MERCY OCEANS, Book 05 (Emeralds Of Eden, Shaykh Nazim, 50 pages, 3/4)
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un- derstand this. They are fighting against tariqats and refustm? to accept them. They say that this is “Shirk”. They are very foolish people. They never try lo un- derstand.
Therefore, we may leave your presence. Bul this connection that we gave to you when you tock bayath fallegience) reaches to all those who have been given this bavath. In the terminology of tasawwat (the sufi way], this connection is known as “Raabitah” or “Raabilah us Sheik” You cam use it anytime and you should always find more power, more courage, thore taste, more improvernent and more developrnent in your journey towards the Divine Presence. This Hijaazath (permission) to use this technique is given to all of you.
Bi Hurmatil Habib Bi Hurmatil Fattha.
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And Lot i Muhammad), verily thou art of a remencdous Nature. (Holy Quran 68:4}
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The Shining Sun across the Shimmering Stars
Bismillah ir ReaAman io Raheem
Grouraisie Guests and Aticnders, Muslims, ar SA other Believers in their Lovd, welcome to the celebration of the Greatest One from pre-etennity io elernify of those who have been created. Who Is he? He is the Mercy for all rnankind and for all creatures, He was the first lo be created and it was for his honmeur that the whole of creation came into existence and still continues to come into existence. This celebration is a very humble celebration. We are celebrating the birthday of ihe Seai of Prophets, the last in the chain of Prophethood. When Almighty Allah sent Adam and Eve away Irom Paradise to Serendib {Sri Lanka}, Me promised ta Adam and Eve that he
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would be sending to their children, His guidance through His prophets. He promised ta send His mnésserigers for the purpose of miviling the children of Adiam to His Paracise and to be honoured in His Divine Presence. As he promused, Fle sent down 124,000 Propheis and this Fropnethocd ended with the Seal of Prophets, Seyvadiia Muhammed (Sail). Now it is fis time and period. tiis period began from the first day of nis birth by which he honoured this wortd, and would coniinue utio GHiyadia, upto ihe Day of Resurruction, Automatically, everyaue wilnin ihis period of time becaric fis “nation”. Th nis of the other Propneis have cnded and now “Praised One” and the most Geloved One, Seyadina Muhammed (Sal) (peace be on hin)
Mankind is left free by Abnighty Allah to accepl or to refuse, io believe or to deny. Almighty Allah granted to mankind, mind and wilbower and because of this there is mo need for mankined tn be foreed into either acceplatire or refusal. This is because our minds are sutlicient to make clear lo us as to what is true and what is feise. what is hag and what is batil, and our hands and feet have not been tied up. Yes, we have free wills, with which we can either accept ihe heaventy inessenpers, or met, and to distinguish between real guidance and falschoad, Now a real guidance has come through ile lasi one of the prophets, His narne Mubammed migeiis “ae Praised One". He is the Praised one frerm pre-eternuty. from Aizii illal abad. There is me need ior him to h
ihe praisimgs of ihe mations. For he is praised bs his Lord Abnighty Allah. What are we siving of praise
- 45 - and thanks to him? When you compare this praise with the praise and honour that Alish Aimighty gave him, it is like an atom through a huge ocean. Even if the whole of creation glorifies, honours and praises him if would only be as a_ little spot through an endless ocean in commarison to what Allah fives him.
Allah Almighty is praising Muhamuned (Sal} without end, for the sake of his hemeur. Mankind however is heedless, ignorant or envious of the rights of that most Beloved One of Aah. They should all be in need of him and one day in need of his shataah intercession}, We are all getting closcr io the Day of Judgment (Yaumul Qiyama) On this day our way will end, and the one who created mankind will gather all of mankind together and He will judge them. This will be his Divine Judgment which wilt be given to alk nations, to all people and to all His servants. That will be the greatest day for the whole of mankind (Yau Arlul Akbar). It should be for everyone and they will see on this day about themselves and about others. Fach one will be seen through his own being. On that day there shall be no doubt. Al! the Prophets shall come in their ranks with their lights (Noor) lke the stars and the Seal of Prophets will come like a Shining Sun and everyone's face will turn towards hire and everyone's heart will ask from him. Lord Almighty Allah is hidden through His greatness and Muhammed (Sal) is the representative of Almighty Allah, On the day of resurruction he is going to be “His Praised One”, and Almighty Allah will call him to Magam ul Mahmiid {the Praised Station).
Mankind will be very repentant and ashamed on that day because they did nothing tor that Beloved
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One and Praised One and because they did net respect him enough. Yes, he is beloved in the Divine Presence of the Lord Almighty Allah. As Allah Almighty loves him and granted him to be His Beloved One, He also likes his servants to make him their Beloved One.
Every year we celebrate his birthday very hurnbly. I am looking at the Islamic world and I see that with every passing year they are giving less respect to this Beloved One, because of their wrong understanding, Those whe give less respect te him will lose their respect both here and In the hereafter.
Allah Abnighty has made his beloved Muhammed
{Sal} to represent Haqq and He asked Ilis servants
to be obedient ta Allah Almighty. Allah Almighty is also asking His servants to love Muhammed (Sal) and fo respect hin as Seyadina Muhammed (Sal) is the respected and honoured servant of Allah. I heard that when Sri Lanka was a British colony the Muslims in Sri Lanka celebrated the birthday of Mihammed (Sal in a grander and brighter way. They were decorating and celebrating with every type of beauly and ornaments and they were giving him their respect, most respectfully. [tt was like Fid (Festival, and even more than Eid, every year. But today there are new- fashioned reformers of Islam. They think that they are more knowledgcable than our Ulemas, but they are ignorant ones. They are so ignorant that they are net even able to distinguish between respecting aru] worshipping. They are so foolish that when someone is respected they say that it is “shirk” They do not understand. Respect is one thing and worship is something else. Voday everyone knows who we should worship and also they know how to respect Rasoolullah
_47— (Sal) becztise Allah Anrughty orcered His servants to , rophet. But these foclish ones Hito islam, They are making the to Mushriks, Because of these people the islitis ure [Paring to show their respect for fet (Sal). They are sa very fearfil, and 1 am : iaiis ue reason that you are so afraid ect to the Prophet with Salawat roghe Prephet (Selj Aligh gives Salawat to lis Beloved Muhammed iy. You are only giving Salawat perhaps daily in tunes, Gundred tinies. or may be asand times. But Allan Alinighty’s Salawat is e S and is forever. it is everlasting and so do rls Angels give Salawat to the Prophet (Sal). “dow are you able to say, “dont say Salawat”. What is itis oolishness from these reformers? That is unbelief (sult) from them, Allah Aimighty says, “Oh Moomiins, say Salawat and give your respeci to My Most Beloved anc Most Praised One", But they say, “No, don’t give, i is Given, ois bidaat’. What is this folly? The minds of pcopie today are being dirtied, by thesc “elormers, and if mot for this fact, this Place would nol he se n for the Muslims, who would have
avtendend wis celebration today, They are not even attending this hurnble celebration because of their fee ahath,.
“ht people, ch moomins, you must understand what il is lo give respect. At every Jumuma, the Muezzin calls out “Innatlahu wa malaikatahu yusalloona alan hapiyi” (Allan and his Angels send blessings on the Prophet), This is not only from Jumma to Jumma,
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but forever, endlessly, Allan Almignty’s praisind is from ithe beginning. There was no one in existance even, when it began,
Therefore, we say that our Prophet is not iq need of our praise because Aflah Alnughty, Tnnahu Wa hami-dun Majid - Honself is camying by iinself gloryfication and also His Prophet (Sal) is praised and is glorified by his Lord Almighty Allah. These servants who do not Say salawat are so stall, like ants, it doesn't matter. If they say salawat and Tespect the Prophet, they will be honoured, If not let them be Hke rubbish,
If we are to try to describe the fireatness of Beloved Muhammed (Sal) through these celebrations, we will not be able io finish it even up to the enc of the year or even up to the end of the world, because he was created to be the Master of the world Seyyadul Alamin). He was created to be great, thevefore he lg great. You may understand, this if you use you mind to think on this, You may see from his action, and then understand, whether he is preat or not. Mankind must know who he was, and what he dic. Yes they must know who he was, how he came, and how he lived, and thereafter you may give your judgment about him. All mankind will at sometime come to know about him. Ashadhu Lilla, we are witnesses for Adah Almighty as Aliah Almighty is witness for him, you should be witness for his greatness.
Rasoolullah shahid Allah Anriahu, Rasooluilah Wa Kafa Billah Hi Shahida. Muhammadu. Rasoolullah - As Allah is witness, even if all of mankind denies
~ 49 — him it is not going to do any harm, yes, it does not matier. Only the witnessing of Allah is enough, more than enough. Allah says “I am witness that he is My representative, My servant, My Thessenger", These little men will some day come to declare his greainess. They must declare, because mankind is in need of peace in this world’and salvation in the next. It is mot possible to establish peace here, and io have safety there, without declaring the greatness of Muhammed (peace be upon him), and without being a follower they cannot reach ta any leveis from armong their aims. Muhamed, is the Greatest One. Mankind must use their minds to think about him.
He was born fifteen centuries ago through an unknown desert. He was bom to a tribe whose characteristic was to be Jahil {ignorant}. Before he was born. when he was in the womb of his mother, his father died and he was orphaned. Four years after he was born his mother also passed away and then he had neither father nor mother to look after him. He had only his Lerd for his teacher, and for his trainer, and when he Brew up io be forty years of age he was well known among his tribe to be Ameen (Trustworthy, True One}. No one was ever wronged by him. He was never known to have lied to anyone nor to have harmed anyone. He was such a diamond. He was such a Pure creation, That alone is enough for mankind to look at him with good cyes. Why don’t they analyse the personality of Muhammed, Yes? today they are analysing everything. Why noi analyse the personality of Muhammed {SalJ? Oh mankind, what are you waiting for? Before you end
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up like ashes look at his great personality, so that it will give you peace, confidance and happiness. The East and West are going to be in ashes after the Third World War, and the ones who survive will be the ones sitting on top of ashes. Therefore mankind is iu need to analyse the personality of that one, as 10 what his irfbe said about him, about his hfe up to his fortieth year, They may ask and they may inquire and then they may analyse his character as io how he lived,
When he was in his fortieth year he suddeitly came up to his tribe, “Oh mankind, I have been just ordered to declare to you the existence and ihe unity of your Lord Alnughty AHah. Say, “La ilaha illallah (there ts no God but Allah), La ilaha ilallah, Lailaha iNWallah”. The very sound of his “La flaha Wlallah” is even heard up to date from far Fast to far West. Do you think that this is possible for just one person? How is it possible that his first declaration, his first order to mankind. asking therm to say "La ilaha iflallah" is heard up to date between East and West, making the world tremble. “La ilaha Watlah”, is continously being repeated and never slops from the far East to the far West.
As long as the sun rises and sets and Tises again, in every station that the sun dis at Try given moment, the Azan ts being called throughout the world. Never stopping. There is not a moment in this world when the Azan is not being called out. The Muezzin in Azan calls out "La Haha ilallah. Ashadu an la ilaha Wallah, Ash hadu anna Muhaminadur Rasoclullah. Adlahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. La ilaha iHlallah
~S1L- Muhammadur Rasoolulah.” This goes on continously ihroughout the world from that time, up to date. Do you think that one physical body, that one person with his physical power can do this? Do you think about that? Yes, he must be a king-sized person to have been able to do that. He is a ulliversal personality ‘S be able to do this up to date and up to eternity, Therefore. he is the Greatest One. You May accept Or reject it. Those wha accept this will be honoured, and there will be no mere honour for thase who do not uecept this. They who do not accept this are like rubbish, like garbage. There is so much of #arbage on earth now. There will be a big sweeper coming after Lhe war te SWCED away all this garbage, because mankind is not giving their respect for the most respected and Praised One. Yes, up to date and up lo cternity there is &ing to be the sound of “La ilaha ilaliah Miurhammdur Rasoolullah (Sal)’, in the earth and in the heavens. This is also written on the Divine Throne, and it is the Divine Seal through the heavens, the Arsh Kursi and everywhere.
Try to put that seal into your heart. When you put that seal through your heart you are going to attain to peace with Yourself and around yourself, and it will become a Shelter for you and be around you. May Allah forgive us for our bad underslandings, and our bad actions for the sake of his Beloved Prophet, Muhammied {Sal). May Allah bless us and grant us good understanding and respect for his Praised Servant - Seyyadina Muhammed peace be upon him. May Allah Almighty put through your hearts love and Tespect for His Beloved Muhamined (Sal, and May He also give you the courage to be
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able to Carty His message through ihe Fast and the West. Muhammed (Sal) is the messenger of Almighty Ailah for the whole of Mankind, Fle Started to preach this Message of Islam when he was forty years old, He did his best for mankind. Everything is epen for his sake to Tnan kine, .
Belore the advent of Islam the whoie world Was in darkness. He brought the Holy Quran from his Lord Almighty Allah. This Holy Book, Qurani Kareem, is the Mother of al] Books (Ummurl Kitab). From this book came the glorious and Mvestic civilisation of Islamn, When the Civilisation of Islarg was al its height, Europe was in darkness and jn ignorance. islam came with the lights of Knowledge ~ real knowledge. From that Holy Quran, millions of books have been written, In our days too, more and more books are being written. People are reaching to endless knowledge from
the best ones, No other religion is able to bring such best ones as Islam brought and &ranted to mankind.
Pope's message to the world on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Moulana Jalaludeen Rum} (a
-§3- great saint of islam). The Pope was praising Jalaludeen Run saying that he was such a huge personality and such a’praised one. Jalaludeen is only one saint among the many saints in Islam. He was only one star in the sky of Islam. Moulana Jalajudeen Rumi had himself, said about the Prophet, “I am a slave to Beloved Muhammed (Sal)”. Yes,Pope is accepting Jalaludeen, accepting a star (Jalaludeen), but he is not able to look to the sun-Muhammed (Sal). The Pope is not able to say anything about Muhanimed (Sal) and his grealness, but he talks about the greatness of Moulana Jalaludeen, and Moulana Jalaludeen was prepared and trained by the teachings of Prophet Muhammed (Sal). :
Oh people, Muhammed, is the greatest for ever. This celebration is oniy a humble one and I hope that it is accepted by Allah Almighty. We ask Allah Almighty for forgiveness as we are not doing our best for his Beloved Servant Muhammed (Sal). May Allah grant you His endless favours and peace. May He make in your hearts, love and respect for His beloved ones, and may He make you real followers on the way of Muhammed (Sal}. May Allah Almigity also make a way for the whole of mankind to understand him and to follow in his steps, so that it will bring happiness, peace and everlasting real life, both here and in the hereafter, to mankind.
Bt Hunnatil Habib Bi Hurmatil Fatiha.
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Prophet's Muhabba The Love Centre of the Hearts
Bismillah ir Raftunan ir Raheem
Allahuma ihnee ashaluka Yubbakea La Hubba Man Yuhtbbulka wa amalallazee Yubaligunee hubbaka.
Oh Allah Almighty, give me your love, anc the love of those whom you love and the good actions that will lead me to your loue.
NM Allah Almighty make us to be with his friends. It is ‘difficult to be a friend of Allah
as it may be too big for us, but at least we must try to be a friend to his friends. [ never claim that iam a friend of Allah and I am ashamed to say “Oh my Lord, make me one of your friends” bul am asking from Lord Almighty Allah that He grants me to be with His great friends, and to he the friend of His friends, This is the lowest point of Iman and below this level there is no level. As for him who loves the friends of Allah, even if he does not do any other good actions it should be a reason for his
—~55- salety, It is impossible for that person to dite, having a oad end {inhalima). Yes, he is never going to have a bad end. That Muhabba, that love, which is through huis heart keeps him with the friends of Allah. Islam was biulit on the foundation of love from the beginning te the erul, ,
Firstly Seyedina Muharmmed (Salj, he is the beloved of ADah. Allah loves him and therefore his composition is mixed with Divine Love. He became Habibullah. Almighty Allah granted to him from His Divine Love. Rasoolutlah (Sal) was taking from Almighty Allah this Muhabba, this Divine Love and gtving from this toa his Sahaba. W he was not giving this Divine Love io his Sahaba, his Sahaba would not be able to love him.
Hazart Omar who loved the Prophet so much told him one day, “Ya Rasoclullah i love you, I lowe you more than my family and my children excepting for the love I have for myself“ Then the Prophet (Sal) said ta him, “Ya Omar, til] you love me more than your own being, you will not be able to reach to Kamal ul tman (Perfect Iman}. The Prophet (Sal) by saying this, made Seyyadina Omar to irnprove from the level that he was in, into what the Prophet (Sal) was asking of him. This is a miraculous power of Raseoiullah (Sal) (Mujizah}. From that very instant, in that very moment, he made Seyyadina Omar to say thal he loved him more than his own being. Rasooiullah quietly tock him to that point. All the Sahaba loved Rascolullah (Sali from their souls. Dort think (hat the abeve was only for Seyyadina Omar, no, it is open for the whole Ummah of the Prophet
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(sal} and for all the nations. Yes, any one may be able to love the Prophet {Sal} even more than his own soul.
The Sahabas were full cf love for the Prophet (Sal). They were full of this Divine love, Muhabbah. It was wilh this feeling of being fully in love with Rasoolullah (Sal), that they traversed through the East and Wes! giving the Prophet's message to all people. They never knew their languages when they preached through all nations. When they were preaching, people gathered around the Sahaba and listened to them even though they did not speak their language, but the love centre In their hearts were speaking to them. Maybe they recited only the Holy Quran but that love through their reciting reached to the hearts of the people. It was because of this that it was possible for Islam to spread from East to West evén in such a short period of time of a quarter century, twenty five years That is a miracle. [If the Europeans had the intelligence to think on this point they would have submitted to Islam. They would have said “Ashadu An La Haha Wallah Wa Ashadu Anna Muhammadur Rasoolullah’.
Such a revolution had never happened on the face of this earth so that in such a short time a new religion became established through the East and West throughout powerful nations. Rasoohillah (Sal) changed nations and this was a big miracle, bul today these fanatical unbelievers and fanatical enemies of reality (mutassim} never think on this point. How is it possible that one illiterate person, through an unknown desert, and who came from an unknown people, was able io get up and say ‘la ilaha illah
_57- allah“ and alsa to say “I shall be victorious, [ have come to destroy falsehood (batil!” and he destroyed it, and was also victorious. But the Europeans ‘are not able to think on this point as they want ha (truth) to come from themselves not through fstasn
Yes we were saying that Muhabbat - love made Islam enter into the hearis of all these nations. The Sahaba went all over the worid from the far East to the far West. Perhaps to more than seventy nations and preached to people who spoke more than one hundred languages. The Sahaba only knew to speak Arabic. How did they address them. How did they make Da’awah, and Islam go into their hearts? You speak, only with the tongue and not from the heart and therefore no one listens to you, But your hearts must say “ménal kalbi minal dalwish a lilaa” We are trying to bring that method back to the Ummah toda through the tarigals. We want to bring love back to the Ummah hecause without love you won't be able to make them into one people, in one land. ,
If you are unable to give muhabba - lov
hearts, you won't be able to connect up one world with another. Our aim is to make the Ummah to love each other, 1 is impossible for the Ummah to ove each other without meeting on the love of Allah tonethen ore who meets on the same lines can be t0% aan ere shall be no jealousy, no hatred and no ¥ among themselves. Wien a person mects
other through the divine love oceans how can there
be jealousy, hatred, enemi . : ty and envy. Ii is mest Yes, it is tmpossible. vy. Ii is impossille.
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I am a foreigner to this country and yesterday I met some people and they were all new ones to me. They were all fighting to get to me, pushing this way and that, kissing my hand and trying to get something from me. How is this love coming through them for me. I have never seen them before. They meet me only once and they are trying to allack me with their love. From where is this love coming? it is coming from the secret power of Iman, from a4 secret line of the Prophet (Sal). and it {gs coming from heart to hearts. Only hearts will understand what ‘I say. Yes that is important. We are asking that this love would be common through the whole Muslim community. They must be In love.
The leaders of the Quraish came up to the uncle of the Prophet {Sal} and said to him. “Tell your nephew that we will give him anything that he may ask for, We will give him what he wants from our properties and from our daughters. Yes we will make him to be even our king. The only condition is that he should stop his preaching”. The uncle of the Prephet conveyed this to him and the Prophet replied, “Even ii they dive to me the sun in thy one hand and the moon in the other I shell not slop my preaching, and | am not asking anything from them in return, for my - preaching”.
That was the foundation of Islam and the Prophet (Sal) trained his Sahaba in this fashion. They only say “illahi antha maksoodi” (Qh our Lord, Allah we are asking only for Your pleasure so tat You may be pleased with us, that is our aim, nothing else). in Dat wah we are not asking for anything fromm you
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aimn is to make that Divine Love that my het to be able io reach to the hearts of believers 5
you think that this love contained in our hearts 5 not enough for all nations. Don’t be in doubt Even if one heart reaches lo Divine Love; the love from
that heart is enough to rea ch to the t 3 people of all nations. ONCE Of the
Have you heard about the well of Zani Zam, Even if all nations were to use its water it would not empt It is impossible. Likewise hearts, that is more important. The Divine love that runs through our hearts is enough and more for the hearts of the people of all the nations. If Allah is willing (Insha Allah) we hope that this is a grant from Allah Almighty to me, and to you, and we hope that we can make Divine Love to reach to the whole of mankind and through this
to make tt ee ake them alive, never to die and to have everlasting
Bt Hurmatil Habib Bit Hirmatil Fatiha.
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The Secret of the Miraculous Mikraj
Bismillah i Rahman ir Raheem
EF it was not prayer time Prophet (Sal) was at least
praying two Rakats of sumnah. But today must of the people have lost this practice. For Rasoulullah (Sab was saying “Man Ahya Sunnathi indaka sabi ummathi fala hu alhumin miathin ajrin saheed” - for those who are keeping to the Sunnah of the Prophet, during this hard period, when ali the others are going after their own desires and trying to make Islam according to their own opinions, Rasoolullah {Sal} is promising them rewards of martyrs. In our days people are getting prouder thinking that they have understood Islam, but their understanding is wrong. They think that it is so easy to read Holy Quran and Holy Hadis and understand, Even if I tell them to read the newpapers and to tell me what they have read, they are not even able to understand that. Then what about Unnul Kitab, Quran - i - Karim which are the Holy words of Allah Almighty. It is only one book, and from this book, millions of books have been written (the source of these books is the Quran).
I do not know whether in Sri Lanka there are old books in your libraries, but at the time of the Ottoman
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Muhiyyadeen ibn-al Arabi, who was a king sized Saint (Wali) (may Allah bless him), was saying through the power of his sainthood that he was able to take three thousand or more kinds of knowledge from the Qurani Karim. It is only thirty chapters and about six hundred pages. What do you think is the meaning of “Alhamdullilahi Rabbit Alameen” - It means all praise and ali thanks is to Allah Almighty the Lord of all
the worlds", Do you think that its meaning is only this?
Seyyadina Ali (Ral) was saying “When people are sitting in front of me and listening to what Iam saying on the meaning of Surat Fathiha, I never get tired”,
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The batteries in this cassette player will run oul after sometime but the main current, if it is connected to this cassette recorder will never finish. The batteries get tired but not the main current. Likewise the Prophets, the Sahaba and their inheritors - the Awliyas, (Saints) they never gel tired as they are connected to the main source of power (the main current). Their physical and mental powers, and their knowledge never diminish, Even their death is by the command of Allah {otherwise they are mot dying) and they only pass away from people. They are dressed with the cternal life of Almighty Allah which they have been granted because they have left their Egos and joined up with the heavens. You camn't join up with the heavens without a support. No one can reach to heaven without following Rasooluilah {Sal).
The Prophet (Sal} went on the Mihraj (Ascent). For what purpose did he go om this Mihraj? Why Lailathul wlhraj (the night of mthraj)? for what purpose was this miraculous mihraj? The purpose was to show to the whole nation of Muhammed that by following the Prophet (Sal} that they also should be able to reach to it, When Jibril (Alai) brought Buraq U Sheriff to the Prophet {Sal}, the Prophet asked him “Is this only for me or also for my Ununah (nation)” Jibril answered “It is for you and also for your nation” and the only condition is that they should follow in your steps, and they should also be able to reach to this.”
The Buraq that was brought to the Prophet (Sal) was In a grass Held in Paradise, and there were so many other Burags with it. But this one was specially taken to the Prophet (Sal) because when it heard the
~ 63- name of the Prophet (Sal), “Ya Muhammed” - Oh Muhammed (Sal), a feeling of love came over that Buraq and it feli in love with the person who was named Muhammed. ft stopped eating because of this and also started crying. Then Jibril (Alai] gave it good tidings and took it to the Prophet (Sal). ,
To the Prophet's (Sal) question as to whether mihraj was only for him, Jibril answered, “It is for your Ummah also and there are Buraqs waiting for them also, Those who are following you may also join after you. If they do not follow you they shall always remain on earth and under the ground.” When all the sahaba reached to their destinations through the heavens everyone else also reached to their heavenly stations.
Therefore Hazrat Ali was saying, “If I sit here and begin to speak on the meanings of Fattha i can keep on talking to the people as they coine and listen to me and leave, and then some others come, listen, and jeave, and what 1 say if written on books, these books would be enough to load one hundred camels, and all these for only the meaning of Fatiha. One hundred camels may be loaded with these books, if you write what I say, and even then it shall not finish.” He was so humble to say one hundred camels but even one thousand or ten thousand or even if he had said, all the camels, on earth, it would still have not finished. These are the words of Allah Almighty {Kalamullah). Today people think and claim that when they take a translation of the book {Quran} and read il, that they understand the Holy Quran. That Is the reason for these foolish groups of muslims to go against everything in Islam. They only think that they
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understand, but they don't understand. Yes the Holy Quran has now become “Pasad” today, This is because that in our times people just read a translation booklet and begin ta speak about beliefs, worship, zikr and attributes as they like. Only their Fgo is speaking and they are going to be like the translators of Shaitan. What is the meaning of Fasad - it means that everything is in a mess or upsel. Wrong things become right, and the right things become wrong. in the sight of these ignorarit ones. They even say that gikrullan is wrong, and there are one thousand orders in the Holy Quran about the practise of zikr. They say that ti ts bidaat and that lt came into use after Islam and after the Prophet. This is wrong. The first o
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un- derstand this. They are fighting against tariqats and refustm? to accept them. They say that this is “Shirk”. They are very foolish people. They never try lo un- derstand.
Therefore, we may leave your presence. Bul this connection that we gave to you when you tock bayath fallegience) reaches to all those who have been given this bavath. In the terminology of tasawwat (the sufi way], this connection is known as “Raabitah” or “Raabilah us Sheik” You cam use it anytime and you should always find more power, more courage, thore taste, more improvernent and more developrnent in your journey towards the Divine Presence. This Hijaazath (permission) to use this technique is given to all of you.
Bi Hurmatil Habib Bi Hurmatil Fattha.
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And Lot i Muhammad), verily thou art of a remencdous Nature. (Holy Quran 68:4}
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The Shining Sun across the Shimmering Stars
Bismillah ir ReaAman io Raheem
Grouraisie Guests and Aticnders, Muslims, ar SA other Believers in their Lovd, welcome to the celebration of the Greatest One from pre-etennity io elernify of those who have been created. Who Is he? He is the Mercy for all rnankind and for all creatures, He was the first lo be created and it was for his honmeur that the whole of creation came into existence and still continues to come into existence. This celebration is a very humble celebration. We are celebrating the birthday of ihe Seai of Prophets, the last in the chain of Prophethood. When Almighty Allah sent Adam and Eve away Irom Paradise to Serendib {Sri Lanka}, Me promised ta Adam and Eve that he
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would be sending to their children, His guidance through His prophets. He promised ta send His mnésserigers for the purpose of miviling the children of Adiam to His Paracise and to be honoured in His Divine Presence. As he promused, Fle sent down 124,000 Propheis and this Fropnethocd ended with the Seal of Prophets, Seyvadiia Muhammed (Sail). Now it is fis time and period. tiis period began from the first day of nis birth by which he honoured this wortd, and would coniinue utio GHiyadia, upto ihe Day of Resurruction, Automatically, everyaue wilnin ihis period of time becaric fis “nation”. Th nis of the other Propneis have cnded and now “Praised One” and the most Geloved One, Seyadina Muhammed (Sal) (peace be on hin)
Mankind is left free by Abnighty Allah to accepl or to refuse, io believe or to deny. Almighty Allah granted to mankind, mind and wilbower and because of this there is mo need for mankined tn be foreed into either acceplatire or refusal. This is because our minds are sutlicient to make clear lo us as to what is true and what is feise. what is hag and what is batil, and our hands and feet have not been tied up. Yes, we have free wills, with which we can either accept ihe heaventy inessenpers, or met, and to distinguish between real guidance and falschoad, Now a real guidance has come through ile lasi one of the prophets, His narne Mubammed migeiis “ae Praised One". He is the Praised one frerm pre-eternuty. from Aizii illal abad. There is me need ior him to h
ihe praisimgs of ihe mations. For he is praised bs his Lord Abnighty Allah. What are we siving of praise
- 45 - and thanks to him? When you compare this praise with the praise and honour that Alish Aimighty gave him, it is like an atom through a huge ocean. Even if the whole of creation glorifies, honours and praises him if would only be as a_ little spot through an endless ocean in commarison to what Allah fives him.
Allah Almighty is praising Muhamuned (Sal} without end, for the sake of his hemeur. Mankind however is heedless, ignorant or envious of the rights of that most Beloved One of Aah. They should all be in need of him and one day in need of his shataah intercession}, We are all getting closcr io the Day of Judgment (Yaumul Qiyama) On this day our way will end, and the one who created mankind will gather all of mankind together and He will judge them. This will be his Divine Judgment which wilt be given to alk nations, to all people and to all His servants. That will be the greatest day for the whole of mankind (Yau Arlul Akbar). It should be for everyone and they will see on this day about themselves and about others. Fach one will be seen through his own being. On that day there shall be no doubt. Al! the Prophets shall come in their ranks with their lights (Noor) lke the stars and the Seal of Prophets will come like a Shining Sun and everyone's face will turn towards hire and everyone's heart will ask from him. Lord Almighty Allah is hidden through His greatness and Muhammed (Sal) is the representative of Almighty Allah, On the day of resurruction he is going to be “His Praised One”, and Almighty Allah will call him to Magam ul Mahmiid {the Praised Station).
Mankind will be very repentant and ashamed on that day because they did nothing tor that Beloved
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One and Praised One and because they did net respect him enough. Yes, he is beloved in the Divine Presence of the Lord Almighty Allah. As Allah Almighty loves him and granted him to be His Beloved One, He also likes his servants to make him their Beloved One.
Every year we celebrate his birthday very hurnbly. I am looking at the Islamic world and I see that with every passing year they are giving less respect to this Beloved One, because of their wrong understanding, Those whe give less respect te him will lose their respect both here and In the hereafter.
Allah Abnighty has made his beloved Muhammed
{Sal} to represent Haqq and He asked Ilis servants
to be obedient ta Allah Almighty. Allah Almighty is also asking His servants to love Muhammed (Sal) and fo respect hin as Seyadina Muhammed (Sal) is the respected and honoured servant of Allah. I heard that when Sri Lanka was a British colony the Muslims in Sri Lanka celebrated the birthday of Mihammed (Sal in a grander and brighter way. They were decorating and celebrating with every type of beauly and ornaments and they were giving him their respect, most respectfully. [tt was like Fid (Festival, and even more than Eid, every year. But today there are new- fashioned reformers of Islam. They think that they are more knowledgcable than our Ulemas, but they are ignorant ones. They are so ignorant that they are net even able to distinguish between respecting aru] worshipping. They are so foolish that when someone is respected they say that it is “shirk” They do not understand. Respect is one thing and worship is something else. Voday everyone knows who we should worship and also they know how to respect Rasoolullah
_47— (Sal) becztise Allah Anrughty orcered His servants to , rophet. But these foclish ones Hito islam, They are making the to Mushriks, Because of these people the islitis ure [Paring to show their respect for fet (Sal). They are sa very fearfil, and 1 am : iaiis ue reason that you are so afraid ect to the Prophet with Salawat roghe Prephet (Selj Aligh gives Salawat to lis Beloved Muhammed iy. You are only giving Salawat perhaps daily in tunes, Gundred tinies. or may be asand times. But Allan Alinighty’s Salawat is e S and is forever. it is everlasting and so do rls Angels give Salawat to the Prophet (Sal). “dow are you able to say, “dont say Salawat”. What is itis oolishness from these reformers? That is unbelief (sult) from them, Allah Aimighty says, “Oh Moomiins, say Salawat and give your respeci to My Most Beloved anc Most Praised One", But they say, “No, don’t give, i is Given, ois bidaat’. What is this folly? The minds of pcopie today are being dirtied, by thesc “elormers, and if mot for this fact, this Place would nol he se n for the Muslims, who would have
avtendend wis celebration today, They are not even attending this hurnble celebration because of their fee ahath,.
“ht people, ch moomins, you must understand what il is lo give respect. At every Jumuma, the Muezzin calls out “Innatlahu wa malaikatahu yusalloona alan hapiyi” (Allan and his Angels send blessings on the Prophet), This is not only from Jumma to Jumma,
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but forever, endlessly, Allan Almignty’s praisind is from ithe beginning. There was no one in existance even, when it began,
Therefore, we say that our Prophet is not iq need of our praise because Aflah Alnughty, Tnnahu Wa hami-dun Majid - Honself is camying by iinself gloryfication and also His Prophet (Sal) is praised and is glorified by his Lord Almighty Allah. These servants who do not Say salawat are so stall, like ants, it doesn't matter. If they say salawat and Tespect the Prophet, they will be honoured, If not let them be Hke rubbish,
If we are to try to describe the fireatness of Beloved Muhammed (Sal) through these celebrations, we will not be able io finish it even up to the enc of the year or even up to the end of the world, because he was created to be the Master of the world Seyyadul Alamin). He was created to be great, thevefore he lg great. You may understand, this if you use you mind to think on this, You may see from his action, and then understand, whether he is preat or not. Mankind must know who he was, and what he dic. Yes they must know who he was, how he came, and how he lived, and thereafter you may give your judgment about him. All mankind will at sometime come to know about him. Ashadhu Lilla, we are witnesses for Adah Almighty as Aliah Almighty is witness for him, you should be witness for his greatness.
Rasoolullah shahid Allah Anriahu, Rasooluilah Wa Kafa Billah Hi Shahida. Muhammadu. Rasoolullah - As Allah is witness, even if all of mankind denies
~ 49 — him it is not going to do any harm, yes, it does not matier. Only the witnessing of Allah is enough, more than enough. Allah says “I am witness that he is My representative, My servant, My Thessenger", These little men will some day come to declare his greainess. They must declare, because mankind is in need of peace in this world’and salvation in the next. It is mot possible to establish peace here, and io have safety there, without declaring the greatness of Muhammed (peace be upon him), and without being a follower they cannot reach ta any leveis from armong their aims. Muhamed, is the Greatest One. Mankind must use their minds to think about him.
He was born fifteen centuries ago through an unknown desert. He was bom to a tribe whose characteristic was to be Jahil {ignorant}. Before he was born. when he was in the womb of his mother, his father died and he was orphaned. Four years after he was born his mother also passed away and then he had neither father nor mother to look after him. He had only his Lerd for his teacher, and for his trainer, and when he Brew up io be forty years of age he was well known among his tribe to be Ameen (Trustworthy, True One}. No one was ever wronged by him. He was never known to have lied to anyone nor to have harmed anyone. He was such a diamond. He was such a Pure creation, That alone is enough for mankind to look at him with good cyes. Why don’t they analyse the personality of Muhammed, Yes? today they are analysing everything. Why noi analyse the personality of Muhammed {SalJ? Oh mankind, what are you waiting for? Before you end
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up like ashes look at his great personality, so that it will give you peace, confidance and happiness. The East and West are going to be in ashes after the Third World War, and the ones who survive will be the ones sitting on top of ashes. Therefore mankind is iu need to analyse the personality of that one, as 10 what his irfbe said about him, about his hfe up to his fortieth year, They may ask and they may inquire and then they may analyse his character as io how he lived,
When he was in his fortieth year he suddeitly came up to his tribe, “Oh mankind, I have been just ordered to declare to you the existence and ihe unity of your Lord Alnughty AHah. Say, “La ilaha illallah (there ts no God but Allah), La ilaha ilallah, Lailaha iNWallah”. The very sound of his “La flaha Wlallah” is even heard up to date from far Fast to far West. Do you think that this is possible for just one person? How is it possible that his first declaration, his first order to mankind. asking therm to say "La ilaha iflallah" is heard up to date between East and West, making the world tremble. “La ilaha Watlah”, is continously being repeated and never slops from the far East to the far West.
As long as the sun rises and sets and Tises again, in every station that the sun dis at Try given moment, the Azan ts being called throughout the world. Never stopping. There is not a moment in this world when the Azan is not being called out. The Muezzin in Azan calls out "La Haha ilallah. Ashadu an la ilaha Wallah, Ash hadu anna Muhaminadur Rasoclullah. Adlahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. La ilaha iHlallah
~S1L- Muhammadur Rasoolulah.” This goes on continously ihroughout the world from that time, up to date. Do you think that one physical body, that one person with his physical power can do this? Do you think about that? Yes, he must be a king-sized person to have been able to do that. He is a ulliversal personality ‘S be able to do this up to date and up to eternity, Therefore. he is the Greatest One. You May accept Or reject it. Those wha accept this will be honoured, and there will be no mere honour for thase who do not uecept this. They who do not accept this are like rubbish, like garbage. There is so much of #arbage on earth now. There will be a big sweeper coming after Lhe war te SWCED away all this garbage, because mankind is not giving their respect for the most respected and Praised One. Yes, up to date and up lo cternity there is &ing to be the sound of “La ilaha ilaliah Miurhammdur Rasoolullah (Sal)’, in the earth and in the heavens. This is also written on the Divine Throne, and it is the Divine Seal through the heavens, the Arsh Kursi and everywhere.
Try to put that seal into your heart. When you put that seal through your heart you are going to attain to peace with Yourself and around yourself, and it will become a Shelter for you and be around you. May Allah forgive us for our bad underslandings, and our bad actions for the sake of his Beloved Prophet, Muhammied {Sal). May Allah bless us and grant us good understanding and respect for his Praised Servant - Seyyadina Muhammed peace be upon him. May Allah Almighty put through your hearts love and Tespect for His Beloved Muhamined (Sal, and May He also give you the courage to be
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able to Carty His message through ihe Fast and the West. Muhammed (Sal) is the messenger of Almighty Ailah for the whole of Mankind, Fle Started to preach this Message of Islam when he was forty years old, He did his best for mankind. Everything is epen for his sake to Tnan kine, .
Belore the advent of Islam the whoie world Was in darkness. He brought the Holy Quran from his Lord Almighty Allah. This Holy Book, Qurani Kareem, is the Mother of al] Books (Ummurl Kitab). From this book came the glorious and Mvestic civilisation of Islamn, When the Civilisation of Islarg was al its height, Europe was in darkness and jn ignorance. islam came with the lights of Knowledge ~ real knowledge. From that Holy Quran, millions of books have been written, In our days too, more and more books are being written. People are reaching to endless knowledge from
the best ones, No other religion is able to bring such best ones as Islam brought and &ranted to mankind.
Pope's message to the world on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Moulana Jalaludeen Rum} (a
-§3- great saint of islam). The Pope was praising Jalaludeen Run saying that he was such a huge personality and such a’praised one. Jalaludeen is only one saint among the many saints in Islam. He was only one star in the sky of Islam. Moulana Jalajudeen Rumi had himself, said about the Prophet, “I am a slave to Beloved Muhammed (Sal)”. Yes,Pope is accepting Jalaludeen, accepting a star (Jalaludeen), but he is not able to look to the sun-Muhammed (Sal). The Pope is not able to say anything about Muhanimed (Sal) and his grealness, but he talks about the greatness of Moulana Jalaludeen, and Moulana Jalaludeen was prepared and trained by the teachings of Prophet Muhammed (Sal). :
Oh people, Muhammed, is the greatest for ever. This celebration is oniy a humble one and I hope that it is accepted by Allah Almighty. We ask Allah Almighty for forgiveness as we are not doing our best for his Beloved Servant Muhammed (Sal). May Allah grant you His endless favours and peace. May He make in your hearts, love and respect for His beloved ones, and may He make you real followers on the way of Muhammed (Sal}. May Allah Almigity also make a way for the whole of mankind to understand him and to follow in his steps, so that it will bring happiness, peace and everlasting real life, both here and in the hereafter, to mankind.
Bt Hunnatil Habib Bi Hurmatil Fatiha.
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Prophet's Muhabba The Love Centre of the Hearts
Bismillah ir Raftunan ir Raheem
Allahuma ihnee ashaluka Yubbakea La Hubba Man Yuhtbbulka wa amalallazee Yubaligunee hubbaka.
Oh Allah Almighty, give me your love, anc the love of those whom you love and the good actions that will lead me to your loue.
NM Allah Almighty make us to be with his friends. It is ‘difficult to be a friend of Allah
as it may be too big for us, but at least we must try to be a friend to his friends. [ never claim that iam a friend of Allah and I am ashamed to say “Oh my Lord, make me one of your friends” bul am asking from Lord Almighty Allah that He grants me to be with His great friends, and to he the friend of His friends, This is the lowest point of Iman and below this level there is no level. As for him who loves the friends of Allah, even if he does not do any other good actions it should be a reason for his
—~55- salety, It is impossible for that person to dite, having a oad end {inhalima). Yes, he is never going to have a bad end. That Muhabba, that love, which is through huis heart keeps him with the friends of Allah. Islam was biulit on the foundation of love from the beginning te the erul, ,
Firstly Seyedina Muharmmed (Salj, he is the beloved of ADah. Allah loves him and therefore his composition is mixed with Divine Love. He became Habibullah. Almighty Allah granted to him from His Divine Love. Rasoolutlah (Sal) was taking from Almighty Allah this Muhabba, this Divine Love and gtving from this toa his Sahaba. W he was not giving this Divine Love io his Sahaba, his Sahaba would not be able to love him.
Hazart Omar who loved the Prophet so much told him one day, “Ya Rasoclullah i love you, I lowe you more than my family and my children excepting for the love I have for myself“ Then the Prophet (Sal) said ta him, “Ya Omar, til] you love me more than your own being, you will not be able to reach to Kamal ul tman (Perfect Iman}. The Prophet (Sal) by saying this, made Seyyadina Omar to irnprove from the level that he was in, into what the Prophet (Sal) was asking of him. This is a miraculous power of Raseoiullah (Sal) (Mujizah}. From that very instant, in that very moment, he made Seyyadina Omar to say thal he loved him more than his own being. Rasooiullah quietly tock him to that point. All the Sahaba loved Rascolullah (Sali from their souls. Dort think (hat the abeve was only for Seyyadina Omar, no, it is open for the whole Ummah of the Prophet
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(sal} and for all the nations. Yes, any one may be able to love the Prophet {Sal} even more than his own soul.
The Sahabas were full cf love for the Prophet (Sal). They were full of this Divine love, Muhabbah. It was wilh this feeling of being fully in love with Rasoolullah (Sal), that they traversed through the East and Wes! giving the Prophet's message to all people. They never knew their languages when they preached through all nations. When they were preaching, people gathered around the Sahaba and listened to them even though they did not speak their language, but the love centre In their hearts were speaking to them. Maybe they recited only the Holy Quran but that love through their reciting reached to the hearts of the people. It was because of this that it was possible for Islam to spread from East to West evén in such a short period of time of a quarter century, twenty five years That is a miracle. [If the Europeans had the intelligence to think on this point they would have submitted to Islam. They would have said “Ashadu An La Haha Wallah Wa Ashadu Anna Muhammadur Rasoolullah’.
Such a revolution had never happened on the face of this earth so that in such a short time a new religion became established through the East and West throughout powerful nations. Rasoohillah (Sal) changed nations and this was a big miracle, bul today these fanatical unbelievers and fanatical enemies of reality (mutassim} never think on this point. How is it possible that one illiterate person, through an unknown desert, and who came from an unknown people, was able io get up and say ‘la ilaha illah
_57- allah“ and alsa to say “I shall be victorious, [ have come to destroy falsehood (batil!” and he destroyed it, and was also victorious. But the Europeans ‘are not able to think on this point as they want ha (truth) to come from themselves not through fstasn
Yes we were saying that Muhabbat - love made Islam enter into the hearis of all these nations. The Sahaba went all over the worid from the far East to the far West. Perhaps to more than seventy nations and preached to people who spoke more than one hundred languages. The Sahaba only knew to speak Arabic. How did they address them. How did they make Da’awah, and Islam go into their hearts? You speak, only with the tongue and not from the heart and therefore no one listens to you, But your hearts must say “ménal kalbi minal dalwish a lilaa” We are trying to bring that method back to the Ummah toda through the tarigals. We want to bring love back to the Ummah hecause without love you won't be able to make them into one people, in one land. ,
If you are unable to give muhabba - lov
hearts, you won't be able to connect up one world with another. Our aim is to make the Ummah to love each other, 1 is impossible for the Ummah to ove each other without meeting on the love of Allah tonethen ore who meets on the same lines can be t0% aan ere shall be no jealousy, no hatred and no ¥ among themselves. Wien a person mects
other through the divine love oceans how can there
be jealousy, hatred, enemi . : ty and envy. Ii is mest Yes, it is tmpossible. vy. Ii is impossille.
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I am a foreigner to this country and yesterday I met some people and they were all new ones to me. They were all fighting to get to me, pushing this way and that, kissing my hand and trying to get something from me. How is this love coming through them for me. I have never seen them before. They meet me only once and they are trying to allack me with their love. From where is this love coming? it is coming from the secret power of Iman, from a4 secret line of the Prophet (Sal). and it {gs coming from heart to hearts. Only hearts will understand what ‘I say. Yes that is important. We are asking that this love would be common through the whole Muslim community. They must be In love.
The leaders of the Quraish came up to the uncle of the Prophet {Sal} and said to him. “Tell your nephew that we will give him anything that he may ask for, We will give him what he wants from our properties and from our daughters. Yes we will make him to be even our king. The only condition is that he should stop his preaching”. The uncle of the Prephet conveyed this to him and the Prophet replied, “Even ii they dive to me the sun in thy one hand and the moon in the other I shell not slop my preaching, and | am not asking anything from them in return, for my - preaching”.
That was the foundation of Islam and the Prophet (Sal) trained his Sahaba in this fashion. They only say “illahi antha maksoodi” (Qh our Lord, Allah we are asking only for Your pleasure so tat You may be pleased with us, that is our aim, nothing else). in Dat wah we are not asking for anything fromm you
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aimn is to make that Divine Love that my het to be able io reach to the hearts of believers 5
you think that this love contained in our hearts 5 not enough for all nations. Don’t be in doubt Even if one heart reaches lo Divine Love; the love from
that heart is enough to rea ch to the t 3 people of all nations. ONCE Of the
Have you heard about the well of Zani Zam, Even if all nations were to use its water it would not empt It is impossible. Likewise hearts, that is more important. The Divine love that runs through our hearts is enough and more for the hearts of the people of all the nations. If Allah is willing (Insha Allah) we hope that this is a grant from Allah Almighty to me, and to you, and we hope that we can make Divine Love to reach to the whole of mankind and through this
to make tt ee ake them alive, never to die and to have everlasting
Bt Hurmatil Habib Bit Hirmatil Fatiha.
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The Secret of the Miraculous Mikraj
Bismillah i Rahman ir Raheem
EF it was not prayer time Prophet (Sal) was at least
praying two Rakats of sumnah. But today must of the people have lost this practice. For Rasoulullah (Sab was saying “Man Ahya Sunnathi indaka sabi ummathi fala hu alhumin miathin ajrin saheed” - for those who are keeping to the Sunnah of the Prophet, during this hard period, when ali the others are going after their own desires and trying to make Islam according to their own opinions, Rasoolullah {Sal} is promising them rewards of martyrs. In our days people are getting prouder thinking that they have understood Islam, but their understanding is wrong. They think that it is so easy to read Holy Quran and Holy Hadis and understand, Even if I tell them to read the newpapers and to tell me what they have read, they are not even able to understand that. Then what about Unnul Kitab, Quran - i - Karim which are the Holy words of Allah Almighty. It is only one book, and from this book, millions of books have been written (the source of these books is the Quran).
I do not know whether in Sri Lanka there are old books in your libraries, but at the time of the Ottoman
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Muhiyyadeen ibn-al Arabi, who was a king sized Saint (Wali) (may Allah bless him), was saying through the power of his sainthood that he was able to take three thousand or more kinds of knowledge from the Qurani Karim. It is only thirty chapters and about six hundred pages. What do you think is the meaning of “Alhamdullilahi Rabbit Alameen” - It means all praise and ali thanks is to Allah Almighty the Lord of all
the worlds", Do you think that its meaning is only this?
Seyyadina Ali (Ral) was saying “When people are sitting in front of me and listening to what Iam saying on the meaning of Surat Fathiha, I never get tired”,
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The batteries in this cassette player will run oul after sometime but the main current, if it is connected to this cassette recorder will never finish. The batteries get tired but not the main current. Likewise the Prophets, the Sahaba and their inheritors - the Awliyas, (Saints) they never gel tired as they are connected to the main source of power (the main current). Their physical and mental powers, and their knowledge never diminish, Even their death is by the command of Allah {otherwise they are mot dying) and they only pass away from people. They are dressed with the cternal life of Almighty Allah which they have been granted because they have left their Egos and joined up with the heavens. You camn't join up with the heavens without a support. No one can reach to heaven without following Rasooluilah {Sal).
The Prophet (Sal} went on the Mihraj (Ascent). For what purpose did he go om this Mihraj? Why Lailathul wlhraj (the night of mthraj)? for what purpose was this miraculous mihraj? The purpose was to show to the whole nation of Muhammed that by following the Prophet (Sal} that they also should be able to reach to it, When Jibril (Alai) brought Buraq U Sheriff to the Prophet {Sal}, the Prophet asked him “Is this only for me or also for my Ununah (nation)” Jibril answered “It is for you and also for your nation” and the only condition is that they should follow in your steps, and they should also be able to reach to this.”
The Buraq that was brought to the Prophet (Sal) was In a grass Held in Paradise, and there were so many other Burags with it. But this one was specially taken to the Prophet (Sal) because when it heard the
~ 63- name of the Prophet (Sal), “Ya Muhammed” - Oh Muhammed (Sal), a feeling of love came over that Buraq and it feli in love with the person who was named Muhammed. ft stopped eating because of this and also started crying. Then Jibril (Alai] gave it good tidings and took it to the Prophet (Sal). ,
To the Prophet's (Sal) question as to whether mihraj was only for him, Jibril answered, “It is for your Ummah also and there are Buraqs waiting for them also, Those who are following you may also join after you. If they do not follow you they shall always remain on earth and under the ground.” When all the sahaba reached to their destinations through the heavens everyone else also reached to their heavenly stations.
Therefore Hazrat Ali was saying, “If I sit here and begin to speak on the meanings of Fattha i can keep on talking to the people as they coine and listen to me and leave, and then some others come, listen, and jeave, and what 1 say if written on books, these books would be enough to load one hundred camels, and all these for only the meaning of Fatiha. One hundred camels may be loaded with these books, if you write what I say, and even then it shall not finish.” He was so humble to say one hundred camels but even one thousand or ten thousand or even if he had said, all the camels, on earth, it would still have not finished. These are the words of Allah Almighty {Kalamullah). Today people think and claim that when they take a translation of the book {Quran} and read il, that they understand the Holy Quran. That Is the reason for these foolish groups of muslims to go against everything in Islam. They only think that they
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understand, but they don't understand. Yes the Holy Quran has now become “Pasad” today, This is because that in our times people just read a translation booklet and begin ta speak about beliefs, worship, zikr and attributes as they like. Only their Fgo is speaking and they are going to be like the translators of Shaitan. What is the meaning of Fasad - it means that everything is in a mess or upsel. Wrong things become right, and the right things become wrong. in the sight of these ignorarit ones. They even say that gikrullan is wrong, and there are one thousand orders in the Holy Quran about the practise of zikr. They say that ti ts bidaat and that lt came into use after Islam and after the Prophet. This is wrong. The first o
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