2026-04-16 - Dergah, Akbaba, İstanbul
We should always be grateful to Allah.
Whoever walks the path that Allah loves should be filled with constant gratitude. For Allah guides whom He wills, and leads astray whom He wills.
His actions cannot be questioned; His wisdom is unfathomable.
No one else can give what He bestows upon us.
Therefore, a person walking this path should be deeply grateful.
Furthermore, His blessings are preserved through gratitude; and that is precisely the greatest gift of all.
لَئِن شَكَرۡتُمۡ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمۡۖ (14:7)
Through gratitude, blessings endure permanently.
The gift of faith, of the Tariqa, and of the Sharia... being on this path is a tremendous blessing from Allah, Azza wa Jalla, for us.
Through this blessing, one attains eternal bliss in the Hereafter and is allowed, insha'Allah, to taste this goodness and beauty already in this world.
Once Allah, Azza wa Jalla, has granted people this taste, nothing else appears appealing to them anymore.
They detest sins and any kind of evil.
Even if they stumble once, they do not persist in it, but wish to free themselves from it quickly.
Most people today—may Allah protect us—however, become accustomed to bad things.
And once one has become accustomed to them, it is difficult to break free again.
This, in turn, stems from a lack of faith. One imagines finding true enjoyment in it.
Yet this is by no means the case; rather, it is like seawater.
Whoever drinks seawater out of thirst only becomes thirstier and demands more and more.
In the end, it destroys a person. It brings absolutely no benefit and leads to nothing good.
Therefore, may Allah protect us from this.
Let us be grateful for all these blessings.
May Allah preserve this blessing for us forever, insha'Allah.
And may He also bestow it upon those who do not have it yet, insha'Allah.
May Allah protect us all from our own ego and that of others, insha'Allah.
