Suhbah 2018: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (6/25)
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done the hard as well. He could have very easily done it, but he did this as a mercy for the nation (ummat), to make it easy on us, so all our business and worship would be comfortable and not burdensome or hard. Because Shaitan shows people even the lightest worship that has no burden as difficult. Therefore, do not take on much burden, let us do our worships, and let us not ask for difficult things or for things we cannot carry. May Allah grant us ease in doing our worships. May He give us lightness In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
39.RESPECT: THE TEACHING OF THE PROPHET PBUH Saturday, 24 February 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We make shukr to Allāh that we arrived to this holy place again. Shukr. It is something to be grateful for. It is a big thawāb to visit parents and to visit mashāyikh, to show respect to them.It is the way of our Prophet. It is the beautiful way shown by him.
Adab is the attribute of our Prophet. All adab is in him. When there is no adab, there is no religion. Therefore, shayṭān came in from that door. Whatever adab there is, he is showing it as wrong. He says, "No way. You shouldn't respect anyone. If you respect, you become mushrik. You commit a sin then." Whereas it is completely the opposite. To show respect is the order of our Prophet. It is the way of religion. Because when there is no respect, there is no importance in things done. And shayṭān is without adab. He came against Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and showed no adab. No adab is with shayṭān. A person with no adab is with shaytan.
We read a beautiful ḥadīth last weak, a very beautiful one. When joining an assembly everyone is the same, says our Prophet. No need to differentiate between anyone in the assembly except for three groups: firstly, people of senior age. You should respect them and lead them to their seats. Secondly, the scholars. As they have the knowledge, their rank is high. They should be respected. A scholar is hojja, shaykh, awliyā’, holy ones. You should respect them. It is the order of our Prophet. To show respect to hojjas or shaykhs and to show respect to their tombs, maqāms of awliyā’ is the same because they are alive. They don't die, their spirituality increases. When they depart to ākhirah, we should show more respect to them. Nothing wrong in it.
As we said, it is the work of shayṭān to show the wrong way to people, to show the bad as good. He [shayṭān] couldn't destroy the religion otherwise in this time, so he entered from that side. He finished the belief and faith of so many people. Because our Prophet,
when they say, "We believe," he says, "Don't say you believe, say you become Muslim" (49:14). He says, "You don't have belief." A believer is the one who accepts what our Prophet says and doesn't reject it. And a Muslim is anyone who says lā ilāha illā Llāh. It is a big matter. And the third group to be respected is the leaders of the government. They should be respected too so that the government has majesty. We need majesty. Because when there is no majesty, things don't work, nothing works. And these are the wise words of our Prophet, hadith sharif.
There is wisdom in everything. Even the tiniest thing has a hundred thousand wisdoms, not just one. And this ḥadīth sharīf is like this. To respect people is from the faith, from adab, It is from the sunnah of our Prophet. To do the opposite is from shayṭān. Nowadays shayṭāns became more, they are cheating people. And most people are cheated. Allāh gave understanding to people. They shouldn't be cheated. They should use their minds and think. Our ancestors showed respect and adab for more than a thousand years. Was it bad? No, everyone remembers them with mercy. And these ones are remembered not with mercy but curses, in just 3-5 years, because they messed up everything. They turned everything into chaos.
We ask for understanding from Allāh. May Allāh protect us and not separate us from the right way, In Sha Allah.
Alhamdulilah we arrive again to this holy place. It is big ni‘mah favour to be here. Because, Alhamdulilah, to visiting father Mawlānā and mother – this is from relative visiting also. It is important in Islām and to visit Shaykh it is also very important thing. We respecting and we, Allāh reward us for visiting them. Alhamdulilah we are trying to be all time going, coming, for this Allāh make it reward for all of you, in shā’a Llāh also. Islām it is the good behave of human being. Islām and the best who teach us good behave – Prophet. Whole good behave in his, in his, all together in his – "Innamā bu‘ithtu li’utammima makārimu l-akhlāq" – Allāh send him to complete good behave for people. He want, who he want to be learn good behave must follow Prophet. He Prophet showing us how to be good people, good human being. What he teach us it is best for our nature, for nature of man, for nature of woman, for nature of whole mankind, In Sha Allah.
But they are teaching now, shayṭān teaching. Misbehave? Misbehave. Good behave – Prophet. Opposite – shayṭān. Evil, evil? Evil. He is teaching bad thing, every bad thing teaching and he try, shayṭān, to destroy Islām, way of Prophet. He couldn't but in the
end this, since last century, he he is patient teaching people slowly slowly to be misbehave; misbehave, to not respect anybody. He said you mustn't respect. First they said not respect for ‘ulamā’, for awliyā’ – no need, they are not... they are like us – all we are same. If you respect them, they are saying, you become mushrik, you become kāfir. And they are people cheated by them this people and now you see whole world all they are not respectable people, not respecting anybody, not respecting old, ‘ālim, anybody. They are not respecting at all. And this is teaching of shayṭān because Prophet he is saying to respect each other.
And many ḥadīth and the last week we read in ḥadīth one thing Prophet saying: when you are in majlis like this, all you are same. No don't make, give don't make anything here but there is, if there is three kind of people – if they are coming to majlis you must give them more attention, respect them and put them in place they are deserve. First of this people – elderly people. You must respect them. You must put them in place to, for, because they are elderly and people they must respect elder people. Second one respect – knowledge people who scholar. If any one of them coming, you must put him up, you must put him special place because they are respectable people, they are teaching good behave, teaching good manner, teaching every good thing this people. They are ‘ulamā’, imām, or awliyā’u Llāh, the ṭarīqat people who are teaching. All this people you must put them respect them more. And third kind of people – the people who are ruling country. If they are, anybody of them coming, also you must be respect them because it must be who ruling country they must be respected. To make governor they must be for to be not like ordinary people. If they look like ordinary people, nobody can obey them. For to be obey them they just be for this, they must be appear and give respect for them. If you no respect for them it will be mess in country.
This is what Prophet teaching us and it is from him, his teaching. Who following his teaching he must respect everything. You must accept awliyā’u Llāh. You must respect in their life or in their grave. They are also respected because Prophet saying – the body of mu’min he is respected when he is in life, when he is dead also. You must respect even the bone for any mu’min not only for awliyā’u Llāh. Everyone you must be respect for them. Now there is this people they are going around, they are not respecting. They are opening grave. They are throwing dead people out of grave. This is very bad thing. This is teaching of shayṭān and they are not happy with Prophet. They said he is like us.
This is only people who are following shayṭān they can do this and people they are cheated by them. And they are trying to destroy Islām. But Islām it will be, In Sha Allah,
at the end still until Qiyāmah – Islām. But this people they will be cursed by whole human being. Since more than one thousand four hundred years, Islām following, respecting all what Prophet saying about them and whole people they are speaking about them with mercy. And since last century this new people coming they are not accepting anything and, only in a few couple of, ten years or something like this, they are making whole world to curse them. And it is, it will be they will be finish like bubble of soap, soap. It is they don't have any value. Only what they have for punishment they will have from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla if they are not repent and ask for forgiveness.
So what all what they are saying – what they like they said "this is ḥadīth". What they didn't like, they not accept. But Prophet he said about his ḥadīth – who acceptable, not against sharī‘ah, it is like this. So whole ḥadīth of Ahlu s-Sunnah acceptable. What they are saying not acceptable – it is acceptable also. They are making new ḥadīth. Allāh save us from this people. Allāh give hidāyah for all of them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
40.THE MOST PERFECT EXAMPLE Sunday, 25 February 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
"Wa man yuridu Llāhi bi-khayrihi yufaqqahu fī d-dīn." It is ḥadīth sharīf of our Prophet. If Allāh wishes goodness for someone, He teaches him religion. The more he studies it, the more goodness he will reach. Shukr to Allāh, all of us Muslims – Allāh has wished goodness for us. Even if little, they know the religion. They obey the religion and its orders. They say "I am Muslim" and do as much as they can. Certainly who does more, Allāh wishes more for them. They reach the higher stations. And the highest station is our Prophet's. Then comes that of other prophets, then come ṣaḥābah and awliyā’. They are the people who have reached this favour from Allāh and know its value. "We reached this station."
There are some people not on the way, who say, "We reached it." There is an āyah: "Wa ‘bud Rabbaka ḥattá ya’tiyaka l-yaqīn" (15:99). Worship Allāh until you find the truth. And these ones say, "We found the truth, so there is no need to worship." That means Allāh doesn't wish goodness for them. Who is wished goodness is like our Shaykh because he knows the greatness of this favour. He did all kinds of worship, as much as he could and didn't miss anything. His farḍ was complete and he never missed sunnah. And mustaḥabb. Some things are farḍ for our Prophet and are not farḍ for his ummah. Mashāyikh made it a duty for themselves that everything our Prophet did they did and never missed it. They left ḥarām and apart from ḥarām, they left ḥalāl as well.
I am thinking now, remembering Mawlānā. 35-40 years ago Mawlānā went to a dentist in Lebanon and said he had only few teeth left in his mouth and one of them was completely decayed. When a dentist wanted to pull it out, brothers asked it for themselves. But the tooth broke into three. Mawlānā became angry and said, "It is because of you. It's wrong." Mawlānā never had his half teeth filled. When they deteriorated, he had them pulled. In fact, fixing teeth is not a sin or ḥarām but the exactness of Mawlānā shows how attentive he was regarding Allāh's orders. Since he was fifty-something, Mawlānā wore dentures.
He devoted himself so much on the way of Allāh. Even when something was doubtlessly ḥalāl, while some imāms, we mean imāms of madhhab, disputed if it was permissible,
Mawlānā left them all. He never stepped out of the right way. He showed the right way to all of us. But he was very strict for himself and very merciful for people. He had alot of tolerance. Sometimes he said – one word is enough: "Say lā ilāha illāh Llāh to join Islām." But for himself, as we said, he never made an excuse.
Their methods are for their egos. Why is it so? Because the ego is an enemy. He treated it as an enemy. And he treated Muslims and believers with mercy so that they loved and accepted Islām, so that they are on this way. The things he suffered are not not one in thousand – we don't have even one in hundred thousand. If we had, we would start complaining immediately. Therefore, remembering these holy ones brings mercy to our assembly.
Shukr to Allāh, we are near him and there are many memories, millions of memories. Because everyone has different memory of Mawlānā. When we remember him, it becomes a means for mercy, a means for mercy for us, for our assembly. and for our family. Our love will increase. When love increases, people are with the loved ones. Therefore, this love is a big favour from Allāh. May Allāh always let us love this right way. May He let us love His Awliyā’ and the Prophet, In Sha Allah. May their love be our first priority. May it fill our hearts, In Sha Allah. The love of dunyā is useless. It has no benefit. It is nothing but darkness, nothing but burden. When in ākhirah, if you bring what you loved, it has no benefit. "I loved it and didn't want to share." But when you have the love of Awliyā’, you share it with others too. Your love towards others increases. It becomes useful for them as well. May Allāh give this love to all of us, In Sha Allah.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla for, Prophet saying: "Who want good for servant, Allāh make him to know about His religion, to be knowledgeable in religion." How to be knowledgeable? To accept the way of Allāh – way of Allāh shown by our Prophet. He show us and everything in Allāh Will. If He will for us good thing He make us to follow His way. Other people, other people, His will not to follow right way. What we will do? We object? We say "we not accept"? We cannot say anything because He is our Lord. Only what you can say, not to make any discussion, to ask and accept what He gives you. And when He give you something, you must appreciate this.
The most one who Allāh give him all good thing – our Prophet. He is the top. He, Allāh He want for him the best for Prophet, our Prophet. After all prophets also because Allāh He want, He choose them and then make He make them the best between other creature. After – ṣaḥābah, disciple of Prophet. After them ‘ulamā’, awliyā’u Llāh – real scholar, real knowledgeable people, awliyā’u Llāh. Because they are beloved for Allāh and Allāh love them and will for them the best between people. And they are knowing this. What they, Allāh give them and they are happy and they are doing their best to be to thank for Allāh for what He give them. They are giving whole, whole their life to thanking Allāh
‘Azza wa Jalla, our Lord. They are doing everything He want, He ordered – especially following Prophet. Prophet he said something obligatory for whole nation. And there is many things obligatory for Prophet, not for us. We if we do, like sunnah, it is for us but for Prophet it is obligatory.
Awliyā’u Llāh also they are following Prophet. What he done, everything all awliyā’u Llāh they are following but for us the most perfect example – Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim. He was real following every step for Prophet. He do all sunnah mustaḥabb. And most of awliyā’u Llāh they was, of course they are not doing any sin. They trying to avoid sin. With any very small sin thing they don't like. They not doing but... and they are leaving the suspicious thing even they are leaving – also some who it is not forbidden, you can do it. And you can do it – like we give example for Mawlānā – he was never making fixing his teeth, [so as] not to put inside anything because some ‘ulamā’ saying this it is maybe for wūḍū’ not good. And he was, when finish his teeth, taking out, taking out. And since maybe fifty year old he was, he has dentures. And the I remember in Lebanon once, he one teeth. It was last one. It was that time he, they tried to take it out in one dentist and he was good dentist. and he is follower, murīd. They try, try, and there was – what happen there was three other follower. Each one he said, "I want take this. I want take this." They nearly making discussion and this teeth, Sub Han Allah, when he try it take out, broke in three part. Mawlānā was angry for this people said, "Look what you done." And this one and he no any problem to fix your teeth and here.
But Mawlānā for himself he was very tough for himself because he is seeing his ego like enemy. But for other people, he was real soft one. You cannot find softer then him. For follower, for non follower even, he speak to people – you cannot find such a man polite like him. And people when they speak to him they was happy with him. Believer or non- believer or anyone – they was attracted by him – light and his kindness. This is what awliyā’u Llāh appreciate what Allāh give them for their... choose them they are knowing and they are happy with this. And they try to thank Him. Allāh give them higher and higher maqām. And when we are mentioning them, our love become more and more for them. And love it is important for us because with love you survive from bad end and to be in Jannah with them also. And we are asking Allāh to give us this love and we are thanking Him for choosing us and make us to be following Prophet and awliyā’u Llāh and asking knowledge from them. This is all sign of because Allāh He is choosing us and we must be happy and we must be thankful. Because when you thanking Him giving more barakah more love for us. Alḥamdu liLlāh, because if His will, you cannot say "how He can make us to like this other people not like this?" This is non-believer question. Our, we cannot question our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. We must be good behave especially for our Lord. And thanking for Him, Alhamdulilah Rabbi l-‘ālamīn.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
41.TARIQAH IS TEACHING HUMBLENESS Monday, 26 February 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
For murīds to show humbleness out of adab, is not to ask for anything. Just his having come to ṭarīqah, finding his Shaykh, should be seen as a great favour. Sometimes those murīds, people who have joined ṭarīqah, are humble. And some want to reach higher ranks immediately. They assume they are as awliyā’. This is not a good thing.
Ṭarīqah exists to train the ego. You join ṭarīqah in order to educate your ego but you give in to your ego by saying, "I am this and that." It doesn't work by saying this. It becomes useless. Moreover, sometimes it brings more harm than benefit. Why? They fall into the hands of shayṭān. Shayṭān catches them on this point and makes them big. They see themselves as huge. However, ṭarīqah educates people by teaching humbleness. To be on the right way it is to train your ego.
Great Awliyā’ show us the way. They show humbleness too. We hear that a lot. Shaykh Abdu l-Qādir Gīlānī, may Allāh increase his maqām and sanctify his secret, in shā’a Llāh, may his support be present. One of the great Awliyā’, he said one night some manifestation occurred, something happened – not manifestation. He looked around, everywhere was full of light, full of visible light which you see while awake, not asleep. Then he heard something. He heard an addressing which said: "I am Allāh. Your maqam has increased a lot. I Allah have made all sins ḥalāl for you." When he heard this he immediately said, "You, the accursed one!" Everywhere became dark at once. He asked, "How did you know me?" Because it was shayṭān who did that. He made such a trick in order to take him [‘Abdu l- Qādir] out of the way. And would a great Awliyā’ go out of the way? He is Sulṭān, Sulṭān of Awliyā’, Shaykh ʿAbdu l-Qādir Gīlānī. He said, "I figured it out when you said you made sins ḥalāl. Allāh doesn't make sins ḥalāl." Besides, then the sins are watched more carefully. He said he understood from this.
It is a good lesson until Qiyāmah, for people who enter the right way and who can be cheated by shayṭān – a big lesson. Shayṭān can take such shapes and most people are deceived. Afterwards, they leave the way and mislead other people too. We should be careful about it.
We should know ḥalāl and ḥarām. We should know our limits. When joining this way, we shouldn't do it for a maqām. A man should join in order to be a beloved servant of Allāh not for his ego. If he comes for his ego, he becomes a toy for shayṭān. There will be no benefit. Not any maqām, he will fall down and not be raised. May Allāh protect us. We must pay attention to this. Most people say: "I saw this and that." We hear this all the time. You get surprised sometimes at how people...Even mashāyikh, even Mawlānā, doesn't say as they say – "I saw this. I felt that. I got raised to such rank while awake. I saw it with this holy one. I did that with another one." There are many people who talk like this. It is better for them not to talk. They should repent because the truth is they are like ordinary people. The others, even if some things happen, you shouldn't listen to them. You should go on your way. Those are the things done in order to be proud and boast about themselves. If that is true, you get raised. If not, it is still better not to listen to them, you will be saved from them. You won't be caught in that trap. May Allāh protect us from the evil of our egos. Because you can be harmed from things that may seem true. May Allāh protect us.
A murīd, who following Shaykh, they must be very careful for what, why they are coming to ṭarīqah, to following Shaykh. The main aim for this to make yourself better, to make your ego, to train your ego to make it good. To catch it, not to make it to give more power for your ego, no. Ṭarīqah it is teaching humble, humbleness. This is our main teaching for ṭarīqah because humbleness – Allāh like humble people. Prophet like and people also they like. Nobody like proud one. Even in this way maybe shayṭān even he can cheat you to take you out from this way.
Ṭarīqah we are not coming to be holy saint in this ṭarīqah no. We are, if Allāh accept us as His servant, we must be happy. Not to say, "I'm seeing this in my vision. I'm looking this is in my vision, coming and speaking to this and that." It is not order of ṭarīqah this. Ṭarīqah order to follow Shaykh and to do what ordered for you. Shaykh never ordering you to make vision with Prophet, with awliyā’u Llāh, with anyone. No, it is not from our ṭarīqah – is one page of paper you must do this every day, praying, fasting, and doing this your daily awrād. Many of great awliyā’u Llāh they are teaching us. They have, they can have vision. Some of them no vision – even whole life no vision. They are not
objecting, not questioning, not asking why it is. No. It is our duty to make our awrād, not to ask for vision, to ask for thing we are not important for us.
Shaykh ‘Abdu l-Qādir Gīlānī he is the biggest awliyā’. He is bāz, bāz meaning eagle of awliyā’, giant awliyā’ shaykh ‘Abdu l-Qādir Gīlānī. He of course, until coming to this stage, Allāh choose him and he is even he was chosen all awliyā’u Llāh they are doing thing other people cannot do until they are coming to their stage rank. Once he said, "I saw vision," vision meaning when he is not karāmah miracle. "I saw whole nighttime whole this universe shining with light nūr. it is extremely shining and I was watching this and there was one sound coming saying, 'O ‘Abdu l-Qādir I'm your Lord.' " Your Lord meaning Allāh. "You are coming to rank, stage, highest stage. No need for you to look for sin. All sins I make it for you ḥalāl. You can do all sins, no any harm for you," he said. This when he this voice coming to him and saying – after he making all this light and this Sayyidinā ‘Abdu l-Qādir Gīlānī qaddas Allāhu sirrahu a‘lá Llāh darajātuhu, he said, "O cursing for you." In that moment everything become very dark black darkness. Said that voice, "How you know me?" Said, "From your saying making sins to not sin. It is, you can do it you said this for me. From this I know you O cursed one, shayṭān ‘alayhi l-la‘nah."
This is good example and good lesson for human being, for whole people until Qiyāmah. This meaning shayṭān can coming in every shape for man when they are not ready. They can cheat them and they can do every bad thing, showing themself as good but exactly it is opposite. For this, who saying, "I saw vision. I saw like this and that" – it is not acceptable. If you see maybe sometimes, maybe from thousand – one of them maybe can be vision, real vision. Even this you not say, tell people. When you are telling people, people will look you and even they are laughing or they make, you make their belief weaker, or you make your ego bigger. It is like this.
Our mission, our job, our duty only to follow Shaykh and not saying this. This is because even every time we hear this, whole people since Prophet and mashāyikh, there are coming people like this people. And they are telling, telling, telling, but what some of them – they give them strong answer like slap for them. Some of them keep quiet because mashāyikh also all of them they have different attribute: some of them angry, some of them not so angry, not some of them. So for this people, when they not giving strong answer, they thought they are right. No. Our ego strong; they like to hear what they are happy with this. But reality sometimes bitter, they say. So better for people who seeing this – this is for, especially for our ṭarīqah people – to be more careful. Even real they see,
they must be quiet. This is good for them, good for other also.
Allāh help us because this our ṭarīqah as Mawlānā Shaykh said, in our ṭarīqah karāmah, not using karāmah too much – miracle. They leaving for people to be give them spiritual power more and more. But also sometimes without asking Allāh give this for mashāyikh. Allāh help us, In Sha Allah, to be in right way – strong imān, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
42.MAWLANA’S TEACHING Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
May Allāh give guidance to all of us. Some people and their families are guided and on the right way. They bring up their children like this. Children are raised as Muslims and believers. Most of those who have it in their families are this way. And there are also those who join later. There are two types. There are those who weren't Muslim and received guidance afterwards, they reached the kindness of Allāh. And there are people who live in a Muslim community but have no idea about Islām and religion. Sometimes they also look for truth. Sometimes something happens to bring them to the good way.
Our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, ṭarīqah of Mawlānā, is the way of our Prophet. It is to accept everyone. If someone comes to you and you accept him in order to show the right way, if he learns even a single word, what has benefit for him has benefit for you as well. As we said, most people now have no idea about religion and faith. But some people have this faith within them and Allāh gives it. When someone joins ṭarīqah, it's not right to say, "You have to pray five times. You have to cover yourself. And if you don't, we won't take you in from this door." Because even ṣaḥābah learned everything slowly and then left the other. They became ṣaḥābah and quit all forbidden things. They accepted the ordered things and followed them.
All kinds of people would come to Mawlānā: sometimes uncovered women or people without religion or those who drink. Many types came and most received guidance. And people who were uncovered slowly, slowly covered up. They started to pray five times a day. They became more devoted than those who criticized them. They joined the better path. Nowadays, to criticize – as soon as people see something, they say "don't do that." That can be. Why can't it be? Even though uncovered and inappropriately dressed, this person has entered this assembly. This is an assembly for the sake of Allāh. They were seeking and came here. Of course, they don't know how to dress and act properly. They
have come here. Must we send them away? Must we get angry at them? No. We have to be especially careful with them because if they leave...Allāh brought them to this assembly in order for you to become the means. If you become means for their guidance, it is better than everything in this world. And if you try to escape it, this person can complain about you on Qiyāmah. These are the things we learned from Mawlānā. There is a way for everyone. Our way, the way of Mawlānā, is tolerance. It is gentleness and love. If you get angry at someone from the first moment... As most people become frightened, you will finish them the first time. Who is happy then? Shayṭān is happy – "This is what I told you." And people remember it that way. Most of the old, middle- aged or young people say, "I was going to the mosque, and their old people sent me away. I never went to the mosque again." We have heard it from many people. It is an important issue.
These people who come to the assembly of Allāh can dress as they like. After they reach guidance, they will learn how to dress right. But don't make them run away. Don't criticize anyone. You will be responsible for it. Of course, they dress how they like but we shouldn't dress like them. Our duty is to remind them of Allāh, to remind them of Prophet. And the dress being worn is sunnah, the sunnah of our Prophet. And we have crown on our heads, the turban. When a person wears turban and jubbah, what does it remind us of? Does it remind us of movies or plays? It reminds of Allāh of course. But Muslims have no understanding, they want to criticize immediately.
May Allāh protect us. May we not be the cause of anyone running from this way. May we become the means for their joining this way, In Sha Allah.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He gives some people hidāyah (guidance) from childhood because their family they are believers, Muslim. They are practising and they teaching their family, children. And when they are growing up they are continue like this. This is good. These people no problem with them but there is people... Two kinds of people – they was nonbeliever and Allāh give them hidāyah and they come to way of belief Islām, and there is another also kind – they are normally Muslim but they are not knowing anything about Islām. So Mawlānā Shaykh he was very sensitive for this people. He like to bring them through this way with very soft, very tolerance. He has big tolerance for this people. Slowly, slowly he was teaching them: not make them – "You must do this, you must do that." No. Just what he is doing, he was doing people following him. And giving ṣuḥbah, giving dhikr.
People happy with this and slowly, slowly becoming better and better and they are looking what it is important – what we must do, what we mustn't do. Because there is people they are criticising people, who are being with this people, because they are normally they don't have any knowledge from religion – no maybe their clothes not so closed, it is open or their hair open their... When you see this people they are making saying, "What is this? Look Shaykh is with this people not covering hair, not..." They saying of course this people they are not born from like Muslim or their family wasn't knowing anything from Islām, from who Muslim but this people slowly, slowly when with tolerance, many of them, thousands of them they covering, they following, they making practising better than what who are not happy with this.
Not everything, you cannot put – We say, there is saying: in paint, you can put paint until you bring up it is finish? No. Slowly, slowly. But people, especially Muslim people, they don't have any wisdom, they don't have any patience also. Quickly they must speak. They must say something. This people, who this kind of people, you must be thankful because we are not going for them. They are coming, they are hearing some gathering for spiritual gathering. They are coming to see what it is, what is here. They are looking, searching to find good thing and they are not knowing anything from Islām, from what we will obligatory to do or not. Slowly, slowly they will be better than you and better than your master also.
We know some people – I was four times on Ḥajj, the fourth time there was people they wasn't know anything from Islām. With Mawlānā Shaykh they are practising and they, I was with them in Ḥajj, and they was real Ḥajjī. Other Ḥajjī they have beard like this and clothes and... and they were fighting people, swearing of people and doing this. These people like angel they was. This is what Mawlānā teaching and his good teaching for this people. For ... But people they are quickly saying this people – they are not happy with this, not happy. They can do, if they can do better, they can do. But we are not interesting for them because Allāh – "If you bring one for right way," he said Prophet "it is better than this world. And if you make somebody run away from this way, also you will be asked why you do this this man or this woman, she come for sake of Allāh to know something and you kick them out, you make them..."
They are coming, when this people coming some place they are coming it is one step front, one step behind. if we are anything saying, quickly they run away. So we are obligatory to be very soft with people who are asking for Allāh. Many times also I hear from people, young people or older people, they said, "We was going to mosque some
place and there is old people they shout on us and they kick us out of this mosque. After I never been in mosque." This what it was happen many times I hear this. So it is not good to look for people for appearance. You must be patient to make them used and to have idea. After they can be better than you and me, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
43.LENGTHY HOPES (TOOL AL-AMAL) Friday, 2 March 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our life is numbered. The number of breaths are numbered, the hours are numbered, the days are numbered, and everything is numbered. Allah gave everyone a different lifetime. Allah knows how long you will live and nobody else knows. It happens according to the predestination of Allah. Some people say they are sick and live for years. Others say they are healthy but you never know. This is Allah’s predestination. People trust in themselves and say they will do it later. Then they pass away without doing anything. While others not only pass away empty handed but they put a fair amount of sins on top and go to the hereafter with it. “
“Tool al-amal,” says our Holy Prophet. Meaning lengthy hopes. It is dangerous to trust yourself and do this. They say, “I will do it later.” They think they will live long. That is the hope of people who make loss. We need to think: “Nothing is left. We have numbered days.” People should look at continuously making an effort, worshipping, doing good works, avoiding sins, and coming out clean. Let not the right of anybody stay on you. They say, “I will give it to the man later.” If you are going to give it then give it. You give if you have. If you do not have then at least you should give the man a paper, a promissory note, so that your inheritors pay it after you. Because that is also a right of servants (people).
As we said, if a person does not think he will live long and says, “It is not clear how long I will live,” that time he would not infringe on the rights of anybody, he would obey the commands of Allah, and he would avoid sins. This is the style of a Muslim and what our Holy Prophet tells us. When you are to do good, do it immediately. It is not alright to say, “I will do it later. I will still live long.” Even if you live long, if you are to do good then do it. However, he tells us to be in a state between fear and hope. He says, “Baynal khawfi war rajaa’.” This is important.
Islam gives happiness to people. It gives goodness. Other than it gives nothing, because they are worldly people things or the discord (fitna) of Shaitan. It is what Allah says, the most appropriate recipe for happiness. Do not look for others. Therefore, when people get used to it, they do their worship on time, get along with everybody, and are at ease.
Otherwise, time would pass as one says, “I will do it just now,” and, “I will do it now,” and one would regret it. May Allah not make us amongst those who are regretful. May He grant us to be distant from laziness Inshallah. Laziness is the greatest calamity for people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
44.THE REWARD OF GOOD INTENTIONS Saturday, 3 March 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Good intentions always turn out good and those with good intentions win. People with bad intentions, if they act on their intention then Allah would question them. If not, if they make intention for evil but do not act on it or cannot do it then it is not written. However, people who make the intention to do good, even if they do not do it they are written rewards. If they do it: ten times, a hundred times, and however much Allah wills He gives. He gives at least ten times the reward. They would also be loved among people.
If their intention is bad and they do it, that time they are bound to be disgraced in this world and in the hereafter. That evil turns back on them in the end and finds them. They suffer its punishment in this world and in the hereafter. Allah Azza wa Jalla says, “Be with the good.” Do not do evil because evil has no benefit. Neither steeling nor beating has any blessing (baraka). It would be of no use to your health and it would not give happiness. You would get it and it would go as it came (easy come easy go). Or if you do evil to someone, Allah would not make you leave this world before giving its punishment even if after years. Furthermore, its punishment is great in the hereafter too. We need to be careful of this. People think this world has no owner. They think, “We can do it and it will be a gain for us.” No, as they say, “Nothing doing!” There is no such thing. This world has an owner, this Universe has an owner, and everyone will give account. Therefore, be good and be with the good; do not be with the evil and stay away from them. Shaitan shows evil as beautiful. He decorates and paints the ugly thing and shows it to you as a world beauty. After that, when in the end the mask falls off, the person regrets it but most of the time regret is of no use. While in the world and while there is the possibility, repenting, asking for forgiveness, and staying away from evil is a gain for a person. The other one, even if he gains the world, whatever he does does not benefit him, he would have no blessing, it would not bring happiness and felicity, and it would only bring evil. He would keep on wanting, meaning he would not have enough. May Allah protect us. May He grant us to be with good and with the good ones In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
45.EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THEIR SPECIALTY Sunday, 4 March 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our Holy Prophet has a hadith: “The character of a fine Muslim is for the person not to interfere in what does not concern him,” says our Holy Prophet. If there is work and it does not concern you then do not interfere in it. You look after your own business and do your job well. This is what the order and recommendation of our Holy Prophet (SAW) is for people and for Muslims. Because when you interfere in other works, you are interfering in what you do not know, and it neither benefits you nor does it benefit others. Your faith decreases. “Fas’al bihi khabeera,” says Allah Azza wa Jalla. (Sura Furqan:59) “Ask the knower,” He says. See if there is someone who knows and let him tell you. You learn whatever you need from him. If not, if you go ahead and attempt to look after useless things, sometimes it harms the person spiritually. You need to follow what our Holy Prophet tells to be Islam, to be Muslim. It is End Times now and people are looking at useless things. They are interested in things that do not concern them. The hodjas (clerics) come about looking at things they have no idea about, and they are playing with Muslims’, with people’s faith. Our Holy Prophet prohibited this. Everyone should have a specialty and should look at what they know. They should ask what they do not know to those who know, to people concerned with it. Do not make a judgment, a fatwa, about something you are not concerned with according to your own head. And hodjas, not every hodja can give fatwa. If you are to get a fatwa, there is the mufti. You get it from him. You follow the hodja when you go to the mosque and you offer your prayer. You listen if he gives a sermon. However, if there is something to be given a fatwa about, the hodja says it himself anyway: “Ask this matter to the mufti. He can give you a better answer.” However, since present-day people are ignorant they are also giving fatwas, they are also giving judgments, and they do this very comfortably. But as we said, that time they are being disobedient to the order of our Holy Prophet. Let us do the things we know In Sha Allah. Allah gave everyone separate specialties. Everyone should know their specialty. Let us not go beyond our limit Inshallah. May Allah grant us all to abide by this advice, by this order of our Holy Prophet In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
46.DO NOT SAY YOU ARE TIRED Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Authu Billahi Minash-shaitanir Rajim. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.
“Wa qul i’malu fasayarallahu ‘amalakum.” (Sura Tawba:105) Allah Almighty says, “Work. Allah will see the works you do” Allah Azza wa Jalla does not say to sit. He does not say to relax. He says to work. Because only with work does a person’s station rise, both materially and spiritually. It does not work with laziness. There is no such thing as, “I’m tired.” There is no getting tired. There is working says Allah Almighty and Glorious be He.
They say, “The iron that does not work rusts.” Son of man is the same way. People have iron inside and all kinds of metals too. Therefore, those give benefit when one works. It lies fallow everywhere when one does not work and he becomes n
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done the hard as well. He could have very easily done it, but he did this as a mercy for the nation (ummat), to make it easy on us, so all our business and worship would be comfortable and not burdensome or hard. Because Shaitan shows people even the lightest worship that has no burden as difficult. Therefore, do not take on much burden, let us do our worships, and let us not ask for difficult things or for things we cannot carry. May Allah grant us ease in doing our worships. May He give us lightness In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
39.RESPECT: THE TEACHING OF THE PROPHET PBUH Saturday, 24 February 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We make shukr to Allāh that we arrived to this holy place again. Shukr. It is something to be grateful for. It is a big thawāb to visit parents and to visit mashāyikh, to show respect to them.It is the way of our Prophet. It is the beautiful way shown by him.
Adab is the attribute of our Prophet. All adab is in him. When there is no adab, there is no religion. Therefore, shayṭān came in from that door. Whatever adab there is, he is showing it as wrong. He says, "No way. You shouldn't respect anyone. If you respect, you become mushrik. You commit a sin then." Whereas it is completely the opposite. To show respect is the order of our Prophet. It is the way of religion. Because when there is no respect, there is no importance in things done. And shayṭān is without adab. He came against Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and showed no adab. No adab is with shayṭān. A person with no adab is with shaytan.
We read a beautiful ḥadīth last weak, a very beautiful one. When joining an assembly everyone is the same, says our Prophet. No need to differentiate between anyone in the assembly except for three groups: firstly, people of senior age. You should respect them and lead them to their seats. Secondly, the scholars. As they have the knowledge, their rank is high. They should be respected. A scholar is hojja, shaykh, awliyā’, holy ones. You should respect them. It is the order of our Prophet. To show respect to hojjas or shaykhs and to show respect to their tombs, maqāms of awliyā’ is the same because they are alive. They don't die, their spirituality increases. When they depart to ākhirah, we should show more respect to them. Nothing wrong in it.
As we said, it is the work of shayṭān to show the wrong way to people, to show the bad as good. He [shayṭān] couldn't destroy the religion otherwise in this time, so he entered from that side. He finished the belief and faith of so many people. Because our Prophet,
when they say, "We believe," he says, "Don't say you believe, say you become Muslim" (49:14). He says, "You don't have belief." A believer is the one who accepts what our Prophet says and doesn't reject it. And a Muslim is anyone who says lā ilāha illā Llāh. It is a big matter. And the third group to be respected is the leaders of the government. They should be respected too so that the government has majesty. We need majesty. Because when there is no majesty, things don't work, nothing works. And these are the wise words of our Prophet, hadith sharif.
There is wisdom in everything. Even the tiniest thing has a hundred thousand wisdoms, not just one. And this ḥadīth sharīf is like this. To respect people is from the faith, from adab, It is from the sunnah of our Prophet. To do the opposite is from shayṭān. Nowadays shayṭāns became more, they are cheating people. And most people are cheated. Allāh gave understanding to people. They shouldn't be cheated. They should use their minds and think. Our ancestors showed respect and adab for more than a thousand years. Was it bad? No, everyone remembers them with mercy. And these ones are remembered not with mercy but curses, in just 3-5 years, because they messed up everything. They turned everything into chaos.
We ask for understanding from Allāh. May Allāh protect us and not separate us from the right way, In Sha Allah.
Alhamdulilah we arrive again to this holy place. It is big ni‘mah favour to be here. Because, Alhamdulilah, to visiting father Mawlānā and mother – this is from relative visiting also. It is important in Islām and to visit Shaykh it is also very important thing. We respecting and we, Allāh reward us for visiting them. Alhamdulilah we are trying to be all time going, coming, for this Allāh make it reward for all of you, in shā’a Llāh also. Islām it is the good behave of human being. Islām and the best who teach us good behave – Prophet. Whole good behave in his, in his, all together in his – "Innamā bu‘ithtu li’utammima makārimu l-akhlāq" – Allāh send him to complete good behave for people. He want, who he want to be learn good behave must follow Prophet. He Prophet showing us how to be good people, good human being. What he teach us it is best for our nature, for nature of man, for nature of woman, for nature of whole mankind, In Sha Allah.
But they are teaching now, shayṭān teaching. Misbehave? Misbehave. Good behave – Prophet. Opposite – shayṭān. Evil, evil? Evil. He is teaching bad thing, every bad thing teaching and he try, shayṭān, to destroy Islām, way of Prophet. He couldn't but in the
end this, since last century, he he is patient teaching people slowly slowly to be misbehave; misbehave, to not respect anybody. He said you mustn't respect. First they said not respect for ‘ulamā’, for awliyā’ – no need, they are not... they are like us – all we are same. If you respect them, they are saying, you become mushrik, you become kāfir. And they are people cheated by them this people and now you see whole world all they are not respectable people, not respecting anybody, not respecting old, ‘ālim, anybody. They are not respecting at all. And this is teaching of shayṭān because Prophet he is saying to respect each other.
And many ḥadīth and the last week we read in ḥadīth one thing Prophet saying: when you are in majlis like this, all you are same. No don't make, give don't make anything here but there is, if there is three kind of people – if they are coming to majlis you must give them more attention, respect them and put them in place they are deserve. First of this people – elderly people. You must respect them. You must put them in place to, for, because they are elderly and people they must respect elder people. Second one respect – knowledge people who scholar. If any one of them coming, you must put him up, you must put him special place because they are respectable people, they are teaching good behave, teaching good manner, teaching every good thing this people. They are ‘ulamā’, imām, or awliyā’u Llāh, the ṭarīqat people who are teaching. All this people you must put them respect them more. And third kind of people – the people who are ruling country. If they are, anybody of them coming, also you must be respect them because it must be who ruling country they must be respected. To make governor they must be for to be not like ordinary people. If they look like ordinary people, nobody can obey them. For to be obey them they just be for this, they must be appear and give respect for them. If you no respect for them it will be mess in country.
This is what Prophet teaching us and it is from him, his teaching. Who following his teaching he must respect everything. You must accept awliyā’u Llāh. You must respect in their life or in their grave. They are also respected because Prophet saying – the body of mu’min he is respected when he is in life, when he is dead also. You must respect even the bone for any mu’min not only for awliyā’u Llāh. Everyone you must be respect for them. Now there is this people they are going around, they are not respecting. They are opening grave. They are throwing dead people out of grave. This is very bad thing. This is teaching of shayṭān and they are not happy with Prophet. They said he is like us.
This is only people who are following shayṭān they can do this and people they are cheated by them. And they are trying to destroy Islām. But Islām it will be, In Sha Allah,
at the end still until Qiyāmah – Islām. But this people they will be cursed by whole human being. Since more than one thousand four hundred years, Islām following, respecting all what Prophet saying about them and whole people they are speaking about them with mercy. And since last century this new people coming they are not accepting anything and, only in a few couple of, ten years or something like this, they are making whole world to curse them. And it is, it will be they will be finish like bubble of soap, soap. It is they don't have any value. Only what they have for punishment they will have from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla if they are not repent and ask for forgiveness.
So what all what they are saying – what they like they said "this is ḥadīth". What they didn't like, they not accept. But Prophet he said about his ḥadīth – who acceptable, not against sharī‘ah, it is like this. So whole ḥadīth of Ahlu s-Sunnah acceptable. What they are saying not acceptable – it is acceptable also. They are making new ḥadīth. Allāh save us from this people. Allāh give hidāyah for all of them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
40.THE MOST PERFECT EXAMPLE Sunday, 25 February 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
"Wa man yuridu Llāhi bi-khayrihi yufaqqahu fī d-dīn." It is ḥadīth sharīf of our Prophet. If Allāh wishes goodness for someone, He teaches him religion. The more he studies it, the more goodness he will reach. Shukr to Allāh, all of us Muslims – Allāh has wished goodness for us. Even if little, they know the religion. They obey the religion and its orders. They say "I am Muslim" and do as much as they can. Certainly who does more, Allāh wishes more for them. They reach the higher stations. And the highest station is our Prophet's. Then comes that of other prophets, then come ṣaḥābah and awliyā’. They are the people who have reached this favour from Allāh and know its value. "We reached this station."
There are some people not on the way, who say, "We reached it." There is an āyah: "Wa ‘bud Rabbaka ḥattá ya’tiyaka l-yaqīn" (15:99). Worship Allāh until you find the truth. And these ones say, "We found the truth, so there is no need to worship." That means Allāh doesn't wish goodness for them. Who is wished goodness is like our Shaykh because he knows the greatness of this favour. He did all kinds of worship, as much as he could and didn't miss anything. His farḍ was complete and he never missed sunnah. And mustaḥabb. Some things are farḍ for our Prophet and are not farḍ for his ummah. Mashāyikh made it a duty for themselves that everything our Prophet did they did and never missed it. They left ḥarām and apart from ḥarām, they left ḥalāl as well.
I am thinking now, remembering Mawlānā. 35-40 years ago Mawlānā went to a dentist in Lebanon and said he had only few teeth left in his mouth and one of them was completely decayed. When a dentist wanted to pull it out, brothers asked it for themselves. But the tooth broke into three. Mawlānā became angry and said, "It is because of you. It's wrong." Mawlānā never had his half teeth filled. When they deteriorated, he had them pulled. In fact, fixing teeth is not a sin or ḥarām but the exactness of Mawlānā shows how attentive he was regarding Allāh's orders. Since he was fifty-something, Mawlānā wore dentures.
He devoted himself so much on the way of Allāh. Even when something was doubtlessly ḥalāl, while some imāms, we mean imāms of madhhab, disputed if it was permissible,
Mawlānā left them all. He never stepped out of the right way. He showed the right way to all of us. But he was very strict for himself and very merciful for people. He had alot of tolerance. Sometimes he said – one word is enough: "Say lā ilāha illāh Llāh to join Islām." But for himself, as we said, he never made an excuse.
Their methods are for their egos. Why is it so? Because the ego is an enemy. He treated it as an enemy. And he treated Muslims and believers with mercy so that they loved and accepted Islām, so that they are on this way. The things he suffered are not not one in thousand – we don't have even one in hundred thousand. If we had, we would start complaining immediately. Therefore, remembering these holy ones brings mercy to our assembly.
Shukr to Allāh, we are near him and there are many memories, millions of memories. Because everyone has different memory of Mawlānā. When we remember him, it becomes a means for mercy, a means for mercy for us, for our assembly. and for our family. Our love will increase. When love increases, people are with the loved ones. Therefore, this love is a big favour from Allāh. May Allāh always let us love this right way. May He let us love His Awliyā’ and the Prophet, In Sha Allah. May their love be our first priority. May it fill our hearts, In Sha Allah. The love of dunyā is useless. It has no benefit. It is nothing but darkness, nothing but burden. When in ākhirah, if you bring what you loved, it has no benefit. "I loved it and didn't want to share." But when you have the love of Awliyā’, you share it with others too. Your love towards others increases. It becomes useful for them as well. May Allāh give this love to all of us, In Sha Allah.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla for, Prophet saying: "Who want good for servant, Allāh make him to know about His religion, to be knowledgeable in religion." How to be knowledgeable? To accept the way of Allāh – way of Allāh shown by our Prophet. He show us and everything in Allāh Will. If He will for us good thing He make us to follow His way. Other people, other people, His will not to follow right way. What we will do? We object? We say "we not accept"? We cannot say anything because He is our Lord. Only what you can say, not to make any discussion, to ask and accept what He gives you. And when He give you something, you must appreciate this.
The most one who Allāh give him all good thing – our Prophet. He is the top. He, Allāh He want for him the best for Prophet, our Prophet. After all prophets also because Allāh He want, He choose them and then make He make them the best between other creature. After – ṣaḥābah, disciple of Prophet. After them ‘ulamā’, awliyā’u Llāh – real scholar, real knowledgeable people, awliyā’u Llāh. Because they are beloved for Allāh and Allāh love them and will for them the best between people. And they are knowing this. What they, Allāh give them and they are happy and they are doing their best to be to thank for Allāh for what He give them. They are giving whole, whole their life to thanking Allāh
‘Azza wa Jalla, our Lord. They are doing everything He want, He ordered – especially following Prophet. Prophet he said something obligatory for whole nation. And there is many things obligatory for Prophet, not for us. We if we do, like sunnah, it is for us but for Prophet it is obligatory.
Awliyā’u Llāh also they are following Prophet. What he done, everything all awliyā’u Llāh they are following but for us the most perfect example – Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim. He was real following every step for Prophet. He do all sunnah mustaḥabb. And most of awliyā’u Llāh they was, of course they are not doing any sin. They trying to avoid sin. With any very small sin thing they don't like. They not doing but... and they are leaving the suspicious thing even they are leaving – also some who it is not forbidden, you can do it. And you can do it – like we give example for Mawlānā – he was never making fixing his teeth, [so as] not to put inside anything because some ‘ulamā’ saying this it is maybe for wūḍū’ not good. And he was, when finish his teeth, taking out, taking out. And since maybe fifty year old he was, he has dentures. And the I remember in Lebanon once, he one teeth. It was last one. It was that time he, they tried to take it out in one dentist and he was good dentist. and he is follower, murīd. They try, try, and there was – what happen there was three other follower. Each one he said, "I want take this. I want take this." They nearly making discussion and this teeth, Sub Han Allah, when he try it take out, broke in three part. Mawlānā was angry for this people said, "Look what you done." And this one and he no any problem to fix your teeth and here.
But Mawlānā for himself he was very tough for himself because he is seeing his ego like enemy. But for other people, he was real soft one. You cannot find softer then him. For follower, for non follower even, he speak to people – you cannot find such a man polite like him. And people when they speak to him they was happy with him. Believer or non- believer or anyone – they was attracted by him – light and his kindness. This is what awliyā’u Llāh appreciate what Allāh give them for their... choose them they are knowing and they are happy with this. And they try to thank Him. Allāh give them higher and higher maqām. And when we are mentioning them, our love become more and more for them. And love it is important for us because with love you survive from bad end and to be in Jannah with them also. And we are asking Allāh to give us this love and we are thanking Him for choosing us and make us to be following Prophet and awliyā’u Llāh and asking knowledge from them. This is all sign of because Allāh He is choosing us and we must be happy and we must be thankful. Because when you thanking Him giving more barakah more love for us. Alḥamdu liLlāh, because if His will, you cannot say "how He can make us to like this other people not like this?" This is non-believer question. Our, we cannot question our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. We must be good behave especially for our Lord. And thanking for Him, Alhamdulilah Rabbi l-‘ālamīn.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
41.TARIQAH IS TEACHING HUMBLENESS Monday, 26 February 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
For murīds to show humbleness out of adab, is not to ask for anything. Just his having come to ṭarīqah, finding his Shaykh, should be seen as a great favour. Sometimes those murīds, people who have joined ṭarīqah, are humble. And some want to reach higher ranks immediately. They assume they are as awliyā’. This is not a good thing.
Ṭarīqah exists to train the ego. You join ṭarīqah in order to educate your ego but you give in to your ego by saying, "I am this and that." It doesn't work by saying this. It becomes useless. Moreover, sometimes it brings more harm than benefit. Why? They fall into the hands of shayṭān. Shayṭān catches them on this point and makes them big. They see themselves as huge. However, ṭarīqah educates people by teaching humbleness. To be on the right way it is to train your ego.
Great Awliyā’ show us the way. They show humbleness too. We hear that a lot. Shaykh Abdu l-Qādir Gīlānī, may Allāh increase his maqām and sanctify his secret, in shā’a Llāh, may his support be present. One of the great Awliyā’, he said one night some manifestation occurred, something happened – not manifestation. He looked around, everywhere was full of light, full of visible light which you see while awake, not asleep. Then he heard something. He heard an addressing which said: "I am Allāh. Your maqam has increased a lot. I Allah have made all sins ḥalāl for you." When he heard this he immediately said, "You, the accursed one!" Everywhere became dark at once. He asked, "How did you know me?" Because it was shayṭān who did that. He made such a trick in order to take him [‘Abdu l- Qādir] out of the way. And would a great Awliyā’ go out of the way? He is Sulṭān, Sulṭān of Awliyā’, Shaykh ʿAbdu l-Qādir Gīlānī. He said, "I figured it out when you said you made sins ḥalāl. Allāh doesn't make sins ḥalāl." Besides, then the sins are watched more carefully. He said he understood from this.
It is a good lesson until Qiyāmah, for people who enter the right way and who can be cheated by shayṭān – a big lesson. Shayṭān can take such shapes and most people are deceived. Afterwards, they leave the way and mislead other people too. We should be careful about it.
We should know ḥalāl and ḥarām. We should know our limits. When joining this way, we shouldn't do it for a maqām. A man should join in order to be a beloved servant of Allāh not for his ego. If he comes for his ego, he becomes a toy for shayṭān. There will be no benefit. Not any maqām, he will fall down and not be raised. May Allāh protect us. We must pay attention to this. Most people say: "I saw this and that." We hear this all the time. You get surprised sometimes at how people...Even mashāyikh, even Mawlānā, doesn't say as they say – "I saw this. I felt that. I got raised to such rank while awake. I saw it with this holy one. I did that with another one." There are many people who talk like this. It is better for them not to talk. They should repent because the truth is they are like ordinary people. The others, even if some things happen, you shouldn't listen to them. You should go on your way. Those are the things done in order to be proud and boast about themselves. If that is true, you get raised. If not, it is still better not to listen to them, you will be saved from them. You won't be caught in that trap. May Allāh protect us from the evil of our egos. Because you can be harmed from things that may seem true. May Allāh protect us.
A murīd, who following Shaykh, they must be very careful for what, why they are coming to ṭarīqah, to following Shaykh. The main aim for this to make yourself better, to make your ego, to train your ego to make it good. To catch it, not to make it to give more power for your ego, no. Ṭarīqah it is teaching humble, humbleness. This is our main teaching for ṭarīqah because humbleness – Allāh like humble people. Prophet like and people also they like. Nobody like proud one. Even in this way maybe shayṭān even he can cheat you to take you out from this way.
Ṭarīqah we are not coming to be holy saint in this ṭarīqah no. We are, if Allāh accept us as His servant, we must be happy. Not to say, "I'm seeing this in my vision. I'm looking this is in my vision, coming and speaking to this and that." It is not order of ṭarīqah this. Ṭarīqah order to follow Shaykh and to do what ordered for you. Shaykh never ordering you to make vision with Prophet, with awliyā’u Llāh, with anyone. No, it is not from our ṭarīqah – is one page of paper you must do this every day, praying, fasting, and doing this your daily awrād. Many of great awliyā’u Llāh they are teaching us. They have, they can have vision. Some of them no vision – even whole life no vision. They are not
objecting, not questioning, not asking why it is. No. It is our duty to make our awrād, not to ask for vision, to ask for thing we are not important for us.
Shaykh ‘Abdu l-Qādir Gīlānī he is the biggest awliyā’. He is bāz, bāz meaning eagle of awliyā’, giant awliyā’ shaykh ‘Abdu l-Qādir Gīlānī. He of course, until coming to this stage, Allāh choose him and he is even he was chosen all awliyā’u Llāh they are doing thing other people cannot do until they are coming to their stage rank. Once he said, "I saw vision," vision meaning when he is not karāmah miracle. "I saw whole nighttime whole this universe shining with light nūr. it is extremely shining and I was watching this and there was one sound coming saying, 'O ‘Abdu l-Qādir I'm your Lord.' " Your Lord meaning Allāh. "You are coming to rank, stage, highest stage. No need for you to look for sin. All sins I make it for you ḥalāl. You can do all sins, no any harm for you," he said. This when he this voice coming to him and saying – after he making all this light and this Sayyidinā ‘Abdu l-Qādir Gīlānī qaddas Allāhu sirrahu a‘lá Llāh darajātuhu, he said, "O cursing for you." In that moment everything become very dark black darkness. Said that voice, "How you know me?" Said, "From your saying making sins to not sin. It is, you can do it you said this for me. From this I know you O cursed one, shayṭān ‘alayhi l-la‘nah."
This is good example and good lesson for human being, for whole people until Qiyāmah. This meaning shayṭān can coming in every shape for man when they are not ready. They can cheat them and they can do every bad thing, showing themself as good but exactly it is opposite. For this, who saying, "I saw vision. I saw like this and that" – it is not acceptable. If you see maybe sometimes, maybe from thousand – one of them maybe can be vision, real vision. Even this you not say, tell people. When you are telling people, people will look you and even they are laughing or they make, you make their belief weaker, or you make your ego bigger. It is like this.
Our mission, our job, our duty only to follow Shaykh and not saying this. This is because even every time we hear this, whole people since Prophet and mashāyikh, there are coming people like this people. And they are telling, telling, telling, but what some of them – they give them strong answer like slap for them. Some of them keep quiet because mashāyikh also all of them they have different attribute: some of them angry, some of them not so angry, not some of them. So for this people, when they not giving strong answer, they thought they are right. No. Our ego strong; they like to hear what they are happy with this. But reality sometimes bitter, they say. So better for people who seeing this – this is for, especially for our ṭarīqah people – to be more careful. Even real they see,
they must be quiet. This is good for them, good for other also.
Allāh help us because this our ṭarīqah as Mawlānā Shaykh said, in our ṭarīqah karāmah, not using karāmah too much – miracle. They leaving for people to be give them spiritual power more and more. But also sometimes without asking Allāh give this for mashāyikh. Allāh help us, In Sha Allah, to be in right way – strong imān, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
42.MAWLANA’S TEACHING Wednesday, 28 February 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
May Allāh give guidance to all of us. Some people and their families are guided and on the right way. They bring up their children like this. Children are raised as Muslims and believers. Most of those who have it in their families are this way. And there are also those who join later. There are two types. There are those who weren't Muslim and received guidance afterwards, they reached the kindness of Allāh. And there are people who live in a Muslim community but have no idea about Islām and religion. Sometimes they also look for truth. Sometimes something happens to bring them to the good way.
Our ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, ṭarīqah of Mawlānā, is the way of our Prophet. It is to accept everyone. If someone comes to you and you accept him in order to show the right way, if he learns even a single word, what has benefit for him has benefit for you as well. As we said, most people now have no idea about religion and faith. But some people have this faith within them and Allāh gives it. When someone joins ṭarīqah, it's not right to say, "You have to pray five times. You have to cover yourself. And if you don't, we won't take you in from this door." Because even ṣaḥābah learned everything slowly and then left the other. They became ṣaḥābah and quit all forbidden things. They accepted the ordered things and followed them.
All kinds of people would come to Mawlānā: sometimes uncovered women or people without religion or those who drink. Many types came and most received guidance. And people who were uncovered slowly, slowly covered up. They started to pray five times a day. They became more devoted than those who criticized them. They joined the better path. Nowadays, to criticize – as soon as people see something, they say "don't do that." That can be. Why can't it be? Even though uncovered and inappropriately dressed, this person has entered this assembly. This is an assembly for the sake of Allāh. They were seeking and came here. Of course, they don't know how to dress and act properly. They
have come here. Must we send them away? Must we get angry at them? No. We have to be especially careful with them because if they leave...Allāh brought them to this assembly in order for you to become the means. If you become means for their guidance, it is better than everything in this world. And if you try to escape it, this person can complain about you on Qiyāmah. These are the things we learned from Mawlānā. There is a way for everyone. Our way, the way of Mawlānā, is tolerance. It is gentleness and love. If you get angry at someone from the first moment... As most people become frightened, you will finish them the first time. Who is happy then? Shayṭān is happy – "This is what I told you." And people remember it that way. Most of the old, middle- aged or young people say, "I was going to the mosque, and their old people sent me away. I never went to the mosque again." We have heard it from many people. It is an important issue.
These people who come to the assembly of Allāh can dress as they like. After they reach guidance, they will learn how to dress right. But don't make them run away. Don't criticize anyone. You will be responsible for it. Of course, they dress how they like but we shouldn't dress like them. Our duty is to remind them of Allāh, to remind them of Prophet. And the dress being worn is sunnah, the sunnah of our Prophet. And we have crown on our heads, the turban. When a person wears turban and jubbah, what does it remind us of? Does it remind us of movies or plays? It reminds of Allāh of course. But Muslims have no understanding, they want to criticize immediately.
May Allāh protect us. May we not be the cause of anyone running from this way. May we become the means for their joining this way, In Sha Allah.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He gives some people hidāyah (guidance) from childhood because their family they are believers, Muslim. They are practising and they teaching their family, children. And when they are growing up they are continue like this. This is good. These people no problem with them but there is people... Two kinds of people – they was nonbeliever and Allāh give them hidāyah and they come to way of belief Islām, and there is another also kind – they are normally Muslim but they are not knowing anything about Islām. So Mawlānā Shaykh he was very sensitive for this people. He like to bring them through this way with very soft, very tolerance. He has big tolerance for this people. Slowly, slowly he was teaching them: not make them – "You must do this, you must do that." No. Just what he is doing, he was doing people following him. And giving ṣuḥbah, giving dhikr.
People happy with this and slowly, slowly becoming better and better and they are looking what it is important – what we must do, what we mustn't do. Because there is people they are criticising people, who are being with this people, because they are normally they don't have any knowledge from religion – no maybe their clothes not so closed, it is open or their hair open their... When you see this people they are making saying, "What is this? Look Shaykh is with this people not covering hair, not..." They saying of course this people they are not born from like Muslim or their family wasn't knowing anything from Islām, from who Muslim but this people slowly, slowly when with tolerance, many of them, thousands of them they covering, they following, they making practising better than what who are not happy with this.
Not everything, you cannot put – We say, there is saying: in paint, you can put paint until you bring up it is finish? No. Slowly, slowly. But people, especially Muslim people, they don't have any wisdom, they don't have any patience also. Quickly they must speak. They must say something. This people, who this kind of people, you must be thankful because we are not going for them. They are coming, they are hearing some gathering for spiritual gathering. They are coming to see what it is, what is here. They are looking, searching to find good thing and they are not knowing anything from Islām, from what we will obligatory to do or not. Slowly, slowly they will be better than you and better than your master also.
We know some people – I was four times on Ḥajj, the fourth time there was people they wasn't know anything from Islām. With Mawlānā Shaykh they are practising and they, I was with them in Ḥajj, and they was real Ḥajjī. Other Ḥajjī they have beard like this and clothes and... and they were fighting people, swearing of people and doing this. These people like angel they was. This is what Mawlānā teaching and his good teaching for this people. For ... But people they are quickly saying this people – they are not happy with this, not happy. They can do, if they can do better, they can do. But we are not interesting for them because Allāh – "If you bring one for right way," he said Prophet "it is better than this world. And if you make somebody run away from this way, also you will be asked why you do this this man or this woman, she come for sake of Allāh to know something and you kick them out, you make them..."
They are coming, when this people coming some place they are coming it is one step front, one step behind. if we are anything saying, quickly they run away. So we are obligatory to be very soft with people who are asking for Allāh. Many times also I hear from people, young people or older people, they said, "We was going to mosque some
place and there is old people they shout on us and they kick us out of this mosque. After I never been in mosque." This what it was happen many times I hear this. So it is not good to look for people for appearance. You must be patient to make them used and to have idea. After they can be better than you and me, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
43.LENGTHY HOPES (TOOL AL-AMAL) Friday, 2 March 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our life is numbered. The number of breaths are numbered, the hours are numbered, the days are numbered, and everything is numbered. Allah gave everyone a different lifetime. Allah knows how long you will live and nobody else knows. It happens according to the predestination of Allah. Some people say they are sick and live for years. Others say they are healthy but you never know. This is Allah’s predestination. People trust in themselves and say they will do it later. Then they pass away without doing anything. While others not only pass away empty handed but they put a fair amount of sins on top and go to the hereafter with it. “
“Tool al-amal,” says our Holy Prophet. Meaning lengthy hopes. It is dangerous to trust yourself and do this. They say, “I will do it later.” They think they will live long. That is the hope of people who make loss. We need to think: “Nothing is left. We have numbered days.” People should look at continuously making an effort, worshipping, doing good works, avoiding sins, and coming out clean. Let not the right of anybody stay on you. They say, “I will give it to the man later.” If you are going to give it then give it. You give if you have. If you do not have then at least you should give the man a paper, a promissory note, so that your inheritors pay it after you. Because that is also a right of servants (people).
As we said, if a person does not think he will live long and says, “It is not clear how long I will live,” that time he would not infringe on the rights of anybody, he would obey the commands of Allah, and he would avoid sins. This is the style of a Muslim and what our Holy Prophet tells us. When you are to do good, do it immediately. It is not alright to say, “I will do it later. I will still live long.” Even if you live long, if you are to do good then do it. However, he tells us to be in a state between fear and hope. He says, “Baynal khawfi war rajaa’.” This is important.
Islam gives happiness to people. It gives goodness. Other than it gives nothing, because they are worldly people things or the discord (fitna) of Shaitan. It is what Allah says, the most appropriate recipe for happiness. Do not look for others. Therefore, when people get used to it, they do their worship on time, get along with everybody, and are at ease.
Otherwise, time would pass as one says, “I will do it just now,” and, “I will do it now,” and one would regret it. May Allah not make us amongst those who are regretful. May He grant us to be distant from laziness Inshallah. Laziness is the greatest calamity for people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.
44.THE REWARD OF GOOD INTENTIONS Saturday, 3 March 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Good intentions always turn out good and those with good intentions win. People with bad intentions, if they act on their intention then Allah would question them. If not, if they make intention for evil but do not act on it or cannot do it then it is not written. However, people who make the intention to do good, even if they do not do it they are written rewards. If they do it: ten times, a hundred times, and however much Allah wills He gives. He gives at least ten times the reward. They would also be loved among people.
If their intention is bad and they do it, that time they are bound to be disgraced in this world and in the hereafter. That evil turns back on them in the end and finds them. They suffer its punishment in this world and in the hereafter. Allah Azza wa Jalla says, “Be with the good.” Do not do evil because evil has no benefit. Neither steeling nor beating has any blessing (baraka). It would be of no use to your health and it would not give happiness. You would get it and it would go as it came (easy come easy go). Or if you do evil to someone, Allah would not make you leave this world before giving its punishment even if after years. Furthermore, its punishment is great in the hereafter too. We need to be careful of this. People think this world has no owner. They think, “We can do it and it will be a gain for us.” No, as they say, “Nothing doing!” There is no such thing. This world has an owner, this Universe has an owner, and everyone will give account. Therefore, be good and be with the good; do not be with the evil and stay away from them. Shaitan shows evil as beautiful. He decorates and paints the ugly thing and shows it to you as a world beauty. After that, when in the end the mask falls off, the person regrets it but most of the time regret is of no use. While in the world and while there is the possibility, repenting, asking for forgiveness, and staying away from evil is a gain for a person. The other one, even if he gains the world, whatever he does does not benefit him, he would have no blessing, it would not bring happiness and felicity, and it would only bring evil. He would keep on wanting, meaning he would not have enough. May Allah protect us. May He grant us to be with good and with the good ones In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
45.EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THEIR SPECIALTY Sunday, 4 March 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our Holy Prophet has a hadith: “The character of a fine Muslim is for the person not to interfere in what does not concern him,” says our Holy Prophet. If there is work and it does not concern you then do not interfere in it. You look after your own business and do your job well. This is what the order and recommendation of our Holy Prophet (SAW) is for people and for Muslims. Because when you interfere in other works, you are interfering in what you do not know, and it neither benefits you nor does it benefit others. Your faith decreases. “Fas’al bihi khabeera,” says Allah Azza wa Jalla. (Sura Furqan:59) “Ask the knower,” He says. See if there is someone who knows and let him tell you. You learn whatever you need from him. If not, if you go ahead and attempt to look after useless things, sometimes it harms the person spiritually. You need to follow what our Holy Prophet tells to be Islam, to be Muslim. It is End Times now and people are looking at useless things. They are interested in things that do not concern them. The hodjas (clerics) come about looking at things they have no idea about, and they are playing with Muslims’, with people’s faith. Our Holy Prophet prohibited this. Everyone should have a specialty and should look at what they know. They should ask what they do not know to those who know, to people concerned with it. Do not make a judgment, a fatwa, about something you are not concerned with according to your own head. And hodjas, not every hodja can give fatwa. If you are to get a fatwa, there is the mufti. You get it from him. You follow the hodja when you go to the mosque and you offer your prayer. You listen if he gives a sermon. However, if there is something to be given a fatwa about, the hodja says it himself anyway: “Ask this matter to the mufti. He can give you a better answer.” However, since present-day people are ignorant they are also giving fatwas, they are also giving judgments, and they do this very comfortably. But as we said, that time they are being disobedient to the order of our Holy Prophet. Let us do the things we know In Sha Allah. Allah gave everyone separate specialties. Everyone should know their specialty. Let us not go beyond our limit Inshallah. May Allah grant us all to abide by this advice, by this order of our Holy Prophet In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
46.DO NOT SAY YOU ARE TIRED Tuesday, 6 March 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Authu Billahi Minash-shaitanir Rajim. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.
“Wa qul i’malu fasayarallahu ‘amalakum.” (Sura Tawba:105) Allah Almighty says, “Work. Allah will see the works you do” Allah Azza wa Jalla does not say to sit. He does not say to relax. He says to work. Because only with work does a person’s station rise, both materially and spiritually. It does not work with laziness. There is no such thing as, “I’m tired.” There is no getting tired. There is working says Allah Almighty and Glorious be He.
They say, “The iron that does not work rusts.” Son of man is the same way. People have iron inside and all kinds of metals too. Therefore, those give benefit when one works. It lies fallow everywhere when one does not work and he becomes n
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