God says, “Walk and work for Me.” He wants you to work and
to surrender at the same time. He does not want you to stay at home like
the person who says, “I
stay at home and do not work and Allah sends me everything.” The Khalifah ‘Umar
came to a man in the mosque and said, “Why are you still here?”
He said, “I want to always be praying.” ‘Umar asked
him, “Who give you food and who brings food to your children?”
The man answered him, “God.” ‘Umar said, “But
who told you to always be in the mosque and to not work and to leave
your children? This is not praying.”
The deep praying is to know Him in every face and in every job. ‘Umar took
a stick and hit him, “Wake up! God and find work to feed yourself and your
children, and feed the animals and everything. Go to know how to help people.
This is the deep praying for you! Do not leave your religion to die. It is important
to not call yourself a Muslim.” This is the meaning of the real surrender,
my beloveds, to work and when you work you know with Whom you work. You work
with God. You follow His Order. Allah wants you to be very careful with the earth.
This is the meaning of the surrender, trust-trust God.
Many Dervishes or Sufi people speak about themselves as Sufi and say that the
Sufi Way is to keep your self inside the Zawiyah and to pray. This is the understanding
of the Sufi for himself, but this is not the way. Allah does not like to see
any one of His beloveds weak. He likes to see His beloveds strong in the perfect
way, to know how to give and how to work. You see many who say they are Sufi
and who keep themselves inside praying. I tell them this is not the right kind
of praying. You are praying for yourself, but God wants you to pray for another
and to give to others. This is praying and this is the meaning of al-Islam.
Where is this religion from? The Prophet, may peace be upon him, worked. He carried
the message but at the same time he had a business. He traveled often from Mecca
to Damascus bringing things everywhere. This is because he searched about the
right life. You can know the Beloved of Allah (the Prophet, may Allah bless him)
when you live between the people. How can you know how to help people if you
do not live between them? If you do not have a business, how can you be honest?
And when you have work, you learn how to give, how to take, and how to care about
everything, even animals and plants. The Prophet, may peace by upon him, had
many sheep and cared for them. And he cared about himself because he wanted to
feed the people. He helped himself and, others. This is al-Islam. The Islam does
not like weakness. If you are healthy in body and mind, then it is important
to go and work but to be straight in everything, to see how to work, to follow
when you work, and to change everything, beloved, because the teaching comes
through you when you walk straight and follow the teachings of Allah.
Allah
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