The Flags In The Second Conquest Of Istanbul

04 September 2012

Posted by Nureddin in sohbet, Shaykh Abdul Kerim, Jihad, Seculatrism, Kufr, Ottomans

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim

Tasawwuf and the Power of the armies of Islam.

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Extract of a sohbet given by Sheykh Abdul Kerim Effendi of nakshibendi hakkani tarika, representative of Maulana Sheykh Nazim el Hakkani el Kibrisi Hz.

May 30,2008

BismillahirRahmanirRahim

WAKE UP YOUR SLEEPING LEGEND

In the last 100 years the Muslims have fallen into heedlessness, big heedlessness, not half of the day and not only in the nighttime. Believers should not be in heedlessness even when they are sleeping. Believers should be in an awakening station.

Today’s people are twenty-four hours heedless. We are falling into that because we are not living the way we are believing. We are following some other guides and our guides have become computers, televisions, internets and all other things that are in our lives today. If we continue like this then we have nothing to leave to our children and to our grandchildren. Nothing. We have nothing to leave to them.

Islam is going to rise but we are going to be questioned because we didn’t leave anything to them, because we are not keeping the correct lifestyle of Islam, how are you going to leave anything else to somebody coming behind?
Everything is showing today anyway, the lifestyle that the Muslims are living and how their children are living. It is showing. I don’t need to tell you anything. Check in your houses, look and understand.

“Does this fit to the Holy Prophet’s (sws) time? Does this fit to the time of the Sahaba? My actions and everything I am doing, does it fit that I can present it to the Holy Prophet (sws)?”

It doesn’t. If you are finding that it does then let me know. It doesn’t.

Muslims were not like this before. Muslims left everything. They left their belongings, they left their homes, they
left everything in Mecca and they emigrated to Madina. They didn’t take anything with them. The only thing they were looking at was the Prophet (sws) and they were running after his words.Whatever he was saying, they were running, they were taking and putting his words on top of their heads and living according to those words. And in a very short time Allah swt tested them. When He tested them and He looked at their faith that, `Yes, they are strong in what they are believing’, He gave them the Dunya too.

Turn the pages of history and look back.

Sultan Mehmet Khan conquered Istanbul when he was in his twenties. Because of one word of the Holy Prophet (sws) twenty years of his life he concentrated on that word.

Yes, because of one word of the Holy Prophet (sws)… he said, “Istanbul, Constantin, Rome is going to be conquered. The one who is going to conquer that, that General is the highest General and his army is the best of armies.”
From the time that the Holy Prophet (sws) said that word up till the time of Sultan Mehmet Khan who was given the title `Fatih’ the Conqueror, from that time until his time, twenty-three times Islam, its soldiers were coming in front of Istanbul with all its power. But they were not successful.

And then, only a handful of people who were believing and aiming in something came together. To what they were aiming, they said, “There is no turning back. Either we are here to live our life here and go clean from this world to the other side or we are going to conquer this.” Because of the faith that they were carrying, Allah subhana wa ta’ala’s favor reached to them and they conquered.

Sultan Mehmet Khan conquered. He brought end to a wrong lifestyle. He brought end to wrong laws.

Check the history books saying, `1453. Eh, what happened?’

`The end of Roman Law.’

`What begins from that time?’

They are scared and ashamed. Europeans and Americans, too proud ones to put it in their books to say, `The ruling of Islam came to teach us how to live like humans.’

Yes. Islam came to Europe to teach man how to wash themselves. Yes. Islam came to bring soap to them to wash themselves. They did not have toilets. They did not have soap to wash and to clean themselves. Everyone is scared to talk about this now.

`I am going to bother my European and American friends.’

What did Sultan Mehmet do? What did he do before he conquered Istanbul? He moved the ships over the mountains. He dragged the ships over the mountains and he brought them to the sea.

That was why the Greeks at that time, the Byzantines, were shocked next morning when they saw the ships, because they never expected that the ships will be on that side.

If the ships couldn’t enter from that side, through the Bosphorus, then it was impossible at that time to conquer Istanbul. It was because they (the Greeks) put a very big link chain from one side to another side of the Bosphorus and when enemies were coming there, they had to enter through the range point of what we call the Greek Fire.
They were throwing it in the air, it was flying and falling on the ships, like the kind of today’s cannons, and the ships would start burning.

So it was impossible for ships to come near even to that big chain link and it was impossible to cut it also.
When they said that to Fatih, he said to them, “So if we cannot go from the sea then what about the mountain? We have a mountain. Move the ships over the mountains and bring them to the other side.”
Everyone was shocked.

He said, “Yes, I am giving order. Tonight everything has to move to the other side.”

And they moved seventy-three pieces of ships, like today’s ships, very huge ones. They cut big logs from the mountains, they put it on the ground, they brought oil, they put it on the logs, tied the ships to the soldiers and all these things, they pulled it on top of the mountain, they dropped it on the other side of the sea and slowly they entered into the sea overnight when everyone was sleeping.

In the morning when the Greeks saw all the ships on this side. They were all shocked. That was the winning part of the battle because once you see that they have entered then it is impossible to stop them. They bombarded the castles from this side and from every side they were entering and they took over the city.
That happened because the Greeks at that time, the Byzantines, were becoming weak with their religion. They were holding their religion very tightly before.

When the Turks came in front of Istanbul, the scholars and all priests came in front of the king of the Byzantines and they warned him. They said to him, “Make preparations because they came.”

He said, “Who?”

They said, “The Turks.”

He said, “Are you joking with me? Twenty-three times they (Muslims) came to conquer Istanbul. It was impossible to conquer. And these handful of Turks are going to take it?”

The scholars then said to him, “These ones are different. They are different than the Arabs. They are honoring what their Prophet said and the Prophet said that this city is going to be conquered. This one who came, he came with preparations. For seven generations they are preparing for this and this one came to stay. He is not going back.”
The king got so upset that he put everyone in jail. All the priests were in jail. Now he doesn’t have the support of the wise men too. So he was alone with his anger.

When the Sultan conquered, he brought everyone out of jail and he said to them, “Why were you in jail?”
They said to him, “This is what happened. We said to him that you were coming and he was upset. We said to him that you will conquer if he doesn’t prepare.”

So the Sultan said to them, “Now I am asking you something. Is anyone going to conquer this city from my hand? You are the scholars. You knew what was coming. You said to him that I was going to conquer. So is there anyone conquering it from me?”

They said to him, “Give us three days to circle around where you are, where your army is and in three days time we will tell you.”

So they went out and in one day, within twenty-four hours time they came back. They said, “It is enough for us what we have seen. As long as you are a just ruler like this and your soldiers are like that it is impossible. No one can take over.”

For seven hundred years no one did, because they were ruling correctly and the army was just.
Seven hundred years later they weren’t allowed to rule correctly. People wanted to bring democracy and the army weakened.

Istanbul is gone now. It is in the hand of seculars. It is not in the hand of Turks. It is in the hand of unbelievers.
Istanbul is going to be conquered again. And Holy Prophet (sws) is saying, `Rome is going to be conquered a second time.’ Yes, Rome means Rum. Istanbul. It is going to be conquered a second time.

In that second conquering we are the ones who are going to conquer it. Don’t forget this. You are going to remember one day in front of Istanbul. So this is a message.

Sheykh Effendi recited some verses from the poetry of Sulayman Celebi Hazratleri and someone translated it for the listeners:

“You are at the hand, you are at the tongue, you are at the heart, you are on top of the head You are the same age that Fatih conquered Istanbul My young men, when you take the sign from your grandfathers You are going to move and the whole nation is going to move behind you I have brought salam from Ulubatli Hasan.”

Ulubatli Hasan was a soldier. When they first came in front of Istanbul and Fatih put the first battalion who was going to go, they didn’t choose Ulubatli Hasan. He was one of the soldiers who wanted to be the first one to be going, fighting and become a martyr. But they didn’t choose him from the first ones who were going to attack. He was from the second ones.

That night everyone was preparing because in next morning everyone has to go to war. This is not a war like now. They were going with their lives, running in front of the arrows and everything. So there was a ninety percent possibility that you are going to die the next day. So all night long the soldiers were sitting and reciting the Quran.
The Sultan changed his clothes and he was going from tent to tent to see how the army was doing, what was their hope and how they were feeling about the first hitting to the city.

He entered into the tent of Hasan and he was reciting the Quran. As soon as he finished, the Sultan said, “MashaAllah, you are reciting very good Quran. You must be very beloved to Allah.”

He said, “No, I am not. I know that I am not because He didn’t choose me to be amongst the first ones to go to war.”
The Sultan said, “Well, the Generals must know something and you must submit.”

He said, “Yes, I submit but I am very sad that I am not from the first ones.”

And he (Sultan) said to him, “Who are you?”

He said, “I am a person from this village called Ulubat.” It is not too far from Istanbul. And he said, “My name is Hasan.”

He said, “Who are you?”

The Sultan said, “My name is Mehmet and I am from Edirne.” Sultan is not saying that he is the Sultan.
He said, “I wish to see you after the war.”

Hasan looked at him and he said, “How are you talking like this? I didn’t come here to live after the war. I came here to become martyred in the war.”

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So the Sultan realized it. He said to himself, “With these soldiers I am going to conquer this city.”

When the second time they were hitting, he (Hasan) was from them and he was carrying the flag. The flagmen were going first. They have to go bringing the Prophet’s (sws) flag to the highest point and put it high. Once it is up, new electricity generates in the whole army, they attacked and nothing can stop them then.

So the one that is carrying the flag must go first. So all those were running. If a person is carrying the flag, they have a battalion of army around them too. So when one is dying, the flag should not fall on the floor. The other one has to grab it.

Look, (Sheykh Efendi recited another verse in Turkish). Understand what the meaning is?The poet is saying that just because of one crescent so many suns are disappearing, they are dying.

Ulubatli Hasan carried it and he went up to the castle and he was holding it. When he was holding it, hundreds or arrows were coming towards his body. He was holding but he was falling. He was dying but he was holding the flag. Then other soldiers were coming and holding and they calculated that more than fifty people died on top of each other just to hold the flag up like that.

After it stood up, the whole army entered from every side and the city was conquered. It was impossible to conquer Istanbul then because it was the biggest city and it had the most powerful army, with everything they had and everything they built it was impossible to penetrate through. And they did it.

That’s why when you check the encyclopedia about the conquest of Istanbul, what does it say?

Check 1453 in the encyclopedia in English and see what it says there. What does it say?

A murid replied: “The end of Roman rule.”

It says the end of Roman rule but it’s not saying anything else there after that. Sultan Mehmet finished the Middle Ages and he opened the New Age. The beginning of the New Age is 1453. The end of Roman rule, the Greco-Roman, the Byzantine rule is finished. So everything changed. The whole world changed turning from the Middle Ages to a new era.
So that’s Ulubatli Hasan. The poet is saying, “I am bringing you salam from Ulubatli Hasan”, meaning, get ready to become martyred. (Sheykh Efendi smiles). That’s what it means.

Sheykh Efendi then continue translating the poem for the listeners.)

“You also can get rid of the mother’s love, father’s love and all those you love.” – Meaning, you can sacrifice these also for the sake of Allah.

“So let’s read your legend through the hearts.” - Show your legend to us. That’s what it means there.

“It looks like you are not even realizing the value that you are carrying. This history is of Fatih and Selim and Sulayman. This mihrab is of Cinaneddin and this minaret is of Sinan.” – Meaning, those people of old who built these are speaking to you.

“Let’s go and wake up your sleeping legend.”

Hmm. The sleeping legend. Wake up your sleeping legend or they will wake you up and send you to the other side.
Be careful. Everyone should wake up. This is not a circus. This is reality. Anyone who is with me should prepare themselves for that. Yes, Istanbul is going to be conquered a second time. Are you preparing yourself for that or are you living lifestyle heedlessly and daydreaming and night-dreaming and daydreaming and night-dreaming?

Wake up! We must wake up to our own selves. The first thing is we have to live Islam on ourselves. Then we have to run after rising Islam up. Islam is up. We have to put the support underneath.

Today’s Muslims, no, they are not doing it because they are running to live for themselves. But they are not even living for themselves, let alone Islam. Those people lived for Islam. They left everything, they left their children, their families, whatever they owned, they left it when they were going for the sake of Allah. They didn’t make plans for turning back. They made plans thinking, `I will become a martyr in this war.’ That’s how they went.

Oh Muslims! Check yourselves. Don’t wait for me to say anything to you. Check your own selves and you will find out with this tester where we are standing and stop fooling your own selves. We should stop fooling our own selves.
When we are saying, `Yes, Istanbul is going to be conquered one more time,’ the Muslims are laughing. The ones who are not smiling, inside they are laughing saying, `What a joke is he saying!’

That’s true for you because you are heedless! Because your faith is not moving you anymore. The faith is not moving you. Only you think your mind is moving you but through mind you are stuck in this world too. You can’t use that mind. Stuck twenty-four hours.

Islam is going to take over but the Muslims if they are heedless then Allah is not in need of us. He says, `I will create new nations and I will give to them.’ As He did. When we became heedless He took it from us and He gave the power to other nations. If they wake up, they wake up. If they don’t then He will take it from them and He will give it to other nations.

This is going to rise. It is the Holy Prophet’s (sws) order. It is going to come up. It is impossible to go down. We have to look at what we are doing in it, how we are preparing ourselves and how we are making ourselves ready in that way. Not to be heedless twenty-four hours, yes.

Wa min Allahu taufiq

Bihurmatil Habib, Bihurmatil Fatiha

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