BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Sohbet by Sheykh Abdul Kerim el-Kibrisi
Tuesday 8 Shawwal, 1427/October 31, 2006
Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.
Medet Ya Seyyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.
Yavuz Sultan Selim Khan (Jannat Mekan). Sultan Selim Khan was going to
conquer Baghdad, Iraq. He was moving towards Iran. All (Ottoman)
Sultans moved towards the West. Sultan Selim, the Khalifah, was moving
towards the East, breaking down the Shiites, hammering them because
they are against the Prophet (sws) and the Sahaba-e Kiram. So his aim
was to reach there, to come to Baghdad and all that area. They were
changing the aqida, beliefs. They believe that Ali (ra) was supposed
to be the Khalifah and this and that. So Sultan Selim was saying, “You
are, huh?” So he was moving the army to that side.
But he was giving order in Baghdad before they were entering, saying,
“I will not take any soldier to the army unless they have their
mustache. If they have no mustache that means they are not man yet. So
I am not taking them as soldiers to the Prophet’s (sws) army if they
don’t have a mustache.” So Genc Osman, young Ottoman, was somebody who
wanted to be in the army to fight in that war. But they said to him,
“See, you don’t have a mustache. And Sultan is ordering such and
such.” He said, “But I am grown. My age is young but I am this and I
am that.” He was pretty healthy and strong. Still they said, “No, no,
no, no.” But one General was liking him. So he said, “I will move you
to the Sultan maybe. Maybe he will give you permission.”
It’s not like today that you cannot even go to see a Mayor. In no time
he finds himself in the presence of the Sultan and the Sultan was
saying, “My son, I put that law. You are still very young. I don’t
want to finish you. Now you have other duties. You are going to come
later to become a soldier. Learn other things and then later you
come.” He said, “My Sultan, I want to become a soldier. I want to
fight in this Baghdad against these ones who are the enemies to the
Prophet (sws) and the Sahaba. I don’t want to fight with the other
ones (the Europeans).”
The Sultan said to him, “But you know I put a law. The law is saying
that you don’t have a mustache.” He said, “My Sultan, I have a
mustache.” The Sultan said, “Where is it?” He took out a comb from his
pocket and he hit it right on his lip. He put the comb there and
smiling, saying, “Now I have a mustache. Look.” The Sultan said, “I
have to break that law. If the soldier is brave like this, let him
fight.”
He did great things in Baghdad and he became a martyr in that war.
These kinds of things you cannot speak now. This you cannot put into
the young generation to give them some energy. They say, “Teach them
about Michael Jackson. Teach them about moving like that.” (Sheykh
Efendi sarcastically moving his body). This is what they want. “Teach
them other role models, rock `n roll and this and that. But don’t
teach them about the role models of Islam.” Why do you think they are
fighting with us? Hmm. “Teach them to be McDonald’s boys.”
El-Fatiha.
