Suhbah 2018: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (15/25)
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Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
May Allāh make us all firm footed on this way, in In Sha Allah, on this nice way. Because one's foot can slip on this way, as also a person can slip. Guidance is from Allāh. One can get guided or one can follow shayṭān too. Therefore our constant du‘ā’ to Allāh is, do not make us deviate from the right way, from the good way. We should also not look down on anybody. Because guidance is from Allāh. He can give guidance to anybody He likes and make them come to the right way. Anybody He wants can also deviate from the way. Therefore, it is not good to be proud, saying, "I'm this and I'm that. I'm an ‘ābid, I'm a zāhid, etc." It is good to be thankful to Allāh since favours increase with gratitude.
‘Īsā ‘alayhi s-salām would always travel, sometimes by himself, sometimes with his disciples, and sometimes with others who were not his followers. They would walk around with ‘Īsā ‘alayhi s-salām. He is called the Messiah. The Messiah means the one who travels, Jesus Christ. Christians are called Masīḥī too because they follow the Masīḥ ‘alayhi s-salām. Once he was travelling on the road and one of the disciples was next to him. A man came up to them who had been a bandit for 40 years, and when he saw the Prophet ‘Īsā ‘alayhi s-salām, due to his light and his beauty, he was sorry for what he had done. He decided to repent and be one of the ones who followed that prophet. He approached him with regret. The disciple next to him thought: "Why does this man have anything to do with us? He's a bandit. His deeds are terrible. It isn't right for him to come with people like us who are next to the prophet. It is not proper." He was thinking and walking like this. The other one was coming from behind: "I'm not worthy of these people. I'm a terrible man. I've done very bad things. I don't deserve them. How am I going to be with them?"
Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla revealed to ‘Īsā ‘alayhi s-salām that, "I have erased what these two people have done in the past. Let them start new from the beginning." He erased the banditry the bandit had done for 40 years. He erased it in an instant. He also erased the worship, good deeds, and rewards – everything the disciple had done. Now they were both equal. "Now, start together," He said. That is Allāh. Allāh can do as He wishes. He erased the bandit's sins. He also erased the rewards of the other one because he became arrogant. They started anew. This time that man who was a bandit became one of the
disciples. So, as we said, these things are in the hands of Allāh. Do not trust in your thinking, "I studied for so many years next to such hodja. I learned knowledge for years in such a madrasah. I've been a preacher for so many years. I've been a dervish for so many years." Do not trust in your own works and get arrogant. If you do so you might suffer punishment. Allāh forbid.
What should you do? You should be thankful. You can say, "Thank Allāh I've been on this way for 10 years. Thank Allāh we're on this way for five years. Thank Allāh for 20 years, for 50 years, or 100 years we've been on this way." And this is a favour of Allāh. "It didn't happen with what I've done or with my will. It happened with Allāh's nice favor," you should say. This is adab. Otherwise, you would be without manners. As Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla says, you might have everything erased and would have to start over.
May Allāh protect us. May Allāh not make us follow our ego, In Sha Allah.
Alhamdulilah we are following nice way and we are happy with way of mashāyikh, for way of Allāh, Prophet. But it is also not easy. You must be hard-standing where you are standing, to not fall down. Because many people can be follow their ego. Many of them make to be proud and they be fall down from high to lower place. How we can be in, stay where we are and making getting higher and higher. To know this from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and He is giving more for people who are thanking Him for what He give; not saying, "This, I'm doing this hard. I'm good worshipper. I'm good doing this, good doing that, good." No. You said, "All this from His generous, min faḍli Rabbī (27:40)." Thank Him " Thank You O my Lord. Thank You, You make us to be in this way. Maybe if You don't make us like this, we can be other way, we not knowing this way at all." There is million of people they are not knowing this way – not million, billions. Not to be proud what we were doing.
Sayyidinā ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām he was very humble and he was also travelling all time. For this they calling him Masīḥ, Masīḥ meaning who making travel travelling, going everywhere – sayāḥat from sayāḥat. Coming and he many time going with people or alone or with his disciple, sometimes with one, sometime with more. And once he was going also travelling with one of his disciple and when they travelling there was one bad man, gangster, thief, like bandit one. He say 40 year he was this doing this bad thing, stealing, cutting road, taking from people everything. And he from front of him when he see Prophet ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām, he was, Allāh give him to his heart to be regret for what he done. When he see Prophet and his light and he said, "What I was done this for 40 year I do this bad thing? I want to be following Prophet and asking forgiveness from him." And he was going there and asking from Sayyidinā ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām and he was following him. But he was very ashamed. He said, "How can I be with this people?"
And disciple of ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām he said himself, "What is this man, he was very bad man, how he can be with us? We are following Prophet and we are going with Prophet and giving people advice, giving blessing people and this rubbish one following us? it is not nice thing." And other one he was also ashaming and going behind them. Every time, every step, he was blaming himself, "You are not deserve this to be with Prophet and follow him. You are rubbish. You are doing all this years and now you are going behind this Prophet ‘alayhi s- salām." And this that moment Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla giving waḥy for Sayyidinā ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s- salām. He said, "In this from until now what they done, this two man behind you. I He silmek ne demek? – erase what they do, what they... I erase all this thing. Now their book white. From now on I will write what they will do."
He erase this robber man and the, his sin finish. Other disciple also – reward what he was doing all his life also finish. From that time they are beginning again. This is from Allāh. Allāh when He want something we must be accept. And to look for everybody they can be better than us. We must be careful not be proud for what I'm doing, this, "I'm worshipping, 50 year. I'm studying religion, 10 year. I'm imām, 50 year. I'm proud for this." Don't say this. What you said, you say, "This is from His generous. We we are thanking Him for this." If you thank Him it will be giving you more and more. But if you know it from yourself, can be any time taking from you and no benefit for you and it will be you beginning from zero. Be careful and ask from Allāh to be save us from our ego. And thank Him for what He is giving us, this nice way way of Prophet. Allāh keep us in straight way to not fall down out from way.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
105.KEEP YOUR PRAYERS Friday, 15 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.
First, we congratulate you on the occasion of ‘Īd. May it be good, blessed, and holy, in shā’a Llāh. May it be a relief, Islām's relief. May it be better next year, because the condition of the Islamic world is miserable. They want to destroy Islām. The ones who want to destroy it call themselves Muslim. They cause the greatest damage to Islām. They do not bother with nonMuslims. They bother with Muslims. It is a great fitnah. May Allāh help us, In Sha Allah. Everything has an end. It is their time. In Sha Allah, their time will also be over.
Islām, true Islām, will prevail again. This time around, as Allāh promised our Holy Prophet, the whole world will become Muslim. There will not be a place left that is not Muslim. And these people of fitnah will either be reformed or they will go away from this world. These are hard days, but they are days of exchange – the more you are on the right way, the more Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla looks upon you with His gaze of grace and the more He loves you. When Allāh loves you, you do not want anything else. May this ‘Īd be good luck, In Sha Allah. It is ‘Īd now as we fasted Ramaḍān. We have offered prayers and fasts. May Allāh accept them. Make the intention and the du‘ā’ for this virtue to last from now on. Because Allāh gives according to the intention of the person. Do not say, "Ramaḍān is over. Let's go back to our old state." Always remember Allāh. Make dhikr to Allāh. Anyway, making dhikr means remembering Allāh. Let Allāh always be with you so everything will be easy for you. Everything is hard for the person who is not with Allāh. Their life is hard. They will have a hard end. As we said, everything passes in hardship for them. Something will happen and he will not understand it but it is coming from Allāh. It is either a punishment or a reward. If it is a punishment, the person needs to fix himself. If it is a test, he is patient and he earns its rewards, he sees the prize in the Hereafter.
Thanks to Allāh we have finished Ramaḍān now and have entered the month of Shawwāl. In Shawwāl, of course those who want, there is a six-day supererogatory fast. Every day is the equivalent of one month, and with the thirty days it counts as a year. Therefore, those who can fast should fast it. Sometimes in some places, people might be working and they are unable to do it. They are people with heavy work of course. Let
them make the intention: "If I can do it, I'll do it. If I can't do it, Allāh will give according to my intention." Other than that, pay attention to the five daily prayers. Prayer is the pillar of the religion. Don't say, "We prayed in Ramaḍān. No need for the rest." Maintain the prayer. Offer your prayers. Do not neglect them. Do not go anywhere before praying. Make sure to pray. So do not show resistance. The one who does not know how to pray can learn slowly. But those who know should certainly not neglect it. Now they go some place and they look at people there: "They are not praying. Why should we? They look like smart people. Let us not pray like them." They are not clever. Those who do not pray are foolish people because they are displaying themselves as low class. They are either in the non-responsible class, and nobody wants to be in that class. Everybody wants to be considered... The non-responsible class is the four-legged class. Allāh did not offer that to them. He says about us, "Karramnā banī Ādam" (17:70). "We have honored and elevated human beings," He says. There is an offer for us. Therefore, those who can, should both do the prayers and of course the fasts. Yet prayer is the pillar of the religion that needs to be paid attention to now and later. We should not neglect it.
May Allāh bless it. Let's keep it short. It is ‘Īd. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are finish Ramaḍān and today is ‘Īd, ‘Īdu l-Fiṭr. It is given by Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla for people, for human being. Prophet when he come to, came to Madīnah he saw, he see there is they making two days celebrating, making celebrate. And Prophet said, "There is this, two days, it is not from Allāh. Allāh change this two for you for first for ‘Īdu l-Fiṭr, second one for ‘Īdu l-Aḍḥá." So this is from heaven coming for us and it is also blessed, very blessed day and happy day for people. After fasting, this day of reward from Allāh and it is gift for whole human being. Who accept, they can be also have this bless from this day. But if not accept, what will we do? And in Shawwāl also there is fasting six days. This is Sunnah also from Prophet. Saying each day for like one month, so it will be with Ramaḍān, like one year. If you fasting it will be like one year for you. You can fast from second of Shawwāl until six day or you can fast slowly, slowly whole month – one day, one day, and it will be... Allāh accept as you fasting whole year. Of course this is very blessed you can do it. You must do it but there is of course some people they are working, hard working. They cannot do. Allāh give them for their intention. And second one also in Ramaḍān we, the people fasting and praying whole and praying tarāwīḥ. They was happy with praying. But many people after Ramaḍān also they are, they are leaving praying. Praying very important in Islām. It is gift from Allāh for us, to make us getting higher and higher. We cannot leave it. We must keep it five times a day, not to be lazy to do. Some people they are lazy, they are not doing. They making, they said we will be pray at the end of day and end of day they cannot pray Sunnah, if they pray. Many of them and the end of day they try, they say, "We are tired. Today we cannot pray. Later we do." So like this. No be when you hear adhān, if you have place, time, quickly finish your praying and be light, not to be this heavy for you, heaviness for you. This is, In Sha Allah, for naṣīḥah for people to be all time in this way, way of Prophet.
And we hope to be Allāh next year for, In Sha Allah, we hope – because many people they are making, attacking Islām and the most difficult who attack from inside. They claiming Islām and they are more, most of, the more worst one – enemy for Islām. If you do something, quickly coming saying, "This is ḥarām. You cannot do this. This is shirk. You cannot make shirk." Of course we cannot make shirk. Who make shirk? They was your ancestor they was worshipping idol. And you make who praising Prophet like mushrik? This is you are making yourself enemy for Muslims, for Prophet, for whole good people. After you say "I'm Muslim" and making fitnah between Muslim?
But, In Sha Allah, Allāh He promise Prophet whole world it will, it must, it will be Muslim. And especially this people who making fitnah, they will disappear. It will be pure Islām, the best Islām. Not like this days. There is one, one man he writer and Mawlānā was saying, loving him too much from old time. And he is sometimes saying, good writer, saying there is Islām nothing can stop, only it's only one thing stopping Islām to spread all around the world because they know everywhere they are. What is this? He said "The Muslims" – who claiming they are Muslim and they doing against Islām. So people saying, "This is Islām." No this is not Islām. This is, they are claiming they are Muslim and they are making Islām by their idea. And they are also coming from people who cannot attack Islām. They if attack Islām, Islām can stop but they are coming, giving, putting this people inside Islām to destroy Islām.
This is only you can say. Because everywhere even one small boy coming for you claiming, "This is shirk. This is bid‘ah." He not knowing to read Qur’ān and they are coming. Yes this is not playing. Who he is ‘ālim, scholar he can say. Now everybody hearing from their ear and understanding different and they coming saying something. This is like playing. This no respect for this people. They are even, they are ‘ālim who claiming they are scholar, they don't have any adab, any good behaviour, any understanding. They are have only what – day and night they are working to destroy Islām. But Allāh He will destroy them and it will be His religion from East to West spread. The best religion, not what we seeing now with this people. Allāh make us to be in this nice day, In Sha Allah, maybe next Ramaḍān, In Sha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
106.DON’T DIE WITHOUT A WILL Saturday, 16 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 ‘Azza wa Jalla states in the Qu’rān: "In taraka khayrani l-waṣiyyah" (2:180). A will is an important matter. It is a sunnah to do it no matter how much a person has. It is not necessarily saying, "I'm leaving my possessions to such and such." There is no such thing if you don't have property you can't leave a will. "O children, I ask that you don't leave the right way. I leave you with the promise that you will get along, and do something for your country." This can be a will. It can include a lot.
It is a sunnah for us to leave a will. There is no need to look whether you are young or old because a sunnah can be done whenever. You gain its rewards whenever you do it. What is more important for us in the matter of the will is for people not living in a Muslim country. If you are living in unbelieving lands and you have not made a will, Allāh forbid, if something happens to you, they can take you and do as they like with you. They can cut you up and other things. Then if they want, in the end the worst is they can burn you. We need to pay attention to this. There is no burning in Islām. In Islām, there is respect for the human, for the Muslim, both dead and alive. There is respect for the bones and for the dirt. If they open the grave and the bones are still there, they move them aside. They do not take them out and throw them away. There is respect. Therefore, since there are lots of émigrés, in the millions, people living abroad, it is important for them to leave a will so they cannot do with us as they wish in those countries in which we are momentarily living. We will do as our religion requires. If you write a will, then they cannot say anything. If you do not write a will, then they can do with you as they like. For those who have newly become Muslim, their situation is more dire. Because if he does not leave a will that makes his family do as he wants, he is at their mercy. They can do according to their tradition and bury without washing, praying, and so on. What is worse than that, is burning and turning them into dust and ashes. That is why it is important.
When a person leaves a will, he gains rewards and he preserves himself, his body. He is not subject to that torture. Because when a person dies, most of the soul comes out but one-sixth remains, they say. So even when they wash a person, he feels whether it is cold or warm. Therefore, it is not good to keep the dead waiting for long in the cold morgue and such. These people are faithless. The more faithless they become, the more pitiless and ignorant they become. They think the person is dead now and he is unaware of anything. He can neither hear nor feel. He can hear, however. We remind him how to answer [talqīn] and he hears. Allāh who created you tells you. Who created him, you or Allāh? "A-antum takhluqūnahu am naḥnu l-khāliqūn" (56:59), says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Is it you who creates, You are Allāh, or are We the Creator? says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Alā anta yā Allāh You are the Creator. You know our condition. Therefore, we need to be careful. A will is more important for those kinds of people.
Today, In Sha Allah, we saying about will because in this month many of our brothers they pass away. Some of them, their family, because they don't have any will, not left any will behind them, some of them bury as without washing, without doing Islāmic procedure for dead people. Some of them they try to burn him. So Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying in, "In taraka khayrani l-waṣiyyah" (2:180), to be, to leave behind you right will it is sunnah. Prophet he say this sunnah. Everybody must do it. For Muslim also they can left will behind them . If they don't have money, even they can say, "I my will to be my children, my wife, to be in right way, to not go out of right way, not going to ḥarām, not going to be do bad thing." This also. But if he has money, he can also make will for money. And will cannot be for inheritors. Only one third of his what he left, can give for will. Now there are people they are making hundred percent and he can give for everybody even for inheritor. But in Islām inheritors they cannot be have anything from will. And not more than one third of inheritance. So this is important but more important for Muslim who are living in country, non-Muslim country.
There is millions of Muslims they are living there and now they giving, every day they making new law, law of shayṭān, law of bad thing. Only... as they destroy whole nature, also they want to destroy everything from human being from this world. Everyday they are making new law. So to protect from this law you must make will – "Don't make this after, when I die. Don't, I don't want this to done for me and I don't like this." This is when you do this, they saying, "We are following law and this law it is our law." Not for they not accept the Creator but they accept to what they done from law. Alḥamdulilah, they make law to be until now respected for will. Maybe after now, what we don't know what it will be accepted, but until now it's accepted. So who, especially for Muslim living
in this outside of Muslim country, and especially for Muslim who not born Muslim, they become Muslim after. Allāh give them hidāyah and they are following good way.
And once, one from our brothers, also he is living in Lebanon, he is saying he is become Muslim. Last time he come he said, "I the most thing I worry about what it will be after my death, how it will bury." So many of our brothers they not thinking about this. But this last month in Ramaḍān there was two cases. It is was one of our brothers pass away. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, his family they want first to burn him but after they accept to bury him. But they bury him as without washing, without – in not like Islāmic procedure. But also, Alhamdulilah, okay they can. Our brothers they pray janāzah for him and it is okay.
But now there is another case, they insist to burn him. And this is in Islām our body respected in life and after life also. And in Islām no burning at all. The most forbidden thing – to burn people. Even in war you not allowed to burn. You can, they can do anything else but not to burn. Because why this wisdom? Because Allāh He create us and He know the best and He saying when somebody pass away one of six, six, one-sixth of soul it is still in your body so you can feel hot and cold and even you hear. For this making for them so this people, materialist people, they not accept this. "It is he is just passed away, nothing affect him – burn him, crush his head after burn him." No respect for any. After they said, "We are respecting. We are human being we have humanist," and they are doing the worst for human. So for this, very important to our brothers and sisters who are not born Muslim to declare this in will for them. After them, if anything happen to not be done like this, to following procedure of religion of Islām. And it is who make will, Allāh reward him because he following also sunnah and he keep himself from this bad thing. Because people following their thought it is easy but it is not easy. It is very bad action they done, they are doing. Now the last days they are doing every bad thing but they are thinking they are doing good. Because they don't have any belief – only belief for when people he alive is okay. After finish. Nothing after this. But real life after this and to go to other life also you must be done something for you, for yourself because nobody else can object. Even whole people saying, "No no we must do this," they are not accepting. But if there is one piece of paper, everything easy. Allāh help us from this dunyā full of shayṭān and his follower. Every day they are trying to destroy every good thing. Every good thing they want to destroy. Be careful. Be awake, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
107.ALLAH LOVES THE BELIEVERS Sunday, 17 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.
Who is Allāh's beloved servant? Allāh's beloved servant is the person who is a pious believer. He obeys Allāh, is patient with what comes from Allāh, and accepts. The person who does what He commands is the pious person. He is the person whom Allāh loves. Our aim in this world is to become an acceptable servant in the sight of Allāh and a servant whom Allāh loves. Allāh" : Inna Llāha lā yuḥibbu l-kāfirīn" (3:32). Who doesn't Allāh like? He does not like the unbelievers. Who is the kāfir? The one who does not acknowledge Allāh and who disobeys Allāh's commands: "I don't accept these orders and can't do them. They are not good according to my thinking. My thinking is I want things that satisfy my ego more." The person who says, "The soul and the like, spirituality doesn't benefit me," who opposes Allāh's commands, and who doesn't accept Allāh has become an unbeliever, meaning a kāfir. In any event, most of the world is like that these days, Allāh forbid. They are kāfir. What becomes of them then? They are people whom Allāh does not like. He gives them sustenance and all kinds of things. Even though He does not like them, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla tolerates them such that as long as they are in this world, as long they are alive, the door of repentance is open. If they repent, they enter amongst the servants whom Allāh loves. So He gives them all kinds of blessings. He gives them all fine things. Until the end of their life, even at the end of their life if they repent, Allāh will accept their repentance.
Therefore, if they ask why Allāh does not like unbelievers, it is because Allāh gives them all sorts of opportunities so they come to believe and they accept Allāh. When they do not accept... Of course Allāh loves His pious servant. If they repent and become Muslim, Allāh will also love them. It means they do not like themselves. They are harming themselves and are looking for all sorts of trouble. May Allāh protect us, In Sha Allah. May He make us amongst His beloved servants, In Sha Allah. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He, who He love? He love the believer and who are obeying Him, who doing what He like to do and accepting what coming from Allāh. This people ṣāliḥ mu’min – meaning good believer, nice people. They are accepting and what coming from Allāh they saying, "This is from our Lord. We are happy with this." Everything coming, not coming from anybody else, only coming from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. And Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is know what we need – He give us. Allāh He love them and our aim in this life to be loved
by Allāh. And when Allāh love, Prophet also he love us, Awliyā’ also love us, mu’min also they are love us. Who Allāh He not like and He didn't, He not loving? He not love the kāfir. What meaning kāfir? Kāfir meaning who not accept what Allāh give us, not accepting His order. They are even coming against this order. They saying, "What is this? Not suitable for us. How we can be fast nineteen hours without drinking any water, without eating anything? It is not good for our health." This is what many crazy people say and "We are not accepting." This not good – not accepting praying, not accepting giving zakāt, even they are not accepting Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Now the most of world they are not accepting the real being – all, we are all false, only real one Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. And this crazy mindless people not accepting. This is kāfir. But this is kāfir: "Inna Llāha lā yuḥibbu l-kāfirīn" (3:32). Allāh He, there is verse in Qur’ān – He is not loving this people. Why He didn't, He not loving? Because they are coming against Him and they are because they don't love their, themself. They are loving their ego. they are not loving themself. If they love themself, Allāh will love them. When they love themself, they will must be obey for Allāh. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, even with this people who is not accepting Him, they give him all everything from eating, drinking, water, money, land, woman, children, gold, treasure. Everything Allāh give them but they are not thanking, not accepting.
What, why Allāh He give them this? He, because if He not love them, He give because dunyā not worth anything in Divinely Presence of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Even this He give this for people to make them if they accept, Allāh He will forgive them. He, until the last minute, He give them chance to be loved by Allāh but they not accepting. They don't love themself even so why Allāh He love them? If you are not loving yourself, why people will love you? Why Allāh He will love you? This is how Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is Merciful, He is very Merciful, giving all the creature everything without asking anything from them, only if they do, they do for themself. And we must be thankful for Him to He give us everything and He love us. Who are believer, mu’min, he must be happy because he, Allāh He love believer. He love good people who are following His order and accepting what He give us. Allāh make us, all of us, from lover of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
108.THE STRONG ONE CONTROLS HIMSELF Monday, 18 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.
It says: "Aṭ-ṭarīqatu taḥammulu l-aḍdād." Tarīqah is to accept and endure opposition. You need to tolerate the things you do not like. That is how ṭarīqah people are. The regular Muslim gets angry at the smallest thing and could start a fight. However, one needs to tolerate it and be patient when one is a person of ṭarīqah. Even if one does not like it, he needs to endure and be patient. This is the way of the Shaykhs. When you face something you do not like and you say, "This is also from Allāh," and you are patient, it makes your station rise. It makes you gain rewards. You become valuable in the sight of Allāh. You go higher.
However, people agree with their ego when they are capable of not. Their ego says: "No, don't be like that. You need to answer him. If he has done something to you, you need to do twice as much so he may take lesson and get better." You do that, and the matter grows. It gets worse. This time it harms you too. Whereas, it is not useful for the Hereafter either. Most people can speak against others. They might not like someone. Now for that person to know this and tolerate it, is a greater character. It is a great power. Patience is power. Patience, meaning the person who can be patient is the powerful person. The powerful person is not the one with muscles and the like, but the one who is patient with that situation. Even though he is able to respond, he is patient and acts as if he did not hear it. Or even if he heard it, he does not take it into consideration at all. As our Holy Prophet said, it is proof of the strength of that person.
It is End Times now, and there are many things we did not hear about before. Now, a man comes out and using these tools and gadgets, computers and phones, they write things against each other. One says one thing and the other says three things whereas, you should not mind it at all.
There are plenty of people who wonder what people have said about them today. Those who are watching and reading: "What did they say today? What did they do today?" They look to see what people said about them. "Oh, good." Sometimes it is not bad, they said good things. Some said bad things. "I'll show you! How dare you? You're so lowly. You're so vile," and I don't know what. They start cursing. This is your situation. He is
making you worse than himself. In the meantime, through this empty talk, they both commit sin and feel bad.You become disregarded people in the sight of Allāh and the Prophet. Whereas, if you never look at it, or if you do look at it and are aware of it, you do not pay attention to it, and you do not say anything back, it makes your station rise.
We are saying this because while in the past someone would gossip and another would come to you telling about it, now it is immediate and there is no need for that. Gossip, backbiting, defamation and lying machines are everywhere. Slander... They look. There is no need for anybody. They look and tell. Now, in this matter, we need to not look at all. If you look, so if you glance, you should not take it into consideration. It could be that someone else might tell you and you hear that the person is such and such. You need to not say anything. Allāh will do the defending. He will send the angels to defend you against that person. If you attempt to tell him by yourself, then you would not be able to get out of the situation. And most of the time bigger problems result. There, being patient in this situation is what we mean for people.
They told a walī that someone said such and such about him. He said, "Sub Han Allah. Let me thank that man since he insulted my ego. He didn't do it enough. My ego is even worse." That is how we should be. When they say something: "Our ego deserves it. It is evil. Our ego deserves all sorts of insults and all." There is no need to respond to those people. May Allāh make everyone able to control their ego. May we not be tricked into such games of shayṭān, in shā’a Llāh. Prophet saying to be strong. Who is strong, who is controlling himself, because this time we are living in, time many people they like to argue, to say something for each other. Shayṭān give blow [up] their ego, they thought they are big and other not good. And beginning to say bad thing for people. This is time of this kind of thing but what we will do? We must not listen to this. Don't be coming to saying something against this people because their ego they are controlling them and if you are try to say something for them you are saying from your ego also. Because Prophet saying no need to argue, no need to say something. Allāh defend, "Inna Llāha yudāfi‘u ‘ani l-mu’minīn," Allāh He defend for mu’min. This time also. Before it was somebody coming and saying, "This man saying for this for you, this saying that for you." But this time no need for this, there is whole this machine – telephone, computer, other thing – they are doing this. And people they are only looking for this today. "What this people saying for me?" He open. "Oh he say... Okay didn't say anything." And looking other, "Oh what is this? He is saying this for me? How dare he is saying this, he is saying for me? I will tell what he is reality. He is like this. He is crazy. He is liar. He is untrustful. He..." He reply other reply also and became big. But to strong one, what Prophet saying – strong to not listening to this thing. Allāh will defend for him. Shayṭān making people to speak against each other. Now no need for people to speak, there is machine. Before to come from one to other, maybe need some days to tell him. Now in one minute. Beginning to look for each other, to swear, swear of each other, to say bad thing for each other. This machine for making gossip and making speaking against each
other and making lie for people who are not doing anything. They saying something. They never done bad thing. This machine like this so don't look and to be angry for this. Even you are knowing this people they are saying something for you, don't be sad or angry because you didn't do wrong thing. They are doing. They must be sad because when you are be silent, Allāh reward you and make your level higher. You coming higher and higher. But if you are beginning to barking, to speak to this against, you will be have no reward and your level coming down also.
Many people, the most of people this time, they are following their ego. Quickly coming angry for everything. Okay we can, we know people they can speak against you and you are doing, going quickly saying for them, "What are you doing? What you said this, you said that." And become big problem. But if you are keep quiet, it will be Allāh reward you also and no problem and you will be happy. There is one big Awliyā’u Llāh. They was saying, this man he was saying, sending one letter for him and was saying everything in this letter. And he [the Awliyā'] give money for his servant and [said], "Take this for this man. Thank him for this because he said for our ego what we our ego deserve this. And he make this, and he also give us from his rewards because he... in Ākhirah when you say something like this, Allāh will take from your reward give for other man. And this is for money for this wages, his wages he will give us from his reward in Ākhirah and this dunyā. We thanking for his saying for our ego what he said in this letter and it is even not enough, for our ego it is more bad than this what he said." And when he, other one, when he see this, he be becoming asking for forgiveness and saying, "Forgive me for what I done. I, I regret for this."
Old people they was looking for order of Prophet – how to be behave. Now they are teaching in everywhere, "You must be defend yourself. Don't be afraid. You must speak. You must say..." No. When you say this, it be become more problem. If you, you know and keep quite also it is good because you know and Allāh know. Allāh help people to not follow their ego because this is from ṭarīqah. Taḥammu l-aḍdād – ṭarīqah meaning to be can carry thing, tolerate, tolerate. But there are people coming against you, everything may be difficult for you, you must be accept and carry. Not to attack and not be refuse or to not be not happy with this. This is ṭarīqah and this is the most difficult thing. When people saying something for you and you can reply but you didn't reply – it really difficult for people.
Allāh help us to be real in ṭarīqah and following this order, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
109.NAZAR BAR QADAM Tuesday, 19 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 Ṭarīqah is the Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah. The Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah has millions, tens of millions, more than a hundred million, and even hundreds of millions of murīds and followers. A lot of people follow it. Because it is the Ṭarīqah that preserves the Sharī‘ah and comes directly from our Holy Prophet. It also has lots of branches.
May Allāh... How should we say it? People go where their heart is at ease. One needs to follow his shaykh: "This is my Shaykh." It requires that he not look at others. Meaning whoever is in a Ṭarīqah and his heart is at ease there, let him face towards it and keep his heart there. The heart is important because faith comes from the heart. Shayṭān wants to ruin your faith, he wants to ruin a person's heart: "Your shaykh is good. That one is no good." That is how he makes Muslims fight against each other. He also makes people of Ṭarīqah fight against each other. Whereas Ṭarīqah is to look at your own ego. It says: "Naẓar bar qadam." Meaning you need to watch yourself. You need to watch where you are going and look at your own situation. It is not your job to look if this is better or that is higher. You continue on your path. Continuing that way is the greatest of spiritual gifts. It is the greatest virtue. Allāh gives its reward. Affection opens up your heart and you get its virtue, believing in your Shaykh. Thank Allāh our Shaykh is upon the true path.
As it is, like we said, there are plenty everywhere but people with virtue are few. Yet still, even if there is no virtue for them there, if people are connected there and their hearts are there, then their kismet (destiny) is there. You should not interfere. It is good to bring people from the outside, others, to the way. There is no need to deal with other shaykhs and other murīds. Because, in any event, they are offering their prayers, they are fasting, and making dhikr. So there is no need to compare: "You are better. I'm better," between yourselves. Because this is not a competition. It is not a race: "I won. You won." If it happens like that, then the ego gets in the middle. You look at your own condition. You can meet with those who accept you. No need with those who do not accept. Anyway, the brothers around you are enough. Because shayṭān can enter from any door. He tries every way to ruin a person's faith and affection. He tries the way of Ṭarīqah, the way of religion, money, and all kinds of good and bad Shayṭān's traps are plenty. We
need to be careful. We need to not go astray. We need to be thankful. We are holding on to the skirts of Shaykhs. People who hold on to the skirts of Shaykhs, it becomes salvation for them. It also becomes a joy for them in this world. It is an even greater joy in the Hereafter, In Sha Allah.
May our, Allāh's, way be constant. May those who are not on the true way come to this way, in shā’a Llāh. May they come to the firm way. May they come to the way of the Prophet In Sha Allah.
Our Ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah, it is big Ṭarīqah. Their follower, there is millions of follower for Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah, maybe more than hundred million follower for Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah at least. There many more, much more I think. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, and this they have many Mashāyikh, many ways, many teaching, but all going for Naqshbandī, from Naqshbandī. They calling Naqshbandī and our way also Naqshbandī and coming, al- ḥamdu liLlāh, from this Golden Chain. The bless coming, continuing, pouring from this way, al-ḥamdu liLlāh. Many of them they are stopped but still, with love of people, this continuing for giving happiness, giving hidāyah for people. But fayḍ it is different but also it is... Never mind.
And you, if you many time, shayṭān making people to be enemy even with this. You say, "Your Shaykh is not so strong like my Shaykh. My Shaykh is better than you. Other Shaykh he is better." This for murīd not acceptable. Mawlānā Shaykh all time saying, "We don't want to take any murīd from other Shaykh but if they have love and their heart coming toward us, they can come." But if... We not say people, who from another Ṭarīqah people, "Come here, we are better than you. You are..." and other Ṭarīqah, "No we are better. We doing this dhikr much more than you and we are this making this practice it is more important from you." This is not good because look like comparing each other and trying to win one for each other. Ṭarīqah it is not like this. Ṭarīqah only you look for yourself and you saying, "Naẓar bar qadam," meaning only look where you are walking, don't look for other.
But if... your heart it must be strong. Don't listen to other people also. If only you are following your Shaykh, it is enough for you to be with him and to be with Grand Shaykh also in Jannah. Don't make your heart, "Oh this they have different practice. They are stronger than us." We know this practice also but you cannot do it. So, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, Mawlānā he was making easy for you, for our Ṭarīqah people, to only make the minimum thing and to be with Mashāyikh. This is very important, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this we have it. Power of Shaykh it's enough for us. So no need to tell other people, "Come here." But you can tell, not from Ṭarīqah, from outside Ṭarīqah, who they don't have any knowledge for religion, not knowledge for not practicing, you can encourage them, "Come to see for yourself. Come to find happiness. Come to see light." This people you
can give them, bring them to hidāyah. Not looking for already there is people following other Mashāyikh and to try them to bring them to you. No need.
We are not making game, who will win, who will get more people with him. It is not not like this but shayṭān using everything. H
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May Allāh make us all firm footed on this way, in In Sha Allah, on this nice way. Because one's foot can slip on this way, as also a person can slip. Guidance is from Allāh. One can get guided or one can follow shayṭān too. Therefore our constant du‘ā’ to Allāh is, do not make us deviate from the right way, from the good way. We should also not look down on anybody. Because guidance is from Allāh. He can give guidance to anybody He likes and make them come to the right way. Anybody He wants can also deviate from the way. Therefore, it is not good to be proud, saying, "I'm this and I'm that. I'm an ‘ābid, I'm a zāhid, etc." It is good to be thankful to Allāh since favours increase with gratitude.
‘Īsā ‘alayhi s-salām would always travel, sometimes by himself, sometimes with his disciples, and sometimes with others who were not his followers. They would walk around with ‘Īsā ‘alayhi s-salām. He is called the Messiah. The Messiah means the one who travels, Jesus Christ. Christians are called Masīḥī too because they follow the Masīḥ ‘alayhi s-salām. Once he was travelling on the road and one of the disciples was next to him. A man came up to them who had been a bandit for 40 years, and when he saw the Prophet ‘Īsā ‘alayhi s-salām, due to his light and his beauty, he was sorry for what he had done. He decided to repent and be one of the ones who followed that prophet. He approached him with regret. The disciple next to him thought: "Why does this man have anything to do with us? He's a bandit. His deeds are terrible. It isn't right for him to come with people like us who are next to the prophet. It is not proper." He was thinking and walking like this. The other one was coming from behind: "I'm not worthy of these people. I'm a terrible man. I've done very bad things. I don't deserve them. How am I going to be with them?"
Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla revealed to ‘Īsā ‘alayhi s-salām that, "I have erased what these two people have done in the past. Let them start new from the beginning." He erased the banditry the bandit had done for 40 years. He erased it in an instant. He also erased the worship, good deeds, and rewards – everything the disciple had done. Now they were both equal. "Now, start together," He said. That is Allāh. Allāh can do as He wishes. He erased the bandit's sins. He also erased the rewards of the other one because he became arrogant. They started anew. This time that man who was a bandit became one of the
disciples. So, as we said, these things are in the hands of Allāh. Do not trust in your thinking, "I studied for so many years next to such hodja. I learned knowledge for years in such a madrasah. I've been a preacher for so many years. I've been a dervish for so many years." Do not trust in your own works and get arrogant. If you do so you might suffer punishment. Allāh forbid.
What should you do? You should be thankful. You can say, "Thank Allāh I've been on this way for 10 years. Thank Allāh we're on this way for five years. Thank Allāh for 20 years, for 50 years, or 100 years we've been on this way." And this is a favour of Allāh. "It didn't happen with what I've done or with my will. It happened with Allāh's nice favor," you should say. This is adab. Otherwise, you would be without manners. As Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla says, you might have everything erased and would have to start over.
May Allāh protect us. May Allāh not make us follow our ego, In Sha Allah.
Alhamdulilah we are following nice way and we are happy with way of mashāyikh, for way of Allāh, Prophet. But it is also not easy. You must be hard-standing where you are standing, to not fall down. Because many people can be follow their ego. Many of them make to be proud and they be fall down from high to lower place. How we can be in, stay where we are and making getting higher and higher. To know this from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and He is giving more for people who are thanking Him for what He give; not saying, "This, I'm doing this hard. I'm good worshipper. I'm good doing this, good doing that, good." No. You said, "All this from His generous, min faḍli Rabbī (27:40)." Thank Him " Thank You O my Lord. Thank You, You make us to be in this way. Maybe if You don't make us like this, we can be other way, we not knowing this way at all." There is million of people they are not knowing this way – not million, billions. Not to be proud what we were doing.
Sayyidinā ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām he was very humble and he was also travelling all time. For this they calling him Masīḥ, Masīḥ meaning who making travel travelling, going everywhere – sayāḥat from sayāḥat. Coming and he many time going with people or alone or with his disciple, sometimes with one, sometime with more. And once he was going also travelling with one of his disciple and when they travelling there was one bad man, gangster, thief, like bandit one. He say 40 year he was this doing this bad thing, stealing, cutting road, taking from people everything. And he from front of him when he see Prophet ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām, he was, Allāh give him to his heart to be regret for what he done. When he see Prophet and his light and he said, "What I was done this for 40 year I do this bad thing? I want to be following Prophet and asking forgiveness from him." And he was going there and asking from Sayyidinā ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām and he was following him. But he was very ashamed. He said, "How can I be with this people?"
And disciple of ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām he said himself, "What is this man, he was very bad man, how he can be with us? We are following Prophet and we are going with Prophet and giving people advice, giving blessing people and this rubbish one following us? it is not nice thing." And other one he was also ashaming and going behind them. Every time, every step, he was blaming himself, "You are not deserve this to be with Prophet and follow him. You are rubbish. You are doing all this years and now you are going behind this Prophet ‘alayhi s- salām." And this that moment Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla giving waḥy for Sayyidinā ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s- salām. He said, "In this from until now what they done, this two man behind you. I He silmek ne demek? – erase what they do, what they... I erase all this thing. Now their book white. From now on I will write what they will do."
He erase this robber man and the, his sin finish. Other disciple also – reward what he was doing all his life also finish. From that time they are beginning again. This is from Allāh. Allāh when He want something we must be accept. And to look for everybody they can be better than us. We must be careful not be proud for what I'm doing, this, "I'm worshipping, 50 year. I'm studying religion, 10 year. I'm imām, 50 year. I'm proud for this." Don't say this. What you said, you say, "This is from His generous. We we are thanking Him for this." If you thank Him it will be giving you more and more. But if you know it from yourself, can be any time taking from you and no benefit for you and it will be you beginning from zero. Be careful and ask from Allāh to be save us from our ego. And thank Him for what He is giving us, this nice way way of Prophet. Allāh keep us in straight way to not fall down out from way.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
105.KEEP YOUR PRAYERS Friday, 15 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.
First, we congratulate you on the occasion of ‘Īd. May it be good, blessed, and holy, in shā’a Llāh. May it be a relief, Islām's relief. May it be better next year, because the condition of the Islamic world is miserable. They want to destroy Islām. The ones who want to destroy it call themselves Muslim. They cause the greatest damage to Islām. They do not bother with nonMuslims. They bother with Muslims. It is a great fitnah. May Allāh help us, In Sha Allah. Everything has an end. It is their time. In Sha Allah, their time will also be over.
Islām, true Islām, will prevail again. This time around, as Allāh promised our Holy Prophet, the whole world will become Muslim. There will not be a place left that is not Muslim. And these people of fitnah will either be reformed or they will go away from this world. These are hard days, but they are days of exchange – the more you are on the right way, the more Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla looks upon you with His gaze of grace and the more He loves you. When Allāh loves you, you do not want anything else. May this ‘Īd be good luck, In Sha Allah. It is ‘Īd now as we fasted Ramaḍān. We have offered prayers and fasts. May Allāh accept them. Make the intention and the du‘ā’ for this virtue to last from now on. Because Allāh gives according to the intention of the person. Do not say, "Ramaḍān is over. Let's go back to our old state." Always remember Allāh. Make dhikr to Allāh. Anyway, making dhikr means remembering Allāh. Let Allāh always be with you so everything will be easy for you. Everything is hard for the person who is not with Allāh. Their life is hard. They will have a hard end. As we said, everything passes in hardship for them. Something will happen and he will not understand it but it is coming from Allāh. It is either a punishment or a reward. If it is a punishment, the person needs to fix himself. If it is a test, he is patient and he earns its rewards, he sees the prize in the Hereafter.
Thanks to Allāh we have finished Ramaḍān now and have entered the month of Shawwāl. In Shawwāl, of course those who want, there is a six-day supererogatory fast. Every day is the equivalent of one month, and with the thirty days it counts as a year. Therefore, those who can fast should fast it. Sometimes in some places, people might be working and they are unable to do it. They are people with heavy work of course. Let
them make the intention: "If I can do it, I'll do it. If I can't do it, Allāh will give according to my intention." Other than that, pay attention to the five daily prayers. Prayer is the pillar of the religion. Don't say, "We prayed in Ramaḍān. No need for the rest." Maintain the prayer. Offer your prayers. Do not neglect them. Do not go anywhere before praying. Make sure to pray. So do not show resistance. The one who does not know how to pray can learn slowly. But those who know should certainly not neglect it. Now they go some place and they look at people there: "They are not praying. Why should we? They look like smart people. Let us not pray like them." They are not clever. Those who do not pray are foolish people because they are displaying themselves as low class. They are either in the non-responsible class, and nobody wants to be in that class. Everybody wants to be considered... The non-responsible class is the four-legged class. Allāh did not offer that to them. He says about us, "Karramnā banī Ādam" (17:70). "We have honored and elevated human beings," He says. There is an offer for us. Therefore, those who can, should both do the prayers and of course the fasts. Yet prayer is the pillar of the religion that needs to be paid attention to now and later. We should not neglect it.
May Allāh bless it. Let's keep it short. It is ‘Īd. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are finish Ramaḍān and today is ‘Īd, ‘Īdu l-Fiṭr. It is given by Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla for people, for human being. Prophet when he come to, came to Madīnah he saw, he see there is they making two days celebrating, making celebrate. And Prophet said, "There is this, two days, it is not from Allāh. Allāh change this two for you for first for ‘Īdu l-Fiṭr, second one for ‘Īdu l-Aḍḥá." So this is from heaven coming for us and it is also blessed, very blessed day and happy day for people. After fasting, this day of reward from Allāh and it is gift for whole human being. Who accept, they can be also have this bless from this day. But if not accept, what will we do? And in Shawwāl also there is fasting six days. This is Sunnah also from Prophet. Saying each day for like one month, so it will be with Ramaḍān, like one year. If you fasting it will be like one year for you. You can fast from second of Shawwāl until six day or you can fast slowly, slowly whole month – one day, one day, and it will be... Allāh accept as you fasting whole year. Of course this is very blessed you can do it. You must do it but there is of course some people they are working, hard working. They cannot do. Allāh give them for their intention. And second one also in Ramaḍān we, the people fasting and praying whole and praying tarāwīḥ. They was happy with praying. But many people after Ramaḍān also they are, they are leaving praying. Praying very important in Islām. It is gift from Allāh for us, to make us getting higher and higher. We cannot leave it. We must keep it five times a day, not to be lazy to do. Some people they are lazy, they are not doing. They making, they said we will be pray at the end of day and end of day they cannot pray Sunnah, if they pray. Many of them and the end of day they try, they say, "We are tired. Today we cannot pray. Later we do." So like this. No be when you hear adhān, if you have place, time, quickly finish your praying and be light, not to be this heavy for you, heaviness for you. This is, In Sha Allah, for naṣīḥah for people to be all time in this way, way of Prophet.
And we hope to be Allāh next year for, In Sha Allah, we hope – because many people they are making, attacking Islām and the most difficult who attack from inside. They claiming Islām and they are more, most of, the more worst one – enemy for Islām. If you do something, quickly coming saying, "This is ḥarām. You cannot do this. This is shirk. You cannot make shirk." Of course we cannot make shirk. Who make shirk? They was your ancestor they was worshipping idol. And you make who praising Prophet like mushrik? This is you are making yourself enemy for Muslims, for Prophet, for whole good people. After you say "I'm Muslim" and making fitnah between Muslim?
But, In Sha Allah, Allāh He promise Prophet whole world it will, it must, it will be Muslim. And especially this people who making fitnah, they will disappear. It will be pure Islām, the best Islām. Not like this days. There is one, one man he writer and Mawlānā was saying, loving him too much from old time. And he is sometimes saying, good writer, saying there is Islām nothing can stop, only it's only one thing stopping Islām to spread all around the world because they know everywhere they are. What is this? He said "The Muslims" – who claiming they are Muslim and they doing against Islām. So people saying, "This is Islām." No this is not Islām. This is, they are claiming they are Muslim and they are making Islām by their idea. And they are also coming from people who cannot attack Islām. They if attack Islām, Islām can stop but they are coming, giving, putting this people inside Islām to destroy Islām.
This is only you can say. Because everywhere even one small boy coming for you claiming, "This is shirk. This is bid‘ah." He not knowing to read Qur’ān and they are coming. Yes this is not playing. Who he is ‘ālim, scholar he can say. Now everybody hearing from their ear and understanding different and they coming saying something. This is like playing. This no respect for this people. They are even, they are ‘ālim who claiming they are scholar, they don't have any adab, any good behaviour, any understanding. They are have only what – day and night they are working to destroy Islām. But Allāh He will destroy them and it will be His religion from East to West spread. The best religion, not what we seeing now with this people. Allāh make us to be in this nice day, In Sha Allah, maybe next Ramaḍān, In Sha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
106.DON’T DIE WITHOUT A WILL Saturday, 16 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 ‘Azza wa Jalla states in the Qu’rān: "In taraka khayrani l-waṣiyyah" (2:180). A will is an important matter. It is a sunnah to do it no matter how much a person has. It is not necessarily saying, "I'm leaving my possessions to such and such." There is no such thing if you don't have property you can't leave a will. "O children, I ask that you don't leave the right way. I leave you with the promise that you will get along, and do something for your country." This can be a will. It can include a lot.
It is a sunnah for us to leave a will. There is no need to look whether you are young or old because a sunnah can be done whenever. You gain its rewards whenever you do it. What is more important for us in the matter of the will is for people not living in a Muslim country. If you are living in unbelieving lands and you have not made a will, Allāh forbid, if something happens to you, they can take you and do as they like with you. They can cut you up and other things. Then if they want, in the end the worst is they can burn you. We need to pay attention to this. There is no burning in Islām. In Islām, there is respect for the human, for the Muslim, both dead and alive. There is respect for the bones and for the dirt. If they open the grave and the bones are still there, they move them aside. They do not take them out and throw them away. There is respect. Therefore, since there are lots of émigrés, in the millions, people living abroad, it is important for them to leave a will so they cannot do with us as they wish in those countries in which we are momentarily living. We will do as our religion requires. If you write a will, then they cannot say anything. If you do not write a will, then they can do with you as they like. For those who have newly become Muslim, their situation is more dire. Because if he does not leave a will that makes his family do as he wants, he is at their mercy. They can do according to their tradition and bury without washing, praying, and so on. What is worse than that, is burning and turning them into dust and ashes. That is why it is important.
When a person leaves a will, he gains rewards and he preserves himself, his body. He is not subject to that torture. Because when a person dies, most of the soul comes out but one-sixth remains, they say. So even when they wash a person, he feels whether it is cold or warm. Therefore, it is not good to keep the dead waiting for long in the cold morgue and such. These people are faithless. The more faithless they become, the more pitiless and ignorant they become. They think the person is dead now and he is unaware of anything. He can neither hear nor feel. He can hear, however. We remind him how to answer [talqīn] and he hears. Allāh who created you tells you. Who created him, you or Allāh? "A-antum takhluqūnahu am naḥnu l-khāliqūn" (56:59), says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Is it you who creates, You are Allāh, or are We the Creator? says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Alā anta yā Allāh You are the Creator. You know our condition. Therefore, we need to be careful. A will is more important for those kinds of people.
Today, In Sha Allah, we saying about will because in this month many of our brothers they pass away. Some of them, their family, because they don't have any will, not left any will behind them, some of them bury as without washing, without doing Islāmic procedure for dead people. Some of them they try to burn him. So Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying in, "In taraka khayrani l-waṣiyyah" (2:180), to be, to leave behind you right will it is sunnah. Prophet he say this sunnah. Everybody must do it. For Muslim also they can left will behind them . If they don't have money, even they can say, "I my will to be my children, my wife, to be in right way, to not go out of right way, not going to ḥarām, not going to be do bad thing." This also. But if he has money, he can also make will for money. And will cannot be for inheritors. Only one third of his what he left, can give for will. Now there are people they are making hundred percent and he can give for everybody even for inheritor. But in Islām inheritors they cannot be have anything from will. And not more than one third of inheritance. So this is important but more important for Muslim who are living in country, non-Muslim country.
There is millions of Muslims they are living there and now they giving, every day they making new law, law of shayṭān, law of bad thing. Only... as they destroy whole nature, also they want to destroy everything from human being from this world. Everyday they are making new law. So to protect from this law you must make will – "Don't make this after, when I die. Don't, I don't want this to done for me and I don't like this." This is when you do this, they saying, "We are following law and this law it is our law." Not for they not accept the Creator but they accept to what they done from law. Alḥamdulilah, they make law to be until now respected for will. Maybe after now, what we don't know what it will be accepted, but until now it's accepted. So who, especially for Muslim living
in this outside of Muslim country, and especially for Muslim who not born Muslim, they become Muslim after. Allāh give them hidāyah and they are following good way.
And once, one from our brothers, also he is living in Lebanon, he is saying he is become Muslim. Last time he come he said, "I the most thing I worry about what it will be after my death, how it will bury." So many of our brothers they not thinking about this. But this last month in Ramaḍān there was two cases. It is was one of our brothers pass away. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, his family they want first to burn him but after they accept to bury him. But they bury him as without washing, without – in not like Islāmic procedure. But also, Alhamdulilah, okay they can. Our brothers they pray janāzah for him and it is okay.
But now there is another case, they insist to burn him. And this is in Islām our body respected in life and after life also. And in Islām no burning at all. The most forbidden thing – to burn people. Even in war you not allowed to burn. You can, they can do anything else but not to burn. Because why this wisdom? Because Allāh He create us and He know the best and He saying when somebody pass away one of six, six, one-sixth of soul it is still in your body so you can feel hot and cold and even you hear. For this making for them so this people, materialist people, they not accept this. "It is he is just passed away, nothing affect him – burn him, crush his head after burn him." No respect for any. After they said, "We are respecting. We are human being we have humanist," and they are doing the worst for human. So for this, very important to our brothers and sisters who are not born Muslim to declare this in will for them. After them, if anything happen to not be done like this, to following procedure of religion of Islām. And it is who make will, Allāh reward him because he following also sunnah and he keep himself from this bad thing. Because people following their thought it is easy but it is not easy. It is very bad action they done, they are doing. Now the last days they are doing every bad thing but they are thinking they are doing good. Because they don't have any belief – only belief for when people he alive is okay. After finish. Nothing after this. But real life after this and to go to other life also you must be done something for you, for yourself because nobody else can object. Even whole people saying, "No no we must do this," they are not accepting. But if there is one piece of paper, everything easy. Allāh help us from this dunyā full of shayṭān and his follower. Every day they are trying to destroy every good thing. Every good thing they want to destroy. Be careful. Be awake, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
107.ALLAH LOVES THE BELIEVERS Sunday, 17 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.
Who is Allāh's beloved servant? Allāh's beloved servant is the person who is a pious believer. He obeys Allāh, is patient with what comes from Allāh, and accepts. The person who does what He commands is the pious person. He is the person whom Allāh loves. Our aim in this world is to become an acceptable servant in the sight of Allāh and a servant whom Allāh loves. Allāh" : Inna Llāha lā yuḥibbu l-kāfirīn" (3:32). Who doesn't Allāh like? He does not like the unbelievers. Who is the kāfir? The one who does not acknowledge Allāh and who disobeys Allāh's commands: "I don't accept these orders and can't do them. They are not good according to my thinking. My thinking is I want things that satisfy my ego more." The person who says, "The soul and the like, spirituality doesn't benefit me," who opposes Allāh's commands, and who doesn't accept Allāh has become an unbeliever, meaning a kāfir. In any event, most of the world is like that these days, Allāh forbid. They are kāfir. What becomes of them then? They are people whom Allāh does not like. He gives them sustenance and all kinds of things. Even though He does not like them, Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla tolerates them such that as long as they are in this world, as long they are alive, the door of repentance is open. If they repent, they enter amongst the servants whom Allāh loves. So He gives them all kinds of blessings. He gives them all fine things. Until the end of their life, even at the end of their life if they repent, Allāh will accept their repentance.
Therefore, if they ask why Allāh does not like unbelievers, it is because Allāh gives them all sorts of opportunities so they come to believe and they accept Allāh. When they do not accept... Of course Allāh loves His pious servant. If they repent and become Muslim, Allāh will also love them. It means they do not like themselves. They are harming themselves and are looking for all sorts of trouble. May Allāh protect us, In Sha Allah. May He make us amongst His beloved servants, In Sha Allah. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He, who He love? He love the believer and who are obeying Him, who doing what He like to do and accepting what coming from Allāh. This people ṣāliḥ mu’min – meaning good believer, nice people. They are accepting and what coming from Allāh they saying, "This is from our Lord. We are happy with this." Everything coming, not coming from anybody else, only coming from Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. And Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is know what we need – He give us. Allāh He love them and our aim in this life to be loved
by Allāh. And when Allāh love, Prophet also he love us, Awliyā’ also love us, mu’min also they are love us. Who Allāh He not like and He didn't, He not loving? He not love the kāfir. What meaning kāfir? Kāfir meaning who not accept what Allāh give us, not accepting His order. They are even coming against this order. They saying, "What is this? Not suitable for us. How we can be fast nineteen hours without drinking any water, without eating anything? It is not good for our health." This is what many crazy people say and "We are not accepting." This not good – not accepting praying, not accepting giving zakāt, even they are not accepting Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Now the most of world they are not accepting the real being – all, we are all false, only real one Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. And this crazy mindless people not accepting. This is kāfir. But this is kāfir: "Inna Llāha lā yuḥibbu l-kāfirīn" (3:32). Allāh He, there is verse in Qur’ān – He is not loving this people. Why He didn't, He not loving? Because they are coming against Him and they are because they don't love their, themself. They are loving their ego. they are not loving themself. If they love themself, Allāh will love them. When they love themself, they will must be obey for Allāh. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, even with this people who is not accepting Him, they give him all everything from eating, drinking, water, money, land, woman, children, gold, treasure. Everything Allāh give them but they are not thanking, not accepting.
What, why Allāh He give them this? He, because if He not love them, He give because dunyā not worth anything in Divinely Presence of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Even this He give this for people to make them if they accept, Allāh He will forgive them. He, until the last minute, He give them chance to be loved by Allāh but they not accepting. They don't love themself even so why Allāh He love them? If you are not loving yourself, why people will love you? Why Allāh He will love you? This is how Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla He is Merciful, He is very Merciful, giving all the creature everything without asking anything from them, only if they do, they do for themself. And we must be thankful for Him to He give us everything and He love us. Who are believer, mu’min, he must be happy because he, Allāh He love believer. He love good people who are following His order and accepting what He give us. Allāh make us, all of us, from lover of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
108.THE STRONG ONE CONTROLS HIMSELF Monday, 18 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.
It says: "Aṭ-ṭarīqatu taḥammulu l-aḍdād." Tarīqah is to accept and endure opposition. You need to tolerate the things you do not like. That is how ṭarīqah people are. The regular Muslim gets angry at the smallest thing and could start a fight. However, one needs to tolerate it and be patient when one is a person of ṭarīqah. Even if one does not like it, he needs to endure and be patient. This is the way of the Shaykhs. When you face something you do not like and you say, "This is also from Allāh," and you are patient, it makes your station rise. It makes you gain rewards. You become valuable in the sight of Allāh. You go higher.
However, people agree with their ego when they are capable of not. Their ego says: "No, don't be like that. You need to answer him. If he has done something to you, you need to do twice as much so he may take lesson and get better." You do that, and the matter grows. It gets worse. This time it harms you too. Whereas, it is not useful for the Hereafter either. Most people can speak against others. They might not like someone. Now for that person to know this and tolerate it, is a greater character. It is a great power. Patience is power. Patience, meaning the person who can be patient is the powerful person. The powerful person is not the one with muscles and the like, but the one who is patient with that situation. Even though he is able to respond, he is patient and acts as if he did not hear it. Or even if he heard it, he does not take it into consideration at all. As our Holy Prophet said, it is proof of the strength of that person.
It is End Times now, and there are many things we did not hear about before. Now, a man comes out and using these tools and gadgets, computers and phones, they write things against each other. One says one thing and the other says three things whereas, you should not mind it at all.
There are plenty of people who wonder what people have said about them today. Those who are watching and reading: "What did they say today? What did they do today?" They look to see what people said about them. "Oh, good." Sometimes it is not bad, they said good things. Some said bad things. "I'll show you! How dare you? You're so lowly. You're so vile," and I don't know what. They start cursing. This is your situation. He is
making you worse than himself. In the meantime, through this empty talk, they both commit sin and feel bad.You become disregarded people in the sight of Allāh and the Prophet. Whereas, if you never look at it, or if you do look at it and are aware of it, you do not pay attention to it, and you do not say anything back, it makes your station rise.
We are saying this because while in the past someone would gossip and another would come to you telling about it, now it is immediate and there is no need for that. Gossip, backbiting, defamation and lying machines are everywhere. Slander... They look. There is no need for anybody. They look and tell. Now, in this matter, we need to not look at all. If you look, so if you glance, you should not take it into consideration. It could be that someone else might tell you and you hear that the person is such and such. You need to not say anything. Allāh will do the defending. He will send the angels to defend you against that person. If you attempt to tell him by yourself, then you would not be able to get out of the situation. And most of the time bigger problems result. There, being patient in this situation is what we mean for people.
They told a walī that someone said such and such about him. He said, "Sub Han Allah. Let me thank that man since he insulted my ego. He didn't do it enough. My ego is even worse." That is how we should be. When they say something: "Our ego deserves it. It is evil. Our ego deserves all sorts of insults and all." There is no need to respond to those people. May Allāh make everyone able to control their ego. May we not be tricked into such games of shayṭān, in shā’a Llāh. Prophet saying to be strong. Who is strong, who is controlling himself, because this time we are living in, time many people they like to argue, to say something for each other. Shayṭān give blow [up] their ego, they thought they are big and other not good. And beginning to say bad thing for people. This is time of this kind of thing but what we will do? We must not listen to this. Don't be coming to saying something against this people because their ego they are controlling them and if you are try to say something for them you are saying from your ego also. Because Prophet saying no need to argue, no need to say something. Allāh defend, "Inna Llāha yudāfi‘u ‘ani l-mu’minīn," Allāh He defend for mu’min. This time also. Before it was somebody coming and saying, "This man saying for this for you, this saying that for you." But this time no need for this, there is whole this machine – telephone, computer, other thing – they are doing this. And people they are only looking for this today. "What this people saying for me?" He open. "Oh he say... Okay didn't say anything." And looking other, "Oh what is this? He is saying this for me? How dare he is saying this, he is saying for me? I will tell what he is reality. He is like this. He is crazy. He is liar. He is untrustful. He..." He reply other reply also and became big. But to strong one, what Prophet saying – strong to not listening to this thing. Allāh will defend for him. Shayṭān making people to speak against each other. Now no need for people to speak, there is machine. Before to come from one to other, maybe need some days to tell him. Now in one minute. Beginning to look for each other, to swear, swear of each other, to say bad thing for each other. This machine for making gossip and making speaking against each
other and making lie for people who are not doing anything. They saying something. They never done bad thing. This machine like this so don't look and to be angry for this. Even you are knowing this people they are saying something for you, don't be sad or angry because you didn't do wrong thing. They are doing. They must be sad because when you are be silent, Allāh reward you and make your level higher. You coming higher and higher. But if you are beginning to barking, to speak to this against, you will be have no reward and your level coming down also.
Many people, the most of people this time, they are following their ego. Quickly coming angry for everything. Okay we can, we know people they can speak against you and you are doing, going quickly saying for them, "What are you doing? What you said this, you said that." And become big problem. But if you are keep quiet, it will be Allāh reward you also and no problem and you will be happy. There is one big Awliyā’u Llāh. They was saying, this man he was saying, sending one letter for him and was saying everything in this letter. And he [the Awliyā'] give money for his servant and [said], "Take this for this man. Thank him for this because he said for our ego what we our ego deserve this. And he make this, and he also give us from his rewards because he... in Ākhirah when you say something like this, Allāh will take from your reward give for other man. And this is for money for this wages, his wages he will give us from his reward in Ākhirah and this dunyā. We thanking for his saying for our ego what he said in this letter and it is even not enough, for our ego it is more bad than this what he said." And when he, other one, when he see this, he be becoming asking for forgiveness and saying, "Forgive me for what I done. I, I regret for this."
Old people they was looking for order of Prophet – how to be behave. Now they are teaching in everywhere, "You must be defend yourself. Don't be afraid. You must speak. You must say..." No. When you say this, it be become more problem. If you, you know and keep quite also it is good because you know and Allāh know. Allāh help people to not follow their ego because this is from ṭarīqah. Taḥammu l-aḍdād – ṭarīqah meaning to be can carry thing, tolerate, tolerate. But there are people coming against you, everything may be difficult for you, you must be accept and carry. Not to attack and not be refuse or to not be not happy with this. This is ṭarīqah and this is the most difficult thing. When people saying something for you and you can reply but you didn't reply – it really difficult for people.
Allāh help us to be real in ṭarīqah and following this order, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
109.NAZAR BAR QADAM Tuesday, 19 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 Ṭarīqah is the Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah. The Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah has millions, tens of millions, more than a hundred million, and even hundreds of millions of murīds and followers. A lot of people follow it. Because it is the Ṭarīqah that preserves the Sharī‘ah and comes directly from our Holy Prophet. It also has lots of branches.
May Allāh... How should we say it? People go where their heart is at ease. One needs to follow his shaykh: "This is my Shaykh." It requires that he not look at others. Meaning whoever is in a Ṭarīqah and his heart is at ease there, let him face towards it and keep his heart there. The heart is important because faith comes from the heart. Shayṭān wants to ruin your faith, he wants to ruin a person's heart: "Your shaykh is good. That one is no good." That is how he makes Muslims fight against each other. He also makes people of Ṭarīqah fight against each other. Whereas Ṭarīqah is to look at your own ego. It says: "Naẓar bar qadam." Meaning you need to watch yourself. You need to watch where you are going and look at your own situation. It is not your job to look if this is better or that is higher. You continue on your path. Continuing that way is the greatest of spiritual gifts. It is the greatest virtue. Allāh gives its reward. Affection opens up your heart and you get its virtue, believing in your Shaykh. Thank Allāh our Shaykh is upon the true path.
As it is, like we said, there are plenty everywhere but people with virtue are few. Yet still, even if there is no virtue for them there, if people are connected there and their hearts are there, then their kismet (destiny) is there. You should not interfere. It is good to bring people from the outside, others, to the way. There is no need to deal with other shaykhs and other murīds. Because, in any event, they are offering their prayers, they are fasting, and making dhikr. So there is no need to compare: "You are better. I'm better," between yourselves. Because this is not a competition. It is not a race: "I won. You won." If it happens like that, then the ego gets in the middle. You look at your own condition. You can meet with those who accept you. No need with those who do not accept. Anyway, the brothers around you are enough. Because shayṭān can enter from any door. He tries every way to ruin a person's faith and affection. He tries the way of Ṭarīqah, the way of religion, money, and all kinds of good and bad Shayṭān's traps are plenty. We
need to be careful. We need to not go astray. We need to be thankful. We are holding on to the skirts of Shaykhs. People who hold on to the skirts of Shaykhs, it becomes salvation for them. It also becomes a joy for them in this world. It is an even greater joy in the Hereafter, In Sha Allah.
May our, Allāh's, way be constant. May those who are not on the true way come to this way, in shā’a Llāh. May they come to the firm way. May they come to the way of the Prophet In Sha Allah.
Our Ṭarīqah, Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah, it is big Ṭarīqah. Their follower, there is millions of follower for Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah, maybe more than hundred million follower for Naqshbandī Ṭarīqah at least. There many more, much more I think. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, and this they have many Mashāyikh, many ways, many teaching, but all going for Naqshbandī, from Naqshbandī. They calling Naqshbandī and our way also Naqshbandī and coming, al- ḥamdu liLlāh, from this Golden Chain. The bless coming, continuing, pouring from this way, al-ḥamdu liLlāh. Many of them they are stopped but still, with love of people, this continuing for giving happiness, giving hidāyah for people. But fayḍ it is different but also it is... Never mind.
And you, if you many time, shayṭān making people to be enemy even with this. You say, "Your Shaykh is not so strong like my Shaykh. My Shaykh is better than you. Other Shaykh he is better." This for murīd not acceptable. Mawlānā Shaykh all time saying, "We don't want to take any murīd from other Shaykh but if they have love and their heart coming toward us, they can come." But if... We not say people, who from another Ṭarīqah people, "Come here, we are better than you. You are..." and other Ṭarīqah, "No we are better. We doing this dhikr much more than you and we are this making this practice it is more important from you." This is not good because look like comparing each other and trying to win one for each other. Ṭarīqah it is not like this. Ṭarīqah only you look for yourself and you saying, "Naẓar bar qadam," meaning only look where you are walking, don't look for other.
But if... your heart it must be strong. Don't listen to other people also. If only you are following your Shaykh, it is enough for you to be with him and to be with Grand Shaykh also in Jannah. Don't make your heart, "Oh this they have different practice. They are stronger than us." We know this practice also but you cannot do it. So, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, Mawlānā he was making easy for you, for our Ṭarīqah people, to only make the minimum thing and to be with Mashāyikh. This is very important, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this we have it. Power of Shaykh it's enough for us. So no need to tell other people, "Come here." But you can tell, not from Ṭarīqah, from outside Ṭarīqah, who they don't have any knowledge for religion, not knowledge for not practicing, you can encourage them, "Come to see for yourself. Come to find happiness. Come to see light." This people you
can give them, bring them to hidāyah. Not looking for already there is people following other Mashāyikh and to try them to bring them to you. No need.
We are not making game, who will win, who will get more people with him. It is not not like this but shayṭān using everything. H
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