Thus many people have more than one plan – a plan A, a plan B.
Why does inflation exist here?
Gerhard: more money is printed than we really need
There is inflation on the stage. When you decide for a job, look if there is inflation in that business or not. We do not want you to be disappointed. That is why we give you advice. And anyone can learn something from it. People of today become older more quickly as they have too many wishes which are not met. And that makes old.
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
The prophet Muhammed (saw) said: ”Oh mankind! The level of your dignity doesn’t measure according to your skin colour or something else. Compete for good deeds as your dignity is measured by your good deeds.”
The first muezzin was Bilal al-Habashi, a black slave. A lot of people go to his grave and bend down their heads in front of it. Nobody is interested in his skin colour. It is important what he did, which steps he followed, with whom he was together. His deeds are important not his origin.
How was he to the people? Was he a good or a bad man?
There were so many kings, Nimrod for example or Pharaoh. But they were tyrants. They were royal and had a white skin. But did they do good deeds? Do people think of them in a good or a bad way?
Take Hitler for example: Was he a slave and did he have black skin? No! People spit on the ground when they hear his name.
Do people give their children his name? No! Because he did bad deeds.
Don’t look at the origin or skin colour.
We have to be fair. We can’t reason with people if were are not fair. We have to be fair, because: That which is not fair cannot be good. We are not allowed to judge. Nobody is more superior than the other, except by their deeds.
On judgement day our Lord will not see great importance in our skin colour but in our deeds. We are not allowed to judge each other. It is written in the Holy Qur’an.
But even He isn’t the judge. This is hidden wisdom from Qur’an: On judgement day mankind judges itself due to their deeds.
Our Lord says: ”I gave you your free will on earth.”
Either you decide right or wrong, good or bad. He will ask on judgement day: What is it what you have brought along?
He will ask: ”What have you brought with you? Which deeds have you brought with you?”
And there will be a scale as in British courts, Justice. On the right side of the scale will be the good deeds, on the left side the bad ones. But Justice’s eyes are bandaged.
She doesn’t see what is put on the scale, but the owner of the deeds does.
Our Lord will say: ”Look at it!”
But he will only judge our intention not our deeds. The deeds are for us.
Allah sees your intentions. He will judge your intentions, not your deeds.
We have to overcome duality, as pain exists only in the duality. If we overcome it, there will be no pain but unity and love. Actually we talk about love in order to guide us to unity.
Melissa: How can we understand Allah’s word - be afraid of ME?
Sheikh Efendi: Read the Holy books in their original language: Don’t read the translation. Don’t try to understand it with your own mind. Don’t try to understand the Holy Qur’an with your own mind, you are not that big. It is pretentious to try to understand Allah’s word.
There are so many books. The education department could say:
We don’t need teachers, you can read on your own.
But we need authorities to understand the contents of Holy books as children need teachers to understand school books.
Don’t say any word - say HU (HE)
It’s all about HU. Anything else makes no sense.
Say Allahu!
Say la ilahe illallah in order to find HIM
There is only ONE. So that we only look for the ONE, we say la ilahe illallah. To make life simpler, easier. If you really believe in the ONE, it will become Allahu.
As everyone understands differently. As long as you don’t try to answer your own question, there will be no danger. But there is some danger, as you have an ego which questions everything. In earlier times when we had a khalifa people learned spiritual things – praying, Qur’an etc. But to understand what they did and learned they asked Sufi sheikhs.
We have to ask an authorised person to understand the meanings of things.
If you raise awareness that there is an ego, there will be no danger.
Allah says: Change your direction, correct yourself.
One moment of distraction and you are in danger.
Guest: Why is there a step »backwards« in Qur’an in terms of fear-making language in comparison to the Bible?
Sheikh Efendi: I don’t try to change Islam. But in which way am I different? A couple of years ago some wahabis came and said: You make everything wrong. This is not written in the Holy Qur’an. I don’t believe what comes out of their mouths. The wahabis love the hardship. They like the punishment. The Holy Qur’an is not written for this time we have now. I also fish in the same ocean. But are the fishes the same than 1000 years before?
The fishes of yesterday are according to the comprehension of yesterday. The fishes of today are according to the comprehension of today. The Holy Qur’an moves with the times. So there is a different interpretation.
No matter in which country you look into law books there is a punishment when you break the law. Without laws there will be anarchy.
To recap: Today we have to understand the Holy Qur’an differently.
Are the Germans the owner of Germany? Allah is the owner of the world.
HE says: you are My servant, I have the prior claim on you!
HE makes the rules and HE is the only one who gives you blessings when you abide by the rules.
When you talk about the Holy Books you just talk about sharks. Better talk about pearls and shells. The atheists hang in the outer shell but they don’t go into the shell. It’s the same with the scholars. They don’t go into the core of the shell.
“Asab” is Arabic for harm. Sayyedina Ibn Arabi went deep into the grammar of Arabic and found another meaning of “Asab”: Pleasure. In hell there will be pleasure.
To put it down to the penal law: You can find also pleasure there ;-) Ibn Arabi was such a big saint that we are not able to understand him correctly. He didn’t address the people. He addressed the authorities.
And what about the Qur’an? When people with the bad deeds go to hell, they will taste and enjoy/relish the air there.
An example: Some years ago a naked man with a belt around his genitals hung himself up with that belt. A reporter asked him why he had done it? He answered that he liked it.
Is this normal? They hurt themselves and enjoy it.
There is no hell, there is only paradise... paradise for normal people and for abnormal people. The paradise of the abnormal people is the hell as they enjoy the pain and harm. It’s the same for them.
As HE wills!
There is a way for everyone. If you believe in harm, you will get harm. If you believe in paradise, you will get paradise.
