2026-04-12 - Dergah, Akbaba, İstanbul
May Allah protect us all from the fitnas of the end times.
Fitna means that the devil attacks from all sides to steal people's faith, to take it from them, and to leave them as disbelievers.
For the greatest enemy of mankind is the devil.
The devil wants to keep man away from all of Allah's mercy.
He wants to take away his faith, so that man rebels against Allah and does not recognize Him.
In order to strengthen true faith, one must follow the path of our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.
Whoever remains on the path shown by him – the path of the Prophet's companions, the scholars, the friends of Allah, and the madhhabs – will, Allah willing, save his faith.
Otherwise, he will die without faith, may Allah protect us from that.
The fitna we are talking about now, and the worst part of it, are those who appear under the title of "scholars".
For the last 100 to 150 years, people have been appearing who say: "Islam is outdated, let us renew it; let us reform the religion, let us do this and that."
They do not carry out reforms, but rather directly inject the ideas of the enemies of Islam into the Islamic world.
In this way, they rob people of their faith and leave them in disbelief.
Therefore, one must be very careful.
The faith of the Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, the path of our Prophet (sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam), the madhhabs, and the tariqa are important.
For a Muslim to be able to preserve his faith, the school of law and the spiritual path are of great importance.
If these do not exist, a person strays from the path and goes astray.
He goes astray and no longer knows what is right and what is wrong.
He believes he is doing good, but in the end, he will suffer bitter disappointment.
He is left with neither faith, nor Islam, nor anything else.
He loses his greatest, most important, and most valuable treasure.
And why is that so?
Our Prophet calls these people "Ulema-i Su", which means "evil scholars, scholars of evil".
These are scholars who lead people astray.
They study two lines in the name of Islam, and in the end, they themselves are left without faith.
They end up disbelieving and lead others astray as well.
The poor people who acquire knowledge with the thought "Let us be religious, invite people to faith, and strengthen our faith" then lose everything that is called faith because of these so-called scholars and fall into disbelief; may Allah protect us.
One must pay close attention to this.
One must never make compromises regarding the tariqa, the sharia, and the madhhabs.
Do not listen to those who say: "These things are unnecessary."
No matter what community they belong to, how many books they have written, or how many readers they may have; stay away from them.
Stay away from such scholars who do not accept the madhhabs and the tariqas.
In the recent past, during the time of Sultan Abdulhamid II, all those scholars or poets who opposed him had not the slightest value.
Because they tried to carry out reforms against the tariqa and the religion, became tools of the devil, and collaborated with the allies of the devil.
Never believe that they are on the true path.
How much they have harmed Islam is known to Allah, the true scholars, and the conscious people.
Even if the true scholars raise their voices against it, they immediately suppress the voices of those scholars.
May Allah protect us from all evil and from the wicked.
The greatest danger and the greatest sin rest on the shoulders of such people.
Those who lead people astray bear a very heavy burden of guilt.
Because of them, in the late Ottoman Empire and afterwards, millions of Muslims were destroyed not only spiritually but also physically; the people were driven from their homeland.
Despite all this material and spiritual destruction, people still do not wake up; unfortunately, there are many who follow them.
May Allah give us all understanding and vigilance, insha'Allah.
