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06/15/2025

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The 18th of Zul Hijjah marks the Shahadat of Hazret Osman el-Ghani (RA)

On this day, we remember the martyrdom of Hz. Osman el-Ghani (RA), the third Khalifa of Islam, Zul Nurain, the Compiler of the Qur’an, and one of the most beloved of the Prophet ﷺ.

He was surrounded, starved, and slaughtered in his home by rebels who had once pledged their Beyat to him. Yet he refused to raise his sword in his own defense. He refused to spill the blood of the Ummah, even if that meant that the blood that would be spilled was his own. The martyrdom of Hz. Osman (RA) marked the beginning of the Fitnah that has never left us.

We remember him through our Sheykh Lokman Efendi Hz, who reminds us that Hz. Aisha bint Osman (RA) stood over her father’s grave and said:

“He was not my father only—he was a father to the Ummat. And those he considered his sons murdered him... He preferred to give up his own life than to spill blood and start a civil war. He is a Shaheed in the Way of Allah. His place is in Paradise, in the Sohbet of the Rasulallah ﷺ.”

These words still echo. Sheykh Lokman Efendi (Hz.) reminds us:

“The same anger, jealousy, and betrayal that moved the rebels to murder Hz. Osman is still alive in the hearts of the Ummat. It is not for Ahiret—they betray for dunya, for ego. They break their Beyat because they are dissatisfied. They forget honor, and they become rebels, promise-breakers in the Eyes of Allah.”

Hz. Hasan ibn Ali (RA) dreamt of his grandfather Rasulallah ﷺ standing near the Throne of Allah with Hz. Abu Bakr and Hz. Umar beside him. Then came Hz. Osman, his face covered in blood, his head in his hands. He said:

“Ya Rasulallah, ask the people—for what sin did they slaughter me like a cow?”
Then the Throne of Allah began to shake. And a voice from the Unseen declared:
“From today until the Judgment Day, believers will continue to take the lives of believers.”

The martyrdom of Hz. Osman (RA) is not history—it is warning. The Ummah that betrayed its Khalifas—Hz. Osman (RA), Sultan Abdul Hamid Han (CM)—now lives with the pain of that betrayal.

May Allah forgive this nation. May we not be counted among the promise-breakers. And may we live and die with honor and loyalty to the Friends of Allah.

May Allah SWT raise his station and may his himmet be with us, amin. Ruhuna Fatiha

06/13/2025

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The 16th of Zul Hijjah marks the Urs of Sultan Abdulmecid Han (CM)

Today we remember the Urs of Sultan Abdulmecid I (CM), the 31st Ottoman Sultan and 96th Khalifa of Islam. He was a Sultan whose compassion, justice, and mercy reflected the true inheritance of the Prophetic station. He was only sixteen when he ascended the throne, but he carried the weight of the Ummah with grace, sincerity, and a deep sense of responsibility.

Sheykh Lokman Efendi (Hz.) reminds us:

“The Ottomans are famous for helping non-Muslims everywhere in the world. When the Irish suffered the potato famine, Sultan Abdulmecid sent today’s equivalent of 2 million dollars aid, more than the British Queen herself sent…The role of the Khalifah is to reflect the Mercy and Justice of Allah in the World, because he is an Inheritor of the Prophet, and the Shadow of Allah on Earth.”

During his reign, Sultan Abdulmecid built the Dolmabahçe Palace not as a monument to extravagance, but as a necessary replacement for the Topkapi Palace. He brought the first telegraph line and the first railway to the Empire. He repaired the Haramain, built the Bab-ı Mecidi in Medina, and sent gold to renew the Mizab al-Rahmah on the Kaaba.

But his true greatness lay not only in his achievements, but in his character. He pardoned those who attempted to assassinate him, saying, “I’m still alive!” When emissaries from Medina came with petitions during his final illness, he said, “Sit me up! They are the neighbors of our Master Rasulullah. I would hate to hear their words lying down.”

The last four ruling Khalifas of the Empire were his sons, each of whom carried the burden of the Sultanate and the Khilafat in its most difficult ways: Sultan Murad V, Sultan Abdülhamid II, Sultan Mehmed V, and Sultan Mehmed VI. Each bore witness to the legacy of their father’s vision and sacrifice.

May Allah raise his station and reunite the Ummah under the Mercy, Compassion, and Justice that he once reflected to the world.

May Allah SWT raise his station and may his himmet be with us, amin. Ruhuna Fatiha

06/13/2025

BismillahirRahmanirRahim Question: As the new year approaches and the seasons shift from spring to summer, I found myself reflecting on a quote you often share from Hazrati Maulana: “I was a …

06/13/2025

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Hz Umar (RA) is saying ‘Islam will be destroyed by these three things. It will be destroyed by the scholars who are making so many mistakes. It will be destroyed by the hypocrites, who will quote from the Quran but use their own egoistic interpretation. And it will be destroyed by the rulers that are deviated.’ But we look at these three conditions, these three conditions in this world has been fulfilled for a very long time. It is very sad. We have the religion, but we don’t have the power. And Islam without the power, anything without the power, how are you going to bring Haqq, Truth? It is Haqq, but if it does not have the power, it’s not too effective.

We start with ourselves. We start with ourselves. May Allah make us to have the power to live Haqq, insyaAllah, step by step, and for the Hakkanis, for us to be one and for those ones to come.

- Sheykh Lokman Effendi Hz

06/10/2025

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May Allah protect us from living a life that ends with all our works being zero. May Allah (SWT) keep our Ashk alive in our hearts, and give us an Ashk that makes us to move. May Allah protect us so that we can keep that Ashk.

Sultan Bahu gave good advice to those on the Path, saying: “Everyone asks for their faith to be kept safe. Who is asking for the safety of their Ashk? Everyone is asking for their faith to be kept safe, but who is asking for their Ashk to be kept safe, for their love? Ah, the places where Ashk has reached, faith has not even heard about it. I get ashamed to ask for my faith to be preserved, but I carefully guard my Ashk. Ya Rabbi, please keep my Ashk safe- I will give my faith in exchange.” (Kalam-e-Bahu).

Without Ashk, a murid becomes dead. Dead. Ashk, love, the passion that makes you to move, is the blood that pumps inside the body of the murid, making him to move in the way of Allah. Once that blood stops pumping, slowly, he loses his energy, and slowly, he moves into the world of separation.

May Allah (SWT) preserve our Ashk. May He keep our Ashk alive. May He keep us in the Jamaat of His Loved Ones and count us as servants of that Mejlis. May He not kick us out and place us into the punishment of Separation. Amin. And we end with Seyh Efendi’s dua, saying: “Ya Rabbi, forgive us for the wrong things that we are doing. Keep us in the Sirat-ul Mustaqim. Keep us with those You love, keep us with those whom You said to us to love and give us understanding to know the ones You don’t love and we will turn our faces away from them.” Amin, Amin, Amin.

- Sheykh Lokman Effendi Hz

06/09/2025

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This religion is not a religion of just meditating, or just thinking, or just reading, or just reflecting only. This is a religion that has a very strong physical aspect- this religion of Islam requires a man to be a servant of his Lord not just with his heart and with his mind, but also with his body.

Once the man says the Shahadat, which is by the heart and tongue, the rest of the five pillars involve the body showing and demonstrating its servanthood to Allah SWT. Namaz is a physical action of prayer. Zakat is a physical action of giving. Ramazan is the physical action of depriving the body of food and drink. And Hajj, it is the physical action of moving, of running, of throwing, of circling, in an act of servanthood to Allah.

As Sahib el-Sayf always said, “Wherever there is movement (Haraket), there is Bereket. Wherever there is Muhabbet, there is Rahmet.”

InsyaAllah ar-Rahman we are Osmanli Naksibendis. The Ottomans, they were constantly making Haraket, moving, running, striving. Seyh Efendi is saying the great great grandfather of the Ottomans, of the Turks, Oghuz Han made a dua saying, Ya Rabbi don’t let my grandchildren to fall into being comfortable. Meaning, they should always be striving.

That striving, that is the Ottoman inheritance that is here for us from that Ottoman, Sahib el-Sayf. And that struggle, that gives passion to your life. That pulls Mercy to your life. That gives taste to your life. Otherwise, the whole world is living a digital lifestyle now where the whole life is happening inside that screen. The time is not far that they will bring the screen and put it directly into your eyes, directly into your cells, and you won’t move. It is coming. We must be careful. That is not real life. That is not living for Allah.

- Sheykh Lokman Effendi Hz

06/07/2025

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Shaykh Ali Ibn Osman al-Hujwiri, Data Ganj Bakhsh, one of the Greatest Friends of Allah, said in his book Kashf al-Mahjub, about the true Hajj: “Whoever seeks the Maqam of the Body, must give up all lusts, pleasures and put on the Ihram and wear his Kafan, not hunt any animal, keep himself under strict control. He must be present at Arafah, and go to Muzdalifah, and to Masjid al- Haram, and pick up stones, and make Ihram, and go to Mina, and stay there for three days, and throw stones as is ordered, and cut his hair, and cut Kurban, and then exit the state of Ihram. But whoever seeks the Spiritual Maqam must cut off their normal associations, and say farewell to pleasures, and think of nothing but Allah. Then he must stand at the Arafah of Ma’rifat, and from there go to the Muzdalifah of Ulfah (love)- and then from there make tawaf of the House of Purification, and throw away the stones of passion and corrupt thoughts in the Mina of Iman, and sacrifice his nafs on the altar of Mujahidah, and only then will he reach the Maqam of Khalil.”-Sheykh Lokman Efendi Hz.

06/06/2025

BismillahirRahmanirRahim Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah rabbil alameen Wasalatu wa salamu ala rasulina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmain Nahmadullahuta’ala wa nastaghfiruhu wa na…

06/06/2025

BismillahirRahmanirRahim Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah rabbil alameen Wasalatu wa salamu ala rasulina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmain Nahmadullahuta’ala wa nastaghfiruhu wa na…

06/06/2025

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Ya Rabbi, let us one day reach to Your Hajj with those whom You dressed in the Jubba of Servanthood. Thank You for letting us be in the Sohbet of one of Your Friends and Servants-raise his station, Ya Rabbi. Ya Rabbi! In the lands of Hz. Ibrahim, his grandchildren are being oppressed and slaughtered. Ya Rabbi, help them and rescue them. Ya Rabbi, forgive us. Ya Rabbi, forgive us. Ya Rabbi, forgive us. Amin.

🌹 Shaykh Lokman Effendi Hz.
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06/06/2025

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Today is Kurban Bayram, Eid al-Adha, the Day of Sacrifice. It is a day of celebration—but also a day of reflection and remembrance. It is not just a feast. It is a day to recall the submission of Hz. Ibrahim (AS), the trust of Hz. Ismail (AS), and the Mercy of our Lord who accepted their sacrifice and honored them for all time.
We recite the Tekbir on this day, declaring:
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, La ilaha il-Allah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahil Hamd.
We call out the Labbayk, saying:
Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk, Labbayka la sharika laka Labbayk. Innal hamda wa ni’mata laka wal mulk, La sharika lak.
As Sheykh Lokman Efendi (Hz.) reminded us:
“The Tekbir makes the hearts of believers beat with passion, and makes the hearts of hypocrites tremble with fear.”
But what kind of Eid is this, in a world where the blood of Muslims is spilling without end? What kind of Eid when our brothers and sisters are dying in Gaza, in Sudan, in Yemen, and across the world, while the rulers stay silent and the Ummah looks away? Another Eid of oppression, of genocide.
Sheykh Lokman Efendi (Hz.) gave the reminder clearly, and we are still in the same state:
“We are in this condition because we have no Khalifa. We are in this condition because we conspired to remove the Khilafat. And until the Khalifa returns, don’t look for happiness. If we are looking for safety, for peace, we must return to the way of the Prophet (AS).”
When you see the blood of the Kurban today, remember the real sacrifice. Remember Hz. Huseyin and the Ehlil Beyt. Remember the children under bombs. Remember the soldiers of Islam who stood for justice, and the Awliya who carried the flag of truth. Ask yourself: What have we sacrificed?
We say on this Eid: Ya Rabbi, do not count us among the forgetful ones. Ya Rabbi, send us a Sultan. Send us a Khalifa. Send us Sayyidina Mehdi (AS). Strengthen our feet on the path of our Sheykh, and let our sacrifice be accepted in Your Divine Presence. Amin.

06/06/2025

BismillahirRahmanirRahim Kurban is tomorrow. What are you going to make kurban? Sheep? Cow? You are still not learning. Sacrifice. What are you going to sacrifice? You say, you remember Hz. Ibrahim…

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