Bamteli | Siz Neredesiniz Ey Mü’minler!.. | M. Fethullah Gülen Hocaefendi | (2017/02/26)

The esteemed Fethullah Gülen Hocaefendi said the following in this week's Bamteli conversation: "Let's say you have no mercy on your own soul / Won't you have mercy on your children?!" • Just as charity wards off calamity, so too does the sincere prayer of the majority attract the general spirit. The sincere prayer of the majority is a means for the general salvation from sorrow, grief, and distress. It's such a prayer that a mother, father, and children say to someone on their deathbed: "If you pray so hard, as if you're tearing your heart out, as if you're vomiting your brains out of your nose, they'll all come back!" Praying with that in mind... Every word uttered in prayer should be like the sound of a heart plucked, a plectrum of excitement, a plectrum of "iman-i billah," a plectrum of "marifetullah," a plectrum of "love of Allah"! Perhaps the state of anguish drives us to such a turn. But some of us—the ignorant like me—perhaps fail to consider turning wholeheartedly to Him even in such a state of anguish. They think only of themselves, of what has befallen them. • The ignorant… The ignorant who do not know God truly… The ignorant who do not deeply feel “faith”… The ignorant who do not see “Islam” as an indispensable part of life… The ignorant who are unaware of the horizons of “ihsan”… The ignorant who lack the depth of “yaqin”… The ignorant who are unaware of the concept of “trust in God”… The ignorant who do not know “submission”… The ignorant who do not know “tafviz”… The ignorant who are unaware of the horizons of “sika”… “The ignorant take pleasure in the conversation of the ignorant / The ignorant need to be ignorant as well.” “Conversation with the ignorant is difficult for the knowledgeable / For the ignorant speaks whatever comes to their tongue.” • For three centuries, society They made you so ungrateful?! You tried to escape it. But at certain corners, ghouls appeared before you and said, “No, heedlessness is better!.. Sleeping is better!.. Living like an animal is better!.. It is better to abandon the world and its vices, to dive headfirst into it!.. The real point is to live the world, to be captivated by worldly love!..” They bumped into your order, they bumped into your resolve, they bumped into your hope. • It is up to you/us to regroup and regroup once again. To repair the fractures in the face of so many bumps, we must return to ourselves, evaluate everything within the framework of our own values, and reexamine our relationship with God. Are we bound to Him to the point of death?!. May God forgive us, if we are going to live disconnected from Him for half a day, we must say, “Take His trust!” Are we brave enough, are we courageous enough to say, "Are we brave enough to be in touch with Him?" • It was the cover of Sızıntı's first issue: "Let's say you have no mercy on your own soul / Won't you have mercy on your children?!" (M. Akif) Won't you have mercy on your children, your children... In order to leave them a legacy like the legacy left by the Pride of Humanity, the Rashidun Caliphs, in the name of "faith in God", "marifatullah", "love of God", "spiritual pleasure", "love and yearning for God"... To revive them, to ensure their revival... To be the Israfil of the future generations... To use your excitement like a trumpet and breathe life into them... To your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren, your great-grandchildren, your great-grandchildren... If it is necessary to melt into ashes in the name of staying alive for three centuries, four centuries, five centuries, ten centuries, like Hazrat Abu Bakr, Omar, Osman, Ali (may Allah be pleased with them) We must melt into ashes!.. For the sake of those generations… You can follow our social media accounts! Our Website: https://www.herkul.org YouTube Herkul:    / herkulnagme   YouTube Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@HerkulNagme/... YouTube Herkul Radio:    / @herkulmedia   SoundCloud:   / ewwwmqhnisrrq67p6   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6sVE0Yk... X (Twitter): https://x.com/Herkul_Nagme Instagram:   / herkul.nagme   Facebook:   / herkulnagme   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/herkul.org Herkul.org WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb2V... #fethullahgülen #affliction #charity #prayer #hocaefendi #herkulnagme