Our Khalīfā

May you be with Mahdi! Welcome Haji Mehmet! Masha Allah, welcome. Thank you, we are happy for you. May you be in happiness.

Salāmun qawlan min Rabbi r- Raḥīm (36:58) Salāmun qawlan min Rabbi r- Raḥīm. May Allah increase your strength, may Allah increase your lifetime. May He send a Master for the Ummah of Muḥammad ṣallAllahu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. May you and your children be in health. May you raise the banners in service of Islam. Give my salāms to your brother (Shaykh Bahauddin), also to Muslims.

Fātiḥah.

I see you are in good health, Masha Allah, your light has become brighter. This one is a lion. Allah. Insha Allah, he will serve Mahdi ʿalayhi s-salām. Ya Rabbi, may our illnesses and heaviness leave. Pray for me. We are improving, not as, but improving. What we want is to reach Hazrat Mahdi ʿalayhi s-salām. We ask nothing of this world.

How are people there?

(Shaykh Mehmet): Shukr Allah, they send salāms, kiss your hands.

How are they?

(Shaykh Mehmet): Well, shukr Allah.

How are things in the Dergah?

(Shaykh Mehmet): All is fine, shukr Allah.

Do people come there?

(Shaykh Mehmet): Yes, they do.

That dergah which is above the Holy ones?

(Shaykh Mehmet): Yes, they come.

Are people coming?

(Shaykh Mehmet): Yes, many people.

Allah. Are you leading Jum’ā prayer? Are people attending?

(Shaykh Mehmet): Yes, many people are attending - full.

Masha Allah. Masha Allah. May you be in the service of sultans, and in service of Mahdi ʿalayhi s-salām. You do care for us also. What can we do, we give shukr for our state, with your blessings I am feeling better. I buy sheep, I buy cattle. Like this, we are busying ourselves. This, your brother’s son (Shaykh Mehmet Nazim), is serving me like hands and feet. Watch over him, Haji Mehmet. This one, this Mehmet, endeavours, he has himmah like you. May Allah give a good life.

May your strength increase, may your majesty increase. May governments fall with your majesty. O our Lord! Make these, my sons, viziers of Mahdi ʿalayhi s-salām. Give them honour for the service they are giving, ya Rabbi. For me, the father of these sons, may my weaknesses be gone. Much has gone, Haji Mehmet. Much gone.

Fātiḥah.

Holy ones, there, Akbabalar (maqam), how is it there? O poor Akbabalar. How much I do love them. May your name reach from east to west. May you be like a dragon who swallows unbelief. Do pray and read on me. Do pray, do pray.

May Allah be pleased with you. May Allah be pleased with you. He (Shaykh Mehmet) is my Khalīfā. He is my Khalīfā. He is the Shaykh of the Naqshis. Take good care of him. Salāmun alaykum. Say salāms to your children, my son. Bismillāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Our Khalīfā, our beloved children, has come to us. Shukr to Allah Dhu l-Jalal. Allahu Akbar. Ya Rabbi, may the salām of heavens descend on us.

Fātiḥah.

Let’s say, Bismillāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Say and do not fear.

Fātiḥah.