14/07/2023
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Everyone coming here broken. We are getting to be fixed. Here, we want to be fixed. We come here broken, and it is necessary. Why is it necessary? Because to understand what this world is, this world doesn't fix. It breaks. What fixes? Allah and His Prophet. Not this world.
If you are trying to go into this world to ask this world to fix you, you are going to fail. It’s going to break you even more. But if you are coming here asking to be fixed now, Allah will turn your sins, He will forgive your sins, He will turn your sins to become good deeds and He will reward you. You know, just like Japanese they have that art form, they have nice bowl, if the bowl break they don’t throw to garbage like Americans, they take the bowls and they use silver and they use gold to put it back together again. It’s an art form. They put the bowl, instead of putting gorilla glue, they put gold, they put silver and they put it back together again so it becomes more beautiful, and everyone understands it’s broken. But it becomes more beautiful and you start to look, you start to think.
Our hearts, we need to break it. Break it more, maybe Allah will fix it. Break it more, Allah will fix it. Before you know it, the whole thing turns to gold. Because we are not the one fixing it. Allah is the one who is fixing it. But if you are broken and you are not going to Allah, you are going to your ego, you are going to your history, you are going to understanding, you are going to your culture, you are going to this world, then they will put gorilla glue. It looks as if it’s not broken. But one knock, everything will fall again.
- Sheykh Lokman Effendi Hz