Suhbah 2020: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (14/25)
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to her and she was really loving too much [her] only one son, and husband very good man. He's real very very good man. She was, people they said she would not survive, this lady. Maybe one month after she can pass away or go to mental house for this. But Mawlānā with his barakah, he give her this. She is believer. When she... Mawlānā speak to her, she was happy what Mawlānā saying, "You are like my sister." His sister, my auntie Zahra Hanım. "You are like her, you are in Jannah with us." And your son and husband also will be with us." From since that time she was, alḥamdulilah, nothing... but she was very sincere, strong
believer.
And she passed away yesterday. On very holy day Jum‘ah and 10th of Dhū l-Ḥijjah. And what Mawlānā was saying it was real and real she was beloved one for Allāh. Thirty year she was happy, every time repeating this, what Mawlānā tell her about her son and her husband and for her. She said also every time, some people they forget but she all time saying this: 'If not Mawlānā saying this, not giving support me from this, I will never survive." She was all time thankful for Mawlānā, for awliyā’u Llāh. Allāh make her... She was saying, "In shā’a Llāh, don't forget me, take me to Jannah." But i think she can take us to Jannah. She is very big awliyā’u Llāh. Insha Allah we make, now she, they are making janāzah, we make ghā’ib janāzah for her, Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
114.KING OF KINGS Sunday, 2 August 2020
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. Today is the third day of the holy days of ‘Īd. Of these holy days Yawmu ‘Arafah is the most blessed, and after that, the first day of ‘Īd, second day of ‘Īd. All of these four days are valuable in the presence of Allāh. They are made as a feast for us. It is both a physical feast in that people congratulate each other, visit others, and give presents, take care of the poor and the elderly. And it is spiritual, there are other than material presents, there are more valuable spiritual presents. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla prepares such presents for us that we have no way to evaluate them.
Dunyā is like this that we were waiting for ‘Īd, and now it is almost over. It's the third day and soon it will be over too. These are all transitory, not permanent things. It is here and after a moment it's over. Summer comes and goes, winter also. Life goes too. What remains, is what was made ready for life in Ākhirah. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla promised the mu’min servants all goodness. He promised this to all mankind. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Ayyuha n- nās, "tūbū ilá Llāhi jamī‘a" (24:31). "O people, repent to Allāh all of you." White or yellow or unbeliever, He doesn't distinguish between them. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla is addressing all mankind and saying to repent. Repent for the mistakes you have made. Who is not Muslim does not know how to make istighfār but they know tawbah. When they make tawbah, they repent and come to Allāh's way. Unbelievers are held accountable from that moment. Nothing from before remains valid. Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam said, "Al-
Islām yajubbu mā qablah." Īmān, belief erases everything that came before. A man starts again from a blank page.
Therefore, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla doesn't oppress people. People oppress each other. Allāh forgives all our sins, wrong actions, everything you can think of. "Laysa ba‘da l-kufri dhanb." There is no bigger sin than kufr. The biggest sin is kufr. kufr is bigger than all sins. If you leave kufr and turn to Allāh, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla will not question you about your past. You will start from zero. Therefore, Allāh's mercy is great. A man does wrong to himself and he does right to himself. May Allāh let us do the right. May we deserve the rewards of these valuable days, Insha Allah. Alḥamdulilah, we are living in blessed, holy days, especially from Yawmu ‘Arafah. It is the highest, blessed day. After [that] first day of ‘Īd – tenth of Dhū l-Ḥijjah. After yesterday, Yawmu n-Naḥr – first day Yawmu n-Naḥr – to slaughter. Second day calling Yawmu l-Qarr it is everybody finished from qurbān, finished from... Who in ḥajj finished from ‘Arafāt, ramiy jamarāt, slaughter, and he come out from iḥrām. It is settle day meaning, Yawmu l-Qarr. It is also blessed after first day of ‘Īd, second day as well. After [that] third and fourth also blessed. But the most blessed [are the ones] before this days.
But Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla also, He is giving us this feast. Allāh, He put this feast for Muslim. And Muslim, they are happy with ‘Īd. They celebrate. Everybody celebrate. Who practice and not practice, all they are celebrate. And also there is spiritual celebration for ‘Īd. Allāh give gift, gift, precious gift not like dunyā or this life gift. This life gift – it is very short. We was waiting for ‘Īd, for Dhū l-Ḥijjah, for Dhū l-Qa‘dah, Dhū l-Ḥijjah, after Muḥarram. Quickly coming. Now third day of ‘Īd – it will be finished. Summer, it will be finished. Days like this. Life it will be finished. But what is not finished, what Allāh gave us from His gifts, forever it will be, Insha Allah. And this in special day.
He is King of kings – Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, whole universe for Him. He is giving for who... Sending angels [He is] asking: "Who asking something, I will give him. What they want, I will give them. Look, go and look for this people." So this also, very blessed days. You must be ask from Allāh
every good thing, in shā’a Llāh. And it is for, especially must ask for forgiveness. And Allāh give this for whole human being, not only for Muslim. He said to them: "O human being, ayyuha n-nās, "tūbū ilá Llāhi jamī‘a" (24:31), ask for repent from Allāh to forgive you to, what you done before. If you ask for forgiveness, Allāh, will forgive you, and give you – changing, what you do bad to good. And who they don't have any belief, He accept them, even they are ninety year or eighty years, whole life who is non-believer but when they asking – doing every bad thing – but when they asking from Allāh forgiveness and accepting Him and become mu’min – Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam saying: "What they done before it is finished. Allāh not asking." Beginning from zero from that time.
Even they die after five minute, also they will be pure one. This is mercy of Allāh. He, encourage people to accept Him, to believe [in order] to reward them. He don't want to punish them. People, human being they are oppress themselves. Allāh not oppressing anybody. And Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam saying in ḥadīth: "To Islām – removing what they before, what they done, they are not asked." They will not ask whatever you done. You will be beginning from first, from one step – continue. In dunyā they don't have this law is knowing what in heart, He If anybody they... But Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, because He is knowing what is in heart He accept who He know who is sincere or not sincere – doing this for Allāh or not doing this for Allāh. If he is sincere and accepting not [doing it] only to cheat people, it will be safe. This is our Lord. He is most merciful. We must be happy, because He not looking for small thing. He giving us chance to repent, to ask for forgiveness, to forgive us. And when forgive us, He, changing bad action for reward for us. This is also from His, generosity.
Allāh accept our ‘ibādah, our ‘Īd, Insha Allah. And we wait for reward, here and hereafter, Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
115.HURRY FOR TWO THINGS Tuesday, 4 August 2020
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. "‘Ajjilū bi-ṣ-ṣalāti qabla l-fawt, wa-‘ajjilū bi-t-tawbati qabla l-mawt." This means, hurry to pray before its time is up. Make your ṣalāh. Pray while in dunyā so that it is not left for Ākhirah. The most worthy of prayers is the one made on time and made in jamā‘ah (congregation). You can't reach its value afterwards. Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa- sallam says if you miss a prayer and do it afterwards, you will not be able to reach its value even if you pray all your life. Therefore, we should know its worth.
Most people don't pray. They don't look at the time, whether it's early or late. They just don't care. But this is important. Ṣalāh comes ahead of other important things. People say they are busy and leave praying to the end. And then they forget it. Of course, praying is the top priority thing to do. It is the most important thing both for the benefits of this world and for Ākhirah. People don't know the value of praying. They say they are smart. As long as they don't know its value, they are not smart. Therefore, we should pay attention to praying.
Also, repent before you die. You should ask forgiveness from Allāh for mistakes and sins you made before you die so that He forgives you. If you die before repenting, it won't be accepted in Ākhirah. You will be punished. Punishment will be given to you. There is no guarantee of life for people. No guarantee that you will live for a hundred, seventy or eighty years. Therefore, hurry up.
It is good to hurry in good deeds. Haste is not normally a good thing. You should stop and think. But in these matters, you don't have to think. The time will be up and life will be over. Therefore, you should hurry. Because your age is not important. Death doesn't look at anything. Everyone has a time allotted for living. Allāh's will is so. A reason occurs and because of that reason death comes. A man passes away to Ākhirah. Some people die instantly. It is worse. Some die of illness. And when they have sickness, their sins are forgiven. That's the benefit of an illness. If they are without sin, their rank increases.
May Allāh forgive our faults. May Allāh forgive all of us. We should ask forgiveness every day as we have many mistakes and faults. And today one of our brothers, Tahir Efendi from Berlin, passed away. He wasn't too old but his life was this much. At 45 years, he suffered a lot from an illness. That illness raised his rank, with Allāh's permission. May Allāh make his maqām higher. When our brothers pass away, Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim meets them for sure. He doesn't leave them alone. Therefore, they pray that you are given a home better than the one you have. May it be a better home, a better place than the one in dunyā, Insha Allah.
They say, I don't know if ḥadīth or saying or a poem like, " ‘Ajjilū bi-ṣ- ṣalāti qabla l-fawt, wa- ‘ajjilū bi-t-tawbati qabla l-mawt." Meaning: be hurry to pray before the time going on... not losing... If you pray Ẓuhr you must pray in time, between ẓuhr since, until ‘Aṣr. Now ẓuhr one o'clock until quarter to five, quarter to five. In this time don't make it ten to five – it's finished. You lose very big favour, very big reward. This is for whole people. But people nowadays they are not looking for, even they are not praying. Not only looking to be hurry to not make time of praying going out, they are completely not praying. But this is from ignorance of people. They thought praying it is not important. Work, what they do for dunyā, it is most important. But this is very wrong thing. The most important work, business, for us [is] to pray five times. This is the most important thing. It must be top of list. Because when you not praying, everything [has] no benefit. And when you miss time, this reward of this time – if you pray whole life for only for one time, you cannot reach this reward.
But of course you can make it – you pray later, better [than] to make you pray in Ākhirah. Ākhirah most difficult to pray there. And praying, ṣalāh, it is the pillar of Islām, religion. And people if they know what it is benefit from this, they will be very careful for praying, to not lose anything from praying. And there is many people also they praying – not praying sunnah, not praying nāfilah. Also they are losing. They are also ignorant people. They not knowing value of praying. So, this is saying you must be hurry to pray.
And " ‘Ajjilū bi-t-tawbati qabla l-mawt." And be hurry to repent before death. Death it is not looking for age. "I am young and still have maybe sixty years, seventy years I can live. So later I will be repent and ask for forgiveness." No. You cannot guarantee you will live this. Allāh He put for everyone – age. And everyone he has counted breaths and what he will eat, and what he will drink. Everything, "Wa-kullu shay’in ‘indahu bi-miqdār" (13:8). Everything in Qur’ān ‘Aẓīmu sh-Sha’n Allāh ‘Azza wa- Jalla saying. Everything they have, they put for you there – "This is for you. You cannot take more." So, and you don't know. You feel you are good, and suddenly finish. Some of them they have illness, they become sick and after they be die, be dying.
But most of people without even old people, they don't know when they will pass away. So, this is two thing be hurry for them. In Islām hurry, to be hurry, it is not so good. But for good thing, it is good to be hurry for this, not leave it. "I will make it later. I will pray later, I will be repent later. Now I am very young. No need to repent." If you, they have mind they can repent every day. Allāh acceptaccept. Every day you must repent because we all of us we have mistake, we have sin. Every day Allāh accept repent. Not saying, "Don't repent until you become before death." No.
Every day you must to be clean yourself from this dirty. And Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla He is reward this people.
And some of them with illness, some of them with suddenly, they pass away. Allāh keep us awake and we hurry in this thing, Insha Allah. Insha
Allah we also pray janāzah ghā’iban. One our from brothers he pass away – he not so old. He was one year suffering from illness and this illness making... If somebody he has sin, Allāh clean with illness. If no sin , He make him maqām higher. Insha Allah, make him in highest place. And when some from murīd pass away, Mawlānā he make him, he meet him there. So he will be happy. And there is a saying: Allāh change his house for a better house. For his position better than this dunyā, Insha Allah. Allāh make his maqām ‘ālī (high), Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
116.OPPRESSION IS DARKNESS Wednesday, 5 August 2020
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 is probably a ḥadīth: "Aẓ-ẓulmu ẓulumāt." Oppression is darkness, it is evil. Oppression is something with a bad ending. This is the end of times that we are living in and it is full of oppression. Oppression is all over the world. Some people think that we will be under oppression forever. This will not happen. Allāh says the result of oppression cannot be good. "Aẓ- ẓulmu lā yadūmu wa-in dāma dammar." Oppression doesn't last. It exists only until a certain time. If it continues, it destroys everything. We are seeing this now. Everywhere...
Some big oppression happened yesterday afternoon. The whole world was shocked. Everyone is wondering what happened in Beirut, Lebanon. Great oppression is happening over there. No right is given to the people who follow the way of Allāh. People who have no connection to religion oppress those who have. There are many types of movements in the Islāmic world now other than Ahlu s-Sunnah. These others are oppressive. Muslims who are from Ahlu s-Sunnah do not oppress. The Ottomans did not oppress. They helped everywhere. They reached everywhere and helped. People are frustrated even to fly there now. Ottomans helped even these people. They helped everyone. Therefore, their name is pure. Except for them, all who came afterwards made oppression.
Who follows the way of the ancestors will be like them, Insha Allah. Who helps, Allāh will help him. Helping the oppressed is beneficial first to
ourselves, then to them. And they always look and see we have these people as our leaders. May Allāh be pleased with them. And curse the others because they are not doing good. Everything is done by oppression. They think they will benefit from their oppression. They won't. It will last until a certain time and then their time will be over. And if they don't repent, they will end up in Hell. Therefore, these events...
We are seeing various things at the end of times; things we could not have imagined, are happening. Since 15-20 years these events have been occurring often. These are signs that we live in the end of times. We are living in the time that our Prophet told us about. In the end it will be good for us, Insha Allah. It's good for the innocent and patient ones, in shā’a Llāh. It will be good. They will win, Insha Allah. May Allāh protect Islām and the Muslims and those who are on the right way. And may Allāh show guidance to those who are not on the right way.
There is a saying, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam saying: "Aẓ- ẓulmu ẓulumāt." "Oppression, it is darkness." Darkness, many darkness meaning. Ẓulm, it is become... What becomes [of] an oppression? Only you can get darkness. Nothing else. You cannot find good thing for oppression. We are living time – end of time. This oppression everywhere in world. More and more everybody try to oppress other people, to control them, to control this world, to control everything. They want only for themself, not for other people also.
And there is a saying: "Aẓ-ẓulmu lā yadūmu wa-in dāma dammar." Oppression cannot be going all time. If it's going, it will be destroy – where it is oppression, they destroy everything. Nothing left. This what happen in whole this Middle East country. They have oppression and they destroy all nation, house, cities, village. Nothing left, all destroy and still oppression not finished, still destroying. And people they was asking, wondering what happened yesterday in Lebanon, Beirut. It was real, amazing thing what we see. But this is from oppression of people they are claiming Islām but they are only...
Islām – no oppression in Islām. Islām – mercy. The real Muslim – they are peaceful people. They are not doing anything. Just this people whole time coming on them, making every bad thing for them. But, because they know no need to fight – Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa- sallam saying: "Don't throw yourself in danger." Because this people, they don't have mercy. They can kill you, kill your family. They don't have any mercy, no value for human being. So Muslim people, millions of Muslim in Lebanon, just silent, not doing a thing, only asking for forgiveness from Allāh, help from Allāh. And this oppression people, they thought they will be forever there. It will be not forever. This cannot be forever – what they are doing. And this is...
Maybe people they thinking it is terrible but everything Allāh make in wisdom. Allah saying: " ‘Asá an takrahū shay’an wa-huwa khayrun lakum" (2:216). "Maybe you are not happy with what happened, but it is good for you." So for people of, our people in Lebanon and other place, don't worry from what happened. This is... It must be happen for, because we are living in end of time. We are living... What happened, very weird thing happening since twenty or fifteen year. Very quickly, thing happening. Before you cannot imagine, even if you somebody tell you it will be like this, you are laughing. Mawlānā was saying many thing but people not taking care of what he saying.
But it is time Allāh revenge from what they done for oppressing people, especially who are in right way, way of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa- sallam, accepting Ahlu l-Bayt, and accepting whole Ṣaḥābah. Because now there is who – somebody not accepting Ahlu l-Bayt, and other not accepting Ṣaḥābah. This both not good. The poor people, peaceful people, who are following what Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam and his Khulafā’ until last Ottoman Sulṭān.
They are was in this way, way Ahlu s-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah and Madhhab and Ṭarīqah. All this must be. Who saying something about Ṭarīqah, about Madhhab – this Allāh send His revenge on them. They must be careful. This is not joke. You cannot hide from Allāh. We only we can... we cannot go fighting with them. Only we praying to be safe this
people, our people, Insha Allah, and give hidāyah for this who are claiming they are Muslim and not accepting anything. Not accepting anything – no they don't believe at all. But we are, alḥamdulilah, we are believing. Ahlu s-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah believing of Ṣaḥābah, Ahlu l-Bayt, Awliyā’u Llāh, Madhhab, Ṭarīqah. And we, our belief it will be happen this before Qiyāmah and the most what we wait for Sayyidunā l-Mahdī ‘alayhi s- salām and Sayyidunā ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām. This is real belief of Ahlu s-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah. Who not believe this, they are not from Ahlu s-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah. Allāh give hidāyah for everybody, Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
117.THE STATION OF RIDA Thursday, 6 August 2020
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya. The station of contentment (riḍá) is among the highest stations. Therefore for Ṣaḥābah, we say raḍiya Llāhu ‘anhum, may Allāh be pleased with them. Contentment means accepting everything from Allāh and being pleased that it came from Allāh. This is the station of contentment. both for good and bad things. They never said anything is bad. They said, "It came from Allāh and we are pleased it came from Allāh Ṣaḥābah were like this. And during the time of the Ṣaḥābah their lives were very difficult if we compare with our life now.
People don't show any pleasure even for this life under these present conditions. If our life was like their life, we could never stand it. Allāh gives people as much as they can carry. And they should be pleased with it. They should accept what comes from Allāh. Shayṭān objected to everything. And people want to do everything like him. They want to object. If there is nothing wrong, then they complain saying, “It’s hot, it’s too hot, it's burning.” And in winter they were saying it was too cold, wishing summer would come. "We are fed up of rain, mud, clouds, darkness." And when it's summer, "We can't stand it." It is continuous complaining, not being pleased with any condition.
We should be pleased with what Allāh gives. Because if you think your condition is bad, other people would like to have the life you are living. They wish they could live like you. There are many people like this. Many people who are in various troubles and difficulties, they left their homes
and lands, taking their children on the road. They have neither food, nor clean water. This world is full of such conditions.
But people leave that and address the government. They don't ask from Allāh. They ask from the government. They relate all fault to the government. What can a government do? Allāh gives. Whatever Allāh has decreed for you, you get that, not from the government. Therefore, being pleased with what Allāh gives brings benefit to you first of all because you are at peace then. "This is mine. This is my share. I have to be pleased. I shouldn't be like shayṭān." He wasn't pleased. He had the highest station and he wasn't happy. He objected: "Why do I have to make sajdah to Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām?" He [shayṭān] lost his rank. What is wrong in making sajdah? Would he lose anything? So this is it.
If people use their logic, everything Allāh gives is a favour. Problems, everything is a favour, favours that Allāh gives us. A man is in need of everything. He needs both hot and cold, hunger and thirst, flu and headache. We need all of it. They happen in order to remove some causes for bigger troubles So bigger troubles are turned away in that way. But mankind does everything as they like. And when they do, they suffer from it in dunyā. If they pass away without īmān, they suffer another time in Ākhirah. That's why, Muslims and especially people of ṭarīqah, should ask for the station of contentment. They should be in the station of contentment. And may Allāh give this station to all of us, in shā’a Llah.
The highest in Islām after Prophet – the Ṣaḥābah, Companions of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam – we say, "Raḍiya Llāhu ‘anhum wa-raḍū ‘anh." They are, Allāh happy with them. He accept them, satisfied with them, and they are happy with Allāh Satisfied with Allāh – riḍá. Meaning of riḍá, raḍiya, to be accept what Allāh give them, everything. They are happy with what Allāh give them. What they have in dunyā? They don't have anything. They was only, maybe some of them, had one clothes, no more. For food – maybe days they cannot find something to eat. But they was happy, not complaining, not saying, "We are hungry. What is this? We are following Prophet and we not eating. We don't have something
to put on our self." No. They was nothing like this. They was very happy, thanking for Allāh for what He give them. But nowadays people they don't have this. There are two kind of people, two kind of creature: one, Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām, one devil, shayṭān, satan. He, first thing, he was having everything. He was in highest station, the highest one inbetween angel. But when see Ādam ‘alayhi s- salām, he become lowest. He not accept to bow for Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām, or make sajdah, and he finish everything, not be, not accept, not satisfied. But when you are satisfied, you'll be easy for you. If not accept, everything difficult, everything in this life difficult.
And the teaching of shayṭān for, especially nowadays people, to not accept anything, to object for everything what they give – especially for government. Because they don't have belief [in] there is Creator, they are unhappy. If thousand government changing, it will be not better. Because what they have, what Allāh give them, for people, human being, each one he has something Allāh give him. You must take not more, not less. So, this people whole life they're unhappy. Everything they are complaining, they are saying, "What is this? What is that?" Even if nothing to say, they are unhappy with weather, "What is? Oh. Now, we are very hot day today, these days, very very hot day. What is this?" This Allāh create our world for our situation, it is like this since Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām or more. In this time it must be very hot. This hot you cannot change. If you not like even you are, you must be satisfied and you accept. And this is, we are in need for this hot, heat.
After coming winter. In winter, "Uh what is this very cold?" It must be very cold. Also benefit for us Allāh, create we have benefit from it, from hunger, from thirsty give this. Everything Allāh create from heat, from cold, from light, from dark. Everything it is benefit for us. But people they are prevent this, and try to do another thing so they will be, they destroy themself. They destroy their health, they destroy their mind also. But if you are satisfied and you are happy, you will be relaxed and acceptable one in Divine Presence of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla and you everything going with smooth with you.
But other, you are whole time angry, you are whole time unhappy. Around you also, you make bad ta’thīr (effect), bad, bad effect for people also. You spread bad energy, badness. But if you are good, people will be also happy with you. You spread good energy, good think for people also. This is the station of riḍá. it is the highest for this. Allāh give good thing for human being but human being they leave this and running after bad thing, which harm themselves, harm human being. They destroy whole world. Now you see everywhere – illness, disaster. Everything it is not from good people, from bad people only. Allāh keep us in His acceptable people, Insha Allah.
We accept everything from Allāh and we thank Him for what He give us, Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
118.THE QURBAN OF ‘ĪDU L-ADHA Thursday, 6 August 2019
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 living in these blessed days. The first ten days of Dhū l-Ḥijjah are holy. And of course, there is the holy ‘Īd. The virtue of these days is great. Only Allāh knows the reward for the worship done during these days. Every reward He gives you tenfold but for these days, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla gives limitlessly. The worship of these days include your prayers, ṣadaqah, charity and so on. The fasting of the nine days has great reward. Who can't do it, our Prophet advised fasting the 8th and 9th. If you can't fast on the 8th then fast on the 9th, on the day of ‘Arafah. Your sins will pour off you then. No sin will remain, says our Prophet.
And then of course, those who are on ḥajj are doing the worship of ḥajj during these days. And for those who are here, people who can afford it, who have enough money, it is wājib for them to sacrifice an animal according to the Ḥanafī madhhab. Wājib is the second most powerful worship after farḍ. F
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to her and she was really loving too much [her] only one son, and husband very good man. He's real very very good man. She was, people they said she would not survive, this lady. Maybe one month after she can pass away or go to mental house for this. But Mawlānā with his barakah, he give her this. She is believer. When she... Mawlānā speak to her, she was happy what Mawlānā saying, "You are like my sister." His sister, my auntie Zahra Hanım. "You are like her, you are in Jannah with us." And your son and husband also will be with us." From since that time she was, alḥamdulilah, nothing... but she was very sincere, strong
believer.
And she passed away yesterday. On very holy day Jum‘ah and 10th of Dhū l-Ḥijjah. And what Mawlānā was saying it was real and real she was beloved one for Allāh. Thirty year she was happy, every time repeating this, what Mawlānā tell her about her son and her husband and for her. She said also every time, some people they forget but she all time saying this: 'If not Mawlānā saying this, not giving support me from this, I will never survive." She was all time thankful for Mawlānā, for awliyā’u Llāh. Allāh make her... She was saying, "In shā’a Llāh, don't forget me, take me to Jannah." But i think she can take us to Jannah. She is very big awliyā’u Llāh. Insha Allah we make, now she, they are making janāzah, we make ghā’ib janāzah for her, Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
114.KING OF KINGS Sunday, 2 August 2020
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. Today is the third day of the holy days of ‘Īd. Of these holy days Yawmu ‘Arafah is the most blessed, and after that, the first day of ‘Īd, second day of ‘Īd. All of these four days are valuable in the presence of Allāh. They are made as a feast for us. It is both a physical feast in that people congratulate each other, visit others, and give presents, take care of the poor and the elderly. And it is spiritual, there are other than material presents, there are more valuable spiritual presents. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla prepares such presents for us that we have no way to evaluate them.
Dunyā is like this that we were waiting for ‘Īd, and now it is almost over. It's the third day and soon it will be over too. These are all transitory, not permanent things. It is here and after a moment it's over. Summer comes and goes, winter also. Life goes too. What remains, is what was made ready for life in Ākhirah. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla promised the mu’min servants all goodness. He promised this to all mankind. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Ayyuha n- nās, "tūbū ilá Llāhi jamī‘a" (24:31). "O people, repent to Allāh all of you." White or yellow or unbeliever, He doesn't distinguish between them. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla is addressing all mankind and saying to repent. Repent for the mistakes you have made. Who is not Muslim does not know how to make istighfār but they know tawbah. When they make tawbah, they repent and come to Allāh's way. Unbelievers are held accountable from that moment. Nothing from before remains valid. Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam said, "Al-
Islām yajubbu mā qablah." Īmān, belief erases everything that came before. A man starts again from a blank page.
Therefore, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla doesn't oppress people. People oppress each other. Allāh forgives all our sins, wrong actions, everything you can think of. "Laysa ba‘da l-kufri dhanb." There is no bigger sin than kufr. The biggest sin is kufr. kufr is bigger than all sins. If you leave kufr and turn to Allāh, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla will not question you about your past. You will start from zero. Therefore, Allāh's mercy is great. A man does wrong to himself and he does right to himself. May Allāh let us do the right. May we deserve the rewards of these valuable days, Insha Allah. Alḥamdulilah, we are living in blessed, holy days, especially from Yawmu ‘Arafah. It is the highest, blessed day. After [that] first day of ‘Īd – tenth of Dhū l-Ḥijjah. After yesterday, Yawmu n-Naḥr – first day Yawmu n-Naḥr – to slaughter. Second day calling Yawmu l-Qarr it is everybody finished from qurbān, finished from... Who in ḥajj finished from ‘Arafāt, ramiy jamarāt, slaughter, and he come out from iḥrām. It is settle day meaning, Yawmu l-Qarr. It is also blessed after first day of ‘Īd, second day as well. After [that] third and fourth also blessed. But the most blessed [are the ones] before this days.
But Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla also, He is giving us this feast. Allāh, He put this feast for Muslim. And Muslim, they are happy with ‘Īd. They celebrate. Everybody celebrate. Who practice and not practice, all they are celebrate. And also there is spiritual celebration for ‘Īd. Allāh give gift, gift, precious gift not like dunyā or this life gift. This life gift – it is very short. We was waiting for ‘Īd, for Dhū l-Ḥijjah, for Dhū l-Qa‘dah, Dhū l-Ḥijjah, after Muḥarram. Quickly coming. Now third day of ‘Īd – it will be finished. Summer, it will be finished. Days like this. Life it will be finished. But what is not finished, what Allāh gave us from His gifts, forever it will be, Insha Allah. And this in special day.
He is King of kings – Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, whole universe for Him. He is giving for who... Sending angels [He is] asking: "Who asking something, I will give him. What they want, I will give them. Look, go and look for this people." So this also, very blessed days. You must be ask from Allāh
every good thing, in shā’a Llāh. And it is for, especially must ask for forgiveness. And Allāh give this for whole human being, not only for Muslim. He said to them: "O human being, ayyuha n-nās, "tūbū ilá Llāhi jamī‘a" (24:31), ask for repent from Allāh to forgive you to, what you done before. If you ask for forgiveness, Allāh, will forgive you, and give you – changing, what you do bad to good. And who they don't have any belief, He accept them, even they are ninety year or eighty years, whole life who is non-believer but when they asking – doing every bad thing – but when they asking from Allāh forgiveness and accepting Him and become mu’min – Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam saying: "What they done before it is finished. Allāh not asking." Beginning from zero from that time.
Even they die after five minute, also they will be pure one. This is mercy of Allāh. He, encourage people to accept Him, to believe [in order] to reward them. He don't want to punish them. People, human being they are oppress themselves. Allāh not oppressing anybody. And Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam saying in ḥadīth: "To Islām – removing what they before, what they done, they are not asked." They will not ask whatever you done. You will be beginning from first, from one step – continue. In dunyā they don't have this law is knowing what in heart, He If anybody they... But Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, because He is knowing what is in heart He accept who He know who is sincere or not sincere – doing this for Allāh or not doing this for Allāh. If he is sincere and accepting not [doing it] only to cheat people, it will be safe. This is our Lord. He is most merciful. We must be happy, because He not looking for small thing. He giving us chance to repent, to ask for forgiveness, to forgive us. And when forgive us, He, changing bad action for reward for us. This is also from His, generosity.
Allāh accept our ‘ibādah, our ‘Īd, Insha Allah. And we wait for reward, here and hereafter, Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
115.HURRY FOR TWO THINGS Tuesday, 4 August 2020
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. "‘Ajjilū bi-ṣ-ṣalāti qabla l-fawt, wa-‘ajjilū bi-t-tawbati qabla l-mawt." This means, hurry to pray before its time is up. Make your ṣalāh. Pray while in dunyā so that it is not left for Ākhirah. The most worthy of prayers is the one made on time and made in jamā‘ah (congregation). You can't reach its value afterwards. Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa- sallam says if you miss a prayer and do it afterwards, you will not be able to reach its value even if you pray all your life. Therefore, we should know its worth.
Most people don't pray. They don't look at the time, whether it's early or late. They just don't care. But this is important. Ṣalāh comes ahead of other important things. People say they are busy and leave praying to the end. And then they forget it. Of course, praying is the top priority thing to do. It is the most important thing both for the benefits of this world and for Ākhirah. People don't know the value of praying. They say they are smart. As long as they don't know its value, they are not smart. Therefore, we should pay attention to praying.
Also, repent before you die. You should ask forgiveness from Allāh for mistakes and sins you made before you die so that He forgives you. If you die before repenting, it won't be accepted in Ākhirah. You will be punished. Punishment will be given to you. There is no guarantee of life for people. No guarantee that you will live for a hundred, seventy or eighty years. Therefore, hurry up.
It is good to hurry in good deeds. Haste is not normally a good thing. You should stop and think. But in these matters, you don't have to think. The time will be up and life will be over. Therefore, you should hurry. Because your age is not important. Death doesn't look at anything. Everyone has a time allotted for living. Allāh's will is so. A reason occurs and because of that reason death comes. A man passes away to Ākhirah. Some people die instantly. It is worse. Some die of illness. And when they have sickness, their sins are forgiven. That's the benefit of an illness. If they are without sin, their rank increases.
May Allāh forgive our faults. May Allāh forgive all of us. We should ask forgiveness every day as we have many mistakes and faults. And today one of our brothers, Tahir Efendi from Berlin, passed away. He wasn't too old but his life was this much. At 45 years, he suffered a lot from an illness. That illness raised his rank, with Allāh's permission. May Allāh make his maqām higher. When our brothers pass away, Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim meets them for sure. He doesn't leave them alone. Therefore, they pray that you are given a home better than the one you have. May it be a better home, a better place than the one in dunyā, Insha Allah.
They say, I don't know if ḥadīth or saying or a poem like, " ‘Ajjilū bi-ṣ- ṣalāti qabla l-fawt, wa- ‘ajjilū bi-t-tawbati qabla l-mawt." Meaning: be hurry to pray before the time going on... not losing... If you pray Ẓuhr you must pray in time, between ẓuhr since, until ‘Aṣr. Now ẓuhr one o'clock until quarter to five, quarter to five. In this time don't make it ten to five – it's finished. You lose very big favour, very big reward. This is for whole people. But people nowadays they are not looking for, even they are not praying. Not only looking to be hurry to not make time of praying going out, they are completely not praying. But this is from ignorance of people. They thought praying it is not important. Work, what they do for dunyā, it is most important. But this is very wrong thing. The most important work, business, for us [is] to pray five times. This is the most important thing. It must be top of list. Because when you not praying, everything [has] no benefit. And when you miss time, this reward of this time – if you pray whole life for only for one time, you cannot reach this reward.
But of course you can make it – you pray later, better [than] to make you pray in Ākhirah. Ākhirah most difficult to pray there. And praying, ṣalāh, it is the pillar of Islām, religion. And people if they know what it is benefit from this, they will be very careful for praying, to not lose anything from praying. And there is many people also they praying – not praying sunnah, not praying nāfilah. Also they are losing. They are also ignorant people. They not knowing value of praying. So, this is saying you must be hurry to pray.
And " ‘Ajjilū bi-t-tawbati qabla l-mawt." And be hurry to repent before death. Death it is not looking for age. "I am young and still have maybe sixty years, seventy years I can live. So later I will be repent and ask for forgiveness." No. You cannot guarantee you will live this. Allāh He put for everyone – age. And everyone he has counted breaths and what he will eat, and what he will drink. Everything, "Wa-kullu shay’in ‘indahu bi-miqdār" (13:8). Everything in Qur’ān ‘Aẓīmu sh-Sha’n Allāh ‘Azza wa- Jalla saying. Everything they have, they put for you there – "This is for you. You cannot take more." So, and you don't know. You feel you are good, and suddenly finish. Some of them they have illness, they become sick and after they be die, be dying.
But most of people without even old people, they don't know when they will pass away. So, this is two thing be hurry for them. In Islām hurry, to be hurry, it is not so good. But for good thing, it is good to be hurry for this, not leave it. "I will make it later. I will pray later, I will be repent later. Now I am very young. No need to repent." If you, they have mind they can repent every day. Allāh acceptaccept. Every day you must repent because we all of us we have mistake, we have sin. Every day Allāh accept repent. Not saying, "Don't repent until you become before death." No.
Every day you must to be clean yourself from this dirty. And Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla He is reward this people.
And some of them with illness, some of them with suddenly, they pass away. Allāh keep us awake and we hurry in this thing, Insha Allah. Insha
Allah we also pray janāzah ghā’iban. One our from brothers he pass away – he not so old. He was one year suffering from illness and this illness making... If somebody he has sin, Allāh clean with illness. If no sin , He make him maqām higher. Insha Allah, make him in highest place. And when some from murīd pass away, Mawlānā he make him, he meet him there. So he will be happy. And there is a saying: Allāh change his house for a better house. For his position better than this dunyā, Insha Allah. Allāh make his maqām ‘ālī (high), Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
116.OPPRESSION IS DARKNESS Wednesday, 5 August 2020
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 is probably a ḥadīth: "Aẓ-ẓulmu ẓulumāt." Oppression is darkness, it is evil. Oppression is something with a bad ending. This is the end of times that we are living in and it is full of oppression. Oppression is all over the world. Some people think that we will be under oppression forever. This will not happen. Allāh says the result of oppression cannot be good. "Aẓ- ẓulmu lā yadūmu wa-in dāma dammar." Oppression doesn't last. It exists only until a certain time. If it continues, it destroys everything. We are seeing this now. Everywhere...
Some big oppression happened yesterday afternoon. The whole world was shocked. Everyone is wondering what happened in Beirut, Lebanon. Great oppression is happening over there. No right is given to the people who follow the way of Allāh. People who have no connection to religion oppress those who have. There are many types of movements in the Islāmic world now other than Ahlu s-Sunnah. These others are oppressive. Muslims who are from Ahlu s-Sunnah do not oppress. The Ottomans did not oppress. They helped everywhere. They reached everywhere and helped. People are frustrated even to fly there now. Ottomans helped even these people. They helped everyone. Therefore, their name is pure. Except for them, all who came afterwards made oppression.
Who follows the way of the ancestors will be like them, Insha Allah. Who helps, Allāh will help him. Helping the oppressed is beneficial first to
ourselves, then to them. And they always look and see we have these people as our leaders. May Allāh be pleased with them. And curse the others because they are not doing good. Everything is done by oppression. They think they will benefit from their oppression. They won't. It will last until a certain time and then their time will be over. And if they don't repent, they will end up in Hell. Therefore, these events...
We are seeing various things at the end of times; things we could not have imagined, are happening. Since 15-20 years these events have been occurring often. These are signs that we live in the end of times. We are living in the time that our Prophet told us about. In the end it will be good for us, Insha Allah. It's good for the innocent and patient ones, in shā’a Llāh. It will be good. They will win, Insha Allah. May Allāh protect Islām and the Muslims and those who are on the right way. And may Allāh show guidance to those who are not on the right way.
There is a saying, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam saying: "Aẓ- ẓulmu ẓulumāt." "Oppression, it is darkness." Darkness, many darkness meaning. Ẓulm, it is become... What becomes [of] an oppression? Only you can get darkness. Nothing else. You cannot find good thing for oppression. We are living time – end of time. This oppression everywhere in world. More and more everybody try to oppress other people, to control them, to control this world, to control everything. They want only for themself, not for other people also.
And there is a saying: "Aẓ-ẓulmu lā yadūmu wa-in dāma dammar." Oppression cannot be going all time. If it's going, it will be destroy – where it is oppression, they destroy everything. Nothing left. This what happen in whole this Middle East country. They have oppression and they destroy all nation, house, cities, village. Nothing left, all destroy and still oppression not finished, still destroying. And people they was asking, wondering what happened yesterday in Lebanon, Beirut. It was real, amazing thing what we see. But this is from oppression of people they are claiming Islām but they are only...
Islām – no oppression in Islām. Islām – mercy. The real Muslim – they are peaceful people. They are not doing anything. Just this people whole time coming on them, making every bad thing for them. But, because they know no need to fight – Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa- sallam saying: "Don't throw yourself in danger." Because this people, they don't have mercy. They can kill you, kill your family. They don't have any mercy, no value for human being. So Muslim people, millions of Muslim in Lebanon, just silent, not doing a thing, only asking for forgiveness from Allāh, help from Allāh. And this oppression people, they thought they will be forever there. It will be not forever. This cannot be forever – what they are doing. And this is...
Maybe people they thinking it is terrible but everything Allāh make in wisdom. Allah saying: " ‘Asá an takrahū shay’an wa-huwa khayrun lakum" (2:216). "Maybe you are not happy with what happened, but it is good for you." So for people of, our people in Lebanon and other place, don't worry from what happened. This is... It must be happen for, because we are living in end of time. We are living... What happened, very weird thing happening since twenty or fifteen year. Very quickly, thing happening. Before you cannot imagine, even if you somebody tell you it will be like this, you are laughing. Mawlānā was saying many thing but people not taking care of what he saying.
But it is time Allāh revenge from what they done for oppressing people, especially who are in right way, way of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa- sallam, accepting Ahlu l-Bayt, and accepting whole Ṣaḥābah. Because now there is who – somebody not accepting Ahlu l-Bayt, and other not accepting Ṣaḥābah. This both not good. The poor people, peaceful people, who are following what Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam and his Khulafā’ until last Ottoman Sulṭān.
They are was in this way, way Ahlu s-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah and Madhhab and Ṭarīqah. All this must be. Who saying something about Ṭarīqah, about Madhhab – this Allāh send His revenge on them. They must be careful. This is not joke. You cannot hide from Allāh. We only we can... we cannot go fighting with them. Only we praying to be safe this
people, our people, Insha Allah, and give hidāyah for this who are claiming they are Muslim and not accepting anything. Not accepting anything – no they don't believe at all. But we are, alḥamdulilah, we are believing. Ahlu s-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah believing of Ṣaḥābah, Ahlu l-Bayt, Awliyā’u Llāh, Madhhab, Ṭarīqah. And we, our belief it will be happen this before Qiyāmah and the most what we wait for Sayyidunā l-Mahdī ‘alayhi s- salām and Sayyidunā ‘Īsá ‘alayhi s-salām. This is real belief of Ahlu s-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah. Who not believe this, they are not from Ahlu s-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah. Allāh give hidāyah for everybody, Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
117.THE STATION OF RIDA Thursday, 6 August 2020
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya. The station of contentment (riḍá) is among the highest stations. Therefore for Ṣaḥābah, we say raḍiya Llāhu ‘anhum, may Allāh be pleased with them. Contentment means accepting everything from Allāh and being pleased that it came from Allāh. This is the station of contentment. both for good and bad things. They never said anything is bad. They said, "It came from Allāh and we are pleased it came from Allāh Ṣaḥābah were like this. And during the time of the Ṣaḥābah their lives were very difficult if we compare with our life now.
People don't show any pleasure even for this life under these present conditions. If our life was like their life, we could never stand it. Allāh gives people as much as they can carry. And they should be pleased with it. They should accept what comes from Allāh. Shayṭān objected to everything. And people want to do everything like him. They want to object. If there is nothing wrong, then they complain saying, “It’s hot, it’s too hot, it's burning.” And in winter they were saying it was too cold, wishing summer would come. "We are fed up of rain, mud, clouds, darkness." And when it's summer, "We can't stand it." It is continuous complaining, not being pleased with any condition.
We should be pleased with what Allāh gives. Because if you think your condition is bad, other people would like to have the life you are living. They wish they could live like you. There are many people like this. Many people who are in various troubles and difficulties, they left their homes
and lands, taking their children on the road. They have neither food, nor clean water. This world is full of such conditions.
But people leave that and address the government. They don't ask from Allāh. They ask from the government. They relate all fault to the government. What can a government do? Allāh gives. Whatever Allāh has decreed for you, you get that, not from the government. Therefore, being pleased with what Allāh gives brings benefit to you first of all because you are at peace then. "This is mine. This is my share. I have to be pleased. I shouldn't be like shayṭān." He wasn't pleased. He had the highest station and he wasn't happy. He objected: "Why do I have to make sajdah to Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām?" He [shayṭān] lost his rank. What is wrong in making sajdah? Would he lose anything? So this is it.
If people use their logic, everything Allāh gives is a favour. Problems, everything is a favour, favours that Allāh gives us. A man is in need of everything. He needs both hot and cold, hunger and thirst, flu and headache. We need all of it. They happen in order to remove some causes for bigger troubles So bigger troubles are turned away in that way. But mankind does everything as they like. And when they do, they suffer from it in dunyā. If they pass away without īmān, they suffer another time in Ākhirah. That's why, Muslims and especially people of ṭarīqah, should ask for the station of contentment. They should be in the station of contentment. And may Allāh give this station to all of us, in shā’a Llah.
The highest in Islām after Prophet – the Ṣaḥābah, Companions of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam – we say, "Raḍiya Llāhu ‘anhum wa-raḍū ‘anh." They are, Allāh happy with them. He accept them, satisfied with them, and they are happy with Allāh Satisfied with Allāh – riḍá. Meaning of riḍá, raḍiya, to be accept what Allāh give them, everything. They are happy with what Allāh give them. What they have in dunyā? They don't have anything. They was only, maybe some of them, had one clothes, no more. For food – maybe days they cannot find something to eat. But they was happy, not complaining, not saying, "We are hungry. What is this? We are following Prophet and we not eating. We don't have something
to put on our self." No. They was nothing like this. They was very happy, thanking for Allāh for what He give them. But nowadays people they don't have this. There are two kind of people, two kind of creature: one, Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām, one devil, shayṭān, satan. He, first thing, he was having everything. He was in highest station, the highest one inbetween angel. But when see Ādam ‘alayhi s- salām, he become lowest. He not accept to bow for Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām, or make sajdah, and he finish everything, not be, not accept, not satisfied. But when you are satisfied, you'll be easy for you. If not accept, everything difficult, everything in this life difficult.
And the teaching of shayṭān for, especially nowadays people, to not accept anything, to object for everything what they give – especially for government. Because they don't have belief [in] there is Creator, they are unhappy. If thousand government changing, it will be not better. Because what they have, what Allāh give them, for people, human being, each one he has something Allāh give him. You must take not more, not less. So, this people whole life they're unhappy. Everything they are complaining, they are saying, "What is this? What is that?" Even if nothing to say, they are unhappy with weather, "What is? Oh. Now, we are very hot day today, these days, very very hot day. What is this?" This Allāh create our world for our situation, it is like this since Ādam ‘alayhi s-salām or more. In this time it must be very hot. This hot you cannot change. If you not like even you are, you must be satisfied and you accept. And this is, we are in need for this hot, heat.
After coming winter. In winter, "Uh what is this very cold?" It must be very cold. Also benefit for us Allāh, create we have benefit from it, from hunger, from thirsty give this. Everything Allāh create from heat, from cold, from light, from dark. Everything it is benefit for us. But people they are prevent this, and try to do another thing so they will be, they destroy themself. They destroy their health, they destroy their mind also. But if you are satisfied and you are happy, you will be relaxed and acceptable one in Divine Presence of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla and you everything going with smooth with you.
But other, you are whole time angry, you are whole time unhappy. Around you also, you make bad ta’thīr (effect), bad, bad effect for people also. You spread bad energy, badness. But if you are good, people will be also happy with you. You spread good energy, good think for people also. This is the station of riḍá. it is the highest for this. Allāh give good thing for human being but human being they leave this and running after bad thing, which harm themselves, harm human being. They destroy whole world. Now you see everywhere – illness, disaster. Everything it is not from good people, from bad people only. Allāh keep us in His acceptable people, Insha Allah.
We accept everything from Allāh and we thank Him for what He give us, Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
118.THE QURBAN OF ‘ĪDU L-ADHA Thursday, 6 August 2019
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 living in these blessed days. The first ten days of Dhū l-Ḥijjah are holy. And of course, there is the holy ‘Īd. The virtue of these days is great. Only Allāh knows the reward for the worship done during these days. Every reward He gives you tenfold but for these days, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla gives limitlessly. The worship of these days include your prayers, ṣadaqah, charity and so on. The fasting of the nine days has great reward. Who can't do it, our Prophet advised fasting the 8th and 9th. If you can't fast on the 8th then fast on the 9th, on the day of ‘Arafah. Your sins will pour off you then. No sin will remain, says our Prophet.
And then of course, those who are on ḥajj are doing the worship of ḥajj during these days. And for those who are here, people who can afford it, who have enough money, it is wājib for them to sacrifice an animal according to the Ḥanafī madhhab. Wājib is the second most powerful worship after farḍ. F
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