Suhbah 2018: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (13/25)
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sible that you were passing by it and without you noticing it tried to bite you. When you pass by again and let it bite you, you are a fool. Be alert. Be alert in everything. As we said, the most important thing is to be alert against cheaters who mess with our Ākhirah. In Sha Allah.
Beware we say for this, now we are living in time whole most of people they try to eat each other. There is, ya‘nī, the more than good people – bad people, crook people plenty. For this we are saying for our people, "Be careful to not be cheated." Now they have many kind of cheating people. Some of them they cheat by selling you something not useful. Some of them they take money for you and say they said we will do this for good for people. Some of them say, "You must pay this. If you don't pay government will catch you." Some of them even they send sometime telephone number – if you answer for this number they take your money. I don't know how they do this. Many time they come
people sending for us. Be careful it is full of crook now in this world.
You must be very careful but more important than this matter to not be cheated for Ākhirah. The biggest cheater – shayṭān. He said when Allāh throw him from Paradise, he said, "Give me permission until I will make cheat this people: "La-ughwiyannahum" (38:82). To Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, he said, "I will cheat them to bring them with me to Hell." And Allāh say, "If you cheat them, who follow you they will be with you." And he try very hard to until Qiyāmah not tiring, not... If another, if people they doing good thing they will tired but shayṭān never tired, all time active and he try to for this people. Many people they was cheated by him but if even they cheat and in the end they ask for forgiveness from Allāh Allāh forgive them. This is another matter.
But people they are cheated by shayṭān. Many of them they went out from way of belief. They are looking for way, searching for way for themself out of belief. Even believer also, who are Muslim, they also. The, this end of this time, the many of them cheated by this people also they not accepting to be respect for Prophet and for Awliyā’u Llāh, for Ṣaḥābah, for others and they are make this people to take less reward from Allāh and to fight between Muslim – "You are not Muslim. I will kill you. You are mushrik. I will kill you." Like this they are doing this. This is also this people is cheated by shayṭān, the most cheated people. This the worst one but there is many kind of people also they are not accepting Ṭarīqah or right way way of Prophet what he give us from Ḥadīth and Qur’ān and they are trying to, they say, "We are right. No need for praying, only you can make ṣuḥbah, you can to be together."
And many people they was cheated with this people. Who was cheated? This ignorant people? No they are not ignorant. They are most educated people. They finish university they finish. They have big position from their – this... They are seeing themself higher than other. They not happy to be with other. They are looking for something suitable for their ego and they are following this people and they will be punished. Because there are people using religion also for their pleasure, for their ego, to make their ego happy. They are using Ṭarīqah, they are using religion, they are using everything. We must be, we must be careful. This is what we saying. Many people cheating people and people, if they are happy giving them for their ego something, they are happy and they thought it will be save them. It will not save them. It will be punished in Ākhirah. And if they said, "This people cheat us." Allāh will say, "I give you mind. Nobody can reach what you are study when you finish, you are very clever. And you was cheated by ignorant people. This is cheater so you are, you must be punished."
You must be careful. Most important to not be cheated by for Ākhirah. For dunyā maybe they take your money, they take your property. They may take your car. They take everything, still you are alive, you have belief and in the Ākhirah you will be safe. But if they take your belief in Ākhirah what you will do? This is most important and we see in our island here the most people cheated by this. But what we will do? They are proud: "We are this, we are that." But they will be regret when they go to Ākhirah. Allāh save our belief from crook people the most dangerous people, crook people. They like... Prophet say, "They are like snake." Prophet he said, "O believer don't be bite twice from same hole." "Lā yuldaghu l-mu’minu min jaḥri l-marratayn." Believer he must be awake, not to be bitten every time through this stupid... "We can every time we can cheat him, we can ride on him, we can do this and that." No you be careful.
You be, when you see this people look first. If they are because way of Mawlānā, way of Prophet – way of mercy and softness and help people and to be good with people, not harm people at all, not cheat people. If they are like this, you can follow. If they are, they don't have any mercy, they don't have any good, only looking for their benefit. Run away from them because they are not right. Allāh save us from this people and save believer from them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
93.FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT WAY Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
It says life is a struggle. Struggle. So life is struggle. With who? There are two things in this world. Fight. Life means a fight. Our fight is with shayṭān and shayṭān's fight is with us. They call it the struggle of the masses. A guy wrote a book called "My Struggle". So this is how it is. There is a struggle. There is a fight. However, the real fight and struggle is between truth and falsehood. You should always be on the side of truth. Don't fight with truth. Don't struggle against truth. Let your fight and your struggle be against falsehood. Do not be with falsehood. If you are with falsehood you are ruined. Your fight will be for nothing and your suffering will be for nothing.
This life is short. The path is clear, but still, as we said, people are doing the opposite. They do evil instead of doing good. Instead of being with good people, they are with bad people. They attempt to help people who are not in need. They do not help people who are in need. So everything they do is for nothing. They found an institution, an establishment – at first you think it is good. It looks like it was founded to do good. Then you see that it is the worst, it is the most awful, the most useless. Why? Because it is not with truth. If it were with truth, it would continue on the path of truth and be fine. However, because it is not with truth it immediately unmasks itself. It is evident that it is bad, because it is fighting with truth, it has animosity towards truth. It does not like truth.
Truth is clear. Our path is clear. The means is clear. That is why our Holy Prophet says this path is the path of truth. He said that those who are off this path are the innovators. Now they understand innovation, bid‘ah, differently. Those who are on our Holy Prophet's path are not the bid‘ah. Those who do not follow our Holy Prophet they are on bid‘ah. They have gone off the path, and bid‘ah leads to Hell. May Allāh protect us. May we be with Allāh and truth, In Sha Allah. May we be advocates of truth. May we be defenders of truth, In Sha Allah. May we not be with falsehood. May we not be with shayṭān, In Sha Allah. This in human being or people every time they saying, "Our life fighting. From morning until death, struggle and to try to fight to survive." But there is two kinds of struggle. You must struggle for Allāh. There is two, only two: one for right and one for not right, bad. One with Allāh – this we must try to keep us in this way.
Other one shayṭān – not-truth. There are many books they write for this, like one he write "Mein Kampf". Other write people struggle – this thousand of books they write about this subject but all of them they are fight against way of right way, way of Allāh. All they are with shayṭān and they try to make a new way for themself away from way of Allāh.
Allāh show us good thing, good way. You must try, struggle to hold this way. Don't let other, who attacking you, to take you from this way. Be strong. Hold this way. From beginning of your life until end, you are in war with shayṭān, with ego, with their army. You see sometimes... from beginning you thought it is very good – they will be good for nature, for human being, for other. Some people they are coming cheating people like this. But later you find this people they are the worst. They are worse than the others also. Every new thing coming, coming worse and worse because they are not with right. They are with not-right, with shayṭān and bad way, against Allāh. But they are quickly, people they know them.
But people they are happy with this people who because they are giving their ego what they like. You can do everything you like, they said. No anything against you. You are completely free. You can do everything. But this is way of Allāh. Everything – not everything you can... You must keep your ego, not give all freedom for your ego. If you give freedom for your ego you will be under control of your ego, you will be not free. So we are fighting against this – our ego, our shayṭān, and the way of shayṭān.
We are following way of Prophet and it is the safe for us, save us from every badness. And it is way of Prophet, to love Prophet. If you love him you will be safe and this is what Prophet saying: don't follow bid‘ah. Bid‘ah – some people they use it to make people run away from, to make people run away from good, the way of Allāh. Take them to other way. But bid‘ah – what they are doing bid‘ah. And bid‘ah [is] not accepting Prophet and his love. So we must love Prophet and accept him and accept what he said to be safe, to be strong against shayṭān and his followers. Allāh keep us safe from them, In Sha Allah, to give us power to be more stronger and stronger, to fight against them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
94.TARAWIH IS A STRONG SUNNAH Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
In order to be closer to Allāh, apart from farḍ prayers, there are prayers we call nafl sunnah. We have to pay attention to them. There is sunnah mu’akkadah of our Prophet. None of us can pray as much as our Prophet did. He prayed all night long. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla said to him, "This is too much. Those who are with you can pray less." To do sunnah is a sign of our love for our Prophet, a sign of following him. The Prophet tells us good things. Therefore, we should pay attention to nafl sunnah and sunnah mu’akkadah and not skip them. Don't underestimate them. They are complete goodness. The more you do, the closer you are to Allāh and the Prophet. This is the smallest benefit, it has even greater benefits.
But the less people want to do it, the more shayṭān is trying to keep them away from doing it. Because, shukr to Allāh, they used to keep the sunnah in the Ottoman lands the most. They are divided into many countries now. And after they separated, no importance was given to the sunnah. And people who keep sunnah are not received well. People say, "It's unnecessary."
We are in Ramaḍān now. The most important sunnah is the prayer we make at night. Our Prophet says: "Ṣūmū yawmahā wa qūmū laylahā." "Fast during the day and get up to pray at night." And that prayer was shown by our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. He led the Tarāwīḥ prayer. When he made it the first night, people were so happy by its manifestation. And more people came on the second night. Our Prophet led the prayer the second night too. Some people are saying now that Tarāwīḥ is not sunnah. They say our Prophet didn't do Tarāwīḥ. It is sunnah. Moreover, it is sunnah mu’akkadah. He didn't lead it on the third night so that it didn't become like farḍ. He prayed it at home. He didn't skip it after that because it is such a strong sunnah that it should be done. It would become like farḍ. Therefore, our Prophet said, "You can't carry it. That's why, I leave it as sunnah." Now we pray it twenty raka‘āt. And people... Shukr to Allāh, as we said, during the Ottoman time from the time of our Prophet all khulafā’ made it twenty raka‘āt – twenty- three raka‘āt: twenty raka‘āt sunnah and three raka‘āt witr wājib – not just twenty raka‘āt but twenty-three raka‘āt. As we said, in the Ottoman lands they prayed twenty-three raka‘āt. After that, they were praying twenty raka‘āt, but
some fitnah occurred saying that eight raka‘āt is enough. They always prayed twenty raka‘āt on Anatolian land. They didn't pray eight raka‘āt and leave. But in other places the imām completed twenty raka‘āt, but after eight raka‘āt, only one line remained behind him. The rest of the people would leave after the eight raka‘āt were completed. What is this? It is just laziness, laziness to carry out Allāh orders. A lazy person should feel embarrassed in front of our Prophet.
It became even worse afterwards. Imāms looked around and said, "Why are we praying twenty raka‘āt when everyone else is praying eight raka‘āt?" And they pray eight raka‘āt now. What is that if not bid‘ah? This is the real bid‘ah. They call sunnah, bid‘ah after that. They call mustaḥabb and good things – bid‘ah. Whereas, bid‘ah is to cut short the sunnah mu’akkadah of our Prophet and make it eight raka‘āt. And when it was twenty raka‘āt, people prayed eight raka‘āt. When they made it eight raka‘āt, people stopped doing it at all. "It is sunnah. We don't pray Ẓuhr sunnah or Maghrib sunnah anyway. Farḍ is enough," they say. As we said, shayṭān is managing them well. He is giving his fatwá and cheating people.
We should pay attention and not ignore sunnah. Sunnah is a gift of our Prophet to us. Its benefits cannot be bought with money or exchanged for something else. Only you do and get. Our Prophet has come as a mercy for us, not as an oppression. Don't say, "I pray and get tired." That prayer is for your benefit. Allāh's Mercy comes down on you. You become the closest to Allāh at that time. The blessings of our Prophet come down on you. The more you can pray, the better for you, especially sunnah mu’akkadah, the sunnah of our Prophet. And the most important among them is Tarāwīḥ.
Normally, of the daily sunnah before farḍ, the sunnah of Fajr prayer is the strongest. That is such sunnah mu’akkadah that it is like wājib. Then come the first and last sunnah of Ẓuhr prayer. The sunnah of ‘Aṣr – though they are not as powerful, they are sunnah too. Most are skipping them. Even our hojjas made it a tradition not to give importance to sunnah. Who is hojja and doesn't give importance to sunnah, his sins count as double because he is an example for people. When he neglects and doesn't care, other people see it. It becomes a reason for them to miss this benefit. Repeating it, as we said, they become like others. They will do no sunnah. They shortened Tarāwīḥ to eight raka‘āt. Let's see when they remove it. Because every day ignorant bad scholars are saying, "This is not sunnah, that is not sunnah."
May Allāh protect us. May Allāh not separate us from this sunnah, In Sha Allah. May we not be separated from the way of our Prophet and his intercession, In Sha Allah. Who follow his sunnah doesn't miss his intercession. Who don't do his sunnah won't be able to face our Prophet from their embarrassment on the Day of Resurrection. We are, al- ḥamdu liLlāh, in time, holy time, holy month Ramaḍān and to be more near – our aim to be more near to our Lord and to Prophet. And the way for this, to make the order – pray
five times, to fast, and after this to make nawāfil, nafl – meaning to pray what it is not obligatory – praying, praying of sunnah. Obligatory one you pray in time. Fajr you pray two rak‘at in Fajr, four rak‘at for Ẓuhr, four rak‘at for ‘Aṣr, three for Maghrib, four for ‘Ishā’. This is obligatory. After this sunnah – sunnah mu’akkada it is for Fajr the most stronger one. This you must not lose it at all. For Ẓuhr – before, after. ‘Aṣr also sunnah. For Maghrib two raka‘āt after Maghrib. For ‘Ishā’ two of four raka‘āt before, two raka‘āt after but we make it four – for Ẓuhr also.
This is sunnah with praying time and this is make you come closer to your Lord. But there is also, especially for this sunnah, if you lose farḍ you can make it again but for sunnah you cannot make. If you not make Ẓuhr sunnah you cannot make next day, or ‘Aṣr you cannot make next day. "I could only pray farḍ. I will make sunnah now, make qaḍā’ for sunnah." No qaḍā’ for sunnah. And time of Ottoman Empire they was all praying with sunnah, with tasbīḥ – doing every thing what Prophet. Whole scholar, whole imām, they have chosen and well educated to show people and people it was very normal to do this. If you didn't, you didn't do this, they will be looking for you – "What this man is doing?" And especially for Tarāwīḥ.
Nowadays this bad scholar – there is good scholar and bad scholar Prophet saying. Bad scholar they are saying Tarawīḥ not sunnah. No it is sunnah and Prophet was praying this – and strong sunnah not like nafl. There is nafl very but Tarawīḥ it is strong sunnah. And Prophet he was praying twenty raka‘āt. One night in Ramaḍān, because Ramaḍān pray, fasting, become after Hijrah making obligatory and Tarawīḥ also coming with this. So Prophet saying for people, "O people in Ramaḍān fast day, daytime and wake up to pray nighttime." And what praying? This Tarawīḥ is most important for the... So Prophet he went to his mosque and pray twenty raka‘āt and three raka‘āt with Witr Wājib first day and it was very blessed. Every time blessed but this it was more. People was very happy with this.
Next day also Prophet praying twenty raka‘āt but this time people coming maybe five times more people when hearing about this and they are coming to pray jamā‘ah (together) with Prophet. Third day he didn't go out and they ask. He said, "It is sunnah but if didn't pray in mosque. He I pray every day it will be obligatory farḍ." So for this he pray in his house. So it is strong sunnah and all Khulafā’u r-Rāshidīn they was praying. They did twenty-three raka‘āt with Witr. And all Sayyidinā Imām Mālik, Imām Abu Ḥanīfa Imām Shāfi‘ī – all they was praying twenty raka‘āt. Until day, after Ottoman, people after Ottoman... Alhamdulilah in Anatolia still they praying twenty raka‘āt. But other countries, first they said, "It is okay. It is not sunnah but we pray." And they spread around people it was eight raka‘āt but this people they make it twenty. So was Imām was praying in mosque twenty raka‘āt and when coming to eight, maybe full of mosque all people running away, only one line left. Imām continue for twenty raka‘āt but still spread like this. And after this now we hear Imām also looking, "What is this all this?
Am I crazy to pray twenty raka‘āt this people all praying eight? So I can also pray eight. It's enough because all jamā‘ah saying eight, it must be eight." Now whole countries they praying eight raka‘āt outside of Anatolia. And this is they said about bid‘ah. "For what we make for sunnah, for following Prophet?" They saying, "Sunnah bid‘ah." Bid‘ah it is what they doing. They make sunnah to from twenty to eight and now what second stage they saying Tarawīḥ it is not sunnah – they [Tarawīḥ] are coming in time of Sayyidinā ‘Umar ibnu l-Khaṭṭāb. Maybe after some years they will take it out because bid‘ah from Sayyidinā ‘Umar ibnu l-Khaṭṭāb and they will be enough for them to pray ‘Ishā’ and enjoying drinking, nargile, shīsha, going around nighttime drinking, eating. It is not as Prophet saying, you fast daytime and wake up nighttime. They doing this: all day they are fasting sleeping. Whole night awake around. After when Fajr time coming, they sleeping until Maghrib and wake up for ifṭār and no need for Tarawīḥ. This is the religion of Ahli l-Bid‘ah. Subḥāna Llāh what we are? We come to days the Prophet saying, "Nothing left from Islām only the name." This is days. But it is not important for us, everybody... Saying in Qur’ān – also they will be ask for them what they are doing. And who do sunnah and become closer for Prophet, Prophet he will make shafā‘ah for him in Ākhirah. But who are not doing this, when they are going cannot be in front of Prophet from – they will ashame and they will melt from what they do from in dunyā: not following, only following their ego, following their laziness. This is real laziness. It is from shayṭān. ‘Uluwwu l-himmah mina l-īmān – it to be not lazy from īmān but to be lazy from shayṭān.
Allah help us. Allāh make us to follow Prophet for everything like he done. We, in shā’a Llāh, we intention to do like him. Allāh accept our intention.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
95.ALLAH IS THE GUARANTOR OF PROVISION Saturday, 2 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allāh created us so we may be His servants as a duty. He created us as servants. He is the guarantor of our sustenance : “Your sustenance is with Me. You do your servanthood. Obey Me. Turn to Me. Let your hearts be with Me," says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Allāh is the guarantor of your sustenance and livelihood. He will send it to you. Some of us become farmers, some become shepherds, some become doctors, and some become drivers. Allāh has shown everyone a way for their livelihood. We should not forget Allah for that. He sends you your sustenance. Sustenance comes from Allāh. Allāh makes you work and He gave you a specialty accordingly. Your sustenance will come like that.
You should not run after sustenance and work and forget Allāh: "We are working. We cannot pray. Because we are working we are getting tired." It cannot be. That work of yours is to strengthen your body so you may worship Allāh anyway. Not for work. Work is not the goal. It is the means. The real goal is Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. "We cannot fast. We are working." That is not all right either. Your fasting is worth your whole lifetime. The lifetime that passes without ever fasting is not worth five pennies. The lifetime that passes without prayer is also not worth a penny. What is important, as we said, is that Allāh grants the work for you. The man might be a professor, but he is unable to do the work you do. Allāh gave that specialty to you. You will do that job and earn money from it. He gave the other one another talent. He will do that. He will also earn his money and sustenance.
Sustenance can be permissible or forbidden. The permissible is of course the one that is for Allāh, and the forbidden is the one that does not have Allāh's consent. Therefore, we need to be careful. We did not come to the world for dunyā. We came for Allāh. That is our real goal. We should not forget Allāh for dunyā. We need to always remember Allāh and make dhikr for Him. He should never leave our heart. It might not be through our tongue, but He should be in our heart. His being in our heart occurs with the worship we do with our limbs. The one who has nothing in his heart has no worship and no thought. He considers himself from the four-legged class and roams around. As we said, he dies with an empty life, a useless life, and a worthless life. Whereas, if he had a little
bit of love for Allāh, it would add value to his life and it would be worthy. You are worthy with Allāh.
When you are not with Allāh, your position can rise as much as you like, and you might think you are something, but you have no value. Your value in the end is you will be thrown in a hole and you will rot there and be gone. That is your value and there is nothing else. However, those who are with Allāh are worthy. They will be treated with respect and honor in the sight of Allāh. Due to the good they have done, Allāh grants them paradise, and grants them the highest stations. However, as we said, this life might change in an instant if you repent and ask for forgiveness. Allāh accepts your repentance. He replaces the sins with good deeds. So we should not despair from Allāh.
Therefore, let us not forget Allāh, In Sha Allah. May Allāh always be in our heart.
We are, Alhamdulilah, we are living in this life and this life it is, Allāh give us for remembering Him, to worshipping Him, to do what He like to do. Our main aim - pleasure of Allāh, to He be pleasure with us. This is our first thing. But we are in this life. Allāh create us to worship Him and He is guarantor for our provision, rizq, provision. Our provision from Allāh so we must not be running away from Allāh after provision.
With provision Allāh He guarantee for us. Everybody, everyone [He] give him special, speciality to get his provision. Some of them farmer, some of them doctor, some of them driver, some of them engineer, some of them cleaner. There is thousands of jobs and Allāh give this people from this job their provision. Who like follow and asking from Allāh. Allāh He guarantor with provision. He give him from His ḥalāl, clean money to continue his life and to continue worshiping for Allāh - fasting , doing everything good from Allah be happy with this. But if other people they are saying, "Oh you pray?" "No I have work I cannot pray because I'm working." "Do you fast?" "No I cannot fast because I also I have work. How can I fast in this hot weather? I cannot because I'm working." But here the main aim not work. This people they are not thinking.
They are thought they are coming for this life for working or for eating, drinking, like animal. Animal also only they are whole time doing same thing - not praying, not fasting. All time they are, Allāh create them like this, for this purpose. But our human being Allāh create them for purpose of to be worshipping Him. This is main aim and people not caring about this, only they are tiring themself and make difficulty from, for themself running after dunyā, after provision. And they are, they are not looking for provision it is clean or not clean. Ḥalāl, ḥarām they not looking at all. Just they want money they can, how they can bring, and this is not good and Allāh not happy with this. Allāh happy with people who depend on Him and saying, "We everything coming from Allāh. We want from Allah And Allah He will be happy with them.
Other people difficult for them but also Allāh accept to from people to be ask forgiveness from Him. If they asking and they whole life they are doing bad thing, Allāh accept and change this to good - rewarding them. Allāh He is the most Merciful. He is giving for provision for everybody - for believer and nonbeliever because this dunyā, this world or this universe it is not, don't have any value in divinely presence of Allāh. For this He is giving for believer and nonbeliever and this is also we must try to imitate our Lord to not give any value for dunyā. Only for Ākhirah it is important because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying, "If this world, universe, world it has any value like mosquito wing, I will never give one drop water for nonbeliever. But it is no, not impo... not... No value for this. So for this I'm giving this people provision and giving everything."
So be careful. Don't be give value for this dunyā. Give value for our Lord happiness. If He is happy with us, we are happy, In Sha Allah. Allāh give, make Him, Allāh all time, In Sha Allah, He be happy with us, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
96.I’TIKAAF: A GIFT FROM ALLAH Sunday, 3 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We are nearing the end of Ramaḍān meaning the 20th. In Sha Allah there is I‘tikāf in these ten days, the last ten days of Ramaḍān. Those who wish can do it. This was a worship always done by our Holy Prophet. He would do more worshipping when it was Ramaḍān. When it was the last ten days, he would stay in the mosque, and not go outside the mosque. This is called I‘tikāf. I‘tikāf is the sunnah of our Holy Prophet. In fact, it is said that it is farḍ kifāyah, meaning if nobody does it, all people will be accountable as having not done what is obligatory. When one person does it, it will be dropped from the others. However, doing I‘tikāf has a huge reward. Our Holy Prophet says the one who does I‘tikāf gets the reward of two Ḥajj and two ‘Umrah. I‘tikāf can be done anytime of course. For example, when you enter the mosque you can say, "Nawaytu sunnata l- I‘tikāf," and it is counted as I‘tikāf. Again, if you worship between Maghrib and ‘Ishā’ and do not talk of worldly things with anybody, that is also considered I‘tikāf. For this Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla builds you a palace says our Holy Prophet, for those who do I‘tikāf between Maghrib and ‘Ishā’.
So I‘tikāf is of all kinds. The best that can be done, the most beneficial is the I‘tikāf done in the last ten days of Ramaḍān. It is open for men and women. Men cannot do it at home, it has to be in the mosque. It has to be a mosque where the five prayers are led for i‘tikāf to be done there. It cannot be done in a mosque that does not do all the prayers and does not call the adhān. The five daily prayers should be prayed with the adhān. It is done at home for the ladies. They arrange a place in their home and reserve it. They make the intention there and make I‘tikāf. When the tenth day starts, you enter, saying you make intention for I‘tikāf. The person does the I‘tikāf, and what is to be done, what can they eat and drink? I‘tikāf is not like khalwah, a person can eat whatever he wants. Of course when fasting he eats at ifṭār and at saḥūr. The practices he does of course, when he is sitting there: tasbīḥāt, Qur’ān, Dalā’il al- Khayrāt and if there are other things to be read, the person can read them. They cannot deal with other, worldly matters. Remembering Allāh, making dhikr of Allāh, talking about the hereafter, loving our Holy Prophet and making ṣalawāt on him. That is I‘tikāf. A person should do as much worship as possible. Even if they cannot do it, if they only say they are in I‘tikāf and sit in the mosque, Allāh will still write those rewards for them. There is a reward of two Ḥajj and two ‘Umrah.
That is also all right. The more they do the better they will come out. May Allāh bless it. May Allāh also help those who do it. May Allāh accept it, In Sha Allah. It is a beautiful, a very beautiful worship. In Sha Allah, may it be good for those who do it. May it be good for the Ummah too. May it be strength for Muslims, In Sha Allah.
Nearly we are coming to third part of Ramaḍān. The last ten days it is important for this days because Prophet, when Ramaḍān coming, he make more worshipping, more praying and most of time in mosque. But when coming to end of Ramaḍān, ten days before end, he order his mattress put to be ten days in mosque Masjid an-Nabawī. Not going out for his house or for only for wuḍū’ but for other thing no. Ten days he staying, day and night, in mosque Masjid an-Nabawī. And many his wife also they was, raḍī Allāhu ‘anhum, making. Some of them in house, some of them in mosque. That time it was okay but only for old ladies it was but now no need because no place for ladies. And Prophet saying who make I‘tikāf Allāh reward him as he make two Ḥajj and two ‘Umrah this ten days. Allāh reward them and it is Sunnah Mu’akkadah because Prophet was doing this and when once he couldn’t do, he make it next year twenty days in Ramaḍān because he couldn't do one in ten days. So it is for Ummah also Sunnah Mu’akkadah. Sunnah but it is Farḍ al-Kifāyah meaning obligatory for everybody but if somebody doing, other people they are not responsible. If nobody doing this, everybody will be responsible and as [if] they left obligatory worshipping. But, Alhamdulilah, many people they are doing and it is real blessed one – I‘tikāf.
I‘tikāf most important in Ramaḍān, ten days of Ramaḍān but outside of Ramaḍān also. When you going to mosque, you can say, "I intention to make Sunnah I‘tikāf." When go to mosque or between Maghrib and ‘Ishā’ you can also make I‘tikāf. And Prophet reading Qur’ān, making tasbīḥ, praying. Prophet saying who do this, Allāh He build for him one palace in Paradise. And I‘tikāf it must be in mosque for man – mosque who five time they can pray inside. No I‘tikāf outside of mosque for man. For ladies, for woman in their house or where they can find place away from, to be private. And they can do ten days in their house. And it is real gift from Allāh for Ummah to make more bless coming for Ummah for who are following this and the neighbours and family. Allāh give from His bless spiritually and material also. Allāh help people who are doing this and to help Muslim from this, to give, Allāh, more power for Islām, for Muslim, and to help us to be safe from every badness, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
97.THE SHORTEST WAY TO PARADISE Monday, 4 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Enemies of Islām are many now. There are many who want Islām to be destroyed but Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, since Islām is Allāh's religion, Allāh protects it. One man of His is worth a thousand people. The Awliyā’ of Allāh are many. The Awliyā’ of Allāh are those who show His path, His beautiful path. Some are known and some are unknown and some are known until the Day of Judgment. One of them is the person they dislike the most in these days, a person they attack. He is the person who shows Islām, the path of truth, until Judgment Day. Many bad ideas emerged after the second century of Islām to lead people astray – the Mu‘tazilah and Dahrī – and others. Things and groups you could not imagine emerged. Most of them lead people to ruin. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla showed us this situation and the right path until the Day of Judgment, through one person. And that is Ḥaḍrat Al-Imāmu l-A‘ẓam Abū Ḥanīfah.
That is why he is the one being attacked most now. However, all the ‘Ulamā’ and Awliyā’ are among those who follow the beautiful way of his. This way did not create a new way. It showed the way of our Holy Prophet. He taught that knowledge and wrote books. So the books that Ḥaḍrat Al-Imāmu l-A‘ẓam wrote, a person would not be able to write in 300 years if he tried now. People did not live so long in the past. He passed away between the ages of 50 and 60. He left so many books and so much knowledge that it will suffice until Judgment Day. He showed the knowledge and the truth of our Holy Prophet.
All of the Awliyā’ are people who are on this path. There are no Awliyā’ outside of this path because how can one be a Walī when one is not on the true path? Can a Walī come from shayṭān's path or a munāfiq's path? No. This path is the path of the Awliyā’. Following it is good for everybody. This what everybody needs. They should not deviate from this path. Whoever says bad words against people like this, they are certainly friends of shayṭān. They are buddies with shayṭān. As we said, lately wherever there is something right, they start attacking it little by little, little by little. In the end, they are directly attacking Ḥaḍrat Al- Imāmu l-A‘ẓam. Once they attack him, it means none of the Ahlu s-Sunnah who follow the sunnah of our Holy Prophet are on the right path. This would cause – Allāh forbid – them to fall victim to Allāh's wrath, these people who talk
badly about him, who do not respect him, and who do not like him. So they are off the path.
Wherever there are Awliyā’, in the East, West, North, and South, they are certainly people of this path. They do not arrive on any other path. They have neither come from those who do not like the Ahlu l-Bayt of our Holy Prophet, nor from those who do not like the Ṣaḥābah. The Awliyā’ are those who, first of all, accept Allāh and our Holy Prophet. Then, according to their levels, accept the Rightly Guided Caliphs – Abū Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Uthmān, and Haḍrat ‘Alī. The Awliyā’ come from among those who accept them. They have not come from others.
So this is it in short. We are on the true path. We need to defend the truth. Whoever opens his mouth, we need to warn them to mind their manners. Unfortunately, they are coming here and there claiming to be teaching religion. However, thanks to Allāh there are not many who listen to them. They, however, listen to themselves and they get misguided and ruin themselves. If a few people join him their sins are his responsibility. Allāh forbid. May Allāh make us firm footed on this path, In Sha Allah.
This is a beautiful path. This is a straight path. It comes from the Prophet and reaches a beautiful place. It reaches Paradise Allāh willing. There is no deviating right, no deviating left, and no stopping on the road. The others, since they say Lā ilāha illā Llāh Muḥammadun Rasūlu Llāh, even if they are on a crooked way, as long as they do not enter unbelief, in the end Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla will let them reach the road we reach – but after suffering and sometimes thousands and hundreds of thousands of years later. However, even if they reach it, they cannot reach the same high stations. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla will place them in a corner of Paradise. However, they will be sorry: "Why did we suffer so much pain waiting for hundreds of years and thousands of years at the Resurrection. We were thrown in Hell in order to be cleansed of the sins we committed." Whereas, while we have this beautiful path, there is no need for those things, to suffer pain.
May Allāh make us firm footed on the right path, In Sha Allah.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He has beloved ones and this beloved ones even they are sometimes you cannot see them but it is enough for to destroy the not good one. And one of them, he is the greatest one, we are saying about one Awliyā’u Llāh. There is Awliyā’u Llāh, many kind of Awliyā’u Llāh. Some of them you cannot see them at all. Some of them you see them with people. But this one he is, Allāh give him knowledge to save religion from bad people. Because after second century of Prophet Sayyidinā Muḥammad ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam he said, "The best generation, my companions until Khulafā’u r-Rāshidūn. After first century, second century, and after second century it will be the only until that. After it will be fitnah." And it was real like this. The beginning Khawārij,
Mu‘tazilah, Dahrī – this many kind of people giving idea for people to be away from belief, to be non-believer, or to do what their ego like to do. And it was like this , Awliyā’u Llāh, Allāh He give him power , inspiration to collect what Prophet, real Islām it was. And he is Abū Ḥanīfah Al-Imāmu l-A‘ẓam – meaning greatest imām. He is, he has, Allāh give him knowledge. This knowledge coming from Prophet. What Prophet give for Ummah, he collect this. Not bring a new thing. No. He like to give people what real Islām it was since Prophet and to show people. And, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, he was succeed and he was real Imām A‘ẓam. The greatest Imām because every, all other people, scholar from who following Prophet, they was taking from him.
Until Qiyāmah he has books. He has from his students, from other imāms also, all taking from him. And it was light for Ummah. When somebody coming and saying something, "This is not from Sharī‘ah," he said "Look Imām A‘ẓam. He know better than you." And he give proof and give everything very strong so no need for you to do this. For this nowadays the most enemy for this people, the people who are claiming they are Muslim and they are not real Muslim. The biggest enemy for them – this Awliyā’u Llāh, Sayyidinā Imāmu l-A‘ẓam Abū Ḥanīfah because he showing everything. And subḥāna Llāh from you cannot find one from Awliyā’u Llāh outside of this line, this line of Prophet, coming through from Prophet and Abū Ḥanīfah Until Qiyāmah only this line, the Awliyā’u Llāh coming from this line . You cannot find at all, outside this line, one of Awliyā’u Llāh – all because they are following the right path, the best way. No any coming – here, here. Straight, straight and safe. And this way take to the shortest way and safest way and the best way to take you to Paradise.
There is another way also, many way. You can go long, long way. Maybe hundred thousand years you waiting in Maḥshar; you going to Hell first to clean yourself, and after you can come to Paradise. Because Allāh saying who said lā ilāha illā Llāh Muḥammadun Rasūlu Llāh at the, after he clean from his sins, he will come to Paradise. But even in Paradise also you will not be in high position like this people who following this good way, nice way. But other people they are trying, they are envious. They said, "No. This is not good. He has this, he has that." And it is impossible to reach his knowledge, to reach his aware from ḥarām, and to afraid from Allāh to say anything wrong. Even he said, "Sometimes you saying," for his student, "if you know the best you can tell me. Don't be silent. Be speak what you, if I'm, if am I wrong. You can tell because it is important. We are not playing. This very important thing." And they was, many times, correcting until giving us this nice, very good, very nice way.
So we must be following him. And who are enemy for him, you must know they are friend of shayṭān. And enemy can be harm you. If you follow them, take you to long, long way, to bad way, to miserable way. And when you have shortcut and this very nice, very quick way and the end you find yourself in the best place. You must quickly follow this way. Don't follow other. This is all our Mashāyikh following this way. All Awliyā’u
Llāh from whole Ṭarīqah, they are also in this way. Also Allāh make us to be hold this way strongly and to be with them. We love them. Because when you love them, you must be with them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
98.KULLU HALIN YAZUL Tuesday, 5 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Firstly, in shā’a Llāh, may Allāh accept it from those who entered i‘tikāf. May it be blessed, in shā’a Llāh. In shā’a Llāh, may it be for the good.
It is said, "Kullu ḥālin yazūl." Everything ends. It says nothing is everlasting. Nothing but Allāh is forever. Everything changes. Every state changes. Everything ends. This is the nature of dunyā. It says there is no need to be upset for dunyā. Be upset for Allāh Recognize this opportunity so you may benefit. You will not stay here forever. You will stay for a short time. You should spend it living according to the will of Allāh. Youth goes away, health goes away, and beauty goes away. They are all part of this state. This state starts from infancy – childhood, youth, maturity, then lastly old age. Then a person is completely taken from this world. He is sent back to where he came. Such is the nature of things. Everything happens bit by bit. What Allāh wills happens.
Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla made it this way for people to learn a lesson but those who learn the lesson are very few. They say time is the cure for all things. Thi
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sible that you were passing by it and without you noticing it tried to bite you. When you pass by again and let it bite you, you are a fool. Be alert. Be alert in everything. As we said, the most important thing is to be alert against cheaters who mess with our Ākhirah. In Sha Allah.
Beware we say for this, now we are living in time whole most of people they try to eat each other. There is, ya‘nī, the more than good people – bad people, crook people plenty. For this we are saying for our people, "Be careful to not be cheated." Now they have many kind of cheating people. Some of them they cheat by selling you something not useful. Some of them they take money for you and say they said we will do this for good for people. Some of them say, "You must pay this. If you don't pay government will catch you." Some of them even they send sometime telephone number – if you answer for this number they take your money. I don't know how they do this. Many time they come
people sending for us. Be careful it is full of crook now in this world.
You must be very careful but more important than this matter to not be cheated for Ākhirah. The biggest cheater – shayṭān. He said when Allāh throw him from Paradise, he said, "Give me permission until I will make cheat this people: "La-ughwiyannahum" (38:82). To Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, he said, "I will cheat them to bring them with me to Hell." And Allāh say, "If you cheat them, who follow you they will be with you." And he try very hard to until Qiyāmah not tiring, not... If another, if people they doing good thing they will tired but shayṭān never tired, all time active and he try to for this people. Many people they was cheated by him but if even they cheat and in the end they ask for forgiveness from Allāh Allāh forgive them. This is another matter.
But people they are cheated by shayṭān. Many of them they went out from way of belief. They are looking for way, searching for way for themself out of belief. Even believer also, who are Muslim, they also. The, this end of this time, the many of them cheated by this people also they not accepting to be respect for Prophet and for Awliyā’u Llāh, for Ṣaḥābah, for others and they are make this people to take less reward from Allāh and to fight between Muslim – "You are not Muslim. I will kill you. You are mushrik. I will kill you." Like this they are doing this. This is also this people is cheated by shayṭān, the most cheated people. This the worst one but there is many kind of people also they are not accepting Ṭarīqah or right way way of Prophet what he give us from Ḥadīth and Qur’ān and they are trying to, they say, "We are right. No need for praying, only you can make ṣuḥbah, you can to be together."
And many people they was cheated with this people. Who was cheated? This ignorant people? No they are not ignorant. They are most educated people. They finish university they finish. They have big position from their – this... They are seeing themself higher than other. They not happy to be with other. They are looking for something suitable for their ego and they are following this people and they will be punished. Because there are people using religion also for their pleasure, for their ego, to make their ego happy. They are using Ṭarīqah, they are using religion, they are using everything. We must be, we must be careful. This is what we saying. Many people cheating people and people, if they are happy giving them for their ego something, they are happy and they thought it will be save them. It will not save them. It will be punished in Ākhirah. And if they said, "This people cheat us." Allāh will say, "I give you mind. Nobody can reach what you are study when you finish, you are very clever. And you was cheated by ignorant people. This is cheater so you are, you must be punished."
You must be careful. Most important to not be cheated by for Ākhirah. For dunyā maybe they take your money, they take your property. They may take your car. They take everything, still you are alive, you have belief and in the Ākhirah you will be safe. But if they take your belief in Ākhirah what you will do? This is most important and we see in our island here the most people cheated by this. But what we will do? They are proud: "We are this, we are that." But they will be regret when they go to Ākhirah. Allāh save our belief from crook people the most dangerous people, crook people. They like... Prophet say, "They are like snake." Prophet he said, "O believer don't be bite twice from same hole." "Lā yuldaghu l-mu’minu min jaḥri l-marratayn." Believer he must be awake, not to be bitten every time through this stupid... "We can every time we can cheat him, we can ride on him, we can do this and that." No you be careful.
You be, when you see this people look first. If they are because way of Mawlānā, way of Prophet – way of mercy and softness and help people and to be good with people, not harm people at all, not cheat people. If they are like this, you can follow. If they are, they don't have any mercy, they don't have any good, only looking for their benefit. Run away from them because they are not right. Allāh save us from this people and save believer from them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
93.FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT WAY Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
It says life is a struggle. Struggle. So life is struggle. With who? There are two things in this world. Fight. Life means a fight. Our fight is with shayṭān and shayṭān's fight is with us. They call it the struggle of the masses. A guy wrote a book called "My Struggle". So this is how it is. There is a struggle. There is a fight. However, the real fight and struggle is between truth and falsehood. You should always be on the side of truth. Don't fight with truth. Don't struggle against truth. Let your fight and your struggle be against falsehood. Do not be with falsehood. If you are with falsehood you are ruined. Your fight will be for nothing and your suffering will be for nothing.
This life is short. The path is clear, but still, as we said, people are doing the opposite. They do evil instead of doing good. Instead of being with good people, they are with bad people. They attempt to help people who are not in need. They do not help people who are in need. So everything they do is for nothing. They found an institution, an establishment – at first you think it is good. It looks like it was founded to do good. Then you see that it is the worst, it is the most awful, the most useless. Why? Because it is not with truth. If it were with truth, it would continue on the path of truth and be fine. However, because it is not with truth it immediately unmasks itself. It is evident that it is bad, because it is fighting with truth, it has animosity towards truth. It does not like truth.
Truth is clear. Our path is clear. The means is clear. That is why our Holy Prophet says this path is the path of truth. He said that those who are off this path are the innovators. Now they understand innovation, bid‘ah, differently. Those who are on our Holy Prophet's path are not the bid‘ah. Those who do not follow our Holy Prophet they are on bid‘ah. They have gone off the path, and bid‘ah leads to Hell. May Allāh protect us. May we be with Allāh and truth, In Sha Allah. May we be advocates of truth. May we be defenders of truth, In Sha Allah. May we not be with falsehood. May we not be with shayṭān, In Sha Allah. This in human being or people every time they saying, "Our life fighting. From morning until death, struggle and to try to fight to survive." But there is two kinds of struggle. You must struggle for Allāh. There is two, only two: one for right and one for not right, bad. One with Allāh – this we must try to keep us in this way.
Other one shayṭān – not-truth. There are many books they write for this, like one he write "Mein Kampf". Other write people struggle – this thousand of books they write about this subject but all of them they are fight against way of right way, way of Allāh. All they are with shayṭān and they try to make a new way for themself away from way of Allāh.
Allāh show us good thing, good way. You must try, struggle to hold this way. Don't let other, who attacking you, to take you from this way. Be strong. Hold this way. From beginning of your life until end, you are in war with shayṭān, with ego, with their army. You see sometimes... from beginning you thought it is very good – they will be good for nature, for human being, for other. Some people they are coming cheating people like this. But later you find this people they are the worst. They are worse than the others also. Every new thing coming, coming worse and worse because they are not with right. They are with not-right, with shayṭān and bad way, against Allāh. But they are quickly, people they know them.
But people they are happy with this people who because they are giving their ego what they like. You can do everything you like, they said. No anything against you. You are completely free. You can do everything. But this is way of Allāh. Everything – not everything you can... You must keep your ego, not give all freedom for your ego. If you give freedom for your ego you will be under control of your ego, you will be not free. So we are fighting against this – our ego, our shayṭān, and the way of shayṭān.
We are following way of Prophet and it is the safe for us, save us from every badness. And it is way of Prophet, to love Prophet. If you love him you will be safe and this is what Prophet saying: don't follow bid‘ah. Bid‘ah – some people they use it to make people run away from, to make people run away from good, the way of Allāh. Take them to other way. But bid‘ah – what they are doing bid‘ah. And bid‘ah [is] not accepting Prophet and his love. So we must love Prophet and accept him and accept what he said to be safe, to be strong against shayṭān and his followers. Allāh keep us safe from them, In Sha Allah, to give us power to be more stronger and stronger, to fight against them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
94.TARAWIH IS A STRONG SUNNAH Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
In order to be closer to Allāh, apart from farḍ prayers, there are prayers we call nafl sunnah. We have to pay attention to them. There is sunnah mu’akkadah of our Prophet. None of us can pray as much as our Prophet did. He prayed all night long. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla said to him, "This is too much. Those who are with you can pray less." To do sunnah is a sign of our love for our Prophet, a sign of following him. The Prophet tells us good things. Therefore, we should pay attention to nafl sunnah and sunnah mu’akkadah and not skip them. Don't underestimate them. They are complete goodness. The more you do, the closer you are to Allāh and the Prophet. This is the smallest benefit, it has even greater benefits.
But the less people want to do it, the more shayṭān is trying to keep them away from doing it. Because, shukr to Allāh, they used to keep the sunnah in the Ottoman lands the most. They are divided into many countries now. And after they separated, no importance was given to the sunnah. And people who keep sunnah are not received well. People say, "It's unnecessary."
We are in Ramaḍān now. The most important sunnah is the prayer we make at night. Our Prophet says: "Ṣūmū yawmahā wa qūmū laylahā." "Fast during the day and get up to pray at night." And that prayer was shown by our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. He led the Tarāwīḥ prayer. When he made it the first night, people were so happy by its manifestation. And more people came on the second night. Our Prophet led the prayer the second night too. Some people are saying now that Tarāwīḥ is not sunnah. They say our Prophet didn't do Tarāwīḥ. It is sunnah. Moreover, it is sunnah mu’akkadah. He didn't lead it on the third night so that it didn't become like farḍ. He prayed it at home. He didn't skip it after that because it is such a strong sunnah that it should be done. It would become like farḍ. Therefore, our Prophet said, "You can't carry it. That's why, I leave it as sunnah." Now we pray it twenty raka‘āt. And people... Shukr to Allāh, as we said, during the Ottoman time from the time of our Prophet all khulafā’ made it twenty raka‘āt – twenty- three raka‘āt: twenty raka‘āt sunnah and three raka‘āt witr wājib – not just twenty raka‘āt but twenty-three raka‘āt. As we said, in the Ottoman lands they prayed twenty-three raka‘āt. After that, they were praying twenty raka‘āt, but
some fitnah occurred saying that eight raka‘āt is enough. They always prayed twenty raka‘āt on Anatolian land. They didn't pray eight raka‘āt and leave. But in other places the imām completed twenty raka‘āt, but after eight raka‘āt, only one line remained behind him. The rest of the people would leave after the eight raka‘āt were completed. What is this? It is just laziness, laziness to carry out Allāh orders. A lazy person should feel embarrassed in front of our Prophet.
It became even worse afterwards. Imāms looked around and said, "Why are we praying twenty raka‘āt when everyone else is praying eight raka‘āt?" And they pray eight raka‘āt now. What is that if not bid‘ah? This is the real bid‘ah. They call sunnah, bid‘ah after that. They call mustaḥabb and good things – bid‘ah. Whereas, bid‘ah is to cut short the sunnah mu’akkadah of our Prophet and make it eight raka‘āt. And when it was twenty raka‘āt, people prayed eight raka‘āt. When they made it eight raka‘āt, people stopped doing it at all. "It is sunnah. We don't pray Ẓuhr sunnah or Maghrib sunnah anyway. Farḍ is enough," they say. As we said, shayṭān is managing them well. He is giving his fatwá and cheating people.
We should pay attention and not ignore sunnah. Sunnah is a gift of our Prophet to us. Its benefits cannot be bought with money or exchanged for something else. Only you do and get. Our Prophet has come as a mercy for us, not as an oppression. Don't say, "I pray and get tired." That prayer is for your benefit. Allāh's Mercy comes down on you. You become the closest to Allāh at that time. The blessings of our Prophet come down on you. The more you can pray, the better for you, especially sunnah mu’akkadah, the sunnah of our Prophet. And the most important among them is Tarāwīḥ.
Normally, of the daily sunnah before farḍ, the sunnah of Fajr prayer is the strongest. That is such sunnah mu’akkadah that it is like wājib. Then come the first and last sunnah of Ẓuhr prayer. The sunnah of ‘Aṣr – though they are not as powerful, they are sunnah too. Most are skipping them. Even our hojjas made it a tradition not to give importance to sunnah. Who is hojja and doesn't give importance to sunnah, his sins count as double because he is an example for people. When he neglects and doesn't care, other people see it. It becomes a reason for them to miss this benefit. Repeating it, as we said, they become like others. They will do no sunnah. They shortened Tarāwīḥ to eight raka‘āt. Let's see when they remove it. Because every day ignorant bad scholars are saying, "This is not sunnah, that is not sunnah."
May Allāh protect us. May Allāh not separate us from this sunnah, In Sha Allah. May we not be separated from the way of our Prophet and his intercession, In Sha Allah. Who follow his sunnah doesn't miss his intercession. Who don't do his sunnah won't be able to face our Prophet from their embarrassment on the Day of Resurrection. We are, al- ḥamdu liLlāh, in time, holy time, holy month Ramaḍān and to be more near – our aim to be more near to our Lord and to Prophet. And the way for this, to make the order – pray
five times, to fast, and after this to make nawāfil, nafl – meaning to pray what it is not obligatory – praying, praying of sunnah. Obligatory one you pray in time. Fajr you pray two rak‘at in Fajr, four rak‘at for Ẓuhr, four rak‘at for ‘Aṣr, three for Maghrib, four for ‘Ishā’. This is obligatory. After this sunnah – sunnah mu’akkada it is for Fajr the most stronger one. This you must not lose it at all. For Ẓuhr – before, after. ‘Aṣr also sunnah. For Maghrib two raka‘āt after Maghrib. For ‘Ishā’ two of four raka‘āt before, two raka‘āt after but we make it four – for Ẓuhr also.
This is sunnah with praying time and this is make you come closer to your Lord. But there is also, especially for this sunnah, if you lose farḍ you can make it again but for sunnah you cannot make. If you not make Ẓuhr sunnah you cannot make next day, or ‘Aṣr you cannot make next day. "I could only pray farḍ. I will make sunnah now, make qaḍā’ for sunnah." No qaḍā’ for sunnah. And time of Ottoman Empire they was all praying with sunnah, with tasbīḥ – doing every thing what Prophet. Whole scholar, whole imām, they have chosen and well educated to show people and people it was very normal to do this. If you didn't, you didn't do this, they will be looking for you – "What this man is doing?" And especially for Tarāwīḥ.
Nowadays this bad scholar – there is good scholar and bad scholar Prophet saying. Bad scholar they are saying Tarawīḥ not sunnah. No it is sunnah and Prophet was praying this – and strong sunnah not like nafl. There is nafl very but Tarawīḥ it is strong sunnah. And Prophet he was praying twenty raka‘āt. One night in Ramaḍān, because Ramaḍān pray, fasting, become after Hijrah making obligatory and Tarawīḥ also coming with this. So Prophet saying for people, "O people in Ramaḍān fast day, daytime and wake up to pray nighttime." And what praying? This Tarawīḥ is most important for the... So Prophet he went to his mosque and pray twenty raka‘āt and three raka‘āt with Witr Wājib first day and it was very blessed. Every time blessed but this it was more. People was very happy with this.
Next day also Prophet praying twenty raka‘āt but this time people coming maybe five times more people when hearing about this and they are coming to pray jamā‘ah (together) with Prophet. Third day he didn't go out and they ask. He said, "It is sunnah but if didn't pray in mosque. He I pray every day it will be obligatory farḍ." So for this he pray in his house. So it is strong sunnah and all Khulafā’u r-Rāshidīn they was praying. They did twenty-three raka‘āt with Witr. And all Sayyidinā Imām Mālik, Imām Abu Ḥanīfa Imām Shāfi‘ī – all they was praying twenty raka‘āt. Until day, after Ottoman, people after Ottoman... Alhamdulilah in Anatolia still they praying twenty raka‘āt. But other countries, first they said, "It is okay. It is not sunnah but we pray." And they spread around people it was eight raka‘āt but this people they make it twenty. So was Imām was praying in mosque twenty raka‘āt and when coming to eight, maybe full of mosque all people running away, only one line left. Imām continue for twenty raka‘āt but still spread like this. And after this now we hear Imām also looking, "What is this all this?
Am I crazy to pray twenty raka‘āt this people all praying eight? So I can also pray eight. It's enough because all jamā‘ah saying eight, it must be eight." Now whole countries they praying eight raka‘āt outside of Anatolia. And this is they said about bid‘ah. "For what we make for sunnah, for following Prophet?" They saying, "Sunnah bid‘ah." Bid‘ah it is what they doing. They make sunnah to from twenty to eight and now what second stage they saying Tarawīḥ it is not sunnah – they [Tarawīḥ] are coming in time of Sayyidinā ‘Umar ibnu l-Khaṭṭāb. Maybe after some years they will take it out because bid‘ah from Sayyidinā ‘Umar ibnu l-Khaṭṭāb and they will be enough for them to pray ‘Ishā’ and enjoying drinking, nargile, shīsha, going around nighttime drinking, eating. It is not as Prophet saying, you fast daytime and wake up nighttime. They doing this: all day they are fasting sleeping. Whole night awake around. After when Fajr time coming, they sleeping until Maghrib and wake up for ifṭār and no need for Tarawīḥ. This is the religion of Ahli l-Bid‘ah. Subḥāna Llāh what we are? We come to days the Prophet saying, "Nothing left from Islām only the name." This is days. But it is not important for us, everybody... Saying in Qur’ān – also they will be ask for them what they are doing. And who do sunnah and become closer for Prophet, Prophet he will make shafā‘ah for him in Ākhirah. But who are not doing this, when they are going cannot be in front of Prophet from – they will ashame and they will melt from what they do from in dunyā: not following, only following their ego, following their laziness. This is real laziness. It is from shayṭān. ‘Uluwwu l-himmah mina l-īmān – it to be not lazy from īmān but to be lazy from shayṭān.
Allah help us. Allāh make us to follow Prophet for everything like he done. We, in shā’a Llāh, we intention to do like him. Allāh accept our intention.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
95.ALLAH IS THE GUARANTOR OF PROVISION Saturday, 2 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Allāh created us so we may be His servants as a duty. He created us as servants. He is the guarantor of our sustenance : “Your sustenance is with Me. You do your servanthood. Obey Me. Turn to Me. Let your hearts be with Me," says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Allāh is the guarantor of your sustenance and livelihood. He will send it to you. Some of us become farmers, some become shepherds, some become doctors, and some become drivers. Allāh has shown everyone a way for their livelihood. We should not forget Allah for that. He sends you your sustenance. Sustenance comes from Allāh. Allāh makes you work and He gave you a specialty accordingly. Your sustenance will come like that.
You should not run after sustenance and work and forget Allāh: "We are working. We cannot pray. Because we are working we are getting tired." It cannot be. That work of yours is to strengthen your body so you may worship Allāh anyway. Not for work. Work is not the goal. It is the means. The real goal is Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. "We cannot fast. We are working." That is not all right either. Your fasting is worth your whole lifetime. The lifetime that passes without ever fasting is not worth five pennies. The lifetime that passes without prayer is also not worth a penny. What is important, as we said, is that Allāh grants the work for you. The man might be a professor, but he is unable to do the work you do. Allāh gave that specialty to you. You will do that job and earn money from it. He gave the other one another talent. He will do that. He will also earn his money and sustenance.
Sustenance can be permissible or forbidden. The permissible is of course the one that is for Allāh, and the forbidden is the one that does not have Allāh's consent. Therefore, we need to be careful. We did not come to the world for dunyā. We came for Allāh. That is our real goal. We should not forget Allāh for dunyā. We need to always remember Allāh and make dhikr for Him. He should never leave our heart. It might not be through our tongue, but He should be in our heart. His being in our heart occurs with the worship we do with our limbs. The one who has nothing in his heart has no worship and no thought. He considers himself from the four-legged class and roams around. As we said, he dies with an empty life, a useless life, and a worthless life. Whereas, if he had a little
bit of love for Allāh, it would add value to his life and it would be worthy. You are worthy with Allāh.
When you are not with Allāh, your position can rise as much as you like, and you might think you are something, but you have no value. Your value in the end is you will be thrown in a hole and you will rot there and be gone. That is your value and there is nothing else. However, those who are with Allāh are worthy. They will be treated with respect and honor in the sight of Allāh. Due to the good they have done, Allāh grants them paradise, and grants them the highest stations. However, as we said, this life might change in an instant if you repent and ask for forgiveness. Allāh accepts your repentance. He replaces the sins with good deeds. So we should not despair from Allāh.
Therefore, let us not forget Allāh, In Sha Allah. May Allāh always be in our heart.
We are, Alhamdulilah, we are living in this life and this life it is, Allāh give us for remembering Him, to worshipping Him, to do what He like to do. Our main aim - pleasure of Allāh, to He be pleasure with us. This is our first thing. But we are in this life. Allāh create us to worship Him and He is guarantor for our provision, rizq, provision. Our provision from Allāh so we must not be running away from Allāh after provision.
With provision Allāh He guarantee for us. Everybody, everyone [He] give him special, speciality to get his provision. Some of them farmer, some of them doctor, some of them driver, some of them engineer, some of them cleaner. There is thousands of jobs and Allāh give this people from this job their provision. Who like follow and asking from Allāh. Allāh He guarantor with provision. He give him from His ḥalāl, clean money to continue his life and to continue worshiping for Allāh - fasting , doing everything good from Allah be happy with this. But if other people they are saying, "Oh you pray?" "No I have work I cannot pray because I'm working." "Do you fast?" "No I cannot fast because I also I have work. How can I fast in this hot weather? I cannot because I'm working." But here the main aim not work. This people they are not thinking.
They are thought they are coming for this life for working or for eating, drinking, like animal. Animal also only they are whole time doing same thing - not praying, not fasting. All time they are, Allāh create them like this, for this purpose. But our human being Allāh create them for purpose of to be worshipping Him. This is main aim and people not caring about this, only they are tiring themself and make difficulty from, for themself running after dunyā, after provision. And they are, they are not looking for provision it is clean or not clean. Ḥalāl, ḥarām they not looking at all. Just they want money they can, how they can bring, and this is not good and Allāh not happy with this. Allāh happy with people who depend on Him and saying, "We everything coming from Allāh. We want from Allah And Allah He will be happy with them.
Other people difficult for them but also Allāh accept to from people to be ask forgiveness from Him. If they asking and they whole life they are doing bad thing, Allāh accept and change this to good - rewarding them. Allāh He is the most Merciful. He is giving for provision for everybody - for believer and nonbeliever because this dunyā, this world or this universe it is not, don't have any value in divinely presence of Allāh. For this He is giving for believer and nonbeliever and this is also we must try to imitate our Lord to not give any value for dunyā. Only for Ākhirah it is important because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying, "If this world, universe, world it has any value like mosquito wing, I will never give one drop water for nonbeliever. But it is no, not impo... not... No value for this. So for this I'm giving this people provision and giving everything."
So be careful. Don't be give value for this dunyā. Give value for our Lord happiness. If He is happy with us, we are happy, In Sha Allah. Allāh give, make Him, Allāh all time, In Sha Allah, He be happy with us, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
96.I’TIKAAF: A GIFT FROM ALLAH Sunday, 3 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We are nearing the end of Ramaḍān meaning the 20th. In Sha Allah there is I‘tikāf in these ten days, the last ten days of Ramaḍān. Those who wish can do it. This was a worship always done by our Holy Prophet. He would do more worshipping when it was Ramaḍān. When it was the last ten days, he would stay in the mosque, and not go outside the mosque. This is called I‘tikāf. I‘tikāf is the sunnah of our Holy Prophet. In fact, it is said that it is farḍ kifāyah, meaning if nobody does it, all people will be accountable as having not done what is obligatory. When one person does it, it will be dropped from the others. However, doing I‘tikāf has a huge reward. Our Holy Prophet says the one who does I‘tikāf gets the reward of two Ḥajj and two ‘Umrah. I‘tikāf can be done anytime of course. For example, when you enter the mosque you can say, "Nawaytu sunnata l- I‘tikāf," and it is counted as I‘tikāf. Again, if you worship between Maghrib and ‘Ishā’ and do not talk of worldly things with anybody, that is also considered I‘tikāf. For this Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla builds you a palace says our Holy Prophet, for those who do I‘tikāf between Maghrib and ‘Ishā’.
So I‘tikāf is of all kinds. The best that can be done, the most beneficial is the I‘tikāf done in the last ten days of Ramaḍān. It is open for men and women. Men cannot do it at home, it has to be in the mosque. It has to be a mosque where the five prayers are led for i‘tikāf to be done there. It cannot be done in a mosque that does not do all the prayers and does not call the adhān. The five daily prayers should be prayed with the adhān. It is done at home for the ladies. They arrange a place in their home and reserve it. They make the intention there and make I‘tikāf. When the tenth day starts, you enter, saying you make intention for I‘tikāf. The person does the I‘tikāf, and what is to be done, what can they eat and drink? I‘tikāf is not like khalwah, a person can eat whatever he wants. Of course when fasting he eats at ifṭār and at saḥūr. The practices he does of course, when he is sitting there: tasbīḥāt, Qur’ān, Dalā’il al- Khayrāt and if there are other things to be read, the person can read them. They cannot deal with other, worldly matters. Remembering Allāh, making dhikr of Allāh, talking about the hereafter, loving our Holy Prophet and making ṣalawāt on him. That is I‘tikāf. A person should do as much worship as possible. Even if they cannot do it, if they only say they are in I‘tikāf and sit in the mosque, Allāh will still write those rewards for them. There is a reward of two Ḥajj and two ‘Umrah.
That is also all right. The more they do the better they will come out. May Allāh bless it. May Allāh also help those who do it. May Allāh accept it, In Sha Allah. It is a beautiful, a very beautiful worship. In Sha Allah, may it be good for those who do it. May it be good for the Ummah too. May it be strength for Muslims, In Sha Allah.
Nearly we are coming to third part of Ramaḍān. The last ten days it is important for this days because Prophet, when Ramaḍān coming, he make more worshipping, more praying and most of time in mosque. But when coming to end of Ramaḍān, ten days before end, he order his mattress put to be ten days in mosque Masjid an-Nabawī. Not going out for his house or for only for wuḍū’ but for other thing no. Ten days he staying, day and night, in mosque Masjid an-Nabawī. And many his wife also they was, raḍī Allāhu ‘anhum, making. Some of them in house, some of them in mosque. That time it was okay but only for old ladies it was but now no need because no place for ladies. And Prophet saying who make I‘tikāf Allāh reward him as he make two Ḥajj and two ‘Umrah this ten days. Allāh reward them and it is Sunnah Mu’akkadah because Prophet was doing this and when once he couldn’t do, he make it next year twenty days in Ramaḍān because he couldn't do one in ten days. So it is for Ummah also Sunnah Mu’akkadah. Sunnah but it is Farḍ al-Kifāyah meaning obligatory for everybody but if somebody doing, other people they are not responsible. If nobody doing this, everybody will be responsible and as [if] they left obligatory worshipping. But, Alhamdulilah, many people they are doing and it is real blessed one – I‘tikāf.
I‘tikāf most important in Ramaḍān, ten days of Ramaḍān but outside of Ramaḍān also. When you going to mosque, you can say, "I intention to make Sunnah I‘tikāf." When go to mosque or between Maghrib and ‘Ishā’ you can also make I‘tikāf. And Prophet reading Qur’ān, making tasbīḥ, praying. Prophet saying who do this, Allāh He build for him one palace in Paradise. And I‘tikāf it must be in mosque for man – mosque who five time they can pray inside. No I‘tikāf outside of mosque for man. For ladies, for woman in their house or where they can find place away from, to be private. And they can do ten days in their house. And it is real gift from Allāh for Ummah to make more bless coming for Ummah for who are following this and the neighbours and family. Allāh give from His bless spiritually and material also. Allāh help people who are doing this and to help Muslim from this, to give, Allāh, more power for Islām, for Muslim, and to help us to be safe from every badness, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
97.THE SHORTEST WAY TO PARADISE Monday, 4 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Enemies of Islām are many now. There are many who want Islām to be destroyed but Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, since Islām is Allāh's religion, Allāh protects it. One man of His is worth a thousand people. The Awliyā’ of Allāh are many. The Awliyā’ of Allāh are those who show His path, His beautiful path. Some are known and some are unknown and some are known until the Day of Judgment. One of them is the person they dislike the most in these days, a person they attack. He is the person who shows Islām, the path of truth, until Judgment Day. Many bad ideas emerged after the second century of Islām to lead people astray – the Mu‘tazilah and Dahrī – and others. Things and groups you could not imagine emerged. Most of them lead people to ruin. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla showed us this situation and the right path until the Day of Judgment, through one person. And that is Ḥaḍrat Al-Imāmu l-A‘ẓam Abū Ḥanīfah.
That is why he is the one being attacked most now. However, all the ‘Ulamā’ and Awliyā’ are among those who follow the beautiful way of his. This way did not create a new way. It showed the way of our Holy Prophet. He taught that knowledge and wrote books. So the books that Ḥaḍrat Al-Imāmu l-A‘ẓam wrote, a person would not be able to write in 300 years if he tried now. People did not live so long in the past. He passed away between the ages of 50 and 60. He left so many books and so much knowledge that it will suffice until Judgment Day. He showed the knowledge and the truth of our Holy Prophet.
All of the Awliyā’ are people who are on this path. There are no Awliyā’ outside of this path because how can one be a Walī when one is not on the true path? Can a Walī come from shayṭān's path or a munāfiq's path? No. This path is the path of the Awliyā’. Following it is good for everybody. This what everybody needs. They should not deviate from this path. Whoever says bad words against people like this, they are certainly friends of shayṭān. They are buddies with shayṭān. As we said, lately wherever there is something right, they start attacking it little by little, little by little. In the end, they are directly attacking Ḥaḍrat Al- Imāmu l-A‘ẓam. Once they attack him, it means none of the Ahlu s-Sunnah who follow the sunnah of our Holy Prophet are on the right path. This would cause – Allāh forbid – them to fall victim to Allāh's wrath, these people who talk
badly about him, who do not respect him, and who do not like him. So they are off the path.
Wherever there are Awliyā’, in the East, West, North, and South, they are certainly people of this path. They do not arrive on any other path. They have neither come from those who do not like the Ahlu l-Bayt of our Holy Prophet, nor from those who do not like the Ṣaḥābah. The Awliyā’ are those who, first of all, accept Allāh and our Holy Prophet. Then, according to their levels, accept the Rightly Guided Caliphs – Abū Bakr, ‘Umar, ‘Uthmān, and Haḍrat ‘Alī. The Awliyā’ come from among those who accept them. They have not come from others.
So this is it in short. We are on the true path. We need to defend the truth. Whoever opens his mouth, we need to warn them to mind their manners. Unfortunately, they are coming here and there claiming to be teaching religion. However, thanks to Allāh there are not many who listen to them. They, however, listen to themselves and they get misguided and ruin themselves. If a few people join him their sins are his responsibility. Allāh forbid. May Allāh make us firm footed on this path, In Sha Allah.
This is a beautiful path. This is a straight path. It comes from the Prophet and reaches a beautiful place. It reaches Paradise Allāh willing. There is no deviating right, no deviating left, and no stopping on the road. The others, since they say Lā ilāha illā Llāh Muḥammadun Rasūlu Llāh, even if they are on a crooked way, as long as they do not enter unbelief, in the end Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla will let them reach the road we reach – but after suffering and sometimes thousands and hundreds of thousands of years later. However, even if they reach it, they cannot reach the same high stations. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla will place them in a corner of Paradise. However, they will be sorry: "Why did we suffer so much pain waiting for hundreds of years and thousands of years at the Resurrection. We were thrown in Hell in order to be cleansed of the sins we committed." Whereas, while we have this beautiful path, there is no need for those things, to suffer pain.
May Allāh make us firm footed on the right path, In Sha Allah.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He has beloved ones and this beloved ones even they are sometimes you cannot see them but it is enough for to destroy the not good one. And one of them, he is the greatest one, we are saying about one Awliyā’u Llāh. There is Awliyā’u Llāh, many kind of Awliyā’u Llāh. Some of them you cannot see them at all. Some of them you see them with people. But this one he is, Allāh give him knowledge to save religion from bad people. Because after second century of Prophet Sayyidinā Muḥammad ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam he said, "The best generation, my companions until Khulafā’u r-Rāshidūn. After first century, second century, and after second century it will be the only until that. After it will be fitnah." And it was real like this. The beginning Khawārij,
Mu‘tazilah, Dahrī – this many kind of people giving idea for people to be away from belief, to be non-believer, or to do what their ego like to do. And it was like this , Awliyā’u Llāh, Allāh He give him power , inspiration to collect what Prophet, real Islām it was. And he is Abū Ḥanīfah Al-Imāmu l-A‘ẓam – meaning greatest imām. He is, he has, Allāh give him knowledge. This knowledge coming from Prophet. What Prophet give for Ummah, he collect this. Not bring a new thing. No. He like to give people what real Islām it was since Prophet and to show people. And, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, he was succeed and he was real Imām A‘ẓam. The greatest Imām because every, all other people, scholar from who following Prophet, they was taking from him.
Until Qiyāmah he has books. He has from his students, from other imāms also, all taking from him. And it was light for Ummah. When somebody coming and saying something, "This is not from Sharī‘ah," he said "Look Imām A‘ẓam. He know better than you." And he give proof and give everything very strong so no need for you to do this. For this nowadays the most enemy for this people, the people who are claiming they are Muslim and they are not real Muslim. The biggest enemy for them – this Awliyā’u Llāh, Sayyidinā Imāmu l-A‘ẓam Abū Ḥanīfah because he showing everything. And subḥāna Llāh from you cannot find one from Awliyā’u Llāh outside of this line, this line of Prophet, coming through from Prophet and Abū Ḥanīfah Until Qiyāmah only this line, the Awliyā’u Llāh coming from this line . You cannot find at all, outside this line, one of Awliyā’u Llāh – all because they are following the right path, the best way. No any coming – here, here. Straight, straight and safe. And this way take to the shortest way and safest way and the best way to take you to Paradise.
There is another way also, many way. You can go long, long way. Maybe hundred thousand years you waiting in Maḥshar; you going to Hell first to clean yourself, and after you can come to Paradise. Because Allāh saying who said lā ilāha illā Llāh Muḥammadun Rasūlu Llāh at the, after he clean from his sins, he will come to Paradise. But even in Paradise also you will not be in high position like this people who following this good way, nice way. But other people they are trying, they are envious. They said, "No. This is not good. He has this, he has that." And it is impossible to reach his knowledge, to reach his aware from ḥarām, and to afraid from Allāh to say anything wrong. Even he said, "Sometimes you saying," for his student, "if you know the best you can tell me. Don't be silent. Be speak what you, if I'm, if am I wrong. You can tell because it is important. We are not playing. This very important thing." And they was, many times, correcting until giving us this nice, very good, very nice way.
So we must be following him. And who are enemy for him, you must know they are friend of shayṭān. And enemy can be harm you. If you follow them, take you to long, long way, to bad way, to miserable way. And when you have shortcut and this very nice, very quick way and the end you find yourself in the best place. You must quickly follow this way. Don't follow other. This is all our Mashāyikh following this way. All Awliyā’u
Llāh from whole Ṭarīqah, they are also in this way. Also Allāh make us to be hold this way strongly and to be with them. We love them. Because when you love them, you must be with them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
98.KULLU HALIN YAZUL Tuesday, 5 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Firstly, in shā’a Llāh, may Allāh accept it from those who entered i‘tikāf. May it be blessed, in shā’a Llāh. In shā’a Llāh, may it be for the good.
It is said, "Kullu ḥālin yazūl." Everything ends. It says nothing is everlasting. Nothing but Allāh is forever. Everything changes. Every state changes. Everything ends. This is the nature of dunyā. It says there is no need to be upset for dunyā. Be upset for Allāh Recognize this opportunity so you may benefit. You will not stay here forever. You will stay for a short time. You should spend it living according to the will of Allāh. Youth goes away, health goes away, and beauty goes away. They are all part of this state. This state starts from infancy – childhood, youth, maturity, then lastly old age. Then a person is completely taken from this world. He is sent back to where he came. Such is the nature of things. Everything happens bit by bit. What Allāh wills happens.
Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla made it this way for people to learn a lesson but those who learn the lesson are very few. They say time is the cure for all things. Thi
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