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opes from Allah Almighty and of His giving us from his endless favours so that He may give us sincerity to be His sincere
servants. This is something that runs from hearts to hearts, not from books to hearts. This is what goes from living hearts to living hearts. Allah Almighty sent the Prophet (Sal) to the Sahaba. Then he sent this Quran into his heart. Then from the heart of the Prophet (Sal) it reached to the hearts of the Sahabas making them sincere and trustworthy for servant hood to Allah Almighty. May Allah grant sincerity and real faith to all of you from his endless favours.
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96-AL-BAQI: The Everlasting One "Time only exists for the changing creation, which is material and temporal."
96-THE HUMILITY OF HUMBLENESS What is the best and most lovely attribute of a servant to his Lord Almighty Allah? What is it that Almighty Allah likes his servants to be? Yesterday and on the day before yesterday, a Swami (Priest) came to visit us. He came very humbly, not asking for anything and never expecting any respect from this community. His Holiness, the Swami was acting as if he was a guilty person and as if he had done something wrong. Such was his humbleness. I was looking at him and he came in a very humble and simple manner looking for a place only to sit down. He was very happy that our community was accepting him. He was so humble, not like some of us. Our Egos are not like that of His Holiness. We are always asking that we should be respected. Our Egos are always trying to take first place, never, the second place, that person (swami), was trying for thirty years to be humble and has now reached this point. He does not ask respect from anyone and he is happy even if he is not accepted as the first one in the community. This is a very good attribute which Almighty Allah loves. This is also an attribute of the Awliyas (Saints). This person was far away when the call for prayer (Azan) was made, and he waited till all the people came into the mosque, and then he entered the mosque and joined the prayer at the very end of the line, and then quickly moved away after the prayer was over. Yes, he was very happy that Allah Almighty had opened the doors of this mosque to him, to enter, and to have accepted him. Moreover most people think and claim that they are very important people who may be even famous through the East and West, but in front of Almighty Allah they have no value even as much as the wing of a mosquito. As I said before, this person was so very happy to enter this
mosque knowing also that there are millions of other people who cannot enter into a mosque. He was also thanking Almighty Allah for covering his faults from all of His servants who may otherwise have known his Ego and then have him thrown out. He was thinking that if people knew about his bad actions they would have thrown him out of the mosque and therefore he was happy and thankful that he had been accepted even to be able to pray in the last row of the Jamaah. He was not expecting to pray in the first row of the Jamaah nor was he expecting to be respected. That is one of the best characteristics of servants towards Almighty Allah. Everyone must think “Oh my Lord please cover my bad actions from your servants”. There was a Grandsheikh by the name of Abu Ahamed us Sughuri (he was the Grandsheikh of our Grandsheikh’s Grandsheikh, Sheikh Sharafudeen). He was a Qutub for thirty seven years. No person could have carried this heavy burden for thirty seven years. Allah Almighty gave to him the power to look at every creature through every continent and through every ocean and he was given the power also to look after them. But he was such a humble person and he was saying: “If people know about my Ego as I know about it, they would throw me out of their houses and throw stones and rubbish at me”. It was through this humbleness that he reached to the Divine Presence. He was humble because he was a Qutub (Pole) , and this is one of the attributes of a Qutub. The biggest and the thickest veil between the Lord and His servant is for the servant to give “value” to himself. Our Grandsheikh was saying about a certain saint by the name of Abdul Qadir Omar Ibnu Safar, who was an Aashik ( a person who is in love with the Prophet) who refused to give himself any value, not even the least value of even one penny, as he was saying that even if his value is one penny he might have to take upon very great burdens upon himself, and because of this he did not place any value whatsoever on himself. There is a story about a certain Grandsheikh who lived in Bukhara, Samarqand (a country close to Pakistan). The Moguls invaded this country and took all the people as prisoners. This Grandsheikh was also taken as a prisoner by a certain soldier. When this soldier was traveling with this Sheikh who was his prisoner, he noticed that many people were coming upto this Sheikh and offering their respects to him. The soldier thought “This Sheikh is a great and important man and I would be able to sell him for a large sum of money”.
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As they were going together one person came and offered, for an example, a sum of Rupees ten thousand, for this Sheikh. But the Sheikh said “This is not my price”. The soldier then thought that the Sheikh’s price must be very much more than this. Then again another and another came up and offered larger and larger sums of money for the Sheikh, and the Sheikh kept on saying “that is not my price”. This went on from morning till evening. At the end of the day the Sheikh was walking beside the soldier who was riding on a horse, when a certain person came with a bag of straw on his shoulder and approached them saying, “I will give this bag of straw in exchange for the Sheikh”. The Sheikh immediately accepted saying “that is my price”. This man took the Sheikh and gave the bag of straw to the soldier. As the soldier had said that he would give the Sheikh to any person who could give the price that the Sheikh was asking for himself he had to keep his word and give away the Sheikh. The soldier was very angry as he went away, giving away the Sheikh for this bag of straw. His horse was however very happy to be able to eat the straw. When a person comes nearer to Almighty Allah, the greatness of Almighty Allah makes him disappear. For example, when you look at the Sun you are not able to see anything else. Therefore Awliyas are on this level. The level of humbleness. As they have to vanish in front of the greatness of Allah they will never put a price or value on themselves. Likewise this Swami was a very humble person acting as if he was an accused person. The Egos of the other people around this Swami were acting as if they were thinking that they were very important people. They asked “who is this person? He is a dirty one, he is a Kafir, a Hindu, we are Muslims, therefore we are more important!” This is not good adab (manners). He was coming very humbly and also accusing himself through his humblessness. That was very good manners. These other people who were thinking badly about him were keeping bad manners. You must keep, adab, a good manner with other people. You must not try to be on a high level looking down on other people, and there are so many types of people throughout your country. You must be humble and that is a good manner for every one. May Allah grant us good adab. We are in need of this.
97-AL-WARITH: The Ultimate Inheritor "We are but temporal keepers of what is in our hand. After we are gone everything is left to Him."
97-THE FACETS OF FAMILIARITY Insha Allah as you are here with me today I am asking from Almighty Allah to give some power into your hearts so that you may be pushed towards His Divine Presence and also to make love to flow through your hearts for Allah Almighty, for His beloved Prophet, for His Awliyas, for the believers, for the whole of humanity and for all the creatures that have been created by Almighty Allah. The day before yesterday, we were on our way to Kataragama, when a big cobra (in length about one and a half or two meters long) crossed our path as we were traveling in our car. The others who were traveling with me in the car pointed it out to me saying “Look, that is a cobra”. Then this cobra addressed me saying “you do not like my shape and you are fearful of me and therefore you don’t like meeting me. But I am one of my Lord’s creatures. He created me with this appearance and in the way that he created me I am appearing to you. I do not like to have the appearance of any other creature. I am pleased with the way that my Lord has created me. If you fear to look at me because of my appearance you must look at me with a different outlook. As you are believers you are not like the others, and that may be a reason for you to be familiar with me. As for anyone who is familiar with me I must also be familiar with him. I can’t harm them and I can’t touch them, because Allah Almighty ordered me not to harm familiar servants when he created me. As for the unfamiliar servants of Almighty Allah we attack them because we fear them.” Therefore we are trying to be familiar with all creatures but firstly we are trying to be familiar with each other amongst ourselves. First we must be familiar with mankind. There are so many levels of people in Sri Lanka and so many types of them. I asked a person in Sri Lanka as to how many categories of people there are in Sri Lanka. He said to me that there were about five levels- low, lower, lowest, high and highest. It is only people who are putting them on to
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these levels, but in the Divine presence all of them are of the same level. There is only one level. The levels in the Divine Presence is in accordance with their beliefs, the love in their hearts, their respect and their familiarities with people. In this world all mankind are equal and are not different to each other in their levels. Therefore we must try to establish familiarity among ourselves. When we look at people with familiarity their attitude towards us also changes into familiarity. That is the highest station (Makam ul Izz), and the opposite of this station is waksha (wildness or hatred for people), that is the opposite of familiarity. When Allah Almighty created Adam, all the Angels displayed familiarity to him except Shaitan who became his enemy. Enmity is the source of all troubles everywhere. Familiarity has been killed today, and there is no improvement in beliefs and neither are there people who can give strong beliefs to mankind. Today there are people who only read books, and they are not able to take something from or to give something to the people. As they cannot take anything from these books they are also not able to give anything to others, so that you are closed from both sides, In these present days mostly the scholars and the religious people are very official. They can’t learn nor can they teach. When you look through the whole Islamic world you can only find a handful of people who are able to receive something and to give knowledge out of it. They are all plastic people and they can only give plastic bananas, plastic grapes, or plastic flowers to you. What is the benefit even if there is a houseful of plastic grapes. It is better to have a few real or natural grapes than to have a houseful of plastic ones. That is the reason that beliefs are coming down and not growing. Beliefs grow only with a Nasiat (advice). When they are not even able to advise themselves, how can they give something to you, for your beliefs to grow? When beliefs come down familiarity is going to end and when familiarity finishes they claim that they have reached to the height of civilizations. They are liars. What is the level of familiarity through mankind now? Yesterday it was good, today less and tomorrow even lesser. At the beginning of this century there was much more familiarity among people than today. We have now come to the end of the 20th century and people have lost familiarity for each other.
Even in your home and with you family, familiarity has finished. Children are not familiar with their parents nor are the parents familiar with their children. Children amongst each other have no familiarity. The big ones with the little ones and the little ones with the big ones, the neighbours with each other and the people with their rulers or their governments, all of them have lost this familiarity. Now nations are fighting within themselves. The Prophet (Sal) who is the most true one predicted that towards the end of the world nations should fight within themselves. This means that people would lose familiarity among them and look at each other as if they were looking at wild animals. They will be trying to kill each other. In Sri Lanka the Sinhalese and the Tamils are fighting each other. Why is this? Allah Almighty has made both of you neighbours to each other. What is the matter with you that you have become enemies to each other? People are inheriting from Shaitan, because Shaitan was not familiar with Adam and became his enemy. When familiarity is lost it leads to enmity. That is the reason for today’s state of affairs. There is no way to establish familiarity except through tariqats. There are foolish people today who are denying tariqats and they can’t do anything except make people hate each other. So many of these foolish groups are now growing up throughout the Islamic world. All of them are workers for Shaitan because of the fact that they are denying tariqats, but it is tariqats that are asking to establish familiarity among people. If there is no familiarity between us you would not be present here so very early in the morning, and there is now also a curfew, in force, in this country. Even so you are coming here. If there is no familiarity amongst us you would not have wanted to come here to be with me. You would have slept safely in your homes, and if you wanted to pray you could have prayed at your homes. You could have said that these are terrible days, dangerous days and stayed at home instead of coming here. On this point there is a teaching that Almighty Allah informed through His Prophet (Sal) to the Sahabas. The Prophet taught this to his Sahabas and particularly to Seyyadina Ali (Ral). This teaching is that if a person has fear for Almighty Allah he may walk safely everywhere and no harm shall befall him. Yes you are not going to the Cinema so early in the morning for you to fear. You are coming here for the sake of Allah and therefore he protects you.
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We are trying to establish familiarity with people. This is being destroyed and the people have lost it. I wish to bring about once again that familiarity among people. If this familiarity is not brought about again there will be endless troubles, sufferings, miseries, battles, wars, fighting and all sorts of problems coming on us. Yes what I have said now is enough for you up to Qiyamat. To you means to the whole of mankind. You are only a handful of people, but this address to you that is coming through my heart from the spiritual centres is an address that is made to the whole of mankind from East to West. Everyone may take their shares as much as they can. I was not going to speak, but they made me to speak to you and to address you on this important point.
98-AR-RASHID: The Guide to the Right Path "He is the ultimate teacher who leads one to the straight path and salvation. He does not enforce what He teaches, but leaves it to men's will to act upon what he is taught. Man, as the student, has to be aware and conscious of what is being taught. Then he has to use his intelligence to discipline and educate himself, his ego. With the divine laws he must drive the machine of his material being."
98-THE JUDGE OF JUDGEMENTS Those who understand Islam must come to embrace Islam; likewise those who understand tariqat must come to Tariqat while those who do not understand will keep away. In the markets there are many shops. The Shop keepers sit inside their shops throughout the whole day expecting the customers to come. When a customer comes the shopkeeper does not quarrel with the customer if he is late, but welcome him anyway. He is not angry whether the customer is early or late, but he is pleased when the buyer arrives. The Prophet’s (sal) market is open for the last fifteen centuries. The buyers and the sellers have come and gone for these fifteen centuries. The Prophet (sal) always says “Welcome”. In these markets we sell jewellery not potatoes or tomatoes. Shariat brings gems and Tariqat makes these into jewellery by polishing them. This is a good example for understanding. When I was here in Sri Lanka I was shown some rough stones and when I looked at them they looked very ordinary. Later however I was taken to a jewellery shop and I saw an amazing collection of jewellery. I asked “from where are these?.” They told me “These are the same rough stones we showed you earlier, but now we have polished it. We worked on those rough stones and polished them making them beautiful”. In the same way the rough stones brought by the Prophet (Sal) were polished by he Imams, Sheikhs and Saints. They polished these gems and made them so beautiful. The very same gems. But there are a foolish set of people who say “no need to work on polishing these gems, they should be as they were at that time”. They say that it is bidaat, shirk and kufr. Don’t say this. Those who accuse Moomins saying that, they are Kafirs are going to be Kafir. Those who say for Muslims that they are Mushrik are equal to Mushriks. He who says Muslims that they are doing bidaat (innovating), they themselves are
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the ones who do bidaat. They are lacking in understanding. In the Holy Quran Allah Almighty says “I gave understanding to Sulaiman.” (Astattu billahi wafatana Sulaiman). Dawood (Alai) however was not given this type of understanding. There is a famous story about them. When I was in Malaysia I stayed with the Royal family and there I met a High Court Judge from England. I was talking to this gentleman and I asked him about this famous judgment of Sulaiman (Alai). I told him that this was a story that should be also found in the Old Testament. It is not only a story but what really happened in the past. The story is this:- Two persons came to Dawood (Alai) and asked him to give judgment on an incident that took place. A flock of sheep belonging to one of these persons had gone into the corn field of the other person and eaten the corn in that field. Now this person whose corn was eaten was asking for judgment. Dawood (Alai) said “Calculate the value of the corn that was eaten. Then pay the equal value of that corn in flock to him”. When these persons were leaving Sulaiman (Alai) asked them as to what judgment his father had given them. When they told him of this judgment, Sulaiman (Alai) said “that Judgment is wrong, go and ask him for another Judgment”. Dawood (Alai) was a Nabi (Prophet), but he had not been given the understanding of Sulaiman (Alai). Even this Chief High Court Judge could not find anything wrong in the Judgment of Dawood (Alai). But yet Sulaiman (Alai) was saying “go and ask my father for better Judgment”. Then Dawood (Alai) called his son Sulaiman and asked him “give your judgment then, if it is going to be better”. Then Sulaiman (Alai) said “The Owner of the flock should give his flock over to the other person for a period of one year till the corn in that field grows up to the level that it was, before it was eaten. When the corn grows upto this level, he should give back the flock and take back his corn”. Then Dawood (Alai) agreed with his son that this was the best judgment. This English Judge also told me that this was the best Judgment. This Judgment is only an example of good judgment. Allah Almighty asks who is he that is able to give a better Judgment than Himself. But people today think that if they follow the laws (Shariat) of Islam by themselves, that it is enough. That is a completely wrong view. However clever a person may be he can only come to the level of Dawood?s (Alai) Judgment. That will be his limit. He cannot go further. They are empty headed people. They do not think that Allah Almighty’s Judgment is better than theirs. As they do not think of this and do not accept this, there is trouble e
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opes from Allah Almighty and of His giving us from his endless favours so that He may give us sincerity to be His sincere
servants. This is something that runs from hearts to hearts, not from books to hearts. This is what goes from living hearts to living hearts. Allah Almighty sent the Prophet (Sal) to the Sahaba. Then he sent this Quran into his heart. Then from the heart of the Prophet (Sal) it reached to the hearts of the Sahabas making them sincere and trustworthy for servant hood to Allah Almighty. May Allah grant sincerity and real faith to all of you from his endless favours.
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96-AL-BAQI: The Everlasting One "Time only exists for the changing creation, which is material and temporal."
96-THE HUMILITY OF HUMBLENESS What is the best and most lovely attribute of a servant to his Lord Almighty Allah? What is it that Almighty Allah likes his servants to be? Yesterday and on the day before yesterday, a Swami (Priest) came to visit us. He came very humbly, not asking for anything and never expecting any respect from this community. His Holiness, the Swami was acting as if he was a guilty person and as if he had done something wrong. Such was his humbleness. I was looking at him and he came in a very humble and simple manner looking for a place only to sit down. He was very happy that our community was accepting him. He was so humble, not like some of us. Our Egos are not like that of His Holiness. We are always asking that we should be respected. Our Egos are always trying to take first place, never, the second place, that person (swami), was trying for thirty years to be humble and has now reached this point. He does not ask respect from anyone and he is happy even if he is not accepted as the first one in the community. This is a very good attribute which Almighty Allah loves. This is also an attribute of the Awliyas (Saints). This person was far away when the call for prayer (Azan) was made, and he waited till all the people came into the mosque, and then he entered the mosque and joined the prayer at the very end of the line, and then quickly moved away after the prayer was over. Yes, he was very happy that Allah Almighty had opened the doors of this mosque to him, to enter, and to have accepted him. Moreover most people think and claim that they are very important people who may be even famous through the East and West, but in front of Almighty Allah they have no value even as much as the wing of a mosquito. As I said before, this person was so very happy to enter this
mosque knowing also that there are millions of other people who cannot enter into a mosque. He was also thanking Almighty Allah for covering his faults from all of His servants who may otherwise have known his Ego and then have him thrown out. He was thinking that if people knew about his bad actions they would have thrown him out of the mosque and therefore he was happy and thankful that he had been accepted even to be able to pray in the last row of the Jamaah. He was not expecting to pray in the first row of the Jamaah nor was he expecting to be respected. That is one of the best characteristics of servants towards Almighty Allah. Everyone must think “Oh my Lord please cover my bad actions from your servants”. There was a Grandsheikh by the name of Abu Ahamed us Sughuri (he was the Grandsheikh of our Grandsheikh’s Grandsheikh, Sheikh Sharafudeen). He was a Qutub for thirty seven years. No person could have carried this heavy burden for thirty seven years. Allah Almighty gave to him the power to look at every creature through every continent and through every ocean and he was given the power also to look after them. But he was such a humble person and he was saying: “If people know about my Ego as I know about it, they would throw me out of their houses and throw stones and rubbish at me”. It was through this humbleness that he reached to the Divine Presence. He was humble because he was a Qutub (Pole) , and this is one of the attributes of a Qutub. The biggest and the thickest veil between the Lord and His servant is for the servant to give “value” to himself. Our Grandsheikh was saying about a certain saint by the name of Abdul Qadir Omar Ibnu Safar, who was an Aashik ( a person who is in love with the Prophet) who refused to give himself any value, not even the least value of even one penny, as he was saying that even if his value is one penny he might have to take upon very great burdens upon himself, and because of this he did not place any value whatsoever on himself. There is a story about a certain Grandsheikh who lived in Bukhara, Samarqand (a country close to Pakistan). The Moguls invaded this country and took all the people as prisoners. This Grandsheikh was also taken as a prisoner by a certain soldier. When this soldier was traveling with this Sheikh who was his prisoner, he noticed that many people were coming upto this Sheikh and offering their respects to him. The soldier thought “This Sheikh is a great and important man and I would be able to sell him for a large sum of money”.
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As they were going together one person came and offered, for an example, a sum of Rupees ten thousand, for this Sheikh. But the Sheikh said “This is not my price”. The soldier then thought that the Sheikh’s price must be very much more than this. Then again another and another came up and offered larger and larger sums of money for the Sheikh, and the Sheikh kept on saying “that is not my price”. This went on from morning till evening. At the end of the day the Sheikh was walking beside the soldier who was riding on a horse, when a certain person came with a bag of straw on his shoulder and approached them saying, “I will give this bag of straw in exchange for the Sheikh”. The Sheikh immediately accepted saying “that is my price”. This man took the Sheikh and gave the bag of straw to the soldier. As the soldier had said that he would give the Sheikh to any person who could give the price that the Sheikh was asking for himself he had to keep his word and give away the Sheikh. The soldier was very angry as he went away, giving away the Sheikh for this bag of straw. His horse was however very happy to be able to eat the straw. When a person comes nearer to Almighty Allah, the greatness of Almighty Allah makes him disappear. For example, when you look at the Sun you are not able to see anything else. Therefore Awliyas are on this level. The level of humbleness. As they have to vanish in front of the greatness of Allah they will never put a price or value on themselves. Likewise this Swami was a very humble person acting as if he was an accused person. The Egos of the other people around this Swami were acting as if they were thinking that they were very important people. They asked “who is this person? He is a dirty one, he is a Kafir, a Hindu, we are Muslims, therefore we are more important!” This is not good adab (manners). He was coming very humbly and also accusing himself through his humblessness. That was very good manners. These other people who were thinking badly about him were keeping bad manners. You must keep, adab, a good manner with other people. You must not try to be on a high level looking down on other people, and there are so many types of people throughout your country. You must be humble and that is a good manner for every one. May Allah grant us good adab. We are in need of this.
97-AL-WARITH: The Ultimate Inheritor "We are but temporal keepers of what is in our hand. After we are gone everything is left to Him."
97-THE FACETS OF FAMILIARITY Insha Allah as you are here with me today I am asking from Almighty Allah to give some power into your hearts so that you may be pushed towards His Divine Presence and also to make love to flow through your hearts for Allah Almighty, for His beloved Prophet, for His Awliyas, for the believers, for the whole of humanity and for all the creatures that have been created by Almighty Allah. The day before yesterday, we were on our way to Kataragama, when a big cobra (in length about one and a half or two meters long) crossed our path as we were traveling in our car. The others who were traveling with me in the car pointed it out to me saying “Look, that is a cobra”. Then this cobra addressed me saying “you do not like my shape and you are fearful of me and therefore you don’t like meeting me. But I am one of my Lord’s creatures. He created me with this appearance and in the way that he created me I am appearing to you. I do not like to have the appearance of any other creature. I am pleased with the way that my Lord has created me. If you fear to look at me because of my appearance you must look at me with a different outlook. As you are believers you are not like the others, and that may be a reason for you to be familiar with me. As for anyone who is familiar with me I must also be familiar with him. I can’t harm them and I can’t touch them, because Allah Almighty ordered me not to harm familiar servants when he created me. As for the unfamiliar servants of Almighty Allah we attack them because we fear them.” Therefore we are trying to be familiar with all creatures but firstly we are trying to be familiar with each other amongst ourselves. First we must be familiar with mankind. There are so many levels of people in Sri Lanka and so many types of them. I asked a person in Sri Lanka as to how many categories of people there are in Sri Lanka. He said to me that there were about five levels- low, lower, lowest, high and highest. It is only people who are putting them on to
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these levels, but in the Divine presence all of them are of the same level. There is only one level. The levels in the Divine Presence is in accordance with their beliefs, the love in their hearts, their respect and their familiarities with people. In this world all mankind are equal and are not different to each other in their levels. Therefore we must try to establish familiarity among ourselves. When we look at people with familiarity their attitude towards us also changes into familiarity. That is the highest station (Makam ul Izz), and the opposite of this station is waksha (wildness or hatred for people), that is the opposite of familiarity. When Allah Almighty created Adam, all the Angels displayed familiarity to him except Shaitan who became his enemy. Enmity is the source of all troubles everywhere. Familiarity has been killed today, and there is no improvement in beliefs and neither are there people who can give strong beliefs to mankind. Today there are people who only read books, and they are not able to take something from or to give something to the people. As they cannot take anything from these books they are also not able to give anything to others, so that you are closed from both sides, In these present days mostly the scholars and the religious people are very official. They can’t learn nor can they teach. When you look through the whole Islamic world you can only find a handful of people who are able to receive something and to give knowledge out of it. They are all plastic people and they can only give plastic bananas, plastic grapes, or plastic flowers to you. What is the benefit even if there is a houseful of plastic grapes. It is better to have a few real or natural grapes than to have a houseful of plastic ones. That is the reason that beliefs are coming down and not growing. Beliefs grow only with a Nasiat (advice). When they are not even able to advise themselves, how can they give something to you, for your beliefs to grow? When beliefs come down familiarity is going to end and when familiarity finishes they claim that they have reached to the height of civilizations. They are liars. What is the level of familiarity through mankind now? Yesterday it was good, today less and tomorrow even lesser. At the beginning of this century there was much more familiarity among people than today. We have now come to the end of the 20th century and people have lost familiarity for each other.
Even in your home and with you family, familiarity has finished. Children are not familiar with their parents nor are the parents familiar with their children. Children amongst each other have no familiarity. The big ones with the little ones and the little ones with the big ones, the neighbours with each other and the people with their rulers or their governments, all of them have lost this familiarity. Now nations are fighting within themselves. The Prophet (Sal) who is the most true one predicted that towards the end of the world nations should fight within themselves. This means that people would lose familiarity among them and look at each other as if they were looking at wild animals. They will be trying to kill each other. In Sri Lanka the Sinhalese and the Tamils are fighting each other. Why is this? Allah Almighty has made both of you neighbours to each other. What is the matter with you that you have become enemies to each other? People are inheriting from Shaitan, because Shaitan was not familiar with Adam and became his enemy. When familiarity is lost it leads to enmity. That is the reason for today’s state of affairs. There is no way to establish familiarity except through tariqats. There are foolish people today who are denying tariqats and they can’t do anything except make people hate each other. So many of these foolish groups are now growing up throughout the Islamic world. All of them are workers for Shaitan because of the fact that they are denying tariqats, but it is tariqats that are asking to establish familiarity among people. If there is no familiarity between us you would not be present here so very early in the morning, and there is now also a curfew, in force, in this country. Even so you are coming here. If there is no familiarity amongst us you would not have wanted to come here to be with me. You would have slept safely in your homes, and if you wanted to pray you could have prayed at your homes. You could have said that these are terrible days, dangerous days and stayed at home instead of coming here. On this point there is a teaching that Almighty Allah informed through His Prophet (Sal) to the Sahabas. The Prophet taught this to his Sahabas and particularly to Seyyadina Ali (Ral). This teaching is that if a person has fear for Almighty Allah he may walk safely everywhere and no harm shall befall him. Yes you are not going to the Cinema so early in the morning for you to fear. You are coming here for the sake of Allah and therefore he protects you.
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We are trying to establish familiarity with people. This is being destroyed and the people have lost it. I wish to bring about once again that familiarity among people. If this familiarity is not brought about again there will be endless troubles, sufferings, miseries, battles, wars, fighting and all sorts of problems coming on us. Yes what I have said now is enough for you up to Qiyamat. To you means to the whole of mankind. You are only a handful of people, but this address to you that is coming through my heart from the spiritual centres is an address that is made to the whole of mankind from East to West. Everyone may take their shares as much as they can. I was not going to speak, but they made me to speak to you and to address you on this important point.
98-AR-RASHID: The Guide to the Right Path "He is the ultimate teacher who leads one to the straight path and salvation. He does not enforce what He teaches, but leaves it to men's will to act upon what he is taught. Man, as the student, has to be aware and conscious of what is being taught. Then he has to use his intelligence to discipline and educate himself, his ego. With the divine laws he must drive the machine of his material being."
98-THE JUDGE OF JUDGEMENTS Those who understand Islam must come to embrace Islam; likewise those who understand tariqat must come to Tariqat while those who do not understand will keep away. In the markets there are many shops. The Shop keepers sit inside their shops throughout the whole day expecting the customers to come. When a customer comes the shopkeeper does not quarrel with the customer if he is late, but welcome him anyway. He is not angry whether the customer is early or late, but he is pleased when the buyer arrives. The Prophet’s (sal) market is open for the last fifteen centuries. The buyers and the sellers have come and gone for these fifteen centuries. The Prophet (sal) always says “Welcome”. In these markets we sell jewellery not potatoes or tomatoes. Shariat brings gems and Tariqat makes these into jewellery by polishing them. This is a good example for understanding. When I was here in Sri Lanka I was shown some rough stones and when I looked at them they looked very ordinary. Later however I was taken to a jewellery shop and I saw an amazing collection of jewellery. I asked “from where are these?.” They told me “These are the same rough stones we showed you earlier, but now we have polished it. We worked on those rough stones and polished them making them beautiful”. In the same way the rough stones brought by the Prophet (Sal) were polished by he Imams, Sheikhs and Saints. They polished these gems and made them so beautiful. The very same gems. But there are a foolish set of people who say “no need to work on polishing these gems, they should be as they were at that time”. They say that it is bidaat, shirk and kufr. Don’t say this. Those who accuse Moomins saying that, they are Kafirs are going to be Kafir. Those who say for Muslims that they are Mushrik are equal to Mushriks. He who says Muslims that they are doing bidaat (innovating), they themselves are
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the ones who do bidaat. They are lacking in understanding. In the Holy Quran Allah Almighty says “I gave understanding to Sulaiman.” (Astattu billahi wafatana Sulaiman). Dawood (Alai) however was not given this type of understanding. There is a famous story about them. When I was in Malaysia I stayed with the Royal family and there I met a High Court Judge from England. I was talking to this gentleman and I asked him about this famous judgment of Sulaiman (Alai). I told him that this was a story that should be also found in the Old Testament. It is not only a story but what really happened in the past. The story is this:- Two persons came to Dawood (Alai) and asked him to give judgment on an incident that took place. A flock of sheep belonging to one of these persons had gone into the corn field of the other person and eaten the corn in that field. Now this person whose corn was eaten was asking for judgment. Dawood (Alai) said “Calculate the value of the corn that was eaten. Then pay the equal value of that corn in flock to him”. When these persons were leaving Sulaiman (Alai) asked them as to what judgment his father had given them. When they told him of this judgment, Sulaiman (Alai) said “that Judgment is wrong, go and ask him for another Judgment”. Dawood (Alai) was a Nabi (Prophet), but he had not been given the understanding of Sulaiman (Alai). Even this Chief High Court Judge could not find anything wrong in the Judgment of Dawood (Alai). But yet Sulaiman (Alai) was saying “go and ask my father for better Judgment”. Then Dawood (Alai) called his son Sulaiman and asked him “give your judgment then, if it is going to be better”. Then Sulaiman (Alai) said “The Owner of the flock should give his flock over to the other person for a period of one year till the corn in that field grows up to the level that it was, before it was eaten. When the corn grows upto this level, he should give back the flock and take back his corn”. Then Dawood (Alai) agreed with his son that this was the best judgment. This English Judge also told me that this was the best Judgment. This Judgment is only an example of good judgment. Allah Almighty asks who is he that is able to give a better Judgment than Himself. But people today think that if they follow the laws (Shariat) of Islam by themselves, that it is enough. That is a completely wrong view. However clever a person may be he can only come to the level of Dawood?s (Alai) Judgment. That will be his limit. He cannot go further. They are empty headed people. They do not think that Allah Almighty’s Judgment is better than theirs. As they do not think of this and do not accept this, there is trouble e
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