Attacks on Allāh’s ﷻ Sulṭānate

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرُسُلِهِ أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الصِّدِّيقُونَ ۖ وَالشُّهَدَاءُ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ لَهُمْ أَجْرُهُمْ وَنُورُهُم

(Qur’ān 57:19)

‘Wa l-Ladhīna ‘Āmanū Bi-Llāhi Wa Rusulihi, ‘Ūlā’ika Humu s-Siddīqūna Wa sh-Shuhadā’u ‘Inda Rabbihim Lahum ‘Ajruhum Wa Nūruhum’

‘And those who have believed in Allah and His messengers – those are [in the ranks of] the supporters of truth and the martyrs, with their Lord. For them is their reward and their light.’ Ṣadaqa Llāhu l-‘Aẓīm.

Allāh Azza wa Jalla is saying, those who believe in Allāh ﷻ and Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam their ‘ajir (reward) is like the shahīd. They are shahīd and believers in the Divine Presence of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. This is how they were raising the Islamic nations; in this way. To make everything for Allāh ﷻ, to be acceptable. And as believers in Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla they sacrificed everything, even themselves.

What does Allāh ﷻ want? He ﷻ wants us to spread justice, spread the good thing around the world. Of course, shayṭān is not happy with this. All the khalīfah, khulafa, after Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam: khulafa’ rāshidīn, and after khulafa’ rāshidīn, the normal khalifah of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam – their whole life was to spread this good thing for all of humanity.

And then, the last one was Ottoman, the Ottoman Sulṭāns. They sacrificed themselves just to keep this way, the Sulṭānate of Allāh ﷻ in this world. Because Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam says, “السُّلْطَانُ ظِلُّ اللَّهِ فِي الْأَرْضِ”, “As-Sulṭān dhillu l-Llāhi fi l-arḍī”, “The sultan is God’s shade on the earth.” Meaning the Sulṭān is the shadow of Allāh ﷻ in this world. Of course, Allāh ﷻ doesn’t have any shadow or like what we know. But it means to show people that the Sulṭān is very important.

So, after the Sulṭān, after they took down the Sulṭān Khalīfah, everything was going upside down. Nothing was going well. But still, shayṭān and his followers, are even trying to destroy the image of the Sulṭān. They are saying, “They were oppressors, they were like this, they were like that, they killed people, they killed this nation.” And it’s all a lie. In Islamic states everywhere, there were every kind of people, every kind of religion, all living in peace.

If they were obeying and giving their tax – maybe people thought the tax was very much. No, it was not like this. In Europe, when there was feudal lords or others, they were taking maybe more than half, even more. They were not leaving anything or very few from tax for people. But in Islamic nations, for Muslims, they give out zakāt. For others, not zakat but only a little bit tax. And they were living, they were worshipping, doing everything. But if they were doing war against the Sulṭān, who do this must also be punished. Without this, there cannot be justice.

Many of these people were sometimes attacking the villages of Muslims, killing women, children, elders. They thought they would win, but they were quickly taken and they did what must be done. You cannot leave a bad thing, a rotten thing in a place, for others also will be rotten. So, you take this out. Even now, they say if there is a little bit cancer in some place, you must cut it and take it out. What about the most important thing for millions of people to be living in peace! These thieves and bad people were trying to come against the Sulṭān, and were using the religion and the nationality to destroy it. So, they were taken out for this.

They say, Islām was spread by sword. Why was it spread by sword? Because there were oppressors on top of people. They were using the sword to oppress people, killing their nations and citizens. And so, Islām was coming. And people were happy. Many of them quickly accepted Islām. And some continued without Islām, paying a small tax. They continued living safely and peacefully.

This is Islām. But when others come, they even kill their own people from their religion because they are another kind. ‘Isa ‘alayhi s-salam says, if anybody hits you on the right cheek, you turn the other. But without anybody hitting you, you slaughtered in Quds, 70,000 Muslims, Christians, Jewish, anybody you saw. They didn’t leave anybody. How can they say after that, “This is Christianity. We are going to spread peace”?

And after this, all of this, after Khilafah, they found emptiness and put the unluckiest Muslims. We have a Turkish saying, “Merhametten maraz doğar.” Violence comes from mercy. Because you were merciful to the one who doesn’t deserve mercy, he will kill you. This is what happened to Muslim states, because they were all merciful and kept people without oppressing them. After that, they betrayed the Muslims and destroyed the whole Khilafah. After the Khilafah also, they put these Muslim traitors.

They gave them women, they gave money – I don’t know how they made them to be fond of the European life. They say, “Europeans are more civilized. So, we must be like them, to try to be like them.” This was all around the Muslim countries, for the last 150 years, since Mawlānā Shaykh was cursing and hating this French Revolution. Since that time.

The French Revolution is still there. It is not finished; it continues. In shā’a Llāh, Sayyidina Al-Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam will finish it. The whole world is like this. This is a big lie in which they say that the king was an oppressor and they wanted to take over Bastille to save the people inside. But what happened? Even the historians say, when they went to Bastille, they imagined they would find people in chains and only bone and skin on them.

But there were seven people, masha’Allah, like our people now, overweight. There was nothing like that [what they imagined]. And they were not happy to go to their houses, but they kicked them out. And they said, the French farmers were 10 times happier than the English, richer than English. So, the Freemasons were doing this revolution, and still, they are controlling all around the world. Don’t try to take them out. Only Mahdi alayhi s-salām will do so, in shā’a Llāh. He will take them out.

And, as we said, they are destroying religion, destroying other religions. Christianity is finished. Nobody believes in Christianity. They all became atheist or other things. They are destroying Islām also. You see, there are many Muslims, but their belief is – if old ‘ālims see this belief, they not accept them as Muslims.

For this, our only hope, alhamduliLlah, is to wait for Sayyidina Al- Mahdi. And, in shā’a Llāh, everything is showing that he must be near, in shā’a Llāh. This is our situation. Our wazīfah is, as Mawlānā Shaykh said: make du’ā’ every time for Mahdī ‘alayhi s-salām. We are waiting for the faraj, meaning opening. And Allāh ﷻ rewards us for this also, in shā’a Llāh. May Allāh ﷻ help us. May Allāh ﷻ be with us to not be cheated by others. May Allāh ﷻ give hidāyah for Muslims also to not follow what shayṭān is cheating them with, in shā’a Llāh. Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq.

Al-Fatiha.

• Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 

17 February 2025/ 18 Sha’ban 1446

Ottoman Centre, Sheikh Nazim Dergah; London, UK