Suhbah 2017: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (20/25)
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as honorable. If you do not know its value, you would be tyrannizing
your own self. Therefore, we need to recognize these benedictions and appreciate them. When these holy days arrive, we need to respect them and do the worships and the things our Holy Prophet advised us.
Of course there is a fair amount of advice for Ashura Day, but we cannot do them all. Just as there are four madhabs and it is impossible to attempt them all at once, these worships are the same way. You continue and follow what you have seen from your shaykh or whomever, and there is no need for anything else. As we said, humankind cannot do it all. Our Holy Prophet told us plenty of things due to his mercy. Even if you do one of them, it would be like doing them all, Allah willing.
The first advice of our Holy Prophet is for us to fast Ashura Day and the day before or the day after. It cannot be single. Our Holy Prophet says, “Make a whole-body ablution (ghusl) on Ashura Day. The one who makes a whole-body ablution Allah willing does not become very ill that year.” The one who puts on kohl (eyeliner) does not suffer eye pain. The one who gives charity (sadaqa) that day lives in abundance and blessing. The one who brings groceries home has a year of blessing. There is a four-rakat Ashura prayer (namaz) after Zuhr that day. You recite 11 Ikhlas in each rakat and make dua afterwards. Once you do these, Allah gives you from His sight countlessly, Allah willing.
The nikah (wedding) occurred and those holy kids got married. They are needy (gharib), both of them. They escaped their countries and came here. Their kismet was here. Inshallah the people here are also blessed due to their blessing. This country is now the head of Islam, the head of the Islamic world, and they want to crush it too. But Allah will not give them a chance because it stands next to the oppressed and helps the oppressed.
It is said that sadaqa turns away accidents and calamities. People with a weak faith who cannot stand it keep saying, “Why are we helping here and there?” Whereas all Muslims are brothers. You are a Turk but there is no such thing as others cannot be brothers. They are brothers as long as they are Muslim. Our Holy Prophet says, “All Muslims are like one body. If one part of the body aches, the whole body feels it.” So would you not feel it if you had a wound in your foot? You would feel it. Islam is also like that.
Therefore, it is charity and beneficial wherever they are helping. Allah would give ten in return for one. The world of kufr (disbelief) robbed and usurped the world so much. They tyrannized people, exploited the whole world, and in the end people are almost dying of hunger. Why? Because there is no charity. There is nothing. There is no aid. They think once it is given it is gone, but Allah has a promise and He tells you: “I will give ten when you give one.”
Thank Allah there is blessing in this country. Otherwise, if you attempt to calculate it, nobody could get through this and come out of it. That is why as a state, as an individual,
and as a community we need to be happy when we help these people. May Allah make us continue doing good. May Allah not leave us to our ego. May we not penny pinch InshaAllah. Allah forbid. May Islam be victorious and may disbelief be defeated InshaAllah. It is Allah’s promise: the whole world will become Muslim. Those days are also coming InshaAllah. Amin.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
194.THE LIGHT OF ALLAH CANNOT BE EXTINGUISHED Friday, 22 September 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.
Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. “Yuriduna liyutfioo nurallahi bi afwahihim, wallahu mutimmu nurihi walaw karihal kafiroon.” “They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it.” (Sura Saff:8) Allah Azza wa Jalla says in the Koran: “They want to erase the light of Islam, of being Muslim.” He says, “They are trying to extinguish the light of Allah by blowing.” This shows their helplessness.
This is a new year. The situation is miserable when you look at the Islamic world, wholly miserable. Islam has probably become more than 73 groups. There are none that agree with each other. The whole world of disbelief (kufr) is attacking from the outside. There are plenty who are helping them from the inside. They say, “We are teaching Islam.” What they are teaching is the opposite of Islam, it is enmity towards Islam and the Prophet (SAW). Looking at the situation, we are in a miserable situation, but if Allah wills He can give strength to the hearts of His sincere servants, and even if they are only 3-5 persons, Allah can still make them victorious. All that this world of disbelief is doing turns out to be in vain. It is of no use.
This is a new year and InshaAllah it changes this year. We are hopeful every year, but we are more hopeful this year. Why? Because the whole world of unbelief has attacked Islam saying, “We will finish them!” They are thinking, “They have no right to live. All tyranny should be upon them.”
This is a new year and Inshallah it changes this year. We are hopeful every year, but we are more hopeful this year. Why? Because the whole world of unbelief has attacked Islam saying, “We will finish them!” They are thinking, “They have no right to live. All tyranny should be upon them.”
They are the world of kufr, and there is no justice in kufr. Only tyranny. Even if it looks like justice, their justice is oppression. Therefore, people should not fall into despair. Allah is with us. They cannot extinguish the light of Allah. “Allah will complete His light,” He says. What He calls light is belief in Allah (iman). As we said, kufr is attacking
from the outside. They are trying to extinguish the light of Allah, to weaken our faith and extinguish it. The soldiers of Shaitan inside are also trying to destroy our iman.
The light of Allah cannot be destroyed or extinguished, and our faith cannot be destroyed Inshallah. We will get stronger in this New Year Inshallah. May Allah give our iman strength. That tyranny would disappear once Allah gives faith to the hearts of people you would never assume. The promise of Allah is the truth. Inshallah we see those days too. So do not fear no matter how miserable we may seem. The promise of Allah will be done.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
195.FAITH IS A GREAT BLESSING Saturday, 23 September 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.
Belief in the hereafter is one of the conditions of faith (iman). People who believe in the hereafter do their accounting accordingly anyway. The weaker the faith, the more a person’s sins increase. Because one does not have a worry to account for them. That is why one would have lots of sins and mistakes. They would infringe on the rights of others, try to lay claim to the possessions and properties of others, and swindle people while thinking, “I’m gaining. I did good.” However, they will answer for it on the Day of Judgment. They will understand what a big mistake they made when Judgment comes.
Faith is a beautiful thing. Iman teaches people beautiful manners, it teaches goodness, and all benefit is in it. A person is useless without faith. As faith increases the person’s value increases, and as faith decreases one becomes something worthless. In the end one turns into carrion and decays away. There are lots of lessons. There are thousands and millions of lessons and examples everywhere for people to take lesson, but Shaitan fools humankind. It feels heavy on a person’s ego, and one thinks doing evil is what is easy.
It is comfortable here now but hard in the hereafter. It is not comfortable here either but they think it is comfortable. Whatever sins there may be, they become heaviness and darkness on them. It becomes relief and light for those who do not commit them but do goodness. Therefore, faith is a great blessing. We need to constantly remind our children of the hereafter. The hereafter is one of the conditions of iman and we need to believe it. Those who do not will regret it. People in the hereafter will tell them, “You see? Take it, suffer your punishment now.” They will regret it but regret will not benefit them.
Teaching faith is not for everybody. You certainly need to learn it from sincere people and sincere scholars who transfer it from one to another. You cannot learn faith at university and here and there. Faith is the enemy of Shaitan. They are in a constant state of war. Let us say Inshallah our faith is victorious and Shaitan is defeated. Amin.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
196.A PERSON FINDS GOODNESS WITH MIND Sunday, 24 September 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.
Our Holy Prophet states: “When Allah wills something, He takes away the person’s mind, and then the person does that thing.” Later they think, “How did I do this?” Time to time, things like this happen to people. People do things they do not want or normally would not do. Here our Holy Prophet says, “Allah takes away the person’s mind so what He wills occurs.” So the mind is an important thing since people do not do good things when He takes it away. People find goodness with mind. The intelligent person is the one who recognizes Allah. No matter how clever they might look in the eyes of worldly people, people who deny Allah have no mind. Because denying Allah is the greatest mindlessness. Not following the commands of Allah is mindlessness too, because the end of this world is the hereafter. These things will be questioned in the hereafter.
There are lots of people who pretend to be intelligent, but Allah always puts them to shame. Those who oppose Allah are never considered good. If you are not considered good in the sight of Allah, it is not important whether you are considered good or not in the sight of people. What is important is our being a good person in front of Allah. And this is possible with fulfilling Allah’s commands and running away from His prohibitions. Now, there are many people who pretend to be scholars. They give fatwas (religious rulings) and come out with judgments according to how people want, so they look good in the sight of people. They drag people to mindlessness and stupidity. Because the ego constantly tries to disgrace the person and make the person lose reputation. This makes the person look lowly in the sight of people. No matter how high their station, people who follow their ego are not acceptable. That is why people want to do in secret what their ego wants. They are afraid they would be ashamed if it comes out. May Allah protect us, may Allah not deprive people from the oceans of intelligence. Therefore, our constant dua is may Allah give common sense and intelligence. An hour of contemplation is better than 100 years of worship, worship in vain. May Allah not deprive anyone of us from this intelligence. May we be respected in the sight of Allah, and we will be respected in the sight of people too InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
197.BOTH REWARDS AND SINS INCREASE IN MULTIPLES Monday, 25 September 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 Holy Prophet states: “Whoever shows a good work and people do it, he also gets the rewards and earns the good deeds.” If it is one person, the rewards of one person; two if it is two people; 10 if 10; 100 people’s rewards if 100; 1000 people’s rewards if it is 1000 people. It does not decrease from the rewards of those people either. If one shows a million people the path, Allah gives that one the same rewards in the same way. If it is a hundred million people, Allah Azza wa Jalla again gives that one that many rewards.
It is also the same with the person who shows people the bad path. If a person misguides someone, prohibits him from goodness, or does not show him the right path; comes out with something according to his own head and tells people to follow it; deviates someone by calling good what Allah does not consent to, then Allah gives the sins of that one to the person. If he deviates two people, then the sins of two people are on his neck (at his peril) the same way. 100 people - again the same way. If 1000 people, again it is the same. The punishment and sins of these people will be on the neck of the one who misguides them. If he misguides 100 million people, prohibit them from goodness, showes them evil, or tells them to do it, then he will suffer his punishment the same way.
Normally, there is one sin as punishment for the person who commits one sin, and the person who does one good wins ten good deeds. Because he misguides people here it has no excuse. They say, “He joined the sins of someone else.” Whoever it may be, Allah created everybody as human. Nobody has the right to order anybody to oppose Allah. They need to leave be the ones on the true path.
You say you want to be famous and comply to your ego, so you will suffer its punishment. There is no other way because you are opposing Allah, you are opposing what Allah says. If it was not for you, if these people did not go on your way they would not suffer that punishment. Since you are making them go on your way, you will suffer its punishment, whoever you may be. Everyone is equal in the sight of Allah. You say, “All people love me,” but there is no rule Allah loves you. If you love Allah, Allah loves you. If not, if you oppose Allah, even if the whole world goes after you it is worthless.
Therefore, these people need to be careful and use their minds. They say they are clever but the path they are on is not the path. They need to think. Again we are saying may Allah give people common sense and intelligence so they think well. If a person thinks, he knows everybody is equal and nobody has value. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He says, “The most valuable of you is the one who fears Allah.” That is why we need to think about this. May Allah not misguide us. May he protect us from going after these bad people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
198.SHOW RESPECT TO THE KORAN Tuesday, 26 September 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.
Allah Azza wa Jalla says, “The Glorious Koran is both a blessing and a healing.” In addition, “Awwalin wal akhirin” meaning everything is in it. All knowledge is in the Glorious (Azimush-shan) Koran. Reading it is fard (obligatory) because prayers cannot be done without it. It is Allah’s word. There is a matter: non-Arab, normal people cannot properly recite most letters and pronunciations (makhraj). Of course, sometimes a person tries very hard and still cannot do it exactly. However, Allah still acts with His grace and mercy. He created angels our Holy Prophet says about them: “Even if a person recites the Koran pronouncing it wrong, those angels fix it and present it fixed like that to Allah Azza wa Jalla.”
Of course we need to make an effort. Mistakes do happen. No matter how scholarly a person might be, mistakes still occur once in a while. Our Holy Prophet said so in order for it to be easier for common people. Because some say they cannot do it and that time do not read at all. This is a word told by our Holy Prophet so it would be a benefit for all people. Let people read the Koran. The angles would correct the mistakes and bring it correctly to the sight of Allah Exalted and Glorious be He. The Glorious Koran is a great benediction (nima). As we said, it is the word of Allah and not the word of man. We need to respect it and read it as much as possible. Our daily duty is one chapter (juz’) a day. Some people naturally cannot read that much as they can hardly read one page. They may read one page. It is not a problem. Let them read so they get used to it and they can gradually increase it. But it is even a good deed if you just open the Koran and look at it.
Therefore, those who cannot read would read at least a page a day, half a page a day, or one line, and Allah would give according to their intention. He would give as if you read one juz. Allah Azza wa Jalla is merciful. He respects those who respect His word, and gives blessing and healing InshaAllah. May Allah make us all amongst those who respect the Glorious Koran. May its blessings be upon us InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
199.DUA IS THE BIGGEST WEAPON Wednesday, 27 September 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.
Allah Azza wa Jalla states, “We send you what you deserve.” Now people are complaining, but they should make dua (pray) as: “May Allah fix us. May He fix our situation.” People whose situation is fixed are at ease. There is no other way for comfort. There is no comfort with evil but with goodness.
We need to look around and take lesson. How much people are suffering. However, when the ego is not fixed, it wants the whole world to serve itself. Even if the world serves it, again it will not be satisfied. This time it will say, “Worship me.” There is such an ego in people. The ego can only be fixed with training. It cannot be done any other way.
Our Holy Prophet says, “Do not swear at the Ulul-amr, those at the helm.” Pray for them so Allah helps them. Because the whole country would be at ease when Allah helps them, since they are there for the country. When Allah does not help them, this time the whole country would be in discomfort.
Allah helps when there are people who trust in Allah and believe in Allah. There is always no help, no madad (support) for those who oppose Allah, and everything goes wrong. Everybody sees this. Everybody saw it. They will see if they just pay attention to history. What we mean by history is recent history. Let them look at the periods of those who believe in Allah and those who do not believe in Allah. How different it is.
Those who do not believe in Allah say, “We do it and make it,” but everything is in the hands of Allah. Allah can make you miserable in the smallest thing. Therefore, we need to believe in Allah and be grateful to Allah. We need to pray for Allah to help those at the helm, because Shaitan and his soldiers are attacking Islam and want to finish Islam. Let them attack. Allah is with us. This is the time of dissension (fitnah), so we need to be careful.
Dua (prayer) is our weapon. The biggest weapon is dua. Guns and weapons do not do a thing, but dua does. Therefore, let us make dua. May Allah protect Islam and Islamic
countries. May they be in safety and security. May these fitnas revert back to those who cause them InshaAllah. May every weapon they fire turn back on themselves. Allah is capable of everything. As we said, this is not something that can be done with mind and reason. They are thinking according to their own calculations, “We can do it and make it,” with their mind and reason. Nothing happens if Allah does not will it. May Allah strengthen our iman (faith) InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
200.THE IMPORTANCE OF 10 MUHARRAM Thursday, 28 September 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.
Tomorrow is the 9th of Muharram. Let us not forget it Inshallah. There is fasting on the 9th and 10th. People who are not sick and those who are not travelling certainly need to fast it, since it is a recommendation of our Holy Prophet. It is not fard (obligatory) but is considered a confirmed sunna (sunna muakkada). Because our Holy Prophet used to fast it. Before the order for Ramadan came, the fard was in Muharram. Then that fard was lifted but was left as a sunna.
10th of Muharram is Ashura. It is a holy day. There are duas. First you take ghusl (whole body ablution). Then the person who has ghusl, Allah willing, does not become seriously ill. Those who wear kohl on their eye. What we mean by kohl is you do not need to make it pitch-black. Even radish juice is considered kohl and strengthens one’s light (nur). They do not face eye pain or eye disease that year.
To live in abundance and plenty that year, he says one needs to bring plenty of sustenance to his family and home. It would be baraka (blessing). There is a four-rakat prayer in the afternoon (after Zuhr) with 11 Ikhlas in each raka. The day of Ashura is the day all prophets and awliya were relieved. It is also the day Hazrat Hussain reached the station of martyrdom, the highest station, even though he was in high station. Our Master Hazrat Hussain and his fellow travelers next to him, his friends, rose higher. That is why this is a very holy day.
Honoring this is needed by all Muslims. Not only. Now when we say Ashura, a group of Muslims think, “This is ours.” No, this is for all Muslims. We need to honor and respect this day by the order of our Holy Prophet and the order of Allah. Its baraka (blessing) would come on us and duas would be answered. There are a few holy days in the year and Ashura is one of them. For all Muslims.
When something good happens, thank Allah, all Muslims benefit from it. Those who respect it get respect and get its baraka. If not, if they say it does not exist, then as they like. They are harmed themselves. Allah Azza wa Jalla is treating us (ikram) a few days a year. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He has treats every once in a while, and this is one
of those days. May Allah bless it (mubarak). May Allah give Islam victory the following year. May we become even better Inshallah. May we protected from these dissensions (fitnas). May the fitnas revert back to their owners InshaAllah. For the sake of this day
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
201.AS-SAMI’U L-BASIR
Saturday, 30 September 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.
Shukr to Allāh, we are at this blessed day of ʻĀshūrā’. We are saying again, repeating, that it is a holy day. It is a blessed day. Today is when Prophets and awliyā’, all of them, gained their happiness. It is not a day of sorrow because all of them reached their highest ranks on this day. Also Sayyidinā Ḥusayn reached his highest rank.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla told Mūsā ‘alayhi s-salām and his brother Hārūn ‘alayhi s-salām, "Go to pharaoh and call him to believe in Allāh, he has become insane. He is oppressing too much. Go and warn him. Tell him the truth," ordered Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Certainly, everything is to make a lesson for people. They said, "We are afraid of pharaoh. We fear that he will torture and oppress us. If we go only two of us, we are afraid, O our Creator." They said it directly, "We are afraid. We are afraid that pharaoh will oppress and torture us." Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, even though they were Prophets, said as an example for people: "Innanī ma‘akumā asma‘u wa-ará." (20:46) "I am with you. I am seeing and hearing." Nothing happens out of Allāh's appointed time. Allāh wanted it that way and it had its wisdom. It has a very big wisdom.
Yesterday one of our new Muslim brothers said, "The biggest āyah, Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, what does it mean? It is by the name of the most Merciful Allāh that there is no one more merciful and beneficent than He. If so, why are these oppressions happening?" he asked. It is the truth told by Allāh. There is no one more merciful than He. And that oppression being made will become a means to mercy and benevolence – that is why it happens. We can't question the wisdom of Allāh. Allāh does as He likes. He does what He wants. No one can interfere. And what He says is true. He is Arḥamu r- Rāḥimīn (the most Merciful of the merciful). That's why today it is not a day of sorrow but a day of liberation, a day of reaching the highest ranks.
For the honor of this day, may Allāh open the doors of goodness for all of us. May we be in goodness. May there be no tests. Some servants are given tests. And Allāh says the most tested of people are the Prophets, ṣaḥābah and awliyā. After that the beloved servants of We want His are the most tested. But we don't want any test from Allāh Allāh mercy. We want His kindness. There is kindness and there is test. Don't choose test. Don't ask for it. May Allāh give us the easy way. These Prophets, ṣaḥābah, Sayyidinā Ḥusayn (ra) and shuhadā’, they overcame their tests. We cannot. May Allāh give us kindness, in shaAllāh. Their maqāms are for all the ummah, for those who love them because you do goodness for those whom you love, you do all good things. For their maqām, spirituality and souls you do goodness. Is there benefit for anyone when you do bad, when you shout? No. When you read Qur’ān, yes. It is a benefit for you and for Sayyidinā Ḥusayn. If you cook food and distribute for his soul, it has many benefits. If you cook ashure (Noah's pudding), benefit again for Allāh's pleasure. They are claiming it is sin to cook ashure now. Can it possibly be so? It is done for Allāh's pleasure and the souls of the holy ones. It is cooked for the souls of our ancestors. It is a benefit for those who eat and who distribute. It is a treat, food treat.
These people have mixed up good and bad – they made it like soup. People can't differ anymore if they are doing right or wrong. We should be careful about it. Good is clear and bad is clear. May Allāh not separate us from the right way and show us the right way, in shaAllāh.
Today we are, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, blessed day, holy, very holy day, tenth of Muḥarram, Āshūrā. It is good occasion for all of Prophets, for all of awliyā’u Llāh for whom they make, they get their maqām, high stage, in this day. So it is good day. But some people, shayṭān make them to think it is bad day, ugly day for because in this day Sayyidinā Ḥusayn he was martyr. But it is also he get the higher stage. Allāh He want this and this happen. Because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He knowing and seeing everything. Nothing – if you are saying something against Him so you make [as] if you denying Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla what the most common thing for His attributes – Samī‘u Baṣīr. He Seeing and Hearing.
Because when Mūsá ‘alayhi s-salām and his brother Hārūn ‘alayhi s-salām, both of them Prophets, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla say tell them, told them, "Go to Pharaoh and say for him sweet and soft speak to him. Maybe he can accept belief and believe on you and maybe he afraid from Allāh and he remember Allāh." This is order from Allāh
‘Azza wa Jalla for Mūsá ‘alayhi s-salām and Hārūn ‘alayhi s-salām to tell this. And what they said? "O our Lord we are afraid from him. We afraid from him maybe he can attack us and make oppression... oppress us and make bad thing for us. We are, we afraid from him." This is what they, they are prophets, and they was saying for Allāh ‘Azza, our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. But this is also to lesson for people to know to not make. Every day, every minute you must remember your Lord, tadhakkur, dhikr. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla said, He told them: "O Mūsá and Hārūn, I am with you. I am hearing and I am seeing." What is meaning this? This meaning everything happen without accepting of Allāh – it cannot be. But it is something for holy people they are most oppressed. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla ashaddu l-balā’, the who have – al-anbiyā’ thumma l-awliyā’ thumma l-amthali wa l-amthal – the most suffering people – prophets and companion of prophets, after beloved people for Allāh. Who was more beloved for Allāh – he more suffering. But they are suffering, not saying anything. Cannot be object. But they, Mūsá ‘alayhi s- salām Hārūn, saying they was ashaming from Allāh because they one minute they forget and they speak without thinking. Allāh blame them.
So it is for Sayyidinā Ḥusayn and his companions also – this is the most highest stage for them. And it is not bad for them, bad for people who done this. They are lucky, other one unlucky. They are forever cursed people. Maybe for dunyā, for this world happiness to be governor, to be amīr, or to be something like this – ha?
M: Ruler.
Rulers – and they, for small thing, they was cursed forever. But lucky one and he is the most praised one Sayyidinā l-Ḥusayn and he is praised with Allāh, with Prophet, with whole ummah. So we are in this day we must be happy and we must pray for Allāh because, as yesterday also one our new Muslim brother, he asked one good question so in this occasion also we can add it because very important. He asked, he said: "They said the most powerful āyah: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem and meaning it is by name of Allāh, Lord the most Merciful and most Beneficent. The meaning – that nobody can be most, more than this mercy than Allāh. And we are seeing in this world, this what happen. This is what happen."
Allāh from His mercy He is for what He people love them they can do this. And for people they deserve this they also. But it is wisdom for our Lord. We cannot ask. We cannot object. But what we can do? Just to be with this people, the good people who
was oppressed and they was killed and they was burned, they was everything happen for them – we be asking Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla blessed for them. We read for them, we make charity for them, we remember them every time. This is what we can do, and it is benefit for us also because they are beloved people for Allāh جل ه الل ج and when you love people Allāh love them, you will be with them in Qiyāmah, in Jannah, in shaAllāh.
And we are asking Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla don't test us because they are, there is people they can carry test. Some of them cannot carry. They can by His ihsan. His mercy. He can treat us. We like to not to be test. We are weak people we ask Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla to not be test. And what, in shaAllāh, today ‘Āshūrā’ we read Qur’ān, we read everything and we give food, we give ashure (Noah's pudding) also. There is a special sweet for today. Now some people they are mixing everything, they say, if you say Ashure, you make Ashure, you make, for sake of this Prophet sin because. No. Why we are making this? For sake of Allāh for Sayyidinā Ḥusayn, we give distribute for people to remember and to say du‘ā’ for this. But other people there is people they are doing something it is really not necessary, no benefit for anybody, only making noise and making hatred. But of course we are not love what happen and the people against Sayyidinā l-Ḥusayn but only we not tired ourself with this nothing, no reward for this in divine presence. Just we try to make thing Allāh reward us for this, in shaAllāh. Make charity, make reading Qur’ān, make du‘ā’. In shaAllāh, now we will pray four raka‘āt for ‘Āshūrā’ day. After we make du‘ā’, in shaAllāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
202.BE WITH THE SADIQIN Wednesday, 4 October 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 Prophet is saying, "If someone tells a lie as if he is speaking from my tongue, he has prepared his place in hell." Because every word of our Prophet is the base of religion says must be absolutely true, as there will appear people after our Prophet. What he who will tell lies that will change it. They will make up new things that serve their interest, claiming it is the word of our Prophet. For their own benefit, they will direct people in other directions. And when they do this, its punishment is very big. Its punishment is hell. Our Prophet has warned people not to obey their egos. As we said, it has been like this since then, up until now. Now it's even worse. Of course, what our Prophet said is sharī‘ah now, it's law, Islamic law. Its punishment is bigger. But to get their interests... People have various interests. They are changing the words of mashāyikh too, words of ṣaḥābah, awliyā’ and ‘ālims. Some say things, for example, as if Mawlānā had said it. It's not a good thing. Of course, it doesn't have punishment as much as with our Prophet, but the true one is protected. How shall we know if what is related is truly from Mawlānā or not? We are following the way of our Prophet. Mawlānā didn't step even a little out of this way. When they come and say, "Mawlānā, said so", you look and see – if it's not like what our Prophet had said. So they took this from some ṣuḥbah or somewhere else and interpreted to suit themselves. They made such strange things up. Because there are many people who want to make fitnah.
Many soldiers of shayṭān, they don't want any community, any clean society. They want to bring fitnah and confuse people's minds. Therefore, what Mawlānā says is the same as what our Prophet said. We are following his path. Therefore, whenever there is a doubt, you have to look at who said it, you have to ask if it is right or wrong. Shukr to Allāh, who asks gets his answer, if it's right or not. Many people nowadays think that we are having some interest. After Mawlānā's departure, they either have good intentions and want us to earn more, or want to destroy this beautiful way completely with bad intentions. But with Allāh's permission. Allāh permission, it is the true way. No one can destroy it, with Allāh's ‘Azza wa Jalla protects this way.Allāh is with the good ones. "Yā ayyuhā lladhīna āmanū t-taqū Llāha wa kūnū ma‘a ṣ- ṣādiqīn" (9:119). Fear from Allāh, be with the righteous ones. Be with the truthful people. Our Prophet says if a person speaks right, he'll be truthful and be written as Ṣiddīq. And he'll go to
paradise. A liar telling lie after lie will be written as a liar and go to hell. May Allāh make all of us from truthful ones, in shā’Allāh. Prophet protect us. May Allāh saying, "Who saying something I didn't say and saying this is from Prophet, he must prepare his place in hell." Because it is important for Prophet – everything he done, every word, every acting, it is law for us. So some people for their benefit they sometimes they try to say Prophet he said like this, and he said like that. But this is also miracle from Prophet, because in his time nobody can do this because they know Prophet. But after his time beginning thousand they put shayṭān and his follower to destroy Islām saying this, Prophet saying that, and he said this. But, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, the scholar and ‘ulamā’ and imām, ṣaḥābah, they was cleaning this. Most of them they clean. Because Prophet saying, "Look if it is according to your mind it is from me you can follow but if it is not like this, don't follow and don't accept this." Why we say this? Because since that time, even it is very pure time, it was after Prophet, they was doing this. Until now they making the worst and this is for especially for right the good place, good who following mashāyikh and ṭarīqah. They try every time to do fitnah – to make people wondering if it is true, not true.
For Mawlānā also many thing they are saying Mawlānā he said like this but when you see – he never said that. They said he is doing this also. They said we are taking from his ṣuḥbah. But maybe they can cut little bit from this ṣuḥbah and they say this from Mawlānā. But he – there is continue for this. So it is normal, not thing, strange thing to do. It is it was like this since Prophet time. And but you must see if – because Mawlānā he was following Prophet for every movement, every step, every word he following. Not doing anything not according to Prophet way, sunnah of Prophet. So we must be careful. Anything you are not sure, don't accept because maybe small thing you see, maybe we is not important, but this is important. Small, small taking your belief. We must look for and ask if anything you suspicious from what happen, you can ask. Because shayṭān and his follower they are not happy with any small right people. Even very small, they want to finish, they want to destroy. But, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this is way of Prophet and the protected by Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla say, "Yā ayyuhā lladhīna" (9:19). He order us to be with honest people, to be afraid from Allāh, and be honest with honest people. "Yā ayyuhā lladhīna āmanū t-taqū Llāha wa kūnū ma‘a ṣ-ṣādiqīn" (9:119). And he said, Prophet said, "You must be every time saying the truth." When you say truth you become ṣiddīq, the most trustful one, like Abū Bakr Ṣiddīq and you will be in Jannah and Allāh write you from ṣiddīq. But if you are liar Allāh He will write you in liar, with liar people and liar people with shayṭān. Allāh make us with true truth people, with ṣādiqīn, wa ma‘a ṣ- ṣiddīqīn, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
203.HUMANKIND DOES NOT DO A THING WITHOUT EXPECTING SOMETHING IN RETURN Saturday, 7 October 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.
In this world, people expect a benefit from each other. If they are attempting to do you good, they certainly want something in return. They want something in return in many ways. They expect something in return saying, “I did you a favor so you have to do it too,” or, “You have to help me. You have to support me.” So if you are to ask something from someone, you need to be ready accordingly. You need to help them out too or give whatever they want.
This is the case for this world. People want to take and not give, and take and not help. This is the nature of man. Therefore, Allah Azza wa Jalla makes people trouble each other. The clever person should not ask for the gratitude of others. They do not ask from others but ask from Allah. This is how clever people are. There was a quaint philosopher who lived in old times (Diogenes of Sinope). Someone came and stood in front of him (Alexander the Great) saying, “What would you like? I can help. Let me do something for you.” Because he was clever he said, “Stand out of my sunshine. Just do not cast your shadow and I do not want you to bestow anything else.” It is good if you are like that, if you do not need anything from anybody. Because in return for your request, you will follow his thoughts, you will talk as he wants, or you will help him with the things he wants to do. And most of the time what they want is what does not fit man’s nature or things Allah does not want. That is why humans should trust in Allah and ask from Allah more. You should not ask a favor from anybody or make others plead. This is needed more for these people, people of these times. Because everybody is running to politicians and getting upset saying, “He did this and did not do that.” Humankind cannot do even if they would like to. It is said, “Laa yardil ibad illa Rabbil ibad.” Only Allah Exalted and Glorious be He can make people content. Nobody but Him can make people content. They can be the head of the great powers if they like and still they cannot make people content.
Therefore, trust in Allah, turn to Allah, and do not forget about Allah. You will be at ease if you do this. If not, you will run here and there and after this and that one. What a run that will be! If you would run after Allah Azza wa Jalla that much, Allah would give you a thousand times more. He would give you even more. May Allah make us all successful in practicing this advice InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
204.DO NOT PUT YOURSELF UNDER SUSPICION Sunday, 8 October 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 Holy Prophet says, “Stay away from suspicious places. Do not put yourself under suspicion.” People of these times follow their ego more. That is why people immediately think bad and are suspicious. Our Holy Prophet’s advice to people is to stay away from places that would put you under suspicion or make people suspicious and think badly about you. Because people do not think goodness but continuously think evil.
Allah Azza wa Jalla says in the Koran: “O believers! Avoid negative assumption and thinking badly of others.” (Sura Hujurat:12) “Even a little suspicion, assumption, is sinful,” He says. We need to avoid these places so others do not commit sin and so we can be clean. Because people’s ego is evil, and if the person is not afraid of people he would also do that doubtful thing. Therefore, we need to be careful of such matters. Do not put yourself under suspicion when collecting money or the like saying, “I will do this and I will do that.”
Most people have no conscience left. They collect money in the name of needy people and pocket it. There, because of them people are suspicious and assume negatively. That is why you need to openly show what you do, and not take too much responsibility. The further you stay away the better. As we said, you need to show everyone what you did and what you are doing. May Allah keep us safe from being under assumption and under suspicion InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
205.THE CLEVER PERSON TAKES LESSON FROM HIS MISTAKES Monday, 9 October 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 clever person is the one who takes lesson from his mistakes. Allah Azza wa Jalla created you and: “Liyabluwakum ayukum ahsanu amala.” (Sura Mulk:2) He says, “This world is a world of trials, and we created you to see who will be the best in deeds.” Everybody makes mistakes, but most people do not take lesson form their mistakes. They hanker, meaning they feel regret. They feel regret saying things like, “I wish I had done it. I wish I had not done it,” then goes and makes the same mistake again. Because they do not take it as a lesson and do not see themselves guilty. Whereas the clever person learns from a mistake. People experience it themselves and do not make the same mistake again thinking, “I made a mistake. I should not do it again.” However, the foolish one says, “Look what happened! What a luck!” and goes and makes the same mistake again. This is due to foolishness. Allah Azza wa Jalla gave everyone and everything a mind. The mind of a fly is five seconds, so it thinks for five seconds. You swat it and shoo it, but it does not run off and comes back in front of you. Five seconds would pass and it forgets. It makes the same mistake again, and in the end is either crushed or becomes a nuisance to people. This is an example of foolishness. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He created everything for people to watch and learn. Therefore, there is no need to torture yourself the whole time because you made a mistake. This is a lesson for us. A man came – they come to us a lot – and spoke with us: “We gave a man money and he left. What should we do now? Would he come back?” We said, “No, he would not come back.” You can whistle for it (forget about it). Take it as a lesson so the money does not go to waste. Just as there are courses where people pay and learn, there, that is a lesson of life. The man took the money and ran off to give you a lesson in return. Do not regret it. Keep it in mind so you do not repeat it. That is what a lesson is. That is why we need to take lesson from everything. You would come out as the winner in the end and would not be sorry for nothing. May Allah help us. The path shown by Allah is beautiful. The one who follows it does not feel sorry for the world. He would still be clever and these things done would be more useful for him InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
206.TREAT PEOPLE WELL Tuesday, 10 October 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 way of our Holy Prophet is to invite people with soft words. “Invite to Allah with good instruction.” (Sura Nahl:125) A person would approach you and love you with social ethics, softness, and gentleness. Of course it is the same with this way, the way of tariqa. Shaykh Mawlana trained people slowly by tolerating, by not looking at their faults, and by turning a blind eye to people’s faults.
People would move away if you fight them, and they would move away if they hear a bad word. Speaking of people, of course there are various types. What we are obliged to do is to tolerate them. Allah says through the tongue of our Holy Prophet: “It is better than the whole world for one person to be guided.” Therefore, there is no need to quickly get excited and hurt people’s feelings.
We need to caution with good words, or send them away with goodness if the thing that was done is inappropriate. Sending them away pleased – this is what is more appropriate. People do certain things with the intention to serve, but sometimes it is contradictory. That is why those who are on this path need to tolerate people and treat them with kindness. Our Holy Prophet and the shaykhs advice as such. Let us treat people with tolerance as much as possible.
Patience is good. People do not have any more patience left. To set people against each other, Shaitan brings out the slightest flaws in front of people and covers their goodness. Whereas our Holy Prophet and the shaykhs would look at the slightest goodness if they found it while covering up other faults. May Allah be our helper Inshallah. This is not a need for just people of tariqa but a need for the whole Islamic world.
Allah says Shaitan wants to cause animosity, hatred, and rancor among you. Animosity and rancor – meaning he wants you to feel hatred toward each other. These times are exactly as Shaitan wants. The whole Islamic world has fallen out with each other – daggers drawn. They unnecessarily come up with certain things and make Muslims fall out with each other.
The reason for this is due to people continuously preparing themselves for a fight as individuals. They condition themselves: “If he says this, I will do that.” Whereas you need to work at, “I should not say a bad word. I should not upset anyone,” when you go out among people. When this is the case, the community would become much more beautiful, the whole Islamic world would be better off, and Allah would be content with all of us.
May Allah help us and guide us. Of course, it is End Times now and not everybody can do it, but those who are on this way should train their ego and take their ego under control. This has great rewards in the sight of Allah. May Allah be our helper.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
207.THE HISTORY OF THE NAQSHBANDIYYA Saturday, 21 October, 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 ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, coming from Prophet. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, you are in this island you are very well knowing ṭarīqah and taṣawwuf. Because many place we going people when you say ṭarīqah they not knowing what ṭarīqah – they said what? They not understand at all but, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, you are here you are have ṭarīqah and you love ṭarīqah. Ṭarīqah – there is many ṭarīqah. One of them only coming from Sayyidinā Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq. Other, we have more than forty ṭarīqah, they are coming from Sayyidinā ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib. And this ṭarīqah beginning in Ghāri Thawr (cave of Thawr) when Prophet was immigrate from Makkah to Madīnah. They was together, Sayyidinā Abū Bakr, Sayyidinā – Prop
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as honorable. If you do not know its value, you would be tyrannizing
your own self. Therefore, we need to recognize these benedictions and appreciate them. When these holy days arrive, we need to respect them and do the worships and the things our Holy Prophet advised us.
Of course there is a fair amount of advice for Ashura Day, but we cannot do them all. Just as there are four madhabs and it is impossible to attempt them all at once, these worships are the same way. You continue and follow what you have seen from your shaykh or whomever, and there is no need for anything else. As we said, humankind cannot do it all. Our Holy Prophet told us plenty of things due to his mercy. Even if you do one of them, it would be like doing them all, Allah willing.
The first advice of our Holy Prophet is for us to fast Ashura Day and the day before or the day after. It cannot be single. Our Holy Prophet says, “Make a whole-body ablution (ghusl) on Ashura Day. The one who makes a whole-body ablution Allah willing does not become very ill that year.” The one who puts on kohl (eyeliner) does not suffer eye pain. The one who gives charity (sadaqa) that day lives in abundance and blessing. The one who brings groceries home has a year of blessing. There is a four-rakat Ashura prayer (namaz) after Zuhr that day. You recite 11 Ikhlas in each rakat and make dua afterwards. Once you do these, Allah gives you from His sight countlessly, Allah willing.
The nikah (wedding) occurred and those holy kids got married. They are needy (gharib), both of them. They escaped their countries and came here. Their kismet was here. Inshallah the people here are also blessed due to their blessing. This country is now the head of Islam, the head of the Islamic world, and they want to crush it too. But Allah will not give them a chance because it stands next to the oppressed and helps the oppressed.
It is said that sadaqa turns away accidents and calamities. People with a weak faith who cannot stand it keep saying, “Why are we helping here and there?” Whereas all Muslims are brothers. You are a Turk but there is no such thing as others cannot be brothers. They are brothers as long as they are Muslim. Our Holy Prophet says, “All Muslims are like one body. If one part of the body aches, the whole body feels it.” So would you not feel it if you had a wound in your foot? You would feel it. Islam is also like that.
Therefore, it is charity and beneficial wherever they are helping. Allah would give ten in return for one. The world of kufr (disbelief) robbed and usurped the world so much. They tyrannized people, exploited the whole world, and in the end people are almost dying of hunger. Why? Because there is no charity. There is nothing. There is no aid. They think once it is given it is gone, but Allah has a promise and He tells you: “I will give ten when you give one.”
Thank Allah there is blessing in this country. Otherwise, if you attempt to calculate it, nobody could get through this and come out of it. That is why as a state, as an individual,
and as a community we need to be happy when we help these people. May Allah make us continue doing good. May Allah not leave us to our ego. May we not penny pinch InshaAllah. Allah forbid. May Islam be victorious and may disbelief be defeated InshaAllah. It is Allah’s promise: the whole world will become Muslim. Those days are also coming InshaAllah. Amin.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
194.THE LIGHT OF ALLAH CANNOT BE EXTINGUISHED Friday, 22 September 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.
Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. “Yuriduna liyutfioo nurallahi bi afwahihim, wallahu mutimmu nurihi walaw karihal kafiroon.” “They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it.” (Sura Saff:8) Allah Azza wa Jalla says in the Koran: “They want to erase the light of Islam, of being Muslim.” He says, “They are trying to extinguish the light of Allah by blowing.” This shows their helplessness.
This is a new year. The situation is miserable when you look at the Islamic world, wholly miserable. Islam has probably become more than 73 groups. There are none that agree with each other. The whole world of disbelief (kufr) is attacking from the outside. There are plenty who are helping them from the inside. They say, “We are teaching Islam.” What they are teaching is the opposite of Islam, it is enmity towards Islam and the Prophet (SAW). Looking at the situation, we are in a miserable situation, but if Allah wills He can give strength to the hearts of His sincere servants, and even if they are only 3-5 persons, Allah can still make them victorious. All that this world of disbelief is doing turns out to be in vain. It is of no use.
This is a new year and InshaAllah it changes this year. We are hopeful every year, but we are more hopeful this year. Why? Because the whole world of unbelief has attacked Islam saying, “We will finish them!” They are thinking, “They have no right to live. All tyranny should be upon them.”
This is a new year and Inshallah it changes this year. We are hopeful every year, but we are more hopeful this year. Why? Because the whole world of unbelief has attacked Islam saying, “We will finish them!” They are thinking, “They have no right to live. All tyranny should be upon them.”
They are the world of kufr, and there is no justice in kufr. Only tyranny. Even if it looks like justice, their justice is oppression. Therefore, people should not fall into despair. Allah is with us. They cannot extinguish the light of Allah. “Allah will complete His light,” He says. What He calls light is belief in Allah (iman). As we said, kufr is attacking
from the outside. They are trying to extinguish the light of Allah, to weaken our faith and extinguish it. The soldiers of Shaitan inside are also trying to destroy our iman.
The light of Allah cannot be destroyed or extinguished, and our faith cannot be destroyed Inshallah. We will get stronger in this New Year Inshallah. May Allah give our iman strength. That tyranny would disappear once Allah gives faith to the hearts of people you would never assume. The promise of Allah is the truth. Inshallah we see those days too. So do not fear no matter how miserable we may seem. The promise of Allah will be done.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
195.FAITH IS A GREAT BLESSING Saturday, 23 September 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.
Belief in the hereafter is one of the conditions of faith (iman). People who believe in the hereafter do their accounting accordingly anyway. The weaker the faith, the more a person’s sins increase. Because one does not have a worry to account for them. That is why one would have lots of sins and mistakes. They would infringe on the rights of others, try to lay claim to the possessions and properties of others, and swindle people while thinking, “I’m gaining. I did good.” However, they will answer for it on the Day of Judgment. They will understand what a big mistake they made when Judgment comes.
Faith is a beautiful thing. Iman teaches people beautiful manners, it teaches goodness, and all benefit is in it. A person is useless without faith. As faith increases the person’s value increases, and as faith decreases one becomes something worthless. In the end one turns into carrion and decays away. There are lots of lessons. There are thousands and millions of lessons and examples everywhere for people to take lesson, but Shaitan fools humankind. It feels heavy on a person’s ego, and one thinks doing evil is what is easy.
It is comfortable here now but hard in the hereafter. It is not comfortable here either but they think it is comfortable. Whatever sins there may be, they become heaviness and darkness on them. It becomes relief and light for those who do not commit them but do goodness. Therefore, faith is a great blessing. We need to constantly remind our children of the hereafter. The hereafter is one of the conditions of iman and we need to believe it. Those who do not will regret it. People in the hereafter will tell them, “You see? Take it, suffer your punishment now.” They will regret it but regret will not benefit them.
Teaching faith is not for everybody. You certainly need to learn it from sincere people and sincere scholars who transfer it from one to another. You cannot learn faith at university and here and there. Faith is the enemy of Shaitan. They are in a constant state of war. Let us say Inshallah our faith is victorious and Shaitan is defeated. Amin.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
196.A PERSON FINDS GOODNESS WITH MIND Sunday, 24 September 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.
Our Holy Prophet states: “When Allah wills something, He takes away the person’s mind, and then the person does that thing.” Later they think, “How did I do this?” Time to time, things like this happen to people. People do things they do not want or normally would not do. Here our Holy Prophet says, “Allah takes away the person’s mind so what He wills occurs.” So the mind is an important thing since people do not do good things when He takes it away. People find goodness with mind. The intelligent person is the one who recognizes Allah. No matter how clever they might look in the eyes of worldly people, people who deny Allah have no mind. Because denying Allah is the greatest mindlessness. Not following the commands of Allah is mindlessness too, because the end of this world is the hereafter. These things will be questioned in the hereafter.
There are lots of people who pretend to be intelligent, but Allah always puts them to shame. Those who oppose Allah are never considered good. If you are not considered good in the sight of Allah, it is not important whether you are considered good or not in the sight of people. What is important is our being a good person in front of Allah. And this is possible with fulfilling Allah’s commands and running away from His prohibitions. Now, there are many people who pretend to be scholars. They give fatwas (religious rulings) and come out with judgments according to how people want, so they look good in the sight of people. They drag people to mindlessness and stupidity. Because the ego constantly tries to disgrace the person and make the person lose reputation. This makes the person look lowly in the sight of people. No matter how high their station, people who follow their ego are not acceptable. That is why people want to do in secret what their ego wants. They are afraid they would be ashamed if it comes out. May Allah protect us, may Allah not deprive people from the oceans of intelligence. Therefore, our constant dua is may Allah give common sense and intelligence. An hour of contemplation is better than 100 years of worship, worship in vain. May Allah not deprive anyone of us from this intelligence. May we be respected in the sight of Allah, and we will be respected in the sight of people too InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
197.BOTH REWARDS AND SINS INCREASE IN MULTIPLES Monday, 25 September 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 Holy Prophet states: “Whoever shows a good work and people do it, he also gets the rewards and earns the good deeds.” If it is one person, the rewards of one person; two if it is two people; 10 if 10; 100 people’s rewards if 100; 1000 people’s rewards if it is 1000 people. It does not decrease from the rewards of those people either. If one shows a million people the path, Allah gives that one the same rewards in the same way. If it is a hundred million people, Allah Azza wa Jalla again gives that one that many rewards.
It is also the same with the person who shows people the bad path. If a person misguides someone, prohibits him from goodness, or does not show him the right path; comes out with something according to his own head and tells people to follow it; deviates someone by calling good what Allah does not consent to, then Allah gives the sins of that one to the person. If he deviates two people, then the sins of two people are on his neck (at his peril) the same way. 100 people - again the same way. If 1000 people, again it is the same. The punishment and sins of these people will be on the neck of the one who misguides them. If he misguides 100 million people, prohibit them from goodness, showes them evil, or tells them to do it, then he will suffer his punishment the same way.
Normally, there is one sin as punishment for the person who commits one sin, and the person who does one good wins ten good deeds. Because he misguides people here it has no excuse. They say, “He joined the sins of someone else.” Whoever it may be, Allah created everybody as human. Nobody has the right to order anybody to oppose Allah. They need to leave be the ones on the true path.
You say you want to be famous and comply to your ego, so you will suffer its punishment. There is no other way because you are opposing Allah, you are opposing what Allah says. If it was not for you, if these people did not go on your way they would not suffer that punishment. Since you are making them go on your way, you will suffer its punishment, whoever you may be. Everyone is equal in the sight of Allah. You say, “All people love me,” but there is no rule Allah loves you. If you love Allah, Allah loves you. If not, if you oppose Allah, even if the whole world goes after you it is worthless.
Therefore, these people need to be careful and use their minds. They say they are clever but the path they are on is not the path. They need to think. Again we are saying may Allah give people common sense and intelligence so they think well. If a person thinks, he knows everybody is equal and nobody has value. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He says, “The most valuable of you is the one who fears Allah.” That is why we need to think about this. May Allah not misguide us. May he protect us from going after these bad people.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
198.SHOW RESPECT TO THE KORAN Tuesday, 26 September 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.
Allah Azza wa Jalla says, “The Glorious Koran is both a blessing and a healing.” In addition, “Awwalin wal akhirin” meaning everything is in it. All knowledge is in the Glorious (Azimush-shan) Koran. Reading it is fard (obligatory) because prayers cannot be done without it. It is Allah’s word. There is a matter: non-Arab, normal people cannot properly recite most letters and pronunciations (makhraj). Of course, sometimes a person tries very hard and still cannot do it exactly. However, Allah still acts with His grace and mercy. He created angels our Holy Prophet says about them: “Even if a person recites the Koran pronouncing it wrong, those angels fix it and present it fixed like that to Allah Azza wa Jalla.”
Of course we need to make an effort. Mistakes do happen. No matter how scholarly a person might be, mistakes still occur once in a while. Our Holy Prophet said so in order for it to be easier for common people. Because some say they cannot do it and that time do not read at all. This is a word told by our Holy Prophet so it would be a benefit for all people. Let people read the Koran. The angles would correct the mistakes and bring it correctly to the sight of Allah Exalted and Glorious be He. The Glorious Koran is a great benediction (nima). As we said, it is the word of Allah and not the word of man. We need to respect it and read it as much as possible. Our daily duty is one chapter (juz’) a day. Some people naturally cannot read that much as they can hardly read one page. They may read one page. It is not a problem. Let them read so they get used to it and they can gradually increase it. But it is even a good deed if you just open the Koran and look at it.
Therefore, those who cannot read would read at least a page a day, half a page a day, or one line, and Allah would give according to their intention. He would give as if you read one juz. Allah Azza wa Jalla is merciful. He respects those who respect His word, and gives blessing and healing InshaAllah. May Allah make us all amongst those who respect the Glorious Koran. May its blessings be upon us InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
199.DUA IS THE BIGGEST WEAPON Wednesday, 27 September 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.
Allah Azza wa Jalla states, “We send you what you deserve.” Now people are complaining, but they should make dua (pray) as: “May Allah fix us. May He fix our situation.” People whose situation is fixed are at ease. There is no other way for comfort. There is no comfort with evil but with goodness.
We need to look around and take lesson. How much people are suffering. However, when the ego is not fixed, it wants the whole world to serve itself. Even if the world serves it, again it will not be satisfied. This time it will say, “Worship me.” There is such an ego in people. The ego can only be fixed with training. It cannot be done any other way.
Our Holy Prophet says, “Do not swear at the Ulul-amr, those at the helm.” Pray for them so Allah helps them. Because the whole country would be at ease when Allah helps them, since they are there for the country. When Allah does not help them, this time the whole country would be in discomfort.
Allah helps when there are people who trust in Allah and believe in Allah. There is always no help, no madad (support) for those who oppose Allah, and everything goes wrong. Everybody sees this. Everybody saw it. They will see if they just pay attention to history. What we mean by history is recent history. Let them look at the periods of those who believe in Allah and those who do not believe in Allah. How different it is.
Those who do not believe in Allah say, “We do it and make it,” but everything is in the hands of Allah. Allah can make you miserable in the smallest thing. Therefore, we need to believe in Allah and be grateful to Allah. We need to pray for Allah to help those at the helm, because Shaitan and his soldiers are attacking Islam and want to finish Islam. Let them attack. Allah is with us. This is the time of dissension (fitnah), so we need to be careful.
Dua (prayer) is our weapon. The biggest weapon is dua. Guns and weapons do not do a thing, but dua does. Therefore, let us make dua. May Allah protect Islam and Islamic
countries. May they be in safety and security. May these fitnas revert back to those who cause them InshaAllah. May every weapon they fire turn back on themselves. Allah is capable of everything. As we said, this is not something that can be done with mind and reason. They are thinking according to their own calculations, “We can do it and make it,” with their mind and reason. Nothing happens if Allah does not will it. May Allah strengthen our iman (faith) InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
200.THE IMPORTANCE OF 10 MUHARRAM Thursday, 28 September 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.
Tomorrow is the 9th of Muharram. Let us not forget it Inshallah. There is fasting on the 9th and 10th. People who are not sick and those who are not travelling certainly need to fast it, since it is a recommendation of our Holy Prophet. It is not fard (obligatory) but is considered a confirmed sunna (sunna muakkada). Because our Holy Prophet used to fast it. Before the order for Ramadan came, the fard was in Muharram. Then that fard was lifted but was left as a sunna.
10th of Muharram is Ashura. It is a holy day. There are duas. First you take ghusl (whole body ablution). Then the person who has ghusl, Allah willing, does not become seriously ill. Those who wear kohl on their eye. What we mean by kohl is you do not need to make it pitch-black. Even radish juice is considered kohl and strengthens one’s light (nur). They do not face eye pain or eye disease that year.
To live in abundance and plenty that year, he says one needs to bring plenty of sustenance to his family and home. It would be baraka (blessing). There is a four-rakat prayer in the afternoon (after Zuhr) with 11 Ikhlas in each raka. The day of Ashura is the day all prophets and awliya were relieved. It is also the day Hazrat Hussain reached the station of martyrdom, the highest station, even though he was in high station. Our Master Hazrat Hussain and his fellow travelers next to him, his friends, rose higher. That is why this is a very holy day.
Honoring this is needed by all Muslims. Not only. Now when we say Ashura, a group of Muslims think, “This is ours.” No, this is for all Muslims. We need to honor and respect this day by the order of our Holy Prophet and the order of Allah. Its baraka (blessing) would come on us and duas would be answered. There are a few holy days in the year and Ashura is one of them. For all Muslims.
When something good happens, thank Allah, all Muslims benefit from it. Those who respect it get respect and get its baraka. If not, if they say it does not exist, then as they like. They are harmed themselves. Allah Azza wa Jalla is treating us (ikram) a few days a year. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He has treats every once in a while, and this is one
of those days. May Allah bless it (mubarak). May Allah give Islam victory the following year. May we become even better Inshallah. May we protected from these dissensions (fitnas). May the fitnas revert back to their owners InshaAllah. For the sake of this day
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
201.AS-SAMI’U L-BASIR
Saturday, 30 September 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.
Shukr to Allāh, we are at this blessed day of ʻĀshūrā’. We are saying again, repeating, that it is a holy day. It is a blessed day. Today is when Prophets and awliyā’, all of them, gained their happiness. It is not a day of sorrow because all of them reached their highest ranks on this day. Also Sayyidinā Ḥusayn reached his highest rank.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla told Mūsā ‘alayhi s-salām and his brother Hārūn ‘alayhi s-salām, "Go to pharaoh and call him to believe in Allāh, he has become insane. He is oppressing too much. Go and warn him. Tell him the truth," ordered Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Certainly, everything is to make a lesson for people. They said, "We are afraid of pharaoh. We fear that he will torture and oppress us. If we go only two of us, we are afraid, O our Creator." They said it directly, "We are afraid. We are afraid that pharaoh will oppress and torture us." Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, even though they were Prophets, said as an example for people: "Innanī ma‘akumā asma‘u wa-ará." (20:46) "I am with you. I am seeing and hearing." Nothing happens out of Allāh's appointed time. Allāh wanted it that way and it had its wisdom. It has a very big wisdom.
Yesterday one of our new Muslim brothers said, "The biggest āyah, Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, what does it mean? It is by the name of the most Merciful Allāh that there is no one more merciful and beneficent than He. If so, why are these oppressions happening?" he asked. It is the truth told by Allāh. There is no one more merciful than He. And that oppression being made will become a means to mercy and benevolence – that is why it happens. We can't question the wisdom of Allāh. Allāh does as He likes. He does what He wants. No one can interfere. And what He says is true. He is Arḥamu r- Rāḥimīn (the most Merciful of the merciful). That's why today it is not a day of sorrow but a day of liberation, a day of reaching the highest ranks.
For the honor of this day, may Allāh open the doors of goodness for all of us. May we be in goodness. May there be no tests. Some servants are given tests. And Allāh says the most tested of people are the Prophets, ṣaḥābah and awliyā. After that the beloved servants of We want His are the most tested. But we don't want any test from Allāh Allāh mercy. We want His kindness. There is kindness and there is test. Don't choose test. Don't ask for it. May Allāh give us the easy way. These Prophets, ṣaḥābah, Sayyidinā Ḥusayn (ra) and shuhadā’, they overcame their tests. We cannot. May Allāh give us kindness, in shaAllāh. Their maqāms are for all the ummah, for those who love them because you do goodness for those whom you love, you do all good things. For their maqām, spirituality and souls you do goodness. Is there benefit for anyone when you do bad, when you shout? No. When you read Qur’ān, yes. It is a benefit for you and for Sayyidinā Ḥusayn. If you cook food and distribute for his soul, it has many benefits. If you cook ashure (Noah's pudding), benefit again for Allāh's pleasure. They are claiming it is sin to cook ashure now. Can it possibly be so? It is done for Allāh's pleasure and the souls of the holy ones. It is cooked for the souls of our ancestors. It is a benefit for those who eat and who distribute. It is a treat, food treat.
These people have mixed up good and bad – they made it like soup. People can't differ anymore if they are doing right or wrong. We should be careful about it. Good is clear and bad is clear. May Allāh not separate us from the right way and show us the right way, in shaAllāh.
Today we are, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, blessed day, holy, very holy day, tenth of Muḥarram, Āshūrā. It is good occasion for all of Prophets, for all of awliyā’u Llāh for whom they make, they get their maqām, high stage, in this day. So it is good day. But some people, shayṭān make them to think it is bad day, ugly day for because in this day Sayyidinā Ḥusayn he was martyr. But it is also he get the higher stage. Allāh He want this and this happen. Because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He knowing and seeing everything. Nothing – if you are saying something against Him so you make [as] if you denying Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla what the most common thing for His attributes – Samī‘u Baṣīr. He Seeing and Hearing.
Because when Mūsá ‘alayhi s-salām and his brother Hārūn ‘alayhi s-salām, both of them Prophets, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla say tell them, told them, "Go to Pharaoh and say for him sweet and soft speak to him. Maybe he can accept belief and believe on you and maybe he afraid from Allāh and he remember Allāh." This is order from Allāh
‘Azza wa Jalla for Mūsá ‘alayhi s-salām and Hārūn ‘alayhi s-salām to tell this. And what they said? "O our Lord we are afraid from him. We afraid from him maybe he can attack us and make oppression... oppress us and make bad thing for us. We are, we afraid from him." This is what they, they are prophets, and they was saying for Allāh ‘Azza, our Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. But this is also to lesson for people to know to not make. Every day, every minute you must remember your Lord, tadhakkur, dhikr. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla said, He told them: "O Mūsá and Hārūn, I am with you. I am hearing and I am seeing." What is meaning this? This meaning everything happen without accepting of Allāh – it cannot be. But it is something for holy people they are most oppressed. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla ashaddu l-balā’, the who have – al-anbiyā’ thumma l-awliyā’ thumma l-amthali wa l-amthal – the most suffering people – prophets and companion of prophets, after beloved people for Allāh. Who was more beloved for Allāh – he more suffering. But they are suffering, not saying anything. Cannot be object. But they, Mūsá ‘alayhi s- salām Hārūn, saying they was ashaming from Allāh because they one minute they forget and they speak without thinking. Allāh blame them.
So it is for Sayyidinā Ḥusayn and his companions also – this is the most highest stage for them. And it is not bad for them, bad for people who done this. They are lucky, other one unlucky. They are forever cursed people. Maybe for dunyā, for this world happiness to be governor, to be amīr, or to be something like this – ha?
M: Ruler.
Rulers – and they, for small thing, they was cursed forever. But lucky one and he is the most praised one Sayyidinā l-Ḥusayn and he is praised with Allāh, with Prophet, with whole ummah. So we are in this day we must be happy and we must pray for Allāh because, as yesterday also one our new Muslim brother, he asked one good question so in this occasion also we can add it because very important. He asked, he said: "They said the most powerful āyah: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem and meaning it is by name of Allāh, Lord the most Merciful and most Beneficent. The meaning – that nobody can be most, more than this mercy than Allāh. And we are seeing in this world, this what happen. This is what happen."
Allāh from His mercy He is for what He people love them they can do this. And for people they deserve this they also. But it is wisdom for our Lord. We cannot ask. We cannot object. But what we can do? Just to be with this people, the good people who
was oppressed and they was killed and they was burned, they was everything happen for them – we be asking Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla blessed for them. We read for them, we make charity for them, we remember them every time. This is what we can do, and it is benefit for us also because they are beloved people for Allāh جل ه الل ج and when you love people Allāh love them, you will be with them in Qiyāmah, in Jannah, in shaAllāh.
And we are asking Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla don't test us because they are, there is people they can carry test. Some of them cannot carry. They can by His ihsan. His mercy. He can treat us. We like to not to be test. We are weak people we ask Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla to not be test. And what, in shaAllāh, today ‘Āshūrā’ we read Qur’ān, we read everything and we give food, we give ashure (Noah's pudding) also. There is a special sweet for today. Now some people they are mixing everything, they say, if you say Ashure, you make Ashure, you make, for sake of this Prophet sin because. No. Why we are making this? For sake of Allāh for Sayyidinā Ḥusayn, we give distribute for people to remember and to say du‘ā’ for this. But other people there is people they are doing something it is really not necessary, no benefit for anybody, only making noise and making hatred. But of course we are not love what happen and the people against Sayyidinā l-Ḥusayn but only we not tired ourself with this nothing, no reward for this in divine presence. Just we try to make thing Allāh reward us for this, in shaAllāh. Make charity, make reading Qur’ān, make du‘ā’. In shaAllāh, now we will pray four raka‘āt for ‘Āshūrā’ day. After we make du‘ā’, in shaAllāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
202.BE WITH THE SADIQIN Wednesday, 4 October 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 Prophet is saying, "If someone tells a lie as if he is speaking from my tongue, he has prepared his place in hell." Because every word of our Prophet is the base of religion says must be absolutely true, as there will appear people after our Prophet. What he who will tell lies that will change it. They will make up new things that serve their interest, claiming it is the word of our Prophet. For their own benefit, they will direct people in other directions. And when they do this, its punishment is very big. Its punishment is hell. Our Prophet has warned people not to obey their egos. As we said, it has been like this since then, up until now. Now it's even worse. Of course, what our Prophet said is sharī‘ah now, it's law, Islamic law. Its punishment is bigger. But to get their interests... People have various interests. They are changing the words of mashāyikh too, words of ṣaḥābah, awliyā’ and ‘ālims. Some say things, for example, as if Mawlānā had said it. It's not a good thing. Of course, it doesn't have punishment as much as with our Prophet, but the true one is protected. How shall we know if what is related is truly from Mawlānā or not? We are following the way of our Prophet. Mawlānā didn't step even a little out of this way. When they come and say, "Mawlānā, said so", you look and see – if it's not like what our Prophet had said. So they took this from some ṣuḥbah or somewhere else and interpreted to suit themselves. They made such strange things up. Because there are many people who want to make fitnah.
Many soldiers of shayṭān, they don't want any community, any clean society. They want to bring fitnah and confuse people's minds. Therefore, what Mawlānā says is the same as what our Prophet said. We are following his path. Therefore, whenever there is a doubt, you have to look at who said it, you have to ask if it is right or wrong. Shukr to Allāh, who asks gets his answer, if it's right or not. Many people nowadays think that we are having some interest. After Mawlānā's departure, they either have good intentions and want us to earn more, or want to destroy this beautiful way completely with bad intentions. But with Allāh's permission. Allāh permission, it is the true way. No one can destroy it, with Allāh's ‘Azza wa Jalla protects this way.Allāh is with the good ones. "Yā ayyuhā lladhīna āmanū t-taqū Llāha wa kūnū ma‘a ṣ- ṣādiqīn" (9:119). Fear from Allāh, be with the righteous ones. Be with the truthful people. Our Prophet says if a person speaks right, he'll be truthful and be written as Ṣiddīq. And he'll go to
paradise. A liar telling lie after lie will be written as a liar and go to hell. May Allāh make all of us from truthful ones, in shā’Allāh. Prophet protect us. May Allāh saying, "Who saying something I didn't say and saying this is from Prophet, he must prepare his place in hell." Because it is important for Prophet – everything he done, every word, every acting, it is law for us. So some people for their benefit they sometimes they try to say Prophet he said like this, and he said like that. But this is also miracle from Prophet, because in his time nobody can do this because they know Prophet. But after his time beginning thousand they put shayṭān and his follower to destroy Islām saying this, Prophet saying that, and he said this. But, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, the scholar and ‘ulamā’ and imām, ṣaḥābah, they was cleaning this. Most of them they clean. Because Prophet saying, "Look if it is according to your mind it is from me you can follow but if it is not like this, don't follow and don't accept this." Why we say this? Because since that time, even it is very pure time, it was after Prophet, they was doing this. Until now they making the worst and this is for especially for right the good place, good who following mashāyikh and ṭarīqah. They try every time to do fitnah – to make people wondering if it is true, not true.
For Mawlānā also many thing they are saying Mawlānā he said like this but when you see – he never said that. They said he is doing this also. They said we are taking from his ṣuḥbah. But maybe they can cut little bit from this ṣuḥbah and they say this from Mawlānā. But he – there is continue for this. So it is normal, not thing, strange thing to do. It is it was like this since Prophet time. And but you must see if – because Mawlānā he was following Prophet for every movement, every step, every word he following. Not doing anything not according to Prophet way, sunnah of Prophet. So we must be careful. Anything you are not sure, don't accept because maybe small thing you see, maybe we is not important, but this is important. Small, small taking your belief. We must look for and ask if anything you suspicious from what happen, you can ask. Because shayṭān and his follower they are not happy with any small right people. Even very small, they want to finish, they want to destroy. But, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this is way of Prophet and the protected by Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla say, "Yā ayyuhā lladhīna" (9:19). He order us to be with honest people, to be afraid from Allāh, and be honest with honest people. "Yā ayyuhā lladhīna āmanū t-taqū Llāha wa kūnū ma‘a ṣ-ṣādiqīn" (9:119). And he said, Prophet said, "You must be every time saying the truth." When you say truth you become ṣiddīq, the most trustful one, like Abū Bakr Ṣiddīq and you will be in Jannah and Allāh write you from ṣiddīq. But if you are liar Allāh He will write you in liar, with liar people and liar people with shayṭān. Allāh make us with true truth people, with ṣādiqīn, wa ma‘a ṣ- ṣiddīqīn, in shā’Allāh.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
203.HUMANKIND DOES NOT DO A THING WITHOUT EXPECTING SOMETHING IN RETURN Saturday, 7 October 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.
In this world, people expect a benefit from each other. If they are attempting to do you good, they certainly want something in return. They want something in return in many ways. They expect something in return saying, “I did you a favor so you have to do it too,” or, “You have to help me. You have to support me.” So if you are to ask something from someone, you need to be ready accordingly. You need to help them out too or give whatever they want.
This is the case for this world. People want to take and not give, and take and not help. This is the nature of man. Therefore, Allah Azza wa Jalla makes people trouble each other. The clever person should not ask for the gratitude of others. They do not ask from others but ask from Allah. This is how clever people are. There was a quaint philosopher who lived in old times (Diogenes of Sinope). Someone came and stood in front of him (Alexander the Great) saying, “What would you like? I can help. Let me do something for you.” Because he was clever he said, “Stand out of my sunshine. Just do not cast your shadow and I do not want you to bestow anything else.” It is good if you are like that, if you do not need anything from anybody. Because in return for your request, you will follow his thoughts, you will talk as he wants, or you will help him with the things he wants to do. And most of the time what they want is what does not fit man’s nature or things Allah does not want. That is why humans should trust in Allah and ask from Allah more. You should not ask a favor from anybody or make others plead. This is needed more for these people, people of these times. Because everybody is running to politicians and getting upset saying, “He did this and did not do that.” Humankind cannot do even if they would like to. It is said, “Laa yardil ibad illa Rabbil ibad.” Only Allah Exalted and Glorious be He can make people content. Nobody but Him can make people content. They can be the head of the great powers if they like and still they cannot make people content.
Therefore, trust in Allah, turn to Allah, and do not forget about Allah. You will be at ease if you do this. If not, you will run here and there and after this and that one. What a run that will be! If you would run after Allah Azza wa Jalla that much, Allah would give you a thousand times more. He would give you even more. May Allah make us all successful in practicing this advice InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
204.DO NOT PUT YOURSELF UNDER SUSPICION Sunday, 8 October 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 Holy Prophet says, “Stay away from suspicious places. Do not put yourself under suspicion.” People of these times follow their ego more. That is why people immediately think bad and are suspicious. Our Holy Prophet’s advice to people is to stay away from places that would put you under suspicion or make people suspicious and think badly about you. Because people do not think goodness but continuously think evil.
Allah Azza wa Jalla says in the Koran: “O believers! Avoid negative assumption and thinking badly of others.” (Sura Hujurat:12) “Even a little suspicion, assumption, is sinful,” He says. We need to avoid these places so others do not commit sin and so we can be clean. Because people’s ego is evil, and if the person is not afraid of people he would also do that doubtful thing. Therefore, we need to be careful of such matters. Do not put yourself under suspicion when collecting money or the like saying, “I will do this and I will do that.”
Most people have no conscience left. They collect money in the name of needy people and pocket it. There, because of them people are suspicious and assume negatively. That is why you need to openly show what you do, and not take too much responsibility. The further you stay away the better. As we said, you need to show everyone what you did and what you are doing. May Allah keep us safe from being under assumption and under suspicion InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
205.THE CLEVER PERSON TAKES LESSON FROM HIS MISTAKES Monday, 9 October 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 clever person is the one who takes lesson from his mistakes. Allah Azza wa Jalla created you and: “Liyabluwakum ayukum ahsanu amala.” (Sura Mulk:2) He says, “This world is a world of trials, and we created you to see who will be the best in deeds.” Everybody makes mistakes, but most people do not take lesson form their mistakes. They hanker, meaning they feel regret. They feel regret saying things like, “I wish I had done it. I wish I had not done it,” then goes and makes the same mistake again. Because they do not take it as a lesson and do not see themselves guilty. Whereas the clever person learns from a mistake. People experience it themselves and do not make the same mistake again thinking, “I made a mistake. I should not do it again.” However, the foolish one says, “Look what happened! What a luck!” and goes and makes the same mistake again. This is due to foolishness. Allah Azza wa Jalla gave everyone and everything a mind. The mind of a fly is five seconds, so it thinks for five seconds. You swat it and shoo it, but it does not run off and comes back in front of you. Five seconds would pass and it forgets. It makes the same mistake again, and in the end is either crushed or becomes a nuisance to people. This is an example of foolishness. Allah Exalted and Glorious be He created everything for people to watch and learn. Therefore, there is no need to torture yourself the whole time because you made a mistake. This is a lesson for us. A man came – they come to us a lot – and spoke with us: “We gave a man money and he left. What should we do now? Would he come back?” We said, “No, he would not come back.” You can whistle for it (forget about it). Take it as a lesson so the money does not go to waste. Just as there are courses where people pay and learn, there, that is a lesson of life. The man took the money and ran off to give you a lesson in return. Do not regret it. Keep it in mind so you do not repeat it. That is what a lesson is. That is why we need to take lesson from everything. You would come out as the winner in the end and would not be sorry for nothing. May Allah help us. The path shown by Allah is beautiful. The one who follows it does not feel sorry for the world. He would still be clever and these things done would be more useful for him InshaAllah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
206.TREAT PEOPLE WELL Tuesday, 10 October 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 way of our Holy Prophet is to invite people with soft words. “Invite to Allah with good instruction.” (Sura Nahl:125) A person would approach you and love you with social ethics, softness, and gentleness. Of course it is the same with this way, the way of tariqa. Shaykh Mawlana trained people slowly by tolerating, by not looking at their faults, and by turning a blind eye to people’s faults.
People would move away if you fight them, and they would move away if they hear a bad word. Speaking of people, of course there are various types. What we are obliged to do is to tolerate them. Allah says through the tongue of our Holy Prophet: “It is better than the whole world for one person to be guided.” Therefore, there is no need to quickly get excited and hurt people’s feelings.
We need to caution with good words, or send them away with goodness if the thing that was done is inappropriate. Sending them away pleased – this is what is more appropriate. People do certain things with the intention to serve, but sometimes it is contradictory. That is why those who are on this path need to tolerate people and treat them with kindness. Our Holy Prophet and the shaykhs advice as such. Let us treat people with tolerance as much as possible.
Patience is good. People do not have any more patience left. To set people against each other, Shaitan brings out the slightest flaws in front of people and covers their goodness. Whereas our Holy Prophet and the shaykhs would look at the slightest goodness if they found it while covering up other faults. May Allah be our helper Inshallah. This is not a need for just people of tariqa but a need for the whole Islamic world.
Allah says Shaitan wants to cause animosity, hatred, and rancor among you. Animosity and rancor – meaning he wants you to feel hatred toward each other. These times are exactly as Shaitan wants. The whole Islamic world has fallen out with each other – daggers drawn. They unnecessarily come up with certain things and make Muslims fall out with each other.
The reason for this is due to people continuously preparing themselves for a fight as individuals. They condition themselves: “If he says this, I will do that.” Whereas you need to work at, “I should not say a bad word. I should not upset anyone,” when you go out among people. When this is the case, the community would become much more beautiful, the whole Islamic world would be better off, and Allah would be content with all of us.
May Allah help us and guide us. Of course, it is End Times now and not everybody can do it, but those who are on this way should train their ego and take their ego under control. This has great rewards in the sight of Allah. May Allah be our helper.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
207.THE HISTORY OF THE NAQSHBANDIYYA Saturday, 21 October, 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 ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī ṭarīqah, coming from Prophet. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, you are in this island you are very well knowing ṭarīqah and taṣawwuf. Because many place we going people when you say ṭarīqah they not knowing what ṭarīqah – they said what? They not understand at all but, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, you are here you are have ṭarīqah and you love ṭarīqah. Ṭarīqah – there is many ṭarīqah. One of them only coming from Sayyidinā Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq. Other, we have more than forty ṭarīqah, they are coming from Sayyidinā ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib. And this ṭarīqah beginning in Ghāri Thawr (cave of Thawr) when Prophet was immigrate from Makkah to Madīnah. They was together, Sayyidinā Abū Bakr, Sayyidinā – Prop
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