KHUTBA EID UL-FITR 1446 HIJRI SHEIKH HASSAN (30.03.2025)
Sohbat Sheikh Hassan -English translation
30th March 2025, Osmanische Herberge Kall
Ayyuhal Mu’minun!
Oh you brothers and sisters! Eid Mubarak! Eid Mubarak is gathering for the celebration of the end of Ramadan. Ramadan flew by, that’s how it felt, mashallah and Allah ﷻ gave his gifts to everyone who asked for them. May Allah ﷻ accept it and protect us and let us keep what we have achieved, or what we have received, the gifts we have been given in our hearts – the Mu’mins, Muslims – and to live with and expand them until the next Ramadan inshallah.
It is not easy to maintain one’s mental state and attention, given the situation in this world, which is becoming 99% crazy, where there is no longer any rationality or reflection. There is no more thinking, you can’t find anyone who still thinks anywhere, among the politicians, among the leaders of the countries, who only oppress their own countries and other countries with bad qualities – with greed and with a lust for power.
These are all characteristics that reflect ourselves. Every human being has such characteristics that can only come from the human being – and they come from the human being, because every human being basically has four enemies. We have no external enemies, no other countries are our enemies, no other person is your enemy, you are your own enemy and you have your enemies within you who want to pull you away from your faith. And these enemies are the ego – the Nafsul-Ammara Bissu – and Hawa – the desires that arise from there – and this world that seduces you, and Shaytan that combines them all. Shaytan combines these and whispers to us and occupies us. And it’s good for nothing, nothing at all. And running after the Dunya is good for nothing, for nothing. Not in this world – in this world you will suffer if you have this attitude, and in Akhira even more. There’s only suffering there.
The only thing that can satisfy us and make us happy is to increase our faith, increase our knowledge – our knowledge that Allah ﷻ is with us. Allah ﷻ is with you – you have to know that. You have to think about it carefully, and know it, and think about it, and meditate on it – that you are not here, sitting, from somewhere, by chance: „Somehow I was born, from my father, my father fathered me and my mother gave birth to me and now I’m sitting here.“ – No! Allah ﷻ brought you here and no one else. This is something you have to think about and know carefully, so that you know and raise your awareness about the presence of Allah subhana wa ta’ala – Who is always with you, Who is always with you. Wherever you are, wherever you go, whatever you do, He is with you and He sees you.
And everyone writes down, the angels write down what you do. It’s like in a computer, nothing is missing. Everything is seen on Yawmul-Qiyama – every little deed, every little emotion, every little thought, every little deed is registered and is seen, and then you are judged. And who judges you? Yourself! You yourself are your main judge, you will see what your fate is after this life. That’s why we should try.
Here came the question of the brotherhood, of maintaining a brotherhood. Don’t just be a Muslim who sometimes goes to the mosque for Eid, and goes to the mosque on Friday and otherwise doesn’t worry about anything. You have brothers and sisters. You have brothers and sisters who are on the way, that is valuable, very valuable – having a companion. These are the companions. The greatest, most famous companions are the companions of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Ashabi kiram. Why are they called companions? Because they were his companions, they swore allegiance to him. Have you sworn loyalty? Take the oath of allegiance! We did it. Our Jama’at takes the oath of allegiance to our Sheikh, our spiritual guide.
Without a spiritual guide there is no path, and no loyalty, and no security on this path – without a spiritual guide, without a Murshid. Everyone agrees on that. The whole Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama’at all over the world agree that every Muslim needs a Murshid. It’s not enough to come to Juma once a week and then say, ‘I’m on the right track.’ That is not enough. That is not enough for happiness. That is not enough to fulfill your heart. It is not enough to come to beauty, to wisdom, to the divine oceans.
Allah ﷻ is merciful. He himself says, subahana wa ta’ala: „My mercy is greater than my anger.“ Alhamdulillah! Alhamdulillah! No matter how weak we are, no matter how weak we are, no matter how many mistakes we make, Allah ﷻ has mercy on us and forgives us. Therefore, use this time to ask for forgiveness. That was Ramadan and it continues, it is not finished, the forgiveness is always open, the granting of forgiveness is always open. And forgive your brothers and sisters if they have done something to you. Do not quarrel, do not quarrel with them, and do not put fire to the quarrel, the separation.
Shaytan tries to separate us, he is the separator. He wants to separate you so that you have no companion on the path of faith. That’s why he says: „Be with the people, be with the party people, be with the show people, be with those who don’t believe in Allah ﷻ, be with those who give you the freedom, where you can do whatever you want, dance, drink, do drugs, anything, anything you can do.“ Shaytan tells you ‘it doesn’t matter, it’s okay’ – and it’s a path to unhappiness, to dependency and unhappiness, to endless sadness, to endless suffering. And the opposite is being with the good guys. Be with good people! Tell your children, ‘be with good people!’ Don’t let them go anywhere. Take care of your children, you have responsibilities, you have responsibilities. Allah ﷻ asks you: „What have you done with your children?“ – „Yes, I let them go there, to the disco and everywhere, let them do everything so that they would be happy – because they were always complaining and moaning – I gave them everything.“ You will be condemned for this.
There is the beautiful way, there is the right way, there is the clean way and we have to live by it. And we have responsibility for our families. And the men who head the family are asked. They will be asked: „What did you do to your family, to your children, to your wife? How did you treat them? How did you treat them, when you know that the best Muslim is the one – and the best Mu’min – who treats his wife most kindly and treats his family most kindly. Have you treated your family kindly?“ – „No, I beat her. I beat her and oppressed her, and oppressed my children.“
It’s a bad sign and a bad end. The Prophet ﷺ clearly stated what we should do and what we should not do. Why don’t you listen to that? Find someone to tell you that. It’s not enough to look at the books every now and then, it’s not enough. You need someone who is the example, who shows you how to treat your family, how to treat your brothers and sisters, how to deal with justice. You need an example, a living example. Do you have such an example? Then follow this example – there are! Allah ﷻ leaves them for us in this world. Allah ﷻ does not leave us alone and says: „I leave you to your fate, do what you want, you are with Shaytan and you are with it…“ – No! There are my friends, says Allah ﷻ, Awlyia kiram, the friends of God – they are there, they are the ones you have to look for and follow – not people who are hypocrites.
There are such hypocrites among Muslims, all over the world, who say: „Don’t love the Prophet ﷺ too much, you can’t say Salawat, you can’t do this, you can’t do that, you’re doing Shirk, you’re doing association.“ And Muslims, simple Muslims who don’t know Arabic – and the people, who say something like that, they know Arabic – they say: „Oh! He knows Arabic, he knows more than me.“ Nope! He doesn’t know more than you, he’s one Shaytan. This is a shaytan who wants to seduce you. You are Bosnian or something else and your heart tells you otherwise, your heart says: „Love the Prophet ﷺ more and more, and love the people, and love the brothers and sisters, through the love of the Prophet ﷺ.“
And do Salawat sharifa as much as you can – more and more. It will be good for you. It will be for the best for you. It will give you contentment in this life and the next life – instead of giving importance to this world. Don’t worry about politics. Don’t worry about what happens. Crazyness is happening now. Madness is upon us. The madness of the ego – the ego that says ‘I am independent.’ And people can’t think. We have some smart people who say something every now and then, mashallah, you can see on social media, in the media sometimes, they are still thinking. And they tell us clearly and prove that our people, our politicians, cannot think. They can’t think. Don’t assume that they can think, think about anything, observe anything, judge anything logically – they can’t do that. We are ruled by zombies, by – I don’t know what to call them – by madmen who have no idea where we’re going. This is the case all over the world, everywhere. This can be observed especially in our country, mashallah. All wrong decisions, wrong decisions, all against people – against people, against their peace, against their well-being, against all reason. There’s not an ounce of reason, not an inch of reason, it’s just the way the decisions are made.
And don’t worry about it – it’s like that! Allah ﷻ wants it that way. Nothing happens that Allah does not want. Allah ﷻ also wants this so that Mahdi alayhi salam can come. Mahdi alayhi salam is coming and will turn all this world around. He will make Batil Haqq everywhere, and he will establish Haqq all over the world. And only he can do it, only he has permission, it has to be someone who has permission from Allah subhana wa ta’ala. It can’t be done by just anyone with any ideas. It is one who has the power, the power of Allah ﷻ subhana wa ta’ala – he will do it. You can’t do it. Politicians can’t do it. Even the people who want something good can’t do it. Shaytan is established everywhere, he has his power everywhere, everywhere and you can’t change anything anywhere.
Therefore, take care of your heart, O Mu’min, be with your heart, be with Allah ﷻ and know that Allah ﷻ does everything, and prevents everything that He does not want. What He doesn’t want doesn’t happen, what He wants happens, and no matter how terrible it looks, it is as it is, as Allah ﷻ wills. You must know this, and you must be content, and you must guard your heart with your faith and with your Islam. Don’t get the idea of not praying. Pray! You have to pray. You must meet Allah ﷻ five times a day, surrender. Don’t say, „I only pray once, only twice, or only Juma or something like that.“ That won’t be enough for you, it won’t be enough to survive this bad world and the bad events that are coming now.
May Allah ﷻ protect us, inshallah, fill our hearts with Iman and with confidence. Stay with your heart, stay with Allah ﷻ, there is always confidence. Stay with the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in his love, increase his love and do not worry about anything else, inshallah.
May Allah ﷻ protect us and increase our faith, increase our faith, inshallah.
