You take it for granted that sheikhs' prayers are accepted.

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If the sheikh is poor, then yes. If he is desperate, then yes.
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If he is orphaned, then yes. If he is sick, then yes. If he is a student, then yes.
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If he is a soldier, then yes. If he's an old man, then yes.
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As long as he knows how to ask for it. He should also know if he has the cheek to
do it.
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Well! Then, yes. But if he doesn't know how to ask for it...
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poor or rich... a sheikh or a disciple... a servant or a sultan.
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Oh! Every letter arrives at its destination.
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The important thing is to get a response to the letter. Not getting any response is
also fine.
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It's better than getting a bad response. But getting a bad response...
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is even better. It might be a warning.
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What is the problem, then? It's the warning. It's like this.
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Who does a person warn? Someone he likes, of course.
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Assume that a passenger... that you know is on the road.
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Suppose that... a human being looking for his way after having lost it.
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And you know where it is. Wouldn't you say, 'Hey, you!'.
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"You are in the wrong direction, follow this path." This is the way we humans...
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warn each other. Well... God will not stop you.
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God warns us with troubles, then.
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Stop. Sit, be paralysed. Become bedridden, be unable to move.
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Think about it. Smarten up. A trouble is the embodiment of a warning.
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What is it, then? So... you are still being warned.
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So you are still in trouble.
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Well? Cheer up, o fool!
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Because someone still loves you.
we don't have a peacock.
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A flamboyant, charming, colourful one.
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Do you know what a peacock is? Have you seen it before?
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-Have you, my dear Cagri? -I have, my sheikh. There was a ship from Egypt. I saw it
there.
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In Alaiye. Tell me, how was it?
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As you said, it has a lot of colours on each of its feathers. When it flaps, one
thinks that one sees Paradise.
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One who's never seen it before thinks it's a bird from Paradise. As a matter of
fact, it was.
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Come down, Cagri. You say it has beautiful feathers.
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Colourful. Silky. We've understood that part.
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Come down now. What do you see? It has feet, my sheikh.
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What's on its feet? There is dust and mud.
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Aha! Tell me that. What is this old man saying?
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He was blind. He's gone completely senile.
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Not at all. Well then, I have to tell you the story of the peacock.
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Actually, the scholars say that... it's a good thing... that this beauty fit for a
king...
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has mud on its feet.
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It signifies humility. I mean, it may be interpreted as such.
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The Book of the Universe is open... to multiple interpretations.
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This is I will tell you another part...
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of this issue then. What I will say is not a fabrication.
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It's written in the Book. I'm an ignorant man. I'm illiterate.
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You've already read it. It has mud on its feet, to which no one pays attention.
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It charms the fool with its colorful feathers. Who cares its muddy feet?
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It even seduces the snake. How? I will tell you.
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Iblis, you know? When he was expelled from heaven he became obsessive.
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He kept thinking how he could... trick Adam, day and night.
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One day, he saw that... a snake and a peacock were coming out of Heaven's door.
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He start to poison their minds. And the snake thinks that... he can do nothing to
it...
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because the snake has poison. Upon seeing the snake and the peacock out of Heaven's
door...
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Iblis went up to them. "You will be expelled from Heaven..."
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"so will Adam," he said to them. "If you get me back in heaven..."
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"I will teach him my ways." "So neither you nor Adam will be expelled from heaven,"
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he promised. The peacock and the snake discussed this.
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And then, the peacock went up to Iblis. "We believe what you said..."
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"but how can we let you in?" "We discussed this but could not find a way."
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"How can we hide you and let you back in Heaven?" Do you know what Iblis did?
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He did some magic... and turned into a pearl.
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Upon seeing that Iblis... turned into a pearl...
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the peacock got the pearl into its mouth. So Iblis went to Heaven in the peacock's
mouth.
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Well, he didn't go there to enjoy the scenery. Iblis is supposed to be that way.
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The peacock brought... the pearl to Hazrat Hawwa.
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The devil did more magic... and metamorphosed from the pearl into a human being.
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He immediately went up to Hawwa. "Hey, Hawwa!" he said.
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"Unless you eat from this tree..." "you'll be expelled from Heaven."
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"It's forbidden," Hawwa said. Iblis would never give up.
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"You will be expelled if you don't eat." "Both you and Adam will be expelled from
Heaven."
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Finally... he managed to trick Hawwa.
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And Hwwa ate from the tree.
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Then she went to Adam. "Hey, Adam!" she said.
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"I ate from the forbidden tree." "Alas," said Adam.
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Woe to them. Hazrat Adam became very sad.
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"Hawwa will be expelled from heaven..." "and I will be far from her," he kept
thinking.
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He couldn't accept that he should be away from her.
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Lest he should leave her alone... lest he should be separated from her...
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he also went and ate from the forbidden tree.
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The peacock couldn't believe... that Iblis did what he said one by one.
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While it was... trying to find a way... to stay in Heaven forever and to not be
expelled from there...
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Iblis played his tricks once again.
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Adam and Hawwa... were expelled from Heaven because of Iblis...
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who came in in the mouth of the peacock... as a pearl.
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The snake that accompanied it... the snake was expelled because of it...
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so, the peacock, Adam, Hawwa, the snake... were expelled from Heaven and came down
to this world.
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The peacock tricked everyone around it. Those who saw its colourful feathers were
deceived by them.
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It caused them to be expelled from Heaven.
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Those who are fooled by its colourful feathers... are like Iblis in its mouth.
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The peacock is such a bird. It gives hope to the fool.
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It deceives everyone like that. Do you know what that tree was?
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It was the Forbidden Tree. It's the tree that Adam and Eve... ate from even though
it had been forbidden.
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It could be wheat. Then what is this wheat?
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Why, it's worldly goods. It is whatever nafs seeks.
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Who goes after the wheat may keep following the peacock.
Days and weeks have passed since his blind accident. An accident is never blind...
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as long as you are not blind. Some people are blind like me...
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and some have a huge ego that blinds them. Well, what did you expect?
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If you ride a dragon with your tiny little...
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and weak body... well, how can you restrain that dragon?
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Obviously, I'm talking about nafs. If you ride a seven-headed dragon without
knowing yourself...
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you may fall off a horse... or may get easily carried away.