Suhbah 2018: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (14/25)
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s means if there is distress or this or that, its cure is time. You see that it was very hard in the past, and you tell yourself to wait a little more. It is still hard. Later the person gradually gets used to it. Then they just manage it and keep going. So time is the cure for everything, for the painful and the good. That is why Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla created mankind to be able to withstand this life. "Can I withstand it or not?" Allāh gave everybody a separate strength to be able to endure. Some people are called troubled. They spend their whole life in trouble and calamity and still get along. You think, "Anyone else wouldn't be able to stand it." But Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave them the strength to withstand. He makes them able to live in that state. Others have some different states.
As we said, there are lots of states but they are all transient, meaning they do not last. This is the nature of the world, it comes and goes. Therefore, there is no need to be too sorrowful for dunyā. No need to get distressed either. Let us be relieved, in shā’a Llāh. Let us be contented with the command of Allāh. We need to be content because it comes from Allāh, so that we may earn His pleasure when He says, "My servant is not complaining." We are happy with this state. May Allāh also be contented with us, in
shā’a Llāh. It remains the same even if you are not content, so being discontent is useless. Be pleased. You will earn its rewards, its good deeds. If you are not pleased you only continue in distress.
There is a saying "Kullu ḥālin yazūl" – everything, we, in this life it's not forever. Changing from, it is changing. Our life whole time changing – beginning from childhood, young, after we go old and very old. Like this our life it is also every time, every day, changing. Only Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla not changing. This life, it is Allāh create this for human being, for other also, to change. Every time new thing. Every minute different from other minute. Your shape also becoming different. Nothing going for continuous in this life forever. Forever in next life but in this life it is changing.
So we must be accept this because not, it is not from ourself – from our Creator. He create us and testing us if we are accepting or not accepting. If we accepting, Allāh He, we can, He will reward us. If not accepting, only you will be carrying this miserable life and nothing for you. But if we are accepting, Allāh reward you. And it is not easy. Some people they have more burden on themself. Allāh create everybody different from other. Some of them He give them more suffering, some of them give them less. Some of them give them long life, some short life. It is like this. All from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, from our Lord and He now, He do what He like to do. Not asking us what we, I will do. Only we are accepting and asking, praying to make us to be strong in belief.
If you have strong belief becoming more easier for you to carry this burden, this life. If not believe, it will be terrible for who don't have belief, it is real terrible. For this, many of them they are suicide. They are kill themself and said, "We are not, we don't want this." And, but they will be punished more than what they have. We are accepting what Allāh saying and not, no need to be sad for what happen. All, everything, one day it will be finish. And this day if – we must be prepare ourself to be going with happiness to ākhirah. If we have this, it is, we are win this life. If no, only what you win – this miserable life and nothing else.
This is all Prophets they teaching human being to be happy with their Lord. if you are happy with your Lord, you are happy in every time. Allāh help us and keep us in right way, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
99.THE WORD OF OUR LORD Wednesday, 6 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.
The Qur’ān is the closest tangible thing that shows Allāh's ‘Azza wa Jalla favour and His existence. The Qur’ān is Allāh's Word. It is His immemorial Word. He gave it as a gift to our Holy Prophet and to his Nation. There are Books of Allāh from before that as well: The Gospel, the Psalms, the Torah, and many more. There are those that came from Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām but they were all altered. They were all subject to alteration. Except for the Qur’ān they were all altered differently, as they liked because they learned no lesson from them. Anyway, when a new way and a new prophet came, the law of the previous prophet would be over. They would do their worship and works according to that one's law at the time.
Lastly, our Holy Prophet came. Because he is the last, Allāh left every goodness and everything for our Holy Prophet. And that is why the Qur’ān is the Qur’ān and it will remain without a letter being changed until the Day of Judgment, forever. Because it is the eternal Word of Allāh, a Word from pre-eternity. It remains as it is, meaning it does not end. The world will end. The Qur’ān is never-ending because it is the Word of Allāh Allāh's Word is lasting.
Allāh's ‘Azza wa Jalla existence is not like ours. The mind cannot grasp Him, His eternal Word is the same way, but somehow, it is in our hands through the grace of Allāh and we can read it every day. It is ash-shāfi‘, the intercessor. It is mushaffa‘, it is used for intercession. All kinds of goodness are in it. All knowledge is in it. Everything is in it. Its tafsīr and explanations have no end. It continues for eternity. That is why Allāh 'Azza wa Jalla gifted it in Ramaḍān to our Holy Prophet. It came down in this month.
Great benefits, true benefits, are granted to the person who respects and recites it. Of course one has to be in a state of ablution when reciting the Qur’ān. And one has to sit with respect and good manners; not lying down or like reading the newspaper when reading the Qur’ān. Respecting it for its honor is showing respect to Allāh. Glorifying the Qur’ān is glorifying Allāh because it is the Word of Allāh 'Azza wa Jalla. You need to show all kinds of honor when you recite it and when you hold it. It is from adab. It is from the sunnah. You see people who show it no honor at all, sitting themselves down
and reading the Qur’ān, placing it on the floor or lying down. So there are those who read it being too casual in every way, without respect. Their rewards are decreased because they are not showing respect. If they go further they could even commit sin. Allāh forbid.
How lucky we are for being from the Nation of Muhammad and reaching such great blessings. It is a great honor, a great favour from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. We need to know its value. We do not need to look at other small things. Shayṭān is jealous of the blessings in your hand and wants to deprive you of them. Be careful. Give this advice to others as well. The Qur’ān is healing, the Qur’ān is barakah, and the Qur’ān is all kinds of goodness. May Allāh make it lasting for us, In Sha Allah.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He send us one thing you are teaching, touching, teaching, touching, reading – the Word of our Lord Allāh. But we are the most... Some, many people say, "We cannot see Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla." You cannot see of course. As Mūsá (as) saying, "O my Lord, show me Yourself." "You cannot see," He said but He said, "Look for mountain." And from mountain he saw what happen to mountain. And whole this billions of people, if they are have good thinking, they will be happy day and night because they have Book from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla – His Word. Old, from eternal, it is old.
We not, it is only what we see in Qur’ān but it is here with you, the Word of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. You touching everyday. You can reading everyday this. This is a miracle of Allāh He give for Prophet and for his Ummah and it is, it kept as Allāh sent for Prophet Heavenly Books there is many heavenly Books from time of Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām until ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām – each prophet. There is prophet and messenger. The prophet – no message for them. They are reading other Book from other prophet. But messenger meaning Allāh send also Book for them. From Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām until Prophet there is three hundred thirteen Messengers, last one Prophet. And all before Prophet they are change, they who, from time to time people slowly, slowly they change them. And Allāh He was not saying, "We are keep this heavenly Books without changing." No. Is, it is normal to change it. But for Qur’ān He said, "Innā naḥnu nazzalna dh-dhikra wa innā lahu laḥāfiẓūn" (15:9). "We send this message for this Qur’ān and We are protect to not change any word from this Qur’ān."
This is wisdom to be miracle for Prophet and for to be proof for people who are asking, "Where is Lord? We want to see Him." We can see this His Word, pre-eternal Word in this Book and it is all good in this Book. When you read you can be blessed, you can be cured, you can be have any knowledge. Whole knowledge in this universe in this Book what we are touching and teaching and reading. Not outside, all this knowledge in this holy Book. We must be very happy with this Book. We are reading and Allāh give for each word, for each letter ten times, hundred times, thousand times, reward and it is
make us to for Qiyāmah to safe from hell. Shafā‘ah, giving shafā‘ah and it is also can be give shafā‘ah for other people also.
So we are very lucky for this and when we are reading Qur’ān, Alhamdulilah, most of who following Ṭarīqah, following way of Prophet, they reading very respectful – sitting and reading in good respect with wuḍū’, with trying to know what it is. But there is people not respecting. We see them they put Qur’ān in earth and they are sitting up looking, reading. Some of them lying down and reading Qur’ān like reading newspaper and looking for television. Some of them not taking care, any respect for this. So we must this, we will, we must be respectful very much for Qur’ān and try to take benefit.
Many of people who are not Arab they cannot understand Qur'an. What we will... There is shayṭān people they saying, "If you don't understand, you mustn't read Qur’ān." This is also trick from shayṭān because there is this people they cannot be, whole people scholar, ‘ālim, or educate to know because need many years to learn the what Arabic. But to read it is enough. For who are not knowing Arabic, only to read Qur’ān it is enough for them. Also Allāh maybe reward them more than this people who are they claiming they understand Qur’ān and they put Qur’ān in earth and looking sitting up.
So, Alhamdulilah, we are have this big favour from Allāh. We must be very happy for this. But shayṭān also they make people to not take care from Qur’ān and not be happy with what we have. Only looking for small thing in this world – "I have this. We don't have this. We are looking for that. He is saying this for me." Fighting between each other and forgetting what Allāh give us from favour. All time we must remember this. And this is month of Qur’ān also, Ramaḍān. In Ramaḍān Allāh send Qur’ān. Allāh make He it, make Qur’ān for us every good thing from His barakah Allāh give us, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
100.GOOD BEHAVIOUR IN ISLAM Saturday, 9 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.
Our Holy Prophet states, Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Innamā bu‘ithtu li’utammima makārimu l-akhlāq." "Allāh sent me to complete good manners, beautiful habits," says our Holy Prophet. It means the religion of Islam is the religion that has in it all beauties. It orders people to do good and prohibits doing bad. The most beautiful religion for people is the religion of Islam. It orders all goodness. It tells you to treat the one who harms you with kindness. It tells you not to do evil to the one who does evil. It tells you to do goodness to him too. Beat your ego. Do not be defeated by your ego. Those who are defeated by their ego do not have good behaviour. The ego's habit is evil. It orders evil.
There are many things our Holy Prophet orders. He loves generosity the most. "Allāh says He loves the generous," says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Allāh is Generous and He even loves the generous person who doesn't worship more than the worshipper who is stingy. This encourages a person to give. He tells us to give. Allāh will give you more in return. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla will give you ten times, a hundred times more in rewards. They ask: "To whom should we give and to whom should we not give?" Of course, the zakāh is a matter of zakāh. It is given to those in need among the people. It needs to be distributed to the poor. You also need to give from the zakāh to that person who collects the zakāh to distribute it. Other than that, you can give ṣadaqah to whoever you wish.
Our Holy Prophet tells you that if a person comes asking, even if he is riding a horse – meaning his situation looks good – he tells us to give him. Do not turn them away empty handed as much as you can. Of course what he wants could be... People do not have a limit in asking. When someone wants something, give to the best of your ability, says our Holy Prophet. Mawlānā Shaykh would do the same because his path is the path of our Holy Prophet. He would not turn anybody away empty handed. Of course he would not ask how much they wanted. Whatever they wanted, he would try and help as much as possible. Of course, this is a fine habit. It is not turning anyone away empty handed. You give as much as you can and if that one likes it, he likes it. If he does not like it, the responsibility will not be yours since you have obeyed the order. You will be rewarded as you have done what our Holy Prophet ordered.
Our Holy Prophet says again not to do something that is too much for you. If you give everything you have, then you will be in need of asking people, which is worse. Asking is very bad. Meaning it is not a good thing at all. Our Holy Prophet said it in his Ḥadīth too that anyone who is not in a difficult situation and has made it a habit to ask, it is a very bad thing for them. He says on the Day of Judgment the skin of their face will fall off. That is how embarrassed they will be due to their shame. Let us be the giving hand, In Sha Allah. May Allāh always make us the giving hand. May we not be the asking one, In Sha Allah. May Allāh adorn us all, In Sha Allah with this beautiful behaviour. It is an adornment.
Being generous is an adornment, but as we said, being generous and then, some people who have little intelligence, go and borrow money they don't have to do good. Well, you are going to borrow and this time you will not be able to pay it and you will be embarrassed in front of them. In addition to being embarrassed, you will commit sin since you took the money but cannot pay. As much as one can, however much Allāh has reserved for you, you can give from that. As we said, everything has a limit, a boundary. We need to know this. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Wa lā tabsuṭhā kulla l-basṭi fataq‘uda malūman maḥsūran" (17:29). Do not open your hand [give] all the way for then you will be sorry. You will not have money or anything left. Then you will wish you had not done it and commit more sin. Everything has a limit. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave you a mind, so accordingly do not waste and do not be too stingy either, He says.
Alhamdulilah we are, Prophet saying, "Allāh send me to complete good adab, to good behave, to complete good behave." Allāh send our Prophet so he was continuing this until he said, "Al-yawma akmaltu lakum dīnakum" (5:3), until He said, "I complete this good behave." Good behave whole Islām religion. Good behave what Prophet to teach people. Only teach them good thing and forbid them to do bad thing. And this is, what is better than this? Humans, they are looking here, there, up, down, searching for something. And Allāh send the most Beloved one for human being and he was suffering to teach them, to show them this good way. In Islām every good thing. In Islām nothing bad. What it is bad also, to forbid to do bad thing. Also in Islām showing what is this bad thing. They, Islām they said don't do this. If good, you must do this. If you do this, you make good thing for humanity, for whole creature, for human, for animal, for nature, for everything.
The smallest thing – you must be clean. Said Islām, even you take one stone from street and put beside. Allāh reward you. You take dirt from road, clean road, Allāh also reward you. But this "civilisation", we are seeing all around only dirt, plastic, and cans, and bottles. Plastic, everything they from this people they are claiming they are "civilisation" people. And they are not accepting Islām. Only to make this world be dirty materially and worse, dirty by spiritual dirt. They are have, because they are not accept this good
way, and making dirt. If you see what this dirt here you see in street, in seaside, everywhere, it is nothing compare this dirt what they have in this world.
And Prophet he say he was, Allāh also Generous. He like generous, generosity for people. He encourage people to be generous. One of them thing to what – when you give for zakāh, of course zakāh only you must look for poor people and you keep and there is who take can take zakāh distribute for people – also for him, he can take wages from zakāh. But other people – nothing for to build something, for school, mosque, anything – you cannot give for this. But if you give for poor man and he can do what he like for [with] zakāh after you give him. But he must be, not have enough money until maybe one hundred gram of gold less, he can be take. And this he can do what he like to do. Even he can give feast for rich people. But before you cannot give for anything. He can build for himself, he can do everything but not, we cannot give this.
There is place there is no enough money, so we can, "They building mosque, so we can give from this zakāh for mosque." You cannot do this. "They building school it is not finished yet. You can give from zakāh." No you cannot give from zakāh. This is for zakāh. But for ṣadaqah you can give what who like, because Prophet saying, "Who ask from you, you give him as much you can give. Even he come by horse." Because when he come by horse old time he is meaning rich. But he ask something, he ask, don't make him go back without taking anything. This is also good behaviour from Prophet.
Ṣadaqah you can give for every, anyone you like but not zakāh. But for ṣadaqah also, or for what you are giving, generosity very nice thing, but first you can give little bit and you look for your family. Don't say, "I'm very generous. I must be like Prophet" – running for to take loan from people and give for other people. After what will happen? It will be you cannot give back this loan so you will be in sin because you take from people and they will, cannot give [pay] back. No. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla give us mind and there is limit for everything. Allāh said don't be your hand tight and in āyah also – don't open. "Wa lā tabsuṭhā kulla l-basṭi fataq‘uda malūman maḥsūran" (17:29). Don't open your hand like this. After you will be regret, "Oh what I done? What I don't have anything. I'm poor man. I was, what I will do now? What happen? What we, why I done this?" Don't they say this. First you look for your family. Family it is most important for man. After, if anybody ask, you can give little bit, little bit. But don't let people going without taking anything. This is good behave from Islām.
And teaching people to be careful for everything. Especially advise to not take loan from bank. They are not, they don't have mercy. They are making people to... Say, we see many people they have take loan from bank and to give for poor people. This is Allāh not ordering this. Prophet not ordering this. If you have, you can give. Not take and give and after you be in bad condition. Because Allāh encourage us to give, to be giving-hand, not to ask. To ask it is very bad in Divinely Presence. Allāh, Prophet they don't like
people who asking. Even, in Qiyāmah he said the from face it will become all this meat down from ashaming what they done. It is very bad. Allāh make us to use our mind and to be giving-hand and help us to giving-hand, to not be need and take loan and to take anything from people. The best thing for this now, this days especially, to make your calculation – how you will live, how much you have, how much you take, how much you give – to not be in need to anybody, to ask from people, to ask from banks.
Allāh help us and give us from His endless treasure, In Sha Allah, to be not to be in need to anybody, In Sha Allah. For this sake of this holy days, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
101.THE END OF RAMADAN Sunday, 10 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.
These are the last days of Ramaḍān. Allāh willing, In Sha Allah, we will also reach Laylatu l-Qadr. Allāh knows best. This year it seemed as though it was yesterday night. However, our intention should again be for this night to worship and make du‘ā’ as if it were Laylatu l-Qadr, In Sha Allah. It also serves as a reminder that the end of Ramaḍān is near again.
More than the zakāh, the Ṣadaqatu l-Fiṭr will be paid in Ramaḍān. It has to be paid for each Muslim. They used to call it Zakātu l-Fiṭr. Everyone, rich or poor, needs to pay it. The poor, of course, to the best of their ability, and the rich at least 25 liras. The dollar and what not, they can calculate it accordingly. It is to be given before the ‘Īd prayer. If you give it, you gain the rewards. If you do not give it then you do not gain the rewards. If you give it later, after ‘Īd prayer, it does not count as having done it. It would only count as ṣadaqah. Therefore, we should not neglect it. Days are passing and before you know it, Ramaḍān is over and we have not paid Zakātu l-Fiṭr, the Fiṭr. They will be the losers. As our Holy Prophet said, it cannot be replaced. You can pay as much as you like afterwards but you cannot reach the same rewards. You cannot reach the same virtue. It will leave you as ṣadaqah. They would give you its rewards as ṣadaqah.
These days, as we said, the last ten days of Ramaḍān, have more virtue. There are those who are in i‘tikāf. There are those who worship more. They are accepted. These days are passing. They are passing quickly. We need to make use of this opportunity. We need to seize the opportunity. People seize the opportunity for worldly things. They do not give importance to the Hereafter. There are many people who say they will do it later. Most of the time they cannot find that time they call later, and they leave the world without having done anything. Then they regret it. Yet regret, as the name implies, is of no use. We need to be careful not to regret. Let us do good and perform our worship, as the person who does so does not regret.
Who is regretful? The person who does evil is regretful. The person who harms others is regretful and the person who does not perform his worship is regretful. So regret is not a good thing. Still sometimes he regrets and repents. He asks Allāh for forgiveness for
what he has not done and for the evil he has done. This regret is still of some use. But the person who regrets and passes without doing anything, is in loss. Truly regret becomes like fire for him.
May Allāh protect us. May Allāh make us all amongst those who have no regrets, with the intention that we always be on the true path and always be on the beautiful path, In Sha Allah.
Alḥamdulilah today we are nearly coming to end of Ramaḍān and Laylatu l-Qadr maybe it was last night. Maybe it is coming but it is, I think it was last night. But for this night also, In Sha Allah, we will, our intention to imitate, to ask from Allāh every good thing because in Laylatu l-Qadr Allāh give every good thing, the best thing. The holy night more valuable than one life, more than thousand months, more than eighty years. Eighty years it is life for human being. Some of, many of them even they cannot reach eighty year old. Some of them, most of them sixty, seventy they pass away. But who, some of them coming eighty and it is also life and for one night it is life. So, In Sha Allah, we our intention to Allāh give us from barakah of this night.
And it is also remembering [reminding] us for what we didn't done in Ramaḍān. If we didn't give our Fiṭr, Zakātu l-Fiṭr, we must give this because it is nearly end. If you make it little bit lazy – "Tomorrow I give, after tomorrow" – maybe you forget and after Ṣalātu l-‘Īd it is not value like Zakātu l-Fiṭr, only like ṣadaqah, Prophet saying. So we must give it before and to be not be regret. Regret it is not good thing because what you regret you must be done bad thing and you not doing good thing. And in next life you will be regret. And it is not important if there is also some kind of regret in this dunyā. To regret and you ask forgiveness . You regret for bad thing you done and good thing you didn't done, Allāh from Allāh will forgive you. But if you regret and the end and you are not doing anything, it is no benefit.
So Allāh make us to be all time doing what He like, not leaving anything to be regret. Regret it is real difficult thing because you suffering in this life. You doing every bad thing and next life you will be asked for this. So if you not doing bad thing in this life, no need to be regret. Allāh reward you. Allāh happy with you. But if you done something you regret and ask forgiveness, this give you for good thing.
And for Ramaḍān also, we are nearly finishing, we must for Zakāh. Also Zakāh you can give every time. You make, take one part of Zakāh when you can, this for this year. You can distribute whole year if you like. If you like give them once. This is not important. Zakāh for, it is you take this money from your money, 2,5 percent, and this is what Allāh, He for His mercy for people, giving this quantity – one part from forty or two and half percent. Any country in this world giving tax for people such a small quantity? No. And still no barakah for people. They taking from money and they thought it is still we not
enough. Taking forty percent, fifty percent, sixty percent. Some place eighty percent I hear. Maybe there is ninety percent also. This country but also no barakah, no barakah.
If you Muslim country, they give two and half percent as Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla order it will be paradise for themself, for whole country, for whole Muslim. Nobody will be in need to anything. It enough for them because Allāh give, with this two and half percent, barakah and bless. But Muslim also they are not taking care for this. They are looking only very small know better and we ask Allāh thing they are looking also. But Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He to help us to be all time in His way and way of Prophet, the best way, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
102.LIKE NIMROD Monday, 11 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.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Afara’ayta mani ttakhadha ilāhahu hawāhu" (45:23), says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla in the holy verse. There are some people who take what they like, their desires, as god. Some egos, of course all egos are the same, it wants everything for itself. It tries all ways. If it can take a way as an opportunity and you give it the chance, it will not hesitate. It will make itself god, meaning a deity, and make you worship it. Like Pharoah and like Nimrod – when they had the chance, they declared themselves god. Their egos are the same as our egos. That is what happens when it gets the chance. Allāh forbid.
Do not give your ego a chance. Of course it would happen if you gave it the chance. Even if you gave it the chance, you do not have that power. However, for people who have power, they can hardly control their ego. They will harm themselves. The greatest enemy is the ego. Everywhere, the ego is ready to disgrace a person. When it finds a few people following it, it can immediately change the religion or interpret it according to its own mind. It says, "It is better if we do it this way." It sees that the group behind it is clapping and applauding what it says. In order to make them more pleased it can do more silly things.
Liar prophets appeared even at the time of our Holy Prophet. One wrote a letter to our Holy Prophet, From me, prophet Musaylimah, to Prophet Muhammad ". When our Holy Prophet received it, he said to that liar prophet, "From Prophet Muhammad Rasūla Llāh ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam to the liar prophet Musaylimah." He wrote a letter: "You are a liar. Repent and do not destroy yourself." But he continued on that path and went so far as to find a woman and made her a woman prophet. Then he misled people. People followed him. Even at the time of our Holy Prophet there were people who followed him.
So you need to be careful because there are people who will follow you. Don't give in to your ego. Do not deviate from the path of the Shaykhs and our Holy Prophet. Do not change your path for the sake of anybody. Those who change their path can suit themselves. You stay on the right path. Whether there is one person following you or
nobody at all, you cannot change the religion to please people, as you like. Those who want can do like this.
Those who do not, can suit themselves. They can find a shayṭān and follow him. But never deviate from the right path.
Of course, it is relaxed in some places. Of course our Ṭarīqah is the most beautiful, the most tolerant. Our Holy Prophet also tells us to make it easy. Show easiness but do not change, do not change the rules. Those rules fit and are appropriate for everybody. Those who want can do it harder. Those who want can do it easier. But it is on this right path. Those who deviate from the right path go to Hell, like those liars, Musaylimah the Liar, like the liar prophets. They all go to Hell, along with those who follow them. They were all defeated in this world and in the Hereafter there is worse punishment waiting for them.
Therefore, as we said, continuing on our path should be the same way. Do not believe the person who tells you anything that contradicts Mawlānā Shaykh's (q) and our Holy Prophet's way – no matter how much or how well he speaks. Being able to speak – the one who talks a lot is certainly in error. Therefore, be careful. Shayṭān pesters people who are on the right path more than other people, in order to mislead them. Allāh forbid.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying in Qur’ān Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, "Afara’ayta mani ttakhadha ilāhahu hawāhu" (45:23). You see what this, he takes his ego and what he likes as God. What his desire, his what he like, he make it like worshipping this. What they want, I must do. I must look for what they are happy with this. Not looking for happiness of Allāh. Running after ego and ego it is not good. If you leave your ego it will be take you to destroy yourself. And ego, as much you give it, is still need more. And when they find chance they can be like Pharaoh, like Nimrod. This people they was because people following them and praising them. They thought they are God and they said, "Oh I'm the biggest god for you worship me." Also they have their ego exactly like our ego, exact. Allāh He create ego same. But they have chance, they make this. If you give your ego chance and it will, Allāh give you chance to be like them, it is can be you also worse than this people. Our ego must be kept... Don't look what it is like, they like to do. No. Look for what Allāh order, what Prophet order, what Mashāyikh teaching you – to follow them. Ego take you to destroy yourself, to finish yourself.
And when somebody from beginning, from old time and from Prophet time also, many people they destroy themself and destroy people they following them. They invent a new way, new religion. They said this is Islām after they said this different. From time of Prophet also beginning coming liar prophet. One of them from time of Prophet he appear and he claim he is a prophet and sending letter for Prophet saying, "From prophet Musaylimah to Prophet Muḥammad." And Prophet taking this letter, he wrote to him:
"From Prophet Muḥammad the last Prophet, last Messenger for Allāh to this liar who claiming they are, he is a prophet. Beware and come to right way and accept your Prophet. Don't make this." And he, this one, he not accept and even going more further. He find one woman and tell, he tell her, "You are also prophet for ladies, for woman." And he marry her.
After, they was punished in dunyā and, in ākhirah become worse. But this also, they nothing left from them. Nobody following them until now. But after them there is many people like them. They have follower until now. This is, you must be careful. You must be aware to not give anything, any idea from yourself. Only what you give, from what you learn from Prophet, from Mashāyikh, from right way. Continue in right way, not follow what this people they like, they are like this. They can like to drink – "Yes we can, I give permission to drink." They like to go with, make bad thing with woman – "Also you can do this. I give permission." This is cannot be. This you will punished.
Our way it is known. And in way of Prophet he saying make it easy for people. Who can, like to do it more hard, he can do but for people Prophet all time saying – "You can make it easy for them – easy in limit of our religion, our good behave." Not outside of this. Many people, to collect people, to make people follow them, they are destroying themself and destroying this people. You be in right way even you have one follower for you or even you don't have any follower. If they like they can follow like this. If they not like, no need. Because to take sin for people – you will be asked for them what they do from wrong. You also will, you will [be] ask[ed]. So be in right way all time. And shayṭān he is attacking the people who are in right way more than other people. Other people they are outside of way. It's enough – okay they are following him [shayṭān] without anything. But he is enemy this people especially who has Jamā‘ah or he has friend they are following him. He [shayṭān] try to make this people to be proud, to be happy for themself. "Who I say something they are happy. So I may give them more and more what they like."
Allāh keep us safe from this, our ego's trick, trap and shayṭān's trap. And keep us in right way, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
103.CARRY EACH OTHER Tuesday, 12 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.
Our Holy Prophet gives plenty of advice for people to get along well. People tolerating each other raises their station. Everybody makes mistakes and has faults. Everyone should tolerate each other. We need to be forgiving of each other. And that of course is not an easy thing. It is tough because nobody is pleased. You cannot please anybody no matter what you do. Only Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla can please. It is said: "Lā yarḍá l-‘ibād illā Rabbi l-‘ibād." It says only Allāh can provide contentment and please His servants.
As an example of the matter of tolerance, Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām would not sit at the table without a guest. He loved guests very much. One day, a Zoroastrian came as a guest. Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām welcomed him. They sat at the table. Just as they were about to start he said, "Stop, just a minute. This is not possible. You can eat from these delicious foods, from this feast, if you become Muslim." The Zoroastrian refused leave his religion. In response, he told him he would not let him eat from the food. So he got up and left. Immediately, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla revealed to Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām, He said: "That man, that servant of Mine has not been worshipping Me but worshipping the fire for seventy years. He is Zoroastrian. He is rebellious towards Me. I tolerated him for seventy years, provided him with sustenance, and made him eat and drink without asking him anything in return. You did not let him eat one time but sent him off. How can you do that? Quick! Call him back."
So Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is tolerant towards people, because people are all the time in rebellion, denial, unbelief, and all sorts of vileness against Allāh. Allāh is tolerant. Allāh is patient with them. So it should be a lesson for us. Then Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām ran after the Zoroastrian. He told him he was very welcome to come and eat, and to do as he liked. He told him he would not interfere with his religion. The Zoroastrian was surprised: "Well, a little while ago you told me to leave. How come you're calling me back? What happened?" "Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla revealed to us that your situation was like this. He has been providing for you for seventy years even though you are not obeying Him." The Zoroastrian was surprised: "Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla respects me and He did so much for me. Teach me your religion." Then he became Muslim immediately. So this is tolerance.
People are hardly tolerating each other. Of course, people have plenty of faults. Another instance, this one has an amusing side to it. Someone we know, a secondhand, used car dealer – Let me say a word about secondhand car dealers here now. They are the world's, mā shā’a Llāh, what can we say? May they forgive us, but that is how their work is. They are the world's biggest liars. They sell you an old, the oldest car, as a super car. We were invited for dinner at someone's place with that friend. We were sitting and chatting: "What do you do?" "Well, I sell used cars and whatnot." "I'm going to ask you something. Are people ever happy with you?" "What?!" It is impossible even if it were a normal car. The cars the guy sells are the world's worst cars. No way for him to please anybody. And he is saying without regret, "Not possible sir. Nobody's happy. We do so much. Nobody but Allah can make them happy. We can never make people happy."
This can also be found. People can blame their own fault on others. Therefore, we need to be tolerant of everybody. Everybody needs to be tolerant. We will manage and get along. What can we do? The world is a place of trials. In Sha Allah we will come through the test to the Presence of Allāh, clean from the test, in shā’a Llāh. Today we speak about to be, can carry each other, to be happy with each other. Because Muslim they must be helpful for each other and be, not be not carrying anything, any word, anything from other. We must be soft for each other. This is to be happy. But people, nobody can make them happy with each other. Only Allāh He can make people happy. There is Arabic word: "Lā yarḍá l-‘ibād illā Rabbi l-‘ibād," meaning for human being, only Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He can make them accept and to be happy, satisfied with what He give. Other what you done, what you do every time nobody happy with what you are doing with them. Even you maybe make with good intention, but other also not happy.
Difficult but we must be try to be happy with each other and appreciate what other doing. Not make all time to be not happy with others. Because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, His attribute to forgive and to make iḥsān. He forgive and He giving for people. Once Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām – he is from great Prophet – he was very generous and when he like when he eat, he like every time to have guest with him to eat. Sometimes going out in street to looking for people bring them to eat together if he not coming guest. And once there was one majūsī, meaning fire worshipper – that time this his area it was like this people – and he bring him and put very nice table food. And this man he want to eat. He said, Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām, "Wait. You are not Muslim. You cannot eat this until you become Muslim." And this man he look, he said, "No I cannot change my religion for this." As Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām say, "Sorry I cannot give you food." And he send him away. And this time Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla sending waḥy for Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s- salām: "O Ibrāhīm what you done for this man? He is seventy years worshipping this fire not accepting Me and he doing everything wrong and I'm not looking for him. Seventy years I'm giving his provision, food, everything without asking about what he is doing. And you are only for one meal you kick him out? Quickly go and bring him
back. Give him this food." And Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām, he quickly he run after this man and he said, "Come, come please come.
Have your food." And man he was very astonishing. "What happen? What? Why you do this? First you kick me out and now you are send..." He said, "My Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He worshipping not good thing but He, said for you, you are seventy year not obeying Him is giving you provision, giving you everything, not asking and for me, He blame me because I'm, I didn't give you one meal. For this I'm bringing you back." And he said, this man, he said, "Oh our Lord He speak about me like this? Teach me quickly your religion." And he become Muslim.
How He is, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, carrying all this world – they are not obeying, they are coming against Him, doing everything against. They are swearing. They are everything they can do against Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He they are doing. But still He is carrying this people and not saying anything. This is must be for us also example and to try to do what we can do. But of course is not, not easy to carry people. Only Awliyā’u Llāh they was carrying people, and Prophets. For other people – sometimes carry, sometimes not. And there was one story happen with me. It was little bit funny because once we went, we was with one man from our friends, he is secondhand car dealer. And here also we said for secondhand dealer – Ḥajjī Osman he was saying every time – the most crook people. Sorry for our, there many brother also they doing from our second hand and once I do also two months. That was really not for me at all. And he was sitting and at dinner this one man invite us to dinner, and he was speaking, chat together. And this man he was... What he didn't know, other one he asking him – his name, his job, what you are doing. He said, "I'm secondhand car dealer." And this was he was asking him one question, "Do you have any" – and this car dealer specially this one the was it was the worst in the world – cars he has but he making something selling people. Of course it will not be happy with him. This man asking him, "And do you have anybody happy with your thing, with you?" said this man. "Oh Sub Han Allah how they are. It is impossible for, I cannot make them happy. Only Allāh make them happy." But he was, it's funny to ask this question for this man. And he was trying, saying as he is selling the best car and saying, "Nobody happy with me." This people also everybody they have excuse for themself, even they have the worst thing but they have also excuse to for themself. So we are no need to make excuse, only to be, try to be good with others, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
104.HOW TO NOT FALL Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal
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s means if there is distress or this or that, its cure is time. You see that it was very hard in the past, and you tell yourself to wait a little more. It is still hard. Later the person gradually gets used to it. Then they just manage it and keep going. So time is the cure for everything, for the painful and the good. That is why Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla created mankind to be able to withstand this life. "Can I withstand it or not?" Allāh gave everybody a separate strength to be able to endure. Some people are called troubled. They spend their whole life in trouble and calamity and still get along. You think, "Anyone else wouldn't be able to stand it." But Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave them the strength to withstand. He makes them able to live in that state. Others have some different states.
As we said, there are lots of states but they are all transient, meaning they do not last. This is the nature of the world, it comes and goes. Therefore, there is no need to be too sorrowful for dunyā. No need to get distressed either. Let us be relieved, in shā’a Llāh. Let us be contented with the command of Allāh. We need to be content because it comes from Allāh, so that we may earn His pleasure when He says, "My servant is not complaining." We are happy with this state. May Allāh also be contented with us, in
shā’a Llāh. It remains the same even if you are not content, so being discontent is useless. Be pleased. You will earn its rewards, its good deeds. If you are not pleased you only continue in distress.
There is a saying "Kullu ḥālin yazūl" – everything, we, in this life it's not forever. Changing from, it is changing. Our life whole time changing – beginning from childhood, young, after we go old and very old. Like this our life it is also every time, every day, changing. Only Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla not changing. This life, it is Allāh create this for human being, for other also, to change. Every time new thing. Every minute different from other minute. Your shape also becoming different. Nothing going for continuous in this life forever. Forever in next life but in this life it is changing.
So we must be accept this because not, it is not from ourself – from our Creator. He create us and testing us if we are accepting or not accepting. If we accepting, Allāh He, we can, He will reward us. If not accepting, only you will be carrying this miserable life and nothing for you. But if we are accepting, Allāh reward you. And it is not easy. Some people they have more burden on themself. Allāh create everybody different from other. Some of them He give them more suffering, some of them give them less. Some of them give them long life, some short life. It is like this. All from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, from our Lord and He now, He do what He like to do. Not asking us what we, I will do. Only we are accepting and asking, praying to make us to be strong in belief.
If you have strong belief becoming more easier for you to carry this burden, this life. If not believe, it will be terrible for who don't have belief, it is real terrible. For this, many of them they are suicide. They are kill themself and said, "We are not, we don't want this." And, but they will be punished more than what they have. We are accepting what Allāh saying and not, no need to be sad for what happen. All, everything, one day it will be finish. And this day if – we must be prepare ourself to be going with happiness to ākhirah. If we have this, it is, we are win this life. If no, only what you win – this miserable life and nothing else.
This is all Prophets they teaching human being to be happy with their Lord. if you are happy with your Lord, you are happy in every time. Allāh help us and keep us in right way, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
99.THE WORD OF OUR LORD Wednesday, 6 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.
The Qur’ān is the closest tangible thing that shows Allāh's ‘Azza wa Jalla favour and His existence. The Qur’ān is Allāh's Word. It is His immemorial Word. He gave it as a gift to our Holy Prophet and to his Nation. There are Books of Allāh from before that as well: The Gospel, the Psalms, the Torah, and many more. There are those that came from Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām but they were all altered. They were all subject to alteration. Except for the Qur’ān they were all altered differently, as they liked because they learned no lesson from them. Anyway, when a new way and a new prophet came, the law of the previous prophet would be over. They would do their worship and works according to that one's law at the time.
Lastly, our Holy Prophet came. Because he is the last, Allāh left every goodness and everything for our Holy Prophet. And that is why the Qur’ān is the Qur’ān and it will remain without a letter being changed until the Day of Judgment, forever. Because it is the eternal Word of Allāh, a Word from pre-eternity. It remains as it is, meaning it does not end. The world will end. The Qur’ān is never-ending because it is the Word of Allāh Allāh's Word is lasting.
Allāh's ‘Azza wa Jalla existence is not like ours. The mind cannot grasp Him, His eternal Word is the same way, but somehow, it is in our hands through the grace of Allāh and we can read it every day. It is ash-shāfi‘, the intercessor. It is mushaffa‘, it is used for intercession. All kinds of goodness are in it. All knowledge is in it. Everything is in it. Its tafsīr and explanations have no end. It continues for eternity. That is why Allāh 'Azza wa Jalla gifted it in Ramaḍān to our Holy Prophet. It came down in this month.
Great benefits, true benefits, are granted to the person who respects and recites it. Of course one has to be in a state of ablution when reciting the Qur’ān. And one has to sit with respect and good manners; not lying down or like reading the newspaper when reading the Qur’ān. Respecting it for its honor is showing respect to Allāh. Glorifying the Qur’ān is glorifying Allāh because it is the Word of Allāh 'Azza wa Jalla. You need to show all kinds of honor when you recite it and when you hold it. It is from adab. It is from the sunnah. You see people who show it no honor at all, sitting themselves down
and reading the Qur’ān, placing it on the floor or lying down. So there are those who read it being too casual in every way, without respect. Their rewards are decreased because they are not showing respect. If they go further they could even commit sin. Allāh forbid.
How lucky we are for being from the Nation of Muhammad and reaching such great blessings. It is a great honor, a great favour from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. We need to know its value. We do not need to look at other small things. Shayṭān is jealous of the blessings in your hand and wants to deprive you of them. Be careful. Give this advice to others as well. The Qur’ān is healing, the Qur’ān is barakah, and the Qur’ān is all kinds of goodness. May Allāh make it lasting for us, In Sha Allah.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He send us one thing you are teaching, touching, teaching, touching, reading – the Word of our Lord Allāh. But we are the most... Some, many people say, "We cannot see Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla." You cannot see of course. As Mūsá (as) saying, "O my Lord, show me Yourself." "You cannot see," He said but He said, "Look for mountain." And from mountain he saw what happen to mountain. And whole this billions of people, if they are have good thinking, they will be happy day and night because they have Book from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla – His Word. Old, from eternal, it is old.
We not, it is only what we see in Qur’ān but it is here with you, the Word of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. You touching everyday. You can reading everyday this. This is a miracle of Allāh He give for Prophet and for his Ummah and it is, it kept as Allāh sent for Prophet Heavenly Books there is many heavenly Books from time of Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām until ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām – each prophet. There is prophet and messenger. The prophet – no message for them. They are reading other Book from other prophet. But messenger meaning Allāh send also Book for them. From Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām until Prophet there is three hundred thirteen Messengers, last one Prophet. And all before Prophet they are change, they who, from time to time people slowly, slowly they change them. And Allāh He was not saying, "We are keep this heavenly Books without changing." No. Is, it is normal to change it. But for Qur’ān He said, "Innā naḥnu nazzalna dh-dhikra wa innā lahu laḥāfiẓūn" (15:9). "We send this message for this Qur’ān and We are protect to not change any word from this Qur’ān."
This is wisdom to be miracle for Prophet and for to be proof for people who are asking, "Where is Lord? We want to see Him." We can see this His Word, pre-eternal Word in this Book and it is all good in this Book. When you read you can be blessed, you can be cured, you can be have any knowledge. Whole knowledge in this universe in this Book what we are touching and teaching and reading. Not outside, all this knowledge in this holy Book. We must be very happy with this Book. We are reading and Allāh give for each word, for each letter ten times, hundred times, thousand times, reward and it is
make us to for Qiyāmah to safe from hell. Shafā‘ah, giving shafā‘ah and it is also can be give shafā‘ah for other people also.
So we are very lucky for this and when we are reading Qur’ān, Alhamdulilah, most of who following Ṭarīqah, following way of Prophet, they reading very respectful – sitting and reading in good respect with wuḍū’, with trying to know what it is. But there is people not respecting. We see them they put Qur’ān in earth and they are sitting up looking, reading. Some of them lying down and reading Qur’ān like reading newspaper and looking for television. Some of them not taking care, any respect for this. So we must this, we will, we must be respectful very much for Qur’ān and try to take benefit.
Many of people who are not Arab they cannot understand Qur'an. What we will... There is shayṭān people they saying, "If you don't understand, you mustn't read Qur’ān." This is also trick from shayṭān because there is this people they cannot be, whole people scholar, ‘ālim, or educate to know because need many years to learn the what Arabic. But to read it is enough. For who are not knowing Arabic, only to read Qur’ān it is enough for them. Also Allāh maybe reward them more than this people who are they claiming they understand Qur’ān and they put Qur’ān in earth and looking sitting up.
So, Alhamdulilah, we are have this big favour from Allāh. We must be very happy for this. But shayṭān also they make people to not take care from Qur’ān and not be happy with what we have. Only looking for small thing in this world – "I have this. We don't have this. We are looking for that. He is saying this for me." Fighting between each other and forgetting what Allāh give us from favour. All time we must remember this. And this is month of Qur’ān also, Ramaḍān. In Ramaḍān Allāh send Qur’ān. Allāh make He it, make Qur’ān for us every good thing from His barakah Allāh give us, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
100.GOOD BEHAVIOUR IN ISLAM Saturday, 9 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.
Our Holy Prophet states, Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Innamā bu‘ithtu li’utammima makārimu l-akhlāq." "Allāh sent me to complete good manners, beautiful habits," says our Holy Prophet. It means the religion of Islam is the religion that has in it all beauties. It orders people to do good and prohibits doing bad. The most beautiful religion for people is the religion of Islam. It orders all goodness. It tells you to treat the one who harms you with kindness. It tells you not to do evil to the one who does evil. It tells you to do goodness to him too. Beat your ego. Do not be defeated by your ego. Those who are defeated by their ego do not have good behaviour. The ego's habit is evil. It orders evil.
There are many things our Holy Prophet orders. He loves generosity the most. "Allāh says He loves the generous," says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Allāh is Generous and He even loves the generous person who doesn't worship more than the worshipper who is stingy. This encourages a person to give. He tells us to give. Allāh will give you more in return. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla will give you ten times, a hundred times more in rewards. They ask: "To whom should we give and to whom should we not give?" Of course, the zakāh is a matter of zakāh. It is given to those in need among the people. It needs to be distributed to the poor. You also need to give from the zakāh to that person who collects the zakāh to distribute it. Other than that, you can give ṣadaqah to whoever you wish.
Our Holy Prophet tells you that if a person comes asking, even if he is riding a horse – meaning his situation looks good – he tells us to give him. Do not turn them away empty handed as much as you can. Of course what he wants could be... People do not have a limit in asking. When someone wants something, give to the best of your ability, says our Holy Prophet. Mawlānā Shaykh would do the same because his path is the path of our Holy Prophet. He would not turn anybody away empty handed. Of course he would not ask how much they wanted. Whatever they wanted, he would try and help as much as possible. Of course, this is a fine habit. It is not turning anyone away empty handed. You give as much as you can and if that one likes it, he likes it. If he does not like it, the responsibility will not be yours since you have obeyed the order. You will be rewarded as you have done what our Holy Prophet ordered.
Our Holy Prophet says again not to do something that is too much for you. If you give everything you have, then you will be in need of asking people, which is worse. Asking is very bad. Meaning it is not a good thing at all. Our Holy Prophet said it in his Ḥadīth too that anyone who is not in a difficult situation and has made it a habit to ask, it is a very bad thing for them. He says on the Day of Judgment the skin of their face will fall off. That is how embarrassed they will be due to their shame. Let us be the giving hand, In Sha Allah. May Allāh always make us the giving hand. May we not be the asking one, In Sha Allah. May Allāh adorn us all, In Sha Allah with this beautiful behaviour. It is an adornment.
Being generous is an adornment, but as we said, being generous and then, some people who have little intelligence, go and borrow money they don't have to do good. Well, you are going to borrow and this time you will not be able to pay it and you will be embarrassed in front of them. In addition to being embarrassed, you will commit sin since you took the money but cannot pay. As much as one can, however much Allāh has reserved for you, you can give from that. As we said, everything has a limit, a boundary. We need to know this. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Wa lā tabsuṭhā kulla l-basṭi fataq‘uda malūman maḥsūran" (17:29). Do not open your hand [give] all the way for then you will be sorry. You will not have money or anything left. Then you will wish you had not done it and commit more sin. Everything has a limit. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla gave you a mind, so accordingly do not waste and do not be too stingy either, He says.
Alhamdulilah we are, Prophet saying, "Allāh send me to complete good adab, to good behave, to complete good behave." Allāh send our Prophet so he was continuing this until he said, "Al-yawma akmaltu lakum dīnakum" (5:3), until He said, "I complete this good behave." Good behave whole Islām religion. Good behave what Prophet to teach people. Only teach them good thing and forbid them to do bad thing. And this is, what is better than this? Humans, they are looking here, there, up, down, searching for something. And Allāh send the most Beloved one for human being and he was suffering to teach them, to show them this good way. In Islām every good thing. In Islām nothing bad. What it is bad also, to forbid to do bad thing. Also in Islām showing what is this bad thing. They, Islām they said don't do this. If good, you must do this. If you do this, you make good thing for humanity, for whole creature, for human, for animal, for nature, for everything.
The smallest thing – you must be clean. Said Islām, even you take one stone from street and put beside. Allāh reward you. You take dirt from road, clean road, Allāh also reward you. But this "civilisation", we are seeing all around only dirt, plastic, and cans, and bottles. Plastic, everything they from this people they are claiming they are "civilisation" people. And they are not accepting Islām. Only to make this world be dirty materially and worse, dirty by spiritual dirt. They are have, because they are not accept this good
way, and making dirt. If you see what this dirt here you see in street, in seaside, everywhere, it is nothing compare this dirt what they have in this world.
And Prophet he say he was, Allāh also Generous. He like generous, generosity for people. He encourage people to be generous. One of them thing to what – when you give for zakāh, of course zakāh only you must look for poor people and you keep and there is who take can take zakāh distribute for people – also for him, he can take wages from zakāh. But other people – nothing for to build something, for school, mosque, anything – you cannot give for this. But if you give for poor man and he can do what he like for [with] zakāh after you give him. But he must be, not have enough money until maybe one hundred gram of gold less, he can be take. And this he can do what he like to do. Even he can give feast for rich people. But before you cannot give for anything. He can build for himself, he can do everything but not, we cannot give this.
There is place there is no enough money, so we can, "They building mosque, so we can give from this zakāh for mosque." You cannot do this. "They building school it is not finished yet. You can give from zakāh." No you cannot give from zakāh. This is for zakāh. But for ṣadaqah you can give what who like, because Prophet saying, "Who ask from you, you give him as much you can give. Even he come by horse." Because when he come by horse old time he is meaning rich. But he ask something, he ask, don't make him go back without taking anything. This is also good behaviour from Prophet.
Ṣadaqah you can give for every, anyone you like but not zakāh. But for ṣadaqah also, or for what you are giving, generosity very nice thing, but first you can give little bit and you look for your family. Don't say, "I'm very generous. I must be like Prophet" – running for to take loan from people and give for other people. After what will happen? It will be you cannot give back this loan so you will be in sin because you take from people and they will, cannot give [pay] back. No. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla give us mind and there is limit for everything. Allāh said don't be your hand tight and in āyah also – don't open. "Wa lā tabsuṭhā kulla l-basṭi fataq‘uda malūman maḥsūran" (17:29). Don't open your hand like this. After you will be regret, "Oh what I done? What I don't have anything. I'm poor man. I was, what I will do now? What happen? What we, why I done this?" Don't they say this. First you look for your family. Family it is most important for man. After, if anybody ask, you can give little bit, little bit. But don't let people going without taking anything. This is good behave from Islām.
And teaching people to be careful for everything. Especially advise to not take loan from bank. They are not, they don't have mercy. They are making people to... Say, we see many people they have take loan from bank and to give for poor people. This is Allāh not ordering this. Prophet not ordering this. If you have, you can give. Not take and give and after you be in bad condition. Because Allāh encourage us to give, to be giving-hand, not to ask. To ask it is very bad in Divinely Presence. Allāh, Prophet they don't like
people who asking. Even, in Qiyāmah he said the from face it will become all this meat down from ashaming what they done. It is very bad. Allāh make us to use our mind and to be giving-hand and help us to giving-hand, to not be need and take loan and to take anything from people. The best thing for this now, this days especially, to make your calculation – how you will live, how much you have, how much you take, how much you give – to not be in need to anybody, to ask from people, to ask from banks.
Allāh help us and give us from His endless treasure, In Sha Allah, to be not to be in need to anybody, In Sha Allah. For this sake of this holy days, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
101.THE END OF RAMADAN Sunday, 10 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.
These are the last days of Ramaḍān. Allāh willing, In Sha Allah, we will also reach Laylatu l-Qadr. Allāh knows best. This year it seemed as though it was yesterday night. However, our intention should again be for this night to worship and make du‘ā’ as if it were Laylatu l-Qadr, In Sha Allah. It also serves as a reminder that the end of Ramaḍān is near again.
More than the zakāh, the Ṣadaqatu l-Fiṭr will be paid in Ramaḍān. It has to be paid for each Muslim. They used to call it Zakātu l-Fiṭr. Everyone, rich or poor, needs to pay it. The poor, of course, to the best of their ability, and the rich at least 25 liras. The dollar and what not, they can calculate it accordingly. It is to be given before the ‘Īd prayer. If you give it, you gain the rewards. If you do not give it then you do not gain the rewards. If you give it later, after ‘Īd prayer, it does not count as having done it. It would only count as ṣadaqah. Therefore, we should not neglect it. Days are passing and before you know it, Ramaḍān is over and we have not paid Zakātu l-Fiṭr, the Fiṭr. They will be the losers. As our Holy Prophet said, it cannot be replaced. You can pay as much as you like afterwards but you cannot reach the same rewards. You cannot reach the same virtue. It will leave you as ṣadaqah. They would give you its rewards as ṣadaqah.
These days, as we said, the last ten days of Ramaḍān, have more virtue. There are those who are in i‘tikāf. There are those who worship more. They are accepted. These days are passing. They are passing quickly. We need to make use of this opportunity. We need to seize the opportunity. People seize the opportunity for worldly things. They do not give importance to the Hereafter. There are many people who say they will do it later. Most of the time they cannot find that time they call later, and they leave the world without having done anything. Then they regret it. Yet regret, as the name implies, is of no use. We need to be careful not to regret. Let us do good and perform our worship, as the person who does so does not regret.
Who is regretful? The person who does evil is regretful. The person who harms others is regretful and the person who does not perform his worship is regretful. So regret is not a good thing. Still sometimes he regrets and repents. He asks Allāh for forgiveness for
what he has not done and for the evil he has done. This regret is still of some use. But the person who regrets and passes without doing anything, is in loss. Truly regret becomes like fire for him.
May Allāh protect us. May Allāh make us all amongst those who have no regrets, with the intention that we always be on the true path and always be on the beautiful path, In Sha Allah.
Alḥamdulilah today we are nearly coming to end of Ramaḍān and Laylatu l-Qadr maybe it was last night. Maybe it is coming but it is, I think it was last night. But for this night also, In Sha Allah, we will, our intention to imitate, to ask from Allāh every good thing because in Laylatu l-Qadr Allāh give every good thing, the best thing. The holy night more valuable than one life, more than thousand months, more than eighty years. Eighty years it is life for human being. Some of, many of them even they cannot reach eighty year old. Some of them, most of them sixty, seventy they pass away. But who, some of them coming eighty and it is also life and for one night it is life. So, In Sha Allah, we our intention to Allāh give us from barakah of this night.
And it is also remembering [reminding] us for what we didn't done in Ramaḍān. If we didn't give our Fiṭr, Zakātu l-Fiṭr, we must give this because it is nearly end. If you make it little bit lazy – "Tomorrow I give, after tomorrow" – maybe you forget and after Ṣalātu l-‘Īd it is not value like Zakātu l-Fiṭr, only like ṣadaqah, Prophet saying. So we must give it before and to be not be regret. Regret it is not good thing because what you regret you must be done bad thing and you not doing good thing. And in next life you will be regret. And it is not important if there is also some kind of regret in this dunyā. To regret and you ask forgiveness . You regret for bad thing you done and good thing you didn't done, Allāh from Allāh will forgive you. But if you regret and the end and you are not doing anything, it is no benefit.
So Allāh make us to be all time doing what He like, not leaving anything to be regret. Regret it is real difficult thing because you suffering in this life. You doing every bad thing and next life you will be asked for this. So if you not doing bad thing in this life, no need to be regret. Allāh reward you. Allāh happy with you. But if you done something you regret and ask forgiveness, this give you for good thing.
And for Ramaḍān also, we are nearly finishing, we must for Zakāh. Also Zakāh you can give every time. You make, take one part of Zakāh when you can, this for this year. You can distribute whole year if you like. If you like give them once. This is not important. Zakāh for, it is you take this money from your money, 2,5 percent, and this is what Allāh, He for His mercy for people, giving this quantity – one part from forty or two and half percent. Any country in this world giving tax for people such a small quantity? No. And still no barakah for people. They taking from money and they thought it is still we not
enough. Taking forty percent, fifty percent, sixty percent. Some place eighty percent I hear. Maybe there is ninety percent also. This country but also no barakah, no barakah.
If you Muslim country, they give two and half percent as Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla order it will be paradise for themself, for whole country, for whole Muslim. Nobody will be in need to anything. It enough for them because Allāh give, with this two and half percent, barakah and bless. But Muslim also they are not taking care for this. They are looking only very small know better and we ask Allāh thing they are looking also. But Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He to help us to be all time in His way and way of Prophet, the best way, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
102.LIKE NIMROD Monday, 11 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.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. "Afara’ayta mani ttakhadha ilāhahu hawāhu" (45:23), says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla in the holy verse. There are some people who take what they like, their desires, as god. Some egos, of course all egos are the same, it wants everything for itself. It tries all ways. If it can take a way as an opportunity and you give it the chance, it will not hesitate. It will make itself god, meaning a deity, and make you worship it. Like Pharoah and like Nimrod – when they had the chance, they declared themselves god. Their egos are the same as our egos. That is what happens when it gets the chance. Allāh forbid.
Do not give your ego a chance. Of course it would happen if you gave it the chance. Even if you gave it the chance, you do not have that power. However, for people who have power, they can hardly control their ego. They will harm themselves. The greatest enemy is the ego. Everywhere, the ego is ready to disgrace a person. When it finds a few people following it, it can immediately change the religion or interpret it according to its own mind. It says, "It is better if we do it this way." It sees that the group behind it is clapping and applauding what it says. In order to make them more pleased it can do more silly things.
Liar prophets appeared even at the time of our Holy Prophet. One wrote a letter to our Holy Prophet, From me, prophet Musaylimah, to Prophet Muhammad ". When our Holy Prophet received it, he said to that liar prophet, "From Prophet Muhammad Rasūla Llāh ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam to the liar prophet Musaylimah." He wrote a letter: "You are a liar. Repent and do not destroy yourself." But he continued on that path and went so far as to find a woman and made her a woman prophet. Then he misled people. People followed him. Even at the time of our Holy Prophet there were people who followed him.
So you need to be careful because there are people who will follow you. Don't give in to your ego. Do not deviate from the path of the Shaykhs and our Holy Prophet. Do not change your path for the sake of anybody. Those who change their path can suit themselves. You stay on the right path. Whether there is one person following you or
nobody at all, you cannot change the religion to please people, as you like. Those who want can do like this.
Those who do not, can suit themselves. They can find a shayṭān and follow him. But never deviate from the right path.
Of course, it is relaxed in some places. Of course our Ṭarīqah is the most beautiful, the most tolerant. Our Holy Prophet also tells us to make it easy. Show easiness but do not change, do not change the rules. Those rules fit and are appropriate for everybody. Those who want can do it harder. Those who want can do it easier. But it is on this right path. Those who deviate from the right path go to Hell, like those liars, Musaylimah the Liar, like the liar prophets. They all go to Hell, along with those who follow them. They were all defeated in this world and in the Hereafter there is worse punishment waiting for them.
Therefore, as we said, continuing on our path should be the same way. Do not believe the person who tells you anything that contradicts Mawlānā Shaykh's (q) and our Holy Prophet's way – no matter how much or how well he speaks. Being able to speak – the one who talks a lot is certainly in error. Therefore, be careful. Shayṭān pesters people who are on the right path more than other people, in order to mislead them. Allāh forbid.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying in Qur’ān Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, "Afara’ayta mani ttakhadha ilāhahu hawāhu" (45:23). You see what this, he takes his ego and what he likes as God. What his desire, his what he like, he make it like worshipping this. What they want, I must do. I must look for what they are happy with this. Not looking for happiness of Allāh. Running after ego and ego it is not good. If you leave your ego it will be take you to destroy yourself. And ego, as much you give it, is still need more. And when they find chance they can be like Pharaoh, like Nimrod. This people they was because people following them and praising them. They thought they are God and they said, "Oh I'm the biggest god for you worship me." Also they have their ego exactly like our ego, exact. Allāh He create ego same. But they have chance, they make this. If you give your ego chance and it will, Allāh give you chance to be like them, it is can be you also worse than this people. Our ego must be kept... Don't look what it is like, they like to do. No. Look for what Allāh order, what Prophet order, what Mashāyikh teaching you – to follow them. Ego take you to destroy yourself, to finish yourself.
And when somebody from beginning, from old time and from Prophet time also, many people they destroy themself and destroy people they following them. They invent a new way, new religion. They said this is Islām after they said this different. From time of Prophet also beginning coming liar prophet. One of them from time of Prophet he appear and he claim he is a prophet and sending letter for Prophet saying, "From prophet Musaylimah to Prophet Muḥammad." And Prophet taking this letter, he wrote to him:
"From Prophet Muḥammad the last Prophet, last Messenger for Allāh to this liar who claiming they are, he is a prophet. Beware and come to right way and accept your Prophet. Don't make this." And he, this one, he not accept and even going more further. He find one woman and tell, he tell her, "You are also prophet for ladies, for woman." And he marry her.
After, they was punished in dunyā and, in ākhirah become worse. But this also, they nothing left from them. Nobody following them until now. But after them there is many people like them. They have follower until now. This is, you must be careful. You must be aware to not give anything, any idea from yourself. Only what you give, from what you learn from Prophet, from Mashāyikh, from right way. Continue in right way, not follow what this people they like, they are like this. They can like to drink – "Yes we can, I give permission to drink." They like to go with, make bad thing with woman – "Also you can do this. I give permission." This is cannot be. This you will punished.
Our way it is known. And in way of Prophet he saying make it easy for people. Who can, like to do it more hard, he can do but for people Prophet all time saying – "You can make it easy for them – easy in limit of our religion, our good behave." Not outside of this. Many people, to collect people, to make people follow them, they are destroying themself and destroying this people. You be in right way even you have one follower for you or even you don't have any follower. If they like they can follow like this. If they not like, no need. Because to take sin for people – you will be asked for them what they do from wrong. You also will, you will [be] ask[ed]. So be in right way all time. And shayṭān he is attacking the people who are in right way more than other people. Other people they are outside of way. It's enough – okay they are following him [shayṭān] without anything. But he is enemy this people especially who has Jamā‘ah or he has friend they are following him. He [shayṭān] try to make this people to be proud, to be happy for themself. "Who I say something they are happy. So I may give them more and more what they like."
Allāh keep us safe from this, our ego's trick, trap and shayṭān's trap. And keep us in right way, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
103.CARRY EACH OTHER Tuesday, 12 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.
Our Holy Prophet gives plenty of advice for people to get along well. People tolerating each other raises their station. Everybody makes mistakes and has faults. Everyone should tolerate each other. We need to be forgiving of each other. And that of course is not an easy thing. It is tough because nobody is pleased. You cannot please anybody no matter what you do. Only Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla can please. It is said: "Lā yarḍá l-‘ibād illā Rabbi l-‘ibād." It says only Allāh can provide contentment and please His servants.
As an example of the matter of tolerance, Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām would not sit at the table without a guest. He loved guests very much. One day, a Zoroastrian came as a guest. Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām welcomed him. They sat at the table. Just as they were about to start he said, "Stop, just a minute. This is not possible. You can eat from these delicious foods, from this feast, if you become Muslim." The Zoroastrian refused leave his religion. In response, he told him he would not let him eat from the food. So he got up and left. Immediately, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla revealed to Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām, He said: "That man, that servant of Mine has not been worshipping Me but worshipping the fire for seventy years. He is Zoroastrian. He is rebellious towards Me. I tolerated him for seventy years, provided him with sustenance, and made him eat and drink without asking him anything in return. You did not let him eat one time but sent him off. How can you do that? Quick! Call him back."
So Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is tolerant towards people, because people are all the time in rebellion, denial, unbelief, and all sorts of vileness against Allāh. Allāh is tolerant. Allāh is patient with them. So it should be a lesson for us. Then Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām ran after the Zoroastrian. He told him he was very welcome to come and eat, and to do as he liked. He told him he would not interfere with his religion. The Zoroastrian was surprised: "Well, a little while ago you told me to leave. How come you're calling me back? What happened?" "Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla revealed to us that your situation was like this. He has been providing for you for seventy years even though you are not obeying Him." The Zoroastrian was surprised: "Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla respects me and He did so much for me. Teach me your religion." Then he became Muslim immediately. So this is tolerance.
People are hardly tolerating each other. Of course, people have plenty of faults. Another instance, this one has an amusing side to it. Someone we know, a secondhand, used car dealer – Let me say a word about secondhand car dealers here now. They are the world's, mā shā’a Llāh, what can we say? May they forgive us, but that is how their work is. They are the world's biggest liars. They sell you an old, the oldest car, as a super car. We were invited for dinner at someone's place with that friend. We were sitting and chatting: "What do you do?" "Well, I sell used cars and whatnot." "I'm going to ask you something. Are people ever happy with you?" "What?!" It is impossible even if it were a normal car. The cars the guy sells are the world's worst cars. No way for him to please anybody. And he is saying without regret, "Not possible sir. Nobody's happy. We do so much. Nobody but Allah can make them happy. We can never make people happy."
This can also be found. People can blame their own fault on others. Therefore, we need to be tolerant of everybody. Everybody needs to be tolerant. We will manage and get along. What can we do? The world is a place of trials. In Sha Allah we will come through the test to the Presence of Allāh, clean from the test, in shā’a Llāh. Today we speak about to be, can carry each other, to be happy with each other. Because Muslim they must be helpful for each other and be, not be not carrying anything, any word, anything from other. We must be soft for each other. This is to be happy. But people, nobody can make them happy with each other. Only Allāh He can make people happy. There is Arabic word: "Lā yarḍá l-‘ibād illā Rabbi l-‘ibād," meaning for human being, only Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He can make them accept and to be happy, satisfied with what He give. Other what you done, what you do every time nobody happy with what you are doing with them. Even you maybe make with good intention, but other also not happy.
Difficult but we must be try to be happy with each other and appreciate what other doing. Not make all time to be not happy with others. Because Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, His attribute to forgive and to make iḥsān. He forgive and He giving for people. Once Sayyidinā Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām – he is from great Prophet – he was very generous and when he like when he eat, he like every time to have guest with him to eat. Sometimes going out in street to looking for people bring them to eat together if he not coming guest. And once there was one majūsī, meaning fire worshipper – that time this his area it was like this people – and he bring him and put very nice table food. And this man he want to eat. He said, Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām, "Wait. You are not Muslim. You cannot eat this until you become Muslim." And this man he look, he said, "No I cannot change my religion for this." As Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām say, "Sorry I cannot give you food." And he send him away. And this time Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla sending waḥy for Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s- salām: "O Ibrāhīm what you done for this man? He is seventy years worshipping this fire not accepting Me and he doing everything wrong and I'm not looking for him. Seventy years I'm giving his provision, food, everything without asking about what he is doing. And you are only for one meal you kick him out? Quickly go and bring him
back. Give him this food." And Ibrāhīm ‘alayhi s-salām, he quickly he run after this man and he said, "Come, come please come.
Have your food." And man he was very astonishing. "What happen? What? Why you do this? First you kick me out and now you are send..." He said, "My Lord Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He worshipping not good thing but He, said for you, you are seventy year not obeying Him is giving you provision, giving you everything, not asking and for me, He blame me because I'm, I didn't give you one meal. For this I'm bringing you back." And he said, this man, he said, "Oh our Lord He speak about me like this? Teach me quickly your religion." And he become Muslim.
How He is, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, carrying all this world – they are not obeying, they are coming against Him, doing everything against. They are swearing. They are everything they can do against Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He they are doing. But still He is carrying this people and not saying anything. This is must be for us also example and to try to do what we can do. But of course is not, not easy to carry people. Only Awliyā’u Llāh they was carrying people, and Prophets. For other people – sometimes carry, sometimes not. And there was one story happen with me. It was little bit funny because once we went, we was with one man from our friends, he is secondhand car dealer. And here also we said for secondhand dealer – Ḥajjī Osman he was saying every time – the most crook people. Sorry for our, there many brother also they doing from our second hand and once I do also two months. That was really not for me at all. And he was sitting and at dinner this one man invite us to dinner, and he was speaking, chat together. And this man he was... What he didn't know, other one he asking him – his name, his job, what you are doing. He said, "I'm secondhand car dealer." And this was he was asking him one question, "Do you have any" – and this car dealer specially this one the was it was the worst in the world – cars he has but he making something selling people. Of course it will not be happy with him. This man asking him, "And do you have anybody happy with your thing, with you?" said this man. "Oh Sub Han Allah how they are. It is impossible for, I cannot make them happy. Only Allāh make them happy." But he was, it's funny to ask this question for this man. And he was trying, saying as he is selling the best car and saying, "Nobody happy with me." This people also everybody they have excuse for themself, even they have the worst thing but they have also excuse to for themself. So we are no need to make excuse, only to be, try to be good with others, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
104.HOW TO NOT FALL Wednesday, 13 June 2018
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal
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