Suhbah 2017: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (17/25)
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hā’Allāh. Thank you for all of you. Allāh accept your ziyārah (visit). Allāh give you all what you want, your du‘ā’, shifā’, every good thing. Keep yourself from every bad thing. Āmīn.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
157.THE SMELL OF ROSE Thursday, 27 July 2017
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 way to be with friend and make ṣuḥbah, to be give ṣuḥbah from, like Prophet's ṣaḥābah they was all time with Prophet hearing something from him – for this they say "ṣaḥābah". In shā’Allāh, we are also imitating them to be get blessed from ṣaḥābah bless, in shā’Allāh. Because after Prophet the most highest level – the ṣaḥābah. They are was with Prophet with everything. They are not feeling for thirsty, not feeling hungry, everything they are not complaining. They are like getting every thing they in need with Prophet. Prophet he is giving the main what in need people.
Our in need – spiritual gift, spiritual gift from Allāh. This is what we in need because Prophet saying, "Mā muli’a wi‘ā’" Because the ḥadīth you must know it well, he said, "It is not, there is no worse than one pot full with food." This is pot – our stomach – Prophet saying for this. For this they are not looking for what they eating, what they drinking. Only they was they like having everything when they are with Prophet. After Prophet many of them they was cannot come back to Madinah because they was very empty without Prophet. They feel like this but of course Prophet he is everywhere but they was with him day and night. So it is important to be with place and people they are all time remembering [reminding] you and make you to be following way of Prophet, way of ṣaḥābah, way of true believer, true mu’min people, awliyā’u Llāh.
When you are in this way, if you go some place else you feel darkness, you feel yourself bad, you feel not good. Because you feel this sometime some people who are not able to have this taste, they cannot come. From beginning they are running away but there is people who Allāh grant them and make them to love this way, the way of light, the way of beauty, way of every good thing.
Once for example, there was one man coming from outside of city, first time coming to that city. Old time there was like bazaar shop for perfume, spice, and full of smelling – jasmine, rose, amber, musk – something like this. And he was going through this street and from everywhere this, because where you going in this street you feel spice and other perfume also. Suddenly this man he little bit becoming not well. After little bit more walking, he fell down he faint. The people there was looking, "O poor man. What
happen for this man?" Quickly they bring water, washing his face. He couldn't wake up. Looking here, there, bringing doctors, give him treatment but he still not getting better. And it was like this maybe hours this man with unconscious. He is in the street sleeping. People they was afraid maybe he will die. What this doctor can do? Anything other they cannot do anything for this man. What will do?
While they are like this, there one man coming from outside and say look what happen. They say, "This man suddenly he faint we couldn't wake him up." And he look, "Oh, this my friend," he said, "Wait one minute." After he went some place, he bring some dirt – dog dirt – and put it in some place and he make it to his bring to his nose this man who faint. And this man quickly wake up. This people was astonishing, "What happen? How this happen?" He said, "This is my friend. He whole life he is working in leather making from beginning and it is real very bad smelling there." Once I was go inside one factory in Turkey with Mawlānā and nearly I will, you cannot imagine how it is dirty smelling. But he said, "This man whole life he was working there and when he come to see smell, nice smelling, he faint so I bring this dirt for him and he wake up."
This is for people who are not taking taste from good place or like all they are going to bad place to dirty, to najāsah, to where it is darkness, every badness there. But if they come here, maybe five minute they cannot stay. So we are, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, you must be thankful for Allāh He make you in this minority. Most of people they cheated by shayṭān even they are going to disco or going to place where not respecting Prophet, not respecting awliyā’u Llāh. Because this way take them out of way of Prophet and it will be the end it's not good. Other side also to not respect ṣaḥābah also same thing. So we are, now from everywhere they are trying to finish this but it is way of Prophet and it is smelling like Prophet. As they said, if he catch his hand, Prophet – two three days smelling rose. But if you catching hand of this people it will be three days smelling bad. SubḥānAllāh.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are thank you, thanking for Allāh to be make us together. For good, this good people, they are everybody, everyone Allāh choose them through this world and make them to come together. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, Allāh save us from bad people with bad intention, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
158.OPENING A NEW DERGAH Saturday, 29 July 2017
Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
In shā’Allāh, this is dergah opening for dergah in Manchester. Our time it's limited but must be two words for to say with – when we are with people even two minute we must make ṣuḥbah. In shā’Allāh, we are happy because people they like by their not be lazy. getting worse and worse. So this is a – ‘uluwwu l-himmah mina l-imān. Even two people if they are making this dergah and asking for people, to give something for people as they can do. This is order of Prophet, order – Islām order. "Ad-dīnu n-naṣīḥah," (religion is advice). When they come here they remembering Allāh. They saying, "Allāh", they are mentioning Allāh, mentioning Prophet, mentioning awliyā’u Llāh. Not mentioning gambling, not mentioning alcohol, not mentioning anything else. And when dergah it is for Allāh, it is good.
Maybe, Mawlānā Shaykh said, "I want to make forty thousand dergah." Dergah it is place for people they are looking for sake of Allāh. Coming for this mosque – of course we are, our dergah, some of them – there are some our dergah they are like mosque and dergah – this is better. But some of them, because mosque they not allowed, they make small place for dergah but they for jum‘ah and for ‘Īd, for other praying, they go for jamā‘ah. But for dhikr, other, khatm, ṣuḥbah, many place they not allow for people to make by themself, so dergah for this and for people who are looking for getting more knowledge, spiritual knowledge connecting for Allāh.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this is aim of dergah and it is like first mosque when Prophet making, same this. So, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are happy and we are asking – this is temporary place because it is small one – Allāh, in shā’Allāh, give more and more. When Allāh give, as much in need. He is Owner for everything. If enough for them, this is enough. If not, He will give. We are not worry we must make big dergah, we must big so... No. We are like this until He see us. If we are in need He can give us. we are not in need, no.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, thank you very much. Allāh make it bigger and bigger because there is hundred thousand of Muslim most of them they are not in right way. This is to help people to remember Allāh, to remember what we are for there in this life. Thank you very much.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
159.NO HOLIDAY FOR THE EGO Tuesday, 1 August 2017
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.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, thank you for you all day you give us everything, food and Al-ḥamdu liLlah̄ , we are thank you, thankful for you. We are intention for this travel for meet people for remember [remind] them and remember [remind] ourself for Allāh. So what we are eating, drinking all this give us reward from Allāh. Normally what we eat it is made for material world but when your intention for your Lord, Allāh make it for your body benefit and for your soul also benefit. For this we are make all this eating, and good visiting every place.
We are taking lesson from what we see, what it is people done and how everything if no spiritual thing after it, nothing – only people coming seeing, going around and just nobody, just, "Oh this was good man," or "He was such a man," – just this they remember. From thousand or two thousand year what we said we say, nobody take anything with him to next world from this material world. Only they take what they done. There is good – it will be helpful for them for next life. If not, if he built whole this world, no benefit for him. Because create the best everything. No need for Him.
So for this we, al-ḥamdu liLla , we make little speech just to remember because nowadays people they are in holiday, in France especially. Holiday what for dunyā they can be holiday. And they can take too because they are tired or they are fed up, they can take. But for next life, for ākhirah, no holiday. You must continue every day what we must do we must do it. No holiday, no break. Because if for dunyā if make, you make holiday and coming, you will be, you feel more stronger to beginning again. But if for ākhirah, for ‘ibad̄ ah, you make holiday you will be fall down, you try again to go up. You when you can take holiday you can rest only when you close your eyes and washing you, putting you in the grave. You must be more every day, try to make more and more. No. Tell your ego this holiday not for you. Don't listen you are, "I'm tired," "I wake up later." No you must, especially for people who are following ṭarīqah, they must try to do every day better and better.
But whom they are still not used to worship or to make – they are have rukhṣah. Make it slowly slowly everyday from very little can begin. After, every day continue, maybe
after one month they make it little more, after two months make it little more. Until they be used to it and they are so they need more and more. This is spiritual food which make your soul to be stronger and stronger. Allāh make all of us to be strong in this way, strong in... for our ego to make it under us.
You are coming, we are asking Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla to give us from His endless treasure, from His ‘aṭaya,̄ gifts, His gifts. Because here, mā shā’Allāh, people they are coming from everywhere and there is spiritual power also in this house I think, mā shāaAllāh. So we are asking Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla to help us to make our ego down and our soul up, in shā’Allah̄ , to keep us safe from every badness and give everything, give everything what we need to not ask anybody except Him.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
160.THE EGO IS LIKE A DOG Wednesday, 2 August 2017
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.
Welcome to this our association. Sorry this time Allāh what wisdom every time we everywhere this time in this trip was going very late for meeting but people, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, they are not complaining. They are patient. Your intention coming here not for enjoying yourself, you are coming for Allāh.
Here in Paris every people they are enjoying themself. They are going out. They have everywhere chair, tables for eating, for drinking, for enjoying themself. So you leave all this thing and you are coming for sake of Allāh. But they said people, material people, "Are you crazy? All this pleasure you leave and coming to this hot place waiting for Shaykh to come and he is not, two hour late coming?" But Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is every step – Prophet saying who coming for Allāh to meet mu’min, to meet his brother, Muslim brother, every step Allāh forgive him one sin and reward him one reward and he is making one high level degree. This is what bringing you here. Allāh He want good for you.
All around this city, very few people coming here. They are lucky for this is real pleasure what Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla hided in place nobody look for this. They are looking, searching everywhere. They think if we buy expensive car, if we buy expensive house, we will be happy and we will have pleasure. But Allāh even He give this pleasure for the poorest one without to any difficult for him. Pleasure only in way of Allāh. Who are against Allāh and against His order, they are making war against Him. They will not be won anytime. How make war against Allāh? You coming against Him – of course you cannot make with gun or with bomb or with other to fighting Him – but coming against Him. This is war against Allāh. You will not be never won this war. You must be humble in divine of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Who is proud they will be not succeed at all. Only who are humble, they are winner, in shā’Allāh.
We must not be lazy, we must be accepting and trying to do what Allāh order us. Don't say, "I will do this later," or when sometimes you have difficulty you do little bit, after you leave what you do when you are in good condition. Because this chance not every time you can reach it. They are example for this – here in Europe or in in whole Europe you cannot find cat or dog free. They said they have freedom here but no freedom for
animal. In our country we see many dogs going around, cat going around. No, no – they are free – no owner for them. So some of this dog when it's winter, not like here they put them jacket and... They are very cold they have, they are looking in corner of street or they are thinking, "Oh I must, when it is summer, I must dig something for me and to be safe from this cold." And, subḥāna Llāh, they this dog Allāh give them protection. They are, even in cold, they are not matter for them. But when summer coming, they become feeling very well and they said, "I'm now strong. No need to do anything. No cold or wet it is not effect me."
Our ego same like this animal. When you have difficulty you remember Allāh, you remember your Creator. When you have difficulty you say, "O my God, O Dieu, help me. Help me, give me, make cure me." Everything you remember Him. But when you are in good health and everything ok, you only remember yourself, to enjoy yourself. This is for majority of people. But but who are, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, like this people coming here, they are have Allāh give them something to remember whole time to ask for His pleasure, to His forgiveness, for His gift. Every time, not forget Him.
"Wa-idhā an‘amnā ‘alá l-insāni a‘raḍa wa-na’ā bi-jānibihi." (17:83) This even verse, sūrah in Qur’ān saying, "When We give this human being everything he is coming, not looking to that side. He going away from the good side going after his ego." In Qur’ān, Book of, heavenly Book, coming from our Creator word. It is most holy Book in it is because last book – after this no any heavenly Book, after Prophet. From Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām until our Prophet there is thousand of Waraqa (pages), Ṣafḥah (manuscripts) for each prophet coming. But only Qur’ān kept as it is coming through angel Jibrīl to Prophet. No any change. So Who create us His word this and He is this. He is know us before, better than us [we do]. And He saying, "When We are, when We give human being, majority of them they are not looking. They are going, we are not knowing You and they going to another place."
Once one awliyā’u Llāh he was old time, it was very cold and snowing and blowing very cold. And there was one slave, old time they have slave of course. He only wearing one shirt. And he is from cold his teeth coming shaking. And he was trembling from cold. And this man he said, "Oh you are slave why you don't tell your master this cold, why not bring me something to wear?" Slave, he said, "Tell him? Why I was tell him? He knows my situation better than me." He when hear this, this awliyā’u Llāh, he was crying and saying, "Oh this giving me lesson. He is he said about his master how for our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla?" So He is knowing us and telling our character, our what we are, in His Holy Qur’ān and so what is wisdom here?
Don't think majority if in their road in way opposite to order of Allāh, they are right. Don't be cheated by this people. Because shayṭān is saying, "I will make whole this human being, because they are make me out from Jannah, I will make them all of them
coming with me to Jahannam." Don't be cheated by friend of shayṭān. Allāh rules. He create us, create everything and everything it was okay until people interfere with their – they thinking they will do better. They do everything worse and now it is everywhere mess. And every people they are saying what will happen with this world? What will happen? Allāh He also saying there is Judgement Day. Everybody will [be] ask[ed] for what he done. So don't forget this and make for your real life. Even here you will be, if you are following order, Allāh order, like in Paradise. Satisfaction it is most important thing. Allāh keep us in this way, in shā’Allāh. Thank you for you. Sorry for my delay. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
161.THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PROPHET Saturday, 5 August 2017
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 are following, in shā’Allāh, order of Prophet and his beloved ṣaḥābah, companion. And awliyā’u Lla they are they have good, every good thing they are teach us. They are like university. But university... it is here in university they are only they try to teach knowledge. Knowledge it is everywhere it is acceptable – you must learn. Every knowledge it is taking you to Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla if you are really sincere. But if you are not sincere what they teach they take you to other opposite side – to not knowledge, to ignorance.
This one, but what the important thing in university only they try to teach this, but not teaching good behaviour. University of Prophet and awliyā’u Llāh, they giving you knowledge and teach you good behaviour. Good behaviour meaning training yourself to be better, to be merciful, to be, to have every good attribute – to leave your bad attribute, bad action, and only do the good thing; to be respect for who must you respect them. They teach you to respect them – first Allāh, ‘Azza wa Jalla we say, then Sayyidinā Muḥammad Each time you mention name of Allah̄ say, " ‘Azza wa Jalla." You mention Prophet say, "Ṣall Allāhu 'alayhi wa sallam." When you mention ṣaḥabah say, "Raḍī Allāhu ‘anhum." Mention awliya’̄ u Llāh, "Qaddas Allah̄ u sirruhum." When you see people say as you respect them. You can say, "O brother, my brother, my sister," you can say. Not to be speak to them like by name for elderly people. Say also respecting, not say this how they don't, not use to anything. Teaching respect.
If you are doing this you are have knowledge, real knowledge. Not like university only they teach you and this because you are not respect and you don't have knowledge for respect people, you are ignorant. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is saying, "Lā tansawu l-faḍla baynakum," (2:237). "Don't forget the who are better than you," you respect and you show them iḥtirām... respect or... In Islām there is people they said, if you respect, you are become mushrik. This is also from teaching of shayṭa to make people to make what you are done, this good thing, to be no value for this. Because when you are not respect Prophet and Allāh respecting and ordering to respect him, to obey and say ṣalātu salām ‘alayh, so you are against.
So this is important. When you respect ṣaḥabah, respect awliyā’u Llāh respect tābi‘īn, mu’mini mashayikh – you are in right way. You are in good attribute you are good behave. Every good thing you are done. Don't worry. Don't be cheated by people they are also cheated by shayṭa . They are knowing Islām such thing who don't respect anybody. You must respect. You – "Innamā bu‘ithtu li’utammima makarimu l-akhlāq." Prophet, "Allah̄ way send me to make people good behave." Allāh make us in his way and acceptable people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
162.SPIRITUAL FOOD Sunday, 6 August 2017
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 purpose of our life, Allāh explain – to worship Him. "Wa-‘bud rabbaka ḥattá ya’tiyaka l-yaqīn." (15:99) You must worship to be more believer, to make your belief stronger. You must make worshipping – this is order of Allāh. You are coming more closer to your Lord with your ‘iba ah worshipping. When you are worshipping you get the real belief. You get your satisfaction to the highest station. Some people they are making people, to say to them, "I'm I get satisfaction. [It] is finish, no need for worshipping." No. This is they understand wrong. If you not worshipping, quickly your belief going. But if you are worshipping for this you can get ... not like this shayṭān people saying, "We are, we got this level. No need more for worship." How they are explain Prophet? He was doing whole worshipping more than anyone from his ummah. They are thinking they are better than Prophet? No, you must only worship to be get blessed and to be lucky one. Because many people they were say, "We want to worship but we cannot," or "We will do it later. No time, time only limited." So we are, Allāh He is best managing for us. There is some time for everything, enough for everything.
No excuse for not worshipping. If you cannot worship in work, you can make it in your house. But you coming to your house and sitting watching television, watching internet, and forget, staying until aftermidnight. You are not doing and this is not fair for yourself, your self, your soul need this food, spiritual food. You must take it to be survive. When you are not eating food you can die. Also your spirituality dying if you are not worshipping. And you must, as much we can, make it in time ok. But if you didn't do it in time, you must do it same day also. If not, coming debt of you every day more and more and more until make you heavy. You said, "We cannot do. I like to do but I cannot do." Many people they are saying this. Nobody can help you. You must struggle, you must make effort against your ego, against your self. You must – as much it is difficult,
as much it is more reward from Allāh Alla ‘ibādihu, who worshipping Him. Āmin.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
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163.HALAL AND HARAM Monday, 7 August 2017
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.
Sometimes people, Muslims, who are Muslimīn, they are mixing between their tradition and Islām. And they thought what [is] in their tradition it is Isla . And they are saying
this is ḥara
, this is ḥalāl but it is not like what they like to do. Isla
have rules and has
everything open. This is not following tradition or anybody or customs. For this if you are accepting Islām you must accept also shari‘̄ ah rule of Islām, law. If you say for something it is ḥara and it is, it is not, you will be also asked for this because Allāh make it ḥalāl. Ḥala meaning you can do it, no harm [in doing it]. Ḥaram̄ you mustn't do. If you do you punished for this. So must be clear to not follow something it is not in Islam.
Many, we see many thing from, because Muslim from, it is for whole human being so they have thousands of type, different kinds of people. If everybody will make for himself, it will be cannot control. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla make it easy. Everybody can follow what Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying and He reward for this. But if by himself say "No, I think this is good because my country like this." No, you cannot follow. But of course in Islām also there is ‘azīmah and there is rukhṣah. ‘Azīmah meaning you can try to follow the highest order and there is ‘azi ah [he means to say - rukhṣah] also you can make it less and less and two of them Allāh .like you to make ‘azīmah meaning hard one reward for this. Sometimes Allah̄ Sometimes He is like to make rukhṣah meaning the easiest. So you can do this between this and you can look.
But sometimes maybe you do something - don't say this is ḥalāl. Ḥarām or ḥalāl without knowing - you must ask. You mustn't say like this because in Qur’ān many surah Allah̄ making people to, He is giving order to not say for ḥarām - ḥalāl or for ḥalāl - ḥarām. Allāh make us to know to what is ḥalal, what is ḥara , in shāAllāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
164.THE HEREAFTER IS THE MAIN NEED Thursday, 10 August 2017
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.
Alhamdulillah, we went and came back. This time (UK Tour), we met with beautiful brothers, friends, and new people and came back. It was a relief for them and for us as well thank Allah. It was pretty long, but we need to be thankful to Allah under any circumstances. Allah helped us. These types of trips are not easy, but it becomes easy when Allah Azza wa Jalla helps.
People have a need for the hereafter too and not just for this world. The main need is the hereafter. Shaitan makes us forget the hereafter, and people think they are only living for this world and delve in it. Most people are not happy with the world either, and that time they are making a loss in both sides.
Therefore, we are meeting with people to remind them of Allah and the hereafter. We also remember along with them. It becomes advice and goodness for them. Allah gives us our reward too. May Allah make us stand firm on this path because Shaitan and the ego continuously do not want it. They want another way and make plenty of whisperings (waswasa). When people are alone they can be overwhelmed by whisperings. That is why we need to continue with meetings and gatherings, gatherings for the zikr of Allah like these.
Everywhere in the world and here also, there is no place where Shaitan is not present. We can only confront him with zikr. We can stand against him by being with the people of zikr. May Allah help us all. InshaAllah may Allah also accept our visit. May Allah grant them all their good wishes. It has become the same there and here. May Allah guide the children and may He make them stand firm on the right path InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
165.A DISEASE WITH NO CURE: FOOLISHNESS Friday, 11 August 2017
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.
“Likulli da’in dawaun yustatabu bih, illal hamaqata a’yet men yudawiha.” It says every disease has a cure. The disease that does not have a cure is stupidity, foolishness. It has no cure. And the worst friend is the foolish friend. All scholars, saints, shaykhs say not to befriend a fool. Do not befriend a fool because they would drag you to danger. They can drag you to both material danger and spiritual danger. Spiritual danger is worse. If a person goes along with a fool in this world, he will either get beaten and get his head cracked open or at most kill someone. If he leaves the world with faith (iman) then he leaves with faith. But if you follow a fool then you are in trouble for the hereafter. That time, Allah forbid, you would go to hell. The danger is hell. Now, the great danger inflicting the Islamic world is the danger of foolishness. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He chose such a place that He made the light of Islam come out with our Holy Prophet in the middle of the desert. The people there had higher intelligence than normal people. They followed our Holy Prophet when they saw the truth. Some were very clever but did not follow due to their arrogance. They did not follow, found foolish people and deceived them, and made them deviate. There are two parts now. Those who followed our Holy Prophet and went on his path were clever people. They were illiterate but were people who could memorize thousands of lines and thousands of pages. They transferred the religion to the scholars who came afterwards, and made the path of that religion reach all the way to us. Now some people come out and say, “You are wrong. You are not right.” These people caused the whole world of Islam to be devastated. As an example of this, there is a story told by Hazrat Mawlana Rumi. It completely fits them, completely suits them, and shows their kind. A man woke up in the middle of the night and heard rattling in the house. There was a thief. He had gathered the objects, threw the bag on his back, and was running away. The owner of the house saw him from a distance and started running after him. The thief was a fast guy. Just as the man was about to reach him, he would speed up, run away, and hide. Later the man finds the
thief and goes after him again. In the end of a long chase the thief gives up. Just as he was about to jump on the thief and catch him to save his stuff, a man raises hell screaming from behind. He screams in such a way that the owner left the thief. He let go of the thief and ran to the house behind him thinking, “There must be a worse danger than mine. I wonder if there is another thief in the house? Maybe the family was killed? Maybe there is bigger trouble?” He asked, “What happened? What is it that you made such a noise? Did you get injured?” He answered, “Good news! I found the thief’s footprints. Look, right here.” So he said, “May Allah give you what you deserve. I caught the thief. You saw me catch him and screamed so much that I left him. What will I do with footprints? What good are footprints when I found his reality. You are a foolish guy. Or one of three things: a fool, a traitor, or the accomplice of the thief.” All three are worse than each other. This crew that came out now is the same way. People of tariqa and the Ahl-e Sunna wal Jamaat found the way of truth and are continuing on the path. They are on the path for 1400 years. There is no flaw. They found the truth. Now, this group that came out 100- 150 years ago, they are as Mawlana Rumi says either traitors, fools, or accomplices, accomplices to unbelievers (kafirs). What they are doing now has no benefit to Islam and the Nation of our Holy Prophet. It does not even have the tiniest benefit. It has its harms. They are making people leave the truth and fit into a shape. Pardon me, what? “You become a mushrik (polytheist) when you say ‘Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad’,” they say. We are not to say “Sayyidina”. Look, this is only one of a thousand examples. How they look at form, how they give people waswasa (whispering), and how they are devastating the creed and faith of Ummat Muhammad! As we said, they are people who are never to be conformed to. The people who are to be conformed to are people of true tariqa and true mazhabs (schools of thought). People who speak nonsense like that are fools. As we said, it is not good to be with a fool. Foolishness would spread on you. The whole world of Islam, wherever you go, are full of them. They are making people fall in doubt. The person who falls in doubt, Allah forbid, in the end loses his faith too. Allah forbid. Because there is no spiritual power. That is how you will end up if you go after Shaitan. Nothing else. We need to be careful of them. The Islamic world is asleep. It does not know that this path continues for 1400 years. Such things did not exist not 100 years ago but not even 50 years ago. None of them existed 50 years ago. There were just a few and far between. This money ruined people. Shaitans are using money to destroy people’s creed. As we said, it is not one of three but all three together. They are fools, traitors, and accomplices to kufr (unbelief). We have nothing else to say. May Allah keep the Islamic world and Muslims safe.
There is no mob that causes greater harm to Muslims wherever they go. Kufr and kafirs are not able to harm us. They make these people come out from amongst us and harm Islam. Islam cannot be harmed but Muslims are being harmed. However, Allah Azza wa Jalla is with the truth. Those who follow the truth are saved. Those who follow kufr and kafirs perish away. They are resurrected with them. They can tell them then and explain, “This is shirk, this is bidah, and this is what not.” May Allah protect us. Let us look out for our faith. May Allah also look out for our faith InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
166.A MUSLIM IS NOT AFRAID OF DEATH Saturday, 12 August 2017
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.
Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. “Aynama takunu yudrikkum almautu walaw kuntum fi burujin mushayada.” “Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, even if you should be within towers of lofty construction.” (Sura Nisa:78)
Why are we saying this? Because people are now scared when you mention death. In fact, there are some who say, “I am living with fear of death. I am afraid I am going to die.” They come to complain or to ask for dua. We are all going to die. There is no human who will not die. There is no benefit to fearing death. It says: “Fear of the time (of death) is useless.” It is a proverb.
We need to “Tafakkur mawt” meaning remember death at least seven times a day in our tariqa. Humankind thinks we will not die the more we live in this world. No, we will all die. We need not fear death. Who should fear death? Those who are not ready. Those who are not ready for the hereafter need to fear death. People who are unprepared are those who say, “I will do it later. I will pray later. I will do hajj later,” and while they have the means who say, “Later I will give my zakat.”
They need to fear since we will be brought to account. However, it does not fit a Muslim to fear death. Allah gave everyone a lifetime, an age, and breaths. He wrote how much water one is to drink. Whatever the amount of sustenance one will eat and however much livelihood one has are all written in the sight of Allah. You will not go until you eat it, drink it, and breathe it. If your time has come, you can fear as much as want. You are still going.
Therefore, it does not fit a Muslim to fear death. A Muslim needs to be ready for death. What we mean by the ready is the one who fulfills Allah’s commands, has no debts, no debts towards the hereafter, and without a deficiency. That time death is not something to be feared by a Muslim. It is the moment one reunites with Allah. However, people do not remember Allah and the hereafter anymore. That is why they are saying they are afraid. They say, “A state came upon me. Day and night I am afraid I will die.”
They put people in a strange position. You need to trust in Allah. This is something that will happen to everybody. You can fear as much as you want and as long as Allah does not will it you cannot prevent it. There is no need for anybody to constantly live in fear. Those who need to be afraid, as we said, are those who have deficiencies, who have mistakes, who infringe on the rights of others, and who oppress others. They should be afraid.
A Muslim should always be ready so when death comes you can say, “Welcome to Allah’s order. It’s on top of our head (Thy will be done).” It is a trust and you will deliver it. Whether you deliver it or not, it will leave you. May Allah grant us all true faith (iman) so this fear does not exist. The person who fears Allah does not fear anything else. They neither fear death nor anything else. May Allah give us all iman and fear of Allah InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
167.LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCES Sunday, 13 August 2016
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.
Allah Azza wa Jalla created us and taught us: “Allamal insana maalam ya’lam.” (Sura ‘Alaq:5) While humankind knows nothing, Allah gives an inspiration and he slowly learns. People are in constant learning, from infancy to old age. People need to take lesson. Allah would show people its goodness, but those who are not on Allah’s path do not take lesson. Everything turns out bad, a catastrophe for them.
People who want goodness see everything as a lesson. People are in various different states every day. Sometimes they are good and sometimes they are states that are not good. Knowing it is all from Allah, if people are thankful to Allah for learning, they would all be replaced with goodness or good deeds would be written. Even if it is hard, rewards would be written for them. We need to say we came from Allah. This is also an experience. The good and the bad are an experience for people.
There is no need to rebel when something bad happens. This is also something. People learn more every day. There is no end to knowledge so there is no end to learning. A person will learn till death, and so let him bring to mind what he learned as experience. He needs to say, “This is how it was. There is a benefit to it,” and this way he can teach others too.
They say life is about experiences. Allah gave this world and this life to people as a test. “Liyabluakum ayyukum ahsanu ‘amala.” (Sura Mulk:2) As we said, there is a lesson in everything. Allah does not burden anybody with what they cannot carry. Certainly, we need to take lesson from these states and gain experience. Let not experiences go to waste either. When people say, “It happened to us before,” or, “This is like this and that is like that,” they become satisfied, they mature with that experience, become a more perfect human, and get closer to Allah.
These things we are talking about, experiences, are a means to train a person’s ego. If not, if after so many things and states befall you and you still go after your ego, then it is of no benefit. As we said, just like you heat iron, and hit, hit, and hit it, in the end
something solid and beautiful appears, these effect the ego the same way. If not, you burned in a useless way. They hit and hit, but if it is useless, it is of no benefit.
As was said, this is to train our ego. Let us be in control of our ego. There is nobody who followed his ego and won. We need to accept these things that are done as training our ego, put it in our minds, and train our ego. Then it will not be for nothing. May Allah grant us all to take lesson from experiences so our life is not in vain. Allah also gives us rewards when we take lesson from those experiences.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
168.PATIENCE IS THE FOUNDATION OF TRANQUILITY Monday, 14 August 2017
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.
The biggest shortcoming of today’s people is not enduring, not being able to stand each other, and not being patient. When these do not exist, there is always a dispute and resentment between people, and no peace is left. It is the same way between husband and wife as it is between people. However, what is most important is endurance between family members and being patient towards each other. No peace and comfort is left when it does not exist. Allah Azza wa Jalla created people so they may be helpful to each other, and disputes arise when people do not follow the Islamic commands of Allah, knowingly or unknowingly.
They believe people and give an attitude to their own family, their own wife or husband, and a dispute occurs out of nowhere. Like they say sometimes, “For a reason that won’t even fill a fig seed,” big disputes and fights erupt, and divorce occurs. Therefore, we need to be patient and persevere. Allah gave this strength to people. He gave both patience and perseverance, and we need to use them. Most of the time because of a fight we say, “I will leave you and go.”
They say the wife does not love the husband anymore, there is no more love left, and so, “Let us end this.” It is not a game. Allah does this to people: He gives a bigger disturbance. Because if it was for no reason, Allah gives in return something with a reason and makes the person endure it. Later the person would say, “I wish I endured that,” for something the person did not endure and they regret it.
This is the feature of people of these times: Not enduring and being impatient. However, as we said, Allah gave people the strength to be patient and to endure. The person learns this by being patient and enduring. It does not happen immediately. If there is constant rebellion instead of patience, then in the end there is divorce or fights. But a person can endure slowly, sometimes taking something lying down, sometimes the other one does it, or sometimes saying, “What was said is not true.”
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He says, “Be patient.” It is an order. However, people of today do not have patience, and in the smallest thing they are constantly either finding
the fault in their husband, their father, their child, the government, or the state. They never look for the fault in themselves. May Allah give us all common sense and intelligence so we may get along nicely and keep going InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
169.CLEANLINESS FITS A MUSLIM Tuesday, 15 August 2017
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.
Cleanliness is from faith. Allah made the religion of Islam a clean religion. The first thing is purification. Purification means cleanliness. If there is no purification, if there is no cleanliness, then no worship is accepted. When you are to offer namaz (prayer), you need to be clean and make ablution, and your surroundings need to be held clean. This is the first condition for every Muslim. Your prayer is not accepted if there is no cleanliness. And namaz is the pillar of religion. However, Muslims unfortunately dirty their surroundings wherever they go. Keeping the environment clean is also important, because when you go in for ablution or to do something, that place needs to be clean so filth does not splash on you. If Muslims leave the places they go to clean, then those who come after will find it clean. It is not alright to say, “There is a worker here. Let him clean it.” That time one would be infringing on the rights of others.
So this is worth noting. It is even more important for people of tariqa. The scene is bizarre even though we are here, so we do not know how it is when we are not here. So this is impossible. We need to be careful. If you are to clean yourself, first you need to clean where you live. The surface needs to be clean in order for your inside to be cleaned. Have you ever seen a dirty wali (saint) or shaykh? None. The mashayikh (shaykhs) and awliya are clean people. If you love them, you need to do as they do and pay attention to cleanliness. Do not be lazy. Let people be happy wherever you go. People should not say, “Who made this much dirtiness?” when they go in after you. These are things we need to pay attention to. The first condition of Islam is cleanliness, purification - and working hard. Laziness is no good. The trash bin is there and you are throwing it on the floor. Is this possible? It is both shameful and sinful.
We need to be careful of this. If everybody cleaned what they dirtied, it would be clean all around, it would be beautiful, and it would be good. So dirtiness does not fit a Muslim. It is shameful and a disliked state. Allah, the Prophet, and the awliya do not like dirtiness. Let us pay attention to cleanliness.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
170.SACRIFICE AND HAJJ DUTIES Wednesday, 16 August 2017
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.
InshaAllah we will be travelling today and we can only meet after Eid (Shaykh Effendi is travelling to Cyprus). There are two duties on Eid: Qurban and hajj. Those who are able to perform the hajj do it anyway, and it is best is if they can slaughter it themselves. It is best to slaughter their own sacrifice and start eating with it on the day of Eid. If you cannot do it, you will do it at the butcher and let the one who knows slaughter it. After getting it cut, it is best to leave some for yourself and to distribute to those around where you live, to the poor and those you know. If this is not possible, you can send it to other places. It is alright to send to places you know, and if not there are many other places you can also send for good deeds and rewards. Secondly, the matter of hajj. People should go to hajj if they can when it becomes an obligation. In case they could not go and Allah forbid they die, they will be questioned if a substitute is not assigned and sent to hajj instead. They would be committing a great sin and they would not be doing an obligation. It is fard. Just like namaz (prayer), hajj also needs to be done for those who can do it. It is fard. They would be committing a sin of they do not do it. Of course, the current situation is hard. Because they do not accept everybody, that sin would be upon those who forbid them. People want to go and are waiting in line. There are millions of people waiting and the door is not open. They do not open the door. They say, “We cannot take them in. We cannot handle it.” Whereas if they took them in Allah would expand it. These hajjis are Allah’s guests and not the guests of anybody, of any government but Allah’s. Nobody wants anything from them either, but when they cannot do it, people are prohibited from the fard and its sin is upon those who prohibit them. There were these two matters. May Allah make it easy for us to perform them, and may He grant them to everyone InshaAllah. These are both a blessing (baraka) and a reason for being grateful for those who can do it. Because Allah also gave the worldly. They need to slaughter a sacrifice to express its gratitude. The hajj is once anyway and there is no need to go every year. The fard drops when they go once, and the burden would be dropped from their backs. May Allah accept the hajj of hajjis and may it be easy InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
171.LIFE AND DEATH Thursday, 17 August, 2017
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.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Alladhī khalaqa l-mawta wal-ḥayāta liyabluwakum ayyukum aḥsanu ‘amalā" (67:2) Allāh created both life and death. Allāh created everything. And these are the things created by Allāh. Allāh created us, to see if we do good things; if we obey Him or if we are on the way of sins, He created life and death. We live for a certain period, then everybody passes away. No one is immortal. Everyone eventually... There are some people who live for hundreds of years like Khiḍr ‘alayhi s-salām, Ilyās ‘alayhi s-salām, Idrīs ‘alayhi s-salām. And they will die too. No one will remain without dying because death is for all creatures.
The wisdom of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla giving death to everyone is for them to not worship others. Not for others, but the worship done for Allāh is only devoted to Him. Apart from Him everyone is a creature. And among the creatures the one who reached the hig
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hā’Allāh. Thank you for all of you. Allāh accept your ziyārah (visit). Allāh give you all what you want, your du‘ā’, shifā’, every good thing. Keep yourself from every bad thing. Āmīn.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
157.THE SMELL OF ROSE Thursday, 27 July 2017
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 way to be with friend and make ṣuḥbah, to be give ṣuḥbah from, like Prophet's ṣaḥābah they was all time with Prophet hearing something from him – for this they say "ṣaḥābah". In shā’Allāh, we are also imitating them to be get blessed from ṣaḥābah bless, in shā’Allāh. Because after Prophet the most highest level – the ṣaḥābah. They are was with Prophet with everything. They are not feeling for thirsty, not feeling hungry, everything they are not complaining. They are like getting every thing they in need with Prophet. Prophet he is giving the main what in need people.
Our in need – spiritual gift, spiritual gift from Allāh. This is what we in need because Prophet saying, "Mā muli’a wi‘ā’" Because the ḥadīth you must know it well, he said, "It is not, there is no worse than one pot full with food." This is pot – our stomach – Prophet saying for this. For this they are not looking for what they eating, what they drinking. Only they was they like having everything when they are with Prophet. After Prophet many of them they was cannot come back to Madinah because they was very empty without Prophet. They feel like this but of course Prophet he is everywhere but they was with him day and night. So it is important to be with place and people they are all time remembering [reminding] you and make you to be following way of Prophet, way of ṣaḥābah, way of true believer, true mu’min people, awliyā’u Llāh.
When you are in this way, if you go some place else you feel darkness, you feel yourself bad, you feel not good. Because you feel this sometime some people who are not able to have this taste, they cannot come. From beginning they are running away but there is people who Allāh grant them and make them to love this way, the way of light, the way of beauty, way of every good thing.
Once for example, there was one man coming from outside of city, first time coming to that city. Old time there was like bazaar shop for perfume, spice, and full of smelling – jasmine, rose, amber, musk – something like this. And he was going through this street and from everywhere this, because where you going in this street you feel spice and other perfume also. Suddenly this man he little bit becoming not well. After little bit more walking, he fell down he faint. The people there was looking, "O poor man. What
happen for this man?" Quickly they bring water, washing his face. He couldn't wake up. Looking here, there, bringing doctors, give him treatment but he still not getting better. And it was like this maybe hours this man with unconscious. He is in the street sleeping. People they was afraid maybe he will die. What this doctor can do? Anything other they cannot do anything for this man. What will do?
While they are like this, there one man coming from outside and say look what happen. They say, "This man suddenly he faint we couldn't wake him up." And he look, "Oh, this my friend," he said, "Wait one minute." After he went some place, he bring some dirt – dog dirt – and put it in some place and he make it to his bring to his nose this man who faint. And this man quickly wake up. This people was astonishing, "What happen? How this happen?" He said, "This is my friend. He whole life he is working in leather making from beginning and it is real very bad smelling there." Once I was go inside one factory in Turkey with Mawlānā and nearly I will, you cannot imagine how it is dirty smelling. But he said, "This man whole life he was working there and when he come to see smell, nice smelling, he faint so I bring this dirt for him and he wake up."
This is for people who are not taking taste from good place or like all they are going to bad place to dirty, to najāsah, to where it is darkness, every badness there. But if they come here, maybe five minute they cannot stay. So we are, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, you must be thankful for Allāh He make you in this minority. Most of people they cheated by shayṭān even they are going to disco or going to place where not respecting Prophet, not respecting awliyā’u Llāh. Because this way take them out of way of Prophet and it will be the end it's not good. Other side also to not respect ṣaḥābah also same thing. So we are, now from everywhere they are trying to finish this but it is way of Prophet and it is smelling like Prophet. As they said, if he catch his hand, Prophet – two three days smelling rose. But if you catching hand of this people it will be three days smelling bad. SubḥānAllāh.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are thank you, thanking for Allāh to be make us together. For good, this good people, they are everybody, everyone Allāh choose them through this world and make them to come together. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, Allāh save us from bad people with bad intention, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
158.OPENING A NEW DERGAH Saturday, 29 July 2017
Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
In shā’Allāh, this is dergah opening for dergah in Manchester. Our time it's limited but must be two words for to say with – when we are with people even two minute we must make ṣuḥbah. In shā’Allāh, we are happy because people they like by their not be lazy. getting worse and worse. So this is a – ‘uluwwu l-himmah mina l-imān. Even two people if they are making this dergah and asking for people, to give something for people as they can do. This is order of Prophet, order – Islām order. "Ad-dīnu n-naṣīḥah," (religion is advice). When they come here they remembering Allāh. They saying, "Allāh", they are mentioning Allāh, mentioning Prophet, mentioning awliyā’u Llāh. Not mentioning gambling, not mentioning alcohol, not mentioning anything else. And when dergah it is for Allāh, it is good.
Maybe, Mawlānā Shaykh said, "I want to make forty thousand dergah." Dergah it is place for people they are looking for sake of Allāh. Coming for this mosque – of course we are, our dergah, some of them – there are some our dergah they are like mosque and dergah – this is better. But some of them, because mosque they not allowed, they make small place for dergah but they for jum‘ah and for ‘Īd, for other praying, they go for jamā‘ah. But for dhikr, other, khatm, ṣuḥbah, many place they not allow for people to make by themself, so dergah for this and for people who are looking for getting more knowledge, spiritual knowledge connecting for Allāh.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this is aim of dergah and it is like first mosque when Prophet making, same this. So, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are happy and we are asking – this is temporary place because it is small one – Allāh, in shā’Allāh, give more and more. When Allāh give, as much in need. He is Owner for everything. If enough for them, this is enough. If not, He will give. We are not worry we must make big dergah, we must big so... No. We are like this until He see us. If we are in need He can give us. we are not in need, no.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, thank you very much. Allāh make it bigger and bigger because there is hundred thousand of Muslim most of them they are not in right way. This is to help people to remember Allāh, to remember what we are for there in this life. Thank you very much.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
159.NO HOLIDAY FOR THE EGO Tuesday, 1 August 2017
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.
Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, thank you for you all day you give us everything, food and Al-ḥamdu liLlah̄ , we are thank you, thankful for you. We are intention for this travel for meet people for remember [remind] them and remember [remind] ourself for Allāh. So what we are eating, drinking all this give us reward from Allāh. Normally what we eat it is made for material world but when your intention for your Lord, Allāh make it for your body benefit and for your soul also benefit. For this we are make all this eating, and good visiting every place.
We are taking lesson from what we see, what it is people done and how everything if no spiritual thing after it, nothing – only people coming seeing, going around and just nobody, just, "Oh this was good man," or "He was such a man," – just this they remember. From thousand or two thousand year what we said we say, nobody take anything with him to next world from this material world. Only they take what they done. There is good – it will be helpful for them for next life. If not, if he built whole this world, no benefit for him. Because create the best everything. No need for Him.
So for this we, al-ḥamdu liLla , we make little speech just to remember because nowadays people they are in holiday, in France especially. Holiday what for dunyā they can be holiday. And they can take too because they are tired or they are fed up, they can take. But for next life, for ākhirah, no holiday. You must continue every day what we must do we must do it. No holiday, no break. Because if for dunyā if make, you make holiday and coming, you will be, you feel more stronger to beginning again. But if for ākhirah, for ‘ibad̄ ah, you make holiday you will be fall down, you try again to go up. You when you can take holiday you can rest only when you close your eyes and washing you, putting you in the grave. You must be more every day, try to make more and more. No. Tell your ego this holiday not for you. Don't listen you are, "I'm tired," "I wake up later." No you must, especially for people who are following ṭarīqah, they must try to do every day better and better.
But whom they are still not used to worship or to make – they are have rukhṣah. Make it slowly slowly everyday from very little can begin. After, every day continue, maybe
after one month they make it little more, after two months make it little more. Until they be used to it and they are so they need more and more. This is spiritual food which make your soul to be stronger and stronger. Allāh make all of us to be strong in this way, strong in... for our ego to make it under us.
You are coming, we are asking Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla to give us from His endless treasure, from His ‘aṭaya,̄ gifts, His gifts. Because here, mā shā’Allāh, people they are coming from everywhere and there is spiritual power also in this house I think, mā shāaAllāh. So we are asking Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla to help us to make our ego down and our soul up, in shā’Allah̄ , to keep us safe from every badness and give everything, give everything what we need to not ask anybody except Him.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
160.THE EGO IS LIKE A DOG Wednesday, 2 August 2017
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.
Welcome to this our association. Sorry this time Allāh what wisdom every time we everywhere this time in this trip was going very late for meeting but people, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, they are not complaining. They are patient. Your intention coming here not for enjoying yourself, you are coming for Allāh.
Here in Paris every people they are enjoying themself. They are going out. They have everywhere chair, tables for eating, for drinking, for enjoying themself. So you leave all this thing and you are coming for sake of Allāh. But they said people, material people, "Are you crazy? All this pleasure you leave and coming to this hot place waiting for Shaykh to come and he is not, two hour late coming?" But Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is every step – Prophet saying who coming for Allāh to meet mu’min, to meet his brother, Muslim brother, every step Allāh forgive him one sin and reward him one reward and he is making one high level degree. This is what bringing you here. Allāh He want good for you.
All around this city, very few people coming here. They are lucky for this is real pleasure what Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla hided in place nobody look for this. They are looking, searching everywhere. They think if we buy expensive car, if we buy expensive house, we will be happy and we will have pleasure. But Allāh even He give this pleasure for the poorest one without to any difficult for him. Pleasure only in way of Allāh. Who are against Allāh and against His order, they are making war against Him. They will not be won anytime. How make war against Allāh? You coming against Him – of course you cannot make with gun or with bomb or with other to fighting Him – but coming against Him. This is war against Allāh. You will not be never won this war. You must be humble in divine of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Who is proud they will be not succeed at all. Only who are humble, they are winner, in shā’Allāh.
We must not be lazy, we must be accepting and trying to do what Allāh order us. Don't say, "I will do this later," or when sometimes you have difficulty you do little bit, after you leave what you do when you are in good condition. Because this chance not every time you can reach it. They are example for this – here in Europe or in in whole Europe you cannot find cat or dog free. They said they have freedom here but no freedom for
animal. In our country we see many dogs going around, cat going around. No, no – they are free – no owner for them. So some of this dog when it's winter, not like here they put them jacket and... They are very cold they have, they are looking in corner of street or they are thinking, "Oh I must, when it is summer, I must dig something for me and to be safe from this cold." And, subḥāna Llāh, they this dog Allāh give them protection. They are, even in cold, they are not matter for them. But when summer coming, they become feeling very well and they said, "I'm now strong. No need to do anything. No cold or wet it is not effect me."
Our ego same like this animal. When you have difficulty you remember Allāh, you remember your Creator. When you have difficulty you say, "O my God, O Dieu, help me. Help me, give me, make cure me." Everything you remember Him. But when you are in good health and everything ok, you only remember yourself, to enjoy yourself. This is for majority of people. But but who are, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, like this people coming here, they are have Allāh give them something to remember whole time to ask for His pleasure, to His forgiveness, for His gift. Every time, not forget Him.
"Wa-idhā an‘amnā ‘alá l-insāni a‘raḍa wa-na’ā bi-jānibihi." (17:83) This even verse, sūrah in Qur’ān saying, "When We give this human being everything he is coming, not looking to that side. He going away from the good side going after his ego." In Qur’ān, Book of, heavenly Book, coming from our Creator word. It is most holy Book in it is because last book – after this no any heavenly Book, after Prophet. From Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām until our Prophet there is thousand of Waraqa (pages), Ṣafḥah (manuscripts) for each prophet coming. But only Qur’ān kept as it is coming through angel Jibrīl to Prophet. No any change. So Who create us His word this and He is this. He is know us before, better than us [we do]. And He saying, "When We are, when We give human being, majority of them they are not looking. They are going, we are not knowing You and they going to another place."
Once one awliyā’u Llāh he was old time, it was very cold and snowing and blowing very cold. And there was one slave, old time they have slave of course. He only wearing one shirt. And he is from cold his teeth coming shaking. And he was trembling from cold. And this man he said, "Oh you are slave why you don't tell your master this cold, why not bring me something to wear?" Slave, he said, "Tell him? Why I was tell him? He knows my situation better than me." He when hear this, this awliyā’u Llāh, he was crying and saying, "Oh this giving me lesson. He is he said about his master how for our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla?" So He is knowing us and telling our character, our what we are, in His Holy Qur’ān and so what is wisdom here?
Don't think majority if in their road in way opposite to order of Allāh, they are right. Don't be cheated by this people. Because shayṭān is saying, "I will make whole this human being, because they are make me out from Jannah, I will make them all of them
coming with me to Jahannam." Don't be cheated by friend of shayṭān. Allāh rules. He create us, create everything and everything it was okay until people interfere with their – they thinking they will do better. They do everything worse and now it is everywhere mess. And every people they are saying what will happen with this world? What will happen? Allāh He also saying there is Judgement Day. Everybody will [be] ask[ed] for what he done. So don't forget this and make for your real life. Even here you will be, if you are following order, Allāh order, like in Paradise. Satisfaction it is most important thing. Allāh keep us in this way, in shā’Allāh. Thank you for you. Sorry for my delay. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
161.THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PROPHET Saturday, 5 August 2017
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 are following, in shā’Allāh, order of Prophet and his beloved ṣaḥābah, companion. And awliyā’u Lla they are they have good, every good thing they are teach us. They are like university. But university... it is here in university they are only they try to teach knowledge. Knowledge it is everywhere it is acceptable – you must learn. Every knowledge it is taking you to Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla if you are really sincere. But if you are not sincere what they teach they take you to other opposite side – to not knowledge, to ignorance.
This one, but what the important thing in university only they try to teach this, but not teaching good behaviour. University of Prophet and awliyā’u Llāh, they giving you knowledge and teach you good behaviour. Good behaviour meaning training yourself to be better, to be merciful, to be, to have every good attribute – to leave your bad attribute, bad action, and only do the good thing; to be respect for who must you respect them. They teach you to respect them – first Allāh, ‘Azza wa Jalla we say, then Sayyidinā Muḥammad Each time you mention name of Allah̄ say, " ‘Azza wa Jalla." You mention Prophet say, "Ṣall Allāhu 'alayhi wa sallam." When you mention ṣaḥabah say, "Raḍī Allāhu ‘anhum." Mention awliya’̄ u Llāh, "Qaddas Allah̄ u sirruhum." When you see people say as you respect them. You can say, "O brother, my brother, my sister," you can say. Not to be speak to them like by name for elderly people. Say also respecting, not say this how they don't, not use to anything. Teaching respect.
If you are doing this you are have knowledge, real knowledge. Not like university only they teach you and this because you are not respect and you don't have knowledge for respect people, you are ignorant. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is saying, "Lā tansawu l-faḍla baynakum," (2:237). "Don't forget the who are better than you," you respect and you show them iḥtirām... respect or... In Islām there is people they said, if you respect, you are become mushrik. This is also from teaching of shayṭa to make people to make what you are done, this good thing, to be no value for this. Because when you are not respect Prophet and Allāh respecting and ordering to respect him, to obey and say ṣalātu salām ‘alayh, so you are against.
So this is important. When you respect ṣaḥabah, respect awliyā’u Llāh respect tābi‘īn, mu’mini mashayikh – you are in right way. You are in good attribute you are good behave. Every good thing you are done. Don't worry. Don't be cheated by people they are also cheated by shayṭa . They are knowing Islām such thing who don't respect anybody. You must respect. You – "Innamā bu‘ithtu li’utammima makarimu l-akhlāq." Prophet, "Allah̄ way send me to make people good behave." Allāh make us in his way and acceptable people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
162.SPIRITUAL FOOD Sunday, 6 August 2017
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 purpose of our life, Allāh explain – to worship Him. "Wa-‘bud rabbaka ḥattá ya’tiyaka l-yaqīn." (15:99) You must worship to be more believer, to make your belief stronger. You must make worshipping – this is order of Allāh. You are coming more closer to your Lord with your ‘iba ah worshipping. When you are worshipping you get the real belief. You get your satisfaction to the highest station. Some people they are making people, to say to them, "I'm I get satisfaction. [It] is finish, no need for worshipping." No. This is they understand wrong. If you not worshipping, quickly your belief going. But if you are worshipping for this you can get ... not like this shayṭān people saying, "We are, we got this level. No need more for worship." How they are explain Prophet? He was doing whole worshipping more than anyone from his ummah. They are thinking they are better than Prophet? No, you must only worship to be get blessed and to be lucky one. Because many people they were say, "We want to worship but we cannot," or "We will do it later. No time, time only limited." So we are, Allāh He is best managing for us. There is some time for everything, enough for everything.
No excuse for not worshipping. If you cannot worship in work, you can make it in your house. But you coming to your house and sitting watching television, watching internet, and forget, staying until aftermidnight. You are not doing and this is not fair for yourself, your self, your soul need this food, spiritual food. You must take it to be survive. When you are not eating food you can die. Also your spirituality dying if you are not worshipping. And you must, as much we can, make it in time ok. But if you didn't do it in time, you must do it same day also. If not, coming debt of you every day more and more and more until make you heavy. You said, "We cannot do. I like to do but I cannot do." Many people they are saying this. Nobody can help you. You must struggle, you must make effort against your ego, against your self. You must – as much it is difficult,
as much it is more reward from Allāh Alla ‘ibādihu, who worshipping Him. Āmin.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
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163.HALAL AND HARAM Monday, 7 August 2017
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.
Sometimes people, Muslims, who are Muslimīn, they are mixing between their tradition and Islām. And they thought what [is] in their tradition it is Isla . And they are saying
this is ḥara
, this is ḥalāl but it is not like what they like to do. Isla
have rules and has
everything open. This is not following tradition or anybody or customs. For this if you are accepting Islām you must accept also shari‘̄ ah rule of Islām, law. If you say for something it is ḥara and it is, it is not, you will be also asked for this because Allāh make it ḥalāl. Ḥala meaning you can do it, no harm [in doing it]. Ḥaram̄ you mustn't do. If you do you punished for this. So must be clear to not follow something it is not in Islam.
Many, we see many thing from, because Muslim from, it is for whole human being so they have thousands of type, different kinds of people. If everybody will make for himself, it will be cannot control. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla make it easy. Everybody can follow what Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying and He reward for this. But if by himself say "No, I think this is good because my country like this." No, you cannot follow. But of course in Islām also there is ‘azīmah and there is rukhṣah. ‘Azīmah meaning you can try to follow the highest order and there is ‘azi ah [he means to say - rukhṣah] also you can make it less and less and two of them Allāh .like you to make ‘azīmah meaning hard one reward for this. Sometimes Allah̄ Sometimes He is like to make rukhṣah meaning the easiest. So you can do this between this and you can look.
But sometimes maybe you do something - don't say this is ḥalāl. Ḥarām or ḥalāl without knowing - you must ask. You mustn't say like this because in Qur’ān many surah Allah̄ making people to, He is giving order to not say for ḥarām - ḥalāl or for ḥalāl - ḥarām. Allāh make us to know to what is ḥalal, what is ḥara , in shāAllāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
164.THE HEREAFTER IS THE MAIN NEED Thursday, 10 August 2017
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.
Alhamdulillah, we went and came back. This time (UK Tour), we met with beautiful brothers, friends, and new people and came back. It was a relief for them and for us as well thank Allah. It was pretty long, but we need to be thankful to Allah under any circumstances. Allah helped us. These types of trips are not easy, but it becomes easy when Allah Azza wa Jalla helps.
People have a need for the hereafter too and not just for this world. The main need is the hereafter. Shaitan makes us forget the hereafter, and people think they are only living for this world and delve in it. Most people are not happy with the world either, and that time they are making a loss in both sides.
Therefore, we are meeting with people to remind them of Allah and the hereafter. We also remember along with them. It becomes advice and goodness for them. Allah gives us our reward too. May Allah make us stand firm on this path because Shaitan and the ego continuously do not want it. They want another way and make plenty of whisperings (waswasa). When people are alone they can be overwhelmed by whisperings. That is why we need to continue with meetings and gatherings, gatherings for the zikr of Allah like these.
Everywhere in the world and here also, there is no place where Shaitan is not present. We can only confront him with zikr. We can stand against him by being with the people of zikr. May Allah help us all. InshaAllah may Allah also accept our visit. May Allah grant them all their good wishes. It has become the same there and here. May Allah guide the children and may He make them stand firm on the right path InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
165.A DISEASE WITH NO CURE: FOOLISHNESS Friday, 11 August 2017
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.
“Likulli da’in dawaun yustatabu bih, illal hamaqata a’yet men yudawiha.” It says every disease has a cure. The disease that does not have a cure is stupidity, foolishness. It has no cure. And the worst friend is the foolish friend. All scholars, saints, shaykhs say not to befriend a fool. Do not befriend a fool because they would drag you to danger. They can drag you to both material danger and spiritual danger. Spiritual danger is worse. If a person goes along with a fool in this world, he will either get beaten and get his head cracked open or at most kill someone. If he leaves the world with faith (iman) then he leaves with faith. But if you follow a fool then you are in trouble for the hereafter. That time, Allah forbid, you would go to hell. The danger is hell. Now, the great danger inflicting the Islamic world is the danger of foolishness. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He chose such a place that He made the light of Islam come out with our Holy Prophet in the middle of the desert. The people there had higher intelligence than normal people. They followed our Holy Prophet when they saw the truth. Some were very clever but did not follow due to their arrogance. They did not follow, found foolish people and deceived them, and made them deviate. There are two parts now. Those who followed our Holy Prophet and went on his path were clever people. They were illiterate but were people who could memorize thousands of lines and thousands of pages. They transferred the religion to the scholars who came afterwards, and made the path of that religion reach all the way to us. Now some people come out and say, “You are wrong. You are not right.” These people caused the whole world of Islam to be devastated. As an example of this, there is a story told by Hazrat Mawlana Rumi. It completely fits them, completely suits them, and shows their kind. A man woke up in the middle of the night and heard rattling in the house. There was a thief. He had gathered the objects, threw the bag on his back, and was running away. The owner of the house saw him from a distance and started running after him. The thief was a fast guy. Just as the man was about to reach him, he would speed up, run away, and hide. Later the man finds the
thief and goes after him again. In the end of a long chase the thief gives up. Just as he was about to jump on the thief and catch him to save his stuff, a man raises hell screaming from behind. He screams in such a way that the owner left the thief. He let go of the thief and ran to the house behind him thinking, “There must be a worse danger than mine. I wonder if there is another thief in the house? Maybe the family was killed? Maybe there is bigger trouble?” He asked, “What happened? What is it that you made such a noise? Did you get injured?” He answered, “Good news! I found the thief’s footprints. Look, right here.” So he said, “May Allah give you what you deserve. I caught the thief. You saw me catch him and screamed so much that I left him. What will I do with footprints? What good are footprints when I found his reality. You are a foolish guy. Or one of three things: a fool, a traitor, or the accomplice of the thief.” All three are worse than each other. This crew that came out now is the same way. People of tariqa and the Ahl-e Sunna wal Jamaat found the way of truth and are continuing on the path. They are on the path for 1400 years. There is no flaw. They found the truth. Now, this group that came out 100- 150 years ago, they are as Mawlana Rumi says either traitors, fools, or accomplices, accomplices to unbelievers (kafirs). What they are doing now has no benefit to Islam and the Nation of our Holy Prophet. It does not even have the tiniest benefit. It has its harms. They are making people leave the truth and fit into a shape. Pardon me, what? “You become a mushrik (polytheist) when you say ‘Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad’,” they say. We are not to say “Sayyidina”. Look, this is only one of a thousand examples. How they look at form, how they give people waswasa (whispering), and how they are devastating the creed and faith of Ummat Muhammad! As we said, they are people who are never to be conformed to. The people who are to be conformed to are people of true tariqa and true mazhabs (schools of thought). People who speak nonsense like that are fools. As we said, it is not good to be with a fool. Foolishness would spread on you. The whole world of Islam, wherever you go, are full of them. They are making people fall in doubt. The person who falls in doubt, Allah forbid, in the end loses his faith too. Allah forbid. Because there is no spiritual power. That is how you will end up if you go after Shaitan. Nothing else. We need to be careful of them. The Islamic world is asleep. It does not know that this path continues for 1400 years. Such things did not exist not 100 years ago but not even 50 years ago. None of them existed 50 years ago. There were just a few and far between. This money ruined people. Shaitans are using money to destroy people’s creed. As we said, it is not one of three but all three together. They are fools, traitors, and accomplices to kufr (unbelief). We have nothing else to say. May Allah keep the Islamic world and Muslims safe.
There is no mob that causes greater harm to Muslims wherever they go. Kufr and kafirs are not able to harm us. They make these people come out from amongst us and harm Islam. Islam cannot be harmed but Muslims are being harmed. However, Allah Azza wa Jalla is with the truth. Those who follow the truth are saved. Those who follow kufr and kafirs perish away. They are resurrected with them. They can tell them then and explain, “This is shirk, this is bidah, and this is what not.” May Allah protect us. Let us look out for our faith. May Allah also look out for our faith InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
166.A MUSLIM IS NOT AFRAID OF DEATH Saturday, 12 August 2017
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.
Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. “Aynama takunu yudrikkum almautu walaw kuntum fi burujin mushayada.” “Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, even if you should be within towers of lofty construction.” (Sura Nisa:78)
Why are we saying this? Because people are now scared when you mention death. In fact, there are some who say, “I am living with fear of death. I am afraid I am going to die.” They come to complain or to ask for dua. We are all going to die. There is no human who will not die. There is no benefit to fearing death. It says: “Fear of the time (of death) is useless.” It is a proverb.
We need to “Tafakkur mawt” meaning remember death at least seven times a day in our tariqa. Humankind thinks we will not die the more we live in this world. No, we will all die. We need not fear death. Who should fear death? Those who are not ready. Those who are not ready for the hereafter need to fear death. People who are unprepared are those who say, “I will do it later. I will pray later. I will do hajj later,” and while they have the means who say, “Later I will give my zakat.”
They need to fear since we will be brought to account. However, it does not fit a Muslim to fear death. Allah gave everyone a lifetime, an age, and breaths. He wrote how much water one is to drink. Whatever the amount of sustenance one will eat and however much livelihood one has are all written in the sight of Allah. You will not go until you eat it, drink it, and breathe it. If your time has come, you can fear as much as want. You are still going.
Therefore, it does not fit a Muslim to fear death. A Muslim needs to be ready for death. What we mean by the ready is the one who fulfills Allah’s commands, has no debts, no debts towards the hereafter, and without a deficiency. That time death is not something to be feared by a Muslim. It is the moment one reunites with Allah. However, people do not remember Allah and the hereafter anymore. That is why they are saying they are afraid. They say, “A state came upon me. Day and night I am afraid I will die.”
They put people in a strange position. You need to trust in Allah. This is something that will happen to everybody. You can fear as much as you want and as long as Allah does not will it you cannot prevent it. There is no need for anybody to constantly live in fear. Those who need to be afraid, as we said, are those who have deficiencies, who have mistakes, who infringe on the rights of others, and who oppress others. They should be afraid.
A Muslim should always be ready so when death comes you can say, “Welcome to Allah’s order. It’s on top of our head (Thy will be done).” It is a trust and you will deliver it. Whether you deliver it or not, it will leave you. May Allah grant us all true faith (iman) so this fear does not exist. The person who fears Allah does not fear anything else. They neither fear death nor anything else. May Allah give us all iman and fear of Allah InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
167.LIFE IS ABOUT EXPERIENCES Sunday, 13 August 2016
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.
Allah Azza wa Jalla created us and taught us: “Allamal insana maalam ya’lam.” (Sura ‘Alaq:5) While humankind knows nothing, Allah gives an inspiration and he slowly learns. People are in constant learning, from infancy to old age. People need to take lesson. Allah would show people its goodness, but those who are not on Allah’s path do not take lesson. Everything turns out bad, a catastrophe for them.
People who want goodness see everything as a lesson. People are in various different states every day. Sometimes they are good and sometimes they are states that are not good. Knowing it is all from Allah, if people are thankful to Allah for learning, they would all be replaced with goodness or good deeds would be written. Even if it is hard, rewards would be written for them. We need to say we came from Allah. This is also an experience. The good and the bad are an experience for people.
There is no need to rebel when something bad happens. This is also something. People learn more every day. There is no end to knowledge so there is no end to learning. A person will learn till death, and so let him bring to mind what he learned as experience. He needs to say, “This is how it was. There is a benefit to it,” and this way he can teach others too.
They say life is about experiences. Allah gave this world and this life to people as a test. “Liyabluakum ayyukum ahsanu ‘amala.” (Sura Mulk:2) As we said, there is a lesson in everything. Allah does not burden anybody with what they cannot carry. Certainly, we need to take lesson from these states and gain experience. Let not experiences go to waste either. When people say, “It happened to us before,” or, “This is like this and that is like that,” they become satisfied, they mature with that experience, become a more perfect human, and get closer to Allah.
These things we are talking about, experiences, are a means to train a person’s ego. If not, if after so many things and states befall you and you still go after your ego, then it is of no benefit. As we said, just like you heat iron, and hit, hit, and hit it, in the end
something solid and beautiful appears, these effect the ego the same way. If not, you burned in a useless way. They hit and hit, but if it is useless, it is of no benefit.
As was said, this is to train our ego. Let us be in control of our ego. There is nobody who followed his ego and won. We need to accept these things that are done as training our ego, put it in our minds, and train our ego. Then it will not be for nothing. May Allah grant us all to take lesson from experiences so our life is not in vain. Allah also gives us rewards when we take lesson from those experiences.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
168.PATIENCE IS THE FOUNDATION OF TRANQUILITY Monday, 14 August 2017
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.
The biggest shortcoming of today’s people is not enduring, not being able to stand each other, and not being patient. When these do not exist, there is always a dispute and resentment between people, and no peace is left. It is the same way between husband and wife as it is between people. However, what is most important is endurance between family members and being patient towards each other. No peace and comfort is left when it does not exist. Allah Azza wa Jalla created people so they may be helpful to each other, and disputes arise when people do not follow the Islamic commands of Allah, knowingly or unknowingly.
They believe people and give an attitude to their own family, their own wife or husband, and a dispute occurs out of nowhere. Like they say sometimes, “For a reason that won’t even fill a fig seed,” big disputes and fights erupt, and divorce occurs. Therefore, we need to be patient and persevere. Allah gave this strength to people. He gave both patience and perseverance, and we need to use them. Most of the time because of a fight we say, “I will leave you and go.”
They say the wife does not love the husband anymore, there is no more love left, and so, “Let us end this.” It is not a game. Allah does this to people: He gives a bigger disturbance. Because if it was for no reason, Allah gives in return something with a reason and makes the person endure it. Later the person would say, “I wish I endured that,” for something the person did not endure and they regret it.
This is the feature of people of these times: Not enduring and being impatient. However, as we said, Allah gave people the strength to be patient and to endure. The person learns this by being patient and enduring. It does not happen immediately. If there is constant rebellion instead of patience, then in the end there is divorce or fights. But a person can endure slowly, sometimes taking something lying down, sometimes the other one does it, or sometimes saying, “What was said is not true.”
Allah Exalted and Glorious be He says, “Be patient.” It is an order. However, people of today do not have patience, and in the smallest thing they are constantly either finding
the fault in their husband, their father, their child, the government, or the state. They never look for the fault in themselves. May Allah give us all common sense and intelligence so we may get along nicely and keep going InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
169.CLEANLINESS FITS A MUSLIM Tuesday, 15 August 2017
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.
Cleanliness is from faith. Allah made the religion of Islam a clean religion. The first thing is purification. Purification means cleanliness. If there is no purification, if there is no cleanliness, then no worship is accepted. When you are to offer namaz (prayer), you need to be clean and make ablution, and your surroundings need to be held clean. This is the first condition for every Muslim. Your prayer is not accepted if there is no cleanliness. And namaz is the pillar of religion. However, Muslims unfortunately dirty their surroundings wherever they go. Keeping the environment clean is also important, because when you go in for ablution or to do something, that place needs to be clean so filth does not splash on you. If Muslims leave the places they go to clean, then those who come after will find it clean. It is not alright to say, “There is a worker here. Let him clean it.” That time one would be infringing on the rights of others.
So this is worth noting. It is even more important for people of tariqa. The scene is bizarre even though we are here, so we do not know how it is when we are not here. So this is impossible. We need to be careful. If you are to clean yourself, first you need to clean where you live. The surface needs to be clean in order for your inside to be cleaned. Have you ever seen a dirty wali (saint) or shaykh? None. The mashayikh (shaykhs) and awliya are clean people. If you love them, you need to do as they do and pay attention to cleanliness. Do not be lazy. Let people be happy wherever you go. People should not say, “Who made this much dirtiness?” when they go in after you. These are things we need to pay attention to. The first condition of Islam is cleanliness, purification - and working hard. Laziness is no good. The trash bin is there and you are throwing it on the floor. Is this possible? It is both shameful and sinful.
We need to be careful of this. If everybody cleaned what they dirtied, it would be clean all around, it would be beautiful, and it would be good. So dirtiness does not fit a Muslim. It is shameful and a disliked state. Allah, the Prophet, and the awliya do not like dirtiness. Let us pay attention to cleanliness.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
170.SACRIFICE AND HAJJ DUTIES Wednesday, 16 August 2017
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.
InshaAllah we will be travelling today and we can only meet after Eid (Shaykh Effendi is travelling to Cyprus). There are two duties on Eid: Qurban and hajj. Those who are able to perform the hajj do it anyway, and it is best is if they can slaughter it themselves. It is best to slaughter their own sacrifice and start eating with it on the day of Eid. If you cannot do it, you will do it at the butcher and let the one who knows slaughter it. After getting it cut, it is best to leave some for yourself and to distribute to those around where you live, to the poor and those you know. If this is not possible, you can send it to other places. It is alright to send to places you know, and if not there are many other places you can also send for good deeds and rewards. Secondly, the matter of hajj. People should go to hajj if they can when it becomes an obligation. In case they could not go and Allah forbid they die, they will be questioned if a substitute is not assigned and sent to hajj instead. They would be committing a great sin and they would not be doing an obligation. It is fard. Just like namaz (prayer), hajj also needs to be done for those who can do it. It is fard. They would be committing a sin of they do not do it. Of course, the current situation is hard. Because they do not accept everybody, that sin would be upon those who forbid them. People want to go and are waiting in line. There are millions of people waiting and the door is not open. They do not open the door. They say, “We cannot take them in. We cannot handle it.” Whereas if they took them in Allah would expand it. These hajjis are Allah’s guests and not the guests of anybody, of any government but Allah’s. Nobody wants anything from them either, but when they cannot do it, people are prohibited from the fard and its sin is upon those who prohibit them. There were these two matters. May Allah make it easy for us to perform them, and may He grant them to everyone InshaAllah. These are both a blessing (baraka) and a reason for being grateful for those who can do it. Because Allah also gave the worldly. They need to slaughter a sacrifice to express its gratitude. The hajj is once anyway and there is no need to go every year. The fard drops when they go once, and the burden would be dropped from their backs. May Allah accept the hajj of hajjis and may it be easy InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
171.LIFE AND DEATH Thursday, 17 August, 2017
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.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Alladhī khalaqa l-mawta wal-ḥayāta liyabluwakum ayyukum aḥsanu ‘amalā" (67:2) Allāh created both life and death. Allāh created everything. And these are the things created by Allāh. Allāh created us, to see if we do good things; if we obey Him or if we are on the way of sins, He created life and death. We live for a certain period, then everybody passes away. No one is immortal. Everyone eventually... There are some people who live for hundreds of years like Khiḍr ‘alayhi s-salām, Ilyās ‘alayhi s-salām, Idrīs ‘alayhi s-salām. And they will die too. No one will remain without dying because death is for all creatures.
The wisdom of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla giving death to everyone is for them to not worship others. Not for others, but the worship done for Allāh is only devoted to Him. Apart from Him everyone is a creature. And among the creatures the one who reached the hig
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