nubûwwata thum-ma yaqûla li n-nâsi kûnû ‘ibâdan lî min dûni llâhi wa lakin
kûnû rabbâniyyîna bi-mâ kuntum tu‘allimûna al-kitâba wa bi-mâ kuntum tadrusûn(a).
No human to whom Allah has given the (Holy) Book, Judgment and prophethood would say to the people, „Be worshipers of me, other than Allah,“ but rather (they would say),“Be of the Lord, for that you teach the Book, and in that you have studied.“ [3:79]

O ‘ulamâ’! If anyone asks you what is your way, say, „I am trying to be Rabbânî,“ or „I am Rabbânî.“ Finished! Lâ ilâha illâ-Llâh.This is a bombardment on the fortress of Shaytan. Finished! Don’t say, „I am Christian,“ or, „I am Jewish,“ or, „I am Muslim.“ Rabbânî! Finished. No more „Naqshbandî,“ no more „tasawwuf“ to be happy. „Salafîs“ can also be taken away! These are Shaytan’s titles that you are making up. Who is that order of the Lord of the Heavens for? „You must be for all nations, you must be Rabbânî, belonging to Me only!“ Finished!

There must be no more fighting between Salafîs and mutasawwuf (followers of tasawwuf). First of all, I am saying that I’m not mutasawwuf but I am trying to be Rabbânî. Then what does the Lord of Heaven say in Óadîth Qudsî, the highest, powerful speech of Prophet (s)? The Lord of Heaven, Allah Almighty, is telling you how to be Rabbânî. He is saying, „Yâ ‘abdî ati‘anî , O my servant! Follow My orders, aj‘aluka rabbânî, I am making you Rabbânî. If you keep My orders, I will make you Rabbânî. Don’t wait for people to say that you are Rabbânî; I am saying you are Rabbânî!“
If you want evidence, the Lord of the Heavens is saying:

Yâ ‘abdî ati‘anî aj‘aluka rabbâniyyan taqûlu li sh-shay’i kun fa-yakûn.
I will make you Rabbânî, you say to a thing „Be!“ and it will be.

Allah Almighty says, „That is My order and My Divine Sign that My servant is Rabbânî!“ Try to reach that point and your level will be the highest level.
May Allah forgive us. Subhân Allâh, Sultân Allâh. This is the limit and now the ummah should be on one level, finished! No more Shi‘ah, no more other sects, no more Christian sects, no more Jewish sects. May Allah forgive us, for the honour of the Seal of Prophets (s).

Fâtihah.

This has never been heard before; you can’t hear it a second time, finished. The Day of Resurrection is just at the door. u