Suhbah 2018: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (18/25)
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tributes and actions. Ṭarīqah is complete Sharī‘ah. There is no difference. Some say, "You are in Ṭarīqah, you're not in Sharī‘ah." In fact, Ṭarīqah follows Sharī‘ah. It has the same benefit in worldly matters too. For material things also, to follow it every minute of our lives is to follow the orders that Allāh has given us.
The order of Ṭarīqah is to carry out the order of Allāh and remember Him. Always to keep Him in your heart is the order of Ṭarīqah. When doing this, Allāh says, "Fa- udhkurūnī adhkurkum" (2:152). "Always remember Me, I will remember you." To make dhikr is to remember. Tasbīḥ is also dhikr. To keep in your heart is also dhikr. "Allāhu hāḍirī Allāhu mā‘ī Allāhu shāhidī." "Allāh is present with me. Allāh is my witness. Allāh .is with me." It is the word Shāh Naqshband told mashāyikh. These things are always good.Who remembers and does them, no harm will come from him.
If you are hurting people, remember: "Allāh sees me. Allāh is with me." You'll be ashamed from Allāh and won't do it. If someone wants to steal, gamble or do some wrong, he won't do it. He'll be ashamed and embarrassed. Shame is from Islām. Who has no shame has no faith. Who has no shame has no īmān. We are seeing that people who don't know about īmān, Allāh, or the Prophet feel not even a little embarrassment. Rather they are or even look like they do. If they look like obeying Allāh embarrassed to accept Allāh they'll be ashamed of it. A person with faith feels shame in front of Allāh. He's not shy from anyone else. We all are servants of Allāh. We all have faults and flaws. No one is better than the other, nor higher, says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. In front of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla only the person who fears and is shy from Allāh is accepted. That person has a higher station.
You can be a professor or a doctor, you can be the smartest person in the world, you can be the most handsome in the world, it has no benefit in front of Allāh. You can have the whole world following you, it has no value in front of Allāh. Because Allāh created all of it. Even if it seems great in front of people, it has no value. If the people whose goal is this world, don't repent and go to Ākhirah like that, all their work will be wasted. Because they can't take anything from this world to Ākhirah. Only their good deeds and worship go there. So when you are with good people and people who remind you of
Allāh always, you will be with them eventually. You will benefit. As mashāyikh say, especially Shāh Naqshband, being with good people saves a person. When you are with a bad one, it will do you harm. A bad friend is a person's worst enemy A bad friend is the most harmful for man. A bad friend is the worst enemy. He seems as a friend but... they are not friends but enemies. If you have money and wealth, they are your friends. When you lose it, they won't know you.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla created mankind. He knows how He created them. And He is telling us in Qur’ān. When people go to Hell, those in Hell will say, "These people took us away from the right way. Punish them more." The angels will say to them: "You followed them. You were with them. Both of you suffer in this Hell." In the second āyah it is said when a person enters Hell with shayṭān, shayṭān says, "I fear Allāh. You suffer here." Therefore, while in this world, don't overestimate anyone who doesn't have belief, as we said. "This one's beautiful, that one's tall, this one's handsome, that one's rich." Don't get affected. The black one shouldn't see the white one as being higher. The blond shouldn't see the brunette as being higher. All of these are useless things, temporary things. This world is the world of tests. If you are patient, you will be rewarded eternally in Ākhirah.
Most people in these foreign countries, when they go to Europe or America now, they see themselves as being lower than those people. They think the others are higher. Nothing like and obeys the orders of Allāh that. And the one who truly knows the order of Allāh doesn't have such a problem. But when there is no faith, they do everything to be more beautiful, to be more powerful. They don't like themselves in any way. They don't like their bodies but they like themselves. People like their egos and don't like their appearance. Here or everywhere in the world, they change their heads, their eyes, their noses, their lips. They do various things and are not satisfied with what Allāh created. They don't accept it. No need to beautify the outer appearance. The appearance can be beautiful. But if you're not beautiful from inside, it has no benefit.
In order to beautify yourself from inside, you have to direct yourself to Allāh. You have to follow a murshid. You have to be with loyal and good people. And how can the inside be cleaned? Everyone is hearing this now; you must have heard it a thousand times: "I don't pray. I can't. It is difficult for me. But my soul is clean. That is what is important." This is what they say to themselves. Everyone must have heard this now. Inner purity comes only with worship. It doesn't come by saying, "My soul is clean." When you say, "I'm pure from inside," you become dirtier because you ignore Allāh's orders. If you don't do something, say, "I can't do, may Allāh forgive me. In Sha Allah Allāh will give us
inspiration and make it easy and we will do." Talking about what you do not know is not good. Inner beauty comes with worship. The more you worship, the more beautiful you'll be from inside. That beauty will show from outside too. We've been travelling in Europe for more than 15 days. You look at people, young and old, those who have no faith have no light. It looks like they are beautiful from outside, but there is no attractiveness because there is no faith. So Allāh doesn't give light. They say 'the light of faith'. Beauty is from that light.
The more someone worships, the more his beauty is complete. "How much shall we worship? Day and night? How shall we pray? Shall we pray day and night?" You start as much as you can. Then slowly slowly that will increase. When a person gets a taste, he won't like other things. That beauty is continuing. That beauty is useful. When such a person joins a gathering, that gathering finds peace. May Allāh give it to all of us.
In Sha Allah may Allāh help those who are abroad here because, even if some of them are not on the way completely, people here want to bring their children up well. We seek refuge and pray to Allāh that these children of Islām and Muslims are protected. And may there be guidance for other people, in shā’a Llāh. And our advice for parents who worship here, they should pray for their children every time. Because the prayer of parents is accepted. Those children are disobedient sometimes. Sometimes they have to hang out with other kids. They should pray that Allāh protects them. Allāh accepts. Parents prayers are accepted. May Allāh be pleased.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
123.FRIENDS OF ALLAH Thursday, 12 July 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 Prophet is saying don't cut your relations with the friends of your father. Keep good relations with them. Show respect to them. Good relations are a good thing. Our Prophet is advising and ordering us to keep them.
Shukr to Allāh many people from the old murīds of Mawlānā, as they weren't able travel from their region, we have not seen them for long time. Today we saw them shukr to Allāh In shā’a Llāh, there is no change. Their love continues as it was. These are the firm people who Allah loves. Those who give a promise and keep it are beloved by Allāh. And Allāh favours them. Allāh granted them faith through Mawlānā and they have kept it going. They remained firm to their pledge, bay‘ah, to Mawlānā. They are loyal to the word they gave.
Of course Mawlānā, with the help of Allāh, came to Europe for years. He went to the furthest corners for the pleasure of Allāh. Many people became Muslim and many people joined ṭarīqah. In old times, it wasn't so easy to join ṭarīqah. And its wisdom is that everyone had īmān and was praying. People were chosen to join ṭarīqah. One of the great people of ṭarīqah, Ya‘qūb Charkhī, tells how he got accepted by ṭarīqah. He said he had completed all the apparent knowledge before he came, the knowledge of Qur’ān. He started his way as a big scholar. He came to Shaykh Bahā’u d-dīn Naqshband and asked permission from him. And Shāh-i Naqshband sent him to another shaykh for education. After that he came again to Shāh-i Naqshband. He was advanced both in apparent and hidden knowledge by that time. Shāh-i Naqshband said, "Ok then. If there is permission tonight, we will accept you in ṭarīqah. We will know at night what kind of order comes. You must wait," he said to him. Sayyidinā Ya‘qūb said, "That night was the hardest night of my life. I couldn't sleep till the morning wondering if I would be accepted or not. When morning came, we woke up for tahajjud. Shāh-i Naqshband got up and when he saw me, he didn't say anything. He didn't say anything until the end of tahajjud. Then he looked at me and smiled. He said our Prophet accepted me. So it was not easy to join ṭarīqah in old times. But as it is the end of times now, it is easy. Mawlānā would accept the one who wanted to join ṭarīqah. There is permission now, not like before. For everyone who asked permission, he'd let them join ṭarīqah. As there is not
as much value given to ṭarīqah as before, this permission is given. And the one who's joining it with permission of Allāh, receives the blessings of ṭarīqah. A person who follows ṭarīqah... The orders of Ṭarīqah are the orders of Sharī‘ah. He should follow them.
One or two years ago we went to Russia. There was an old man, a shaykh. The Communist time is over but they invited him to come secretly. They were pleased with him. Someone came to him to join ṭarīqah. The man came... The Shaykh knew from before what he was feeling. The Shaykh let him sit in front of him. In half an hour he taught ṭarīqah to only one man. He gave him his waẓīfah. Starting with tahajjud prayer, ishrāq, ḍuhā, and then all the sunnah, he was going to pray all this. Also he told how awwābīn prayer is made and gave permission to join ṭarīqah. He is doing as before because his power is so. The power of Mawlānā is in bringing more people to ṭarīqah. Because people outside ṭarīqah are in loss.
How in loss? Because they don't have a Shaykh. Their Shaykh is their ego and shayṭān. They pray and do everything but because they don't follow a shaykh, they get confused. "I am praying anyway. I can open the book of ḥadīth. I can open Qur’ān and follow them by myself." These scholars read Qur’ān for years in order to understand it, to understand its interpretation and ḥadīth. The interpreter of ḥadīth is different from that of Qur’ān. Who gives fatwá is different from the judge. Everything has its specialization. Just like every doctor who checks our mortal bodies has his own specialization, those who look after our religion have even more important specialization. You can have pain in the eye, ear or tooth. You have them cured. You have them cured as you like. You run after a doctor for that. But when it comes to the most important thing, you make fatwá as you like, you make judgment as you like. That's wrong. A person who doesn't follow a shaykh thinks he knows everything and tries to do everything.
We understand when Arab brothers read it. They don't understand, that's another matter. There are a thousand scholars in Syria, Egypt, everywhere. They are people who have been getting knowledge for years. They were opening the books and reading and they assumed they understood and made judgment, which is wrong. That is normal. A person who knows Arabic can't just open Qur’ān and ḥadīth and say, "I will do this." Now they got rid of this too. They say to foreigners, "Look at our interpretation of Qur’ān and do accordingly." They are injecting ignorance. This ignorance is the ignorance of the end of times. Therefore, ṭarīqah is important. Who follows it, In Sha Allah, gets rid of these bad conditions which harm them in dunyā and in ākhirah.
Ṭarīqah originated with our Prophet. From Sayyidinā Abū Bakr comes the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. And other ṭuruq come from Sayyidinā ‘Alī. Who follow these ṭuruq are always... Our Prophet says, "My nation will divide into 73 groups. 72 groups won't be on the way. Only one group is on the right way." They are in the right group. And the righteous ones
from Awliyā’, the righteous real scholars are in these ṭuruq. There are no Awliyā’ and no real scholars outside ṭarīqah. These are the inheritors of the Prophet, real inheritors. The spiritual power of our Prophet is on their way. Therefore, they are always the first enemies of shayṭān and friends of Allāh. So our goal here is to be friends of Allāh and an enemy to shayṭān. We can't be friends of both Allāh and shayṭān. There is no other option. Either this or that. Therefore, our goal is to be friends of Allāh. There is no fear for the friends of Allāh, says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. To be a friend of Allāh is to follow what Allāh says.
When a person joins ṭarīqah, he should ask for the pleasure of Allāh. That is the intention. "I will join ṭarīqah and do this and that," that is a wrong intention. When someone joins ṭarīqah with the idea that people help him or increase his rank and he has worldly intentions, he comes with wrong intention. There will still be benefit as he joins ṭarīqah. He should come anyway. But he won't get what he wants. You can ask for support or a prayer from Shaykh but you come to ṭarīqah for the pleasure of Allāh, to educate your ego, to follow the way of our Prophet and be the beloved servant of Allāh. When joining ṭarīqah, after you get permission, you get the benefit anyway. Even if the intention is not completely pure. As we said, if it was like in old times, they wouldn't let people like us even close to their doors. But in our present condition there is tolerance. Ṭarīqah matters are not like worldly matters. Party matters, school matters, studying and learning. It has nothing to do with these. It is nothing like worldly issues.
Shukr to Allāh those who came here now came only for the pleasure of Allāh. Being present among such people is a big favour. They just heard there is a gathering for ṣuḥbah and came. Some came from very far, some from near. But all came for the pleasure of Allāh They have no other goal. We don't distribute money here. There are no material gifts but there are gifts from Allāh. May Allāh make our love continue. May there be guidance and blessings for the people around us also, In Sha Allah. May Allāh give guidance to the people here. May they be enlightened with the light of īmān, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
124.SOW GOODNESS Friday, 13 July 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.
May Allāh make our gathering a good and one that continues, In Sha Allah. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla states, "Do not get involved in fitnah. Stay away from fitnah." Fitnah is something Allāh does not like. Fitnah is the work of shayṭān. The holy verse: "Wa lā yaḥīqu l-makru s-sayi’u illā bi-ahlihi" (35:43). Meaning people who have bad intentions only harm themselves.
We are in the End of Times now. It is easy to make fitnah. People think making fitnah will benefit them. Our Holy Prophet says fitnah will increase in End of Times. Here we are in those times when fitnah will increase. Because Muslims have weak faith, because what they learn is weak, they think fitnah is good. The shaykhs also tell us to stay away from fitnah as does our Holy Prophet. The advice of Mawlānā Shaykh is to stay home and not go outside when fitnah increases. He says the person who does not go out is in safety. There is even danger for those who go out to see what happened. They only want to see what happened. That is why the advice of the shaykhs of ṭarīqah is to never cause fitnah. They always obeyed those in authority where they were and got along with the people. Troubles have always come to people who caused fitnah.
Fitnah is evil. There is a famous saying: Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. So if you plant evil, do not think you did nothing and can get away with it. You will face so many more difficulties and troubles that are unknown and unpredictable. Stay away from evil. Even if evil is done to you, you be patient. Allāh would give its reward. You would see the benefit of your patience. Many times people get saddened by something. They get sad thinking, "Why did it happen this way? Why did this happen?" Later they realize that if that had not happened something much worse could have happened.
They say this place looks into worldly things too much. It is the same in Europe as it is
everywhere in the world. There are not many who look into spirituality anymore. The majority are those who think about where there is an advantage. Here, it is like that here, and it is not much different there. It is the same everywhere. Something happens and the person does not think it is Allāh's will and does not try to be patient. He immediately tries to object to it. And this pushes people towards despair, towards hopelessness. We did not come to this world with our own will. It is by the will of Allāh. He sent us to this world. Since He sent us, we are His servants. What He says will happen. If we had come by ourselves, you could say, "We want this and we want that." Meaning if you had come by your own will far from it, such a thing cannot be anyway. Allāh created you. What Allāh says occurs.
This materialist world has lately become Europe – like Europe everywhere. The whole world has become Europe – materialist and faithless. The first rule of faith is belief in Allāh. Some of them plainly do not believe in anything. While others say they believe but what they do does not look like belief. It is a matter of faith. Whenever one has difficulty, it has become like this now, Allāh forbid, when one has difficulty he either immediately commits suicide or goes crazy. This is the harm in not having faith. In the past, people's faith was so strong that, as it is also told in the Qur’ān, there was a king who made people worship him. Allāh sent those people a prophet. He showed them the path of truth. They believed and said to the king, "No, why should we worship you? There's only one Allāh. You're a human like us. You cannot be worshipped. We cannot worship you," they said. He attacked them, he tortured them. However, he got no result. Not like people here of this time. There were no human rights and things like that then. A man could act despotically and torture as he liked. People of today have everything. They cannot handle it when a little difficulty occurs. That is due to faithlessness.
When he could not get a result that way, the king decided to try something else. He dug a ditch, filled it with wood, and lit a fire. "Whoever does not turn back from this faith of his and worship me, I will throw him in the fire," he said, "in the ditch." None of them turned back. Each one of them were thrown one by one. Because of that strong faith, none of them turned back. He made a treacherous move there. A woman came with her baby in her arms and she had faith. He said, "I'll burn your baby if you don't turn back." The woman, due to her motherly nature, hesitated a bit. It is the wisdom of Allāh that the child started talking: "Don't hesitate. It's not fire but paradise for us. Don't listen to him. Let's enter here," he said.
There, those people did that because of their faith and gave their lives. They did not turn
back from their religion. Otherwise, if they had been with the king, the king would have given them whatever they wanted. Actually the most valuable thing, you look at it, and it is given for the sake of Allāh. They gave it for the sake of Allāh. He was supposedly going to forgive her. Their faith was more valuable to them than their lives. People of today, let alone their lives, but they have already given their faith for the smallest thing. They have become faithless based on the words of three or five mindless men. Then they search for peace and happiness. They make weird decisions and take to weird beliefs on top of mountains and here and there. The further away they get from Allāh, the worse off they get.
Here, this is the essence of the matter: people who make fitnah have no fear of Allāh because they do not believe in Allāh. Allāh says to be with good ones. He says in a holy verse again, whosoever is with the tyrants, certainly he will certainly find disaster and trouble. So as we said, the shaykhs have nothing to do with worldly works. It is impossible for them to be with those makers of fitnah and bad people because they have nothing but mercy and goodness in their hearts. Many times such strange things occurred and we would speak with our Mawlānā Shaykh about it. Many things would happen – some man did this and sometimes he did that, and we would tell the Shaykh. Mawlānā Shaykh would find an excuse for him – "This one is useful in this way, and that one is useful in that way. This is his manner and that is that one's way." Or Mawlana would say other things and would never want to talk badly about someone. He would interpret his action as good. So the shaykhs have goodness inside. Never would... He was able to think so but he did not think so. So he would not even allow negative talk about someone who was going to do evil, who was going to do this and that. Therefore, thanks to Allāh, he never got harmed by anyone. Of course Mawlānā Shaykh also sufferred pain, but nothing heavy happened to him. He was always comfortable. Because you sow goodness and you reap goodness.
Mawlānā Rūmī has a story. It is also a beautiful story regarding this matter. Once upon a time a caravan headed off. While in the desert, the caravan lost its way. Then they reached a place. By the time they got there, they had finished all their food and supplies. They were at the brink of death due to hunger. A baby elephant appeared there – a plump baby. They decided to cut it up and eat it. If it were an adult elephant, they would not be able to do so, but since it was little they decided they could do it. One of them said, "Beware of obeying your ego. If you eat it, its parents will come and tear you apart." They got afraid and waited a little. After a while, they saw that there was nothing around, and their egos won. They cut the poor animal, made kabab out of it, and ate it. Only that
one person did not eat. He controlled his ego and said he would not eat from it. The others were full to the brim. They got sleepy and all of them fell asleep. A little while later the animal's mother came looking for it. She saw that her baby had been killed there, and the men who did it were still there so she went next to them. They were all asleep. She started sniffing them. They [elephants] smell well with a large nose. Those who had eaten the animal had its scent on them. She took them apart one by one. Only that one man did she not find the smell on him and left him alone. There, that is a great Mawlānā Rūmī story, may Allāh sanctify his secret. He is great, one of the greatest of saints.
There is a great lesson in this. Those who have evil in them certainly something bad happens to them, and those who are clean within – cleanliness is by controlling your ego – are in safety. That is why our advice is to fill your insides with mercy and with goodness. A person might have some badness inside, such as having a mean feeling, and he might not be able to control his ego. Do not bring it out into action. Those people are in safety both in this world and in the hereafter. Otherwise, he is not in safety in this world either as he is living in constant fear. "I wonder if the things I did will come out? I wonder what will happen? I wonder if such will happen." He lives in fear. However, the person who is clean inside has no debt and nothing to answer for except to Allāh.
May Allāh make us among His servants. May He make us among the people in safety, In Sha Allah. May we not be in need of anyone but Allāh. May we not fear anyone but Allāh, In Sha Allah. May Allāh also give safety to Islām and Muslims, and protect them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
125.RIDING, ARCHERY, AND SWIMMING. Saturday, 14 July 2018
The religion of Islām is the religion of our nature, so it is a religion that fits a person's nature. Everything a person's body needs is present in the religion of Islām. Whatever there is that is beneficial for us, it is an order of Islām. The orders, the commands of Allāh, tells us to do beneficial things. When you carry out Allāh's commands, you live well in terms of health and it is good in spiritually too. How you are supposed to eat, how you are supposed to drink, how you are supposed to move – all this has been explained. There are instructions in Islām: how many hours you are to sleep, and how many hours you are to work. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla has informed us about everything through our Holy Prophet. Those who say Islām is difficult are people who make life difficult for themselves.
What the Prophet advised the young or everybody – our Holy Prophet is telling us to learn horseback riding, archery, and swimming. Of course other sports, such as wrestling, are also included as there are mentioned in other ḥadīth. Our Holy Prophet told us about them too. When doing these things it is all right to do it to make yourself stronger, but essentially we are to make intention to do it for Allāh, to carry out the Prophet's order, and make intention do it for their sake. When you do this, Allāh writes a reward for you for every arrow you shoot, every horse you ride, and every stroke you swim. As we said in the beginning, for people who do sports for nothing, some of them are faithless. They tire themselves for nothing. It is of no use. From one side they do sports and then from the other side they do things they should not be doing. Then it is of no use for their body. Because they are faithless, it is of no use for their spirituality anyway.
So thanks to Allāh, when we do everything believing in Allāh, once we do it with that intention, there is an award and a reward for everything with Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. This is a fine place for these youngsters. It can be here and in other places too, but of course they cannot reach everywhere. Wherever it is, the young get stronger for the sake of Allāh and they get stronger spiritually. One can make the intention for the sake of Allāh and do it because it is the sunnah of our Holy Prophet. Horse riding is a sunnah. Shooting arrows is a sunnah. Swimming is a sunnah too, since our Holy Prophet also knew how to swim. He did not learn it in the sea, yet when he was staying in Medina he learned swimming there. So these are all sunnah, and those who apply the sunnah in the End Times get the reward of 100 martyrs.
May Allāh be content with you all. In Sha Allah, you continue on this path of Allāh. As we said, as long as you do not forget Allāh, everything is a gain, everything is a grant for us. May we not be from those who forget Allāh and whom Allāh forgets. "Nasū Llāha fa-ansāhum anfusahum" (59:19). They forgot Allāh, and Allāh made them forgotten says the Qur’ān. Always remember Allāh so you are not forgotten.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
126.OUR BIGGEST WEAPON IS DUA Saturday, 14 July 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.
Shukr to Allāh we are meant to be here again. It is the wisdom of Allāh. There is a wisdom in that we are not somewhere else. It is meant to be for people here. So there is wisdom. There is wisdom in everything. Allah has power over everything. When Allāh wants some goodness, He creates the means for that goodness to happen. So there must be some goodness in these things that Allāh created – which means that people who do goodness have good endings. When something doesn't happen, we should say there is wisdom in it and not get upset.
Maa Shaa Allah, with the barakah of Mawlānā, people are receiving this thawāb (reward). And the destiny of people who hear and come is good. Because not everyone can come. Only the person Allāh wants, comes. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying, "Wa-in tatawallaw yastabdil qawman ghayrakum thumma lā yakūnū amthālakum" (47:38). If you stay away saying, "I am ḥajjī and hodja and I already follow ṭarīqah," and stay away turning your back, then We will bring another nation to replace you and they won't be like you. Therefore, don't say it is up to you whether to come or not. If there is a chance, you should come to these meetings and gatherings straight away. You should be loyal to your Shaykh. You should attend these meetings every two weeks. If you couldn't come one or two weeks, you should certainly come on the third week. There are gatherings everywhere here. Some places don't have. Some places are too far. At some places even if they make a gathering, no one will come. In such situations, one can do alone. Make intention to make a gathering for Allāh whoever comes. If no one comes, invisible servants of Allāh will be present. And the person who makes it will keep his connection.
If you say, "I will make it without connecting to anyone," you will have turned your back. When you turn your back, may Allāh protect us, Allāh will take you out of the way completely and bring someone else. They won't be like you. They will be better than you.
Most people when they join this way, they are looking at this place as a door of personal interest. There are such people. So when they don't find anything, you see that Allāh changes them for better. Ṭarīqah doesn't change. Allāh's changes them slowly. He orders don't change either. Things ordered by Allāh to our Prophet are clear. They don't change. There are these people now who say, "Read Ḥadīth and Qur’ān as you like, act as you like without asking scholars, without asking muftīs. No need to ask them." These people are confusing and misleading people from the right way. This is the fitnah of the end of times. But servants who are wanted and chosen by Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla keep on the right way. They won't listen to anyone. They will carry out Allāh's orders. And the orders of Allāh are clear.
Since the time of our Prophet ṭarīqah is showing this way in the best manner, explaining and applying it. They say, "How do we know what our Prophet did 1,500 years ago? How do these scholars know?" They know because the knowledge of our Prophet will continue until Qiyāmah. "Innā naḥnu nazzalnā dh-dhikra wa-innā lahu laḥāfiẓūn" (15:9) "We sent down this religion and Qur’ān and We protect them." As long as Allāh is protecting, no one can change it. No need to change it. It is a religion that people can carry. Allāh gave this religion as the last religion. Allāh has favoured us. Now they are trying to change it slowly. Because they said at the beginning there is no need for ṭarīqah and it is bid‘ah. Then they said there is no need for madhhab. They said madhhab is not necessary. After madhhab – they are saying now that Qur’ān and ḥadīth are enough. After hitting ṭarīqah first and scaring people with it, they confused people's minds about madhāhib. And now it has reached the third level. They say Qur’ān and Ḥadīth are enough. "Look at Ḥadīth, look at Qur’ān, that's enough," they say. And as they don't want madhhab now, most people don't pay attention to the madhāhib either. They say they don't know if most of ḥadīth of our Prophet are right or wrong now and that you can't rely on them either. They say, "Judge based on Qur’ān." And now that's over too. May Allāh protect us, they will say Qur’ān is outdated so remove it, then leave nothing from religion.
Qur’ān ‘Aẓīmu sh-Sha’n has everything in it. But for people who look at the picture and don't get anything, Qur’ān doesn't say anything. They can't understand it without ḥadīth. And who doesn't care about ḥadīth has no knowledge at all. They get even newspapers wrong when they read them. This matter is to remove the religion completely. And that is impossible because this religion is the religion of Allāh. No need for us to interfere and attack them, or fight with them, Allāh will protect it. Allāh will sort out those who come against and start war against Allāh. He will destroy them. They
think they have money and by starting war against Allāh they will win. They think they'll fight like in dunyā, with a couple of poor Muslims. Our weapon is not guns. The biggest weapon of Muslims is du‘ā’, to ask help from Allāh. When Allāh helps, no need for anything else. No power can stand against the power of Allāh. This world is like a mosquito, has less value than its wing. Leave it. It has no value. What is the value of a mosquito wing? It has even less value, says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. A tiny wind starts and they don't know what to do. They run from place to place. It is nothing next to the power of Allāh. Mankind thinks he is powerful.Even this wind finishes him. We should be afraid of Allāh.
People say they are clever but they don't use their mind. Mind is a big favour. Allāh created it to be used and to use it is to know the Creator. Arrogance is extreme in this end of times. They are ashamed to say Allāh. They are arrogant and ashamed. They do all kinds of embarrassing things but feel ashamed of saying that Allāh exists. A person with a tiny mind knows there is Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and we are nothing. We didn't exist, Allāh did. We won't exist, and Allāh will. And Allāh will create us again from that non- existence. So Allāh is showing His power. Therefore, Allāh created death so that when created for the second time, no one will deny Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, not believers and not unbelievers. Both will see Qiyāmah. Therefore, shukr to Allāh, may He make us firm. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla doesn't change firm people. "Wa mā asalukum ‘alayhi min ajrin" (26:145).
In all Qur’ān, Prophets and the ṣaḥābah who came after them don't ask for payment from people. "We don't ask for anything. We ask that you believe in Allāh," they say. This is the goal – to bring people to Allāh; to make them believe in Allāh. Therefore, when you find a way of truth, a person who finds the door of truth should stick to it. He should hold it firmly. He shouldn't act whatever he likes. This way comes from our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam owns this way. And it continues. If ten Shaykhs replace one another, it is still the same. When a Shaykh is replaced, the way doesn't change. It continues the same way. This way is the right way. Keep going on it. Because as we said at the beginning, Allāh has many servants to replace those who leave. If you leave, a thousand people better than you will come in your place. We should be careful about it. We have to hold onto it because if you miss it once, you won't put yourself together again easily. May Allāh make us firm, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
127.KNOWING ONE’S DUTY Sunday, 15 July 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.
Allah ‘azza wa jalla created mankind to worship Him. Now people have left Him, instead they think they are made to eat and drink. Or they think they were created to do useless things, and they think they are created to do others’ work. In fact Allah appointed a duty, job for everyone. Each person should be busy with that job.
Sometimes there is a duty, you fulfill it, there is no need to continue. Now these are the Last Days. In the past there were no politics, now there are, but there is no need to inject them into every situation. There are people who fulfill those [political] duties. [As such], you will do your duty four or five years, then come back, that’s all. Some people are in dispute with others at all times. There is no need to say, “You gave that... I gave this...” When you have done this duty, you have done it for the sake of Allah. After you, whoever wants to do this job will do it. Sometimes we hear that at home a wife says to her husband, “You do not like this person,” or the husband says to his wife, “You do not like that person,” which then causes a fight between them. The truth is they should get along well. If they fight, there is no use of it for their county, or for themselves. Therefore if everyone knows his own duty, what he needs to do, he will be at ease, [and] will have no problem with no one.
Allah has appointed a suitable duty for everyone. Not everyone can be a politician; not everyone can be a doctor; not everyone can be a scholar. If everyone knows himself, know his limits, know his duties, he will be at ease. One says, “I cannot do that.” You do your duty. Allah has given you this burden to bear. For other burdens, there are people trained for them. Let them do it. You did your duty, and it is over. Leave the rest to others. Everyone should know his duty, what to do. Let him do it all for the sake of Allah, [and] he is rewarded. May Allah make us successful in doing what is beautiful, in realizing Islamic character, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
128.THE REASONS FOR ILLNESSES Thursday, 19 July 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.
May Allah make our health and wellbeing continuing. People stay behind in both directions physically and spiritually when they do what their ego (individual self, nafs) desires; they are then unable to be elevated. Allah ‘azza wa jalla entrusted our bodies to us; everything should be done according to a certain measure. If you eat some things a lot and do not eat other things, the body’s balance system becomes imbalanced. When this occurs illnesses start to happen, [and] then the person wonders what caused him the illness. In fact if what our prophet Muhammad advised is followed, by Allah’s permission, no serious illness would occur, no discomfort either. Bad illnesses are increasing: heart, diabetes, problems with blood veins... These happen due to having an imbalanced diet and obeying one’s ego. The greatest advice of our prophet Muhammad is, “Do not eat until hungry, [and] do not leave the table with a full stomach, leave the table not full.” A person should have some self- control, there is no need for him to eat in the accordance with his how his head sees things. Eating normally, eating little less, will help the body digest the food better. Otherwise, consuming food extravagantly makes it toxic. Here the poison is the illnesses that we mentioned. Illnesses are to cleanse people. When a person submits himself to his ego, when he does not submit to Allah and does not follow our Prophet, then Allah ‘azza wa jalla also gives these illnesses to cleanse him. These things are also an expiation for the next life. They are compensation against our sins.
A person who submits himself to his ego is always in loss both in this world and Next. Therefore, the people of the End Days run after their egos and do what their egos desire. When they run after their egos, all kinds of suffering occur, [and] they find themselves in troubles. One needs to be careful. When one is in control of his ego, there are a lot benefits for him. These benefits are mainly spiritual benefits more than material benefits. May Allah help us in controlling our ego! May we be relaxed both here and Hereafter, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
129.TO SPEAK AFTER THINKING Monday, 23 July 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.
Whatever happens to people happens because of their tongue. He says things, what he says becomes against him. He keeps talking, [and] he makes enemies. He talks, [and] brings troubles upon himself as a punishment. Therefore whatever we say, let us say it for Allah’s sake. Let’s think before speaking.
There are things, now these are the End Days. “There is democracy; you are allowed to speak,” is what they say. After speaking, if the person in front of you is normal then you may argue with him, or fight with him. That is nothing, but going against Allah’s orders has become a habit with people. They bring something as an opinion against Allah’s order, [and] when they then speak [thus], they commit a sin. Sometimes unknowingly they go into unbelief [covering the truth, kufr].
Therefore, it is important to take care. Take care of what comes out of our mouths. After a word is uttered, it does not come back. Once it is out, it is out, [and] the person regrets it later. In awareness or not in awareness, if one does this and feels regret, then he repents, Allah forgives. However when it happens amongst the people, people do not forgive, instead between you and them a separation occurs.
Therefore, when speaking, speak in awareness. Think before speaking. Do not speak before thinking. Do not do anything before thinking, because mules are the ones who do things before thinking. They walk without thinking, they go and come, they have no thinking abilities. Allah ‘azza wa jalla bestowed the faculty of thinking upon people, therefore speak with care. May Allah make us amongst those who protect their tongues, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
130.HALAL EARNING Friday, 27 July 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.
Allah ‘azza wa jalla said: O people! Eat of the lawful and pure things in the earth and follow not in the footsteps of Satan. For surely he is your open enemy. (Qur’an 2:168)
The greatest enemy is Satan. Today people do not think how money should be earned. They do not consider whether it is halal or haram. The one who consumes haram does not do himself any good (khayr). If it benefits him, it will not help his children. If it helps his children, it will not be good for his grandchildren. Certainly in his lineage some harm comes, because the earning was unlawful.
Whatever is consumed with that money becomes a poison. When poison enters the body, it is sure to harm it. Therefore Allah ‘azza wa jalla says choose what is lawful. What is lawful is known; what is unlawful is also known. Someone disagrees and comes up with a legal opinion (fatwa) for himself, saying, “I do this... I do that...” Recently, these people have exceeded the boundaries, not considering helal or haram.
Allah is the Provider (Ar-Razzāq). Allah is aware of both halal and haram. We need to flee the haram. Our prayer is to seek the clean and take from all that is lawful. Clean people are with cleans people. Dirty ones are with filthy, unclean ones. They all find those like t
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tributes and actions. Ṭarīqah is complete Sharī‘ah. There is no difference. Some say, "You are in Ṭarīqah, you're not in Sharī‘ah." In fact, Ṭarīqah follows Sharī‘ah. It has the same benefit in worldly matters too. For material things also, to follow it every minute of our lives is to follow the orders that Allāh has given us.
The order of Ṭarīqah is to carry out the order of Allāh and remember Him. Always to keep Him in your heart is the order of Ṭarīqah. When doing this, Allāh says, "Fa- udhkurūnī adhkurkum" (2:152). "Always remember Me, I will remember you." To make dhikr is to remember. Tasbīḥ is also dhikr. To keep in your heart is also dhikr. "Allāhu hāḍirī Allāhu mā‘ī Allāhu shāhidī." "Allāh is present with me. Allāh is my witness. Allāh .is with me." It is the word Shāh Naqshband told mashāyikh. These things are always good.Who remembers and does them, no harm will come from him.
If you are hurting people, remember: "Allāh sees me. Allāh is with me." You'll be ashamed from Allāh and won't do it. If someone wants to steal, gamble or do some wrong, he won't do it. He'll be ashamed and embarrassed. Shame is from Islām. Who has no shame has no faith. Who has no shame has no īmān. We are seeing that people who don't know about īmān, Allāh, or the Prophet feel not even a little embarrassment. Rather they are or even look like they do. If they look like obeying Allāh embarrassed to accept Allāh they'll be ashamed of it. A person with faith feels shame in front of Allāh. He's not shy from anyone else. We all are servants of Allāh. We all have faults and flaws. No one is better than the other, nor higher, says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. In front of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla only the person who fears and is shy from Allāh is accepted. That person has a higher station.
You can be a professor or a doctor, you can be the smartest person in the world, you can be the most handsome in the world, it has no benefit in front of Allāh. You can have the whole world following you, it has no value in front of Allāh. Because Allāh created all of it. Even if it seems great in front of people, it has no value. If the people whose goal is this world, don't repent and go to Ākhirah like that, all their work will be wasted. Because they can't take anything from this world to Ākhirah. Only their good deeds and worship go there. So when you are with good people and people who remind you of
Allāh always, you will be with them eventually. You will benefit. As mashāyikh say, especially Shāh Naqshband, being with good people saves a person. When you are with a bad one, it will do you harm. A bad friend is a person's worst enemy A bad friend is the most harmful for man. A bad friend is the worst enemy. He seems as a friend but... they are not friends but enemies. If you have money and wealth, they are your friends. When you lose it, they won't know you.
Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla created mankind. He knows how He created them. And He is telling us in Qur’ān. When people go to Hell, those in Hell will say, "These people took us away from the right way. Punish them more." The angels will say to them: "You followed them. You were with them. Both of you suffer in this Hell." In the second āyah it is said when a person enters Hell with shayṭān, shayṭān says, "I fear Allāh. You suffer here." Therefore, while in this world, don't overestimate anyone who doesn't have belief, as we said. "This one's beautiful, that one's tall, this one's handsome, that one's rich." Don't get affected. The black one shouldn't see the white one as being higher. The blond shouldn't see the brunette as being higher. All of these are useless things, temporary things. This world is the world of tests. If you are patient, you will be rewarded eternally in Ākhirah.
Most people in these foreign countries, when they go to Europe or America now, they see themselves as being lower than those people. They think the others are higher. Nothing like and obeys the orders of Allāh that. And the one who truly knows the order of Allāh doesn't have such a problem. But when there is no faith, they do everything to be more beautiful, to be more powerful. They don't like themselves in any way. They don't like their bodies but they like themselves. People like their egos and don't like their appearance. Here or everywhere in the world, they change their heads, their eyes, their noses, their lips. They do various things and are not satisfied with what Allāh created. They don't accept it. No need to beautify the outer appearance. The appearance can be beautiful. But if you're not beautiful from inside, it has no benefit.
In order to beautify yourself from inside, you have to direct yourself to Allāh. You have to follow a murshid. You have to be with loyal and good people. And how can the inside be cleaned? Everyone is hearing this now; you must have heard it a thousand times: "I don't pray. I can't. It is difficult for me. But my soul is clean. That is what is important." This is what they say to themselves. Everyone must have heard this now. Inner purity comes only with worship. It doesn't come by saying, "My soul is clean." When you say, "I'm pure from inside," you become dirtier because you ignore Allāh's orders. If you don't do something, say, "I can't do, may Allāh forgive me. In Sha Allah Allāh will give us
inspiration and make it easy and we will do." Talking about what you do not know is not good. Inner beauty comes with worship. The more you worship, the more beautiful you'll be from inside. That beauty will show from outside too. We've been travelling in Europe for more than 15 days. You look at people, young and old, those who have no faith have no light. It looks like they are beautiful from outside, but there is no attractiveness because there is no faith. So Allāh doesn't give light. They say 'the light of faith'. Beauty is from that light.
The more someone worships, the more his beauty is complete. "How much shall we worship? Day and night? How shall we pray? Shall we pray day and night?" You start as much as you can. Then slowly slowly that will increase. When a person gets a taste, he won't like other things. That beauty is continuing. That beauty is useful. When such a person joins a gathering, that gathering finds peace. May Allāh give it to all of us.
In Sha Allah may Allāh help those who are abroad here because, even if some of them are not on the way completely, people here want to bring their children up well. We seek refuge and pray to Allāh that these children of Islām and Muslims are protected. And may there be guidance for other people, in shā’a Llāh. And our advice for parents who worship here, they should pray for their children every time. Because the prayer of parents is accepted. Those children are disobedient sometimes. Sometimes they have to hang out with other kids. They should pray that Allāh protects them. Allāh accepts. Parents prayers are accepted. May Allāh be pleased.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
123.FRIENDS OF ALLAH Thursday, 12 July 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 Prophet is saying don't cut your relations with the friends of your father. Keep good relations with them. Show respect to them. Good relations are a good thing. Our Prophet is advising and ordering us to keep them.
Shukr to Allāh many people from the old murīds of Mawlānā, as they weren't able travel from their region, we have not seen them for long time. Today we saw them shukr to Allāh In shā’a Llāh, there is no change. Their love continues as it was. These are the firm people who Allah loves. Those who give a promise and keep it are beloved by Allāh. And Allāh favours them. Allāh granted them faith through Mawlānā and they have kept it going. They remained firm to their pledge, bay‘ah, to Mawlānā. They are loyal to the word they gave.
Of course Mawlānā, with the help of Allāh, came to Europe for years. He went to the furthest corners for the pleasure of Allāh. Many people became Muslim and many people joined ṭarīqah. In old times, it wasn't so easy to join ṭarīqah. And its wisdom is that everyone had īmān and was praying. People were chosen to join ṭarīqah. One of the great people of ṭarīqah, Ya‘qūb Charkhī, tells how he got accepted by ṭarīqah. He said he had completed all the apparent knowledge before he came, the knowledge of Qur’ān. He started his way as a big scholar. He came to Shaykh Bahā’u d-dīn Naqshband and asked permission from him. And Shāh-i Naqshband sent him to another shaykh for education. After that he came again to Shāh-i Naqshband. He was advanced both in apparent and hidden knowledge by that time. Shāh-i Naqshband said, "Ok then. If there is permission tonight, we will accept you in ṭarīqah. We will know at night what kind of order comes. You must wait," he said to him. Sayyidinā Ya‘qūb said, "That night was the hardest night of my life. I couldn't sleep till the morning wondering if I would be accepted or not. When morning came, we woke up for tahajjud. Shāh-i Naqshband got up and when he saw me, he didn't say anything. He didn't say anything until the end of tahajjud. Then he looked at me and smiled. He said our Prophet accepted me. So it was not easy to join ṭarīqah in old times. But as it is the end of times now, it is easy. Mawlānā would accept the one who wanted to join ṭarīqah. There is permission now, not like before. For everyone who asked permission, he'd let them join ṭarīqah. As there is not
as much value given to ṭarīqah as before, this permission is given. And the one who's joining it with permission of Allāh, receives the blessings of ṭarīqah. A person who follows ṭarīqah... The orders of Ṭarīqah are the orders of Sharī‘ah. He should follow them.
One or two years ago we went to Russia. There was an old man, a shaykh. The Communist time is over but they invited him to come secretly. They were pleased with him. Someone came to him to join ṭarīqah. The man came... The Shaykh knew from before what he was feeling. The Shaykh let him sit in front of him. In half an hour he taught ṭarīqah to only one man. He gave him his waẓīfah. Starting with tahajjud prayer, ishrāq, ḍuhā, and then all the sunnah, he was going to pray all this. Also he told how awwābīn prayer is made and gave permission to join ṭarīqah. He is doing as before because his power is so. The power of Mawlānā is in bringing more people to ṭarīqah. Because people outside ṭarīqah are in loss.
How in loss? Because they don't have a Shaykh. Their Shaykh is their ego and shayṭān. They pray and do everything but because they don't follow a shaykh, they get confused. "I am praying anyway. I can open the book of ḥadīth. I can open Qur’ān and follow them by myself." These scholars read Qur’ān for years in order to understand it, to understand its interpretation and ḥadīth. The interpreter of ḥadīth is different from that of Qur’ān. Who gives fatwá is different from the judge. Everything has its specialization. Just like every doctor who checks our mortal bodies has his own specialization, those who look after our religion have even more important specialization. You can have pain in the eye, ear or tooth. You have them cured. You have them cured as you like. You run after a doctor for that. But when it comes to the most important thing, you make fatwá as you like, you make judgment as you like. That's wrong. A person who doesn't follow a shaykh thinks he knows everything and tries to do everything.
We understand when Arab brothers read it. They don't understand, that's another matter. There are a thousand scholars in Syria, Egypt, everywhere. They are people who have been getting knowledge for years. They were opening the books and reading and they assumed they understood and made judgment, which is wrong. That is normal. A person who knows Arabic can't just open Qur’ān and ḥadīth and say, "I will do this." Now they got rid of this too. They say to foreigners, "Look at our interpretation of Qur’ān and do accordingly." They are injecting ignorance. This ignorance is the ignorance of the end of times. Therefore, ṭarīqah is important. Who follows it, In Sha Allah, gets rid of these bad conditions which harm them in dunyā and in ākhirah.
Ṭarīqah originated with our Prophet. From Sayyidinā Abū Bakr comes the Naqshbandī ṭarīqah. And other ṭuruq come from Sayyidinā ‘Alī. Who follow these ṭuruq are always... Our Prophet says, "My nation will divide into 73 groups. 72 groups won't be on the way. Only one group is on the right way." They are in the right group. And the righteous ones
from Awliyā’, the righteous real scholars are in these ṭuruq. There are no Awliyā’ and no real scholars outside ṭarīqah. These are the inheritors of the Prophet, real inheritors. The spiritual power of our Prophet is on their way. Therefore, they are always the first enemies of shayṭān and friends of Allāh. So our goal here is to be friends of Allāh and an enemy to shayṭān. We can't be friends of both Allāh and shayṭān. There is no other option. Either this or that. Therefore, our goal is to be friends of Allāh. There is no fear for the friends of Allāh, says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. To be a friend of Allāh is to follow what Allāh says.
When a person joins ṭarīqah, he should ask for the pleasure of Allāh. That is the intention. "I will join ṭarīqah and do this and that," that is a wrong intention. When someone joins ṭarīqah with the idea that people help him or increase his rank and he has worldly intentions, he comes with wrong intention. There will still be benefit as he joins ṭarīqah. He should come anyway. But he won't get what he wants. You can ask for support or a prayer from Shaykh but you come to ṭarīqah for the pleasure of Allāh, to educate your ego, to follow the way of our Prophet and be the beloved servant of Allāh. When joining ṭarīqah, after you get permission, you get the benefit anyway. Even if the intention is not completely pure. As we said, if it was like in old times, they wouldn't let people like us even close to their doors. But in our present condition there is tolerance. Ṭarīqah matters are not like worldly matters. Party matters, school matters, studying and learning. It has nothing to do with these. It is nothing like worldly issues.
Shukr to Allāh those who came here now came only for the pleasure of Allāh. Being present among such people is a big favour. They just heard there is a gathering for ṣuḥbah and came. Some came from very far, some from near. But all came for the pleasure of Allāh They have no other goal. We don't distribute money here. There are no material gifts but there are gifts from Allāh. May Allāh make our love continue. May there be guidance and blessings for the people around us also, In Sha Allah. May Allāh give guidance to the people here. May they be enlightened with the light of īmān, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
124.SOW GOODNESS Friday, 13 July 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.
May Allāh make our gathering a good and one that continues, In Sha Allah. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla states, "Do not get involved in fitnah. Stay away from fitnah." Fitnah is something Allāh does not like. Fitnah is the work of shayṭān. The holy verse: "Wa lā yaḥīqu l-makru s-sayi’u illā bi-ahlihi" (35:43). Meaning people who have bad intentions only harm themselves.
We are in the End of Times now. It is easy to make fitnah. People think making fitnah will benefit them. Our Holy Prophet says fitnah will increase in End of Times. Here we are in those times when fitnah will increase. Because Muslims have weak faith, because what they learn is weak, they think fitnah is good. The shaykhs also tell us to stay away from fitnah as does our Holy Prophet. The advice of Mawlānā Shaykh is to stay home and not go outside when fitnah increases. He says the person who does not go out is in safety. There is even danger for those who go out to see what happened. They only want to see what happened. That is why the advice of the shaykhs of ṭarīqah is to never cause fitnah. They always obeyed those in authority where they were and got along with the people. Troubles have always come to people who caused fitnah.
Fitnah is evil. There is a famous saying: Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. So if you plant evil, do not think you did nothing and can get away with it. You will face so many more difficulties and troubles that are unknown and unpredictable. Stay away from evil. Even if evil is done to you, you be patient. Allāh would give its reward. You would see the benefit of your patience. Many times people get saddened by something. They get sad thinking, "Why did it happen this way? Why did this happen?" Later they realize that if that had not happened something much worse could have happened.
They say this place looks into worldly things too much. It is the same in Europe as it is
everywhere in the world. There are not many who look into spirituality anymore. The majority are those who think about where there is an advantage. Here, it is like that here, and it is not much different there. It is the same everywhere. Something happens and the person does not think it is Allāh's will and does not try to be patient. He immediately tries to object to it. And this pushes people towards despair, towards hopelessness. We did not come to this world with our own will. It is by the will of Allāh. He sent us to this world. Since He sent us, we are His servants. What He says will happen. If we had come by ourselves, you could say, "We want this and we want that." Meaning if you had come by your own will far from it, such a thing cannot be anyway. Allāh created you. What Allāh says occurs.
This materialist world has lately become Europe – like Europe everywhere. The whole world has become Europe – materialist and faithless. The first rule of faith is belief in Allāh. Some of them plainly do not believe in anything. While others say they believe but what they do does not look like belief. It is a matter of faith. Whenever one has difficulty, it has become like this now, Allāh forbid, when one has difficulty he either immediately commits suicide or goes crazy. This is the harm in not having faith. In the past, people's faith was so strong that, as it is also told in the Qur’ān, there was a king who made people worship him. Allāh sent those people a prophet. He showed them the path of truth. They believed and said to the king, "No, why should we worship you? There's only one Allāh. You're a human like us. You cannot be worshipped. We cannot worship you," they said. He attacked them, he tortured them. However, he got no result. Not like people here of this time. There were no human rights and things like that then. A man could act despotically and torture as he liked. People of today have everything. They cannot handle it when a little difficulty occurs. That is due to faithlessness.
When he could not get a result that way, the king decided to try something else. He dug a ditch, filled it with wood, and lit a fire. "Whoever does not turn back from this faith of his and worship me, I will throw him in the fire," he said, "in the ditch." None of them turned back. Each one of them were thrown one by one. Because of that strong faith, none of them turned back. He made a treacherous move there. A woman came with her baby in her arms and she had faith. He said, "I'll burn your baby if you don't turn back." The woman, due to her motherly nature, hesitated a bit. It is the wisdom of Allāh that the child started talking: "Don't hesitate. It's not fire but paradise for us. Don't listen to him. Let's enter here," he said.
There, those people did that because of their faith and gave their lives. They did not turn
back from their religion. Otherwise, if they had been with the king, the king would have given them whatever they wanted. Actually the most valuable thing, you look at it, and it is given for the sake of Allāh. They gave it for the sake of Allāh. He was supposedly going to forgive her. Their faith was more valuable to them than their lives. People of today, let alone their lives, but they have already given their faith for the smallest thing. They have become faithless based on the words of three or five mindless men. Then they search for peace and happiness. They make weird decisions and take to weird beliefs on top of mountains and here and there. The further away they get from Allāh, the worse off they get.
Here, this is the essence of the matter: people who make fitnah have no fear of Allāh because they do not believe in Allāh. Allāh says to be with good ones. He says in a holy verse again, whosoever is with the tyrants, certainly he will certainly find disaster and trouble. So as we said, the shaykhs have nothing to do with worldly works. It is impossible for them to be with those makers of fitnah and bad people because they have nothing but mercy and goodness in their hearts. Many times such strange things occurred and we would speak with our Mawlānā Shaykh about it. Many things would happen – some man did this and sometimes he did that, and we would tell the Shaykh. Mawlānā Shaykh would find an excuse for him – "This one is useful in this way, and that one is useful in that way. This is his manner and that is that one's way." Or Mawlana would say other things and would never want to talk badly about someone. He would interpret his action as good. So the shaykhs have goodness inside. Never would... He was able to think so but he did not think so. So he would not even allow negative talk about someone who was going to do evil, who was going to do this and that. Therefore, thanks to Allāh, he never got harmed by anyone. Of course Mawlānā Shaykh also sufferred pain, but nothing heavy happened to him. He was always comfortable. Because you sow goodness and you reap goodness.
Mawlānā Rūmī has a story. It is also a beautiful story regarding this matter. Once upon a time a caravan headed off. While in the desert, the caravan lost its way. Then they reached a place. By the time they got there, they had finished all their food and supplies. They were at the brink of death due to hunger. A baby elephant appeared there – a plump baby. They decided to cut it up and eat it. If it were an adult elephant, they would not be able to do so, but since it was little they decided they could do it. One of them said, "Beware of obeying your ego. If you eat it, its parents will come and tear you apart." They got afraid and waited a little. After a while, they saw that there was nothing around, and their egos won. They cut the poor animal, made kabab out of it, and ate it. Only that
one person did not eat. He controlled his ego and said he would not eat from it. The others were full to the brim. They got sleepy and all of them fell asleep. A little while later the animal's mother came looking for it. She saw that her baby had been killed there, and the men who did it were still there so she went next to them. They were all asleep. She started sniffing them. They [elephants] smell well with a large nose. Those who had eaten the animal had its scent on them. She took them apart one by one. Only that one man did she not find the smell on him and left him alone. There, that is a great Mawlānā Rūmī story, may Allāh sanctify his secret. He is great, one of the greatest of saints.
There is a great lesson in this. Those who have evil in them certainly something bad happens to them, and those who are clean within – cleanliness is by controlling your ego – are in safety. That is why our advice is to fill your insides with mercy and with goodness. A person might have some badness inside, such as having a mean feeling, and he might not be able to control his ego. Do not bring it out into action. Those people are in safety both in this world and in the hereafter. Otherwise, he is not in safety in this world either as he is living in constant fear. "I wonder if the things I did will come out? I wonder what will happen? I wonder if such will happen." He lives in fear. However, the person who is clean inside has no debt and nothing to answer for except to Allāh.
May Allāh make us among His servants. May He make us among the people in safety, In Sha Allah. May we not be in need of anyone but Allāh. May we not fear anyone but Allāh, In Sha Allah. May Allāh also give safety to Islām and Muslims, and protect them, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
125.RIDING, ARCHERY, AND SWIMMING. Saturday, 14 July 2018
The religion of Islām is the religion of our nature, so it is a religion that fits a person's nature. Everything a person's body needs is present in the religion of Islām. Whatever there is that is beneficial for us, it is an order of Islām. The orders, the commands of Allāh, tells us to do beneficial things. When you carry out Allāh's commands, you live well in terms of health and it is good in spiritually too. How you are supposed to eat, how you are supposed to drink, how you are supposed to move – all this has been explained. There are instructions in Islām: how many hours you are to sleep, and how many hours you are to work. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla has informed us about everything through our Holy Prophet. Those who say Islām is difficult are people who make life difficult for themselves.
What the Prophet advised the young or everybody – our Holy Prophet is telling us to learn horseback riding, archery, and swimming. Of course other sports, such as wrestling, are also included as there are mentioned in other ḥadīth. Our Holy Prophet told us about them too. When doing these things it is all right to do it to make yourself stronger, but essentially we are to make intention to do it for Allāh, to carry out the Prophet's order, and make intention do it for their sake. When you do this, Allāh writes a reward for you for every arrow you shoot, every horse you ride, and every stroke you swim. As we said in the beginning, for people who do sports for nothing, some of them are faithless. They tire themselves for nothing. It is of no use. From one side they do sports and then from the other side they do things they should not be doing. Then it is of no use for their body. Because they are faithless, it is of no use for their spirituality anyway.
So thanks to Allāh, when we do everything believing in Allāh, once we do it with that intention, there is an award and a reward for everything with Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. This is a fine place for these youngsters. It can be here and in other places too, but of course they cannot reach everywhere. Wherever it is, the young get stronger for the sake of Allāh and they get stronger spiritually. One can make the intention for the sake of Allāh and do it because it is the sunnah of our Holy Prophet. Horse riding is a sunnah. Shooting arrows is a sunnah. Swimming is a sunnah too, since our Holy Prophet also knew how to swim. He did not learn it in the sea, yet when he was staying in Medina he learned swimming there. So these are all sunnah, and those who apply the sunnah in the End Times get the reward of 100 martyrs.
May Allāh be content with you all. In Sha Allah, you continue on this path of Allāh. As we said, as long as you do not forget Allāh, everything is a gain, everything is a grant for us. May we not be from those who forget Allāh and whom Allāh forgets. "Nasū Llāha fa-ansāhum anfusahum" (59:19). They forgot Allāh, and Allāh made them forgotten says the Qur’ān. Always remember Allāh so you are not forgotten.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
126.OUR BIGGEST WEAPON IS DUA Saturday, 14 July 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.
Shukr to Allāh we are meant to be here again. It is the wisdom of Allāh. There is a wisdom in that we are not somewhere else. It is meant to be for people here. So there is wisdom. There is wisdom in everything. Allah has power over everything. When Allāh wants some goodness, He creates the means for that goodness to happen. So there must be some goodness in these things that Allāh created – which means that people who do goodness have good endings. When something doesn't happen, we should say there is wisdom in it and not get upset.
Maa Shaa Allah, with the barakah of Mawlānā, people are receiving this thawāb (reward). And the destiny of people who hear and come is good. Because not everyone can come. Only the person Allāh wants, comes. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is saying, "Wa-in tatawallaw yastabdil qawman ghayrakum thumma lā yakūnū amthālakum" (47:38). If you stay away saying, "I am ḥajjī and hodja and I already follow ṭarīqah," and stay away turning your back, then We will bring another nation to replace you and they won't be like you. Therefore, don't say it is up to you whether to come or not. If there is a chance, you should come to these meetings and gatherings straight away. You should be loyal to your Shaykh. You should attend these meetings every two weeks. If you couldn't come one or two weeks, you should certainly come on the third week. There are gatherings everywhere here. Some places don't have. Some places are too far. At some places even if they make a gathering, no one will come. In such situations, one can do alone. Make intention to make a gathering for Allāh whoever comes. If no one comes, invisible servants of Allāh will be present. And the person who makes it will keep his connection.
If you say, "I will make it without connecting to anyone," you will have turned your back. When you turn your back, may Allāh protect us, Allāh will take you out of the way completely and bring someone else. They won't be like you. They will be better than you.
Most people when they join this way, they are looking at this place as a door of personal interest. There are such people. So when they don't find anything, you see that Allāh changes them for better. Ṭarīqah doesn't change. Allāh's changes them slowly. He orders don't change either. Things ordered by Allāh to our Prophet are clear. They don't change. There are these people now who say, "Read Ḥadīth and Qur’ān as you like, act as you like without asking scholars, without asking muftīs. No need to ask them." These people are confusing and misleading people from the right way. This is the fitnah of the end of times. But servants who are wanted and chosen by Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla keep on the right way. They won't listen to anyone. They will carry out Allāh's orders. And the orders of Allāh are clear.
Since the time of our Prophet ṭarīqah is showing this way in the best manner, explaining and applying it. They say, "How do we know what our Prophet did 1,500 years ago? How do these scholars know?" They know because the knowledge of our Prophet will continue until Qiyāmah. "Innā naḥnu nazzalnā dh-dhikra wa-innā lahu laḥāfiẓūn" (15:9) "We sent down this religion and Qur’ān and We protect them." As long as Allāh is protecting, no one can change it. No need to change it. It is a religion that people can carry. Allāh gave this religion as the last religion. Allāh has favoured us. Now they are trying to change it slowly. Because they said at the beginning there is no need for ṭarīqah and it is bid‘ah. Then they said there is no need for madhhab. They said madhhab is not necessary. After madhhab – they are saying now that Qur’ān and ḥadīth are enough. After hitting ṭarīqah first and scaring people with it, they confused people's minds about madhāhib. And now it has reached the third level. They say Qur’ān and Ḥadīth are enough. "Look at Ḥadīth, look at Qur’ān, that's enough," they say. And as they don't want madhhab now, most people don't pay attention to the madhāhib either. They say they don't know if most of ḥadīth of our Prophet are right or wrong now and that you can't rely on them either. They say, "Judge based on Qur’ān." And now that's over too. May Allāh protect us, they will say Qur’ān is outdated so remove it, then leave nothing from religion.
Qur’ān ‘Aẓīmu sh-Sha’n has everything in it. But for people who look at the picture and don't get anything, Qur’ān doesn't say anything. They can't understand it without ḥadīth. And who doesn't care about ḥadīth has no knowledge at all. They get even newspapers wrong when they read them. This matter is to remove the religion completely. And that is impossible because this religion is the religion of Allāh. No need for us to interfere and attack them, or fight with them, Allāh will protect it. Allāh will sort out those who come against and start war against Allāh. He will destroy them. They
think they have money and by starting war against Allāh they will win. They think they'll fight like in dunyā, with a couple of poor Muslims. Our weapon is not guns. The biggest weapon of Muslims is du‘ā’, to ask help from Allāh. When Allāh helps, no need for anything else. No power can stand against the power of Allāh. This world is like a mosquito, has less value than its wing. Leave it. It has no value. What is the value of a mosquito wing? It has even less value, says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. A tiny wind starts and they don't know what to do. They run from place to place. It is nothing next to the power of Allāh. Mankind thinks he is powerful.Even this wind finishes him. We should be afraid of Allāh.
People say they are clever but they don't use their mind. Mind is a big favour. Allāh created it to be used and to use it is to know the Creator. Arrogance is extreme in this end of times. They are ashamed to say Allāh. They are arrogant and ashamed. They do all kinds of embarrassing things but feel ashamed of saying that Allāh exists. A person with a tiny mind knows there is Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla and we are nothing. We didn't exist, Allāh did. We won't exist, and Allāh will. And Allāh will create us again from that non- existence. So Allāh is showing His power. Therefore, Allāh created death so that when created for the second time, no one will deny Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla, not believers and not unbelievers. Both will see Qiyāmah. Therefore, shukr to Allāh, may He make us firm. Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla doesn't change firm people. "Wa mā asalukum ‘alayhi min ajrin" (26:145).
In all Qur’ān, Prophets and the ṣaḥābah who came after them don't ask for payment from people. "We don't ask for anything. We ask that you believe in Allāh," they say. This is the goal – to bring people to Allāh; to make them believe in Allāh. Therefore, when you find a way of truth, a person who finds the door of truth should stick to it. He should hold it firmly. He shouldn't act whatever he likes. This way comes from our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam owns this way. And it continues. If ten Shaykhs replace one another, it is still the same. When a Shaykh is replaced, the way doesn't change. It continues the same way. This way is the right way. Keep going on it. Because as we said at the beginning, Allāh has many servants to replace those who leave. If you leave, a thousand people better than you will come in your place. We should be careful about it. We have to hold onto it because if you miss it once, you won't put yourself together again easily. May Allāh make us firm, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
127.KNOWING ONE’S DUTY Sunday, 15 July 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.
Allah ‘azza wa jalla created mankind to worship Him. Now people have left Him, instead they think they are made to eat and drink. Or they think they were created to do useless things, and they think they are created to do others’ work. In fact Allah appointed a duty, job for everyone. Each person should be busy with that job.
Sometimes there is a duty, you fulfill it, there is no need to continue. Now these are the Last Days. In the past there were no politics, now there are, but there is no need to inject them into every situation. There are people who fulfill those [political] duties. [As such], you will do your duty four or five years, then come back, that’s all. Some people are in dispute with others at all times. There is no need to say, “You gave that... I gave this...” When you have done this duty, you have done it for the sake of Allah. After you, whoever wants to do this job will do it. Sometimes we hear that at home a wife says to her husband, “You do not like this person,” or the husband says to his wife, “You do not like that person,” which then causes a fight between them. The truth is they should get along well. If they fight, there is no use of it for their county, or for themselves. Therefore if everyone knows his own duty, what he needs to do, he will be at ease, [and] will have no problem with no one.
Allah has appointed a suitable duty for everyone. Not everyone can be a politician; not everyone can be a doctor; not everyone can be a scholar. If everyone knows himself, know his limits, know his duties, he will be at ease. One says, “I cannot do that.” You do your duty. Allah has given you this burden to bear. For other burdens, there are people trained for them. Let them do it. You did your duty, and it is over. Leave the rest to others. Everyone should know his duty, what to do. Let him do it all for the sake of Allah, [and] he is rewarded. May Allah make us successful in doing what is beautiful, in realizing Islamic character, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
128.THE REASONS FOR ILLNESSES Thursday, 19 July 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.
May Allah make our health and wellbeing continuing. People stay behind in both directions physically and spiritually when they do what their ego (individual self, nafs) desires; they are then unable to be elevated. Allah ‘azza wa jalla entrusted our bodies to us; everything should be done according to a certain measure. If you eat some things a lot and do not eat other things, the body’s balance system becomes imbalanced. When this occurs illnesses start to happen, [and] then the person wonders what caused him the illness. In fact if what our prophet Muhammad advised is followed, by Allah’s permission, no serious illness would occur, no discomfort either. Bad illnesses are increasing: heart, diabetes, problems with blood veins... These happen due to having an imbalanced diet and obeying one’s ego. The greatest advice of our prophet Muhammad is, “Do not eat until hungry, [and] do not leave the table with a full stomach, leave the table not full.” A person should have some self- control, there is no need for him to eat in the accordance with his how his head sees things. Eating normally, eating little less, will help the body digest the food better. Otherwise, consuming food extravagantly makes it toxic. Here the poison is the illnesses that we mentioned. Illnesses are to cleanse people. When a person submits himself to his ego, when he does not submit to Allah and does not follow our Prophet, then Allah ‘azza wa jalla also gives these illnesses to cleanse him. These things are also an expiation for the next life. They are compensation against our sins.
A person who submits himself to his ego is always in loss both in this world and Next. Therefore, the people of the End Days run after their egos and do what their egos desire. When they run after their egos, all kinds of suffering occur, [and] they find themselves in troubles. One needs to be careful. When one is in control of his ego, there are a lot benefits for him. These benefits are mainly spiritual benefits more than material benefits. May Allah help us in controlling our ego! May we be relaxed both here and Hereafter, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
129.TO SPEAK AFTER THINKING Monday, 23 July 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.
Whatever happens to people happens because of their tongue. He says things, what he says becomes against him. He keeps talking, [and] he makes enemies. He talks, [and] brings troubles upon himself as a punishment. Therefore whatever we say, let us say it for Allah’s sake. Let’s think before speaking.
There are things, now these are the End Days. “There is democracy; you are allowed to speak,” is what they say. After speaking, if the person in front of you is normal then you may argue with him, or fight with him. That is nothing, but going against Allah’s orders has become a habit with people. They bring something as an opinion against Allah’s order, [and] when they then speak [thus], they commit a sin. Sometimes unknowingly they go into unbelief [covering the truth, kufr].
Therefore, it is important to take care. Take care of what comes out of our mouths. After a word is uttered, it does not come back. Once it is out, it is out, [and] the person regrets it later. In awareness or not in awareness, if one does this and feels regret, then he repents, Allah forgives. However when it happens amongst the people, people do not forgive, instead between you and them a separation occurs.
Therefore, when speaking, speak in awareness. Think before speaking. Do not speak before thinking. Do not do anything before thinking, because mules are the ones who do things before thinking. They walk without thinking, they go and come, they have no thinking abilities. Allah ‘azza wa jalla bestowed the faculty of thinking upon people, therefore speak with care. May Allah make us amongst those who protect their tongues, In Sha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
130.HALAL EARNING Friday, 27 July 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.
Allah ‘azza wa jalla said: O people! Eat of the lawful and pure things in the earth and follow not in the footsteps of Satan. For surely he is your open enemy. (Qur’an 2:168)
The greatest enemy is Satan. Today people do not think how money should be earned. They do not consider whether it is halal or haram. The one who consumes haram does not do himself any good (khayr). If it benefits him, it will not help his children. If it helps his children, it will not be good for his grandchildren. Certainly in his lineage some harm comes, because the earning was unlawful.
Whatever is consumed with that money becomes a poison. When poison enters the body, it is sure to harm it. Therefore Allah ‘azza wa jalla says choose what is lawful. What is lawful is known; what is unlawful is also known. Someone disagrees and comes up with a legal opinion (fatwa) for himself, saying, “I do this... I do that...” Recently, these people have exceeded the boundaries, not considering helal or haram.
Allah is the Provider (Ar-Razzāq). Allah is aware of both halal and haram. We need to flee the haram. Our prayer is to seek the clean and take from all that is lawful. Clean people are with cleans people. Dirty ones are with filthy, unclean ones. They all find those like t
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