2026-07-11 - Dergah, Akbaba, İstanbul
Our Prophet (sallAllahu aleyhi wa sallam) said: If one gives free rein to the human ego (Nafs) – which everyone carries within them – it will never be satisfied.
The ego is absolutely insatiable.
The more one gives it, the more it demands.
It is not said for nothing: "It is shameless and brazen," and that is exactly how it is.
The human ego is so excessive that, if given the chance, it becomes just like that of Pharaoh.
Pharaoh too worshipped his own ego, and in the end, he even forced his people to worship his ego – that is, himself.
The human ego knows no bounds; if all obstacles are cleared from its path, it can go extremely far.
Therefore, from the very beginning, when it is still small, one must not even give it the opportunity to do so.
One should, as much as possible, not immediately give in to one's desires; even with necessary, worldly things, one should practice patience, because the ego is demanding and impatient.
Especially nowadays, people have created a so-called "consumer society".
Everywhere, everything is aggressively forced upon people, whether good or bad, with the constant demand: "Buy this, buy that!"
And the ego strives to get hold of as much of it as possible.
Besides the visible, material things, they also unnoticeably plant invisible things into people's minds.
With statements like "Do this, do that", they make bad things look good, until in the end, a person considers the bad to be good and views things as normal that Allah has actually strictly forbidden (haram).
This is exactly why one must not give the ego this chance in the first place.
One must rein in their ego.
A person must not become a slave to their ego, but must defeat it and keep the upper hand themselves.
However, if the ego gains the upper hand, all your effort was for nothing.
Then it ends like with Pharaoh, and one has ultimately led a completely useless life.
May Allah protect us from this.
Insha'Allah, we will not ruin our lives.
May Allah protect us; may we, insha'Allah, remain protected from the evil of our ego, the devil, and any other evil.
May Allah help the Ummah of Muhammad.
After all, we live in the end times, in which everyone has submitted to the commands of their own ego.
"Here you go, what can we do for you today? At your command, alright, we will do that."
"Let's do this good deed." – "No, leave it." – "Alright then, never mind."
"Let's commit this bad deed." – "Consider it done." – "Let's commit this sin." – "We'll do that too."
By saying "alright" to everything the ego demands, the end-times Ummah has submitted itself day and night to the commands of its ego; whatever it demands, it is said: "We are at your service, we will handle it."
May Allah help us.
May Allah help us all and send us a savior.
May Allah, insha'Allah, free us all, the entire Ummah of Muhammad, from these evils.
