Suhbah 2021: Maulana Shaykh Mehmet Adil ar-Rabbani (6/25)
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r Allah. When they remember Allah, they find peace. Peace and beauty is in remembrance of Allah, making Dhikr of Allah. Don’t look elsewhere uselessly.
Allah is our Creator. He knows what gives us peace. The creature doesn’t know it. The creatures can only give instructions to do this and that. They do so, it doesn’t work. They try other things to get experience, it doesn’t work either. They make two, five, ten, million, ten million other attempts, nothing works.
Everything hangs in the air because they are creatures. Only The Creator knows the secret. People don’t know it. They just scatter from one place to another and make people miserable too. And they never accept the truth. The truth is in front of their eyes. The one who finds the truth will not look for anything else.
Therefore, it is both the secret and the truth. Allah put it in front of people. Most people don’t want the truth. They stay away from the truth and run away from it. The truth is to be with Allah.
He’s got the peace and beauty. Those who accept this will be happy. They will reach happiness here and hereafter.
May Allah not take His Dhikr out of our hearts Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
52.PARADISE ON EARTH Saturday, 24 April 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our Holy Prophet states: “When you pass by the gardens of Paradise, then feast.”
If you pass through the garden of paradise, enjoy it. Get benefit from it. When the Sahaba asked where the garden of paradise is, our Holy Prophet replied that it is the assemblies of knowledge where they make Dhikr of Allah. Paradise on earth is the assemblies of knowledge, assemblies of Dhikr, a place where good people come together. There is benefit, not harm there. They complete people’s flaws, prepare them for paradise in Ākhirah, increase their ranks and teach them what they don’t know. It is the advice of our Holy Prophet to his Ummah (nation). Our Holy Prophet says to attend these assemblies. This world is a place of tests. We have to benefit from such assemblies for salvation. We have to go there frequently. Thank Allah, assemblies mentioned by our Holy Prophet last until Qiyāmah. They are assemblies of goodness; no harm comes from them. They are assemblies for Allah, not for this world, not for anything else. These assemblies are a blessing Insha Allah. May Allah not cut them but increase them Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
53.THE MIRACLE OF QUR’AN Monday, 26 April 2021
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. Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Allah states in the Holy Qur’an: ‘Verily! We have sent it (this Quran) down in the Night of Al-Qadr (Decree).’ (Qur’ān 97:01).
Allah sent the Qur’an Karim on Laylat al-Qadr. As it was sent in the month of Ramadan, it came down on Laylat al-Qadr. It is not clear when Laylat al-Qadr is. The Qur’an Karim is a great favor to us from Allah and it is the everlasting miracle of our Holy Prophet. The greatest miracle of our Holy Prophet is the Qur’an Karim. Everything is written in it. For every letter you read in it, you get no less but more than ten Thawab. When you read it in Ramadan, 70- 700 times more Thawab is written.
There has been a tradition since old times; reading the Qur’an in the neighborhood, in a mosque. People gather and read Qur’an, following one another. All of them earn its Thawab this way. It is a good method. There are many nice methods like this. Even if someone cannot read and just follows up, Allah gives him the same reward.
Some people may read slowly or wrong. Allah created angels who correct the wrong and deliver it to Allah in a perfect state. Therefore, some people say, “I read slowly and wrong. I’d better not read”. No, you should read, as Allah did not make it hard, He made it easy. He even created special angels who correct your reading, as our Holy
Prophet says. So don’t say that you read wrong, it is from shaytan. He makes waswasa so that you don’t read Qur’an and don’t earn Thawab. Read as you can, Allah will accept it. Allah created us as weak servants. He knows our condition. And our intention is to obey Him and read His beautiful words, the Qur’an.
The Qur’an Azimu sh-Shan is the firm word of Allah. Therefore, it is a remedy, blessing, goodness and all kinds of beauty. It tells about the past and the future. Mankind does not know even a drop of its ocean of secrets. Everything is inside it; every beauty, every goodness. The Qur’an Karim is a remedy, as we said. Its benefits are uncountable.
May Allah make us from the people of Qur’an. May He protect us with its blessings. May we have strength of Iman Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
54.THE FIRST LESSON IN TARIQA Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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. Tariqa is to tolerate things that are contrary to people, things that are opposite.
Not only the Naqshbandi Tariqa, but all Tariqas teach you to tolerate things which you don’t like without objecting. It is easy to get along with those who treat you well. And it is difficult to keep quiet or to treat well those who treat you badly. It is a big strength for people to keep calm under oppression.
Our Holy Prophet says that a strong person is the angry person who keeps his anger under control and does not fight back. When a person controls his ego and keeps calm, that is the biggest strength. A person as strong as this and that, has no benefit. The benefit is in the man who controls and captures his ego.
With the beautiful words of our Holy Prophet, all Tariqas are good examples for people to get along well.
Everything goes contrary to the people now and they cannot tolerate any of it. Shaytan taught them so. They shout and swear at everything and think they are doing something big. It becomes worse when they do so; it becomes more difficult. No one is telling people all over the world that what they are doing is wrong. They say, “It is your right and freedom. Go, scream and shout”. You are screaming and shouting, but
there is no benefit and only harm is coming to people. Therefore, tolerance is useful for people. Tolerance is the first lesson in Tariqa. Tariqa is not to say ten words back to someone who told you one. Tariqa is to be tolerant and patient. May Allah protect us. May Allah let us all succeed in obeying the orders of Tariqa and Islam.
It is easy to talk about it yet hard to apply in practice. May Allah help us all Insha Allah. May we have strength of Iman. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
55.KNOW THE VALUE OF ALLAH Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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. Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Allah states in the Holy Quran: ‘‘They have not appraised Allah with true appraisal’’(Qur’ān 39:67).
People do not know the greatness, power and value of Allah. His greatness and superiority is obvious but people don’t know it. They think that He is something simple. Whereas, Allah created and gave everything. They value what He created and those who are against Him, yet they don’t value Allah.
People value worthless people and things. They value these things and neither know nor think about Allah. Also, may Allah protect us from this, people with less mind deny Allah. This is a big foolishness. For example, even though there mustn’t be an example, you value and respect an animal instead of showing respect to your father or brother. Is it possible? It is not a good example, of course. Allah has no comparison.
However, people are doing like this. They are making rocks, soil and iron created by Allah as their crown jewels. They are ignoring the greatness and power of Allah.
People of this time think that they are clever. The more they claim to be clever, the more ignorant they become. Knowledge is to know Allah.
What does not recognize Allah is not knowledge, it is ignorance. Know the value and greatness of Allah so that benefit comes from Him. Benefit is from Allah.
Everything is in His hands. All kinds of favors are in the hands of Allah. The one who knows His value is in profit. The one who doesn’t know it is in loss. Even if he thinks that he’s in profit, he is in loss.
Therefore, may Allah make us from those who know the value of Allah, from those who love Him, from those who know and value the friends and good servants of Allah Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
56.BE WITH ALLAH Friday, 30 April 2021
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 says: ‘He does what He wills.’ (Qur’ān 03:40). Allah does what He wants. No one can prevent Him. No one can tell Allah to do this or that. Everything happening is by the will of Allah.
‘Goodness is in what has happened’. It has already happened, so we cannot do anything. We have to accept it and ask for help from Allah. There is no other solution.
Mankind does not understand and cannot accept this. They want to solve it and are struggling for it. Whatever happens, a Muslim should be pleased with it. As long as you are with Allah, every condition is easy. You have to be with Allah in any condition; hardship and ease, happiness and sadness. If you don’t forget Allah, everything is easy for you. And if you forget Allah, everything is difficult.
People are saying now, “We are stuck at home. We cannot go outside”. That is a test for people. It is holy Ramadan now. People are away from Dunyā in order to be closer to Allah. If you see it as favor from Allah, Allah will give back more and with multiple blessings for everything you think you’ve lost.
Everything will be more and better. Don’t stay idle. Read Qur’an. The one who does not know how to read Qur’an, learn it slowly. A man can learn how to read Qur’an in a week. If he tries, he can read in fifteen
days; he will be ready to read the Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan. Make Tasbihat and pray the missed prayers. Who can make Iʿtikāf may do so. It is an opportunity, so you should not misuse it [for bad things] but use it for goodness.
Do good things and you’ll have ease.
People are bored and exhausted. Why are they so? Because they don’t remember Allah. If they remember Allah, they won’t be bored and they won’t be scared. Most people are depressed now; there’s no need for it. The one who believes and trusts in Allah, never fears death or sickness. Whatever is meant to happen, if Allah wants it to come, you cannot prevent it. If it’s not meant to happen, you can interact with a thousand infected people, nothing will happen to you. Fire will not burn you, just as Sayyidina Ibrahim.
Therefore, our advice is to be with Allah. It is a holy month and a blessed month. Not harm but beauty comes from it Allah willing. May Allah make these sufferings of people [to be] means to strengthen their Iman. May it not go for nothing. Some people are going wilder and more rebellious. This happens [in order] for Muslims to be closer to Allah Insha Allah.
May Allah help us. May Allah protect us from all evil and illnesses. May the sick get cured.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
57.THE GREAT VIRTUES OF ‘ITIKAF Saturday, 1 May 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We have approached the end of Ramadan; more than half is over. Starting with the 20th meaning in the last ten days there is the confirmed Sunnah of our Holy Prophet which is the Sunnah of ‘itikaf. Those who plan to do it, can make the intention and enter ‘itikaf for ten days starting tomorrow night Insha Allah.
Those who cannot do it can make the intention for ‘itikaf every time they enter the mosque during this period. Its virtues will also be written for them. This is a great virtue for people. If not even one person does it in every town, the whole town would be deprived from its virtue. ‘Itikaf has great virtues and rewards; it is a blessing.
‘Itikaf can be done in masjids or in designated places insha’Allah. Because of certain restrictions in our situation now, the mosques are closed, may Allah forgive us. So it can be done in private places too.
It is said, ‘Necessity requires its own rule’. There are different rulings for different circumstances. In normal conditions, it cannot be done outside of a mosque. But in today’s condition, it can be done outside the mosque because it's a necessary worship that should be performed. If it wasn’t performed, it is a shame for the Ummah (nation) in front of our Holy Prophet. Yet thank Allah, there are plenty of people who are doing this Sunnah. May Allah accept their worship.
People are confusing between ‘itikaf and Khalwa (seclusion). ‘Itikaf is different than Khalwa. In ‘itikaf, you stay in the mosque, fast and eat normally. While in Khalwa, you eat less and only eat lentils. But in ‘itikaf, you eat normally, perform your worship and do not get outside the mosque. In Khalwa, you only eat lentils. Khalwa is done outside of Ramadan, either in Dhul-Hijjah or in Rajab. It starts from the beginning of Dhuʻl-Qiʻdah until Dhul-Hijjah or from Rajab until the tenth of Sha’ban. There are differences between them.
As we said, women should do ‘itikaf in their homes. There’s no need to go to the mosque. Women who are in ‘itikaf shouldn’t leave the house. They perform their worships until the end and stay in a seperate room, and Allah will accept it. So even if men didn’t make ‘itikaf and women made it, it is counted for all the Ummah. So somebody has to definitely perform this worship.
Our Holy Prophet never left this Sunnah. One year he couldn’t make it, so in the next year he did 20 days in Al Masjid an- Nabawi. May Allah bless it and may its blessings be upon us. May we be protected from these situations.
There is a spiritual strength and a spiritual protection in it. It's a great virtue for us yet most people are not even aware of it. The world doesn’t work with the apparent things. There are certain hidden forces, spiritual forces that keep the world alive. Otherwise, it's not with their calculations; it doesn’t work this way. A man can make as many calculations as he wants, as long as there is no spirit then it’s usless.
May Allah help people understand this. May it be strength to our Iman. May this ‘itikaf be blessed Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
58.THE SUNNAH OF ‘ITIKAF Sunday, 2 May 2021
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.
They are asking regarding ‘itikaf. ‘Itikaf starts with the Adhan for Maghrib and lasts until the ‘Id prayer. It can last till the evening of ‘Id as well.
They make intention for the Sunnah of ‘itikaf with BismiLlah before starting it. As we said, it is ten days. Our Holy Prophet used to make it ten days. But who cannot make ten days, he can make as much as he can to get Barakah (blessing). And while entering the mosque, make intention to stay as long as you can in ‘itikaf, saying: “Nawaytu-l ‘itikaf”. But the actual ‘itikaf of Ramadan that our Holy Prophet used to make is ten days. Of course, not everyone can make it. May Allah accept of those who can.
Eating and drinking is not like in Khalwa (seclusion). You can eat everything you want, not only lentils. You may eat lentils too, but it will be a normal meal.
What should be done? You should read the Qur’an, perform worship, make Tasbihat and pray the missed prayers. You can read Sohbahs. The more you stay away from worldly talks, the better it is. Of course, you can speak when you need. Apart from that, concentrate more on worship and Tasbihat. This is what should be done in ‘itikaf. The important thing is that you should stay at home or in a mosque and not go outside.
Women should perform this worship at home. It is the same for women. They make it at home in their rooms. Those who have children should do their house work and then confine themselves in a room for worship, because married women with children should take care of them as well. After completing her duties at home, she can keep on her duty of ‘itikaf. May Allah accept it.
May Allah bless it. May its blessings be upon the Ummah and may they be protected from Fitnah. May they be protected from all badness. And may the sick be cured Insha Allah.
LiLlahi Ta’ala Al-Fatiha.
59.DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME Monday, 3 May 2021
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. Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Allah states in the Holy Quran: ‘So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship] {07} And to your Lord direct [your] longing {08}.’ Don’t stay idle. (Qur’ān 94:07-08).
If a work is over, pass to another one. Being idle is not good. Wasting time is not good. Always be doing good work. Contemplate on Allah. A jobless person serves shaytan. The idle person is not good.
Therefore, people nowadays are confused on how to spend their time, as they don’t work. Shaytan has brought various tools to waste time. They spend time on them and are killing their time. They cannot find time for worship. Even when they have time, they delay it out of laziness and then skip it. Therefore, don’t leave time for your ego.
Allah says, ‘So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship]’. (Qur’ān 94:07). As soon as you are free, start doing something else. And then direct to Allah, direct to your Creator. Do what your Creator wants. Make Dhikr in your heart, while sitting or walking. Always be with Allah. Don’t stay idle.
In the Naqshbandi Tariqa there is the Dhikr of heart. A person who spends his time making Dhikr does not waste his time and life. People tell each other how they spent their time. How do you spend your time?
Do you kill it or sustain it? Try to sustain your time and heart with Dhikr of Allah, with love of Allah. If you spend it for Dunyā, you kill it; you kill your time and heart.
May Allah help us. May our time and life not be wasted. May our intention always be for Allah, to serve people and Muslims Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
60.DON’T APPROACH BAD ONES Tuesday, 4 May 2021
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 says in the Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan to be careful and not be together with bad ones, ‘lest you be touched by the Fire’. (Qur’ān 11:113).
Fire will touch you too. Sometimes they say, “Let us be with them so that they come to us”. There are some people who come to goodness and there are dangerous ones who will not come.
If you go after the dangerous ones in order to invite them to goodness, they will tread on your toes. May Allah protect you, you will become one of them. There are many people who are so. They were good people performing their worship in the beginning. And suddenly, they left the right way and went astray.
Therefore, we should be careful. You should first of all protect yourself. Do not obey your ego. While you obey your ego in order to do good things for them, your ego will turn you upside down. And instead of you educating your ego, it will leave you without education.
When a man enters the sea, his feet should feel the ground. As soon as you don’t touch it, waves can take you away. No matter how well you swim, you won’t be able to save yourself. This is like that. It is even more dangerous. Here, you lose your life. There, you will remain
forever in hell. May Allah protect us. Waves are very dangerous and very bad at this time.
As we said, people who used to pray five times a day and stood up for Tahajjud prayers at night suddenly disappeared. You wonder what may have happened to them. They were overconfident and started something beyond their abilities, so they got lost in it. Therefore, we should be careful.
People can lose their ways, but those who went astray will not improve. Do not approach those who do things which are contrary to human nature. Wish them well from afar and keep on. It is dangerous to come close to them.
May Allah protect us. May our ends be good; this is the important thing, the place where we will end up. This Dua is important. May we be with good ones Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
61.THE HIDDEN LAYLATU L-QADR Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh
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 Holy Night of Power, Laylatu l-Qadr is the night Allah gave as a gift to our Holy Prophet and his Ummah.
Our Holy Prophet says that it is one of these nights. It can be any night after the 20th of Ramadan. It can be within the whole month of Ramadan and rarely out of Ramadan. It is a great favor. People earn Thawab in one night as much as worshipping throughout their lifetime. It is more acceptable and has more Thawab.
Allah says that it is better than a thousand months which is more than eighty years. A man lives that long in average. That’s why, as it is valuable, Allah hid it so that people hope that every night is Laylatu l- Qadr and worship accordingly. Allah wishes goodness to us. If He showed the exact night, people would leave everything and worship only on that night, and then they would relax. Most people would do so, but of course not everyone.
It is a holy night and it is hidden. There is a nice memory from Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. When he went to his Shaykh for the first time while being a student in Istanbul. Religion and Tariqa were forbidden at that time. People used to go in hiding. So when he went to his Shaykh, the Shaykh said, “The first Sohbah I heard from my Shaykh was to know
every night as Laylatu l-Qadr and every person as Al Khidr ‘alayhi s- salam”. Al Khidr ‘alayhi s-salam is also hidden. Therefore, sometimes he can show up as someone you don’t like. If you treat him badly, there won’t be any benefit. If you treat everyone well, it will be means to goodness for you. This is the wisdom of Sayyidina Al Khidr ‘alayhi s- salam.
But the word of Mawlana’s Shaykh was told by a Karāmāh (miracle). It meant that the person who came there was a valuable person. Some people understood it and some did not because Mawlana was a young student without a beard. No one would imagine him to be someone of such high rank. It was told by a Karāmāh and it was the first lesson for Mawlana.
Therefore, Laylatu l-Qadr is hidden. We have to spend every night with that intention. It became a tradition to celebrate it on the 27th however it isn’t clear when exactly it is. May Allah accept all of our worship. It is for our benefit to worship every night as if it is Laylatu l-Qadr. It will be for our benefit and our good insha’Allah.
May Allah bless this night and all nights. May it be means to goodness and may it be strength to our Iman Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
62.ASK FOR FORGIVENESS AND GOOD HEALTH Thursday, 6 May 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
These days are blessed days. The advice of our Holy Prophet for these days is to make Dua. Insha’Allah prayers will be accepted.
The Holy Prophet said that the best of Duas are:
“Allahumma innaka afuwun tuhibbu l-afwa fa'fu anna” and “Allahumma inni as’aluka l-afwu wa l- afiyah”. The most accepted of Duas is what we need. May Allah جل جالله forgive us.
Allah loves to forgive. Pray that Allah forgives us, says our Holy Prophet. Ask for forgiveness and good health because the most valuable things are these.
People have been struggling since last year with their health and they are living in fear all the time. Therefore, apart from health it is more important that Allah forgives us. These two things are very important, that Allah forgives us and gives us good health to sustain our lives.
There is Laylatu l-Qadr in these ten days. People think what to ask on Laylatu l- Qadr because there is acceptance. You have to ask for these two things. As long as you have these, the rest is not important. These
two things are important. If people earn them and know their value, they replace everything else.
Sometimes people cannot get health with their money. They run here and there with millions on hand, but they get sick with a terminal illness and then get puzzled, may Allah protect us.
Our Holy Prophet tells to ask for forgiveness and health during these ten days until Eid. People have forgotten this. They never think about it, but we should remind. It will be useful. It will be useful for you too. If you give advice, it will be useful for both you and them Allah willing.
As we said, this is what we need the most these days. People have gone wild. They are not asking for forgiveness. They want health. But they look for health not by believing in Allah but by running to different places. Therefore, if there is no permission from Allah, nothing will happen to you, you will not get better. If Allah doesn’t want it, nothing has any benefit.
When Allah wants it, everything you don’t expect becomes useful. Therefore, Dua is important. Let us pray so that Allah forgives people and gives good health Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
63.MAWLANA’S LIGHT IS EVERLASTING Friday, 7 May 2021
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 we all be neighbors to our Holy Prophet Insha Allah. This was all Mawlana Shaykh Nazim ever wanted. He used to say that this world is garbage and garbage is useless. What’s important is Ākhirah. This is what he used to tell people.
He spent all his life on this way in order to show the right way. He was the light and he showed the light and beauty. He did it by both telling and doing. Rarely do people do what they say; they are very few.
Lucky are those who follow him and try to be like him. Of course, we cannot be 100% like him, not even 50%. Only 5% would be great, but we cannot even do that. Therefore, may Allah forgive us and treat us with mercy. Our intention is to be like him and to do what he used to do.
Our Holy Prophet says that the intention of people is better than their actions because doing is hard. And when we make intention, it is better. Allah accepts according to our intentions.
The holy way of Mawlana is the way of Allah, the way of our Holy Prophet. Good people are on this way. Certainly, those who follow this way reach goodness at last.
They ask how it happens. It happens because even thieves who go up to ‘Arafat become Hajjis. There is a Hadith like this. A person who is
present there on that exact time receives his share from that manifestation.
The one who enters this way has his benefit too. It becomes a means for his salvation. Certainly, light enters his heart. Even if he visits once in life, something enters him. And finally, it will be a means for goodness to him.
Therefore, the Karāmāt (miracles) and light of Mawlana are everlasting. His followers have been increasing all over the world since his passing away. People we have never met before come and benefit from his light. How lucky are those who benefit from it.
Lucky are not wealthy people but those who are bound to and love such holy people. People who love such people are lucky. It is eternal luck. You can be lucky and successful in this world but poor in Ākhirah; that is short luck. But thank Allah our luck is forever.
Mawlana passed away seven years ago. We say that he passed away but, thank Allah, he is always with us. His Karāmāt and support are always with us. Therefore, there is no separation. No separation in Dunyā and in Ākhirah Insha Allah.
We dedicate all our good deeds to him because he showed us this way. Our Holy Prophet says that when you dedicate your deeds, they are not deducted from you but reach them as well. Whoever you dedicate them to, your mothers, fathers, relatives, Allah gives equally to you and to them. Therefore, our dedication to him is to our own benefit. Because when our imperfect deeds reach him, Allah gives Thawab according to his Maqam and we receive from that Thawab too.
When there are ten Thawab for us, they get a thousand Thawab. We will receive from those thousand rewards too Insha Allah.
May Allah bless this day. It is Jumah and we are in the last days of Ramadan. Laylatu l-Qadr is close, may it be blessed too. Insha Allah our
Laylatu l-Qadr is every night, thank Allah. With their blessings, it is always every night. May Allah accept it. May Allah not harm this country and may it serve Islam. There are many enemies. There are many shaytans. However, Allah is with us.
Insha Allah we will reach Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam soon. We wait that he comes and brings the world to Islam. May he defeat Kufr and bring victory to Islam Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
64.TIME OF FITNAH Monday, 10 May 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We are living in the end of times and there is a lot of Fitnah.
Our HolyProphet says that it is like dark nights, regarding the end of times. There is so much Fitnah and so much oppression that if someone puts his hand out, he cannot see it. Our Holy Prophet described this time by a miracle. Among his miracles was to foresee the future. We are living at that time.
There’s a lot of Fitnah. Fitnah will not stop. As long as there is shaytan, Fitnah will not stop. Finally, Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam will come and stop it; he will force it to stop. He will end Fitnah and the light of Islam will cover the world insha’Allah.
Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam will not come just like that. He will come as a savior in order to save the world from Fitnah. There will be a reason for his appearance. Insha Allah it is close.
We see oppression and Fitnah everywhere. Not only in two or three countries, it’s all over the world. Non-Muslims are oppressing Muslims and there are many Muslims among us who are oppressing other Muslims more than Kafirs do.
May Allah protect us from their evil.
In order to be protected from this Fitnah, it is better to stay at home and not approach such places. Go out whe
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r Allah. When they remember Allah, they find peace. Peace and beauty is in remembrance of Allah, making Dhikr of Allah. Don’t look elsewhere uselessly.
Allah is our Creator. He knows what gives us peace. The creature doesn’t know it. The creatures can only give instructions to do this and that. They do so, it doesn’t work. They try other things to get experience, it doesn’t work either. They make two, five, ten, million, ten million other attempts, nothing works.
Everything hangs in the air because they are creatures. Only The Creator knows the secret. People don’t know it. They just scatter from one place to another and make people miserable too. And they never accept the truth. The truth is in front of their eyes. The one who finds the truth will not look for anything else.
Therefore, it is both the secret and the truth. Allah put it in front of people. Most people don’t want the truth. They stay away from the truth and run away from it. The truth is to be with Allah.
He’s got the peace and beauty. Those who accept this will be happy. They will reach happiness here and hereafter.
May Allah not take His Dhikr out of our hearts Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
52.PARADISE ON EARTH Saturday, 24 April 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
Our Holy Prophet states: “When you pass by the gardens of Paradise, then feast.”
If you pass through the garden of paradise, enjoy it. Get benefit from it. When the Sahaba asked where the garden of paradise is, our Holy Prophet replied that it is the assemblies of knowledge where they make Dhikr of Allah. Paradise on earth is the assemblies of knowledge, assemblies of Dhikr, a place where good people come together. There is benefit, not harm there. They complete people’s flaws, prepare them for paradise in Ākhirah, increase their ranks and teach them what they don’t know. It is the advice of our Holy Prophet to his Ummah (nation). Our Holy Prophet says to attend these assemblies. This world is a place of tests. We have to benefit from such assemblies for salvation. We have to go there frequently. Thank Allah, assemblies mentioned by our Holy Prophet last until Qiyāmah. They are assemblies of goodness; no harm comes from them. They are assemblies for Allah, not for this world, not for anything else. These assemblies are a blessing Insha Allah. May Allah not cut them but increase them Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
53.THE MIRACLE OF QUR’AN Monday, 26 April 2021
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. Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Allah states in the Holy Qur’an: ‘Verily! We have sent it (this Quran) down in the Night of Al-Qadr (Decree).’ (Qur’ān 97:01).
Allah sent the Qur’an Karim on Laylat al-Qadr. As it was sent in the month of Ramadan, it came down on Laylat al-Qadr. It is not clear when Laylat al-Qadr is. The Qur’an Karim is a great favor to us from Allah and it is the everlasting miracle of our Holy Prophet. The greatest miracle of our Holy Prophet is the Qur’an Karim. Everything is written in it. For every letter you read in it, you get no less but more than ten Thawab. When you read it in Ramadan, 70- 700 times more Thawab is written.
There has been a tradition since old times; reading the Qur’an in the neighborhood, in a mosque. People gather and read Qur’an, following one another. All of them earn its Thawab this way. It is a good method. There are many nice methods like this. Even if someone cannot read and just follows up, Allah gives him the same reward.
Some people may read slowly or wrong. Allah created angels who correct the wrong and deliver it to Allah in a perfect state. Therefore, some people say, “I read slowly and wrong. I’d better not read”. No, you should read, as Allah did not make it hard, He made it easy. He even created special angels who correct your reading, as our Holy
Prophet says. So don’t say that you read wrong, it is from shaytan. He makes waswasa so that you don’t read Qur’an and don’t earn Thawab. Read as you can, Allah will accept it. Allah created us as weak servants. He knows our condition. And our intention is to obey Him and read His beautiful words, the Qur’an.
The Qur’an Azimu sh-Shan is the firm word of Allah. Therefore, it is a remedy, blessing, goodness and all kinds of beauty. It tells about the past and the future. Mankind does not know even a drop of its ocean of secrets. Everything is inside it; every beauty, every goodness. The Qur’an Karim is a remedy, as we said. Its benefits are uncountable.
May Allah make us from the people of Qur’an. May He protect us with its blessings. May we have strength of Iman Insha Allah. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
54.THE FIRST LESSON IN TARIQA Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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. Tariqa is to tolerate things that are contrary to people, things that are opposite.
Not only the Naqshbandi Tariqa, but all Tariqas teach you to tolerate things which you don’t like without objecting. It is easy to get along with those who treat you well. And it is difficult to keep quiet or to treat well those who treat you badly. It is a big strength for people to keep calm under oppression.
Our Holy Prophet says that a strong person is the angry person who keeps his anger under control and does not fight back. When a person controls his ego and keeps calm, that is the biggest strength. A person as strong as this and that, has no benefit. The benefit is in the man who controls and captures his ego.
With the beautiful words of our Holy Prophet, all Tariqas are good examples for people to get along well.
Everything goes contrary to the people now and they cannot tolerate any of it. Shaytan taught them so. They shout and swear at everything and think they are doing something big. It becomes worse when they do so; it becomes more difficult. No one is telling people all over the world that what they are doing is wrong. They say, “It is your right and freedom. Go, scream and shout”. You are screaming and shouting, but
there is no benefit and only harm is coming to people. Therefore, tolerance is useful for people. Tolerance is the first lesson in Tariqa. Tariqa is not to say ten words back to someone who told you one. Tariqa is to be tolerant and patient. May Allah protect us. May Allah let us all succeed in obeying the orders of Tariqa and Islam.
It is easy to talk about it yet hard to apply in practice. May Allah help us all Insha Allah. May we have strength of Iman. Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
55.KNOW THE VALUE OF ALLAH Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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. Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Allah states in the Holy Quran: ‘‘They have not appraised Allah with true appraisal’’(Qur’ān 39:67).
People do not know the greatness, power and value of Allah. His greatness and superiority is obvious but people don’t know it. They think that He is something simple. Whereas, Allah created and gave everything. They value what He created and those who are against Him, yet they don’t value Allah.
People value worthless people and things. They value these things and neither know nor think about Allah. Also, may Allah protect us from this, people with less mind deny Allah. This is a big foolishness. For example, even though there mustn’t be an example, you value and respect an animal instead of showing respect to your father or brother. Is it possible? It is not a good example, of course. Allah has no comparison.
However, people are doing like this. They are making rocks, soil and iron created by Allah as their crown jewels. They are ignoring the greatness and power of Allah.
People of this time think that they are clever. The more they claim to be clever, the more ignorant they become. Knowledge is to know Allah.
What does not recognize Allah is not knowledge, it is ignorance. Know the value and greatness of Allah so that benefit comes from Him. Benefit is from Allah.
Everything is in His hands. All kinds of favors are in the hands of Allah. The one who knows His value is in profit. The one who doesn’t know it is in loss. Even if he thinks that he’s in profit, he is in loss.
Therefore, may Allah make us from those who know the value of Allah, from those who love Him, from those who know and value the friends and good servants of Allah Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
56.BE WITH ALLAH Friday, 30 April 2021
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 says: ‘He does what He wills.’ (Qur’ān 03:40). Allah does what He wants. No one can prevent Him. No one can tell Allah to do this or that. Everything happening is by the will of Allah.
‘Goodness is in what has happened’. It has already happened, so we cannot do anything. We have to accept it and ask for help from Allah. There is no other solution.
Mankind does not understand and cannot accept this. They want to solve it and are struggling for it. Whatever happens, a Muslim should be pleased with it. As long as you are with Allah, every condition is easy. You have to be with Allah in any condition; hardship and ease, happiness and sadness. If you don’t forget Allah, everything is easy for you. And if you forget Allah, everything is difficult.
People are saying now, “We are stuck at home. We cannot go outside”. That is a test for people. It is holy Ramadan now. People are away from Dunyā in order to be closer to Allah. If you see it as favor from Allah, Allah will give back more and with multiple blessings for everything you think you’ve lost.
Everything will be more and better. Don’t stay idle. Read Qur’an. The one who does not know how to read Qur’an, learn it slowly. A man can learn how to read Qur’an in a week. If he tries, he can read in fifteen
days; he will be ready to read the Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan. Make Tasbihat and pray the missed prayers. Who can make Iʿtikāf may do so. It is an opportunity, so you should not misuse it [for bad things] but use it for goodness.
Do good things and you’ll have ease.
People are bored and exhausted. Why are they so? Because they don’t remember Allah. If they remember Allah, they won’t be bored and they won’t be scared. Most people are depressed now; there’s no need for it. The one who believes and trusts in Allah, never fears death or sickness. Whatever is meant to happen, if Allah wants it to come, you cannot prevent it. If it’s not meant to happen, you can interact with a thousand infected people, nothing will happen to you. Fire will not burn you, just as Sayyidina Ibrahim.
Therefore, our advice is to be with Allah. It is a holy month and a blessed month. Not harm but beauty comes from it Allah willing. May Allah make these sufferings of people [to be] means to strengthen their Iman. May it not go for nothing. Some people are going wilder and more rebellious. This happens [in order] for Muslims to be closer to Allah Insha Allah.
May Allah help us. May Allah protect us from all evil and illnesses. May the sick get cured.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
57.THE GREAT VIRTUES OF ‘ITIKAF Saturday, 1 May 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We have approached the end of Ramadan; more than half is over. Starting with the 20th meaning in the last ten days there is the confirmed Sunnah of our Holy Prophet which is the Sunnah of ‘itikaf. Those who plan to do it, can make the intention and enter ‘itikaf for ten days starting tomorrow night Insha Allah.
Those who cannot do it can make the intention for ‘itikaf every time they enter the mosque during this period. Its virtues will also be written for them. This is a great virtue for people. If not even one person does it in every town, the whole town would be deprived from its virtue. ‘Itikaf has great virtues and rewards; it is a blessing.
‘Itikaf can be done in masjids or in designated places insha’Allah. Because of certain restrictions in our situation now, the mosques are closed, may Allah forgive us. So it can be done in private places too.
It is said, ‘Necessity requires its own rule’. There are different rulings for different circumstances. In normal conditions, it cannot be done outside of a mosque. But in today’s condition, it can be done outside the mosque because it's a necessary worship that should be performed. If it wasn’t performed, it is a shame for the Ummah (nation) in front of our Holy Prophet. Yet thank Allah, there are plenty of people who are doing this Sunnah. May Allah accept their worship.
People are confusing between ‘itikaf and Khalwa (seclusion). ‘Itikaf is different than Khalwa. In ‘itikaf, you stay in the mosque, fast and eat normally. While in Khalwa, you eat less and only eat lentils. But in ‘itikaf, you eat normally, perform your worship and do not get outside the mosque. In Khalwa, you only eat lentils. Khalwa is done outside of Ramadan, either in Dhul-Hijjah or in Rajab. It starts from the beginning of Dhuʻl-Qiʻdah until Dhul-Hijjah or from Rajab until the tenth of Sha’ban. There are differences between them.
As we said, women should do ‘itikaf in their homes. There’s no need to go to the mosque. Women who are in ‘itikaf shouldn’t leave the house. They perform their worships until the end and stay in a seperate room, and Allah will accept it. So even if men didn’t make ‘itikaf and women made it, it is counted for all the Ummah. So somebody has to definitely perform this worship.
Our Holy Prophet never left this Sunnah. One year he couldn’t make it, so in the next year he did 20 days in Al Masjid an- Nabawi. May Allah bless it and may its blessings be upon us. May we be protected from these situations.
There is a spiritual strength and a spiritual protection in it. It's a great virtue for us yet most people are not even aware of it. The world doesn’t work with the apparent things. There are certain hidden forces, spiritual forces that keep the world alive. Otherwise, it's not with their calculations; it doesn’t work this way. A man can make as many calculations as he wants, as long as there is no spirit then it’s usless.
May Allah help people understand this. May it be strength to our Iman. May this ‘itikaf be blessed Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
58.THE SUNNAH OF ‘ITIKAF Sunday, 2 May 2021
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.
They are asking regarding ‘itikaf. ‘Itikaf starts with the Adhan for Maghrib and lasts until the ‘Id prayer. It can last till the evening of ‘Id as well.
They make intention for the Sunnah of ‘itikaf with BismiLlah before starting it. As we said, it is ten days. Our Holy Prophet used to make it ten days. But who cannot make ten days, he can make as much as he can to get Barakah (blessing). And while entering the mosque, make intention to stay as long as you can in ‘itikaf, saying: “Nawaytu-l ‘itikaf”. But the actual ‘itikaf of Ramadan that our Holy Prophet used to make is ten days. Of course, not everyone can make it. May Allah accept of those who can.
Eating and drinking is not like in Khalwa (seclusion). You can eat everything you want, not only lentils. You may eat lentils too, but it will be a normal meal.
What should be done? You should read the Qur’an, perform worship, make Tasbihat and pray the missed prayers. You can read Sohbahs. The more you stay away from worldly talks, the better it is. Of course, you can speak when you need. Apart from that, concentrate more on worship and Tasbihat. This is what should be done in ‘itikaf. The important thing is that you should stay at home or in a mosque and not go outside.
Women should perform this worship at home. It is the same for women. They make it at home in their rooms. Those who have children should do their house work and then confine themselves in a room for worship, because married women with children should take care of them as well. After completing her duties at home, she can keep on her duty of ‘itikaf. May Allah accept it.
May Allah bless it. May its blessings be upon the Ummah and may they be protected from Fitnah. May they be protected from all badness. And may the sick be cured Insha Allah.
LiLlahi Ta’ala Al-Fatiha.
59.DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME Monday, 3 May 2021
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. Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Allah states in the Holy Quran: ‘So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship] {07} And to your Lord direct [your] longing {08}.’ Don’t stay idle. (Qur’ān 94:07-08).
If a work is over, pass to another one. Being idle is not good. Wasting time is not good. Always be doing good work. Contemplate on Allah. A jobless person serves shaytan. The idle person is not good.
Therefore, people nowadays are confused on how to spend their time, as they don’t work. Shaytan has brought various tools to waste time. They spend time on them and are killing their time. They cannot find time for worship. Even when they have time, they delay it out of laziness and then skip it. Therefore, don’t leave time for your ego.
Allah says, ‘So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship]’. (Qur’ān 94:07). As soon as you are free, start doing something else. And then direct to Allah, direct to your Creator. Do what your Creator wants. Make Dhikr in your heart, while sitting or walking. Always be with Allah. Don’t stay idle.
In the Naqshbandi Tariqa there is the Dhikr of heart. A person who spends his time making Dhikr does not waste his time and life. People tell each other how they spent their time. How do you spend your time?
Do you kill it or sustain it? Try to sustain your time and heart with Dhikr of Allah, with love of Allah. If you spend it for Dunyā, you kill it; you kill your time and heart.
May Allah help us. May our time and life not be wasted. May our intention always be for Allah, to serve people and Muslims Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
60.DON’T APPROACH BAD ONES Tuesday, 4 May 2021
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 says in the Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan to be careful and not be together with bad ones, ‘lest you be touched by the Fire’. (Qur’ān 11:113).
Fire will touch you too. Sometimes they say, “Let us be with them so that they come to us”. There are some people who come to goodness and there are dangerous ones who will not come.
If you go after the dangerous ones in order to invite them to goodness, they will tread on your toes. May Allah protect you, you will become one of them. There are many people who are so. They were good people performing their worship in the beginning. And suddenly, they left the right way and went astray.
Therefore, we should be careful. You should first of all protect yourself. Do not obey your ego. While you obey your ego in order to do good things for them, your ego will turn you upside down. And instead of you educating your ego, it will leave you without education.
When a man enters the sea, his feet should feel the ground. As soon as you don’t touch it, waves can take you away. No matter how well you swim, you won’t be able to save yourself. This is like that. It is even more dangerous. Here, you lose your life. There, you will remain
forever in hell. May Allah protect us. Waves are very dangerous and very bad at this time.
As we said, people who used to pray five times a day and stood up for Tahajjud prayers at night suddenly disappeared. You wonder what may have happened to them. They were overconfident and started something beyond their abilities, so they got lost in it. Therefore, we should be careful.
People can lose their ways, but those who went astray will not improve. Do not approach those who do things which are contrary to human nature. Wish them well from afar and keep on. It is dangerous to come close to them.
May Allah protect us. May our ends be good; this is the important thing, the place where we will end up. This Dua is important. May we be with good ones Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
61.THE HIDDEN LAYLATU L-QADR Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh
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 Holy Night of Power, Laylatu l-Qadr is the night Allah gave as a gift to our Holy Prophet and his Ummah.
Our Holy Prophet says that it is one of these nights. It can be any night after the 20th of Ramadan. It can be within the whole month of Ramadan and rarely out of Ramadan. It is a great favor. People earn Thawab in one night as much as worshipping throughout their lifetime. It is more acceptable and has more Thawab.
Allah says that it is better than a thousand months which is more than eighty years. A man lives that long in average. That’s why, as it is valuable, Allah hid it so that people hope that every night is Laylatu l- Qadr and worship accordingly. Allah wishes goodness to us. If He showed the exact night, people would leave everything and worship only on that night, and then they would relax. Most people would do so, but of course not everyone.
It is a holy night and it is hidden. There is a nice memory from Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. When he went to his Shaykh for the first time while being a student in Istanbul. Religion and Tariqa were forbidden at that time. People used to go in hiding. So when he went to his Shaykh, the Shaykh said, “The first Sohbah I heard from my Shaykh was to know
every night as Laylatu l-Qadr and every person as Al Khidr ‘alayhi s- salam”. Al Khidr ‘alayhi s-salam is also hidden. Therefore, sometimes he can show up as someone you don’t like. If you treat him badly, there won’t be any benefit. If you treat everyone well, it will be means to goodness for you. This is the wisdom of Sayyidina Al Khidr ‘alayhi s- salam.
But the word of Mawlana’s Shaykh was told by a Karāmāh (miracle). It meant that the person who came there was a valuable person. Some people understood it and some did not because Mawlana was a young student without a beard. No one would imagine him to be someone of such high rank. It was told by a Karāmāh and it was the first lesson for Mawlana.
Therefore, Laylatu l-Qadr is hidden. We have to spend every night with that intention. It became a tradition to celebrate it on the 27th however it isn’t clear when exactly it is. May Allah accept all of our worship. It is for our benefit to worship every night as if it is Laylatu l-Qadr. It will be for our benefit and our good insha’Allah.
May Allah bless this night and all nights. May it be means to goodness and may it be strength to our Iman Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
62.ASK FOR FORGIVENESS AND GOOD HEALTH Thursday, 6 May 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
These days are blessed days. The advice of our Holy Prophet for these days is to make Dua. Insha’Allah prayers will be accepted.
The Holy Prophet said that the best of Duas are:
“Allahumma innaka afuwun tuhibbu l-afwa fa'fu anna” and “Allahumma inni as’aluka l-afwu wa l- afiyah”. The most accepted of Duas is what we need. May Allah جل جالله forgive us.
Allah loves to forgive. Pray that Allah forgives us, says our Holy Prophet. Ask for forgiveness and good health because the most valuable things are these.
People have been struggling since last year with their health and they are living in fear all the time. Therefore, apart from health it is more important that Allah forgives us. These two things are very important, that Allah forgives us and gives us good health to sustain our lives.
There is Laylatu l-Qadr in these ten days. People think what to ask on Laylatu l- Qadr because there is acceptance. You have to ask for these two things. As long as you have these, the rest is not important. These
two things are important. If people earn them and know their value, they replace everything else.
Sometimes people cannot get health with their money. They run here and there with millions on hand, but they get sick with a terminal illness and then get puzzled, may Allah protect us.
Our Holy Prophet tells to ask for forgiveness and health during these ten days until Eid. People have forgotten this. They never think about it, but we should remind. It will be useful. It will be useful for you too. If you give advice, it will be useful for both you and them Allah willing.
As we said, this is what we need the most these days. People have gone wild. They are not asking for forgiveness. They want health. But they look for health not by believing in Allah but by running to different places. Therefore, if there is no permission from Allah, nothing will happen to you, you will not get better. If Allah doesn’t want it, nothing has any benefit.
When Allah wants it, everything you don’t expect becomes useful. Therefore, Dua is important. Let us pray so that Allah forgives people and gives good health Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
63.MAWLANA’S LIGHT IS EVERLASTING Friday, 7 May 2021
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 we all be neighbors to our Holy Prophet Insha Allah. This was all Mawlana Shaykh Nazim ever wanted. He used to say that this world is garbage and garbage is useless. What’s important is Ākhirah. This is what he used to tell people.
He spent all his life on this way in order to show the right way. He was the light and he showed the light and beauty. He did it by both telling and doing. Rarely do people do what they say; they are very few.
Lucky are those who follow him and try to be like him. Of course, we cannot be 100% like him, not even 50%. Only 5% would be great, but we cannot even do that. Therefore, may Allah forgive us and treat us with mercy. Our intention is to be like him and to do what he used to do.
Our Holy Prophet says that the intention of people is better than their actions because doing is hard. And when we make intention, it is better. Allah accepts according to our intentions.
The holy way of Mawlana is the way of Allah, the way of our Holy Prophet. Good people are on this way. Certainly, those who follow this way reach goodness at last.
They ask how it happens. It happens because even thieves who go up to ‘Arafat become Hajjis. There is a Hadith like this. A person who is
present there on that exact time receives his share from that manifestation.
The one who enters this way has his benefit too. It becomes a means for his salvation. Certainly, light enters his heart. Even if he visits once in life, something enters him. And finally, it will be a means for goodness to him.
Therefore, the Karāmāt (miracles) and light of Mawlana are everlasting. His followers have been increasing all over the world since his passing away. People we have never met before come and benefit from his light. How lucky are those who benefit from it.
Lucky are not wealthy people but those who are bound to and love such holy people. People who love such people are lucky. It is eternal luck. You can be lucky and successful in this world but poor in Ākhirah; that is short luck. But thank Allah our luck is forever.
Mawlana passed away seven years ago. We say that he passed away but, thank Allah, he is always with us. His Karāmāt and support are always with us. Therefore, there is no separation. No separation in Dunyā and in Ākhirah Insha Allah.
We dedicate all our good deeds to him because he showed us this way. Our Holy Prophet says that when you dedicate your deeds, they are not deducted from you but reach them as well. Whoever you dedicate them to, your mothers, fathers, relatives, Allah gives equally to you and to them. Therefore, our dedication to him is to our own benefit. Because when our imperfect deeds reach him, Allah gives Thawab according to his Maqam and we receive from that Thawab too.
When there are ten Thawab for us, they get a thousand Thawab. We will receive from those thousand rewards too Insha Allah.
May Allah bless this day. It is Jumah and we are in the last days of Ramadan. Laylatu l-Qadr is close, may it be blessed too. Insha Allah our
Laylatu l-Qadr is every night, thank Allah. With their blessings, it is always every night. May Allah accept it. May Allah not harm this country and may it serve Islam. There are many enemies. There are many shaytans. However, Allah is with us.
Insha Allah we will reach Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam soon. We wait that he comes and brings the world to Islam. May he defeat Kufr and bring victory to Islam Insha Allah.
Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq, Al-Fatiha.
64.TIME OF FITNAH Monday, 10 May 2021
Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidal Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya RasulAllah, Madad Ya As’habi RasulAllah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wa khayru fil jamiyya.
We are living in the end of times and there is a lot of Fitnah.
Our HolyProphet says that it is like dark nights, regarding the end of times. There is so much Fitnah and so much oppression that if someone puts his hand out, he cannot see it. Our Holy Prophet described this time by a miracle. Among his miracles was to foresee the future. We are living at that time.
There’s a lot of Fitnah. Fitnah will not stop. As long as there is shaytan, Fitnah will not stop. Finally, Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam will come and stop it; he will force it to stop. He will end Fitnah and the light of Islam will cover the world insha’Allah.
Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam will not come just like that. He will come as a savior in order to save the world from Fitnah. There will be a reason for his appearance. Insha Allah it is close.
We see oppression and Fitnah everywhere. Not only in two or three countries, it’s all over the world. Non-Muslims are oppressing Muslims and there are many Muslims among us who are oppressing other Muslims more than Kafirs do.
May Allah protect us from their evil.
In order to be protected from this Fitnah, it is better to stay at home and not approach such places. Go out whe
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