“Then whoever wills, let him believe, and whoever wills, let him disbelieve.” (18:29) Allah, the Mighty and Exalted, says: “Whoever wishes, let him believe, and whoever wishes, let him remain in disbelief.” This is a matter of the heart. One cannot force anyone to become a Muslim. Even during the conquests, no one was forced to change their religion; no coercion was applied. Whoever wanted to become a Muslim did so. Whoever did not, remained in their faith, paid the tax, and was treated like a citizen. Why do we mention this? These days, the Pope, the head of the Catholic world, is here on a visit. The background of his visit is connected to the alteration of the religion by the priests who gathered in Nicaea 1700 years ago. For the pagan Romans called the followers of Jesus “Nasrani”. They persecuted and killed them, giving them no peace anywhere. Finally, they mixed paganism with Christianity as they saw fit. 1700 years ago, that is, 325 years after Jesus, they said, “We are now Christians too,” and came to an agreement. But they falsified the religion—Allah forbid—by claiming: “There cannot be only a single God; He must have a family, He must have a child.” When the true followers of the Scripture who followed Jesus rejected this, they were all rounded up to be silenced. At the gathering in Nicaea, it was stated: “These are the true Christians; we do not accept others.” They tolerated no one outside of their doctrine and eliminated them. Whoever could flee, fled; whoever remained either had to accept the new religion or was killed. That is the crux of the matter. That is the event that took place 1700 years ago. There were many groups that stood outside the state religion they proclaimed. One of them was the group called the “Nestorians.” Salman al-Farisi also followed this path before Islam. The monks passed on the true religion; when one died, he referred [the follower] to the next. Finally, they sent him to Medina with the words: “The Prophet (peace be upon him) will appear there.” And so he found our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in Medina. He came from this group, from this chain. That means most of them professed the Oneness of Allah and worshipped Him. Then, when this Roman group appeared, they composed fake Gospels and forced the entire Christian world off the right path into polytheism through coercion and killings. This is exactly what happened. But insha’Allah, this meeting will be an occasion for people to recognize the true path. Our people are afraid and ask: “Is black magic being practiced? Will something happen?” No, there is no reason to worry. This is the home of the saints, the martyrs, and the Companions of the Prophet. Therefore, no one, no matter who comes, can achieve anything; nothing will happen. One must show hospitality to the guest. Let us treat them well. Perhaps Allah will place the light of faith in their hearts so that they recognize the truth, insha’Allah. The penultimate Pope suddenly met with Sheikh Baba and resigned from the papacy shortly thereafter. This is something that has never happened before in history. We asked Sheikh Efendi: “Why did he do that?” Sheikh Baba said: “He saw the truth.” When he saw the truth, he stopped. They gave the people a pretext; they said: “He does not want to continue for health reasons.” Actually, no Pope is replaced before he dies. There was no one who had resigned before. Even if he was ill, he remained in office until death. If Allah wills, this visit will be an occasion for the guidance of the people. And even if not: Many priests and monks in his circle have recognized the truth and have secretly become Muslims, even if they continue their duties. There are thousands, hundreds of thousands of them, and there always have been. Therefore, there is no reason for fear or worry. “And say, ‘The truth has come, and falsehood has vanished.'” (17:81) “The truth has come, the false has passed away.” When the truth comes, the false no longer has value or standing. Therefore, our people need not be afraid: “What will happen? What is going on?” Do not be afraid. Allah is with us; the truth is Allah, the Mighty and Exalted. The truth will reveal itself. Even if not now: Just as the Pope has come, Jesus will also come. With Allah’s permission, he will eliminate all this falsehood. May Allah turn it to good. Insha’Allah, may it be an occasion for guidance. We have many brothers who have returned from the wrong path to the true religion; thanks be to Allah, they are the majority. Insha’Allah, may Allah grant the Muslims vigilance through this occasion, so that they hold fast to the truth.
AlhamduliLlah we are thanking Allāh جل جلاله for meeting these people who live very far from our country. Our way is the way of light, way of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa- sallam. All prophets were traveling to go through people telling them about reality, to take them to heaven. Our meeting is only for the sake of Allāh جل جلاله. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla likes these meetings and blesses them.
There are many ḥadīths of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, and many sayings of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla about such a gathering, such a meeting with the intention being only for the pleasure of Allāh جل جلاله.
Our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says in ḥadīth, Allāh جل جلاله will order His جل جلاله angels to put their wings under the feet of these people gathering for Him جل جلاله. He جل جلاله sends them His جل جلاله mercy. And Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam was saying, when two Muslim brothers come to meet each other for the sake of Allāh جل جلاله, Allāh جل جلاله rewards them. For each step, Allāh جل جلاله forgives them, rewards them and raises them one level higher.
AlhamduliLlah we are also coming from a far place, in shā’a Llāh this will be a reward for all of us. This is a real win. We are real winners. Because this will be saved in the Divine Presence of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, and we will find this in the next life. Like when they win [money] and put it in the bank; in many places, in our country and other countries. They save their money in banks. And many times, the banks don’t give them back. But in the Divine Presence of Allāh جل جلاله, it is saved for you; not only for a short time but forever. This is from His جل جلاله generosity for human beings.
Allāh جل جلاله is the Creator. Everything is in His جل جلاله Hand. Everything is for Him جل جلاله. The universe and all is for Him جل جلاله He جل جلاله is not in need of our worshipping or what we are doing. He جل جلا is happy for you if you do this. He جل جلاله is happy you will win. People don’t like others to win. Even if they have millions, they are not happy to give anything. Even if their wealth is enough for them for a thousand years, they are also not giving. But Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla is giving with out counting, بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ “Bighayri Ĥisāb” “Will be given their reward without account.”(Qur’ān 39:10).
If you do some good deed, Allāh جل جلاله rewards you ten times for it until seven hundred times; after this, only He جل جلاله knows how He جل جلاله rewards you. This is for the lucky people. Many people know the reality, know this good way and are not following it. For this, Allāh جل جلاله is happy with people like you who are gathering for His جل جلاله love, for the sake of Allāh جل جلاله
People have been living in this continent, this area for thousands of years, of course. They are saying it’s a new continent. No, all this has been since ‘Adam ‘alayhi s-salām. ‘Adam ‘alayhi s-salām is the father of humankind. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla made all mankind to come through ‘Adam ‘alayhi s-salām. And by His جل جلاله wisdom, Allāh جل جلاله has written down what everyone will eat, when they will eat, where they will eat, where they will die. Allāh جل جلاله has already determined this for everybody. So these people are not unknown for Allāh جل جلاله. Allāh جل جلاله created them. Five thousand years, ten thousand years, Allāh جل جلاله knows when these people reached this place on earth.
So, AlhamduliLlah we visited many places in this continent. In the end, we know, َAllāhَ ‘Azza wa-Jalla mentioned in the Qur’ān, Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm وَلِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ هَادٍ (Quran 13:07 ) “Wa li-Kulli Qawmin Haad” “And for every people is a guide.” For each nation, there’s one who will guide them to the truth. So in every place people gathered, Allāh جل جلاله sent a prophet. Here also, there was a prophet in this area. Everywhere, there was a prophet. But of course, people were quickly changing. Maybe after being five years with them, they changed.
Changing slowly, slowly. After that, they thought there was no prophet in this area. In every place in this world, there was a prophet. Of course, these prophets were before ‘Isa ‘alayhi s-salām. Thousands of years passed and people changed. But they are still a little bit respectful. Or there’s something they must follow so they go on worshipping something that’s not useful for them. After this, they were living like this for many years. I don’t know what they were doing. But in the end, they said they found a new place. So they came and settled here. So that Allāh جل جلاله completes the time of human beings, He جل جلاله slowly, slowly made them go around the whole world.
As we said before, Allāh جل جلاله made them come here. They made goodness – of course, not too good; they made bad and worse more than good. But they came here because their rizq was here so they must eat it in this country. But unfortunately, these people were oppressors not letting anybody think about Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla or religion or anything else. And of course, they changed the religion into another religion which normally must be good but with their ideas they only used it to oppress people. For this, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla – SubhanAllah who came to this continent were trying to live as Muslims, as Allāh جل جلاله ordered, but they didn’t give a chance to these people. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla gave them everything. All these countries masha’Allah, thousands of miles, we went by plane, by car, by walking. It was amazing; very rich. Allāh جل جلاله gave them everything.
SubhanAllah every time we hear that there are problems here. People are not happy. People are making problems not like other countries; that it’s not safe. There is a wisdom here. What’s the wisdom? Because there was oppression and many bad things done to human beings. For this, this is coming as inheritance to people. What the ancestors had done is coming through centuries until now. For this, you can find millions coming from Muslim countries to this continent but not any sign of Islām; maybe only since 24 or 30 years ago.
What is the solution for this? The solution is to repent and ask forgiveness from Allāh جل جلالهand to come to Islām.“أسِلمتَ ْسلَم” “Aslim Taslam.”Be Muslim and you will see be safe. Surrender and you will be safe. Islām is the religion of peace. It doesn’t accept any oppression. The first thing is justice. It is very important in Islām. All these people say “Democracy” and other things; every time they bring something new but they have no justice. Not any country in this world has justice. Whoever says “There is justice in this country or that country” are liars. It looks like justice but they are hypocrites. There is a saying, “العَ ْد ُل أسا ُس ال ُم ْلك” Justice is the base of ruling, of a good life. And those who look at the history since Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam until the last Ottoman Sultān, you can’t find any injustice. In these countries, there were not only Muslims but Jewish, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus living there. There were 70 different religions.
But of course, who’s the first enemy of human beings? Shayṭān. Shayṭān doesn’t like giving good things to human beings. They destroyed the last Islamic Rule, the Ottomans. The shayṭān destroyed it. And after this began the worst century, the 20th century. A hundred years now, all the world is suffering. They promised them, “We will give you this, we will give you that,” but what have they done? They didn’t give but they took everything.
In history [as we see], nobody rules forever. Allāh جل جلاله promised us, He جل جلاله will send one from the lineage of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, one of his صلى الله عليه وسلم grandsons who will save, in shā’a Llāh. In shā’a Llāh, we are waiting for him because the world is everyday becoming worse and worse.
In shā’a Llāh when Sayyidina Al-Mahdi ‘alayhi s- salām comes, all of this that they’re making now from bad situations for each and every thing and having no solution, all these problems will be finished. There will be justice. It will be barakah for the whole world. Nobody will oppress anybody. There are many secrets and many things that people don’t know.
You see what happened before “What is this? What is that?” People are wondering. So, everything will be clear. What happened since Sayyidina Adam ‘alayhi s-salām until now. Who was living on this earth, who was living there, this mountain, this sea: all what was unknown will appear. What we know about the history of human beings is maybe not even five percent. That time, everything will be known and who reach that time – in shā’a Llāh it’s near – it is easy for him to understand and know what happened.
That time is a very blessed time. After all these bad things, it will be a very good time. But of course, this is only for forty years. After forty years, that time Sayyidina Al- Mahdi is coming and Sayyidina ‘Isa ‘alayhi s-salām will be with him. Sayyidina Al-Mahdi will rule for seven years and Sayyidina Isa will rule for forty years.
Many people are cheated about Sayyidina ‘Isa. Sayyidina ‘Isa is a miracle of Allāh جل جلاله. He is a miracle. Allāh جل جلاله made Sayyidatina Mariam ‘alayha s-salām pregnant without marriage, without being touched by a man. What they said “He is the son of god” is ridiculous. How can that be? Ḥāshā (far from it), it is an example – but it is as if they are saying an ant married an elephant. How can this be! How can you say Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has a son! Nobody can imagine how Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla is, where He جل جلاله is, what He جل جلاله is! This is impossible for our mind to know about.
Sayyidina ‘Isa will come in that time. He is now in the second heaven. They couldn’t kill him. Allāh جل جلاله saved him and he is waiting for the time to come again. That time, he will be, in shā’a Llāh, with Sayyidina Al-Mahdi and he will rule. He will break the cross. He will not accept giving people pork to eat. He will rule upon the Sharī’ah of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. And after forty years, he will pass away. His place is near Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, in Madina.
It is known that Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says about the prophets brothers, and he صلى الله عليه وسلم said, “My صلى الله عليه وسلم brother ‘Isa ‘alayhi s-salām.” So after forty years, when ‘Isa ‘alayhi s-salām passes away, it is the big sign of Qiyāmah. So Qiyāmah becomes near and people again leave religion, leave goodness and again follow their egos. This is the nature of people, because they have shayṭān, they have ego. When they find something, they quickly follow it. That time it’s finished.
So, there must be something like this. Allāh جل جلاله sends a smoke. And when believers smell this smoke, they pass away and only non-believers will be there. Then, Allāh جل جلاله will send to finish all these people and this will be the end of life. So nobody will be alive that time. All will be waiting for Qiyāmah. Qiyāmah will, in shā’a Llāh, come later and everybody will take what he had done in this life. And what we were telling in the beginning of the Sohbah: what you get from rewards and what Allāh جل جلاله gave you, that time it will be for you.
In shā’a Llāh, also with the barakah of sincere people, Allāh جل جلاله makes people come to the way of Allāh جل جلاله, way of mercy.
*THOSE STRIVING TO BE A MEANS FOR GUIDANCE* Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 07 November 2025/ 16 Jumada al-Awwal 1447 Fajr Prayer – Akbaba Dergah, Istanbul
Shukr to Allāh ﷻ, we went and returned safely. It was a long journey, but Allāh ﷻ helped us. in shā’a Llāh, it happened for the sake of Allāh ﷻ; may Allāh ﷻ accept it.
Of course, because it was a long journey—we had made this journey before—we wondered if it would happen a second time, and Allāh ﷻ made it happen. We went. Masha’Allah, when Allāh ﷻ guides the people there, they are granted it. And with the barakah and himmah (support) of Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim, thousands of people there have embraced Islām, joined ṭarīqah, and are striving with their own capabilities to spread this religion, to spread Islām, and to benefit the people there. May Allāh ﷻ be pleased with them; they treated us with hospitality and respect.
They also reached out with their whomever relatives they have to meet us so that they too could embrace Islām. They helped them, and asked for du’ā’ so that they could be the means for their guidance. When a believer, Muslim experiences something good, he wishes the same for others. What they wish for is – “الأَقْرَبونَ أَوْلى بالمَعْروفِ” “The closest are worthier of goodness,” says our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. If you are going to do something good, you should do it to your relatives first. Therefore, they also constantly called upon their relatives, friends, and so on, to convey the message to them and show them. And many of them came, shukr to Allāh ﷻ. In shā’a Llāh, it will be a means for guidance.
Because it’s such a far place, many Muslims have gone there before, in the past. But of course, their biggest challenge was that they went there as Muslims but there were no Jamā’ah (community), no ṭarīqah, nothing. Unfortunately, they were lost. But in shā’a Llāh, now there is ṭarīqah—that’s why ṭarīqah is what shayṭān dislikes most: ṭarīqah, haqīqah. Shayṭān detests them. He doesn’t like sharī’ah either. He doesn’t like sharī’ah or madhhabs. He doesn’t like the mashāyikh. He doesn’t like the Ahlu l-Bayt. When people don’t love them too, they’ll have no branch to cling to; they wither away.
With Allāh’s ﷻ permission, many people will reach guidance through them, in shā’a Llāh. Because with ṭarīqah: Ṭarīqah means īmān. Islām: everyone is Muslim; there are many Muslims. As we said, many Muslims went there and became lost. Their grandfathers were Muslim, their sons were Muslim, they prayed, but their grandchildren are now people who have no relation to Islām. They either have no knowledge of religion or have become like Christians.
In shā’a Llāh, this time – Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salām will come anyways. But until then, may Allāh ﷻ guide them and make them happy. May those people, their friends, and their relatives embrace Islām. In shā’a Llāh, may they join ṭarīqah. At first, those there were unaware of the ṭarīqah, of Islām. They joined ṭarīqah, as Sufism. Then, they attained guidance and recited the Shahada. They perform the five daily prayers and all other acts of worship, setting an example for those there.
May Allāh ﷻ be pleased with them; they have honored us. We have been together for twenty-five days. May Allāh ﷻ honor them. May Allāh ﷻ make them happy, and us too, in shā’a Llāh.
Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.
There are recited Quran Khatm, ayāt, surahs, Yasin, Salawat, tahlilat, and also recited Dala’il al-Khayrat, takbirs, tahlilats.
May Allāh ﷻ accept all the good deeds and charity done. First of all, for the holy soul of our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, his family and companions, all the prophets, awliya, asfiya, Mashāyikh, for the souls of all our ancestors.
Especially for the soul of our Shaykh, Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim. For the souls of our mothers, fathers, relatives, Muslims, and believers. For goodness to come and evil to be warded off.
May the good wishes of those who read it come true. For happiness here and hereafter.
Sufi Path of Love 