99 Drops From Endless Mercy Oceans (20/25)
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to bring it down. Islam is getting up and Kufr is going down. May Allah bless you and your Hajj, your charities and visits to holy places. And you have been in Damascus and visited everywhere, and Grandsheikh accepted you also and he gives his Salaams to all of you. He was happy and proud of you, because you came his way to the Holy Prophet (sal), and the Prophet was happy with you, too, looking to you and blessing you. And now you are on your way home, and there is going to be a new opening for you and around you. Those Divine Lights, that were granted to you through Grandsheikh from the Holy Prophet (sal) are going to spread, and people should run from their darkness to your lights.
Now in two days will be the New Year of the Islamic calendar. Saturday is going to be the first day of 1420. More than 14 centuries have passed, and we hope that everything which we were saying, and that you heard about, is going to appear. Kufr will be destroyed and disappear, and Islam will grow. The flag of Islam will be raised, and the flag of Kufr will come down. From the year 2000 there are going to be many good tidings for you, for every true one, and trustworthy people are going to be happy in this year. Who keeps his heart with Allah, Allah will be with him. If you are not leaving Allah, He is not going to leave you. Therefore, as Rasulullah was saying: “Keep Allah and Allah will keep you.” We are happy and proud of you. You came such a long distance to visit Habibullah (sal) and the House of the Lord. You are young people, not easily going to be tired, but it is not an ordinary trip. It is a journey of obediency and worship, and worship is always going to be difficult for our ego. Everytime that we are carrying difficulties, we are paid more and more by Allah Almighty. And also Mahdi (alai) pointed out our group of Hajjis from western countries. They were Christians before and came to Islam, keeping the Sunnah among those Shaitan people, the Wahabis. And he was saying: “Look, Sheikh Abdullah’s Mureeds, Naqshabandi followers”, and he was so happy, looking to that group who went there keeping the Sunnah, and giving some spirituality to them that was never given to other people. Alhamdulillah, they were very happy with you. May Allah bless you. And I hope that you are intending to move to your homeland. How long are you intending to stay? If you have no responsibilities to go back to, you may be here longer, who has, may go. Perhaps I am intending to move to Lebanon or Damascus, and, according to the holy commands of Grandsheikh, because Armageddon is approaching now, look for a safe place there. But as long as I am here, you may be here. Welcome to you and Happy Birthday to me! Then you may go back or move to Damascus. Some brothers from Chile came to me in London, in Ramadan. They have built a new Mosque in the South of Chile, the most southern place on earth, near the South Pole. Alhamdulillah, there is now much more spirituality running through the hearts of people, because they are in need of spirituality more than anything else.
79-AL-BARR: The Doer of Good "He is the source of all good and bounty and the perfect doer of good. He loves for His servants only good, comfort and ease. He rewards tenfold, but His punishment never exceeds the sin committed. If the servant intends to do good but is unable to actualize it He rewards the intention as if it was actualized. But if His servant intends to sin and is unable to actualize it, He forgives him."
79-THE BASE OF FAITH The base upon which faith is built, the spirit of faith (Ruh ul Iman) is to carry everything that you don’t like, and to be patient with those you don’t like. For as many people as there are on this earth, such is the number of different characters and abilities, and you must carry them all. Whenever you are carrying other people, you get more power, more strength for your faith. The real power of faith is to remain unchanged in the face of trials. In our times, the sign of a good character, and the highest degree of Jihad-ul-Akbar, is to carry other people’s bad characters and to tolerate them. We have not been ordered to refuse people, but to make them more pleased. We are living in a time when people may say anything and everything; you must be patient with them, and excuse them, always without fighting. You must know that people are ill with their egos. If you are claiming to be doctors, you must excuse them. If you are on the way of Prophets, you must help them and be tolerant of them. This is the highest degree of good manners. You must not forget a goodness that has been done to you. If someone does a goodness for you, and afterwards you become displeased with that person over something he said or did, your displeasure, your forgetfulness of that person’s good deed toward you is from bad character. You will be like a cat. You may give it meat one hundred times; but if you leave it just once, that cat will make objections and complaints to Allah, saying: “He left me hungry!”It is good manners not to argue with people, even if you know that you are in the right. Arguing extinguishes faith. Who is a real Muslim? One who doesn’t harm anyone, either with his hands or with his tongue. People are safe from him. This is a wide entrance to Islam, and it is for all people. .
80-AL-TAWWAB: The Acceptor of Repentance "He constantly turns man to repentance, awakening the hearts of believers from the sleep of heedlessness through love of him, with the manifestation of His existence around them, with the words of good advice of those who are close to Him, with promises of rewards and fear of His punishment. The repentance acceptable is the effort of inner cleaning, purification."
80-The 6th Pillar of Faith Whenever something is wrong in a person, everything around him appears wrong to him. When he is all right within himself, the world appears all right to him. The world is created perfectly by our Creator. If something appears wrong to you, you must ask yourself: “What is wrong in me that I see this as wrong? Oh my nafs, you are wrong!” This is the highest degree of faith, and the highest degree of belief in the goodness of the Creator. Allah is not creating anything wrong or imperfect. At the essence of everything, if we could but see it, there is perfection. Until we behave correctly with our Lord, it is impossible for our actions, our family, our neighbours to behave correctly with us. It is impossible to find a better situation than that which exists today, for those who are ready. You cannot wish for things to be as they used to be, nor for the way that they might be. The conditions that we are in now are perfect, most suitable for us. Allah Almighty is giving as much of His mercy as we need; as much as we are able to carry. Real faith is like that: to believe that all actions, whether from goodness, or from badness, are from Allah Almighty. If we believe this, we must be patient with each other’s actions. Allah is trying our faith, each of us with others. The Prophet Muhammad (sal) said: “People will deal with you according to your actions.” If you are good and someone intends you harm, Allah will defend you. You must be honourable to all, good, respectful, merciful, generous and think well of all. We must be patient with all people because we believe that no one comes to us without our Lord’s Will. Therefore, there is no enmity in Islam. We have been ordered to do goodness. Anyone can return goodness for goodness; but only a few people can return goodness for badness.
81-AL-MUNTAQIM: The Avenger "He punishes those who persist in revolting, egotism, creating disharmony and tyrannizing His creation and servants. The own ego is Allah's enemy."
81-"OH MY LORD, I AM IN NEED OF YOUR MERCY!"
A real servant to his Lord knows that all the goodness that he has is a mercy from his Lord, guiding him to his Lord’s way. He knows that but for his Lord’s mercy, he wouldn’t be praying, fasting, making zikr, and so forth. So, when he comes to his Lord’s Presence, he says: “Oh my Lord, I am standing in Your Divine Presence, and my hands are empty. I am in need of Your Mercy always. Give me more mercy, oh my Lord.” A real servant of the Lord is not asking anything from Him. He says only: “May you be pleased with me, oh my Lord.” Some Awliya are too ashamed to ask anything from their Lord, because they see that they are in endless need of Him. They say: “Oh my Lord, You know best what I need from Your Mercy. My needs are endless. Fulfill my needs, oh my Lord, as You know.”
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82-AL-AFUW: The Forgiver, The Pardoner "He forgives and eliminates sins. The forgiving of sins is an encouragement to deniers to change their way His doors are always open."
82-THE STATION OF CONTENMENT - HOW TO CONTROL ANGER Who is the happiest person in this life? Who is the most satisfied? He who is satisfied with that station in life into which his Lord put him. It is the station of contentment- to look at everything and see that it is most suitable for him, and also for all. You must say: “This situation is most suitable for me because my Lord put me in this situation. If it were no good for me, He wouldn’t have put me in it.” We must believe that Allah Almighty desires goodness for us, always. Don’t be a teacher to Allah. He knows best, and you don’t know anything. Don’t make any objections for anything; you are servants, you are slaves to Him, and He is Governor, Absolute King of the Universe. You must know that all actions, all events, are not going to happen as we like them to happen. Nothing happens, no one can be as we like them to be; it is impossible. When you know this, you may keep yourself far away from anger, because anger is the result of thinking that you can have everything as you want it to be.
83-AR-RAUF: The Kind "He is clement and merciful, in spite of His ability to see our sins, His being powerful and independent."
83- "WITH PLEASURE, OH MY LORD!"
If a man is going to do anything, worship, or any other action, it must be done voluntarily and gladly. If he is not pleased with that action, he must not do it, for there will be no good result for him from it. If there is no pleasure in it for you, there will be no pleasure in it for Allah Almighty. For worship, it is important to realize that we are speaking of the soul’s pleasure. When we are worshipping, our nafs is not pleased, but our souls are. We must look to the pleasure of our soul. Actions may be easy or difficult. What is the secret? For the one who finds an action easy, it is because it gives him pleasure, while for the one who finds it difficult, it is because he is forced to do it. Easy actions make people happier, while difficult actions make people unhappy.
84-MALIK AL-MULK: The Eternal Sovereign "He shares neither the ownership of His kingdom nor the power, government or guardianship of the universe with anyone. The purpose and function of the creation is to know, to find, and to be with the Creator."
84-THERE IS NO 'EMPTY TIME' Everything that is going to happen in this life has a fixed time. Every event has an appointed hour. If we know that all events will come in their appointed time, we will be at rest and patient; and patience shows the perfection of man, a strong faith. If we can take wisdom from every event, then we will be strong in faith. We will get more power to receive Divine Knowledge. Allah orders us to look deeply into each thing, into each event, to find a secret wisdom that gives its value. If you look deeply, you will taste. Everything must be in its time. You cannot put it out of its time, because every moment is occupied. You cannot find time that is “empty”. Therefore, in our Tariqat, there is no delaying actions. Actions must be done in their times. As Allah Almighty says: “For prayer there is a special time and order.” This is a sign for us. Asking us to delay our actions comes from the nafs. Our nafs is very lazy; it doesn’t like to move, and therefore it wishes to delay everything. To our nafs, it seems easy to say: “I shall do it tomorrow.” It is always looking for an escape from serious actions; it only likes to play.
85-DHUL-JALALI WAL-IKRAM: The Lord of Majesty and Bounty "HIs is the perfection, all honour and blessing comes from Him. Nothing exists by itself, all comes from Him."
85-HOW TO BE ACCEPTABLE IN THE DIVINE PRESENCE Our Grandsheikh described how a Derwish may be acceptable as a servant to Allah Almighty. “He must have one character from each of three animals,” he said. “From the donkey, he must be able to carry burdens with patience and without objection. Unless he can do this he will be unsuccessful, because without patience one cannot carry the responsibilities of life. From the dog, he must learn faithfulness to his master. If the master tells the dog to stay somewhere until he returns, that dog will stay, even until death. If the owner beats it and chases it away, the dog will still return, with its tail wagging, when its master calls. Finally, when a man looks at a pig, he must know that his nafs is dirtier and filthier than a pig. The dirt of pigs is external, it comes from eating dirty things. But the nafs is dirty inside. Its dirt comes from fighting with its Lord. A perfect man must have such a character that he will accept whatever dirt is thrown on him, whether by words or by actions, knowing that his nafs is dirtier.” These three characteristics give a man rest and satisfaction in his heart. Only in this way can he reach happiness in this life. These are the characteristics of Prophets and Saints.
86-AL-MUQSIT: The Equitable One "He acts and distributes in justice and fairness. He gives what He gives to the right ones, and we do not know what He knows."
86-THE 12 GOOD CHARACTERISTICE IN DOGS Our Grandsheikh said: “There are 12 good characters in dogs that you may also find in Prophets and Awliya. They are: Not forgetting goodness: they don’t forget those who have done goodness to them. They are patient and always grateful for everything that they are given. They are not angry with their owners, even if they are beaten and sent away. If their owners call, they return with their tails wagging. They are humble; obedient; truthful; trustworthy, good friends; loyal, always remaining with their owners and never turning traitor. They are satisfied with small things; they are “zahid”, not looking to anything from this dunya. They have nothing from this world, they have no place for themselves. They may sleep anywhere, and if someone throws stones at them, they quickly get up and go somewhere else. They are very light sleepers, they don’t sleep too much, and quickly awaken. If a man has those attributes, he is a Wali. Those 12 attributes belong to Prophets and Saints.
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87-AL-JAMI: The Gatherer "He gathers whatever He wishes, wherever He wishes. In the universe He gathered spaces, galaxies, stars, earth, seas, plants and animals. He gathered in creatures bodies fire, water, air and earth, heat, cold, dry and wet. He gathered 6 million cells in a drop of blood. He will gather the bodies, lives, minds and souls of men on the Day of Judgment.”
87-ALLAH TRIES HIS SERVANTS Allah Almighty tries His servants to see if they are patient. We must remember this so that when an event comes to test our patience we will remain firm. We must keep “patience at the first blow”, we must keep our faith, then our power will grow and the power of our enemies will decrease. Our real enemy is our own ego. In the great war against our ego, “Jihad”, the angry man will lose and the patient man gains. Patience is fighting all that the nafs likes. There are three types of patience: Patience with physical discomforts, such as getting up on cold mornings for prayer, having cold water for washing, waiting in line, being uncomfortable during illness, completing difficult tasks, and so forth. To remain patient and steadfast in your worship in spite of these difficulties is very valuable in the sight of Allah. Even more valuable is the patience to refrain from forbidden things. A Hadith says: “To live as a servant and to keep away from forbidden things is more valuable than the worship of all the angels, men and jinn throughout the ages.” The third type of patience is the best of all. It is to be patient with the people who trouble you. The Holy Quran says: “We are trying some of you with others of you.”
88-AL-GHANI: The Self-Sufficient "He is rich and independent, He doesn't need servants, nor to be served. He needs nothing. It is an honor to be chosen by Him to appear as a means of His service to His servants. In reality by that the servant serves only himself, because he obtains the greatest gift, coming closer to Allah, finding Him and being with Him."
88-THE SIGN OF SPIRITUAL HEALTH People with good characters are healthy in their spiritual lives. From the amount of a person’s complains you may know how much bad characteristics there are that are left with him. When you finish all your complaining, you may know that you are healthy. No more bad character. This is important, because a person with a good character, if he has no complaint, has patience; and that means he has real faith. When you can escape the pull of your bad characteristics, there are no troubles for you either, whether in this life or in the life hereafter. You must remember that this is going according to your Lord’s Will. This is the key, the medicine for that illness. You must say: “Why am I complaining, when Allah Almighty has ordered this to be?” When you remember this, you will be satisfied with His Will and agree with it. Patience is the most necessary thing in the life of man. If you have patience, all goodness is with you. Allah’s Eyes are on you...will you be patient?
89-AL-MUGHNI: The Enricher "He knows what is best for us .. Life is a testing ground, where we show our degree of purity True riches are knowledge and faith."
89-THE SECRET KUFR If a man is not aware that Allah’s Eyes are on him everywhere, all the time, that man is not a Mu’min, believer. You must imagine, in your heart that Allah’s Eyes are with you. If you forget this, you will be absent from your Lord, and present with your ego. The best actions come by keeping this in your mind. If a man is doing an action that is not pleasing to Allah, His Prophet or Awliya, it means that he is considered a “secret Kafir”, a secret unbeliever. We have been ordered to clean ourselves of both evident and secret kufr. Therefore you must be careful about your openly visible acts as well as your secret acts. You must keep a balance with you with which to weigh your actions. You must look at each action that you do, or are about to do, and make sure that it will be pleasing to Allah, His Prophet and the Awliya. When you know that that action will bring pleasure to your Lord, the Prophet and the Awliya, you may do it. If not, you must leave it. If a man balances his actions in this life, there will be no balancing for him on Judgement Day. Therefore the Prophet said: “It is lovelier to Allah if a man sits for an hour thinking and weighing of his actions, than if he prays for 70 years!” This is because you may erase your 70 years of worship with an act that Allah is not pleased with; but if you weigh of that action first, with your mind, you may be able to leave it, and escape its harm.
90-AL-MANI: The Preventer, Withholder "Though we may not know the reason, we must believe that if we do not receive what we will and wish, it is because that is best for us Allah is most compassionate."
90-MALAYANI - THAT WHICH DOESN'T CONCERN YOU “Malayani” means, “that which doesn’t concern you” You must not speak of or act on that which doesn’t concern you. If a man takes care of his speech, keeping his tongue, Allah Almighty gives Divine Wisdom to his tongue so that he speaks only truth and righteousness. To speak of that which doesn’t concern you makes your Iman weak. When you leave this bad habit, your faith becomes stronger. You cannot know what concerns you or not, save through your inspirations. Then you may know very well what is yours or not.
91-AD-DARR: The Distressor, or the Creator of Evil
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to bring it down. Islam is getting up and Kufr is going down. May Allah bless you and your Hajj, your charities and visits to holy places. And you have been in Damascus and visited everywhere, and Grandsheikh accepted you also and he gives his Salaams to all of you. He was happy and proud of you, because you came his way to the Holy Prophet (sal), and the Prophet was happy with you, too, looking to you and blessing you. And now you are on your way home, and there is going to be a new opening for you and around you. Those Divine Lights, that were granted to you through Grandsheikh from the Holy Prophet (sal) are going to spread, and people should run from their darkness to your lights.
Now in two days will be the New Year of the Islamic calendar. Saturday is going to be the first day of 1420. More than 14 centuries have passed, and we hope that everything which we were saying, and that you heard about, is going to appear. Kufr will be destroyed and disappear, and Islam will grow. The flag of Islam will be raised, and the flag of Kufr will come down. From the year 2000 there are going to be many good tidings for you, for every true one, and trustworthy people are going to be happy in this year. Who keeps his heart with Allah, Allah will be with him. If you are not leaving Allah, He is not going to leave you. Therefore, as Rasulullah was saying: “Keep Allah and Allah will keep you.” We are happy and proud of you. You came such a long distance to visit Habibullah (sal) and the House of the Lord. You are young people, not easily going to be tired, but it is not an ordinary trip. It is a journey of obediency and worship, and worship is always going to be difficult for our ego. Everytime that we are carrying difficulties, we are paid more and more by Allah Almighty. And also Mahdi (alai) pointed out our group of Hajjis from western countries. They were Christians before and came to Islam, keeping the Sunnah among those Shaitan people, the Wahabis. And he was saying: “Look, Sheikh Abdullah’s Mureeds, Naqshabandi followers”, and he was so happy, looking to that group who went there keeping the Sunnah, and giving some spirituality to them that was never given to other people. Alhamdulillah, they were very happy with you. May Allah bless you. And I hope that you are intending to move to your homeland. How long are you intending to stay? If you have no responsibilities to go back to, you may be here longer, who has, may go. Perhaps I am intending to move to Lebanon or Damascus, and, according to the holy commands of Grandsheikh, because Armageddon is approaching now, look for a safe place there. But as long as I am here, you may be here. Welcome to you and Happy Birthday to me! Then you may go back or move to Damascus. Some brothers from Chile came to me in London, in Ramadan. They have built a new Mosque in the South of Chile, the most southern place on earth, near the South Pole. Alhamdulillah, there is now much more spirituality running through the hearts of people, because they are in need of spirituality more than anything else.
79-AL-BARR: The Doer of Good "He is the source of all good and bounty and the perfect doer of good. He loves for His servants only good, comfort and ease. He rewards tenfold, but His punishment never exceeds the sin committed. If the servant intends to do good but is unable to actualize it He rewards the intention as if it was actualized. But if His servant intends to sin and is unable to actualize it, He forgives him."
79-THE BASE OF FAITH The base upon which faith is built, the spirit of faith (Ruh ul Iman) is to carry everything that you don’t like, and to be patient with those you don’t like. For as many people as there are on this earth, such is the number of different characters and abilities, and you must carry them all. Whenever you are carrying other people, you get more power, more strength for your faith. The real power of faith is to remain unchanged in the face of trials. In our times, the sign of a good character, and the highest degree of Jihad-ul-Akbar, is to carry other people’s bad characters and to tolerate them. We have not been ordered to refuse people, but to make them more pleased. We are living in a time when people may say anything and everything; you must be patient with them, and excuse them, always without fighting. You must know that people are ill with their egos. If you are claiming to be doctors, you must excuse them. If you are on the way of Prophets, you must help them and be tolerant of them. This is the highest degree of good manners. You must not forget a goodness that has been done to you. If someone does a goodness for you, and afterwards you become displeased with that person over something he said or did, your displeasure, your forgetfulness of that person’s good deed toward you is from bad character. You will be like a cat. You may give it meat one hundred times; but if you leave it just once, that cat will make objections and complaints to Allah, saying: “He left me hungry!”It is good manners not to argue with people, even if you know that you are in the right. Arguing extinguishes faith. Who is a real Muslim? One who doesn’t harm anyone, either with his hands or with his tongue. People are safe from him. This is a wide entrance to Islam, and it is for all people. .
80-AL-TAWWAB: The Acceptor of Repentance "He constantly turns man to repentance, awakening the hearts of believers from the sleep of heedlessness through love of him, with the manifestation of His existence around them, with the words of good advice of those who are close to Him, with promises of rewards and fear of His punishment. The repentance acceptable is the effort of inner cleaning, purification."
80-The 6th Pillar of Faith Whenever something is wrong in a person, everything around him appears wrong to him. When he is all right within himself, the world appears all right to him. The world is created perfectly by our Creator. If something appears wrong to you, you must ask yourself: “What is wrong in me that I see this as wrong? Oh my nafs, you are wrong!” This is the highest degree of faith, and the highest degree of belief in the goodness of the Creator. Allah is not creating anything wrong or imperfect. At the essence of everything, if we could but see it, there is perfection. Until we behave correctly with our Lord, it is impossible for our actions, our family, our neighbours to behave correctly with us. It is impossible to find a better situation than that which exists today, for those who are ready. You cannot wish for things to be as they used to be, nor for the way that they might be. The conditions that we are in now are perfect, most suitable for us. Allah Almighty is giving as much of His mercy as we need; as much as we are able to carry. Real faith is like that: to believe that all actions, whether from goodness, or from badness, are from Allah Almighty. If we believe this, we must be patient with each other’s actions. Allah is trying our faith, each of us with others. The Prophet Muhammad (sal) said: “People will deal with you according to your actions.” If you are good and someone intends you harm, Allah will defend you. You must be honourable to all, good, respectful, merciful, generous and think well of all. We must be patient with all people because we believe that no one comes to us without our Lord’s Will. Therefore, there is no enmity in Islam. We have been ordered to do goodness. Anyone can return goodness for goodness; but only a few people can return goodness for badness.
81-AL-MUNTAQIM: The Avenger "He punishes those who persist in revolting, egotism, creating disharmony and tyrannizing His creation and servants. The own ego is Allah's enemy."
81-"OH MY LORD, I AM IN NEED OF YOUR MERCY!"
A real servant to his Lord knows that all the goodness that he has is a mercy from his Lord, guiding him to his Lord’s way. He knows that but for his Lord’s mercy, he wouldn’t be praying, fasting, making zikr, and so forth. So, when he comes to his Lord’s Presence, he says: “Oh my Lord, I am standing in Your Divine Presence, and my hands are empty. I am in need of Your Mercy always. Give me more mercy, oh my Lord.” A real servant of the Lord is not asking anything from Him. He says only: “May you be pleased with me, oh my Lord.” Some Awliya are too ashamed to ask anything from their Lord, because they see that they are in endless need of Him. They say: “Oh my Lord, You know best what I need from Your Mercy. My needs are endless. Fulfill my needs, oh my Lord, as You know.”
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82-AL-AFUW: The Forgiver, The Pardoner "He forgives and eliminates sins. The forgiving of sins is an encouragement to deniers to change their way His doors are always open."
82-THE STATION OF CONTENMENT - HOW TO CONTROL ANGER Who is the happiest person in this life? Who is the most satisfied? He who is satisfied with that station in life into which his Lord put him. It is the station of contentment- to look at everything and see that it is most suitable for him, and also for all. You must say: “This situation is most suitable for me because my Lord put me in this situation. If it were no good for me, He wouldn’t have put me in it.” We must believe that Allah Almighty desires goodness for us, always. Don’t be a teacher to Allah. He knows best, and you don’t know anything. Don’t make any objections for anything; you are servants, you are slaves to Him, and He is Governor, Absolute King of the Universe. You must know that all actions, all events, are not going to happen as we like them to happen. Nothing happens, no one can be as we like them to be; it is impossible. When you know this, you may keep yourself far away from anger, because anger is the result of thinking that you can have everything as you want it to be.
83-AR-RAUF: The Kind "He is clement and merciful, in spite of His ability to see our sins, His being powerful and independent."
83- "WITH PLEASURE, OH MY LORD!"
If a man is going to do anything, worship, or any other action, it must be done voluntarily and gladly. If he is not pleased with that action, he must not do it, for there will be no good result for him from it. If there is no pleasure in it for you, there will be no pleasure in it for Allah Almighty. For worship, it is important to realize that we are speaking of the soul’s pleasure. When we are worshipping, our nafs is not pleased, but our souls are. We must look to the pleasure of our soul. Actions may be easy or difficult. What is the secret? For the one who finds an action easy, it is because it gives him pleasure, while for the one who finds it difficult, it is because he is forced to do it. Easy actions make people happier, while difficult actions make people unhappy.
84-MALIK AL-MULK: The Eternal Sovereign "He shares neither the ownership of His kingdom nor the power, government or guardianship of the universe with anyone. The purpose and function of the creation is to know, to find, and to be with the Creator."
84-THERE IS NO 'EMPTY TIME' Everything that is going to happen in this life has a fixed time. Every event has an appointed hour. If we know that all events will come in their appointed time, we will be at rest and patient; and patience shows the perfection of man, a strong faith. If we can take wisdom from every event, then we will be strong in faith. We will get more power to receive Divine Knowledge. Allah orders us to look deeply into each thing, into each event, to find a secret wisdom that gives its value. If you look deeply, you will taste. Everything must be in its time. You cannot put it out of its time, because every moment is occupied. You cannot find time that is “empty”. Therefore, in our Tariqat, there is no delaying actions. Actions must be done in their times. As Allah Almighty says: “For prayer there is a special time and order.” This is a sign for us. Asking us to delay our actions comes from the nafs. Our nafs is very lazy; it doesn’t like to move, and therefore it wishes to delay everything. To our nafs, it seems easy to say: “I shall do it tomorrow.” It is always looking for an escape from serious actions; it only likes to play.
85-DHUL-JALALI WAL-IKRAM: The Lord of Majesty and Bounty "HIs is the perfection, all honour and blessing comes from Him. Nothing exists by itself, all comes from Him."
85-HOW TO BE ACCEPTABLE IN THE DIVINE PRESENCE Our Grandsheikh described how a Derwish may be acceptable as a servant to Allah Almighty. “He must have one character from each of three animals,” he said. “From the donkey, he must be able to carry burdens with patience and without objection. Unless he can do this he will be unsuccessful, because without patience one cannot carry the responsibilities of life. From the dog, he must learn faithfulness to his master. If the master tells the dog to stay somewhere until he returns, that dog will stay, even until death. If the owner beats it and chases it away, the dog will still return, with its tail wagging, when its master calls. Finally, when a man looks at a pig, he must know that his nafs is dirtier and filthier than a pig. The dirt of pigs is external, it comes from eating dirty things. But the nafs is dirty inside. Its dirt comes from fighting with its Lord. A perfect man must have such a character that he will accept whatever dirt is thrown on him, whether by words or by actions, knowing that his nafs is dirtier.” These three characteristics give a man rest and satisfaction in his heart. Only in this way can he reach happiness in this life. These are the characteristics of Prophets and Saints.
86-AL-MUQSIT: The Equitable One "He acts and distributes in justice and fairness. He gives what He gives to the right ones, and we do not know what He knows."
86-THE 12 GOOD CHARACTERISTICE IN DOGS Our Grandsheikh said: “There are 12 good characters in dogs that you may also find in Prophets and Awliya. They are: Not forgetting goodness: they don’t forget those who have done goodness to them. They are patient and always grateful for everything that they are given. They are not angry with their owners, even if they are beaten and sent away. If their owners call, they return with their tails wagging. They are humble; obedient; truthful; trustworthy, good friends; loyal, always remaining with their owners and never turning traitor. They are satisfied with small things; they are “zahid”, not looking to anything from this dunya. They have nothing from this world, they have no place for themselves. They may sleep anywhere, and if someone throws stones at them, they quickly get up and go somewhere else. They are very light sleepers, they don’t sleep too much, and quickly awaken. If a man has those attributes, he is a Wali. Those 12 attributes belong to Prophets and Saints.
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87-AL-JAMI: The Gatherer "He gathers whatever He wishes, wherever He wishes. In the universe He gathered spaces, galaxies, stars, earth, seas, plants and animals. He gathered in creatures bodies fire, water, air and earth, heat, cold, dry and wet. He gathered 6 million cells in a drop of blood. He will gather the bodies, lives, minds and souls of men on the Day of Judgment.”
87-ALLAH TRIES HIS SERVANTS Allah Almighty tries His servants to see if they are patient. We must remember this so that when an event comes to test our patience we will remain firm. We must keep “patience at the first blow”, we must keep our faith, then our power will grow and the power of our enemies will decrease. Our real enemy is our own ego. In the great war against our ego, “Jihad”, the angry man will lose and the patient man gains. Patience is fighting all that the nafs likes. There are three types of patience: Patience with physical discomforts, such as getting up on cold mornings for prayer, having cold water for washing, waiting in line, being uncomfortable during illness, completing difficult tasks, and so forth. To remain patient and steadfast in your worship in spite of these difficulties is very valuable in the sight of Allah. Even more valuable is the patience to refrain from forbidden things. A Hadith says: “To live as a servant and to keep away from forbidden things is more valuable than the worship of all the angels, men and jinn throughout the ages.” The third type of patience is the best of all. It is to be patient with the people who trouble you. The Holy Quran says: “We are trying some of you with others of you.”
88-AL-GHANI: The Self-Sufficient "He is rich and independent, He doesn't need servants, nor to be served. He needs nothing. It is an honor to be chosen by Him to appear as a means of His service to His servants. In reality by that the servant serves only himself, because he obtains the greatest gift, coming closer to Allah, finding Him and being with Him."
88-THE SIGN OF SPIRITUAL HEALTH People with good characters are healthy in their spiritual lives. From the amount of a person’s complains you may know how much bad characteristics there are that are left with him. When you finish all your complaining, you may know that you are healthy. No more bad character. This is important, because a person with a good character, if he has no complaint, has patience; and that means he has real faith. When you can escape the pull of your bad characteristics, there are no troubles for you either, whether in this life or in the life hereafter. You must remember that this is going according to your Lord’s Will. This is the key, the medicine for that illness. You must say: “Why am I complaining, when Allah Almighty has ordered this to be?” When you remember this, you will be satisfied with His Will and agree with it. Patience is the most necessary thing in the life of man. If you have patience, all goodness is with you. Allah’s Eyes are on you...will you be patient?
89-AL-MUGHNI: The Enricher "He knows what is best for us .. Life is a testing ground, where we show our degree of purity True riches are knowledge and faith."
89-THE SECRET KUFR If a man is not aware that Allah’s Eyes are on him everywhere, all the time, that man is not a Mu’min, believer. You must imagine, in your heart that Allah’s Eyes are with you. If you forget this, you will be absent from your Lord, and present with your ego. The best actions come by keeping this in your mind. If a man is doing an action that is not pleasing to Allah, His Prophet or Awliya, it means that he is considered a “secret Kafir”, a secret unbeliever. We have been ordered to clean ourselves of both evident and secret kufr. Therefore you must be careful about your openly visible acts as well as your secret acts. You must keep a balance with you with which to weigh your actions. You must look at each action that you do, or are about to do, and make sure that it will be pleasing to Allah, His Prophet and the Awliya. When you know that that action will bring pleasure to your Lord, the Prophet and the Awliya, you may do it. If not, you must leave it. If a man balances his actions in this life, there will be no balancing for him on Judgement Day. Therefore the Prophet said: “It is lovelier to Allah if a man sits for an hour thinking and weighing of his actions, than if he prays for 70 years!” This is because you may erase your 70 years of worship with an act that Allah is not pleased with; but if you weigh of that action first, with your mind, you may be able to leave it, and escape its harm.
90-AL-MANI: The Preventer, Withholder "Though we may not know the reason, we must believe that if we do not receive what we will and wish, it is because that is best for us Allah is most compassionate."
90-MALAYANI - THAT WHICH DOESN'T CONCERN YOU “Malayani” means, “that which doesn’t concern you” You must not speak of or act on that which doesn’t concern you. If a man takes care of his speech, keeping his tongue, Allah Almighty gives Divine Wisdom to his tongue so that he speaks only truth and righteousness. To speak of that which doesn’t concern you makes your Iman weak. When you leave this bad habit, your faith becomes stronger. You cannot know what concerns you or not, save through your inspirations. Then you may know very well what is yours or not.
91-AD-DARR: The Distressor, or the Creator of Evil
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