BismillahirRahmanirRahim

Sohbet by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Hakkani el-Kibrisi

Friday, 7th Zilkida, 1426 / December 9, 2005
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah
Siddiki Center, New York

Auzu billahi minash sheytanir rajim
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Medet Ya Syyidi Ya al-Hakkani, Medet.

Grandsheykh is saying that when man started treating
the animals very harshly and not the way they were
supposed to, the animals complained to Allah (subhana wa ta’ala). The complaint
was accepted and Allah opened from that
knowledge for man to use all these jinn works (technology).
All these computers and everything are jinn works. It’s
electricity with which everything is working. But that
is not in the nature of man. So that gives another problem
to man because man went out of his way.

Before man was plowing two acres of land with a cow
and a hand-held plow, opening the dirt, spreading the
wheat with his hands, doing everything with
Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim, with the name of Allah
and when the two acres of land grew, it fed the whole
village. Now they are planting in two hundred acres lands.
Check. They are not even feeding themselves. Go look at
these farmers. Every one of them is complaining.

(You say,) “You have two hundred acres of land, you have
these many cows, you have this, this and this.”

He says, “I cannot keep up with the parts of the tractors,
I cannot keep up with the parts of this, with this and
with that.”

So everything that they are taking is going to that
side and there is no blessing in it. There is no blessing
in any product that is coming because man is running
heedlessly in top-speed to do them. What’s the rush?
You have some period of time that you have to stay
in this world. And if you are rushing like that still
you are not going to change the destiny. You have to go
according to the way that Allah has given to you, slowly,
properly, using the intellect to be able to do what is
your share.

Daytime is for work and nighttime is for rest.
This technology, these robots that you are saying
and everything that they have invented didn’t really
make people’s lives easier. They just made it more
miserable, boring and they don’t know what to do with
their lives anymore. That’s why committing suicide is
found in the first world countries and not in the third
world countries. The first class countries think that
they are the highest. And the highest among them is Sweden.
They have no laws. They are not accepting it. Everything
is free. They have the highest rate of committing suicide.
Then in America and Europe. People are not even thinking
about committing suicide in the poor countries. They are
worried and busy with what they are going to earn and eat
the next day or for that day. So they have no time to
think nonsense.

So all this technology didn’t really bring so much to man.
But as I said earlier, there are exceptions. But when power
falls into everyone’s hands then there is no longer any
exception. Everyone has everything in their hands now and
they are doing as they like. Their lives are becoming more
and more miserable everyday, more emptiness and more sorrow
is coming in and people don’t know what to do with
their lives.

(You say,) “What are you doing?” “I don’t know. I don’t know
what I am going to do with my life.” Hmm. You don’t know?
Sell it. Nobody’s going to buy it.

So all this technology made man to become lazy. That’s
the fruit of that technology. The bottom point is that
all this technology made man to become lazy. That’s all.
Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) divided the day into three
periods of time. Eight hours working, eight hours
resting and eight hours spending in the way of Allah,
with your family, with this and with that. How many is
doing that now? They get up early in the morning before
the sun rises, running in top speed for hours in their
cars going to the workplace taking two hours or three
hours, working like robots, finishing the day, when
the sun sets, running back to their houses driving three
hours, before they reach to the house they expire. They
cannot cook, they cannot eat, they cannot sleep and they
cannot do anything. They cannot spend any time with their
children, with their family. This way family life collapses
and everything collapses. Even if they are in the house,
one kid has one television in that room, the other one
has another television, the other one has another television
or computer, if there are five family members in that house
in five rooms, everyone is in their own world. Everyone is
doing something else. No one is listening, no one is
obeying, no communicating, nothing.

That’s what technology brought to man. So if you say
that it’s good then something is wrong with those eyes,
with that intelligence. (Sheykh smiles).

El-Fatiha.