And Rasulullah was saying: ‘Allahumma la takilni ila nafsi tarfatain’, asking for divine support from Allah Almighty. He can’t be able to trust on himself, and he was saying: ’Don’t leave me in the hands of my ego. If Your divinely support and help is going to be cut for even one moment, even S.Muhammad sws is not going to be in existence anymore.’
That is biggest teaching and warning for everyone. Rasululah sws was saying: ‘You must ask a support from Allah Almighty for yourself and say: Support me, o my Lord.’ When you ask support from Allah Almighty, it is like when a person asks support from Niagara; Niagara can’t reach to that one or that one can’t reach to Niagara, but there are ways, pipes, reaching to you. That is a description. Directly it is impossible to reach to the Niagara Falls, but through those pipes that come up to your tap; you open them, and then water comes through them, and you can use it and drink, wash yourself, plant and do anything. But directly it is impossible.
Therefore, when the Prophet said that you must ask support from Allah Almighty, it means that you must show your neediness and say: ‘I am in need of Your support, o my Lord’. And directly you cannot reach Allah Almighty. It is coming to Rasulullah sws, and to him also you cannot reach, because big pipes are coming and if you enter in it, the water can carry you away also. But from those lines come small pipes, reaching to you. Therefore it is said: ‘Iyyaka na’budu wa iyyaka nastain’; that is a big teaching, but most people don’t understand. They think that a servant can ask directly from the Sultan. No. There is a protocol for the Sultanate. As a servant through the palace of the Sultan you can’t go directly to the Sultan and say: ’O your Majesty, I need an ax’, ‘O my Sultan, I need a brush, a pot, a seed for planting, a rope, a shovel, a donkey or a car’. It is true?
You work for Allah Almighty and a servant works for his Sultan, but he can’t ask directly from the Sultan.
‘Iyyaka na’budu wa iyyaka nastain’; that is a big ocean…We are asking your divinely help, support and divinely lights. You can’t directly address him. There is a protocol. Must be. Who belongs to the heavenly Sultanate? Who represents the heavenly Sultanate on earth? You must find those people. His Sultanate is represented on earth, and you must find those responsible people and come to say: ’I am in need of this’. That means that you ask from Allah, but indirectly, because yet you didn’t reach to Allah Almighty. Your ego is the biggest hindrance between you and your Lord Almighty Allah.
Therefore- the servant is weak, and a weak servant must try to reach a support, physically as well as spiritually. If you are not asking, you are going to vanish and finish. Therefore the biggest Adab for servants is to ask from that one, who belongs to Him, Allah Almighty, who is most near to Him. Who is that one, you must reach to him. If you are not reaching to him, it is like you have a mobile and you don’t use the code number, you never reach to your purpose. And there are so many numbers; if you don’t know the perfect code number, you cannot reach even one person. How you reach Allah if you don’t know the code number? You think the code number is partner? No, but it is the way of the protocol. If you ask to reach someone, you must know his code number. Use that number and you reach to your target, purpose or aim that you are asking. If you don’t know, you can’t reach. Not every number is giving to you what you are asking. You say: ’I am asking to you, o mobile’, and mobile is saying: ’Which code number you are asking? Because I have thousands. Which number you want to use through me for your purpose, what you are asking? If you don’t say, you cannot reach.’ People now think when they say: ’Iyyaka na’budu wa iyyaka nastain’, that without any protocol they can reach to Allah; and they never reach. And it is best manner for servants to ask heavenly support. For heavenly support, if you don’t know the code number, you ask the central and say: ’I need that person, but I don’t have the code number’, and they may give to you.
Therefore Rasulullah was saying: ’Allahumma la takilni ila nafsi tarfatain’, ‘O my nation, don’t be with your ego, nafs, but leave it and ask support, heavenly, divine support. Or your ego will cheat you and you think that you reach something, and you reach nothing.’
This is short but powerful…There are realities in it to be well known by everyone who is asking to reach to Allah. It is a good manner, teaching people.